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Newly finished, 5-room apartment with an area of 134m2 on the 2nd floor.
The apartment has been finished using the highest quality materials and equipment, air conditioning, a wood-burning fireplace in the living room. The apartment includes a 12m2 terrace, a spacious storage room and 2 parking spaces.
The apartment is located on a closed housing estate at ul. Sytej, Wilanów Zawady, 4-7 min to Miasteczko Wilanów and 15-30 min by car to the center of Warsaw. Bus stop 2 min on foot.

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James William (Bill) Williams, 88, of Mint Hill, died peacefully in hospice care on August 13, 2018.

Bill grew up on a Mecklenburg County farm and stopped his formal education in eighth grade to help his family. At 17, he started in the mailroom at Singer Sewing and climbed the ranks to become the company’s North American Operations Director. That career took a brief detour while he served active combat duty as a United States Army sergeant in the Korean War.

Bill found lasting love young, and married Joyce Aughtry at 16. They spent 53 devoted years together, raising three children and making homes and friends in Atlanta, New York, New Jersey and Mint Hill before her death in 2000.

He grieved deeply for years before finding new love; marrying Betty Summey in 2006.

Bill kept busy: He restored antique cars, planted bountiful vegetable gardens and toiled over countless carpentry projects. He was a former president of The Korean War Veterans of North Carolina where he helped establish a memorial for the war’s fallen soldiers.

Bill’s heart was his family: He was close to his children and grandchildren who remember him as a Little League coach, as the captain of family camping trips and as the good-natured Granddaddy with a freezer full of ice cream and a pantry stuffed with candy.

They will miss him immensely.

He’s survived by his wife, Betty Williams; daughters Gail Forsythe (Eddie) and Cindy Corwin (Mark); son Ed Williams (Mary Elizabeth DeAngelis); brother Larry Williams and grandchildren Patrick and Christopher Forsythe; Melissa Sells, Matthew Corwin, Mallory Hill, Vincent and Allison Williams; and great-grandson Cody Sells. He was preceded in death by his parents, Simeon and Ola Mae Williams, and a sister, Gladys Phillips.

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9 Months after Enterprise Vault 12 was released by Veritas after the demerger from Symantec, the first service pack has been announced.

Enterprise Vault 12.1 is here

Along with many bug fixes and ensuring that the Enterprise Vault is the most stable and most reliable than it has ever been, Enterprise Vault 12.1 introduces some new features.

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Search Improvements

Since the search was completely revamped in Enterprise Vault 11.0.0, every major EV release has improved the usability and stability of this search.

EVS (the shorthand for the new Enterprise Vault Search) was a much needed improvement to the legacy search and archive explorer features of Enterprise Vault versions of old. Whereas there were previously two separate panes of glass to view your archives, EV11 combined the two with a cleaner, more user-friendly interface resembling the Outlook client that the end-user is more used to. Enterprise Vault 11.0.1 further stabilized the search and Enterprise Vault 12.0 improved the look and usability including allowing the option of the UK date format that frustrated many of our UK clients. Enterprise Vault 12.1 sees improvements to the Outlook Add-in and OWA tie-ins and enhancements have been made within the search to the toolbar and icons.

Newly introduced with Enterprise Vault 12.1 is tag searching. If items have been tagged within the eDiscovery tools of Enterprise Vault, the tags can now be searched within the Enterprise Vault Search.

For users with File System Archiving, whole folders can now be archived and replaced with shortcuts with the folders being searchable in EVS.

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With Veritas recognising that Enterprise Vault is less and less frequently used reducing storage footprints, due to storage becoming more affordable, they are focussing their efforts on producing the best eDiscovery platforms available.

The great power of Enterprise Vault is that items are not only archived but are indexed and fully searchable. By utilising the eDiscovery platforms this data can be better managed, with retention categories being deployed to providing results for litigious searches we can ensure legal requirements are met and/or irrelevant data, such as commercial newsletters, are not held for longer than necessary.

Enterprise Vault 12.1 improves classification features in particularly a tie-in to Data Insight. Combining Data Insight with Enterprise Vault File System Archiving and utilising the eDiscovery platform, trends can be discovered and access permissions can be analysed allowing decisions to made on securing file and folders as well as planning for future growth better.

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The famous saying says that curiosity kills the cat. Yet, curiosity is something very synonymous with the human nature. We should not avoid curiosity as it does not always lead to negativity. Throughout the history, curiosity has uncovered an abundance of life-enhancing discoveries, such as Newton’s law of gravity, Edison’s magnificent discovery of light bulbs and the Wright’s brothers laborious work in inventing, building and also flying the first ever aeroplane which has become one of the important means of transportation in the world. Having said that, at times curiosity does negatively affect someone at a personal or larger scale. Many major companies or established brands have faced conspiracy and unsettling rumors about their products, which most of the time revealed to be baseless and lacks truth in the statement.

For example, the color code that is printed at the end of your toothpaste tube, misleading rumors have been circulating on what this color code really mean. There are four colors within the code that are printed differently on toothpaste tube if you paid attention to the minor details while brushing your teeth. These colors are green, blue, red, and black. According to the rumors on the Internet, each of these colors indicates the specific content that is present in the toothpaste we use daily. Allegedly, it is said that each of these colors represents the number and the level of chemicals inside the toothpaste! Here is the list:

Green = 100% natural toothpaste.

Blue = natural ingredients mixed with medicine

Red = natural mixed with some chemicals

Black = 100% chemical

Speculations are running rampant on the Internet and despite there is no hard evidence supporting the claims, people are actually buying this sort of stories.

After further investigation, these speculations that have caused panic among consumers was proven to be a hoax! It is later revealed that this color code is actually for manufacturing purposes. The color code is called color marks, printed marks or eye marks. These marks facilitate the manufacturing and boxing of these products. The machines read these color marks as an indication where exactly to cut or to box the product without damaging it. In conclusion, the story that is spreading throughout the internet is nothing but a false alarm.

