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The perceived pay gap is pronounced in America, with 59 per cent of USA-based female architects believing they would be paid more if they were male, compared with 34 per cent of UK-based women architects – a difference of 25 points.
Reported earnings by American respondents show this heightened perception of unequal pay is justified. According to the survey, 38 per cent of female architects working full-time in the USA earn less than £42,000, compared with just 5 per cent of male architects – a staggering 33-point gap. Similarly, while 95 per cent of male architects in the US report earning over £43,000, just 62 per cent of women architects in the US report earning as much – again, a 33-point difference. At the very top of the pay scale, 32 per cent of US male architects report earning more than £75,000, but just 14 per cent of their female colleagues say they earn this much or more.
The ratio of women who say they have suffered sexual discrimination is similar in America, Europe and the UK, with 67 per cent of women surveyed in the USA saying they have suffered sexual discrimination during their career, compared with 68 per cent of UK women and 47 per cent of female Europeans. However, in the US, a surprising 17 per cent of women surveyed say they experience sexual discrimination on a weekly or daily basis, compared with 11 per cent of UK women. The sample from Europe is too small for this level of detail, however a telling 44 per cent of European women respondents say they have never experienced sexual discrimination, compared with 14 per cent of American women and 13 per cent in the UK.
The perceived respect for women architects is significantly worse in America, with 74 per cent of US women respondents saying they do not believe the building industry has fully accepted the authority of the female architect. Just 52 per cent of their European counterparts agree, compared with 63 per cent of women surveyed in the UK.
However, looking to prospects for the future, American women are the most optimistic by far. When asked whether conditions for women architects are improving, 65 per cent of American women architects believe that opportunities for women are on the rise, compared with 56 per cent of European women architects, and less than half of women architects in the UK.
In the USA, female architects are more likely to work full-time than their UK-based counterparts – 90 per cent of American women architects work full-time, compared with 82 per cent of UK women architects.
Responses from other countries are too small to make meaningful observations on pay but, as for work/life balance, responses from the USA, UK and the rest of Europe were similar, with women in Europe responding the most optimistically. Sixty-five per cent of European women architects believe they can achieve a healthy work/life balance in architecture, compared with 59 per cent of US female architects and 57 per cent of those in the UK.
Similar numbers of female respondents in these countries say having children puts women at a disadvantage in architecture (87 per cent in USA, 89 per cent in the UK and 89 per cent in the rest of Europe). A similar percentage of mothers (36 per cent in the US versus 43 per cent in the UK) experienced difficulty in resuming their career after having children. The European sample of mothers is too small for relevant comparison on this point.
This year, the survey had an unprecedented response from architects based in the United States, with 208 respondents – nearly a quarter of everyone surveyed (24 per cent) – hailing from America, up from just 4 per cent last year. This response is staggering when compared with the small 6 per cent of respondents from Europe (excluding the UK), 3 per cent from Canada and less than 1 per cent from Australia.
The rise in American responses is likely due to the international coverage of the Denise Scott Brown Pritzker Prize campaign, as well as the significant number of American visitors to the AJ website and followers on Twitter.
American employment laws regarding maternity leave and benefits, as well as cultural differences, throw up several interesting contrasts.
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More people than ever completed this year's AJ Women in Architecture online survey: 926 respondents took part – 710 women and 216 men.
Fifty-three per cent of all those who responded to the survey are architects, but it was also filled out by developers, PRs, consultants, structural engineers, quantity surveyors, academics and students, giving a broad insight into the way women are perceived across the industry.
The respondents are predominantly young – 80 per cent are under 40. Half of these are architects, including associates, directors, partners and sole practitioners. More than a third are students.
Of the architects who responded, almost a third are based in London; 24 per cent are in the rest of England, 8 per cent in Scotland, less than 1 per cent in Wales, 2 per cent in Northern Ireland, and 4 per cent are based in the rest of Europe.
Interestingly, the number of respondents completing the survey in the USA has increased sixfold, from just four per cent in 2013 to nearly a quarter – 24 per cent of responses – this year. The increase is likely linked to the impact of Denise Scott Brown's interview with the AJ last year, which sparked international coverage of the petition to have Scott Brown retroactively included in her partner Robert Venturi's 1991 Pritzker Prize win.
This survey, now in its third year, is a vital part of the AJ's on-going campaign to raise the status and profile of women in architecture. The data, collected annually, allows the AJ to track progress in perception, equal pay and position over time. The survey also informs the Women in Architecture campaign's focus for the coming year in response to concerns shared by women in the industry.
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Katy Perry and John Mayer have ended their relationship, according to a new report.
E! Online reports the couple split last week.
The pop star began dating Mayer in August 2012, but they parted ways early last year before reviving the relationship over the summer.
The rocker was noticeably absent during Perry's trip to Europe this month during which she attended the BRIT Awards in London solo.
News of the split comes just days after Perry sparked engagement rumors by sporting a large diamond ring on her left hand.
The "Roar" star previously said of her relationship with Mayer, "(It is) a rad, mature relationship. … He's just a fantastic partner. I've been a fan of his for such a long time. He's got a brilliant, brilliant mind."
