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Kenya’s new education

With some table computers profesor Peter Lalo Outa finds a new way to teach his class.

“with these tablets, our students really enjoy learning” says Outa, teacher at Amaf school.

Ilegal referendum sobre Malvinas

El canciller Hector Timerman, ubicado en Londres, declaró que el referendum dicatminado hacia las Malvinas “tiene el espíritu de una campaña publicitaria… no tiene efecto legal sobre la disputa de la soberanía de ese país”.

El 10 y 11 de marzo tendra lugar una encuesta en el territorio de Falklands (Malvinas) para saber si la población quiere ser argentina o seguir siendo británicos de ultramar.

Esta es la tercera vez que ambos paises tienen friccion por dicho archipielago, siendo 1883 cuando Argentina reclamó a Londres la soberanía del lugar. Luego en 1982 desató  una guerra saliendo victoriosos los británicos y ahora.

La ONU a instado a las dos naciona a sentarse a dialogar, Inglaterra se ha negado.

The number of student loans held by subprime borrowers is growing, and more of those loans are souring, the latest signs that a weak job market and rising debt loads are squeezing recent graduates.

In all, 33% of all subprime student loans in repayment were 90 days or more past due in March 2012, up from 24% in 2007, according to a Wednesday report by TransUnion LLC.

Meanwhile, the Chicago-based credit bureau found that 33% of the almost $900 billion in outstanding student loans was held by subprime, or the riskiest, borrowers as of March 2012, up from 31% in 2007.

“If you become subprime, it’s more likely that you will not pay your debt,” said TransUnion Vice President Ezra Becker, who oversaw the study.

Another study, released by Fitch Ratings, a unit of Fimalac and Hearst Corp., Wednesday, warned that the gap between college costs and what students can borrow under the federal student-loan program will continue to widen.

TransUnion performed its study at the request of credit unions, which make private student loans.

In the five years through last March, the portion of all student loans that were 90 days or more delinquent rose to 11.4% from 8.8%, while the average student- loan balance per borrower increased 30% to $23,829, TransUnion found.

For some borrowers, the burden is even greater. Kristin Jones, 24 years old, ran out of money to complete her education at Northeastern University in Boston and, with more than $60,000 in student-loan debt, is looking to finish her senior year at a cheaper school. Ms. Jones, who works for a company that manages corporate-benefits plans, said she fell behind on her student loans after she found she couldn’t afford to go back to Northeastern and her loan payments started kicking in.

“I’ll be pretty much trapped for life by these loans and the credit default,” said Ms. Jones, who is on a repayment plan but still owes Northeastern one semester’s tuition.

Missed student-loan payments are more likely to have a big impact on the scores of borrowers with short credit histories such as recent college graduates, TransUnion said.

Another study, released Tuesday by credit-score provider Fair Isaac Corp., found that roughly 26 million consumers had two or more open student loans on their credit report in October 2012, up from about 12 million in 2005. A majority of bank risk managers expect student-loan delinquencies to continue to rise, according to Fair Isaac.

Repaying debt has become more difficult in part because loan balances have grown and the interest rates on federal loans have increased as a result of a shift from variable-rate to fixed-rate loans. Most federal loans now carry interest rates of 6.8% or 7.9%, versus a rate of 2.875% on federal Stafford loans in May 2005, said Mark Kantrowitz, publisher of the financial-aid website FinAid.org.

Jennifer France became delinquent on her loan payments once, in 2009. Now, there is a good chance she will become delinquent again, she said. The 36-year-old public defender borrowed about $100,000 in federal loans and $30,000 in private loans to cover law school more than a decade ago. Her income recently went up, and her monthly payment on all loans jumped from around $500 to more than $800, which will be too much for her to keep up with.

Stafford loans, which account for more than three-fourths of federal student loans, are capped at a total of $57,500 for undergraduates. Ruben Medrano, a 52-year-old undergraduate studying business management at Texas A&M University-San Antonio, said taking out about $26,000 in federal student loans was much easier than taking out an auto loan or a mortgage. “The last vehicle we purchased, we spent four to five hours in the dealership,” Mr. Medrano said. “The student-loan process took me 30 to 45 minutes and I never had to leave my home.”

