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I can't believe it is almost over. It has been cool living vicariously thru you on this blog, the last few weeks. Tell Dan I said howdy !!!ReplyDelete
so happy to get the update! you look great, really content! enjoy the last few days! we have loved following you guys along. our prayers are with youReplyDelete
Can't watch YouTube at work, but I can tell by the comments and your picture that you are doing well and are aproaching the end of this adventure. Say hello to Kadra and Dan. I also notice you are wearing a Highlands shirt. Be safe as my prayers continue to be with all of you.ReplyDelete
Awesome job Adam! I'm reading this update on Monday night and am so happy for you! Enjoy these last few days out on the AT. I look forward to hearing your stories whenever I get a chance to see you. Say hey to Kadra, Dan and Lara for me.ReplyDelete
WhooHOooo!! you all enjoy the last few days and the final push! can't wait to log on and see that photo of you on top of Katahdin~!ReplyDelete
Hey Mom! Are they there yet??? Just thought i'd check yous guys out...Can't wait to see y'all in the flesh...i'll shower if you shower! Peace be with yous. Much love. jReplyDelete
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Today is Tuesday, Feb. 19, the 50th day of 2013. There are 315 days left in the year.
Today's Highlight in History:
On Feb. 19, 1963, the book �The Feminine Mystique� by Betty Friedan, credited with reviving American feminism, was first published by W.W. Norton & Co.
On this date:
In 1473, astronomer Nicolaus Copernicus was born in Torun, Poland.
In 1803, Congress voted to accept Ohio's borders and constitution.
In 1807, former Vice President Aaron Burr, accused of treason, was arrested in the Mississippi Territory, in present-day Alabama. (Burr was acquitted at trial.)
In 1846, the Texas state government was formally installed in Austin, with J. Pinckney Henderson taking the oath of office as governor.
In 1878, Thomas Edison received a U.S. patent for �an improvement in phonograph or speaking machines.�
In 1881, Kansas prohibited the manufacture and sale of alcoholic beverages.
In 1942, President Franklin D. Roosevelt signed Executive Order 9066, which cleared the way for the U.S. military to relocate and intern Japanese-Americans. Japanese warplanes raided the Australian city of Darwin; at least 243 people were killed.
In 1945, during World War II, some 30,000 U.S. Marines began landing on Iwo Jima, where they began a successful month-long battle to seize control of the island from Japanese forces.
In 1959, an agreement was signed by Britain, Turkey and Greece granting Cyprus its independence.
In 1976, calling the issuing of Executive Order 9066 �a sad day in American history,� President Gerald R. Ford issued a proclamation confirming that the order had been terminated with the formal cessation of hostilities of World War II.
In 1986, the U.S. Senate approved an international treaty outlawing genocide, 83-11, nearly 37 years after the pact had first been submitted for ratification.
In 1997, Deng Xiaoping, the last of China's major Communist revolutionaries, died at age 92.
Ten years ago: Rep. Dick Gephardt, D-Mo., announced his second candidacy for president with a pledge to repeal most of President George W. Bush's tax cuts. An Iranian military plane carrying 275 members of the elite Revolutionary Guards crashed in southeastern Iran, killing all on board.
Five years ago: An ailing Fidel Castro resigned the Cuban presidency after nearly a half-century in power; his brother Raul was later named to succeed him. President George W. Bush, visiting Rwanda, pleaded with the global community for decisive action to stop grisly ethnic violence plaguing other African nations like Kenya and Sudan. Barack Obama cruised past Hillary Rodham Clinton in the Wisconsin primary and Hawaii caucuses. Toshiba, creator of the HD DVD, conceded to Sony's rival Blu-ray format.
One year ago: Three skiers were killed when an avalanche swept them about a quarter-mile down an out-of-bounds canyon at Stevens Pass, Wash., but a fourth skier caught up in the slide was saved by a safety device. Forty-four imates were killed in a prison riot in Apodaca, northern Mexico. The Detroit Red Wings won their 23rd straight home game, breaking the NHL overall record with a 3-2 victory over the San Jose Sharks.
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Spas are more popular than ever, but are spas just a trend or are they here to stay? First known for her early 1990's prediction that Americans would soon be cocooning, Faith Popcorn has since become the guru of our age on being a consumer, being a human and living in this era. Many of her trending concepts directly coincide with where the spa industry is headed. When one ponders that society used to enjoy quilting circles, square dances and church socials, it is no wonder that we have found a new way to relate, refuel, commune and center ourselves — at the spa.
The spa is the new church, it is the new downtown or it is the new town hall. For better or for worse, the spa trend is society's way of getting connected, relaxing and feeling loved. More interesting, or perhaps more obvious, is the interest in living a full life. Alternative health, wellness and spirituality practices of all sorts are booming.
Anti-aging or "down-aging," comes in all of the scientific and nutraceutical forms but it also arrives in the traditional wants of particular age groups: make-up colors, hairstyles and other creature comforts. Popcorn calls it "pleasure revenge." Consumers are striking out and doing what feels right for them. She references martinis and beef — I would reference a 90-minute massage or anti-aging facials.
Small indulgences are also one of Popcorn's mantras. Guess what? As the economy declines and life becomes more and more uncertain…women choose more lip colors. People choose to indulge in massage. It is an ancient economic truth that when the world falls into a state of crisis, consumers choose to indulge in the little things, like one-hour services and samplings of home care products. The future of larger item pilgrimages, however, is bleak unless the economy picks up and terrorism is played down. Consumers simply do not want to travel and cannot splurge on expensive, self-indulgent trips of the scope of a destination spa venture.
Day spas will continue to reap the benefits of this shift in the community, as will medical spas. Resorts and destination-based wellness centers will continue to thrive but only when basing their efforts around lifestyle refining and programming such as diet, exercise and substance abuse management. Spirituality-based programs will also thrive as consumers learn that there is more to life than a job and an SUV. Everyday items consumers can afford, like a $7.99 tube of toothpaste or a $75 massage, are great examples of some indulgences.
Hospitals will continue to invade the wellness turf. Recently, researchers have sought to prove why alternative treatments such as therapeutic touch, reflexology and improved attitude help the physical healing process. Other therapies, such as hydrotherapies, have been used for thousands of years as natural healing and nourishing therapies. For years, Europeans have combined what we, the United States, think of as alternative therapies with medical therapies.
