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#45785 Jan 16, 2013
How the F!@# can this Corbett guy sell the Lottery to a UK company on the sly, and no one is talking about it? This is the "governor" topic right, so lets get back on topic for a minute.
If Rendell pulled this, the conservatives would be in a tizzy. So we can't privatize the state stores, but the Lottery gets sold to a foreign company without a bidding process?
Come on.
#45787 Jan 16, 2013
You are 100% correct....where's the outrage vwhen these Tea Baggin crazies start acting like the true greedy bastards that they are. The Koch brothers etc. back these kinda people. Once they get in they are so friggin corrupt. They are going to destroy everything without winceing an eyelash. As long as they get some payola.
I hate the Pennsylvania mafia that ran all the numbers racquets before the lottery. These small town thugs became like little monsters in their respective towns....their power over these towns have been dimininished considerably by the state run lottery and the internet...
But now the big Corbett mafia is in place backed by his Tea Party friends will now be usurping the corruption wing of the Pennsylvania crime organization I guess....
What a louse he is for doing this...I used to play the lottery but I will never play it again...
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#45788 Jan 16, 2013
I didn't really want my post to become a blanket condemnation of the Tea Party, or some sort of proclamation of a "Pennsylvania Mafia," which is inherently hilarious for someone from the NY/NJ area, but also thanks to the ridiculously stupid, awesomely bad "Amish Mafia" show that people seem to love.
But yeah, this just screams of hypocritical.
#45791 Jan 16, 2013
Why would anybody be a fan of a team led by a murderer?
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#45792 Jan 16, 2013
Glad I'm not the only one who thinks selling the lottery smells like a personal money grab.
If this goes through, what are the odds Corbett becomes an "advisor" to that British Company when he's out of office?
My guess is the same as picking the numbers from last week's Powerball.
#45793 Jan 16, 2013
The lottery is not being sold. This is just a management contract.
#45794 Jan 16, 2013
Only idiots play the lottery (in any state), but it does get the poor to pay their fair share of the taxes.
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#45795 Jan 16, 2013
And with a wave of your hand and some perty words, it's all ok now.
Let's take a far fetched unlikely scenario...
The "management contract" turns out to be horribly mismanaged.
The lottery money is running out and they can't afford to pay out the annuity payments. In fact, that pension, err lottery fund was raided to pay for current operations, including huge bonuses for the C level execs. Taxpayer bailout to the rescue.
Who should I be angry with?
The state government! They sold it, err, management contracted it out! And the non-lottery taxpayers have to pay!
I know. That scenario would never happen nor has anything similar ever happened in the last 12 minutes.
At the very least, with the state running everything with the lottery, if it goes belly up, we know exactly who to blame.
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#45797 Jan 16, 2013
Meh. I'll play every once in a while for entertainment purposes.
Like a lot of things, you have to pay to play if you want to hit it big.
Oh, and the poor paying their fair share of taxes thing. Good luck squeezing blood out of that stone.
#45798 Jan 16, 2013
Clearly, you don't understand management contracts.
#45799 Jan 16, 2013
By the way, I would assume that the annuity payments are relatively minor because most winners take the lump sum payment.
#45800 Jan 16, 2013
Because then liquor would cost about 30% less, as it does here in California. Not to mention having a far larger selection of beer, wine, and liquor and being able to buy all three at the supermarket. As well as being able to buy beer by the six-pack instead of by the case.
Why would anybody want that savings and convenience and lose the opportunity to deal with those wonderful people at the state liquor stores?
#45801 Jan 16, 2013
Only fools, mostly the poor, would gamble with a 50% gross return. Even the Mafia paid 60% for the numbers.
The lottery mostly sucks welfare money and Social Security checks from the poor. The wealthy are wealthy because they are smarter that that.
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#45802 Jan 16, 2013
My google-fu is weak. You'd think that finding the percentage of winners who takes the lump sum vs. annuity would be an easy search.
And the question there boils down to how well you can invest the lump sum and get a larger sum of money over the course of years vs. the annuity.
If the jackpot is big enough, it's really a moot point when you think about it. Either way, your basic needs should be met.
After that, it becomes a matter of greed. I only got 20 mil from the annuity but if I took the lump sum and invested it, I could have had 30 mil!
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#45803 Jan 16, 2013
I generally don't get into the PA booze laws.
It's a bit weird here. You can buy up to 2 6-packs at the local pizza shop (more expensive). For cases of beer, you need to go to a beer distributor (private business). Wine and hard liquor is state stores.
A number of years back, they got a business guy to run the state stores.(Joe Conti?) He changed those stores quite a bit. Some stores are open on Sunday. They experimented with having state stores in supermarkets. You can order cases of a favored wine over the internet and pick up at the store. The big one was using the buying power to negotiate discounts from suppliers.
As a consumer, it doesn't really bother me. Prices are competitive (used to run to Delaware ages ago. Heard Jersey was cheaper but that means going to Jersey - bridge tolls.) and you make your plans around the store hours like anything else.
Now I'm also in a major metropolitan area so my state store experience may differ than in the rural parts of the state.
If the state stores were privatized, what I could see happening is a most business catering to the most popular products. There would be a few specialty stores that go for off beat brands but you'll have to search them out. Pretty much a wash there.
Maybe I'm missing something, but this particular issue is just "meh" to me. Whether the state stores are privatized, the booze tax is still going to be there.
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#45804 Jan 16, 2013
If the mafia paid off a big winner...
