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Beat portal 2 twice a few weeks ago, since then all Skyrim.
screw you and your skyrimable pcs whores. I need to start up morrowind again
"devils used to be gods, angels that fell from the top
there's no diversity because we're burning in the melting pot"
i've been playing the longest journey on and off lately tho. Both my ps1 and firered/crystal are dead dead dead. woe is i
"devils used to be gods, angels that fell from the top
there's no diversity because we're burning in the melting pot"
Pathfinder every other weekend, MtG on occasion, dragon age 1 because I finally got a ps3 and can play it, might buy myself a shiny new game tonight.
Anyone playing MW3 on X-Box live?
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Just do it.
Pokemon SoulSilver
Ninja Gaiden Black on Master Ninja difficulty (Fucking impossible)
Dragon Age: Origins
Morrowind on Xbox.
Dark Souls on 360. A LOT of Dark Souls...
i alternate between skyrim and bf3, with occasional quick playthroughs of metroid prime
Anyway. Been playing some Pokemans lately, taking another crack at the Battle Tower to try and break my 175 win streak. No, I haven't. You know why. I'd like to get into Black and White also, but I'm holding out for the enhanced version that's bound to be released at some point. SoulSilver is fine for now. Also been playing Sonic Free Riders. I'm in pretty decent shape and it's still exhausting the hell out of me after a couple of hours.
The Pikatwo Diaries ...
Ultimate Destiny: Ninetales 009 Adventures - an original and exciting Pokemon fan fiction, updated whenever-
Resident Evil, More Resident Evil, throw in some Fallout, Elder Scrolls, Portal 2, Mortal Kombat, don't forgey Dues Ex, and some more Resident Evil.
Eh, I'm getting majorly bored of video games...mostly I just go on the internet, but sometimes I play Pokemon Pearl, Heartgold, or White...
they say all the world's a stage
rewriting your identity is all the rage
well next act please, I'd like a change
I don't really like pretending this way


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Lynn Povich had always considered herself a good girl. She went to college, figured she'd soon marry and have children and knew she'd find work, but not necessarily a career. She was one of the few women at Newsweek in the 1960s able to rise from the position of fact checker or researcher. But the upward trajectory was anything but certain in this Mad Men-like work culture. It took an EEOC suit she filed with 45 female colleagues in 1970 for "systematic discrimination" by management. But it was several years—and a second suit—before the women of Newsweek were able to make real gains. In 1975, Povich was named the magazine's first female senior editor, but not all women progressed. In fact, three young reporters found out about the suit decades later and realized they, too, faced many of the same obstacles. They wrote a Newsweek cover story in 2010, coinciding with the 40th anniversary of the suit, titled "Are We There Yet?" The short answer: No. We are not.
Povich has chronicled the lawsuit in The Good Girls Revolt: How the Women of Newsweek Sued Their Bosses and Changed the Workplace, out today. We spoke with her last week about why she's proud to be called an "affirmative action baby" and why the challenges of women's rights in the workplace continue. An edited version of the interview follows.
MORE: You open the book with three of today's younger Newsweek journalists who say they hadn't even really realized that they, too, were being discriminated against. Has the "good girl" mentality really changed all that much?
Lynn Povich: I do think women have a tendency to think they are the problem. Before women volunteer to do something or ask to do something they read 18 books or get an extra degree to really prepare. They're not as risk-oriented in saying, "Sure, boss, I can do it." There is a confidence issue, I think, still, among women. That surprised me a little bit because our generation and the women after us tried to instill in our daughters that they can do anything and go anywhere. And, in fact, most of them succeeded extremely well through school. But the work world is where women have always begun to see what the obstacles are. And the fact (the young reporters) didn't identify it as discrimination was interesting to me. I guess (to them) the sex wars were over, we were all equal now. They had been told that and bought that.
MORE: You compare the Newsweek culture to a Mad Men-esque environment. If it was a cultural norm, what was the push that led the women to challenge it?
LP: There were women who knew they wanted to be writers and they weren't going to be writers at Newsweek, and so they left and did very well—Nora Ephron, Ellen Goodman, Jane Bryant Quinn, Susan Brownmiller. But I think many of us didn't think about it. Even though we were highly educated—I went to an all-girls school that had a long feminist tradition—we were raised to think our main purpose in life was to be wives and mothers and that we might work. We bought that until one day we didn't buy it. For many of us, it was because there was a women's movement that started saying, wait a minute, there's something wrong with this picture. Here at Newsweek, we have similar, and sometimes better, credentials than men who are being hired as writers. There's something wrong here.
I always wonder about Rosa Parks—at what moment did she finally say I'm not moving? It is a magical moment that sort of happens. The person at Newsweek who started it all was a researcher, Judy Gingold. She was told by a friend that the system at Newsweek was actually illegal according to the Civil Rights Act.

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CHEWELAH—Megan Rusher is "fighting like a girl" to beat a rare cancer of the sinuses in Chewelah. The 15-year-old Jenkins High School student was diagnosed in March and has been receiving chemotherapy treatments every two to three weeks in Spokane. With her positive outlook and fighting spirit, the teenager's tumor has decreased in size, according to family members. The next step in her treatment is radiation, which may require Megan to go out of state. Friends and supporters of the Rusher family have organized the "Fight Like A Girl" Golf Tournament, which will be held at the Chewelah Golf & Country Club on Sunday, August 28. Check-in starts at 8 a.m., with a 9 a.m. shotgun start. Entry fee is $35 for season pass members and $50 for non-pass members (includes green fees, lunch and tee prize. There will also be plenty of fun games to participate in along the way. Players will also be able to "rent a caddy" (Megan's high school classmates are donating their time to help their friend) for only $10. After the round, there will be a $10 taco bar set up in the Rusty Putter Café. A Silent Auction is also planned in the clubhouse from 8 a.m. to 3 p.m. The community is invited to come by and bid on a wide selection of items (do not need to be present to win when the bidding closes). To donate an item or a service to the silent auction, contact Debi Pohto at (509) 935-1383. All proceeds from the tournament will benefit Megan and her family. There are also other ways to support Megan and her family. All of the "cool people" will be wearing pink "Fight Like A Girl" wrist bands that can be picked up for $5 at Akers United Drug. An account has also been established at AmericanWest Bank (contributions can be made at any branch). For more information, to make a lunch reservation (if you aren't golfing) and/or to receive a tournament entry form, contact Peggy Meyer at (509) 935-1708.


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I've been looking through the subgun BIY and it got me wondering if anyone else has ever built thier own subgun (semi) from scratch or mix and match parts. I have a running idea and sketches for a sub caliber carbine that uses AR15, sten, sterling,grease gun, and other subgun designs to produce a sub-caliber plinker. Has anyone else ever tried to make a bolt and receiver set from scratch and adapt parts to work?
My idea uses an AR15 FCG, upper tube receiver, lower square channel receiver, and some custom made parts. The barrel is retained like the AR barrel with a large threaded nut and an indexing pin in the barrel (although if its just a plinker and sights are mounted on the receiver it may not matter about indexing the barrel). Its also possible to build a pistol using another smg barrel if that route proves to be easier, or use a simple wire folding or non-folding stock made from bent 1/2" round bar and put the receiver on an F1.


