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Cyclists pass by an electronic stock board of a securities firm in Tokyo Monday, May 27, 2013. The Nikkei 225 closed down 469.80 points, or 3.22 percent at 14,142.65 Monday after the yen reversed some of its recent fall against the U.S. dollar. Stocks elsewhere in Asia were mixed as investors tried to sort out conflicting indicators about the health of the global economy. (AP Photo/Koji Sasahara)
Cyclists pass by an electronic stock board of a securities firm in Tokyo Monday, May 27, 2013. The Nikkei 225 closed down 469.80 points, or 3.22 percent at 14,142.65 Monday after the yen reversed some of its recent fall against the U.S. dollar. Stocks elsewhere in Asia were mixed as investors tried to sort out conflicting indicators about the health of the global economy. (AP Photo/Koji Sasahara)
A woman walks by an electronic stock board of a securities firm in Tokyo Monday, May 27, 2013. The Nikkei 225 closed down 469.80 points, or 3.22 percent at 14,142.65 Monday after the yen reversed some of its recent fall against the U.S. dollar. Stocks elsewhere in Asia were mixed as investors tried to sort out conflicting indicators about the health of the global economy. (AP Photo/Koji Sasahara)
A youth walks by an electronic stock board of a securities firm in Tokyo Monday, May 27, 2013. The Nikkei 225 closed down 469.80 points, or 3.22 percent at 14,142.65 Monday after the yen reversed some of its recent fall against the U.S. dollar. Stocks elsewhere in Asia were mixed as investors tried to sort out conflicting indicators about the health of the global economy. (AP Photo/Koji Sasahara)
BANGKOK (AP) ? Investors seeking bargains helped push Japan's benchmark stock index higher Tuesday after a sharp sell-off the day before. Other Asian markets registered relief with slight gains.
The Nikkei has been on a rollercoaster ride since last Thursday, when it plummeted more than 7 percent after interest rates on the country's benchmark 10-year bond spiked to above 1 percent for the first time in a year. The swing in Japanese bonds unnerved investors at a time when Japan's already overburdened government finances are vulnerable to rises in interest rates.
Overall, however, the index has soared 37 percent this year, a show of investor support for Prime Minister Shinzo Abe and his aggressive policies aimed at reversing years of economic malaise and deflation.
The Nikkei 225 index rose 1.7 percent to 14,384.67 as the yen slipped against the dollar; the benchmark fell 3 percent on Tuesday. Hong Kong's Hang Seng rose 0.1 percent to 22,717.86. South Korea's Kospi gained 0.4 percent to 1,986.14. Australia's S&P/ASX 200 advanced 0.3 percent to 4,975.50.
"It seems there is not too much momentum, but maybe some traders are doing some bargain hunting," said Linus Yip, strategist at First Shanghai Securities in Hong Kong.
Investors were also awaiting the release later Tuesday of data on U.S. consumer confidence and home prices. The data will be scrutinized for how it might influence the Fed, which is undertaking its third round of aggressive bond-buying to help the economy. Speculation that the U.S. central bank might scale back the program based on a recent improvement in some economic indicators has sparked jitters in stock markets.
"The next move of the Federal Reserve is still the question for most investors," said Yip.
The consumer confidence data will highlight the ongoing improvement in sentiment driven by both equity and housing wealth gains, said Mitul Kotecha of Credit Agricole CIB in Hong Kong in a market commentary. "In the debate about early Fed tapering the confidence data will err on the side reducing Fed asset purchases sooner rather than later."
Among individual stocks, Hong Kong-listed Fosun International jumped 3.6 percent, a day after the Shanghai-based investment company announced a proposal to buy out Club Mediterranee. Fosun and Axa Private Equity of France said Monday they would make an offer for the French vacation sort operator in the coming days. The two companies are Club Med's largest shareholders.
Mitsubishi Motors jumped more than 14 percent, a day after the company announced the opening of its first after-sales service shop in Myanmar, Kyodo News reported.
