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Topic1

Sleeping with your pet could be harmful

Cuddling with your pets in bed may be comforting, but a study shows it can be harmful to your health.
A study titled “Zoonoses in the Bedroom,” which will be published in the journal “Emerging Infectious Disease” next month, warns that pet owners risk catching diseases transmitted from domestic animals. Close contact such as kissing and getting licked by your pet may not be a good idea either, USA Today reported.
“The risk is rare, but when it occurs it can be very nasty, and especially in immuno-compromised people and the very young,” said Bruno Chomel, a professor at the University of California-Davis school of veterinary medicine, in the report.
“There are private places in the household, and pets should not go beyond next to the bed.” 

A study shows domestic pets can make their owners sick if they sleep in the same bed. (MCT)

Bruno Chomel and Ben Sun, chief veterinarian with the California Department of Public Health, conducted extensive research on risks of pathogens passed by animals on to humans.
Two experts listed some of the consequences from animal infection: a man caught meningitis after his dog licked his hip replacement wound; a 9-year-old boy got the bubonic plague in 1974 in New Mexico from his flea-infested cat; a newborn was sickened with meningitis as the pet cat stole the baby’s pacifier and played with it; a 44-year-old woman developed meningitis because she regularly kissed the dog’s face and fed it by transferring food mouth to mouth.
According to the report, more than 60 percent of American households have a pet, and the research shows that 14 percent to 62 percent of them let their dogs and cats sleep with them.
Fifty-three percent of dog owners considered their pet a member of the family, while 56 percent of them admitted they sleep with their dog next to them. About 25 percent of women sleep regularly with a pet, while just 16 percent of men do.
Larry Kornegay, president of the American Veterinary Medical Association, stressed that pet owners should use common sense to reduce risks such as washing hands after playing with pets and regular veterinary visits.
He also said the research is “pretty balanced and the cases of infection from animals are “uncommon if not rare.”
But he added: “The benefits of having a pet, whether or not you sleep with it, far outweigh the negatives, which are quite uncommon.”
Several medical studies show dogs and cats may lower blood pressure, reduce cholesterol levels and even decrease feelings of loneliness for their owners.

Q .0. do you like animal or plant?

    1. Have you ever raised a pet ? what kind of..?

    2. you want to raise a pet, but your family doesn't like(or opposite). what would you do?  

    3. What is the most bizarre pet that you've ever seen or heard?   

    4. why do you think people raise a pet ?

topic2

What Will Your Future Lifestyle Look Like?
Robots Will Play Major Roles in the Future

The future is just around the corner, and according to some people who make the future their business, it doesn't look drastically dissimilar from what you see around you now, but below the surface there will be differences.

Watch "World News" tonight to find out how your everyday items will evolve in the future.
"World News" in conjunction with Time Magazine spoke with some futurists ? people who specialize in forecasting future events, conditions or developments ? about what people's lives could be like in the not-too-distant future.
Your day will probably start the same way it does now, they say, and though the products will look pretty much the same, they will function very differently and much more effectively.
"We're not headed into a future that looks like the stage set from 'The Jetsons,' at least on the surface," technology forecaster Paul Saffo said. "But function will be dramatically different and much more capable."
Here is what some futurists say your lifestyle may look like in the future.

Your Home of the Future
One of the places in your home where you might feel like George Jetson is the bathroom.
It will have a toilet that can test urine for sugar levels, take your blood pressure and weigh you. All that information can then be uploaded to your doctor.
Even the bathroom staple of soap will get an upgrade, futurists say. It will have sunscreen in it, which will stick to your skin.
The Future of Food
The kitchen is often the center of a home and it has the most potential for futuristic changes. For example, a Web-enabled refrigerator will be able to talk to the manufacturer when a part wears out, so it can order a replacement without you ever knowing something was wrong.
Your fridge will also be able to tell you what's inside it, making creating a grocery list much easier. Think about all the energy you'll save not standing in front of an open refrigerator to determine what's inside.
Once you get the food you want from your high-tech fridge, your counter top will be able to suggest recipes based on what you put there. How is this possible?
Tiny, inexpensive computer chips call RFIDs, or radio frequency identification chips, will be attached to every product in your house. The refrigerator will read the chips, and will even be able to tell you when the milk has gone bad.
The counter will be able to make dinner suggestions. Your washing machine will know how to wash your favorite linen shirt. And you will be able to call your oven from your cell phone to tell it when to start cooking the pot roast.

And if you don't have the potatoes to go with the pot roast, when you stop at your local grocery store the new high-tech cart will use GPS to help you find the potatoes, and then the cart will read the RFID chip on the bag and automatically charge your credit card. No waiting in the checkout line.
"You are basically turning those inanimate objects in your home into smartifacts, intelligent artifacts with some rudimentary capability of accounting for themselves," Saffo said.

Future Traveling
After your grocery excursion, you'll want to pack up all your smart foods and head home or wherever you next stop is. But you won't be getting into the same kind of cars we drive today. You'll quite possibly be in a driverless, robotic car.
The idea may not be as far fetched as it sounds. Futurists say robots will be a large part of life. They have already infiltrated the toy store. Pleo, a toy dinosaur, has sensors that react to touch, light and sound, and actually purrs when scratched. Though a driverless car sounds like a crazy idea, it is built to be safer and more efficient than what is currently parked in the driveway.
Using GPS and lasers to detect everything from lane markers to stop signs to wayward soccer balls, the cars will have far better reaction time than humans. "I think robotic cars will be much more reliable. It will be able to deal with children running on the street and pedestrians," Stanford University computer science professor Sebastian Thrun said.
Besides driving, robots will also help take care of the most basic household chores, even when your children are slacking off.
"The next generation will have arms to be able to touch things and pick them up," Thrun said. "So you leave plates on the table and the next day they're in the dish washer."
Even with all of the changes coming in the future, the human condition won't change, though, according to futurists.
At day's end, you'll still share a drink with a friend and kiss your child goodnight, because no robot can do that.

Q.
 
1. What is the most thing you hope to develop or invent in the closed future ?

2. if human can change their body parts, how far would you change ?

3. what do you think the upopian or dystopian future world will look like ?

4. do you think the advanced technology'd make people happy ?

[Woddf]

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