How The Sackler family made billions from deaths due to OxyContin overdose.
How The Sackler family made billions from deaths due to OxyContin overdose. How government regulators were paid off and doctors looked the other way
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Surviving A Hospital Stay
There is no escaping the fact all of us will most likely spend a few hours if not days in a hospital and if you are anything like me…they are a vast unknown that brings forth a fear of that unknown. What if you had someone who could ease that fear. After spending years in […]
Overcoming Change Anxiety
Fear of change dominates peoples lives to the point they become frozen and incapitated. We learn how a super successful business executive overcame his fears and how he manages it in his life. Peter de Silva is a nationally recognized and highly accomplished financial industry executive. He is an experienced chairman, CEO, president, executive committee […]
Break The Addict In Your Life
PASTOR JACK ALAN LEVINE Pastor Jack also serves on the board of Drug and Directors of Washed Clean Ministries, National Addiction and Recovery Association and Purpose Church Orlando; advises NOW Matters More, helping addicts, and is also on the Board of Directors at Oasis Compassion Agency and Changed Lives Church. A licensed minister since 2006, […]
Judge Addict – A True Life Story – Must Watch Interview
For Mary Beth, childhood abuse and other traumas led to substance use disorder (addiction). Beginning with alcohol at age 12, she spent several years abusing various drugs. She found methamphetamine at 16 and started shooting up at 17. Mary Beth struggled with meth until she was 32 years old. By incorporating ideas from multiple sources […]
‘The Office’ cast members share their favorite cold opens for 15th anniversary
To is too fun to ignore. It’s been 15 years since the pilot of The Office aired on NBC (March 24, 2005), and after all this time the show remains one of the greatest comedies in television history. To celebrate The Office ‘s milestone anniversary, former co-stars Jenna Fischer (Pam Beesly) and Angela Kinsey (Angela […]
98.6 Not The Normal Body Temperature Anymore
Surprise to me. I always thought 98.6 was the gold standard for a healthy person. Not so. Body temperature can vary by sex, size, age, time of day it’s taken and other factors.(BSIP / Universal Images Group) More recently, researchers have known normal body temperature is actually lower than 98.6 and can vary by gender, […]
Fiasco Tries to Make Iran-Contra a Teachable Moment
Left to right: Oliver North, Ted Koppel in front of the White House in 1985. (Getty) Subscribe These are boom times for multitasking, boom times for alienation, and, thus, boom times for content . Audiences need entertainment (give me more to do with my phone!) and capital has made […] Click here to view original […]
Just How Much Money Do You Really Need for Retirement?
Dan Caplinger: In trying to come up with a number for how much their clients need in order to retire, many financial advisors look at the issue completely backwards. It’s easy from an analytical viewpoint to take what someone is spending now and then figure out how much you’ll need in order to sustain that […]
The 4 big challenges to Netflix’s grand plan for world domination
In January, Netflix made the bombshell announcement that it had expanded to over 130 new countries in a single day, bringing it into every major international market except China. Since then, the results have been mixed. At its last quarterly earnings, Netflix reported good international growth results in the first three months of 2016. But […]
How to get sweat stains out of your clothes
There is a whole boatload of weird and wonderful ways to treat sweat stains that employ everything from baking soda to crushed-up aspirin. There’s also a host of sweat stain removal products with absurd names like PitStop. They are all great options, and we’ll talk through them and then finish up with some suggestions as […]
The Trouble with the Movies
The trouble with the movies is that they so seldom get below the surface of a story and its characters, that their whole is rarely as good as the parts, and the characters of their players—Gary Cooper or Margaret Sullavan, for instance—are usually more powerful than the characters they play. The movies don’t have any […]
Looking for a Second Career? Try Before You Buy.
MARC FREEDMAN: What one tip would I give to older Americans who are currently out of work, but who would like to find full-time employment? Embrace action. When determining how to move into new kinds of work, we can try to think things through in advance—or we can get out into the world. Both have […]
Brain Games Myth
A new study reports all the hype over brain training to improve our memory may be exaggerated at best and possibly misleading. In Phaedrus, Plato’s 2,400-year-old set of dialogues, Socrates narrates a conversation between the King of Egypt, Thamus, and a god, Theuth. Theuth had invented various fields of learning, including arithmetic, astronomy, geometry, and […]
Must-Have for Senior Travelers
Personal health records allow seniors to take control of their health files anywhere, anytime As thousands of snowbirds, or seasonal travelers, make plans to migrate to Southwest for warmer weather, they may not know that the top item to pack should be their electronic personal health record along with their sunscreen and golf clubs. These […]
The Third Act – Who Can’t Dance?
