Tuesday, 10 February 2009
http://www.guardian.co.uk/society/2009/feb/10/malnutrition-health-social-exclusion
Summary
Reports state that approximately 28% of UK citizens hospitalized are suffering from signs of malnutrition. That is over 3 milion people in Britain. Where obesity is a big, wellknown , problem in England, malnourishment is lesser known and does not have a lot of attention.
Said is that there should be more incentives for GP's and social workers to treat this disease at an earlier stage to make people avoid this dangerous weight loss. This is very important as 90% of the people with this illness live at home and should get familiarized with this topic. Mostly people who are socialy deprived and live in poor neighbourhoods are malnourished.
The report also says that hospitals should improve their weighing equipment, become more aware of this growing problem and should recieve the proper training for it. This illness should not be played down as it is very serious and not easy to cure.
Opinion
It seems clear that malnutrition is as important to treat as obesity, too bad that there has not been a lot of facts known about this. It is good that people are now finaly starting to take notice of a growing problem such as malnourishment. It is a tough problem to tackle as this starts in the "safety' of their own homes. The best thing to do is to provide as much information on how to prevent this disease, and how to deal with it when you do suffer from it, to everyone. Most importantly to people living in poor neighbourhoods. Maybe when confronted with this information people will recognize themselves and start taking better care of oneself. Last, I think it is always good to provide the right equipment in a hospital and have your employees have proper training concerning various smatters.
dinsdag 10 februari 2009
"After the snow, rain and thaws cause flooding"
Tuesday, 10 February 2009
flooding-1605490.html
Summary
The UK has been struck by several weather conditions. First there were snow downpours, followed by heavy rain showers and thaws which led to flooding. This caused a lot of chaos; streets had to be closed due to the floods, there were collisions, people had to be rescued from their car, Bristol International Airport shut down. The street leading to the aiport was also closed as a result of its icy state. Causing people severe delays or even cancellations. Today there is expected to be blizzard conditions.
Opinion
It is hard to give my opinion on this article as it is just a display of facts. Truth is that the weather conditions seem pretty horrible. Causing people to be unable to go about their normal life. Going to work, holiday, school is not really easy so I think people will be happy when the conditions stabelize and they can get back to their every day life.
vrijdag 30 januari 2009
"1 IN 40 CHANCE POUND IN YOUR POCKET IS FAKE "
Friday January 30th, 2009
http://www.express.co.uk/posts/view/82460/1-in-40-chance-pound-in-your-pocket-is-fake
Summary
It is shown that 1 in every 40 pounds is fake. Meaning there are 375million pounds of fakes going around in the United Kingdom. This number increased since 2002 when 1 in 50 pounds were counterfeit. This number has never been so high. Reason for this high number is that it is pretty easy for forgers to make a fake one pound coin as these coins are made from a single alloy of metal. It is much harder to copy a two pound coin; as they use a two-alloy design for it.
Experts say that a two-alloy design should be used for one pound coins aswel, this would make it harder and more expensive to counterfeit them.
Opinion
I think this advise should be seriously considered, as you want the counterfeiting to be put to an end. The UK loses a lot of money because of this and this will eventually lead to the people of England losing money. If there is a way to avoid this from getting out of hand, you should take it.
http://www.express.co.uk/posts/view/82460/1-in-40-chance-pound-in-your-pocket-is-fake
Summary
It is shown that 1 in every 40 pounds is fake. Meaning there are 375million pounds of fakes going around in the United Kingdom. This number increased since 2002 when 1 in 50 pounds were counterfeit. This number has never been so high. Reason for this high number is that it is pretty easy for forgers to make a fake one pound coin as these coins are made from a single alloy of metal. It is much harder to copy a two pound coin; as they use a two-alloy design for it.
Experts say that a two-alloy design should be used for one pound coins aswel, this would make it harder and more expensive to counterfeit them.
Opinion
I think this advise should be seriously considered, as you want the counterfeiting to be put to an end. The UK loses a lot of money because of this and this will eventually lead to the people of England losing money. If there is a way to avoid this from getting out of hand, you should take it.
"Father fatally stabbed while taking daughter to meet newborn brother"
Friday January 30th, 2009
http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/2009/jan/30/father-stab-bus-stop-london
Summary
A 26-year-old man waiting at a busstop with his daughter was stabbed to death yesterday evening. He was taking his three-year-old daughter to see her newborn brother at the hospital. After being in a conversation with two younger boys, an argument arose where they ended up stabbing this man. A 22-year-old man was arrested under suspicion of this horrible crime.
The victim was badly injured and taken to the hospital, he died an hour later. His wife had only given birth to their son that morning.
The neighbours were shocked by this crime happening so close to their homes without them being aware of anything.
Opinion
Everybody will agree with me on the fact that this is just plain horrible. A person is not even possible to start a conversation anymore. Even if the argument were nessecary, it is horrifying that someone would even consider stabbing another person and what's worse; there was a three-year-old girl present. I can not even find words for things like this. It makes the world a scary place to live in.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/2009/jan/30/father-stab-bus-stop-london
Summary
A 26-year-old man waiting at a busstop with his daughter was stabbed to death yesterday evening. He was taking his three-year-old daughter to see her newborn brother at the hospital. After being in a conversation with two younger boys, an argument arose where they ended up stabbing this man. A 22-year-old man was arrested under suspicion of this horrible crime.