Overall, there is no affiliation between the number of chemicals within a toothpaste with the color code that is printed on the toothpaste tube, this is merely a baseless speculation that is spreading online. If you are looking for a new toothpaste to try on, we at MISMIS offer you our brand new MISMIS Extra Cool Mint Natural Toothpaste to give your oral hygiene an extra boost of protection.

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Vancleave Middle School has a job opening for a Middle School Girls Basketball coach. The teaching position that will be associated with that position will be Social Studies. Candidates should e-mail their resume to Athletic Director, Matt Walters at mwalters@jcsd.k12.ms.us.

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Integrated Pest Management

Cannabis IPM: What to Do and What to Look Out For

  • How to properly manage your medical marijuana grow with thoughtful insect and pest management strategies.

There was a time when the worst thing you could see attacking your cannabis grow was a DEA agent.

Nowadays, as the legalized industry continues to expand, the DEA hasn’t quit, but most growers have other problems to deal with.

You’re here because you’re looking for the best way to protect your cannabis plants against insects, mites, and other pests.

The Creatures to Look Out for When Managing Your Medical Marijuana

When it comes to IPM and cannabis, there is a wide variety of creatures to stand guard against.

For example, a non-exhaustive list of the insects that attack cannabis includes:

  • Spider mites

  • Aphids

  • Leaf miners

  • Root aphids

  • Bees

  • Wasps

  • Cutworms

  • Borers

  • Thrips

  • Whiteflies

  • Caterpillars

  • Maggots

  • Ants

  • Grasshoppers

  • Beetles

  • Slugs and snails

  • Mealybugs

  • Nematodes

  • Fungus gnats

It’s not just insects, however, that will threaten your cannabis grow.

Beware of certain mammals getting into your cannabis, such as:

  • Bear

  • Mice, rats, voles

  • Boar

  • Rabbits

  • Gophers

  • Deer

  • Moles

  • Birds

  • Squirrels

  • And even cows

 After reading these lists, it might seem like anything that lives outside might attack your medical marijuana crop.

Thankfully, there are thoughtful IPM management techniques that offset these risks as much as possible without damaging the integrity of your plants.

How To Stop An Invasion of Your Marijuana

What threats your crop will face will depend in part on where you are located. Research your area and understand the flora and fauna of the region so you have an understanding of what you should do to prepare for any threats.

Of course, there’s no one way to prepare for every threat possible.

So, here are a few of the most common techniques you might use in your IPM approach to cannabis.

Spider Mites

These miniature pests love a hot environment. By dropping the temperature of your crop to 60 degrees Fahrenheit, you’ll create an environment hostile to spider mites. A jet of cold water should help remove the most stubborn of them.

Stop aphids from sucking the life-giving sap out of your cannabis plants by manually removing them. Aphids are also susceptible to predation. Releasing a few ladybugs could put nature to work for you.

They’re smarter than you think and driven by hunger. Chickenwire will keep some of them out, deploying hot pepper spray on the leaves may deter others from chewing on them.

What To Do About an Invasion of Your Medical Marijuana Crop

By regularly visiting your crop and inspecting for signs for pests, you’ll be best situated to manage the problem.

Removal of the pests is of the utmost importance.

If the damage is too great, the plant may need to be sacrificed.

Otherwise, gently cleaning the plant and carefully removing potentially infectious parts may prevent too much damage from being done.

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During the summer months, Misty Glaze receive a high volume of calls and enquiries relating to broken glass repairs. The main cause of these broken windows is often due to small stones, that are not visible under the grass, connecting with the blades on the mower or strimmer and flick up at very high speeds. If these small stones hit the double glazed doors and windows, the double glaze panels can crack. Or at worst, the broken windows can shatter completely (see the examples below).

As we are aware, the glass area is more likely to get hit by flying objects other than the frame, and its always the big double glazed doors that get hit by the stones.

We get lots of broken glass repair calls from our local areas of Loughton, Buckhurst Hill, Chigwell and Chingford. We also have many garden maintenance companies that rely on our quick reliable and affordable glass replacement services for broken windows.

We have seen all types of glass breakages throughout the years at Misty Glaze, and some have been broken by pigeons and other birds that fly into the glass units. When the glass survives, you can usually see the outline and the wingspan of the bird!

We have also seen broken windows caused by stones that have flicked off tyres from passing cars that have hit the front windows and doors of properties.

We advise all our clients to make a check list of the things to do below, before plugging in those Lawnmowers and Strimmers.

  1. Very important, to make sure all adults, children and pets are inside of the house when cutting the grass, if a stone can cause a extra strong toughened safety glass unit to break, with such impact and force, then the results would be devastating to humans and pets.
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Bats Explode as No. 5 MIT Softball Sweeps Coast Guard in NEWMAC Twinbill

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No. 5 MIT 8, Coast Guard 0
No. 5 MIT 14, Coast Guard 2

Records: No. 5 MIT (9-5, 3-1 NEWMAC); Coast Guard (11-9, 4-2 NEWMAC)

Location: New London, Conn. (Nitchman Field)

The Lead: The No. 5 ranked MIT softball team put together 22 runs, 21 hits and four home runs in a doubleheader sweep at Coast Guard in New England Women's and Men's Athletic Conference (NEWMAC) action on Saturday. The 14 runs matched a season-high for the Engineers as MIT previously put up 14 runs against Simmons back on March 20.

- MIT wasted little time scoring the game's first run as an RBI groundout by first-year Anya Chase (Wells, Maine) put the Engineers ahead 1-0 in the opening frame. Junior Devon Goetz (Rockville, Md.) and first-year Julia Chatterjee (Hinsdale, Ill.) began the inning with singles and stolen bases before Chase's RBI.

- The score remained the same until the top of the fifth when junior Sierra Rosenzweig (Anchorage, Alaska) blasted a two-run homer over the fence in left field to extend MIT's lead to 3-0. An RBI single by first-year Kassidy Peterson (Whitehouse Station, N.J.) that plated junior Madi Pickett (Santa Barbara, Calif.) in the top of the sixth made it 4-0.

