Japan: 45 Percent of Children Near Stricken Plant Exposed to Radiation
Officials of the Japanese Nuclear Safety Commission say around 45 percent of children in the Fukushima region have experienced thyroid exposure to radiation following the nuclear reactor disaster at the Fukushima Daiichi facility. But officials said only trace amounts of radiation were detected. The survey was done in late March and does not reflect any exposure since then. Meanwhile, a new survey of soil at four locations in the city of Fukushima found that all four samples were contaminated with radioactive cesium at levels well above the legal limit. One sample was found to be 90 times the legal limit and higher than the limit for compulsory resettlement after the 1986 Chernobyl nuclear accident.
U.S. CEO Pay Increases By 23 Percent From 2009 to 2010
A new study of executive pay has found the median pay for CEOs at the 200 large U.S. companies last year averaged $10.8 million, an increase of 23 percent from 2009. While CEOs earned an average of $207,690 per week last year, the typical American worker took home $725 per week at the end of 2010, a slight increase from a year earlier. Viacom CEO Philippe Dauman was the highest paid CEO making $84.5 million last year. CBS Corporation CEO Leslie Moonves received a 32 percent pay raise, resulting in $57 million in earnings.
Burn CD, DVD Gnu/Linux using Silicon Empire
Silicon Empire is an application for GNU / Linux that lets you record and manage optical discs such as CD, DVD etc. It is written in Qt, a widely used multi-platform library for developing applications with graphical user interface as well as for developing non-GUI programs as tools for the command line and console server. Silicon Empire.