CE's: 14-17
CE 14: Face transplant patient uses new lips to smoke
"Doctors fear habit will interfere with healing, raise risk of tissue rejection"
Does everyone remember the french lady who got the first face transplant in the world? Well guess how she's doing now? SHE IS SMOKING.
Yes ladies and gentlemen, the women who was given another chance at life is taking full advantage of it by slowing poisoning herself with toxic fumes. =)
Last month, the woman suffered a tissue-rejection, and although now she is doing well, she has continued her habit of smoking. In addition to being bad for her general health, doctors are say that it is especially a problem for her because it impairs the circulation to the tissues and may lead to another tissue rejection.
The rest of the article talks about the topic of amputation in general and the concerns that came with it. But I found this information most important and interesting.
If you're interested in reading more and the moral dilemmas on this, here you go:
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/10912182/
CE 15: Apology over 'speeding' tractor
"Mr Crossman's 26mph tractor has never been to Wales A farmer from Wiltshire has received an apology after he was accused of doing 85mph on his tractor in south Wales. "
"He rang up to let the Mid and South Wales Safety Camera Partnership know his six-year-old John Deere 6910 tractor had never been over the Severn Bridge into Wales. 'The lady that I spoke to found it quite amusing and said they would investigate it. A couple of days later they phoned through and said they had misread the number plate.' "
Yes everyone, a speeding tractor. Steve Crossman was sent a ticket for his tractor that was allegedly doing 85mph in south Wales. Before even reading the remainder of this article, the first thing that crossed my mind was, "how on earh is a tractor supposed to do 85mph? It is made to work on a farm, not speed down the street in a drag race or something.
The reason that I even posted this current event is because of how they got the information on Mr. Crossman in the first place. The Mid and South Wales Safety Camera Partnership has cameras stations along the highway so that they can catch offenders on the roads.
I didn't know that they could even do that. Imagine if they had cameras on Route 1! The police would be up to their elbows in work.
Read the article here: http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/wales/south_west/4626952.stm
CE 16: Farmers lose fight to save cows
"Two farmers have lost their battle to save eight cows which tested positive for bovine TB from being slaughtered."
On November 1st, Margaret Booton and Samantha Qureshi had their cows tested, and the tests came back postive; the cows had bovine TB. The two refused to believe the information and give up their animals for slaughter. Instead, they claimed the that the tests were performed incorrectly and were therefore inaccurate.
But, "the council applied for the order with the backing of Defra after the positive tests at Lower Snead Farm in Pensax, Worcestershire. Mr Gillgan said the skin tests were up to 95% accurate and that wildlife and cattle in the area around Pensax had been very badly affected by the disease."
After being reassured that they had done everything in their power to save the animals and that they were in fact infected, the women agreed to give up the animals.
The animals will be taken away on Thursday, January 20th.
Read the article here:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/england/hereford/worcs/4628356.stm
CE 17: EU plans sea change for bathers
The EU aims to improve upon the water conditions significantly by the year 2015. They will be instating three new categories in which the cleanliness of the water will be judged, "excellent", "good" and "sufficient".
"Bathing water tests are based on the risk of someone who dips their head in the water getting an illness - an upset stomach, for example, or an ear infection."
"Under the current rules, that risk must not exceed 12 to 15%. The revised directive will reduce that to 8% for the "sufficient" category, about 5% for the "good" category and 3% for "excellent"."
"The new test will cut the number of contaminants measured from 19 to just two, e. coli and intestinal enterococci."
This is definitely a good step for the EU to be taking. Although one does start to think, if they believed that their judgement of water cleanliness needed to be reconsidered, why wasn't it thought about earlier? Doesn't Europe have a reputation for having dirty water?
Maybe that is why they are so darn smelly. Haha, just kidding.
Read the article here!
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/4620842.stm
"Doctors fear habit will interfere with healing, raise risk of tissue rejection"
Does everyone remember the french lady who got the first face transplant in the world? Well guess how she's doing now? SHE IS SMOKING.
Yes ladies and gentlemen, the women who was given another chance at life is taking full advantage of it by slowing poisoning herself with toxic fumes. =)
Last month, the woman suffered a tissue-rejection, and although now she is doing well, she has continued her habit of smoking. In addition to being bad for her general health, doctors are say that it is especially a problem for her because it impairs the circulation to the tissues and may lead to another tissue rejection.
The rest of the article talks about the topic of amputation in general and the concerns that came with it. But I found this information most important and interesting.
If you're interested in reading more and the moral dilemmas on this, here you go:
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/10912182/
CE 15: Apology over 'speeding' tractor
"Mr Crossman's 26mph tractor has never been to Wales A farmer from Wiltshire has received an apology after he was accused of doing 85mph on his tractor in south Wales. "
"He rang up to let the Mid and South Wales Safety Camera Partnership know his six-year-old John Deere 6910 tractor had never been over the Severn Bridge into Wales. 'The lady that I spoke to found it quite amusing and said they would investigate it. A couple of days later they phoned through and said they had misread the number plate.' "
Yes everyone, a speeding tractor. Steve Crossman was sent a ticket for his tractor that was allegedly doing 85mph in south Wales. Before even reading the remainder of this article, the first thing that crossed my mind was, "how on earh is a tractor supposed to do 85mph? It is made to work on a farm, not speed down the street in a drag race or something.
The reason that I even posted this current event is because of how they got the information on Mr. Crossman in the first place. The Mid and South Wales Safety Camera Partnership has cameras stations along the highway so that they can catch offenders on the roads.
I didn't know that they could even do that. Imagine if they had cameras on Route 1! The police would be up to their elbows in work.
Read the article here: http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/wales/south_west/4626952.stm
CE 16: Farmers lose fight to save cows
"Two farmers have lost their battle to save eight cows which tested positive for bovine TB from being slaughtered."
On November 1st, Margaret Booton and Samantha Qureshi had their cows tested, and the tests came back postive; the cows had bovine TB. The two refused to believe the information and give up their animals for slaughter. Instead, they claimed the that the tests were performed incorrectly and were therefore inaccurate.
But, "the council applied for the order with the backing of Defra after the positive tests at Lower Snead Farm in Pensax, Worcestershire. Mr Gillgan said the skin tests were up to 95% accurate and that wildlife and cattle in the area around Pensax had been very badly affected by the disease."
After being reassured that they had done everything in their power to save the animals and that they were in fact infected, the women agreed to give up the animals.
The animals will be taken away on Thursday, January 20th.
Read the article here:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/england/hereford/worcs/4628356.stm
CE 17: EU plans sea change for bathers
The EU aims to improve upon the water conditions significantly by the year 2015. They will be instating three new categories in which the cleanliness of the water will be judged, "excellent", "good" and "sufficient".
"Bathing water tests are based on the risk of someone who dips their head in the water getting an illness - an upset stomach, for example, or an ear infection."
"Under the current rules, that risk must not exceed 12 to 15%. The revised directive will reduce that to 8% for the "sufficient" category, about 5% for the "good" category and 3% for "excellent"."
"The new test will cut the number of contaminants measured from 19 to just two, e. coli and intestinal enterococci."
This is definitely a good step for the EU to be taking. Although one does start to think, if they believed that their judgement of water cleanliness needed to be reconsidered, why wasn't it thought about earlier? Doesn't Europe have a reputation for having dirty water?
Maybe that is why they are so darn smelly. Haha, just kidding.
Read the article here!
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/4620842.stm
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