The recent trend in hospital spas is to offer relatively inexpensive, short bedside treatments to relieve stress, raise spirits, improve attitudes and promote healing. These treatments include massage therapy consisting of hand, foot and facial massages using reflexology techniques to relieve stress and promote healing in specific areas of the body. Additionally, more cosmetic treatments are offered such as healing cream manicures and pedicures, make-up application and bedside hair wash and style. These treatments often lift spirits and improve attitude by allowing a patient to feel pampered and beautiful. These treatments usually range from $15 to $40, which makes them relatively affordable to patients.
Melinda Minton is a spa consultant and health and beauty expert in Fort Collins, CO. Minton is the founder of The Spa Association, an organization dedicated to enriching the professional beauty industry through self-regulation, education and sound business practices.
- Egonomics: Consumers want to be touched, personally cared for, individually noticed and want their retail purchases to be customized. Consumers are willing to pay more for all of this.
- Three million Americans practice yoga and martial arts. Soft movement therapies like Pilates and Tai Chi are increasingly becoming mainstays of group exercise and more than ever this type of client is requesting spa therapies as a part of his or her fitness programming.
- Ninety seven percent of consumers visiting Las Vegas prefer themed settings; theme parks are boasting annual revenues of $6 billion. This notion of themed venues ties in with the consumer's longing to escape the pressures of every day living. Heavily themed spas are becoming more popular as a result.


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Choosing where you'll die may depend on what you want, what help you have from family and friends and what services are available where you live. Wherever you're cared for, the most important thing is that you get the care you need and your symptoms are well controlled. This can happen in a variety of places. Most people would prefer to die at home, as long as they know they will have good quality care. But, even if you choose not to die at home, you can still be surrounded by people and possessions that are dear to you.
Although your wish may be to die at home, there may be a time when this changes. You may decide that you'd be more comfortable in hospital or in a hospice, where trained staff can help your carers look after you, and relieve pain and other symptoms if needed. If you're a carer, it's important that you don't feel guilty if you encourage the person you're caring for to die in a hospice, hospital or nursing home. If you have to make this decision to move them at a late stage, this shouldn't be seen as a failure, but rather because you want to make sure that your loved one gets the expert care they need.
If you decide to go into hospital or a hospice, you and your carers may feel anxious that you might not be able to come home again. However, it's quite usual for someone to go into hospital or a hospice for a short time, so that symptoms can be closely monitored and brought under control. Then, if you and your carers wish, you can return home.


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We know you're obsessed with steak, so we thought you should be warned.
Time Magazine's Josh Ozersky has an awesome piece out called 'The Problem With The American Steakhouse' where he goes on a sophisticated rant on how we're getting screwed out of our ideal steakhouse experience.
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I don't write this as a food pundit. I say it as a glutton and as an American. Steakhouses are not really restaurants, in the strictest sense: they are closer in spirit to strip clubs or spas, places to which people repair for rites of costly self-indulgence, Dionysian revels in which stressed businessmen or harried wives vent their hypertension.
That's colorful, but one of the truly awesome parts of this piece is when Ozersky talks about how steakhouses get away with this madness.
There are certain tricks of the trade to make so-so cuts look super:
So steakhouses find ways to trick you into thinking you are getting something precious. They bathe the meat in melted butter, which is good, but as much of a deceit as a padded bra; they buy steaks that have been jabbed with thousands of tiny needles to make them soft; they'll use MSG or other tenderizers; they'll call a steak "dry-aged" that has been in their refrigerator for three days (as opposed to a month in a real aging room.)


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Tori Amos (born Myra Ellen Amos; August 22, 1963) is an American pianist, singer-songwriter and composer. She was at the forefront of a number of female singer-songwriters in the early 1990s and was noteworthy early in her career as one of the few alternative rock performers to use a piano as her primary instrument. Some of her charting singles include "Crucify", "Silent All These Years", "God", "Cornflake Girl", "Caught a Lite Sneeze", "Professional Widow", "Spark", "1000 Oceans", and "A Sorta Fairytale", her most commercially successful single in the U.S. to date.
As of 2005, Amos had sold 12 million albums worldwide. She has been nominated for 8 Grammy Awards. Amos was also named one of People Magazine's 50 Most Beautiful People in 1996. Amos has also been recognized as one of the top live acts of all time by a Rolling Stone poll in 2003, in which she placed at #5.
Amos was born in Newton, North Carolina. When she was two, her family moved to Baltimore, Maryland, where she began to play the piano. By age five, she had begun composing instrumental pieces on piano and, while living in Rockville, Maryland, she won a full scholarship to the Preparatory Division of the Peabody Conservatory of Music. Her scholarship was discontinued at age 11 and she was asked to leave. Amos has asserted that she lost the scholarship because of her interest in rock and popular music, coupled with her dislike for reading from sheet music. In 1972, The Amos family moved to Silver Spring, Maryland, where her father, Reverend Edison Amos, became pastor of the Good Shepherd United Methodist church. At the age of 14 she began playing at piano bars, chaperoned by her father.


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I always figured that when I got too old to play any real sport, I could always take up golf. Now that I (and 70 million other baby boomers) am fast approaching that melancholic milestone, I figured it was time to take a closer look at America's favorite low-key leisure pursuit.
Golf is a lot like taxes; you drive hard to get to the green, and yet you still end up in a hole. Golfers would wear wrinkled clothes if it weren't four irons. Although golf has been known to drive a wedge between people, it is presently played by about 30 million people in the USA, ranging in age from 2 to 127 years old.
Even those consummate surfboarders, the Beach Boys, have been seduced by the languid lure of golf. They recently traded in their baggy shorts and sandals for plaid trousers and white loafers and have released a new single, "Golfin' USA," which went straight to number one on the AARP top 10 list.
Golf is played in various forms all around the world. In Pamplona, Spain, for instance, they have the annual "Running with the Balls," in which hordes of drunken revelers run across the fairways trying not to get killed by speeding golf balls. Apart from providing lots of hilarious clips for TV news shows around the world and YouTube fans, this event also helps to reduce the idiot population in Spain. If only they could reduce their budget deficit as easily.
In Africa the golf course hazards can be quite daunting. Sand traps are filled with real quicksand, and hungry lions are a common sight. In South America the water hazards contain piranha, which makes retrieving balls a bit tricky. This is where caddies really come in handy. Good caddies will always sacrifice themselves for the golfers, although it sometimes takes a little prodding. In Pennsylvania, of course, caddies are unionized, which means they get paid to stand around doing nothing.
In South Philly they play "street golf," where you try to sink the ball into a pothole while a club-wielding "hole protector" tries to prevent you from doing so by smacking the ball back into your face.
