U.S. Life Insurers May Face More Real Estate Losses (Update2) – BusinessWeek
Prevalence of Abnormal Lipids in 12-19 Year Olds
This is not good.
Prevalence of Abnormal Lipid Levels Among Youths — United States, 1999–2006
In 1999–2006, 20.3% of youths aged 12–19 years had abnormal lipids. A total of 32% were overweight or obese, making them eligible for lipid screening under American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP) guidelines based solely on their BMI.
Life Partners Announces Auditor Resignation
Hmmm. I got the following press release in my email today.
WACO, Texas–(BUSINESS WIRE)–Life Partners Holdings, Inc. (NASDAQ GS: LPHI), a leader in the life settlements industry, announced today that it has been advised by Eide Bailly LLP that the firm has resigned as the Company’s independent registered public accounting firm effective January 13, 2010.
The decision to change auditors was not the result of any disagreements between the Company and Eide Bailly on any matter of accounting principles or practices, financial statement disclosures, or auditing scope or procedure.
“We commend Eide Bailly for their professionalism and hard work during their tenure and have enjoyed working with them,” said Tad Ballantyne, Chairman of the Audit Committee.
The Company is conducting a thorough and immediate evaluation involving discussions with several highly experienced accounting firms and expects to announce Eide Bailly’s successor within the next few weeks. Eide Bailly has assured the Company that they will assist in making a seamless transition to the firm ultimately chosen by the Company’s Audit Committee.
The Company does not anticipate the change in auditors will delay the filing of its annual report due on May 14, 2010.
Life Partners is the world’s oldest and one of the most active companies in the United States engaged in the secondary market for life insurance, commonly called “life settlements.” Since its incorporation in 1991, Life Partners has completed over 100,000 transactions for its worldwide client base of approximately 25,000 high net worth individuals and institutions in connection with the purchase of over 6,200 policies totaling over $2.2 billion in face value.
Safe Harbor – This press release contains certain forward-looking statements within the meaning of the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995. Prospective investors are cautioned that any such forward-looking statements are not guarantees of future performance and involve risks and uncertainties, and that actual results may differ materially from those projected in the forward-looking statements as a result of various factors. The statements in this news release that are not historical statements, including statements regarding future financial performance, the market for our services, the growth in the life settlement market and our growth within that market, are forward-looking statements within the meaning of the federal securities laws. These statements are subject to numerous risks and uncertainties, many of which are beyond our control, that could cause actual results to differ materially from such statements. For information concerning these risks and uncertainties, see our most recent Form 10-K. We disclaim any intention or obligation to update or revise any forward looking statements, whether as a result of new information, future events or otherwise, except as may be required by law.
BRKB Assumes Individual Life Reinsurance Block From Swiss Re
How Will the Work Get Done?
A Social Marketing Success Story – Ford
How Ford Got Social Marketing Right – BusinessWeek
There is an awful lot of aimless experiment in the digital space these days. A lot of people who appear not to have a clue are selling digital marketing advice. I think the Fiesta Movement gives us new clarity. It’s a three-step process.
• Engage culturally creative consumers to create content.
• Encourage them to distribute this content on social networks and digital markets in the form of a digital currency.
• Craft this is a way that it rebounds to the credit of the brand, turning digital currency (and narrative meaning) into a value for the brand.In effect, outsource some of our marketing work. And in the process, turn the brand itself into an “agent” and an enabler of cultural production that is interesting and fun. Now the marketer is working with contemporary culture instead of against it. And everyone is well-served.
High Mortality Rate for Iguanas in South FL
Iguanas falling off trees in South Florida – Bay News 9
Iguanas are a lizard with tropical origins and do not have the capability to withstand long bouts of cold weather.
Once the air temperatures drop below about 40-45 degrees they begin to lose muscle control and fall out of trees and other areas.
If it warms up the next day many will survive, but when you have a period of extended cold weather as we have experienced in the last week and beyond the weather proves lethal and decimates the population.
The lizards that have underground burrows are likely to survive but the ones that don’t will have a high mortality rate.
Texting For Health
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.
Listen and Learn – Where The Jobs Will Be
What Matters? A Thought For The Decade
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
lifeunderwriter.net 
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