In European trading Monday, both Germany's DAX and France's CAC-40 closed higher. European Central Bank board member Joerg Asmussen pledged in a speech in Berlin that the bank would continue to pursue easy monetary policy "as long as necessary" due to the region's recession. Stocks in the U.S. and Britain were closed Monday for public holidays.
Benchmark oil for July delivery was down 42 cents to $93.73 per barrel in electronic trading on the New York Mercantile Exchange. The contract fell 10 cents to close at $94.15 per barrel on the Nymex on Friday.
In currencies, the euro fell to $1.2915 from $1.2934 late Monday in Europe. The dollar rose to 102 yen from 100.99.
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May 27, 2013 ? The accelerating disappearance of Earth's species of both wild and domesticated plants and animals constitutes a fundamental threat to the well-being and even the survival of humankind, warns the founding Chair of a new global organization created to narrow the gulf between leading international biodiversity scientists and national policy-makers.
In Norway to address an elite gathering of 450 international officials with government responsibilities in the fields of biodiversity and economic planning, Zakri Abdul Hamid offered his first public remarks since being elected in January to head the new Intergovernmental Science-Policy Platform on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services (IPBES) -- an independent body modeled on the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change.
Dr. Zakri, a national of Malaysia who co-chaired 2005's landmark Millennium Ecosystem Assessment and serves also as science advisor to his country's prime minister, cited fast-growing evidence that "we are hurtling towards irreversible environmental tipping points that, once passed, would reduce the ability of ecosystems to provide essential goods and services to humankind."
The incremental loss of Amazon rainforest, for example, "may seem small with shortsighted perspective" but will eventually "accumulate to cause a larger, more important change," he said. Experts warn that ongoing climate change, combined with land use change and fires, "could cause much of the Amazon forest to transform abruptly to more open, dry-adapted ecosystems, threatening the region's enormous biodiversity and priceless services," he added.
"It has been clear for some time that a credible, permanent IPCC-like science policy platform for biodiversity and ecosystem services is an important but missing element in the international response to the biodiversity crisis," Dr. Zakri told the 7th Trondheim Conference on Biodiversity.
The Millennium Ecosystem Assessment "demonstrated that such an intergovernmental platform can create a clear, valuable policy-relevant consensus from a wide range of information sources about the state, trends and outlooks of human-environment interactions, with focus on the impacts of ecosystem change on human well-being. It showed that such a platform can support decision-makers in the translation of knowledge into policy.
"The Millennium Ecosystem Assessment provides our baseline," he said. "The IPBES will tell us how much we have achieved, where we are on track, where we are not, why, and options for moving forward. It will help to build public support and identify priorities."
The structure of IPBES mimics that of the IPCC but its aims go further to include capacity building to help bridge different knowledge systems.
"IPBES will reduce the gulf between the wealth of scientific knowledge on declining natural world conditions, and knowledge about effective action to reverse these damaging trends," he said.
Even barnyard diversity is in decline
Some scientists have termed this the "sixth great extinction episode" in Earth's history, according to Dr. Zakri, noting that the loss of biodiversity is happening faster and everywhere, even among farm animals.
He underlined findings by the UN Food and Agriculture Organization that genetic diversity among livestock is declining.
"The good news is the rate of decline is dropping but the latest data classify 22% of domesticated breeds at risk of extinction," Dr. Zakri said.
Breeds become rare because their characteristics either don't suit contemporary demand or because differences in their qualities have not been recognised. When a breed population falls to about 1,000 animals, it is considered rare and endangered.
Causes of genetic erosion in domestic animals are the lack of appreciation of the value of indigenous breeds and their importance in niche adaptation, incentives to introduce exotic and more uniform breeds from industrialised countries, and product-focused selection.
Among crops, meanwhile, about 75 per cent of genetic diversity was lost in the last century as farmers worldwide switched to genetically uniform, high-yielding varieties and abandoned multiple local varieties. There are 30,000 edible plant species but only 30 crops account for 95% of human food energy, the bulk of which (60%) comes down to rice, wheat, maize, millet and sorghum.
"The decline in the diversity of crops and animals is occurring in tandem with the need to sharply increase world food production and as a changing environment makes it more important than ever to have a large genetic pool to enable organisms to withstand and adapt to new conditions," he said.