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En total son 14 los turistas agredidos en Acapulco

Tras la conferencia de prensa dada por el alcalde de Acapulco, Luis Walton Aburto, clarificó que seis de estos viajeros eran mujeres y que fueron cinco encapuchados quienes los hacecharon.

El hecho tuvo lugar en Playa Encantada, alrededor de las 2:00 horas del lunes, cuando los turistas regreseban a ocupar la casa que estaban rentando. Siendo casi hasta las seis de la mañana cuando pudieron pedir ayuda.

Los turistas eran una mexicana y el resto de nacionalidad esañola.

Murillo Karam descarta atentado

Tras ponerse de acuerdo Osorio Chong, Juaquin Coldwell y Emilio Lozoya, Murillo afirmo “fue una explosión, difusa, lenta, horizontal y perfectamente definida”.

El argumento esta fundamentado en que los cuerpos de las 37 victimas que dejo el incidente, no estaban demembrados como suelen quedar cuando se trata de un explosívo. Ni los vidrios del edificio se habían dañado.

También declaró investigar el origen del siniestro y dar con los responsables.

En las investigaciones preliminares participaron investigadores de la UNAM, IPN y la Oficina de Alcohol, Tabaco y Armas de Fuego de Estados Unidos (ATF).

Teleférico no es viable para la ciudad de Puebla: INAH

Moreno Valle tiene que cambiar de postura con este proyecto, ya que hay varios invesitgadores e historiadores que rechazan esta propuesta.

Una señal de esto son los daños que se han realizado en el primer cuadro de la ciudad;  siendo esto una violación a la ley federal sobre Monumentos y areas Arqueológicas.

Además de deshabilitar la capacidad del INAH para indicar a la ciudadania que cuiden el patrimonio de la ciudad.

Por el momento solo se han detenido los trabajos en el barrio del artista (6 ote. & 8 nte.)

Se para la producción de azúcar a falta de combustible.

Debido a conflictos internos con los cañeros, productores adjuntos a la Cofederación Nacional Campesina (CNC), el costal (50 kilos) de azucar se desplomó en su precio pasando de 600 a 300 pesos por unidad.

Esto a provocado que los cañeros se impongan, desde el inicio del bloqueo, para vender  los costales por arriba de los 400 pesos.

Debido a esto se encuentran a la espera para poder situar un precio más alto, de lo contrario sería una perdida para muchas familias de la región.

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‘Zombies are coming!’ U.S. homeland security department warns

Tongue firmly in cheek, the government urged citizens Thursday to prepare for a zombie apocalypse, part of a public health campaign to encourage better preparation for genuine disasters and emergencies. The theory: If you’re prepared for a zombie attack, the same preparations will help during a hurricane, pandemic, earthquake or terrorist attack.

Emergency planners were encouraged to use the threat of zombies — the flesh-hungry, walking dead — to encourage citizens to prepare for disasters. Organizers also noted the relative proximity to Halloween.

A few of the government’s suggestions tracked closely with some of the 33 rules for dealing with zombies popularized in the 2009 movie “Zombieland,” which included “always carry a change of underwear” and “when in doubt, know your way out.”

Lufthansa staff begin one-day nationwide strike

At midnight on Friday a spokesman for German airline Lufthansa confirmed that the one-day strike action had begun, adding that it would continue until midnight local time on Saturday.

The walkout is expected to cause chaos for travelers across Germany with 1,200 of 1,800 flights cancelled at airports in Frankfurt am Main, Munich, Düsseldorf, Berlin-Tegel, Hamburg and Stuttgart.

UFO has been negotiating for a pay increase for 13 months, following three years of stagnant wages. The trade union wants a five-percent increase backdated to January; Lufthansa has so far offered 3.5 percent.

In an interview with German broadcaster ZDF on Thursday, Lufthansa CEO Christoph Franz criticized the strike, describing it as “grossly disproportionate”. “We did not expect it to be on a scale like this,” he said.