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I will be the first to admit that I don't really understand the California election process. Governors are recalled and propositions seem to proliferate at every election cycle. What I do understand is that these propositions can have dramatic consequences—after all, elections do matter. Most folks who are reading our blog have likely heard of Prop 23, which would effectively stop the implementation of California's landmark climate change law, AB32. Environmental groups, clean energy entrepreneurs and big names such as Bill Gates and James Cameron have poured large amounts of attention and $25 million into the "No on 23" campaign, even as refiners Valero and Tesoro—and the now infamous Koch Brothers—fund the Yes campaign. Luckily the opponents have been getting the upper hand recently, with polls saying just over 50% of likely voters plan to vote against the prop—including both gubernatorial candidates.
Regulations Do Impose Costs – But So Does Not Regulating
Steve Seidel, vice president for policy analysis, co-wrote this post.
With the failure of the Senate to act on climate change legislation, the focus of attention now shifts to possible regulatory actions by EPA. The Supreme Court in 2007 made it clear that greenhouse gases (GHGs) are pollutants under the existing Clean Air Act (CAA), and the overwhelming scientific evidence (spelled out in great detail in the endangerment finding) demonstrates that such pollutants represent possible harm to public health and welfare.
Opposition to EPA action rests in part on concerns that any regulations will be excessively costly and burdensome to households and U.S. manufacturers. While it is certainly true that regulating GHGs will result in costs, it is also important to look at whether the economic benefits from those regulations will be greater than the costs they impose. In other words, will societal costs of allowing global GHG emissions to continue unabated (costs that will come in the form of impacts from rising sea levels, increased extreme weather including heat waves and droughts, among others) be greater than the costs of regulating those emissions responsibly?
This basic regulatory framework – that regulatory costs should be less than the resulting benefits – is codified in OMB review of all major federal regulations by both Republican and Democratic Administrations, has historically been applied to all EPA regulations, and would certainly be applied to any future regulations of GHGs.
So what have been the costs and benefits of past EPA regulations under the CAA historically? Congress required EPA to undertake a retrospective assessment of the costs and benefits of regulations under this statute. The conclusion of this retrospective review is that the CAA resulted in total benefits that are around $37 trillion, while total costs were $0.874 trillion (in 2010 dollars) – an astounding 40 to 1 benefit to cost ratio!
EPA has also produced a prospective assessment of the costs and benefits of the CAA – this time for the time period of 1990 through 2010. In this review, EPA estimated that the most likely benefit to cost ratio of the CAA for this period is 4 to 1. While a very strong and positive value, the ratio is substantially lower than the estimated benefits for the first 20 years of the CAA.
This is not unexpected – early gains are usually greater, and more cost effective, because simple or cheap remedies are the first to be applied in response to regulatory requirements. As those requirements become more stringent, creating additional benefits becomes more costly (from an economics perspective this is described as moving up the marginal cost curve).
How credible is EPA's assessment of its regulations? Alan Krupnick, formerly of the President's Council of Economic Advisors, has testified before Congress about the credibility of EPA's analyses: "Under the auspices of the agency's Science Advisory Board, both studies were scrutinized throughout the decade-long preparation by at least three expert committees of outside economists, air quality modelers, epidemiologists, and other health experts."
In addition to these EPA assessments, there have been a handful of quality external analyses of the costs and benefits of the CAA. The Office of Management and Budget (OMB) found that the "major rules" from EPA's Office of Air resulted in total benefits between $145 and $218 billion annually, for the years between 1992 and 2002. This is compared to costs of between $22 and $25 billion over that same period. A study by researchers at MIT found total annual benefits rising from $50 billion in 1975 to $400 billion in 2000. This report accounts for the monetary benefits of avoided premature death differently than the EPA studies, and as a result reports lower values for the total benefits. A sum of the total discounted benefits yields a total benefit of $6.85 trillion from 1975 through 2000 – a figure still substantially greater than the EPA estimate for the costs of the regulations.
So how might this play out in terms of future regulations of GHGs? EPA's first GHG regulations were standards set for light duty vehicles (which it coordinated with the efficiency standards set by NHTSA). These standards are expected to lead to net benefits of between $0.5 and 1.2 billion dollars (discounted back to present values using 7 percent and 3 percent discount rates, respectively) without even including a social cost of carbon. If a value is assigned to the avoided GHG emissions associated with this regulation, the net present benefits are even greater!
If there is a lesson that can be drawn from these previous regulatory efforts it is that while regulations do impose real costs, EPA's actions under the CAA have consistently led to positive environmental and economic outcomes. By not regulating, we would have foregone these positive net benefits and incurred the social costs imposed by unabated pollution.
So the next time someone tells you that the costs of reducing air pollution are too high, ask them what would be the costs to society of not reducing those emissions.
Russell Meyer is the Senior Fellow for Economics and Policy. Steve Seidel is Vice President for Policy Analysis.
Taking Efficiency Out of the Box
A small company finding it hard to sell its residential energy usage monitoring devices starts a "parent-teenage contract" marketing campaign. The teenager gets the parents to buy the device, and then they both sign a contract stipulating that the teenager will keep half the money saved on reduced energy usage. As the savings start to roll in, the teenager becomes more motivated to improve the household's energy efficiency as do the parents, while the company points to this positive experience as it seeks additional customers for its monitoring device. This model has achieved success on a small scale, but could it be adopted on a wider level as it is driven by a business case, contains ingredients for cultural transformation and taps into incentives that appear to be driving action?
This was one of the many thought-provoking anecdotes shared at the ninth Green Innovation in Business Network (GIBN) Solutions Lab held in Boston where the 90 or so participants spent the day coming up with solutions to barriers faced by companies pursuing energy efficiency. The Pew Center on Global Climate Change was a co-sponsor of the event, along with the Environmental Defense Fund, Ashoka, Microsoft, Net Impact Boston, and many other partners. (For more information on GIBN Solutions Labs and the topics discussed at this specific event please click here.)
The GIBN Solution Labs are one-day workshops structured in an "unconference" format where participants are divided into small groups of about eight or less. Each group brainstorms solutions to a specific issue or barrier and reports back to the whole group at the end of the day. With the umbrella theme of overcoming barriers to energy efficiency, the Boston GIBN Solutions Lab focused on 14 specific topics, such as financing, making the business case and motivating the public on energy efficiency. Participants including companies, consultants, academics, and non-governmental organizations spent the morning exploring a variety of topics and then chose one in the afternoon to focus on in depth through a problem identification and solution design process.
Peter Senge, founding chair of Society for Organizational Learning and senior lecturer at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, kicked off the workshop with a thought-provoking speech that emphasized the need for a comprehensive vision for energy efficiency instead of piecemeal solutions. By the end of the workshop some pieces of the vision had emerged: establish energy efficiency as a social norm; create business models that support energy efficiency investments; and design methods to more effectively communicate the benefits of energy efficiency.
The day was filled with a constant buzz of conversations out of which emerged some "out of the box" ideas as well as best practices. The group tackling the issue of motivating the public on energy efficiency proposed a K-12 energy efficiency curriculum that would result in children passing along the learning to their parents. Interestingly, the group on improving energy efficiency of buildings also saw children as key players. It proposed student projects involving energy audits and efficiency implementation measures for school buildings. A "just do it," results-oriented approach was suggested to get senior management buy-in for energy efficiency projects: do the energy audit (which many utilities will provide free of charge) and then use the results of potential energy savings to convince senior management to implement the energy efficiency measures. Creative employee communication methods were also suggested such as distributing figures on how much paper and printer toner is being used by the office or putting up a sign next to the printer asking "Do you really need to print this?" There were also some "out of the box" topics: one group looked at the water-energy nexus and noted that understanding the relationships between water usage and energy could spur new technical innovations such as water-less laundry systems.
