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United says employees can kick people off planes for not using headphones
Our take: Yes!!! No one wants to hear your conversation, your video game, or your TikTok video. This is one of those behaviors that drives most people nuts. Mute the phone or use headphones – the rest of us have other stuff on our minds, people!!!
COURTESY: MSN
Local BLM founder gets in fight with a female staffer who accused him of misappropriating funds for personal use
Our take: Yikes. None of this looks good for the Waukegan BLM chapter. Police responded to a call to break up a fight at the BLM office in Waukegan. A female staffer claims the founder tried to shove her out the door after she accused him of spending organization funds on “girls” and “gambling”. The video shows the founder and a female associate struggling with each other in a hallway. Shockingly, both participants blame the other for initiating the altercation.
COURTESY: MSN
The leader of Somali led “autism” center pleads guilty to $6 million fraud
Our take: 27-year-old Abdinajib Hassan Yussuf founded an “autism therapy center” when he was 22 years old. He is not a doctor or trained in any way to provide care to autistic people. Despite these shortcomings, he hired unqualified teenagers as “behavioral technicians”, paid monthly cash kickbacks to parents of children enrolled in their programs, and took over $6 million in government payments over a 4 year period before the fraud was discovered and he was charged by federal prosecutors.
2 things here. Is it still racist to call out fraud when we see it? Asking for a friend. Secondly, I don’t care what your skin color or nationality is; if you are stealing taxpayer dollars by scamming Medicare, Medicaid, or any other government program, I want to see you arrested, prosecuted, and sent to prison. I don’t see why that is controversial at all. You don’t get a pass if you’re white, from Somalia, or whatever other ridiculous excuse people want to use to justify criminal behavior.
COURTESY: THE LION
Tip of the day – How to approach difficult conversations
Identify the things you care about
Purpose is all about applying your skills toward contributing to the greater good in a way that matters to you. So, identifying what you care about is an important first step.
In Greater Good’s Purpose Challenge, designed by Bronk and her team, high school seniors were asked to think about the world around them—their homes, communities, the world at large—and visualize what they would do if they had a magic wand and could change anything they wanted to change (and why). Afterward, they could use that reflection to consider more concrete steps they might take to contribute toward moving the world a little closer to that ideal.
A similar process is recommended for older adults by Jim Emerman of Encore.org, an organization that helps seniors find new purpose in life. Instead of envisioning an ideal future world, though, he suggests posing three questions to yourself:
What are you good at?
What have you done that gave you a skill that can be used for a cause?
What do you care about in your community?
By reflecting on these questions, he says, older adults can brainstorm ideas for repurposing skills and pursuing interests developed over a lifetime toward helping the world.
QUOTE OF THE DAY
“If you tell the truth, it becomes a part of your past. If you lie, it becomes a part of your future.” – John Spence