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Location: Russell New Zealand.
Posted: Fri Aug 18, 2017 11:58 am
Post subject: GB 42
I have deliberated too long on whether to sell GB 42 or take it with me to New Zealand. So as time is running short and there is the paper work needing to be started, I have decided to put it on the market for two weeks beginning the 25th August. If a buyer is around fine if not, it goes on the boat.
Brief description:
£35k no offers
Owned about 2 years now 83k on the clock.
Simon Durant restored 2017. + Heated windscreen Xeon light upgrades.
Hi fi upgrade with pioneer ref headset (original defender r/c goes with the car)
Back fitted with black rubber checker plate.
Back spots and reversing camera
I bought the car as a daily user, for its functionality and the joy of driving a piece of Land Rover history.
Practicality is important to me and as in general I veer towards safety, Xeon headlights haven been fitted and a heated windscreen introduced along with wide angle wing mirrors for reducing blind spot. Living down a winding half mile shared single track drive, where occasionally night time reversing is necessary, I had back spots fitted along with a reversing camera.
I enjoy my music so have upgraded the head set to a pioneer reference unit along with supporting discreet amplifiers and speakers. Complimenting that lot is soundproofing. (Defender original radio goes with the sale)
As a simply wanted to use the back for carrying my stuff around and not extra passengers so the back seats were taken out and rubber checker plate has been fitted.
I have replaced some of the black plastic with shiny stuff in the front and when I bought it the steering wheel was my preferred size but had a fake leather rim. That has been replaced with a same size Moto with leather.
In football jargon, GB 42 is certainly in the premier division I suggest not in contention for the European Cup places. However the the hard work has been done so sitting very comfortable with others in mid table.
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Posted: Fri Aug 18, 2017 3:53 pm
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So. Are we talking Watford.... or better ?
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Location: Russell New Zealand.
Posted: Fri Aug 18, 2017 4:27 pm
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Thinking last season teams 6-10.
Played against Watford as a youth player. They were pretty good in those days of laces in footballs and cups of tea at half time.
Wish them the best this time round
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Location: Mainland, New Zealand
Posted: Fri Aug 18, 2017 11:55 pm
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Just for your reference an ex Japanese market 50th sold very recently in NZ for approx NZD34000, I believe there are a few $$ to be spent to bring it back to good average condition. I know this as an acquaintance looked seriously about purchasing this vehicle and had an AA inspection & report carried out on his behalf. Not sure how many 50ths in NZ but suspect not many but available parts easy to obtain and plenty of Land Rover knowledge here.
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Posted: Sat Aug 19, 2017 4:59 am
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Yes you are right. The Defender support Is strong in NZ and I have been told there are some 50th there although I am not certain if any are GB.
I have enjoyed owning some great cars in my time however this 50th is my all time favourite. Not because it's perfect because it isn't. It simply fits into my lifestyle of what I need a car to do on a daily basis and it does that and more with character.
We are going in on resident visas and plan to clock up the miles for a year or so deciding where to live. This is not the best car to do that in for the two of us so the plan would be to store it for that time at one of the Defender specialists which isn't my ideal. There are very strict rules on car importation and compliance on crash and emissions and there are stories of cars being held up for years. I am not expecting that on the 50th however in all there are enough question marks to raise the should I sell it flag.
The heart says take it my wife says take it yet there are good reasons why not. I am wimping out on the decision, I am tossing the coin - heads it goes tails it doesn't.
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Posted: Sat Aug 19, 2017 5:16 am
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Please excuse me if I am "teaching my Granny to suck eggs".
Rumour has it there is a GB 50th in NZ but cannot confirm that in all honesty, there are a few Japanese market 50ths but they are not a common vehicle for obvious reasons. The vehicle I own was brought in by Morris Turner at Stag 4X4 in Auckland, I am sure if you were seriously considering importing it he would offer guidance. The Government department has a website -
which has a section specifically on importing vehicles into NZ.
Auckland has a very active Land- Rover Owners Club -
they have information on importing. Storage would not be a problem once in NZ as there are plenty of sealed and policed storage facilities all over the country, as yet we do not have the issue with Land Rovers being high on the list of vehicles being stolen.
Locally a 110 has recently arrived ex UK from Simmonites in Yorkshire, so I don`t see an issue with a 50th.
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Posted: Sat Aug 19, 2017 6:40 am
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I really appreciate having the Morris Turner contact. That is very useful.
I have all the stuff from the government site and qualify to import but have very little info on the specifics of what the compliance testing process entails and how the 2006 rules on frontal test requirements apply to a 1998 50th.
Our daughter is on a 3 year work visa in Auckland and that is where I was planning to keep the car and have it maintained so would be looking for recommendations in that area
At the moment we are planning to move towards the end of September and have allowed for the space on the container.
Could be I have a double headed coin.
Many thanks for your help
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Posted: Sat Aug 19, 2017 6:50 am
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Morris Turner's business is all about Land Rovers
is the we b site, there are a few independent Land Rover specialists in Auckland but even though I live in a different town would suggest Morris as someone to talk with. Might pay to go via emails for any more communications as it could be construed as being off topic. I am more than happy to help if I can.
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All In The Family... Life in Christian County, Kentucky... The Rural Life...
Isaac and I have been taking an evening walk whenever we can, and we find ourselves returning to the same little road nearly every time.
It's such a narrow, quiet road that it's like following a path through the woods -- and I suppose that it was a path once. We haven't yet seen a horse and buggy on the road despite the warning sign at our starting point, and we usually meet only one or two automobiles.
A Mennonite family lives along our route, but their place is hidden by the trees. Their buildings are newly-built because no one has ever lived there before. I think they moved here about a year ago.
|A young redbud tree beside this country road
We turn around at the point that the road changes from gravel to blacktop, but another Mennonite family lives farther down the road on the blacktop part. The wife runs a greenhouse, and she is one of the most gifted gardeners and landscapers I've ever known.
She doesn't advertise, but she does a lot of business, especially in the spring. Her prices are reasonable, she has a good selection of healthy plants and she always throws in something for free. Cars are always parked in front of the greenhouse with their trunks open, and you will probably see some horses and buggies tied to the hitching posts, too.
After walking the gravel part of this rustic country road a few times, we decided we'd pick up the many aluminum cans in its ditches and recycle them. We got most of them in a couple nights, and we are still finding one every now and then. They are mostly beer cans. Apparently the teenagers party on this road, or perhaps it is the hunters.
Tonight we started picking up some of the dozens of glass and plastic bottles in the ditches. We both filled our Wal-Mart sack in just a short distance. All of the glass is beer bottles, of course, and all of the plastic is soda bottles. We decided we would leave the paper litter since it will bio-degrade eventually.
This project will take a few weeks, but we hope to get that scenic little country road cleaned up.
I don't know the name of the plant below, so please tell me if you know it! It looks like it may turn into a vine? I saw it along the roadside at the base of a tree.
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The Maluuna Community Group in Molesworth is currently running a number of activities and has extended an invitation to others within the wider community and Home educating families and to come along and join in.
The Group runs from 9am to 4pm Every Thursday and has great facilities for all ages.
It is situated in a beautiful setting with lots of room for indoor or outdoor activities.
Some of their upcoming events in May include...
