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Environment, International, Politics	 March 5, 2014
Australian Prime Minister Pledges Moratorium On New National Parks, Expanded Logging, And A Crusade Against "The Green Ideology"
We recently discussed the disturbing allegations directed against an Australian MP who dumped pollutants into the Great Barrier Reef with impunity. The case raised questions over how powerful mining interests are overwhelming environmental concerns, even in the iconic Great Barrier Reef. Now, Prime Minister Tony Abbott has shocked many around the world with a speech to the lumber industry that not only promises to stop the establishment of any new national parks but commits his government to advancing the interests of the industry.
Calling the lumber companies and their workers "the ultimate conservationists," Abbott pledged a moratorium on more national parks and would not allow "further lockouts of our forests." One specific gift will be the delisting from a world heritage of 74,000 hectares of forest in Tasmania (left). Mr Abbott declared the area too degraded to be included and thus promises to degrade it more. To make sure that such areas are put to the saw and axe, Abbott announced the creation of a new Forestry Advisory Council to support the industry. It will be co-headed by Rob de Fegely, president of the Institute of Foresters Australia.
Abbott also denounced "the Green ideology, which has done so much damage to our country over the last couple of decades." He heralded a new coalition to fight environmentalists and noted that "I'm pleased to see that there are some sensible Labor Party people who don't buy it either." He explained that God wanted us to exploit these resources and not just leave them in their untouched natural condition:
"Man and the environment are meant for each other. The last thing we do – the last thing we should want – if we want to genuinely improve our environment is to want to ban men and women from enjoying it, is to ban men and women from making the most of it and that's what you do. You intelligently make the most of the good things that God has given us."
It appears that nothing pleases God more than a logging road and a clear cut mountaintop. Of course, not cutting down a forest hardly means that you are not "enjoying it." Indeed, millions come to Australia to hike and see such areas (as opposed to that wonderful trip down logging road to thrill in the vision of human industry). What is interesting is that Abbott and this Labor supporters formed a government with the support of one Green MP and three independent MPs in winning the 2013 election. That Green MP must feel a tad foolish at this point.
With that Abbott announced that his government was now a "friendly country" for the lumber industry. At a time when the world is moving toward greater protections of pristine areas, Abbott has placed Australia on the opposing course of development. The loss of Australia in the global efforts of conservation and protection is significant since countries like China continue to encourage Third World nations to open up their own resources and areas for short-term benefits. We recently saw similar moves in Canada in the lifting of protections from the Yukon territory. With the demonization of the "Green ideology," these Western leaders could accelerate the damage to their own country and will likely accelerate the losses in poorer nations looking for the infusion of money from countries like China as was the case recently in Ecuador.
Source: SMH
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18 thoughts on "Australian Prime Minister Pledges Moratorium On New National Parks, Expanded Logging, And A Crusade Against "The Green Ideology""
Actually Abbott was born in the UK and came to Australia as a child. Nevertheless, stupid is what stupid does. As noted above, he is a right wing reactionary who imports many of his ideas and strategies from the republican party. The only policies he has are to undo everything the previous Labor government introduced including a tax on CO2, a tax on super profits for the mining industry, wind back funding to improve equality of education etc. We are going through a bit of a dark age here since his government was elected in September 2013. Rupert Murdoch's screaming media also plays a key role in supporting him with News Corp owning 70% of the print media – think Fox News but in print.
PaulRevereWear says:
This PM probably is the offspring of convicts who were sent to Aussieland.
Els DL says:
We might as well live it up from now on, no? We're just another step to destroying Earth and all that live on it. You know, truth is, we're all guilty and we're all in this together. But, on the bright side: our grandchildren and great grandchildren will most likely learn what a tree looks like in their biology class as the teacher will project a photo of one onto the board. As they walk outside to go home, they'll just strap on their Oxygen tanks their parents were able to buy from them from one or other mega corporation selling it to the highest bidders. I am in California here and there is a serious drought as some of you may know. I've been putting buckets into my tub to catch the first cold water which comes out of the faucet before it turns warm for my twice-a-week shower (I learned to do the bird-bath thing and have never been accused of smelling badly). I then haul the bucket down the stairs to water my plants. What the heck am I breaking my back over if the most powerful people on the face of planet Earth are now brazen enough to tell us that we ought to use the resources like God told us to. That's it, I need a stiff drink.
RTC says:
Thanks for the lead, Carlyle
Carlyle Moulton says:
RTC.
Sometimes new governments do not win elections so much as old governments lose them. The only way tony Abbott could ever have become prime was when such a situation came about in the 2013 Australian Federal election. Tony Abbot happened to be leader of the Federal Liberal Party at the time that the Labour Party lost the election. Despite his obvious detachment from reality Abbott was the only Federal liberal memberwho had sufficient support to replace John Howard(the man of steel) when the the LNP lost the 2007 Election.
Tony Abbott is a culture warrior in the true Republican mold. He is against some things like conservation because of his hostility to the kind of dirty stinking hippies that support them, if the dirty hippies are for something like for example fighting global warming then all decent culture warriors must oppose it even if rational considerations tend to support the dirty hippies.
We are now at the dawn of the second age of the airship and this promises better coexistense betweeen forestry and forest conservation.
Currently forestry means clear cutting, because the only economic means of getting to a tree in the middle of the forest is to chop down and remove all trees between it and the road.However prototype airships are already flying with cargo capacities of 30 tonnes and on he drawing boards are those of 120 tonnes cargo capacity. This will make logging roads and clear felling unnecessary.
Instead an airship hovers over target tree, lets down a team of men with chainsaws and a grapple that they fasten to the tree near the top. Men then chainsaw through the base of the tree then are hoisted up beside the tree and use long poles to guide the tree out of the forest and prevent it becoming entangled with adjacent trees. Airship delivers tree to road or rail transfer point, then rinse and repeat.
BTW: There's a legal challenge being mounted against the Canadian govt effort to exploit the Peel watershed.
http://www.whitehorsestar.com/archive/story/first-nation-chiefs-berger-address-press-conference/
isaac mentioned the XL pipeline. Barbara Boxer invited a Canadian physician to testify about increased cancer rates in the areas around the tar sands and the lies being told by the Canadian govt.
http://ens-newswire.com/2014/02/27/alberta-md-canada-lying-about-tar-sands-health-impacts/
Who is this guy Abbott and where did he come from? I'm sure he's some kind of neocon but who's in his pocket. And how was he able to convince a nation to support him?
As an Australian may I say how proud I am that my country has produced such a world class political loon as Tony Abbott.
740EastBroadway, Long Beach.... says:
In that case, let's just have throw a Nuclear war…. why delay the inevitable destruction of the Planet any longer? Wipe the 'slime' that is humanity from the face of Earth… the planet will recover very well without us…… in a few million years……….
doglover says:
Is this the voice of campaign contributions or do politicians really believe that the world is better off if it is destroyed?
annono says:
Makes sense – Australia is part of the Trans Pacific "Partnership" which puts corporate interests above common sense – the fast track to slavery for the working class of all countries involved,
nick spinelli says:
It's a nation of convicts, what could we expect.
Anonymously Yours says:
Money…. That's what you mean to me…Mr. Tree…..
Dredd says:
An infantile mind heads up infantile behavior, as does an infantile government.
Not many governments these days daze are environmentally mature.
Survival of civilization is a result of mature policies which are incomprehensible to infantile officials at this time.
It is not clear when they will become mature, but it is fairly clear when civilization will subside.
"One would say that [man] is destined to exterminate himself after having rendered the globe uninhabitable." – Lamarck
"The end of the human race will be that it will eventually die of civilization." – Ralph Waldo Emerson
"Men have brought their powers of subduing the forces of nature to such a pitch that by using them they could now very easily exterminate one another to the last man. They know this –hence arises a great part of their current unrest, their dejection, their mood of apprehension." – Sigmund Freud
"Insanity in individuals is something rare – but in groups, parties, nations and epochs, it is the rule." – Friedrich Nietzsche
issac says:
One extreme typically causes another. The protection of the environment is obviously the most important issue. However, the environment, regarding trees, can be farmed successfully without clear cutting the remaining old growth forests. However, nature's way is to allow these forests to burn from time to time. This releases seeds for nature's reforestation process to work. So, in some cases maintaining old growth forests is not a good idea.
In BC, where I grew up, the practice of clear cutting old growth forests, which is immediate and produces the most valuable timber, is always at odds with the environmentalists. What is interesting, if you drive through the country, is noticing huge tree farms or areas that were clear cut and replanted, (I planted trees in the late 60's), Signs point out that these forests will be harvested in 2025, 2034, 2040, etc. The practice of replanting or farming Douglas Fir trees takes a while to kick in, given the thirty to forty years needed.
Wise use of our natural resources is possible. However, one extreme such as no forestry whatsoever typically brings about idiots like the present Prime Minister of Australia who gives the green light to that industry. A more effective way to do this is with an environmental trust, protected by the courts/law that would not be subject to the political whims of whoever is in power. This would take into consideration the waterways and animal habitat.
For instance, not clear cutting down to the streams but leaving a protective stand of trees to intercept runoff, not clear cutting the tops of hills but allowing the forest to keep the sides which would be cut from eroding. Unfortunately when industry gets its way, large areas are clear cut and the logs sold and shipped intact by barge to the highest bidder, destroying the environment and taking away jobs in sawmills.
The absolute position of the PM of Australia reminds one of the likes of Ronald Reagan, "If you've seen one Red Wood you've seen em all."
Jamie Dimon - bankster says:
Germany is voting on whether to bulldoze 3 towns for new coal mining. http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/energy/2014/02/140211-germany-plans-to-raze-towns-for-brown-coal/
China ignores the environment; India the same. US talks a big environmental game but then goes on a fracking rampage that releases huge amounts of methane to the air and contaminates groundwater. Keystone is just a formality that will be approved. Obama will wait until after the mid terms to approve it, so Dems can tout their environmental concerns.
Governments worldwide are damaging the environment. The only differences are their appeasement policies to silence the environmental crowd. Similar to Obama pushing better gas mileage for trucks while encouraging unlimited fracking. And most people would rather pollute the air and unseen waterways than pay an extra dime a gallon in gas.
Abbott at least tells the truth about how he plans to decimate the environment. It will be easier to counter Abbott's actions, since at least you now where he is coming from.
traveling limey says:
We need a balance of course. I'm getting to feel that the Australian government is as messed up as ours. I wonder if they also have a Patriot Act and a National Defence Authorization Act? It goes without saying they have a messed up lobbying system like ours.
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In the wake of a tumultuous election, some are looking to change the minds of Electoral College voters – who don't make their official votes until December 19th – in order to make Hillary Clinton the next president of the United States. Twitter and Facebook have been key in driving this movement, and media outlets have fanned the flames of this story upon seeing the social media firestorm – even when a Clinton electoral win is highly unlikely.
Once it was clear that Donald Trump obtained more than 270 electoral votes on Election Night, Clinton supporters flooded the internet and created multiple petitions, requesting electors do what was necessary to make Hillary Clinton president.
A petition created on MoveOn to abolish the electoral college currently has 562,000 signature, only around 10,000 short of its goal.
The Daily Kos, a liberal blog, then promoted an agreement between the states in which all state electors would award their Electoral votes to the winner of the popular vote. This method avoids making any changes to the constitution but effectively works within the existing constraints.
A final petition to elect Hillary Clinton was created on December 16th by Daniel Brezenoff, of swing state North Carolina, on Change.org. When asked why he created it, he said that if anytime was ripe for a "hail mary" to work, it was now.
The petition currently has upwards of 4 million signatures and received thousands of shares on both Facebook and Twitter. Change.org integrates the share feature onto its webpage so people are more inclined to take the next step. Social media posts sharing the petition are often accompanied with a comment on how the Electoral College was meant to provide the unheard with a voice.
Media outlets have been latching onto these petitions. The Huffington Post published a contributor article urging people give the electoral votes to the woman that won the popular vote.
The increased media attention on this "hail mary" could potentially be distracting people from more pressing issues, like the political viability of Trump's recent cabinet nomination. Instead of trying to push Clinton through a closed door, it is vital that reporters and citizens alike are aware of current happenings, rather than just possibilities.
Good article but I disagree somewhat with your conclusion about "trying to push Clinton through a closed door." First, the door doesn't close until Dec. 19, so although the EC outcome is practically certain it's not a done deal.
Second, one of the original missions of the EC was to protect the Presidency from an unqualified candidate. This year presents the EC's first opportunity to fulfill that mission. If it fails to do so, its reason for existing is questionable.
Third, 2016 is the second time in 16 years the EC is poised to overturn the popular vote. Given the growing culture wars in the US I predict we will be in this situation frequently. We must address it or it will get worse.
Fourth, the EC is not behaving the way it was designed. Its electors are party operatives who vote along party lines, it's been twisted by the winner-take-all mentality, and its proportioning no longer remotely resembles the population proportions.
In sum, it may be difficult to abolish the EC, but its current configuration must be altered.


