The report found the average cyber scored 48.7 on the state’s 100-point performance scale. None reached 70, the score that Dumaresq has said shows a school is moving toward progress…
Despite Kane’s assertions, no child porn in emails
Some photos of children, under the message headline “men in training,” were emailed among the state employees, Kane’s agency spokeswoman Renee Martin said. But none of that material constitutes child pornography under Pennsylvania criminal law, Martin said…
Chief of Ferry Company in South Korea Given 10-Year Jail Sentence
NEW YORK TIMES: The head of the company whose ferry sank in April, killing more than 300 people in one of South Korea’s worst disasters in decades, was convicted on Thursday of accidental homicide and embezzlement and sentenced to 10 years in prison.
Fat places $2tn burden on world economy, says McKinsey report
FINANCIAL TIMES: Fat is becoming a weighty economic issue. Almost a third of the world’s population is over-weight or obese, levying an economic cost that rivals that of armed conflict or smoking, ac-cording to research by McKinsey consultants. The strain on healthcare budgets is set to mount because unless current trends are curbed, half the […]
Report blasts US banks’ physical commodities operations
FINANCIAL TIMES: Goldman Sachs, JPMorgan and Morgan Stanley exposed themselves to catastrophic financial risks, environmental disasters and potential market manipulation by investing in oil, metals and power plant businesses, according to a Senate report. The findings of the two-year probe by the Senate permanent subcommittee on investigations said the banks’ involvement in physical commodities put […]
Kathleen Kane to CNN: ‘Deplorable’ porn emails had kids, elderly women, sexual violence
“When I saw them they literally took my breath away,” Kane said. “And they are deplorable: hardcore, graphic, sometimes violent emails that had a string of videos and pictures depicting sometimes children, old women. Some of them involved violent sexual acts against women.”
USA TODAY makes colossal mistake in reporting arrests rates
The error was in stating “2012 ARREST RATE PER 1000 RESIDENTS”. If this were true, almost one in four or one in five would have been arrested over the course of the year.
Preposterous!
Racial gap in U.S. arrest rates: ‘Staggering disparity’
Those disparities are easier to measure than they are to explain. They could be a reflection of biased policing; they could just as easily be a byproduct of the vast economic and educational gaps that persist across much of the USA — factors closely tied to crime rates.
Comet landing: Organic molecules detected by Philae
BBC: Carbon-containing “organics” are the basis of life on Earth and may give clues to chemical ingredients delivered to our planet early in its history. The compounds were picked up by a German-built instrument designed to “sniff” the comet’s thin atmosphere. Other analyses suggest the comet’s surface is largely water-ice covered with a thin dust […]
Controversial Texas textbooks headed to classrooms
USA TODAY: Did Moses influence the Founding Fathers? Is all international terrorism linked to Islamist fundamentalists? Was slavery not a key contributor to the Civil War?
Street battles rage after Jerusalem attack
ALJAZEERA: Pitched street battles are being fought in Jerusalem in the aftermath of a deadly attack on a synagogue that killed five Israelis, with Palestinian youths facing off Israeli security forces across the tense city. In the East Jerusalem neighbourhood of Jabal al-Mukaber – the hometown of the two Palestinians who carried out the attack […]
Mrs. St. Petersburg, an ethnic surprise
One of the events most discussed on Russian Internet this month was the election of Mrs. St.Petersburg. What is especially interesting, two Mrs. St. Petersburg were elected this year: one was elected by the official jury and another – People’s choice Mrs. St Petersburg – by voting on Internet.
Keystone pipeline vote fails in US Senate
FINANCIAL TIMES: A cross-party push for the $7bn Keystone XL oil pipeline failed on Tuesday as lawmakers seeking to press President Barack Obama into approving it could not muster enough votes in the US Senate. The planned pipeline would carry oil from Canada to the US and has become a proxy for a bigger political […]
North Korea Acts to Stop U.N. Resolution on Rights
NEW YORK TIMES: Worried about a looming United Nations vote on human rights that could possibly lead to criminal charges — or at least acute humiliation — North Korea has countered in recent weeks with an unusually robust mix of diplomacy, denials and threats. Over the past four weeks, the North has released all three […]