Biodiversity and the Sustainable Development Goals
According to Dr. Zakri, the most important outcome of last year's Rio+20 international environmental summit of nations was agreement to set new multi-year global objectives to succeed the Millennium Development Goals (2000 -- 2015).
Biodiversity is expected to feature prominently in the new "Sustainable Development Goals."
For specifics, Dr. Zakri commended the Aichi Biodiversity Targets, already established through the Convention on Biological Diversity, which contain five strategic priorities and 20 specific targets internationally agreed for achievement by 2020, beginning with public awareness of the value of biodiversity and the steps people can take to conserve and use it sustainably.
"The Aichi Targets are an important contribution to the SDG process and it is up to us to ensure that they are fully considered," he said.
"I would argue, though, that advancing towards equity and sustainable development requires us to go beyond. We need to meet the fundamental challenge of decoupling economic growth from natural resource consumption, which is forecast to triple by 2050 unless humanity can find effective ways to 'do more and better with less.' There are no simple blueprints for addressing a challenge as vast and complex as this but it's imperative we commit to that idea.
"We also need measures of societal progress that go beyond Gross Domestic Product. We need the kind of vision embodied in the Inclusive Wealth Index being pioneered by Sir Partha Dasgupta of Cambridge University, Anantha Duraiappah at IHDP, and Pushpam Kumar at UNEP. As they have convincingly argued, enlightened measures of wealth that include natural capital, not just output like GDP, offers a real portrait of sustainable development," he added.
"The idea that natural capital should be measured like this makes many nervous. And I agree that many of the services the environment provides, like clean water and air, are irreplaceable necessities.
"In theory, however, the undoubted value of these natural treasures should be reflected in their price, which should rise steeply as they become scarcer. In practice, natural assets are often hard to price well, if at all. Although this work is still in its infancy, it is worth recalling that GDP has only been measured for the last 70 years. And that originally it was a far cruder metric than today. The reality over many decades and the recent experience with the MDGs demonstrate all too clearly the limited success that even legal biodiversity-related commitments have in the absence of some sort of metric that speaks to other sectors and interests involved in the development process. We need to urge more economists to do the hard but valuable work of pricing the seemingly priceless. Ensuring these ideas are properly reflected in the SDGs could provide the type of support and encouragement needed."
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The fire-damaged exterior of Royal Caribbean's Grandeur of the Seas cruise ship is seen while docked in Freeport, Grand Bahama island, Monday, May 27, 2013. Royal Caribbean said the fire occurred early Monday while on route from Baltimore to the Bahamas on the mooring area of deck 3 and was quickly extinguished. All 2,224 guests and 796 crew were safe and accounted for. (AP Photo/The Freeport News, Jenneva Russell)
The fire-damaged exterior of Royal Caribbean's Grandeur of the Seas cruise ship is seen while docked in Freeport, Grand Bahama island, Monday, May 27, 2013. Royal Caribbean said the fire occurred early Monday while on route from Baltimore to the Bahamas on the mooring area of deck 3 and was quickly extinguished. All 2,224 guests and 796 crew were safe and accounted for. (AP Photo/The Freeport News, Jenneva Russell)
The fire-damaged exterior of Royal Caribbean's Grandeur of the Seas cruise ship is seen while docked in Freeport, Grand Bahama island, Monday, May 27, 2013. Royal Caribbean said the fire occurred early Monday while on route from Baltimore to the Bahamas on the mooring area of deck 3 and was quickly extinguished. All 2,224 guests and 796 crew were safe and accounted for. (AP Photo/The Freeport News, Jenneva Russell)
This photo provided by Royal Caribbean shows the fire-damaged exterior of Royal Caribbean's Grandeur of the Seas cruise ship, in Freeport, Bahamas. Royal Caribbean says the fire occurred on the mooring area of Deck 3 about 2:15 a.m. Monday, May 27, 2013, and was quickly extinguished, as the ship was en route to the Bahamas. Passengers and crew members reported to evacuation stations. No injuries were reported. (AP Photo/Royal Caribbean)
The fire-damaged rear of Royal Caribbean's Grandeur of the Seas cruise ship is seen while docked in Freeport, Grand Bahama island, Monday, May 27, 2013. Royal Caribbean said the fire occurred early Monday while on route from Baltimore to the Bahamas on the mooring area of deck 3 and was quickly extinguished. All 2,224 guests and 796 crew were safe and accounted for. (AP Photo/The Freeport News, Jenneva Russell)
BALTIMORE (AP) ? A fire that broke out aboard a Royal Caribbean ship Monday did enough damage that the rest of the cruise was canceled and the company said the more than 2,200 passengers will be flown from the Bahamas back to Baltimore where the trip began.
