http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1xzkDzXHeeA
Just For Men continues to have the worst commercials on television.
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A daily miasma of frivolity by two wanna-be cultural critics. Or: just, like, some good links, dude.
Brazilian women rebel against cesarean births
Brazilian women rebel against cesarean births
Juliana Barbassa, AP:
In Brazil, where natural childbirth fell out of favor years ago, more than half of all babies are born via cesarean section, a figure that rises to 82 percent for women with private health insurance.
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The reasons behind Brazil’s high rates are many. Experts say a longstanding interventionist approach to vaginal births made them more painful and stressful than necessary. All this gave C-sections a reputation as being a more predictable, safe, painless and modern way to deliver.
Pretty bizarre situation in Brazil. A C-section is still abdominal surgery, so it’s not this totally magic thing.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Eme5O-kmEFU
I just checked the clock, and it seems that it’s time for The Brothers Johnson. Let’s indulge with “Real Love” from their 1988 album Kickin’.
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Whistleblower lawsuit alleges Florida Hospital filed millions in false claims
Whistleblower lawsuit alleges Florida Hospital filed millions in false claims
It is apparently not a good time to need health care in the state of Florida.
A few days ago, The New York Times reported that doctors at the HCA hospital chain had performed unnecessary heart procedures on patients whose problems weren’t severe enough to need them, resulting in several people nearly dying.
Now, Marni Jameson reports for the Orlando Sentinel about some shady accounting at the Florida Hospital branch in Orlando:
A whistle-blower lawsuit based on insider information from a former Florida Hospital Orlando billing employee and a staff physician alleges that seven Adventist Health hospitals in Central Florida have overbilled the federal government for tens of millions of dollars in false or padded medical claims.
The suit claims Florida Hospital used improper coding for more than a decade to overbill Medicare, Medicaid and Tricare, all federal government payors. In addition, it alleges, the hospital commonly overbilled for a drug used, for example, in MRI scans and billed for computer analyses that were never performed.
Nooooooot good.
China’s wealthy and influential sometimes hire body doubles to serve their prison sentences
China’s wealthy and influential sometimes hire body doubles to serve their prison sentences
Geoffrey Sant for Slate:
The practice of hiring “body doubles” or “stand-ins” is well-documented by official Chinese media. In 2009, a hospital president who caused a deadly traffic accident hired an employee’s father to “confess” and serve as his stand-in. A company chairman is currently charged with allegedly arranging criminal substitutes for the executives of two other companies. In another case, after hitting and killing a motorcyclist, a man driving without a license hired a substitute for roughly $8,000. The owner of a demolition company that illegally demolished a home earlier this year hired a destitute man, who made his living scavenging in the rubble of razed homes, and promised him $31 for each day the “body double” spent in jail. In China, the practice is so common that there is even a term for it: ding zui. Ding means “substitute,” and zui means “crime”; in other words, “substitute criminal.”
W-w-w-w-what?
Among the Sleep is a first person horror adventure, in which you play a two year old child. After being put to bed at night, mystical things will happen.
So Among the Sleep looks interesting.
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The winner of the wild demo competition at Assembly Summer 2012 was Introducing the iLisa by the Carnegie Mellon Computer Club and coda. As one may surmise by the title, it was written for the Apple Lisa.
coda wrote about writing the music and some software. CMUCC customized the Lisa used in the demo with a sound card solely to have higher quality audio for the demo!
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I’ve been holding off on playing Skyrim for a while. I mean, sure it looks great and all, but it’s been lacking a certain something. Specifically, the ability to summon thousands of trains from the sky in a metallic rain of complete destruction.
Thankfully, a brave internetician has addressed this deficiency.
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Cliff Stoll is really excited to talk to you today about the Curta calculator.
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Apparently neither Colin nor myself has ever posted anything by the Ka’au Crater Boys on this here tumblelog. This grave oversight will now be corrected with “Kawika,” which has been in my head for a while.
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