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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Why Scammers Use Gift Cards to Steal Your Money
As hard as we try to stop it, there will always be a scammer out there inventing novel ways to steal our money. We have all received a wide variety of scam phone calls, and most of them end with demands for immediate payment, often using what may seem to most of us as strange […]
‘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 […]
First Edition: March 20, 2020
Today’s early morning highlights from the major news organizations. More than half the counties in America have no intensive care beds, posing a particular danger for more than 7 million people who are age 60 and up ― older patients who face the highest risk of serious illness or […] Click here to view original […]
First Edition: March 19, 2020
Everything is changing so fast. Here is the latest. Today’s early morning highlights from the major news organizations. As COVID-19 cases spread across the nation, disrupting daily routines for theliving,growingnumbers of U.S. businesses and families are changing how they deal with the dead.Funeral homes — already well-versed in ways to prevent disease — are implementing […]
‘A Socio-Economic Tsunami’: How The World Is Dealing With Pandemic
Volunteers clean as a precaution against the new coronavirus at Wat Traimit temple in Bangkok, Thailand, on Wednesday. Thailand’s government has enacted stronger measures to combat the spread of COVID-19. The U.S. and Canada were reportedly working out an agreement to limit non-essential travel across their mutual border, as […] Click here to view original […]
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, […]
First Edition: March 16, 2020
With events changing by the day, here is the latest on coronavirus and related matters. Today’s early morning highlights from the major news organizations. In the midst of a global health crisis that has disrupted daily life and heightened anxieties for millions of Americans, former Vice President Joe Biden and Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders on […]
No-Touch Greetings Take Off: People Are Getting Creative About Saying ‘Hi’
I had a business meeting yesterday and I learned about social distancing. Between me and my meeting partner, he greeted me with forearm bump and our meeting ended with a fist bump. Practicing social distancing and getting creative with no-touch greetings are key methods to curbing the spread of the novel coronavirus. The way the […]
First Edition: March 12, 2020
I am not sure exactly when I realized this is a really big deal. Now we are seeing nearly everyone has made that conclusion and are taking action that we can categorize as drastic at least from my terms of reference. Today’s early morning highlights from the major news organizations. As the novel coronavirus continues […]
3D Housing Homeless And Needy Seniors
There will be a time when providing affordable homes for seniors and homeless will be so simple, the only barrier is finding available land. Icon’s Vulcan II 3D printer for homes on a job site in Austin, Texas where it was 3D printing a series of six homes for formerly homeless individuals. (Courtesy of Icon) […]
Daniel Craig Let Loose as James Bond on ‘SNL’
Daniel Craig has made for a good James Bond. How do you feel about it? Won’t every actor to compared against Sean Connery? James Bond gets to fly around the world and attend cool parties, but rarely does the fictitious spy ever get to enjoy his international vacations. That changed on this week’s Saturday Night […]
Coronavirus Stress Test
Everywhere we look now, hygiene is being adhered to more than ever. Why of course is because we are learning how coronavirus spreads. Long before the novel coronavirus made its surprise appearance, the nation’s nursing homes were struggling to obey basic infection prevention protocols designed to halt the spread of viruses and bacteria they battle […]
Find a real relationship for $0 on these non-corny free dating sites
If you use a dating site they can get a little pricey. Before you jump into using a premium dating site like Match or Eharmony try these free destinations. Remember your soulmate is priceless. Sure. But do you have to use a paid site to find a real relationship? Does a monthly fee really weed […]
Self-published authors are actually making a living. Here’s how.
Bloomer Boomer interviews many authors and book publishers because some many people in our community are writing books. For authors hoping to make extra income, there is good news. If you google the words “self-publishing stigma,” you’ll find enough material to fill a book. The search results for this phrase are packed with articles and […]
The New Hampshire Newspaper Publisher Who Became the ‘Political Godmother’ of the Modern Right
Either way, Buchanan’s address was one of several factors that made the 1992 GOP convention a pivotal moment for the political right—and it might not have happened without Nackey’s activism. Buchanan understood this. Shortly before the convention, he asked the organizers if Nackey could introduce him. She would, he […] Click here to view original […]
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 […]
Creativity and Your Second Act
“But I don’t have a creative bone in my body,” my client Sarah laments in response to my query, What would you like to create now that you’ve entered your Second Act?” The creativity and second act… After a lifetime of working in government service, Sarah tells me she feels a deep longing to “break […]
The Thai king has died after 70 years on the throne — here are the world’s longest-ruling monarchs
Queen Elizabeth II ascended to the British throne in 1952 following the death of her father George VI, making her the longest-reigning monarch in the world. Last year, the 90-year-old surpassed the reign of her great-great-grandmother, Queen Victoria, which lasted from 1837 to 1901. Queen Elizabeth is the 45th longest-reigning monarch of all time. As […]
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 […]
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 […]
Top TakeAways for Senior Living and Real Estate Marketing from HeroConf 2016
Last week I had the advantage of joining nearly 500 other paid search and digital marketers in the city of brotherly love for HeroConf, a conference focused on paid search marketing. The program highlighted trends, best practices and even gave a few brief glances into the crystal ball of search engine marketing. I have so […]