The fire that began at 2:50 a.m. Monday was extinguished about two hours later with no injuries reported. A cause wasn't immediately known. The Grandeur of the Seas, which left Baltimore on Friday, never lost power and was able to sail into port in Freeport, Bahamas, Monday afternoon. It had been planned to be a seven-night cruise.
Royal Caribbean said on its website and through social media that executives met with passengers in port and that the cruise line is arranging flights for all 2,224 guests on Tuesday. It said passengers will receive a full refund of their fare and a certificate for a future cruise.
Aboard ship early Monday, the captain announced that passengers needed to go to their muster stations, rousing Mark J. Ormesher from his stateroom. Ormesher said in an email to The Associated Press that immediately after the announcement, his room attendant knocked on the door and told him and his girlfriend to grab their flotation devices. The attendant said it wasn't a drill.
Ormesher, a native of England, who lives in Manassas, Va., said he and his girlfriend smelled acrid smoke as they went to their muster station, the ship's casino. The crew quickly provided instruction.
"This encouraged calm amongst the passengers," he said. Passengers were required to remain at their stations for four hours, he said, and the captain "provided us as much information as we needed to stay safe."
Ormesher, who is 25 and on his first cruise, said the air conditioner had been shut off, and as the hours passed and the ship got hot, bottled water was distributed. The crew and passengers remained calm, and helped those who needed it. Crying babies were given formula and held while their parents used the bathrooms.
In Freeport, Bahamas, passenger Andrea Sanders of Washington, D.C., said she slept on the deck with hundreds of other passengers as smoke billowed out of the stern of the ship. "I was terrified with it being my first cruise," Sanders told The Freeport News as she ate lunch in port.
Royal Caribbean said all guests and 796 crew were safe and accounted for. Royal Caribbean spokeswoman Cynthia Martinez said in an email that the company was arranging 11 different charter flights for passengers. Photos show a substantial area of the stern burned on several decks of the ship the length of about three football fields.
The company in a statement on its website said it is "deeply sorry for this unexpected development in our guests' vacation. We understand that this may have been a very stressful time for them. We appreciate their patience and cooperation in dealing with this unfortunate situation."
Carnival Corp. also had trouble with fire aboard ship earlier this year.
The 900-foot Triumph was disabled during a February cruise by an engine room fire in the Gulf of Mexico, leaving thousands of passengers to endure cold food, unsanitary conditions and power outages while the ship was towed to Mobile, Ala. It remained there for repairs until early May when it headed back to sea under its own power .
On the Grandeur, after passengers were allowed to leave their stations, Ormesher said he saw water on the outside of deck 5 and in the hallways. The mooring lines were destroyed he said; crew members brought new lines from storage.
The damage at the rear of the ship "looks bad," Ormesher said; burned out equipment was visible.
Magnus Alnebeck, general manager of the Pelican Bay Hotel, said his staff was asked to hold rooms for passengers, although it was not yet clear how many would stay there.
The ship will stay docked in Freeport at least overnight. The National Transportation Safety Board said in a tweet that it will join the U.S. Coast Guard in investigating the fire.
Martinez said in a news release that a cruise set aboard the Grandeur of the Seas for May 31 has been canceled so the ship can be repaired.
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Funding cuts to tourism support are beginning to "hurt" the industry and risk killing a "golden goose" which generates ?9?billion across the South West, experts claim.
