Just scroll down to outsiders and click, then choose which date you want. Allow for a few hours before the program is posted. Sundays episode is usually posted about 1200 WA time.
Thanks Ted. Sending the link to many now.
Thanks for that link TedM. Very interesting and Jo was brilliant!
Lots of other good stuff on there too. NB: it's only the audio.
Am away, but have set the Foxtel to record. Hope it works!
You will be in safe hands with Ross And Rohan. Good Luck Jo!
Muz, thank you — I was really hoping someone would know how to do that : ) I'm glad you may have a copy, and if there is a way to get that to me, or on youtube, that would be great.
It was fun, and yes hopefully we can do that again and via a hook u from Perth.
Great to see you on Outsiders this morning….. for those who don't have Foxtel subscription you can watch all the programmes on Sky News by downloading the Foxtel Go app and when the screen comes up press Live Tv and you have free access to all the Sky news including Andrew Bolt Chris Kenny Peta Credlin and of course the redoubtable Outsiders who now appear each Monday and Thursday evenings from *pm until (pm and Sundays 9am to 11am.
Great interview Jo. The sad thing is these 2 guys plus Price and Bolt, Jones and Hadley and Dean Makin on 2SM are the only media types in this country who would even have a clue what you are saying. As for the politicians I'm sure Frydenberg knows but has sold out. As has the ALP and Lord Turnbull.
Muz, I'd love to know how to share a saved Foxtel clip as multiple episodes of Outsiders including this one are saved on the iq3.
Yes Treeman, so would I, as Jo asked above if I was able to send it/share with her somehow.
If there is someone out there with the methodology, that can put it in plain English it would be appreciated!
Revealing article by Matthew Lesh in the Australian on diversity in universities. A single startling fact. 39% of US Universities have NO Republicans. Unbelievable. Quite self evidently, whatever their qualifications, whatever their skills and insights and value, Republicans are not hired as members of staff.
How deep does this go? We know Ecology, Zoology, Botany are part of this but the real question is whether that generally includes Sciences, Engineering,Geology and Meteorology as well? Within the 61% of Democrat Universities, how much dissent is allowed? Who decides what is to be said, what opinions people have to have? What do they think of Christopher Columbus? Is he a white supremacist?
So what's next in this fight for intellectual freedom by the Democrats? Will white people exclude themselves from University to atone for their sins?
This brutal self evident monoculture makes issues of racism and LGBIT irrelevant distractions. Diversity of opinion is banned. Sounds just like Their ABC/SBS where you only get debates between people with exactly the same point of view. What does their ABC/SBS say about denier Professor Reid? Or is that banned too?
This statistic is impossible to comprehend. Even if only 20% of the population are Republicans, to employ 50 people at random without employing a single Republican, is only 0.0014%. There are over 1.5 million faculty at US universities (colleges). 39% would be almost 600,000, and even if the average zero-Republican college size was small, they surely represent over 250,000 people.
Now, the odds of employing 250,000 people without bias, and not come up without a single Republican is so infinitesimally small that I don't even know how to estimate the number of zeros before the first non-zero digit!
I tried to watch it on Foxtel Go but was told it was only for Australia.
I can't access Sky Outsiders.
But there was a actually a good piece on ABC Insiders this morning.
Saying that AGL should be forced to sell Liddell, by the government for energy security reasons.
It showed clips of Barnaby Joyce and Tony Abbott arguing the case.
Saying how AGL bought the power stations so cheap from the government.
I think there could be more to play out in the future there.
There is more to play out in the future.
Unfortunately, Mal and Josh don't know how to play.
One could say they do know how to play the game to their selfish and greedy advantage at the expense of the rest of us. The alternative is they are simply so dumb they don't know what they are doing and are clueless as to the repercussion of their destructive actions. Either way they must go before it's too late and the nation enters the next phase of crash and burn.
Liddell was built by the people for the people. As even AGL says, they were given it for nothing. Now $250Million is not enough?
This is not a conservative government becoming socialist, the prerogative of the left, but a government wanting back what theirs in the first place and on the clear understanding that it would be maintained and the service continued.
The real culprit here is the Federal laws which were inteneded to make coal power stations unprofitable and wind turbines immensely profitable by robbing one to pay the other. For nothing. Their Green electrons are better. As for gas, even exploring for gas is banned, coal seam gas is prohibited, fracking is banned and what is left in Bass Straight robbed for export because of the $400 a tonne RET money grab on fossil fuels.
You would think the Federal government is the innocent party. Malcolm and his very Green friends are the ones behind the wholesale destruction of coal and then gas. We are importing diesel and diesel engines to cover the gap? The whole scene is nuts and nothing to do with electricity and everything to do with CO2 and indirect massive subsidies which are no more than robbery?
Why is this not mentioned by anyone? Without the RET, AGL would never close Liddell. It would be a licence to print money, considering what people are paying for electricity and how cheap and plentiful coal electricity really is.
Just watched Outsides. Well done Jo. You should get a weekly spot there or on the Bolt Report.
Just watched it and Jo you were brilliant.
If Outsiders allow you put up your segment on youtube please post the link so we can circulate.
Just watched your interview on Sky . .
Jo you absolutely nailed it.
Fantastic display of 'climate knowledge.
I hope a few of the insiders took some time to watch the Outsiders, or do so during the week.
"Diversity" means division and diversity is inclusive unless you hold a diverse view. If one is a member of civil society, one doesn't need this explained.
Divest and save the world from climate change and discrimination, except that climate change is prima facie dependent on the presence of 1 or more members of Homo sapiens and identity politics discriminates in order to assert identity. But species discrimination must be so non-woke.
This all makes perfect logical sense, particularly if you come from a tertiary safe space in Journalism/Communications, Law, and Psychology.
And no surprises regarding the subject of the worst offender.
We investigate the voter registration of faculty at 40 leading U.S. universities in the fields of Economics, History, Journalism/Communications, Law, and Psychology. We looked up 7,243 professors and found 3,623 to be registered Democratic and 314 Republican, for an overall D:R ratio of 11.5:1. The D:R ratios for the five fields were: Economics 4.5:1, History 33.5:1, Journalism/Communications 20.0:1, Law 8.6:1, and Psychology 17.4:1. The results indicate that D:R ratios have increased since 2004, and the age profile suggests that in the future they will be even higher.
It is hard to know how we will deflect a new 'dark age' and return to more rational, evidence-based discourse. In the meantime, what comfort there is may reside in the obvious: suppression and oppression have equal and opposite consequences … eventually.
Very similar to what Hitler did, where he said "Let me control the textbooks, and I will control the state.". That's exactly what's happening with our schools and Universities today where the textbooks have been tainted with all sorts of BS on climate change. Some are now saying they are not going far enough. What does that mean? I suspect means any climate change sceptic found at school will be expelled.
PeterS, I agree that the historical parallels are as compelling as they are frightening though given an increased local populous, internet comms, billions more in a diverse global population wedded to progress, one might expect the t1/2 of Green totalitarian regressivism to be considerably shorter than the longevity of the National Workers Socialist Party, although other independent variables like societal cost and pain, deprivation of liberty, destruction of prosperity, persecution of deniers may not be any less intense, even if the duration of exposure is less.
I have a regular joust with a certain alarmist professor who along with his club of Rome aficionados would have global governance delivered via a war footing driven by climate activists. Suffering illusions of knowledge he will be furious should he read this comment!
Yes I have had a couple of "friends" like that. Fortunately I've lost contact with them a long time ago. They were so closed minded it was scary. I'm always fascinated how anyone let alone a supposedly intelligent academic refuses to be objective and open minded enough at least to consider other views that contradict theirs. They kept saying there is plenty of evidence supporting their theories. The point they missed is the evidence supported nothing. It's the interpretation of the evidence that was key. In other words, the exact same evidence can be interpreted by different people to support contradictory ideas. Then they failed to understand that science required a healthy discussion about the various interpretations to come up with the most likely one. I am not necessarily talking about Ockham's razor although often that can be included in the toolbox of scientific analysis. The evidence does not change. Today though it's much worse than ever before although it's not really new. Now the evidence itself is sometimes fabricated or altered to support their view. Such duplicitous activity has been conducted throughout all of history in science but it's got out of hand now. That's not science of course, it's a deliberate act of dishonesty. I for one am opened minded enough to have my view modified if someone showed me the actual evidence is best interpreted in such a way that CAGW is real. At this stage and as far as I know that's not the case. So I am sticking to the most reasonable and scientific view that CAGW is total nonsense.
Without fail, at that point they argue from authority or more usually, frank insult.
I believe that the time is almost up for this kind of ideologically infected intellectual regressivism.
err … it does, see BOM, climategate, satellite data revisionism.
Use sarc next time Pete.
A good video on the subject.
Have just found Jo Nova on Outsiders today.
Got me quite excited listening to her. Great talk.
Feel all is not quite lost just yet.
The left wing alarmists who wathed the interview will be clawing the walls and tearing their hair out !
Serge, I think you may have omitted 'foaming at the mouth'?
Great interview on Outsiders this morning. Joanne mentioned how solar and wind renewables have completely distorted the energy market including adding $billions in infrastructure and maintenance costs which in turn adds hugely to the energy costs borne by consumers. The point is well made and should be obvious to anyone looking at their ever rising electricity bills but it's not the only way we are paying for this. Solar has become considerably cheaper in recent years BUT is still so expensive to install that even with a possible reduction in your power bill the average 5kw system will still take over ten years of operation to pay for itself. So where's the value? Right now the ubiquitous spread of solar panels on roofs has also distorted the housing market to such an extent that the average system costing say $5000 will add $10000 to the value of the house regardless of any (modest) savings in energy costs. Houses with solar are now worth more than those without, regardless of any actual reduction in power costs. This will drive the market in solar. For that reason alone the $billions in taxpayers money used in continued government subsidies for renewables is insane.
I have suggested to Ross and Rowan that Joanne should have her own show on Skynews. A fantastic half hour exposure.
That would be fantastic. Alternatively, as I said Jo should appear on their show (remotely of course) every week even if it's for a very short time to give everyone an update of events.
Aw shucks guys. Thanks. I'm so glad you enjoyed it.
I hope we can get a copy.
Jo please, pretty please see if you can convince them schedule a regular segment on their show to keep informing the public of the truth about climate change. It has the potential of being a great game changer and expose the truth not only about climate change but also the state of our electricity supply and where it's heading. Perhaps you can join forces with TonyfromOz. We desperately need a much broader exposure on the airwaves even though it's only on Foxtel and not free to air. Surely it would seep into the rest of the community by word of mouth, and more importantly stir up the two major parties into a frenzy as they fight like mad for being painted into a corner they can't escape thus exposing them to the whole nation they have taken us all for fools. As you are aware this is desperate times and we the people can force a change but only if enough people know the change is not only necessary it's critical to the survival of this nation.
PeterS – if one has an iPad or iPhone one can download the "FOXTEL Go" App. Although one needs a subscription to view most programs the "Live TV" link lets you view the current program free. We watch the Outsiders, Bolt, Credlin and the "Peta Allen" show with Peta Credlin and Allan Jones. Beats the ABC anytime.
I didn't know that. Thanks for letting me know. I'll pass that info on to others who don't have Foxtel when I want them to watch something important. As for the ABC, I value my critical thinking abilities too much to let them be destroyed by watching the ABC. The odd times I do watch the ABC, which is about two or three times a year, convinces me it's in a different Universe so to speak. I shudder to think how it affects people who watch it regularly. It has to be something like having a lobotomy.
PeterS, good news, Foxtel has signed a deal with WIN to run SkyNews on a new dedicated "free to air" channel within the WIN network.
Let's hope that includes Outsiders and the Bolt Report. Would be much nicer if it wasn't just restricted to regional TV. Imagine the screams from the left residing in the major cities if it was allowed to be broadcasted there. It would be like thrusting a wooden stake into a vampire so to speak.
I downloaded "whooshka",it seems to work for Sky.
JOANNE ENOUGH , we have just seen Tommy Robinson arrested for nothing , and yet not a word on your blog , you just as much live in a bubble as those we are fighting against .
Not so DD. I think it has been mentioned already on the previous unthreaded.
Also, Jo has had more than enough to cope with during the past week. She has done brilliantly so please stop carping when you are in one of your late evening whinging modes.
Perhaps it's because he is considered to be friendly towards white supremacists, a very hateful group of people. However, whether he is or not is beside the point. He has every right to do what he did outside that court room. Free speech should never be considered to be hate speech under the law. Otherwise, governments can change the law to clamp down on all kinds of free speech, as we are all seeing elsewhere today more and more.
It is ironic that after that noble effort 70 years ago to slay the Fascist hoard, that the UK is becoming rather like Germany of the 1920′s, don't you think? Here is some food for thought on that topic.
I am not surprised. In fact I expected it for a long time. It's no coincidence that certain English elites before and during the 2nd WW were close to the Nazis. The government as depicted in the movie "V for Vendetta" comes eerily close to what I was expecting to happen in real life, and still expecting. Whether it does come about though only time will tell but it's not looking good. I see the same for the rest of the West. This is why the left might not be our real enemy. The real one might be using the left in a very devious way as a diversion to prepare us to allow the fascist/extreme right to take over. That's how Hitler came to power. He first goaded the communists to cause problems and took advantage of the situation to take over and stamp them out before he turned his focus on the Jews.
Same applies to that bastion of UN / EU eco-marxist globalism, New Zealand.
Dam it! Here I was thinking of escaping to NZ, seriously.
