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Trekking through the woods, I finally reached my destination, The Hall of the Damned. Following the Imperium's conquests of the lands beyond, they had put in place Lords who watched over parts of the land. Belarius was one such Lord, I had served with him in the Imperium Army, however, he was swayed by the powers of Chaos and renounced the Imperium as heretics and disappeared into the forests of Avalonia, recruiting members for his cult. He was found and his throne room destroyed, now he reigns over the ruins, a revived amalgamation of necromancy and chaos.
The front door had been smashed down and as I stepped over it, the air went cold.
"Ahhhh Harkenshire, long time no see."
"You know I didn't come here for tea Belarius, that Earth element is keeping you alive and I need it."
"Now, now Harkenshire, you know I don't like dying too much."
"Then I will take it by force."
"Then come and get it."
He snapped his fingers and the four statues came to life behind me.
The black and silver ones charged instantly and I parried with ease as I was pinned against the wall, I had to take them down and quick.
I sliced Silver's head off and ducked just in time to evade Purple's swing...
and managed to stab Black up the chest and kick Purple away.....
throwing my metal shield at Purple, crushing his chestplate and chest in one go...
grabbing my sword and then stabbing Blue through the eyeslits, killing "him" instantly.
"I must say, I taught you well Harkenshire. But how will you face against me?"
The air shimmered around us as he manipulated the fabrics of time and space.
I was dressed in my Imperium uniform and him back to his old human self.
"Shall we?"
I jumped onto his shield, somersaulting off and throwing my sword at him, impaling him.
I retrieved the element and left as the Hall collapsed.
Just because you've read The Dark Knight Returns doesn't mean that you understand the "conflicted inner struggle of Batman's psychology"
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Posted 11 May 2012 - 12:36 PM
Nice fight scenes, and the cheese slope patterns on the floor work nicely, I'm not sure about the orange? tiles.
Overall a very nice scene
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John 14:6, Jesus answered, "I am the way the truth and the life. No one comes to the Father except through me."
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Posted 15 May 2012 - 10:53 PM
NiceMarmot, on 14 May 2012 - 05:02 PM, said:
de Gothia, on 15 May 2012 - 05:59 PM, said:
Just because you've read The Dark Knight Returns doesn't mean that you understand the "conflicted inner struggle of Batman's psychology"
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Posted 16 May 2012 - 03:27 AM
haha Really nice.
The cannon and floors were nicely done, but yeah some exterior work would have added a bit much. Though I'm guessing you had too much fun on the fight scene.
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When you take a step back and really consider the legacy of the Muppets, it's absurd. Yet somehow, Jim Henson and his creative collaborators have invented a world where the idea of puppets sounds mundane, but the idea of Muppets — with a capital "M" — is hysterical and touching and crazy and educational and at the forefront of everyone's mind.
They've survived decades of pop culture comings-and-goings in a society that loves to ironically tear down any artistic contribution older than five years. And today, on the precipice of their eighth theatrical release, the Academy Award-winning Muppets are poised to star alongside Tina Fey, Ricky Gervais, Zach Galifianakis, Lady Gaga, Sean "Diddy" Combs, and a slew of other hyper-topical celebrities in what's sure to be another profitable film. But, the question remains: "…how the hell?"
And the answer, obviously, begins with Willard Scott.
First Appearances
In 1955, Jim Henson was a freshman at the University of Maryland in College Park. Here, he began working on a number of local television spots, which would be the world's first introduction to the Muppets. Most sources will tell you that Sam and Friends was the true launching point for Henson, but this is skipping ahead. The actual first appearance of the Muppets was on a local Washington, D.C. television show called Afternoon (later, Afternoon with Inga).
The original poster for Afternoon featured the Muppets in the top-left corner, with no explanation of what the hell a Muppet was. You can also see a picture of a young Willard Scott in the lower right (this is before his days on The Today Show, as well as before his stints as Bozo the Clown and as the first ever televised performer of Ronald McDonald. Looking for the joke in that last sentence? Nuh uh. That all actually happened.) Willard Scott has actually held this common origin story close to his heart, and was always known to beam when covering the Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade when Kermit would round the corner.
Also, a quick side note–purists here might complain that Henson actually worked on a show before Afternoon called The Junior Morning Show, BUT! Those weren't Muppets. Those were regular old puppets.
The Muppets, as we know them, started to take shape two months after the premier of Afternoon. Henson, still in college, was asked to create Sam and Friends, a five-minute show that ran twice a day about a humanoid-looking fella named Sam and his costars, including Harry the Hipster, who wore white glasses and obsessed over Jazz music (whoa.) The show also included a somewhat-shapeless lizard looking puppet that happened to go by the name "Kermit."
As an interesting side note, that original Kermit was made out of a turquoise jacket that Jim's mother threw out. When he was adapted for Sesame Street and The Muppet Show, he was given his trademark collar to help hide the stitches between his head and his neck.
The surprise success of Sam and Friends led to several advertising opportunities, including a notable run with Wilkins Coffee, where two Muppets–Wilkins, with Kermit's voice, beats the living hell out of Wontkins, who has Rowlf's voice–in a series of 7-second ads that would make Itchy and Scratchy blush. Notable quote:
"What happened to my car??"
"Bad things seem to happen to people who don't drink Wilkins Coffee."
Although the Muppets were increasing in popularity, Henson was unsure that he wanted to keep working with them for life. And rightfully so. No man in his right mind would have bet the house on puppets. But, interestingly, after a soul-searching trip to Europe, in which he studied with marionnette masters and began appreciating the history of the art form–Henson was a changed man. He returned to the United States rededicated to the Muppets. And that's when things got interesting.
None of You Appreciate Rowlf Enough!
In many ways, my personal favorite Muppet Rowlf (full name: Rowlf Cameron Swayze), the scruffy, gruff-voiced piano-playing dog, is overlooked. This is an affront to society as a whole, because his contributions to the Muppet universe are significant.
