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Palladium Books® Weekly Update – April 14, 2011
By Kevin Siembieda
Hello, everyone. I hope it's sunny and spring-like wherever you are. I hope you are feeling alive, positive and motivated. That's how we're feeling at Palladium Books.
I know I had to keep things short in the last Weekly Update because of the Creators Conference (which was awesome), so I'm making up for it with a lot of news this week.
UPDATE: The Rifter® #54 – shipped this week. Subscriber copies went out on April 12. Distributor copies went out on April 13. PR copies went out today. This is another great issue with a wealth of fun information. A Heroes Unlimited™ adventure, Palladium Fantasy RPG® monsters and races, the Rifts® city of New Chillicothe, a Nightbane® story and the final chapter of The Hammer of the Forge, plus news and other good stuff.
UPDATE: Rifts® Thundercloud Galaxy™ – Ships April 25. The book is at the printer. I approved the pre-press digital proof on Monday. Tuesday the printer contacted me to confirm the ship date of Monday, April 25.
Roughly 30 freelancers got to see Thundercloud Galaxy™ over the weekend (our proofreader copy is dog-eared) and EVERYBODY loved it. We heard comments like, "it's great," "it's not what I expected, it is awesome," and which characters people wanted to play. Carmen Bellaire is dying to play the Shing™, the Trensik Mercenaries™ was another favorite. One of my faves is the Kasaro™ cannibals. People loved the new info on the Dominators™ and Gene-Tech™ too, and I can't even begin to tell you the fun everyone had with theThunder Duck™.
The Thundercloud Galaxy™ is a playground. Your playground. An environment filled with the bizarre and amazing, and chock-full of adventure. But don't take my word for it. Take a peek at the Thundercloud Galaxy™ Sneak Preview. Just a reminder, the Aliens Unlimited™and Aliens Unlimited™ Galaxy Guide books also offer many alien races that can be dropped into any space campaign. They are S.D.C. races, which fits for the Three Galaxies, and some can be easily adjusted for M.D.C., such as beings made of silicon or plant matter. There are Rifts® conversion notes included in both books.
UPDATE: Rifts® Thundercloud Galaxy™ Sneak Preview. The preview is available as a free PDF download from DriveThruRPG.com. It is easy to create a free account and only takes a couple of minutes. The preview shows the Trensik Mercenaries R.C.C. as well as a brief overview piece, a map of the galaxy and the Contents pages. The free Armageddon™ Unlimited Sneak Preview is also available. Remember, DriveThruRPG.com is a good resource for getting The Rifter® numbers #1-48 and to fill in your RPG library with first edition copies of Rifts®, Palladium Fantasy®, Heroes Unlimited™, and other game lines as well as books such as Nightbane® Book Four: Shadows of Light™ and both versions of the The Mechanoids® RPG (1985) and The Collected Mechanoid Invasion® Trilogy (1981-1983).
UPDATE: Rifts® Vampire Kingdoms. I've already started prep work for this title. I've reviewed new artwork and fielded a couple of emails on the subject from contributors. I may work on it and the Rifts® Vampires Sourcebook simultaneously.
UPDATE: Robotech® New Generation™ Sourcebook. I plan to switch from vampires to Invid and power armor, so I can get this title into production and assign artwork.
UPDATE: Rifts® Megaverse® in Flames has also been put into pre-production mode. The cover was assigned last week and I'm looking to start assigning art for it in the next week or two.
UPDATE: Rifts® Movie Option. It looks like the film option is going to be renewed for one more year by Disney for development by JB Films. Fingers crossed that a Rifts® movie is in our future.
UPDATE: Alex. After much discussion and numerous quotes on parts of the work, Alex and family have decided to repair the house that caught fire rather than rent or buy a new home. It will be less expensive in the long run, and preserves memories of the home. This is only possible because some friends have stepped in to do the work on the cheap (and it's still costing plenty!). Our thanks to those good souls. We have everything in place and the work should begin this weekend. With any luck, the place will be ready to inhabit within 5-8 weeks. There is a lot to be done, but everyone is excited.
BACK IN PRINT: Two popular Rifts® titles will be ready to ship the same time as Rifts® Dimension Book™ 14: Thundercloud Galaxy™. See full descriptions below.
- Rifts® World Book 8: Rifts® Japan™ – Ships April 25
- Rifts® World Book 13: Lone Star™ – Ships April 25
Available now: These items came back in print recently.
- Rifts® Dimension Book™ 6: Three Galaxies™
- Rifts® Black Vault™
- Rifts® Mercenaries™
- Aliens Unlimited™ – A Heroes Unlimited™ sourcebook
- Rifts® Baseball Caps
Palladium Creators Conference, a complete success. Last weekend, Palladium Books hosted a Creators Conference. Freelance writers and artists from across the United States and Canada attended. The goal: To take Palladium Books to the next level. We are done treading water in the aftermath of the Crisis of Treachery. For a few months now, I have been putting things in motion to make Palladium Books strong again. The Creators Conference was one big step in that direction.
It was part seminars and workshops and part brainstorming session. We discussed current projects, new projects, future goals, and processes for getting new releases out on time. The excitement was electric. The event was everything I hoped it would be. It has helped to focus and center us as a team. We have our goals set, projects (new and old) lined up and priorities straight. With a little luck, hard work and determination, you'll be seeing new releases coming from Palladium Books every single month. Titles you've been waiting for and new titles that will surprise and please you. All of them will be top quality and inflame your imaginations.
What did we talk about at the Conference? Everything. The rocket science behind making role-playing games and sourcebooks, writing, storytelling, marketing, and finding ways to unleash our imaginations in new ways in new mediums. We talked about current projects and plotted new ones. We dared to consider all possibilities and challenged what we know to find new ways to create fun. There was a bit of role-playing, and we talked, shouted, laughed and goofed around. I took my basketball machine, foozeball table and Star Trek pinball machine out of mothballs so people could play in between and have some fun. There was a real synergy – a connection and sense of purpose. No subject was off the table. Everybody shared from the heart. Everybody showed passion for their craft and for Palladium. The ideas ran unchecked. The energy level was high. Throughout the Conference I could see the lightbulbs going on above people's heads as ideas clicked over and over again. We talked for hours. I think everyone walked away with their heads filled with information and ideas, and their hearts pumping adrenaline. I know mine was.
Good things shall come from the Creators Conference. More than you may imagine possible.
Murmurs from the Megaverse®. I'll be posting more information, thoughts and information about the Creators Conference in Murmurs from the Megaverse®. You may be seeing more Murmurs from other Palladium staff and creators as well.
More positive movement. The new Palladium website should go live by the end of April. The new look and function of Palladium's website is just one of many things we are doing to promote Palladium Books and increase our presence. We'll also be doing more with Facebook, Twitter and other social media.
UPDATE: Online sales. I'm happy to report online sales have picked up this week. They aren't stellar, but better than the last few weeks. We're getting lots of pre-orders for Rifts® Thundercloud Galaxy™ and the two Rifts® Vampire titles, which are good to see. The momentum is building.
UPDATE: Birthday celebrations. Man, oh man, we've been so busy, I only got my birthday list done this week. We'll be celebrating Julius' and my birthdays on April 22 (they were April 7 and April 2, respectively). Wayne's is only a week later. Before the Creators Conference started, Carl Gleba gave me an awesome painted miniature of a Splugorth. Wow, it is gorgeous! Um . . . er . . . you know what I mean, as gorgeous as a Splugorth Intelligence can be. Anyway, I love it. Thank you, Carl.
Palladium to attend Gen Con Indy – August 4-7. We'll be there. We hope you will be too. Stop by the Palladium booth to chat and get autographs, pick up new books and back stock titles, and have some fun. Palladium people you'll get to meet include:
- Kevin Siembieda
- Wayne Smith
- Nick Bradshaw (artist; tentative)
- Michael Mumah (artist)
- Brandon Aten (writer)
- Matthew Clements (writer; tentative)
- And others to be announced.
Keep those imaginations burning bright. Ours are working overtime.