Other popular forms of golf include:
•Left-wing liberal golf: No par; take all the strokes you need.
•Existential golf: No holes; just putt around aimlessly, pondering the abject meaninglessness of life.
•Imaginary golf: No anything. You just play it in your head and jot down the score that you think you got.
And for you serious jocks out there, there's the X-treme Golf Triathlon: walk for two miles, talk for two hours, play nine holes of golf, sleep for 12 hours.
•Miniature golf, or "putt-putt," is also very popular these days. You don't have to hit the ball hundreds of yards just to get to the putting green, and there are lots of whimsical themes to these delightful little courses.
For example, "Golfzilla" is a course in Tokyo where you dress up in a reptile costume and trample tiny towns and villages as you work your way to the hole. Recorded sounds of screams and explosions make the whole experience even more realistic.
•In Newark, New Jersey, Tony Soprano's "Don't-Get-Whacked" mini-golf emporium supplies you with a submachine gun disguised as a putter and a caddie who offers advice like, "Hey, hit the freakin' ball already; we gotta get outta here!"
•Right here in Philly we've got "Ed Rendell's Gutsy Golf." His new book, "A Nation of Wusses," warns that Americans are becoming too soft and whiny. That's why this game is played 365 days a year in rain, sleet, snow, ice, whatever; no excuses! Fast Eddie, who of course could not run 10 yards himself without collapsing, may even show up and kick you in the butt just to keep you moving.
•Other celebrity-owned courses include former Miami quarterback Dan Marino's "Dolphin Golfin'" (which is played entirely underwater), and Rush Limbaugh's "Tee Party Golf," also known as "God, Guns and Golf." And there's the biggest golf course in Mexico, which is called "A Hole in Juan." And then there's Tiger Woods' "For Ladies Only" course in Las Vegas. As we all know, the emergence of Tiger Woods really boosted golf's popularity among philanderers and sex addicts, turning it into a "hip" pastime for many of them who might never have considered playing golf before. They have discovered that it takes a lot of balls to play golf.
So, to you young people out there who might be thinking about golf as a career but wonder if it's right for you, consider this; as a professional golfer, you will never have to work another day in your life, plus you will get to eat for free at any country club in the world. And you get to wear golfer's socks; that's the pair with a hole in one.


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At Chapter Leadership Training Conference (CLTC), you'll discover what it means to be a leader and attain lifelong leadership skills.You'll also gain greater self-confidence, a sense of Jewish pride, and a community of diverse friendships, while enjoying new hobbies, sports competitions, chofesh (free time), celebrating Shabbat, and so much more!
With eight sessions to choose from at two different locations, we offer lots of flexibility for you to build a CLTC leadership experience into your summer plans.
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If there is a flight delay a staff person will stay at the airport to wait for the late arrivals. For West Coast teens arriving after 2pm staff will remain at the airport to greet teens and drive them to CBB.
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Please don't be concerned about the long wait at the airport! Teens have a fun time meeting everyone, playing games, singing and generally just hanging out the staff will keep them entertained.
Is CLTC for you?
CLTC is a great program for Alephs and BBGs currently in 9th or 10th grade who are current or aspiring chapter leaders, have attended or are interested in attending regional leadership conventions, or who haven't yet been to a BBYO international program!
How many teens attend CLTC?
Each session welcomes fewer than 100 participants. The smaller group size offers members the chance to create a community in which each member has the chance to grow and shine.
Who staffs CLTC?
BBYO programming professionals and advisors serve as the site director, leadership director, and leadership staff at CLTC. We're also joined by a Jewish educator, song leader, Israeli counselors (or sh'lichim), an office manager, and college-age counselors (or madrichim).
What is the CLTC curriculum about?
The emphasis at CLTC is on building leadership skills applicable across participants' AZA, BBG, or BBYO chapters, high school classrooms, and home communities. Jewish values and community service also are central to the CLTC experience. Members plan and lead daily morning (Shacharit) services as well as Shabbat services.
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Former President Bill Clinton took the stage during Sunday night's Golden Globe awards to present Steven Spielberg's "Lincoln," one of the nominees for best motion picture drama.
The former POTUS' surprise appearance received a standing ovation from the glamorous crowd.
"A tough fight to push a bill through a bitterly divided House of Representatives. Winning it required the president to make a lot of unsavory deal that had nothing to do with the big issue. I wouldn't know anything about that," Clinton sarcastically said to an enthusiastic crowd.
"President Lincoln's struggle to abolish slavery reminds us that enduring progress is forged in a cauldron of both principal and compromise," Clinton continued. "This brilliant film shows us how he did it and gives us hope that we can do it again."
After the clip of "Lincoln" played, co-host Amy Poehler, who played Hillary Clinton on "Saturday Night Live," came on stage and quipped, "Wow, what an exciting special guest: that was Hillary Clinton's husband!"
And while everyone seemed to be surprised by the 42nd president's presence, a source tells E! Online, "It was not a last-minute thing. It was in the works and came together about five days ago."
"We had this on lockdown," added DreamWorks co-chair/CEO Stacey Snider to Deadline.
The idea for Clinton's secret appearance reportedly came from Steven Spielberg's camp, with the E! source adding, "Steven and Bill are quite close."
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Before the HAART era, there was a time when many people in the U.S. considered an HIV diagnosis a guaranteed death sentence. Although countless researchers and doctors worked to develop treatments for the disease, their data usually weren't made accessible to the people who needed that life-saving information the most. Meanwhile, the established processes for getting new, more effective drugs to market took so long that many HIV-positive people died waiting for the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) to approve them.
Yet, instead of accepting the status quo, the tireless activists from AIDS Coalition to Unleash Power (ACT UP) and its spinoff group Treatment Action Group (TAG) took to the streets and made it known that silence would no longer equal death under their watch.
All of this (and much more) is the subject matter of the new documentary How to Survive a Plague. The film, directed by award-winning journalist and first-time filmmaker David France, captures this tireless (and often controversial) activism which in the end forever changed the development and approval process not just for HIV treatment, but for all urgently needed medicines in the U.S. The film mixes current interviews with vintage footage that makes the viewer privy to the good, the bad and the ugly of what it meant to be a member of these groups.