Sing Along, Thursday the 14th of May 2009 (and every other 2nd Thursday each month)
Come along and join in the fun with us as we sing along to the ABC "Sing" Book. A fun get together and no singing experience necessary!
There is a secure area for indoor play for the children allowing you the freedom to join in as well as watch children who may be too young to join in all the fun.
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This is going to be one of the positions to watch in training camp. Roy Williams is the #1 receiver without a doubt, but things are up for grabs after that. Sam Hurd, Miles Austin, and Patrick Crayton are all going to be vying for the #2 role so it will be great competition between the three of them. The fifth receiver spot is also going to be a fight. Isaiah Stanback is probably fighting for a place on the team with Manuel Johnson. There will also be a couple of other guys like Julian Hawkins and Mike Jefferson trying to make the team. Injuries are going to play a major factor is how well this group can perform.
Roy Williams - This is beating a dead horse at this point, but I really would like to see Roy and Tony Romo firing on all cylinders. There were timing issues and injury problems for both players last year that hampered their ability to develop any chemistry but this offseason has provided the time needed for that. Roy has been working hard and has shed some weight so I am expecting him to look leaner and quicker. I hope they have worked together enough that Romo trusts Williams to get the ball in traffic because one of Roy's greatest assests is his ability to go up and make the tough, high catch in traffic.
Patrick Crayton - Crayton is the forgotten man in the offense. He has done nothing but produce consistent numbers from the #2 receiver position over the last few seasons, but this year is going to be different. Crayton may face more standard coverage schemes rather than the single man he usually had to beat while T.O. was here. I know some people have concerns about his hands due to one play in the playoff debacle two years ago, but he actually may have the best hands on the team. I want to see him finding ways to get himself open during training camp.
Miles Austin - This is the guy that the team seems to be expecting a breakout year from. The biggest factor is going to be health. Last year when Miles was healthy he looked like he had potential to be a very good receiver, but unfortunately, he seemed to be hurt more than he was healthy. The fact that he missed time during OTA's this summer doesn't fill me with confidence on the injury front. I want to see that he is operating at 100% and that he has a firm grasp of the entire offense since he has primarily played in spot duty during his first few years. He has the potential to win the #2 role, but he is going to have to pry it away from Patrick Crayton.
Sam Hurd - The injuries of last season made most people forget how good Sam Hurd was beginning to look. During the preseason last year Sam was starting to establish himself as a guy who found the open spot on the field and made the tough catches with defenders around him. If he is healthy then it will be hard to keep him off of the field during the season because he always seems to find a way to make plays when he gets the chance. Again, I'll be hoping to see him functioning at 100% in camp and continuing his improvement that he has shown over his first few seasons. I think it will be hard for Sam Hurd to win the #2 role due to his lack of speed, but if he makes enough plays he might steal the job from Crayton and Austin.
Fifth/Sixth(?) Receiver - In my mind this is the last chance that Isaiah Stanback gets to show that he can actually remain healthy long enough to get a real shot on the field. He has amazing athletic ability but it has gone to waste for two years because he seems to be continually injured. Manuel Johnson looks like a quick, little guy who could win a roster spot due to his ability to get open on short routes from the slot position. He'll have to show that he can make plays on special teams as well if he wants to make the team. The rest of the receivers hoping to make the team are going to have to come out of no where and make the coaches notice them because they probably won't get too many legitimate chances to make plays during camp and preseason. There is still a chance that Jessie Holley from 4th & Long will be the 80th man so that could be interesting to watch if he can hang around for a few weeks. I would love to see Stanback on the field showing his athleticism but, at this point, I won't be at all surprised if he gets injured during the first few weeks of training camp.
The key for this group is going to be health. Two of the top four receivers have trouble staying on the field so there is going to be a serious problem if Hurd and/or Austin get hurt again this season. This group is full of potential but that can be a dirty word in the NFL. If several of these guys don't step up this year then the passing game is going to have serious problems moving the ball.
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Training Camp Preview - Part 4 - Wide Receivers
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Labels: Dallas Cowboys, Isaiah Stanback, Jason Garrett, Manuel Johnson, Miles Austin, NFC East, NFL, Patrick Crayton, Roy Williams, Sam Hurd, Tony Romo
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This position is one of the biggest question marks to me. It's hard to know if Roy Williams can be that guy. It's also unknown how Austin and the rest of the young crew will do. Crayton seems to be solid, but what if he has a bad year? I think the talent of the wr's really doesn't matter though. Tony Romo is that good in my opinion. It all rests on the shoulders of Romo. I believe that he can make these recievers look like hall of famers.ReplyDelete
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Welcome to part 3 of my guildie Ramagos guide on how to play an arms warrior!
Since I'm running out of advanced strategies, I'm going to talk about simpler stuff... like stats.
Haste, what good does Haste do to us? Someone wants to share with the class? Any hands? Yes, you in the back, what does Haste do to us? ... Very good! It makes our melee swings faster so we have more Rage to use more HS. One point for Griffindor!
What else? No one? Of course no one is raising their hands, because Haste has nothing more to offer. Unlike the rest of the classes, our DoTs are not affected by Haste. That's it, neither Rend nor DW will tick faster the more Haste you have. If you think Rend ticking faster would do weird stuff with the TfB proc for our OPs you are mistaken, since if you remember our first lesson, we try to force Rend ticks with MS.
The drawback Haste has is Slam, since when you are casting it, you delay your melee swings, reducing the value of Haste. As I said before, roughly every 7 Slams you lose an entire melee swing. In a normal 6 minute fight you get to do around 40 slams, meaning you lose 5 melee swings during the course of the fight. 5% Haste gives you roughly 1 melee swing a minute which is roughly 1 extra HS a minute.
Soooo, Haste does seem a bit attractive, let us look what Mastery has in store for us. An X% chance to perform an extra attack that deals 100% weapon damage, seems nice, right? An extra attack means more damage, right? Yes, but, how good is an extra attack compared to Haste and Crit? Let us see the good and the bad of Mastery.
The Good: It can proc of every single melee attack and melee spell, it can crit and it can also proc Sudden Death.
The Bad: Does not generate Rage, has an internal CD of 0.5 seconds so it can't proc of itself and it only does 100% weapon damage.
It is basically an extra melee swing that doesn't generate Rage. It is nice, indeed, but doesn't look specially more appealing than Haste. We do know one thing, though, since it has a 0.5 CD, it will have a cap, so the closer we get to the cap, the less value Mastery will have.
Last of all, we have Crit. Let us see what do we get from Crit. Our main rotational spells have an added value of 120% instead of the normal 100% melee crits have. Our crits also apply DW, which deals 48% weapon damage (not the spell damage like Fire Mage's Ignite) over 6 seconds. DW is affected by the 30% Bleed buff we apply, so it's actually 63-64% weapon damage. DW does suffer munching the same way Fire Mage's Ignite do, although not as much, since it's weapon damage and not the damage done. Crits are devastating with ThunderClap in AoE as well, since they spread DW around.
But 120% crits is hardly reason enough to consider Crit above the other two stats. But wait! What do we have here? MS crits increase our damage done in 10% for 12 seconds? Mmmm, interesting.
