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How are children supposed to learn to act like adults, when so much of what they see on television shows adults acting like children? |
The know-it-all smirks and condescending laughs of Vice President Joe Biden, when Congressman Paul Ryan was speaking during their debate, were a little much from an administration presiding over economic woes at home and disasters overseas -- and being caught in lies about both. Like Barack Obama, Joe Biden has all the... |
If you truly believe in the brotherhood of man, then you must believe that blacks are just as capable of being racists as whites are. |
One of the most foolish, and most dangerous, things one can do is to take love for granted, instead of nurturing it and safeguarding it as the prize jewel of one's life. |
Whenever you hear people talking about "a living Constitution," almost invariably they are people who are in the process of slowly killing it by "interpreting" its restrictions on government out of existence. |
Do either Barack Obama or his followers have any idea how many countries during the 20th century set out to "spread the wealth" -- and ended up spreading poverty instead? At some point, you have to turn from rhetoric, theories and ideologies to facts. |
I am so old that I can remember when liberals were liberal -- instead of being intolerant of anything and anybody that is not politically correct. |
Whatever happened to Julie Banderas of the Fox News Channel? She had brains, looks, wit and personality. Has she met with foul play? Or has some zillionaire married her and taken her off to his own private island? |
The question to be asked of people in the media, and that they should ask themselves, should be: "Is your first loyalty to your audience or to your ideology?" The same question should be asked of educators, especially those who see themselves as "agents of social change," even though that is not the job description und... |
People who complain about "negative" campaign ads miss the point. It is perfectly legitimate to criticize your opponent. The question is whether the ads are about serious things that matter to the future of this country, and whether they are telling the truth or lying. |
If you believe Barack Obama and others who oppose what they call "tax cuts for the rich," you might want to consider what the late Daniel Patrick Moynihan once said: "You are entitled to your own opinion, but not to your own facts." If you want to see some documented facts about tax rates and tax revenues, there is a b... |
In baseball, switch hitters are said to have an advantage. But the highest lifetime batting average by a switch hitter (.319 by Frankie Frisch) is more than 30 points lower than the highest batting average for either left-handed hitters or right-handed hitters. The highest batting average in a season by a switch hitter... |
If there is ever a Hall of Fame for confidence men, Charles Ponzi and Bernie Madoff will have to take a back seat to Barack Obama. Obama is the gold standard -- or, perhaps more appropriately, the brass standard. |
I have never known a word to become absolute dogma, without a speck of evidence, the way "diversity" has. |
Gallery: Houston Easter eggs in Travis Scott's "Astroworld" |
The cover art for Travis Scott's new album, "Astroworld," pays homage to the defunct rollercoaster Texas Cyclone. |
See other ways Scott references Houston in "Astroworld." |
"Grippin' the grain (the grain, yeah)" |
"Was talkin' Frenchy's but she thinkin' Ocean Prime (Prime, yeah)" |
Explained: Listeners have speculated that the second song in Scott's album, Carousel, references the long-gone Dentzel Carousel ride in Astroworld. |
"Got the keys into my city, now she know the rides" |
Explained: In February 2018, the mayor of Missouri City gifted Scott a key to the city and declared Feb. 10 Travis Scott Day. Scott grew up in the Houston-area suburb and attended Elkins High School. |
Explained: In February 2018, the mayor of Missouri City gifted Scott a key to the city and declared Feb. 10 Travis Scott Day. |
"Packin' out Toyota like I'm in the league" |
Explained: Scott has frequently performed at the Toyota Center, the home stadium of the Houston Rockets. |
"Rest in peace to Screw, tonight we take it slowly" |
"Next city, no sleep, back to the 713" |
Explained: 713 is the area code for Houston, Texas. |
Explained: Scott references Beltway 8, the state highway stretching around Houston and connecting it to surrounding suburbs. |
"Space coupe, back out of the space station. Float around town, do that on the daily." |
Since its formation in 1980, the duo of Yo-Yo Ma and Emanuel Ax has proved successful in every wise. Locally, the Paris-born cellist of Chinese parentage and the Polish-American pianist, each highly accomplished, have together earned consistent admiration as a team. |
In moving outdoors, to the vast spaces of Hollywood Bowl, to appear on the Virtuoso Series on Wednesday night, Ma and Ax took a certain amount of risk. |
