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Such a simple idea but a must-have for any baby! The car seat cover up allows you to completely cover your car seat without the use of blankets that tend to slip off. Now you can cover up your baby while maintaining your fabulous fashion sense.
*Please note: Please maintain proper ventilation at all times. Never leave your child unsupervised while using the Car Seat Cover Up.
•Keeps strangers from touching your new little one
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•Provides shade during the summer months (while providing proper ventilation, of course!)
•Keeps germs off of baby during the cold and flu season
•Decreases distractions to let a tired baby sleep
This is the perfect baby gift for someone that has everything.
Materials Needed:
-1 yard of main fabric (NOTE: If you're using a fabric that has a direction to it, you'll need 42".)
-1 yard plus 3 inches of coordinating fabric (the extra fabric is for the straps)
-8 inches of Velco (I use 1 ½" sew on Velcro)
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Easy Pattern
Great pattern. Easy to follow directions and turns out beautiful.
My best buddy loved these for each of her
When it says to measure from the top to put the straps, what is considered the top,(42 or 35 1/2) I don't have a car seat .
makes a great gift
This was a very easy pattern, my first time making a car seat cover and it was really easy to follow the instructions. Great as a baby shower gift.
Love love love this pattern. Very easy to follow instructions :)
This was so simple to make! Just takes a few hours to sew up! You did a wonderful job with pictures and instructions.
Perfect for a beginner!
I have made 4 covers and this is a great pattern. So many easy ways to customize it. Always getting compliments.
Super easy, and super useful for helping to keep my little one safe from germs. Thanks so much!
Quick and easy. Love it.
I love this pattern!!! I've lost track of how many I've made for baby showers. Thanks for the pattern.
Fantastic pattern. Super easy. Made one and gave it as a baby gift- it was a huge hit!!
Love it! thank you!
This is a great pattern! I've had four babies, and all of them have been born during cold and flu My last baby was lucky that I had this pattern! I loved that I could cover her up from the cold and keep the bright sun or store lights out of her eyes when she was sleeping. It's also great for preventing strangers from touching your newborn baby!
Thnk you so much! WOnderful pattern easy to follow.
Loved this pattern. Great gift.
Love this pattern!! Super easy to follow detailed instructions with lots of pictures !
Great pattern! Super easy and looks so good!
I made this for several baby gifts getting readyv make another one. Everyone was thrilled with it. It is so inexpensive and practical.
I've made this pattern three times now. It was one of the most useful things I made for my daughter. It kept the rain, cold, sun, wind, and nosy people away from my daughter. I've since made it twice more as baby gifts and both moms were thrilled. It's so super easy and by being a little creative you can make each one unique. I added grosgrain ribbon bows to the straps to girly it up for my little princess.
love this pattern makes great gifts for baby showers
Simple brilliant idea! What a way to stand out in the crowd and keep your baby protected from the elements. I love this pattern!
LOVE this pattern!! I made 4 different ones for my baby carrier. I also made one for a few friends as well. So easy and I love how my baby could sleep peacefully without being bugged. It also makes a nice cover, then a makeshift blanket when the weather turned unexpectedly cool.
After losing too many blankets in parking lots and dirt, I was delighted to find this pattern. I made two for shower gifts and they both turned out great. Getting ready to start on one for my newest baby. The directions were easy to follow and I had great results even though I'm a beginning sewer.
Just made this as a shower gift! It's a fantastic pattern and very easy to do. I made mine out of a football print material so the daddy would have something "masculine" to help cover the baby. I'll use this pattern often.


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DIY Framed Fabric Pin Board - A Blogger's Office Makeover
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This is great! And you look beautiful. (by way of general PS) keep up the good work!ReplyDelete
awesome! love this idea! the contrast of black and white is gorgeous :)ReplyDelete
Love it so much Shelley! And I LOVE the quote on good/bad design, ha!ReplyDelete
Love it! It turned out super cute!ReplyDelete
So cute! I am currently making something similiar. I love yours! Good job as always.ReplyDelete
Just love it!! So perfect!ReplyDelete
Love that - its a great way to add some pizzaz to what could otherwise be boring. Cute cute!ReplyDelete
I love it! Looks great:)ReplyDelete
Very cute! I am currently remaking my office, too. It's at the front of the house, so everything is a wreck, and it's the first thing people see. Loving your real live pinning board ;D.ReplyDelete
What a lovely board. I only wish my board would stay looking so organized and PRETTY!!! Mine always ends up looking like ONE of my many junk drawers.. :)ReplyDelete
LOVE IT! It looks striking in your office :)ReplyDelete
the frame is adorable, but look at your beautiful profile! you're such a cute girl!ReplyDelete
this is so cute! now I want to make one. I also want a work space that's not in a common area (the kitchen) but that will all come in time.ReplyDelete
Thanks for the idea and tutorial! pinning to save for a rainy day!