– Kevin Siembieda, Publisher
NEW! The Rifter® #54
– Available now
This is another landmark issue of The Rifter® filled with epic source material, exotic places, strange critters, adventure settings, good stories and ideas.
The Rifter® is your doorway to unlimited imagination and numerous Palladium role-playing worlds. It offers new heroes, powers, weapons, magic and adventure for your games. It presents new villains, monsters and dangers to battle, and new ideas to consider.
The Rifter® #54 includes:
NEW! Rifts® Dimension Book™ 14: Thundercloud Galaxy™
– Ships April 25, 2011 – at the printer
The book is done, at the printer and awesome. Great ideas, great art, unique new alien races available as player characters, weird creatures and monsters, secrets of the Gene-Tech, weapons of the Dominators, ancient ruins, colony creation rules, adventure galore and much, much more.
The Scramble is the mad dash to claim and colonize the thousands of worlds of the Thundercloud Galaxy. Colonists flock to the Thundercloud filled with dreams. Space Pirates and an array of cutthroats also flock to the galaxy, guns in hand, ready to rob and fleece the colonists. Lawmen and heroes are in great demand, and the opportunities for clever adventurers are said to be without limit. As the civilizations of the Anvil and Corkscrew Galaxies scramble to colonize the Thundercloud, they are beginning to realize the galaxy holds more riches, beauty, horrors and secrets than anyone has ever imagined, making it a place of discovery, adventure and treachery like no other.
Thundercloud Galaxy™ is a perfect companion to the rest of the Phase World®/Three Galaxies™ based Dimension Books as well as the Minion War™ series. Players can be pirates, raiders, brigands or hired guns, or they may be explorers, adventurers, Spacers, or any number of heroes trying to protect the colonists or the indigenous peoples of countless worlds and colonies. The possibilities are truly limited only by your imagination.
Rifts® World Book 8: Rifts® Japan™
– Back in Print – Ships April 25
This fan-favorite sourcebook is filled with high-tech wonders, magic and monsters. There are 20 O.C.C.s (Occupational Character Classes) that range from the traditional ninja and samurai to power armor, giant robots and cyborgs.
Rifts® World Book 13: Lone Star™
– Back in Print – Ships April 25
The Coalition State of Lone Star is a wild and woolly place of contrast and conflict. The Coalition States claims the entire State of Texas as their own, but they only control a small corner of it. It is here, at the Lone Star Complex, that the CS engages in genetic engineering and creates the famous Dog Boys and a host of other mutants. The rest of the state is held by the Pecos Empire – an empire of bandits, outlaws and rebels. The perfect companion to Rifts® New West™, Rifts® Spirit West™ and Rifts® Machinations of Doom™.
NEW! Rifts® World Book One:
Vampire Kingdoms™, Expanded & Updated
Kevin Siembieda is reorganizing, tweaking, expanding and updating one of the most popular Rifts® World Books ever published: Vampire Kingdoms™. This will include some new artwork and an expanded page count. The book will be updated and expanded in much the same way as Kevin did with Rifts® Sourcebook One a few years ago. Best of all, it will be accompanied by the Rifts® Vampires Sourcebook™.
NEW! Rifts® Vampires Sourcebook™
All new source material
Trouble is stirring in the Vampire Kingdoms as ambitious vampire lords, ladies and misanthropes seek to expand their power to dominate more mortal life forms.
Written by Kevin Siembieda and a handpicked selection of other writers, this sourcebook explores the vampires of Mexico and their kingdoms in ways you never imagined. Tons of new data, adventure ideas and revelations.
NEW! Robotech® New Generation™ Sourcebook
This Robotech® sourcebook will be an early 2011 release.
NEW! Rifts® World Book: Lemuria™
At last, the underwater realm of Lemuria. The people and history of Lemuria, new magic, sea herbs and healing, sea monsters, and more.
NEW! Rifts® Megaverse® in Flames™
The Minion War spills across Rifts Earth, where demons and infernals hope to recruit allies and use the Rifts as gateways of destruction. Their influence shakes things up across the planet, especially at locations where demons and Deevils already have a strong presence. More details to follow, but for now, 'nuff said.
NEW! Rifts® Chaos Earth™ Sourcebook: First Responders
Data about the chaos and madness of the early days of the Great Cataclysm, and the brave men and women who tried to stem the tide of destruction and save lives, the First Responders.
Armageddon Unlimited™
for Heroes Unlimited™ and the Minion War™ – Available now
Armageddon Unlimited™ is the ultimate good vs evil setting and adventure. The fate of the world hangs in the balance and only you can stop its destruction as demons and Deevils fight for control of the Earth and bringing about the end of life as we know it.
Armageddon Unlimited™ is more than an epic world-saving adventure, it is also a sourcebook jam-packed with new powers, magic, weapons and Power Categories that can be incorporated into any Heroes Unlimited™ campaign. This book can be used as a standalone adventure sourcebook for Heroes Unlimited™ or as a pivotal plot in an expansive Minion War™ campaign. Get a free sneak preview of the book from DriveThruRPG.com.
Aliens Unlimited™ – Back in Print
A sourcebook for Heroes Unlimited™
Aliens Unlimited™ brings alien beings to your Earth-based Heroes Unlimited™ setting and enables you to take your Earth heroes to alien worlds. This sourcebook has everything you need to launch an alien based campaign or galactic adventures, or introduce alien invaders, villains, heroes and campaign ideas.
Aliens Unlimited™ makes the perfect resource and companion to the Thundercloud Galaxy™ or any of the Rifts® Dimension Books and Minion War™ series. Looking for some new space aliens, villains and monsters to add to your Thundercloud Galaxy™ orMinion War™ campaign? Need some unique Splugorth slaves? Demon henchmen? Take a look at Aliens Unlimited™ (and the Aliens Unlimited™ Galaxy Guide™ companion sourcebook); easy to adapt.
Rifts® Dimension Book™ 6: Three Galaxies™ – Back in Print
A guide to the Three Galaxies, this book takes a look at dozens of solar systems, notable planets, select alien races, people, civilizations and monsters, as well as space anomalies, spaceships and more. This is another sourcebook that is ideal for campaigns involving the Minion War™, the Thundercloud Galaxy™, Phase World® and adventures in the Three Galaxies.
Rifts® Adventure Sourcebook: The Black Vault™ – Back in Print
For generations it has been rumored the Coalition States maintains a Top Secret facility where it locks away and stores all the magic weapons and items it confiscates from adventurers and mages. The CS, of course, denies these rumors, but they are true. And the truth is revealed for the first time in this epic sourcebook packed with secrets and magic items. Do your characters dare to rob the Black Vault?
Rifts® Mercenaries™ – Back in Print
This fan-favorite sourcebook presents everything you need to create and run a mercenary company on Rifts Earth. It includes creation rules, new Occupational Character Classes such as the Professional Smuggler, Thief, Safecracker, Spy, Bounty Hunter, Master Assassin, and others, plus a treasure trove of mercenary weapons, vehicles, gear and arms dealers.
"Rifts® Logo" Baseball Cap – Back in Print
Back by popular demand. A black Rifts® Logo on a khaki baseball cap with black trim. Looks great and fans love it! Makes a great gift.
PDF downloads from DriveThruRPG.com
This is a great resource for getting out of print Palladium titles and other select books. We've made 90 titles available as PDF digital downloads from DriveThruRPG.com. This is a great way to try Palladium products and get access to out of print RPG source material. Some notable titles include.
- Splicers® RPG
- Beyond the Supernatural™ RPG, First Edition Rules.
- Boxed Nightmares™ for BTS, First Edition Rules.
- Nightbane® Book Four: Shadows of Light™.
- The Mechanoids® RPG and The Mechanoid Invasion® RPG Trilogy.
- Palladium Fantasy RPG®, First Edition Rules and select 1st Edition sourcebooks.
- The Rifter® issues 1-48.
- The Best of The Rifter®
- Deluxe Revised RECON® RPG and Advanced RECON® Sourcebook.
- And more – go to DriveThruRPG.com and check 'em out.
2011 Releases
Available Now & Back in Print
- Armageddon Unlimited™ – New – Available now!
- The Rifter® #53 – New – Available now!