- MIT put the game out of reach in the top of the seventh with four additional runs. With runners on first and third, junior Michelle Wist (Cypress, Texas) drove in Chatterjee on an infield single and then Pickett cleared the bases with a three-run home run, her first of the season.

- MIT starter Ravenne Nasser (Methuen, Mass.) picked up the win (4-3) with a complete game shutout, her second of the year. Nasser scattered six hits, allowed one walk and struck out four in the circle and at the plate registered her first hit of the season, which was a double to left in the sixth. Coast Guard starter Sydney Arendt took the loss (5-4) on five innings, four hits, three runs (two earned), one walk and a pair of strikeouts.

- Eight of the nine batters in MIT's lineup picked up at least one hit highlighted by a 2-for-4 day that included two runs and three RBI by Pickett. Seven out of nine batters also came across to score at least one run

- Rosenzweig's home run marked her first of the season and second of her collegiate career, while Pickett's blast was her first of the season and fifth of her career.

- The Engineers put the game out of reach in the very first inning as they registered six runs highlighted by an RBI groundout by Chase, a two-run double to left by Wist and a three-run home run by sophomore Phoebe Li (Morganville, N.J.)

- Goetz added to MIT's run total with a solo shot to lead off the second inning that was lined over the wall in center.

- Four more runs came across for MIT in the top of the third as Li notched her fourth RBI of the day on a groundout to third. First-year Olivia Lucchese (Camarillo, Calif.) kept the scoring going with an RBI single to center. Chase, the very next batter, singled up the middle to score Li and then with the bases loaded senior Erika Anderson (Carlsbad, Calif.) reached on an error which allowed Goetz to score MIT's 11th run of the afternoon.

- The Engineers added two runs in the fourth on a double to left center by Lucchese and one in the fifth on a groundout by Li to account for the 14-2 final.

- Sophomore Colleen Campbell (Snoqualmie, Wash.) and Peterson teamed up to pitch for MIT in game two. Campbell picked up the win (5-2) on three innings, five hits, one run, three walks and two strikeouts, while Peterson, in her collegiate debut in the circle, pitched two innings, allowed one run and struck out four. Arendt took the loss (5-5) for Coast Guard in her second start of the day.

- Li's homerun marked the first of her collegiate career and her five RBI marked a new career-high for the sophomore infielder. Lucchese came off the bench and went 2-for-2 with a career-high three RBI, while Chase and Wist both drove in a pair for the Engineers. At the top of the lineup, Goetz scored four of MIT's 14 runs in game two.

- Goetz's homer in the second inning was her fourth of the season, which ties the program record for most in a single season. The feat has been accomplished three times in program history and most recently Wist and Pickett both launched four home runs a season ago.

- MIT welcomes Wheaton College for another NEWMAC doubleheader on Tuesday, April 2 as first pitch is slated for 3:00 pm from Briggs Field.

- For the latest on MIT Athletics, follow the Engineers via social media on TwitterFacebookInstagram and YouTube.


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The greying intensivist: ageing and medical practice — everyone’s problem

George A Skowronski and Carmelle Peisah
Med J Aust 2012; 196 (8): 505-507. || doi: 10.5694/mja11.11579
Published online: 7 May 2012

About 24% of Australia’s medical workforce is at least 55 years old.1 This ageing workforce has prompted concerns about competency and ageing,2 and workforce shortages and retention.3 Although the concept of senior career development has been promoted,4 it has not been adopted at an institutional level, apart from in one college in the United States.5 Guidelines regarding ageing and retirement are clearly needed.

The nature of work for a procedural specialist is distinct from that of a non-procedural physician or a psychiatrist. Distinct demographics, environmental and skill bases mean that there are different demands on and priorities for the ageing doctor in different specialties. Although there has been some discussion regarding ageing in other specialties,3,6,7 little is known about the ageing intensivist. We reviewed the current literature on ageing and retirement in doctors and applied these findings to intensivists, to help the College of Intensive Care Medicine (CICM) develop guidelines, and to provide a precedent for other colleges.

Work and retirement patterns of older doctors

In 2009, a CICM workforce survey (personal communication, Felicity Hawker, Director of Professional Affairs, CICM) showed that intensivists over 55 years of age intended to practise an average of only a further 2.1 years full-time and 2.4 years part-time. They cited excessive on-call, callback and after-hours work as negative influences on their desire to continue working. South Australia had the highest proportion of older intensivists (24%), while Queensland had the lowest (10%). Intensivists aged over 55 years spent less time on call in public hospitals (68.5 hours/month compared with an overall mean of 106 hours/month), while practising at the same level as younger intensivists in the private sector. This private sector drift among older doctors has been reported previously.8 The trend of intensivists retiring early or changing to less stressful areas of medicine is not restricted to Australia and, in the US, has led to concerns about future workforce shortages.9

Health and impairment of older doctors

Doctors have above-average health, commensurate with their socioeconomic status, and are less likely to suffer lifestyle-related illnesses, such as heart and smoking-related diseases.10 However, depression and anxiety are common among doctors, and the suicide rate is higher in some groups of doctors, such as anaesthetists, than in the general population.10 Although the prevalence of impairment among intensivists is not known, related specialties such as anaesthesia and emergency medicine have the highest rates of substance misuse, due to a high-risk working environment, easy access to drugs and premorbid personality traits.11 Some subgroups may be at greater risk of poorer health and wellbeing, such as those working in rural and remote areas, or those working excessive hours or shift work with little leave.12 Doctors are vulnerable to stress,13 contributed to by increased workload, lack of control over work–life balance, professional and social isolation, the demands of rapid developments in medical knowledge, and changes in the health system and community expectations.

Many of these circumstances apply to intensivists, who have been found to suffer from high levels of burnout due to emotional exhaustion and depersonalisation.14,15 Encounters with patients and their families in emotionally charged, critical or end-of-life settings can be particularly draining for doctors.