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Menlo School's photography program provides more than fifty students with a unique, hands-on experience with film and digital processes.
Viewfinder 2012 is a sampling of the very large body of work Menlo students have produced this year. It is a permanent record of their hard work, creativity and dedication to the art of photography.
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MORE: What motivated to you write this book? Why now?
BF: I really wanted to express to women how difficult it can be to reach your goals, but that anything and everything is possible.
MORE: Talk about A Place of Yes—how did you coin that phrase?
BF: People always told me how something couldn't work or wouldn't happen. This has always been a recurring theme. I always say, 'Let's come from a place of yes, and we can figure it out.'
MORE: Can you give an example of a place of no versus a place of yes?
BF: I was told by a pompous agent that Naturally Thin (a natural foods program to encourage healthy eating) would never work because it didn't give the promise of a quick fix or exact number of pounds you'd lose. I was told that doing The Real Housewives of New York City would ruin my career. I was told 'No' by all the major liquor companies about the Skinny Girl margarita idea (her bottled low-cal margarita).
MORE: How do you balance your career and taking care of your family and yourself?
BF: I pray for a good night's sleep. Then I can do anything. Balance is a distant memory.
MORE: How have marriage and family changed you?
BF: My priorities shifted when I started to get serious with Jason and realized we wanted to start a family right away. Placing him and [my daughter] Bryn first was a big change for me, but well worth it. It seemed to happen pretty much organically.
MORE: What did your first divorce teach you about yourself and what you needed to make marriage work?
BF: I was simply too young. It taught me not to try to fit everything into a perfect Tiffany box. It's my own unique journey on my own timeline and no one else can tell me what's right.
MORE: What's the secret to finding the "perfect guy"?
BF: You can't sleep next to an 8 x 10 piece of paper. Choose someone who takes care of you, who cares for their family and who will be a good partner and parent, and someone who you actually like, respect and laugh with.
MORE: How do you know when you're staying in a relationship out of fear instead of truth?
BF: You know you're holding on to a relationship because of fear when you think no one else will want you or love you, or you worry you will never find someone as good. You shouldn't try to negotiate and rationalize; You should just feel.
MORE: How important is sex in a relationship?
BF: It depends upon the couple and you better be on similar pages. If you love sex, then make sure the other person does too, or is willing to play along once in a while. Sex is an instinct but also an interest. Choose someone with similar interests. But, if you're partner is sexual and loses interest in you, then you may worry that they're getting it elsewhere, that you're not making an effort or that something is wrong. It's awkward, but sex must be discussed. It constantly changes: honeymoon stage, while pregnant, after baby, with children, in your 50s, etc. Communicate.
MORE: Is not looking for love the secret to finding the love you deserve?
BF: Being ok with who you are and where you are in your life, whether alone or with someone, is the secret to finding what you want and need. Desperation and fear will take you to the wrong places and the wrong relationships.
MORE: What's the best piece of advice related to dating, love or life that youve ever received?
BF: Not to make decisions out of fear. Make them out of truth and love.
MORE: We recently had a piece in our May issue about a woman's son who started dating-- what advice would you give your daughter Bryn on men once she starts dating?
BF: I would advise her that getting men to respect you and want to marry you -- as much if not more than they want to get physical with you -- is an art form.
MORE: What did you learn by the age of 40 that you wished you had learned years ago?
BF: Not to sunbathe, that it would all work out and all roads lead to Rome.
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ZF-2399: Action/Partial doesn't allow for head*() helper usage
I've done some troubleshooting, and noticed some weirdness. There are 2 use cases below:
common elements:
layout.phtml - has call to headStyle()->toString(2)
Now, if my View & partial look like the following:
<?php $this->headStyle()->appendStyle('#foo { color: purple; }') ?>
should be purple
<?= $this->partial('test/_partial.phtml') ?>
<?php $this->headStyle()->appendStyle('#bar { color: green; }') ?>
this text should be green
Everything works fine... HOWEVER, if you remove the headStyle() call in view.phtml, you don't get any styles in the layout at all. Stranger yet, the current view object actually has the reference to #bar.
I have confirmed this, and scheduled it for the 1.5.0 release.
Resolved in trunk; please test.
Please evaluate and categorize as necessary.
I think this is already resolved as per Matthews commnet.


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you must be in the directory to analyse
report all files and links in the currect directory, not recursively.
this find command ahs been tested on hp-ux/linux/aix/solaris.
A little bit smaller, faster and should handle files with special characters in the name.
This can be much faster than downloading one or both trees to a common servers and comparing the files there. After, only those files could be copied down for deeper comparison if needed.
This helped me find a botnet that had made into my system. Of course, this is not a foolproof or guarantied way to find all of them or even most of them. But it helped me find it.
This is really fast :)
time find . -name \*.c | xargs wc -l | tail -1 | awk '{print $1}'
real 0m0.191s
user 0m0.068s
sys 0m0.116s
This is the way how you can find header and cpp files in the same time.
Put the positive clauses after the '-o' option.
Have wc work on each file then add up the total with awk; get a 43% speed increase on RHEL over using "-exec cat|wc -l" and a 67% increase on my Ubuntu laptop (this is with 10MB of data in 767 files).
Based on the MrMerry one, just add some visuals and sort directory and files
Make sure that find does not touch anything other than regular files, and handles non-standard characters in filenames while passing to xargs.
needs no GNU tools, as far as I see it
It only works in zsh
You can also use, $ find . -depth -type d -exec rmdir {} \; 2>/dev/null
I used this to copy all PDFs recursively to a selected dir
Best to put it in a file somewhere in your path. (I call the file spath)
IFS=:; find $PATH | grep $1
Usage: $ spath php
This command will find the biggest files recursively under a certain directory, no matter if they are too many. If you try the regular commands ("find -type f -exec ls -laSr {} +" or "find -type f -print0 | xargs -0 ls -laSr") the sorting won't be correct because of command line arguments limit.
This command won't use command line arguments to sort the files and will display the sorted list correctly.
This does the following:
1 - Search recursively for files whose names match REGEX_A
2 - From this list exclude files whose names match REGEX_B
3 - Open this as a group in textmate (in the sidebar)
And now you can use Command+Shift+F to use textmate own find and replace on this particular group of files.
For advanced regex in the first expression you can use -regextype posix-egrep like this:
mate - `find * -type f -regextype posix-egrep -regex 'REGEX_A' | grep -v -E 'REGEX_B'`
Warning: this is not ment to open files or folders with space os special characters in the filename. If anyone knows a solution to that, tell me so I can fix the line.


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We are now exporting not only unique truck-tarp products but also the entire, enormous Swiss transit symbol – the Gotthard (the tunnel, not the band). We have installed a Swiss Gotthard-tunnel-like stereo-entrance-exit transit system in our new FREITAG Store Tokyo Shibuya.
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Writing by hand at my tiny, Eurasian desk I face the window to the west. I am framed by time and familiarity into the branches of JD's pine tree, which is today ward-robed in our first white snow. The black silky toned crows are still basking like prowesses on the branches and waiting for the crumbs that fall out of the garbage cans at the hotel across the street. My bird family has already eaten through a full day's feeding and is fleecing each other to first place at the table. The silky drape of the winter sky sometimes adorned with lacy clouds is blue as sea and has shaken the clouds all night so we have sixteen inches of snow at the Santa Fe ski basin. I'd rather be sailing. I don't happen to get snow shoveling without gut-wrenching lower back pain. How do you shovel snow?
I'm wearing one cotton camisole, one shapeless thermo insulated turtle neck, a down vest, and when I go outside I wear a down jacket. I'm so bundled up it feels like my limbs are bound in masking tape. My teeth look whiter and my hair is flat instead of frizzy. Snow changes everything.
From my desk, I write without thoughts predefined, just a drain of emotional threads from my heart, listening to Zap Mama as she takes me to the wild, naked, warm region of Africa.
This year isn't like last year. The absente man, fussing with the fireplace, making me afternoon espresso, or drying dishes has excused himself from my adventures in livingess. It is not at all like last year. Long time friend Rudy is in San Diego, and so I am not interpreting the division of attention, between two men laughing at the kitchen table, and eating my blueberry pancakes, as they did last year.
I had the song of Judy Garland's rainbow in my heart. It was a time I will never forget, or regret, because I was satisfied for several years. Unabridged ecstasy poured out of body, and spread over my attitude, abundant spirit, mood, facial expressions, and my dreams were filled with amusement instead of nightmares.
I wander into unfamiliar snowy woods unsteady, juxtaposed between, acceptance and self anger for being so, so ... whatever it is that I pump into myself. Nothing is worthless; not one moment should be wasted because there is always that window of escape. Our minds are there to take us away. I'm escaping now, Zap Mama Pandora station on the headset, and writing. This is taking the moment out of frustration and into pleasantry.
My steps inward resulted in accomplishments: emotional break-troughs, mundane tasks accomplished, solo ventures, match.com dates (another story) and a comedic sideshow as I wrestle with sealed boxes, make repairs, and toggle in my patent leather too stylish boots to actually be called snow shoes.
In these moments, I assure myself that evolving is never-ending, and we do not ever know what to expect from ourselves.
Alone, and without struggle or battle if we write down the pleasantries surrounding our life, our blessings rise up and
give us comfort. The essence of our changing lives is universal. Why am I doing this now, why am I feeling this now? Etc.
Remember your pleasantries, and bring them closer.
Here are a few of my snow pleasantries:
Kneipps Herbal Lavender Bath: Do not apply to the face! I draped my face in a cloth of it and endured a purple rash on my eyelids for a month.
Ralph Lauren Candles: I paid too much, but the scent is like having a man around the house.
Homeland. Sunday nights, Showtime. Claire Danes has replaced my empty strong female lead on television. I mean, this is one to watch!
Friend visits twice a week at least: Snow means, silence, and hermitizing, so I open the door to my pal Loren once or twice a week. We harmonize for an hour on tones of fretful thoughts, fear, and wicked secrets.
Treats: One kitchen counter is dedicated to snacks, candy, and popcorn that I can nibble on while indoors more than I'd like to be.
Bar Bells: For those combative moments on hold with Comcast, SWA or Verizon.
Books: Time for Virginia Wolf or Alison Munroe.