Rowlf was first created in 1962 for a Purina Dog Chow ad (note the identical tone of slapstick used for Wilkins, just for different puppets). Interestingly, he was one of the first live-hand Muppets (think hand-in-mouth) as well as one of the first Muppets whose species is readily discernible. These made him something of a Muppet pioneer. You could also argue that Rowlf (who was almost Barkley, Woofington, Baskerville, Barkus, Howlington, Waggington and Beowolf) was the first nationally famous Muppet. See, it wasn't just the Purina dog chow that helped put Rowlf and the Muppets on the map. It was Jimmy Dean. No need to look it up–it's that Jimmy Dean.
In one of my favorite stories in the history of ever, it turns out that Rowlf was Jimmy Dean's sidekick in his pre-sausage country music days on the Jimmy Dean Show. From 1963 to 1966, Rowlf appeared as "Jimmy's Little Buddy" and performed a series of skits with him, both on Dean's show and later on Ed Sullivan (where Henson would later appear sans-Dean, and was introduced as "Jim Newsom and his Puppets.")
This raised the country's interest and awareness in Muppets enough that a grateful Jim Henson offered Dean a 40% ownership stake in Muppets, Inc. But Dean turned it down, saying that Henson deserved every penny from all his hard work. So there you have it. Jimmy Dean: patron saint of country music, sausage, and the Muppets.
Sunny Day, Sweepin' The Clouds Away
In 1969, three years after The Jimmy Dean show went off the air, national television came knocking again. The folks at the Children's Television Workshop approached Jim Henson to collaborate on Sesame Street. We'll spare you most of the details, because the history of Sesame Street is rich enough to take up several dozen articles worth of material, and also because Henson always shied away for accepting credit for the show, despite creating its most memorable stars. Although he did admit relief and gratitude that Sesame Street allowed him to leave advertising, saying "it was a pleasure to get out of that world."
The short version of why Sesame Street was so integral to the history of the Muppets: not only did it continue to ingrain these characters into the national attention span, but it helped define what made the interplay of Muppet characters so interesting. Unlike the early Muppet commercials that featured quick, one-dimensional slapstick, the Sesame Street muppets had another layer of depth to them. Grover had both ambition and angst. Cookie Monster (originally the "Wheel-Stealer" in an IBM training video, and a monster in a Frito-Lay commercial for "Munchos") was a hysterical, well, addict. Big Bird was sincere and enthusiastic–if a little childlike (but who better to lead the ensemble of a children's show?).
Another interesting outcome was that the original show never had Muppets interact with humans. There was the human portion. And there was the Muppet portion. And never the twain did meet. But, this format tested horribly. The world where Muppets and humans freely interacted (i.e. the world I would like to live in) tested much better, and likely paved the way for the positive, consistent Muppo-Human relations that carry on to this day.
Perhaps the most interesting development was the increasing interplay between Henson and puppeteer Frank Oz, who joined Henson's company in 1963. Henson tended to be more quiet in his voice acting (think Kermit or Ernie) and Oz tended to be, well, more of the Cookie Monster and Animal type. Their personal friendship, and the loudness and softness of their personalities, helped create some of the most memorable Muppet dynamics out there, such as Bert and Ernie, and Kermit and Miss Piggy. Bert and Ernie, in particular, are frequently cited as a slightly exaggerated caricature of the pair's actual friendship–current relationship theories of Bert and Ernie notwithstanding. In other words, not only did the Sesame Street Muppets begin to add character depth–they now interacted and played off of each other.
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Grateful as they were for the help in jumping from commercials to mainstream television, Henson and his ilk were wary of being typecast as children's performers (remember, Henson had a big thing for dark fantasy stories, and worked on terrifying films like Labyrinth and The Dark Crystal.) But, in an attempt to get involved in more adult-themed comedy, the Muppets actually spent some time working on Saturday Night Live.
Sort of.
If you're picturing Kermit, Rowlf, and Cookie Monster hanging out with John Belushi, you're off the mark. Instead, Henson and his team created whole new Muppets who could "stay up all night." This included (ahem) King Ploobis, Queen Peuta, Skred, Vazh, Wisss, and the Mighty Fovah, who lived in the Land of Gorch, and who dealt with heavy-handed topics like substance abuse, adultery, and extinction. Even worse–Henson's writers weren't allowed to touch the scripts. It was all Lorne Michael's staff. And considering the SNL offices literally featured Big Bird with a noose around his neck, it's clear that the relationship was contentious at best.
They parted ways after one season. Henson remained affable, and continued to admire Saturday Night Live. The two types of comedy simply couldn't co-exist together.
21 Years Later, It's Time to Meet the Muppets
Undeterred, in 1976, Henson and company pitched what would ultimately become The Muppet Show. The original pitch video, seen here, hinted at the kind of contagious, frenetic energy the show could come to encapsulate once picked up. As a clear example the the Muppets were still trying to navigate where on the "mature" spectrum they landed, they created two pilots: The Muppets Valentine Show, and The Muppet Show: Sex and Violence. They seem to have landed somewhere in the middle.
Henson's creations were always at their best when they reflected his actual life. And by all accounts The Muppet Show was a perfect example.
Kermit was the ideal avatar for Henson–kind, positive, and doing his best to calm the chaos of a popular television show. According to co-stars, Henson never said he disliked anything, he just looked perplexed and said "Hmmm" (much like Kermit). Many cast members also compared the actual backstage of The Muppet Show to the on-screen backstage of The Muppet Show. The ever-gentle Henson seemed to recognize the relationship as well, saying ""[Kermit] can say things I hold back," which, if your heart is anything like mine, is both unbelievably sweet and also kind of crushing. In a wonderful world featuring characters like Fozzie, Scooter, Gonzo, Pepe, Rizzo, Sweetums, Robin, the Swedish Chef, and Lew Zealand, among others, it was always Kermit who best connected with Jim Henson. And it's Kermit that carries on his legacy today.