The latest round of cuts in Cornwall are set to slash the tourist budget by almost 20% and remove nearly half the council's dedicated workforce of 20 staff, it has emerged.
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In Devon, where even bigger cuts are expected, a leading figure in the industry has called for a "serious" debate before any further reductions are made to avoid jeopardising a sector which supports tens of thousands of jobs.
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Funding for tourist information centres (TIC) in the Duchy ? which two years ago saw Penzance, St Ives and Falmouth share ?250,000 ? has been halved and now stands at just ?75,000 split between 21 centres.
Malcolm Bell, head of VisitCornwall, who is to lose his personal assistant in the restructure, admits that following a 30% reduction three years ago, the cuts are now starting to "hurt" and projects would now be "limited".
"It is regrettable and nobody is happy," he added. "The reductions mean we have lost capacity to operate as we did before.
"We are still operating in the digital UK market but where it will start to hurt is in tourism representation and influencing ? we will do our best but it will be a lot less than we have done in the past."
Despite operating at the limit, Mr Bell said he would "bet his shirt" on there being more cuts on the way, adding that he would not be "sitting and waiting" but instead attempting to secure private sector funding by developing a new business model.
An in-depth analysis of the benefits of tourism produced by VisitCornwall and published in December, the Value of Tourism, revealed how dependent the region is on the industry.
It shows that a quarter of all employment in the Duchy now relies on tourism, some 60,921 jobs, thanks to the ?1.85 billion spent by tourists.
Excluding the value of visits from family, friends and second homes, the value of tourism to Devon in 2011 was ?2.15bn, compared to ?1.44bn in Dorset and ?1.11bn in Somerset.
The TICs in Cornwall are now planning to form a federation in the hope they can use the remaining cash to at least make sure they hold on to licences for the DMS computerised booking system on which they rely.
Tina Evans, chairman of the Padstow Area Tourism Business Forum, which runs the town's TIC with ?10,000 from the town council and support from Cornwall Council, criticised VisitCornwall for concentrating its efforts on the internet and first-time visitors.
She fears the approach fails the thousands of small businesses which form the "backbone" of the industry and hopes the newly elected Independent/Lib Dem coalition at County Hall will look more kindly on them than the previous administration.
"They should be marketing the whole of Cornwall not just the chosen few who can afford the costly subscription," she added.
"They are piling all the money into social media but people don't get bookings through Facebook and you cannot quantify the results.
"These cuts will cause us pain and we will struggle to find the money ? other TICs will go ? if they don't run this DMS system they will be totally ineffectual and businesses will be lost in the ether."
The funding picture in Devon is much more complicated than Cornwall with six tourism partnerships supporting the industry.
However, a similar picture exists with the county council axing the ?50,000 a year it paid to VisitDevon in the first round of spending cuts two years ago and South West Tourism body has been scrapped.
Caroline Custerson, chief executive of the English Riviera Tourism Company, based in Torbay, where the council is facing ?10 million budget cuts, said Cornwall had seen visitors drop by 6% in a decade and Devon 3%, a time when cities were outperforming seaside destinations.
"We need more money to grow, not less, and we have got to be careful we are not putting ourselves at unnecessary risk when we have got such a good product," she added.
"There needs to be a serious debate over the consequences of cutting tourism budgets.
"The issue councils face is that tourism spending is discretionary and they are focussing on statutory services but with so many people employed the industry is absolutely vital and the backbone of our economy.
"If we allow the visitor experience to be affected detrimentally people will not come year after year."
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LOS ANGELES (AP) ? Vinny Del Negro is out as coach of the Los Angeles Clippers after a season in which the team won its first division title but lost in the first round of the playoffs.
The team said Tuesday he won't be offered a contract when his current one expires at the end of June. He is just the second coach to leave the team with a winning record, following Larry Brown in 1993.
"This was a difficult decision, but we feel this is the best decision for our franchise moving forward," said Gary Sacks, vice president of basketball operations.
Del Negro had a 128-102 regular-season record in three years with the team. The Clippers made the playoffs the last two seasons, including last year when they advanced to the second round for only the second time since the franchise moved to Los Angeles in 1984.
