Columbus, OH

Your article was successfully shared with the contacts you provided. The need for comprehensive risk management strategies in retirement planning cannot be overstated. An often overlooked yet crucial component is disability insurance. It plays an important role in safeguarding business continuity and ensuring stability, particularly when a key owner becomes...

Disability Insurance Can Ensure Business Continuity

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"They accidentally gave us 2 washers and a dryer when we only ordered 1 of each". Last month, Lowe’s experienced a glitch that lowered the price of its $2,300 Midea jumbo capacity refrigerator to just $169.

‘Lowe’s messed up’: Shopper says they got $2,300 fridge at Lowe’s for just $169

"It Ends With Us" is, overall, an accurate portrayal of an abusive relationship. Lily leaving Ryle is a courageous example of a survivor leaving a bad situation. The film makes it seem easy to leave an abusive relationship when, in reality, it's usually very difficult. Colleen Hoover’s bestseller-turned-film It Ends...

What “It Ends With Us” Gets Wrong

Emotional divorce is when a couple, still legally married, experiences a significant emotional separation. In an emotional divorce, a couple can experience fear, relief, sadness, anger, hope, or even personal growth. Lack of communication creates an emotional chasm, making a couple more like roommates than life partners. An “emotional divorce”...

3 Signs of Going Through an "Emotional Divorce"

The median 2024 pay of public-company chief compliance officers is $532,454, a 7% year-over-year increase, a survey of of 330 compliance officers by executive search firm BarkerGilmore finds. Some big-company CCOs earn more than $1.3 million. Pay is defined as salary plus bonus. Private company CCOs earn median compensation of...

$532K is median pay for public company CCOs, search firm says

There are many things people are taught to want and that are supposed to make them happy. What we should want, in theory, is often not what we do want. Making that distinction and respecting it is critical to living an authentic life. I was recently offered a “great” professional...

Learning to Live By What You Want, Not What You Should Want

When my children left home after graduating from school, it felt like a bittersweet milestone—the end of an era. It was hard!. Friends and family offered well-meaning advice, reassuring me that I would adjust and that the kids would thrive (especially after surviving the first one leaving), but it didn’t ease the ache of watching them leave the nest.

Letting Go in Life Is Never Simple

Most people find it hard to pay attention to themselves. Self-care means taking care of yourself daily like you would for someone you love. Self-care is not just a coping method; it’s a way of connecting to yourself. The term "self-care" is all over social media, in books, on...

Self-Care Is Your First Date With Yourself

Perfectionists tend to be preoccupied with feeling important. Perfectionists struggle to meet others' needs because they don't match theirs. Humility entails accepting how limited our ability to fix and solve problems actually is. Self-love, silencing the inner critic, and eliminating negative emotions together constitute the pursuit of any perfectionist. On...

The Shame of Perfectionism

Las Vegas, NV

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LAS VEGAS, NEVADA - A magnitude 4.4 earthquake struck areas near Las Vegas on Tuesday night, according to the United States Geological Service (USGS). The quake, which occurred at 8:06 p.m., was centered approximately 45 minutes from Las Vegas, near Indian Springs.

Magnitude 4.4 Earthquake Shakes Areas Near Las Vegas

Business Insider

Ten Dell employees told Business Insider that they are bracing for further rounds of layoffs as the company rolls out its new AI strategy.

Dell staff say they aren't surprised about layoffs following its AI pivot

Three levels of social needs must be met to feel fulfilled in life. It’s better to focus on quality rather than quantity of social relations. Escaping the loneliness trap is especially difficult for seniors. The specter of loneliness looms large over our aging population. As we get old, loved...

How to Avoid Feeling Lonely in Later Life

Through the lens of affect psychology, underlying emotions that motivate addiction behaviors can be explored. Shame responses often form the core of pathology, yet shame is often hidden or remains unacknowledged. Coping responses to shame include attacking others, attacking the self, withdrawal, and avoidance. The voluntary exposure of shame-based vulnerabilities...

The Hidden Struggle: Understanding Shame in Addiction

Jacksonville, FL

Jacksonville Today

A historic marker could be erected to honor the victims of the racist mass shooting at the Dollar General store in Jacksonville’s New Town neighborhood nearly a year ago. If approved by the Jacksonville City Council, a marker would be installed at Kings Road and Canal Street on Aug. 25, a day before the first anniversary of the shooting, when a white gunman took the lives of three Black people.

Memorial considered to honor Dollar General victims

Music therapy in a hospital setting can be very powerful, profound, and healing. Music, for those who are suffering, can bring some humanity into their healing process. When there is nothing left, we still have music. One of the great things about my job as a music therapist working in...

Things I’ve Learned as a Music Therapist

Studies estimate only 51.6 percent of children grow up securely attached. "Secure relating" is a state of mind that helps us embody trust and love. No matter what our attachment history looks like, we can learn how to securely relate to ourselves and others. When it comes to your relationships,...

Are You Securely Attached to Yourself?

Camden, NJ

Cornelius, NC

Morristown Minute

CAMDEN, N.J. – Lisa Smith, 61, of Cornelius, North Carolina, has admitted to her role in a fraudulent scheme involving over $3.5 million in Paycheck Protection Program (PPP) loans. U.S. Attorney Philip R. Sellinger announced today that Smith pleaded guilty before U.S. District Judge Karen M. Williams in Camden federal court on July 17, 2024, to a charge of bank fraud conspiracy.

Woman Pleads Guilty to $3.5M COVID Relief Scam

New York Post

Cisco will cut thousands of jobs in a second round of layoffs this year as the networking equipment maker shifts focus to higher-growth areas, including cybersecurity and AI, people familiar with the matter said.

The number of people affected could be similar to or slightly higher than the 4,000 employees Cisco laid off in February, and will likely be announced as early as Wednesday with the company’s fourth-quarter results, said the sources, who were not authorized to speak publicly.

Reuters exclusively reported the job cuts that San Jose, California-based Cisco announced in February, prior to the company announcing it.



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Cisco axing thousands of jobs in second round of layoffs amid shift to AI: report

Colorado State

David Heitz

A bill quietly introduced this spring in the Colorado legislature to decriminalize the possession of drug paraphernalia obtained by harm reductionists has become law. As low-key as the legislation was introduced, the bill was signed into law without fanfare June 6. It garnered little to no media attention.

Colorado legalizes needles, pipes for meth and crack if obtained by harm reduction group

Insurance giant Allstate will sell off its employer voluntary benefits arm to StanCorp Financial Group, also known as the Standard, in a deal valued at $2 billion. The company said in an announcement the deal is the initial step in a strategic plan to push Allstate's three health and wellness segments to "realize their full growth potential by combining them with companies that have additional capabilities."

Allstate sells off employer voluntary benefits unit in $2B deal

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The Effects of Working From Home on Investment Decisions

Companies with remote flexibility in 2020-2022 had 16 percent higher revenue growth than office-based peers. In 2023, 62 percent of US companies adopted flexible work, marking...

The Effects of Working From Home on Investment Decisions

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