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Full SubmissionREPUBLIC OF GHANA MINISTRY OF ENVIRONMENT, SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY, GHANA RESPONSE TO QUESTIONNAIRE ON IMPLEMENTATION OF SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT AGENDA SUBMITTEB BY THE GOVERNMENT OF GHANA TO THE UNITED NATIONS COMMISION ON SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPEMNT (UNCSD) Introduction In 1992, the Earth Summit was held in Rio de Janeiro, the Brazilian city. The outcome of this all important conference was AGENDA 21 which was a major declaration on Environment and Development. Thereafter, there has been other summits which resulted in the Programme for the Further Implementation of Agenda 21 in 1997, the Johannesburg Declaration on Sustainable Development and the Plan of Implementation of the World Summit On Sustainable Development, among others. There has been regular review of the programme every now and then with various themes emerging. Next year, 2012, will be exactly twenty years since the first summit was held. Consequently, the next major summit has been scheduled for Rio de Janeiro again. Dubbed the UN CONFERENCE ON SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT, this conference will have as its themes, The Green Economy in the Context of Sustainable Development and Poverty Eradication and The Institutional Framework for Sustainable Development. As part of preparatory work to ensure that goals of the summit are achieved, the UNCSD has circulated questionnaire in five key areas to member countries. The questionnaire aims at assessing the implementation of the sustainable development agenda in member countries as well as the challenges of implementation. Questionnaire A: Renewing Political Commitment for Sustainable Development. The objective of the UNCSD on this questionnaire is to renew political support for sustainable development, assessing the progress to date and the remaining gaps in the implementation of the outcomes of the major summits on sustainable development. Questionnaire B: Assessing progress to date and the remaining gaps in the implementation of the outcomes of the major summits on sustainable development. The objective of the UNCSD on this questionnaire is to invite member states to provide contributions on experiences, success factors, challenges and risks pertaining to General Assembly resolution?s call for assessing the progress to date and remaining gaps in implementation of the outcomes of the major summits on sustainable development. Questionnaire C: Addressing New and Emerging Challenges The objective of the UNCSD is to invite member states to provide contributions and inputs on experiences, success factors, challenges and risks pertaining to General Assembly resolution which calls for addressing new and emerging challenges in the sustainable development agenda. Questionnaire D: Green Economy in the Context of Sustainable development and Poverty Eradication The objective of the UNCSD here is to invite member states to provide contributions on experiences, success factors, challenges and risks pertaining to the themes of the conference. Questionnaire E: Institutional Framework for Sustainable Development The objective of the UNCSD here is to invite member states to provide contributions and inputs on experiences, success factors, challenges and risks pertaining to the themes of the conference. To respond to the five questionnaire listed above, the National Sustainable Development Committee of the Ministry of Environment, Science and Technology organized a workshop for Members at Koforidua in the Eastern Region. The objective of the workshop was to provide Ghana?s response to the issues raised and also as contribution to the global report to be submitted to the UN Secretary General as part of his report to the General Assembly. What follows is a report from that workshop, focusing only on responses to the five questionnaire. Questionnaire A: Renewing Political Commitment for sustainable development Question 1 Are there objective ways of measuring political commitment? What are the relevant indicators? Which indicators are most useful from your perspective? {e.g., New legislations enacted, Policy announcements, Budgetary allocation and support, Prominence of relevant institutions, level of media interest, etc.} Answer Accurately measuring political commitments is a very difficult issue. However there exist some indicators that can be used as proxies for measuring political commitments. The most useful from our perspective are: Policy announcements, New legislations enacted Budgetary allocation and support, Prominence of relevant institutions, Level of media interest, Policies that have been enacted and implemented by government Conventions, protocols, etc, signed and being implemented Integration of tools into project cycles Inclusion of sustainable development visions in the manifestos of political parties Question 2 Based if possible on these indicators, how would you evaluate the national government?s political commitment today to sustainable development compared to1992? How would you evaluate the political commitment since 1992? Answer Since 1992 there has been tremendous effort toward realizing the goals of sustainable development in Ghana. At the international level, Ghana has ratified a number of international conventions and protocols including the UNFCCC in 1995 and also signed the Kyoto protocol in 2003, Basel Convention and Cartagena protocol on Bio-Safety, UN Convention on Desertification, Convention on Biodiversity (CBD) and actively participated in several discussions on international environmental governance. Among measures put in place to implement the sustainable development include the transformation of Environmental Protection Council (EPC), an advisory body to Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) - an implementing agency with powers to prosecute; creation of a sector Ministry, Ministry of Environment, Science and Technology to develop policies on sustainable development as well as the numerous programmes and projects that have been implemented with bearing on sustainable development since 1992. With the establishment of EPA, undertaking Environmental Impact Assessment (EIA) to ensure that environmental issues are taken into consideration in the development process has been made mandatory. These mark the beginning of Ghana?s effort at embracing the concept of sustainable production and consumption. The establishment of democratic governance through successful Presidential and Parliamentary elections in 1996, 2000, 2004 and 2008 also provided a sound political environment which is very important for sustainable development. To indicate a strong commitment to environmental issues, the Government of Ghana subjected the past three medium term development framework - Ghana Poverty Reduction Strategy (2003-2006), Growth and Poverty Reduction Strategy (2006-2009) and the Ghana Shared Growth Development and Agenda (GSGDA) (2010-2013) to Strategic Environmental Analysis (SEA) through the National Development Planning Commission (NDPC). In all these frameworks priority was given to water and sanitation, health, housing, education, reducing disparity in the distribution of national resources, ensuring sustainability in the use of natural resources through application of Science and Technology and Innovation, among others. Ghana also subjected itself to a peer review through the African Peers? Review mechanism (APRM) under the New Partnership for Africa Development (NEPAD). Weaknesses in implementation and enforcement of policies have however constrained efforts in the achievement of stated objectives. Various structures have also been established to ensure the implementation of sustainable development programmes. These include the formation of the National Climate Change Committee; formation of the Environmental and Natural Resources Advisory Council (ENRAC) chaired by the Vice President of the Republic of Ghana; Preparation of the National Climate Change Policy Framework (NCCPF) and the Development of the National Appropriate Mitigation Action (NAMA) All these indicate that there has been some political commitment to the implementation of sustainable development policies compared to 1992. Thus, one can rate political commitment to sustainable development as satisfactory. The only problem is that low incomes and the diverse developmental challenges make it difficult for government to do more. Question 3 What actions have been introduced in your country to strengthen political support for sustainable development? Answer Several policies have been introduced that directly or indirectly have bearings on strengthening political support for sustainable development. There has been improvement in both the print and electronic media in using both local and official languages to disseminate information on sustainable development by the state and private media. Ghana is in the process of passing the Right to Information Bill and the Whistle Blower?s Bill which will ensure transparency and accountability in governance and consequently reduce corruption. This will ensure efficient use of resources and make available more resources for sustainable development. There is freedom of expression in Ghana as enshrined in the constitution and people now have the right within the mandate of the law to voice out their feelings without fear of arrest. This makes it easy for citizens to critically assess government on the implementation of sustainable development agenda. Ghana has also made institutional strengthening one of the main pillars of sustainable development in addition to the social, economic and environmental pillars. The addition of the institutional pillar is a major political commitment by the government of Ghana to tackling sustainable development issues. In line with strengthening the institutional pillar, various institutions have been created. These include the Ministry of Women and Children Affairs, Economic and Organized Crime Office, Savannah Accelerated Development Authority, NDPC, Commission of Human Rights and Administration Justice (CHRAJ), etc. Many policies have also been formulated to ensure the implementation of sustainable development. These include the National Environment Action Plan, National Gender and Children?s Policy, Science Innovation Policy, Gender budgeting, which deals with providing a way of assessing the impact of government revenue and expenditure on Women and men, boys and girls. Sustainable development principles were also mainstreamed in the development and implementation of the Ghana Poverty Reduction Strategy, Growth and Poverty Reduction Strategy and the Ghana Shared Growth and Development Agenda. Also, the use of Strategic Development Assessment Tool (SDAT) has been extended to sectors and Districts. The country is also using Functional Organization Assessment Tool (FOAT) to provide assistance to District Assemblies though Strategic Environment Assessment (SEA) is yet to be incorporated into FOAT processes. This tool is meant to enable the District Assemblies pull their support together to aid development. Government has also encouraged Development Partners to support Civil Society Organizations (CSO) and the private sector to develop their capacities to partner government in the implementation of the sustainable development agenda. Question 4 Are there specific sectors or areas {Water, energy, biodiversity, other} where national political commitment to achieve sustainable development goals has been specially strong? If so, what factors explain that commitment? At the institutional level government has developed a lot of institutions, instruments, policies and frameworks to ensure that national political commitment to achieve sustainable development goals is effective. These among others, include: Establishment of the Ministry of Environment Science Technology (MEST); Transformation of EPC, hitherto an advisory body to EPA, an implementing agency with powers to prosecute. Setting up of ENRAC with the vice president of the republic as its Chairman. Mainstreaming Gender into1 budget preparation and allocation Institutionalization of public disclosure policies, e.g., Akoben and the Extractive Industry Transparency Initiative (EITI) to play the role of ?measuring rod? to measure environmental practices in the extractive and productive sectors. The use of Strategic Environmental Assessment (SEA) and Environmental Impact Assessment (EIA) as a tool to ensure sustainable development; Preparation of the National Climate Change Policy Framework; Development of National Biodiversity Framework; Development of Science, Technology and Innovative programmes and projects Setting up of the National Appropriate Mitigation Action (NAMA) for Climate Change Setting -up of the National Committee for Sustainable Development (NCSD) Development and implementation of the GPRS 1 and GPRS II and the GSGDA There are also specific sectors where national political commitment to achieving sustainable development goals has been strong. These include water, energy, transport, E-waste among others. In the area of Water and Sanitation, there have been some political commitments in sustainable development. Government has establishment the Ministry of Water Resources, Works and Housing; Community Water and Sanitation (CWSA), Water Resources Commission to provide governance in water management. Also, government has established Water and Sanitation Committees at the Districts to ensure that quality water is constantly provided at the District level. Water Resource Management (WARM) studies have also been undertaken to guide policy formulation. Restructuring of utility provision led to the establishment of the Public Utility Regulatory Commission (PURC) which regulates utility provision in urban areas including water. In the area of energy, national political commitment to achieve sustainable development goals has also been strong though more could be done. Developments in this area include: Creation of Renewable Energy Division and Directorate in the Ministry of Energy Formulation of Renewable Energy Policy Subjecting the Energy Policy to SEA Setting Renewable energy target of 10% in 2015 Reducing biomas share in total energy consumption to about 66% Encouraging the use of LPG Introduction of energy efficient charcoal production and utilization technologies e.g. ?Kasaman Kiln? Encourage tree planting at the local level (Community, Schools, Individuals, Organisations) Promulgation of the Renewable Energy Law Promotion of energy efficiency (E.g. CFL bulbs, fridges, air conditions and capacitor banks for industry) and awareness creation on energy saving tips Establishment of the Green Energy Fund; whereby those who generate green energy from their homes are supported. Currently, importation of solar energy panels is tax free. However, those in the rural areas do not have the capacity to bring these solar panels and are seriously exploited by businesses in this area. In the area of environment, the government of Ghana and it Development Partners have initiated the Natural Resources and Environmental Governance (NREG) programme with prioritised activities and time-bound targets in other to reverse the persistent trend of high environmental degradation in a coordinated and sustainable manner. The Voluntary Partnership Agreement has been initiated between the government of Ghana and the European Union aimed at ensuring that timber products are obtained from certified sources. To increase the nations forest cover, the Forestry Services Division (FSD) have demarcated 1,440 hectares under the Community Forest Management Project (CFMP) and 178 hectares under FSD model plantation programmes. To reduce emissions of carbon and nitrogen gases from inefficient combustion of old vehicles, the government has introduced high taxes on importation of old vehicles/engines. This has led to a reduction in the importation of second hand vehicles and consequently emissions. The Ministry of Transport also took its transport policy through a Strategic Environmental Assessment and climate change mainstreaming. To avoid Ghana being used as a dumping ground for e-waste, there is a draft legislation that bans the importation of E-waste into the country. Targets have also been set to phase out particular electrical goods. For example by 2012 there will be a ban on the importation of used fridges and air conditioners. Furthermore, Government is promoting alternative source of energy use such as solar, wind, mini hydro, biomass, gas and waste to energy, which are environmentally friendly and has the capacity to mitigate climate change. Question 5 What examples or experience from other areas demonstrate how political support for critical issues was enhanced. (eg. MDGs, climate change)? How could they be applied to sustainable development? Answer There are examples or experience from other areas that demonstrate how political support for critical issues was enhanced. One example is the development and implementation of the GPRS 1. At the international level mention could be made of the implementation of the Montreal Protocol on Substances that Deplete the Ozone layer and its Amendments. Specifically, the GPRS I was formulated and implemented by the Government of Ghana from 2003-2006. Though there were direct and indirect donor influences, there exist several evidences both at the micro and at the macro levels that suggest that the formulation and implementation of the framework was very successful. It has been argued that the success can be attributed to international support and good will, good leadership and commitment and the goodwill and support of the people of Ghana Reasons attributed to the success of the implementation of the Montreal Protocol is the availability of cheap alternative to the use of CFCs and the strong leadership role played by the leading producers of CFC - USA, Russia and Japan, especially USA in the implementation of the Convention. Lessons that could be learnt for these programs are: Strong leadership role and commitment by leading polluters especially the USA at least on ethical grounds is imperative Strong international support and goodwill is key Good local leadership role and commitment to sustainable development Goodwill and support by the people of Ghana is key to the successful implementation of the sustainable development agenda Question 6 Looking forward to the next ten years, what are your government?s highest priorities for accelerating progress towards sustainable development? Answer Over the next ten years, the government?s highest priorities for accelerating progress towards sustainable development would be the reduction of poverty through pro-poor growth strategies. Key areas that will be tackled to address poverty will include water, energy, waste management and sanitation, aforestation, urban development, health, education, among others. All these will be geared towards the current high unemployment that threatens to put pressure on resource use. Question 7 How can international cooperation strengthen support for sustainable development? What are your expectations for UNCSD in this regard? Answer International cooperation has a significant role to play in the area of strengthening support for sustainable development. Many African governments understand the need to develop sustainably and would have loved to make total political commitment to the idea. However the short term political cost of implementing sustainable development policies is quite enormous. We expect a more vigorous role emerging from UNCSD where politicians will be supported to consider issues of sustainable development as important as other areas of the national development. Specifically, Ghana expects the following support from the UNCSD: � Capacity development � Technical Assistance � Technology transfer � Financial Instruments (ODA; Overseas Donor Support, FDI) � Promotion of networking � South - South cooperation � North ? South Cooperation Question 8 Among your country?s senior policy makers, would you say the predominant view of the three pillars of sustainable development is that: there are difficult trade ?offs among them? they are strongly complementary? (Please briefly elaborate on your answer) Answer Among Senior Policy makers there seem to be a mixed view on this issue. Many senior policy makers acknowledges that there are difficult trade-offs and sometimes serious sacrifices to be made. The tradeoffs more exist between the economic pillar and the other two pillars. Specifically, more attention is focused on GDP growth at the expense of the other two pillars. According to the Ghana Shared Growth and Development Agenda, 2010, Ghana?s current pattern of development puts a lot of stress on the environment with the total economic cost of poor environmental management and sanitation amounting to about 10% of Ghana?s GDP. This can be seen more in areas like mining, especially in forest reserves where the economic pillar has the upper hand over the social and environmental pillars. Others, also believe that these is a complementarities among the three pillars of sustainable development. In a gist, looking at policy formulation one can conclude that many Senior Policy makers are more tilted toward the view that these is a strong complementary of the three pillars of sustainable development than the existence of difficult trade ?offs among them. But in policy implementation the reverse could be that case. This to some extent could be attributed to the financial constraints. Questionnaire B: Assessing the progress to date and the remaining gaps in the implementation of the outcomes of the major summits on sustainable development Question 1 What indicators or information on sustainable development have proven to be most useful for assessing gaps and progress towards sustainable development? Answer There are many indicators or information on sustainable development that are very useful in assessing gaps and progress towards sustainable development. These among others include: � Monitoring and evaluation indicators being more quantitative than qualitative � Number of Capacity Development programs for policy makers � Capacity development programmes for of Civil Society organizations (CSO) � Number of green taxes introduced � Amount realized in green taxes � Cases resolve by the Judiciary and other enforcement agencies on environmental issues � Structures established at the regional and district levels to address sustainable development issues � Number of education and awareness programmes � Budgetary allocation to sustainable development programmes In general the proper collection of information of sustainable development indicators chosen by Ghana will greatly help to assessing gaps and progress towards sustainable development Question 2 Please rank in order of importance 1= most important. Please also attach or provide a link to relevant statistical databases. I. Comprehensive Indicators (e.g., HDI, MDGs) II. Economic Indicators (e.g., GDP growth, trade performance) III. Poverty Indicators (e.g. Headcount or other measure, please specify) IV. Social Indicators (e.g., Unemployment, life expectancy) V. Environmental indicators (e.g., ESI, Footprint, other, please specify) VI. Results of Public Opinion Surveys VII. Other (please specify) Answer In order of decreasing importance effective indicators for monitoring progress can be ranked as follows: 1. Economic Indicators (e.g., GDP growth, trade performance) 2. Comprehensive Indicators (e.g. HDI, MDGs) 3. Social Indicators (e.g., Unemployment, Life Expectancy, Gross Enrolment Ratios, Infant and Maternal Mortality) 4. Environmental Indicators (e.g. ESI, Footprint, other, please specify) 5. Poverty Indicators (e.g. Headcount or other measure, please specify) 6. Results of Public Opinion Surveys 7. Country Assessment Question 3 What indicators of integrated goals and strategies have been most useful? Please rank in order of importance. I. Institutional indicators (e.g., use of integrated strategies, establishment of coordination mechanisms) II. Commitment indicators (e.g., fiscal or other support for integrated sustainable development programmes) III. Outcome indicators (e.g., correlation between indicators of economic, social, and environmental change) IV. Information-related indicators (e.g. development of analytical and assessment tools collection of data, investment in research) V. Other (please specify) Answer In order of decreasing importance, indicators of integrated goals and strategies than can be most useful can be ranked as follows: 1. Commitment indicators (e.g., fiscal or other support for integrated sustainable development programmes) 2. Institutional indicators (e.g., use of integrated strategies, establishment of coordination mechanisms) 3. Information-related indicators (e.g. development of analytical and assessment tools collection of data, investment in research) 4. Outcome indicators (e.g., correlation between indicators of economic, social, and environmental change) Question 4 Based as far as possible on these indicators, please provide an assessment of the progress made towards sustainable development over the past 18 years (1992-2010), (a) at the level of your country (where applicable) and (b) globally. Please attach any relevant technical studies or policy analysis. For each, kindly provide the original article or url, and enter a short abstract. Answer In general Ghana has made some substantial efforts in achieving sustainable development looking at the resource constraints and other major development challenges that confronts the country. These can be seen from all the policies, programmes, plans and projects that has early been discussed. According to the World Bank ?Despite challenges, Ghana is one of four countries in sub-Saharan Africa on track to meet the Millennium Development Goal for safe drinking water by 2015?. It is evident that more can be done if efforts are made at improving efficiency in expenditure so that more resources will be available for the implementation of the sustainable development agenda. Detail assessment of progress made towards sustainable development over the past 18 years is quite difficult to come by. However, works in the following sites points to the marginal success that Ghana is making: http://www.ndpc.gov.gh/GPRS/Simplified%202009%20APR%20-Final.pdf; http://www.ndpc.gov.gh/ http://www.afdb.org/en/documents/#c http://go.worldbank.org/N7TQDIGV60 Question 5 What factors explain progress in implementation? Please rank in order of importance. (Each of these has been important. Many are also complementary and thus difficult to rank in order.) 1. Generalized economic growth and prosperity 2. Investment in technical and institutional capacity 3. Financial support from international sources 4. Use of integrated strategies 5. Other; please specify. Answer As indicated there exist many factors that explain progress in implementation. In order of decreasing importance the factors that explain progress in implementation can be ranked as follows: 1. Generalised economic growth and prosperity 2. Financial support from international sources 3. Investment in technical and institutional capacity 4. Use of integrated strategies 5. Political support Question 6 Has your government introduced integrated planning and decision making for sustainable development? If so, under what title (NSDS, PRSP, Five year plan, NCs or NEAP, other)? What are the lessons from this experience? Answer The government of Ghana has introduced integrated planning and decision making for sustainable development. Even though there was a National Environmental Action Plan (NEAP), integrated planning could more be seen in the formulation and implementation of the Ghana Vision 2020 which was a long term plan and its medium term frameworks, Ghana Poverty Reduction Strategy (2003- 2006), Growth and Poverty Reduction Strategy (2006-2009) and the current Ghana Shared Growth and Development Agenda (2010-2013). The last three documents have increasingly been subjected SEA There exist several lessons that could be drawn from the formulation and implementation of the GPRS 1, GPRS 2 and the GSGDA. These among others include: � Public participation brings about commitment to implementation of programmes and projects and proper utilisation of project facilities. � Cross Sectoral Planning Groups bring about transparency, accountability and ownership. � Effective stakeholder involvement enhances support for implementation � Public-private participation is quite key in formulation and implementation since the private sector play a key role in development � Inclusion of females through the Gender Equality Sector Team (GEST) and affirmative action promotes females participation in governance � Effective monitoring using tools like Carbon foot prints enhances monitoring � Setting clear and quantitative targets enhances monitoring Question 7 Are there examples of strong public-private partnership for sustainable development in your country? How have these been promoted? Answer There have been some strong public-partner partnerships for sustainable development. For example governments have sourced funding for the private sector to undertake waste management activities. Also, government has sources funding for the private financial sector for on-lending in aforestation projects on concessionary terms. There has also been tree planting programme where the planter owns the tree with government providing free seedlings for communities and at subsidized prices to organizations as well as technical advice and other inputs such as cutlass, hoes, boots, etc. Government has also privatised the management of some environmental resources such as parks, beaches etc. These have been promoted through fora and discussions with the private sector though not as required. Question 8 Is the technical assistance from UN system entities a key factor in explaining progress with sustainable development? If so, in what areas or sectors (e.g., MDGs, water, energy, health, agricultural, biodiversity, forests, climate change, jobs, other)? Answer It is evident that assistance from UN system entities is a key factor in explaining progress with regards to sustainable development, though more can be done if there is better coordination. The UN system has supported Ghana government in many areas including water, energy, health, agricultural, biodiversity, forestry, climate change, among others. All these will make it possible for Ghana to achieve some of the MDG targets. Question 9 What are the major barriers to implementation? Please rank in order of importance 1 = most important. 1. Human and institutional capacity for on-the-ground implementation and monitoring 2. Inadequate public awareness or engagement 3. Problems created by slow growth 4. Inadequate coordination between ministries 5. Lack of data (accessibility) 6. Low political priority for integrated decision making 7. Inadequate or unpredictable international support 8. Other; please specify Answer In order of decreasing importance the major barriers to implementation can be ranked as follows: 1. Inadequate financial recourses 2. Human and Institutional capacity for on-the-ground implementation and monitoring 3. Inadequate public awareness or engagement 4. Inadequate coordination between ministries 5. Lack of data (accessibility) 6. Low political priority for integrated decision making 7. Inadequate or unpredictable international support 8. Problems created by slow growth Question 10 What steps need to be taken to address these barriers in an effort to bridge the implementation gaps? Answer There are several steps that need to be taken to address these barriers in an effort to bridge these specific implementation gaps. Table 1 summarizes the various steps. Table 1:Ssteps needed to address specific implementation gaps.
|-Inadquate financial resources
|- Improve efficiency of expenditure and reduce corruption in order to make more resources available for sustainable development-Encourage the use of technology since its increases efficiency- International community to honor pledges made
|- Human and Institutional capacity for on-the-ground implementation and monitoring
|- Develop more capacities and re-orient tertiary education to the needs of the labour market- Improve conditions of service to maintain qualified staff- Develop institutional mechanisms to ensure compliance and enforcement of regulations
|- Inadequate public awareness or engagement
|- Put in more mechanisms to incease education and public awareness programes
|- Lack of data (accessibility)
|- Resource Statistical Division in Ministires, Departments and agencies and Metropolitan Municipal and Distract Assesmblies to compile data
|- Low political priority for integrated decision making
|- Turn many components of policies into laws to make it mandatory for government and to reduce the powers of politicans- Incease advocacy on sustainable development issues
|- Inadequate or unpredictable international support
|- Effective monitoring should be put in place by the international commmunity to ensure that pledges are honored
|- Problems created by slow growth
|- Shift from the current situtation of being a primary resource producer to a producer of manufacturing prodcuts. This is the sure way of increasing value addition, employment and enhancing growth
|- Inadequate coordination between ministries
|- Make coordination mandatory in all programmes and projects
|Emerging challenge
|National Level
|Local Level
|Climate Change
|� Establishment at Cabinet level , The Environment and Natural Resource Advisory Council chaired by the Vice President of the Republic of Ghana � A National Climate Change committee has been put in place charged with developing policies and programmes to address all issues of climate change ,both negative and positive � Draft national climate change policy framework has been designed � Climate Change has been mainstreamed into the GSGDA � National Climate Change Adaptation and Mitigation Strategies have been developed � Specific programmes are being implemented at all levels e.g. African Adaptation Programme, REDD+, FIP, FPP, NAMAs and Low Carbon Growth programmes
|� NGOs are engaging with local people and creating awareness � GSGDA is been mainstreamed into District development plans � Specific projects to address climate change are being implemented at all levels e.g. African Adaptation Programme, REDD, FIP, FPP
|Energy Crisis
|� Energy Commission has developed a policy on alternative energy use sources � A ban has been put on use of incandescent bulbs � Labeling of energy efficient air-conditioners and refrigerators to differentiate which are environmentally friendly or not � Introduction of metro-mass transport system as a measure to reduce vehicular traffic and curb carbon emissions � Introduction of use of capacitors by large consumers of electricity e.g. manufacturing industries
|� Encouraging use of improved charcoal production and utilization � Reduction in usage and dependence on wood-fuelthrough promotion of use of alternative fuels e.g. LPG
|Increased environmental degradation
|� Policies, legislations and programmes have been put in place (Water Act, Forest and Wildlife policy, Mining Act, Timber Resource Management Act, Use of SEAs as a requirement in public policy processes) � Environmental management has been mainstreamed at all levels � FASDEP II -Agriculture sustainable land management strategy and Action Plan has been developed � Ghana Investment Framework for Sustainable Land Management has been enacted � Environmental Sanitation Policy and Strategy has been enacted � EPA air quality guidelines has been developed, EPA has developed Akoben, a ?measuring rod? for environmental practices in the productive and extractive sectors
|� EIA has been designed as a pre requisite for the establishment of all projects � EPA has established environmental management committees in MMDAs � Ghana Sustainable Land and Water Management project has been developed District Assemblies and NGOs have been involved actively in addressing environmental degradation in the country � Environmental bye-laws have been enacted for all MMDAs � District Assemblies have departments for environmental sanitation officers � Mass media has been involved in awareness creation programmes eg, the Africa Farm Radio Network � Extension officers are mainstreaming sanitation awareness at all levels especially at the local and district levels
|Reduction in availability of Overseas Development Assistance due to recent economic meltdown
|� Fast start finance under CC regime e.g. multilateral, bilateral and private sector funds � National AID policy to wean Ghana off donor dependency has been developed � Policy to increase generation of internal revenue has been developed � Oil revenue management Bill is receiving attention in Parliament
|� District Assemblies are encouraged widen revenue base � AMA has increased property rate � District Assemblies are encouraged to improve on the collection of property tax
|Increasing urban vulnerability
|� Tax incentives to promote rural-based industries have been introduced � Promotion of relative equality of rural urban development e.g. rural electrification project, removal of schools under trees � SADA has been introduced to bridge the developmental gap between the three northern regions and the south � Life-line tariffs for low electricity consumers has been introduced � Draft urban policy has been developed
|� NGOs building capacity at local level to reduce rural -urban migration � Promotion of local entrepreneurship by local authorities in collaboration with rural banks with the aim of setting up rural and cottage based industries
|Emerging Issues
|Areas where support from International community has been forthcoming
|Areas where enhanced International support is required
|Climate Change
|Funds available for mitigation and adaptation
|More funds needed for adaptation measures
|Energy Crisis
|Funds available
|� More funds needed to reduce system losses from 25% to 18% � Investment in generation, distribution and transmission of energy is needed
|Environmental degradation
|Funds Available for projects
|Sustainable funds needed for longgestation- period projects
|Reduction in availability of Overseas Development Assistance due to recent economic meltdown
|Inadequate funding
|Conditionality attached to the sourcing of funds must be realistic and locally-driven
|Increased urban inequality vulnerability
|� Available funds to relocate squatters at Sodom and Gomorrah ,two slum communities in Accra � Millennium city development project
|� More funds needed to improve infrastructure in urban slums � Need to enhance business opportunities in rural areas ?led by government
|Climate Change
|Energy Crisis
|Increasing Environmental Degradation
|Increasing Urban Vulnerability
|Adequate financial resources
|Strong government leadership
|Availability of data and technical capacity
|Dedicated government programmes
|Regional cooperation
|Investment in essential infrastructure
|Spped and adequacy of international support
|Effective communication systems
|Literacy and awareness among population
|South-South cooperation
|Leadership by international organizations