- Rifts® World Book 20: Canada – Back in print – Available now
- Rifts® Dark Conversions – Back in print – Available now
- Palladium Fantasy RPG® – Back in print – Available now
- Rifts® Game Master Guide – Back in print – Available now
- Rifts® World Book 5: Triax & The NGR – Back in print – Available now
- Rifts® Bionics Sourcebook – Back in print – Available now
- Rifts® China One – Back in print – Available now
- Rifts® Megaverse® Builder – Back in print – Available now
March 2011 Releases
– Rifts® Baseball Cap – BACK IN STOCK
– Rifts® Dimension Book™ 6: Three Galaxies™ – BACK IN PRINT
- Rifts® Black Vault™ – BACK IN PRINT
– Rifts® Mercenaries™ – BACK IN PRINT
- Aliens Unlimited™ – A Heroes Unlimited™ sourcebook – BACK IN PRINT
April 2011 Releases
- The Rifter® #54 – New – Available now.
- Rifts® Dimension Book™ 14: Thundercloud Galaxy™ – New – April 25.
- Rifts® World Book 8: Rifts® Japan™ – BACK IN PRINT – Ships April 25
- Rifts® World Book 13: Lone Star™ – BACK IN PRINT – Ships April 25
May 2011 Releases
- Robotech® New Generation™ Sourcebook (tentative)
- Rifts® WB One: Vampire Kingdoms™, Expanded & Updated
- Rifts® Book of Magic (back in print)
June 2011 Releases
- Rifts® Vampires Sourcebook™ – New
- Rifts® World Book™: Lemuria – New
July 2011 Releases
- The Rifter® #55 – New
- Rifts® Megaverse® in Flames (Minion War™ crossover) – New
New Releases Coming Soon (tentative)
- Rifts® Chaos Earth™: First Responders Sourcebook (as soon as we can slot it in)
- Dead Reign™ Sourcebook Three
In the Pipeline
- Robotech® UEEF Marines and other Robotech® sourcebooks.
- Rifts® sourcebooks
- Rifts® Chaos Earth™ sourcebooks
- Palladium Fantasy®: Mysteries of Magic™ Two & Three
- Palladium Fantasy® other sourcebooks
- Warpath™ Urban Jungle RPG
- And other good stuff. Lots of other good stuff!
Recently Back in Print
Check out the new creations by Palladium's very own Kathy Simmons. See her new zombie, Jack Skellington and Sally, with more new creations on the drawing board. Each Halloween prop is truly life-sized (most are 6 feet or taller – Jack is almost 8 feet) and seem almost alive.
Each is an all-weather, life-sized Halloween prop that can handle rain and snow, and is a one-of-a-kind work of art (no two are exactly the same). Each looks frighteningly "real." All come apart and fold down to slightly larger than a king-size pillow for easy storage. Comes with easy instructions, a plastic storage bag, and the lawn stake to stand it up in your front yard. Indoor stand sold separately.
Types of "Ghouls" include: Zombies (all kinds!), killer clowns, wizards, witches, devils, grave ghouls, scarecrows, executioners, mad doctors, deadly nurses, vampires, werewolves, and more. Kathy's also now offering an array of hand-painted Halloween signs, signs with heads and bodies hanging from them, witch's brewing pots, Halloween centerpieces and more. Best of all, her high quality creations are much more affordable and imaginative than most competitors or mass produced items in a store, making them affordable Halloween fun.
If you think the photos online look good, you should see them in person. A typical "ghoul," as she calls her creations, costs $129-$259. You can see some of her work at her Queen of Ghouls™ Ebay store – queenofghouls.com.
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Robotech® and Robotech® The Shadow Chronicles® are Registered Trademarks of Harmony Gold USA, Inc.
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State lawmakers have launched an investigation into whether the suspects in the Boston Marathon bombings improperly received public benefits.
The head of the House Committee on Post Audit and Oversight said Monday that the panel is reviewing more than 400 pages of documents collected from state agencies that may have provided benefits to the suspects or their families since 2002.
"This is just the beginning of an ongoing inquiry," committee chairman David Paul Linsky said, while declining to reveal whether an initial review found any signs of impropriety.
He said that taxpayers have a right to know whether public funds were being used correctly or "in any way to help support the horrific, horrific events that occurred here."
The Massachusetts Office of Health and Human Services confirmed last week that Tamerlan Tsarnaev, his wife and toddler daughter had received welfare benefits until last year. Tsarnaev was killed in a police chase the week of the bombing, while his 19-year-old brother, Dzhohkar Tsarnaev has been arrested.
The state says the brothers received welfare benefits as children through their parents while the family lived in Massachusetts. Authorities reported last week that neither was receiving benefits at the time of the bombing.
Linsky said the committee would meet again as early as the end of this week and the inquiry would include testimony from state officials.
"I will assure the members of the public that this committee will actively review every single piece of information that we can find on this particular inquiry, because clearly the public has a substantial right to know what benefits, if any, this family and the individuals who are accused of some horrific, horrific crimes were receiving," Linsky said.


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You've heard about California's pension crisis, but are you aware of the state's $62 billion reitree health care problem?
California seems unable to reckon with its pension crisis, particularly at the local government level.
While some state legislation has been passed and several cities have negotiated small improvements with their unions, a comprehensive fix seems unlikely.
So maybe it's time to stop beating our heads against the pension wall and look at retiree health care, a potentially more serious, long-term, fiscal problem:
A recent report from the state controller's office found that the 30-year cost for providing health and dental benefits for state workers is $62.1 billion.
That is less than the $100 billion-plus estimates for unfunded pension obligations. But this problem may be more severe because there's been so little planning for dealing with it.
After all, California governments -- and in many cases their employees as well -- are contributing money towards pensions, money which in turn is invested in markets. It's not enough, but it's something.
But there's no similar savings and investment for retiree health care. California pays for retiree health benefits on a "pay-as-you-go" basis.
It's quite possible that, given this lack of advance planning and the rise in health care costs, government budgets ultimately will take a much bigger hit from retiree health than from pensions.
That's why state and local governments need to start setting aside money now -- even in down times -- so that the ultimate bill is manageable.
The controller's office says that if we pre-funded benefits fully now, the cost of future unfunded obligations could be cut by one-third, to $40 billion.
That's a step worth taking. Even smaller efforts to sock away money today will save California money in the long run.
Let us know what you think. Comment below, send us your thoughts via Twitter @PropZero or add your comment to our Facebook page.


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Lions hoping Roberts has avoided hamstring injury
England's Brad Barritt and Christian Wade called up to squad after win over Waratahs
Jamie Roberts receives treatment for an injury in Sydney this morning. Photograph: Dan Sheridan/Inpho
The Lions will have an anxious wait pending a scan on Jamie Roberts's apparent hamstring tear, which forced his departure from their win over the Waratahs and left the tourists with 14 men for the final 15 minutes.
Head coach Warren Gatland held out some hope that the injury to the recently qualified doctor might not be as bad as initially feared. However, a reluctance to leave anything to chance led firstly to the call up of London Wasps wing Christian Wade and then, more pertinently with regard to Roberts, the addition of England centre Brad Barritt to the squad.
"We have obviously got some ongoing treatment of some players so it's prudent to make sure we have enough backline cover," said Gatland in the statement that announced Wade's inclusion.
Prior to that the Kiwi was still hopeful a scan on Roberts tomorrow might bring unexpected good news. "The medics thought it might have been a hamstring, but he said he has never pulled a hamstring before, so he is not kind of sure. It is fingers crossed it might not be that."
Otherwise Gatland was pleased with the outing, the way Michael Cheika's team predictably put it up to the Lions physically, and the way his side came through.
"It was a good effort. I was very pleased with the outcome, and even when we were down to 14 men I thought we controlled the game without being under too much pressure. In fairness to the Waratahs, they took it to us. I thought the guys responded magnificently, I thought our discipline was excellent.
"We got what we expected. The Waratahs talked about taking it to us physically. They tried to do that, and I thought our guys responded to that physicality. In the end we were just too big and powerful."
