Author: SupremeCmdr

Centipedes, Caterpillars, and Other Creepy Crawlers | EBM Gone Wild

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Centipedes, Caterpillars, and Other Creepy Crawlers | EBM Gone Wild.

Governor declares emergency after drug overdoses – New Hampshire news – Boston.com.

The more I learn about Emergency Medicine the more I understand how much data EM physicians have to know about what can kill you so that they can save your life.  Saturday mornings are my time to catch up on medical news.  The overdose epidemic in NH was interesting but not completely surprising.  The bug information was surprising to me.

I’m not going to Peru.  Go to the website for a very good downloadable Slideshare presentation.  Great pictures too.

 

Regular Fish Consumption and Age-Related Brain Gray Matter Loss – American Journal of Preventive Medicine

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Regular Fish Consumption and Age-Related Brain Gray Matter Loss – American Journal of Preventive Medicine.

Conclusions

Dietary consumption of baked or broiled fish is related to larger gray matter volumes independent of omega-3 fatty acid content. These findings suggest that a confluence of lifestyle factors influence brain health, adding to the growing body of evidence that prevention strategies for late-life brain health need to begin decades earlier.

Frozen fish sticks were a staple in my childhood diet.

I hope it helped.

VP International Life Insurance Underwriting

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Job Description – VP, International Life Insurance Underwriting INT0008S.

Update 08.09.14

I’ve gotten several page views on this post before finishing my thought process.  I totally forgot my posts here get published on LinkedIn too.  Pretty efficient if you ask me.  My plans are to post links to interesting jobs as I come across them.  I know a lot of page views on this website are from fellow underwriters looking for work.  So if you see a post with a job title description there will be a post and link to that position.  Again, I hope you find what you’re looking for.  Best of luck.

The Financial Risk of Living a Long Time

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The Financial Risk of Living a Long Time

People nearing the end of their careers can potentially lose 5% to 10% of their retirement wealth, or the equivalent of 2 to 5 years’ labor, by failing to annuitize their savings or annuitizing too early, according to an estimate by Alessandro Previtero of Ivey Business School in Canada. By providing a guaranteed income for life, an annuity is essentially an insurance policy against outliving one’s retirement savings. In a study, Previtero found that when stocks are rising, people are less likely to purchase annuities offered by their employers.

 

This excerpt came through my RSS reader this morning.  As an insurance guy, naturally I was interested.  When I clicked on the link to take me to the original Harvard Business Review blog article I got a 404.  So I went to Google and found the article linked below.

CEG_AnnuitiesDeserveAttention

No, I will not speculate on the reasons why HBR took their post down.  Read the article and let your imagination roam.