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USD spikes lower overnight but then reverses losses. GBP and EUR both lower after briefly hitting fresh 2018 highs
By Nick Parsons
There were lots of news headlines and wire stories to read through before we could even begin to write this morning's commentary. The reason for this is that although the US Dollar is either stronger or unchanged against every major currency than it was at Tuesday's New York close, there was a brief spike lower (if it hadn't been brief, it wouldn't have been called a spike!) in the early hours of the morning in Sydney which took it to a fresh low for 2018.
There was a 60 pip jump in EUR/USD and a 40 pip jump in GBP/USD which was entirely unexplained by any news story or headline. Within an hour, both moves had been reversed but this explains any confusion our clients may have if they read stories about a fresh high for GBP/USD but see that the exchange rate is actually lower. Putting into context what appears in the real world of foreign exchange to be quite a volatile move, this was a 0.35% jump. In the unreal world of cryptocurrencies, Bitcoin yesterday fell 26%...
After CPI figures yesterday showed the first fall in the annual rate since June last year, there is nothing on today's economic calendar. At midnight the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors will released its excellent monthly report on the UK residential property market but until then, the main interest will probably be political as all parties pick over the carcass of Carillion at Prime Minister's Question Time.
Ahead of this, the pound opens in London this morning at USD1.3775, AUD1.7325 and NZD1.9020.
GBP/USD Expected Range:
1.3685 – 1.3820
Tuesday was on track to be first day in a week that the US Dollar index actually managed to rally. On Monday it had tumbled to an intra-day low of 89.98 - the lowest since December 19th 2014 – closing down around half a point on the day and more than 2 points below last Thursday's high. Yesterday, its index against a basket of major currencies held on to a 90 'big' figure across all three time-zones but lost around 25 pips in the last couple of hours to end on its lows around 90.05.
As mentioned in the GBP commentary, the USD had a spike lower around 01.00GMT which took it down to 89.93. It has subsequently recovered these gains to stand at 90.30; pretty much at the mid-point of yesterday's entire trading range.
If foreign exchange markets were volatile, so too were US equities. As physical markets played catch-up with futures after their holiday closure on Monday, so the 26,000 milestone for the DJIA was duly passed in the New York morning; just 8 trading days after it first reached 25,000. What is interesting in the price action, however, is that the index failed to hold on to 26k and from 10.40am Eastern Time in the US, it moved back on to a 25k handle and then erased all its prior gains to end down on the day. Moreover, the VIX measure of equity market volatility jumped to a 5-week high of 12.1 even as a research note from Morgan Stanley observed that, "over the last two weeks investors have bought the 2nd largest amount of S&P 500 futures since at least 2010, while at the same time net holdings of S&P 500 calls are the highest and the net holdings of S&P 500 puts are the lowest since at least 2010".
There's not much economic data scheduled today but plenty of Fed-speak, both written and verbal. The Federal Reserve releases its Beige Book summary of economic conditions whilst Evans and Mester are talking on the economy, monetary policy and communication.
The US Dollar index opens in London at 90.30 whilst US 10-year bonds are 2bp higher in yield at 2.54%.
GBP / EUR
GBP/EUR Expected Range:
The EUR ended Tuesday a touch higher against the USD, even though it had been lower than Monday's close for all but the last hour of trading in New York. It touched a session low in the European afternoon of USD1.2205 before rallying around 60 pips into the close at 1.2265. Overnight in Sydney – as we've already mentioned – it jumped to a fresh 2018 high of 1.2303 before falling 60 pips to be lower now than it was at the New York close. There is still no plausible explanation for the earlier spike but it should be taken as a warning about the scope for a pick-up in volatility more generally.
On Monday evening we saw the interview with the Head of Estonia's Central Bank. When asked for his own comments on ending QE in September this year, Bundesbank President Jens Weidmann told the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung newspaper, "I would hold that appropriate from today's point of view."
We've been highlighting for the last few days, the lack of any push-back from 'ECB sources' after the bombshell dropped last Thursday. Shortly after Mr Weidmann's comments, yesterday evening, we finally got it. According to a Reuters story, "three sources on or close to the ECB's policy-making Governing Council said any fundamental change to the guidance was likely to come only later, with the March meeting, when policymakers get updated economic forecasts, seen as a more likely option. 'We need more thorough analysis before making any change,' one of the sources said".
Today brings the final reading on Eurozone CPI in December. Consensus looks for the preliminary numbers to be unchanged with headline CPI at 1.4% y/y and the core (ex-food & energy) measure at 0.9%. The EUR opens in Europe this morning at USD1.2220 and GBP/EUR1.1270.
GBP / AUD
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The Aussie Dollar has not been immune to the effects of the US Dollar's spike lower and subsequent recovery overnight. AUD/USD slipped to USD0.7940 in the New York morning on Tuesday before recovering around 25 pips to close at 0.7965. During the Sydney morning session today, however, the pair jumped to a high of 0.7993; the highest since September 20th before falling almost half a cent during the rest of the Asia shift to be barely 10 pips above Tuesday's low of 0.7939.
Certainly, some of the gloss has been taken off precious metals and other industrial commodities. As we write, gold is than $10 off its recent $1343 peak but silver yesterday was down 1.3% and palladium lost just over 3%. Elsewhere, base metals were all lower with losses extended to as much as 2.9% for nickel. Copper dropped 2.2% to $7,054 on the London Metal Exchange Tuesday; the biggest drop since December 5th. The metal rose 7.2% in December, capping the biggest annual gain in eight years, but prices are down 2.6% so far in 2018.
The big number to watch locally will be tomorrow's employment report. Consensus expectations are for a 15,000 increase in December employment after a huge 61,600 increase in November. Last time around, full-time employment increased 41,900 to 8,501,900 and part-time employment increased 19,700 to 3,901,100 although the unemployment rate remained steady at 5.4%. It is generally estimated that, over time, around 14-15k new jobs per month are enough to keep pace with demographic change and leave the unemployment rate steady though this doesn't always hold for every individual month's data.
The AUD opens in Europe this morning at USD0.7950 with GBP/AUD at 1.7320.
GBP / CAD
GBP/CAD Expected Range:
1.6995 - 1.7330
After being the strongest currency in the first week of the New Year 2018, then the weakest in the second week, the Canadian Dollar has been very steady over the first half of this third week. Indeed, for the last 36 hours USD/CAD has traded sideways in a 50 pip range from just 1.2405 to 1.2555. The big event, of course, is this afternoon's Bank of Canada interest rate decision.
In a Reuters poll earlier this week, just eight of 31 analysts surveyed said they expect the BoC to hold rates steady at 1.0% at today's policy meeting. The median forecast in the Reuters poll is for one rate increase apiece in the third and fourth quarters, bringing the benchmark to 1.75 percent by the end of 2018. Analysts predict another hike in the first quarter of 2019. Economic growth is expected to average 2.2 percent this year, slightly higher than the 2.1 percent forecast in the previous poll in October. Expectations for 2019 were unchanged at 1.8 percent.
