reading journal week7 Donor families lose their say

 Many people are waiting for their donor, who can give their organ to them. It is difficult to find one. It is difficult because some donor families refuse to give their dead family member’s organ.

 NSW having the lowest transplant rate in the country, 12.4 donors per million compared to the national average of 13.8 per million, to being a leader in organ donation becoming the first state to change the consent laws. While NSW has the highest rate of people wanting to be a donor, family refusal rates are more than 45 percent.

The government is taking public submissions until January 31 next year before it sets about reforming the donor system. Many people who want to be donor was overruled by their family after they died, so we need to look at a system where a donor has the final say.

overrule
part of speech: verb
definition: to change a decision or reject an idea from a position of greater power
sentence: my opinion was overruled by my father.

reading journal week7 Facebook

 How many of you have Facebook account? I do have one. Facebook is now the world’s largest network, with 800 million users worldwide as of September 2011.

 They had an interesting research about Facebook users. The researchers used a set of algorithms developed at the University of Milan to calculate the average distance between any two people by computing a vast number of sample paths among Facebook users. They found that number of links from one arbitrarily selected person to another was 4.74.

 It is no surprise that Facebook has become one of the titans of the Internet, challenging even Google with its vision of a Web tied together by personal relationships and recommendations, rather than by search algorithms. In a major expansion, Facebook has spread itself across other Web sites by offering members the chance to “Like’' something, share it with their network, without leaving the Web page they are on.

Arbitrary

 Adj mot seeming to be based on a reason, system or plan and sometimes seeming unfair.

 The choice of players for the team seemed arbitrary.

reading journal week6 $9.1 million for UNICEF

Australian Minister for Foreign Affairs announced that the Australian Government’s contribution will help give some five million children better access to education and health care through the UNICEF Children and AIDS Regional Initiative. The initiative will directly support the Unite for Children, Unit against Aids global campaign, let by UNICEF and UNAIDS.

 Fund will be used to help families and communities support and care for children affected by AIDS and boost their access to education and health care. Funds will also be used to support legal and policy reform to protect vulnerable children.

 According to the latest UNAIDS/UNICAF estimates, 15.2million children under the age of 18 have lost one or both parents to AIDS worldwide, with 12 million in sub-Saharan Africa alone.

 Protecting and supporting orphans and children affected by HIV/AIDS is one of the main goal of Unite for Children, Unite against AIDS.

contribution
 noun a sum of money that is givin to a person or an organization in order to help pay for sth.
 Making a contribution to charity