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Student-Loan Debt Tops $1 Trillion The amount Americans owe on student loans is far higher than earlier estimates and could lead some consumers to postpone buying homes, potentially slowing the housing recovery, U.S. officials said Wednesday. http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052702303812904577295930047604846.html?mod=googlenews_wsj Locator Chips Tracks Students In Brazil SAO PAULO (AP) — Grade-school students in a northeastern Brazilian city are using uniforms embedded with locator chips that help alert parents if they're cutting classes, the city's education secretary said Thursday…By 2013, all of the city's 43,000 public school students, aged 4 to 14, will be using the chip-embedded T-shirts, he added. Radio frequency chips in "intelligent uniforms" let a computer know when children enter school and it sends a text message to their cell phones. http://news.yahoo.com/locator-chips-keep-track-students-brazil-200836568.html Overwhelming Demand: Ruger Suspends All New Firearms Orders: “Incoming Order Rate Exceeds Our Capacity to Rapidly Fulfill These Orders” North America's energy sector has the potential to drive a "remarkable resurgence" that could see the Continent become the new Middle East in shaping the global supply of gas and oil, a new report has claimed. http://www.telegraph.co.uk/finance/newsbysector/energy/9161008/North-America-has-the-potential-to-be-energy-worlds-new-Middle-East-report-argues.html Number of schoolchildren classified as being autistic soars by 56% in five years http://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-2118804/Autism-Number-schoolchildren-classified-autistic-soars-56-years.html#ixzz1q36Wsjjh Energy secretary tells conference that growing pressure on water resources could worsen existing war and lead to new oneshttp://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2012/mar/22/water-wars-countries-davey-warns US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton warns of terror warning on water wars US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton has warned of the risk of terrorism, political instability and conflict over competition for scarce water supplies worldwide over the next few decades. As that title implies, it’s not just background sounds that could be used to determine what adverts you seen on your mobile phone. The patent also describes using ‘temperature, humidity, light and air composition’ to produced targeted adverts…For example, advertisements for air conditioners can be sent to users located at regions having temperatures above a first threshold, while advertisements for winter overcoats can be sent to users located at regions having temperatures below a second threshold.’ Google has come under fire recently with users becoming increasingly concerned about its attitude to privacy and perceived obsession with making money. http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-2118673/Google-patents-advertising-tailored-background-sounds-phone-calls.html#ixzz1q38T4Am0 UK Daily Mail | The technology raises the spectre of governments – or other organisations – being able to ‘find’ anyone instantly simply using a passport photo or a Facebook profile. The ‘trick’ is that the camera ‘processes’ faces as it records, so that all faces which pass in front of it are recorded and stored instantly. Faces are stored as a searchable ‘biometric’ record, storing the unique Six years ago we warned readers that Google was planning to use the ambient background noise of a person’s environment to spy on their activities in order to direct targeted advertising at them through technological devices. That has now come to fruition with the search engine giant filing a petition for “Advertising based on environmental conditions.” http://www.prisonplanet.com/obamas-imminent-threat-of-global-thermonuclear-war-with-lyndon-larouche.html Yes, Einstein said it too: there will be a (Nuclear) 3rd world war but the 4th (After EMP) will be fought with sticks and stones.http://quoteworld.org/quotes/9871 Herbert signs bill demanding feds relinquish lands in Utah Gov. Gary Herbert signed legislation Friday demanding that Congress turn over roughly 30 million acres of federal land within Utah’s borders — a move that proponents acknowledge could lead to a court battle…"It’s gotten [to be] more federal intrusion, more federal refusal to allow us to decide our own destiny," Hatch said. "We’re so completely overlorded with federal bureaucrats that we can’t do the things we know we ought to do." Hatch said there are vast oil, gas and oil shale resources that the federal government has refused to allow to be developed.(All is well when uncle sugar pays you off) http://www.sltrib.com/sltrib/politics/53781328-90/bill-control-federal-hatch.html.csp Salt Lake Tribune-- Internet competition forces changes, sales-tax issue imperils future of traditional retail…owns and operates City Creek Center that opened Thursday, spoke Friday in Salt Lake City during the International Council of Shopping Centers, Mountain States Idea Exchange. The global trade association of 50,000 members supports legislation before Congress that would permit states to require retailers to collect taxes from Internet sales…U.S. shopping centers, pointed to City Creek as an example. The 700,000-square-foot City Creek offers shoppers a variety of amenities, including retractable roofs, a 1,200-foot-long re-creation of the city’s historic creek, two 18-foot-waterfalls, three fountains, an outdoor fireplace, children’s play areas and free wireless Internet access. "City Creek keeps people entertained and connected, it gives them a sense of place," he said, adding that in a technology-driven world, "shopping centers can no longer rely on great brands to be competitive." But there is more to the City Creek story, he said. Taubman noted that his company began consulting nearly a decade ago with representatives of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, who were facing the issue of a downtown deteriorating just outside the faith’s world headquarters. "The church was facing a tough situation," he said. "Their intentions were to improve the downtown and stabilize and upgrade [properties] outside their front door. "the problem can be fixed only on the federal level." http://www.sltrib.com/sltrib/money/53773860-79/sales-creek-shopping-taubman.html.csp City Creek opening day sales more than double estimates for many And though stores won't release specific sales numbers, many said they were more than pleased with turnout for day one. http://www.ksl.com/index.php?nid=148&sid=19706714&title=city-creek-opening-day-sales-more-than-double-estimates-for-many Utah second in gun ownership in nation … "Not even close," said a skeptical Utah Department of Public Safety spokesman Dwayne Baird.Baird told KSL the numbers are skewed. "More than 70 percent of the people that get a background check in the state of Utah to carry a concealed weapon are people from out of state," Baird said…Troy Herzog, was also not surprised by the ranking. "It would seem to me that you would have a high percentage of the population," Herzog said. "I think it's our Second Amendment right. It's an important thing and I don't see any problem with that." http://www.ksl.com/index.php?nid=148&sid=19707575&title=utah-second-in-gun-ownership-in-nation DELTA — The National Park Service is awarding $714,314 to help in the construction of a museum and education center recognizing the detention of Japanese Americans during World War II. http://www.ksl.com/index.php?nid=148&sid=19689319&title=japanese-american-internment-camp-museum-receives-funding (World's poorest countries) Surgeon from Nepal brings new cataract surgery method to U.S. SNOWBIRD -- Though it may be counterintuitive, some of the top doctors in Utah have been learning surgical methods from a man who grew up in a tiny Himalayan village and still works in one of the world's poorest countries. Dr. Sanduk Ruit an ophthalmologist in Kathmandu, Nepal has personally restored the sight of at least 100,000 blind people due to cataracts. In poor countries like Nepal, more people are living longer, but as they age, a vast number of them develop cataracts and go blind…He does cataract surgery much faster, cheaper and almost as reliably as in high-tech countries. "We could do it about seven times quicker than what you do here and for about one 30th of the cost that you spend here," Ruit said. http://www.ksl.com/index.php?nid=148&sid=19706963&title=surgeon-from-nepal-brings-new-cataract-surgery-method-to-us |
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