Penguins starving due to climate change

      Falling populations of penguins in the West Antarctic Peninsula are being driven by a reduction of their main food source, Antarctic krill, according to a new study. The chinstrap penguin, as shown in this picture are the most vulnerable to the warming climate. Over the time of the global weather increase, they noted that populations of penguin species declined by more than 50 per cent, with fewer juveniles surviving and returning to breed. The penguins are starving and declining in population because of their main food source. They struggle to get food because the polar ice caps have melted and the Antarctic krill migrated north. Also scientists have noticed that due to the melting of the ice more species have struggled to find different food due to their habitat being ruined, therefore there is a lot more competition and a lot of the animals in the Arctic can soon be affected.

My Opinion:

I believe that these issues in the Arctic are quite tragic and due to the fact that the Arctic is just struggling through this now, I can't even imagine what this can lead to in our population once the temperatures still increase. As far as the penguins I feel sorry for them because they are unable to survive and tend to be quite gentile creatures therefore they will get dominated by their competition. The horrible part is that their is really nothing we can do as far as the climate, but I feel as if we should migrate some penguins to zoos due to the fact that they will not starve and they will live a better life. Overall this is truly a horrible issue.

Thought-controlled prosthetic arm vies for prize

A prosthetic arm controlled by its user's thoughts, invented by two Toronto students, is competing for funding to take it to market.
The Artificial Muscle-Operated (AMO) Arm created by Ryerson University biomedical engineering students Michal Prywata and Thiago Caires has a headset that picks up electrical signals from the brain. "When you think about a certain movement, the arm moves accordingly," Prywata told CBC's As it Happens Monday.
The arm can raise and lower at the shoulder and the elbow, rotate its wrist and close its fingers to grasp objects. It is manoeuvred with pneumatic pumps and valves and powered by a small, refillable canister of compressed air in the user's pocket. Tests show that it takes 10 or 15 minutes to learn to move the arm up and down and close the hand, Prywata said. However, the device has not yet been tested by any amputees.
They hope to sell it for around $20,000. They say other prosthetic arms capable of complex movements often sell for more than $80,000.  Prywata said he and Caires envisioned something that didn't require surgery — a limb that would be as easy to purchase as a cellphone. "You lost your arm, you go online, you buy a prosthetic, it comes to your house in a box, you open up the box, you attach it, and you start training."

My Opinion :

First and foremost, this is a wonderful invention! This arm is truly amazing especially how it reacts on what you are thinking. I find it great that they are selling for a considerably lower price the the 80 000 dollar arm, which they are selling theirs at 20 000 dollars. One of the great features, is that is attachable and there is absolutely no surgery which is very important. The only downside is that it has not been tested on a prosthetic, so hopefully once it is, everything will go great and they will get this new invention on the market! Overall this is a wonderful idea, and I hope the very best.

Why not a metered Internet?

More than half of Canadians were surveyed last summer on their thoughts of Internet plans being unlimited – a veritable buffet of bandwidth, with all the high-definition video streaming and file-transferring they could consume.They were completely wrong. More than 90 per cent of the country’s plans are finite, with set limits and stinging charges for going over. The vast majority of people in that poll by Solutions Research Group had never even heard of the concept of paying for Internet based on how much they used. Many Internet providers in the world charge monthly fee's including a certain limit of material downloaded each month, and if that limit is exceeded there shall be an extra charge. The average amount of data downloaded per Canadian each month is approximately 15.4 gigabytes, which is equal to about 10 full films. This has slowly become a concern for many Canadians, also it allows the Internet Providers to take advantage of this opportunity by charging Internet users by the amount of information downloaded/used per month. Thus eliminating monthly rates and creating rates per Internet usage. This could cause many problems.

My Opinion

Personally, I feel as if the Internet is taking advantage of their consumers, there is no need for Internet providers to charge additional fees exceeding monthly fees and having rates per usage. Also i feel as if they are being very secretive because 90% of the customers had no clue about additional fees per exceeding usage. This can cause many terrible things in the world if Internet providers were to start charging rates per usage and personally I would be extremely frustrated if I was a consumer in that situation. Also this opens the market for a new Internet provider to not charge fee's per usage which will make the consumers happy. Overall I feel that the Internet should be sustained at a monthly fee and if they change this many customers throughout the world will probably switch providers.

Last 'Net provider in Egypt goes dark

   The last Internet provider of Egypt known as, the Noor Group, has shut down. The Noor Group was the only Internet service that remained online even after Egypt's 4 main Internet providers shut down which were : Link Egypt, Vodafone/Raya, Telecom Egypt, Etisalat Misr. These Internet providers were becoming flooding due to the "web traffic" in Egpyt due to the over 1,000,000 people in the streets, texting and twittering about this event. Over 1,000,000 people were protesting their government. At about 11:00 p.m Egypt time all Internet services were unreachable. Finally on Saturday Cell Phone service was restored but has been having some trouble due to the high traffic in texting and phone calling.These network providers had to be shut down due to the possible chance of corruption.

My Opinion

      Personally, I believe that this symbolizes the tragedies occurring in Egypt, this truly reveals how serious this event has become and is. During this difficult time, the Egyptians are forced to not rely on the Internet in this terrible time, which also minimizes the popularity of this event. Personally, this would be very hard to be limited to no Internet access in such a tough time, and this event would cause the Egyptians to be more frustrated, thus creating more protesters.

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