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Eye Catching Headlines What Grab Your Fancy - POWERZONE - 21-03-2017

All political parties are spineless rollovers. lol

I was actually waiting for the nuclear debate to dominate politics given the recent events of shutdowns and blackouts.

I'm actually surprised it didn't even make it to parliament and I guess it never will be.

Eye Catching Headlines What Grab Your Fancy - POWERZONE - 21-03-2017

Don't you mean $3 a KwH?

Gotta pay for the associated campaigns, consultancy commissions and provisional taxes.

We also need a new shovel for the PM to start the projects.

Talk about malingering on the job; the PM has one dig for the cameras and then bu
ggers off for a smoko, a change of uniform, a bottle of Grange Heritage and a helicopter ride...

Eye Catching Headlines What Grab Your Fancy - Aloysius - 21-03-2017

Only the understanding challenged are unable to recognise leadership in a very very fraught energy system.

Eye Catching Headlines What Grab Your Fancy - POWERZONE - 22-03-2017

Speaking of understanding challenged here's an eye catcher with a.... catch Tongue

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The case of the $13 million comma and why grammarians are rejoicing

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http://www.abc.net.au/news/2017-03-21/the-case-of-the-$13-million-comma/8372956

Portland-based company Oakhurst Dairy will potentially owe $US10 million ($13 million) to 75 milk-truck drivers in the US state of Maine because of a missing comma in a legal clause.

Last week, Judge David J Barron upheld an appeal in a class-action lawsuit, opening his opinion with: "For want of a comma, we have this case."

Three dairy-truck drivers sued Oakhurst Dairy in 2014 for four years of unpaid overtime wages.

The case hinged on the missing comma after "packing for shipment" in the following clause of Maine state law, which lists exemptions from overtime:

The canning, processing, preserving, freezing, drying, marketing, storing, packing for shipment or distribution of: Agricultural produce, Meat and fish products; and Perishable foods

The missing comma, in this case, would have separated "packing for shipment" and "distribution" into distinct activities, both exempt from overtime.

Without the comma, the drivers argued, the law referred only to the act of packing, for the purpose of either shipping or distributing.

There are other grammatical issues with this clause (neatly unpacked in more detail by Mary Norris in The New Yorker), but David Webbert, a lawyer for the drivers, told The New York Times: "That comma would have sunk our ship".

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Eye Catching Headlines What Grab Your Fancy - Aloysius - 22-03-2017

Heh Heh :notworthy:

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Good find!

Eye Catching Headlines What Grab Your Fancy - POWERZONE - 23-03-2017

Yeah, I often wondered why they use the term "shovel ready" for such projects.

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Is it a euphemism for clearing up the mess left behind by pollies digging in the wrong place for a media stunt? LOL

Eye Catching Headlines What Grab Your Fancy - POWERZONE - 23-03-2017

Oh dear....

Federal MP Stuart Robert called as witness in council corruption probe
After the March 31 elections, it was alleged Mr Robert channelled tens of thousands of dollars from his federal Liberal National Party campaign fund, the Fadden Forum, to council candidates who stood as independents.

Mr Robert has confirmed he gave candidates Kristyn Boulton and Felicity Stevenson $30,000 each from the Fadden Forum to run their campaigns.

Both are former staffers in Mr Robert's electorate office.

He denied he was trying to influence the council's composition, but admitted he wanted to stop any potential Labor candidates making it onto the council.

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http://www.abc.net.au/news/2017-03-23/federal-mp-stuart-robert-gold-coast-council-corruption-ccc/8381372

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With a Govt majority of one you can bet this will be another Craig Thomson style he-said she-said affair.

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Bring back the beef !

Eye Catching Headlines What Grab Your Fancy - POWERZONE - 19-04-2017

Where's the beef? Not in the kitchen!

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Talk about media BS :o

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Saturday > "A United States Navy strike group is moving towards the western Pacific Ocean near the Korean Peninsula as a show of force amid growing concerns about North Korea's advancing weapons program.""

Today > "THE declaration last week that the US had sent an aircraft carrier barrelling towards waters off the Korean Peninsula put tensions with North Korea at boiling point. Except, that never happened."

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The devil never made it to Georgia :Shame:

Eye Catching Headlines What Grab Your Fancy - Aloysius - 19-04-2017

Sad, but Oh so true!

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The fifth estate is letting themselves down by undermining any residual faith we may have in them.

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Of course this brings into sharp focus our duties as citizens to critically view the "news" that is served up to us, and the motivations behind the said news.