As doctors age, both the nature of stressors and patterns of impairment evolve. These range from the challenges of patient care, teaching, administration and professional development to family and caring responsibilities.16 Older doctors also have increased frequencies of chronic disease, for which they require independent primary care, with good compliance, and the avoidance of self-treatment and informal consultations. Older doctors are at risk of the “four Ds”: depression, drink, drugs and dementia. Of 41 doctors aged over 60 years who were referred to the New South Wales Medical Board Impaired Registrants Program,17 22% had depression, 29% suffered from substance use, 54% had cognitive impairment and 12% had dementia.

However, this represents a small subset and there is also evidence that older doctors fare better psychologically than their younger colleagues or previous cohorts. This evidence suggests that older doctors view their identity and responsibilities to the profession differently from previous generations, with improved work–life balance18 and lower levels of psychological distress and burnout.8

Neurocognitive changes and performance

In exploring the needs of ageing doctors, it is crucial to understand the age-related sensory and cognitive changes that may affect their performance. These include declines in fluid intelligence (adaptive thinking and critical reasoning), processing speed, episodic memory (incorporating personally experienced events), hearing, visual acuity, depth perception, colour discrimination and manual dexterity.19

When doctors referred for competency assessment or impairment by regulatory bodies are tested, attentional and executive functions, episodic memory, problem solving and speed of information processing are often found to be impaired, while verbal skills and semantic memory (knowledge of facts, words and meanings) are often intact.19,20 This means that doctors with impairment may present well, and cognitive impairment may only be evident on neuropsychological testing, rather than on bedside screens such as the mini-mental state examination.17

Changes in processing speed and memory are inevitable and affect even the best performers as they age.21 This may be particularly pertinent to intensivists, who rely on rapid decision making and response. However, some data suggest that older doctors are superior at particular tasks (eg, making initial diagnoses) that use non-analytic diagnostic strategies such as pattern recognition, although at times this can be at the risk of premature diagnostic closure.22

In terms of performance, older doctors are more likely to be investigated and disciplined by licensing bodies,23 more likely to be represented among those referred for competency assessments (specifically associated with cognitive impairment)20 and, according to most studies, perform worse than younger doctors in many areas.2 Years of clinical experience were negatively related to performance, attributed to a lack of receptiveness in older physicians to new therapies, standards of care, and practice innovations that involve theoretical shifts.2

One study found that surgeons aged over 60 years have higher operative mortality than their younger counterparts for complex procedures such as pancreatectomy or cardiac bypass,6 especially where procedure volumes were low. However, another study7 found that senior surgeons performed at or near the level of younger peers on cognitive tasks.

Low procedure volume and task complexity are recurrent themes in the associations between ageing and poor performance in doctors. Yet, doing fewer complex procedures is an often recommended workplace adaptation for older doctors. It is difficult to strike a balance between minimising case load and maintaining expertise.

Mandatory retirement

In Australia, other professions have dealt with the issue of the ageing practitioner by mandating retirement at a specific age: for example, 72 years for judges, and 65 years for pilots, who also undergo physical and mental examinations every 6 months from 40 years of age. The medical profession has to date avoided such measures.

Few authors support this draconian approach, which is inconsistent with human rights policies and the government objectives that support workforce participation among ageing people. Moreover, mandatory retirement does not fit well with our understanding of cognitive ageing, which, although ultimately universal, is highly variable in onset and severity.21

Nevertheless, it is likely that there is an age ceiling to medical practice, and that this ceiling is different for different medical specialties and for different individuals. Arguments for a set retirement age include the frequent loss of insight17 accompanying cognitive decline and the reluctance of some doctors to relinquish their medical identity.

Competency assessment

An alternative to mandatory retirement is competency assessment, which has been adopted in Ontario, where there are mandatory peer assessments every 5 years for physicians aged over 70 years, and in British Columbia.24 Although competency assessment for monitoring performance has been much discussed in the literature,25 there has been no consensus about the best methods. Limitations of methods such as universal continuing education requirements and peer review include lack of rigour for peer-review groups, reliance on self-identified problems for discussion, and the difficulty of approaching or reporting senior incompetent peers. While intensivists often work in group environments — where incidental and informal peer reviews occur almost continuously, avoiding the common problem of solo practice associated with undetected impairment17 — they are not immune.

Retention strategies

Another alternative to mandatory retirement is to maximise the value of the older intensivist by supporting areas of decline while capitalising on the older doctor’s strengths, trading off the benefits of experience against declining stamina and performance.

Retention strategies or “transitional phase” activities include undergraduate and cross-disciplinary teaching, clinical auditing, research, tribunal work, voluntary work, minor procedures, medicolegal work, mentoring, and practice visiting.26

Workplace adaptation

Doctors identified as ageing well by their peers have been found to adopt changes intuitively, such as taking longer with patients, avoiding isolation and areas of unfamiliar practice, retiring from new procedural work and using “scaffold” strategies to support memory.26 Potential workplace adaptations have also been identified by a study investigating cognitive changes in older physicians,22 but such adaptations need to be individualised and, ideally, would be agreed by each specialty and ratified by the relevant college. Some of adaptations recommended by the American College of Emergency Physicians (the only body to have taken this approach) include weekend day shifts instead of night shifts, consistent shifts at a set time of day or night, fewer consecutive shifts, and exchange of clinical duties for teaching or administration.5

Since a detailed review by Baker in 200127 of the effects of ageing on the performance of anaesthetists, there has been periodic discussion within the Australian and New Zealand College of Anaesthetists about the role of the older anaesthetist. Baker’s recommendations included reducing night-call duties at 55 years of age, ceasing night calls and reducing overall hours at 60 years of age, and mandatory retirement at 65 years of age. However, none of these have yet been implemented as policy by the College. Morgan28 has also advocated ceasing after-hours calls for intensivists over 60 years of age, with increased senior registrar cover. A multicentre study in the US is investigating ways to make intensivists’ work more sustainable (eg, alternative staffing models such as weekend cross-coverage for a colleague on call during the week).9

As far as we are aware, neither the Australian Health Practitioner Regulation Agency nor any of the specialist medical colleges in Australia have any explicit policies regarding ageing practitioners, apart from ethical guidelines regarding doctors’ health.

