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Nasa illustrations plotting Neil Armstrong's first steps on the moon set to go under the hammer Collection belonged to British lecturer in astronomy and aeronautics and fellow of Royal Astronautics Society and British Interplanetary SocietySet to fetch minimum of £10,000Menus reveal what food astronauts tucked into during Apollo 11 missionCollection also boasts logs of all missions from 1965 to 1989, including doomed 1970 Apollo 13 trip By Amy Oliver Published: 10:59 GMT, 30 August 2012 | Updated: 11:31 GMT, 30 August 2012 Neil Armstrong famously took 'one small step for man' to become the first human on the moon in 1969. Now a series of Nasa documents reveal the astronaut's first steps were sketched out ahead of the historic Apollo 11 mission. The drawings of how Armstrong, who died last weekend aged 82, would look during his two-and-a-half hour moon walk are among an enormous collection of Nasa memorabilia to go under the hammer next week. Scroll down for video Now the collection, offered up for sale before Armstrong died, is expected to fetch a minimum of £10,000. Fancy a drink?

LinuxMan, de Linux y otras cosas …. Consultant’s Guide to Google Health – Part I of IV – An Architecture View « The Health IT Synthesis Project Consultant’s Guide to Google Health – Part I of IV – An Architecture View May 12, 2009 at 2:01 am As a technology consultant working in the health care industry, I decided to educate myself on Google Health. Google Health is essentially a central hub where individual users can manage information about their health. Google is not alone in this endeavor, Microsoft’s HealthVault, and a host of other PHR vendors are participating in this space, but this series will focus on the Google Health platform, giving consultants a basic understanding of it, and discussing how it can be applied today. This article is the first in a 4 part series where I plan to cover the following: As I discuss each of these topics I welcome your feedback and encourage you to share your ideas and experiences. A quick disclaimer: To quote Vince Kuraitis: “Let me be clear. Google Health Architecture Overview A layered view of the Google Health Architecture Web Standards Health Standards Base Google API Health Data Providers

Why Are My Health Insurance Rates Increasing? « TIB Tips Today is September 23, 2010. For most people, it will be a day like any other day. They will wake up, go to work/school, come home and go back to bed, just like normal. For insurance agents, however, this is a day we have anticipated for 6 months. For the past 6 months, insurance companies have grudgingly retooled their product portfolios to make them compliant with the mandates that Ms. Starting today, the health insurance plans you thought you were paying for are being modified, not by your health insurance but by your federal government. Be advised, with the elimination of many of the cost savings tools that insurance companies have historically used, your premiums will be going up, again. I want to share 3 of the more costly changes that are effective today. Medical Underwriting Eliminated For Children The good news is that as of today, health insurance companies are forbidden to deny access to sick children because of their health status. Lifetime Benefit Limits Eliminated Mr.

2010: The Year of Open Streams & Fax Machines I started writing this post while watching a livestream of the LeWeb09 conference in Paris and finished it while watching a livestream of TEDxSV. Open Streams are of many kinds and shapes. They are completely changing how we consume information, news & entertainment. It could be a joke and it could be funny! Instead, it is just the sad truth. Close to $2.5 trillions have been spent on health care since President Obama announced his decision to reform the health care system. the end/restart/end-again of the public optionthe expected final/interim/temporary definition of “meaningful use”the amount of savings/taxes/additional expensesmove from FFS (I really mean Fee-For-Service) to PFP andcomparative effectiveness/death panels/healthcare rationing Have you heard ANY politician talk about patient/individuals empowerment in relation to health care reform? Patient empowerment cannot happen in this world without access to the data points that are necessary to make informed decisions.

The Nintendo Project: An 8-Bit Psychochronography An All-American Healthcare Solution To solve a problem, it often helps to lay out the major challenges and tools on a table. Here are the challenges, in no particular order. Some may seem unrelated: 1. Everyone must have access to healthcare; currently 50 million Americans don’t (including me). 2. 3. 4. 5. Among the completely undiscussed strengths we have are the following: 1. 2. 3. So here’s my advice for Washington, DC: 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. Preserving a robust private and public sector will allow competition on outcomes. Update: Should I Move my Blog to Tumblr? Apparently not. The results are in, and as befits any good crowd-sourcer, I wanted to share them. Yesterday I asked TechCrunch readers for some advice. Having quit Twitter, I’m looking for a new blogging platform that will allow me to continue writing longer-form blog posts (as I do now on WordPress), but with the benefit of social sharing that Twitter used to give me. One compromise, it had been suggested, was Tumblr, and so that’s how I framed my question: Should I Move my Blog to Tumblr?. No. Actually, before I get into what I learned about Tumblr, here’s another thing I learned: a lot of you really like Posterous. If I were looking for a brand new blogging platform to replace just the writing aspects of WordPress, I’d certainly give Posterous a try. As Tumblr’s Mark Coatney replied to my original post… “Think about what you want to use this for. A nice analogy came from Edelman PR’s Brittany Dow who wrote… Indeed. It took a while. Point taken, I deleted all my old WordPress posts from my new Tumblr.

How Washington is Screwing Up Health Care Reform – and Why It May Take a Revolt to Fix It | CommonDreams.org Let's start with the obvious: America has not only the worst but the dumbest health care system in the developed world. It's become a black leprosy eating away at the American experiment - a bureaucracy so insipid and mean and illogical that even our darkest criminal minds wouldn't be equal to dreaming it up on purpose. The system doesn't work for anyone. It cheats patients and leaves them to die, denies insurance to 47 million Americans, forces hospitals to spend billions haggling over claims, and systematically bleeds and harasses doctors with the specter of catastrophic litigation. The cost of all of this to society, in illness and death and lost productivity and a soaring federal deficit and plain old anxiety and anger, is incalculable - and that's the good news. Just as we have a medical system that is not really designed to care for the sick, we have a government that is not equipped to fix actual crises. This, of course, is the hugest of long shots. Huh?

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