Let us see stuff in action with some logs:
As you can see, Mastery (Opportunity Strikes) only consists of 7.2% of our total DPS while DW alone consists of 9.2% of our DPS. And we are not counting the damage done by all the crits. I have 6.25% Haste, which is 1 extra melee swing and 1 extra HS per minute, the fight lasted 6 minutes, so the effects of Haste were 6 HS (of 36 which is 1/6th of the 5.8% total DPS HS did) and 6 Melee Swings (of 84 wich is 1/14th of the 10.5% total DPS melee strikes did).
So in total we have the following numbers:
Haste: 0.9686% HS dmg + 0.7497% Melee dmg = 1.7183% total dmg
Mastery: 7.2% total dmg
Crit: 9.2% DW dmg + 32% MS dmg which is 4.9% total dmg + 50% OP dmg which is 7.05% total dmg... 3 spells makes 21.15% total dmg, should I go on? It will probably reach 27-30% total dmg.
Those extra 6 melee swings, 6 HS and 82 Opportunity Strikes would most certainly have procced some SDs, giving DPS indirectly by means of CS, but we are also not counting the DPS we gain every time MS crits and gives 10% dmg for 12 seconds.
It is true those are my logs and I'm reforged to favor crit above all else, So when I get home I'll do 3 dummy runs of 5 mins each, each one specced favoring Haste, Mastery and Crit respectively and post the details here for you to see.


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In fact, Ball says the coaching staff has impressed upon him that quarterback Peyton Manning is the man who makes the offense go, and that Ball's first priority is knowing how to pick up a blitz and keep Manning from getting blasted.
"Honestly, it's 60 percent pass protection, 40 percent running the ball," Ball told the Denver Post. "In the NFL, it's no secret: It's a passing league. And on this team, when you have a great quarterback like we have, you've got to protect him."
Ball is in a three-way competition with Ronnie Hillman and Knowshon Moreno for the starting running back job. Moreno, as the veteran of the group, said he has learned what really counts in the NFL is what you can do in the passing game.
"We all got here by running the ball in college," Moreno said. "Everyone here can run the ball. It's those little things, what can you do besides run the ball. Pass protection. Catch the ball out of the backfield."
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Discussion in 'Trek Literature' started by seigezunt, Jun 3, 2009.
Still, it had the same "creepy" vibe to it that M&C's stuff did...
I tried one of the Phoenix novels once. It was so bad I couldn't even finish it. I couldn't understand what the hell was going on.
I actually liked Black Fire... and I also spent three months in a mental hospital at one point in my life so take that as you will.
Sonni Cooper used to run William Shatner's fan club, and I think worked for him as a PA, so probably was friendly with M&C during the "Shatner: Where No Man..." research.
I did enjoy Black Fire quite a bit (although the Tomarii were very stereotypical villains). I found it much easier to follow than the Phoenix novels.
I never read the Pheonix novels, but I've tried my hand at 'Prometheus Design' twice and have yet to be able to understand just what in God's name is happening.
So, could someone who has the Voyages book explain for us poor people who don't have access to a copy let us in on the secret? I'd rather like to know.
I don't know what OmahaStar's on about, because Voyages doesn't shed any light on the issue at all as far as I can tell. It merely states that the duo went on to create a phonics game, but not why Triangle was the last they published.
I have the two Phoenix books, two of the New Voyages anthologies and Star Trek Lives! sitting on my shelf.
I've not actually read any of them, and this thread is not exactly threatening to change that.
Yes, an amazon search of the book's content and their names didn't produce any answers.
Oh, and for the record, I didn't take his response as snotty, just not providing an answer. I don't want anyone to think I was ignoring anyone. Just trying to get an answer.
There's some good stuff in the New Voyages anthologies. Star Trek Lives has some interesting stuff as well, particularly the two chapters by Joan Winston and the chapter on fanfic.
First, I didn't know I could resurrect a thread this old. Second, I just started reading Star Trek Lives. I do find it interesting considering when it was written, and what has happened to Trek since the 1970s. I read Prometheus Design, and hated it, but so far, this is much better. Perhaps the influence of the other two authors is really helping.
The impression I got is ROddenberry really liked Myrna Culbreath, so maybe that's part of the reason why she had Trek books published in the past, but not recently?
i'm glad this thread was resurrected, as this is something I've wondered about too.
I liked "prometheus design" and "triangle," but the phoenix novels not so much. Maybe Pocket books made them take it down a notch more than Bantam did.
I remember reading "Price" about 7 years ago, but I had a hard time telling head from tail with that story. And I remember that I did read both "New Voyages" and I really enjoyed the "Procrustean Pretard", but I don't remember either of Marshak/Culbreath' short-stories.
Myrna Culbreath is 74 years old now. She and Sondra Marshak published educational games based on phonics after their stint with Star Trek fandom.
Joan Winston, who wrote the chapters of visiting the TOS set in "Star Trek Lives!", passed away a few years ago.
It's my understanding that blackmarket K/S "bonus chapters" for all four of their ST novels were available in the "slash" fanfic circles.
As weird as this sounds, I've wanted to read a third Phoenix novel for years. I'd love to see Picard throw down with Omne.
And, even weirder, I keep getting an Omne vibe from Benedict Cumberbatch in the Star Trek Into Darkness trailers.
Will Ben Cumberbatch be able to beat the jungle out of Chris Pine?
Only if he can do it while running down a corridor with a Chris Pine under each arm. Pursued by Spock. And the Female Romulan Commander.
Those books were bizarre. Even by 70's fanfic standards.
I've re-read all 4 Marshak and Culbreath novels within the past 12 months after originally reading them in the 1980s - there were some interesting basic ideas in them, but man were they buried under a mountain of bad writing. I personally just loathe the K/S stuff to begin with, and there were just pages after pages after pages of boring conversations that were just mind-numbing to read. Plus, Omne was such a ridiculously cartoonish overpowered villain - I kept expecting to find that he needed to consume the life energies of various planets for sustenance. There has only been one Treklit novel that I just couldn't make myself finish (Pawns and Symbols), but those books came close.
I do maintain, though, that there were the kernels of good stories in their basic concept - A better writer could probably do quite a bit with them.