Planning, insight and the group ethos

Older doctors deemed to be ageing well share insight27 into the effects of ageing on practice, the need for adaptations in working hours and choice of work, long-term retirement planning including financial planning, the usefulness of a transitional phase to ease into retirement, and the need to cultivate a variety of medical and non-medical pursuits and relationships early in one’s career.

The different stages of a medical career need to be acknowledged. Any workplace adaptations for ageing physicians, especially those involving relinquishing on-call burdens and other onerous aspects of practice, need college ratification and acceptance by all members of the specialty, with the recognition that all will “have their turn”. At the same time, we should be wary of workplace changes that create age discrimination against older and comparatively less active employees whose privileges are threatened, as has occurred elsewhere.24

With the general trend towards a longer working life for doctors and the general community, a number of questions need to be addressed by the CICM, by other colleges, by medical boards, and by the medical profession in general. How do we encourage workforce participation and deal with projected workforce shortages? What strategies can be designed to retain older intensivists and other doctors in a safe and sustainable manner, without engendering resentment or hostility from younger professionals and without age discrimination?

There can be no doubt that the professional lifestyle of the typical intensivist has an impact on his or her health and wellbeing, and this may well become more important with ageing. In addition, there are potentially important considerations in relation to patient safety, which may be affected by age-related cognitive and performance changes.

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  • Carmelle Peisah1,3

  • 1 University of New South Wales, Sydney, NSW.
  • 2 Intensive Care Unit, St George Hospital, Sydney, NSW.
  • 3 Bankstown Hospital, Sydney, NSW.

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  • 25. Finucane PM, Bourgeois-Law GA, Ineson SL, Kaigas TM; International Performance Assessment Coalition. A comparison of performance assessment programs for medical practitioners in Canada, Australia, New Zealand, and the United Kingdom. Acad Med 2003; 78: 837-843.
  • 26. Peisah C, Gautam M, Goldstein MZ. Medical masters: a pilot study of adaptive ageing in physicians. Australas J Ageing 2009; 28: 134-138.
  • 27. Baker AB. The ageing anaesthetist. In: Riley R, editor. Australasian Anaesthesia 2001. Melbourne: Australian and New Zealand College of Anaesthetists, 2001: 1-12.
  • 28. Morgan TJ. How long should you work as an intensive care consultant, and should there be consultant shift work? In: Proceedings of the College of Intensive Care Medicine Australian Scientific Meeting 2011 – Pushing the Boundaries of Intensive Care. Melbourne: College of Intensive Care Medicine, 2011: 36-39.

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Forgive me for being a cynic (who me?), but I'm not at all convinced that law firm managers are losing sleep when women lawyers fly the coop.

I'll leave it to those of you versed in law firm economics to quibble with her numbers, but what I'm skeptical about is that firms would mourn the loss of female talent—much less feel the need to replace her. To think that firms would care about the replacement cost of senior women is to assume that gender parity is a top priority, which I'm not convinced. (Need I remind you that women are still only 17 to 18 percent of all equity partners?)

I posed these issues to Cecchi-Dimeglio, and she tells me that there's a direct correlation between diversity and revenue. She says she has been studying the statistics of "several firms—domestic and international" (she won't say how many at this point) for an upcoming book. "When you show firms that they're gaining revenue by diversifying, they have to be crazy not to diversify," she says. "It's not a moral imperative but a financial one."

Perhaps her book will make the relationship clearer. For now, though, there's plenty of skepticism. To start with the obvious, men dominate the ranks of big rainmakers, so who cares if women with scant business leave?

"I agree that firms should treat diverse partners better if they want them to stay," says Merle Vaughn, who leads the diversity practice group at recruiting firm Major, Lindsey & Africa. "But the need to replace partners is more strategic," and that, she adds, means what counts is who's bringing in the big bucks.

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Many cities around the world have already started to adopt a number of techniques to improve well-being. With councils and city developers often lacking funds and resources, there is often no budget to experiment with new technologies to help build cities into better hubs.

An example of a city that has had to adapt “smart” habits is Tokyo, due to its dense population. The city has announced that by 2020 they wish to have a wide array of smart city projects. Their initiativesinvolve: reducing solid waste through tech-based policies, rooftop planting of herbs and trees, and giving residents more money if they wish to invest in solar panels.

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Communications and mobile phones are out of place today because people no longer talk to one another. We text. We email. We post on Facebook and LinkedIn. We tweet on Twitter. We post videos and photos on Instagram. In today’s society, the plain art of having a conversation with another person has disappeared.

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“It’s so funny how we don’t talk anymore.

 It’s so funny why we don’t talk anymore.”

– Cliff Richard, We Don’t Talk Anymore

Today most people walk around with their mobile phone devices intent upon what is happening on these small screens. Most of us are tuning out the people who are actually in the same room as us. At what cost has technology replaced personal interactions?

Why are communications and mobile phones out of place?

Many people have addressed this question. You can read some of their responses.

Dave in Orlando writes:

"The cost is great, but the problem is that much of it is invisible. Kids today have no idea of how to interact and actually read someone's face – you can't do that on Facebook. They think nothing of ripping someone in an email or blogging with little or no idea of the consequences. People say things over the internet that would get them punched out in person."

David in Las Vegas writes:

"The cost is America's future. Look at the international test scores in reading, math and science. Our children spend more time strengthening their thumbs than learning the skills to be competitive on the world stage."

Sheila writes:

"I think that we need to have good technology etiquette while in public, but I think that technology does keep me in touch with people I wouldn't necessarily have the time to meet with face-to-face on a regular basis."

Jed in New York writes:

"There are times at work when the elevator doors open and I see 4 or 5 people, all looking into their phones and typing with their thumbs. I have a smart phone, but I'm really not so sure I like it; it's like a tiny version of the desk I already spend so much time at."

