Bullying has gotten completely out of control. Warning - this article is quite sad and tragic. Like many jurisdictions, California has a Safe Schools Provision in our state constitution, which a student attempted to use for protection 20-30 years ago for ongoing harassment - only to find out from our illustrious Supreme Court that the constitutional provision was basically symbolic and "non-self executing." In other words, kid, you're on you're own.
Now, with cyber means of worming into a child's private world and psyche, the stakes are getting much more serious.
I know; my job as a litigator nearly did. Despite changing career direction and attempts to implement other changes environmentally, the damage my high stress job did to me may never fully resolve.
Nothing is worth you dying in the workplace, and yet we have the highest stress workplaces of anywhere in the world. The #1 cause of death for women in the workplace is due to murder - MURDER! That statistic has haunted women for at least a decade now, and I cringe every time I read it. Who Is At Greatest Risk for Work-Related Stress Death? |
- Over a 20 year study of 820 adults ages 25-65 at the study’s start, 53 died, and they were disproportionately likely to have reported a “hostile work environment”
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- 40% of workers say their job is excessively stressful
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- 29% say they feel extremely stressed at work
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- 26% say they quite frequently feel burned out at work
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Most Common Causes of Work Stress |
- 86% of surveyed firms reported bad behaviors like insults and poor manners
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- 20 workers per week are murdered in the US
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- #1 cause of workplace death for women
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- #2 cause of workplace death overall
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How Co-workers Cause Stress |
- Manipulation/pressure to obey orders
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Stress has been linked to: |
- The quickened progression of HIV/AIDS
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How Workers Can Reduce Stress |
High IQ in Childhood Linked to Subsequent Illicit Drug Use |
High IQ in Childhood Linked to Subsequent Illicit Drug Use
Posted on Dec 20, 2011 in Addiction | 0 comments
 A high childhood IQ may be linked to subsequent illegal drug use, particularly among women, suggests research published online in the Journal of Epidemiology and Community Health.
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The authors base their findings on data from just under 8,000 people in the 1970 British Cohort Study, a large ongoing population based study, which looks at lifetime drug use, socioeconomic factors, and educational attainment. |
The IQ scores of the participants were measured at the ages of 5 and 10 years, using a validated scale, and information was gathered on self reported levels of psychological distress and drug use at the age of 16, and again at the age of 30 (drug use only) . |
By the age of 30, around one in three men (35.4%) and one in six women (15.9%) had used cannabis, while 8.6% of men and 3.6% of women had used cocaine, in the previous 12 months. |
A similar pattern of use was found for the other drugs, with overall drug use twice as common among men as among women. |
Google Chairman Eric Schmidt seems to think it might...
This site is by a fellow Amp'r - for photo lovers, it's a must read (er, see). Enjoy!
My article reviewing Cozi has quite a bit more information about the product, including screen shorts and a features list. Check it out if you are looking for a personal calendar/time manager to help with the holidays. For some time, I have wanted to write a short post, putting in a plug for one of my favorite tech tools – Cozi Calendar. My delay, I suppose, stems from the fact that no other online legal journal I know of has mentioned Cozi Calendar. Why should they? Cozi Calendar has nothing whatsoever to do with the legal world – until you consider what extraordinarily hectic lives legal professionals lead. Just treading water in the office productivity pool often requires all the help we can get. Personal commitments, you say? What are those?
But, we have them, do we not? We have family dinners, PTA meetings and soccer games, and date nights with significant others just like anyone else. The individuals in our personal lives expect us to meet our commitments to them just like we would anyone else. Many times, our commitments to those in our personal lives wind up being more important that those in our profession. Enter a tool like Cozi Calendar.
I first became aware of Cozi Calendar about a year ago. I had never heard of it, which was something of a surprise because my research and writing leads me to analyze and review a lot of productivity tools like calendars. So, I began to investigate what Cozi Calendar could do. Almost immediately, I fell in love with it – and not because it has a gazillion bells and whistles. Quite the opposite. |
Justin Bieber’s Humble Beginnings |
A food bank near Justin Bieber's hometown -- where he and his mom used to go -- is now $15,000 richer thanks to the teen pop star. Read more at omg.yahoo.com |
How many different ways can you say no class and no tact On Friday, the law firm of Steven J. Baum threw a Halloween party. The firm, which is located near Buffalo, is what is commonly referred to as a “foreclosure mill” firm, meaning it represents banks and mortgage servicers as they attempt to foreclose on homeowners and evict them from their homes. Steven J. Baum is, in fact, the largest such firm in New York; it represents virtually all the giant mortgage lenders, including Citigroup, JPMorgan Chase, Bank of America and Wells Fargo.
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The party is the firm’s big annual bash. Employees wear Halloween costumes to the office, where they party until around noon, and then return to work, still in costume. I can’t tell you how people dressed for this year’s party, but I can tell you about last year’s.
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That’s because a former employee of Steven J. Baum recently sent me snapshots of last year’s party. In an e-mail, she said that she wanted me to see them because they showed an appalling lack of compassion toward the homeowners — invariably poor and down on their luck — that the Baum firm had brought foreclosure proceedings against.
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There are many, many more I didn't clip, covering a wide variety of styles and tastes. If you're into this sort of thing, I strongly encourage you to check it out!
There's nothing I can say that could add more to the beauty and wonder captured in these photos.
Fellow Amp'er 'Look Beyond The Obvious' provided the URL to the CBS News article, but I truly felt that the photos had to be Amp'd up a bit. Enjoy!
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