Coal Sector Has Much More Than Arch’s Earnings Signal (ACI, BTU, MEE, ICO, PCX, CNX, KOL) - 24/7 Wall St.

Coal Sector Has Much More Than Arch’s Earnings Signal (ACI, BTU, MEE, ICO, PCX, CNX, KOL) - 24/7 Wall St.

Blackwater Founder Is Said to Back African Mercenaries - NYTimes.com

Blackwater Founder Is Said to Back African Mercenaries - NYTimes.com:

"With its barely functional government and a fierce hostility to foreign armies since the hasty American withdrawal from Mogadishu in the early 1990s, Somalia is a country where Western militaries have long feared to tread. This has created an opportunity for private security companies like Saracen to fill the security vacuum created by years of civil war."

Will You Tweet This? - Technology Review

Will You Tweet This? - Technology Review

Authenticating a Frieseke Painting | Painting consignment and research

Authenticating a Frieseke Painting | Painting consignment and research

Charlie On The MTA

Daily Kos: State of the Nation

Daily Kos: State of the Nation

Daily Kos: State of the Nation

Mike Huckabee's Best Buddy Wants to Kill Gay People in Uganda | Gay Rights | Change.org

Mike Huckabee's Best Buddy Wants to Kill Gay People in Uganda | Gay Rights | Change.org

New bidding study: 'Things are not all fine and dandy' - HME News

New bidding study: 'Things are not all fine and dandy' - HME News:

"As soon as CMS announced the winning bidders Nov. 3, Invacare began analyzing them. While the results are still preliminary, Bachenheimer said she's 'comfortable' saying that 40% of the winners fall into one or more of the following categories: they have credit limits of less than $10,000; they are on credit hold; they have no homecare account with Invacare; or they are so far behind on their payments that their accounts have been turned over to collections.

'We are the largest (HME) manufacturer, and if we haven't heard of them or they don't have an account with us, some of them are new companies spun out of nowhere, and that doesn't bode well for financial viability,' she said."

Stem cells could help blind patients to see within six weeks - Science, News - The Independent

Stem cells could help blind patients to see within six weeks - Science, News - The Independent:

"The US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has given the go-ahead for the controversial transplant of embryonic stem cells into the eyes of patients with Stargardt's macular degeneration, where the light-sensitive retina cells at the back of eye are destroyed.

The announcement follows the first injection of embryonic stem cells into a patient in the US who is partially paralysed as a result of a spinal cord injury. Last October, a US biotechnology company, Geron, announced the start of the first clinical trial of embryonic stem cells with the hope of repairing damaged nerves."

Gravity to Release Personalized Newspaper App Orbit | Liz Gannes | NetworkEffect | AllThingsD

Gravity to Release Personalized Newspaper App Orbit | Liz Gannes | NetworkEffect | AllThingsD

Today Gravity is unveiling its plans to be an information filtering service. The idea is to combine social and semantic understanding of users to identify content they are likely to be interested in.