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I know it feels odd to end the story 38 years ago. But you know the rest from here. The Muppet Show became a household institution. They made a few hysterical movies. Jim Henson passed away. The Muppets were acquired by Disney. A few, perhaps less memorable movies were made. Then Jason Segel and Bret McKenzie breathed new life into them, helped them get an Academy Award and a star on the Walk of Fame. Today, they're regularly uploading Webby Award-winning videos featuring celebrities like Cat Cora.
Think about what they've accomplished for a moment. To many, The Simpsons had a golden era of about 10 years. Even though The Muppets have taken a few hiatuses over the years, they've remained consistently hilarious for almost 60 years. That's remarkable! And since they're continuing to work with comedy's best and brightest, it's my hope that they keep it going for another 60.
No matter what Statler and Waldorf say.
Brian Cullen really, really enjoys robots but doesn't understand how they work. He also enjoys drinking beers, and has a pretty solid understanding of how that works. You can read about his musings about both on Twitter @BucketCullen.


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Articles tagged with: Suzanne Braun Levine
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Suzanne Braun Levine
The author at 70 catalogs how she's acting her age
It seems as though everyone I know is talking about death. We are also talking about how, to our surprise, death seems more like the houseguest who won't leave than the grim reaper. That's the big difference about being over 70. Death is more of a presence — an active presence — and less of a threat than it was when we were 60. As my friend Robin puts it, when time is running out, we are blessed with the "gift of urgency."
Featured, Making Change »
Suzanne Braun Levine
One of the most persistent and misguided assumptions about the relationship of younger and older workers is that they are adversaries – competing for the same jobs and incompatible in work habits. This presumption of intergenerational hostility ignores the productive synergy that happens when their skills and work styles mix and energy meets experience, technological fluency meets accumulated people skills, ambition meets not sweating the small stuff.
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Suzanne Braun Levine
A Founding Feminist's review of five issues that still need work
In 1972, when I joined Ms.magazine — the exciting and very controversial new "women's lib" publication — I had just gotten my "MRS degree," which was considered an honor, except that being married meant that I could not get a bank loan without my husband's signature. Also, back then, I wasn't allowed in most restaurants wearing pants; job listings were segregated under "help wanted – male" and "help wanted – female" and I had had an illegal abortion.
Featured, Having It All »
The notion of "Having It All" has been with us since the early days of the women's movement. It was maddening to us at Ms. magazine to see how the empowering-sounding phrase was used against us by the individuals and institutions that had a vested interest in the status quo. By highlighting the impossibility of having it all professionally and personally, the question distracted from the real issue — that women are entitled to have equal access to it all.
Featured, Making Change »
Suzanne Braun Levine
Last week I spent an exhilarating evening exploring the Encore message with Marci Alboher and close to 200 people who had come to the New York Public Library to find out more about her book The Encore Career Handbook. In our presentation, Marci covered the nuts and bolts of how to envision and find work that matters to you in the second half of life, and I tried to connect the Encore Movement with the Women's Movement – in which I have spent both halves of my working life.
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My Post-Fifty Posse
We are five former Ms. magazine colleagues who have been having dinner together once a month for over 20 years. We like to try new places, which is a good thing, since I am not sure we would be welcome back to a restaurant after a visit. We generally sit there for three or four hours, order an assortment of appetizers, laugh uproariously — and pay with five credit cards!
Each brings her own kind of support, encouragement, empathy and humor to the table. We tease each other about the very traits we cherish. There is the Do-Gooder; the Fierce One; the Peacemaker; the Pragmatic Midwesterner and me ("the Terminally Modest One," according to the Fierce One, whom I consulted). Collectively we are more than the sum of our parts.
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by Ann Voorhees Baker, founder
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I've started to write about Women At Woodstock East 2013 a dozen times – and stopped, because I can't really talk about what I experienced without first talking about my friend Deb. And for the last month I haven't been able to talk about Deb, even via a blog post.
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I spent last evening at dinner with my "post-50 posse" (that's what I call that special group of special friends in my eBook You Gotta Have Girlfriends). We have been meeting once a month since 1989, and over the years we have come to count on each other more and more, until, like almost all the women I interviewed about their friendships, "I couldn't have gotten through it without them" — "it" being any of the challenges, delights and disappointments of navigating a new stage of life.
Featured, Making Change »
Suzanne Braun Levine
There was a time when we couldn't wait for things to change — for school to end and the summer to begin, to go away to college, to find a job, to find a better job, to find a partner, and perhaps find a better partner, to watch our kids grow up. But now we are just as likely to fear change, especially if we become preoccupied with the unpleasant ones that come with age.
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In this episode of the Sixty and Me show, I share a conversation with Suzanne Braun Levine, a woman who was a legend in the women's movement and is now an inspiration to midlife women. Suzanne is a best-selling writer, editor and nationally recognized authority on issues facing women over 50. She was the first editor of Ms. Magazine and her passion for the history and lives of women shines through in our conversation.


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A Philadelphia man who suspected his wife of cheating is facing a felony vandalism charge, reports Roane County Sheriff's Office detective Greg Scalf.
According to an incident report, Ricky L. Ford confessed to firing his SKS rifle into another man's unoccupied Jeep 18 times.
Ford, the report said, believed his wife was having an affair with the man.
"Mr. Ford was served with an order of protection and has vandalism charges pending for the damage to the vehicle," the report said.
I have been thinking about how hope can bring much joy and happiness into our life.
If we hope for the best, then most often our hopes will come true.
It sometimes brings us showers of blessings, just when we need them most. A visit from a friend we haven't seen in months, like just yesterday, when my friend Anna Lou Calkins came for a brief visit, taking time out of her busy day to see me.
A nice lady I had hoped would surely stop by if she could find me here
at Victorian Square. She did.
Alma Kilgo Moore recently passed away in Centinela Medical Center in Inglewood, Calif.
Service was held for her at Panuel Missionary Baptist Church, where she was a faithful member.
