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Friday, April 23, 2010

Scouts must pay $18.5 million in abuse case - Crime

Sad, sad case all around. Bad real and PR hit for the Boy Scouts.

Read Scouts must pay $18.5 million in abuse case - Crime & courts- msnbc.com

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David

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Third of U.S. teens with phones text 100 times a day



Some Wow! statistics from the just released report from the Pew Internet and American Life Project on teens and texting. It's becoming - check that, become - the primary form of social interaction.

Read:
Third of U.S. teens with phones text 100 times a day | Reuters

Watch:


To some, scary stuff - but hey, it's becoming THE WAY things are done!

David

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Cool Video of Texas Stadium Implosion - from the Inside!



This is a cool video of the recent implosion of Texas Stadium - taken from a unique vantage point - namely field level inside the stadium. Click to watch the video, courtesy of Immersive Media, below:



Farewell, old friend (hey, can't believe Jerry Jones didn't sell-off those scoreboards before the demolition!).

David


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Photos: Deepwater Horizon Rig Explosion

Amazing photos from this unfortunate accident:

See Photos: Deepwater Horizon Rig Explosion --THE DEAD PELICAN 2010©

God bless the workers and their families....

David

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Two-Man Bicycle Kick Leads To Stunning Goal (VIDEO)



Simply one word - Unbelievable! Show to all your kids to inspire them to try to replicate this impossible shot!


David http://wyld-about-sports.blogspot.com/
Read the Article at HuffingtonPost

Reverse Auctions in Health Care: Introducing Competition for Patients



Here's one of the more intriguing ideas to come down the pike to introduce competition into health care (and you thought that was an oxymoron)!

The McCombs School of Business at The University of Texas will be holding its Innovation in Health Care Delivery Systems Symposium next week in Austin. In anticipation of the event, they have released a "teaser" highlighting some fascinating research that will be released at the symposium.

Two professors from UT, Andrew Whinston and Lizhen Xu, in collaboration with Jianqing Chen of the University of Calgary and Michael Yuan, CEO of Austin-based Ringful Health (http://www.ringfulhealth.com/about.html), have developed a new health care model that could revolutionize the way health care decisions are made - and the way treatment is delivered to patients - to the benefit of all (providers, insurers, the government, and most importantly, patients). Reverse auctions are at the core of their proposal, as patients would be able to have health care providers - in essence - engage in a reverse auction to "compete" to provide their care - based on both quality and cost outcomes. If implemented, such a consumer-driven system could work to put patients truly in charge of making their treatment decisions and introduce new, unprecedented levels of competition, transparency, and cost/quality focus into patient care.

So, reverse auctions could be the foundation for real health care reform. Kudos to these researchers for introducing an innovative, competition-based model into the health care debate - which will continue for many years to come. As the lead researcher, Professor Andrew Whinston, commented, “We already see changes in the wind for the U.S. health care ecosystem...The motivations to change are strong on all sides of the equation."

To read complete details on their research, read:
http://blogs.mccombs.utexas.edu/mccombs-today/2010/04/curing-patients-while-lowering-costs-a-matter-of-transparency-and-partnership/

David

From the Reverse Auction Research Center: http://reverseauctionresearch.blogspot.com/

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SEC Porn Probe: Staffers Watched Porn As Economy Crashed



Well, the SEC obviously didn't buy the best of filtering systems for its computers, eh? Making over $200K a year and watching porn all day at the office - only in the government! This does go a long way in explaining the SEC's lack of oversight - although they obviously weren't exactly "asleep at the wheel" as they have often been characterized - not asleep at all as it turns out!

Heads will roll!

The serious news story on it:



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The funny take on it:




David http://wyld-about-money.blogspot.com/
Read the Article at HuffingtonPost

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