Two recent stories from two different parts of the US continue the theme of ever increasing concentration of power in our health care system. Connecticut The Hartford Business Journal reported on growing interest in mergers among small Connecticut hospitals.

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More Examples of US Hospital Market Consolidation: Connecticut and Florida

In the Battle of Britain in WW2, the Royal Air Force (RAF) heroically repelled a foreign invasion of the UK. The Supermarine Spitfire , key defense tool in the Battle of Britain. (Worked without major glitches.) Now, the invasion is American, and the battlefield is healthcare..

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Cerner’s Blitzkrieg on London: Where’s the RAF?

Astronomy writer Stuart Clark tackles some of the biggest questions about our universe, including gravity and dark energy. His book The Big Questions: The Universe is out now

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Science Weekly podcast: Big questions about our universe; zombie ants; plus, a session with a sex scientist

In presenting the new numbers on Thursday, the centers urged journalists to stop using annual averages like 36,000 or 24,000 and to use more vague estimates like “tens of thousands of people may die.” via Estimate of Deaths in Typical Flu Season Is Lowered – NYTimes.com . Well, good.  That’s good news, and being able to scale the threat against you personally is a good thing. This doesn’t mean, by the way, that you don’t need a flu shot.  You Do.  (I get mine)

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Estimate of Deaths in Typical Flu Season Is Lowered – NYTimes.com

A mentor recently mentioned, in passing, that he stopped riding motorcycles when cellphones came out, as he noticed the average driver distraction level had gone way up.  He said ‘its like everybody’s drunk’. There’s lots of ways to be an impaired driver: physical or mental fatigue, chemicals (legal and not), emotional extremes, etc

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Every driver is drunk – bet your life on it

An auditor’s report into the financial dealings of the head of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change has cleared him of any wrongdoing. Rajendra Pachauri had faced numerous allegations about his relationship with the Energy and Resources Institute (TERI), a non-profit based in New Delhi of which he is the director general. Now the Guardian newspaper has published a review of Pachauri and TERI’s financial records, conducted by the auditors KPMG

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Pachauri cleared of financial wrongdoing

Whether a soldier needs a cure for the common cold or brain surgery, the NATO hospital on Kandahar Airfield can handle it. This is one of Afghanistan’s most sophisticated hospitals, and it provides top medical care on the front line. Just minutes by helicopter from most conflict spots in the country’s south, the hospital saves the lives of 98 percent of the injured who come here.

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NATO Hospital Offers Top Notch Care in Taliban Heartland | Asia | English

Are you having trouble finding your favorite odor eliminator at retail stores?  Great news – you can also shop for Fridge IT    activated charcoal odor absorbers  at Sur La Table stores too

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Fridge IT odor absorbers available at Sur La Table stores

Email is back. Despite repeated proclamations of its extinction, rumors of the death of email marketing have been greatly exaggerated — especially since email and social media are a powerful combination.

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The Three Key Elements of Irresistible Email Subject Lines

2010 has been the best year so far for this blog. We’ve posted more how-to articles, covered more important certification and training news, and we’ve also added a number of new contributors in a variety of areas to help us expand our article coverage. We’ve also received more comments than in any previous year, and for that we’d like to thank you

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Train Signal Training’s Top 10 Posts of 2010

Thanks to the success of Train Signal’s VMware vSphere video training course , Train Signal will have a booth at VMworld 2010 for the first time. Train Signal will be giving away my excluive VMworld Best of vSpere 4.1 training course at the booth along with a thousand vNerd t-shirts. So make sure you stop by booth #107 to meet the Train Signal team and get your freebies! I will be speaking at two sessions at VMworld (details below), Kasia Lorenc will be conducting video interviews of prominent virtualization experts and Steven Warren will be blogging live from sessions all week.

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David Davis’ VMworld 2010 Video Preview

Let’s turn back the clock to the fall of 2009. I was the sole blogger here at All Freelance Writing. Traffic was already fairly significant.

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How We Increased Blog Traffic by 80% in Less Than a Year (and How You Can Too!)

Fresh out of college, I landed a job writing one-page sell sheets for a marketing company for $50 each. On a rare excellent day, I might do as many as two of these.

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How to NOT Get Paid to Write Online (And Make Money Doing It)

Flowers are blooming all around – most of them in my little flower bed are from weeds right now, but I still enjoy looking out at them. It has been super hot lately at my house, but it has still been raining, so the grass and weeds have been taking off. We ended up mowing only around the house this past week

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Free Flower Trio Cross Stitch Pattern

I had a wonderful trip to New York City recently and shared some of the places that I visited (see links at end of post), but there were plenty more places that I ate at, which didn’t get mentioned in previous posts. So here’s a round-up of them… Katz’s Most of the good delis are gone in New York City, but Katz’s is an institution and I like to believe it’s never going to let me down. I’ve had great meals there, but on this visit, my corned beef was tough and almost all of the meat inside my sandwich was inedible.

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New York City Dining and Travel Notes

There will be consequences if you don't understand the rules and the stakes of Facebook Places. Love it or hate it, you'll need to understand it, says guru B. L

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The Implications of Facebook Pages for you and your business: B.L. Ochman’s blog

You know, I’d expect this kind of comment from some guido on Jersey Shore, not from one of the premier religious leaders in the country, son of a man who has counseled presidents through their darkest times, including President Obama. ( Obama and Evangelist Billy Graham Share a Prayer .

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We are better than this

Here’s how I improved my SERP ranking for my newest niche site from Google’s page 7 to page 3 in 18 hours. As in all my new micro niche adsense sites , the process I follow is pretty routine since I’ve now created 16 websites. A quick summary of what I do for each new site is this: 1

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How I Moved SERP Ranking 40 Positions In 18 Hrs

The French have a lot of protests and manifestations . Some of the issues they march for are a bit of a reach and we roll our eyes. And it’s annoying when the trains and other forms of transport go on strike and you need to get somewhere

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Les Tomates

One of our concerns at Folding@home is the reliability of returned results – when you run on hundreds of thousands of machines around the world, in diverse environments, it's virtually guaranteed that some machines will be faulty.

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MemtestCL — a GPU memory tester for OpenCL (supports ATI and NVIDIA GPUs)