Alma was a resident of Harriman, so they had a service for her here at Evans Mortuary on Tuesday, May 1. The Roane County Community Chorus provided the music, and Margie Moore sang a solo. The Rev. James Guthrie gave the eulogy.
Donna Reichle of Kingston was honored during a writing contest in conjunction with the recent Tennessee Mountain Writers annual conference.
Reichle received second-place recognition in the Inspirational category for "The Infusion Room."
Conference workshop leaders were Joseph Bathanti, fiction; Doris Gove, writing for young people; Katy Koontz, editing; Karen McElmurray, nonfiction; and Rita Quillen, poetry.
Nashville essayist and novelist Lorraine Lopez was the banquet speaker.
The College of Engineering at Tennessee Technological University recently honored Aleisa Cummins Bloom as the 2012 Technologist of Distinction.
Bloom, of Kingston, is a graduate of Tennessee Tech. She was honored during this year's Engineers Week at the Cooke-ville-based university.
Bloom is a group leader for sustainability and technology deployment at Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Environmental Sciences Division.
When the phone stopped ringing, Mark Boody knew hard times were coming.
Boody had his own home-remodeling business. In good years, he would get 20 calls a month, give 10 estimates and land five projects.
Then, the economic downturn hit, and the housing market weakened.
The calls dropped to three or four a month. The projects slumped to one a month.
U.S. Department of Energy cleanup contractor Safety and Ecology Corp. recently removed four structures as part of the Building 3026 C/D Hot Cells Project.
The structures, which once processed radioisotopes, have been a safety concern for the Oak Ridge National Laboratory since the building's outer structure was removed in 2010.
The Roane County Chamber of Commerce presented its prestigious annual business awards last month during its annual springtime banquet in Whitestone Country Inn.
The awards were presented, along with recognition of Chamber board members, before a capacity crowd of community and business leaders from all across Roane County.
Editor's Note: Readers are cautioned that some names may be the same as, or similar to, other members of the community.
April 9 — Savannah Paige Wallace, 18, 201 Sewanee St., Apt. 203, Harriman: domestic assault. No bond; court date April 30.
• Quinton Tamarc Wright, 28, 510 W. Strang St., Harriman: failure to appear. Bond $2,000; court date April 23.
March 7 — Christopher M. Cox, failure to appear on citation and driving while license suspended. Dismissed.
• Elker E. Washington, possess unlawful drug paraphernalia uses and activities. Dismissed.
• Timothy R. Wells, failure to appear misdemeanor. Dismissed.
• Elker E. Washington, criminal impersonation. Dismissed.
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Cletis Grant Rushing, 89, of Tecumseh, died Wednesday, July 24, 2013, at a local nursing home.
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Tips for Friday, February 8
Andrew Bolt
–, Thursday, February, 07, 2013, (11:55pm)
Tell us the news. I'm off to visit my dad, so posts will be light.
Have Your Say
At last! The secret of "cheap" Green Energy
Fri 08 Feb 13 (12:03am)
Fri 08 Feb 13 (11:11am)
Read the Age today - Mortgages at their cheapest in 23 years
I cannot post the link as a message comes up "blacklisted item"
I hope John Howard is reading this - his claim before an election was along the lines - rates will be always lower under Liberals
What a joke his comment was, to win at any costs! Having said that, both sides do this and get away.
Fri 08 Feb 13 (12:49pm)
Well Gee Sam, that wouldn't have anything to do with continually falling house prices, becasue the housing market along with every other market is in the toilet??
Seems thats where your mind is too....
Fri 08 Feb 13 (01:26pm)
sam...jh is a political corpse
and you want to now have a "gotcha moment"????
hallo ...hallo earth to moonbase
End to the climate wars now in sight, with deniers on the losing side of science and economics, according to research:
Australia is unlikely to build new baseload power stations burning coal because of tumbling prices for renewable energy and the rising cost of finance for emission-intensive fuels, according to research by Bloomberg New Energy Finance.
Even without a carbon price, wind energy is now 14 per cent cheaper than a new baseload coal-fired power station and 18 per cent cheaper than a new gas one, BNEF said in a new report.
"New wind is cheaper than building new coal and gas, but cannot compete with old assets that have already been paid off," Mr Bhavnagri said.
Fri 08 Feb 13 (12:11am)
Fri 08 Feb 13 (08:49am)
BS, every wind installation has to have a conventional power station running 24/7 as back up to smooth the output. But they don't add that into their faked up scenarios do they. Or the fact that actual output versus rated output of wind installations are never anywhere near each other. Nice try big ted but another epic fail from you.
Fri 08 Feb 13 (08:50am)
Bwahahahahahaha, nice unicorn there Ted
Fri 08 Feb 13 (08:55am)
Dear oh dear…
This 'research' by Bloomberg New Energy Finance is fundamentally flawed.
And the first clue is: baseload power stations.
And the second clue is: wind generation is not baseload.
They're comparing apples with oranges.
Fri 08 Feb 13 (09:01am)
Another yawner with another theoretical from another Warming cultist citing a fellow Green rag.
Fri 08 Feb 13 (09:02am)
Is that with or without the subsidies?
Fri 08 Feb 13 (09:06am)
BNEF? Would that be Bloomberg New Energy Finance by any chance ?
Premature evaluation still a problem Teddie?
Fri 08 Feb 13 (09:06am)
Like the burning of whale blubber to light street lamps, one day humanity will be wondering why we used coal power at all.
Fri 08 Feb 13 (09:10am)
Have you checked the carbon credit price lately, Teddy?
If they ever do a remake of Monty Python, you'd make a great knight.
Fri 08 Feb 13 (09:23am)
Baseload power from wind?
Despite the fact that when it isn't windy, you get no power, the number of wind farms required to even meet MINIMIMUM baseload is ludicrous.
For example, According to here - http://www.aemo.com.au/Electricity/Data/Price-and-Demand, the peak demand in the last 24 hours in eastern Australia alone, is 28,100 MW.
