Archive for December, 2009
Poor Children Four Times More Likely to Get Antipsychotics
December 13th, 2009Via: New York Times: New federally financed drug research reveals a stark disparity: children covered by Medicaid are given powerful antipsychotic medicines at a rate four times higher than children whose parents have private insurance. And the Medicaid children are more likely to receive the drugs for less severe conditions than their middle-class counterparts, the […]
SEC Orders Miami to Turn Over Its Financial Books
December 13th, 2009Via: Miami Herald: The federal government has set its sights on Miami, launching an inquiry over a series of bond deals and money transfers this decade. In a sweeping investigation that could impact Miami’s public projects for years, the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission is probing the city’s major bond offerings between 2006 and 2009 […]
Does Anyone Know How to Express Linear Regression Channel Lines as a Strategy/Signal Component in EasyLanguage
December 13th, 2009I’ve been trying to convert code from a linear regression channel indicator into a strategy. I haven’t been able to figure out how to do it. In short, what I want to be able to do is buy when: Close is less than the lower channel line (I have no idea how to express this), […]
Nuclear-Powered Transponder for Cyborg Insect
December 12th, 2009Via: IEEE: This week at the International Electron Devices Meeting (IEDM), in Baltimore, Md., Cornell University engineers presented research that shows progress in powering cybernetic organisms with a radioactive fuel source. Electrical engineering associate professor Amit Lal and graduate student Steven Tin presented a prototype microelectromechanical systems (MEMS) transmitter—an RF-emitting device powered by a radioactive […]
Google Researching Quantum Computing Algorithms and Hardware
December 12th, 2009Via: Google Research Blog: Over the past three years a team at Google has studied how problems such as recognizing an object in an image or learning to make an optimal decision based on example data can be made amenable to solution by quantum algorithms. The algorithms we employ are the quantum adiabatic algorithms discovered […]
U.S. Will Settle Native American Suit for $3.4 Billion
December 11th, 2009Via: New York Times: The federal government announced on Tuesday that it intends to pay $3.4 billion to settle claims that it has mismanaged the revenue in American Indian trust funds, potentially ending one of the largest and most complicated class-action lawsuits ever brought against the United States. The tentative agreement, reached late Monday, would […]
Kucinich: The Truth About Afghanistan
December 11th, 2009Air France Jet Hits Trouble Near AF447 Crash Site
December 11th, 2009Via: CNN: French investigators said they are looking into problems encountered by an Air France jet last month in nearly the same spot over the Atlantic where another Air France jet mysteriously crashed in June. Air France flight 445 was flying from Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, to Paris, France, the night of Nov. 29 when […]
Australian Senator: Contingency Plan Needed for Possible “Economic Armageddon”
December 11th, 2009They’re talking about him like he’s some sort of conspiracy theorist blogger. *snort* Via: Brisbane Times: THE OPPOSITION finance spokesman, Barnaby Joyce, believes the United States government could default on its debt, triggering an ”economic Armageddon” which will make the recent global financial crisis pale into insignificance. Senator Joyce said yesterday he did not mean […]
UN Equipped Congolese Army That Carried Out Atrocities
December 11th, 2009Via: New York Times: United Nations peacekeeping officials were explicitly warned months ago by their legal advisers not to participate in combat operations with the Congolese Army if there were a risk that Congolese soldiers might abuse human rights, internal documents show. But the mission went forward — and the abuses took place as feared. […]
