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WHITE PLAINS, N.Y. (CNNMoney) — Hostess Brands and a key union agreed Monday to try to mediate their dispute in coming days — an unexpected development that could spare the company from permanently shutting down.
The Bakery Workers union, which represents 5,000 of the 18,500 employees at the maker of Twinkies and Wonder Bread, went on strike on Nov. 9. The company had imposed paycuts and other concessions on its membership.
On Friday, management announced a shutdown of Hostess and appeared before U.S. Bankruptcy Judge Robert Drain Monday afternoon seeking approval to liquidate the company.
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CEO Greg Rayburn said the company needs a final decision on Tuesday.
Tom Becker, spokesman for Hostess, said operations at its plants and distribution centers nationwide remain shutdown. They were closed Friday morning when the company announced plans to liquidate.
A spokesman for the Baker Workers union could not be immediately reached for comment. A spokesman for the Teamsters union, which represents 6,700 workers at Hostess, said he could not comment on the mediation.
Hostess has announced its intention to sell its brands, recipes for various products and other assets as a way to generate cash for its creditors. Even if the products are purchased by other companies and once again sold to consumers, most potential buyers are unlikely to rehire Hostess employees to produce or deliver those products.
One hope for the unions and the employees was raised earlier in the day Monday when private equity firm Sun Capital Partners disclosed it wants to buy Hostess as a going concern, including reopening the shuttered factories and continuing union representation of Hostess workers.
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"Hostess failed because its six management teams over the last eight years were unable to make it a profitable, successful business enterprise," said the union.
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First Genetic Test Hits Market to Show Which AIDS Drugs Will Fail in Each PatientFood and Drug Administration (FDA) officials announced their approval of the first gene-based test to tell quickly whether an HIV patient's virus is mutating, thereby making a particular drug therapy fail. The FDA described Visible Genetics Inc.'s Trugene, one of the most complex genetic test systems to clear the FDA, as an important tool in helping doctors select the most effective medication to fight each patient's HIV.
HIV naturally grows resistant to medications over time. Experts estimate that 60 percent of patients have a virus that is resistant to at least one drug. However, until now, the only way to discover which drugs a patient's HIV disease is resistant to was for the patient to undergo tests to monitor the amount of virus in the bloodstream. An increase in the viral load can mean that HIV is growing resistant to one or more drugs. To check a patient's blood for genetic mutations that affect one of the 15 AIDS drugs requires additional laboratory testing not routinely available.
With Trugene, a sample of blood is sent to one of 130 laboratories where Visible Genetics has trained personnel. Specially designed computer programs decode the HIV genes, identify all genetic mutations and match the mutations to a list of more than 70 mutations currently known and linked to resistance to specific AIDS drugs. The test takes three days to complete and will cost $300-$500 per patient.
"It's a major step forward in HIV treatment," said R. Scott Hitt, president of the American Academy of HIV Medicine. But "it is only one piece of the puzzle" in choosing the right medicine, he cautioned, urging patients to seek treatment from HIV specialists who can properly interpret the test results.
Trugene is 98 percent accurate, said FDA medical reviewer Dr. Andrew Dayton. More importantly, as scientists discover additional mutations -- a very rapidly changing field -- the new data can be added to the computer software so that the test remains accurate in everyday practice, he said.
FDA researchers tested the gene sequencer in an agency lab and approved the sale of Trugene late Wednesday after a year of review. This is record review time for such a complex new science, Visible Genetics president Richard Daly said. The test became available on Thursday. (Associated Press, 09.27.01, Lauran Neergaard)
Study: HIV Patients With Case Managers Have Fewer Unmet NeedsHIV-infected adults with case managers who help coordinate their health care had fewer unmet needs and higher use of HIV medications, according to a study in today's issue of Annals of Internal Medicine (October 16, 2001; 135 (8): 557-565). The study reported on 2,437 HIV-infected adults who visited inpatient and outpatient medical facilities in 52 urban and rural areas in 1996 and 1997. After looking at the patients at the start of the study and again six months later, researchers found that nearly 66 percent of those without case managers had needs that were not met -- nearly 10 percentage points higher than the level of unmet needs for patients who had case managers.
Patients with case managers were more likely to get income assistance, health insurance, emotional counseling, substance abuse treatment and other care. They also were more likely to get medicines like drug combination therapy and protease inhibitors, a factor that the study's lead author Dr. Mitchell H. Katz said he found "startling." The study noted that an increasing number of people with HIV are living in poverty and need both support services and medical care, making the role of case managers particularly important for doctors and patients. Still, the study noted that just 56 percent of HIV patients had case managers and that more funding is needed to get assistance -- and medications -- to where they're needed.