The one caveat to the Waratahs' approach was the way they clearly targetted the Lions halves Mike Phillips and Jonny Sexton, with the latter often complaining to the touchline officials over late hits which left him requiring treatment and hobbling badly before being taken off half-an-hour from the end, 10 minutes before Gatland emptied the rest of his be bench.
Discussing "the nine and 10 being tackled off the ball and late," Gatland revealed: "We were trying to communicate that through Sam to the referee for the assistant referees to be vigilant in looking after our 9 and 10.
"The big key in this game was keeping our discipline. It would have been easy enough for someone to be taken late, lose their head and throw a punch, it would be picked up and then cited. I thought our discipline was absolutely fantastic. There were little shoulders and charges and guys being taken late and stuff. That's part of rugby, people try to unsettle you a little bit, and we've got to accept that.
"It is how you respond to that niggle, and I thought our boys were magnificent."
Gatland hailed a "fantastic performance by centre Jonathan Davies, adding: "Given the quality of our midfield and the pressure he was under to respond, I thought it was one of the best games I've seen him play, and so did Alun-Wyn Jones. I thought both of them really stood up. It is quite nice to come in the changing room afterwards and someone like Brian O'Driscoll says 'man, how good was Jonathan Davies today?' I thought he was very, very good.
"When you are looking at picking a Test side, you want the collective to be good. That was a collective performance today. When we come to finalising the Test side there are going to be some really tough decisions for us to make. That is a great position to be in, but you also have got to recognise there are going to be some pretty disappointed individuals too.
"We've still got a few knocks. At the moment, what we've said tonight was an opportunity, and if people put their hand up on Tuesday we expect to have a few headaches."
One of those who assuredly entered the equation was Simon Zebo, all the more so given ongoing concerns about George North's hamstring injury.
"Simon Zebo was good. He was one of the players who was unlucky in the first place. We know what quality he has got. I thought he asked some questions of the coaches tonight."
Asked if he would have any qualms about pitching Zebo into the first test if it came to it, Gatland said: "No problem at all."
Predictably, too, there was the first accusations of the Lions being "cheats" from a coach, and from a predictable source in Bob Dwyer.
"I think it is a sad indictment on the media world that they rolled out Bob Dwyer. I think he deserves more respect than that, for what he has achieved in the game, to be honest with you. To see the tirade of abuse that he has now been subjected to on websites and stuff, I find that sad. He doesn't deserve that for what he has achieved in the game."


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I mentioned before how much I love the children's bilingual show "El Perro y El Gato" on HBO Latino. Well, the show has now been made into something else I love – books!
There are four so far in the series: La Granja (farm), La Nieve (snow), El Cumpleaños (birthday), and El doctor (doctor). I read all four books with my younger son last night and he was smiling the whole time. At one point he even asked to read them to me and I was so pleased to hear him pronounce most of the Spanish correctly without help.
The books are true to the show in that they are fully bilingual and easy to understand. The characters maintain the personalities we already know and love, and the images are brightly colored and funny.
I like that there isn't a lot of text. With bilingual books, paragraphs of text can become tedious and boring. These books are short and simple, and in the back of each book is a pronunciation guide for those who are new to either English or Spanish.
When we finished reading the books, my son asked, "Do we get to keep these or are they from the library?" – When I told him we get to keep them, he was super feliz.
I have a feeling I know what we're reading at bedtime again tonight.
Disclosure: The "El Perro y El Gato" series of books were provided for review and are available at HBO shop. All opinions are totally my own.


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Listener: 'Ello, I wish to register a complaint.
(The podcaster does not respond.)
Listener: 'Ello, Miss?
Podcaster: What do you mean "miss"?
Listener: I'm sorry, I have a cold. I wish to make a complaint!
Podcaster: We're closin' for lunch.
Listener: Never mind that, my lad. I wish to complain about this podcast what I downloaded not half a year ago from this very website.
Podcaster: Oh yes, the, uh, the Home Made Hit Show...What's,uh...What's wrong with it?
Listener: I'll tell you what's wrong with it, my lad. It's dead, that's what's wrong with it!
Podcaster: No, no, it's uh,...it's resting.
Listener: Look, matey, I know a dead podcast when I see one, and I'm looking at one right now.
Podcaster: No no it's not dead, it's, it's restin'! Remarkable idea, the Home Made Hit Show, idn'it, ay? Beautiful blabbering!
Listener: The blabblering don't enter into it. It's stone dead.
Podcaster: Nononono, no, no! It's resting!
Listener: All right then, if it's restin', I'll wake it up! (shouting at the screen) 'Ello, 'Ome Made Hit Show! I've got a lovely fresh song for you if you show...
Podcaster: There, it updated!
Listener: No, it didn't, that was one of the fans posting something in the forum!
Podcaster: Same thing!!
Listener: (yelling and hitting the screen repeatedly) 'ELLO PODDY!!!!! Testing! Testing! Testing! Testing! This is your nine o'clock alarm call!
(Takes MP3 player in hand and thumps it on the screen. Throws it up in the air and watches it plummet to the floor.)
Listener: Now that's what I call a dead podcast.
Podcaster: No, no.....No, it's stunned!
Listener: STUNNED?!?
Podcaster: Yeah! You stunned it, just as it was wakin' up! Home Made Hit Show stuns easily, major.
Listener: Um...now look...now look, mate, I've definitely 'ad enough of this. That podcast is definitely deceased, and when I downloaded it not 'alf a year ago, you assured me that its total lack of update was due to it bein' tired and shagged out following a prolonged summer.
Podcaster: Well, it's...it's, ah...probably off looking at new gear.
Listener: LOOKING AT NEW GEAR?!?!?!? Look, I took the liberty of examining that podcast, and I discovered the only reason that it had been updated recently in the first place was that others had done the entire job. It's bleedin' demised!
Podcaster: No no! It's pining!
Listener: It's not pinin'! It's passed on! This podcast is no more! It has ceased to be! It's expired and gone to meet its maker! It's a stiff! Bereft of life, it rests in peace! It's pushing up the daisies! It's kicked the bucket, it's shuffled off 'is mortal coil, run down the curtain and joined the bleedin' choir invisible!! The 'ome has burned down, the maid is gone and the 'it has 'it the fan! THIS IS AN EX-PODCAST!!
Podcaster: Well, I'd better replace it, then. (He takes a quick peek behind the counter.) Sorry squire, I've had a look 'round the back of the shop, and uh, we're right out of songwriting ideas.
Listener: I see. I see, I get the picture.
Podcaster: I got a blog.
Listener: Pray, does it play music?
Podcaster: Nnnnot really.
Listener: WELL IT'S HARDLY A BLOODY REPLACEMENT, IS IT?!!???!!?
Podcaster: N-no, I guess not.
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I 'eard 'twasn't dead , just on 'oliday
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It was state-of-the-art top-secret Chinese speech-to-text software. Can't tell you more than that or I might lose face.lucas wrote:(BTW, your dedication in typing all that out is impressive or did the spuds do it for you?)
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I heard it been 'taken up'.
Oh no. There it is.
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A plane slipped off the runway Wednesday morning at O'Hare International Airport while taxiing to a terminal, a Chicago Department of Aviation spokesman confirmed.
American Eagle flight 4332, arriving at O'Hare from New Orleans, slid partially off the tarmac after landing in the rain, spokesman Greg Cunningham said.
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In Clint Eastwood's new film, "J. Edgar," a 1930 movie theater audience makes its preference clear. Whereas J. Edgar Hoover's pre-movie promotion reel about G-men and the FBI draws impatient boos, a trailer for the upcoming James Cagney flick "The Public Enemy" inspires hoots and applause.
Though Hoover was exceptionally popular with the American public throughout his nearly four decade reign as FBI director, his opponents — the gangsters, the radicals, the Kennedys — have always been the chosen subjects of movies.
"J. Edgar," too, may not draw cheers, but it remains a riveting, noble attempt by Eastwood, now 81, to wrestle with big American questions, many of which have obvious relevance to today's politics. It's another largely fascinating, if disappointingly flawed chapter in Eastwood's fantastic late period.