looks great! love the frame!!ReplyDelete
LOVE your office and your blog, but I really wish you didn't have that DIY video thing come on automatically! I wouldn't mind if I had the option to hear it, but for it to just come on spontaneously gives me a hear attack!ReplyDelete
But still love your blog.
I love the frame!!! It's fantastic.I think something like this will look fantastic in my new baby's nursery.ReplyDelete
BTW...you look amazing!!!!
I love your board! Also, I was wondering where you got the mustard color pillow? I love that. Thanks!ReplyDelete
- Karen FAugust 28, 2012 at 6:26 PM
okay, so where is the size you bought on that website?ReplyDelete
I can see why you are so happy with it. I LOVE IT....great job and thanks for sharing. Regards Kathy A, Brisbane, AustraliaReplyDelete
Cute, cute board! Just wanted to say that we received our September edition of This Old House and it was so cool to see your entryway in there!! I saw it and thought, "I know that!" I love what you did to your closet and that's awesome to have it featured in a magazine. My husband and I both love This Old HOuse. Congrats!ReplyDelete
Wow that looks great. I thought it was chalk and a magnet board at first. I love the frame too.ReplyDelete
We just moved to Utah, and in true "stalker" fashion, I keep hoping I will run into you somewhere. :O) I think you are awesome! I love your decorating ideas and have used a lot of them in my home. I have been wanting to do this type of pin board for some time, thank you for this post. :O)ReplyDelete
Awesome! I love it! :)ReplyDelete
love the board- question what did you use for your current projects section? are those mini clipboards? how did you fasten them to your board? thanksReplyDelete
Love it! But not as much as you and your family. Miss you guys, 6 more months and then we can see all of the cuteness in person.ReplyDelete
It looks very nice, but how you trimmed frame?ReplyDelete
Soooo Cute! I love it.ReplyDelete
This is beautiful. The frame is gorgeous. Since you've provided such stellar instructions, I'm going to make one with a cast off frame I have. Love the tool! Thank you!ReplyDelete
Oh, I love this!ReplyDelete
- Mama McCormicAugust 29, 2012 at 3:21 PM
So fun to scroll through your post and take it all in, and then I hit the last picture... dang girl! I know you've been working hard and it shows! You look fantastic! Thanks for continuing to inspire!ReplyDelete
I love the frame and how you organized your "room decorating supplies"! :)ReplyDelete
You are so gorgeous! you look GREAT girl! keep up the good work!ReplyDelete
Cute! That frame is great!! I was going to try the ole', buy a huge ugly goodwill print for the frame trick...until they installed our house alarm panel when I wasn't home to specify where..looks like I'll be ordering a frame now!!ReplyDelete
Love love love....ReplyDelete
Love the office!!! Almost as cute as you! :) If only I had the money and energy...my office would look like that.ReplyDelete
BTW, I'm offering FREE E-designs at my blog, so spread the word.
Love it! I especially like how you have all your project inspirations for each room clipped together. It looks really cool!ReplyDelete
Gosh you're getting slim and gorgeouser!!ReplyDelete
This is so great! I love the white and gray together. I might have to try this!!ReplyDelete
- Paula OAugust 31, 2012 at 12:33 AM
loves this!!! so doing this for my girls room!! yeah for your inspiration as always!ReplyDelete
Love it Shelley! I am especially digging your little clipped projects. I hate having clutter and that's the perfect way to gather little snippets of inspiration. I can honestly say, ironing to remove all creases from the fabric would be the most difficult part for me LOLReplyDelete
- AnonymousSeptember 1, 2012 at 6:32 PM
Seriously you look hot! Keep up the amazing work.ReplyDelete
I love this!! I pinned it this morning:) Am I supposed to let you guys know when I do that? What are the "Blogger" rules. I'm not a Blogger, I just want to be respectful-thanks!ReplyDelete
I love this! I pinned it this morning. If I pin something, am I supposed to let the Blogger know? Just want to be sure and be respectful-thanks:)ReplyDelete
So cute and creative!! I would love to know where you got your insta-Polaroid pictures and the sweet printables from your board?ReplyDelete
So cute and creative!! I would love to know where you got those Insta-Polaroids and sweet printables? And by the way keep your awesome inspiration and joy seeing your work!!!ReplyDelete
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The 21 Bitcoin Computer is the first computer with native hardware and software support for the Bitcoin protocol according to the company that had made it – 21 Inc. That means the hardware to provide a constant stream of Bitcoin and the software to make that bitcoins useful for buying and selling digital goods and additionally developers can use the 21 Bitcoin Computer to quickly create apps, services, and devices that can be rented or bought for bitcoin.