"Unless funds increase, we'll have to put new clients on a waiting list or discharge existing clients," said Kevin R. Conare, executive director of Action AIDS, Philadelphia's largest provider of HIV case management services. In a related editorial, also in today's Annals, Conare and Dr. William C. Holmes of the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine said that case management services for HIV-infected people are at risk if federal funding is not increased. Most money now comes from the federal Ryan White Comprehensive AIDS Resources Emergency (CARE) Act. The Bush administration's fiscal 2002 budget froze the program's funding at $1.8 billion -- the same amount as 2001. Holmes said the program needs $300 million more. (Associated Press, 10.16.01, Joann Loviglio)
Experts Fear a Risky Recipe: Viagra, Drugs and HIVLike many straight men, many gay men are using Viagra as a remedy for erectile dysfunction. But surveys disclose that many gay Viagra users are taking it along with ecstasy and other illegal drugs, leading some HIV educators to fear a rise in unprotected anal intercourse. And, when combined with the nitrite-based "poppers" some gay men inhale to heighten sensations during sex, Viagra can cause dizziness, strokes or heart attacks.
In a recent survey of men visiting a San Francisco STD clinic, 32 percent of gay respondents had used Viagra in the past year, compared to just 7 percent of straight men. The gay men who used Viagra reported having had more recent sexual partners than the gay men who did not use it, and they were more likely to have an STD currently. Thirty percent of gay HIV-negative Viagra users reported having had unprotected anal sex with HIV-positive men or with men of unknown HIV status, compared to just 15 percent of gay HIV-negative men not using Viagra. More than half the gay men had obtained Viagra from a friend instead of a doctor.
Dr. Jeffrey Klausner, director of STD prevention at the San Francisco Health Department, said that some gay men use Viagra to counteract the effects of speed, which can cause erection difficulties. "Viagra can turn people with chemically induced erectile dysfunction into more effective transmitters of HIV and other STDs," he said.
Still, it is unclear whether Viagra use leads to risky behavior or whether those who engage in risky sex are more likely to use Viagra. And some Viagra advocates suggest that it may actually reduce HIV transmission by making it easier to maintain an erection while wearing a condom.
Klausner said he hoped the San Francisco survey's results would help persuade Viagra-maker Pfizer to create educational campaigns about the drug's use and abuse. A Pfizer spokesperson said he did not know whether the company would pursue a gay-oriented ad campaign. "Our position to not use Viagra for recreational purposes is well-known, but any pharmaceutical product can be abused," he said. (New York Times, 10.16.01, David Tuller)
AIDS Patients Do OK With TransplantsAccording to researchers at the World Congress of Nephrology in San Francisco, patients infected with HIV appear to do well following the receipt of donor kidneys and livers. Despite the fact that patients routinely must receive cyclosporine, an immuno-suppressant administered so that organ rejection does not occur, HIV/AIDS patients do gain from the operation. "Frankly, a lot of us thought that giving cyclosporine to these patients would be almost immediately fatal," said Dr. Lynda Frassetto, associate clinical professor of medicine at the University of California-San Francisco.
Frassetto said that eight of her first nine transplant patients have survived the procedure, one for as long as 18 months. The patient who died, Frassetto told UPI, was infected through blood products used to treat childhood leukemia. He received two liver transplants but died 15 months later of advanced hepatitis. Three patients received livers. Six patients received kidneys. With the exception of one teenager, adults who received organs ranged in age from 38 to 53 at the time of the operation.
In a presentation at the conference, co-sponsored by the American Society of Nephrology and the Amsterdam-based International Society of Nephrology, Frassetto discussed the details of the study. Nine patients who had HIV and stable viral loads thanks to antiretroviral drugs were selected. They were all treated for any other existing disease or condition before undergoing transplant. They received a transplant because they were either next in line on a transplant list, had a family member donor, or agreed to accept organs that were rejected from other institutions, usually because the donor was elderly.
In the patients receiving cyclosporine, the level of CD4-positive cells increased, sometimes markedly. The larger the number of CD4-positive cells, the greater the immune competence. "Fifteen years ago, having HIV infection was an absolute exclusion for receiving a transplant," said Dr. Solomon Smith, a nephrologist and AIDS specialist affiliated with the Veterans Affairs Hospital in Columbia, S.C. "But now, with treatments, we have extended the life expectancy of AIDS patients so that these patients with liver and kidney failure can benefit from these transplants."
Frassetto said that the procedures are still new and are not to be routinely advocated. "Any transplant into an HIV-infected patient should be done as part of an experimental protocol," she said. "This is still a very complicated procedure and requires the help of a lot of specialists in surgery, transplantation, AIDS treatment as well as nephrology."
AIDS During Wartime"...The deluge of dollars from public and private sources has been astonishing in the aftermath of the [Sept. 11] attacks. In two weeks, charities raised half a billion dollars for victims and their families. The US government is said to have committed $40 billion to the disaster. The entertainment industry presented a telethon shown on four major television networks (and several cable channels) that raised over $150 million in just two hours.
