Vet makes tiny wheelchair for disabled piglet

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DBmQNaThr0Y

A month-old piglet from Florida, born without the use of its back legs, is now sporting a custom-built wheelchair to get around.

Chris P. Bacon has become an internet sensation after vet took pity on the creature’s plight and built the contraption from a toy building kit.

Chris’s exploits on Youtube have logged more than 474000 views in two weeks.

I have been really impressed of this happened, because it isn’t really frequent that a piglet has borned without its back legs. Piglet’s family and caregivers might be like a toy for them and also they might love them because they are tacking car for it all the time.

On one hand, it has to be a nice animal and nice, but for the other hand, it has a large expenditure of money, especially to adapt the wheelchair every year, and their stay in house. 

Coca-Cola drinking 'linked to New Zealander's death'

Drinking large quantities of Coca-Cola was a “substantial factor” in the death of a 30 year-old woman in New Zeland, a coroner has said.

Natasha Harris, a mother of eight children and who died three years ago after a cardiac arrest, drank up to 10 liters of the fizzy drink each day (this is twice the recommended safe limit of caffeine and more than 11 times the recommended sugar intake). Her family said she had developed an addiction to Coca-Cola and her teeth had been removed because of decay.

Coroner David Crerar said her Coca-Cola consumption had given rise to cardiac arrhythmia, a condition when the heart beats too fast or too slow.

Mr Crerar said Coca-Cola could not be held responsible for the health of consumers who drank excessive quantities of its product. But he called on soft drinks companies to display clearer warnings on their beverages about the risks of too much sugar and caffeine.

In my opinion, I think this woman didn’t thought about her healthy or her way of being, because firstly he drank a lot of liters a day, and then if all of them were fizzy drink, she might be an extremely nervous person. Unfortunately, for those eight children, her mother had gone away, but they can change their lifestyle if they were following their mother’s way. They have learnt about this nasty experience.

I’m a person who loves Coca-Cola and I’m sure I will never be addicted to it like her, but is sure that it is attractive when you drink and you want more and more. I just hope that anyone won’t end like this, and I don’t think that Coca-Cola’s company have the fault of this happened. 

Coca-Cola addresses obesity in TV advert

Fizzy-drink giant Coca-Cola has launches an advert addressing obesity for the first time on television. The two-minute commercial highlights the firm’s record of making low-calorie drinks and reminds viewers all foods contain calories.

New York City is preparing to ban large sugary drinks in restaurants, cinemas and stadiums. Still, Coca-Cola has said the video wasn’t made in response to criticism of the soft drink industry, but is an effort to raise awareness.

The general manager of sparkling beverages for Coca-Cola North America, told: “There is an important conversation going on about obesity out there, and we want to be a part of the conversation”.

In the advert, a female narrator says Coca-Cola offers smaller portion sizes, is working to make better-tasting, low-calorie sweeteners and has voluntarily made lower-calorie drinks available at school. The video also adds: “All calories count, no matter where they come from. If you eat and drink more calories than you burn off, you’ll gain weight.”

I’m a person who can consider a bit addicted to Coca-Cola, because I love its smell, its tasting, and all of it, and I also was fascinated about its advertisements. However, I’m surprised with this news because I haven’t seen it, but I think it was a little bit strong about what it said, and also about saying: “all calories count, no matter where they come from”. All of us know that Coca-Cola wears calories but we don’t need that the same product repeats us that we are becoming more weight drinking its product.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-21020749

Donated genetic data privacy risk

Researchers have identified people in the US who anonymously donated their DNA for use in medical research, raising concerns about privacy.

There is a strong link in men between their surname and unique markings on the male, or Y, chromosome. These genetic markings are a useful tool when investigating a family tree as they are passed from father to son.

This project consists in 1000 genomes and it contains the entire genetic code of volunteers who donated their DNA anonymously.

One of the researchers said: “this is an important result that points out the potential for breaches of privacy in genomics studies, that more knowledge empowers participants to weight the risks and benefits and make more informed decision, and finally we also hope that this study will eventually result in better security algorithms, better policy guidelines, and better legislation”.

In an accompanying editorial Eric Green says there needs to be a balance between the rights to privacy of those taking part in research and the benefits to society to be gained from the sharing of biomedical research data.

In my opinion, I think it has been a great investigation because we would advance more in security algorithms, in legislation and also we would be more informed, but I’m also agree with Eric Green, because in many occasion the investigation might be grateful, but we mustn’t forget the privacy of the volunteers who made possible this research.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-21056647

New Year Propositions

My new propositions in this New Year are a lot, even more if I didn’t realize the propositions of the year before, so they are accumulating on my list. I’m not a person who does it every year, because I think it’s a waste of time. So I’m not going to do a list but I’m going to describe and tell you what I really want to.

Firstly, I want to continue like my 2012’s life, of course, because I don’t want to change every year, but I want to be better in any ways. For example, I usually study a lot but this year, even because I have selectivity and I have to end this type of my life, 2^nd Batxillerat, I want to be more organized and try to understand more what the teachers explain in the class. Obviously, I want to follow being a good girl, have a lot of friends and even meet a lot more, because I will enter to the university. I also want to start the career quite good and enter there happy, because I will be there more than three years, so I hope it will like me.

Certainly and apart of pretty things, I also want a big party on my 18’s birthday, another party at the end of this course and I also really want to have fun in 2013’s summer. I’m really anxious to end this course because I suffer about the pressure of the school and all in general, I just wish that I can be able to pass.

Apart from real wishes, I also want to be thinner, resist to nutella (but I know it will be impossible), do more exercise, be much browner in summer and enjoy my life every minute.

For ending this your-say, I just want to do all those propositions next to my friends and of course with my family, because they are the reason that I continue in this life.

People! Zara commits to go toxic-free

Greenpeace compaigners wanted to eliminate releases of hazardous chemicals from Inditex group's supply chain and clothes, in 2011. Now, Zara has committed to eliminate this chemical. Those are good news for the environment and it's also important for consumers to know who they can trust. 

In my opinion, I didn't realise that in clothes could be so many chemicals and even the worst ones. With this news I believe that Greenpeace compaigners have done a really good job and not only for the environment, that is important, but also a breakthrough for the publc information, and they're going to get rid of some of those chemicals group.

http://www.greenpeace.org/international/en/news/features/Zara-commits-to-go-toxic-free/

Internet empowers people to make a better world

Nowadays, technology has changed a lot and has improved in any ways like computers, mobiles, Tvs, etc. In my opinion Internet facilities my lifestyle in positive because if I don't know something or I want to chat with a friend, when I am lost, I can look for it on the Internet anywhere. 

Firstly, I agree that tecnhologies can advance everytime more and more for facility our living together, but not only to help us in any occasion, if not to empower us and also to enjoy with its games and amasing technologies.

Let me give you an exmaple: <when I was at home once, my computer didn't work properly, so I decided to go on hotmail on the "tablet". I also can mention that Internet is whatever, so you can find it in phones, computers, ipads... However, I entered in hotmail and I could correct my project there or even catch it there, if I might lose it. I also could play games to enjoy a quarter before I went to study the following exam I had>. 

That wasn't a quite good example to descrive it, but it's a reference to explican my point of view that Internet makes me a better world in those aspects.