Famous for the delicacy and wispiness of their soft playing, the duo took a chance on the efficacy of the variable microphoning and sound-dispersal system at the mammoth amphitheater, not to mention notoriously unreliable climatic conditions and changeable humidity. And, of course, the unpredictable appearance of helic... |
To the surprise of many observers, luck, fortune and pure chance favored the duo and their program of works by Beethoven, Franck and Brahms. |
The sound-system delivered fairly all of their loud- and most of their soft-playing, no dampness swallowed up their instrumental sounds and not a single flying machine hovered over, or even passed by, their first Bowl recital. |
Moreover, the 29-year-old cellist and the 36-year-old pianist seemed to perform at the top of their form. |
They brought lightness, transparency and solid Classical reserve to Beethoven's Variations on "Bei Maennern, welche Liebe fuehlen"; Gallic mellowness, caressing lyricism and impetuous rhythmic drive to Cesar Franck's beloved Sonata in A. To Brahms' sometimes dense and turgid Sonata in F, they lent a penetrating stylish... |
In all moments, they seemed to think, move and express with a single musical mind and apparatus. |
For an encore, they played--exquisitely--the first of Robert Schumann's "Phantasiestuecke," Opus 73. |
'NO WHITE MALE' sticker placed on political sign of female candidate for Congress, Yvette Herrell. |
LAS CRUCES - Stickers affixed to the political signs of Republican candidates proclaiming “NO — WHITE MALE REPUBLICANS” are spreading, in ways that make little sense. |
Ben Rawson, who is running for re-election to the County Commission, reported last week that several of his signs had the stickers placed on them. The proposed prohibition on the sticker would seem to apply equally to both Rawson and his Democratic opponent Shannon Reynolds. |
Rawson said Saturday that at least five more of his signs had been vandalized since the Sun-News first reported on the situation last week. Beyond that, the stickers had also been used to deface the signs of other Republican candidates, including Yvette Herrell, a woman who is running for U.S. Congress. |
“I heard there was one on Yvette Herrell’s sign. That doesn’t make any sense, but the whole thing doesn’t make any sense anyway,” Rawson said. |
Rawson said he is not sure if the stickers can be removed without damaging the signs. |
He said he was sorry the issue was getting so much attention, and he doesn’t think it is reflective of the community. |
“I don’t see it as being worse. I just think it’s somebody being stupid,” he said. |
Here are three ways to start preparing your team members for new and different roles inside the company (before they find other opportunities outside it). |
Remember when staying in a job for less than a few years was considered a stain on your resume? That’s no longer the case. By one recent estimate, the average length of time people now spend in a given role is just a little over two years among workers ages 25–39. And who can blame them? Baseless millennial stereotypes... |
Not that I’m complaining. Far from flaky and unreliable, people who cycle through jobs tend to be fast-learning, ambitious high-performers who don’t shy away from a challenge–exactly the kind of people you want on your team. Keeping them around long enough to maximize that potential is the real challenge. As soon as yo... |
So lately I’ve had to think creatively about ways to keep new hires engaged while extending their professional lives inside the company. Here are a few methods we’ve come up with. |
The most employee movement we see here at Vidyard is in our sales department. As with a lot of front-line jobs, it’s hard to keep this area dynamic because sales isn’t necessarily a role where you can rotate people through varied projects, like we do with our developers. So instead we’ve introduced tiers to certain sal... |
A higher-level tier might include new responsibilities like mentoring newer hires, taking on bigger accounts, or shadowing more senior team members. Yet each new level comes with commensurate pay increases to reflect the advancement. |
Having clear tiers for sales jobs lets our new hires see from the outset that they’re never “stuck” in an entry-level role, and it shows them exactly what they need to do to make it to the next level. They get the support and encouragement to add to their skill sets while also getting better at selling–the critical fun... |
As any manager knows, dealing with an employee who’s pushing for a promotion before they’re ready can be a tricky (and common) situation. The challenge is to be realistic without dismissing their desire to advance. Simply telling someone they’ll have to stay put will only breed resentment and accelerate a move–likely o... |