Over the past 25 years, Canada's main policy rate has been on average around 25bp higher than the US rate. At the moment it's 0.375 percentage points below, so there could be some catching up to do. The Bank of Canada estimates its so-called neutral rate - which allows the economy to run neither too hot nor too cold - at about 3%. The Federal Reserve sees its neutral rate at 2.75%, according to the median estimate in their most recent projections in December.
As the seemingly interminable wait to the BoC meeting at 3pm UK time finally comes to an end, the Canadian Dollar opens in London this morning at USD1.2450 and GBP/CAD1.7145.
GBP / NZD
GBP/NZD Expected Range:
Given its recent volatility, it should come as little surprise that having been in joint top spot with the Aussie Dollar on Monday, the NZD ended Tuesday back at the bottom of the performance table. Having reached the dizzy heights of US 73 cents, it slipped back at one point almost 50 pips from Monday's 0.7313 high. It didn't really get caught up in the USD spike overnight but has continued to slide lower to end the Asia session around 0.7240; it's lowest since Friday afternoon.
New Zealand commodity prices dropped again in December. The ANZ commodity price index fell 2.2% and was up just 3% year-on-year. In New Zealand Dollar terms, however, the index fell a punchy 3.3% m/m as the Kiwi's trade-weighted index rose 2.7% during the month. ANZ noted that, "this was the largest fall in world and local prices since the current upward cycle in commodity prices began in early 2016".
The latest Global Dairy Trade (GDT) auction yesterday showed a 4.9% gain but this comes after ANZ's survey showed very large falls in December as an upswing in global milk supply placed downward pressure on all product prices. Cheese prices fell 11% in the month, butter was down 10% while whole milk powder fell 2.2%.
The Kiwi Dollar opens in Europe this morning at USD0.7245 with AUD/NZD at 1.0975 and GBP/NZD1.9020.
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Reply	Wed 4 Jun, 2014 07:17 am
A Woman In Japan Has Apparently Asked Her Husband For A Divorce Because He Doesn't Like "Frozen"
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Reply	Thu 5 Jun, 2014 11:22 am
Veterinarian Mistakenly Shoots Zoo Employee in Gorilla Suit
At Loro Parque, a zoo and amusement park on the Spanish island of Tenerife, an employee wearing a
gorilla costume was shot in the leg by a veterinarian who apparently thought the park employee was
a real gorilla. According to Seattle PI, via a Google translation of the original article in La Opinión:
During a practice drill, the employee donned the costume and ran around the grounds to add realism
to the event, but apparently the vet didn't know it was a drill and opened fire with his tranquilizer gun
on the hapless employee?who apparently had an allergic reaction to the dose, designed to stop a
400 pound gorilla in its tracks.
(globe)
Reply	Fri 6 Jun, 2014 01:19 pm
epic tattoo...
@Region Philbis,
Doozy tat. Wow.
Reply	Wed 11 Jun, 2014 07:11 am
http://www.buzzfeed.com/daves4/so-so-so-so-awkward?sub=3317105_3106935
Reply	Wed 11 Jun, 2014 06:37 pm
@tsarstepan,
chai2
tsarstepan wrote:
On the part of the dog...
edgarblythe
Reply	Thu 12 Jun, 2014 07:30 pm
Not written for humor, but -
The human species began as the hybrid offspring of a male pig and a female chimpanzee, an American geneticist has suggested.
The startling claim has been made by Eugene McCarthy, who is also one of the world's leading authorities on hybridisation in animals.
He points out that while humans have many features in common with chimps, we also have a large number of distinguishing characteristics not found in any other primates.
The origin of the species? A remarkable new theory advanced by a leading geneticist suggests that human beings may have originally emerged as the hybrid offspring of a male pig and a female chimpanzee
Dr McCarthy says these divergent characteristics are most likely the result of a hybrid origin at some point far back in human evolutionary history.
What's more, he suggests, there is one animal that has all of the traits which distinguish humans from our primate cousins in the animal kingdom.
'What is this other animal that has all these traits?' he asks rhetorically. 'The answer is Sus scrofa, the ordinary pig.'
Dr McCarthy elaborates his astonishing hypothesis in an article on Macroevolution.net, a website he curates. He is at pains to point out that that it is merely a hypothesis, but he presents compelling evidence to support it.
Scientists currently suppose that chimpanzees are humans' closest living evolutionary relatives, a theory amply backed by genetic evidence.
However, as Dr McCarthy points out, despite this genetic similarity, there are a massive number of divergent anatomical characteristics distinguishing the two species.
These distinguishing characteristics, including hairless skin, a thick layer of subcutaneous fat, light-coloured eyes, protruding noses and heavy eyelashes, to name but a few, are unmistakeably porcine, he suggests.
There are also a number of less obvious but equally inexplicable similarities between humans and pigs in the structure of the skin and organs.
Indeed, pig skin tissues and heart valves can be used in medicine because of their similarity and compatibility with the human body.
Similarities: Dr Eugene McCarthy suggests that humans' hairless skin and subcutaneous fat could be explained by porcine ancestry	+3
Similarities: Dr Eugene McCarthy suggests that humans' hairless skin and subcutaneous fat could be explained by porcine ancestry
Dr McCarthy says that the original pig-chimp hook up was probably followed by several generations of 'backcrossing', where the offspring of that pairing lived among chimps and mated with them - becoming more like chimps and less like pigs with every new generation.
This also helps to explain the problem of relative infertility in hybrids. Dr McCarthy points out that the belief that all hybrids are sterile is in fact false, and in many cases hybrid animals are able to breed with mates of the same species of either parent.
After several generations the hybrid strain would have become fertile enough to breed amongst themselves, Dr McCarthy says.
Unsurprisingly, Dr McCarthy's hypothesis has come in for substantial criticism from orthodox evolutionary biologists and their Creationist opponents alike.
One important criticism, which dubs his theory the 'Monkey-F******-A-Pig hypothesis', is that there is little chance that pigs and chimps could be interfertile. The two orders of creatures, according to evolutionary theory, diverged roughly 80million years ago, a ScienceBlogs post points out.
'[J]ust the gradual accumulation of molecular differences in sperm and egg recognition proteins would mean that pig sperm wouldn't recognize a chimpanzee egg as a reasonable target for fusion,' PZ Myers writes.
Furthermore, the blogger explains, while chimps have 48 chromosomes, pigs have just 38.
He adds: 'Hybridizing a pig and a chimp is like taking half the dancers from a performance of Swan Lake and the other half from a performance of Giselle and throwing them together on stage to assemble something. It's going to be a catastrophe.'
Finally, he suggests rather impudently that Dr McCarthy do the experimental work himself and try mating with a pig to see how far he gets.
But Dr McCarthy believes that, in the case of humans and other creatures, his hybrid modification to evolutionary theory can account for a range of phenomena that Darwinian evolution alone has difficulty explaining.
Despite the opinions of some peer reviewers that Dr McCarthy's work presents a potentially paradigm-shifting new take on conventional views of the origins of new life forms, he has had difficulty finding a publisher, so he has chosen to publish a book-length manuscript outlining his ideas on his website.
In its conclusion he writes: 'I must admit that I initially felt a certain amount of repugnance at the idea of being a hybrid. The image of a pig mating with an ape is not a pretty one, nor is that of a horde of monstrous half-humans breeding in a hybrid swarm.