Take the biggest wind farm in Australia (Hallett Wind Farm in SA) with a namplate output capacity of 298 MW. This farm has 167 big bird choppers that only generate power when the wind is blowing. The fact that they are not generating power 24/7 means they are given a "Capacity Factor" or CF. The average capacity factor of a wind farm is about 32%, which means over a year, this wind farm will only be generating an average of 95.3 MW.
If , hypothetically, we closed all our power plants and replaced them with wind farms, in order to cover the demand in the last 24 hours alone, you would need 295 of these wind farms. A total of 49,265 turbines. That just covers the east coast, on a warm summer day.
Phases 4 and 5 of this wind farm cost a total of $454 Million, for 88 turbines.
In order to provide this hypothetical baseload, it would cost approx . $254.16 BILLION (yes, with a B). And this isn't taking into account inflation, increasing demand, physical area required or transmission costs.
Yeah. Renewables are the way to go….
Fri 08 Feb 13 (09:30am)
Are they counting the cost of back up power stations required for when the wind turbines are not working (70% of the time) or building 4 times the number of turbines to allow expensive storage solutions to provide 24/7 power. I don't think so!
Fri 08 Feb 13 (09:51am)
Wind will never provide base load power at this stage BT.
You are dreaming
Fri 08 Feb 13 (09:51am)
BT, here is a copy of an email I sent to the journalist (Carbon Editor of The Age) last night:
Re your article in The Age - 7th February 2013
"Australia is unlikely to build new baseload power stations burning coal because of tumbling prices for renewable energy"
"Even without a carbon price, wind energy is now 14 per cent cheaper than a new base load coal-fired power station and 18 per cent cheaper than a new gas one"
Personally I believe you are out of your tree, but I am willing to change my mind and accept your point of view that wind and solar energy is a viable alternative and is capable of providing base load power.
Having worked in the manufacturing industry as a metrologist I am only too painfully aware of the damage an inconsistent power supply can do.
If you truly believe in wind and solar power please furnish me with the following information:
Alternative power output for the month of March (or April) 2013 in 5 minute increments
I will accept errors in the provided data that are within the range of normal fluctuations of current base load power.
If you can provide this data I will make it my life's mission to convince Andrew Bolt to join the Greens Party.
Big Ted, if you can provide this data, feel free.
Fri 08 Feb 13 (10:31am)
You forgot to add the qualification "WHEN THE WIND IS BLOWING"
Fri 08 Feb 13 (10:33am)
A look at the US Department of Energy Website can provide up to date information on renewable energy and its uptake.The American electricity grid is not one big monolith. It is a network of separately owned suppliers and sources interconnected which cover the entire country.
Fri 08 Feb 13 (12:28pm)
That's a government website. Now how many hundreds of millions has Obama lost on now defunct Green corporations?
Fri 08 Feb 13 (01:09pm)
Newt, if we had half the water resources North America has, we'd be bathing in renewable energy. We don't ... end of story.
Whats new? Tax Zone Rebate established in 1945 to compensate those willing to move to and work in regions outside the major cities
I can remeber it well when Public Servants were up in arms when Darwin was no longer considered
"remote" and the tax advantage was removed.
Fri 08 Feb 13 (12:12am)
More proof (as if any is needed) that you can not believe ONE word that this lying "government" says.
Wayne Swan breaks mining tax promise
BY:DENNIS SHANAHAN, POLITICAL EDITOR From: The Australian February 08, 2013 12:00AM
WAYNE Swan has reneged on his parliamentary pledge to provide monthly forecasts of mining tax revenues, citing Australian Taxation Office restrictions on "taxpayer confidentiality" for previous payments.
The Treasurer - facing a united push from the Coalition and the Greens in the Senate for the tax office to provide details of the budget's projected $2 billion payments this financial year for the minerals resource rent tax - has fobbed off demands to release details of revenue forecasts.
Fri 08 Feb 13 (12:33am)
I'm listening to you and Steve Price right now, it's only 8.20pm in Pattaya, and it has been quite interesting and entertaining.
Those girls on that cooking show first up. Methinks they would be Australian girls of Indian ethnicity. Let's not have this Indian-Australian nonsense, not that that term was used. As for those twits twitting their inanities and vileness about them heading back home, sadly they are in all facets of life.
And now a letter has come in about a letter about aboriginals in their own teams. You are so right. It is racism pure and simple. But let's not have it as an indigenous team, for that would include all of us who were born in Australia.
I've been on about this topic for years, writing to the AFL about their ridiculous indigenous round, which just bring divisions to the community, while doing absolutely nothing for the blacks on the ground in those disgusting communities. It's all for show, but does nothing tangible.
And I am of the belief that one day soon there will be a lawsuit against these racist events. People are taken to court for not allowing blacks to live in their houses, yet this is allowed to occur.
And many of my letters were not put up on this blog, especially just before your court case, and for a long period of time afterward.
It was a good show tonight. I don't often listen to it, but sometimes when I am doing nothing over here, which is most of the time, I hit the link. I might do it more often now.
Fri 08 Feb 13 (12:33am)
Fri 08 Feb 13 (08:54am)
I'm actually all for the Indigenous All Stars event, not because I believe certain people should be given special dispensation because of some aspect of their birth, but because this event actually showcases people that got of their butts and achieved something for themselves without being selected as some mad "diversity" initiative.
It doesn't matter what special rights programs the do gooders put in place, if you are no good you aren't going to make it into a first grade team. Or if you were parachuted into one you would soon learn a few important facts of life as you got stretchered off.
The fourth name on the new Lewandowsky paper is Mike Hubble-Marriott, from "Climate Realities Research, Melbourne". What isn't listed on the paper, is that Mike's "climate research" is published under the anonymous moniker of Mike, on a site called WatchingTheDeniers A site incidentally, which is linked in the paper. Perhaps they ought to have disclosed that?