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»Talya Bauer, Business Administration faculty, gave a keynote speech, "Socialization and Onboarding: Four Decades of Research," at the third biennial Institute of Work Psychology International Conference, Sheffield, U.K., June 28.
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How we use data: To learn from a metric, break it apart
This is the second in a series of posts from Typekit's resident data analyst, Mike Sall. Read the first.
One of the trickiest questions we can ask of data is how to compare a bunch of smaller items all at once. It's also one of the most common questions, whether we want to analyze online advertisements, or understand different products, or compare customer segments by region. And to find an answer, we usually end up doing the same thing every time: we'll take that list of items and rank them by some important value. For example, which online advertisements have the highest click rate? Or which products are purchased the most often? Or what are the top regions by revenue?
It's an easy way to quickly see what's important, which is why we do it. But rankings also obscure all the details that can help us figure out what to actually do about those important items. If we know which products are purchased most often, how can we tell whether it's due to pricing, or features, or marketing? What we really need is to be able to discover trends — not just single numbers — that in turn reveal how we should act upon them.
In our last post on data we discussed one technique for analyzing trends, by visualizing one metric across other dimensions, such as the cancellation rate across time and period of use. This is great when examining the customer base as a whole or considering just a few segments, but it starts to break down when we try to compare dozens or even hundreds of segments at the same time; many graphs all together can be as opaque as the original data. So we need a new technique when we want to explore many segments at once.
To explain our approach, let's use an example applicable to anyone with a website: traffic sources. We care about traffic sources because if we can better understand who's sending us new users, we can better serve those users. Most tools like Google Analytics offer lots of data about traffic sources. For each source we can consider a range of metrics, from the number of visitors, to how long they spend on the site, how many of them sign up, and more.
To get to the trends we care about, though, we need to take a step back. First, we should focus our attention on the single most important metric; then, to find the trends, we can take that metric and break it apart — that is, we can look at its components. While the overall metric can help us understand which items are most important, its components will tell us why they are important.
For many online businesses like us, that key metric for web traffic is straightforward enough: revenue. Of course all of the other metrics around engagement are important too, but ultimately we hope traffic will drive people to sign up and purchase a plan.
With this metric in hand, we can now break it apart. To do that, let's walk through the thought process for visitors purchasing a plan. First, they'll decide to visit our site. Then, after browsing around, they'll determine we fit their needs and decide to sign up for a plan. And lastly, they'll look at the plans we offer and decide which plan they want. So, to understand how traffic sources are driving revenue, we can think about this metric in terms of the sub-decisions that comprise it: visits from the traffic source, then sign-ups from those visits, and then revenue from those sign-ups. Viewing the components in this way produces a nifty equation:
Now we can start to plot our segments (that is, the traffic sources) against these component values. In this case, we went with the following bubble chart:
In this chart, we're plotting the 200 traffic sources that drive the most revenue for us — together, they represent over 95% of our online revenue. The x-axis represents the percent of visitors for each traffic source who signed up for a plan. The y-axis represents the revenue we received per sign up, on average. And the size of the bubble represents the total number of visitors. We also graphed both the y-axis and x-axis along a logarithmic scale, equally spacing 1, 10, 100, and so forth. Depending on the data, logarithmic scales can work better in cases like this, when larger values are spaced further and further apart from each other.
Immediately, we can see that traffic from direct visits and Google searches dwarf our other traffic sources in terms of total visits (and consequently, total revenue as well). They are also somewhat further to the top right than average, which means they achieve higher revenue per visit. This makes sense: visitors who are ready to make a purchase or know what they want are more likely to search for related terms or seek us out directly. Those bubbles are so big, though, that they're hiding differences among the other sources. We can remove these two data points to see a clearer picture of the remaining traffic sources:
Now we can dig into what the chart shows us about these segments. Take the visitors arriving from Typekit colophons, for example, where a high volume of visitors and strong sign up rates are bolstering a relatively low proportion of paid plans. This tells us that to increase revenue here, we want to focus on improving the proportion of paid plans. That might mean reexamining how we're presenting the benefits of each plan or perhaps how we're directing these visitors through the sign-up flow. On the other hand, the Lost World's Fairs traffic source has the opposite problem — plenty of traffic and a decent proportion of paid plans, but not many sign ups per visit. We know, then, that we should focus on sign up rates for this segment, perhaps through custom landing pages. And lastly, we can see that several web design blogs are sending quality visitors, with both strong sign up rates and a large proportion of paid plans, but in low volume. So perhaps we can advertise on sites like these to increase overall traffic.
These are all insights a ranking could never reveal. With this new view, we've moved past simply figuring out what's important to thinking about what we can actually do. We can even draft broad strategies tailored to different areas of the chart:
Examining segments in context like this can also help show when certain opportunities stand out. When we did this analysis last summer, we were pleasantly surprised by how well our blog was performing. In addition to decent traffic volume, both the sign up rate and paid plan proportion were higher than average. So we decided to invest in the blog and prioritized several design and content changes.
