What's in the news today?

[roadrunner]

Can the UK cope with MORE electric cars? Three year project will see 3,000 vehicles take to British roads to test energy demands on the national grid

• Regulator Ofgem has approved the three-year project led by a group of firms
• British Gas-owner Centrica and Uber are among the companies backing project
• It aims to assess the impact of more electric vehicles on cables and substations
  
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That's an interesting story, seems every time you solve a problem you only create new problems

Around here, I haven't noticed a lot of electric cars on the roadways, but I have noticed a lot of electric bikes, they are becoming very popular, so much so I can see problems from people who don't know how to ride bikes in traffic. My city already has a problem with cyclists that don't obey traffic rules (one of my major pet peeves as a lifelong cyclist).

Another thing we have around here are souped up golf carts, which I believe are electric and street legal, but only used around the beaches area (Jacksonville Beach, Neptune Beach and Atlantic Beach communities). If I liked driving, that's probably what I would get, but I love cycling too much, but I will never get an electric bike

 

[Logan]

We don't need to replace plastic, we need to make it more recyclable.

 

[DirtMechanic]

Perhaps, Germany should get their energy from France! But then you don't heat your house with nuclear energy!

The yellow jackets are teaching us how taxes cause heat. I never knew socialism could be so useful!

 

[alp]

What is the point of having ELECTRIC bikes? Mind you, having electric bikes might be just a tad better than those on petrol as vehicular exhaust fumes are the worst when mixed with elements in the air.

Just a simple manual bike is best. Good for the environment and the riders. Put it simply, electric car still needs fuel the production of which foul the environment. But the worst is flying and that's why some women advocated no flying 2019.

Socialism is not completely a dirty word. Human nature fouls some of its ideologies. We can never be equal as some are bound to be cleverer. But the awareness and the eagerness to create level playing field is not entirely a bad thing. Resorting to strike and violence at the drop of a hat give a bad name to everything. And yet, they do concentrate the mind.

 

[alp]

Drug resistant superbugs kill over 153,000 Americans a year - nearly seven times the CDC's estimates, new study suggests

• The CDC's latest estimates suggests antibiotic resistant infections kill 23,000 people a year
• A new review of death data from Washington University St Louis suggests the numbers are much higher
• The new study estimates 'superbugs' killed at least 153,000 Americans in 2010
• With antibiotic resistance on the rise, this year's numbers are undoubtedly higher

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I wonder if the antibiotics fed to livestock contribute to this problems.

Rare diseases

'I have already faced more health challenges than most will in their entire life': Father, 26, has had FOUR hip replacements due to a rare disorder that 'eats away at his bone'

• Aaron Blocker was diagnosed with avascular necrosis in 2010
• This causes his bone tissue to die due to a poor blood supply
• Had his first hip replacement at just 20 when he was struggling to walk
  
  

The woman allergic to winter: 21-year-old suffers rare condition which can trigger anaphylactic shocks if she gets cold (and worryingly she lives in Canada)

• Arianna Kent, 21, of Canada, suffers from the condition cold-induced urticaria
• As little as a breeze causes a skin reaction which can lead to anaphylactic shock
• People don't believe her 'allergy', despite being hospitalised three times a month
  
  
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  Emigration might solve the problem.

 

[Logan]

People with electric bikes can't be bothered to pedal for themselves. I've seen a couple of people around here.

 

[Logan]

• The new study estimates 'superbugs' killed at least 153,000 Americans in 2010

• With antibiotic resistance on the rise, this year's numbers are undoubtedly higher

The doctors are to blame, they give them to patients that don't really need them. Like a cold or a sore throat, then the bugs become resistant.

 

[alp]

The mutation means the animals are missing a protein which controls their muscle growth, the charity said.

It is natural but occurs more commonly in farms where animals with the mutation are selectively bred because they produce more meat, PETA said.

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I hope it is NOT in the food chain!

China cracks down on extravagant weddings to stop 'rampant money worship' and 'declining morality'

• Chinese government is now pushing for a 'comprehensive wedding reform'
• Modern ceremonies including hazing rituals have 'gone against socialist values'
• Ministry of Civil Affairs say people should hold weddings in a traditional way
• Local officials will be asked to standardise marriage rituals to tackle these issues
  
  Don't think the leaders are worried about money worship .. They all sent their children here to study. Nevertheless, money, status, power and lifestyle are invariably roots of all troubles and crimes..
  
  
  
  
  
• Don't think they can buy beer here, @Perki !