The victim was badly injured and taken to the hospital, he died an hour later. His wife had only given birth to their son that morning.
The neighbours were shocked by this crime happening so close to their homes without them being aware of anything.
Opinion
Everybody will agree with me on the fact that this is just plain horrible. A person is not even possible to start a conversation anymore. Even if the argument were nessecary, it is horrifying that someone would even consider stabbing another person and what's worse; there was a three-year-old girl present. I can not even find words for things like this. It makes the world a scary place to live in.
donderdag 15 januari 2009
"Dyslexia doesn't exist, claims MP"
Thursday January 15th, 2009Summary
In this newspaper article is said that Graham Stricker, Labour MP for Manchester Blackley claims that there is no such thing as dyslexia. He says that it is just an excuse for bad teaching of writing and reading. He thinks that instead of focusing on this "fictional" disorder, teachers should be teaching children children to read and write using another method; the phonetic system.
Others respond disapointed to his outlets and say that instead of discussing whether dyslexia exists or not, it is a big problem in the UK as there is enough evidence to back that up. Said is that you can put your time to better use by thinking about a solution for dyslexia.
Opinion
Of course I do not agree with that silly Graham Stricker. He seems ignorant by saying something like that. It has been proven to be a problem, not only in the UK. As the people in the article said; stop waisting everybody's time by making these things up and start with handing solutions on how to solve this problem.
zondag 11 januari 2009
UK's first genetically-selected baby born
Friday, 9th of January, 2009
http://www.independent.co.uk/life-style/health-and-wellbeing/health-news/uks-first-geneticallyselected-baby-born-1243026.html
Summary
In the UK the first British geneticly selected breast cancer gene-free child was born.
A lot of relatives of the father were suffering from breast cancer and the parents wanted to prevent this from happening to their daughter. By implanting two breast cancer gene-free embryo's they could prevent giving birth to a girl who is a carrier of the BRCA 1 or 2 gene. With this gene their newborn would have a 50% to 85% chance of developing breast cancer.
This procedure is criticised because even with this gene there is no certainty that your daughter will develope breast cancer.
The precedure went fine and both mother and daughter are doing "very well".
Opinion
In my opinion embryo selection is a very hard topic. In this situation I can understand why parents would choose to do it. However I think embryo selection is getting out of hand as people are now finding out what kinds of "flaws" an unborn child will have. It could make people decide to break the pregancy off because of certain imperfections as for instance a cleft-lip. How far can you take this? I think it is insane for people to check everything as you should not want to create the perfect child.
http://www.independent.co.uk/life-style/health-and-wellbeing/health-news/uks-first-geneticallyselected-baby-born-1243026.html
Summary
In the UK the first British geneticly selected breast cancer gene-free child was born.
A lot of relatives of the father were suffering from breast cancer and the parents wanted to prevent this from happening to their daughter. By implanting two breast cancer gene-free embryo's they could prevent giving birth to a girl who is a carrier of the BRCA 1 or 2 gene. With this gene their newborn would have a 50% to 85% chance of developing breast cancer.
This procedure is criticised because even with this gene there is no certainty that your daughter will develope breast cancer.
The precedure went fine and both mother and daughter are doing "very well".
Opinion
In my opinion embryo selection is a very hard topic. In this situation I can understand why parents would choose to do it. However I think embryo selection is getting out of hand as people are now finding out what kinds of "flaws" an unborn child will have. It could make people decide to break the pregancy off because of certain imperfections as for instance a cleft-lip. How far can you take this? I think it is insane for people to check everything as you should not want to create the perfect child.
woensdag 7 januari 2009
'There's no God, so stop worrying'
Comedy writer Ariane Sherine and professor Richard Dawkins.'Morning Star', Tuesday 06 January, 2009
http://www.morningstaronline.co.uk/index.php/news/britain/there_s_no_god_so_stop_worrying
Summary
In this artickle is said that a large campaign has been launched by athiest organisations in England, Scotland and Wales. It all started out when comedy writer Arian Sherine made a suggestion to set up this campaign in which people can express their feelings on their belief. The belief being that there is no such thing as a God. In the past Sherine had objected to pro Christian campaigns and this was her answer to that. She initiated a fundraising to pay for much more advertisement on this subject.
There have been pro-religious campaigns forever, but this is the first "against" it.
People supporting this campaign feel that this is an opportunity to even the advertisement out on this subject.
The slogan for this campaign is: "There's probably no God. Now stop worrying and enjoy your life."
Opinion
I think that people who do not believe in God have the same right to express their feelings on this subject. When people started campaigning for Christianity it was, in my opinion, only a matter of time that others would want to show the other side to believing.
I think it is pretty funny that it is done in this manner, as the buses say; 'There's PROBABLY no God.' This states that they are not saying that there is no God, only that they do not believe in it.
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