To better integrate the blog and encourage more browsing into the Typekit site, we added our site-wide navigation to the blog header. To increase sign up rates, we improved our promotional material, including a more prominent message box in the top right and a new footer, as well as a list of recent fonts in the right sidebar. We also thought more about the content. Realizing that posts about new fonts were driving strong traffic, we made them even better. We put more time into making our font specimen images larger and more colorful, and we started suggesting font pairings as well. We also introduced a new series of posts, About Face, where we could feature more content like this. Here's a brief look at the before and after:
It paid off. Before we made those changes, 9% of visitors to our blog were clicking into typekit.com, leading to 4 cents in revenue per blog visit. Today, 27% click into typekit.com, and we see 10 cents in revenue per blog visit. Added to increased traffic overall, our blog is now driving about 190% more revenue per month.
Of course, we didn't necessarily need the chart to know we could improve our blog. We're always aware of lots of things we'd like to do when we can get around to it. But we do need charts like this to make sense of our options — to understand how they relate to each other so we can make better decisions about our priorities and approach. That's where this technique is most beneficial. By simplifying our focus to one metric and then looking at how it breaks apart, we can see which items have the most potential, learn what specific areas need attention, and think of smarter ways to improve.
Together with the technique described in our last post, these methods can help us dive into our data and explore what insights it has to offer. It's a process that involves asking general questions and looking at what happens when we spread the answer out in different ways. But just as important as it is to begin with questions and dive deeper, we also need to constantly monitor activity at a higher level so we can quickly catch when issues arise. In our next post, we'll discuss our approach to dashboard metrics and how we go about building team-wide transparency into what's happening with our users and product on an ongoing basis.
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Amazing as always, guys! I love the way you use your own organization as a framework to examine behavioral phenomena — it is truly fascinating.
As a student of behavioral modeling, I hope you'll answer a random question for me. What kind of bottled water do you have at the Typekit HQ? Do you have a cooler, which offers economies of scale and promotes social interactions, or smaller bottles, that allow for individual tastes? I'd love it if you'd write an entire blog post about this.
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Kingdon Drag Race organizers hope the event can combat illegal street racing by proving to be an outlet for racers.
The annual Kingdon Drag Races take place this weekend, where racers from across the state are already testing the track and revving their engines.
Organizers are expecting a crowd of thousands.
The event is open to anyone, from beginning racers to professionals, with a heavy emphasis on people who want to race their own street legal cars.
From hot rods, to vintage dragsters, to trucks, SUVs and Cadillacs, there is a lot to see.
Drivers and organizers hope the event attracts a new generation of racers who may otherwise turn to illegal street racing.
"I think to bring kids into this sport is so important," said Katie Sullivan, a professional motorcycle racer. "It gives them something to do and something to focus on."
The California Highway Patrol said illegal street racing is still a big problem on area roadways, so events like the Kingdon Drag Races help combat that problem.
"There are outlets and avenues for people who enjoy racing to come out and do it legally and safely," said Brian Morse, an officer with the CHP.
One record-setting racer, Lori Peterson, told KCRA 3 that because of its history, drag racing is a natural fit for street racers.
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Is it writeable or writable?
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Hailed by Rolling Stone as one of the "100 Greatest Voices of All Time", Eric Burdon has been a commanding presence in the musical landscape both as front man for The Animals and WAR and in with his prolific solo career. The Cincinnati trio of Craig Fox, Patrick Keeler (The Raconteurs) and "Little Jack" Lawrence (The Raconteurs, Dead Weather, Blanche) have always cited The Animals as one of The Greenhornes' biggest influences. After playing with Brendan Benson at SXSW, Burdon teamed up with Benson - as producer - and The Greenhornes - as his band - and hunkered down at Nashville's "Welcome to 1979" studio for a day and a half of writing and recording that result in the self-titled 12-inch vinyl EP.


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Andy Irons, a three-time word surfing champion died at 32 on Tuesday.
ESPN reports that Irons was in Puerto Rico competing in the ASP Men's World Tour last weekend when he began to feel ill. During an overnight layover in Dallas on the way to his home in Hawaii, hotel staff found Irons after he failed to respond to a wake-up call.
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I am pleased to share the following message, received from Arul Mani at the KQA in Bangalore, and add our own support for the expressions of gratitude offered to KQA for another splendid quiz.
"Pat Gibson wins MindSweep 2016 with a score of 145 out of a possible 220. Anne Hegerty finishes second with 133, also the best performance by a woman quizzer. Andy Tucker, also of the UK, finishes third with 128.
Among the categories, Gibson won Sciences and Social Sciences outright with identical scores of 39. Anne Hegerty won Arts with a score of 37. Four people tied for top spot in Living with 32 points each: Pat Gibson, Andy Tucker, Santosh Swaminathan and Rajiv Rai.
Three Indian quizzers finished in the top 10 (not counting Ujjwal Deb, who took the quiz in Eindhoven), They are Vinoo Sanjay (113), Jayashree Mohanka (112) and Swaminathan G (111). Aadisht Khanna (110) finished 11th.
The setters thank all those who took MindSweep 2016 for generously giving up several hours of a Sunday morning for the quiz. Thanks go out to the various clubs and associations across the world that collaborated with us in holding the quiz.
You can view the rankings HERE!
For Questions/Answers see HERE.