 

[alp]

Drink-driver smashes his car into a POLICE STATION... on first day of force's Christmas drink-drive campaign

• Police officers in Manchester were due to kick of festive drink-drive campaign
• But before the day begun, a drink driver had slammed his car into police station
• The man, 55, was arrested outside the building's front door and charged

You can't make it up!

 

[alp]

Jose Mourinho arrives in Manchester as the new favourite to be the next Premier League boss sacked after branding star man Paul Pogba a 'virus' during draw at Southampton

• Jose Mourinho was pictured arriving in Manchester on a wet Monday morning
• Portuguese boss travelled by train from London to the north west following draw
• Mourinho is now the favourite to be the next Premier League boss to be sacked
• United drew with Southampton on Saturday, leaving them eight points off fourth
• Sportsmail reported that the 55-year-old is under mounting pressure again
  
  Ego in trouble!

America's mysterious polio-like illness has PEAKED at 134 confirmed cases and is now on the downturn, CDC declares

• So far, there are 134 confirmed cases of acute flaccid myelitis in 33 states
• The CDC says there are another 165 cases under investigation, but that it expects this number to fall for the remainder of the year
• The rare disease affects the nervous system and most resembles the polio virus
• Four years old is the average age of those affected and more than 90% of cases overall are in children aged 18 and younger
• Most kids regain movement but in some cases, they are required to be on respirators and could even die from neurological complications
  
  Hope it's not any bio terrorism!

 

[roadrunner]

China cracks down on extravagant weddings to stop 'rampant money worship' and 'declining morality'

• Chinese government is now pushing for a 'comprehensive wedding reform'
• Modern ceremonies including hazing rituals have 'gone against socialist values'
• Ministry of Civil Affairs say people should hold weddings in a traditional way
• Local officials will be asked to standardise marriage rituals to tackle these issues
  
  Don't think the leaders are worried about money worship .. They all sent their children here to study. Nevertheless, money, status, power and lifestyle are invariably roots of all troubles and crimes..
  
  
  
  
  
• Don't think they can buy beer here, @Perki !

This is all about China working towards becoming the Global power in the world. However, to do this they needed to modify their communist system to more embrace capitalism...and this is the result...

They know a communist/socialist country will never be a super power.

One thing this story proves, at least to me, is that people are people, there's absolutely no difference between all of us.

 

[alp]

Well, at least, China has woken up to the fact that they need to protect the environment and that pollution is ruining its people's health. China is a strategist - buying power in African countries by investing heavily there. They even, reportedly, have infiltrated the scholarship panels in the universities and grant them to their own students.

Read this story, and you will know that the world is full of lawlessness

Look familiar? Chinese wave power device is suspiciously similar to a Scottish machine made at factory where laptops were stolen after visit by Beijing officials five years ago

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[Silentrunning]

I don’t worry about the environment. If you look at things with a totally pragmatic eye you come to the realization that mankind doesn’t belong here. All other earthly creatures adapt to their environment with little or no effect on nature. When an animal species becomes too prevalent in an area nature will correct the situation with things such as famine and disease. Environment controls the creatures. Now, enter man. He doesn’t adapt to his environment, he changes it to suit him. Man is modifying the container that he is part of. This can only continue for a limited time. As man alters the environment he increases in numbers. This is a viscous circle that can’t continue forever.

 

[alp]

I don’t worry about the environment. ..Man is modifying the container that he is part of. This can only continue for a limited time. As man alters the environment he increases in numbers. This is a viscous circle that can’t continue forever.

I know. Men are wreaking havoc with our universe. Even we humans are responsible for rotation of earth. China’s “Three Gorges Dam” is slowing down earth’s rotation by 0.06 microseconds NASA calculated that. When countries go for these big dams to harvest energy, they are causing untold damage to our universe. Imagine one day the universe stopped rotating, we could all be dead!

 

[alp]

Is rice slowly poisoning you - and is your TOILET making you sick? Scientists warn everyday activities may be infecting humans with dangerous bacteria

• The research, presented today at the Society for Risk Analysis, also warns of risks in rice
• Rice contains high levels of arsenic, which are harmless one-off but could cause dangerous build-ups
• Toilet plumbing has not advanced, meaning dangerous bacteria fester
• The team calls for regulators do more to advise people about the risks from foods and improve plumbing
  
  Arsenic
  
  By the look of it, I have to switch to potatoes. Funny thing is that my son and I always feel hungry after a meal with potatoes.