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- Kermit News: Jack Be Nimble (EKA: Episode 0723)
- Helen Reddy: Grow (EKA: Episode 1079)
- Broom Adventures (cartoon) (EKA: Episode 0888)
- City/Country Song (EKA: Episode 0681)
- Season 6 Credit Crawl
- Easter egg: "Bumble Ardy" cartoon (EKA: Episode 0305)
Disc 2
- Episode 0796 (7th season premiere)
- Season 7 Classic Cuts
- Pinball Number Count #4 (EKA: Episode 1199)
- Kermit and the Weather Salesman (EKA: Episode 0848)
- Buffy Sainte-Marie: Wynken, Blynken and Nod (EKA: Episode 1130)
- Don Music: Yankee Doodle (EKA: Episode 1152)
- Alone Song (EKA: Episode 1006)
- Marshal Grover: Away From (EKA: Episode 0856)
- Grover Invents the Wheel (First: Episode 0915)
- Follow the Leader (EKA: Episode 0828)
- Pinball Number Count Remix #1-12
- Season 7 Credit Crawl
- Episode 0926 (8th season premiere)
- Season 8 Classic Cuts
- Cookie Monster Disco Song (EKA: Episode 1093)
- Paul Simon: Me and Julio (EKA: Episode 1187)
- All Out of Food (EKA: Episode 1456)
- Lobster Fisherman (EKA: Episode 0966)
- Dog Flea Camp (EKA: Episode 1058)
- Bert's Physical (EKA: Episode 1090)
- Two Doors With Bob (EKA: Episode 1085)
- Swamp Mushy Muddy (EKA: Episode 0748)
- Season 8 Credit Crawl
- Easter egg: A girl prepares for the snow
Disc 3
- Episode 1056 (9th season premiere)
- Season 9 Classic Cuts
- It Feels Good When You Sing a Song (EKA: Episode 1563)
- Bert & Ernie: Slice of Life (First: Episode 1166)
- Ray Charles: I Got a Song (EKA: Episode 1109)
- Fonzie & Cunningham: Brushing Teeth
- Taxi Sounds (EKA: Episode 1136)
- School Pageant: Seasons (EKA: Episode 1929)
- Madeline Kahn: Sing After Me (EKA: Episode 1112)
- Fireworks Alphabet (EKA: Episode 1206)
- The Ten Commandments of Health (EKA: Episode 1163)
- Season 9 Credit Crawl
- Episode 1186 (10th season premiere)
- Season 10 Classic Cuts
- Grover Disco: Alphabet Song (First: Episode 1324)
- Kermit Casting Director (First: Episode 1283)
- Imagination: Dogs (new sound effects added) (First: Episode 1347)
- Llama at Dentist Song (First: Episode 1241)
- Bert Teaches Pigeon Checkers (EKA: Episode 1227)
- Lost Dog Flyer (First: Episode 1222)
- My Favorite Number is 6 (First: Episode 1289)
- Old West: Letter Y Box of Crayons (First: Episode 1288)
- Season 10 Credit Crawl
- Easter egg: A boy gets lost and a mysterious man teaches him to think backwards. (EKA: Episode 0668)
Easter Eggs
- On each disc, go to the bonus features menu, press the left arrow, and select, and an animated segment can be viewed (see disc sections for which cartoons).
- Episode 0666: "Dialing for Prizes Movie" is replaced by Beat the Time with Grover as the contestant.
- Episode 0796: In the second-to-last Street scene, the DVD release omits the last few seconds in which David and Maria kiss. (Maria sings "Happy Birthday to You," a song that was still under copyright in the United States at the time.)
- Episode 1186: A new music underscore is added to a Charlie Chaplin skit.
- Sesame Street Test Show 1: The scene in which Bob reads Where the Wild Things Are is cut; this is likely due to rights issues.
- The Super Grover, Here is Your Life, and Sesame Street News Flash segments included as "season six classic cuts" feature later versions of the title cards, as opposed to what was originally used.
- On early copies of the set, a folder icon was printed in error on one of the pictures on the inside disc case. This was corrected on subsequent printings.


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Wildlife Expo to offer first-hand outdoor opportunities to Oklahomans
Outdoor Marketplace returning to 2009 Oklahoma Wildlife Expo
Lake Record Update: 11.2-lb. largemouth caught from Sooner Lake
Seventy-six-pound flathead catfish sets new Oklahoma state record
Five-year fishing license a good buy for anglers this summer
Fifth annual Oklahoma Wildlife Expo to offer outdoor learning opportunities
Oklahoma City attorney named to Wildlife Conservation Commission
Few Father's Day gifts compare to a fishing trip with family
Wildlife Commission bids farewell to longtime Director Greg Duffy
Wildlife Department employees receive awards for conservation achievements
Oklahoma City attorney named to Wildlife Conservation Commission
Oklahoma City attorney Ed Abel is the newest member of the Oklahoma Wildlife Conservation Commission, the governing board of the Oklahoma Department of Wildlife Conservation.
The Wildlife Commission establishes state hunting and fishing regulations, sets policy for the Wildlife Department and indirectly oversees all state fish and wildlife conservation activities.
Abel, appointed by Governor Brad Henry and confirmed by the Senate, will begin his eight-year term in July. Abel also served as a Wildlife Commissioner from 1994 to 2002.
Abel will serve as the voice of sportsmen in District 5, which includes Logan, Oklahoma, Cleveland, McClain, Garvin, Murray and Payne counties.
"I am looking forward to being on the Wildlife Commission," Abel said. I'm very interested in wildlife and wildlife issues.
Abel said he looks forward to serving alongside other commissioners to serve the sportsmen of Oklahoma. Abel himself is a lifelong sportsman. His father introduced him to the outdoors at a young age through activities like squirrel hunting.
"I have enjoyed hunting and fishing since I was about five years old when I started with my father," Abel said.
Abel is particularly fond of hunting with dogs. He and his hounds have hunted competitively across the United States, winning several world championships. His kennel, Sooner Black and Tans, is well known among coonhunters and houndsmen, and Abel has held leadership roles in several hunting dog organizations, including the American Black & Tan Association, Oklahoma Federation of Coonhunters and others.
Abel is the founder and senior partner of what is now Abel Law Firm, founded in 1976. He is listed in "Best Lawyers of America" as one of the "top guns" in the legal profession and is an active member in numerous professional associations. He has served as chairman and member in many law association committees and organizations, including the Oklahoma Trial Lawyers Association, Association of Trial Lawyers of America, American Bar Association, Oklahoma Bar Association, Oklahoma County Bar Association and others. He was active in the Civil Justice Reform Act of 1990 and has been the recipient of several awards for outstanding legal contributions.
Abel received a Bachelor of Arts Degree from the University of Oklahoma in 1963 and his Juris Doctor Degree from The University of Oklahoma Law School in 1966.
Abel has been married almost 31 years. He and his wife have four children — three daughters and a son — as well as three grandsons.
Photo caption: Oklahoma City attorney Ed Abel is the newest member of the Oklahoma Wildlife Conservation Commission, representing District 5.
Few Father's Day gifts compare to a fishing trip with family
Dads may receive any number of techno gadgets, ties or shaving kits from their families this Father's Day, but maybe a day of fishing is more in line with what Dad really wants this year.
"For decades, dads and fishing have gone together like peanut butter and jelly," said Jeff Boxrucker, assistant chief of fisheries for the Oklahoma Department of Wildlife Conservation. "I encourage families looking for a special gift for the father in their life to head to the water for some fishing this Father's Day. As a dad myself, I am confident this is a gift that will go over well. What better way to show your dad how much you love him than by spending time with him doing something he enjoys? The memories you make together fishing will last longer than anything you can buy."
Oklahoma has no shortage of angling opportunities this year, either. From big lakes with big fish to rivers, streams, ponds and more, there are approximately 11,600 miles of shoreline in Oklahoma, many of which are accessible to the public.
Fishing with Dad this Father's Day can be as simple as carrying a few rods and reels and a box of worms to a nearby fishing hole or as exciting as planning a weekend getaway for camping, grilling out burgers and catching loads of fish at a large lake, river resort or state park.
"No matter where you are in the state, you don't have to make a long-distance drive or own a boat to go fishing this Father's Day," Boxrucker said. "There is most likely a place close by where you can fish, even if you live right in the middle of town."
While opportunities like the Wildlife Department's "Close to Home Fishing" program offer angling in urban locations, families can also take their fathers to one of the state's big lakes, where they can fish in public access areas or even hire a fishing guide to help make their trip a success.