Discussions also emphasized known best practices, which were useful to participants just getting started on energy efficiency and sustainability issues. For example, developing a detailed work plan and timeframe when proposing an energy efficiency project to senior management was essential in getting their approval to move ahead. Additionally, continuous monitoring and progress reports are critical in maintaining momentum and receiving the okay to pursue more projects in the future. Recommendations for embedding energy efficiency within corporate supply chains included clearly communicating energy efficiency expectations to suppliers; helping them find the right resources to implement energy efficiency measures; and auditing suppliers to ensure implementation and maintenance.
The end-of-day presentations highlighted that while each group was tackling different topics related to energy efficiency they struggled with some common barriers. For example, financing and communicating energy efficiency were issues that almost all groups found necessary and yet difficult to overcome.
In terms of specific solutions, not everyone went home with sure-fire answers to how they were going to fund their energy efficiency projects or convince senior management to make energy efficiency a priority. However, most participants did leave with at least a few new ideas to try out and the understanding that in order to be an effective component of the effort to reduce greenhouse gas emissions, energy efficiency required a comprehensive, system-based approach.
Aisha Husain is an Energy Efficiency Fellow
Solutions in Shopping
This month I joined John Donahue, the CEO of eBay, at a National Press Club event to discuss the climate benefits created by small, online retail businesses. The retail sector—and the private sector more broadly—has a huge opportunity to innovate and drive us toward a more climate-friendly clean energy economy, and we are encouraged that eBay is stepping forward to make this point.
Active business community engagement is fundamental both to achieving effective climate policy and to achieving real reductions in greenhouse gas emissions. Industry must work with their employees, their supply chain, and policy makers to make the case that addressing a changing climate is essential and can be good for business—providing policy certainty, leading to innovation and investment, and ultimately helping to move our economy towards a low-carbon future.
According to the new eBay-commissioned white paper, small e-retailers facilitate the reuse of products and eliminate the need for carbon-intensive brick-and-mortar stores, both of which are climate-friendly compared to big box retail. For instance, it suggests that since eBay's founding 15 years ago, the infrastructure savings from its online marketplace alone have cumulatively displaced emissions equivalent to approximately 4 million tons of CO2 per year, or the annual output of 760,000 cars—roughly the number registered in the state of Kansas or West Virginia.
In our current period of policy uncertainty, one thing we do know is that energy efficiency matters and it works. We also know from the work we do on employee engagement that individuals and consumers are a huge untapped resource in the effort to seriously address our energy-climate challenges. It's clear that the key role for retailers—both online and "offline"—is to connect consumers to low-emission/energy-efficient goods and services, and companies such as eBay and Best Buy, a featured case study in our recent report on corporate energy efficiency, are doing just that.
Eileen Claussen is President
In Defense of Markets
This blog post originally appeared on Belfer Center's An Economic View of the Environment
Cap-and-trade has been demonized by conservatives as part of an effective strategy to stop climate legislation from moving forward in the U.S. Congress. As I wrote in my previous blog post ("Beware of Scorched-Earth Strategies in Climate Debates," July 27, 2010), this unfortunate tarnishing of market-based instruments for environmental protection will come back to haunt conservatives and liberals alike when it becomes politically difficult to use the power of the marketplace to reduce business costs in the pursuit of a wide variety of environmental objectives.
Standing Up for Cap and Trade
Cap and trade has gotten a bad rap. It's been vilified as a national energy tax, an elaborate Ponzi scheme, and a giveaway to corporate polluters.
While these attacks are wrong, they succeeded in shaping the political discourse around national climate and energy policy, which undoubtedly contributed to last week's decision by Senate leaders to delay consideration of legislation that would limit greenhouse gas emissions.
This is unfortunate. We need a national policy to reduce emissions, and, as our new white paper shows, cap and trade is still the best, most cost-effective way of doing so. When lawmakers turn their attention back to this issue — as they must — they should make cap and trade a foundational element of the policy response to climate change.
Meaningful and Cost Effective Climate Policy: The Case for Cap and Trade
July 2010
By: Janet Peace and Robert N. Stavins
There is broad consensus among those engaged in climate policy analysis—from academia, government, NGOs, and industry—that any domestic climate policy should include, at its core, market-based policy instruments targeting greenhouse gas (GHGs) emissions, because no other approach can do the job and do it at acceptable cost. By "putting a price on carbon," market-based polices harness the power of our free enterprise system to reduce pollution at the lowest costs. Recent concern, however, about the role of financial markets—and specific fraudulent investment vehicles—in the recent recession have raised questions among the public about the efficacy and functioning of markets. Not surprisingly, some have questioned the wisdom of employing market mechanisms to tackle climate change. Critics ask, how can market-based policy instruments be trusted to look after the public's welfare with regard to global-warming pollution (or anything else, for that matter)?
When it comes to climate change and environmental issues more generally, environmental economists recognize that the source of many problems is not markets per se, but the absence of markets for environmental goods and services, such as clean air and water. In the absence of prices (costs) associated with environmental damages, producers and consumers need not account for such damages in their activities and choices. Environmental damage is thus an unintentional byproduct of decisions to produce or consume. Because these negative consequences are external to the firm or individual creating them, economists refer to them as externalities. They are one category of market failures; in this case, the failure of existing markets to price accurately the full costs to society of producing and consuming goods that create a pollution externality.
In the case of climate change, the burning of fossil fuels and other activities that release GHGs into the atmosphere are associated with increasing global temperatures. The costs of these impacts, including an increase in extreme weather events, rising sea levels, loss of biodiversity, and other effects, are borne by society as a whole, including future generations. In the absence of a price on carbon, these environmental costs are not included in the prices of GHG-based goods—thus there is no direct cost for emitting GHG pollution into the atmosphere. From a societal perspective, this leads to an inefficient use of resources, excessive emissions, and a buildup of excess concentrations of GHGs in the atmosphere.
The current status quo or "laissez-faire" approach to dealing (or rather failing to deal) with GHG pollution results in an outcome that is not in the interest of society. For this reason, many people have advocated putting a price on GHG emissions to cause market participants to confront or "internalize" the costs of their actions and choices. A policy instrument that puts a price on GHG emissions would, for example, raise the cost of coal-generated electricity, relative to electricity generated with natural gas, because coal as a fuel emits more carbon dioxide (CO2) per unit of energy. Producers and consumers would take this relative cost differential into account when deciding how much electricity to produce and what fuels to use in producing it. That is the point — to make the cost of emitting carbon explicit, so that it becomes part of the everyday decisionmaking process.
Two alternative market-based mechanisms can be used to put a price on emissions of GHGs—cap and trade and carbon taxes. With cap and trade, an upper limit or "cap" on emissions is established. Emission allowances that equal the cap are distributed (either freely or through auction) to regulated sources which are allowed to trade them; supply and demand for these allowances determine their price. Sources which face higher abatement costs have an incentive to reduce their abatement burden by purchasing additional allowances, and sources which face lower abatement costs have an incentive to reduce more and sell their excess allowances. Thus, the government establishes the environmental goal (the cap), but the market sets the price.
