Tom Bennett is our Curator at the Alaska Heritage Museum at Wells Fargo, in Anchorage. He has been involved with museums for 29 years as a Museum Attendant to Director.
Tom is involved is also involved with the Alaska Zoo and is currently a Board Member with the Alaska Museum of Natural History.
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Despite the growing shortage of family doctors in the United States, medical centers last year offered higher salaries and incentives to specialist nurses than to primary care doctors, according to an annual survey of physicians’ salaries.

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Maybe you missed your earnings target last year or your stock was crushed. But if you’re a corporate executive, that might not necessarily prohibit you from earning a generous bonus.

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After the second-slowest trading day of the year, Wall Street closed Monday with a mixed picture as the Dow inched lower but the Nasdaq Composite hit a fresh 18-month high.
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The Dow Jones Industrial Average fell 13.68 points, or 0.13%, to 10552.52, the Standard & Poor’s 500 [...]

“Whatever happened to Erin Callan?” has been a Wall Street mystery ever since early last year, when she walked out of her post-Lehman place of employment, Credit Suisse (CS). Callan cut off contact with practically everyone she knew. Rumors abounded about her fate.
I found her. Well, at least I found out what the former CFO [...]

The new mortgage rules mean that buyers with less than 20% down, requiring CMHC backed mortgages, will have to be able to afford monthly payments at the posted 5 year mortgage rates. This represents an effective 2% rise in mortgage rates, and, because rates are currently so low, it represents a relatively large decrease in [...]

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FY08 marked the most challenging year for bomber aviation safety in recent memory, including the first-ever loss of a B-2A. The USAF hadn’t lost three heavy bombers to aviation mishaps in a single year since FY89. More importantly, the bomber community suffered six fatalities in FY08, the most [...]

Just over a year ago a few members of the research team at Hedgeye attended a lecture at Yale Law School by Robert Rubin, the former Secretary of the Treasury under Bill Clinton. During the question and answer session, Rubin was asked about sovereign risk — the threat that an entire nation effectively walking away [...]

There’s no question that Howard Schultz has done a fine job since returning as CEO of Starbucks (SBUX) in January 2008. Starbucks was headed toward the abyss and now it’s not. But is he worth the $12.1 million he was paid in 2009?
That’s 25 percent more than he earned in his first year back. Earnings [...]

After years of complaints that the Oscars had gotten too long and unwieldy, the Motion Picture Academy keeps trying, mostly unsuccessfully, to pare the ceremony down to a manageable length. But a few million lucky folks on Sunday night watched a shorter program than everyone else: Courtesy of ABC and Cablevision (CVC), they got the [...]