"A guided fishing trip would make any dad's day, such as a striper fishing trip on Lake Texoma," Boxrucker said. "If you are looking for a start, you can find Lake Texoma fishing guide information by logging on to sixoldgeezers.com."
To fish in Oklahoma, anglers need a state fishing license and a fishing and hunting legacy permit, unless exempt. Other municipal permits or access permits may apply in certain locations. The Wildlife Department's "2009 Oklahoma Fishing Guide" outlines state fishing regulations as well as a wealth of angling information ranging from fishing techniques to fish identification tips. The 40-page guide can be obtained anywhere fishing licenses are sold or on the Wildlife Department's Web site at wildlifedepartment.com.
June means spawning sunfish and angling action
The month of June means spawning sunfish, and spawning sunfish means good fishing in waters all across Oklahoma.
Sunfish — which include such fish as bluegill, redear, pumpkinseed and green sunfish, among others — spawn along shallow shorelines, and their circular spawning beds can often be seen from the bank. Spawning sunfish are also aggressive feeders and strong fighters for their size.
"If you fish for sunfish during the spawn using ultra-light tackle, you might gain a new respect for this incredibly abundant fish," said Jeff Boxrucker, assistant chief of fisheries for the Oklahoma Department of Wildlife Conservation.
Spawning sunfish are usually caught by casting a line along shallow shorelines. Weedbeds also are ideal habitat for large sunfish. Live bait like worms, minnows and grasshoppers are good choices for bait, but small jigs and lures work well, too.
"Honestly, all that is needed for a good sunfish angling trip is a pole set up with a bobber, sinker and baited hook," Boxrucker said. "Include a stringer as well so you can take a few home for the frying pan."
Catching sunfish is one the simplest types of fishing Oklahoma offers, and they make delicious table fare when fried and served with hushpuppies, potato salad or baked beans.
Sunfish angling during the spawning season is a great time to teach youngsters about the basics of fishing while also keeping the action intense. Oklahoma's creeks, ponds and lakes are filled with sunfish that can help youth and newcomers to the sport hone and master their angling skills while making memories that they will remember years down the road.
Peak activity for sunfish is in the early mornings and late evenings, and therefore these hours make ideal times for targeting them with a rod and reel. Sunfish are often active throughout the day, though, so anglers should not rule out other times of the day.
Abundant populations of sunfish exist in any direction of the state. Some Oklahoma residents can speed up their search through the "Close to Home" fishing program. Under cooperative fisheries management agreements between Oklahoma municipalities and the Wildlife Department, there is a wide variety of fishing opportunities around the Oklahoma City metro. The current "Oklahoma Fishing Guide" offers a complete list of these areas, and Tulsa anglers can log on to wildlifedepartment.com for a list of locations near their home.
To fish in Oklahoma, anglers must possess an appropriate state fishing license and a fishing and hunting legacy permit, unless exempt. Complete regulations are available in the current "Oklahoma Fishing Guide" or on the Wildlife Department's Web site at wildlifedepartment.com.
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The Oklahoma Waterfowl Stamp design contest hosted by the Oklahoma Department of Wildlife Conservation will feature the ringneck in 2010-11, and entries will be accepted from July 1 through Aug. 31, 2009.
Every year artists from across the country enter their renditions of a pre-selected waterfowl species in the contest, and the winning art is printed on the next year's Oklahoma Waterfowl Stamp, which can also serve as an Oklahoma waterfowl hunting license. Oklahoma waterfowl hunting licenses are required of Oklahoma waterfowl hunters, unless exempt.
"When waterfowl hunters purchase a stamp or a waterfowl license, they are funding on-the-ground habitat work," said Micah Holmes, information supervisor for the Wildlife Department. "The stamp is a popular item for collectors as well."
Duck stamp sales help finance many projects that benefit ducks and geese. Since the duck stamp program began in 1980, thousands of acres of waterfowl habitat have been created through duck stamp revenues.
Artwork may be of acrylic, oil, watercolor, scratchboard, pencil, pen and ink, tempera or any other two-dimensional media. The illustration must be horizontal, six and a half inches high and nine inches wide. It must be matted with white mat board nine inches high by 12 inches wide with the opening cut precisely 6.5 x 9. Artwork may not be framed or under glass, but acetate covering should be used to protect the art. All artists must depict the ringneck, and any habitat appearing in the design must be typical of Oklahoma. Artists also can include a retriever dog in their entry, as long as the ringneck is the featured element of the artwork. For complete entry guidelines, call (405) 521-3856.
Entries should be sent to the Duck Stamp Competition Coordinator, Oklahoma Department of Wildlife Conservation, P.O. Box 53465, Oklahoma City, OK 73152. Fed Ex, UPS and other ground deliveries should be sent to 1801 N. Lincoln, Oklahoma City, OK 73105.
Entries will be judged on anatomical accuracy, artistic composition and suitability for printing. The winner and honorable mentions will appear in a future issue of Outdoor Oklahoma magazine. A non-refundable entry fee of $20 (cash, money order or cashier's check) must accompany each entry. No entries will be accepted after 4:30 p.m. Aug. 31.
The winning artist will receive a purchase award of $1,200, and the winning entry will become the sole and exclusive property of the Wildlife Department.
A selection of waterfowl stamp art from previous years is currently on display in the lobby of the Wildlife Department headquarters located at 1801 N. Lincoln, in Oklahoma City.
Prints of previous winning waterfowl artwork can be purchased at wildlifedepartment.com.
For more information about the contest call (405) 521-3856. For a complete list of contest rules, log on to wildlifedepartment.com.
Wildlife Expo to offer first-hand outdoor opportunities to Oklahomans
Oklahomans wanting to learn about the outdoors should mark their calendars for the fifth annual Oklahoma Wildlife Expo, slated for Sept. 25-27 at the Lazy E Arena, just north of Oklahoma City.
The Wildlife Expo is Oklahoma's largest outdoor recreation event, offering guests the chance to shoot shotguns and archery equipment, ride mountain bikes and ATVs, catch fish in a fully stocked pond, attend seminars about hunting, fishing and camping and more for free.
The Oklahoma Department of Wildlife Conservation is partnering with a wide range of other state agencies, private individuals and outdoor-related companies to host Expo. The huge event is designed to provide hands-on learning opportunities for all types of outdoor enthusiasts while promoting and instilling an appreciation for Oklahoma's wildlife and natural resources.
Whether trying the sport of kayaking for the first time or eating a snack at a Dutch oven cooking course, visitors to the Expo get the chance to soak up a full weekend of free outdoor knowledge, skills and experiences as hundreds of volunteers and Wildlife Department employees work to keep the event exciting, educational and entertaining.
"If you want to try over a hundred outdoor activities, then be at this year's wildlife Expo Sept. 25-27," said country music star and outdoorsman Blake Shelton of Ada, who has made appearances at the Expo in the past. "If you love to hunt and fish like I do, then take someone to this year's Wildlife Expo."
The Wildlife Expo will be held at the Lazy E Arena, just north of Oklahoma City. Expo hours will be from 8 a.m. to 6 p.m. daily Sept. 25-27. Log on to wildlifedepartment.com regularly to stay up to date on this year's Expo activities.
This year's Expo will again feature "School Day" Sept. 25, when busloads of school students from across the state will arrive and enjoy a day at the event. Educators interested in planning a trip to the Wildlife Expo with their students this year should call (918) 299-2334 for more information.
