Anyone who wants to brighten up dark nights should discover metallics –
then wear them all day long. Right now, metallics are the cool way of
going from day to night, without a quick change in the loos. Workwear
staples can be transformed: see Pam’s blouse in pink lamé, Maddie’s
sweater dress or Buffy’s jumper, paired with a Lurex pleated skirt.
Post-5pm metallics work best when mixed with print, like Jesse’s green
skater dress or Alessandra’s 30s-style graphics. So be sure to shine as
the nights draw in. Melanie Wilkinson
From these pictures you will see that metallics clothes can help you twinkle
Almost half of junior doctors left NHS after foundation training
Almost half of all junior doctors are opting not to continue their training in theNHS, threatening a “disaster” that senior medics fear will worsen the service’s shortage of frontline clinicians.
This year only 52% of junior doctors who finished the two-year foundation training after medical school chose to stay in the NHS and work towards becoming a GP or specialist – the lowest proportion in the health service’s history and down from 71.3% as recently as 2011.
The official figures reveal sharp rises in the number of junior doctors shunning the NHS and opting instead to work in academia, as a locum medic or simply taking a career break.
The extra pressure on NHS staff created by the growing demand for patient care, disenchantment among junior doctors, and an increasing trend towards gap years are all being blamed for the trend.
“To see such a large number of doctors leave the NHS in such early stages of their careers is incredibly worrying, and can only worsen the recruitment crisis we are already seeing in many parts of our NHS, such as A&E,” said Dr Johann Malawana, chair of the British Medical Association’s junior doctors committee.
“The government must focus on ensuring we have the valued and motivated workforce needed to meet rising demand across the country, as to lose any more doctors in the early stages of their careers would be a disaster for the NHS”.
“These figures should serve as a serious wake up call to the government, and highlight the significant impact that increasing demand, recruitment issues, and falling resources are having on NHS staff.
“The unprecedented pressure combined with the anger and frustration around the government’s plan to impose a new contract, has left many junior doctors voting with their feet,” he added.
Professor Sir Simon Wessely, president of the Royal College of Psychiatrists, said: “These are disturbing figures. All this is very worrying. The loss of anything other than a tiny minority of these junior doctors will be a substantial loss to the NHS if these expensively-trained, excellent young medical graduates choose not to pursue a career in the NHS”.
Holy grail of shipwrecks caught in three-way court battle
The discovery of the “holy grail of shipwrecks” off the coast of Colombia this week has provoked a three-cornered fight over ownership of the gold, emeralds and other treasures on the ocean floor.
This is also unlikely to be the last story of ancient mariners and sunken treasure to re-emerge in the Caribbean. It is estimated that there are about 1,200 wrecks off the coast of Colombia alone.
This is also unlikely to be the last story of ancient mariners and sunken treasure to re-emerge in the Caribbean. It is estimated that there are about 1,200 wrecks off the coast of Colombia alone.
Beijing issues first pollution red alert as smog engulfs capital
Beijing has issued its first pollution red alert as acrid smog enveloped the Chinese capital for the second time this month.
The alert will begin at 7am on Tuesday and should see millions of vehicles forced off the roads, factories and construction sites shut down and schools and nurseries advised to close.
“It is history – this is a precedent set,” said Ma Jun, director of the Institute of Public an Environmental Affairs in Beijing. “This is extremely important to stop children from being exposed to such a high level of pollution.”
Chinese authorities faced fierce criticism last week when they failed to issue a red alert even as Beijing’s residents choked on smog levels that in some areas rose to 40 times those considered safe by the World Health Organisation.
Oil producers prepare for prices to halve to $20 a barrel
The world’s leading oil producers are preparing for the possibility of oil prices halving to $20 a barrel after a second day of financial market turmoil saw a fresh slide in crude, the lowest iron ore prices in a decade, and losses on global stock markets.
Benchmark Brent crude briefly dipped below $40 a barrel for the first time since February 2009 before speculators took profits on the 8% drop in the cost of crude since last week’s abortive attempt by the oil cartel Opec to steady the market.
But warnings by commodity analysts that the respite could be shortlived were underlined when Russia said it would need to make additional budget cuts if the oil price halved over the coming months.
Alexei Moiseev, Russia’s deputy finance minister, told Reuters: “If oil goes to $20, we will need to do additional [spending] cuts. Clearly we have shown that we are very willing to cut fiscal spending in line with an oil price at $60, for example. In order for us to be long-term sustainable [with the] oil price at $40, we need to do additional cuts, but if the oil price goes to $20 we need to do even more cuts.”
Cheetahs migrated from North America to Africa 100,000 years ago
Cheetahs, widely known as fleet-footed inhabitants of the African savannahs, started a rather slower journey around 100,000 years ago when they migrated from North America, according to new research.
An international team of scientists found that cheetahs descend from a relative of American pumas with their fossil records extending across the Americas, Europe and Asia.
Genetic analysis by the team, published in Genome Biology, shows that cheetahs had two population “bottlenecks” – events that severely reduced the population. The first of these occurred around 100,000 years ago when cheetahs moved into Asia across the Bering Sea land bridge. They then made their way south to Africa.
A second population crash occurred around 10,000 to 12,000 years ago, researchers say, with cheetahs disappearing from North America. Several large mammals such as saber-toothed tigers were lost to the continent around this time due to a glacial retreat.
Tim Cook defends Apple iPhone Smart Battery Case, says it's not a 'hump'
The reason the Apple Smart Battery Case has a bulbous lump on the back of it is because you shouldn’t need it on all the time, according to chief executive Tim Cook.
“You know, I probably wouldn’t call it ‘the hump’,” said Cook – immediately making it forever known as a the hump. He said it’s so obvious because Appleconsiders the battery to be a backup device, something that you might need occasionally, not all the time.
“If you’re charging your phone every day, you probably don’t need this at all. But if you’re out hiking and you go on overnight trips ... it’s kind of nice to have,” Cook told Mashable.
It looks ok from the front. Photograph: Apple
Given Apple’s iPhone is notorious for its battery, with many users needing to charge their smartphones at least once during the day to make it through to bedtime, Cook might not be using his iPhone as much as other users if it lasts a day.
“If you make this solid all the way across, in order to get it on, you’d find it very difficult to get it on and off,” said Cook. “So the guys had this great insight to put the bend in along with making it a smart case.”
Other accessories from long-standing battery case makers such as Mophie have form-fitting solid backs and come in two pieces, allowing the smartphone to slide in and out.
To get the iPhone 6S into Apple’s Smart Battery Case users have to bend the top part of the case to slide the phone in, the longevity of which has yet to be proven.
Many users have seen the release of a battery case by Apple as an admission that the company has not produced a phone with a long enough battery life, asking the question why Ive and team simply didn’t just put a bigger battery in it in the first place.
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