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Scofield, Carbon County
The town's best known among ghost hunters because of the mine explosion that killed 200 people on the morning of May 1, 1900. An accident caused 24 kegs of black powder to explode, and miners were burned, crushed or suffocated. Nearby towns joined the rescue effort, which lasted until the last body was found on May 12.
Of those killed in the disaster, 149 are buried in the cemetery, and some bodies were never found. It's rumored that some of those who were buried in the cemetery were given typo-laden or just plain incorrect grave markers.
Today, Scofield is almost a complete ghost town, with very few residents. Stories came up about a headless man (some say a victim of the mine disaster) haunting the area and mysterious lights in the cemetery at night.
We decided to take a look around the cemetery and town:
The road to Scofield is beautiful in the fall! UT-96 takes you straight through Scofield State Park, past Scofield Reservoir and straight into town.
A monument to those who died in the mine disaster, just outside the cemetery.
The gate to the Scofield Cemetery.
Both stone and wooden grave markers were created for the victims of the mine disaster. Unfortunately, wooden markers are cracking and/or losing the names.
Graves shaped like these are all over the cemetery to honor those killed in the Scofield Mine Disaster.
The Mountain Tavern, just one of the many vacant buildings in town.
Scofield Public School still stands. The town itself has been in decline since the 1920s.
Getting there: Take I-15 South to exit 258, and head east on US-6 (which is also US-89). When US-6 and US-89 split, stay on US-6. Make a right on UT-96. Keep going, and you'll eventually reach the town.