'But the way we came to be is not so important as the fact that we now exist. As every Machiavellian knows, good things can emerge from ugly processes, and I think the human race is a very good thing. Moreover, there is something to be said for the idea of having the pig as a relative.
'My opinion of this animal has much improved during the course of my research. Where once I thought of filth and greed, I now think of intelligence, affection, loyalty, and adaptability, with an added touch of joyous sensuality — qualities without which humans would not be human.'
Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-2515969/Humans-evolved-female-chimpanzee-mated-pig-Extraordinary-claim-American-geneticist.html#ixzz34Tiou0lJ
Reply	Fri 13 Jun, 2014 08:14 pm
Woman who cares for 100,000 cockroaches in home: 'These are all my children'
http://news.yahoo.com/blogs/oddnews/woman-who-cares-for-100-000-cockroaches-in-home--%E2%80%98these-are-all-my-children%E2%80%99-163242043.html
rosborne979
Reply	Sat 14 Jun, 2014 05:31 am
@edgarblythe,
edgarblythe wrote:
The startling claim has been made by Eugene McCarthy
This guy needs to look up Convergent Evolution. And he needs to stay away from farms.
@rosborne979,
That's pretty much why I posted the story on this instead of a science thread.
Actually, she's made them into a business, selling to pharmaceutical companies.
Nice niche.
@chai2,
chai2 wrote:
The the pharm companies testing Viagra and other ED drugs on them? Or using them as ingredients in Viagra or other ED drugs?
Exerpts from the article.....
A 37-year-old woman in China shares her countryside home with the estimated 100,000 cockroaches she breeds. The South China Morning Post reports that Yuan Meixia cares for the roaches that she eventually sells to a pharmaceutical company, which uses the bugs for medicines.....
.......The roaches are mostly Palmetto bugs, which are a large winged variety common in the U.S. The bug breeder believes that, "Dried Palmetto bugs can act as anti-cancer drugs." While she has no scientific studies for that belief, researchers at Anhui Medical University have written, "The Palmetto bug and its extracts can protect liver functions when [the natural protein Concanavalin A] caused acute immunity hepatic injury among mice." The bugs are not used in traditional Chinese medicine, but are reportedly used in many folk recipes.
I have no idea what the company she sells them to actually uses them for, but she's in business for herself.
The bugs aren't in her home, she keeps them in a separate building.
vonny
Reply	Sun 15 Jun, 2014 03:12 pm
@vonny,
vonny wrote:
It doesn't work
Okay. It does work.
You've got me wondering now!
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ST AUSTELL BREWERY CELEBRATES 21ST BEER FESTIVAL
Thousands of beer lovers turned out to celebrate St Austell Brewery's 21st anniversary Celtic Beer Festival on Saturday (30th November).
The annual celebration raises funds for the Brewery's Charitable Trust, which helps to support numerous local charities, good causes and individuals across the South West. Over £200,000 has been raised for the Trust since the Festival started in 1999.
This year's event featured over 180 ales, lagers and ciders – over 70 of which were brewed by St Austell Brewery and Bath Ales, which became part of the business in 2016. All five bars were run by a team of hard-working volunteers and Brewery staff.
As always, the Festival had a stellar line-up of music throughout the day including local favourites such as King Creature, Countrymen and the Black Rock Jazz Band.
James Staughton, who is retiring as the Brewery's Chief Executive in January, also made a special appearance on the Music Stage. He joined Michael Douglas – a Neil Diamond tribute act – on stage for an unforgettable 'Sweet Caroline' duet, which went down a storm with the crowd.
James Staughton said: "What an incredible day we had! I'd like to thank festival goers, who were phenomenal across the day as well as our sponsors and events team for getting it all together. Of course, I'd also like to thank the bands who performed and all of the staff and volunteers who helped on the bars.
"Our brewing team pulled out all the stops this year and created over 70 brews for the festival – everything from a Double Chocolate Stout, to a Rhubarb and Custard Pale Ale. There really was a beer style for everybody this year.
"We started the Celtic Beer Festival 21 years ago and it's gone on to become a truly special event – great fun, tremendous beers and all to raise money for important causes across the West Country."
Rough estimates put the number of visitors across the day at over 3,000, making it one of the biggest Celtic Beer Festivals to date.
More information about the full total raised for the Brewery's Charitable Trust will be announced in due course. For more information visit www.staustellbrewery.co.uk.
For more information contact PR Manager, Megan Hocking:
hockingm@staustellbrewery.co.uk / 01726 218 920 / 07970 379 690
More about St Austell Brewery:
Independent, family-owned brewer, St Austell Brewery has been brewing beer in Cornwall since 1851. Fast forward 168 years and while traditional brewing techniques remain, innovation, passion and craftsmanship continue to evolve.
Most famous for its flagship beer, Tribute Cornish Pale Ale, St Austell Brewery's range of award-winning beers – also including Proper Job IPA and Korev Lager – are available in pubs and supermarkets nationwide.
A gem at the heart of the Cornish community, and an employer of over 1,500 people, the company also has an estate of 179 pubs and hotels across the South West.
In 2016 St Austell Brewery joined forces with fellow west country brewer, Bath Ales, forming the St Austell Family Group. Bath Ales' state-of-the-art new brewhouse, Hare Brewery, opened its doors in 2018.
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ExxonMobil CEO donates $5 million to engineering school
Published on April 17, 2014 at 1:08 am Last update on April 18, 2014 at 1:26 am
By Nicole Stiles
ExxonMobil CEO Rex Tillerson, a UT alum, and his wife Renda Tillerson donated $5 million to help fund the Cockrell School of Engineering's new research center, which will centralize engineering student services and include new research laboratories.
The center is part of a $310 million project to replace the current Engineering-Science Building on San Jacinto Street with a new research center. The demolition is scheduled to begin in September, and the center is scheduled to open in August 2017.
Cockrell school interim dean Sharon Wood said she believes having alumni who are willing to donate to better the education of future students shows the value of the education they received.
"It's really inspiring to know that these alumni that are so successful … have chosen to invest in us," Wood said.
John Ekerdt, associate dean of the engineering school, said he believes alumni understand how use their engineering degrees to become successful — allowing them to contribute to future students' success.
"These alumni are making investments in the students of today and of the future so they can make contributions in their own careers," Ekerdt said.
According to Ekerdt, the new research facility will allow for expanded learning, focusing on collaboration between students.
"This building is designed with a mission of new education, collaborative spaces and new forms of learning," Ekerdt said. "It will be a site for the discovery of new knowledge."
According to Wood, projects such as the research center would not be possible without generosity from alumni.
"We depend on our alumni to help us move forward, especially in these difficult financial times," Wood said. "It would definitely not be possible without their generosity."
Witnessing successful alumni give back to the school allows students to see their own abilities, according to Wood.
"It helps students understand and see the potential that they have as they grow and their careers continue," Wood said.
Petroleum engineering sophomore Nick Lavigne said alumni like the Tillersons make him proud to be a part of the engineering school.
"It's really cool to see successful engineers come out of UT," Lavigne said. "I can say I'm getting the same education as some of the most successful people in the country."