Prior to its 2012 Sundance Film Festival premiere in Park City, Utah, on Sunday, Jan. 22, tons of buzz surrounded the film. Salon.com's Andrew O'Heir and Indie Wire's senior editor Peter Knegt both called it one of the films they were most excited to see this year at the festival. Perhaps the many endorsements were the reason why the theater was packed on the film's opening night and why the film received two standing ovations -- one after the film and the other after the subsequent Q&A session. (Coincidentally, the debut marked the 20th anniversary of the formation of TAG.)
In an exclusive interview, France told TheBody.com that he made this film because he wanted to remind people that more than death came out of these dark times. "When people think about the [early days of] AIDS, they think about the terrible devastation, not the amazing work and heroics that occurred during that period," he said. "I wanted to tell the story about how it's not what the virus did to us, but what we as a community did to the virus."
He also hopes that his film will be a call to action for the next generation of AIDS activists. "HAART definitely helped more people survive HIV/AIDS, but not everyone is going to survive this disease," France said. "And so by resurrecting theses voices and showing that individuals can accomplish great things, this is an invitation for others to join [the fight]."
While Sundance is a big-time stage on which France can showcase his work to an eager audience, the festival also serves as an auction block for indie films to be bought by a main distributor. And so far the news seems promising: According to The Hollywood Reporter, there was "strong interest" in How to Survive a Plague, and several potential buyers attended screenings on Monday. France confirmed as much and said, "There are definitely people interested; we are just waiting to see how it all pans out."
France is also waiting to see if this Saturday night, the film will take home one of the festival's most coveted awards for its category, U.S. Documentary. He admitted, "We are pretty nervous and thrilled, but confident."
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On Jan. 29, the Sundance Awards Ceremony will be live online. Go to sundance.org for more details.
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text: Wednesday, March 28, 2012 APTA Summary on Exchange Rules Now Available APTA's summary on the rules governing the establishment of health insurance exchanges and qualified health plans (QHP) highlights provisions pertinent to physical therapists, such as the QHP network adequacy standards that require issuers to maintain sufficient amounts and types of providers to ensure that all services will be accessible without unreasonable delay. The summary covers provisions related to initial and annual open enrollment periods, the eligibility determination process for the Small Business Health Options Program, consumer assistance tools and programs, privacy and security of information, and more. Several provisions in this final rule were published as interim final and are open for public comment until May 11. Association members can access the summary on APTA's Summaries of Health Care Reform Rules & Regulations Web page under the heading "Additional Summaries." Comments just one more example of the sickening way the APTA is falling over themselves to be a good little organization and line up in a neat line for Obamacare. Seriously, we all know that Medicaid is NOT good insurance and that's half the plan right there. Why don't we wait and see if it's even constitutional?? Or how about putting our money into helping people make smart decisions about their health in the first place? This may be the last year you get my membership dollars! Posted by Melanie Welch PT on 3/30/2012 11:11 PM I agree with Melanie! what happened to good competitive services getting the work and the terrible ones starve because they are not competitive. good competition sharpens skills. if we go to socialist medicine, the quality decreases because we will be mandated to see way too many pt to make our goverment regulated stipulations. Posted by Renee on 4/2/2012 2:59 PM I no longer give to the APTA PAC. Support of this bill by the APTA was and still is absurd. It was outlined right from the beginning....Health care providers in small businesses are doomed, and Private Practice PT's will be the first to go down and soon. Even if the supreme court decides the one detail of Obamacare is unconstitutional, they have implimented so much of it at record speed that it will be impossible to take away. Posted by Denise Didio Buher, PT on 4/3/2012 1:58 PM


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Freebie Alert: Apple giving away "Where's My Water?" via Facebook
If you like physics puzzlers AND freebies, this one's definitely for you. Apple has started giving away copies of the bestselling and addictively fun Where's My Water? via Facebook earlier this evening. All you need to do is visit Apple's Facebook page, click on the Where's My Water promo banner and "Like" the App Store. You'll then be given a redeem code, which is good until Dec 15th. Nice and easy! Coincidentally, the game was also updated today, bringing 20 new levels, all new collectables and a whole new way to play the game – Steam (you can now convert water into steam and vice versa to solve puzzles). Just make sure you don't try downloading the game via iTunes…the $0.99 price tag remains unchanged.
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Senator Kerry and Speaker Pelosi here today
I just ran into senator John Kerry as he walked from one event to another. He's giving a talk at 1:15 entitled "The Critical Role of a global Deal in Advancing U.S Legislation."
He's almost always followed by a parade of cameras, journalists, and delegates…
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By Angel Hsu and Luke Bassett, part of 'Team China' tracking the Chinese delegation a the Copenhagen climate negotiations. These posts are originally being featured on Green Leap Forward and also cross-posted on Climateprogress.org and the Yale Center for Environmental Law and Policy blog.
Both Team China and Copenhagen are under the weather as a wet snowfall hit in the early afternoon. We are starting to feel the palpable stress of country delegations to remove brackets and whittle down the negotiating text in preparation for the high-level ministerial meetings on Dec. 17-18, when 110 heads of states will participate. Additionally, the Bella Center…
1:30am – Still Waiting for LCA to Begin
Here in the LCA Plenary hall, waiting for what should be the final meeting of the LCA to begin, originally scheduled for 7-9pm this evening. Many NGOs have gone home but there are still easily over 150 people in the room. A Swedish Youth NGO is trying to lead Parties in a sing-song and the head of the Ghanaian delegation behind me is waving a plastic wand and muttering about a COP15-bis.
Apparently the issue revolves around language on developed country mitigation in the Chair's text. This was in the original version released on Friday, but was taken out and replaced with a placeholder in the version from this morning. The Chair re-inserted it tonight after protests from developing countries and not receiving any political guidance from the ministerial…
Guyana stands out as an example for planning and REDD
During the course of the semester, I have been studying various aspects of REDD with my pod. Since being at the COP, I have attended a number of side-events on REDD implementation, but have not been incredibly impressed with their content. Today I attended a side-event hosted by World Resources Institute (WRI) which tied into some of the research I have recently been doing on Readiness Preparation Proposals (R-PPs) mandated by the Forest Carbon Partnership Facility (FCPF) under the umbrella of the World Bank. R-PPs include detailed assessments of the drivers of deforestation and degradation, terms of reference for defining their baseline emissions levels, and plans to establish an MRV system. The side event hosted by WRI spotlighted Guyana, a country that is taking action, having completed its R-PP and…
Wilful blindness… the curse of optimism.