"J. Edgar" is a biopic framed around Hoover (a thoroughly committed, engaging but ultimately still removed Leonardo DiCaprio) dictating his life story to various typists. This is Hoover's story, mainly told through his perspective — and therefore a somewhat claustrophobic view of history.
The film, from an ambitious script by Dustin Lance Black (who wrote the Harvey Milk biopic, "Milk"), opens with a lot of switches in time as the narrative rushes to pack in the rise of Hoover as a Justice Department upstart and eager riser at the nascent Bureau of Investigation. It's a grimly propulsive first hour, pushed forward by the relentless, paranoid patter of the fast-talking Hoover (nicknamed "Speed").
Hoover is fully formed from the start: A meticulous, obsessive defender of America (or what he conceives as America). He tries to make typist Helen Gandy (the wonderful Naomi Watts, here underused, looking too bright for a somber tale) his wife, but when she declines, he makes her his lifelong, trusted secretary instead.
Eastwood explores Hoover's increasing megalomania, his illegal surveillance, his secret files. By the time Nixon is elected president, Hoover ironically recognizes him as a "menace" who will do anything to keep power. But Eastwood also reminds us of Hoover's accomplishments.
Still, the most affecting parts of "J. Edgar" are Hoover's two most important personal relationships: That with his mother (Judi Dench) and with his No. 2 and close friend Clyde Tolson (Armie Hammer, who after being digitally doubled for "The Social Network" has been restored to a singular being).
Hoover was an emphatic mama's boy, and Dench plays her as a kind of Lady Macbeth, fostering her son's repression. When a grown Hoover gets worked up and begins stuttering, we're cast back into the "The King's Speech": She tells him, like she did when he was a child, to talk to himself in the mirror and "Be my little Speedy."
The exact nature of Hoover's relationship with Tolson isn't known. They ate together nearly every day and took vacations together, but the gay and cross-dressing rumors about Hoover aren't established.
In "J. Edgar," the relationship is entirely convincing. Hoover and Tolson (Hammer plays him as totally subservient to Hoover) are inseparable partners, but their sexual desires — while not spelled out — appear to be unsatisfied. Black's interest in Hoover's story is that of a closeted gay man, as opposed to the outed Milk. DiCaprio and Hammer have an excellent chemistry, full of slight, homoerotic gestures.
It can and surely will be argued how accurate it is to portray Hoover this way. The politics of the film will also be debated, given that Eastwood, a moderate libertarian Republican, is sympathetic to Hoover (felt most in his loving, mediocre piano score).
But just as the director so caringly switched sides of a World War II battlefield for "Letters from Iwo Jima" after "Flags of Our Fathers," Eastwood's "J. Edgar" shows just as much empathy for the power broker as "Changeling" did for the aggrieved.
In "J. Edgar," Eastwood and cinematographer Tom Stern fill the interiors with deep shadows and desaturated colors. That adds to the weighty feel of a biopic, which remains — when conventional — a problematic form for movies: not enough time to fit a life, and too much material to find a narrative. "J. Edgar" struggles to put forth a full picture of Hoover, a failure Black's screenplay attempts to shroud in the contrived flashbacks.
DiCaprio has no hesitation about the biopic, and he does a great deal to make "J. Edgar" a compelling one. Thanks to Deborah Hopper's excellent costumes, he plays the character across decades (as Hammer and Watts do as well). He's most striking, almost Orson Welles-ish, as the elderly Hoover.
And, really, it's the experience of aging — a subject of many of Eastwood's recent films — that comes across best with "J. Edgar." The resonating images of Hoover are of a man increasingly and tragically out of step with time. Thankfully, it's been quite the opposite for Eastwood.
"J. Edgar," a Warner Bros. Pictures release, is rated R for brief strong language. Running time: 137 minutes. Three stars out of four.


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This simple napkin fold is a classic.
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SANTA CLARA, Calif. - Santa Clara University has named longtime men's tennis assistant coach George Husack as the program's fourth head coach in its 20-year history, Director of Athletics and Recreation Cheryl L. Levick announced today.
"I am pleased that George will be leading our men's tennis program," said Levick. "He has spent the last several years as an assistant coach and has been a big factor in building our program. I have every confidence we will be able to continue that momentum under George's leadership."
Husack replaces Sean Burns, who resigned his position as the winningest head men's tennis coach in Santa Clara history to pursue opportunities in private business. In addition to his coaching duties on the Mission campus, Husack also served as the athletic department's director of marketing and corporate partnerships.
"I am thrilled to have an opportunity to build upon the success and achievements that this tennis program has accomplished over the years," Husack said. "It has been an incredible experience learning from and growing with the program over the past seven years and now a tremendous honor to fill the shoes of one of the best head coaches and friends that I have ever known."
Husack inherits a Bronco team that has posted a winning record in each of the past eight seasons and has been included in national rankings for the past three, peaking at a program-high 55th during the 2002 season. The Broncos won 12 matches in a row during its toughest stretch on last year's schedule, and was highlighted by victories over top-50 programs such as the ACC's Clemson, Oregon from the Pac-10, Big-Ten power Wisconsin and the WCC's San Diego.
"These guys are a very determined group who have greatly contributed to the program and will continue to accomplish many of our goals," he added. "I look forward to working with them as well as new Broncos down the road."
Husack made his mark on the Bronco courts seven years ago joining Burns' staff as an assistant coach while competing on the International Tennis Federation's Satellite Tour. His primary focus on the courts has been educating players on technical and strategic elements of winning college tennis and furthering their tennis careers on the professional tour.
Aside from his on-court duties, Husack has been primarily responsible for the Broncos' recruiting and fundraising efforts. Last season, he played a key role in signing one of the top recruiting classes in program history. Husack also manages the Silver Racquet Club, the program's booster club, and produced Netscoop, the program's newsletter. He launched the Nike Tennis Camp in 1999 at the Santa Clara University Tennis Center and has co-directed the program since its inception. He also began the USTA Team Tennis program in 1998.
Prior to Santa Clara, Husack competed on the International Tennis Federation's Satellite Tour for three years, making tournament stops in Mexico, Germany and Japan, as well as across the United States. In 1996 and '97, he played No. 1 singles and doubles for Tus-Breitscheid of the German Club Tennis League, leading the team to a league championship in 1997.
A native of San Mateo, Husack played No. 1 singles and doubles at Canada College in 1988 before continuing his career at San Diego State from 1988-91. After receiving his bachelor's degree in finance, Husack earned his MBA in marketing from the University of San Francisco in 1995.


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I would like to know if the set of undecidable problems (within ZFC or other standard system of axioms) is decidable (in the same sense of decidable). Thanks in advance, and I apologize if the question is too basic.
1$\begingroup$ I think that this was addressed somewhere on math.stackexchange.com however, I cannot find it. $\endgroup$ – Asaf Karagila Nov 20 '11 at 16:27
3$\begingroup$ Perhaps it is worth clarifying that the term "undecidable" refers to "independece in ZFC", while the term "decidable" refers to "computable (also called recursive)" $\endgroup$ – boumol Nov 20 '11 at 16:59
12$\begingroup$ This set in non-computable. Why? Let us suppose that the set of independent statements is computable. Then, so is its complement, i.e., the set of formulas $\varphi$ such that either $ZFC \vdash \varphi$ or $ZFC \vdash \neg \varphi$. Using this it easily follows that the set of consequences of ZFC is decidable, which is well-known to be false. $\endgroup$ – boumol Nov 20 '11 at 17:04
No, in fact the situation is even worse than that. The set $T$ of all (Gödel codes for) sentences that are provable from ZFC is computably enumerable; the set $F$ of all sentences that refutable from ZFC is also computably enumerable. These two sets $T$ and $F$ form an inseparable pair: $T \cap F = \varnothing$ but there is no computable set $C$ such that $T \subseteq C$ and $F \cap C = \varnothing$.
In other words, there is no finite algorithm that can reliably tell whether a sentence is "not provable" or "not refutable." This is much weaker than asking for an algorithm to tell us whether a sentence is independent or not (in which case we could determine whether it is provable or refutable by waiting until it enters $T$ or $F$).
