How to Cope With Rising Life Insurance Rates – Kiplinger.com
Not an extremely informative article but a snapshot of what the mainstream consumer financial press is reporting on the long awaited upswing in term insurance rates.
Author: SupremeCmdr
New Byetta Studies
FDA Warning of Byetta Pancreatitis Side Effects Contradicted by New Studies – AboutLawsuits.com
Note where this original post is located. Let’s all wait and see if the FDA changes their position on the drug.
A Disturbing Picture – Scary Chart of the Day June 27, 2009
Distrubing Chart
EconomPic: Global Unemployment to Rise to 1970’s Levels
Does anyone else besides me find this chart to be really disturbing?
Eat Healthy, Live Longer (and prosper)
Eat Well, Live Longer – BusinessWeek
All I do is point. The rest is up to you.
Read a Book a Week – Advice From Tim Sanders
Sanders Says: The total confidence reading plan
Sanders is a former Yahoo exec with some interesting ideas about everything.
We Don’t Need No Stinkin’ Training!
REDUCING OR ELIMINATING TRAINING TO CUT COSTS
IN THE RECESSION
| Percentage of companies reporting they had reduced or eliminated training | |
| October 2008 | 10% |
| December 2008 | 23 |
| February 2009 | 35 |
| April 2009 | 42 |
| Percentage of companies reporting they planned to reduce or eliminate training | |
| October 2008 | 18% |
| December 2008 | 18 |
| February 2009 | 15 |
| April 2009 | 8 |
| Source: Watson Wyatt Worldwide, April 2009
Reproduced without permission from a newsletter I received called Workforce Training Management.
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AIG Update – “Unprecedented” Economic Conditions
AIG to close Milwaukee center, lay off 291 – The Business Journal of Milwaukee:
I have friends at AIG/American General which makes this news painful. From a former insider, there were 60 layoffs in Dallas, 124 in Houston. Reportedly, there were staff reductions at every location in the country.
The War to Our South
War Without Borders – Teenagers Recruited by Mexican Cartels to Be Killers – Series – NYTimes.com
This cannot be a good thing.
Lifestyle Matters in DM2
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Exercise level above the median
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Better diet as defined by a higher fiber intake, higher polyunsaturated to saturated fat ratio, lower trans-fat intake and lower mean glycemic index
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Never smoked
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Light or moderate alcohol use
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BMI <25
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Waist circumference of 88 cm for women or 92 cm for men
Richard Lehman’s Journal Blog, 17 June 2009
BMJ Group blogs: BMJ » Blog Archive » Richard Lehman’s journal blog, 17 June 2009
Zika virus outbreak on Yap Island! Avoid Micronesians!
The Island of Yap
Is a speck on the map:
But it’s slightly easier
To detect Micronesia.
A virus called Zika
Made some Islanders sicker,
But they all got better,
And there’s an end to the metter:
Let’s twist no knicker
For a virus called Zika.
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