"The phenomenal reaction to the attacks will most certainly have unfavorable consequences to all national programs including efforts to combat AIDS that were underway or being planned before Sept. 11... There is great concern about the future of AIDS and how the government and public will respond in wartime....
"Government HIV research efforts will most certainly be affected as the National Institutes of Health begins prioritizing funds for research into the threat of biological warfare.
"Why didn't the world react to the global AIDS epidemic as effectively as it has to the terrorist attacks? One wonders, given the huge loss of life caused by AIDS, and the fact that the global crisis remains an overwhelming menace, why hasn't more been done? While it is not fair to pit disasters against each other, just as it is not fair to claim any disease is more exceptional than another, it is shocking to compare the worldwide and national response to AIDS to the response to the terrorist attacks. Some will say that the attacks were more immediate and emotional, but anyone who has survived AIDS would say that AIDS is just as poignant and still spreading out of control....
"[According to long-time San Francisco AIDS activist Laura Thomas], 'We need to develop strategies to keep a focus on AIDS that doesn't detract from the need to take care of the survivors of the recent attacks. Pouring more money into defense and into limited civil rights in this country will only hinder our ability to care for people here, including people living with HIV/AIDS.'..." (Bay Area Reporter (San Francisco), 10.04.01, Matt Sharp)
HIV Highly Contagious Before Symptoms ShowHIV may be highly transmissible before an infected person experiences its first, flu-like symptoms, and before HIV tests can detect the virus, researchers reported last week. The findings underscore the importance of consistent safe sex in preventing AIDS. The investigators studied five couples in whom HIV transmission occurred soon after one partner contracted the virus -- and as early as one week before the partner developed the flu-like symptoms that characterize early HIV infection.
"The main thing that's new is that we've shown for the first time that sexual transmission can happen readily and very soon after exposure," said a statement from Dr. Christopher D. Pilcher of the University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill. Researchers had suspected but not documented this phenomenon, according to Pilcher. He and his colleagues reported their findings in the Oct. 10 issue of the Journal of the American Medical Association (2001; 286: 1713).
During the period shortly after transmission, known as primary HIV infection, virus levels soar in the blood, and short-lived symptoms such as fever, fatigue and swollen glands may occur. But because the immune system has not yet produced antibodies to the infection, standard tests for HIV antibodies cannot detect the infection. Researchers have theorized that during this period, large amounts of the virus are "shed" into the genital tract and make the patient highly infectious. The current study suggests that this is, indeed, the case.
The team came to its conclusions by taking the couples' sexual histories and genetically analyzing the HIV in their blood samples. All transmission had been suspected of occurring when one partner had a documented primary HIV infection. The researchers concluded that each case of a documented primary infection presents "a unique public health opportunity" to track down that person's recent sexual contacts and prevent the further spread of HIV.
"If you engage in unsafe sex, you cannot assume that you are not infected or infectious because you had a negative antibody test for HIV. The most commonly used tests can't show HIV for several weeks," Pilcher said. (Reuters Health, 10.18.01)
Cases of HIV Among Inmates in Indiana Prisons Are Leveling OffThe occurrence of HIV among inmates in Indiana prisons has leveled off, though it still remains about 10 times higher than the known incidence of HIV in the state's overall population.
There are an estimated 215 people in Indiana prisons this year with HIV. Department of Correction officials said that roughly 1 percent, or 21,507 people, in Indiana prisons are HIV-positive.
The percentage of HIV-positive inmates in Indiana is well below the national average of 2.1 percent. A Bureau of Justice Statistics report issued in July showed that while the number of HIV cases in US prisons has increased, the number of HIV-positive prisoners has grown at a slower rate than the overall prison population. Prison and health experts attribute the trend to increased awareness of the disease and improved treatment.
"Overall the last 10 years we've gone from not knowing, not caring, to people knowing a lot about HIV and people actually caring about the kind of care they provide," said Anne DeGroot, editor of Brown University's HIV and Hepatitis Education Prison Project. "There's been sort of an awakening of physicians in the facilities, and that's what's making the change." Still, health experts and advocates for AIDS patients express concern about maintaining the safety of prisoners living with the disease and preparing them for release to society. They believe more awareness and education are needed.