The 21 Bitcoin Computer is a special board with an ASIC mining chip that is attached to a Raspberry Pi 2 chassis, and comes with a WiFi and power adapter, 128 GB SD card, USB-to-laptop cable, and everything you need to run it either as a standalone machine or to provide bitcoin to a Mac, Windows, or Linux computer. It comes with a full copy of the Blockchain pre-loaded on a 128GB SD card meaning that the computer will briefly synchronize with the network when you plug it in, after which point it will run as a full node by default without further intervention.
If you are interested what the dedicated ASIC chip is capable of, it seems that the 21 Bitcoin Chip has an efficiency of approximately 0.16 Joules per Gigahash and can calculate 50-125 Gigahashes per second. So apparently the focus is not only on providing you with a compact and not very powerful mining solution, but instead a device that can be used for supporting the Bitcoin network and can be used by users for offering goods or services taking payments in Bitcoin with the mining just adding a bit probably enough to cover the costs of running the hardware. You can already pre-order the 21 Bitcoin Computer for $399.99 USD and it will start shipping on November 16, 2015.
The $400 USD price tag is a bit steep if you consider the device as a Bitcoin mining-only solution due to the fact that it is not that powerful, even though it seems pretty efficient in terms of power usage even for the low hashrate it offers. It seems that was not designed to be used as a typical mining hardware like the other ASIC miners for Bitcoin, but instead the main target seem to be developers that are willing to write applications or integrate it as a part of a product or service that they are already offering as a means to integrate Bitcoin support. So miners are probably not going to be interested in the device, but developers might take some interest in this standalone solution, but it seems we'll see what will happen in November when it hits the market.
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Doran Wittelsbach, San Francisco, 2009
Is 2013 the year of the Dandy?
Kate Irvin and Laurie Brewer, curators of the new exhibit Artist/Rebel/Dandy certainly think so. But for them it's been more like "The Years of the Dandies". This is something we have in common, having both been working on parallel projects about dandyism for the last several years. I was able to meet up with these talented ladies last fall about the exhibit, and am honored to have three large prints included in the show set to open April 28 and on view until August 18, 2013 at the Museum of Art and the Rhode Island School of Design. It'll be a dandy summer for sure!
The opening festivities are in kicking into high gear - opening gala, dance party, and first tweed run in Providence! Check out their schedule and facebook page for more info.
Massimiliano Mocchia di Coggiola, Paris, Sept 2011
This exhibit has it's heart in the right place, as far as I'm concerned. For one, the initial inspiration was the late Richard Merkin. And although their focus is on fashion and textiles, which many of the exhibits on dandyism have been, they see the men who wear the clothes as being the driving factor of meaning. The clothes are the artifact of the amazing life lived. The dandy - who is the artist, the rebel - is the revolutionary force driving us forward. They don't try to fit in with anyone else, they don't try to be a dandy, they just are. Their nature is to be on the vanguard, and because they cannot stand to go along with the crowd, they innovate by default. Why did Guy Hills start making Dashing Tweeds? Because he wanted the colors and prints that no one made anymore (or ever!). Again and again this theme repeats in the stories of the men I have photographed.
So all hail the year of the Dandy! Capped off, of course, by my book debut in the fall!
More from the exhibit...Love seeing this vintage shot of Mark Twain in a linen suit next to Massimiliano!
Alvin Langdon Coburn, Mark Twain, 1908.
Shirt (detail), late-18th century. Linen plain weave with cotton ruffle.