I have been following the progress of negotiations on the Kyoto protocol. Although calling it "progress" might be too generous. After hours of deliberating, the parties' positions are so distant and entrenched that a fleet of bulldozers would be needed to bring them any closer. Oh, and we have until tonight to reach an agreement. How can anything be agreed when the developing countries want to make second commitment period targets conditional upon legally-binding, economy-wide commitments by the US? (We know how likely that is.) When no one knows what to do about the "hot air" undermining Kyoto's already fraught environmental integrity. When you can hear the fragile truce between G77 and the developed countries strain ominously each time Japan declares that having two climate change agreements operating concurrently is…
What the most vulnerable countries want from Copenhagen
In the last session of the 'Development and Climate day' that was organized by IIED, three high-level panelists – President Nasheed of Maldives, Hon. Batilda Burian, Tanzania's Minister for Environment, and Hon. Charity Ngilu, Kenya's Minister of Water and Irrigation – told the audience what the most vulnerable countries want from the Copenhagen negotiations.
President Nasheed wants the international community to "STOP TALKING". For the last fourteen years experts have been negotiating a common ground – to no avail. He called for the global community to do start acting! President Nasheed said his country has taken a lead by declaring emissions cut that would make Maldives carbon neutral within the next 10 years. He advocated for adaptation measures that use softer, viable, and cheaper methods as hard engineering has…
Slow Going at the UNFCCC
As you all know, Copenhagen talks were held up all day yesterday because of the position of the LDCs and Africa Group that they wanted the Kyoto Protocol track resolved before continuing under the LCA. After a long-delayed plenary session in which COP President Connie Hedegaard emphasized the commitment to transparency, openness and due process, Parties agreed to resume negotiations in the late afternoon through a series of Ministerial consultations on particular sticking points, in particular:
– Annex 1 commitments under the Kyoto Protocol (it was KEY for developing countries, concerned that the KP will expire and be collapsed into the LCA track, that this be taken up first)
– Long-term financing for mitigation and adaptation
– Long term term emission reduction goal, its relation to sustainable…
China in Copenhagen, Days 6-8: Who's REDI for Action?
Our fingers have finally thawed out after waiting two hours outside the Bella Center (can you spot us in the picture to the right?)- the nexus of COP activity, so that we are be able to bring you the latest updates on China in Copenhagen. The weekend proved slow for the COP, owing much to the distraction provided by an estimated 25,000 protesters who took to the streets of Copenhagen to demand a fair and urgent climate deal. (see an excellent video and pictures at Dot Earth).
The COP 15 African Walk Out
Batilda Burian, Minister for Environment, United Republic of Tanzania, discusses the African walk-out during the COP Plenary on December 14, 2009, speaking at Climate and Development Days.
FES alums making their mark at COP15
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With the trend in open-turned-closed sessions and limited NGO access, I feel like I learn more about the negotiations from the Earth Negotiations Bulletin and through random contacts than from physically being here. Seeing how these international…


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Semi-automatic versions of sub-machine guns have been on the U.S. market since Auto-Ordnance brought out the Thompson 1927-a1 in the 1970s. Other notable makes include the Uzi Model A which began importation in 1980, and the numerous MAC-10 type guns that began to appear in the early 1980s.
The expiration of the assault weapon ban in 2004 has brought a new generation of semi-automatic versions of classic military weaponry of the world. Many are based on Soviet designs. There are a lot of former East Block guns on the world arms market that can be bought cheap.
Of course functional select-fire guns cannot be imported for the civilian market. So U.S. importers began destroying the receivers of original guns and imported the parts kits. Then gun designers and tinkerers sat down and figured out how to make these things work in semi-automatic.
These semi sub guns (SSG?) are designed to comply with current law. Select-fire open-bolt mechanisms were changed to closed bolt semi-automatic operation. The BATFE must approve any design that skates near the edge of automatic operation.
It must be impossible to readily convert any design to automatic function, either by modification of existing parts or substitution of "readily available" parts. In all truth, these SSG are really new designs that have cosmetic resemblance to the select-fire version. Original stocks, handles, sights, magazines or other parts may be used but significant manufacture of new parts is done.
In addition to semi-auto only function, the new guns must comply with other areas of federal law. A rifle must have a barrel at least 16.1 inches long and have a total length of 26 inches. With most of the existing designs this requires a longer barrel than the original model. Older SMG's usually had barrels that were six to 14 inches long. The longer barrels on the SSG change the profile quite a bit. Some models, like the British Sten or U.S.M3a1 Grease Gun really look silly with the 16-inch tube.
Handgun versions of guns such as the MAC-10 series can fit the original profile but will lack the collapsible stock. Some of the new designs even have an original folding stock welded in the closed position. This is to give the gun the appearance of the real thing.
In the last few months I have had the opportunity to try out three of the semi-auto sub guns. A Suomi 9mm rifle, PPSh 41 rifle and PPS 43 pistol. The Suomi and PPSh are manufactured by TNW Firearms https://www.tnwfirearms.com. They were ordered for local customers, not to test for this column. That idea occurred to me later.
Finland manufactured about 80,000 Suomi Model 1931 sub-machine guns in 9mm. Production ended in 1944. They were fitted with a 12.25-inch barrel and fire from an open bolt. The TNW semi automatic version fires from a closed bolt. It has a 16-inch barrel and the original barrel shroud was lengthened to cover some of the extra length.
The new gun keeps the unusual operating handle, which is located below the receiver at the back of the action. Magazines were made that hold 30 or 50 rounds as well as a 71-round drum. The Suomi currently retails in the $450 to $550 range.


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Alison Eastwood and Stacy Poitras Tie the Knot in Weekend Ceremony
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(CALABASAS, Calif.) -- Clint Eastwood's daughter, Alison Eastwood, tied the knot in Calabasas, Calif. over the weekend, People magazine reports.
The bride got married to sculptor Stacy Poitras of the Country Music Television reality show Chainsaw Gang. Eastwood wore a 1930s-inspired beaded gown by Les Habitudes, and the couple's rings were designed by Philip Press, the magazine says.
Eastwood and Poitras married at a Friday night ceremony before friends and family at the Saddlepeak Lodge, according to People.
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Zero Punctuation: Monster Hunter Tri
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See, I can understand Yahtzee's gripes about this game and I can see where he's coming from, but these kind of reviews take the hardcore fandom stick and cram it so far up my ass that I start gagging on it.
I enjoy Yahtzee's reviews and this one actually made me giggle a few times because it was genuinely funny, but it was also a horrible misrepresentation of the game as a whole. While that may be his thing, it bothers me because of the countless "WOW THIS GAME SURE DOES F***ING SUCK DOESN'T IT!?!" posts that it creates. So many people who deny themselves an actual personal opinion on the game because Yahtzee went ahead and reviewed the first hour of the game and nothing more.