In contrast, a carbon tax sets a price on emissions, but leaves the environmental outcome uncertain. The tax creates an incentive for firms to reduce their emissions up to the point where the cost of reductions is equivalent to the tax. If the tax is low, fewer reductions will result; if the tax is high, more abatement effort will be forthcoming. Given the real-world U.S. political context, the more promising of the two market-based approaches to addressing climate change is clearly cap and trade, which creates a market for GHG reductions.
While the common sense justification for putting a price on carbon emissions seems straightforward, some of the public and even some policy makers are questioning whether creating a market for GHG reductions is a cure worse than the disease itself. Some questions and concerns include the following:
- Why employ market-based approaches to GHG emission reductions, when markets are subject to manipulation?
- Would a market-based approach to reducing GHG emissions be a corporate handout?
- Can markets be trusted to reduce emissions?
- Will a market-based approach, such as cap and trade, be too costly?
- Are other approaches—including conventional regulation and taxes—likely to be more effective and less complicated?
Our goal in this paper is to address the questions above, and—we hope—leave the reader with a better understanding of the issues, the rhetoric, and the fundamental reasons why cap and trade is the most promising approach to address the threat of climate change. We believe that past concerns about how markets operate can be effectively addressed and result in a policy that is both environmentally and economically superior to alternative approaches.
U.S. Agriculture & Climate Change Legislation: Markets, Myths & Opportunities
July 2010
By: Jessica Shipley, Solutions Fellow, Pew Center on Global Climate Change
Any climate and energy legislation will impact U.S. farmers and ranchers, and this paper examines the many legitimate concerns the agriculture sector has with such legislation. There have been a large number of economic analyses, modeling exercises, and reports published in the past several months based on an array of climate policy assumptions, and the resulting scenarios have ranged from realistic to doomsday. The results of these efforts have often been skewed or cherry-picked to support particular arguments. This brief tries to objectively assess the impacts of climate legislation and identify ways that such legislation could be shaped to provide greater opportunities for the sector. U.S. farmers have long exhibited adaptability and entrepreneurship in the face of changing circumstances, and they will be presented with a host of new markets and opportunities with the advent of climate and energy legislation.
Farmers have many reasons to be engaged participants in the climate and energy policymaking process. It is imperative that the United States take constructive action on climate and energy to maintain a leading role in the new energy economy. In shaping those actions, productive engagement by American farmers can help ensure that U.S. policy addresses their concerns and embodies their ideas. America's farmers will be the best advocates of both the principles of a robust offset market and the creation of other market and renewable energy opportunities.
Key takeaways from this brief are:
- American farmers and industry will face greenhouse gas limitations regardless of what happens in the legislative and regulatory process. Market-driven requirements from the private sector (e.g. Walmart), regulation by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), state or regional programs, and nuisance lawsuits will continue to require greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions to be reduced going forward. Legislation can simplify requirements on business, provide incentives and new markets for farmers, and provide mechanisms to lower the risks and costs to all sectors of the economy. In fact, without legislation, the piecemeal nature of GHG limitations will likely result in a worse outcome for farmers.
- Costs to farmers from GHG legislation can be substantially mitigated by cost-containment mechanisms. Though there is potential for increased costs (namely energy and fertilizer input costs) to farmers, mechanisms potentially available in legislation can significantly minimize price volatility and cost impacts to farmers and the economy as a whole, even though not all these can be adequately reflected in economic modeling.
- The opportunities for farmers to realize a net economic gain from climate legislation are significant. Offsets, biofuel and biopower, renewable power, and the ability to receive payments for multiple environmental benefits from well-managed working farmlands are among the new potential opportunities. The key to making this a reality is climate and energy policy that is shaped by the agriculture sector and farmers themselves.
- Climate change and resulting weather patterns pose numerous risk management concerns for agriculture. The strong scientific evidence behind climate change should concern farmers because of the significant new risks climate change poses to farmland and the rate at which those risks are increasing.
Why Businesses Want an Energy-Climate Bill Now
Companies that make everything from computer chips to potato chips, search engines to jet engines, rubber tires to rubber soles, have stepped up this year to publicly support passage of comprehensive clean energy and climate change legislation. Why are companies calling for increased regulation? Isn't that akin to a teenager arguing for an earlier curfew, or a second grader demanding an end to recess?
Actually, no. The days when businesses could be counted on to reflexively oppose all environmental regulations are over, and that's a good thing. Nowhere is this shift more evident than in the case of climate change policy. American Business for Clean Energy tracks nearly 6,000 businesses, both large and small, that support energy and climate legislation. Dozens of companies, representing trillions of dollars in revenue, have signed on to letters and paid advertisements calling for prompt action on such legislation. These companies have determined that a clear and consistent national framework to begin reducing emissions is good for the economy and good for their industries. Our new brief, The Business Case for Climate Legislation, details the reasons why.
Hurricanes and Oil Will Mix: Managing Risk Now
This briefing will be held at two separate times and locations to accommodate House and Senate staff.
Wednesday, June 30
12:00 Noon to 1:30 PM
Rayburn House Office Building, Room 2325
3:30 to 4:45 PM
Capitol Visitors Center, Room SVC 202
Seasonal forecasters predict that 2010 will produce between 14 and 23 named hurricanes -- the most active season since 2005, when Hurricane Katrina and 27 other named storms swept the Atlantic and Gulf of Mexico. As economic challenges continue and oil spews from the damaged Deepwater Horizon well in the Gulf, the growing impacts to the region's economic recovery and unique ecosystems are staggering. What risks does an active hurricane season pose for other energy-related infrastructure, for inland areas as storm surges push oil beyond beaches and marshland, and for stakeholders dealing with flooding in coastal communities in the Gulf and along the East Coast? Can recent advances in hurricane prediction help manage these risks? Might related climate change impacts exacerbate them in the future? What does an increasing scale of catastrophic loss associated with hurricane activity mean for critical services provided by the insurance sector? Please join our panelists as they address these questions and discuss research results, institutions, and processes in place to help manage potential catastrophic risk of this hurricane season.
Opening remarks by Senator Mary Landrieu, Honorary Host (3:30pm briefing only)
- Heidi Cullen
CEO and Director of Communications, Climate Central
- Greg Holland
Director, NCAR Earth System Laboratory, National Center for Atmospheric Research
- Rick Luettich
Professor & Director, Institute of Marine Sciences, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
- Rowan Douglas
CEO, Global Dynamics, Willis Re and Chairman, Willis Re Research Network
RSVP to Gloria Kelly at firstname.lastname@example.com or (303) 497-2102 by Monday, June 28
Sponsored by the American Geophysical Union (AGU), the Congressional Hazards Caucus Alliance, the National Science Foundation (NSF), the Pew Center on Global Climate Change, the University Corporation for Atmospheric Research (UCAR), and the Weather Coalition.
With appreciation to the House Committee on Science and Technology and the Senate Subcommittee on Disaster Recovery of the Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs.


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Colorado in line for major winter storm tonight
April 9, 2013
The National Weather Service gives the Greeley area a 90 percent chance of snow — up to 7 inches — Monday night, after a forecast high of 63 degrees this afternoon.
Rain and thunderstorms are expected to roll into the region in the afternoon with a southwest wind gusting up to 31 mph, forecasters said Sunday afternoon.
Rain is expected to turn to snow about 9 p.m. with the heaviest snow after midnight.