Jo's blog relates to climate.
Well done, Jo! It will be interesting to know if the appearance has increased your hits here. The more exposure, the better for the cause of the truth about this scam!
Ever watched something and wished there was more?
I could have listened to that for hours.
A lot more relaxed also than anything from 7.30.
Joanne, you make Ross Garnaut look like C-3PO.
Yes Jo was interrupted a few times and I felt telling the guys to just shut up and let her talk. Still it was marvellous. I hope this is not the last time it's done, and as I said earlier it would be great if Jo appeared on their show regularly to provide updates. It could be called the "real climate change" segment of the show.
Which is why it would fantastic to see Jo in a regular segment on the show.
Just caught the interview. Well done, Jo. Very well done indeed.
Be aware that this is NOT the beginning of an ABC career for you. But plenty of people never had an ABC career and got by. It's mostly for the Undead anyway, apart from a few rural reporters and sports callers they have to recruit from amongst the Living.
Meant to be green . .
In fact Jo made the point that there has been climate change and will be climate change but the causes are uncertain.
With regard to solar and wind generators, I take the view that the most compelling argument against the RET is that the subsidies are paid by the disadvantaged who do not own a roof or cannot afford to install solar. The burden falls very unevenly on the disadvantaged. Those who can afford their own solar system can neutralise the impact of rising power prices but it comes at a cost of greater intermittency, higher prices and will eventually cause the grid to collapse economically if taken to the extreme. It simply becomes cheaper for those with a roof or open space to install enough panels and batteries to be self-sufficient; as we now see in South Australia.
Indeed I often see the rich have the really big solar panels costing around $20k, well beyond the means of the average worker let alone the old age pensioners. There's a sort of discrimination against the less rich, poor and helpless in this nation. I thought the left were the other way around. Apparently they are not. Of course the left in both major parties are just hypocrites of the higher order.
I thought the left were the other way around.
There is a mixture. Labor still has attachment to unions. That is why I feel that this is the best way to attack the RET. Point out where the subsidies come from and who gets them. Making this point on Renewenergy is the trump card. It temporarily silences the support for intermittents. I believe the majority of people still believe the subsidies come from general revenue so is just an added tax.
The other point that really needs to be pushed strongly is the meaningless of LCOE (Levelised Cost of Electricity). This is the basis of the arguments that wind and solar industry and supporters promote strongly. Jo made the point that intermittents increase cost because of system interactions. This does not have meaning to most. The point that networks having high market share of intermittents also has expensive electricity was well made. However in Australia that is countered by the fact that Abbott slowed investment in intermittents so there is not enough competition now.
1. The RET has caused transfer payments from the disadvantaged to the wealthy who own a roof and will continue till at least 2030 under current legislation.
2. Comparing LCOE of ambient energy sources to reliable generation is meaningless unless there is infinite system storage – there is negligible storage in the Australian NEM.
3. The word "renewable" is a misnomer. In polite company "ambient" is a good descriptor. A more derogatory term is "intermittents". And to tell it how it really is the term is "run-whenever-you-like".
4. The intended aim of ambient electricity generation of reducing CO2 cannot happen on a global scale because they cannot produce enough energy over their life to enable their replication – they are indeed unrenewable. Germany is facing up to this reality as a significant portion of their wind fleet is up for replacement at a time of diminishing subsidies.
I was able to watch the 11 minutes of Jo. I thought it was very entertaining and informative. The answers and the questions were excellent.
Ross Cameron asked; "How has Australia vandalised its own electricity system?", which was partially answered.
Another question is; "Who has vandalised Australia's electricity system" The answer is Federal and State Governments.
And if that message is repeated over and over in the public's presence they may get the message that the electricity system, ie. production and distribution, has been vandalised by those two levels of government.
The smart ones may even associate that message with cost.
I just watched the 10 minute clip. Wow! Good work Jo, and I learnt something? You were once a Vegan Greenie? I did not know that! Well, you didn't actually say you wee no longer vegan……………….
Some of us if not most got sucked in to the initial CAGW religion until we seen the light , well done Jo excellent interview .
Just watched it again and Jo you were simply brilliant!
For mine, Insiders are the leading the charge in Australia for the Intellectual Dark Web.
The worm is turning and The IDW are only recently impacting in this country thanks to Jordan Petersen and just yesterday, Janet Albrechtsen with a fine summation of the world today.
You are in esteemed company and it was a most timely appearance on Outsiders!
Jo's reasoned and widely-supported position on global warming surely deserves at least equal billing on the Victorian school curriculum as their accepted Safe Schools minority stuff.
Unsafe schools. People would be locked up for what is being taught now under the cover of Safe Schools.
Met and talked with Libby Down Under and checked out one of her articles in the Spectator.
The Friedman 18 conference was full of pleasant surprises including "Libby" and Jacinta Price.
Jo, in her presentation, got the message across brilliantly using liberal doses of irony. How to ruin a perfectly good grid.
rights… Say, who will bell the goddam cat?
Thx Jo 'n the Liberty forum fer what you do, serfs' appreciate.
My young Rhinocerotidae, love your turnips OTOH Momma stomps foot if they get close to tall chicken looking critt)er wid stick go bang!
You are an interviewers dream – knowledgeable and animated. In N.Z. we get 'outsiders ' which we record but when i heard you were coming on i withdrew from the rain & watched live. I do visit your website often & have read some years ago blogs by your husband who had a great background to ridiculing man made global warming.
Not surprising Jo came across so well, this on top of being the best article writer in Australia today, our children need more positive influences like her.
great stuff, jo. if only you had a weekly spot on TV or radio. it would be a game-changer for the CAGW disinfo mob.
why doesn't 2GB drop one of their regular American correspondents and give you a spot instead. at least the audience would be well served.
"South Australia transmission company ElectraNet says it has found a cheaper solution that using the state's gas plants to provide system strength to the local grid, which is now dominated by wind and solar.
Does that make sense? What is the article leaving out?
A synchronous condenser is rotor synched with grid to provide power factor correction. It is a DC-excited synchronous machine whose shaft neither delivers nor absorbs rotational energy. By varying the excitation through a voltage regulator it can used to either generator or absorb REACTIVE power, hence assisting with PF correction.
They are typically required to assist with grid voltage control in situations in which windmills disconnect because of too little or too much wind.
The power factor correction thus provided comes at a cost. Spinning constantly requires energy input from the grid. They require input energy, and provide no output. To suggest that a synchronous condenser can replace spinning reserve, as the statement suggests, is complete nonsense.
The title is misleading. The prime function of the synchronous condensers is added system rotating inertia. They will consume some power due to magnetising and windage losses but not much. They will not generate "real" power. Fundamentally they act as flywheels in the system so if the is a power surge or system fault the frequency will not shift too rapidly for the frequency controllers at the large generators to adjust.
At the present time that stabilising inertia is mandated by AEMO to avoid system collapse and is coming from gas plants connected and spinning but not necessarily producing much. The gas plants are being paid for this service above any sale of electricity unless they are scheduled to generate. You will find there are always 3 or 4 gas generators running in South Australia and the wind turbines are capped at around 1200MW despite wind being available to produce more.
The synchronous condensers can be used as a source or sink of "reactive" power so can alter voltage at their point of connection. Typically they supply reactive to compensate for line inductance. In that regard they act like the capacitor in the old fluorescent lights.
There is potential for the synchronous condensers to reduce gas usage by eliminating need to have gas plants running and connected in periods of good to high wind. With increasing number of wind turbines and solar installation in SA the ambient generators will more often have capacity to supply 100% of the energy demand but the system would have near to zero inertia to handle sudden changes in the system.
I agree that rotational inertia is provided by a synchronous condenser. This is valuable when a system bears the impact of large motors occasionally stopping and starting.
However, when the wind changes in a particular locale it affects many giant fans simultaneously. In that case, the rotational inertia that can be imparted lasts for only a few seconds. It is the governor on that coupled turbine that protects the system frequency from freefall. When the system loses significant generation instantaneously, rotational inertia in the form of a non-driven rotor has little effect.
The rotational inertia provides the vital seconds to enable the governors on dispatchable generators to respond in time. There is always running reserve on the grid but would not normally be in SA if the wind turbines are meeting demand because they only have gas plant – no low cost coal. The condensers avoid having unloaded gas turbines sitting on-line burning gas turning over but not generating much. So the effect of the condensers is to save gas. The existing gas turbines in SA are acting as synchronous condensers but highly inefficient because they burn gas just turning over and staying warm.
Anti-PC intellectual dark web… The New Reformation has begun….
Janet Albrechtsen wrote an article about the intellectual dark web in the Weekend Australian.
Jordan Petersen is there on the intellectual dark web. Also Dr Jonathon Haidt. I heard about him for the first time during the Liberty Conference on Sunday ( The one that Jo was a speaker. Jonathon Haidt has founded a group called the Heterodox Academy, which is attracting University academics who think that the progressive left monoculture in Universities has gone too far.
I wonder if they will install a monster water slide and make it into a theme park while theyre at it?
"AGL is working with Japanese firm Idemitsu to transform a Hunter Valley coal mine into a pumped hydro storage power plant to replace the energy lost when AGL closes the Liddell power station in 2022.
Talk about stupid. Here we have AGL desperate to shut down a coal fired power station and working with Japan to build a pumped hydro power plant while Japan are building and planning to build over 40 new coal fired power stations. This country is nuts and the sooner voters wake up and act accordingly at every election from now on the better. Otherwise, the Australia we know can and will be obliterated.
To late Pete, Australia's economy is going to crash & burn in the next 5 – 7 years. Each state should have already started building new coal fired power stations. Liddell and "pumped hydro" is a major distraction (deliberate) by AGL and politicians. When all this game playing is over, everyone will wonder what happened. The Australian voters are clueless, fast asleep and lazy to read/learn what is really happening to this country. Agenda 21 and 2030 has been implemented alongside other socialist strategies to undermine western civilization (The Frankfurt School has 11 objectives to destroy society – developed during the 1930′s).
- The creation of racism offences.
- Huge immigration to destroy identity.
How does Australia look today (Posted by Robyn Todhunter on XYZ)?
The thing that makes this so sickening is that it is for all intents and purposes indisputable.
There are some of these which relate/describe the politically correct environment we are living in.
The thing which drives me nuts is that at any gathering of people for whatever reason, the person running the meeting or event feels compelled to apologise for holding it wherever it is lest someone be offended. In Adelaide at least. Of course they don't quite say it like that, but that's the intention.
I wonder if this happens in other states?
Stall, I tend to agree and the timing is about right. It might stretch out to 10-15 years depending what the US does. The longer it lasts the bigger the fall. After the crash and burn we will have a lot if not all of our freedoms taken away and be under some kind of worldly authoritarian system. I'm pretty much convinced there is nothing we can do, not because we as the public can't make the necessary changes, it's just that most don't care to know. They are too busy with distractions and work.
We have far too many voters who don't think before they vote and as a result we get the government we deserve.
No, the government the unthinkers deserve, who drag the rest of us down.
I don't get the attraction with pumped hydro. It is a net user of power, and in real terms, does not make economic sense! At best, it is 80% efficient. Most likely worse, how much worse? Maybe 70%. That is using a lot of power, for no real benefit!
Makes far more sense to have reliable 24/7/365 generating power, that works no matter the weather!
Not a fan of Snowy 2.0. Bring on an HELE plant at minimum, or a nuclear plant!
The bottom line is this. Any isolated nation like Australia that relies too much on renewables without a significant supply of base load power (coal or nuclear) is effectively signing their own economic death sentence, not so much due to the cost, which is certainly a contributing factor but because if and when the wind stops blowing enough, the cloud cover increases for long periods and at the same time there is not enough rainwater, which is not out of the question, we will end up with a perfect storm that would create a scenario equivalent to a major terrorist attack on all our power generation infrastructure. Although we are not there already we are certainly heading that way soon if we continue with the two-party solution to increase our reliance on renewables. Of course the lefties will come back and say we could use more backup batteries to overcome such an event. The reality is the cost of doing that would send this nation bankrupt in no time. It would make the NBN cost look like the cost of buying something at the Reject Shop compared to buying something at the most expensive store at upper 5th Avenue NY.
A lot of pollies should logically be up on t*****n charges right now over the green mess….
If Peter Hannam says its a 'non-story' then its bound to be true.
Fantastic interview on the Outsiders Jo! It is so refreshing to hear an educated science journalist talking about the real evidence for climate change. Hopefully, a few more people might open up to the revolutionary idea that that big yellow-white ball in the sky (that comes up over the eastern horizon each morning) might have something to do with climate change.
Australian renewable energy developer CWP Renewables has joined forces with global private markets investment manager Partners Group to build a total of 1,300MW of wind, solar and battery projects that they say will beat coal power on price and reliability.
The commitment from Partners Group will see the 135MW Crudine Ridge project south of Mudgee begin construction soon, but Partners will inject a total of $700 million to ensure CWP's entire 1,300MW portfolio of wind, solar and batteries goes ahead.
The investment is designed, and timed, to take advantage of the closure of Liddell, and is built on expectations that closures of other coal fired generators will follow.