There was a murder here a couple of years ago. The news reported that it was a result of who was "more Irish". Word on the street was, guy hit an underground lottery for 70g. And when he went to collect, he won a baseball bat to the head.
And yeah... playing the lottery is not a retirement plan.
But trying to live off 3 part time jobs at minimum wage (if you can get them) isn't going to yield a decent retirement plan either.
#45805 Jan 16, 2013
If casinos or racetracks took 50% of the money wagered they would be empty. Def. of lottery "is a tax on the stupid."
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#45806 Jan 16, 2013
Then educate me. Point me to a link where I can learn.
Would that management contracting company be forced to publicly show their books like this:
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More importantly, will that external manager be able to beat the Administrative costs as shown on page 19 on the above link?
Administrative Costs. For the years FY 2001-02 through FY 2010-11, Pennsylvanias Lottery sales increased by two-thirds, and its administrative costs nearly doubled. However, administrative costs as a percent of total sales remained below 3 percent, ranging from a low of 1.97 percent in FY 2001-02 to a high of 2.65 percent FY 2007-08) and averaged 2.35 percent for the 10 years. See Table 8. As shown
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Administrative Costs as a Percent of Lottery Sales
FY 2001-02 Through FY 2010-11
Fiscal Year Sales Administrative Costs Administrative Costs as Percent of Sales
2001-02 .....$1,934,164 $38,119 1.97%
2002-03 ..... 2,132,981 47,873 2.24
2003-04 ..... 2,352,072 57,499 2.44
2004-05 ..... 2,644,856 63,423 2.40
2005-06 ..... 3,070,268 63,444 2.07
2006-07 ..... 3,076,339 74,851 2.43
2007-08 ..... 3,089,188 81,843 2.65
2008-09 ..... 3,088,162 73,912 2.39
2009-10 ..... 3,065,717 76,601 2.50
2010-11 ..... 3,207,908 73,698 2.30
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#45807 Jan 17, 2013
It's a government thing, so it's a tax, eh?
What word would you use for the skimming of money from gamblers at racetracks and casinos? Profit?
The difference is the profit from the lottery goes back into things that benefit (mostly, senior) citizens of the state vs. casinos benefiting a few people.
#45808 Jan 17, 2013
Just pooped my pants.
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"Playwriting gets into your blood and you can't stop it. At least not until the producers or the public tell you to."
"That's why you end up producing or directing. Because if you don't try to make these stories, you can't expect anyone else to come up with that idea and offer it to you. So you assume certain aspirations and goals, in order to tell certain tales. So you become the producer out of necessity, maybe not out of real desires."
"That's how television works, you find something that hits and you mass produce it. I understand that. I just didn't want to do it myself."
"[What is the new is the creative process involved in producing a blook.] Blogs encourage their authors to publish in small, partially formed chunks, ... Previously, such jottings might have been kept in the author's notebook but something amazing happens when you post them online: readers help you connect them, flesh them out and grow them into fully-fledged books or blooks."
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Hermione's Patronus Charm by *feliciacano is a very charming watercolour painting. ( Suggested by dierat and Featured by alexandrasalas )
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Awesome! I was really pulled into the scene looking at this! Love the Umbridge in the back too.
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I absolutely ADORE your version of Hermione. This is more what I pictured her to look like. I love seeing art based off the books rather than the movie.
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You have some really lovely drawings! Very talented.
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My gosh! This is an absolutely amazing piece of work! I remember being disappointed as the students' patronuses were seemingly left out in the sixth, seventh and eighth movies of Harry Potter.
Nice work on Umbridge and Draco Malfoy in the picture frame too! :chuckles:
Nice work on Umbridge and Draco Malfoy in the picture frame too! :chuckles:
The details are amazing ! All the tiny things on the carpet, or the effects of light on the patronus...I'm speechless really ! Great job !
Marvelous *____*
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oh no! toad lady and malfoy in the corner! RUN AWAY! lol I love this (Sorry for the randomness, Just felt the need to point out Malfoy and Umbridge)
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Local anglers, from left to right, Kristen Mulligan, Leroy Kinlaw, Katherine Scharfschwerdt and Tommy Mulligan won the Stuart Kingfish Brawl last weekend with a 40.61-pound king. Their catch edged out the tournament's opening day leader, who had a 40.46-pound catch.
Contributed Photo The gap between first and second place was a minute .15 pounds -- and a hefty $27,000 prize.
Local angler Tommy Mulligan and his crew aboard the Wound Tight pulled a 40.61-pound kingfish on the second day of the Stuart Kingfish Brawl last weekend, nipping a 40.46-pound opening-round catch to win the tournament.
Mulligan was joined in the boat by Katherine Scharfschwerdt, Leroy Kinlaw and his daughter Kristen Mulligan. The catch won the captain a 20-foot Shearwater with a Mercury 115.
It was Mulligan's second major tournament win. He took the top spot in the 2001 Kingbuster.
Mulligan's normal fishing partner, Jim Scharfschwerdt, was actually the Brawl's tournament director, so his spot in the Wound Tight was subbed out. Scharfschwerdt's daughter Katherine did some fishing in her father's absence, and helped land a handful of Saturday catches.
But the winner came Sunday, when the Wound Tight supplanted Halfway Gone and captain Rocky Tolfa.