Outdoor Marketplace returning to 2009 Oklahoma Wildlife Expo
For the third year in a row, vendors at the Oklahoma Wildlife Expo will be offering their outdoor goods and services to sportsmen interested in the outdoors through its Outdoor Marketplace.
The Oklahoma Department of Wildlife Conservation's fifth annual Oklahoma Wildlife Expo is slated for September 25-27 at the Lazy E Arena, just north of Oklahoma City. The Wildlife Department will be working with a range of organizations, individuals and outdoor-related companies to host the event — intended to promote and develop appreciation for Oklahoma's wildlife and natural resources. Last year's Expo drew nearly 40,000 visitors to the Lazy E Arena over the course of three days.
"The Expo is an event that draws tens of thousands of outdoor-minded individuals who want to learn about the outdoors and try their hand at a number of outdoor activities," said Rhonda Hurst, Wildlife Expo coordinator for the Wildlife Department. "The Wildlife Department is pleased to offer to Expo visitors a chance to stroll through the Outdoor Marketplace to see the latest in outdoor merchandise. I'm confident this year's Outdoor Marketplace will be well worth checking out."
The Outdoor Marketplace is a large area where commercial vendors will be selling their hunting and fishing-related merchandise and services. The Marketplace features vendors under a large tent, but outdoor open-air spaces also are available for displaying larger items such as ATVs and hunting blinds. A 10' x 10' booth space under the tent or a 20' x 20' outside space costs $300. Both include electricity. Nonprofit conservation organizations also will be able to sign up for free booth spaces to promote membership and educate sportsmen about their organizations.
Along with shopping at the Outdoor Marketplace, Expo visitors will be able to fish, shoot shotguns, kayak, ride mountain bikes, see and touch wildlife, attend dog training seminars and learn about recreation in the great outdoors. They will also be able to win a variety of free prizes thanks to the Expo's generous sponsors.
"Vendors who want to reach outdoor enthusiasts with their products and services need to be part of the Wildlife Expo's Outdoor Marketplace," Hurst said. "Don't miss out on this opportunity to participate in the largest outdoor recreational event in the state of Oklahoma."
Log on to wildlifedepartment.com regularly to stay up to date on the upcoming Oklahoma Wildlife Expo.
For more information about obtaining a booth in the Outdoor Marketplace or to obtain an application for a booth, contact Rhonda Hurst, Wildlife Expo Coordinator at (405) 522-6279.
Lake Record Update: 11.2-lb. largemouth caught from Sooner Lake
Angler Bryan Fuksa of Enid caught an 11.2-lb. lake record largemouth bass June 13 from Sooner Lake. The fish was caught on a jig. For more information, log on to the link below. For more information about the Oklahoma Department of Wildlife Conservation's Lake Record Fish program, log on to wildlifedepartment.com.
Sooner Lake
Largemouth bass
Angler: Bryan Fuksa
Date: June 13
Bait: Jig
Photo link: http://lake-record.ou.edu/fishsite/public/fishView.php?id=729


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Macbeth. Macbeth. Macbeth.
Chat with anyone in theatre about "The Scottish Play," and inevitably there will be some hesitation in saying the actual name aloud.
After all, that is how curses tend to go.
Once upon a time in 1606, the actor who played the first Lady Macbeth died of a fever backstage and a curse was born. Since that time, there have been records of ill-fated actors and production crew with each incarnation of the play, the bad luck often attributed to the "authentic" witches' chants, the general bloody mayhem of this dark and twisted play, and low lighting.
The cast of Intrepid's upcoming Macbeth has been dealing in darkness and magic for weeks now as they navigate the swamps of Scotland, sorting out the political intrigue and wiping blood from their hands. But, how did they manage to overcome the curse?
The modern day translation of the superstition goes something like this: You are not allowed to say the word in a theater. If you do, you are required to leave the theatre, turn around three times, spit, swear, and knock to be let back in.
If you are not an actor this may sound ludicrous. If you are an actor, you most likely have one or two or five stories of undertaking these actions yourself or forcing someone else to do so.
There is a loophole. Superstition also says that there are major curse-exceptions if a company is actually performing the play.
Director Christy Yael-Cox was never hesitant about dropping the "M"-bomb from the beginning of the process, and while the rest of the cast seemed relieved to follow suit, that hesitancy to utter the word still remained for some.
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- Reports suggest Hong Kong could become the world's financial capital in terms of jobs
- Many jobs expected to be on "buy side" of industry, in asset and wealth fund management
- Analysts expect more job volatility on "sale side," which includes investment banking
- Local knowledge, language skills increasingly important in Asian market
If that corner office at a financial firm on New York's Wall Street or at London's Canary Wharf has been illusory, then a Victoria Harbor view from Hong Kong's skyscraper skyline may be the place to find yourself in a few years.
That's because the Asian city looks set to become the center of the Earth when it comes to jobs in the financial sector.
CEBR, the London-based economics consultancy, recently forecast Hong Kong will have more financial services jobs than New York or London by 2016, with some 262,000 positions. The Institute of Chartered Accountants in England and Wales (ICAEW) also gives its endorsement, saying Hong Kong will be the world's premier financial job center by 2017, with 275,000 positions.
Believable or bizarre?
"It's three years from now, but it's believable," says Brian Lim, director of Value Search Asia, a Hong Kong-based boutique headhunting firm focused on the banking and financial sectors. "Asian opportunities are going to be a lot more stable. (The employment market) has been slow because of the European and U.S. economic crises -- not because of major issues from our side."
Lim says he does expect continued job volatility on the so-called "sale side" of the financial industry, which includes investment banking, because of sensitivity to market gyrations. But he already sees more hiring on the less-market sensitive "buy side," which includes asset and wealth fund management.
But other search firms find recent job market forecasts far-fetched.
"I think it's bizarre," says Jonathon Hollands, Managing Director of Carraway Group, a financial and corporate headhunting firm headquartered in Hong Kong. As the global economy has slowed over the past few years "Hong Kong is shedding jobs."
This past September, HSBC finished its planned Hong Kong layoffs by eliminating 3,000 staff from its workforce in the city -- part of a global restructuring to cut an astounding 30,000 jobs around the world.
Earlier this month, Barclays announced it will cut up to 2,000 jobs with many of those losses coming out of Asia and Europe. Hollands expects even more job losses in Hong Kong are "still to come."
As proof, Hollands cites a steep drop-off in recruitment requests from global banks based in Hong Kong. He declines to name them but says they are easy to guess.
"The amount they spend on recruiters is 80-100% down. They haven't spent anything on headhunters in the past year."
Still, CEBR's Chief Executive Douglas McWilliams is preaching the message that Hong Kong will boast the most financial jobs by 2016. He says it is "inevitable as a result of the world's changing economic geography.
"And Hong Kong will be boosted by the internationalization of the renminbi (China's currency). But we have accelerated the (West-to-East job) shift through short-sighted overregulation, penal taxation and banker bashing."
Despite those reasons, financial executives from the West will not necessarily secure a new job in the East.
Three Ls
Language ability, links across Asia and localization are prime deciding factors for the success of a financial services job seeker.
"'How good is your Mandarin?' is one of the first questions you will be asked," says Carraway Group's Hollands. "Mainland China's market has been badly serviced by private banks" and opportunities exist if you can speak the language.