In Bangalore, fifty three quizzers turned up on Sunday, 15 May 2016, to attempt the fifth edition of MindSweep, KQA's international quiz contest. Due to traffic restrictions on the day (the venue being bang in the middle of the route assigned to those taking some lugubriously long run or the other), we began later than scheduled.
The top five scores in the Open category were as follows:
Avinash Thirumalai aka Gajju: 102
Santosh Swaminathan & Arun Hiregange tied for second place: 99
Anustup Datta: 98
Thejaswi Udupa: 97
Category Winners:
Arts: Santosh Swaminathan (31)
Sciences: Avinash Thirumalai (33)
Social Sciences: Suresh Ramasubramanian & Krittika Adhikary (24 each)
Living: Santosh Swaminathan (32-also joint winner worldwide)
School Winners:
Hari Karthik of St. Joseph's Boys' High School won the School category with 30 points. Amrit Sodhi, from the same school, finished second with 11 points.
College Winners:
Shreyas Karanth won the College category in Bangalore with a score of 49 points. Rishiraj and Balaji S. made 45 points apiece to jointly take the runner-up position.
Women Winners:
While people have various opinions about prizes for women contestants, it has been KQA's policy to announce such prizes since Wing Commander Mulky's days at the helm. This is an effort to make visible the participation that quizzing draws from women, however small that may be, and thus to elicit greater participation. We congratulate Krittika Adhikary who made 71, top-scored in the Social Sciences in Bangalore, and finished 48th internationally. Thejaswi P., not to be mistaken for the world-famous Udupa, finished second with 29 points. We had five participants, all told.
This is also perhaps the best place to congratulate a school quizzer named Abhirami Girish, of Bharatiya Vidya Bhavan, Perumthiruthi (Kozhikode). She scored 54 points, top-scoring thus across the Thrissur and Thiruvananthapuram centres in Kerala, and finished 77th internationally.
Other City Winners (India)
Calcutta: Jayashree Mohanka (112)
Chennai: Swaminathan G (111)
Coimbatore: Yogesh Pai (72)
New Delhi: Aadisht Khanna (110)
Goa: Aniruddha Sengupta (105)
Guwahati: Nayan Medhi (30)
Hyderabad: Mithilesh & Lakshmi Josyula tied (48)
Thiruvananthapuram: Ananthapadmanabhan (40)
Mumbai: Vinoo Sanjay (113)
Mysore: Srikar Raghavan (34)
Pune: Aditya Gadre (78)
Thrissur: Abhirami Girish (54)
International Venues:
Burton (UK): Pat Gibson (145)
San Francisco (USA): Dan Melia (107)
Eindhoven (Netherlands): Ujjwal Deb (117)
Dubai (UAE): Nikhil Soneja (103)
Kuala Lumpur (Malaysia): Movin Miranda (104)
Thank you.
Arul Mani"
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UNIT 1: Promoting Healthy Behavior Change
Unit Overview
Crimes of the Heart, Walter C. Willett and Anne Underwood, Newsweek, February 15, 2010
Major improvements in public health that were seen in Albert Lea, Minnesota, in 2009 as a result of the city's decision to become involved in the AARP/Blue Zones Vitality Project, which promotes healthy behavior. The town helped to support healthy behavior change by changing the town's environment to include ways that encouraged a healthier lifestyle.
The Perils of Higher Education, Steven Kotler, Psychology Today, March/April 2005
While college is a place to learn and grow, for many students it becomes four years of sleep deprivation, poor nutrition, and excessive use of alcohol. While the negative health behaviors of college students are detrimental to their overall health, there is evidence that engaging in these poor health habits can be devastating to learning and memory.
Carrots, Sticks, and Health Care Reform—Problems with Wellness Incentives, Harald Schmidt, Kristin Voigt, and Daniel Wikler, New England Journal of Medicine, January 14, 2010
Chronic medical conditions, particularly those linked to obesity, are increasing in the United States. Employers have used incentives as well as penalties to support healthier behaviors. The authors support incentives to increase health-supporting behaviors but caution that there can be negative effects as well.
UNIT 2: Stress and Mental Health
Unit Overview
Social Withdrawal and Violence—Newtown, Connecticut, John T. Walkup and David H. Rubin, New England Journal of Medicine, January 31, 2013
Physicians John T. Walkup and David H. Rubin believe it's important to recognize that mental illness is an insufficient explanation for mass murder and that the vast majority of mentally ill individuals are not violent.
The Boom and Bust Ego, Harriet Brown, Psychology Today, January/February 2012
Assistant Professor of Journalism Harriet Brown focuses on how to build self-esteem even though many psychologists believe that direct attempts to build self-esteem tend to fail. She notes that people with weak self-esteem are likely to experience more impact from failure. It is said that the safety net of solid self-esteem arises from a secure attachment to a parent and that self-esteem formation can fail if parents are inconsistent in support and who lack concern for their children.
Internet Addiction, Greg Beato, Reason, August/September 2010
Greg Beato discusses the addiction of Americans to the Internet, which impacts their normally balanced ways of living. He notes the operation of reSTART, a residential treatment center in the United States for individuals who try to get themselves clean from iPhones and other digital devices that negatively affect their lives.
UNIT 3: Nutritional Health
Unit Overview
Fat Facts and Fat Fiction, Consumer Reports on Health, February 2013.