So we’ve tried to develop what I think of as a readiness pulse-check. Flip the tables and give eager team members a chance to assess their own readiness for a promotion (or lack thereof). A little while ago, one new hire joined Vidyard as a “concierge,” helping direct customer inquiries to the right place, but his hear... |
He soon realized he still had some work to do, but he now knew exactly which skills and qualifications he’d need to move forward. Within little more than a year, he successfully made the switch and has continued to move up the ranks. In fact, using this same approach, he went on to segue into a product manager role, wh... |
Putting the onus on your ambitious employees to figure out whether they’re truly ready for the next step is a great way to give them some control over their career paths. Some may resent the perceived roadblock. But those that rise to the occasion will be doubly dedicated to their jobs, and double their value to you by... |
Indeed, sometimes the best ways to keep team members happy is to encourage internal mobility across functional areas. Jumping to a new role or department can revitalize enthusiasm and preserve institutional know-how while also busting up silos. |
We recently began experimenting with a loaner program to let employees cross departmental lines in their work, something that other tech companies have been doing for years. Right now, our initiative is admittedly small and operating on a four-month trial, but I’m excited to see where it leads in the future. Other time... |
In my opinion, keeping a good employee for many years is important; it’s the goal of every great leader I know. The key is to creating a climate where people hungry to amass new skills can genuinely see a path forward. In the end, a stifled, inflexible workplace only leads to the exodus of your best and brightest. The ... |
US President Barack Obama and his top aides launched a full-scale political offensive on Sunday to persuade a sceptical Congress to approve a military strike against Syria, but faced a struggle to win over lawmakers from both parties and a war-weary American public. |
Obama made calls to members of the House of Representatives and Senate, with more scheduled for Monday, underscoring the task confronting the administration before it can go ahead with using force in response to a deadly chemical attack blamed on the Syrian government. |
Dozens of lawmakers, some in tennis shirts or shirtsleeves, cut short their vacations and streamed into the corridors of the Capitol building for a Sunday afternoon intelligence briefing on Syria with Obama's national security team. |
When they emerged nearly three hours later, there was no immediate sign that the many skeptics in Congress had changed their minds. Many questioned the broad nature of the measure Obama is seeking, suggesting it needed to be narrowed. |
"I am very concerned about taking America into another war against a country that hasn't attacked us," said Representative Janice Hahn, a California Democrat. On the way out of the briefing, she said the participants appeared "evenly divided" on whether to give Obama approval. |
Most seemed convinced that Syria had engaged in chemical warfare. |
"The searing image of babies lined up dead, that's what I can't get out of my mind right now," Democratic Representative Debbie Wasserman Schultz said after the closed-door briefing. |
But the credibility of the administration's intelligence is turning out to be a less important issue than the nature and usefulness of the response. |
Earlier in the day, Secretary of State John Kerry invoked the crimes of Adolf Hitler and Saddam Hussein and warned of a potential threat to Israel a day after Obama delayed an imminent attack on Syrian targets until after a congressional vote. |
Even as Kerry took to the airwaves touting new evidence that deadly sarin gas was used in the August 21 chemical attack near Damascus, the scope of the challenge confronting the administration became apparent. |
Lawmakers questioned the effectiveness of limited strikes, the possible unintended consequence of dragging the United States into another open-ended Middle East conflict, the wisdom of acting without broader international backing to share the burden, and the war fatigue of the American public. |
Polls show the public is largely opposed to US military action. |
While Kerry predicted Obama would win the endorsement he wants, a growing cacophony of congressional critics – ranging from liberal Democratic doves to Republican Tea Party conservatives – illustrated just how hard that will be. |
"I'm not convinced that the administration's support will resolve the issues in Syria," Representative Bennie Thompson, the top Democrat on the Homeland Security Committee, said as he left the meeting, adding he was leaning toward a "no" vote. |
"In terms of whether not a lot of questions were really answered today? I'd say no," he said. |
Kerry, the administration's most impassioned voice for intervention in Syria's 2-1/2-year civil war, was left to publicly defend Obama's stunning reversal, a decision that puts any strike on hold for at least nine days. |
