Friday, January 25, 2019
Salute...
As the body of Sgt. Wytasha Carter made its way through a rainy Birmingham, Alabama a sheriff's deputy named Tiffany Dial stood and saluted the casket. Carter was gunned down while on duty.
Dial said she was representing her shift, and was the only one available.
In a city mourning the worst, came a reminder of our best. A man named Shawn Allen never said a word to Dial, while he stood holding an umbrella for her for 45 minutes. The moment was caught on camera.
Allen is a deputy district attorney. Two days after spending nearly an hour next to each other, Allen and Dial finally met. Happy as he was to do the right thing, Allen doesn't want that to overshadow why they were there in the first place.
Thursday, January 24, 2019
Theranos...
Her story is a stunning fall from grace for the woman who was once poised to change the world. Her technology had promised to run hundreds of lab tests from just a drop or two of blood. It was a promise she would never fulfill.
In 2003, Elizabeth Holmes launched a company which she would come to name Theranos. She officially dropped out of Stanford University during her second year of college to pursue her business full time.
By 2014, Theranos is valued at nearly $10 billion dollars and with the media attention plus the impressive board of directors, Theranos had attracted high-profile investors.
Holmes has settled with the SEC, with no admission of wrongdoing, but is now facing up to 20 years in prison, awaiting a criminal trial for charges of wire fraud and conspiracy to commit wire fraud.
Nowhere...
Don't be caught up in the idea that you have to compete with anyone in living your life to the fullest.
Frankly, I am not sure what people mean when they advice others to live life to the fullest because it seems like a challenge.
Is everyone supposed to go to Spain for snorkeling, sky diving and running with the bulls? Or alternatively go to London?
Live the life that is better for "you". Maybe you can change one particular habit in a month, and be the better for it. Maybe you can have an "aha" moment in an art gallery or museum.
So don't try to be someone else or imitate others, just be yourself.
Just a thought.
Break up...
It helps to understand why our brains and bodies disintegrate in the aftermath of a breakup. Your identity undergoes a fundamental change where you define yourself in relation to your partner. We went on vacation, we got a puppy, we made dinner.
When the “we” dissolves, it can feel like the very core of who you are has dissolved. We Were left with a significant void, and you have to fill voids.
Multiple studies have shown that the core of our feeling crappy upon losing a relationship has to do with our murky identification post-breakup.
Filling those voids, reforming your sense of identity, figuring out what the new ‘me’ is going to be about”—that’s what you should do now that you’re on your own.
Looking at the bright side. Just a thought.
Looking at the bright side. Just a thought.
Nominee...
Pete Buttigieg, the 37-year-old, two-term Democratic mayor of South Bend, Indiana, who could make history as the nation's first openly gay presidential nominee of a major party, took a significant step toward a run for the White House, announcing he is forming a presidential exploratory committee, the precursor to an official campaign.
But despite the history that his candidacy could make, Buttigieg says the 2020 race should not solely be about candidate identities.
Support...
Three Michigan residents were arrested for conspiring to support ISIS, federal authorities said.
All three men are naturalized U.S. citizens who were born in Kenya and currently reside in Lansing, Michigan.
The family first came to the attention of the FBI in April 2016 when a review of Mohamud Abdikadir Muse's public Facebook page "revealed frequent posts of photos, videos, and statements and commentary that were pro-ISIS in nature and what can be described as violent, extremist propaganda," the complaint states.
An undercover FBI employee posing as an ISIS recruiter began communicating with the former Nebraska resident via Facebook in June 2017. Muse said he wanted to join the terrorist group, was saving his money to travel to Syria and that he "planned to die with a gun in his hand fighting for ISIS."
Let us hope to tie the Immigration status with the prosecution.
Collective...
Collective responsibility refers to responsibilities of organizations, groups and societies. By which individuals who are part of such collectives to be responsible for other people's actions and occurrences.
Collective responsibility is widely applied in corporations, where the entire workforce is held responsible for failure to achieve corporate targets, irrespective of the performance of individuals or teams which may have achieved or overachieved within their area.
Collective punishment actually further harm the prospect of achieving organization goals and targets. In addition it violates the individual workers' rights, creat low moral, and clearly shows lack of qualified managers.
Collective punishment actually further harm the prospect of achieving organization goals and targets. In addition it violates the individual workers' rights, creat low moral, and clearly shows lack of qualified managers.
Bias...
Age bias can be subtle, or it can show up in more overt behaviors such as hiring discrimination.
New research shows that age bias doesn't affect men and women equally. In fact, older men face harsher discrimination than older women.
The stereotypical version of worker past retirement age, sowing discord among younger employees who covet the senior position is usually male.
This "intersectional escape," the phenomenon by which older women seem to escape age-based penalties, is actually rooted in sexism.
Younger employee view older, dominant women as maternal or caring, even if they behave in an assertive way. But these same employees instead see older men as overly aggressive and hostile to younger workers' success. Just a thought.
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