The second question will be about the strength of your regional relationships across Asia.
"People have to have relationships -- not just from doing well in the front office but to asset management and private wealth management in particular," says Hollands. "The longer one has lived in China, the better. The best is if you've grown up here."
"(Financial services firms) are getting people who understand the local markets," adds Lim of Value Search Asia. "They will hire a Korean to cover Korean markets, Chinese to cover the PRC. We do see a large inflow of European and U.S. bankers (seeking jobs), but (they are) finding it very difficult to get a job here because they don't understand the local markets. It's a safer bet to pick someone local."
A third question correlates with culture -- literally how far are you willing to go to give "face."
"I recently had a qualified candidate lose out," says Hollands. "He is a Korean national who had lived in Hong Kong but is currently based in Los Angeles. The guy who got the job is a local Hong Konger, and he's here. He had a face-to-face-interview. A phone call or a video call just isn't the same."
"Being here gets you 70% of the way."
Looking ahead two years, the decision to relocate from West to East hinges on whether you believe financial jobs will be easier to find in Hong Kong -- as opposed to London or New York -- and whether you believe you are that much better than the competition.


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Did you download the new iOS8? Did you pre-order an iPhone 6 or 6 Plus? I'm in for a 6 Plus, and as nervous as I am excited about it. Will I hate the size? Will battery life stink? Will it fit in my pocket? What kind of accessories should I get to go along with it? Keyboard with stand?
Do You Like TED-Ed?I also found another great video on TED-Ed and felt the need to ask if we should be using TED-Ed as a model for corporate training. It's a simple tool, with customization features that give anyone the ability to create a lesson based on these very impressive videos. If you haven't checked it out, you should.
LitmosAuthor FTW!And if you didn't know about the LitmosAuthor tool, the Product Manager wrote a great post about the impressive cost savings being seen with it's use. You can check that post out here. I know a developer that's been a fan for a long time, and I didn't find out he was until I started working for Litmos. There are a lot of authoring tools to choose from, but LitmosAuthor has a couple aces you can't beat with other tools. Check it out.
New CallidusCloud AcquisitionThis week brought some fun news for the CallidusCloud team. For those of you that may not know, CallidusCloud is the parent company of Litmos. Anyways... they acquired Clicktools this week. You can read the press release here.
More Twitter Chat FunAnother Fireside #lrnchat LIVE is in the can. Thanks to Will Constantine for joining me so I didn't have to do it alone. It's an hour long and so you probably don't want to just sit and watch. At this point it's still an experiment. I'm changing things weekly and just learning as I go. At some point I think I'll edit these down to just the good parts and save you all from the long moments of silence. It is, after all, based on a twitter chat. And so at times we're just following the Q&A stream.
Today begins another Twitter chat for L&D professionals called #Guildchat. And so that really gets me thinking about these Hangouts on Air. I'm really enjoying them and it's a great way to enhance a twitter chat. So instead of coming up with a new name for each one, I think I will start doing this for all the twitter chats I attend and just brand the experience HangChats. What do you think?
Hope you all had a great week! Enjoy your weekend!


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LETTER: 'City of Burien Has a Structural Financial Deficit & is Going Broke'
To the Editor:
The City of Burien has a structural financial deficit and is going broke.
At the City Council meeting of October 22, 2012, the City Manager/Mike Martin and the City Council tried to deny that this is true. Their refusal to face the facts in the 2011 Berk Report, page ES-4, is very serious for the financial future of Burien:
"Exhibit ES-3
City of Burien 2013 2014 2022 2023
Core Expenditures 24,909,000 25,785,000 34,250,000 35,607,000
Core Revenues 22,472,000 22,885,000 26,346,000 26,973,000
Net Revenues (2,437,000) (2,900,000) (7,904,000) (8,634,000)
as % of Expenditures -10% -11% -23% -24%
Regardless of annexation, the City will have to continue to take steps to bring revenues and costs in line in the form of a balanced budget. Because area Y does not bring in enough revenues to cover the costs of the services it needs, if annexation is approved, these deficits will be much higher.
As summarized in Exhibit ES – 3, the City's fiscal challenges worsen over time as costs continue to grow faster than revenues…. Growth in general fund revenues, assumed under existing City tax/fee policies and calibrated to growth in the area, does not keep pace with the core costs (growing at only 1.8%)….As stated previously, a City cannot, in reality, operate with a budget deficit – cities are legally required to have balanced budgets. As with all cities, City of Burien leaders will continue to make policy choices to balance the budget each budget cycle. The result is that large projected budget deficits do not materialize. Each budget period the City Council will make incremental adjustments to the existing budget and policy structure to keep the City functioning within its means, continually holding potential larger budget deficits at bay."
The Berk financial report assumed that Burien's income from property taxes would grow by 2% annually and then increase to 3% by 2021. This has not happened and Burien's income from property taxes has declined by – 8.5%. So next year Burien will lose $1million + in property tax revenue. This was not anticipated in the 2011 Berk Report or by the City. To try to fix the problem, the City claims to have cut $1 million dollars from staff services but this still does not fix the problem of the -10% to-11% deficit from the expenditures exceeding the revenues. So rather than raising taxes or further cutting staff services and outside contracts, the City Council and City Manager have gone into the City's savings accounts to balance the 2013-2014 budget. These savings accounts are supposed to be saved for unexpected emergencies and not to pay for expected, ongoing budget expenses.
The City is clearly going broke and the City Council is refusing to do the necessary things to correct this problem. As a further problem, the City Council and City Manager have continued to pursue the Annexation of Area Y/North Highline/White Center. Area Y does not bring in enough revenues to cover the costs of the services it needs. The Sales Tax Credits that the City Manager continues to talk about will not cover the costs to run Area Y and will further cause Burien financial problems.
No matter how much the City Manager/Mike Martin, and some Council members try to deny that Burien is going broke, the information from the Berk Report and the current way that the Council is handling the budget shortfall indicate that Burien is Going Broke. Read the figures.
– Debi Wagner
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World Oil Production After Year 2000: Business As Usual or Crises?
Description: Deficient productive capacity has not yet caused an oil crisis, but that does not mean it never will. Significant increases in world oil demand will have to be met primarily from Persian Gulf supplies. This is a region with a history of wars, illegal occupations, soups, revolutions, sabotage, terrorism, and oil embargoes. To these possibilities may be added growing Islamist movements with various antipathies to the West. If oil production were constrained, oil prices could rise abruptly along with adverse world economic repercussions. If the IEA and EIA are correct on the demand side, deficient world oil productive capacity could cause an oil crisis within 15 years and political disruptions in Saudi Arabia could cause one sooner. However, if the increases in world oil demand were more moderate, and there is long-term relative peace in the Middle East, with increasing foreign participation in upstream oil activities, a business as usual world oil demand and supply situation would be a likely scenario for much of the next century.
Date: August 18, 1995
Creator: Riva, Joseph P
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Transportation planning
Planning on Track
The Office of Workforce Development is offering a series of courses called Planning on Track (PLOT). These courses will take place both in a classroom setting, and on Amtrak trains, and the purpose is to explore the connections between Rail Planning, Land Use and Caltrans' Core Planning Areas. Speak to your (PDL) if you are interested in this series of courses.