There is more. Incredible that this person just does not give up publishing sad and overtly junk science
Fri 08 Feb 13 (04:06am)
By the year 2100, if it continues losing ice at the rate Jason Box claims above, -131.5 km2 per year, the total ice area of Greenland will have gone from 1.90 million square km all the way down to … well, to two decimals of accuracy, by the year 2100 the ice will be down to 1.90 million square kilometres …
There is a lot of ice up there and it is not going anywhere fast or slow for that matter
Fri 08 Feb 13 (04:09am)
Fri 08 Feb 13 (09:44am)
ice melt means warmth will be reinforced by the albedo effect rocky. and the ice is going at a very fast rate. more warmth will mean less water in some areas. that does not help plants
Fri 08 Feb 13 (10:59am)
But Robert, the sun's activity has reduced and the rate of warming has reduced so no need to worry.
Fri 08 Feb 13 (11:01am)
robert in one of you enlightening blogs you state we need both water and heat to evaporate surface water to make rain. Now wouldn't it be correct that the more water we have from ice melting more water is released + more heat means more rain for plants. Water being a substance that neither diminishes or increases (ABC science pro gramme). Also regarding one of your latest blogs you made reference to Plant life and C02 . Uni text books on plant science will tell you plants use less then 10% of the atmosphere C02 . The balance 90%+ is absorbed by the oceans, where it is food for plankton . Which you would know is food for the fish and manuals of the oceans. C02 is also needed for coral and shellfish survival.
CO2 fertilization will beat the negative effect of climate change so that forests will continue to accumulate carbon throughout the 21st century," Cox said of the findings with other British-based researchers.
Might do something about the lack of food in the world as well
Fri 08 Feb 13 (04:12am)
Fri 08 Feb 13 (08:53am)
Does this mean the floods aren't a problem as plants need water....as do humans by the way.
Fri 08 Feb 13 (11:23am)
Fred (8.53am) What it means is that miniscule increases in amounts of CO2 (and over relatively long periods)are not a problem.
Do you consider the recent flooding to have been due to a miniscule increase in amounts of water?
Likewise...if a person waters their garden with a watering can...are you in morbid fear of an imminent, or eventual flood resulting? Double
We never intended a fundamentalist Green movement that rejected all energy sources other than renewable, nor did we expect the Greens to cast aside our priceless ecological heritage because of their failure to understand that the needs of the Earth are not separable from human needs."
The veteran environmentalist added: "We need to take care that the spinning windmills do not become like the statues on Easter Island - monuments of a failed civilisation."
Like what do you do with a dead wind turbine on your farm, with a bankrupt turbine owner who cannot fix it to make it work and not paying rent.
Fri 08 Feb 13 (04:31am)
Fri 08 Feb 13 (11:26am)
Or...what am I gonna do with my high-waisties...flared trousers.. and platform shoes from the 70s? Everyone assured me they were so cool!
Tall Bloke TalkShop On Forests and Wind
THE world's great forests have long been recognised as the lungs of the earth, but the science establishment has been rocked by claims that trees may also be the heart of its climate. Not only do trees fix carbon and produce oxygen; a new and controversial paper says they collectively unleash forces powerful enough to drive global wind patterns and are a core feature in the circulation of the climate system.
If the theory proves correct, the peer-reviewed international paper co-authored by Australian scientist Douglas Sheil will overturn two centuries of conventional wisdom about what makes wind. And it will undermine key principles of every model on which climate predictions are based.
The paper, Where do winds come from? A new theory on how water vapour condensation influences atmospheric pressure and dynamics, is not designed to challenge the orthodox view on climate science. But Sheil, a professor of forest ecology and conservation at Southern Cross University's School of Environment, Science and Engineering, says he is not surprised that is how the paper has been received internationally.
Boiled down, he says, bad science is protecting shoddy climate models.
A quick trip to a re-education camp to cure this sedition is needed.
All jokes aside there is stuff out there which is not directly "CLIMATE SCIENCE" that debunks AGW CC as a collateral effect.
Everything which challenges the JUNK Science churned out by these Arts Graduates is subject to attack.
Fri 08 Feb 13 (04:38am)
Fri 08 Feb 13 (09:12am)
Further in the article, he challenges the calibrations that the modelers used to obtain their post normal result.
Yet still the climate cranks try to abuse the failed model predictions with a compliant and fairly uninspiring media. Naturally they are attacking the paper. They even claim the publication of the paper should have been prevented.
Why would that be?
To give Graham Lloyd ,in The Australian, his due, he published this article.
The models are thoroughly discredited, but research has advanced, so we are gaining some knowledge of ocean currents, atmosphere and forests etc.
Fri 08 Feb 13 (09:33am)
Rocky not long ago, i saw a program on SBS. They were talking with a village head, from Sth America, and he was talking about how the multi national companies, backed by green ideology, were ripping down and stripping away the forests in Sth America, so they could plant not food to feed people, but crops for biofuels
The companies were making claims, that these fuels were good for the environment
But the village head disputed that, he said that the forests are the lungs of the planet, and if you take away the lungs, then humans, and every other species on the planet, will suffer as a consequence of this. He then took the host to an area, showed him the results of the devastation caused by these multinational companies and told the host these forests are gone for good
Fri 08 Feb 13 (09:49am)
australian scientist? what branch of science rocky. having something peer reviewed does not mean that the paper will be accepted. many peer reviewed papers are rejected. give us a call if the paper ''passes'' the review phase. otherwise you are just wishful thinking. michael. jo nova is not a climate scientist. in fact she has never had a paper peer reviewed. better sources please
Fri 08 Feb 13 (11:21am)
Rightwing. I have no doubts what is happening in Sth America is correct and the are right about plants. But in other cases what you read is not quite correct. Years ago on the ABC two opposing experts discussed the some untruths and bending of rules by the environmental society of which one of the expert was Chairperson (or president) the other was a top CSIRO scientist. One subject was the then passing of the Qld (Beattie) ban on tree clearing. This was too stop the terrible devastations of trees in Qld. The true fact was brought forward by the scientist that in fact at that period more tree were being planted in Qld then destroyed. The Environmentalist accepted he knew of the fact ,but to admit to make it public would have ruined a good story.