This remains true if ZFC is replaced by PA and some still weaker theories.
For every consistent recursively axiomatizable theory $T$ (one of which $ZFC$ is widely believed to be) there exists an integer number $K$ such that the following Diophantine equation (where all letters except $K$ are variables) has no solutions over non-negative integers, but this fact cannot be proved in $T$:\begin{align}&(elg^2 + \alpha - bq^2)^2 + (q - b^{5^{60}})^2 + (\lambda + q^4 - 1 - \lambda b^5)^2 + \\ &(\theta + 2z - b^5)^2 + (u + t \theta - l)^2 + (y + m \theta - e)^2 + (n - q^{16})^2 + \\ &((g + eq^3 + lq^5 + (2(e - z \lambda)(1 + g)^4 + \lambda b^5 + \lambda b^5 q^4)q^4)(n^2 - n) + \\ &(q^3 - bl + l + \theta \lambda q^3 + (b^5-2)q^5)(n^2 - 1) - r)^2 + \\ &(p - 2w s^2 r^2 n^2)^2 + (p^2 k^2 - k^2 + 1 - \tau^2)^2 + \\ &(4(c - ksn^2)^2 + \eta - k^2)^2 + (r + 1 + hp - h - k)^2 + \\ &(a - (wn^2 + 1)rsn^2)^2 + (2r + 1 + \phi - c)^2 + \\ &(bw + ca - 2c + 4\alpha \gamma - 5\gamma - d)^2 + \\ &((a^2 - 1)c^2 + 1 - d^2)^2 + ((a^2 - 1)i^2c^4 + 1 - f^2)^2 + \\ &(((a + f^2(d^2 - a))^2 - 1) (2r + 1 + jc)^2 + 1 - (d + of)^2)^2 + \\ &(((z+u+y)^2+u)^2 + y-K)^2 = 0. \end{align}
The set of numbers with this property is not recursively enumerable (let alone decidable). But curiously enough, one can effectively construct an infinite sequence of such numbers from the axioms of $T$.
The equation is derived from Universal Diophantine Equation by James P. Jones.
I believe that one can expand on boumol's answer, as follows.
The spirit of the OP's question attempts to regain Eden after the Turing-Godel expulsion.
One might attempt to repair the OP's attempt in a more general way by adjusting the mathematician's aim from settling questions (with a proof of either yes or no) to resolving questions (say, with proof of yes, or no, or independence (relative to consisistency), independence of independence, etc). One can even allow, in many different ways, stronger and stronger reasonable axioms (iterated consistency or reflection principles) as one pursues all these statements of iterated independence.
Trouble always ensues because a programmer can always dovetail a countable number of uniformly specified computer searches, making the program terminate if any one of those searches turns out successful.
Then having every formula in the theory fall into one class or another again makes the set of consequences of ZFC decidable, contradiction.


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Victoria's two major bushfires at Harrietville and Aberfeldy are still burning out of control but milder conditions and forecast rain for this afternoon are helping firefighters, according to the Country Fire Authority.
A CFA State Control Centre spokeswoman said the Aberfeldy fire – by far the biggest of the two at nearly 70,000 hectares – was partly contained. "It's being controlled but it's not under control," she said.
"It's within containment lines that held up yesterday but it's still out of control on the north-east fire edge."
The fire is burning on a 416 kilometre perimeter, she said. Light drizzle expected on Saturday afternoon would help firefighters.
The Harrietville fire was 3180 hectares in size and burning on a 35 kilometre perimeter, she said.
"That fire is still out of control but light winds and cooler than expected temperatures have resulted in an easing of the fire threat around Mt Hotham."
Possible heavy rain is forecast on Saturday afternoon for the Harrietville fire, she said.
Incident Controller Tony Lovick said that as a result of the reduced threat, Harrietville's level of warning had reduced from a "Watch and Act" to an "Advice" message.
An Advice message remains current for Harrietville, Hotham Heights, Smoko, Dinner Plain and Freeburgh.
"The fire is still burning within close proximity to the township. However, the fire ground conditions have abated to the degree that we do not anticipate any significant fire behaviour in and around Harrietville at the present time," he said.
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Freedom & Justice Party Chair: Mohamed Morsi
CAIRO'S MUSLIM BROTHERHOOD - Top political parties have agreed to nominate a member of the Muslim Brotherhood as the nation's next parliament speaker, the first time in decades that an practicing Muslim might hold such a position.
Muslim Brotherhood's Freedom and Justice Party won more than 40% of seats in recent elections and it is anticipated they will lead the country's first parliament chosen since former President Hosni Mubarak was kicked out.
The parliament speaker nominated by FJP-led alliance' is secretary-general, Mohamed al-Katatni. Al-Katatni, described as a moderate on the Brotherhood's website, was detained by Mubarak's state security forces together with FJP leaders Essam El-Erian and Mohamed Morsi, the chairman of the FJP.
The parliament, which will be seated later this month, must appoint a 100-member panel to write a new Egyptian constitution. Presidential elections are set for June.
Liberals fear that electoral gains for Islamists will steer Egypt down a rigid path away from democracy.
Morsi tried to reassure Egyptians that the new constitution "will be drafted without exemption of any stakeholders or exclusion of any parties, forces or currents."
"We continue the march of the peaceful revolution, the Egyptian revolution of January 25, which has achieved some of its objectives and as yet continues to achieve remaining ones," he said. "There is no doubt that the parliamentary election results were expressive of all Egyptians and their free will, the new parliament, too."
The agreement, signed Monday by six leading political parties, also allows the hardline Al Nour party and the liberal Al Wafd party to nominate two deputy speakers.
But Al Wafd was not present at the meeting and did not sign the agreement.
"We were not informed of about the meeting and will announce our decision after our board meeting on Thursday," Bahaa Abu Shaka, Al Wafd's deputy chief, told CNN.
The new parliament convenes a year after popular revolts erupted, eventually leading to Mubarak's downfall.
The longtime dictator is on trial on charges of corruption and ordering the deaths of hundreds of protesters.
The Supreme Council of the Armed Forces has led Egypt's government since Mubarak's fall. It has said it will hand over power to a new government once one is in place.
But the transition has not been quick or transparent enough for some Egyptians. A series of protests in Cairo last month resulted in violent and sometimes deadly clashes between demonstrators and soldiers.
Gen. Mohamed Hussein Tantawi, who heads the Supreme Council, is expected to address the new parliament, say sources there in Egypt.


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Citroen and Peugeot join Toyota recall
* C1 and 107 recalled * Cars made at Toyota Aygo factory * 97,000 around Europe affected...
PSA, the company that owns Citroen and Peugeot, is to recall more than 97,000 Citroen C1s and Peugeot 107s.
The city cars are made at the same factory as the Toyota Aygo, which is part of the massive recall announced by Toyota last week.
Toyota is recalling more that 1.8 million cars in the UK to investigate a potential problem with the accelerator sticking.
PSA said it 'has decided, in line with its stringent quality policy, to launch a similar programme for a selected range of Peugeot 107s and Citroen C1s, which are produced in cooperation with Toyota in a shared plant.'
How recall affects UK customers
The recall affects 6667 Peugeot 107s and just 36 Citroen C1s in the UK. The affected cars are petrol models fitted with ESP.
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We have considered the claim of [xxx] as the Independent
Executor of the Estate of [xxx] for the remaining unnegotiated
veterans benefits of [xxx], deceased. We have determined that,
except for the sum represented by the checks specifically
identified below, the amounts at issue should be reissued to the
Estate of [xxx].
The record shows that [xxx] was born on September 14, 1925,
resided in Texas, and died on May 26, 1991. The claim form that Mr.