"We can, from this large portfolio, produce 24/7 baseload renewable power at very competitive prices," CWP chief executive Alex Hewitt says. "This is the future of large-scale generation in Australia.
These projects – dubbed the Grassroots Renewable Energy Platform – include the 230MW Sapphire solar farm and 70MWh battery storage, which will combine with the 270MW Sapphire wind farm near Glenn Innes (pictured above) that is nearly complete.
It also includes the 140MW Bango wind project, the Glen Ellen and Sundown solar projects, and the massive Uungula wind and the solar project that will total 400MW of capacity, along with other storage.
Hewitt says these projects will allow morning and evening wind generation to be combined with daytime solar generation and battery energy storage.
Hewitt points to problems surrounding Liddell, and the decision of its owner AGL to close down the ageing and decrepit generator because the costs exceed alternatives. Hewitt says it is clear renewables and storage can beat coal generation.
Hewitt says the combined cost of wind and solar and "firming capacity" is cheaper than the $100/MWh plus cost of keeping Liddell open, or for that matter building new coal generators.
"We applaud AGL's stance (to close Liddell) against government pressure. One way or another that amount of generation will be replaced," he says, noting also that CWP and Partner Group's own portfolio amounts to 50 per cent of that capacity.
Partners Group is a global private markets investment management firm with over $100 billion in investment programs under management in private equity, private real estate, private infrastructure and private debt.
It all sounds so convincing; that now, renewables are cheaper.
Then the unstated rider comes back to memory: only as long as the cost penalty on coal fired is maintained to keep the price very very high.
Swiss private investment firm Partners Group AG and one of Canada's largest pension funds, OPSEU Pension Trust , are eyeing further investments in renewable energy projects in Australia citing a stable investment climate and bipartisan support for the renewable energy target.
***In Asia, it's largest investment was a $220 million solar platform in Japan.
Swiss investment manager Partners Group AG said on Monday that it has sold to a consortium led by Global Infrastructure Partners (GIP) its stake in Japan Solar LP, owner of a 610-MW solar platform.
The value of the transaction was not disclosed, but the seller said it has generated a blended gross return of 3.2 times the original investment.
"The successful sale of our stake in Japan Solar ahead of our original exit timeline provides an attractive return to our clients and endorses our strategy of platform-building in markets supported by transformative trends," said Benjamin Haan, Partner, Head of Private Infrastructure Asia, Partners Group.
In early 2014, Partners Group and Equis Funds Group announced they had led a USD-250-million (EUR 203m) equity investment for Japan Solar, with plans to develop utility-scale projects with long-term power purchase agreements (PPAs) under Japan's feed-in tariff (FiT) programme. The Swiss investment manager then made a further equity investment into the platform, thus becoming its largest shareholder.
Partners Group noted that, at the time of signing the stake sale agreement, Japan Solar's portfolio included 27 secured projects with a combined capacity exceeding 610 MW. More than 200 MW of this was operational and contracted into long-term PPAs with Japanese electric utility companies.
Earlier this month, Partners Group also sold its stake in US solar power firm Silicon Ranch Corporation to Shell.
According to the left in both parties electricity is going to get cheaper with renewables. At least they are consistent; everything is up-side-down back-to-front in the world of the left, very much like Orwellian speak. I just wonder how long this can go on for before the people wake up to what's going on. I suspect not until it's too late but let's wait and see first at the next bi-elections then at the next federal election. I am waiting that long before making my final decision as to whether Australians are as dumb as they appear to be or they are actually as smart as some say they are.
(excerpts) The price of electricity would soar under the latest scheme by Wall Street financial engineers to game the electricity markets.
sounds a bit familiar, doesn't it? with all the buying & selling of "renewables" that goes on, who knows who will own what when the sh*t hits the fan?
Renew economy completely divorced from reality as always.
If thy believe 1300 MW of Wind, Solr, and Battery can provide "firm supply" …..then they have not bothered to even casually review the situation in SA.
Somewhere there is a financial game being played, at our expence !
Heightened geopolitical tensions in the Taiwan Strait, the narrow sea channel between Taiwan and mainland China that has become an offshore wind farms investment hotspot, has raised concerns on the adequacy of insurance coverage for the sector, according to an insurer focused on renewable energy.
International developers – mainly European – have flocked to grab a share of lucrative wind farm development rights recently awarded on projects mainly in the seas west and northwest of the island, lured by excellent wind resources and high guaranteed long-term power prices.
"The prevailing attitude is one where they are almost discounting the likelihood of that risk because they are treating the Taiwan Strait as if it is the North Sea or the Baltic Sea," said Jatin Sharma, the president of California-based GCube Insurance Services, which focuses on insuring renewable energy projects, in an interview with the South China Morning Post.
Taipei is targeting offshore wind capacity to reach 5,500 MW by 2025 from 8 MW last year, making it one of the world's investment hotspots. Some 18,814 MW were installed globally at the end of last year.
Returns on both onshore and offshore projects on the mainland are expected to fall as Beijing last week said all new projects will be subject to competitive bidding from next year, in which price is the biggest factor for project awards.
Not really OT just heard on ABC radio the comment that power prices have soared 65% over the last ten years and it would be great to see a graph of that time frame showing price increase and renewable increase to see how they correlate together .
Of course correlation doesn't link to causation necessarily.
Northern in SA closed in May 2016. Hazelwood in Victoria closed in April 2017.
This has a good chart. I was involved in the early development of the national grid and I am annoyed by socialist suggesting that the prices rose because of corporatisation and privatisation of State owned power monopolies.
The price instability and increases can be sheeted directly to run-whenever-you-like generators displacing base load generation and then complete reliance on gas plant for dispatchable generation instead of coal plant.
Rick let the ACCC do there million dollar investigation we both know they will come up with not enough cheap renewable power .
then the "unproven" increase in co2 levels.. driving increase in temperature.!!
"Asking the Right Questions: According to P. Gosselin who translates reports in German, after 20 years, some in Germany are asking the right questions regarding the problem of storing and transporting solar and wind energy. When the systems produce, there is an excess of electricity, but when they don't, there is a shortage. According to Gosselin: Dr. Björn Peters wrote a summary of a meeting attended by political and industry leaders on Germany's energy future that featured surprising realism.
Yet another good article from stop these things. Will the polititions and MSM ever discover reality and end this madness before we destroy the economy.
Some people say they know because they believe. Others believe because they actually know.
Unfortunately, the believer group try to make the knowing group pay for the mistakes caused by the believed things that are false. It is founded on the believe that simply believing is enough. Interestingly, reality doesn't care what you believe, It goes on being what it is dealing out rewards and punishment for actions taken without regard to race, religion, ethnicity, disability, or sexual orientation.
An interesting sideshow in Brazil shows how much we depend on fossil fuels, where a truckers strike has almost brought the country to its knees.
The truckers were objecting to the high cost of diesel fuel, and set up blockades to stop deliveries of all sorts throughout Brazil.
The president of Brazil has reduced the price of diesel in an attempt to get the drivers to stop their strike action.
Trucking is particularly important in Brasil. A country about a million sq km larger than Australia with negligible railways. The communication system (IIRC built since about the 1960′s) depends on bitumen roads and diesel trucks.
Today's newspaper had a comment that didn't surprise me with respect to it's content.
The item was about AGL.
It seems that wife of a prominent politician has been engaged as a consultant by AGL.
Should come as no surprise to anyone really it's just the sort of thing that Trump campaigned on and what he meant by draining the swamp .
How this is meant to be anything other than a favour for a favourable decision?
Are we allowed to make that sort of deduction here Robert?
I'm almost certain that there is no connection between that bit of news and the other recently discovered facts that U.S. eco activists have found their way to the top of the food chain, or very close to it, at both AGL and James Cook University.
Positions like those were once seen as a reward for effort and competence.
A member of the public yesterday observed in a newspaper options column, that two senior members of the Federal government had expressed concern about the recent events at JCU and that the head of that institution should now do the honorable thing and resign.
Our President, sorry, make that Prime Minister, is a humble, caring person and always has our best interests at heart.
Politicians are expected to reciprocate the trust invested in them by the voting public, but looking at our situation from that perspective it is becoming more evident that we, the voters, have made some serious errors in judgement.
Mitigating climate change™ is a costly business.
The interview was great, gratulations Mr. Nova!
But the title is wrong and we should always point that out: there is lots of evidence of climate change, climate change is the norm. There is no evidence of catastrophic anthropogenic climate change!
Yeah, good point there, Freddie. The climate industry thrives on sloppy and useless terminology like "global warming" and "climate change". As if the globe doesn't warm and climate doesn't change! The cataclysmic changes in just one millennium after 9,500 BC – the climate change that dares not speak its name in these priest-ridden times – is proof enough.
No matter how much they pretend to scientific rigour, they love these slack terms, presumably because they can retreat through a back door left cunningly ajar. They can always say "regardless of what is causing climate change, nobody can deny etc…". But they can also exploit the emotional charge which has been given to the terms through constant repetition and media conditioning.
As I've recently experienced, climate activists in academia and media tend to be conceited mediocrities who've found a purpose. They rely heavily on verbal stunts, among other stunts. I say starve them of their slack terminology and get them to define every time.
Please provide the name of a region, for example, whose Koppen-Geiger classification has permanently changed in the last hundred years. I am interested in the "lots of evidence" that climate, a REGIONAL parameter, has change recently.
That kind of change, Koppen-Geiger classification, in one century is a bit of an ask. I guess that could happen at the start of an interglacial (the Eemian and this present one came on very suddenly), but otherwise I reckon you are looking at millennia.
However (since we have a Swiss visitor) there have been interesting studies of chilling and lack of flooding in Switzerland during what we loosely regard as the pointy end of the LIA. The 1690s brought a big freeze to Europe and Switzerland, but while the snows over London were thick (most known) glaciers did not advance in Switzerland because winters were so dry. But, my, how those lakes froze. All this was in strong contrast to much of the 1500s for example. And one reason there was so much tourism and mountaineering in the latter part of the 19th century was the warmer and drier summers in Switzerland as the LIA drew down.
These (simplified by me) accounts of change are visible after a few centuries. However, if you had tried to deduce Swiss climate from a few decades there would be too many contradictions (eg glacial retreat and more frequent warm summers from the 1630s to 1680s). Of course, nowadays we have a bizarre cult that soothsays the long trend of future climate just from conditions of 1979 to the present. Somehow we have to send those bizarros back to the basement.
But I do get Fred's point and reckon it was a point worth making.
irrelevant to the fact that it is always changing.
There's never any discernible point.
This is the new "sub_critical" intellectualism on which academic verbalese thrives.
The art is in filling a page without saying anything.
I've known writers who write for both Labore and Liberal and to aid economy simply add a different introductory paragraph and conclusion while using the same 400 words of verbalese as padding.
My apologies, Gee Aye. I think I now get your meaning, namely that climate is always changing and that a change of Koppen class is not the only form of substantial and recognisable change. If that was your meaning…obviously we agree!
we do and you figured out my crypticness.
I just don't get people who understand climate change yet say, "hey it has been the same where I live for 50 years therefore the climate is not changing". Human perceptions are not a good metric.
I don't like it when people, who have lived in the same area for the last 50 years say that the weather has changed and that therefore we have Climate Change™.
You should always give both sides of the story.
it is the same side of the story – human perceptions are not a good metric.
I don't know about that, Gee Aye.
When I blow on a hot bowl of soup, ie adding more air, I perceive that the liquid cools more quickly.
When I turn on the fan, then up a notch, adding more air, I perceive that I cool more quickly.
When I stand outside on a cold day, I perceive wind chill.
You might think, from all these perceptions, that the atmosphere (air) would cool the Earth's surface rather than warm it,or keep it warm, eh ?, Gee Aye?
Aye spy with my little eye, won't cut it, Gee Aye.
fascinating Mack but we are talking about measuring and quantifying things using those perceptions. Just because you perceive something doesn't mean your measurement of it is useful or accurate and if you don't perceive something it doesn't mean that there is nothing to measure (absence of evidence is not necessarily evidence of absence).
Your tests of my statement are wholly consistent and supportive my meaning.
Yes, that's right, Gee Aye….evidence of the absence of a "greenhouse effect" cannot be evident, because, as you loons keep telling us, the evidence is "overwhelming".
Say it after me, Gee Aye….
…..say it often enough and you'll actually believe it.
Over in UK at present saddened by the monstrous windmills that are sprouting up like mushrooms all over the once beautiful landscape. Listened to the podcast of 2 great interviews in bed this am – Stein and Nova. Great work I'm sure Rowan and Ross would be open to give Jo a regular appearance.
Jo great interview. I listened late last night. One point that has been nagging at me since is the bidding process. Several years ago I attended a talk on S.A.P.S. stand alone power systems. It was all good stuff but the economic price for wind power was stated to be about $100 per kilowatt hour. I questioned this and was told that in SA the big wind farms would bid zero to supply. This ensured that they were always taken up. Then as you said in the podcast, everyone got paid the final rate. This therefore depends on the remaining balance being expensive to make a profit. No wonder that they want to kill cheap coal. The economics will have changed since then, but the principles remain the same. There would be a simple solution to this if the regulation changes to a real free market and everyone got paid what they bid.
You mean that we should expect politicians to "get real"?
They don't make a cent out of what's happening but as the song says: "that's what friends are for".


