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“Now technology is of course changing how Americans read and in many ways it is opening up exciting new avenues for learning,” Clinton said. “We don’t have enough research, but I think what we are learning is that the earliest years before a child is 2, televisions, iPads and screens are no substitute for actual parent-child interactions like talking, reading and singing.”
via Hillary Clinton says no iPad time for babies | UTSanDiego.com.
“You have the right to remain silent.”
“Any devotee of TV crime dramas or police procedural shows hears the phrase regularly. But new court decisions in recent years have chipped away at that principle.
Take the case of California resident Richard Tom. In 2007, he broadsided a car, injuring a girl and killing her sister. At the accident scene, he asked to go home but was told no. He wasn’t handcuffed, but police held him in the back of a police car. At no point did he ask the police about the victims.”
via ‘You Have The Right To Remain Silent.’ Or Do You? : NPR.
“Creepshots, one of the Internet’s many bizarre sexual scourges, are “repellent and disturbing,” a D.C. judge ruled Thursday — but they are not technically illegal.
In case you aren’t familiar with the term (and you might not want to be, FYI), creepshots are essentially just what they sound like: sneaky, surreptitious photos of a person’s, usually a woman’s, private areas, taken without her consent — and often, without her knowledge that the parts in question are even visible. They’re widely considered a genre of so-called “nonconsensual porn” — explicit images or videos traded without permission from the people they depict.”
via Even at a national memorial, no one is safe from ‘creepshots’ – The Washington Post.
“Seniors in almost every state in the country don’t have enough income to get by comfortably.
Households ages 65 and older in the U.S. are living on an average of only $37,847 a year. That’s around 60% of the annual earnings of today’s 45- to 64-year olds and falls well short of the 70% in pre-retirement income that’s typically recommended for retirees, according to an Interest.com analysis of 2013 Census Bureau data.
“It’s clear that, nearly everywhere in the country, older Americans still don’t have the kind of money coming in they need for a secure and comfortable retirement,” said Mike Sante, managing editor of Interest.com.”
via Seniors in 49 states are struggling to afford retirement – Oct. 9, 2014.
“A former staff member for congressional candidate Carl DeMaio has released results of a polygraph test that he says support his claims that DeMaio sexually harassed him.
Todd Bosnich says he was subjected to unwelcome touching and repeated sexual harassment while working on the congressional campaign for the former San Diego city councilman and 2012 mayoral candidate.”
via Carl DeMaio Accused of Lewd Acts by Ex-Staffer | NBC 7 San Diego.
“Thousands of federal and state government workers reporting for duty in San Diego are making more than they did during the Great Recession.
Most local government workers can’t say the same, especially when you factor in a rising cost of living.
The average wage for San Diego County and the patchwork of local municipalities and agencies in the county makes about 3 percent less per week than she did in early 2009 when you include inflation.”
via Local Government Salaries Are Ticking Up — Slowly | Voice of San Diego.
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