Eye Catching Headlines What Grab Your Fancy - POWERZONE - 20-04-2017

Tasmania could become 'battery of Australia' through increased dam storage, Turnbull says

Plans are in the pipeline to double Tasmania's hydropower output by re-using water, with Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull announcing new feasibility studies to investigate.

Mr Turnbull visited Tasmania's Trevallyn Power Station to make the announcement, flanked by Premier Will Hodgman and Federal Energy Minister Josh Frydenberg.

The studies will support feasibility work into redeveloping the aging Tarraleah scheme and enhancing the Gordon Power Station.

The Australian Renewable Energy Agency (ARENA) is also considering an application from Hydro Tasmania to explore several new pumped hydro energy storage schemes that could deliver up to 2500 MW of pumped hydro power, which could lead to hundreds of millions of dollars worth of investment.

"What we're seeing here in Tasmania is the opportunity in this state to provide even more renewable energy, wind and hydro, than it does today," Mr Turnbull said.

"There's the opportunity here in Tasmania to double the capacity of Hydro Tasmania with new investment and with pump storage, and of course it has the best wind assets in Australia â the Roaring Forties."

Mr Turnbull said, if implemented, the plan could see Tasmania become the "battery of Australia".

http://www.abc.net.au/news/2017-04-20/tasmania-hydo-power-output-to-double-under-plan-to-reuse-water/8457572

Gotta love water! Tongue

Eye Catching Headlines What Grab Your Fancy - Aloysius - 20-04-2017

Gotta luv Malcolm!,

Eye Catching Headlines What Grab Your Fancy - Aloysius - 29-04-2017

Yassmin Abdel-Magied quiet on oppression of women on recent book tour
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Speeches delivered by Muslim Âactivist Yassmin Abdel-Magied during her taxpayer-funded tour of the Middle East and Africa Âdid not include any mention of the oppression of women in the countries she visited.

The ABC employeeâs Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade-sponsored book tour late last year took her to Saudi Arabia, the United Arab Emirates, Qatar, Kuwait, Jordan, the West Bank, Israel, Egypt and Sudan."

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Ah - the woman who claims that her faith is the most supportive of womens rights fails at the coalface.

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Hello, she is exactly the type to be hired by the ABC.

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Says more about the ABC than it does about her - at least she is honest about her values - The ABC has none.

Eye Catching Headlines What Grab Your Fancy - Aloysius - 01-05-2017

It's probaly a contrivance, which pretty much makes her at the very least consistent!

Eye Catching Headlines What Grab Your Fancy - POWERZONE - 02-05-2017

Her travels were funded by the Government. So they obviously have no values either Smile

Eye Catching Headlines What Grab Your Fancy - Aloysius - 04-05-2017

Oh that's a different take!

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I thought double barrelled names were mother & fathers, surnames?

Eye Catching Headlines What Grab Your Fancy - POWERZONE - 04-05-2017

Queen's royal staff called into emergency meeting at Bucking-Huge Palace

http://www.nowtolove.co.nz/celebrity/royals/queens-royal-staff-called-into-emergency-meeting-at-buckingham-palace-32258

That's eye catching!

Eye Catching Headlines What Grab Your Fancy - POWERZONE - 05-05-2017

Triumphant Trump delays and shortens Turnbull's New York meeting

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http://www.abc.net.au/news/2017-05-05/donald-trumps-malcolm-turnbull-meeting-delayed-and-shortened/8499146

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That was pretty funny but then I'm easily amused... you have to be in this 21st century PC world. lol

Eye Catching Headlines What Grab Your Fancy - Aloysius - 06-05-2017

Quote:Triumphant Trump delays and shortens Turnbull's New York meeting

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http://www.abc.net.au/news/2017-05-05/donald-trumps-malcolm-turnbull-meeting-delayed-and-shortened/8499146

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That was pretty funny but then I'm easily amused... you have to be in this 21st century PC world. lol

Oh yeah, now I get it!!

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Very droll!

Eye Catching Headlines What Grab Your Fancy - Aloysius - 06-05-2017

Revolutionary guards tried to sabotage Iran's nuclear deal,Â says president
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https://www.theguardian.com/world/2017/may/05/iran-president-hassan-rouhani-nuclear-agreement-sabotaged

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Hmmmmmmm

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Do I detect a degree of instability here?

Eye Catching Headlines What Grab Your Fancy - POWERZONE - 10-05-2017

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tJ7ZjOuupRc

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Fred Nile went the extra mile Tongue