What he's gone and done is told his whole audience that this game is just gathering flowers and killing innocent animals. Didn't mention the 7 different weapons types, the different strategies, the customization, the online play, the co-op play, the event quests that net you unique armors and weapons, the immense boss battles that challenge you in a way that your standard MMORPG could never match up to. It's a game that's far deeper than he may even know. sure, it's simple and repetitive, but god forbid that a game makes you put some effort into getting that next improbably large weapon or shiny piece of armor.
The review would have been just as good if he read the manual and summed the game up from there. He never mentioned what star he was in (and assuming from the ranting he was still in star one of out 6)or the online play (which has double the content of single player). Though I never really took the reviews seriously, I find it very disturbing that he did not bother to play the game more than 3 hours.
Normally I like Yahtzee's rants and "reviews", but this one just seem like a pile of lazy effort. Seems like he got as far as doing one or two quests at the beginning tutorial section and decided to declare that was the whole game. I have to wonder if he actually tried to get to a real fight against the big bads of the game.
I won't say that Monster Hunter isn't a grind-fest at times. I've had to stop fighting the bus-sized things trying to eat me to go harvest herbs and mushrooms to make healing items from time to time, but that is one of the things that I appreciate about the game, too. You are playing a hunter and hunters have to be equipped with survival supplies. The grind isn't even the main part of the game, like his review would suggest. Fighting a beast big enough that it takes up your screen, while fighting it with a massive weapon, is. And it is fun and challenging. Each monster has behaviors that you can watch and understand, and the bosses sometimes require half an hour to defeat.
Better than most games that have you take a few pushes of A to just repeated beat a stupid bot that dies in 2 second, just to beat up his identical cousin shambling right behind him.
And did Yahtzee even pay attention to the plot of the game. The reason the big nasty showed up just for the game to tell you to run away is because that the final boss of the single player section. You aren't supposed to fight it because you don't have the armor and weapon to win. There are many challenging boss monsters to work your way through before you take on the big boss. And no, the game won't randomly toss one of them in before you are ready to fight one, or at least survive running away from something more than an intro-encounter.
Seriously, it is like he picked the game up from the store without even understanding what sort of game is it. How about I go pick up Starcraft and complain that I can't craft stars?
umm, what?
1.the controls probably feel less responsive because you character is swinging around a 2 ton chunk of metal
2. demon souls difficulty is artificial
3.you are playing monster hunter wrong, if you are complaining about the combat, long trekking, and enemy difficulty, the game is a HUNTING game, you have to HUNT down your prey, and then take the bastard out using the knowledge you gained by watching what it does in its environment, how it feeds, and how it reacts to attack, the game isnt a hack and slash, and you wont have fun if you play it like one, you have to be the kind of person who is more interested in exploring, studying patterns, and strategizing, than the kind of person who just wants to button mash to victory
inb4 it's too easy/not on PS3. Also excuse me for not liking the whole claw mechanic. In terms of gameplay it's much better than the rest of the series.
I was kind of disappointed that he didn't say anything at all about the big monster fights. I'll admit he did make some good points about the game. Yes it has no business on the Wii, yes the wiimote controls are annoying, and yes.....some third thing. However I don't think you can really give an honest review of the game if you don't even mention the fights with the big epic monsters.
A Typical Zero Punctuation Thread:
1) Average fan watches ZP, is entertained and gathers another opinion about the game being reviewed.
2) More devoted Yahtzee fan's denounce the game in the discussion thread, swearing by the review.
3) Fan's of the game reply in thread stating how Yahtzee Missed the Point/Didn't play the game properly/didn't play the game right/isn't real reviewer/shouldn't be taken seriously. (Delete where appropriate)
4) Groups 2 and 3 begin to argue the toss.
I've yet to see a single ZP thread that didn't follow this to some degree or another. It doesn't really bother me that much I suppose. Except for the ridiculous "isn't a real reviewer" argument. I'd say ZP is as valid as any other review because all a review is, when it boils down to it, is an over glorified opinion of the subject matter and swearing by Yahtzee's reviews is no better (or worse) than swearing by X reviewer.
PS: my r, e, v, i, w keys seem to be indented now. Also while I'm here.
Stop feeding the troll guys. I thought that was in internet 101.
when did we change the meaning of "mockery" to "is the best one"
and why was it spelled "hole" not "whole"?
I was really hoping that he wouldn't do this game as a review. Don't assume I'm standing up for this game, I was just as disappointed as anyone else, but then again this game was generally a disappointment to all the fans of the series. As to why capcom put it on the wii...well the only reason I can think of it that they thought it was an untapped market. As for the rest of us who were smart enough to try before buying, I'm going to stick with freedom 2, and wait for freedom 3 to come out, and play the good version which is prefect on the psp (though I wish it had better graphics).
As a side note for people wondering why people would play this game in the first place, I'll sum it up for ya, IT'S A CHALLANGE, fighting monsters on your current level can usually end up with you dead quite easily, as in if you can't predict what it's going to do, odds are you dead or getting close to it. As for field gathering, yeah you might have to do it early on, though if you don't suck and upgrade your farm all you have to do is hit that up between missions if you want your desired items.
P.S. I hate yatzhee's ass kissers who seem to get the first posts (wonder why you lifeless computer campers) and take his every word as god. Granted he makes good points, but that doesn't mean you should let it decide if you want to buy a game or not, espically seeing how he's told everyone in his reviews quite a few times that he goes and makes these reviews to point out all of the BAD parts of a game, not the good. Again, go get a freakin' demo before you decide to try the game or not, as I recall gamestops are giving out demo's for this game right now (again, didn't like it), so go try it before you hate on.
no business on wii?
the ENTIRE reason its on the wii is because of business, the console games never sold past 500k worldwide, and the ps3 would have cost them millions in development, and would have been a huge financial loss
so capcom made it for the wii instead, and lookie there, its broke far above a million sales, and it cost them well under their projected cost for ps3, monster hunter was never as profitable on ps2 or pc as it was on wii
so shut yer trap, boy.
I got this game for the PSP and it was worth a few fun times. Getting together with friends to go hunt down and capture a giant rampaging beastie was always a fun choice. Although this is another one of those games that is a lot better multiplayer.