While many consumers believe fats in the diet are harmful and should be reduced, there appears to be considerable confusion about which fats are healthy and which should be minimized.
Yes, Healthful Fast Food Is Possble. But Edible?, Mark Bittman, New York Times Magazine, April 3, 2013
Journalist Mark Bittman believes there is a market for fast food that's not only healthy but has menu options that are sustainably produced, reasonably priced, and meat-free.
Vitamin D: Dandy? Dastardly? Or Debatable? Allen C. Bowling, Momentum, Summer 2011
Dr. Bowling discusses studies conducted on Vitamin D in relation to health and risks of diseases including multiple sclerosis (MS). The most rigorous research on Vitamin D has been in relation to bone health, showing that low intake leads to decreased bone density. Vitamin D influences nerve, muscle, and immune cells that could potentially affect the disease process of MS. People with MS are known to have osteoporosis, and clearly Vitamin D deficiency could increase risk or even worsen the condition.
F.D.A. Panel to Consider Warnings for Artificial Food Colorings, Gardiner Harris, The New York Times, March 29, 2011
While researchers have not found a specific link between artificial food colors and behavioral changes in children, the F.D.A. is reopening the issue. A panel of experts will begin a process to review of the evidence and possibly make changes that will affect food safety regulations.
UNIT 4: Exercise and Weight Management
Unit Overview
Defeating Childhood Obesity, Tina Schwager, American Fitness, November/December 2010
Tina Schwager offers suggestions to fitness professionals on addressing the problem of childhood obesity. The risk for obesity and overweight increases due to poor nutritional habits and lack of physical activity. She recommends fitness professionals develop a basic level or specialty program just for children and teenagers and create a newsletter for clients to market the program.
Eat Like a Greek, Consumer Reports on Health, August 2009
The Mediterranean diet has been positively linked to lowering the risk of heart disease, cancer, type 2 diabetes, and dementia. This diet isn't about foods you should not eat, it's more of a style of eating that can easily be adopted with a little planning. This easy-to-read article leads the reader through practical steps of how to incorporate principles of the Mediterranean lifestyle into daily life.
Dieting on a Budget, Consumer Reports, February 2009
With the economy in a downturn, the editors of Consumer Reports offer advice on how to lose weight without spending a fortune.
The New Phys Ed. Ron Schachter, Instructor, Summer 2011
Ron Schachter focuses on various activities being introduced to elementary and middle school students in physical education (P.E.) classes including step aerobics, yoga, online skating, Wii sports and fitness, and mountain biking. These new activities are replacing some of the traditional team sports to help students develop skills to maintain lifelong fitness, to make exercise more engaging, and to help reduce the growing obesity epidemic.
The Hungry Brain, Dan Hurley, Discover, June 2011
Dan Hurley addresses the neurological basis for people's desire to overeat in order to maximize calorie intake. Findings indicate that disrupted sleep patterns and stress compound the desire to eat. Failed efforts to control weight through drugs that affect the hypothalamus, involving the hormones leptin and ghrelin, are discussed. The effect of sleep and the circadian rhythm on obesity is also addressed. The idea that some obese people get more pleasure from eating than others is also explored.
UNIT 5: Drugs and Health
Unit Overview
Caffeinated Alcohol in a Can, Four Loko Does the Job, Students Agree, Don Troop, The Chronicle of Higher Education, November 12, 2010
A multitude of caffeinated alcoholic drinks are marketed to college students and young people. The Four Loko brand symbolizes the risks of this type of product because of its role in incidents involving binge drinking on college campuses.
Rethinking Drug Policy Assumptions, Jefferson M. Fish, The Humanist, April 2013
The author presents his thoughts on U.S. drug control policies and the possibilities of legalizing some drugs. He states that drug prohibition, or the war on drugs, leads to an illegal market for the substances that ultimately results in higher rates of crime, corruption, and disease. In response, he suggests that rather than decriminalizing drugs the U.S. government should institute a policy of legalization for adults that differentiates between drug abusers and non-problem users..
"This Drug Shouldn't Be Out There", John DiConsiglio, Scholastic Choices, February 2011
Synthetic cannabis sold under the brands K2 and Spice is a dangerous drug that many teenagers are abusing. The drug's characteristics are similar to LSD, cocaine, and non-synthetic marijuana. Synthetic marijuana is a mixture of dried spices and herbs sprayed with a chemical similar to THC, the active ingredient in non-synthetic marijuana.
Drowned in a Stream of Prescriptions, Alan Schwarz, New York Times, February 3, 2013
Increasing numbers of college students use and abuse prescription drugs they don't need and were not prescribed for them including Ritalin and Adderall. Students claim these drugs enhance their mental abilities while ignoring the dangers of addiction, dependence, and overdose.
So Long, Lance. Next, 21st-Century Doping, David Ewing Duncan, New York Times, January 19, 2013
Journalist David Ewing Duncan addresses bio-enhancers in sports, drugs that include anabolic steroids, human growth hormone, amphetamines, beta-2 agonists, and erythropoietin.
