Ugly CRE charts | Analysis & Opinion | Reuters
These charts are not scary. They are ugly.
A hat tip to Michael Panzner and his blog post of 1/6/2010 at Financial Armageddon for directing me to these charts.
I love charts.
http://www.virtualvocations.com/jobs
I was online this morning at http://www.virtualvocations.com and entered basic search terms for life insurance, underwriter, etc.
Don’t waste your time with this job site. There is nothing there for underwriters or insurance professionals.
I didn’t even make the web addresses click-able links.
EconomPic: ADP Jobs Down 84,000; Services Jobs Grow
If you click through to the original post on EconomPic you will see a tiny red speck as evidence for services jobs growth. Unfortunately, the copy here does not capture that tiny red speck north of the line.
Some might call this good news (see the tiny red blip upper right corner)
Texting may lead to improved health care | NewsOK.com
I learned how to text because my children text. There was a time when I thought this form of communications was silly. I was wrong. It’s how you use the technology that matters.
“Did you remember to take your Aricept today?”
Research has shown that up to half of all patients may fail to take their daily medicine properly, with forgetting being a top reason for nonadherence. So, at least in some cases, a text reminder may be all that a patient needs, says Robotham, who has encouraged the use of appropriate texting among pediatricians at Hopkins Children’s.
1.0 per week in 2009.
Experience matters. Now I know why from the following NYT article.
Better pattern recognition, significance recognition, and faster solutions.
I hope you kept some of your older underwriters on the payroll.
Adult Learning – Neuroscience – How to Train the Aging Brain – NYTimes.com
Recently, researchers have found even more positive news. The brain, as it traverses middle age, gets better at recognizing the central idea, the big picture. If kept in good shape, the brain can continue to build pathways that help its owner recognize patterns and, as a consequence, see significance and even solutions much faster than a young person can.
Mayo Clinic in Arizona to Stop Treating Some Medicare Patients – Bloomberg.com
The Mayo organization had 3,700 staff physicians and scientists and treated 526,000 patients in 2008. It lost $840 million last year on Medicare, the government’s health program for the disabled and those 65 and older, Mayo spokeswoman Lynn Closway said.
This is not political commentary. No one should be expected to run a business at a loss.
Facts are facts.
A Life That Matters
Ready or not, some day it will all come to an end. There will be no more sunrises, no minutes, hours or days. All the things you collected, whether treasured or forgotten, will pass to someone else. Your wealth, fame and temporal power will shrivel to irrelevance. It will not matter what you owned or what you were owed. Your grudges, resentments, frustrations and jealousies will finally disappear.
So too, your hopes, ambitions, plans and to-do lists will expire. The wins and losses that once seemed so important will fade away. It won’t matter where you came from or what side of the tracks you lived on at the end. It won’t matter whether you were beautiful or brilliant. Even your gender and skin color will be irrelevant.
So what will matter? How will the value of your days be measured?
What will matter is not what you bought, but what you built; not what you got, but what you gave. What will matter is not your success, but your significance.
What will matter is not what you learned, but what you taught. What will matter is every act of integrity, compassion, courage or sacrifice that enriched, empowered or encouraged others to emulate your example. What will matter is not your competence, but your character. What will matter is not how many people you knew, but how many will feel a lasting loss when you’re gone. What will matter is not your memories, but the memories that live in those who loved you. What will matter is how long you will be remembered, by whom and for what.
Living a life that matters doesn’t happen by accident. It’s not a matter of circumstance but of choice. Choose to live a life that matters. It really matters!
Michael Josephson
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