Mulligan and another local boat, the Young Guns, captained by Lee Way, found a good number of catches Saturday just south of Sebastian Inlet. They pulled out a mid-20-pound king, and a 35-pounder that afternoon, and went back Sunday.
"We kept getting strikes all day Saturday, the girls caught them all," Mulligan said. "Leroy and I were putting out lines Sunday and getting strikes when we were doing that. We found a school of kings and kept working them over. It worked out pretty well."
Sunday's kings proved scarce across the board. Only 13 were weighed, compared to 39 the day before. But Mulligan's catch proved the biggest, albeit barely.
"It was huge to be able to go down and win this tournament," Mulligan said. "Especially with Jim out, and his daughter fishing with me."
Team Young Guns finished fifth in the tournament with a 35.68-pound catch.
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Artist: Anselm Kiefer (German, born Donaueschingen, 1945)
Date: 1980
Medium: Watercolor, gouache, and acrylic on paper
Dimensions: 15 3/4 x 11 3/4 in. (40 x 29.8 cm)
Classification: Drawings
Credit Line: Gift of Cynthia Hazen Polsky, in memory of her father, Joseph H. Hazen, 2000
Accession Number: 2000.96.7
In the early 1980s Kiefer made over thirty paintings, painted photographs, and watercolors that refer in their titles and inscriptions to the Romanian Jewish writer Paul Celan's "Todesfuge" ("Death Fugue"), a poem composed in German in late 1944 and 1945. Celan's parents, along with many other Jews from Czernowitz, Romania, where he had been raised, were killed in the Trisnistria camp in eastern Romania in 1942. Celan himself endured two years of forced labor under the Germans, after which he exiled himself to Paris until his suicide in 1970.
Celan's "Death Fugue," widely read and anthologized in postwar Germany, is set in an extermination camp. Its narrative voice, in the first person plural, is that of the camp's Jewish inmates who suffer under the strict watch of the camp's blue-eyed commandant. Singing "your golden hair, Margarete / your ashen hair, Shulamith," the narrators contrast German womanhood, as personified by Margarete, to whom the commandant addresses letters at night (she is named after Goethe's heroine, Gretchen, in Faust), and Jewish womanhood (Shulamith was King Solomon's dark-haired beloved in the Song of Songs). Here, as in most of Kiefer's Margarete works, the German heroine is depicted only by the synecdoche of her "golden hair," in the form of sheaves of wheat in the countryside.


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23 April, 2009 at 10:54 am #27075
Just a quick post. My mom is having her second cataract surgery today. This is the "Really Bad Eye" per the doc and he's not sure how it is going to go. He didn't want to do it but my mom said, what the heck? I ask for your thoughts and prayers as she goes thru this. Her surgery is at 830EST. Thanks!23 April, 2009 at 11:01 am #418382
She is in my thoughts and prayers MC! Glad the first one went okay that she wants this one done too!23 April, 2009 at 11:10 am #418383
Warm wishes for the best possible outcome!23 April, 2009 at 11:24 am #418384
I had both of my eyes done and both went well. {{MC's Mum}}23 April, 2009 at 11:27 am #418385
Thoughts and prayers for your mom today, MC.23 April, 2009 at 12:09 pm #418386
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positive thoughts for your mum today, MC.23 April, 2009 at 1:50 pm #418387
Wishing your Mom a very good outcome!23 April, 2009 at 2:42 pm #418388
Hoping all turned out well. Any update?23 April, 2009 at 2:47 pm #418389
lots of prayers and hugs and a healing white light headed your mom's way !! keep us sposted.23 April, 2009 at 3:26 pm #418390
Prayers for your mother's surgery and healing.23 April, 2009 at 4:01 pm #418391
Adding prayers and wishes for a good outcome for your mom. I know it may be a while before her eye heals completely and we will be holding her in our thoughts until then.23 April, 2009 at 4:03 pm #418392
prayers and healing white lights for your Mom!23 April, 2009 at 8:38 pm #418393
Talked with my sister and mom came thru with flying colors! Much better than first time! The doctor was surprised how well this eye went, he wasn't too encouraged before the surgery. (apparently the eye was pretty damaged). He said at the rate she is going she may NOT need ANY glasses! Nichts, nada, zilch! That makes me jealous! She has had glasses for almost 50 years! That gives me faith that healthcare has come a LONG way!23 April, 2009 at 8:48 pm #418394
Just came in for a quick check and what good news! Now we will hope and pray that your surgery goes just as well. (less than 3 weeks… counting down)23 April, 2009 at 8:52 pm #418395
darn it! you remembered! lol! I know, I know, I am starting to get nervous!23 April, 2009 at 8:56 pm #418396
Glad to hear about your Mom! The sooner your surgery comes, the sooner you can get on the road to recovery!23 April, 2009 at 8:58 pm #418397
I'm so glad to hear that! 🙂 What great news23 April, 2009 at 9:00 pm #418398
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Good news for your mom. One less thing to worry about.24 April, 2009 at 2:00 am #418399
Lynn from PA 6/8Participant
So glad mom made it through and is doing well. You will be the same. Prayers for healing for you both.24 April, 2009 at 2:02 am #418400
Great News Amy. Just like Lynn said, you will be the same, flying colors. You are too strong not to 🙂 Big hugs.24 April, 2009 at 3:56 am #418401
Catching up late today MC. Happy to see that all went well for your Mom; as I know it will for you also.24 April, 2009 at 2:46 pm #418402
Great news about your mom MC…Amazing that after 50 yrs, she might not need glasses!!24 April, 2009 at 3:38 pm #418403
Glad to see your Mom's surgery went well. Here is positive thoughts that all goes well with your surgery, MC. Any news on them pushing up the date due to the new symptoms in both feet?24 April, 2009 at 4:02 pm #418404
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What great news for your Mom. Good for her on insisting that the surgery be done!24 April, 2009 at 7:45 pm #418405
talked with her today and she is on top of the world. had followup with surgeon and he said she did miraculously. he isn't sure how much her vision will improve but said only time will tell what happens. he said she can have her eyes tested in about a month and they will see if she needs new glasses or NO glasses at all!25 April, 2009 at 7:03 pm #418406
Mom had her followup appt with the eye doctor. Looks like he got the cataract but was unable to restore my mom's vision. She had too much nerve damage to her right eye. He said that he should be able to correct it to the point that she will need glasses just for that one eye. She doesn't seem too disappointed though. She said she tried and will deal with the results!
