NexPro Media Staff

NexPro Media Staff

NexPro Media Staff

Monday, 09 July 2018 13:31

The darker side of living to 100

While the ageing of society has become one of the givens in today's world, less is made of the lived experience of the very elderly in society. And although there is some suggestion that the much trumpeted steady expansion of the human lifespan has begun to slow down, the numbers of very old people continue to grow.

Despite this, debates about the resourcing of universal health and social care tend not to examine the costs associated with extreme ageing. Yet the problem of chronic conditions and multiple morbidity is greatest among octagenerians and nonagenarians.
 
Read more at CNN.

Waze's real-time, crowdsourced info will soon do a lot more than help you avoid traffic jams. The Google-owned company is widening a partnership with Esri to provide its live alerts for free to American cities and municipalities that are part of its Connected Citizens Program. The move gives officials up-to-the-minute info they can use to make key decisions about road infrastructure. If many drivers report crashes at an intersection, that could lead to better signs or a change in the roads themselves.

 

Read more at Engadget.

Willson Contreras and Javier Baez receive props from their teammates after making the All-Star roster for the first time in their careers.

 

Read more at ESPN.

An emerging market you may not know about is e-learning. It is set to boom to $275.10 billion by 2022. Forbes recently launched Learn@Forbes, an e-learning platform, which clearly shows the demand in this space.

If you are in an industry where you can sell your product or service online as an e-learning course, then you should start researching this business model now. Or, if you want to start an e-learning business where you can provide courses such as how-tos, health and wellness coaching, fitness training, business coaching, etc., this is the time to jump in.

 

Read more at Forbes.

Wells Fargo WFC +1.18% rolled out a new ad campaign in early May called “Re-established” where the banking giant seeks to do just that—re-establish trust with its customers following a series of scandals that undermined consumer confidence and tarnished the bank’s reputation. In a press release, Tim Sloan, Wells Fargo’s chief executive officer and president said the campaign marks a turning point by expressing how “we are fundamentally a different company today, and that it feels like a new day at Wells Fargo.” The campaign leans heavily on the company’s history and heritage as it acknowledges past issues, communicates the extent of changes made across the organization, and shows how the company is re-committing to its customers and their satisfaction.

 

Read more at Forbes.

Retirement can be a scary prospect if you go in unprepared. But what exactly does being prepared mean? You'll see plenty of articles highlighting the danger of entering retirement without a sufficient nest egg. You'll also hear plenty of dire warnings about the need to plan for the whopping expense that is healthcare, as well as the need to secure long-term care insurance. But here's one major hazard associated with retirement that doesn't tend to get the same level of press: the boredom factor. And if you're not careful, it could hurt you more than you ever imagined.

 

Read more at The Motley Fool.

Stax Music Academy is located on the site of the original Stax Records studio in historic Soulsville, which many legendary musicians -- including Aretha Franklin, Memphis Slim, and Booker T. Jones -- called home. It aims to nurture the next generation of musicians in the Memphis neighborhood that defined soul music.

 

Read more at PBS News.

The trade war between the world’s two largest economies officially began Friday as tariffs on $34 billion of Chinese goods went into effect. Calling it the “biggest trade war in economic history,” Chinese officials had said China would raise similar tariffs on U.S. imports including pork, soybeans and automobiles. Ana Swanson of The New York Times joins Hari Sreenivasan for more.

 

Read more at PBS News.

Heat waves broke records around the world this week. While Burbank airport in California touched 114 degrees, Montreal in Canada recorded a high of 97.9 degrees. In Glasgow, Scotland, the temperature was a record-breaking 89.4 degrees on June 28 and a new world record was set off the coast of Oman, where the temperature never dropped below 108.7 degrees for 24 hours. Hari Sreenivasan reports.

 

Read more at PBS News.

The boat lists hard to the right, sending a man tumbling across an aisle toward windows that look almost straight down on fast-moving white-capped waves. Another man catches him and appears to laugh nervously. A woman cries out. Someone else adjusts the child they are holding tightly in their lap.

The 10 second video captures the chaotic final moments of the Phoenix dive boat before it capsized and sank Thursday off the coast of the Thai resort of Phuket. The maritime disaster has claimed 41 lives, including the woman who sent the clip to her family in China and at least one of her two children.

 

Read more at Associated Press News.

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