Fri 08 Feb 13 (11:25am)
having something peer reviewed does not mean that the paper will be accepted.
Yes robert the names Gergis, Karoly, Lewandowsky and Cook immediately spring to mind.
JoNova describes the "wild PR success of an inaccurate prediction" involving the brouhaha surrounding the hot weather of a few weeks ago. The Bureau of Meteorology's forecast extreme temperatures (and the supposed need for a new colour scale on temperature maps) became the worldwide warmist news horror story, even though those forecast temperatures were not actually reached and were not even unprecedented in historical terms.
Fri 08 Feb 13 (04:48am)
The Register Tells It Like It Is
The two major US temperature databases have released their consolidated results for 2012, and as had been expected, global warming has failed to occur for approximately the fourteenth year running. One of the US agencies downgraded 2012 to tenth-hottest ever: it had been on track to rank as 9th hottest.
The tenth-hottest result comes from the US National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), one of the three main global databases used to assess planetary temperatures and the only one of the three not so far linked to political climate activism*.
Perhaps a rating system for Agencies that have serious links to Climate Experts
Fri 08 Feb 13 (05:04am)
The LNP get labelled the 'party of adults'.
Then you read this and wonder why.
Fri 08 Feb 13 (05:31am)
Fri 08 Feb 13 (08:57am)
It's a relative thing. All politicians act like children.
Based on the Howard, Rudd and Gillard governments, Labor act like spoilt 5 yr olds. The coalition were far more adult.
Fri 08 Feb 13 (10:22am)
and who decides this relative scale? You?
Fri 08 Feb 13 (11:32am)
Very True Mr Jordan
I find it amusing that someone who used to call himself "Davo of the Krudd Empire" thinks he is an authority on this issue.
Fri 08 Feb 13 (12:30pm)
What does his name have to do with anything concerning this topic?
There's no anti-discrimination laws in place, but even then Defence force think Gaynor went too far, and are looking to punish him accordingly.
Fri 08 Feb 13 (05:36am)
Fri 08 Feb 13 (09:32am)
What has the armed forces got to do with a personal opinion. Is just goes to show how stupid and far over reached the PC garbbage has got. When people are persecuted for having a different opinion, shows how bad we really are, jsu a nother method to control free speeach.
Do we really need the new proposed laws? It's here already!
A bunch of fools.
Ross Gittens on the Go North campaign:
It would be very hard to organise, facing constitutional and other legal barriers, active resistance from public servants and the need for huge monetary incentives to induce people to take part. On the experience of all previous such exercises, it would be a grand failure.
It would win the Nationals a few votes in parts of northern Australia where they don't need them, but lose the Liberals a lot of votes in the rest of the country. It would give Labor huge scope for scaremongering.
It would not just give a few northern Australians big tax breaks the rest of us didn't get; the rest of us would have to pay more to cover the cost of the scheme and endure infrastructure spending being diverted from where it was sorely needed to where it wasn't.
It would be the party of choice and free enterprise engaged in a massive exercise in social engineering.
For a government to decide it knows better and try to shift us to places we don't want to live flies in the face of sound economics and would cause slower economic growth and less job creation overall.
Fri 08 Feb 13 (05:44am)
Fri 08 Feb 13 (08:58am)
Is Gittens kidding?
"Active resistance from Public Servants"?
Possibly some of the highest paid now live permanently in Darwin and the "two years compulsory service " is long gone.
Tax breaks for those willing to work in remote areas were in place in 1945 and I remember well when ther was outrage when Darwin was taken off the "remote list".
Fri 08 Feb 13 (09:00am)
The Sydney Morning Herald…
Says it all, really.
Of course, had the ALP proposed it, the display of obsequious fawning would be verging on the obscene.
Please stop wasting our time.
Fri 08 Feb 13 (09:18am)
Load of hogwash that is holding Australia back.
Fri 08 Feb 13 (09:40am)
Sorry, i didn't see the part that said "force" people to the North, that's right because you made it up to try and scare the poor lemmings, sorry they already vote Labor, so no net gain.
Us conservatives leave social engineering & poor policy to you socialists. I like most "thinking" people have thought turning Northern Australia into a food bowl is an excellent idea, the main two things any country will need in the upcoming years are food & energy security.
Fri 08 Feb 13 (11:21am)
@ B.E.B - neither Girtena nor I used the word 'force' nor suggested it.
Who's making things up now?
Point is - your hero Abbott has rubbished this idea. Turning this around on the ideological scale shows how narrow your blinkers are strapped on.
Fri 08 Feb 13 (11:36am)
Tim it is worth an open discussion. There is a lot of wasted space and a lot of water in the top end.Not all are public servants and a lot of people have moved north in the mining industries and made cities like Mt Isa before either Air conditioners/ ceiling fans became norm. As a discussion its better then Rudd/Conroy planing the NBN on the back of a coaster or a Gillard Captain's decision.
It seems the much hyped up NDIS will now be funded by—yes, A Medicare Levy, who would have thought that?. By the time we've finished paying all the levies, tax's and increases in government charges, there'll be nothing left. Time for our own Arab spring.
Fri 08 Feb 13 (06:07am)
Fri 08 Feb 13 (08:47am)
Time for our own Arab spring.
Er.. We're not in Arabia.
But I assume you're talking about an uprising?
They tried that. It was called the Convoy of No Confidence. How did that pan out again? Ridiculously lower than expected numbers (that resulted in massive financial losses for small town pubs who were promised much larger), an outing of the astro-turfers who organized it, Alan Jones lying and violence threatened towards journalists.
Is that what you want again?
Fri 08 Feb 13 (11:12am)
Tim, the Convoy of no Confidence was about 5 thousand strong, and believe me, the Labor Government was rattled by the large turnout.
Most of those attending made their own way to Canberra or PAID to travel by buses which were chartered by the organisers. Unlike the the Union protests where free transport and a small remuneration is offered to the Labor lackeys to make a noise.