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Ashley Olsen is back in her custom-made jeans by Maxfields. This time they are not the same state as they once were. The knees are really blown out. I wonder if she is cold. I have heard that it has been freezing in New York. I guess the long coat and scarf might help with warming her up. Ashley finished off her look with sunglasses and a The Row bag.
I wonder if we will be seeing Ashley or Mary-Kate wear some of the neon colors from their Textile line. I think they'll look great in the Jimi in Aqua Glass. They don't seem to have a severe allergy to color like Kate Moss and are more willing to try more stand-out pieces for everyday. You can click here to get the same style of these with their Smashton jeans from The Row for $270 at TheCorner.
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When the weather gets cold the leather comes out. Technically not always the case if you are a bold person. Leather pants have really become a year round thing now. Who really needs a reason to wear leather pants though? It just takes a person who dares to wear it during the warmer weather.
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I wonder if this means that we will start seeing Ashley in some more jeans. We have had quite a few Mary-Kate sightings and even a few of Elizabeth, but Ashley opts for easier clothing such as tank dresses or lounge pants. I would like to see her wear more jeans. I loved her style in '06-'07 when she wore them all the time. You can click here to purchase Earnest Sewn from their website.
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Mary-Kate Olsen was caught at JFK Airport arriving back in New York with sister Ashley. She wore her custom-made Maxfields Jeans again with a Balenciaga sweater. I just love that sweater. It makes me think of Bret from Flight of the Concords. Looks like they have gotten even more wear since our last sighting. The knees are really blown out now. I wonder if they'll get another pair made for them again?
I wonder how Mary-Kate and Ashley are feeling about all the Oscar buzz around their sister Elizabeth. There is a ton right now surrounding her for her role in Martha Marcy May Marlene. Mary-Kate has been nominated for an Emmy before, but this would be the first Oscar nomination for an Olsen. Have any of you seen or will be going to see the thriller? What are your thoughts?


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A PECL extension to retrieve information from libstatgrab
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you do realise that most tricep lifts (including dips) work the chest?
if your doing bi's/chest the day before tri's/shoulders, you may well be overworking your triceps
dont need to wait, just start lifting
same here
this. in the military, moat soldiers aren't training for hypertrophy - they're training for endurance ie. conditioning. size isn't going to help them run for miles while carrying 20kg of equipment,...
was about to type this word for word, lol!
this, can't go wrong with both.
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i've never heard of pull ups hitting triceps...maybe it's got something to do with the slow negatives?
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not while lifting, no.
but who was point 2? :/
your routine is absurd.
there's nothing wrong with throwing in a few sets of isolations at the end of a workout.
meth, not even once?
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The worst Cancun headline plus Stavins explains why the climate talks produced a "successful outcome"
Global Warming Deal Decades Away as 'Dysfunctional' U.S. Delays Commitment
Bloomberg wins the prize for the worst Cancun headline. There is no doubt that the dysfunctional U.S. deserves criticism and that our inaction is a substantial reason why talks couldn't progress anywhere near as far as they need to.
But I'm not certain the U.S. deserves all the blame, and I am quite certain a global warming deal is not "decades away."
Robert Stavins, Director of the Harvard Environmental Economics Program, has a good post on What Happened (and Why) at Cancun which I reprint below.
The international climate negotiations in Cancun, Mexico, have concluded, and despite the gloom-and-doom predictions that dominated the weeks and months leading up to Cancun, the Sixteenth Conference of the Parties (COP-16) of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) must be judged a success. It represents a set of modest steps forward. Nothing more should be expected from this process.
As I said in my November 19th essay – Defining Success for Climate Negotiations in Cancun – the key challenge was to continue the process of constructing a sound foundation for meaningful, long-term global action (not necessarily some notion of immediate, highly-visible triumph). This was accomplished in Cancun.
The Cancun Agreements – as the two key documents ("Outcome of the AWG-LCA" and "Outcome of the AWG-KP") are called – do just what was needed, namely build on the structure of the Copenhagen Accord with a balanced package that takes meaningful steps toward implementing the key elements of the Accord. The delegates in Cancun succeeded in writing and adopting an agreement that commits all major economies to greenhouse gas (GHG) cuts, launches a fund to help the most vulnerable countries, and avoids some political landmines that could have blown up the talks, namely decisions on the (highly uncertain) future of the Kyoto Protocol.
