“I felt like I had been punched in the stomach. I was just gasping for air.” That’s how Nancy Rost recalls the moments after her husband, Tom, walked through the door of their home six years ago this month. In his hand, Tom held a letter from a long-time employee. On his face, the easy
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The annual cost of health care for the average American family hovers around $20,000. Premiums increase yearly, and this is a primary driver of why real wages for average Americans don’t seem to improve. Meanwhile, the CEO of non-profit Banner Health, based out of Arizona, raked in $21.6 million last year. Nearly half of the CEOs
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I have a background in financial services. Over the years, I’ve seen many patterns of productivity. A large percentage of financial advisors produce within the $100,000 to $250,000 range. A much smaller percentage exceeds the norm, producing $1,000,000+ of fees and commissions. These select few with production over $1,000,000 are in demand because they are
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You might think that watching cute kittie videos on YouTube is as harmless as it gets. You’d be wrong. Online video is destroying the Amazon jungle, melting glaciers in Greenland and kindling wildfires in California. There’s no video without electricity. And no electricity without carbon emissions. Stored in data centres, videos are transferred to our
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There is no human nature because there is no God to have a conception of it … man is nothing else but that which he makes of himself. ~ John Paul Sartre We are in a fierce life and death cultural struggle over the meaning of human nature and reality in the cosmos. Our postmodern culture
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“Whoever does not know a foreign language knows nothing of his own.” After studying Latin and German, I understand exactly what this quote from Goethe means. Growing up as a native English speaker, I had little idea of how the language worked. Since I began studying foreign languages, I have learned to appreciate my mother
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