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Perspective is important. In 2012, many more people have perspective on the heady days of 2009 and 2010. What are those heady days? The days when Obamacare seemed like a good idea to a plurality of Americans. To be sure, the law was never embraced by a majority of Americans.
The following is a list, incomplete to be sure, of things I learned from my Dad. Some are little. Some are big. Some things I still do daily. Some things I hope I never do again. They are in no particular order, but I am thankful for them all. Perhaps, you should make a list as well and give it to your old man on Sunday:
Jason Gay of the WSJ has some funny Father's Day tips:
Perhaps there's a need for some Father's Day sports guidelines:
Texas Mutual knows how to foster customer loyalty. It just approved $150 million in policyholder dividends, its 14th consecutive dividend. Texas Mutual has given out more than $1 billion in dividends since 2005:
The "Millennials" or "Gen Y" gets some flack for being the "trophy" generation, constantly needing positive reinforcement and recognition for performance that may or may not merit it. However, Gen Y is the wave of employees who will likely replace retiring baby boomers in the next decade.
Not possible, right? What happened to the whole "if-you-like-your-plan-you-can-keep-your-plan-thing?" Well . . .
June 1st marked the official beginning of the 2012 hurricane season. At present, all is quiet on the Eastern front, but it is way too early to be relieved. We are still 60 days from the sweet spot of hurricane season in the Gulf of Mexico.
Every Thursday before Memorial Day, members of the 3rd U.S. Infantry (nicknamed "The Old Guard") blanket Arlington National Cemetery with small flags marking every gravestone in the cemetery. There are 250,000 such markers.
BI reports on an interesting malpractice study:
The study, whose lead researcher was Dr. Anupam B. Jena of Massachusetts General Hospital and Harvard Medical School in Boston, appears in the Chicago-based American Medical Assn.'s current issue of Archives in Internal Medicine.
So, in the future everyone is going to look like Lt. Geordi LaForge*? Marketers talk about the three screens: TV, Computer, Phone (is the tablet a fourth one?). I guess this could be the fifth one: