http://www.guardian.co.uk/science/2009/jan/10/pgd-baby-debate-breast-cancer
Summary:
Yesterday was the birth of the first baby who was genetically screened so that she will be free of a breast cancer gene. It was the parent’s choice to screen the embryo, the reason for their baby’s screening was the family history. The embryo of the baby girl was screened to be ensure that it did not have the gene what could develop breast cancer in her adult life.
After the birth of this ‘designer-baby’ the question is raising about the ethics of this way of creating babies.. Some said during this debate that it opens the door for parents to create their child to their wishes.
Opinion:
I think screening embryos could be a positive development because they get to know whether they have a specific gene of a certain disease. With this information they could make the embryo free of that gene what will reduce the chance of getting the disease later in their life and I think that’s an ethic way of preventing diseases. But creating babies so that they satisfy to their parent’s wishes is ridiculous. A baby has to develop with the genes which they get from their parents and not the genes which are creating by doctors. I think that’s unethical.
zondag 11 januari 2009
zaterdag 10 januari 2009
Intern plan to ease graduate woes
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/education/7821629.stm
Summary:
This year 300,000 students will graduate, but most of them won’t be able to secure a job as a cause of the economic crisis and . University secretary John Denman came with the proposal to offer internships for the graduates and this will be for at least three months. During their internships they will improve participant’s skills, experiences and for some graduates it may be lead to full-time work. Secretary David Willets don’t think this proposal will secure a job for all graduates, so he came with the proposal for a train-to-gain program, this will help the graduates to get apprenticeships and worthwhile job opportunities.
Opinion:
I think the proposal to offer internships seems to be a good step in the right direction but it isn’t still able to insure graduates of a full-time job. The Government have to go on with finding a solution which can insure a full-time job for all graduates.
The 300,000 graduates will be fed up with this current situation, because they studied hard for years to graduate so that they would be sure they would get a (good) job and now that they have graduated they aren’t still secure to get a job.
Summary:
This year 300,000 students will graduate, but most of them won’t be able to secure a job as a cause of the economic crisis and . University secretary John Denman came with the proposal to offer internships for the graduates and this will be for at least three months. During their internships they will improve participant’s skills, experiences and for some graduates it may be lead to full-time work. Secretary David Willets don’t think this proposal will secure a job for all graduates, so he came with the proposal for a train-to-gain program, this will help the graduates to get apprenticeships and worthwhile job opportunities.
Opinion:
I think the proposal to offer internships seems to be a good step in the right direction but it isn’t still able to insure graduates of a full-time job. The Government have to go on with finding a solution which can insure a full-time job for all graduates.
The 300,000 graduates will be fed up with this current situation, because they studied hard for years to graduate so that they would be sure they would get a (good) job and now that they have graduated they aren’t still secure to get a job.
zondag 28 december 2008
Boos as singer opens Harrods sale
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/england/london/7801082.stm
Summary:
Anti-fur campaigners were protesting as singer Katherine Jenkins opened the Harrods winter sale. The protesters thought it was ridiculous that Katherine opened this sale because the singer always said she was against animal cruelty and the fur trade and Harrods is the major store in the UK who sells fur. The campaigners didn’t understand why ms Jenkins didn’t refuse Harrods’s request to open the sale while singer Leona Lewis did.
H Katherine Jenkins’s reaction to this protest was that she still doesn’t eat meat and won’t ever wear fur but that she accept people’s decisions to wear fur and that’s why she opened the winter sale at Harrods.
Opinion:
I wouldn’t make a big issue about this case but I can understand the reaction of the anti-fur campaigners. A person who always said that she is against animal cruelty and the fur trade has to remain by her standpoint. So I don’t think it’s logical that she opened the winter sale of a store who is well known of its fur while she is against fur. In her reaction she told the people that she accepts people’s decisions to wear fur and that’s why I don’t think she is really against it because otherwise she wouldn’t accept it. Maybe the campaigners feel a bit betrayed by Katherine after this happening.
Summary:
Anti-fur campaigners were protesting as singer Katherine Jenkins opened the Harrods winter sale. The protesters thought it was ridiculous that Katherine opened this sale because the singer always said she was against animal cruelty and the fur trade and Harrods is the major store in the UK who sells fur. The campaigners didn’t understand why ms Jenkins didn’t refuse Harrods’s request to open the sale while singer Leona Lewis did.
H Katherine Jenkins’s reaction to this protest was that she still doesn’t eat meat and won’t ever wear fur but that she accept people’s decisions to wear fur and that’s why she opened the winter sale at Harrods.
Opinion:
I wouldn’t make a big issue about this case but I can understand the reaction of the anti-fur campaigners. A person who always said that she is against animal cruelty and the fur trade has to remain by her standpoint. So I don’t think it’s logical that she opened the winter sale of a store who is well known of its fur while she is against fur. In her reaction she told the people that she accepts people’s decisions to wear fur and that’s why I don’t think she is really against it because otherwise she wouldn’t accept it. Maybe the campaigners feel a bit betrayed by Katherine after this happening.
City hit by ‘legal to pee’ prank
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/england/nottinghamshire/7798194.stm
Summary:
Pranksters in Nottingham have put up signs in Nottingham which said that it’s legal to urinate in certain public places. They look very real and official with a toilet on the sign and the logo of Nottingham City Counsel. Nottingham City Counsel is not that happy with the action of the pranksters because it’s still illegal to urinate in public. A spokesman said that people who prosecute this will make an offence. The Counsel of Nottingham is now taking away all signs and asked the residents to contact the city counsel when they spot new signs so that they can be removed.
Opinion:
I think the pranksters did a good job to make this issue public in Nottingham. Especially because they designed the signs in a professional way so that people took the signs serious. I don’t think it would be a bad idea to make certain public places where people have the opportunity to urinate or make some of those places legal in the weekend when a lot of people go out. At those moments people urinate the most so I think placing public urinate places only in the weekend could be a solution to prevent nuisance about this issue. I think when public places like that exist in the city people will use them instead of an arbitrary wall.
Summary:
Pranksters in Nottingham have put up signs in Nottingham which said that it’s legal to urinate in certain public places. They look very real and official with a toilet on the sign and the logo of Nottingham City Counsel. Nottingham City Counsel is not that happy with the action of the pranksters because it’s still illegal to urinate in public. A spokesman said that people who prosecute this will make an offence. The Counsel of Nottingham is now taking away all signs and asked the residents to contact the city counsel when they spot new signs so that they can be removed.
Opinion:
I think the pranksters did a good job to make this issue public in Nottingham. Especially because they designed the signs in a professional way so that people took the signs serious. I don’t think it would be a bad idea to make certain public places where people have the opportunity to urinate or make some of those places legal in the weekend when a lot of people go out. At those moments people urinate the most so I think placing public urinate places only in the weekend could be a solution to prevent nuisance about this issue. I think when public places like that exist in the city people will use them instead of an arbitrary wall.
dinsdag 9 december 2008
Upper crusties
Posh kids causing airport chaos
http://www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage/news/article2018479.ece
Summary:
At Stansted airport in Essex was a demonstration against climate change what caused 150 delayed or cancelled flights. This airport is Britain’s third busiest one. Armed police took five hours to recover the chaos at the airport and charged about 56 youth who were protesting. Protest group Plane Stupid wanted to make people aware of the pollution in the environment caused by airports. Four of the arrested protesters from the Plane Stupid are posh children, for instant a baronet’s granddaughter and a grandson of the late Labour peer Anthony Greenwood. The arrested youth will have to appear in court in December.
Opinion:
I think it’s a good thing that Protest groups like Plane Stupid exists. Like in this case a lot of other people do agree with this group’s statement without doing anything about it, so for those people it’s a benefit that this group object to climate change. But I think there are lots of other possibilities to make their statement clear to the whole country without blaming so many people like they did with protesting at the airport. It’s the same problem as in Thailand a few weeks ago, innocent people have to deal with the problems which protestor are provoking. In such cases I don’t think an airport is the right place to protest despite of the fact they reach at the same time a lot of attention by the media.
http://www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage/news/article2018479.ece
Summary:
At Stansted airport in Essex was a demonstration against climate change what caused 150 delayed or cancelled flights. This airport is Britain’s third busiest one. Armed police took five hours to recover the chaos at the airport and charged about 56 youth who were protesting. Protest group Plane Stupid wanted to make people aware of the pollution in the environment caused by airports. Four of the arrested protesters from the Plane Stupid are posh children, for instant a baronet’s granddaughter and a grandson of the late Labour peer Anthony Greenwood. The arrested youth will have to appear in court in December.