UNIT 6: Sexuality and Relationships
Unit Overview
The Mixed Bag Buddy [And Other Friendship Conundrums, Carlin Flora, Psychology Today, January/February, 2013
Relationships that have the power to prop us up may also have the power to harm us. Friendships can have both positive and negative influences on our health and well-being.
Are You With the Right Mate?, Rebecca Webber, Psychology Today, January/February 2012
Rebecca Webber focuses on marriage and choosing the right partner. She quotes a family therapist who states that real marriage begins when initial physical attraction has diminished, marking the need to start growing as an individual. Webber recommends fundamental acceptance of one's partner in a marriage as no one will meet all their needs in a relationship. It describes a wrong partner as one who is not interested in or capable of supporting the needs of the partner.
This Man Is Addicted to Sex, Chris Lee, Newsweek, December 5, 2011
Chris Lee discusses the increase in cases of sex addiction in the United States. It appears that the availability of online pornography has contributed to the increase in sexaddiction and how those affected, known as sexaholics, often use a program similar to the Alcoholics Anonymous 12-step program to help deal with their addictions. Sexaddiction has a detrimental effect on a person's career, relationships, and self-esteem leading to depression, job loss, and high risk sexual behavior.
There's No Evidence Online Dating Is Threatening Commitment or Marriage, Alexis C. Madrigal, The Atlantic, January 3, 2013
Even though Internet has made it possible for people to communicate and connect in ways that have never before been seen, Alexis Madrigal believes that monogamy is here to say for most couples.
UNIT 7: Preventing and Fighting Disease
Unit Overview
Save Your Life: Cancer Screening is oversold. Know the tests to get—and those to skip, Consumer Reports, March 2013
According to the editors of Consumer Reports, the medical and public-health community has basically exaggerated the advantages of screening for cancer and downplayed the risks. When it comes to cancer screening, most people see only the positives and don't see the disadvantages such as unnecessary biopsies or surgery.
The High Cost of "Hooking Up", Kurt Williamsen, The New American, January 7, 2013
According to Kurt Williamsen, promiscuity can lead to the 47,000 new diagnoses of HIV each year in the United States as well as the risk of transmitting the more than 30 different sexually transmissible bacteria, parasites, and viruses that can cause disease.
The Human Vector, Wendy Orent, Discover, March 2012
Pandemics, infectious diseases that spread across large regions, as social phenomena that are created by human beings is the focus of this article. Topics include the U.S. Centers for Disease Control's Zombie Apocalypse disaster preparedness campaign, the origins of new diseases, such as animal farms, and humans as vectors in the spread of diseases. Hospitals can be disease factories by enabling the proliferation and spread of germs. Also mentioned are the evolution and mutations associated with turning an animal disease into a human one.
Ten Great Public Health Achievements—United States, 2001–2010, Ram Koppaka, MMWR: Morbidity & Mortality Weekly Report, May 20, 2011
Ram Koppake reports on the tenpublichealthachievements that helped improve the health status of Americans from 2001 to 2010. The introduction of new vaccines brought the number of diseases aimed by the U.S. immunization policy to 17 including the pneumococcal conjugate vaccine, rotavirus vaccine, and herpes zoster vaccine. Tobacco use was reduced from 23.5% to 20.6% of adult smokers and from 34.8% to 19.5% of youth smokers. Likewise, there was a 36% reduction of infants born with neural tube defects (NTD) from 1996 to 2006.
The Broken Vaccine, Melinda Wenner Moyer, Discover, March 2013
Melinda Wenner Moyer discusses the increase in cases of pertussis (whooping cough) in the United States since the 1990s and why the currently used acellulartenanus, diphtheria, and pertussis vaccine (Tdap) vaccine is losing effectiveness. Information is presented on efforts of the U.S. Centers for Disease Control (CDC) to track pertussis outbreaks and epidemics, as well as infection and immunization rates.
UNIT 8: Health Care and the Health Care System
Unit Overview
Deviated: A Memoir, Jesse Kellerman, Commentary, May 2012
Author Jesse Kellerman presents a personal narrative describing his experiences dealing with having a deviated septum and as a result, having his health insurance coverage denied.
How Government Killed the Medical Profession, Jeffrey A. Singer, Reason, May 2013
Physician Jeffrey A. Singer states that Medicare has been using its price-setting systems to maintain its price control system for over 20 years. He believes that the coding system introduced to improve accuracy of medical claims submitted by doctors has further eroded health care and doctor–patient relationships.
In Dire Health, Arnold S. Relman, American Prospect, January/February 2012
Many believe that medical insurance is needed to help pay medical costs. According to Arnold Relman, a tax-supported universal access to comprehensive care without bills for specific services or insurance to pay the bills is a more affordable health care option. He says that the alternative to achieving affordable health care is a tax-supported system that involves physicians in a group practice.
Medicare Whac-A-Mole, Peter Suderman, Reason, January 2012
Peter Suderman discusses the failure of health care price controls in the United States. He believes The American Enterprise Institute health policy transforming the system is the only way to escape the flaws of sustainable growth rate (SGR) and other price controls. Abolishing the SGR entirely, as many doctors would like, could cost up to $370 billion over a decade.