Les Manteaux, published in Gazette du Bon Ton (vol. 12), 1913. Bernard Boutet de Monvel, illustrator.
Four-piece suit worn by Michael Strange (pseudonym of Blanche Oelrichs), ca. 1928. Brooks Uniform Co., tailor, New York, est. last quarter of 19th century. Wool crepe coat with silk velvet collar, wool crepe trousers, cotton velvet waistcoat, silk plain weave dickie.


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In the comments on my most recent WeakAuras post, several people said that they'd be interested in hearing about my user interface (UI) and keybinding setups. I discussed my UI setup briefly about a year ago, but it's probably worth a more complete (and updated) discussion.
User Interface
For starters, here's my interface. The link below contains an annotated screenshot where I've identified all of the relevant addons I'm using.
I've put a lot of thought into this interface, revamping and revising it over many years. The basic goal is pretty straightforward – make information easily accessible and arrange it in order of importance. As I said in the Ask Theck post:
[My UI is] generally arranged around a principle of "least eye movement." The idea is that the stuff you need to act on quickly should be in front of you, and require little to no eye movement to see. Stuff that's not as important, or things you only check once in a while, go farther out. This minimizes the amount of time your eyes spend searching your UI for information, and lets you concentrate on the decision-making portions of gameplay.
What's important? Things like ability cooldowns, important temporary buffs (GAnK, AD, etc.), enemy spell casts, and DBM timers that are about to expire. As you can see, those things are all clustered around the middle of the screen, just far enough out that I have an unobstructed view of myself, the boss, and the area immediately around me. My WeakAuras HUD gives me at-a-glance information about my rotational abilities directly below my character. I have Gnosis set up to put an enemy cast bar right above the Holy Power indicator. A custom Raven group slightly off to the upper left tells me about important temporary buffs, which includes pretty much every mitigation cooldown, enchant, and trinket proc I might care about. And DBM timers that are about to expire are to the immediate left, so I can see what's coming up in the next 10 seconds.
As we go further out, things gradually drop off in importance. Below the WeakAuras HUD is my own cast bar (which almost never shows, since we don't cast much), and immediately below that are my player, target, target of target (ToT), and ToToT unit frames. Below those are my Bartender action bars and minimap. Boss and boss target frames are to the right. Longer-duration DBM timers are off to the top left. Incoming damage and heals are shown to the far left (via Mik's Scrolling Battle Text, or MSBT), and outgoing damage is shown to the far right (also MSBT). Grid is off to the far left. In the corners are the least important things: Chat frame, Omen/Recount, buff icons (via Raven).
One thought you might have had is, "Wait, isn't your health important?" Indeed it is, which may lead to the follow-up question, "So why is your player frame so far from the center?" The answer is scale – note how large the health bar is. It's that size for a reason – it makes it easy to see in the periphery of my vision. I don't need the player frame to be any closer, because the health bar is so big that I can easily see it at all times at that distance without looking. Since I generally only need a rough estimate of my health anyway, this is perfect. It's also the reason so many unit frame mods make the health bar so big, and one of the major reasons why a unit frame addon is preferable to the default UI.
As a final note, I should mention that I double up on some keys by using Clique in combination with Grid. Clique lets you assign spells to modifier+mouse button combinations on specific frames. So, for example, I can set it up such that when I use Mouse4 on a player in Grid, it casts WoG on them, even though Mouse4 is bound to CS when I click it outside of the Grid frames. This adds a lot of versatility, especially for spells that target friendly players – it's basically like an entire suite of mouseover macros, but only for the particular unit frames you want them to work on. So in Clique, I have WoG, Sacred Shield, and all of the Hand spells bound to different mouse/modifier combinations.
Key Bindings
My key binding setup is a bit peculiar. First of all, I don't use the default movement keys (WASD). Instead I use ESDF. To see why, consider these two images of the two setups:
Most players who use a WASD scheme will bind A and D to left and right strafe, respectively. W controls forward motion, while S is backpedaling. Those four keys give you your basic range of motion. Then you have the keys on the periphery that you can use for bindings: 1-4, Q, E, F, Z, X, and C are all prime real estate for abilities. There are some keys that are a little harder to reach, which are shown in yellow: tilde, 5, T, G, and V. These are reachable, but require a little bit of stretching. Everything else is a little tough to reach – you can hit F1-F5, but you have to take your fingers off of WASD; similarly, 6, B, H and Y are pretty much unreachable without loss of movement control. However, you do have full control of all three modifier keys – Alt, Control, and Shift – which allows you a decent number of key binding combinations.