HIV-positive inmates receive medical treatment at Indiana prisons through the Prison Health Services, the private company under contract with the state to provide health care for all inmates. HIV-positive inmates are also counseled upon entering and leaving any state prison. Upon intake, inmates receive information on ways to avoid the spread of HIV and other infectious diseases such as hepatitis and TB. Caseworkers at the Damien Center, an Indianapolis AIDS service organization, said the Department of Correction doesn't have enough staff to provide the needed pre-release counseling. For many inmates, living with HIV or AIDS after their release isn't a big priority. "They're more concerned about, 'Where am I going to sleep? Where am I going to eat?'" said Damien caseworker Sheryl Phillips. (Associated Press, 10.21.01)
Prevalence of Adverse Events Associated With Potent Antiretroviral TreatmentIn view of the adverse affects that accompany antiretroviral therapy, precise data on effects have long been indicated. Background data on adverse events to antiretroviral treatment have been recorded in clinical trials, post-marketing analyses, and in anecdotal reports. But no systematic study has been done to assess adverse events.
Using a standard clinical and laboratory method, the investigators evaluated the prevalence of adverse events in 1,160 patients who were receiving antiretroviral treatment. They measured the toxic effects associated with various regimens: protease inhibitor (PI), non-nucleoside and nucleoside analogue reverse transcriptase inhibitor and specific compounds. Data were obtained from outpatients in the Swiss HIV Cohort Study using a structured interview and laboratory analyses to identify and describe all potential adverse events attributed to treatment according to standard definitions. Identification of independent associations using logistic regression analysis was also utilized.
The Swiss HIV Cohort Study is a prospective cohort study of individuals with HIV-1 who were followed up in one of seven Swiss clinics. Patients were identified by the type of antiretroviral regimen they were on. Patients who had changed their regimen in the last 30 days were excluded from the study. During the visit, physicians completed a questionnaire based on classification used by the AIDS Clinical Trials group on adverse events. According to the authors, "Physicians explicitly asked patients if symptoms listed in the questionnaire had arisen within the 30 days preceding the visit. Lipodystrophy was described according to Carr and colleagues. Potential adverse events were scored according to severity (1=mild, 2=moderate, 3=severe, 4=serious) and the likelihood of resulting from antiretroviral treatment (unlikely, possible, probable, and certain), after the definition of the World Health Organization." Standard comprehensive laboratory assays were done on each patient on or immediately before (<10) their clinic visit.
The results of the study indicated that 47 percent of patients had clinical adverse affects from antiretroviral combination therapy. Nine percent of effects were graded as serious or severe. Twenty-seven percent of laboratory results showed adverse effects, and 16 percent of these were rated serious or severe. The more drugs taken in combination, the lower the HIV levels but the higher the likelihood of side effects.
According to the investigators, "It should be underscored that more than two-thirds of patients might have complaints if precisely questioned and that adverse events have an effect on adherence and on development of viral resistance, which might lead to treatment discontinuation or failure. Yearly surveys using the proposed cross-sectional analysis could help to assess changes in prevalence of specific toxic effects and in overall well-being of patients receiving antiretroviral treatment." The authors, in addition, recommended that post-marketing surveillance of toxic effects be conducted by pharmaceutical companies. (Lancet, 10.20.01, Vol 358; No 9290: P 1322-1327, Jacques Fellay et al.)
Study Shows Gay Men in San Francisco Less Afraid of HIVAccording to a just-released University of California-San Francisco (UCSF) study, gay men don't find HIV as threatening as they once did; ads for AIDS drugs are seen as glamorizing life with HIV; and there is increased acceptance of unprotected sex.
Recent San Francisco Department of Health projections indicate a rising rate of new HIV infections, translating into about 750 new infections this year. Author Stephen Morin, director of the UCSF AIDS Policy Research Center, said the study's aims were to get gay men to explain the increase and to define prevention messages that might reduce risk among gay and bisexual men.
"The community norm has changed. Guys in the survey told us a friend may go on a date, or to a bathhouse, but the question, 'Were you safe?' doesn't come up. That 'Friends don't let friends drive drunk' kind of social support that came out loud and clear -- there's been a real deterioration in that. And it seems to be a major way people felt supported for staying negative," Morin said.
The study was conducted last summer with 55 gay and bisexual San Francisco men, who were divided into six focus groups. The men recommended a new social marketing campaign with ads on television and in bus shelters, magazines, bars and sex clubs to encourage men to dispel HIV myths by talking with their friends.
"Friends Can Be Good Medicine -- Talk About HIV" was one suggested slogan. Surveyed men also expressed concern that ads for AIDS medications glamorize life after infection, and these need to be balanced with images of men suffering the drugs' side effects. New ads are set to be ready by early next year, but Survive AIDS member Jeff Getty said a better tactic would be to send gay men to sex clubs as safe sex advisers. (San Francisco Chronicle, 10.22.01, C. Heredia)
HIV Infection May Trigger Neurologic DisorderA disorder similar to amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) has been associated with HIV-1 infection, prompting the suggestion that viral infection might precipitate the disorder in some people. In a retrospective study of 1,700 patients with HIV infection and neurological symptoms seen between 1987 and 2000, Dr. Antoine Moulignier of the Foundation Adolphe de Rothschild in Paris and his colleagues identified six patients who met international criteria for definite, probable or possible ALS. The incidence of the disorder was 3.5 per 1,000, well above the expected incidence in the general population of 0.4 to 1.76 per 100,000 (Neurology 57 [6]:995-1001, 2001).