I begin by assessing the key elements of the Cancun Agreements. Then I examine whether the incremental steps forward represented by the Agreements should really be characterized as a success. And finally I ask why the negotiations in Cancun led to the outcome they did.
Assessing the Key Elements of the Cancun Agreements
First, the Cancun Agreements provide emission mitigation targets and actions (submitted under the Copenhagen Accord) for approximately 80 countries – including, importantly, all of the major economies. In this way, the Agreements require the world's largest emitters – including China, the United States, the European Union, India, and Brazil – to commit to various targets and actions to reduce emissions by 2020. The distinction between Annex I and non-Annex I countries is blurred even more in the Cancun Agreements than it was in the Copenhagen Accord – another step in the right direction!
Also, for the first time, countries agreed – under an official UN agreement – to keep temperature increases below a global average of 2 degrees Celsius. It brings these aspirations, as well as the emission pledges of individual countries, into the formal UN process for the first time, essentially by adopting the Copenhagen Accord one year after it was "noted" at COP-15. (There's also an abundance of politically-correct and in some cases downright silly window dressing in the Cancun Agreements, including repetitive references to various interpretations of the UNFCCC's principle of "common but differentiated responsibilities," as well as some discussion of examining a 1.5 C target.)
However, despite even the 2 degree (450 ppm concentration) aspirational target, the Agreements are no more stringent that the collection of submissions made under last year's Copenhagen Accord. But, as Michael Levi (Council on Foreign Relations) has pointed out, the Cancun Agreement "should be applauded not because it solves everything, but because it chooses not to." As my colleagues and I have repeatedly emphasized in our work within the Harvard Project on Climate Agreements, many of the most important initiatives for addressing climate change will occur outside of the United Nations process (despite the centrality of that process).
Second, the Agreements elaborate on the mechanisms for monitoring and verification that were laid out in last year's Accord. Importantly, these now include "international consultation and analysis" of developing country mitigation actions. Countries will report their GHG inventories to an independent panel of experts, which will monitor and verify reports of emissions cuts and actions.
Third, the Agreements establish a so-called Green Climate Fund to deliver financing for mitigation and adaptation, based on the fund proposed in the Copenhagen Accord, with a target of $100 billion annually by 2020. Importantly, the Agreements name the World Bank as the interim trustee of the Fund, despite objections from many developing countries, and create an oversight board, half of which consists of donor nation representatives.
Whether the resources ever grow to the size laid out in Copenhagen and Cancun will depend upon the individual actions of the wealthy nations of the world. However, it's interesting that the section in the Cancun Agreements on adaptation comes before the section on mitigation. Things have come a long way since the days when economists were alone in calling for attention to adaptation (along with mitigation). I recall when economists were therefore accused of throwing in the towel, and not caring about the environment!
Fourth, the Agreements advance initiatives on tropical forest protection (or, in UN parlance, Reduced Deforestation and Forest Degradation, or REDD+), by taking the next steps toward establishing a program in which the wealthy countries can help prevent deforestation in poor countries, possibly working through market mechanisms (despite exhortations from Bolivia and other leftist and left-leaning countries to keep the reach of "global capitalism" out of the policy mix).
Fifth, the Cancun Agreements establish a structure to assess the needs and policies for the transfer to developing countries of technologies for clean energy and adaptation to climate change, and a – as yet undefined – Climate Technology Center and Network to construct a global network to match technology suppliers with technology needs.
In addition, the Agreements endorse an ongoing role for the Clean Development Mechanism (CDM) and other "market-based mechanisms;" indicate that carbon capture and storage (CCS) projects should be eligible for carbon credits in the CDM; and offer some special recognition of the situations of the Central and Eastern European countries (previously known in UN parlance as "parties undergoing transition to a market economy") and Turkey, all of which are Annex I countries under the Kyoto Protocol, but decidedly poorer than the other members of that group of industrialized nations.
That's the 32-page Cancun Agreements in a nutshell. As a member of one of the leading national delegations said to me in Cancun a few hours after the talks had concluded, "It's incremental progress, but progress nonetheless."
Are Such Incremental Steps Really a Success?
Recall from my November 19th essay that the best goal for the Cancun climate talks was to make real progress on a sound foundation for meaningful, long-term global action. I said that because of some fundamental scientific and economic realities, which I will not repeat here. In that previous essay, I also described "What Would Constitute Real Progress in Cancun" A quick comparison of my criteria from November 19th and the Cancun Agreements of December 11th tells me that the outcome of Cancun should be judged a success.
My first criterion of success was that the UNFCCC should embrace the parallel processes that are carrying out multilateral discussions on climate change policy: the Major Economies Forum or MEF (a multilateral venue for discussions – but not negotiations – among the most important emitting countries); the G20 (periodic meetings of the finance ministers – and sometimes heads of government – of the twenty largest economies in the world); and various other multilateral and bilateral organizations and discussions. Although the previous leadership of the UNFCCC seemed to view the MEF, the G20, and most other non-UNFCCC forums as competition – indeed, as a threat, the UNFCCC's new leadership under Executive Secretary Christiana Figueres displays a positive and pragmatic attitude toward these parallel processes.
My second criterion was that the three major negotiating tracks be consolidated. These tracks were: first, the UNFCCC's KP track (negotiating national targets for a possible second commitment period – post-2012 – for the Kyoto Protocol); second, the LCA track (the UNFCCC's negotiation track for Long-term Cooperative Action, that is, a future international agreement of undefined nature); and third, the Copenhagen Accord, negotiated and noted at COP-15 in Copenhagen, Denmark, in December, 2009.