Now let's look at the ESDF scheme:
In ESDF, your movement keys are shifted over one spot. This opens up a number of new bindings. First of all, I disagree with the coloring in this image – green is supposed to indicate that a key is fast and easy to reach, so Z, X, C, and V ought to be green instead of yellow. V, G, T, and 5 are now in the "easy-to-reach" category, bringing our total of "easy" buttons to 15, up from 11 in the WASD scheme. We can also reach 1, 6, Y, H, and B now with only a little stretching (Y, H, and B could almost be included in the "easy" set in my opinion, but that may depend on your hand size and typing ability). Our total of yellow keys is still 5 (tilde, 5, T, G, V in the WASD scheme; 1, 6, Y, H, B in the ESDF scheme). And we still have 4 keys to the right that we can hit if we give up movement control (7, U, J, N) along with the F-keys, but we've added a new one to the top left (tilde). We also keep all three modifier keys in this configuration, opening up quite a few more binding options. This is one of the strengths of the ESDF scheme: it expands the number of binds you can access with your left hand.
There's another reason the ESDF scheme is more convenient for me – it maintains your usual hand positioning while typing. I took a keyboarding class in high school, so I was taught proper hand positioning and typing practice. My hands naturally drift to the home row when I'm in front of a keyboard, and I'm pretty proficient at reaching all potential key combinations (to the tune of ~70 words per minute, give or take). It just feels unnatural to me to put my hand in the WASD configuration. Furthermore, I can actually hit most of the "unreachable" buttons with my left hand without too much trouble if I need to, because most keyboards have a raised "nub" on F and J that lets you quickly position your hands. So while I have to give up control to hit U, J, N, or 7, I can do it in a pinch because it takes me very little time to recover.
So how do I arrange my skills within this scheme? Something like this:
In this image, the lower right corner is what's bound to that key normally. To the left is the combination with the Alt modifier, and top right is the combination with the Control modifier. So for example, hitting W uses a trinket, Shift+W is Hammer of Wrath, and Alt+W is Word of Glory.
F1-F8 take some work to hit, but they're still accessible enough that it was worth using them for something. When I was raid leading, I found myself needing to use raid markers quickly while in combat, and these keys were perfect for that since I wasn't using them otherwise.
1-5 are easier to reach, and thus get more common spells. 1 is a Righteous Fury toggle macro that helps with taunt swaps. 2 is Judgment, which is a bind that literally goes back to the first days of WoW – it's the spot where Judgment defaulted to when I learned it, and it never moved. 3 is Rebuke, and in general I use 3 for interrupts on all of my characters. 4 is Hammer of Justice (and likewise, usually a stun or CC on other classes). 5 is a Hand of Protection macro that doesn't get much use anymore, but still comes in handy occasionally.
Tilde is my mount macro, since it's far enough out that it would be difficult to use in combat. N brings up the talents pane, J brings up my world map. I don't remember what U does, but it's another interface panel of some sort.
Q is Holy Avenger. I don't have anything else relevant bound to Q, because I moved the quest log to Shift+Q and the other combinations (Alt+Q and Control+Q) are awkward. W pulls triple duty: its default function is a /castsequence trinket macro, but with Shift it becomes Hammer of Wrath (Shift+W has been my "execute" button for what seems like forever) and with Alt it becomes my self-WoG hotkey. I don't actually have a WoG keybind for other players – I use Grid and Clique for that (Mouse4 on a unit's box casts WoG on them).
E is solely for movement. In the past, I've had things bound to Shift+E and Alt+E, but it had a tendency to get in the way of movement (or, for example, moving while using a different Shift+Key bind) so I unbound them. R is actually the in-game "reply to whisper" function, which is probably a waste, but it's become so ingrained that every time I try to re-bind it somewhere else and use that key, I end up casting whatever I put there every time I try to reply to someone, so I gave up on that. I do have Shift+R bound to a macro that self-casts my L90 talent (Light's Hammer on the image, even though it doesn't actually work with that particular talent).
