It's become, if not a cliché, then at least a time-honored expression when discussing the upward trajectory of women in the business world over the past four decades: breaking – or even cracking – the "glass ceiling" that has made female executives work and fight twice as hard as their male counterparts to strive for the same level of success. So reports the Miami Herald.

As HR professionals, we've all been helping our organizations and employees adapt to ObamaCare and its effect overall on the nation's health insurance system. Now, however, even with yet another mass shooting on a college campus sounding a clarion call in some circles for dealing with the epidemic of gun violence, President Obama's nomination for Surgeon General is being held up by Congress. The main reason: he views gun violence as a national health crisis in desperate need of treatment, which threatens the all-powerful National Rifle Association and influential gun lobby on K Street. So reports NBC News.

Five years ago, it seemed like a win/win. The decorated four-star Army general and Vietnam veteran had advised President Bush in 2002 that he would need closer to 400,000 boots on the ground than the 100,000 or so he had at his disposal to invade Iraq effectively, and was promptly dismissed. So reports ABC News. After President Obama was elected in 2008, he appointed the by then-retired general, Eric Shinseki, to be his Secretary of Veterans Affairs.

This week marks the official onset of hurricane season in the U.S. With the unmitigated disaster that was Hurricane Sandy in 2012 still fresh in people's memories – and the colossal clean-up up and down the East Coast far from completed – organizations need to make sure they are prepared in the event of another catastrophic weather event. So reports SHRM.