Blog Entry #5

Blog Entry #3

Victim of McDonald's beating speaks out as fast-food giant goes into damage control

 

Daily Mail - Sunday 24 April
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1379691/Transgender-girl-beaten-seizure-McDonalds-attack-victim-hate-crime.html

Transgender woman of 22 was brutally attacked in her local McDonalds by two girls as she was leaving the ladies restrooms. One of the girls accused her for looking at her man and started the fight.  The really bad part was that no one at the scene came to her help when she was being attacked so brutally to the point of having a seizure. McDonald staff just stood by, watched it happen and even laughed about it. One of the McDonald employees filmed everything and put it on the internet. The victim hinted the attack might be racially motivated, because both of her attackers were black.


Comment:

I think it is awful that the staff did not help the girl. They did not even take the time to call the police at the moment it was happening. After all it will damage the image of McDonalds, because it has a family restaurant image. I think it is pretty sick of those people to just stand by and even have the nerves to film it and put it on the internet as entertainment. Even if it is a racially motivated act, the employees should have done something because they represent McDonalds and the attack was happening at their restaurant.




More:
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1380506/Teonna-Monae-Brown-18-charged-McDonalds-attack-transgendered-girl.html

Blog Entry #4

15 pupils under six attack teachers every day: Growing toll of disruptive primary children


Daily Mail - Monday 25 April
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1380221/Disruptive-primary-children-15-pupils-attack-teachers-day.html

Blog Entry #2

Libya strategy splits Britain and France

(World News)

The Guardian - Friday 15 April

http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2011/apr/15/libya-britain-france-un-resolution

Blog Entry #1

BritNed power cable boosts hopes for European supergrid
(Environment)

The Guardian - Monday 11 April
http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2011/apr/11/uk-netherlands-power-cable-britned/print

The BritNed powercable will be the first electricity link from the Isle of Graint in Kent to the Maasvlakte in the Netherlands. It stretches 260 km under the North-Sea and is made to share renewable energy. But this is just a part of the project supergrid, which is signed by 10 nations bordering the Nort Sea.The grid will transport wind energy from the Uk, solar power from Germany, and hydropower from Scandinavia to, eventually, all countries bordered to the North Sea in 25 years. It will take about 10-15 years before the supergrid is build, so it’s an investment to a new source of energy for the future.

Comment:

I did not hear about this project before so it made me curious to read this article. I find it a very refreshing idea to use a supergrid to share renewable energy to its full potential and using the North Sea as a power house seems a good plan. Still it seems pretty risky if there will go something wrong, because it won’t be easy to fix a problem with a cable that’s lying at the bottom of  the North Sea. And even though we have technologically developed a lot in the past years, we’ll just have to wait and see if it really works.