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Yay for summer... if you have a lot of time on your hands babysitting than yeah open an etsy shop! hey you could even have an arts and crafts day with the kids and they could help you!ReplyDelete
Wow!!!!! WHAT A WEEKEND!!!!! I cannot believe your best friends picture...last time I saw her she was a "little girl" wanting to become a Dr. Those were wonderful days for you two. Anyway, you're heading home and before you know it you will be back at Georgetown.Have a safe flight home!!!ReplyDelete
a college prep etsy shop is a MUST!ReplyDelete
you must do a better job at chucking water than I do/did, I always have a TON of sand, even when I'm in women's boats. Ugghh. One and a half Nalgenes is all I do- one year at Canadian Henley I got water poisoning and hurled water for an hour- not fun.ReplyDelete
Yes for the etsy shop! I'll be a shopper!ReplyDelete
Etsy shop is perfect for you and maybe even including Soccer Mom!!! The two of you have soooo many talents it could be HUGE success!!! Go for it!!!ReplyDelete
Looking forward to a possisble Etsy shop from....happy summer!ReplyDelete
I left a little something for you on my blog this morning! Happy Friday! :)ReplyDelete
Great photos!ReplyDelete
Hey, I'll be at that Georgetown Ball at Union Station tonight (my sister's a senior)--are you going?