Famous people love showing off their super pricey luxury cars that get alot of attention –.
In today's society, if the car you purchase is a Bentley, or Lamborghini that is usually the beginning of many modifications to be made to the vehicle to make it look special (or turn more heads).
A famous boxer called Riyadh Al-Azzawi is the latest high profile celebrity to wrap his car and make it stand out from the rest.
The boxer owns a Ferrari 458 Spider, shown below on the streets of London, in a spanking new Gold WRAP Decal….. The below tells the story….
I read some comments that people believe the car is made from gold (well gold plating) but it's actually a particular Gold decal car wrap, that is installed over the total car's surface.
The car decal, that is a bright gold, cost the owner around $600,000 and the full car decal (vinyl) wrap is expected to another $10,000 to make and install.
My gut feel is that $10,000 to produce and install the car wrap (even if it's gold) is a little much, though if you are purchasing a car worth more than half a million dollars, then an spending an extra $10k is like loose change!
"Wrapping" cars is a latest trend that is taking the celeb's by storm. (the term wrap is now used, rather than decal or stickers) as it gives them more publicity, attention and coverage in the media.
So a car wrap is basically a car decal that covers your whole car and any type of design that you can think of.
In the photo above, the car wrap is to replicate gold, though any other designs can be used as you will see below.
What this means, is, if you are a celeb and what to can change the image of your vehicle before a movie launch or concert, it can be done in less than 24 hours….simply, remove wrap, take off the adhesive and apply a new design.
I've compiled a list below of the top celeb's, the type of car wrap they have and what designs have been used….. and even a few pictures and video tutorials if you want to change the look of your car by applying a wrap or removing your current car wrap or decals/.
Now Chris is a famour rapper and has had his Lamborghini warpped in the theme of a world war II fighter plane.
Chris did not stop at having his Lambo car wrapped and covered in decals. A Porsche Panamera who also owns has been covered in decals that look like it has been spray painted with graffiti.
So Justin has grown up (not matured) and has had his fare share of tattoo's applied and been got street racing.
It appears Justin new love is putting full body decals (wraps on his cars) is another big wrapper (not rapper).
The vehicles that Mr Bieber has wrapped in are a leopard print on an Audi R8 and a black matte finish on his Cadillac's, Smart Car, Range Rover and Mercedes Benz.
This is a DJ who loves playing at clubs and put a blue rainbow full body car wrap on his car. And guess what type of car he has…. yes the very popular Ferrari 458. The full car wrap was a dedication to one of the music video's he made.
LeBron James – for you guys who love Big Celeb Car lovers.
So the biggest name in Basketball also loves having decals on his super cars.
For his Italian Super car, he got a decal that matched his shoes. You can tell from the picture that Mr James like the tropical feel.
So this guy is not so famous but when you have a big brother who is the chairman of Fiat it does help.
If anyone wants help removing car decal wraps, then please let us know.
If you want some step by step tutorial on how to apply a car wrap, I found this great video on youtube that goes for about 5 minutes.
If you install large colourful decals on your company cars it will make it stand out from all the other vehicles on the road and give you alot of low cost advertising and exposure.
Even if you only have one or two vehicles in your company, if you drive your vehicle as part of your job, , you will give a big boost to your businesses exposure wrapping your car in your companies logo.
With the rise of seach engines, google adwords and social media, interruption advertising (i.e. those annoying ads where they yell on the TV) used in television and radio is on the otter.
Your new customers can easily see your message without distracting them from what they're doing.
Ever wanted advertising that goes where you go?
Cars that are wrapped are not restricted to someone who only listens to raido, rather your car wrap advertising goes where your car goes.
This can be great as by going on vacation or sport matches with your kids, means your business gets more advertising and exposure thanks to your cool car wrap.
Big Bonus: if your vehicle is completely covered by decals or a full body car wrap, then the surface will be protected. There won't be or only minimal damage from rocks or scratches.
It also means the paint won't fade from the heavy heat of the sun.
This article has been some fun, though the real way we can help is by helping you easily remove car decals and wraps.
Without being bias, we have found using a tool such as the Whizzy Wheel and is the easiest and most effective way to remove car decals.
Simple Step 1 Pull your Whizzy Wheel from its lovely white packaging.
Simple Step 2 Connect the Whizzy Wheel to any household drill with the arbour supplied in the packaging.
Simple Step 3 Press the Whizzy Wheel on any wrap, sticker, decal, or vinyl (up to 50 years old) and make sure the drill is turned on.
Simple Step 4 Be amazed as the car wrap or decal is easily removed.