[xxx] submitted lists three nieces, [xxx], [xxx], [xxx], and [xxx],
as the decedents surviving relatives. On July 23, 1991, [xxx]
received Letters Testamentary as the Independent Executor of the
Estate of [xxx] from the County Court of [xxx]. By letter of June
20, 1994, Mr. [xxx] submitted to the [Agency] a claim for the
decedents burial expenses, as well as for the proceeds of several
uncashed checks for veterans benefits that he enclosed with his
claim. The record is not clear regarding the date that the [Agency]
received Mr. [xxx]s claim. One copy of the claim was date-stamped
in July 1994, while another copy was date-stamped in September
1994. However, an [Agency] form, dated June 29, 1994, shows that
twenty of the decedents benefit checks were transmitted from an
[Agency] office in Houston, Texas to an [Agency] office in Waco,
Texas. Thus, it appears from the record that the claim could have
been received as early as June 29, 1994.
The [Agency] determined that, prior to her death, the decedent
had not cashed twenty-seven benefits checks amounting to $39,013.
The [Agency] deducted $1,411.00 from the total amount of $39,013.00
because the $1,411.00 resulted from a January 13, 1989 check which
duplicated a November 11, 1988 check that had been issued to the
decedent. Accordingly, the proceeds from twenty-six checks are at
issue here. In addition, the [Agency] deducted $2,224.21 that it
had paid to the estate for the decedents funeral expenses. The
[Agency] submitted to our Office the matter of disposing of the
remaining $35,377.79.
The Barring Act, at 31 U.S.C. 3702(b) specifies that claims
against the United States must be presented to the appropriate
official or agency within six years after the claim accrues. The
underlying obligation liquidated by a Treasury check is subject to
the 6-year limitation imposed by the Barring Act. Payment of
Unpaid Treasury Checks More Than 6 Years Old, B-244431 and
B-244431.2 (Sept. 13, 1994). Unless an individual submits a claim
to the appropriate agency before the 6-year period elapses, the
claim on the obligation is barred. Id. The Barring Act
does not merely establish administrative guidelines, it
specifically prescribes the time within which a claim must be
received in order for it to be considered on its merits. We have no
authority to disregard the provisions of that Act or waive the time
limitation it imposes.
In this case, six of the twenty-six uncashed checks identified
by the [Agency] replaced checks that issued more than six years
before the [Agency] received Mr. [xxx]s claim. These checks are as
Accordingly, Mr. [xxx]s claim for the unpaid veterans benefits
represented by the foregoing checks is barred by the Barring
Title 38, United States Code (U.S.C.), section 5122, states in
part that a check received by a payee in payment of accrued
benefits shall, if the payee died on or after the last day of the
period covered by the check, be returned to the issuing office and
canceled, unless negotiated by the payee or duly appointed
representative of the payees estate. The record before us shows
that [xxx] has been duly appointed to represent the estate of
[xxx], deceased, under the laws of Texas. Accordingly, the unpaid
veterans benefits represented by the remaining twenty checks should
be reissued to Mr. [xxx] as the Independent Executor of the Estate
of [xxx], if otherwise correct.
We are returning the file on this claim for action per our
determination. Mr. [xxx] is being advised of our determination by a
copy of this letter.
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Summary Meeting Notes: January 10, 2013 Residential Development and Compability PEG
Summary Meeting Notes
Residential Development and Compatibility Policy Expert Group
Date: January 10, 2013
Time: 4:00 p.m. to 6:00 p.m.
PEG Attendees: Tamara DeRidder, John Gibbon, Michael Hayes, Gabe Headrick, Rodney Jennings, Rod Merrick, Stanley Penkin, Emily Sandy, Eli Spevak
Staff/Presenters: Barry Manning / Bureau of Planning and Sustainability (BPS) and PEG lead; BPS staff presenters Tom Armstrong, John Cole, and Bill Cunningham
Other Attendees: Jim Brown, Sue Carter Low, Bob Low, Don McGillivray, Linda Nettekoven, Lee Perlman, David Sweet; BPS staff: Debbie Bischoff, Julia Gisler, Lora Lillard, Phil Nameny, Chris Scarzello
Facilitator: Deb Meihoff, Communitas
View the original agenda, including materials, for this meeting.
Key Points and Outcomes
- February and March meetings of the RDC PEG will be devoted to reviewing and commenting on the Working Draft of Comprehensive Plan goals and policies, including consideration of equity discussions and gentrification trends.
- Staff from the Neighborhood Centers and Economic Development PEGs presented on work to date, with particular focus on issues that overlap with the Residential Development and Compatibility group.
- Generally speaking, having neighborhood centers, employment, industrial, and institutional campuses nearby residential areas is a benefit for residents of the city. However, there are many issues that come with mixing uses in close proximity that need to be addressed better than they are today - noise, traffic / parking, freight movement, pedestrian connections, and encroachment into residential areas.
Welcome, overview, introductions
Update on Working Draft and Public Workshops
Presenter: Barry Manning
Summary: The working draft of Comprehensive Plan goals and policies is expected to be published the third week in January. PEG members will be notified by email once the document is available; those wanting a hard copy should contact Barry. The publication will include the working draft of goals and policies along with a 'companion guide' and executive summary that will help to describe the contents of the document. The February and March PEG meetings will be devoted to reviewing and commenting on the working draft. Public workshops will be held in February and March (see handout for details). The Bureau is also working with business and industry partners to schedule a special business-focused workshop in March.
Handout: Comprehensive Plan Update - Winter Workshop Schedule
Neighborhood Centers PEG Issues Briefing
Presenter: Bill Cunningham, BPS
Summary: Bill presented an overview of issues and policy topics being discussed in the Neighborhood Centers PEG, the new Neighborhood Centers framework, and conversations the Centers PEG has had with regard to housing opportunities in centers, transitions of scale toward less dense / intense residential areas, age-friendly housing and neighborhoods, and the 'five Portland / pattern areas' concepts. Information presented:
- The Neighborhood Centers PEG (NC PEG) has been exploring refinements of a Portland "centers" concept based on the Metro 2040 growth framework, with the potential addition of new :'town centers' as well as 'neighborhood centers': envisioned as smaller and less intense than the town and regional centers of the framework.
- The staff and PEG are also considering defining new types of corridors: the 'civic corridor' that provides services and housing in addition to being a transportation facility, and 'greenways' and 'habitat corridors'.
- The NC PEG has developed a consensus that off-street parking standards for multi-family housing development needs to be modified. [note: BPS is currently engaging the public and policy-makers on near-term approaches on this topic.]
- The NC PEG is looking at the ability of neighborhood centers to provide significant capacity for future growth and increase in housing opportunities, alleviating infill development pressure from existing predominantly low density residential areas.
- The NC PEG has stressed that they do not want new policy to result in all centers looking the same - each center would vary in its design and implementation approach (example: Hillsdale integrating natural features, such as creeks, into development)
- Implementation measures that could support the new neighborhood centers policies will be developed at a later date, but could include: mapping changes to support increased development capacity in the centers, center-specific standards to address design and scale, building in flexibility for ground level uses, strategic direction for infrastructure investment, economic development recruitment and funding approaches.
RDC PEG questions and comments included:
- Consider transition of intensity as well as building scale between centers and residential areas. Maybe allow more flexibility of what happens inside residential structures - home occupancies, duplexes and triplexes - with adjacency to centers to act as a buffer. This would need to be approached carefully, so that inequities between areas are not compounded.
- Interested in BPS considering the role of cottage-cluster housing as part of developing an age-friendly city.
- Need to plan for enhanced and multi-modal connections between residential areas and centers - especially difficult in west and east Portland.
- Need to include employment as a key component for centers, not just an after-thought.
- Rather than focusing high density along transit corridors, consider a strategy that looks first at building density around parks and public spaces (not just recreational, but also places that provide quiet, livable areas).
- Housing quality is extremely important - whatever is built should be a place we would all be comfortable and proud to call home.
- Be cautious in relying too heavily on density capacity as a method to designate new centers. For example, the Lents area's designation as a 'town center' is more aspirational than based on how the area currently provides services and housing. Think about ways to transition into higher density at centers (increasing density / intensity in existing buildings).
- City should consider an implementation strategy directed at showing developers, through maps, types of housing that is needed, areas with gaps and those with opportunities, tailored to each center. Staff noted that BPS has developed market analyses for many centers to support developers' needs. The "20-minute Neighborhood Report" from the Portland Plan is also a great resource.