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"The price ? Poor one on one relationships...inability to have a conversation without interruptions of cell phones, texting, twitter (whatever that is !), and all of this is sad. I wish every restaurant across the country would ban cell phones as I do not care to listen to other's speak loudly about is rude and inconsiderate.

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I seen the feller from the telephone exchange run down the street a little ways as the first rush hit the square, and fire his pistol twice. Then he turned and made fur an alleyway, but as he turned they let him have it. He throwed up his arms and made one long stagger, right acrost the bar of light that streamed out of the windows, and he fell into the shadder, out of sight, jest like a scorched moth drops dead into the darkness from a torch.

Out of the middle of that bunch of riders come a big voice, yelling numbers, instead of men's names. Then different crowds lit out in all directions-some on foot, while others held their hosses-fur they seemed to have a plan laid ahead.

And then things began to happen. They happened so quick and with such a whirl it was all unreal to me-shots and shouts, and windows breaking as they blazed away at the store fronts all around the square-and orders and cuss-words ringing out between the noise of shooting-and those electric lights shining on them as they tossed and trampled, and showing up masked faces here and there-and pounding hoofs, and hosses scream-like humans with excitement-and spurts of flame squirted sudden out of the ring of darkness round about the open place-and a bull-dog shut up in a store somewheres howling himself hoarse-and white puffs of powder smoke like ghosts that went a-drifting by the lights-it was all unreal to me, as if I had a fever and was dreaming it. That square was like a great big stage in front of me, and I laid in the darkness on my lumber pile and watched things like a show-not much scared because it WAS so derned unreal.

From way down along the railroad track they come a sort of blunted roar, like blasting big stumps out-and then another and another. Purty soon, down that way, a slim flame licked up the side of a big building there, and crooked its tongue over the top. Then a second big building right beside it ketched afire, and they both showed up in their own light, big and angry and handsome, and the light showed up the men in front of 'em, too-guarding 'em, I guess, fur fear the town would get its nerve and make a fight to put 'em out. They begun to light the whole town up as light as day, and paint a red patch onto the sky, that must of been noticed fur miles around. It was a mighty purty sight to see 'em burn. The smoke was rolling high, too, and the sparks flying and other things in danger of ketching, and after while a lick of smoke come drifting up my way. I smelt her. It was tobacco burning in them warehouses.

But that town had some fight in her, in spite of being took unexpected that-a-way. It wasn't no coward town. The light from the burning buildings made all the shadders around about seem all the darker. And every once in a while, after the surprise of the first rush, they would come thin little streaks of fire out of the darkness somewheres, and the sound of shots. And then a gang of riders would gallop in that direction shooting up all creation. But by the time the warehouses was all lit up so that you could see they was no hope of putting them out the shooting from the darkness had jest about stopped.

It looked like them big tobacco warehouses was the main object of the raid. Fur when they was burning past all chancet of saving, with walls and floors a-tumbling and crashing down and sending up great gouts of fresh flame as they fell, the leader sings out an order, and all that is not on their hosses jumps on, and they rides away from the blaze. They come across the square-not galloping now, but taking it easy, laughing and talking and cussing and joking each other-and passed right by my lumber pile agin and down the street they had come. You bet I laid low on them boards while they was going by, and flattened myself out till I felt like a shingle.

As I hearn their hoof-sounds getting farther off, I lifts up my head agin. But they wasn't all gone, either. Three that must of been up to some pertic'ler deviltry of their own come galloping acrost the square to ketch up with the main bunch. Two was quite a bit ahead of the third one, and he yelled to them to wait. But they only laughed and rode harder.

And then fur some fool reason that last feller pulled up his hoss and stopped. He stopped in the road right in front of me, and wheeled his hoss acrost the road and stood up in his stirrups and took a long look at that blaze. You'd 'a' said he had done it all himself and was mighty proud of it, the way he raised his head and looked back at that town. He was so near that I hearn him draw in a slow, deep breath. He stood still fur most a minute like that, black agin the red sky, and then he turned his hoss's head and jabbed him with his stirrup edge.

Jest as the hoss started they come a shot from somewheres behind me. I s'pose they was some one hid in the lumber piles, where the street crossed the railway, besides myself. The hoss jumped forward at the shot, and the feller swayed sideways and dropped his gun and lost his stirrups and come down heavy on the ground. His hoss galloped off. I heard the noise of some one running off through the dark, and stumbling agin the lumber. It was the feller who had fired the shot running away. I suppose he thought the rest of them riders would come back, when they heard that shot, and hunt him down.

I thought they might myself. But I laid there, and jest waited. If they come, I didn't want to be found running. But they didn't come. The two last ones had caught up with the main gang, I guess, fur purty soon I hearn them all crossing that plank bridge agin, and knowed they was gone.

At first I guessed the feller on the ground must be dead. But he wasn't, fur purty soon I hearn him groan. He had mebby been stunned by his fall, and was coming to enough to feel his pain.

I didn't feel like he orter be left there. So I clumb down and went over to him. He was lying on one side all kind of huddled up. There had been a mask on his face, like the rest of them, with some hair onto the bottom of it to look like a beard. But now it had slipped down till it hung loose around his neck by the string. They was enough light to see he wasn't nothing but a young feller. He raised himself slow as I come near him, leaning on one arm and trying to set up. The other arm hung loose and helpless. Half setting up that-away he made a feel at his belt with his good hand, as I come near. But that good arm was his prop, and when he took it off the ground he fell back. His hand come away empty from his belt.

The big six-shooter he had been

feeling fur wasn't in its holster, anyhow. It had fell out when he tumbled. I picked it up in the road jest a few feet from his shot-gun, and stood there with it in my hand, looking down at him.

"Well," he says, in a drawly kind of voice, slow and feeble, but looking at me steady and trying to raise himself agin, "yo' can finish yo' little job now-yo' shot me from the darkness, and now yo' done got my pistol. I reckon yo' better shoot AGIN."