I hope you're not basing that on Yahtzee's review. He didn't even make it to Hunter rank 2 by the sounds of it. There are plenty of games out there that you can stop playing 1 or 2 hours in and never taste the meat of the game. MH Tri is among them.
Otherwise, it's comparatively light on content when you look at MHFU, but on it's own it's a long-lasting game. I'm at 110 hours already and I've beaten single player (not all post-game content though) and am maybe halfway through the online portion. And still enjoying it, too.
1. it was cheaper, and more profitable to put MH3 on wii, rather than the ps3
2.why does everyone say this one sucked and they are glad they tried it first? i hope you guys didnt take that demo seriously, because it was just a port of a 2 year old japanese demo, one that was underdeveloped in many many ways, most reviews actually tell you to forget the demo every existed.
I'm wondering how far Yahtzee got in tri? I don't own the game myself(though I own Freedom Unite on the PSP) but when you get higher in rank the difficulty begins to escalate. It escalates more if you're not doing it in co-op because you are on the low end of the weapon/armor components list and fighting the monsters takes preparation and knowing the weak points of the monster you are hunting.
Still, his review is not without some merit. Grinding for some resources is hard and a bore, even more if you don't have a farm like in Freedom. Plus each weapon you pick has a different style of combat, so that factors in to understand each weapon and how to use it effectively without getting completely owned by a monster.
That was almost unnecessarily harsh... I mean, criticizing Wii games is like making fun of a retard. Aren't there any other games coming out in Australia worth criticizing (constructively)?
lol well i personally think the games fucking amazing, but thats just my opinion but I don't understand how you can judge this game and say it's shit when you clearly didn't even get past the 2* quest you know you cheaped out on this one dude :/
this is why yahtzee should not have been reviewing it, its NOT a single player game, its basically an MMO, its SUPPOSED to be played with other people, thats what is FUN about it
but he refuses to play online for some stupid reason, imagine if he reviewed WoW, but said it was shit, because he couldnt even access the single player, it just kept logging him on to the multiplayer. WoW has its own reasons to be shit, but being multiplayer centric is not one of them
Well at least he waited until the near end to insult the console but I still think he should shut his gob and stop saying fanboyish things about the Wii like how it's nonexistence would improve the game industry. For the record, it wouldn't but I'm not in the mood to get into that right now so I'll just say this: pretty much the opinion I expected from Yahtzee about Monster Hunter but that last comment about it being on the Wii, I expect is going to be taken literally by a certain PS3 fanboy I know on YouTube. (And he's already a pretty stupid person as it is)
Yeah that's basically the opinion I had on his opinions on New Super Mario Bros. Wii and the Extra Punctuation that supplemented it, as well as why I don't want Yahtzee to review Galaxy 2. There are some games or franchises Yahtzee should critique and some where he should just shut his fucking mouth, pretend it doesn't exist and move on.
^reason #1 I don't usually post on his review threads. You're probably right.
Single platform games suck :(, do more multiplatform games please :D, so the review can appeal to more people, the Wii will never be a serious gaming system, and will never have games that are great.. it doesn't have the processing power to do anything useful. I think it goes PC > PS3 > 360 > Wii. I just wish more games were made for the PC.
Woha, this time I don't think yahtzee was a little unfair... What is happening?!
*cough* fanboy *cough*
There are plenty of 'hardcore' games for Wii.
Ewww, I used 'hardcore'...
His review just makes me want the game more
I really don't think Yahtzee played enough of this game to review it. If he did, he'd have a lot more to complain about -- for example, that the characters flex after consuming potions, or that he has no indicator of how well he's doing against a monster, or any of a myriad of other things folks who are new to Monster Hunter complain about.
It almost sounds like he hasn't even taken out anything significantly bigger than himself. He said nothing of the game's difficulty (and, yes, it is a difficult game (I'm still playing the PSP version -- 250 hours SOLO, and I still haven't seen everything)). I think he fell prey to his deadline. Had he reviewed something else, and taken stabs at monster hunting for a few weeks; I think his review would be markedly different, and he could have gotten to the game's more substantial flaws as opposed to the superficial stuff.
I mean no disrespect, but this review reeks of a lack of effort. Yahtzee, you can do better. At the very least, take down a big one before you review it.
Another one? Really?
I hate that word as well.
I can't remember the term but businesses change their marketing strategy depended on the nation.
Yahtzee's reviews aren't meant to be seriously by the way although there is always a ring of (exaggerated) truth to them.
The load times he is talking about, appear in every Monster Hunter game. It has nothing to do with the Wii, and has everything to do with the fact that the game has always been that way on every system it has been produced for.
As for the review... the first few minutes were useless filler, it didn't seem like he had much to say about this game (it also doesn't seem like he played much of it either) once he got to the meat of his review. He was just trying to be 'funny' (At least, I think that's what he was attempting). Once he did, he had to drag out the age old 'this game is the sum of every MMO's bedraggled parts'... seriously? When a game is being played offline and single player, aren't most people going to think that? Especially when it's not a game that is supposed to be constant fighting, puzzle solving, or shooting game?
Truly a review where he seemed desperate for fodder... and not good fodder, but the same rehashed crap he has been spewing every time an RPG or slower-paced game has surfaced.
Okami was a horrible port for the Wii, it was good on the PS2 (where MH originally started... do you see a trend here?).
If you had mixed feelings about the game, then clearly it isn't going to be one of the 'worst games ever for the Wii'. In fact, since it makes the option available to use either the controller of Wii-mote (it doesn't work for every single game. People need to get over this, and understand that such a thing can kill a game) I'd say other games should note that and follow suite.
I really don't understand why so many people listen to Yahtzee, and can't make a decision for their selves. Of course when you point out all the negatives, or things the majority of players don't seem to like, it's harder for them to find the stuff they will/might enjoy about a title.
Damn, I dunno, As I did like the game until I played the demo who knows, maybe I should buy the game and see how it goes, course I play freedom 2 on ad-hoc party (A free service the ps3 offers to allow you to play psp games online if they only support ad-hoc) and everyone who plays freedom seem to be disappointed by tri, and some of them mention that they only people who play it are 10 year olds and mention serious communication problems. This really doesn't add to the temptation to play the game, despite how well the game is rendered.
Side note: for anyone who does like it, monster hunter G for the wii seems to be already underway. Course I might be confusing the information as I didn't look into it, for my primary object was finding more about freedom 3.
I like how the do the weapons, because of the system it encourages you to try different methods of attacking a monster and makes you get a nice diverse variety of wepaons for different situations.