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Keith Payson Lincoln
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Drafted by the San Diego Chargers in the 2nd round (15th overall) of the 1961 AFL Draft.
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Weighted Career AV (100-95-...): 48 (1602nd overall since 1950)
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Wednesday, March 2, 2011
WIP Wednesday #16
New projects:
Project Selvage
Oh, how I wish I could share with you what I'm working on for this! I'm kind of in love with the inspiration for my "line." So far, I'm just sketching away, happy to be getting it on paper. Much more to come on this one.
Ongoing projects:
So I have an actual plan now for my swap quilt. Plans are good. Especially when the project in question needs to be done only two weeks from now. Now I just have to, you know, execute the plan. A big thank-you goes to Becky, whose Sunrise Star Pillow was the inspiration for using fussy-cut Parisville in the center of this block.
Operation Stash Reorganization
Made some pretty good progress here. Everything fat-quarter size and up is now on mini-bolts and neatly shelved. Just looking at it makes me happy. But the rest of my sewing room? Not so much. The smaller scraps are everywhere. I hope to have those organized by next week.
Completed tops awaiting quilting:
Hope Valley
Completed quilts awaiting binding:
Modern Meadow
On hold for now:
Central Park jelly roll quilt
Figgy Pudding quilt
Wonky Log Cabin
This week's stats:
New projects - 1
Completed projects - 0
Currently in progress - 11 (up one from last week)
So, where are you at this week? Link up and show the world! Don't forget: Link back here, and comment, comment, comment.
24 comments:
- Megan said...
Your DQS block looks so great, I want to see more! :) Also, very excited to see you are doing Project Salvage. Thanks for hosting, Lee!
- March 2, 2011 at 1:54 AM
- Jessica said...
Lovin' that star!
- March 2, 2011 at 3:21 AM
- Samelia's Mum said...
Wow. Looks fab-tastic!
- March 2, 2011 at 4:49 AM
- Teje said...
Hello Lee! How exiting!!! Good luck and I'll be following your new journey!
That block with around small pacthes is amazing!
Sunny wishes! Teje
- March 2, 2011 at 5:16 AM
- Elizabeth D. said...
I love hearing you talk about your "line" :) I can't wait to see what you wind up putting together, I'm super excited for you! Your DQS block is just jaw-droppingly stunning. Really! And I'm with you, I can't believe we've been doing these lists for four whole months now, where does the time go???
- March 2, 2011 at 5:23 AM
- Katie B. said...
I love the start of your DQS project! Can't wait to see how that turns out.
- March 2, 2011 at 5:52 AM
- Becky said...
Oh wow, your dqs star is AMAZING! Glad I could help with such a fabulous design!
- March 2, 2011 at 6:26 AM
- Marjorie's Busy Corner said...
Oh my....I really love your block...looks great!!!
- March 2, 2011 at 7:06 AM
- howtobejenna said...
I'm really excited to see what everyone comes up with for Project Selvage! I'm not entering, but I do have two baby boys! Your block looks great! Happy Wednesday
- March 2, 2011 at 7:57 AM
- Jerimi said...
I feel your pain, with the stash organizing. I finally got a proper start on it this week, and the task is daunting!
- March 2, 2011 at 8:52 AM
- Live a Colorful Life said...
A "line"? How exciting! DQS is amazing!
- March 2, 2011 at 9:13 AM
- Jessica said...
so so in love with the beginnings of your DQS! Good luck with the fabric designing, I'm sure what you design will be fabulous!
- March 2, 2011 at 9:19 AM
- Lindsay Conner said...
Isn't it slightly sad when you want to photoblog about something, but you just can't. Argh... I'm dying over here! Some day soon...
- March 2, 2011 at 10:30 AM
- Phone Home Designs by ET said...
Your DQS is gorgeous! You'll have to tell us how to make it sometime :) I'm so excited that I found your blog.
- March 2, 2011 at 11:03 AM
- Becky said...
WOW!!! Your block is stunningly beautiful!! Fantastic work!!!
- March 2, 2011 at 11:08 AM
- Marci Girl said...
Seriously, your DQS quilt block is pure genius! I LOVE IT! It is one of the prettiest quilt blocks I have ever seen, can not wait to see the full quilt!
- March 2, 2011 at 11:18 AM
- Mary Jo said...
That block is AMAZING! So so pretty! How long does it take to make one block like that and have it look so beautiful and perfect?!? Do I dare attempt something like that? :)
- March 2, 2011 at 3:37 PM
- Melanie said...
I can't wait to see more of your DQS blocks, it's beautiful!
- March 2, 2011 at 4:25 PM
- Leila said...
DQS is drop dead gorgeous!
I have ideas for Project Selvage but unfortunately I can't draw or program or paint. :) I can't wait to see what you do!
- March 2, 2011 at 4:51 PM
- Bree said...
LOVE that DQS block! That center is just beautiful. Can't wait to see the rest of it.
- March 2, 2011 at 4:56 PM
- Kimberly White said...
Beautiful fussy cutting! Thanks for the WIP inspiration!
- March 2, 2011 at 7:41 PM
- fallingforpieces said...
Agree with everyone, your DQS block is AMAZING!
- March 2, 2011 at 7:43 PM
- Kari said...
Beautiful block. I can't wait to see what you come up with for Project Selvedge. I decided to go for it too. It will be fun challenge even if I don't get that far with it.
- March 3, 2011 at 10:58 PM
- greeneggs said...
Wow, I just stumbled on your blog and I'm amazed. Has anyone ever told you you are crazy talented?? Your DQS quilt block has me drooling!!! I'm a fan!
- March 5, 2011 at 4:14 PM