"I don't want to rub it in none," I says, "with you down and out, but from what I seen around this town to-night I guess you and your own gang got no GREAT objections to shooting from the dark yourselves."

"Why don't yo' shoot then?" he says. "It most suttinly is YO' turn now." And he never batted an eye.

"Bo," I says, "you got nerve. I LIKE you, Bo. I didn't shoot you, and I ain't going to. The feller that did has went. I'm going to get you out of this. Where you hurt?"

"Hip," he says, "but that ain't much. The thing that bothers me is this arm. It's done busted. I fell on it."

I drug him out of the road and back of the lumber pile I had been laying on, and hurt him considerable a-doing it.

"Now," I says, "what can I do fur you?"

"I reckon yo' better leave me," he says, "without yo' want to get yo'self mixed up in all this."

"If I do," I says, "you may bleed to death here: or anyway you would get found in the morning and be run in."

"Yo' mighty good to me," says he, "considering yo' are no kin to this here part of the country at all. I reckon by yo' talk yo' are one of them damn Yankees, ain't yo'?"

In Illinoise a Yankee is some one from the East, but down South he is anybody from north of the Ohio, and though that there war was fought forty years ago some of them fellers down there don't know damn and Yankee is two words yet. But shucks!-they don't mean no harm by it! So I tells him I am a damn Yankee and asts him agin if I can do anything fur him.

"Yes," he says, "yo' can tell a friend of mine Bud Davis has happened to an accident, and get him over here quick with his wagon to tote me home."

I was to go down the railroad track past them burning warehouses till I come to the third street, and then turn to my left. "The third house from the track has got an iron picket fence in front of it," says Bud, "and it's the only house in that part of town which has. Beauregard Peoples lives there. He is kin to me."

"Yes," I says, "and Beauregard is jest as likely as not going to take a shot out of the front window at me, fur luck, afore I can tell him what I want. It seems to be a kind of habit in these here parts to-night-I'm getting homesick fur Illinoise. But I'll take a chancet."

"He won't shoot," says Bud, "if yo' go about it right. Beauregard ain't going to be asleep with all this going on in town to-night. Yo' rattle on the iron gate and he'll holler to know what yo' all want."

"If he don't shoot first," I says.

"When he hollers, yo' cry back at him yo' have found his OLD DEAD HOSS in the road. It won't hurt to holler that loud, and that will make him let you within talking distance."

"His old DEAD HOSS?"

"Yo' don't need to know what that is. HE will." And then Bud told me enough of the signs and words to say, and things to do, to keep Beauregard from shooting-he said he reckoned he had trusted me so much he might as well go the hull hog. Beauregard, he says, belongs to them riders too; they have friends in all the towns that watches the lay of the land fur them, he says.

I made a long half-circle around them burning buildings, keeping in the dark, fur people was coming out in bunches, now that it was all over with, watching them fires burning, and talking excited, and saying the riders should be follered-only not follering.

I found the house Bud meant, and they was a light in the second-story window. I rattled on the gate. A dog barked somewheres near, but I hearn his chain jangle and knowed he was fast, and I rattled on the gate agin.

The light moved away from the window. Then another front window opened quiet, and a voice says:

"Doctor, is that yo' back agin?"

"No," I says, "I ain't a doctor."

"Stay where you are, then. I GOT YOU COVERED."

"I am staying," I says, "don't shoot."

"Who are yo'?"

"A feller," I says, kind of sensing his gun through the darkness as I spoke, "who has found your OLD DEAD HOSS in the road."

He didn't answer fur several minutes. Then he says, using the words DEAD HOSS as Bud had said he would.

"A DEAD HOSS is fitten fo' nothing but to skin."

"Well," I says, using the words fur the third time, as instructed, "it is a DEAD HOSS all right."

I hearn the window shut and purty soon the front door opened.

"Come up here," he says. I come.

"Who rode that hoss yo' been talking about?" he asts.

"One of the SILENT BRIGADE," I tells him, as Bud had told me to say. I give him the grip Bud had showed me with his good hand.

"Come on in," he says.

He shut the door behind us and lighted a lamp agin. And we looked each other over. He was a scrawny little feller, with little gray eyes set near together, and some sandy-complected whiskers on his chin. I told him about Bud, and what his fix was.

"Damn it-oh, damn it all," he says, rubbing the bridge of his nose, "I don't see how on AIRTH I kin do it. My wife's jest had a baby. Do yo' hear that?"

And I did hear a sound like kittens mewing, somewheres up stairs. Beauregard, he grinned and rubbed his nose some more, and looked at me like he thought that mewing noise was the smartest sound that ever was made.

"Boy," he says, grinning, "bo'n five hours ago. I've done named him Burley-after the tobaccer association, yo' know. Yes, SIR, Burley Peoples is his name-and he shore kin squall, the derned little cuss!"

"Yes," I says, "you better stay with Burley. Lend me a rig of some sort and I'll take Bud home."

So we went out to Beauregard's stable with a lantern and hitched up one of his hosses to a light road wagon. He went into the house and come back agin with a mattress fur Bud to lie on, and a part of a bottle of whiskey. And I drove back to that lumber pile. I guess I nearly killed Bud getting him into there. But he wasn't bleeding much from his hip-it was his arm was giving him fits.

We went slow, and the dawn broke with us four miles out of town. It was broad daylight, and early morning noises stirring everywheres, when we drove up in front of an old farmhouse, with big brick chimbleys built on the outside of it, a couple of miles farther on.

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Navrongo (U/E), May 1, GNA - The Kassena-Nankana District Health Insurance Scheme was, on Friday, launched in Navrongo with a call on members of the Over-seeing Committee to dedicate themselves seriously to their responsibilities in order to make it a success.

Mr. Mahami Salifu, Upper East Regional Minister, who made the call at a launching ceremony, said the Scheme was introduced to enable all citizens to have access to health delivery and that there will be no justification for it to fail.