The ALS-like syndrome was the first manifestation of HIV-1 in all of the patients. Presenting symptoms included tongue fasciculations and distal motor weakness in one or more limbs and initially were reminiscent of those of monomelic amyotrophy. However, the rapid progression of symptoms and the young age of the patients indicated that the disorder was a variant of ALS, rather than the classic disease.
In an accompanying case report, Dr. D.J.L. MacGowan and associates at Beth Israel Medical Center in New York described a 32-year old woman who presented with a rapidly progressing ALS-like syndrome and was found to be HIV-positive (Neurology 57 [6]:1094-97, 2001). Multidrug cocktails and improved control of HIV-1 viral load have made the disorder less common, Moulignier and his associates said. All seven patients improved or stabilized transiently following treatment with zidovudine, another nucleoside analogue, or active antiretroviral therapy. In an editorial, Dr. Burk Jubelt and Dr. Joseph R. Berger said that viral causes should be considered in patients presenting with the classic clinical signs of ALS "because HIV-ALS syndromes are treatable" (Neurology 57 [6]:945-46, 2001). (Internal Medicine News, 10.15.01, Vol 44; No 39: P 28, Norra Macready)
In Caribbean, People With HIV Say Discrimination Tops List of ConcernsWhen Elmar Wishart became seriously ill from HIV complications, he said doctors in the South American country of Guyana refused to treat him. "Facilities there are inhuman," said the 45-year-old Guyana native, who was diagnosed with the virus in 1990. Wishart and others at this week's 10th International Conference for People Living with HIV/AIDS in Trinidad say one of the remaining obstacles in the battle against AIDS is the stigma attached to the disease.
An estimated 2 percent of people in the Caribbean, excluding Cuba, have HIV/AIDS -- the world's highest regional infection rate after sub-Saharan Africa. In Cuba, extensive treatment and prevention have kept infection rates extremely low. But elsewhere in the Caribbean, discrimination has prevented some from getting treatment. In socially conservative Jamaica, for example, 66 percent of AIDS cases are diagnosed just before or after death, according to Jamaica's National HIV/AIDS control program. "People are brought up to think those with HIV are immoral," said Jamaican Dorothy Blake, spokesperson for the Caribbean Regional Network of People Living with HIV/AIDS.
Out of 150 HIV-positive Trinidadians attending the conference, none have publicly disclosed their status, said Claudette Francis, coordinator with Community Action Resource, Trinidad's AIDS counseling center. "Stigma is one of the greatest impediments in fighting HIV and AIDS," said Frenk Guni of Zimbabwe, a member of the Global Network for People Living with HIV/AIDS, who has been HIV-positive for 14 years. "When I first came out in the open about my HIV status, my relatives cut relations with me. I was gripped with fear of being abandoned," said Guni. Like Wishart, Guni said many people living with the virus around the world are denied medical treatment. In the Caribbean, about 500,000 people are living with HIV, according to the Caribbean Task Force on HIV/AIDS. (Associated Press, 10.30.01, Angela Potter)
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The Sheridan Broncs took the win over the Laramie Plainsmen with a final score of 27-7.
TENNIS - The Bronc and Lady Bronc tennis teams split results with Jackson yesterday as they opened their season.
The Broncs dropped the team match 3-2 while the Lady Broncs won 3-2.
Lady Bronc winners were Julia Fenn and Katelynn Brooks in number one and two singles the winning match for the Lady Broncs came in number three doubles when the team of Belen Espada Wioque and Taylor Greeting took their match in three sets.
The Lady Broncs will be back in action today and tomorrow as they travel to a tournament in Rapid City.
#1 Reed Ritterbusch defeated Ben Fairbanks 6-2, 6-2
#2 Adam Berry lost to Josh Gilmore 4-6, 3-6
#1 Logan Garstad defeated Jackson Livingood 3-6, 6-1, 6-1
Turner Martini Peter Frank
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#1 Julia Fenn defeated Michelle Slaughter 6-0, 6-0
#2 Katelynn Brooks defeated Ellie Kucera 6-2, 6-0
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Stop gambling. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3209376&forum_id=2#30372565)
Turning 30 just got a lot scarier.
A coming collapse in investment returns means that people that age today will have to work seven years longer or save almost twice as much to end up with the same nest egg as those of roughly a generation ago.
So says the research arm of McKinsey & Co. in a new report that argues that investors of all ages need to resign themselves to diminished gains.