Alan Jones did not tell any lies, and please show me the proof of the "massive" financial losses for small town pubs and for the so-called violence towards journalists.
Looks like you are making up your facts as you go along. Seems to be very common amongst the Left.
Delicious irony that the timing of the Great Australian doping scandal report makes it in itself a fraudulent smokescreen to cover Gillard's tracks. The report and the press conference achieved exactly what? We've discovered there are drugs in sport, now go away and clean up your acts sports administrators. Demetriou waxed on about how good the AFL were on drugs, then strategically pre-framed what he knew was coming and tries to dodge the fact he, mr tough guy, has failed completely to do anything about it. Yes it is exactly like the Armstrongq case in that the governing body are complicit in the whole thing.
Fri 08 Feb 13 (06:19am)
Fri 08 Feb 13 (08:48am)
A nice diversion for Gillard, but it falls into line with this government's policy which believes anything goes so the country's morality follows.
The thing that really concerns me is that even with all this performance enhancement, we are still rubbish on an international level - I think this goes to show the insidious nature of what is going on. Club games are more important than your country. Suspend sports betting and all those advertisements for same on television immediately.
Fri 08 Feb 13 (11:01am)
Essendon has come forward with concerns about supplements taken by players under the direction of the club's sports science department.
There is no evidence that the supplements contained illegal substances, indeed Essendon believes otherwise, but acted to head off a media scandal that was about to launched by a gaggle of highly competitive sports journalists.
Of course those journos and their employers are more than extremely p'd off that their sensational allegations were short-circuited.
It's going to be all but impossible to prove that any player at Essendon took a banned substance in the absence of blood test results etc. Unless confessions are forthcoming ASADA is likely to be disappointed if it thinks it has Essendon at its mercy.
The outcome is likely to be worse for a second big AFL club which has been under ASADA's radar for some time and if media reports today are true if suspected of having given 40 of it's playing list performance enhancing substances.
It's a massive sports story but Essendon is now just a minor part of it.
WAYNE Swan has reneged on his parliamentary pledge to provide monthly forecasts of mining tax revenues, citing Australian Taxation Office restrictions on "taxpayer confidentiality" for previous payments. LIAR
Fri 08 Feb 13 (06:20am)
So all sports are under investigation?
What about the sport of Fetch?
The sport where the government throw a 'juicy bone', yell 'Fetch!' and the media hounds dutifully scamper for them.
Fri 08 Feb 13 (06:26am)
Fri 08 Feb 13 (08:50am)
What about the sport where and actual political conspiracy (Ashby/ Brough) is uncovered and most journalists run away from it, and some media companies actually refuse to acknowledge it?
Fri 08 Feb 13 (10:23am)
No conspiracy Tim, just one mans opinion.
Fri 08 Feb 13 (10:29am)
Really a conspiracy with Ashby and Brough - So asking someone for advice is no a conspiracy?
Find it amusing that you bring this up but not the hypocrisy of the Labor party in supporting Slipper and Thomson. Both are now charged with fraud and Gillard still has questions to answer about the AWU scandal but all i hear are crickets chirping from you on these issues…
The hypocrisy of the leftist elites is hilarious
The Amazon rainforest is less vulnerable to die off because of global warming than widely believed because the greenhouse gas carbon dioxide also acts as an airborne fertilizer, a study showed on Wednesday.
The boost to growth from CO2, the main gas from burning fossil fuels blamed for causing climate change, was likely to exceed damaging effects of rising temperatures this century such as drought, it said.
"I am no longer so worried about a catastrophic die-back due to CO2-induced climate change," Professor Peter Cox of the University of Exeter in England told Reuters of the study he led in the journal Nature. "In that sense it's good news."
Cox was also the main author of a much-quoted study in 2000 that projected that the Amazon rainforest might dry out from about 2050 and die off because of warming. Others have since suggested fires could transform much the forest into savannah.
Fri 08 Feb 13 (06:34am)
Fri 08 Feb 13 (09:39am)
Actually John, multi national companies, backed by green zealots, are ripping down the sth american forests at a frightening rate
They are destroying it in their haste to plant bio fuel crops, falsely claiming, that these fuels will save the planet
When the areas they have cleared, can no longer grow those crops, they move onto the next area, and rip the trees down
The Greens are dong terrible damage to the lungs of the world. And they just dont care
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Does anyone know of a great 99Designs, Design Crowd etc. WordPress plugin/theme? The only thing I can find is 350 Contest which is not WordPress-based. Thanks!
fundify - you can find it on themeforest :)
(disclaimer: I haven't actually implemented that theme, so I can't promise how well it works... but it has an almost 5-star rating from a large number of users)
oops, crap, I'm sorry... that's crowdfunding, not crowdsourcing... :/
and the UI on here doesn't seem to want to let me take back that post... meh.
This plugin might be closer to what you have in mind: http://wordpress.org/plugins/wp-design-awards/
Thanks Aaron, actually we run Fundify but for a different site, as you noted it's for crowdfunding.
The plugin you suggested looks truly awful.
There are some options available by using
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It's taking lots of customisation, but it'll be good.
A brand option, but sadly not WordPress-based, is
Heh, I was disappointed by the same thing... I found your post because I'm doing a similar search on behalf of a client. You're right that spotfinder looks like it'll require heavy customization — good luck! (I take it you feel it would be easier to start from there, than building your own from scratch inside WP? Maybe offering it for sale if your client relationship would allow that?)
Thanks for calling my attention to agriya - I see they have quite a bit of nice-looking packages. Assuming the code is clean, I could imagine using one of them for a future project. Will have to keep them in my files.
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I should've mentioned I'm going down the marketplace route with Spotfinder and the plugins mentioned - I gave up on the 99Designs-style project bidding theme route as nothing exists (yet?) sadly for WordPress.
In other news, I spoke to Werkpress about developing a project bidding theme+plugin and they quoted $30,000.
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