Permit me, please, to quote from my November 19th essay:
Consolidating these three tracks into two tracks (or better yet, one track) would be another significant step forward. One way this could happen would be for the LCA negotiations to take as their point of departure the existing Copenhagen Accord, which itself marked an important step forward by blurring for the first time (although not eliminating) the unproductive and utterly obsolete distinction in the Kyoto Protocol between Annex I and non-Annex I countries. (Note that more than 50 non-Annex I countries now have greater per capita income than the poorest of the Annex I countries.)
This is precisely what has happened. The Cancun Agreements – the product of the LCA-track negotiations – build directly, explicitly, and comprehensively on the Copenhagen Accord. The two tracks have become one.
Alas, the KP track remains, and a decision on a potential second commitment period (post-2012) for the Kyoto Protocol has been punted to COP-17 in Durban, South Africa, in December, 2011. It is difficult to picture a meaningful – or any – second commitment period for the Kyoto Protocol, with the United States out of that picture, and with Japan and Russia having stated unequivocally that they will not take up another set of targets, and with Australia and Canada also unlikely to participate. But note that this issue will have to be confronted in Durban a year from now. With the first commitment period of the Kyoto Protocol ending in 2012, COP-17 will provide the last opportunity for punting that contentious issue.
If you agree with my view – which I have written about in many previous blog posts – that the Kyoto Protocol is fundamentally flawed and that the Protocol's dichotomous distinction between Annex I and non-Annex I countries is the heavy anchor that slows meaningful progress on international climate policy, then you will not consider it bad news that a second commitment period for the Protocol is looking less and less likely. On the other hand, you will, in that case, share my disappointment that the issue has been punted (recognizing, however, that had it not been punted, the Cancun meetings could have collapsed amidst acrimony and recriminations).
I also wrote in my November 19th post:
The UNFCCC principle of "common but differentiated responsibilities" could be made meaningful through the dual principles that: all countries recognize their historic emissions (read, the industrialized world); and all countries are responsible for their future emissions (think of those rapidly-growing emerging economies).
The Cancun Agreements do this by recognizing directly and explicitly these dual principles. This can represent the next step in a movement beyond what has become the "QWERTY keyboard" (that is, unproductive path dependence) of international climate policy: the distinction in the Kyoto Protocol between the small set of Annex I countries with quantitative targets, and the majority of countries in the world with no responsibilities.
A variety of policy architectures can build on these dual principles and make them operational, bridging the political divide which exists between the industrialized and the developing world. (At the Harvard Project on Climate Agreements, we have developed a variety of architectural proposals that could make these dual principles operational. See, for example: "Global Climate Policy Architecture and Political Feasibility: Specific Formulas and Emission Targets to Attain 460 PPM CO2 Concentrations" by Valentina Bosetti and Jeffrey Frankel; and "Three Key Elements of Post-2012 International Climate Policy Architecture" by Sheila M. Olmstead and Robert N. Stavins.)
My third criterion for success was movement forward with specific, narrow agreements, such as on: REDD+ (Reduced Deforestation and Forest Degradation, plus enhancement of forest carbon stocks); finance; and technology. Such movement forward has, in fact, occurred in all three domains in the Cancun Agreements, as I described above.
My fourth criterion for success was keyed to whether the parties to the Cancun meetings could maintain sensible expectations and thereby develop effective plans. This they have done. The key question was not what Cancun accomplishes in the short-term, but whether it helps put the world in a better position five, ten, and twenty years from now in regard to an effective long-term path of action to address the threat of global climate change.
Despite the fact that some advocacy groups – and for that matter, some nations – are no doubt disappointed with the outcome of Cancun, I think it is fair to say that this final criterion for success was satisfied: the Cancun Agreements can help put the world on a path toward an effective long-term plan of meaningful action.
Why Did Cancun Succeed?
If you agree with my assessment of success in Cancun, then a reasonable question to ask is why did the Cancun talks produce this successful outcome, particularly in contrast with what many people consider a less successful outcome of the Copenhagen talks last year. To address this question, let me expand on some points made in an insightful essay by Elliot Diringer, Vice President for International Strategies at the Pew Center on Global Climate Change.
First, the Mexican government through careful and methodical planning over the past year prepared itself well, and displayed tremendous skill in presiding over the talks. Reflect, if you will, on the brilliant way in which Mexican Minister of Foreign Affairs, Patricia Espinosa, who served as President of COP-16, took note of the objections of Bolivia (and, at times, several other leftist and left-leaning Latin American countries, known collectively as the ALBA states), and then simply ruled that the support of 193 other countries meant that "consensus" had been achieved and the Cancun Agreements had been adopted by the Conference. At a critical moment, Ms. Espinosa noted that "consensus does not mean unanimity," and that was that!
Compare this with the unfortunate chairing of COP-15 in Copenhagen by Danish Prime Minister Lars L¸kke Rasmussen, who allowed the objections by a similar same small set of five relatively unimportant countries (Bolivia, Cuba, Nicaragua, Sudan, and Venezuela) to derail those talks, which hence "noted," but did not adopt the Copenhagen Accord in December, 2009.
The Mexicans were also adept at facilitating small groups of countries to meet to advance productive negotiations, but made sure that any countries could join those meetings if they wanted. Hence, negotiations moved forward, but without the sense of exclusivity that alienated so many small (and some large) countries in Copenhagen.
