The Promise Ring - Emergency Emergency
The Promise Ring's music video for "Emergency Emergency" from their 1999 LP, Very Emergency.
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Featured Products: Discount Watch Store-Call Now: 866-945-5804Graying boomers get wired to cut healthcare costsBaby boomers wired to their iPads and smart phones are giving U.S. health experts some new ideas about ways to cut the soaring costs of medical care in graying America.Some of the ideas might sound like "Robo-Granny". An astronautical engineer at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology has made a skin-tight undersuit equipped with sensors that can constantly monitor the vital signs of its elderly wearer and feed the data into a computer that fires off health alerts. It was first designed for a landing on Mars. There's also Paro, the robotic seal which has fur, big eyes and responds to voice commands, a low-cost companion that the AgeLab at MIT is testing to help calm elderly people with dementia. Then there is the magic carpet with a built-in sensor that monitors gait to check for risk of falling. Other ideas are simpler and already are being tested by governments and private health insurers. Marilyn Yeats, 79, is suffering from congestive heart failure and uses a personal healthcare computer, Connect, provided by the health insurer Humana Corp. She calls it My Little Nurse for helping her keep track of her blood pressure, weight, temperature and whether she is taking her medicines on time. “Mad Men” Recap: 504, “Mystery Date”Think about that title for a moment: “Mystery Date.” Nothing arbitrary going on here — not only is it a reference to the cheesy board game commercial Sally Draper watches in Morticia and Lurch’s haunted mansion, it speaks to Don Draper’s latest race against a past that is always catching up with him. The ghosts haunting our hero, especially the ones from his sexual past, are legion. It speaks to the arrival of shady Army surgeon Capt. Greg “Frank Burns” Harris, a textbook example of man at his worst disguised as a Real American Hero(tm). There could be others, but the final and most horrible reference is to the July 13-14 strangulation murders of eight Chicago nursing students at the hands of one of worst criminal monsters of the 20th century, Richard Speck, and the perverse fascination it holds for the hideous Pauline Francis. As the gleaming stainless steel elevator doors open in the Time-Life Building, we hear Don Draper (Jon Hamm) before we see him, and he sounds like he’s going to barf up a lung. No one gets the flu like a heavy smoker gets the flu, and right now the God of Advertising looks about 10 years older than 40. He enters the elevator with Megan (Jessica Pare), who is, per usual, the picture of health and sex. |