- The centers designations need to be reconciled with current and future light rail stations and those areas likely to serve as neighborhood hubs - examplesWoodstock, Sellwood,60th Avenue station area, Brooklyn/Powell Blvd, and West Portland town center. BPS staff to work with neighborhood associations and district coalitions when mapping the centers in phase 2 of the comprehensive plan update.
Presentation: Neighborhood Centers overview
Related resources: 20-minute Neighborhood Analysis of the Portland Plan
Economic Development PEG Issues Briefing
Presenters: John Cole and Tom Armstrong, BPS
Summary: Tom and John presented issues and policy topics being discussed among the Economic Development PEG, including policy direction regarding institutions and relationships between industrial and residential areas. Information presented:
- Roughly 5% of employment activity in the city takes place in residential areas.
- Looking at trends and land capacity, the City estimates there is excess capacity for employment uses in the Central City and neighborhood commercial areas; significant deficiency in the Columbia Harbor area and a modest amount of deficiency in centers (mostly related to limited capacity for growth of institutions). Projection of deficiencies include consideration of brownfield redevelopment potential, freight infrastructure needs, strategies to use land more intensely or efficiently (example: adding shifts to existing facility), etc.
- Staff would like to hear more about examples of areas where transitions and buffers between residential and industrial uses work well.
- When looking at expanding the uses in industrial areas to commercial or even living quarters, the City has to pay particular attention to the effect zoning has on land values - increasing zoning too much drives up land costs beyond what industrial users can afford which affects employment capacity in the city.
- A subgroup of the Economic Development PEG is focusing on campus institutions, colleges and hospitals; specifically looking at campuses that are greater than 10 acres in size and have at least 100 employees on site. There are 19 campuses within the city that meet these criteria.
- City is projecting the need for campus space to accommodate an additional 25,000+ employees by 2035. Most campuses are currently located amidst residential areas and there are not currently Comp Plan policies that address the interface. The PEG subgroup is focused on a policy response for potential conflicts between campus development / expansion and neighborhoods. RDC PEG members were asked to review policy 4.7 (revised to 3.44) in the working draft.
- Creating development standards and revised procedures for campus development is likely to be one of the first implementation measures addressed following adoption of the updated comprehensive plan.
RDC PEG comments and questions:
- City should have different policies for 'dispersed industrial' areas and industrial districts, including different zoning approaches.
- Consider increasing allowable commercial uses in smaller dispersed industrial areas - especially commercial that provides services for nearby residential areas - 3000 sq.ft. maximum is too small. Central Eastsideis an area where the blend is working well and nearby residents are finding employment and services.
- Noise from dispersed industrial areas are impactful to adjacent residents; consider additional mitigation options for addressing noise.
- The buffer overlay is ineffective and not working well; need a better regulatory tool to address impacts between industrial and residential uses.
- Rose City Park industrial area with direct access to 60th Avenue works well; internal industrial areas that require freight traffic to travel through residential neighborhoods do not work.
- Area between SW Barbur Blvdand I-5 (commonly referred to as 'Barbur islands') may be best suited to completely transition to an industrial area that provides a noise buffer from the interstate freeway.
- McLoughlin Boulevard up to the city limits with Milwaukie provides a good opportunity for an employment center (not necessarily heavy industrial).
- Look at ways to encourage greater intensity of uses in industrial areas - upper floor office space, light manufacturing / assembly-type businesses, warehousing
- Campus bus service continues to be a problem - the way institutional users manage their buses and parking on campus has direct impacts to the surrounding residential areas, especially on-street parking. City and institutional users should investigate whether or not campus shuttles can be made available for residents of adjacent neighborhoods, leveraging campus services for broader community benefit.
- Need to find ways to make campus transportation demand management (TDM) work more effective and efficient. TDM can be a good tool for phasing in improvements and tailoring to the unique situations of each campus, but it is almost impossible to enforce the TDM standards with the current procedures.
- Need to preserve the neighborhood's voice and input into campus master plans and conditional use processes.
- Consider directing future campuses toward centers.
- BPS needs to also prioritize implementation measures for residential development and compatibility issues the PEG has discussed - address major issues that were exposed in the last housing market run-up.
Presentation: Economic Development Overview
Public Comment
- Bob Low and Sue Carter Low presented an overview of their experience with short term lodging in a residential area and concerns about lack of adequate permitting policies and standards to legally operate in an era of 'air b&b' and other similar short term lodging alternatives available for visitors. The Low's presented their estimation of the loss of lodging tax revenues due to the restrictions on short-term rentals (estimated at $1million annually). Those who are offering rooms in their homes for short term rentals want to comply with City codes, but they do not currently have a viable pathway. The Low's have spoken to Commissioner Saltzman's office and community groups and requested the PEG consider this issue in their policy discussions.
- David Sweet addressed the PEG regarding buffers from industrial uses. He said that the noise code is made to protect not only neighbors, but also 'noise makers'. Noise emissions are fairly permissive within industrial areas, but the conflicts occur where industrial districts abut residential uses. The City regulates noise by zone, not use. Allowing residential uses in industrial zoning districts creates the conflict. Example: the Pearl District is mostly zoned as a mixed employment district and has many industrial users still operating in the neighborhood. Noise standards adhere to the employment zone, not the more restrictive residential standards.
- Linda Nettekoven asked the PEG to think also about the need for better sound-proofing within mixed use, multi story buildings, especially between the ground and upper floors. Ground floor tenants have the potential to change frequently over the life of a building - what is a quiet office today could be a nightclub down the road. It is extremely difficult to address these types of noise issues after the structure is built.
Next Steps
- The Working Draft of goals and policies will be discussed at the February and March PEG meetings.
- The RDC PEG will take up discussion of economic activities in residential areas at a future meeting, following review of the Working Draft document.
For more information, please contact either Barry Manning Bureau of Planning and Sustainability at 503-823-7965 or firstname.lastname@example.com or Deb Meihoff, facilitator at 503-358-3404 or email@example.com.


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We've seen some swell Borderlands cosplay leading up to Tuesday's release of Borderlands 2, but those were in still photos. Here's a video tribute to the original characters from Gearbox Software's smash hit from three years ago.
Don't go looking for much of a big story, surprise or sight gag — though I do like the post-production attention paid to the loot drops and Lilith's Phase Walk (and the shitheaded AI of the bandits at the beginning. Seriously). It's just a love letter to Borderlands from some skilled cosplayers and filmmakers.


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The Ferengi death ritual consisted primarily of preserving a Ferengi body after death by means of vacuum desiccation. The process resulted in the Ferengi's body being reduced to a near powder, which was often stored in a set of 52 disks, marked with the Ferengi Seal of Dismemberment, and sold as a collectible on the Ferengi Futures Exchange.
The status of the Ferengi in life determined the price set on a disk of their remains. In 2369, the purported vacuum desiccated remains of Grand Nagus Zek were selling for twenty bars of latinum per disk. Nava was originally hesitant to pay that price but purchased a disk anyway when Krax promised him it would be worth twice as much in a year. (DS9: "The Nagus")
In 2370, Odo facetiously offered to buy a piece of Quark's vacuum desiccated remains when he learned that Fallit Kot was bent on killing him. (DS9: "Melora")
The remains of Plegg, which Quark attempted to sell in 2370 for three strips of latinum per disk, were not as highly valued. They were also discovered to be frauds since Plegg was still alive. (DS9: "The Alternate")
In 2372 Quark, after being misdiagnosed with Dorek Syndrome, auctioned his own remains on the Exchange where Brunt purchased the entire collection for five hundred bars of latinum. (DS9: "Body Parts")
In order to ensure that the body of the deceased was in the best condition for desiccation, autopsies on Ferengi bodies were strictly prohibited. Doctor Beverly Crusher violated this rule, and the Prime Directive, in 2369 when she performed an autopsy on the body of Ferengi scientist Reyga. (TNG: "Suspicions")
See also Edit
- Bajoran death ritual
- Funeral
- Lurian death ritual
- Klingon death ritual
- Ktarian death ritual
- Vhnori death ritual
External linkEdit
- Vacuum desiccation at Memory Beta, the wiki for licensed Star Trek works


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