The key role played by the Mexican leadership is consistent with the notion of Mexico as one of a small number of "bridging states," which can play particularly important roles in this process because of their credibility in the two worlds that engage in divisive debates in the United Nations: the developed world and the developing world. We have examined this in our recent Harvard Project on Climate Agreements Issue Brief, Institutions for International Climate Governance. Mexico, along with Korea, are members of the OECD, but are also non-Annex I countries under the Kyoto Protocol. This gives Mexico "" and gave Minister Espinosa "" a degree of credibility across the diverse constituencies in the UNFCCC that was simply not enjoyed by Danish Prime Minister Rasmussen at COP-15 last year.
Second, China and the United States set the tone for many other countries by dealing with each other with civility, if not always with understanding. This contrasts with the tone that dominated in and after Copenhagen, when finger-pointing at Copenhagen between these two giants of the international stage led to a blame-game in the months after the Copenhagen talks.
As Elliot Diringer wrote, they may have recognized that "the best way to avoid blame was to avoid failure." Beyond this, although the credit must go to both countries, the change from last year in the conduct of the Chinese delegation was striking. It appeared, as Coral Davenport wrote in The National Journal, that the Chinese were on a "charm offensive." Working in Cancun on behalf of the Harvard Project on Climate Agreements, I can personally vouch for the tremendous increase from previous years in the openness of members of the official Chinese delegation, as well as the many Chinese members of civil society who attended the Cancun meetings.
Third, a worry hovered over the Cancun meetings that an outcome perceived to be failure would lead to the demise of the UN process itself. Since many nations (in particular, developing countries, which made up the vast majority of the 194 countries present in Cancun) very much want the United Nations and the UNFCCC to remain the core of international negotiations on climate change, that implicit threat provided a strong incentive for many countries to make sure that the Cancun talks did not "fail."
Fourth, under the pragmatic leadership of UNFCCC Executive Secretary Christiana Figueres, realism may have finally eclipsed idealism in these international negotiations. Many observers have noted that many delegations – and probably most civil society NGO participants – at the previous COPs have misled themselves into thinking that ambitious cuts in greenhouse gases (GHGs) were forthcoming that could guarantee achievement of the 450 ppm/2 degrees C cap.
The acceptance of the Cancun Agreements suggests that the international diplomatic community may now recognize that incremental steps in the right direction are better than acrimonious debates over unachievable targets. This harkens back to what I characterized prior to COP-16 as the key challenge facing the negotiators: to continue the process of constructing a sound foundation for meaningful, long-term global action. In my view, this was accomplished in Cancun.
Further Reading
Some previous essays I have written and posted at this blog may be of interest to those who are interested in the Cancun Agreements. Here are links, in reverse chronological order:
Defining Success for Climate Negotiations in Cancun
Opportunities and Ironies: Climate Policy in Tokyo, Seoul, Brussels, and Washington
Another Copenhagen Outcome: Serious Questions About the Best Institutional Path Forward
What Hath Copenhagen Wrought? A Preliminary Assessment of the Copenhagen Accord
Chaos and Uncertainty in Copenhagen?
Only Private Sector Can Meet Finance Demands of Developing Countries
Defining Success for Climate Negotiations in Copenhagen
Approaching Copenhagen with a Portfolio of Domestic Commitments
Can Countries Cut Carbon Emissions Without Hurting Economic Growth?
Three Pillars of a New Climate Pact
— Robert Stavins is the Director of Harvard Environmental Economics Program, and Chairman of the Environment and Natural Resources Faculty Group.
11 Responses to The worst Cancun headline plus Stavins explains why the climate talks produced a "successful outcome"
I read nothing in the Bloomberg report or Senator Wirth's comments that I disagreed with.
John McCormick
I think the Bloomberg headline nails it.
Lets remember the CO2 lag… anything less than radical action amounts to twiddling thumbs.
"Also, for the first time, countries agreed – under an official UN agreement – to keep temperature increases below a global average of 2 degrees Celsius."
"However, despite even the 2 degree (450 ppm concentration) aspirational target, the Agreements are no more stringent that the collection of submissions made under last year's Copenhagen Accord."
Perhaps I am missing something. Considering the several hundred billion dollars of annual global fossil fuel subsidies (IEA, 2010) and numerous investigations (Yale, Columbia, Rice, etc.) indicating the planet will respond to our present 400 plus ppm,equivalent concentration by increasing in temperature by about 10 F and 100 foot sea level rise, how are these words relevant?
It would not appear possible to aspire to a goal that has already passed.
1) Bloomberg headline is silly.
Nobody knows what direction climate deals will take even a couple years out. Our climate is showing already what a twitchy beast it is. It is unfathomable that anyone can say they know humanity will endure another decade of increasing climate chaos without any global deal. Maybe, but unlikely.
2) The arguments put forth in this post about whether Cancun was a "success" are difficult for me to even follow…no less to believe in.
How can there be so many words written about climate "success" without ever mentioning these words: "fossil fuels"…not to mention "coal", "oil", "gas", "carbon price", "carbon cap"?
And how can anyone blithely state that REDD is a step in the right direction without even addressing the major threat that top climate scientists like James Hansen have with trying to offset fossil fuel CO2 with forest CO2? Credibility gap alert.
Yes policy matters. But claiming "success" when you have zero to even say about carbon pricing or fossil fuel pollution caps, is a bit over the top in my view.