Northern, central and western portions of the state are under a winter storm watch from late tonight through Tuesday afternoon, the National Weather Service said. An area east of Sterling to Limon on the Eastern Plains could pick up nearly a foot of snow from the storm, forecasters said.
"A strong spring storm system will bring very strong winds and heavy snowfall to the region late Monday night through Tuesday," forecasters stated Sunday, adding that snow drifts could range from a few inches to a few feet.
Visibility could fall to zero at times, the agency stated.
The Greeley area has a 90 percent chance of additional snow Tuesday morning, but the afternoon threat is blowing snow with a north wind delivering gusts up to 28 mph. The high temperature in the city Tuesday could reach only 24 degrees.
Partly sunny skies return to the metro region Wednesday with a forecast high of 36 degrees — which is 24 degrees colder than the 30-year average of 60, according to weather records.
Tribune staff contributed to this report.
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It takes a lot of nerve to make a film with the same title as Kobayashi Masaki's Kaidan, for you will unconsciously be measured against that impressive predecessor. It would be unfair to do so in the case of Nakata Hideo's Kaidan, for this is not one of the many "remakes" we are being flooded with, but a very different film in almost every aspect. The only thing both films have in common is that they are horror stories combined with jidaigeki, historical drama. Nakata's flick is not based on the grissly ghost stories of Lafcadio Hearn, but on the work of 19th c. writer and rakugo performer Sanyutei Encho (Kaidan Kasane-ga-fuchi, "A Ghost Story of Kasane Swamp"). And let it be said, Nakata's Kaidan is a very entertaining production in its own right.
What is it about?
First we get a flashback - told in rakugo style - in which we see that a samurai, the father of the main protagonist, kills a money lender, the father of the "heroine" in the film, thereby setting in motion the trappings of Buddhist karma - a retribution that will play out its inevitable game in a most scientific way.
Kaidan next tells the story of the handsome Shinkichi (Kabuki actor Onoe Kikunosuke), a poor tobacco seller, the son of the above samurai who in the meantime has killed his wife and committed suicide as an indication that the karma-machine has been cranked up. By chance, Shinkichi meets the elegant Toyoshika (former Takarazuka star Kuroki Hitomi - she also played in Nakata's Dark Water), who is running a singing school for young women. She is much older than Shinkichi, but he is irresistably drawn to her - and she to him. In fact, she develops a jealous, all-possessing love for the handsome young man.
Of course things go wrong with all that delicious young flesh surrounding one weak but attractive man: after Shinkichi moves in with Toyoshika and comes to do small chores in the school, his flirting with the female students leads to conjugal quarrels and finally a fight where Toyoshika is hurt on her eyelid with the plectrum of her shamisen (the same spot where her father was hurt by the father of Shinkichi).
Toyoshika dies of her wound and Shinkichi elopes with one of her students, the cute Ohisa (Mao Inoue). But no rosy dawn will smile on them: Toyoshika's jealous love is so strong that she starts haunting Shinkichi from beyond the grave, and his affair with Ohisa ends miserably, as do all the relations he has with other women afterwards... for he belongs to Toyoshika and Toyoshika alone!
What I like about it
This film is soft on the eyes. I am not only talking about the five beautiful actresses who play the women around Shinkichi (with Kuroki Hitomi proving that a woman in her late forties can still be very sexy), but about the whole production: the cinematography is gorgeous, with beautiful, atmospheric colors, the kimono are colorful and period-production design is most faithful. In fact, the film looks as classically Japanese as possible.
Kabuki star Onoe Kikunosuke also plays an interesting role. Soft and effiminate, he looks like a nimaime actor from the distant past, the time that gentle and weak men always played the romantic lead. In fact, in the beginning of the film Onoe may seem too passive to modern audiences, but as misfortune after misfortune is heaped on his head, his character developes a desperate and mean streak.
What is wrong with it?
Still, although it is certainly worth seeing, I do not think Nakata's Kaidan is a great film. The probem I have with it, is that this classical period drama could have been made 50 years ago as well. I see no innovation in this film, even Yamada Yoji - although he filmed his stories straight like Nakata does - introduced something new in his recent three samurai flicks by showing how destitute samurai in the mid-19th c. could be, how caught in the Catch-22 of a feudal code that was rotten to the core and could be exploited against them.
Kobayashi Masaki and Nakagawa Nobuo (who also filmed this Encho story in 1957) made films that even when viewed today look more modern than Nakata's work. By presenting a traditional story in a very traditional way, Nakata Hideo has created a small classic that comes half a century too late. The word "old-fashioned" kept coming into my head while watching it...


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One Simple Wish is beginning its second annual wish granting journey. The the New Jersey-based nonprofit that grants simple wishes to foster children and vulnerable families is partnering this year with Hasbro, Inc. to deliver over 3,000 toys and games to foster kids throughout the United States.
"May is National Foster Care Awareness Month and we thought there was no better way to raise awareness than by taking our wish granting program across the country, showing the general public that there are many ways they can support youth in foster care," said Danielle Gletow, One Simple Wish's Founder and Executive Director. "There are currently over 400,000 children in the foster care in the US, and our goal is to provide for each and every one of them. And we're well on our way to that goal having served over 20,000 individuals in its few short years of existence through 350 Community Partners in 36 states."
Gletow, who was recently named a CNN hero for her work on behalf of foster children, will travel to Indiana, Missouri, Colorado, Iowa, Illinois and Ohio from May 15-25, where she will deliver the thousands of toys and games donated by Hasbro at events planned with social service partners in those states. The organization hopes to showcase one of its key initiatives: showing the community that anyone can make a difference in the life of a foster child, and that a simple wish granted can have a big and lasting impact.
Through its unique take on giving, One Simple Wish acts as matchmaker, creating a system through which social service agencies and other non-profit organizations providing services to foster children can reach out to the public and ask that a specific need or wish be met for a specific child. With most wishes on the website averaging at just about $50, it allows most anyone to be able to make an impact.
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For some of us the relationship between real life and skiing is dynamic, and at times can seem adversarial. Even with a green light from responsibility, once-a-season storms, plowed roads and solid gear, you still need some luck to have a legendary weekend.
Even if everything goes sideways you can still have tons of fun, it's just a bit harder to pretend that you're living Warren Miller's sickest dream. Many of us won't ever be called to "get in da chopper" and rip two-thousand vertical feet in thirty seconds.
Perhaps this is why the Chic Choc mountains are a sweet spot for me. Going there is a kind of lucid dreaming. The mountains are stunning, yet also reasonable to get up, and down for almost any fit, motivated skier. And while there are now helicopters and sleds to help you with the hard part, I like doing it on my own.
Mont Alta Randonnée: Attitude and Altitude
In an age of international consolidation, mega-resorts, paid parking, expensive burgers, and an arms race for snow guns and fast lifts, Mont Alta stands apart.
Years ago the lifts were plucked from its slopes. Now, what remains is a reborn ski area dedicated to uphill skiing and natural snow conditions.
Vail probably isn't shaking in their Bogner's yet. Mont Alta caps its season pass sales at 300, each priced at about $50, and you can't buy a burger anywhere on premises. Not to mention that calling it 600 feet of vertical could be a bit generous.
Mount Royal: The Art of Skiing in Town
New York's Central Park is a quintessential city experience, delighting tourists and locals alike. I'll never forget my forays with friends; playing pickup soccer on the great lawn, my near misses on the bike path, and most recently bouldering all within sight of the gleaming rooftops, and ancient obelisks.