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The generic names of common decongestants include phenylephrine, phenylpropanolamine, pseudoephedrine, and in nasal sprays naphazoline, oxymetazoline, and xylometazoline.
Decongestants-A group of medications, such as pseudoephedrine, phenylephrine, and phenylpropanolamine, that shrink blood vessels and consequently mucus membranes.
The chemical phenylpropanolamine which acts similarly to an amphetamine has been associated with severe side effects such as bleeding of the brain.
Appetite suppressants, including Dexatrim and Acutrim, usually contain a chemical called phenylpropanolamine (PPA).
For example, taking caffeine with the decongestant phenylpropanolamine can raise blood pressure.


Economists typically use seasonally adjusted data in which the assumption is imposed that seasonality is uncorrelated with trend and cycle. The importance of this assumption has been highlighted by the Great Recession. The paper examines an unobserved components model that permits non-zero correlations between seasonal and nonseasonal shocks. Identification conditions for estimation of the parameters are discussed from the perspectives of both analytical and simulation results. Applications to UK household consumption expenditures and US employment reject the zero correlation restrictions and also show that the correlation assumptions imposed have important implications about the evolution of the trend and cycle in the post-Great Recession period.


Happiness – is not what others think about your life….
Posted byNabeela	 September 29, 2018 October 1, 2018 19 Comments on Happiness – is not what others think about your life….
Sometimes many people tell us that you have got lots of good things in your life and you must be happy…. Many people like to share their happy life in social medias…. (Even if they are suffering)…. But do you think that they are actually happy???
What is meant by happiness??? Does it depends on getting lots of good things in your life??? What is this good and bad things??? It is the perspective of others….
When you have someone who can understand you.
These three things are the actual needs of our life…. But many people lack these …. I want to go in detail….
If a person add a photo with smiling face doesn't mean that he/she is happy…. A happy person is someone who smiles from the heart…. Every person have to deal with tragic situations in their life journey…. After all, this whole script is written by god…. And we are playing our roles…. He had gave us options and help lines…. But we have to deal with the stuff…. And god had given us emojis to express our feelings and emotions…. Each and every emojis have their own uses….. So we must use that carefully with the situations…. But we love the happy emoji and we search that everywhere…. Eventually, we have to bounce back from our sorrows….
You are the only person who knows the criteria for your happiness…. Some people are helpless in fulfilling their criterias and live their dreadful life….
Do you smile from your heart??? Think about it….
Having a shoulder to support you….
Being bold is not about hiding your emotions…. It is about expressing it the way you like…. Trust me…. It needs courage…. Having a shoulder to support is hard to find…. Inorder to recover from the bad mood you need someone to support you….
Do you have one??? Then don't let them go…. Whatever the situation is…. Because everyone don't get that luck….
Having someone to understand you….
There are lots of people who behave like they are trying hard to understand you…. Some act like thay had figured out your situation and will give you the solution…. I am not talking about them…. You need atleast one person in your life who don't have the options to recover you nor have any solutions to overcome the pathetic situation, but will have a heart that understands you…. You don't have to explain more for them….
Don't lose a person who understands you…. Please….
It hurts if we go through a bad phase, but it hurts even more if no one can understand that you are crying inside….
Just write it out…. In that way you are talking with your inner core….
I am damn sure that these suggestions will definitely work for you….
Do you have any other suggestions??? Then write it in the comment box below….
Posted byNabeela September 29, 2018 October 1, 2018 Posted inHeart talksTags: What is happiness ?
Why pink color is for girls???
Sunshine blogger award – A recognition for bloggers….
I like the suggestion of writing things down when feeling unhappy. I've done this for a long time and it really helps!
I suggested that based on my experience….
You make a lot of good points. Thanks.


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For example, California reported enrolling 31,000 people in October and has nearly doubled that already in the first two weeks of November. At this pace California is on track to hit enrollment targets for 2014 according to state officials.
A few other states, such as Connecticut, Kentucky, and Washington state are outpacing their enrollment estimates, even as states that depend on the federal website lag far behind.
Overall, 106,000 people enrolled in health coverage across the US in October and nearly half of those who enrolled were in California or New York. Both states have continued to show growth in their numbers. In New York, enrollment has continued at roughly October's rate and stands at 24,509, according to state officials.
The Obama administration aims to get 7 million consumers into health insurance plans in 2014 to ensure that the marketplaces have enough people to be sustainable.
Enrollment has been even stronger in many Medicaid programs where close to 400,000 new people qualified for Medicaid coverage last month, according to federal data. In Oregon, whose marketplace has been one of the few trouble-plagued state sites, the state reported that it had already signed up 70,000 new people for Medicaid. About half the states have agreed to expand their Medicaid programs to most low-income residents in 2014. Under the law, the federal government picks up nearly the entire cost of that expansion for the first several years.
Many state and federal experts expect the biggest enrollment volume to occur after Thanksgiving where consumers will only then have a couple weeks to sign up before the first deadline of Dec. 15 takes place for coverage starting January 1. In order to avoid the tax penalty, however, consumers have until March 31 to find a new plan.