This season, the team won a franchise-record 56 games, including a 17-game winning streak. And with All-Stars Chris Paul and Blake Griffin, the Clippers were one of the NBA's most exciting attractions, with acrobatic dunks and dazzling playmaking. But the postseason was quick and disappointing ? an exit in six games to Memphis despite a 2-0 lead.
"We would like to thank Vinny for everything he did during his three years with the organization," Sacks said. "Vinny helped this team win a Pacific Division title and we greatly appreciate all that he and his staff helped us accomplish."
The search for a new coach will begin immediately.
Del Negro had the highest winning percentage (.557) for a coach in the club's beleaguered history. He is the only coach to have consecutive winning seasons since the Buffalo Braves moved to California and became the Clippers in 1978. The Clippers had just six winning seasons in their first 41 years. Now they've put together consecutive winning records and playoff appearances for the first time in 20 years.
"We've set every franchise record," Del Negro said two weeks ago. "So I'm proud of a lot of things we did."
Much of the credit for the dramatic turnaround went to Paul and Griffin. Del Negro was criticized at times this season for his rotations, and there was speculation about whether he would return.
Paul and Griffin have been supportive of their coach, and two weeks ago Sacks acknowledged that the players' opinions would be part of the decision on Del Negro.
"I think Vinny did a great job of managing the egos and taking this team to a new level," veteran Matt Barnes said after his exit interview at the end of the season.
Del Negro had said he enjoyed working with Paul and Griffin.
"They're the nucleus of the team, obviously, that you want to keep intact and move forward with," he said.
Sacks made it clear that the team's top priority is to re-sign Paul, who becomes an unrestricted free agent July 1. He could receive a five-year, $108 million deal.
Del Negro came to the Clippers from the Chicago Bulls, where the 46-year-old coach went 82-82 in two seasons including back-to-back playoff appearances before being fired.
Before that, Del Negro had front-office roles with Phoenix from 2006-08. He previously worked as a broadcaster for the Suns and San Antonio. He played in the NBA for 12 years.
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Soldiers wounded in the Fort Hood shooting spree in November 2009 have a new problem on their hands: getting the shooting's classification changed from "workplace violence" to "combat related."
As reported by Dallas-Fort Worth's NBC 5 Investigates, the injured soldiers are struggling to pay their bills. Because the government doesn't classify the shooting as an act of combat or terror, those injured don't receive additional pay or Purple Hearts.
Receiving the "pay and medical benefits earned by those wounded in combat" would be a big help to these soldiers and their families, reports NBC 5.
Adding to the soldiers' concerns: Major Nidal Hasan, the man charged in the shootings, continues to be paid his salary and has earned more than $278,000 since the shooting, which resulted in 13 deaths and 32 injuries.
The news team reported that the Department of Defense confirmed that Hasan has continued to receive his salary because he has not yet been proved guilty. The salary rule is documented in the Uniform Code of Military Justice. (That Hasan would still receive his pay was first reported in 2011.)
NBC 5 spoke with Retired Army Spc. Logan Burnett and his wife, Torey Burnett, about the "workplace violence" designation. At the time of the shooting, the reservist was about to deploy to Iraq. He was shot three times by the gunman.
Via NBCDFW.com:
"Sickens me. Absolutely sickens me. Workplace violence? I don't even know if I have the words to say," said Burnett.
"They don't need to be treated like this. They don't need to sit and fight every day for this benefit or that,? said Torey Burnett.
As that fight continues, Burnett was stunned to see a letter detailing the more $278,000 Hasan has been paid since his arrest. NBC 5 Investigates received the letter from the Department of Defense in response to a request under the Freedom of Information Act.
"There have been times when my wife and I cannot afford groceries. We cannot afford gas in our car,? Burnett said. ?Literally, times where we ate Ramen noodles for weeks on end. [That Hasan is still earning a paycheck] makes me sick to my stomach,? said Burnett.
Opening arguments for the trial are expected to begin on July 1. Hasan faces the death penalty. He was shot during the attack and is paralyzed from the chest down.
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Local media - especially television news, which greets each new Walmart press release as though it were manna from Heaven - has never had a particularly critical eye when it comes to the behemoth of the retail world.