UNIT 9: Consumer Health
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Vaccine Refusal, Mandatory Immunization, and the Risks of Vaccine-Preventable Diseases, Saad B. Omer et al., The New England Journal of Medicine, May 7, 2009
There are a growing number of children in the United States who are not vaccinated against childhood diseases. Their parents have opted to forgo immunization due to their belief that vaccines are more dangerous than the diseases they prevent. This has caused an increase in outbreaks of measles and whooping cough among non-immunized children.
Medical Tourism: What You Should Know, Lorene Burkhart and Lorna Gentry, The Saturday Evening Post, January/February 2008
More and more Americans are traveling overseas to combine surgery with sightseeing. The benefits include greatly reduced costs of many medical procedures as well as the opportunity to seek treatments not yet available or practiced in the United States. In 2006, an estimated half million Americans went abroad for medical treatment, a trend that's expected to increase in the next few years.
Bed Bugs: The Pesticide Dilemma, Rebecca Berg, Journal of Environmental Health, June 2010
Pesticide-resistant bed bugs are back, and the good news is they don't appear to transmit disease with their bites. However, they invade beds, interfere with sleep, and can impact people emotionally.
Antibiotics and the Meat We Eat, David A. Kessler, New York Times, March 28, 2013
In the United States, meat and poultry are monitored by the Food and Drug Administration for the presence antibiotic-resistant bacteria. This monitoring has shown that the numbers of resistant bacteria are growing and the problem is getting worse.
Cybermedicine: What You Need to Know, Regina A. Bailey, Health Lawyer, August 2011
Attorney Regina Bailey offers information on cyb ermedicine in the United States. She notes that physicians are increasingly using the Internet to communicate with patients through online medical consultations. Bailey mentions that cybermedicinehas drawbacks due to the practice regulation governed by each state since there is no uniform law regarding online medical consultations.
The Surprising Reason Why Heavy Isn't Healthy, Ginny Graves, Health, January/February 2010
While being overweight or obese may increase the risk for certain health problems, how much a person weighs may also keep him or her from getting the same health care as non-overweight individuals. Overweight men and women may have difficulty getting health insurance, are less likely to get cancer detected early, and are at higher risk of being misdiagnosed.
UNIT 10: Contemporary Health Hazards
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Is PTSD Contagious?, Mac McClelland, Mother Jones, January/February 2013
Post —Traumatic Stress syndrome is currently at epidemic levels among returning veterans that impacts their friends, families, and co-workers.
Suicide, Guns, and Public Policy, E. Michael Lewiecki and Sara A. Miller, American Journal of Public Health, January 2013
Over one million deaths by suicide occur each year worldwide. In the United States, handguns are the most common means of suicide. Though there is strong evidence that restricting access to firearms reduces suicide, current gun control laws are controversial and according to the authors, do not effectively restrict access.
The New Sex Cancer, Alyssa Giacobbe, Men's Health, September 2011
Alyssa Giacobbe offers information on oral cancer, which can be caused by the sexually transmitted disease human papillomavirus (HPV) via oral sex. She states that men are at increased risk of oropharyngeal cancer, which is just not caused by smoking or drinking but by HPV. She also mentions that oropharyngealcancer is a form of oral cancer found in the tonsils and in the base of the tongue.
Drilling into the Unknown, Peter Aldhouse, New Scientist, January 28, 2012
Peter Aldhous explores the health and environmental concerns over the liquid fracturing (fracking) process of natural gas extraction. The potential exploitation of the Marcellus Shale gas field in the northeastern United States has prompted fears of drinking water pollution, the toxicity of the chemical additives in fracking fluids, and methane contamination of groundwater, but studies of these issues have so far been inconclusive. The 2010 moratorium on fracking by New York State is also discussed.
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Gun rights advocates fell silent in the Illinois House on Thursday night after falling seven votes short of approving the public possession of firearms statewide despite a federal court order that gives legislators just weeks to put such a law on the books.
The proposal creating a method to permit qualified gun owners to carry concealed weapons failed 64-45. The measure -- HB 997 -- needed a supermajority of 71 votes because the legislation would trump the right of the state's larger cities to set up their own laws.
For the second time in as many days, a House vote on concealed carry demonstrated the chasm between gun rights advocates and those who want tighter restrictions on them.
Illinois is the only state in the nation that continues to prohibit public weapons possession. But a federal appeals court ruled the ban unconstitutional in December and ordered lawmakers to enact a law allowing it. Rep. Brandon Phelps, D-Harrisburg, the concealed carry legislation sponsor, said if the Legislature misses the deadline, "constitutional carry" -- allowing possession of any weapon without a permit -- would take effect.
"If it's so scary, why isn't there one other state in this country that's repealed concealed carry? Because it works," Phelps said in a closing statement after floor debate that was limited to 10 speakers but still lasted an hour.
After the measure failed, Phelps used a parliamentary procedure allowing him to recall the bill for another vote. He said a June 9 deadline imposed by the federal court leaves little time to find agreement on alternate legislation.
Phelps said he believed he had enough votes to gain approval but that Gov. Pat Quinn lobbied hard against him.
"Correct -- the governor is not for that bill," Quinn spokeswoman Brooke Anderson said, adding that the Democrat "believes that local communities should have the option of enacting their own stronger protections for public safety."