A diary of a spooky little fetus ! yay !
A diary of an unborn kid.
A brand new pack of Bloons 2 levels with a cheery Christmas graphics and music theme.
Continue the story in a large factory with more puzzles and better gameplay.
"If you do not learn to silence the voices, they will drive you mad."


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namespace ValdiTests\Validator;

use Exception;
use PHPUnit_Framework_TestCase;
use Valdi\Validator\OlderThan;
use Valdi\ValidationException;

class OlderThanTest extends \PHPUnit\Framework\TestCase
{

    public function testValidate()
    {
        $validator = new OlderThan();

        $this->assertTrue($validator->isValid(date('Y-m-d H:i:s', time() - 15), [10]));
        $this->assertTrue($validator->isValid(date('YmdHis', time() - 15), [10, 'YmdHis']));

        $this->assertFalse($validator->isValid(date('Y-m-d H:i:s', time() - 5), [10]));
        $this->assertFalse($validator->isValid(date('YmdHis', time() - 5), [10, 'YmdHis']));
        $this->assertFalse($validator->isValid(date('test', time() - 10), [5]));

        $this->assertTrue($validator->isValid('', [10]));
        $this->assertTrue($validator->isValid(null, [10]));

        try {
            $this->assertTrue($validator->isValid(date('Y-m-d H:i:s', time() - 5), []));
            $this->fail();
        } catch (ValidationException $e) {
            $read = $e->getMessage();
            $expected = '"olderThan" expects at least 1 parameter.';
            $this->assertSame($read, $expected);
        } catch (Exception $e) {
            $this->fail();
        }
    }

}

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Q: How to set "charset=utf-8" in GeneratePresignedUrlRequest.setContentType(contentType) How  to set "charset=utf-8" in
GeneratePresignedUrlRequest.setContentType(contentType)
I tried so (it did not work):
String contentType = "charset=utf-8";

GeneratePresignedUrlRequest
generatePresignedUrlRequest = new GeneratePresignedUrlRequest(str,
str2); generatePresignedUrlRequest.setContentType(contentType);

contentType = ?

A: mb try application/octet-stream

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The NX3V1T384 is a low-ohmic single-pole single-throw analog switch. It has two input/output terminals (Y and Z) and an active LOW enable input pin (E). When E is HIGH, the analog switch is turned off.
Schmitt trigger action at the enable input (E) makes the circuit tolerant to slower input rise and fall times. A low input voltage threshold allows pin E to be driven by lower level logic signals without a significant increase in supply current ICC. This makes it possible for the NX3V1T384 to switch 4.3 V signals with a 1.8 V digital controller, eliminating the need for logic level translation.
The NX3V1T384 allows signals with amplitude up to VCC to be transmitted from Y to Z or from Z to Y. Its ultra-low ON resistance (0.3 Ω) and flatness (0.1 Ω) ensures minimal attenuation and distortion of transmitted signals.