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Rupert Desmond Henly attended the Cheltenham School of Art and the North Gloucestershire Technical College part-time from 1939-1942. After being articled to Ranger & Rogers, Architects, he passed his Part I exams externally at the RIBA in May 1943. He joined Royal Engineers in 1942 and served through the duration of World War II. After war service he joined the AA in 1946 for the 4th and 5th years, receiving the AA Diploma in 1948. Henly attended the School of Planning & Research for Regional Development in Gordon Square for a year in 1948-49. In 1951 Henly went to the United States and worked in 1952-53 at the Sacramento Redevelopment Agency as a Planning Officer, a 1-year Town Planning Institute requirement. He then worked with Richard Neutra as a draughtsperson for two years and went on to work for Abe Geller in New York. Henly returned to the UK in 1955, when he then opened his own practice primarily designing domestic architecture. He retired to the south coast of England and later moved back to Cheltenham. Mr Henly has been a strong supporter of the AA and its students, emphasizing the value of student work such as sketch books in the educational process.
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[Letter from Pablo Casals to Susan Metcalfe, Rio de Janeiro]
MSS246 Susan Metcalfe Letters, 1902 - 1922
Casals announces a change of plans: he will leave on the 12th for Buenos Aires instead of St. Paul, and on returning from Argentina will stop in Brazil for a few days. "Today is the 3rd concert. The 4th is the 4th, and on the10th we give a...
Casals has received Metcalfe's letter. He was concerned that he might not get it before leaving for Buenos Aires the next day. He understands and agrees with her thoughts about Andree. He cannot break his promise to her. "I was surprised to have...
[Letter from Pablo Casals to Susan Metcalfe, Buenos Aires]
Casals is happy to have received four letters from Metcalfe that day. He spent much of the day being "bothered" by friends and journalists. He reminds her that he told her from the start that nothing would change his decision to marry Andree. "I...
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Starting in 1897, State Normal Magazine contained news about the State Normal and Industrial College (now The University of North Carolina at Greensboro). Renamed Coraddi in 1919, the magazine became primarily a literary and fine arts publication...
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The June 15, 1904, issue of The Greensboro Patriot, a newspaper published in Greensboro, N.C. by W.M. Barber & Co..
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Conservative Review /
Press briefing battle about right to peacock, not transparency
Rob Eno
Over the past two weeks, the White House communications team has significantly scaled back televised press briefings. The rationale for doing that is strong, as many in the media use the briefing to increase their fame, by asking "gotcha," instead of substantive, questions. A key point being made by reporters like Jim Acosta of CNN is that it is bad for transparency. That's not necessarily the case, as a quick glance over at WhiteHouse.gov shows.
Regardless of whether or not a press availability is televised, the transcript of those briefings is posted for everyone to see. If the Trump administration were trying to hide things, why would it put up a transcript of the briefings and press gaggles?
Here are links to transcripts of briefings and or gaggles over the past week or so.
June 26, 2017 - Press Briefing by Press Secretary Sean Spicer, 6/26/2017
June 23, 2017 - Press Briefing by Press Secretary Sean Spicer, 6/23/2017, #56
June 22, 2017 - Press Gaggle by Principal Deputy Press Secretary Sarah Sanders
June 21, 2017 - Press Gaggle by Deputy Press Secretary Lindsay Walters and Secretary of Agriculture Sonny Perdue en route Cedar Rapids, IA | June 21, 2017
June 20, 2017 - Press Briefing by Press Secretary Sean Spicer -- #55
June 19, 2017 - Press Gaggle by Press Secretary Sean Spicer, 6/19/2017
On June 15, 2017 they even posted a "background briefing" on the president's Cuba policy. That doesn't sound, or look, like an administration trying to hide from the American people to me.
What it looks like is a smart policy to stop folks like Acosta from monopolizing the press briefing in an attempt to "trap" people trying to do their jobs. The information the press wants is still being disseminated, the administration is still answering questions. Despite Acosta's claims, it is not an abridgment of the freedom of the press.
Acosta is nothing if not relentless. Here's a tweet from Tuesday, after the first televised briefing of the week.
Does this feel like America? Where the White House takes q's from conservatives, then openly trashes the news media in the briefing room.
— Jim Acosta (@Acosta) June 27, 2017
"Does it feel like America?" Who writes that? Jim, remind us was it this administration that put a filmmaker in jail after a terrorist attack he had nothing to do with? Was it this administration that threatened reporters with jail time? Was it this administration that investigated reporters? Yes the fact that you are in a room, getting questions answered by the representatives of the leader of the free world, is America.
Reporters like Acosta need to realize their job is to report the news, not be the news. When they understand that, maybe then the regular briefings will resume.
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Q: Chocolately `Get-ExecutionPolicy` - Uncaught ReferenceError: Get is not defined I am following the Chocolately Install steps (Windows 7), but have run into a couple of problems.
Firstly, I've opened Command Prompt (opening it with Run as administrator), but when trying to execute Set-ExecutionPolicy Bypass -Scope Process -Force; [System.Net.ServicePointManager]::SecurityProtocol = [System.Net.ServicePointManager]::SecurityProtocol -bor 3072; iex ((New-Object System.Net.WebClient).DownloadString('https://chocolatey.org/install.ps1')), I get this error:

Uncaught SyntaxError: Unexpected identifier

..with the https: part of my command highlighted.
Further, when I try to execute Get-ExecutionPolicy, it results in:

Uncaught ReferenceError: Get is not defined

Any ideas what could be wrong?
* UPDATE *
When I try the same command in PowerShell, I get this error:

PS C:\Users\mylogin> Set-ExecutionPolicy Bypass -Scope Process -Force;
  [System.Net.ServicePointManager]::SecurityProtoc ol =
  [System.Net.ServicePointManager]::SecurityProtocol -bor 3072; iex
  ((New-Object System.Net.WebClient).DownloadString
  ('https://chocolatey.org/install.ps1')) Exception setting
  "SecurityProtocol": "Cannot convert value "3312" to type
  "System.Net.SecurityProtocolType" due to inv alid enumeration values.
  Specify one of the following enumeration values and try again. The
  possible enumeration values  are "Ssl3, Tls"." At line:1 char:85
  + Set-ExecutionPolicy Bypass -Scope Process -Force; [System.Net.ServicePointManager]:: <<<< SecurityProtocol = [System.
  Net.ServicePointManager]::SecurityProtocol -bor 3072; iex ((New-Object
  System.Net.WebClient).DownloadString('https://ch
  ocolatey.org/install.ps1'))
      + CategoryInfo          : InvalidOperation: (:) [], RuntimeException
      + FullyQualifiedErrorId : PropertyAssignmentException
Exception calling "DownloadString" with "1" argument(s): "The
  underlying connection was closed: An unexpected error occ urred on a
  send." At line:1 char:219
  + Set-ExecutionPolicy Bypass -Scope Process -Force; [System.Net.ServicePointManager]::SecurityProtocol = [System.Net.Se
  rvicePointManager]::SecurityProtocol -bor 3072; iex ((New-Object
  System.Net.WebClient).DownloadString <<<< ('https://ch
  ocolatey.org/install.ps1'))
      + CategoryInfo          : NotSpecified: (:) [], MethodInvocationException
      + FullyQualifiedErrorId : DotNetMethodException

A: *

*Download chocolatey latest version from Chocolatey.org

*Rename file extension to .zip

*Extract the file

*Open PowerShell

*Open elevated PowerShell calling:
Start-Process powershell -Verb runAs

*Go to the tools folder in the location where you extracted Chocolatey

*Call: & .\chocolateyInstall.ps1 to allow Chocolatey to install

*Add a path to the choco location to system environment PATH:
C:\ProgramData\chocolatey\bin

*Restart your consoles, and VS Code (if you use one)

A: Chocolatey.org requires TLS 1.2 to be able to connect. This error indicates that you don't have support for that installed:
System.Net.WebClient).DownloadString ('https://chocolatey.org/install.ps1')) Exception setting "SecurityProtocol": "Cannot convert value "3312" to type "System.Net.SecurityProtocolType" due to inv alid enumeration values. Specify one of the following enumeration values and try again. The possible enumeration values are "Ssl3, Tls"

The section from the blog post I linked to earlier should help:

If you find yourself provisioning machines such as Windows 7, Windows Server 2008, or older, you will find that those machines will not be able to communicate with the Chocolatey Community Repository after we implement this change. For those instances, you will need to use alternative installation methods for Chocolatey. We strongly recommend using the offline Chocolatey installation as it provides the most flexibility and reliability.

On the Chocolatey install page the requirements are listed:

*

*Windows 7+ / Windows Server 2003+

*PowerShell v2+ (minimum is v3 for install from this website due to TLS 1.2 requirement)

*.NET Framework 4+ (the installation will attempt to install .NET 4.0 if you do not have it installed)(minimum is 4.5 for install from this website due to TLS 1.2 requirement)

My suggestion would be to fully patch your Windows 7 system, install .NET 4.5 and then try it. Remember Windows 7 has been out of support since January this year.