He said the outcome of the Scheme would depend mostly on how active the committee, charged with over-seeing its implementation goes about its work and also how the Community Registration Officers and other Opinion leaders educate the people.

He noted that the Mutual Health Insurance Scheme was a more humane system of payment for health delivery, unlike the previous system of payment at the point of service, which scared many sick people who did not have money at the time of illness from attending hospital.

He explained that the Scheme was expected to contribute 20 per cent to the Public Health Service bill, while the Government shoulders 80 per cent to enable everybody to have access to health care regardless of their financial status.

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You have probably heard and read about investment banks and investment banking. But if you’re like most people, you may be a little fuzzy about exactly what an investment bank is and how the world of investment banking works.

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An investment bank is a unique kind of bank that specializes in large, complex financial transactions mostly revolving around financing and the creation of capital for companies. Unlike commercial and retail banks you are probably more familiar with, investment banks do not accept deposits from individuals and businesses. Instead, they primarily focus on underwriting debt and equity securities for institutional clients — mostly large corporations and governmental entities (ranging from municipal authorities to states and nations).

Among the major investment banks in the U.S. today are Bank of America Merrill Lynch, Barclays, Goldman Sachs, JP Morgan, Morgan Stanley, Deutsche Bank, Salomon Brothers, Credit Suisse, Citibank and UBS. These and other investment banks help companies raise capital via mergers and acquisitions (or M&A), leveraged finance, and the debt and equity markets. They also help companies with internal restructuring in order to improve profitability and efficiency. Additionally, they advise governmental entities on the raising or restructuring of debt securities.

The best way to understand the role of an investment bank when it comes to helping their clients raise capital is to picture the investment bank as a middleman between the client and the investing public. Let’s suppose that the client wants to issue bonds in order to pay for an acquisition. The investment bank would price and underwrite the bonds based on its assessment of the value and riskiness of the business and then sell the bonds to institutional investors (e.g., mutual funds and pensions).

An investment bank can serve the same role in pricing and underwriting stock when a company issues an initial public offering (IPO) or secondary public offering. In this role as a market maker, the investment bank serves an important function: It ensures that there is a market to buy the securities of public companies that are offered for sale.

For example, have you ever wondered how it is possible to buy or sell shares in a public company at any time simply by placing an order with a stockbroker or executing the trade yourself online? In any transaction, there must be a buyer and a seller — so who exactly is it that is on the other side of your stock purchases and sales?

As market makers, investment banks set firm ask and bid prices for public company stocks and then buy and sell shares from the investing public. That is how you are able to buy or sell any number of shares in any public company at any time that the stock exchange is open. Market makers will purchase your shares, regardless of whether or not they have a buyer lined up at that time, thus making a market for the stock.

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There is potential risk and reward for investment banks in their role as market makers, since the price of shares they buy from you could rise or fall before they are able to find a buyer. To minimize their risk and potentially maximize their return, investment banks maintain a spread between their ask and bid prices.

For example, supposed an investment bank buys shares of stock at the ask price of $100. It could then offer them for sale at a bid price of $100.05, for a spread of 5 cents. While a nickel might not sound like much profit, remember that investment banks are trading millions of shares of stock every day.

Just like any investor, the investment bank’s goal is to “buy low and sell high.” Successful investment banks make more good buy and sell decisions than bad ones — day in and day out, every trading day of the year.

However, making markets isn’t the only way that investment banks make money. They also provide M&A advisory services to companies looking to buy or sell other businesses, for which they charge fees that are often substantially higher than the underwriting fees they charge when making markets. These advisory services include business valuation, due diligence, negotiation, pricing, structuring and implementation of M&A transactions. Investment banks also make money by buying and selling securities out of their own accounts, and they provide equity research and analysis to institutional investors.

Impact of the Financial Crisis

Some investment banks were hit hard by the financial crisis. Most notable were Lehman Brothers, which went bankrupt, and Merrill Lynch, which was acquired by the smaller Bear Stearns. In the aftermath of the crisis, many investment banks received government loans through the Troubled Asset Relief Program (TARP), which was heavily criticized by many as an unwarranted government bailout.

Despite the criticism that some have heaped on the industry, though, investment banks serve an important role. Maintaining a healthy investment banking industry is in the best interest of the overall U.S. and global economy.

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Expensive and misleading foreign exchange is bleeding holidaymakers dry

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UK holidaymakers are paying over the odds for foreign currency because of confusing charges and misleading information, according to Consumer Focus.

The watchdog says customers are charged £1 billion a year in the UK for exchanging money and it is not clear if these charges are warranted.

It has issued a super-complaint to the Office of Fair Trading (OFT) and asked the regulator to conduct its own investigation into the industry.

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We take on average £10 billion a year abroad in foreign currency and companies need to give a clearer explanation of exchange rates so customers know exactly how much money they will receive – after all the charges have been applied.

Mike O'Connor, chief executive for Consumer Focus, says: "A cocktail of confusing charges and poor transparency means collectively we are losing out in a big way. We are calling on the OFT to investigate and work with the industry to send these dubious and complex charges packing."

Issues regarding surcharges on credit and debit cards were also raised by the watchdog. O'Connor says the multiple charges "layered on top of each other" mean customers are unclear about how much they will be charged when using a card abroad.

When doing so a surcharge is typically added on top of the exchange rate, which can be up to 3% of the currency cost. There are also further charges for using foreign ATMs of between £1.50 and £4.50 per transaction.

Andrew Hagger, spokesperson for Moneynet, says: "While consumers may get confused and upset over the cost of credit card charges and currency purchases, it's the debit card market where we see the widest variation in charging tariffs.

"If you're not aware of the purchase transaction costs, a holidaymaker making a large number of low-value transactions will get a nasty surprise when the post holiday statement lands on the doormat."

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The Biscuits and the Birmingham Barons remained tied for first place in the second half of the Southern League's North Division.

The home run by Demeritte scored Alejandro Salazar and provided all the offense for Mississippi.

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