Much like the vaunted reservoir system, the foresight of city planners setting aside resources for future generations and developing them properly had unimaginable value.
While I still consider the crown jewel of New York's park system to be without peer, Frederick Olmstead, co-architect with Calvert Vaux, also made his mark planning Montreal's eponymous parc. At nearly the same size and about 20 years younger, Mont Royal presents year round activities and views, some of which exceed the possibilities in Manhattan. Fortunately, one thing I can say about both, is that neither is taken for granted.


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An antipolaron is a particle opposite to a polaron.
In 2367, Captain John Greene informed the M'Tar Liaison the USS Prospect was firing an antipolaron burst at the USS Artemis's secondary hull to disperse a deadly build-up of chronometric particles. In reality, the Prospect's navigational deflector was emitting a coherent graviton pulse to disperse tetryons from an anomaly preventing them from transporting an away team back to the Prospect. (Star Trek: The Prospect Chronicles: "Lady Lazarus")
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I know, it's mind boggling but there is still about 24 hours for our fans to get tickets.
As I said earlier, if our fans don't fill the building, we will no doubt be ridiculed all throughout the hockey community.
Home opener pregame festivities are fun in a normal season, tomorrow night should even be better. Lineup intros, something for the ECF banner, just having hockey back at The Rock = awesome time.
Yes, every home opener around the league has sold out thus far, the Islanders even got a respectable 15,300 today on a Monday afternoon vs TB.
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Softball Signing Class has Stellar Senior Seasons
June 9, 2009
LEXINGTON, Ky. - Kentucky softball's incoming class has enjoyed successful ends to their careers as they wrapped up their senior seasons of high school this spring. Alice O'Brien was a state champion at Riverdale High School in Murfreesboro, Tenn., while Kara Dill from LaGrange, Ohio, finished her career at Keystone High School as the most prolific offensive player in school history.
O'Brien helped lead Riverdale to the state title in Tennessee. In the state tournament, O'Brien batted .300 with a home run and three RBI. She swiped a base and tallied four sacrifice hits during her plate appearances. Her slugging percentage came in at .650 with an impressive on-base percentage of .381. Additionally, O'Brien hauled in a perfect 1.000 fielding percentage in helping lead her team to the crown.
Additionally, O'Brien was named the District 7AAA Most Valuable Offensive Player of the Year in addition to her first-team All-District honors. O'Brien was also a member of the All-District Tournament team. Other honors include a spot on the Middle Tennessee Softball Coaches Association AAA All-Tennessee First team and the MTSCA All-Star South team.
Dill capped her career as Keystone's best hitter in school allure. Her career batting average is an astounding .565. She also broke the school record with 218 career base hits. As a senior she batted .545 with 38 runs scored, 19 RBI, and 23 extra base hits. Her slugging percentage is a powerful .901 with an on-base percentage of .631 for the season. Dill was also successful along the base paths as she swiped 22 bases on 23 attempts.
For her career, Keystone was an incredible 109-18 in four seasons. Keystone earned a top-25 national ranking by USA Today in her senior season. She was honored as a four-time first-team All-Ohio, four-time first-team All-Conference, four-time first-team All-County player and a three-time County Player of the Year. Additionally she was honored as the 2009 Conference Player of the Year and 2009 Miss Softball in Lorain County as a senior. Dill elected to play in the Ohio vs. West Virginia All-Star game at Rio Grande College this summer.
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Deputy Beagle
- Voiced by: Robin Atkin Downes
"Why, I am Deputy Beagle, and I am being held hostage. Can you imagine?"Deputy sheriff of Primm, and brother-in-law to former Sheriff McBain through McBain's marriage to his sister. Beagle saw Benny and his cronies pass through the city, but is reluctant to help since you find him in the middle of a hostage crisis with the Powder Gangers.
- Deadpan Snarker: He's quite sarcastic, but very polite and even-toned while doing it. A lot of his dialogue has the script note "gentlemanly" accompanying it.
- Dirty Coward: Deeply and unashamed of it. He'll run off to let you deal with the Powder Gangers alone, repeatedly expresses hesitation to fight if you talk him into staying, and has no interest in being made the new Sheriff.
- Guest-Star Party Member: He can be talked into helping you fight the Powder Gangers and becomes a temporary companion, including the ability to give him superior armor and equipment.
- It's All About Me: Sheriff McBain was his brother-in-law through marriage to his sister. He doesn't seem too concerned with the fact they're dead and is more worried about his own skin.
- Malaproper: He has a comparatively advanced vocabulary above the normal wastelander, but mispronounces a lot of words at the same time.
- Nepotism: According to Johnson Nash, the only reason he's the deputy is because he's the brother of the sheriff's wife.
- Ungrateful Bastard: After you rescue him, unless you pass a Speech check to make him help you, he'll run off and leave you to finish off the Powder Gangers. He also claims credit for running them out of town "with your assistance."
- Video Game Cruelty Potential: You can sneak into the room he's being held in, talk him into telling you about Benny in exchange for release, then leave him at the mercy of the Powder Gangers. Being that he's tied up and helpless on the floor, you can kill him with all the dignity of an execution if you tire of his cowardice.
Voiced by: Fred TatascioreThe hilariously insane super mutant leader of the "State of Utobitha" stationed at Black Mountain.
"Threats all around us! Converging, like a noose! Tightening! Two-head bear people astride battle cattles!"
- And the Adventure Continues: If the Courier manages to reactivate Rhonda, Tabitha and the robot will go on adventures deep within Legion territory. Tales of their exploits will entertain children for years to come.
- Anti-Villain: The Woobie variety as most of her... eccentricities stem from her Stealth-Boy-induced insanity.
- Ax-Crazy: She's only slightly more sane than the super mutants in DC.
- Cloud Cuckoolander: Maybe even a little Crazy Awesome.
- Everyone Has Standards: Even she's afraid of the Legion.
- Faux Affably Evil: She is Ax-Crazy and has been raiding cattle convoys.
- Just the First Citizen: Her position in the State of Utobitha is "Best Friend Tabitha".
- Harmless Villain: Other than broadcasting her own particular brand of crazy over radio for anyone to hear, Tabitha is mostly content to remain in Black Mountain without causing any trouble for the rest of the Mojave Wasteland (although it's mentioned during the Jacobstown quest that her super mutants have been raiding NCR cattle convoys).
- Funny Schizophrenia: Unlike Lily or Dog/God, her insanity is 100% Played for Laughs.
- Large Ham: So much that she has her own...
- Large Ham Radio: And you can hear it.
- Living Emotional Crutch: Rhonda was hers. Marcus notes that she only really started losing it once Rhonda got damaged and shut down.
- Pet the Dog:
- Done offscreen, but she did save Mean Sonofabitch years ago while he was being tortured by NCR troopers.
- If you fix Rhonda she sincerely thanks you, rewards you for your help and leaves without a fight.
- Punctuated! For! Emphasis!: "CENTAURS! EAT! HUMANS, RHONDA!"
- Robosexual: It's never brought up explicitly, but part of Tabitha's backstory is that she fell in love with Rhonda, the disabled Mr. Handy. This would also technically make her a lesbian. Though hilariously Rhonda always has a male voice.
- Sitcom Arch-Nemesis: Raul, who she threatens to execute every day, only to decided against it since he hasn't oulived his usefulness yet. If you never rescued Raul or dealt with Tabitha, the ending shows this is still going on long past the Courier's victory.