The consulting company maintains that the last 30 years have been a �golden era� of exceptional inflation-adjusted returns thanks to a confluence of factors that won�t be repeated. They include falling inflation and interest rates, swelling corporate profits and an expanding price-earnings ratio in the stock market.
The next two decades won�t be nearly as lucrative, even on the optimistic assumption that the world economy snaps out of its recent funk and resumes growing at a faster clip, according to the McKinsey Global Institute report titled �Diminishing Returns: Why Investors May Need to Lower Their Expectations.�
�We�ve had a wonderful 30-year period in terms of returns, way more than the 100-year average,� said Richard Dobbs, a McKinsey director in London. �That era is coming to an end.�
Bond investors have already reaped much of the benefits from declines in inflation and interest rates from the sky-high levels that prevailed in the 1970s.
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U.S. and European corporations, meanwhile, will find it harder to boost profits in the face of stepped-up competition from emerging-market rivals and from smaller businesses able to tap into the global market through the Internet, Dobbs said.
It�s not only 30-year-olds and other individual investors who�ll be hurt if McKinsey is right about the outlook. Pension funds and university endowments also have reason to worry, Dobbs said.
The roughly $1 trillion funding gap confronting U.S. state and local retirement plans could triple if McKinsey�s more pessimistic projections pan out, he said. U.S. college endowments could be out as much as $19 billion per year, he added.
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McKinsey sets out two paths for the economy and financial markets over the next 20 years in its report. In the slow-growth scenario, U.S. gross domestic product expands by an average 1.9 percent per year, while growth in other major economies is 2.1 percent. Returns in that case are well below the average of the 1985 to 2014 period.
In the recovery scenario, U.S. growth matches the 2.9 percent average of the last 30 years while non-U.S. GDP rises 3.4 percent. Returns still fall short of the golden era when inflation and interest rates were falling and profit margins were expanding.
The McKinsey study focuses on U.S. and Western European stock and bond markets and doesn�t take investments in emerging markets into account, largely because of a lack of reliable long-term data.
�We are entering a period of much lower returns,� Dobbs said. �That�s going to have some quite extreme consequences for all types of investors.�
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nutella has always had far less hubris than tmf but far more results.
nutella is more hated on here mainly because she keeps getting what wants and rubbing in xoxo's face, whereas nobody takes tmf's "multiple properties" aspirations seriously. people were definitely reveling in her unemployment, but now have to put up with her $400k in-house threading. now people are hoping for her hedge fund to crash.
i've come to realize that nutella is far less mean-spirited and angry than those attacking her. i've never seen her wish ill upon anybody and i highly doubt she cares if others do not want her lifestyle.
Wife and I still have like $575k in retirement accounts in the market, so it isn't like we are out totally, just felt we were too deep....(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3209376&forum_id=2#30372679)
Other than buying index funds during the dips, not sure how anyone should be timing the market, and $500K at once seems insane.(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3209376&forum_id=2#30372957)
Timing market - horrible underperformance in every study ever performed. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3209376&forum_id=2#30372710)
Edit: I do occasionally time buys and will often purchase on dips (like in August and Jan). However the way I view cash I invest, it's not money I need for 10-15 years so once it's in there, I won't gamble and take it out thinking there's a correction coming.(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3209376&forum_id=2#30372737)
note that's just one savings account(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3209376&forum_id=2#30372567)
I would love a shitty bear market for the next year and a half(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3209376&forum_id=2#30372769)
I told her to shut her fucking sludge spewing trap cuz standing in a soup line is a HELLUVA lot more uncomfortable. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3209376&forum_id=2#30473544)
There are exceptions: you don't have to dedicate you life to the stock market to learn how to buy a few dips.
500K you can move that in and out of an index fund with no problem. Like in a second. Fuck SPY could take a 500K trade with not a penny slippage.
Common sense. There is a bunch of shit out there that has gone up 5X or even 10X what it was in early 2009. Doesn't matter if it shouldn't have been that low. Shouldn't be this high either. Don't try to top pick this bullshit, but you need to understand that this garbage is just not worth what it's trading for right now. These are big stocks too, TJX, HD, DIS, SBUX, MCD. I could just go on and on.
These parabolic runs for the last 7 years WILL CORRECT and when they do this market will go down to at least high 1500's on SPX at a MINIMUM.
So you can bet your fucking panties on that shit. This market WILL FUCKING test that 2013 breakout area (1575 SPX) or so. This the the area that SPX cleared back from the 2000 and 2007 highs. In 2013 SPX broke these highs and has never spent a lot of time down there again. But it will, niqqa, you can bet that shit.