"This is squarely now in the hands of Congress," Kerry told CNN, saying he had confidence lawmakers "will do what is right because they understand the stakes." |
In a round of television appearances, Kerry declined to say whether Obama would proceed with military action if Congress rejects his request, as Britain's parliament did last week. |
He echoed Obama's comments in the White House Rose Garden on Saturday, insisting the president had the right to act on his own if he chooses that course. |
Obama is taking a gamble by putting the brakes on the military assault he considers essential to maintain US credibility after he had said the use of chemical weapons would constitute a "red line" for the United States. |
US military officials are using the delay to reassess which ships will be used for a strike, and which sites in Syria to target. One change was a decision to send the USS Nimitz aircraft carrier and its entire strike group toward the Red Sea to help support the Syria strike, if needed. |
The consensus on Capitol Hill is that Obama has a good chance of winning approval in the Democratic-led Senate, but the vote appears too close to call in the Republican-controlled House of Representatives, where the president's opponents rarely miss an opportunity to block him. |
The White House is due to talk with House Democrats by telephone on Monday, and Obama will meet with the heads of several key House and Senate committees in person on Tuesday. |
Acknowledging that the administration has its work cut out, Kerry insisted Congress could not "have it both ways" by demanding a voice and then abdicating responsibility to uphold the international bans on chemical weapons use. |
Kerry used the television appearances to provide further evidence backing accusations against the Syrian government. |
"I can share with you today that blood and hair samples that have come to us through an appropriate chain of custody, from east Damascus, from first responders, it has tested positive for signatures of sarin," Kerry told CNN's State of the Union. |
It was the first time the administration had pinpointed the chemical used in the attack, which US intelligence agencies said killed more than 1 400 people, many of them children. |
Obama's efforts are sure to be hampered by his dismal relations with congressional Republicans. Another bitter face-off on government spending is looming this autumn. |
Lawmakers for the most part welcomed Obama's decision to consult them, but looked in no hurry to reconvene early from their summer recess, which lasts until September 9. |
Underscoring a sense of wariness even from Obama's traditional allies, many Democrats joined Republicans in saying the use-of-force resolution offered by the White House is too broad and that new language will be written for consideration. |
Several said they wanted it to include strict time limits, guarantee that no US troops would be sent into Syria, and tie authorisation for any further military action to additional chemical weapons use by Syria's President Bashar al-Assad. |
"The president said this is going to be limited. Yet that's an open-ended authorisation to just about do anything he wants," said Democratic Senator Tom Harkin. |
"The resolution as it is right now is so open-ended that it gives a blanket authority with no time limits. You can't accept it just on its face," said Republican Representative Dennis Ross. "Now we have to look at what is the exit strategy if we do a strike, and I don't know if we're going to do that." |
Republican Representative Peter King of New York said it was unclear if lawmakers would sign off on an attack on Syria, but he warned Obama may have to overcome "the isolationist wing" of the Republican Party to prevail. |
Seeking to lay the groundwork for what is expected to be a heated congressional debate, Kerry tipped his hand on one administration tactic – linking the vote to safeguarding US ally Israel from the Syrian chemical weapons threat. |
"I don't think they will want to vote, ultimately, to put Israel at risk," Kerry said. |
Regular aerobic exercise decreases the risk for chronic disease in older adults. |
Aerobic exercise is important for cardiovascular health. The American College of Sports Medicine recommends 150 minutes per week for adults. Popular options, like the treadmill and elliptical machine, can both help you get there. Both machines have their own advantages and drawbacks, though, especially if you're concer... |
The treadmill is one of the more popular pieces of equipment; it's also a staple cardio gym option for walkers and runners in areas where weather is a factor. For older adults looking to run a road race it is the better option. Running on a treadmill more closely mimics running outdoors than the elliptical. The treadmi... |
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