Gun laws have long divided Illinois along geographical lines, not necessarily political ones. Democrats in Chicago worry about street violence, while Democrats and Republicans in other parts of the state stand by the 2nd Amendment.
And of course, there are the avid hunters and sports shooters.
"The only hunting that's happening in my area is of young men," said Rep. Kelly Cassidy, a Chicago Democrat who offered legislation Wednesday that would empower local and state police to decide to withhold a concealed-carry permit regardless of whether an applicant met the requirements.
Called a "may issue" concealed-carry law, Cassidy's measure was modeled on the New York law that survived a potential challenge before the U.S. Supreme Court this week. It received only 31 votes. That's far fewer than those willing to support Phelps on his "shall issue" proposal, which would allow anyone who meets the training and background check requirements to carry.
Rep. Jerry Costello, a Democrat from Smithton, near St. Louis, echoed gun advocates' complaints that Chicago has among the toughest anti-gun laws in the country while continuing to lead the nation in gun-related homicides. Costello said about 2,000 U.S. troops have been killed in Afghanistan since 2001, and 5,000 people have been killed in Chicago during the same period.
"If you've ever traveled outside the state of Illinois, you've been in a state that has concealed carry and you probably didn't even notice," said Rep. Michael Unes, R-East Peoria. "But the people who do notice are the criminals."
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So much low hanging, schadenfreude dripping fruit to be had, but I'm only going to indulge in it a little because, frankly, as someone who routinely votes for the losing side I feel a tad entitled. Think of it as combat pay. So, just let me get this out of the way…
To the nice elected official from South Carolina who felt it is was appropriate to shout "you lie" during a State of the Union speech, and to the Western Governor who wagged her bony ass finger in POTUS's face, and finally, (mercifully) to The Donald, who treated POTUS like some minor character in the world's worst reality show: Please shut the hell up.
I'm past it.
So, boiled down, the The Community Organizer organized the community. (There have been more than a few who have suggested that this was somehow something to be mocked. I think that ability is rare and is probably Government at it's essence. But that's for another post).
80% of the African American vote. 70% Latino vote. 50 PERCENT ASIAN vote. 18 point spread for women. Impressive numbers, amirite? The long game is producing a political infrastructure to be reckoned with. About damn time.
Let's make sure we don't make their mistake and insist on purity tests in the coming years. We are always a poorly worded phrase away from destructive internecine battles. Time to enlarge the tent, people.
I really was going to refrain from Mitt bashing. For a hot minute, I believed this was a good man who just didn't run a very good race. But he has flung open the door and invited ridicule with his latest remarks. Apparently, he was participating in a conference call with a number of his high dollar donors. He blamed his electoral ass-kicking to be the result of "gifts" the Obama campaign promised to Latinos, (free health care) women, (free contraception) and young people (student loan interest forgiveness). How rich do you have to be to say stuff like that? I think this sorry excuse for a person has never been held accountable for anything his entire life. Until this. High profile Republicans are rightly calling him out. I mean, fer crissake, if Bobby Jindal denounces you, just how far have you strayed?
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Remember when President Obama said "If you like your health care plan, you can keep your health care plan" but did not really mean it? Senator Ron Johnson thinks President Obama should keep his word and has introduced legislation to ensure that Americans can in fact keep their plans.
The "If You Like Your Health Plan, You Can Keep It Act" gives the two million plus Americans who have already received cancellation notices from their health insurance companies and the millions more whose premiums are skyrocketing an out. It allows them to do what President Obama promised, keep their current health insurance. Senator Johnson's bill would allow people who change jobs to enroll in their new employer's current health insurance plan as well.
The bill is far from perfect. For instance, Senator Johnson's bill is silent as to whether an employer can modify an existing plan by changing a premium or a co-pay or some level of benefit coverage. Senator Johnson's bill does not defund Obamacare either, so the vast expansion of single-payer government health insurance through Medicaid continues apace. Nonetheless, it is a significant step in the right direction and should be embraced.
In order to have any chance of becoming law, however, Senate Republicans need to be willing to do what Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell and Texas Senator John Cornyn swore they would not do at a fundraising retreat this past weekend, tie any rollback of Obamacare to forthcoming budget battles. Addressing the "elephant in the room," Senator McConnell suggested that the strategy of tying the Obamacare rollback fight to budget battles "could not and would not work" and was "not conservative policy." Unless Republicans are willing to tie bills such as this to budget resolutions, Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid can block them from ever receiving a vote.
Republicans need to embrace the political momentum we have now and seize this opportunity to begin to roll back Obamacare. Democrats and liberal pundits are beginning to abandon President Obama allowing him to sink in his own political quicksand in an effort to save their own political skin. It is time for Republicans to unite as a party, lend a hand to any Democrat with an outstretched arm, and begin the process of dismantling this "crowning achievement" that is destroying health care and our economy.
It might be more accurate to write that Senator Johnson WROTE legislation rather than INTRODUCED it. "Introduced" implies that other senators see the bill, debate the bill (add pork barrel amendments to the bill) and then vote on it, but Harry Reid will, no doubt, table what the Senator WRITES and that will be the end of it, other than a 30 second spot on FOX news stating the above.


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