Opinion:
I think it’s a good thing that Protest groups like Plane Stupid exists. Like in this case a lot of other people do agree with this group’s statement without doing anything about it, so for those people it’s a benefit that this group object to climate change. But I think there are lots of other possibilities to make their statement clear to the whole country without blaming so many people like they did with protesting at the airport. It’s the same problem as in Thailand a few weeks ago, innocent people have to deal with the problems which protestor are provoking. In such cases I don’t think an airport is the right place to protest despite of the fact they reach at the same time a lot of attention by the media.
zaterdag 6 december 2008
Woman held as body of a child found
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/england/kent/7761924.stm
Summary:
A death boy with the age of 12 years is found in New Ash Green on Tuesday morning. At this moment isn’t further information about his death available, because the investigation isn’t yet finished. A woman who also was in the house, the connection with the boy is still unknown, has been arrested and has taken to the hospital for a treatment. A neighbour said about this youngster he was a nice polite boy and played often outside with his own. About the woman he said she has a detached behaviour. Officers are at the house to investigate the connection among the woman and the boy and the cause of the boy’s death.
Opinion:
This is about the fourth time in a short time a youngster is found death, abused or raped again and this time the boy is death. Further data about his death isn’t yet available, but it won’t surprise me if the woman has something to do with this case. I think this is again an awful situation and it seems to be a trend in England to abuse, murder or rape children, because almost every day a new case is in the news. I hope not all this attention to these cases will suggest the idea to people to do something worse with children.
Summary:
A death boy with the age of 12 years is found in New Ash Green on Tuesday morning. At this moment isn’t further information about his death available, because the investigation isn’t yet finished. A woman who also was in the house, the connection with the boy is still unknown, has been arrested and has taken to the hospital for a treatment. A neighbour said about this youngster he was a nice polite boy and played often outside with his own. About the woman he said she has a detached behaviour. Officers are at the house to investigate the connection among the woman and the boy and the cause of the boy’s death.
Opinion:
This is about the fourth time in a short time a youngster is found death, abused or raped again and this time the boy is death. Further data about his death isn’t yet available, but it won’t surprise me if the woman has something to do with this case. I think this is again an awful situation and it seems to be a trend in England to abuse, murder or rape children, because almost every day a new case is in the news. I hope not all this attention to these cases will suggest the idea to people to do something worse with children.
donderdag 27 november 2008
The Big Question: Should children be taught in single-sex classrooms?
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/education/education-news/the-big-question-should-children-be-taught-in-singlesex-classrooms-1035057.html
Summary:
Schools minister Sarah McCarthy-fry thinks children should be taught in single-sex classrooms. She believes that girls would learn better in single-sex classrooms, because then they won’t feel intimidated by boys en feel more relaxed, because they would be removed from social pressures. Besides girls opt less often for science, because this would feel as a boy’s subject. The results of research whether girls do better in single-sex classrooms has showed that they do. Although there’s a reverse, because all leading performances are selective single-sex schools than comprehensives. So this could be a reason why single-sex schools are doing better than comprehensives.
Opinion:
I think single-sex classrooms has its pros and cons. On the one hand I could imagine girls would feel more confident when the boys are removed, because they won’t feel the need to act cool while they aren’t and they don’t have to be scared anymore that boys will laugh at them when they give a wrong answer. For those reasons I could picture girls will do better at single-sex classrooms. On the other I think it could restrain the boys and girls to have a relationship with the opposite sex and besides it there isn’t yet a conclusive research which prove girls do better at single-sex classrooms.
Summary:
Schools minister Sarah McCarthy-fry thinks children should be taught in single-sex classrooms. She believes that girls would learn better in single-sex classrooms, because then they won’t feel intimidated by boys en feel more relaxed, because they would be removed from social pressures. Besides girls opt less often for science, because this would feel as a boy’s subject. The results of research whether girls do better in single-sex classrooms has showed that they do. Although there’s a reverse, because all leading performances are selective single-sex schools than comprehensives. So this could be a reason why single-sex schools are doing better than comprehensives.
Opinion:
I think single-sex classrooms has its pros and cons. On the one hand I could imagine girls would feel more confident when the boys are removed, because they won’t feel the need to act cool while they aren’t and they don’t have to be scared anymore that boys will laugh at them when they give a wrong answer. For those reasons I could picture girls will do better at single-sex classrooms. On the other I think it could restrain the boys and girls to have a relationship with the opposite sex and besides it there isn’t yet a conclusive research which prove girls do better at single-sex classrooms.
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