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PLCs should consider impact on the public
by Personnel Today 27 Feb 2001
Corporate UK has had a salutary six months. Railtrack and Corus may have found themselves in the eye of the hurricane of public scrutiny but Vauxhall and the oil companies could each tell similar stories.
Chief executives and directors may insist that they have the right to take their decisions privately and that the only audience that requires consistent and transparent fair-dealing is their shareholders and creditors – but they are hauled up by the brute realities of modern democracy together with the speed and depth with which information is communicated.
The public consequences of private decisions cannot be wished away; we are being sharply reminded that the public corporation is just that – public.
But the belief in corporate privacy, discretion and secrecy, together with the dismay that any other standard but loyalty to shareholders might apply to corporate decision-making, runs very deep. If Sir Philip Beck, the chairman of Railtrack, feels able to say that the Government has no right to interfere in Railtrack's decision-making – notwithstanding the billions in support for rail investment and the public outcry post-Hatfield – then that stands as a proxy for the way other boards feel in companies less exposed to the demands of public accountability.
Sir Brian Moffat, chief executive of Corus, was certainly within his rights not to tell even the Prime Minister the details of Corus' redundancy programme beforehand on the grounds the information was price-sensitive. After all, there are no legal obligations to consult and inform government. But his action speaks volumes about UK PLC's attitude to the public consequences of private decisions. They are simply not a public corporation's first concern.
If we want something different, then we need leadership from government and the business community alike and adherence to genuine universal rules.
The Government should put corporate Britain on notice. It should declare that it expects corporate social responsibility, community investment, ethical practice and sustainable growth to be embodied universally by the business community within five years. If not, it will legislate its intentions in a new Companies Act.
For its part, corporat
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The Lost Tomb of Kruk-Ma-Kali 3rd Edition Kingdoms of Kalamar
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The Lost Tomb of Kruk-Ma-Kali, softback Kingdoms of Kalamar adventure for D&D 3rd / 3.5th edition, by James Mishler and Don Morgan
"Over five hundred years ago, he came down out of the Elenons at the head of a fearsome army of hobgoblins. For 13 years, he terrorized Brandobia and what we now know as The Young Kingdoms. After his assassination, the tribes he had united fell to civil war over who would be his successor. Luckily for the rest of Tellene, none succeeded. For he was Kruk-Ma-Kali, the greatest king of the hobgoblins and one of history's mightiest warlords. Rivers of gold, floods of silver and wagonloads of magic flowed into his treasury for over a decade. They say the treasure hoards of Kruk-Ma-Kali rivaled those of the Kalamaran Empire at its height. They say his most loyal followers took the greater portion of it for his Tomb. They say it lies there still, waiting for those who can prove their worth by overcoming the many obstacles left to guard the treasure.
For centuries, adventurers, glory-seekers and gold-hungry dreamers have sought the mysterious Tomb of Kruk-Ma-Kali. Serious-minded scholars now speculate that his Tomb is a myth. But rumors never die, and the lure of the Lost Tomb continues to draw those who believe that they can overcome the deadly trials and reap the magnificent rewards. Deep in the dusty stacks of the Great Sanctuary of Knowledge at Dijishy lies a journal… a tome written by an adventurer who has actually seen the Tomb entrance. The Tomb is real. But only an intrepid band of characters prepared to face the horrors and deadly tests left for them can locate the Tomb and discover the treasure waiting for them.
Kruk-Ma-Kali came down out of the mountains, and his Tomb must lie deep in the sinister wilderness, somewhere in the vast expanses of monster-infested lands that surround the city-state of Dijishy. But one does not simply walk up to the Tomb and begin looting! It has been lost for years. Characters will need every resource they have just to find the Tomb. Within lurk strange magics, terrble traps, fearsome guardians, and of course Kruk-Ma-Kali's own sword – the mighty artifact Kharad-khor, called "Bloodthirster" in the Merchant's Tongue. Only the greatest of heroes can wrest the treasures of the ancient king away from his grip."


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Flashback: Phish Busts Out The Covers at MSG, December 30, 1997
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By Tim O'Shea On Dec 30, 2021
One of the most influential years in the history of Phish couldn't end without a stop at MSG, The World's Most Famous Arena, and it was 1997 that would bring the band to new highs, including their first ever three-night headlining bill at The Garden.
Today marks the anniversary of the second night in this run, a show marked by one of the greatest bust outs in terms of show gap, a legendary "Harpua" with assistance from Tom Marshall, and a handful of fan favorite cover songs played alongside some of the traditional heavy hitters. In addition to all the clips seen below, the entire show can be streamed here.
1997 Holiday Run shirt design by Erin Cadigan via PhanArt
After a quick discussion, Phish casually greets the Garden crowd with one of the greater bust outs of all time. It's merely the first "Sneakin' Sally Through The Alley" in 920 shows, last played at Ian McLean's party in Hebron, NY in 1989, a likely much more intimate gathering. After shaking off some of the early rust, Phish easily settles into a funk groove so reminiscent of this era, fueled by Trey Anastasio on guitar with Page McConnell eagerly aiding and abetting on the clav.
Instead of ramping up towards a (now) customary vocal jam, the funk jam slowly devolves and Anastasio adds some digital delay loops as the tone shifts towards a much more ambient feel before the opening guitar lick of "Taste" ensues. McConnell throws down some thunderous play on the baby grand piano before yielding the floor to Anastasio for a spellbinding crescendo of electric guitar.
Things cool off a bit with the relatively new "Water In The Sky" that follows, still in its early, slower tempo. But Anastasio puts a stop to that quickly at song's end, starting up the familiar strumming that initiates "Punch You In The Eye" and a quick stop at Gamehendge.
"Punch" goes off without a hitch and after some brief high-intensity feedback, Anastasio seems to make the audible call for "Stash." Aside from the opening funk produced in "Sally," this provides the other real notable jam of the first set, a brooding, mesmerizing sequence that has some distinct touches of "evil" Phish. Drummer Jon Fishman continues to push the pace to an almost alarming rate before the reigns are pulled back in, somewhat quickly, and the song finishes rather meekly.
To rev things back up, Phish resorts to a reliable figure, "Chalkdust Torture." Fishman and bassist Mike Gordon steer the collective ship more than ably as Anastasio reaches back and delivers one last scorching first set guitar solo that the Garden crowd visibly devours with delight.
The first set that opened with a bust out comes to an end with a cover, this time The Beatles' "A Day In The Life," with Page McConnell on lead vocals. Some more extended feedback from Phish ends the song in a flourish as MSG collectively shows their appreciation at the conclusion of a rather short opening set, one that barely lasted an hour.
Anyone who would complain about that fact, would soon be put in their place thanks to the giant second set and extended encore for which this show is best remembered. It all starts off with, arguably, one of the better "AC/DC Bag"s ever played. It starts out innocently enough, but soon shifts back into that sinister tone that was prevalent in the first set. In vintage Phish style, simple melodies are stretched out, reexamined and continually revisited until all four band members are firing in sync like gears in a well-oiled machine. Throw in some classic '97 funk, more relentless guitar play from Anastasio, a sprinkling of Gordon-supplied bass bombs, "Pyscho Killer" and "Third Stone From The Sun" teases and, 25 minutes later, you've got the latest in a (now long) line of Phish gems mined at MSG.
After an opening number that took up almost half of the length of the first set, Phish wastes no time in bringing it back to Gamehendge for a well-received "McGrupp And The Watchful Hosemasters." The band deftly makes its way through the composed section of this classic song before giving way to a brief but beautiful two-person duel between Trey and Page on their respective instruments before it comes to an end.
Afterwards, the familiar oom-pa-pa intro of the first ever "Harpua" at MSG rings out and the Phish crowd erupts with glee. They would have good reason to as this would be a special one, dubbed the "Pentagram Harpua" based on Trey's "life changing" narration. The following sequence includes nothing less than a Lost In Space reference, a young Trey crafting a pentagram out of lunch boxed goods, and Tom Marshall joining the fray for a hilarious cover of The Proclaimers' "I'm Gonna Be (500 Miles)."
Phish keeps the proverbial pedal down after all of this madness and launches right into some more classic rock, this time it's Jimi Hendrix's "Izabella," a now revered cover selection that debuted only earlier this summer. Anastasio simply annihilates the guitar solo and MSG is nearly combustible at this point.
Seizing this opportunity, Phish then goes all in with a majestic "Harry Hood" to cap a special sequence of music. A mild glowstick war early on gives way to a "Hood" that's anything but, with Mc Connell producing a bevy of dulcet tones on the electronic keyboard and the customary mesmerizing guitar solo from Anastasio. It's as well executed a "Hood" as they come and, along with "AC/DC Bag," serves as a more than willing co-anchor as far as second set exploratory jams go.
In fact, the normally euphoric outro jam eventually develops into a full-on blues one and instead of bringing "Hood" to an end, Phish slides right into another cover tune – "My Soul." Steady bass play from Gordon provides the floor for another scorching guitar solo as the band romps effortlessly through another recently debuted favorite. This is followed up with a "Sleeping Monkey" that brings a little levity to the ending portion of the set. Trey then thanks the MSG crowd, promising one "last" song that turns out to be "Guyute," one of the key tracks from the yet-to-be-released Story Of The Ghost.
Phish fan shirt from the 97 Holiday run via PhanArt
Tonight's encore gets the 1997 New Year's Eve celebration off to a rollicking start. Trey begins the encore noting the closeness to midnight and that the band may as well "play two New Year's Eve shows." Turns out he wasn't kidding as Phish then proceeds to drop down one of the more legendary encores of their playing career. Things start off with yet another new number to live repertoire, "Carini," which features a quick stand-in by the man himself, Phish crew member Pete Carini.
After those pleasantries are dispersed, Phish then immediately drops back into a molasses-thick funk jam that soon reveals itself to be "Black Eyed Katy." Although not known at the time, this instrumental steeped in cow funk would be the last one ever played before lyrics were added and it would go on to live the rest of its days as "The Moma Dance."
"Katy" then eventually turns back into "Sally" as Phish slyly segues back into it and revisits the bustout opener in the encore for another go 'round. And as if all this weren't enough, "Frankenstein" replete with feedback galore, strobelight insanity and Jon Fishman on vacuum for good measure. When all is said and done, it's a near 30-minute encore that wraps up one memorable New Year's Run gig, or just another ho-hum Phish show at MSG depending on how you look at it.
Phish Madison Square Garden – New York, NY 12/30/97
Set 1: Sneakin' Sally Through The Alley -> Taste, Water In The Sky > Punch You In The Eye > Stash, Chalkdust Torture, A Day In The Life
Set 2: AC/DC Bag > McGrupp And The Watchful Hosemasters, Harpua > I'm Gonna Be (500 Miles) > Harpua > Izabella > Harry Hood -> My Soul > Sleeping Monkey > Guyute
E: Carini -> Black Eyed Katy -> Sneakin' Sally Through The Alley > Frankenstein
Ian McLeanMadison Square GardenMike GordonPage McConnellPhishTrey Anastasio
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Timothy "T-Bone" O'Shea currently resides in Denville, NJ. He attended St. Joseph's High School in Metuchen before studying Broadcast Journalism at the S.I. Newhouse School of Public Communications of Syracuse University, where he graduated in 2002. During his college years, he attended and reviewed many live shows in the Syracuse area at such venues as the Landmark Theatre and Armory High (fka Styleen's).
He currently works at a large law firm in Morris County, NJ. Hobbies include reading, visiting the Jersey Shore and, of course, live music. A veteran of over 200 Phish shows, he also counts The Disco Biscuits, moe., Ween, Umphrey's McGee and Belle & Sebastian as his favorite acts to see live.
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When it comes to ingredients, it depends on what kind of treats you want to bake and gift. Cookies? Pies? Cakes? Cookies are a perennial favorite, but mini cakes and pies are the new fruitcake. Once you figure out what kind of treats you want to create, hit the grocery store or open your fave grocery app and get them on order.
Then the fun part: Gift packages. Forget plastic bags that suffocate your treats and fail to protect them from inevitable breakage. Sturdy, customizable gift boxes are the way to go.
Plan an afternoon of baking—and make it fun. Grab your tools, pre-heat the oven, and start baking. The kinds of treats you're making will determine what your spread looks like. But whether you make Mini Classic Chocolate Bundt Cakes, Mini Apple Pies, or Classic Spritz Cookies, you don't have to go it alone. Grab the kids, and put them to work! They can glaze a Bundt cake or ice cookies. The key is to give them a job and let them own it. Nobody said you have to gift all the cookies. Save the most "creative" ones and give them as special treats in your kids' lunch boxes in those last few days of school before winter break.
Box it up. Customizable gift boxes work for all kinds of treats—mini cakes, cupcakes, cookies, brownies, and so on. You name it: It can sit, fit, and be protected in a gift box. Plus, decorating gift boxes is another fun activity for kids—or yourself. This is like taking adult coloring books to a whole new level. Color, stamp, glue, glitter, and decorate to your inner artist's desire.
Oh, and there's one step I forgot. Taste testing. But I'm sure you can figure out the best time to add that into the process. Happy gifting!