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This document forms Policy Connect's response to the Housing, Communities, and Local Government Committee's call for evidence on local government and the path to net-zero.
Policy Connect is a membership-based, not-for-profit, cross-party think tank. We bring together parliamentarians and government in collaboration with academia, business and civil society to inform, influence and improve UK public policy through debate, research and innovative thinking, so as to improve peoples' lives.
We lead and manage an extensive network of seventeen all-party parliamentary groups, research commissions, forums and campaigns in key policy areas including: health; education & skills; industry, technology & innovation; and sustainability. We shape policy in Westminster through meetings, events, research and impact work.
Policy Connect is submitting written evidence based on our longstanding expertise in sustainability policy. We have drawn on the wide-ranging evidence and stakeholder input from industry, academia, and the third sector we combine by managing the All-Party Parliamentary Sustainable Resource Group (APSRG); the Sustainable Resource Forum (SRF); the All-Party Parliamentary Climate Change Group (APPCCG); Carbon Connect (CC), and the Westminster Sustainable Business Forum (WSBF). We have responded to the questions from the call for evidence that are most relevant to our work across these areas.
The evidence presented covers a number of issues, including the respective roles of both central and local government in setting and delivering net zero strategies; different low-carbon heating technologies and their roles in both new and existing buildings; energy efficiency standards; consumer engagement and the Green Homes Grant; the Future Homes Standard and water efficiency; the contribution of Energy from Waste to reaching net zero.
New homes: the Future Homes Standard and Future Buildings Standards
Do the government's proposals for improving the energy efficiency of new homes by 2025 go far enough?
Not yet.
In its recent reports, Pipeline to 2050 and Uncomfortable Home Truths, Policy Connect recommends that central government set out the long-term target for net zero emissions in buildings, as well as a timeline for the delivery of a complete, detailed decarbonisation strategy before 2025.
The forthcoming Heat and Buildings Strategy should set out a long-term target of reaching net zero emissions in buildings, and in particular a timeline for delivery before 2025 for a complete heat decarbonisation strategy. It should include tighter targets for new buildings, as well as private-rented and social housing buildings.
Further, it should include an action plan for the immediate at-scale deployment of 'low regret' options. This should include the decarbonisation of heat in new build and off-gas grid properties. Although these represent a relatively smaller proportion of the overall housing stock, they are very important opportunities to encourage visibility and trust in low carbon heat, as well as build up skills amongst installers. Therefore, it is crucial to ensure that low carbon heating solutions work well and provide good consumer experience in off grid and new build properties. These include the roll-out of district heat networks, heat pumps and hybrid heat pumps in appropriate buildings, as well as a nationwide energy efficiency programme.
The government needs to set a target to phase out the installation of carbon emitting boilers that cannot be adapted to low carbon fuels from 2025 in all property types, combining this with an obligation to fit hydrogen-ready boilers once they are available at little or no cost penalty where no alternative zero-carbon solution is practicable or economic.
The government must bring forward the introduction of the Future Homes Standard to an earlier date. This currently outlines that all new homes will have low carbon heating and excellent levels of energy efficiency from 2025. By bringing the date forward, government could ensure that new homes that are built between now and 2025 will not have to be retrofitted at considerable cost to the householder/taxpayer. Furthermore, government should set a target to phase out high carbon heating technologies in off-grid areas from the mid-2020s.
The government has acknowledged the need to clarify the role of local planning authorities in setting energy efficiency requirements for new homes that go beyond the minimum standards. What role should LPAs play in determining local energy efficiency standards?
LPAs should play a critical role in ensuring decisions are practicable and deliverable.
As we argue in our recent reports, the delivery of heat policy needs local knowledge planning, as well as local civic engagement. Decisions taken in Whitehall may not prove suitable for the local area. As the results of the recent Climate Assembly showed, 89% of assembly members supported 'local plans for zero carbon homes' and this would 'involve central government giving local authorities the powers and resources to develop an area-wide plan for moving to zero carbon homes'.[1]
Place-based decarbonisation programmes have been recognised as core tools to allow local and regional governments to drive the local deployment of low carbon heating systems. Local and regional leadership has a more granular knowledge of local conditions and priorities, and can therefore ensure that local strategic objectives are met. Local and regional authorities are also the best placed actors to combine locally appropriate solutions for heating, transport, power generation and storage, and consider synergies and efficiencies between them to drive decarbonisation in a cost effective manner.
Moreover, they must make sure that all aspects of heat decarbonisation (low carbon heat, energy efficiency, fuel poverty, climate and environmental objectives, job creation and economic imperatives) are considered in the round, while simultaneously contributing to national targets. In addition, adopting a place-based approach is crucial to the targeted deployment of certain low carbon technologies, such as heat networks, where zoning – the process in which local authorities strategically define the locality of e.g. heat network developments – helps maximise the potential of low carbon systems.
Therefore, we recommend Local Area Energy Planning as a structured, data-driven approach to enable local authorities to find the locally most appropriate, cost-effective low carbon heating options that bring together all locally relevant stakeholders and build up regional supply chains and skills.[2] To avoid the potential problems arising from local authorities needing to plan in a vacuum, as well the tension that might arise between a centralised approach and locally-specific solutions, it is important for central government to support local authorities with a standardised planning framework which can be flexibly deployed for planning and implementation at each local area. Local authorities must be supported in developing the appropriate skills as well as being able to access expertise and experience from designated support services to assist in planning and delivering local transitions. While BEIS should set national guidelines and quality controls to ensure a nationally coordinated approach and support local authorities with an overall planning framework, local and regional leadership must ensure that the national effort of heat decarbonisation is carried out in a way that corresponds best to the needs of each local area.
Is the government right to anticipate that heat pumps will become the primary heating technology for new homes?
Although heat pumps will play a crucial role in decarbonising heat in homes, it is important to take into consideration other available forms of low-carbon heating depending on the local area, especially given the number of other demands net zero will put on the electricity grid. In particular, hydrogen heating and district heat networks provide viable alternatives to heat pumps. Hydrogen can use existing pipelines into existing homes. Especially in areas where new properties are built, heating technologies will need to be considered in order for the right infrastructure to be put in place.
In its 2019 report, Uncomfortable Home Truths, Policy Connect assesses the different heating technologies for net zero:
Most of the low carbon heating options likely to be used for long-term heat decarbonisation in the UK are not widely deployed, which means it is important there are at-scale pilots to establish how well they work in households around the UK. Different low carbon heating options have different implications for households from the perspective of disruption, choice, heating experience and installation cost. Hybrid heat pumps may present a good medium-term option, with relatively low impact on heating experience, disruption or choice. Full electrification or switching to low carbon gas for heat have relative advantages and disadvantages, but both are likely required to be used in the long term to reach full decarbonisation of heat. Pilots should work to reduce some of the barriers these low carbon heating options currently face to enable at-scale deployment later on.
Hydrogen-ready heating
It is thought that hydrogen boilers could match key features of existing gas appliances like efficiency, lifetime, maintenance and size, but would require complete replacement of the natural gas boiler in existing homes at the time of a switchover. On the other hand, hydrogen-ready boilers are likely to require only a short conversion (currently estimated to be 70 minutes) to switch from components that burn natural gas to those that burn hydrogen. Hydrogen-ready boilers could therefore minimise disruption to households during a low carbon heat transition. Hydrogen boilers are also expected to deliver a similar heating experience and operate in the same as natural gas boilers so they would not require significant behaviour change in how households interact with their heating system.
8% of current domestic heat in the UK is provided by electricity: and over 50% of off-gas-grid households use electricity as their primary source of heat. In existing homes, this tends to be direct electrical heating like storage heaters rather than heat pumps, although there have been 50,000 heat pumps installed in the UK since 2014 under the RHI. Heat pump technology is well developed and widely deployed in other European countries.
Full heat pumps are well-suited to homes off the gas grid. Ground source heat pumps (GSHPs) are more efficient than air source heat pumps (ASHPs), but they are also more costly and disruptive to install in existing homes, and are only suited to properties with good-size gardens. If garden space is limited, vertical boreholes can be used instead but this is likely to be more expensive unless done for multiple properties. The local geology also needs to be suitable.
Crucially, in order for heat pumps to operate optimally the property needs to be well-insulated. Heat pumps provide lower grade heat and are therefore unsuited to poorly insulated homes. The heating experience itself is also different to that of a gas-fired central heating system. In order to operate optimally, heat pumps may have to run continuously. Radiators tend not to get as hot and in the winter the heating may need to be on all of the time to maintain a comfortable temperature. This can be managed with appropriate consumer support and education.
In the longer term, in the case of higher rates of technology deployment, increasing demand from growing electrical heat will require significant upgrades and reinforcement of both the electricity transmission and distribution network. This means deployment of heat pumps will have to be well-coordinated with wider energy infrastructure changes on a regional and national level. It also means there will be potential disruption to homes and communities during the reinforcement of the grid. Mass roll-out will also need to take account of other major changes such as the impact on the grid of the move to electric vehicles.
District heat networks
District heat networks are suited to dense urban areas. While many existing networks use heat from a natural gas source, alternative heat sources (such as waste heat from industrial processes, heat pumps or other sources of low carbon heat) could be added to the network without disruption to the end user. However, housing does not generally have the density and heat demand profile to make heat networks worth investing in, unless it is also connected to buildings with a constant heat demand like swimming pools.
The initial building of district heat networks may be relatively disruptive to existing homes and communities. Heat supply pipes and cooler return pipes need to be laid between the heat generation source or the thermal store of heat, which would require some disruption to roads and other communal areas. Yet, for new homes and housing estates this is less of an issue, making district heat networks a more attractive option.
Once connected, district heat networks tend to be lower maintenance than other systems from a householder perspective (with no heating generation asset to replace or repair) and the heat experience of those on district heat networks, in combination with smart controls, should be similar to natural gas heating, with hot water supplied to radiators and hot water tanks. In an optimal scenario district heat networks could save an average consumer £100 a year compared to those using gas. In reality, however, there have been some negative experiences of higher costs for consumers on heat networks, which is partially due to the current lack of statutory consumer protection for heat networks.
