BP Plc last September tapped into a new oilfield called Tiber, estimated to hold at least 3 billion barrels of crude, or six months’ worth of U.S. consumption. Discovered through seismic imaging and data crunched on a supercomputer, the field is almost six miles (9.6 kilometers) beneath the Gulf of Mexico’s floor, in a spot […]
U.N. Responds to Allegations of Missing Afghan Aid
Yesterday, we published a story about a draft audit [1] showing that the U.N. was unable to account for tens of millions of dollars sent to the Afghan elections commission. The United Nations Development Program has submitted the following formal response: Your article fails to capture the scope and depth of the UN Development Programme’s […]
U.N. Can’t Account for Millions Sent to Afghan Election Board
Afghan employees from the Independent Election Commission load election materials into a truck to be sent to provinces on Oct. 22, 2009. Afghanistan’s presidential rivals are reigniting their campaigns for a second vote, but two previously unreleased audits produced by U.N. investigators raise questions about the integrity of the elections commission. (Shah Marai/AFP/Getty Images) […]
How Did Organ Trafficking Scheme Go Unnoticed?
by Emily Witt, ProPublica The arrest of Levy Izhak Rosenbaum, the Brooklyn resident charged last month with acting as a "matchmaker" for buyers and sellers of human organs, spotlights the issue of live donor organ trafficking in the United States. It also raises a question: How could Rosenbaum ply his trade for as long as a […]
Is Social Media Helping or Hurting California Politics?
The following is a three part series funded by Spot.Us, written by Jackson West with editorial support from SFAppeal.com. The content is Creative Commons, but all three parties must be given attribution. Social Media Meets Politics: Pols Chasing Publicity Find Web Waters Welcoming Twitter, Facebook, YouTube and other popular sites for publishing online have […]
Career Choices: CSQA versus CSQE
Difference between Certified Software Quality Analyst- CSQA and CSQE-Certified Software Quality Engineer I hope this will help Bangladeshi SQA Professionals, I already talked to QAI for opening a chapter like PMI Chapter in Bangladesh and will update you soon. Many companies are requiring certification for hiring or advancement. There have been over 30,000 IT […]