I'd say an appropriate summary is: "Cancun didn't suck".
I do agree that Mexico did a great job. Hats off to them.
Kudos to Rob for a balanced and clear discussion of the Cancun talks. One question: is it 450 ppm CO2 only or 450 ppm CO2 equivalent? I'm on a mission to get people to be more clear in how they discuss GHG concentrations, and this is one example of where more clarity would be helpful!
This is a nice, persuasive piece, until we get to the reality check at the end, viz. "many delegations – and probably most civil society NGO participants – at the previous COPs have misled themselves into thinking that ambitious cuts in greenhouse gases (GHGs) were forthcoming that could guarantee achievement of the 450 ppm/2 degrees C cap".
So sense has prevailed, unrealistic expectations have been defeated, the realists have taken charge, and as a result we are heading for 3-4 degrees C of warming. We will all ride on the stately back of common-sense conservatism into the catastophe that awaits us.
What a load of tosh. It's like declaring a "success" for peace negotiations in 1935 because you agreed to standardize bullet sizes. Yuck.
Will someone please tell me what sprawling industrialized countries are going to give up to achieve 2°C?
I have just come from a public briefing by all the members of the New Zealand delegation at Cancun. The assessment was pretty much in line with the above. Statements such as "Lets not make the perfect the enemy of the good" (except in relation to fine distinctions about forestry accounting which NZ is lobbying for). "'Moderate' states were able to prevail, Bolivia was out of line" etc. Everyone was rather pleased with their efforts.
When the blunt question was put, that we remain on course to disaster, the response was 'dont be so negative'. What was missing was any sense of urgency from the negotiators. We did not even get a personal admission that 'we are doing what we can, but you the public need to protest as hard as you can, because we are not going fast enough'.
The brightest note seems to be that the non-government and business efforts highlighted at the alternative venues at the conference are far outstripping government efforts (especially the Richard Branson led "war room" crowd).
So in summary, if Cancun was useful it was for keeping alive the idea that there might be a second and subsequent commitment periods, so private industry can proceed on the basis that investments in new energy are a reasonable business risk.
Other than that, the diplomatic effort seems to be old thinking that got us in to the problem not helping to get us out. Probably like the League of Nations before World War II. An attempt, but just not up to the task.
Next year in Durban the summit should lead off with new energy entrepreneurs delivering all the key note addresses, followed by pleas to provide certainty by way of emissions targets. And the agreement to include a section on aggressive public education efforts to prepare populations for new modes of living.
Jonathan asked: "is it 450 ppm CO2 only or 450 ppm CO2 equivalent?"
It will be a real challenge to get every AGW believer to talk in terms of CO2 eq. A bit like getting us Americans to order a liter of budweiser.
Regardless, Jonathan has made a very valid point and Climate Progress and commentors should respect the difference and make the adjustment to CO2 eq. It could make a hell of a difference in how we all discuss mitigation, heat uptake in the oceans, etc.
John McCormick
RE Jonathan Koomey and John McCormick
In relation to my previous statement, you both remind me of the Roadrunner who thinks he is still standing on firm ground, when in actuality there is nothing below.
Your apparent assumption of a linear planetary response is a bit twentieth century. Current observations indicate it is exponential, thereby shattering previous assumptions about the future, including that 450 ppm equals two degrees of heating.
With one trillion tons of carbonic acid gas placed in the biosphere by humanity already and business as usual proceeding with no carbon cap, we should be reaching 450 ppm,equivalent this coming decade and the disaster we thought was a century away shall be upon us. We have been warned by the science for decades, yet our modern nation is in many circumstances, regressing. Like the cryosphere.


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I originally made this because my friends voted on a poll between who they liked better Sonic or Knuckles and Knuckles won so I drew this picture. its actually been sitting on my comp for a little while so I just decided to post it here. enjoy (was trying something new with this one also forgot my signature >.< )


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Cast: Don Fernando, Lauren Hall, Chessie Moore, Debi Diamond, Tianna (III), Victoria Paris, Fallon, Blake Palmer, Tamara Lee, Brianna Rai, Eric Monti, Wayne Summers, Cameo (I), Tony Montana, Mich Igan, Kristarrah Knight, Marie Monet, James Lewis
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The name will sell/rent it, and Paris\' appearance doesn\'t hurt.
In yet another attempt to capitalize on the popularity of the Deep Throat franchise, Victoria Paris has been given the role of "Linda Lovelace," now apparently a famous author of sex advice (which was probably explained in the inaudible opening narration, whose words were drown out by a loud music overlay) after having been fired as a waitress at Wayne Summers' restaurant.
What follows are a lot of top stars trying to give decent sexual performances, all overlaid by some of the twinkiest music ever heard in a porn video. Always-hot Tianna does a decent couch bounce with Tony Montana as Paris peeps and makes notes on her cassette recorder; Paris, looking beautiful as ever, gets laid on the table (horsie, mish) by an unidentified stud; a squirting Fallon chows down on Summers' wiener; Paris dreams a caveman/cavegirl scene with Marie Monet and an uncredited Mich Igan; and an orgy-like classroom scene presided over by Eric Monti and featuring the rest of the cast. And even though she also does a b.j. on Monti in the finale, what a waste of Debi Diamond!
The humor is childish, the music sucks and most of the cast has given better performances elsewhere.


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MallStars Winter'15 Newsletter.pdf
MallStars. Always different. Always fun.