Never is that adulation more in play than during the annual shareholders? meeting, when thousands of Walmart employees are trundled together to hear inspiring messages of hope and faith from those at the top of the Walmart food chain, and be entrained by various entertainers.
The pep talks from top management never fail to make it onto the news, as if somehow the folks at Walmart have said said something new, and wondrous.
But the performers? Really? Honestly?
It has always been sort of difficult to take someone like past Walmart entertainer Celine Dion seriously at the best of times, especially after the grotesque performance she gave on Larry King a few years ago, when she warbled a few lines to inspire the folks who were stuck in New Orleans because of Hurricane Katrina.
That most of them didn?t have electricity, and probably weren?t listening to her song of hope went completely over her head.
Leaving the unfortunate Ms. Dion aside, this year's shareholders? meeting will be chock-full of such entertainers - who will receive top coverage from Walmart?s handmaidens in the media.
But just imagine how much cheering might fill Bud Walton Arena should Walmart decide to follow the example of competitor Costco, and pay a starting wage of $11.50, or if the Walton family decided to take a stand to raise the minimum wage in this country.
Now, that would be worthy of front page news.
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Today, remotely operated robot doctors
The biggest hurdle for diagnosing a patient from a distance has always been delivering useful information to people with the expertise to analyze the data. Older tech like the telephone might let you talk to a doctor in a far-off city so that you can describe your symptoms, but what if she wants to monitor your heart-rate or take an X-ray?
In 1924 the writers of Science and Invention magazine thought they'd found an answer.
The headline proclaimed, "Specialist Brought to Every Town," and promised that experts in every field of medicine would be able to diagnose disease from a control room far removed from their patients.
With the aid of electrical indicating devices, it is easily possible to transmit the findings of any disease over wires from one place to another with almost absolute accuracy. The ideas necessary are shown in the illustration herewith. A cardiograph is attached to the patient's two wrists and variations in the current can be made to register in the distant specialist's office. Respiration pressure is transmitted through a carbon rheostat, the same as is the case with the blood pressure. The heart tone is transmitted by a radio microphone, temperature through a thermocouple. An X-ray of the infected member is transmitted by television.
Just how futuristic were their predictions about treating patients in the future? Television wasn't even a practical reality in 1924. John Logie Baird made the first public demonstration of television the following year in 1925.
We've made stunning advancements in the way that specialists can reach people through telemedicine. Neurologists in New York are now treating Parkinson's patients from 150 miles away, SUVs are being outfitted with wireless tech to bring much needed medical care to rural parts of India, and laws are changing in places like Montana to ensure that health insurers reimburse for things like videoconference doctor's consultations.
But despite all the robo-doctors and heart apps, telemedicine is in many ways still in its infancy. With the increased stresses of an aging Boomer population and a dearth of medical professionals in rural areas, the future of remote diagnosis can't come soon enough.
Images: October 1924 issue of Science and Invention
Source: http://gizmodo.com/how-telemedicine-has-already-surpassed-our-earliest-pre-508890541
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By most accounts, the HTC One is the most compelling Android smartphone on the market today, but only three of the major US carriers are wise enough to sell it. Up until this point, we've put the AT&T and Sprint models through their paces, and now we have an opportunity to round out the trio with T-Mobile's version. Given the carrier's recent shift to an unsubsidized pricing model -- which brings lower monthly fees in exchange for purchasing your phone outright -- you may be in for some sticker shock with the HTC One, which runs $580, but you can also pay $100 down with installments of $20 per month over the course of two years.
If you're currently on the fence about whether the HTC One is right for your needs, you'll definitely want to check out our full review, which features an in-depth look at the phone's design, camera and the many novel features that you'll find with HTC's custom software environment, Sense 5. Here, we'll explore the subtle nuances of T-Mobile's version, with plenty of benchmarks, impressions about the voice quality and battery life, an overview of the bundled apps and a comparison to the One's closest competitors on T-Mo. There's plenty to cover, so join us after the break as we explore everything that you need to know about the HTC One for T-Mobile.
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