text: Last night I restarted my copy of platinum, because although I beat the league in five days the first time, I thought I could build a better team. Anyway, fast forward to eterna forest. In the forset I planned to catch a hoothoot and a rotom (my team at that point was just prinplup and my hm slave bidoof). On the way through I caught my hoothoot and trained it some. Upon reaching the pokecenter in eterna city, I'm told by nurse joy that my team has pokerus. This the second time I've ever had it and the first time since learning what it was and did.


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What is the Florida Sunshine Law?
One of the questions that we get asked at almost every class is "Do community associations have to abide by the Florida Sunshine Law concerning the rights of unit owners to attend board meetings."
Florida's Government in the Sunshine Law was enacted in 1967. Today the Sunshine Law can be found in Florida Statute 286.
The Government in the Sunshine Law applies to "any board or commission of any state agency or authority or any county, municipal corporation, or political subdivision."
Technically, it does not apply to community associations.
However, Florida Statutes 718, 719, and 720 contain similar language and provisions with respect to holding meetings "in the sunshine" (in the presence of the owners).
For condominiums, FS 718.112 (2) (c) states:
"Meetings of the board of administration at which a quorum of the members is present shall be open to all unit owners.
FAC 61B-23001 (1) (a) defines a "meeting" as:
"Any gathering of the members of the board of directors at which a quorum of the members is present, for the purpose of conducting association business."
And (b):
"Unit owners have the right to attend and observe all meetings of the board of administration and its committees."
There are several exceptions.
FS 718.112 (2) (c) 3. a. b.
3. Not withstanding any other law, the requirement that board meetings and committee meetings be open to the unit owners does not apply to:
a. Meetings between the board or a committee and the association's attorney, with respect to proposed or pending litigation, if the meeting is held for the purpose of seeking or rendering legal advice; or
b. Board meetings held for the purpose of discussing personnel matters.
In Homeowners' Associations, FS 720.303 (2) (a) and (b) states:
"A meeting of the board of directors of an association occurs whenever a quorum o the board gathers to conduct association business. All meetings of the board must be open to all members except for meetings the board and it's attorney with respect to proposed or pending litigation where the contents of the discussion would otherwise be governed by attorney client privilege." Meetings to discuss "personnel matters" are also not required to be open to the members.
It is recommended that notice be posted for all meetings whether they are to be open or closed.
Some associations schedule private "workshops" or "executive sessions" claiming that these are not real meetings because no "business" or voting on any issues is being done.
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ZF-8835: Zend_Validate_Isbn uses incomplete and deprecated regular expression
The component uses ereg in {{_detectFormat}}
Ereg is deprecated as of PHP 5.3: http://nl.php.net/ereg
Also, the regular expression is not doing what it's supposed to do when using anything other than a blank separator. I think the underlined code below is supposed to check the total length of the string is equal to 17, but this does not work. See patch for a possible usage of preg_match instead of ereg and checking the string length separately, see attached patch.
Attached patch
Fixed with r20335
Thanks for your patch... solved it slightly differently