However I didn't drag you into this rebuttle to question your post, rather to agree with a part. Yatzhee stated in a few of his reviews he usually plays the game for around the week, and this is shared with other things he does as well as the fect he has to produce the review, so an off hand guess without and real math behind it, I'd say he plays the games for a max of around 20 hours on average (for you hardcore yatzhee fans who might know more about this feel free to correct me, but unless it's an old game this is usually the situation) therefore probably shouldn't be reviewing the games with a high level of required play time, like demon's souls or monster hunter, as both are great games if you can climb the admittedly very steep learning curve and stand atop the mountain. Once you're up there you can see all the great thi8ngs the games have to offer, and sadly, yatzhee probably only gets to climb about half way with many of the longer games and therefore gets cheated. of course there's also a strong chance he just doesn't like it and that's just him.
I honestly hadn't thought about this game until now, but I do remember the ads that came out that made it seem very interesting.
Repetitiveness can be a big turn off for a game and I never purchase a game unless the replay value is at least moderate. This isn't really the type of game I usually play anyway, so chances are that I wouldn't have even tested it. I very much enjoyed the review though, especially the Deer Hunter line xD.
I hope you review Alan Wake soon. It gave me a bit of a Silent Hill feel, so I'm thinking you'll enjoy the game a little bit at least.
It doesn't sound like he even got to the actual monster hunting part of the game :/
Been a fan of this series since the first one and after about 5 hours(at the most, maybe a bit longer for new players) of the piddly quests you should be fighting the actual monsters, rather than doing the hunting small animals and gathering quests. He also seemed to think the free roam part was where the meat of the game was, when it isn't. The old games didn't even have those (they had timed gathering quests with no objectives though, which is similar).
I don't think he played long enough. Don't be persuaded that this is a bad game, it just needs some time to learn the controls and start taking on the baddies.
Actually, you can run through to your first Great Jaggi fight in about an hour, and for a newbie to the series, he's actually a decent opponent, even if he's a 10 HKO later.
Anyway, on to my annoyance: People who claim that the only people commenting that don't like the review are fanboys of the game. Yeah, I like the game. But honestly, would you consider me a fanboy? Have I been unreasonable? Have I posited the game has no flaws? Have I refused to acknowledge the game is slow starting, even if only for an hour? Have I denied that there is any grinding? Have I done anything *but* make reasonable comments that basically say "I find the game fun, and it has flaws that could have easily been pointed out, but Yahtzee clearly didn't play long enough to get to the meat of the game" and point out to others who are just saying "Yahtzee's review makes this game seem like shit" that Yahtzee didn't even mention the monster hunting part of monster hunter?
I dunno, maybe I'm just a fanboy and I can't tell it, but I thought I was being far more reasonable than the average poster, despite defending the game.
Ok Yahtzee we get it, you hate the Wii. To use your words, stop flogging that pile of bloody jibblets that used to be a dead horse.
I bought this game, and I've really tried to get to love it, but it's resisting too much, I'm at a point where I can't complete a mission, and I just can't be arsed to do the effort, not when it feels like I could be spending my time doing other stuff, and the controls are horrible with the wii.
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Many feel that Greece's fate, including its continued membership of the eurozone, rests in the hands of the Troika - officials from the European Commission, European Central Bank and the International Monetary Fund charged with evaluating Greek's reform efforts, its financing needs and how they should be met. But this is not the entire story by any means.
The country's fate is also closely linked to what happens in Italy and Spain, and in a manner that is yet to be sufficiently understood by many. ( Read More: Can Spain Avoid Greece's Vicious Circle?)
Domestic political stability and economic reforms are clearly critical for Greece's continued membership of the eurozone. Many are thus interested in how the Troika, acting on behalf of official creditors, will react to the government's request to stretch out the budgetary adjustment over an extra couple of years.
Will they agree? If they do, how will the accompanied structural reforms be tweaked? And who will pony up the additional financing, either explicitly or through indirect methods (such as the refinancing undertaken recently by the ECB ( Learn more)?
Important as they are, these questions are just part of the required analysis. You see, Greece's triple problem - of way too little growth, much too much debt, and a political elite that has lost popular credibility and legitimacy - cannot be solved by adding a couple of years to the adjustment program and finding a bit more money.
A sustainable solution requires a major reset of the country's parameters - economic, financial political, and social.
Domestic conditions are of course key here. Without common vision and a sense of shared responsibility - both of which are lacking in Greece today - it is virtually impossible for the country to regain its employment engines, realign its cost and revenue structure, and regain Eurocentric and global competitiveness.
Yet it is not all about internal challenges. Greece's continued membership of the Eurozone depends also on the evolution of the situation in Italy and Spain - two countries that will have an important impact on what the Greek reset looks like and when it would occur.
If the situation in Italy and Spain were to deteriorate further, Greece would get even less sympathy from the Troika; and certainly less money. ( Read More: IMF's Lipton is Hopeful Greece Getting "Back on Track")
Any relaxation in policy conditionality would be viewed by the Troika as giving the wrong signal to other vulnerable Eurozone members. And creditors would be even more reluctant to pour good money after bad.
With the social fabric of Greek society already highly stressed, the government there would find it even more difficult, if not impossible, to implement an approach that promises the population greater austerity and pain. A disorderly exit (or "Grexit") from the eurozone would only be a matter of time. To make things worse, it is likely that this would occur in the context of an increasingly unstable Eurozone.
What if collective European efforts were to succeed in stabilizing Italy and Spain? You may think that this would be unambiguously good for Greece as a more robust Eurozone would be more willing to support its weakest member. But it is not that simple.
The stronger the eurozone firewalls protecting Italy and Spain, the greater the inclination for some European officials to de facto push Greece out.
This is not just about the difficulties that Greece faces to deliver on its policy commitments, regain competitiveness and create jobs within the confine of the single currency. It also goes beyond the realization that Greece would require another major debt restructuring which, this time around, would likely involve money owed to official creditors.
There are several member countries that believe that Greece never belonged in the Eurozone to begin with. Moreover, its membership was enabled only by questionable numbers.
Up to now, their desire to create conditions that would accelerate a Grexit has been held back by the fear that this would significantly disrupt other peripheral economies - something that strong eurozone firewalls would overcome.
Greece's future thus depends on the outcome of both domestic events and developments in Italy and Spain. Greek officials should certainly hope that collective European action will succeed in stabilizing these other two countries' economies. But they should also realize that too great a success could, ironically, map into a higher probability of a Grexit.
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