- Small Name, Big Ego: As the leader of the "State of Utobitha".
- The Starscream: To Marcus, who she kicked out of Black Mountain before the events of the game.
- Talking to Themself: Her radio show with "Rhonda". This only becomes apparent when you find out that Rhonda is a Mr. Handy robot and currently deactivated, while "Rhonda's" voice on the radio is clearly that of a Super mutant. Several broadcasts also reveal this, although it's difficult to spot unless you know the secret beforehand. Raoul catches himself nearly adressing "Rhonda" as Tabitha, Tabitha's "Rhonda" voice slips when she gets upset... and at one point, she tells Rhonda that she misses her every day. On some level, she's aware of the truth.
- You Have Outlived Your Usefulness: Wants to do this with Raul, only for him to remind her that he hasn't outlived his usefulness.
Voiced by: Marc GraueA Nightkin who leads a force of them to the REPCONN Test Site seeking Stealth Boys. He follows the orders of "Antler", a brahmin skull he carries with him.
"Antler guides me in all things! As I in turn guide my kin!"
- A Father to His Men: He's seeking the Stealth Boys for the good of his followers, and does not send them into the storage room because Harland is too good a shot and has already killed three of them.
- Berserk Button: Harming the actual Antler skull he has with him or killing too many of his other kin turns him hostile.
- BFS: Fights with a bumper sword.
- Consulting Mister Puppet: His relationship with Antler.
- Funny Schizophrenia: His interactions with "Antler" are entirely Played for Laughs.
- Genius Bruiser: By mutant standards. He may be insane but Davison is quite intelligent and articulate as far as most Nightkin go. And he's still a hulking eight-foot mutant with a sword made from a car bumper.
- Reasonable Authority Figure: He told the Bright followers to stay in the upper levels for their own good, as he knows his kin are not as stable as he is and would harm them. He also agrees to let you search the site for Stealth Boys, to leave if you find them, and will understand when you find evidence the Stealth Boys were shipped to the wrong place. However, it's also played with in that he claims Antler orders these things of him, while Davison himself distrusts you from the get-go and would happily rip your arms off for looking at him wrong.
Alice McLafferty
Voiced by: Marianne MuellerleileThe head of the Crimson Caravan company's branch in New Vegas.
- Affably Evil: She's a friendly old lady, but she's also very amoral and ruthless.
- Bad Boss: If you're incompetent, anyways. At the same time...
- Benevolent Boss: Uphold your contract and work hard, she'll treat you fair. With a little encouragement, she will also let a few things slide in the name of love.
- Bitch in Sheep's Clothing: She may seem nice at first, but she's busy making underground deals to kill off her competition. Literally.
- The Chessmaster: The Van Buren incarnation of "Ailis" was going to be supplying both sides of the war between the Brotherhood and NCR to make more money and weaken both of them, and had the ultimate plan to take over Hoover Dam and destroy the Brotherhood to make herself a war hero to NCR. Her New Vegas incarnation is only a step or two down, making deals with the Van Graffs for the two to help the other take out their competition.
- Corrupt Corporate Executive: Does all sorts of shady and illegal things to one-up or muscle out her competitors, from corporate espionage to outright murder.
- Fate Worse Than Death: At the end of Cass's companion quest, the player can convince her that tying Alice and the company up in NCR legal redtape will do far more damage to the company and her than simply shooting her.
- Laser-Guided Karma: Depending on how you go about committing corporate espionage on the Gun Runners for her, she might end up getting killed by "raiders" using advanced weapons and military tactics. The Gun Runners deny having any public knowledge of the attack.
- Pet the Dog: The Courier can convince her to still pay Janet the wages she's owed despite breaking her contract. One way to do so is to ask her whether she wants to ruin Janet's chance at love. McLaffery grumps about being sentimental, but agrees to pay the owed wages.
- Pragmatic Villainy: While the tasks many of her outside contractors are given are unsafe, Alice notes that they always get paid well for their efforts — you don't build a thriving business as a cheat who goes back on deals. She also notes that the only one that is straight-up immoral/illegal— committing industrial espionage on the Gun Runners— is strictly optional, and there is no penalty or reprisal for Couriers who refuse it.
Voiced by Sam RiegelA homeless ghoul who spends his time sitting at the gates of Freeside by Mick and Ralph's shop. He hears a lot of things, and in a dangerous place like Freeside, knowledge is security. And Rotface is willing to tell you all he knows, one tidbit at a time, if you've got the caps. As detailed under Demoted to Extra, Rotface was originally a more complex character that had his story considerably sliced down.
"Hey buddy, spare a cap?"
- Demoted to Extra: He was originally going to have an ongoing storyline, where the player's continued donations allowed Rotface to buy things, and the player's comments on his purchases would influence his ultimate fate in different ways. Most of it was cut and now he just buys a hat after you pay him enough caps. However, fan mods exist that piece together the subplot from script notes and leftover voice clips to mostly restore the subplot to full working order, sans some incomplete bits that were planned but not given voice acting.
- Disproportionate Retribution: In one of the "bad" endings to his story, he decides to mug the player because they made fun of his outfit.
- The Dog Bites Back: One ending for him was that the player could tell Rotface that now that he's rich and has a gun, he doesn't need to be pushed around anymore. Rotface decides to confront some of the people who were mean to him in the past, and gets killed for his courage.
- Golden Ending: In the optimal ending to his subplot, he would have joined the Followers of the Apocalypse to rededicate his life to something better.
- Knowledge Broker: He knows a lot of what goes on around Freeside, the Strip, and some of the Vegas outskirts, seemingly just be keeping an ear out. Talking to him hints at dozens of questlines and enables some optional objectives in others now that you've heard something from Rotface about the characters involved.
- Meaningful Name: He's a ghoul, so "Rotface" is rather literal.
- Nice Hat: Buy enough tips off him and he buys a nice new hat for himself. It's actually Eulogy Jones' hat from Fallout 3, and unique in New Vegas.
- Screw This, I'm Out of Here!: In one ending to his subplot, he would have saved up his money and left Freeside.
- Too Dumb to Live: Numerous "bad" endings to his subplot would have gotten him killed due to Suicidal Overconfidence; either he tries to mug the player, he tries to push around some thugs, or he flashes his wealth around too much and is mugged and killed.
- Ungrateful Bastard: As told under "Disproportionate Retribution", in one potential ending, he would mug the player after they donated enough caps.
- Wisdom from the Gutter: As noted, he's been around to know a lot about the local area for ghoul hobo.
James and Francine Garret
Voiced by: Cindy Robinson and Liam ObrienThe Garret twins are the owners and proprietors of the Atomic Wrangler casino in Freeside, making them the pushers of alcohol, drugs, and prostitutes to the region. John handles the business end of things while Francine concerns herself with public relations and image.
"We've got liquor, chems, and whores a plenty. Pick your fix and we'll oblige."
- And There Was Much Rejoicing: If you kill Caesar, Francine gives you a free drink on the house for killing the leader of an army of rapists. If you kill Benny, James mentions how he only regrets that he wasn't there to see it.
- Anti-Villain: True, they openly admit that they like getting their customers drunk or drugged so it'll be easier to shake them loose of their caps, but that's the limit of their misdeeds. In the Fallout world, prostitution and drugs are acceptable business to most, and the Garrets otherwise aren't looking to cause any trouble or get anyone killed.