Prerequisites: Completion of the basic Transportation Planning Academy or equivalent experience.
Capital Corridor PLOT
This class examines transit systems and connectivity in the Bay Area. It will take place both on transit systems and in a classroom setting, and will include discussions on passenger rail, commuter rail, local transit agencies. In addition, it will include presentations by representatives from BART and by the SF Airport's Airtrain (a very small scale, but very effective transit system). Participants will leave this class with an idea of how the various systems function together and with experience navigating these systems. The training will include an overnight stay in San Jose. Please see the Capital Corridor Agenda for additional information.
Upcoming Planning of Track Deliveries:
San Joaquin Route
This class will address Passenger Rail planning and development issues, transportation alternatives, and related land use and environmental considerations. It will also explore the role of Caltrans planners and where they can participate in or advocate the decision making process. (see the SJ PLOT Agenda for additional detail). This class involves both classroom instruction, and instruction on the San Joaquin route of the Amtrak train. It will begin in Sacramento, travel to Hanford for additional instruction and an overnight stay, and will return to Sacramento. There are currently no deliveries of this course scheduled.
Past Planning on Track Deliveries:
- Planning on Track 1 (San Joaquin) – June 25, 2002
- Planning on Track 2 (San Joaquin) – November 13 – 14, 2002
- Planning on Track 3 (San Joaquin) – April 1 – 2, 2003
- Planning on Track 4 (Capitol) – October 26 – 27, 2004
- Planning on Track 5 (Capitol) – May 9 – 10, 2005
- Planning on Track 6 (Capitol) – September 25 – 26, 2007
If you have any questions about course content, please contact Lisa Franco.


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What is this, Donkey Kong Country in Space?
The dimension that they were sent to was perpendicular. It was the same as this one.Wait......wouldn't that be an alternate universe?
Goddamnit kitkat, you make me look late
Anyway, I wonder what would happen if the Core Combine would happen to meet them...
Anyone else agree to training an army of crowbar-wielding theoretical physicists?
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Update On Cornell NYC Tech Negotiations With RIOC Subject Of Today's Roosevelt Island Operating Corp Real Estate Advisory Committee Meeting - Meeting Is In Executive Session, Closed To Public
Image From Cornell NYC Tech (credit Kilograph)
According to the Roosevelt Island Operating Corp (RIOC)
PLEASE TAKE NOTICE that a meeting of the Real Estate Development Advisory Committee of the RIOC Board of Directors will be held on Thursday, June 27, 2013 at 3:00 p.m. at the RIOC administrative office, 591 Main Street, Roosevelt Island, New York.As previously reported, NYC has approved the project and transfer of Goldwater campus land NYC controls to Cornell but Cornell must still reach an agreement with RIOC for the Goldwater campus land controlled by RIOC:
1. Chair's Motion for Executive Session for Update on Current Negotiations Regarding Cornell NYC;
2. Any Other Committee Business That May be Brought Before the Committee
... Many issues still need to be resolved before Cornell NYC Tech can take possession, begin demolition of the existing Goldwater Hospital and start construction of the new applied sciences and engineering school. Among the issues still to be negotiated with the Roosevelt Island Operating Corp (RIOC) are an agreement with RIOC for land controlled by RIOC that is part of the proposed Cornell campus, the use of barging and temporary concrete plant during the construction process, air and noise pollution monitoring and much more....Below is an aerial view of the existing Goldwater Hospital campus that is scheduled to be demolished in early 2014 to make way for the Cornell NYC Tech campus. NYC controls the land that is beneath the hospital buildings and extending a perimeter of 5 feet from the buildings. RIOC controls all the other land on the Goldwater campus site between the roads on the outside of the campus (East and West Channel Roads).
More here on latest Cornell NYC Tech developments including selection of Forest City Ratner as corporate co-location building and Master Plan developer
and this video in which
Dan Huttenlocher, Founding Dean of Cornell Tech, and Provost Kent Fuchs provide insight into the latest developments of the newly established Cornell NYC Tech Campus.
If you are interested in the Cornell NYC Tech project, I recommend watching the whole hour long video.
Today's RIOC Real Estate Committee meeting on the Cornell negotiations is in executive session which means it is closed to the public.


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The Old City is emblematic, especially on the Niederdorf area. Close by are the grandiose Grossmünster and Fraumünster churches. After seeing the views from mountain Uetliberg, there's the boat trip on the lake and river Limmat. You might even end up going to see the breathtaking Rhine Falls.
Treat yourself!
Good shopping means heading to Bahnhofstrasse. You won't resist the chocolats of Sprüngli, a house founded in 1836. Mind also the Swiss National Museum, an enchanted castle, and Kunsthaus' great European collection. Don't forget to spend a night at the casino. And then, drinks at the trendy district of Zürich-West!
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Supercomputing 12: The World's Fastest and Most Efficient Computers
As expected, this week's Supercomputing 12 show in Salt Lake City, Utah, had lots of a news. It announced the fastest system in the world and a different system that is the most power-efficient of the large computers.
As usual, the important TOP500 list is up and, as anticipated, the new Titan system at the U.S. Department of Energy's Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL) took the top spot. It shows sustained performance of 17.5 petaflops (more than 17,500 trillion floating point operations per second) and peak performance of over 27 petaflops on the LINPACK benchmark. This system is based on a Cray XK7 system with 18,688 nodes, each containing a 16-core AMD Opteron 6274 and an Nvidia Tesla K20 graphics processing unit (GPU) accelerator.
In second place is the previous leader, the Sequoia system at the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, based on IBM's BlueGene/Q system and its PowerPC CPUs. Third up is the "K computer" at Japan's RIKEN Advanced Institute for Computational Science based on Fujitsu SPARC64 processors.
In addition to Titan, perhaps the most notable change is that the Stampede system at the Texas Advanced Computing Center (TACC) at the University of Texas in Austin is the first supercomputer in the top 10 using Dell PowerEdge servers with Intel Xeon Phi processors. It comes in at 2.7 sustained petaflops, but is supposed to get to 10 petaflops when fully deployed next year.
Overall, there are now 23 systems on the list with a performance above one petaflop; just over four years ago there was only one. Sixty-two of the top 500 are now using accelerators or co-processors. Intel provides processors for 379 systems on the list, AMD Opteron is used in 61 systems, and IBM Power processors are used in 53 systems.
Also updated this week was the Green500 list, which ranks the most efficient computers based on flops per watt running the Linpack benchmark. This time, the top system is a relatively small cluster (#253 on the TOP500 list), the Beacon system run by the National Institute of Computational Science and the University of Tennessee. It is built using Appro's GreenBlades, each running 2.6GHz Xeon E5-2670 processors (8 cores/16 threads) and Xeon Phi 5110P co-processors, using the Infiniband FDR interconnects. This results in 2.5 gigaflops per watt.
Second place went to Saudi Arabia's Sanam system, which uses Adtech blades, Xeon E5-2650's and AMD FirePro S10000 accelerators. Third place went to the Titan system and fourth to a smaller but similar Cray system called Todi, based in Switzerland. It's interesting to see that the next 24 spots all go to systems built on the more homogeneous IBM BlueGene/Q architecture, running at 2.1GF/ watt. In general, it looks like performance and power requirements are both going up, but performance is growing more quickly.
There's also lots of product news, which I'll cover in my next post.