Partly a story about how a great dance instructor assembled a group of amateurs and produced a show that has everyone talking. They’re amateurs in dance. But they’ve lived a lot of life. And it shows. Excerpts from the Annapolis Royal premiere, with commentary by the Choreographer/Director. For a glimpse of the darker, deeply moving side, […]
Social Security 79th Birthday
Washington, DC–(ENEWSPF)–August 22, 2014. Alliance Members Continue Social Security Birthday Celebrations With Social Security celebrating its 79th birthday last week, Alliance members have been holding events across the country honoring the landmark retirement security program. This week’s events included celebrations with cake and balloons in states such as Iowa, Missouri, New York, and Pennsylvania. To […]
How Baby-Boomer Daughters Made Martha Stewart The Queen of Living Well
The Story of How, and Why, Martha Stewart Became the Queen of Living Well When Margaret Talbot profiled Martha Stewart in 1996, Stewart’s magazine “Living” had only been around for five years, but already boasted 1.5 million subscribers. Stewart had a television show, multiple books on the bestseller list, etc. etc. etc. Talbot noted that […]
What Too Much Facebook Sharing Tells Us
New research looks at who, exactly, keeps posting those public declarations of love on your newsfeed. Okay, so maybe you don’t want to know the nickname that girl from your high school has given her new paramour, just like you don’t particularly want to know the color of the daisies he bought her last week, […]
Legendary Actress Lauren Bacall Has Died
Legendary film star Lauren Bacall has died, reports Variety and The Hollywood Reporter. She was 89. Both outlets are reporting she died of a suspected stroke Tuesday morning at her New York home. Known for her husky voice and sizzling looks, Bacall started out as a model and then broke out as a leading lady […]
End VA Doctor Shortage Imitate Medicare
To End VA Doctor Shortage, Medicare Funding Needs Boost As the nation grapples with the imbroglio at the Department of Veteran Affairs and a doctor shortage cited in months-long delays at VA Hospitals, policymakers are focusing on ways to boost the nation’s physician supply. The fix may lie with the Medicare health insurance program for […]
100th WWI Anniversary
A century on, Europe pays tribute to soldiers of WWI JUDY WOODRUFF: Commemoration events were held throughout Europe today to mark the 100th anniversary of the outbreak of World War I. The global conflict killed more than 14 million people from 28 countries. JAMES MATES: In memory of a terrible past, there is a determination […]
Our One Year Anniversary
Comment from Andy: I have been infatuated with adventurers over 55 who decide to pick-up and move to brand new country to call home. For that reason, we been been running stories of those people. If you have a story or know someone who wants to share with us, please let us know. Click here […]
Commemorating Three Pivotal Wars
This year Americans are commemorating all three of their most pivotal 20th-century conflicts. A century has passed since the start of World War I, 70 years since the D-Day landings, and this month marks the 50th anniversary of the Tonkin Gulf incident, which was used to justify American escalation in Vietnam. But these are more […]
5 Legendary Performances From Woodstock That Everyone Needs To See
You can check out more performances on Woodstock: 3 Days of Peace and Music 40th Anniversary Limited Edition Revisited on blu-ray out now. Click here to view original web page at www.buzzfeed.com
Queen of the Selfie: Allure of Frida Kahlo
Mexican artist Frida Kahlo, who died 60 years ago this month, is perhaps most famous for her surreal self-portraits which today fetch up to $5m. But her distinctive floral headwear, folk costume and strong brows have also inspired a legion of women to dress up like their hero. It takes quite a character to inspire […]
Medicare’s 49th Anniversary!
President Lyndon Johnson signs the bill into law with Harry S. Truman seated next to him. President Truman’s participation in the signing recognized his effort while in office to establish a national health insurance program. Others present were Lady Bird Johnson, Vice President Hubert Humphrey, and Bess Truman. July 30, 1965. Photo courtesy of Lyndon […]
This Week in Boomer History: Lenny Bruce … Gulf of Tonkin … Medicare
Lenny Bruce, President Lyndon B. Johnson signs Medicare and Medicaid into law on July 30, 1965, at the Truman Presidential Library in Independence, Mo., a nod to President Harry S. Truman, who proposed the programs in 1945. Politics Print Lenny Bruce: Book Cover – How to Talk Dirty Noteworthy events from our shared experience On Aug. […]
100th ‘Leaves of Grass’ Work of Art
The craft of fine printed books is alive and well at Arion Press. Here, the binding of “Leaves of Grass,” the 100th book, is being hand-sewn. Photo by Jeremy Raff TRANSCRIPT RELATED LINKS HARI SREENIVASAN: Finally, Gutenberg in the age of the digital tablet. Jeffrey Brown has a story […] Whitman was 36 years old […]
SeaWorld San Diego 50 Years Old
SeaWorld San Diego is celebrating its 50th anniversary this year with all kinds of splashy doings — penguin, sloth and flamingo greeters and an Explorer’s Reef where visitors can touch shark pups and rays. Paradise Point Resort & Spa on Mission Bay offers water taxi service in July and August for visitors who want to […]
Greyhound: 100 year Anniversary
Riders wait for their Greyhound bus to depart the Union Station parking garage in May in Washington, D.C. To meet the competition and its challenges, the bus company has been overhauling its image. (Amanda Voisard/For The Washington Post) It was nearing midnight when a sleek coach adorned with galloping canines inched through the new Greyhound […]
Canadian soldier killed 2 minutes before end of First World War remembered
CTVNews.ca Staff Nearly a century after his death, a Nova Scotia community is remembering George Price, the last Commonwealth soldier killed in the First World War moments before it ended. Price, a 25-year-old Canadian private fighting for the British Commonwealth, was fatally shot by a German sniper in Belgium […] Click here to view original […]