So do what you fucking will and hold the index funds, but you can get out now and buy back lower within 12-18 months. But you won't heed that advice either, because the next buy will only setup after we have spent months going down and everyone is bearish.(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3209376&forum_id=2#30506519)
I bought $20k total international yesterday which was clearly too early but sick of waiting. I'll put in $40k today and see what happens tomorrow.(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3209376&forum_id=2#33956888)


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Marian Jensen, 88, of Blackfoot passed away Friday, May 4, 2012 at Portneuf Medical Center in Pocatello, Idaho.
She was born August 18, 1923 in Idaho Falls, Idaho. Marian was the youngest child of William Lester and Newtie Peeler. Her young life was spent on the family farm north of Shelley. At age 24, she married Ambrose N. Jensen on her soon to be home north of Blackfoot. She and Ambrose raised four children, Linda (Sandy Gale) Mitchell, Juanita (Lloyd) Wulf, JoAnn (Don) Wren and Ambrose "Pete" Jensen on the "Poor Farm" where she enjoyed being a wife , mother and grandmother.
Marian worked 36 years at Idaho Bank and Trust Co which later merged with Key Bank and retired in November of 1999 at the age of 76.
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The players who would go on to be stars for the Florida Gators during the 2012 season were pretty much overlooked on all the preseason All-SEC teams, including the one voted on by the media at SEC Media Days last July.
On that media team, there were no UF position players on the first team. It was pretty much the same on all the other preseason all-league teams.
But by the end of the season, Sharrif Floyd, Matt Elam, Jordan Reed, Mike Gillislee and Jon Bostic were showing up somewhere on all the All-SEC teams. This pretty much happens every season, players flying under the radar in the preseason and then zooming to the forefront during the season. New stars emerge at Florida. So, who will those players be this season? Here are five potential emerging stars for the Gators in 2013: 1. Dante Fowler Jr., defensive end/linebacker — Despite playing with what he calls some "baby fat" as a true freshman, Fowler showed everyone why he was a five-star prospect coming out of high school a year ago. In a conference where it's hard to play, much less make plays, on the defensive line as a true freshman, Fowler did both in 2012. Coach Will Muschamp has talked several times about Fowler's natural ability and his drive to succeed, and how he's been putting in the work since he arrived on campus last summer. Fowler recently said he's much stronger than he was last season and that he's quicker now that he's shed his baby fat. He said he's changed his body type in the weight room and is now much stronger in his upper body. He seems primed for a major breakout season in 2013. 2. Matt Jones, tailback — As a true freshman, Jones started showing flashes in the second half of last season. He bolted through the FSU defense (one of the best in the nation) for two highlight-moment touchdown runs in the second half of UF's victory in Tallahassee, and he hasn't slowed down since. He scored a touchdown in the Sugar Bowl, then followed it up with an excellent spring that distanced himself from the other tailbacks in what was expected to be a tight race for the starting role. At 230 pounds, he's a bigger and faster version of Mike Gillislee, who rushed for more than 1,000 yards last season. Jones is a downhill runner who seems a perfect fit for what the Gators want to accomplish in their ground game. With his speed, cutting ability and power, he not only can grind out yards between the tackles, he's also home-run threat. 3. Quinton Dunbar, wide receiver — Florida's passing game is expected to be much more productive in 2013, and this is the wide receiver who could benefit the most. He really started coming on in the second half of the season in 2012 and continued his upward move with a strong spring. He's got good speed and hands and appears to finally feel comfortable in the offense. The coaches were expecting/hoping for Dunbar's emergence to happen two years ago. It's taken some time, but he appears on the verge now. 4. Antonio Morrison, linebacker — After doing some of the things he did as a true freshman last season — including knocking FSU quarterback EJ Manuel out of the game for a series with a thunderous (and clean) hit — this hard-hitting and instinctive middle linebacker appears to have a limitless ceiling. He takes over for Jon Bostic as the starter at middle linebacker this season, although it's possible Morrison could miss the first game or two after his recent arrest for misdemeanor battery. If he stays healthy and gets his legal issues resolved before the start of the season, this player with a passion for the game has a chance to evolve into one of the SEC's elite defensive players this fall. 5. D.J. Humphries, offensive tackle — Despite being considerably undersized in terms of weight, this five-star prospect from North Carolina saw significant playing time at left tackle and in UF's jumbo package last season. He will continue to gain weight and strength, and as he does, he figures to grow into a top-flight left tackle. The coaches and some of the other offensive linemen have said Humphries is agile and athletic, and that he has great natural technique for playing the position. With a year of experience, and with the added weight and strength, Humphries has a chance to start emerging as a potential elite offensive lineman in the SEC in 2013.