District heat networks require the public or private sector sponsoring organisations which are planning to own the heat network to coordinate building new heat infrastructure with removing heating appliances in homes that are connecting to the network. One problem with planning a roll-out of district heat networks is ensuring that demand will be high enough to ensure certainty of return on the high capital cost of building the network, and reduce the risk of investment. In Denmark, where 60% of homes are supplied by district heat networks, they overcame this by introducing zoning of certain areas. This required areas to connect to district heat networks, thereby ensuring a certain level of demand. This might be an option in the UK, especially as much of the interest in district heat networks in the UK thus far has been through publicly owned social housing, which would be easier to 'zone' than the owner-occupier sector. However, this does mean that these households get a fairly limited choice over when and how their heating systems are decarbonised.
The importance of selecting the most suitable low-carbon technologies for the local area, types of housing etc, reinforces the need for such decisions to be taken at the local level, in place, where this knowledge exists and local authorities can engage with citizens about the decisions (our answer to Question 2).
Will the proposals address the performance gap between design intent and build quality of new homes?
Is the government right to introduce revised transitional arrangements? In addition, the Committee seeks evidence on any other issues relating to either the Future Homes Standard or the Future Buildings Standards.
Not yet, on addressing the performance gap of new homes; we include below evidence of other issues.
The Future Homes Standard will require "new-build homes to be future-proofed with low carbon heating and world-leading levels of energy efficiency"[3]. One way of better assessing the standards for new homes is to adopt a 'passive house' methodology rather than the current EPC – Policy Connect will shortly publish proposals on this.
Furthermore, the Standard does not currently include performance targets for water efficiency.
Heating water for cooking and personal washing is the second biggest use of household energy (behind space heating) and produces a quarter of the total CO2 emissions from our homes[4]. Research by the Energy Saving Trust[5] indicates that reducing per-capita water consumption to 100 litres per day would save households an average of £37 per year and would reduce CO2 emissions by 48.1 megatons over 25 years.
It would be straightforward to improve the water efficiency of new homes through introduction of a mandatory water label for all fixtures, fittings, and water using products. Such a label would inform consumers about a product's water efficiency, in the same way that the EU energy label does for appliance energy efficiency. The label could be linked to minimum standards and underpinned by building regulations so that only water efficient products meeting pre-determined performance criteria would be installed in new homes. Independent research[6] carried out for industry body, Water UK, also found that "the single most cost-effective intervention to save water is a mandatory Government-led scheme to label water-using products".
We therefore believe that it would be a missed opportunity not to incorporate performance targets for water efficiency into the Future Homes Standard. The Committee on Climate Change[7] agree, as detailed within their letter to the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government in February 2020, which highlighted the importance of water efficiency measures and calling for the scope of the Future Homes Standard to be set now.
The Committee also seeks evidence on plans for improving the energy efficiency of the existing housing stock, including:
Local authorities' progress towards reducing or eliminating the carbon footprint of their own building estate.
The role of local authorities in improving the energy efficiency of non-council building stock, including through take-up of the Local Authority Delivery scheme and the setting and enforcing of energy efficiency standards.
Besides the long-term target for net zero emissions in the buildings sector, it is important that government sets more detailed milestones regarding previously set targets in the upcoming Heat and Buildings Strategy. The recent consultation proposal to bring forward the targets for private-rented properties to reach Energy Performance Certificate (EPC) banc C level by 2025 and 2028 for new and all tenancies respectively is a welcome step. However, the previous Clean Growth Strategy set a target of reaching EPC band C level for energy efficiency upgrades by 2035 (where practical, cost-effective and affordable, and 2030 for fuel poor households in general), which, while provides a positive direction of travel, sets a the target is in 15 years for a large number of homes. Using a whole-house approach to avoid double spend, the Heat and Buildings Strategy should set interim milestones to catalyse continuous action. It is crucial that central government engages with local authorities on this in order to set the right targets and coordinate local delivery.
The role of local authorities in encouraging and enabling private owners to reduce or eliminate their carbon emissions, including through the development of loan schemes similar to the green deal and the delivery of existing grants, such as the Disabled Facilities Grant and Housing Renewal Assistance.
In relation to question 8, on 20 April 2021, Carbon Connect held an online roundtable to discuss the early closure of the government's Green Homes Grant and recommendations for replacement schemes in light of the UK's 2050 net zero greenhouse gas emissions target. Replacement schemes are urgently required to harness the consumer demand revealed by the Green Homes Grant and ensure the UK meets its targets to reduce greenhouse gas emissions, 14% of which are produced by home heating. Consistency, long-term timescales, and government relationships should be the core principles of successful replacement schemes. In addition to these, some specific recommendations were suggested:
All homes must be covered by future schemes and policy; a potential change of focus to social housing is welcome and likely to prove easier logistically. However, these homes represent only 11% of the problem; owner-occupied homes and private landlords must also be supported in the efficient energy transition. This may require a range of concurrent schemes to suit different markets.
Building passports would support future schemes by making clear how and when a home can be made energy efficiency. This implies a need to train more retrofit coordinators and inspectors, and may provide liability transparency for mortgage providers who could then provide financial support to consumers.
A minimum scheme length of ten years is required to allow industry to develop skills and provide investment confidence.
Accreditation processes should be made more accessible to encourage more businesses to become licensed and remove bureaucracy for early adopters, whilst ensuring the highest-possible accreditation standards for engineers
Financial incentives are required to encourage homeowners. This could involve grants or personal tax relief, although these will not incentivise all households. Public engagement is also required to raise consumer awareness of the additional benefit of reduced heating bills.
These features may necessitate multiple schemes to cater to the diversity of the UK's homes. Local authorities have a crucial role to play in the design and delivery of these schemes, by way of gathering data, coordinating between central government and local areas, engaging with consumers and businesses, setting the required standards, allocating funding and alike.
The role of MHCLG in making the existing housing stock more energy efficient, including through its review of the Decent Homes Standard.
MHCLG has a key role to play in making the existing housing stock more energy efficient. Future updates to planning policy and building regulations should be targeted so as to make new homes carbon neutral. However, these changes will have little impact on the performance of the existing housing stock. More than 85% of buildings that will exist in the year 2050 have already been constructed[8] and therefore we must find a way to reduce the greenhouse gas emissions of the UK's existing building stock: MHCLG can do this at least in part through the Decent Homes Standard.
Furthermore, as detailed above, water efficiency should not be overlooked when considering improvements to the performance of existing homes. Introduction of a mandatory water label for fixtures, fittings, and water using products would help to improve the water efficiency of these properties as taps, showers and other products are replaced. Legislating to introduce a water label would significantly reduce the carbon emissions associated with water use from both new and existing homes.
Local government's path to net-zero
The Committee also seeks submissions on how else local government can help the UK achieve "net zero" emissions by 2050, particularly in relation to improved and decarbonised public transport, waste management and decarbonising the electricity grid.
Waste is an important aspect of the route to net zero and local government has an important role to play here.
The UK is currently introducing an ambitious range of measures to address resource challenges and encourage recycling. Continuing to drive recycling and waste prevention should be central to future innovation across the sector but there is also a need for greater public awareness of the links between personal waste responsibility and climate change. Calculations show that even if the UK does meet its 2035 recycling targets, there will continue to be large volumes of residual waste produced long into the future. The UK should therefore frequently reassess projections for future waste volumes, to account for the impact of new measures and externalities, and to allow necessary investment into capacity for management solutions, including energy from waste (EfW). This will enable maximum use of low carbon waste heat generated by EfW to support housing, industry, and other sectors. The UK is disproportionately lagging behind much of Europe in harnessing EfW heat, with less than a quarter of plants connected to heat networks. Based on research undertaken by Policy Connect in the context of its 2020 "No Time To Waste" report, there are currently a number of barriers preventing this on a larger scale, but that the primary challenge is finding the right sites for plants, located near to a potential heat off take. Our conclusion is that Government needs to play a greater role to realise this opportunity, working collaboratively with industries and local government to determine suitable sites and potential heat customers.
The UK public has come to expect clean, waste-free streets but there is a level of disconnect between producing waste and requiring infrastructure to manage it, often leading to an 'out of sight, out of mind' approach on an individual level. Government should do more to turn recent attitudinal shifts into actions, and education around this should be driven at a national level to avoid regional variance. This should aim to improve understanding of both waste hierarchy/materials impacts, as well as the appropriate treatment infrastructure required. To address this, the public education campaign should involve and engage local authorities. Councils are best placed to inform residents in a hard-hitting way how their waste is disposed, and some may wish to go further and communicate the specific end destination/site. Local authorities could achieve this by simply printing the relevant information onto their waste bins. Certain local authorities have already taken up this suggestion, but encouragement for all councils to do so would ensure a level playing field of information across the country.
[1] Climate Assembly UK. 2020. The path to net zero. Chapter 5: In the Home.
[2] Energy Systems Catapult. 2018. Local Area Energy Planning: Supporting clean growth and low carbon transition.
[3] The future homes standard: changes to Part L and Part F of the building regulations for new dwellings (consultation), MHCLG, October 2019
[4] Quantifying the energy and carbon effects of water saving: full technical report, Energy Saving Trust & Environment Agency, April 2009
[5] Independent review of the costs and benefits of water labelling options in the UK: extension project, Energy Saving Trust, October 2019
[6] Water UK, UK pathways to long-term PCC reduction, Artesia Consulting, August 2019
[7] Future Homes Standard and proposals for tightening part L in 2020 (letter), Committee on Climate Change, February 2020
[8] All Party Parliamentary Group for Excellence in the Built Environment inquiry into sustainable construction and the Green Deal (submission by The Chartered Institute of Building), January 2013


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However, I cannot seem to figure out exactly how it tracks the ammo after a mission.
Here is an example scenario: I equip a soldier with Deimos AR-L which has ammo capacity of 60. During the mission I use 12 of the ammo and the assault rifle is left with 48 ammo.
What I have noticed is that if I have no other magazines, then the weapon is left with 48 ammo for the next mission. This seems OK for me. What I cannot seem to understand what happens if I do have an extra magazine.
Does the game then "reload" the assault rifle thus wasting the 48 ammo and using up an entire magazine for it? Or are the 48 remaining ammo tracked somewhere?


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