- Even Evil Has Standards: If you have a bad reputation in Freeside, James will refuse to sell to you, disgusted with you. He'll spread a good word on your behalf for the right price, but if you get really bad enough to need it, he'll only do it once, then it's on you.
- Friendly Enemy: With the Followers of the Apocalypse, on account of the Followers constantly taking in the drunks and druggies the Garrets are churning out. However, the Garrets appreciate their efforts to make Freeside a better place, and are willing to supply them with medical chems if the Followers will help them out in kind. The Followers in turn reluctantly admit that against the increased relief the support will let them provide Freeside, helping the Garrets is worth it.
- Good Counterpart: To the Omertas and Gomorrah. Both are sleazy casinos that cater booze, drugs, and prostitutes, but the way they go about it is rather different.
- The Wrangler doesn't abuse their prostitutes at all. Francine mentions that right up front if the Courier expresses an interest. They also have no qualms about letting the workers their choose their own clients, and they never force them to work for someone they'd rather not. Gomorrah actively works to get their sex-workers addicted to keep them in a state of pseudo-slavery. They routinely abuse their own workers, give them no say in who they're forced to serve, and they even let Clanden torture and murder some of the girls, because he provides them with other services.
- Francine sends the Courier to non-lethally shake down some indebted customers, and they only ever resort to murder in the case of McCaffery, who actually robbed them. The Omertas are... less kind, as both Henry Jamison and Ranger Lenk will immediately panic if the Courier even implies they might mention it to the Omertas.
- Half-Identical Twins: Both share the same facial structure as one another.
- Pet the Dog: The Wrangler as a whole is pretty seedy, but if talked into working with the Followers, James will level with you that despite their reputation, they do care about their customers, and aren't actively seeking to get anyone addicted.
- Pragmatic Villainy: They're in the business of making money, not murder. Sure, some folks are being stingy on their tabs, but they prefer their debt collectors get the debtors to (more or less) willingly hand over their money rather than looting it from their corpses, because corpses don't come back for more. Additionally, despite their dealing in the booze and drugs trade, they prefer people not becoming violent addicts, because Freeside is on hard enough times without a bunch of chemheads running around.
- Rewarded as a Traitor Deserves: Their former bounty collector, Caleb, ran off with a large sum of caps from their coffers. Francine wants him dead, to teach him not to double-cross them. You can however convince Caleb to just give you his hat as proof.
- Robosexual: James hires you to track down a sexbot. For a client, that is! He isn't into that kind of shit, those sick fucks. Ew. If you actually hire the sexbot, his reactions are priceless.
Voiced by: Dave MitchellAn old pre-war robot in the lobby of the Sunset Sarsaparilla factory, he tells people that an amazing prize awaits anyone who can gather 50 sunset sarsaparilla bottle caps with blue stars on them and bring them to him.
"Wrangle up a stool and listen to ol' Festus jaw awhile!"
- Ascended Fanon: In-universe example. After the Sunset Sarsaparilla company got flooded with calls and letters asking if there was a contest for redeeming bottle caps, the company realized these rumors had caused their sales to jump 300%. So they brought in Festus and created the star caps to harness these rumors as a marketing scheme, acting like there had been a contest in place all along.
- Bragging Rights Reward: The "reward" for getting 50 star caps is being able to hear an obviously made-up story about how the drink originated from a drifter. The player can rightfully complain about this, and Festus responds that such complaints have been addressed, and a physical reward is in the factory's storage room. The "real" reward then zigzags this trope. The reward Festus means is a worthless toy sheriff's badge, but the player can also find several thousand bottle caps and a unique laser pistol in the room.
- Collection Sidequest: You want 50 caps to get that reward? Prepare to scour the Mojave and chug every bottle of sarsaparilla you find to get enough.
- Cowboy: Designed with this motif.
- Unwitting Instigator of Doom: The legend of the star caps has spread so far that most people don't even know what it actually means, they just know there's a treasure out there somewhere for someone who can get 50 stars. As a result some people are going around killing others to get their hands on them.
No-Bark Noonan
Voiced by: Peter RenadayNovac's resident expert in all things unexplained. Most residents quite rightly view him as a nutjob, though there is often a grain of truth to his ramblings.
"Them quack doctors can say what they want about all the radscorpion stings that done pierced my skull. I know what I seen!"
- Cloud Cuckoolander: Big time.
- Conspiracy Theorist: His craziness works this way.
- The Cuckoolander Was Right: He is actually very perceptive of the more low-key and shady going-ons in and around Novac, and while some of his theories may be wildly off the mark (the checker-vision aliens) some are hilariously close to the truth, just not in the way he imagines them. For instance, the Bright Brotherhood was trying to steal space rockets, though not so that they could paint the moon pink and draw a Lenin face on it. The McBride Brahmin were being killed by an invisible assailant with an automatic weapon, albeit a Nightkin, not a Chupacabra. He's also the only person in Novac to see through Bitch in Sheep's Clothing Jeannie May Crawford's ruse, and even his reasoning behind that note is fairly sound in an Insane Troll Logic sort of way.
- And if the Courier helps the Bright Brotherhood with their rockets, No-bark plays it even more straight by telling a toy bear near one of Radio New Vegas' microphones just what happened: the unidentified flying objects he saw were religious ghouls in rockets looking for a land to call their own.
- Hypocritical Humor: His initial theory regarding REPCONN.No-Bark: Folks'll tell you that they seen ghouls up near the rocket factory. Sensationalist hooey, cooked up by superstitious yokels seeing phantoms of their own imagining.
The Courier: Who do you think is actually at the factory?
No-Bark: Ghosts. Commie ghosts what don't know they're dead.
- King of Games: Challenge him to a game of Caravan sometime. You'll be surprised to see that this crazy old man is one of the richest players in the game, and is capable of putting up more than a thousand caps a game.
- Properly Paranoid: At the very least, he's right in thinking that there are some mighty suspicious things going on, even if the conclusions he jumps to are rather strange.
- Room Full of Crazy: Natch, his shack is this. Nothing overtly dangerous; the rigged shotgun trap doesn't even have a trigger mechanism.No-Bark: "How did you get past the guards?"


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Inheritance Title As for the title, CP said that it would be something Eragon would inherit. Sources state that the title could be 'Aren' or 'Arya' or 'Bromsson' or even 'Freedom' or 'Empire'. Nice try. Eragon already has Aren, noone can inherit a person, he already has the name and bloodline, you don't inherit freedom, and Eragon does not wish to lead an empire. What could he inherit? We must think of who he could inherit from.
- Brom
- Hrothgar
- Orik
- Oromis
- Islanzadí
- Eragon I
And the list goes on. I personally don't think that Orik should die, but opinions dont save lives. Firstly, what could he now inherit from Brom?
- Undbitr
- Legacy
Undbitr would only be inherited for a sentimental purpose, and cannot be important enough to name a book after it. Legacy could be inherited from Brom, but also from Eragon I. Legacy will be discussed further later.
What could now be inherited from Hrothgar? Only a way to find the Rock of Kuthian. But not the rock itself. So this way could be the title.
What could he inherit from Orik? Volund? Grimstborith? Eragon does not wish to lead, so no to Grimstborith and Volund.
What could he inherit from Oromis? Naegling. While he would not need the blade, the energy would be very useful. Other than that, various scrolls of little importance, and a home on the Crags of Tel'naeír.
From Islanzadí, Eragon could inherit official elfdom, although whether the Elves have such a ritual is questionable.
From Eragon I, Eragon could inherit:
- Legacy
This seems the only possible inheritance, as Eragon is already a rider.