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The Heavener Roundup Club's 2013 playday season will begin at 7 p.m. Friday in the Davis Arena in the Hontubby community just south of Heavener. Organizers have decided to run all of the lead line events at 7 p.m. All other age groups are guaranteed not to begin before 8 p.m. and will include a 10-minute warm-up period in the arena. There are divisions for all ages. The 12-playday series is scheduled every other Friday with three events — barrel racing, pole bending and a third event that alternates from speed race, flag race and stakes race. Entry fee is $5 per child. Proceeds go towards a year-end awards banquet. A light concession stand is available and admission is free.Bring your lawn chairs. For more information, contact Tina Blackwell at (918) 653-3547 or Debbie Davis at (479) 923-4525. The group also is on Facebook, Heavener Roundup Club Playdays.


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The three major human influenza pandemics of the 20th century have been associated with avian influenza cross-overs into the human population.2 The Spanish flu of 1918 killed between 20 and 50 million people worldwide. The virus responsible for the pandemic appears to have been an avian influenza virus that mutated to become highly pathogenic and easily transmitted from person to person. The 1957 Asian flu outbreak was caused by a virus carrying both avian and human influenza genes. The Hong Kong flu pandemic of 1968 was similarly caused by a virus with a combination of avian and human influenza genes.2Since 2003, a strain of virus known as H5N1 has been responsible for outbreaks of avian influenza in domesticated poultry and wild ducks in southeastern and central Asia, resulting in high morbidity and mortality. An estimated 100 million birds have been affected in these outbreaks, and standard control procedures have not effectively controlled the spread of disease.3 A particular cause for alarm is that the H5N1 virus has infected several people who had contact with sick birds, including a disproportionate number of children. Of 89 confirmed cases in people in 2004 and the first three months of 2005, 52 resulted in death.4 The extent of milder infection and disease in the human population is unknown, but current evidence suggests that this influenza strain is highly pathogenic in people. A recent report also suggests that person-to-person spread of the virus has occurred in at least one instance.5 The virus appears to be resistant to two major anti-influenza therapeutic drugs, amantadine and rimantadine.4
If the current circulating avian influenza virus undergoes mutations that allow it to infect people easily or if it recombines with human influenza virus, the likelihood of another influenza pandemic is great. People have no immunologic memory of this influenza virus strain, so the entire world population would be at risk in an outbreak. This is also true for other mammalian species susceptible to influenza virus infections, including pigs, horses, some marine mammals, and cats.
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Two new partners, Harvard University and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), have joined Borrow Direct, a service enabling faculty, students, and staff of Columbia University to borrow books and music scores directly from the libraries of Brown University, Cornell University, Dartmouth College, the University of Pennsylvania, Princeton University, and Yale University.
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Borrow Direct is a rapid request and delivery system for books (primarily monographs) between and among the participating libraries. Faculty, students, and staff of Borrow Direct institutions can request circulating materials directly from the library where they are held, without the need for library staff to intervene in the process. The materials are then delivered to the borrowing patron's library via commercial courier services, normally within four business days. Borrow Direct has successfully shared approximately 1 million items across the partnership since it was initiated in 1999.
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Your sig's very, very behind the times. Me and Craig might even start calling you Paul Gilham at this rate.
Your sig's very, very behind the times. Me and Craig might even start calling you Paul Gilham at this rate.
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I think people have mentioned that the squash ball helped him hit straighter, it also reduced the friction when you hit the ball, so in theory you have more chance of clean hitting balls that you would normally mis time. For all those who think this just about Sri Lankan fans having a cry cus we lost the World Cup, it is in the case of the article. But personally i couldn't toss if it was Flintoff who used (he needs more) or Gilchirst, it still the same thing. I would be very suprised if it doesn't get banned, very soon.
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(The comments below are excerpted from Mr. LeTourneau's obituary.)
Robert G. LeTourneau was born on November 30, 1888, to godly parents. From infancy he heard the Gospel. For a time, he rejected the message, but through the faithful prayers of his parents he was, at the age of sixteen, won to Christ. At 30 he dedicated his life to be God's businessman. He recognized the danger of that dedication being dimmed by his love for his machines, but by the grace of God that commitment extended over a period of fifty years.
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He demonstrated his concern for the Gospel witness by establishing regular chapel services and by employing three full-time Chaplains in his manufacturing plants. The monthly publication NOW begun by him reached 600,000 persons during his lifetime and circled the world with its message. He s traveled the world as a witnessing Christian businessman.
Many books about his life have published, including his best-selling autobiography, Mover of Men and Mountains (Zondervan), which is still in print thirty years after his death. This book has been translated from English into several foreign languages. Who can tell how many have come to faith in Christ through his missionary ministry in Liberia, West Africa and Peru, South America? The outreach for God through aid to individuals and organizations by the LeTourneau Foundation has been worldwide.
LeTourneau University which he, together with his wife, founded may well prove to be one of his greatest accomplishments as his influence is multiplied and spread throughout the world by dedicated Christian young people who have studied at the college.
His life's verse was Matthew 6:33: "Seek ye first the kingdom of God and His righteousness and all these things shall be added unto you."


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