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ZF-4281: Various Issues with Zend_Form_Element_File
Zend_Form_Element_File delegates to the Zend_File_Transfer_Adapter all the validation effort.
The problem is while Zend_File_Transfer_Adapter have a validation process that mostly mimics validation in Zend_Form, the two processes remain different.
Here is what we lose compared to the validation offered by Zend_Form_Element:
- no support for the breakChainOnFailure feature. (this is a big one)
- can't add custom messages unless you are instantiating the validators by hand and calling their setMessages method. (not convenient)
- the syntax of the array passed to setValidators is different than the one of the other Zend_Form_Element(s). (breaks consistency which is never good)
I attached the file 'validation.php' that highlights the difference of syntax between Zend_Form_Element_File and the one of the other Zend_Form_Elememt(s).
Another issue with Zend_Form_Element_File: unlike other elements derived from Zend_Form_Element it doesn't seem to honor paths defined by a call to addElementPrefixPath on its parent form. Found that out when I tried to overload the 'Errors' decorator, Zend_Form_Element_File was the only element to still use the default one.
I also attached the Form_Element_File that I use for now to overcome all the problems above until they are fixed. It doesn't have all the bells and whistles of Zend_File_Transfer_Adapter but it does the job. (I don't recommend people using it since it hasn't been much tested but if someone does: don't forget to manually add the 'Upload' validator to the list of validators). Just like the original one, it won't work if used in a form where isArray is true or inside of a subform.
I hope that helps
breakChainOnFailure is an existing feature request and not a bug. See ZF-4205.
custom messages is an existing feature request and not a bug. See ZF-4150.
File validators act completly different than string validators like used in all other elements. This is its nature because files can not act as content.
Zend_File_Transfer does not mimic Zend_Form validation. Zend_File_Transfer was built with completly other targets than Zend_Form. Zend_Form does only use a small part of what Zend_File_Transfer was meant for. The reason is that Zend_File_Transfer has it's own needs, and any subcomponent using it has to match the requisists of it and look to add it's own requisists itself.
Regarding of your complete issue, it's never a good idea to add multi issues, in your case 5 completly different ones, in a single issue. And always look if there is already a existing issue before adding a new one.
Thomas, I understand your points, I however grouped those issues because to me they all relate to delegating validation for file elements to Zend_File_Transfer, which as you say has been built with completely other targets than Zend_Form.
And indeed, not using Zend_File_Transfer does solve all of them at once.
The system just eaten my complete answer so I have to shorten my comment:
First: We know that the component is far away from being finished. We have had to hurry to get it ready for 1.6 so much things are missing and will be added. Each release will add new features. We are aware of this and know the problematic.
Second: Your implementation is a security headache. I must strictly warn about using it. By using a manual implementation you first loose all benefits of Zend_File_Transfer, for example validators and filters. And, this is the greater neg, you will have massive security problems with your solution. Do not use such an implementation in productive environment.
Zend_Form handles Form creation. Zend_File_Transfer handles file uploads and downloads, and it knows the security problems and handles them for you.
The breakChainOnFailure feature has been added. See ZF-4205 and r11430.
All described issue are eigther solved or already filed by other issues.
The only open this is what you've mentioned with addElementPrefixPath. Please give some code for reproduction so we can see and test the problem.
Thomas, I couldn't reproduce the addElementPrefixPath bug; I can't remember exactly what I did to get this outcome. We can close this issue, I'll submit another one along with sample code if I come across this problem again.
Concerning my implementation of Zend_Form_Element_File above, it was indeed not ready for production and was a simple proof of concept to illustrate what I was saying. Though, unlike what you said it does handle most of the validation done in the current Zend_Form_Element_File implementation (granted that you don't forget to add manually Zend_Validate_File_Upload to the list of validators).
I will then close this issue. All other mentioned problems or features have already be integrated to trunk.
Thanks for your report.
Problems resolved, eighter in seperate issues, or by independend enhencements of the components.
Please fill in a new issue if something is not fixed.


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But hes not scary. seriously. i mean yeah the other day he kicked me but so what. i hit him hard back.
he let me listen to his music though! (oh hes in my school by the way. i hang with him all the timeeee)
Infact, I'm refusing to go if we are just shopping and hanging out with vampires.
eve, I always picture your school as being my old school for some reason
HES NOT A VAMPIRE XD i may be but he isnt
maybe i should hold GARLIC UP TO HIM ASHAGKAJSAHSJ
well currently im pissed with him so i couldnt care less
so have we come to a consensus that hicky is a social awkward nerd who is scared of women?
"I'll go," said Chagataev. "But what will I do there? Build socialism?"
"What else?" said the secretary.
hell no
you destroy me or argue against my points and then it can be proven. but only by a debate on a large scale.
really? that may explain your supposed social awkwardness
or are you just saying that to be a smartass
I didn't say that. I concur being socially adept and I also concur being a nerd on a grand scale.
how would you explain me being hicky?
I don't have FESD on a large noterity. It gave me stunted physical and emotional development, but nothing more that would affect the way that I communicate and view people.
I'm obsessive over things. There is really no problem with being like that. It's not 'woman-like', last time I checked.
It's not homosexual to follow a woman around to shop. What else are you going to do in the store? Talk to the clerks?Plus, my ideology of what was gonna happen was different. All Eve did is go shopping, and since shopping is a woman's thing (and that other rapist-biker hybrid dude was betruved to Nicola so he couldn't BETRAY her), all Eve did is look round and I would look pretty stupid if I followed her around like a sheep for the entire thing and helping her pick clothes like a homosexual.
I smell some tears.- The guy was really scary and I feared him to be a rapist
Cry?- I was hungover.
Cry more?- I was busy with all these other issues and those were on my mind too much.
This is why people say you are afraid of females.- Eve said would you like to come along, I seized the oppurtunity and then didn't want to intervene with the fact she was enjoying herself without me. I didn't want to interfere.
Yes, they invited you along just so you would annoy them.There were 2 other people there. This was a very situational thing, me being there was more of an annoyance to them than it was a benefit.
Man that shit up. Problem solved.So, thus, having the occasional contribution was all I really could do.


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Welcome to Buffaloes Summer Break where CUBuffs.com catches up with Colorado student-athletes and coaching staff members throughout the summer "off season."
Today's installment comes from junior nordic skier Andreas Hoye. A native of Oslo, Norway, Hoye competed in 11 events as a sophomore with five top 10 finishes including a season-high fourth in the 20K Classical race at the Alaska-Anchorage Seawolf Invitational. He was a second team All-Rocky Mountain Intercollegiate Ski Association pick after placing seventh in the 20K Classical and 11th in the 10K Free Style at the 2012 RMISA Championships. Hoye, a 2011 National Division I All-Academic Ski Team selection, is the younger brother of five-time CU All-American Henrik Hoye.
What is your favorite summer time activity?
Rollerskiing in beautiful sunshine with a boat trip afterwards.
Favorite vacation destination and why?
Oslo, Norway because it is the most beautiful place in the world. (CU women's golfer) Emily Talley can confirm this.
What was your first summer job?
Worked as an assistant in the claim department and later a claim adjuster at an insurance company.
What was your most memorable summer job experience?
Getting the paycheck the first time.
What is the most important activity you engage in during the summer months that helps prepare you for the next season?
Long workouts of either biking, running or rollerskiing.
If they offered a class in ______________________ at Colorado during the summer I would surely get an A+
School of life.
What is your favorite moment here at Colorado so far?
Meeting my beautiful girlfriend.
The thing that surprised you the most about the move from the Big 12 to the Pac-12 Conferences is:
That it didn't affect us at all.
Best advice for youth that are beginning to compete in athletics.
Do what you want to do and don't let anybody tell you what you can't do.
If you could play a single game/event for a CU team that is not your sport, which would it be and why?
A round of golf because I could really use the practice.
If you could bring one famous person to Colorado for a day-long tour who would it be, and what would you do with them?
Bill Gates to show him that even though he made Microsoft, he missed out on the best years of his life by dropping out of college.