The possible titles are:
- Legacy
- Elfdom
- (The name of the ritual where one enters official elfdom)
- (The way to find the Rock of Kuthian)
- Naegling
- Tel'naeír
From these, Legacy, Naegling, Tel'naeír and the way to find the RoK are the most likely.
And forget Eldunari!
Rock of Kuthian The Rock of Kuthian is possibly a massive eldunari of a dragon Kuthian. Kuthian is probably a dragon that was so old that it lost the desire to be burdened by its flesh. Kuthian travelled to where the Forest of Stone is now, transferred his soul to his eldunari, and died. His flesh rotted, becoming the mountain that the Forest of Stone sits on, and through time, flesh turned to dirt, and dirt turned to stone. He used a burst of magic to create the stone trees, where they lay in the stone. The trees were there to mark his location. Before he died, he grabbed a handful (about 50) of eggs, and sealed them in an enclave, or a 'vault' so that if ever the dragons become extinct, there would be a way for them to continue as a species.
Greeni et al
It will be Arya. Predictable, yes. However, Roran would view immortality as a curse, and same with Katrina. Orrin and Nasuada already have responsibilities, and so do Islanzadí. Orik will not, because he is not part of the oath, and he too has responsibilities. Jeod would also view immortality as a curse. Arya, however, can turn down the role of queen. As for Greeni's name, he may be called Kuthian, after the wish of Kuthian I. Arya could help Saphira fall for Greeni/Kuthian II via Eragon's feelings.
Angela/Tenga Angela is probably just a weird fortuneteller. However, to add to this, it is likely that Solembum has been exiled, and Angela has supported him. This is possibly a crime according to the werecats. Also, maybe Halfpaw thinks Angela kidnapped Solembum.
Tenga is a hermit with a vast knowledge of magic. He could be searching for a way to get energy from the elements, but if so, then so is Galby. He could also be searching for the RoK or the VoS. He could be the last grey folk, but he did not cause the extinction event.
He will have blue eyes (to get back to Eragon) or black eyes (for the prequel)
Galby I am hoping that both Galby and Eragon learn how to get energy from the elements, and rather than use this in a non-epic magicians duel, it will be used in an epic sword duel. However, what is more likely is that the werecats will remove/destroy the eldunari, and there will be a normal epic swordfight.
Galby will either be beheaded, or stabbed in the gut to say a few last words, such as:
"Forgive me, Jarnunvösk"
"You think that can kill me, pathetic Rider? Ugh"
"And the city goes with me" *city collapses*
If Galby does not die, then the Varden, Dwarves, Urgals, Elves, Surdans, and even a few Empire cities such as Therinsford, Daret, and Narda will leave Alagaësia, and leaving Galby with a few remaining empire-loyal cities (such as Uru'baen, Dras-leona, Gil'ead).
As the Empire loyal cities grow, and settle in more areas and repopulating old cities, Galby finally decides to cross the ocean with his army to destroy his enemies. However, in an attempt to surprise them, he tries to teleport his troops there. The troops only move a mile, before Galby dies of magic misuse, as an explosion rips apart all the troops and the nearby cities. The remaining cities become their own nations.
While Galby WILL die, the idea of everyone leaving Alagaësia is interesting.
Aftermath Galby dead.
The races will return to their areas, but will be more open to other races. Werecats will live among the others, and Humans and elves may partly live among each other. Illirea (Urû'baen) will be returned to the elves,
Roran may or may not rule Carvahall/Palancar valley
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Sydney's ivory towers on display
A new exhibition has opened celebrating the architecture of the University of Sydney, which has some of Australia's grandest buildings.
Dreaming Spires and Ivory Towers charts the university's architectural history in paintings, pictures, sketches and photographs from 1865 to 2000.
The senior curator of the University's Art Gallery, Louise Tegart, says the university is home to a collection of Sydney's most significant architectural sites, including the Great Hall and the Quadrangle.
"The architecture at the university is highly significant, given that the Great Hall was one of the first sandstone buildings in Australia," she said.
"It was designed by an overseas architect, Edmund Blackett, and progressively since 1865 the university has had a wide ranging variety of architectural styles that have been built here."
"So it's significant because of the diversity of styles, and also the Great Hall and the Quadrangle are outstanding in Australian architecture and they also attract people from around the world. It's really an iconic building."
"These buildings were designed to create an architectural and intellectual focus for the settlement of Sydney."
"They are an anomaly in Australia, and have attracted the attention of many significant artists since the University was founded in 1850."
The exhibition includes works by some of Australia's most notable artists, including Lloyd Rees, Conrad Martins and three generations of photographers.
It will be open to the public until July 27.
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Weekly Event - Every Thursday Friday Saturday & Sunday: 7:00 PM to 10:00 PM (PST)
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Notorious for their original and boundary-defying projects, Bootleg Theater teams up with Small American Productions to launch Eric Rudnick's new play DAY TRADER. The stellar cast will include Brighid Fleming (direct from her critically acclaimed run in Wait Until Dark at the GeffenPlayhouse with Alison Pill, and The Nether - Kirk Douglas Theatre) and Tim Meinelschmidt (Tony Award nomination - Coastal Disturbances).
A comedy writer in a career freefall becomes convinced that he deserves more, and sets out to write his own Hollywood ending. Truth proves stranger than fiction as he implicates his family, his best friend, and a bewitching young woman to get what he thinks he's got coming. Seduction, suspicion, and suspense become intertwined in a twisted tale of comic noir that leaves no one unscathed.
DAY TRADER opens January 11th at 7pm and runs at 7pm Thursdays-Saturdays, and 2pm Sundaysthough February 16, 2014. The Bootleg Theater is located at 2220 Beverly Blvd. Los Angeles, CA 90057. Tickets are $25. For more information call 213-389-3856 or http://www.bootlegtheater.org
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This quietly located hotel is situated around 17 km from the centre of Andorra la Vellas, and its many shopping and entertainment venues. The closest ski area is around 4km away.
The rooms come with a bathroom, a hairdryer, a minibar/fridge a direct dial telephone and a hire safe.
The hotel offers an indoor pool, solarium and a sauna for those wishing to relax. There is also a gym and the nearest golf course lies about 4km away. Spa-Wellness Area offers hydrothermal pool, air beds, sauna, steam bath, ice fountain, fitness room and beauty treatments.
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The ongoing gender discrimination lawsuit claims female Goldman employees had their intelligence mocked and were referred to as "bimbos."
An ongoing gender discrimination lawsuit against Goldman Sachs filed four years ago by three former female employees now has the support of several additional former employees who allege the financial giant has a "boy's club" atmosphere where women are mocked and excluded by their male colleagues.
The group is seeking class action status from a federal judge in Manhattan in a suit that looks to sue Goldman GS -1.71% on behalf of current and former employees at the bank whose tenures stretch as far back as July 2002. Several former employees filed documents on Tuesday supporting class certification of the lawsuit, which accuses Goldman of hosting an environment that is "hostile to women."
In a statement sent to multiple news outlets, a Goldman spokesman said the filings Tuesday were not a surprise and that they "lack merit."
One former vice president in the bank's securities division, Denise Shelley, wrote in her letter to the court that female employees at Goldman were often hired based on their attractiveness and then asked to pitch sales to clients only to later have their intelligence mocked by male colleagues. Shelley says such women were referred to as "bimbos" by male colleagues, and she remembers one time when a new...
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