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With 3 starting OL out with injuries it was a crap fest for both offenses most of the game. Neither QB looked great but Hicks did just barely miss on about 3-4 deep throws.
Arkansas' other QB Noland is a pitcher for the baseball team and Starkel and 4* freshman Jefferson aren't on campus yet so there wasn't much competition at QB this spring really.
No pick sixes is a positive.
EastStang wrote: No pick sixes is a positive.
Wait until the "fog of war".
You betcha! Nothing like seeing Hicks chuck 12 oskies in the first four games !!!!!!!
June managed to get himself demoted from head coach to offensive coordinator At the North Pole .
And apparently he did it to himself .
Good move on JJ's part. Gets to do what he enjoys and helps the team. At his age if he wants to keep working, why not?


It's hard to unravel all the wheeling-and-dealing the government says Tommy Bromwell was up to, and those FBI transcripts of him cussing and drinking and bragging are almost too entertaining to shed light. But I think I?m onto his central scheme, and as someone who can?t afford HBO, it thrills me to report it involves Comcast.
No, I'm not talking about the part where the former Democratic state senator and current RICO defendant is caught on tape saying that he saved the cable giant $75 million through a late-fees bill, and that "If I run for county executive and lose, I've got a job with Comcast Cable." Nor is it the part when he says: 'Both my sons work for Comcast Cable."
It looks like the scheme goes deeper than a well-placed state senator and a private company allegedly doing favors for each other. This one reaches all the way into cable programming: Bromwell seems to have duped the FBI into producing a taxpayer-funded screenplay for The Wire -- right down to the sound effects!
Bromwell: Listen, you can't put any more than five thousand in cash in the bank. ... I just want you to be careful.
Business associate/FBI informant Paul Matthews: Okay.
Bromwell: Cause if that happens, and the FBI comes in and thinks you're a drug dealer ... I mean I don't give a [BLEEP]. I just don't want to pay the tax on it.
Bromwell: Twenty-two, 2, 7, 6, 0, 6.
Matthews: Are we just gonna call this Arbros [Communications], Tom?
Bromwell: ... this I can put in the bank.
Asked about Bromwell's claim that he'd have a job with the cable company if he ran for Baltimore County exec and lost, Comcast spokeswoman Beth Bacha said: "Comcast hires its employees in accordance with standard hiring policies and procedures."
What about Bromwell's sons? Do they still work there? ?We honestly don?t talk much about employees,? she said. When pressed, she said: ?Neither is employed by Comcast."
While we were on the subject of politically connected employees, I asked about Kendel Ehrlich.When she was first lady of Maryland, Ehrlich had a $55,000-a-year part-time job producing 16 half-hour shows called Live Right, aimed at keeping kids off drugs. Is Ehrlich still on the payroll?
"Yes, she is employed by Comcast," Bacha said. "She's producing video-ondemand episodes ... similar to what she had been doing." The new series will offer childrearing tips to parents.
Unhappy that a free newspaper keeps landing on his doorstep, a Catonsville man who?d rather get his news online has turned to ? whom else? ? Maryland's attorney general.
Hanno Beck thought he could solve the problem with a call to the Examiner's circulation department.That was back in November.Since then, he said he?s placed about dozen more calls. Each time, an Examiner staff member politely promised to stop delivery. But the paper keeps coming.
So the 46-year-old software engineer filed complaint No. MU-129767. It was one of about a dozen complaints filed recently by unwilling Examiner recipients, said AG spokeswoman Raquel Guillory.
(The Examiner didn?t return my call seeking comment. I?m still waiting to hear back about the real estate promo it ran on CEO Michael Phelps? house!) I know Doug Gansler pushes the whole ?people?s lawyer? bit, but do unwanted newspapers really fall under his purview?
?There?s nothing we can do by statute,? Guillory said. But an official with the consumer protection division tried to help anyway by calling the paper a couple of weeks ago. The Examiner said it would take Beck and the other complainants off its list, Guillory said.
As of yesterday, Beck said, the papers were still coming.
The Orioles? home opener inspired The Gallery, the Inner Harbor shopping mall, to dye the water in its fountain orange.Nice gesture,even if the color came out an unfortunate shade of yellow. I?m told it looked better during football season, when they went purple for the Ravens. ... What is it about Baltimore City Hall that requires its leaders to be fitness fanatics? The weight-lifter mayor moved on, only to be replaced by a black belt. And now City Council President Stephanie Rawlings-Blake seems to be Getting In On It. In a press release announcing that fitness guru Richard Simmons will appear at a healthy-kids event in May, it was noted that Rawlings-Blake ?recently shed nearly 30 pounds through healthy eating and exercise.?


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By Ernie Ball on March 8, 2019 in Artists, Follow Friday, Music
Hours of self-reflection can lead to a personal crossroad between fighting internal demons, like self-doubt, or raising the bar within yourself to push the boundaries, sometimes questioning the world around you and what you are capable of. In this self-analysis, Noah Gundersen finds his voice and crafts his own perspective, blending heartfelt lyrics with dynamic guitar playing. Noah's latest release, White Noise, showcases the socially conscious lyrics of modern times with the large production that gives the record a global motif. Check out Noah Gundersen's video for "The Sound" off the record, White Noise, above.
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Pacific Northwest rocker Jordan Cook, aka Reignwolf, is known for his live, energetic shows and raw sound. With appearances at major festivals like Coachella, Lollapalooza, and Austin City Limits, the band has created a devout following, which allowed them to secure spots opening for influential bands such as Black Sabbath and the Pixies. Reignwolf recently finished a 34 date tour and released a debut full length album titled Hear Me Out. Check out the official video for one of their singles "Over and Over" and catch a show near you.
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KONGOS
Four brothers from Phoenix, AZ utilizing their last name, KONGOS smashed alt-radio charts with their breakout single, "Come With Me Now," garnering over 125 million streams on Spotify alone. KONGOS have followed up their debut success with their record Egomaniac, featuring the single "Take It From Me," and their newest release, 1929 Pt 1. Check out the official music video for the new single "Everything Must Go" off 1929 Pt. 1 above, and catch a high-energy alternative rock show near you.
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Hailing from Blackpool, UK, Boston Manor's freshman sound has familiar tendencies in the pop-punk world, complete with palm-muting, uptempo drums, and influences from bands like Brand New. After inking a deal with Pure Noise Records, and cross-country touring on the Vans Warped Tour, the band found themselves searching for more. After the release of the band's newest record, Welcome To The Neighbourhood, a more mature Boston Manor has emerged. The band is making waves and finding its heavy, anthemic sound complete with cascading guitar leads and fat synth sounds. Watch the official music video for their single "Halo" above.
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