T is still the default "toggle auto-attack" button, but Shift+T is my L90 talent (again, shown as Light's Hammer). I have Alt+T bound to Turn Evil, but to be honest I can't remember casting it once so far this expansion, so I left it off the diagram. Y is a little difficult to use, so I have it bound to my cloak tinker (Goblin Glider). H is Divine Protection by default, and Shift+H is Devotion Aura. Alt+H is difficult to use effectively, so it's not bound.
B is actually Shield of the Righteous. I think that by default, B opens your bags (a function I've moved to Shift+B), but that seemed like a waste of good key real estate, so I quickly (as in, in late 2004) rebound that to take advantage of it.
V controls a mouseover macro that taunts if the target is hostile and casts Cleanse if they're friendly. Shift+V is my self-cleanse button (which hasn't gotten much use since Wrath, when Cleanse was nerfed). C is still bound to the character pane (another bind I just couldn't disabuse myself of), but Shift+C is Avenging Wrath. Alt+C is bound for use out-of-combat (Survey, I think) since it's too awkward to use during combat.
X and Z are my big defensive buttons. I've had X bound to Divine Shield since Classic WoW, with a /cancelaura macro for "stupid pally tricks." Shift+X is my bind for Guardian of Ancient Kings. I don't think Alt+X is bound to anything at all, certainly nothing I use enough to remember it. Z is Ardent Defender. Alt+Z is bound to something too, but it's not combat related (I think it toggles the UI for screenshots).
Now for the movement row. S, D, and F are my strafe and backpedal buttons, as per the usual ESDF scheme. Shift+S is Repentance, and Shift+F is a Hand of Freedom macro (also bound to 6, but Shift+F is much easier to hit). Alt+S is my keybind for the ExtraActionButton that Blizzard added in Cataclysm. D is my consumable button – Shift+D uses my healthstone (or a healing potion – it's a dynamic macro made by the addon Buffet) and Alt+D uses an armor potion (in DPS specs, this is a DPS potion).
A and G are actually… keyboard turning, believe it or not. Now, before you start laughing, hear me out. Would I absolutely need these keys? Probably not – I do most of my turning with the right mouse button and strafing. And I probably should unbind them and put something useful on A and G. But I've found that there are times when I want to be moving and turning and clicking on something – for example, I'm strafe-kiting a group of adds and I'm trying to target a loose one that's on a healer (think heroic Nefarian in T11 for a specific example). Being able to "circle-strafe" with just the keyboard is actually pretty useful in those situations, because it gives me a little more freedom of movement while still giving me the freedom to use my mouse for targeting. I think that in the long run, these keys will get rebound once I decide I need more easily-available key binds. but I seem to have more than enough as it is, so I'm in no hurry.
Shift+A isn't shown, but it's a self-cast Hand of Salvation macro that doesn't see much use anymore. Shift+G is my "self-cast Sacred Shield" macro.
You might notice some conspicuous omissions on this list. For example… where's Crusader Strike? Well, this is another oddity of my play style. I actually perform most of my regular rotation with my mouse. I use a Logitech G400 (formerly MX518, formerly MX500):
The thumb buttons (mouse4 and mouse5, or back and forward in most browsers) cover CS, HotR, and AS. I have SotR bound to Shift+Mouse4 as well, which is a little redundant until you think about how I have it bound on the keyboard. I can easily hit B while moving forward, left, or backward, but I can't simultaneously strafe right (F) and hit B because they require the same finger. B used to be my Holy Shield bind in Cataclysm (and Shift+Mouse4 my SotR bind), and in tweaking my binds for Mists beta I just dropped SotR there in its place. I got used to using B in beta, and now use it more than Shift+M4 just because it's faster and easier to hit, even though Shift+M4 is less obtrusive.
The three buttons on the top of the mouse are re-bound to [, ], and ' in Logitech's software, which are then bound to the spells shown in-game. The button above the wheel controls Holy Wrath, Consecration (with Shift), and Every Man for Himself (with Alt). This button has generally become my "AoE" button on other characters as well.
The button immediately below the wheel used to control Hand of Reckoning (now Reckoning) and Righteous Defense (with Shift) until they removed RD. Blinding Light was my drop-in replacement for that slot, though to be honest I've used it so little that I've been swapping it out for fight-specific macros. Alt+this button is what I use for my belt tinker (Plasma Shield or Nitro Boosts).
The final button on the top of the mouse is Lay on Hands, and automatically self-casts when combined with Shift. I don't believe I have anything bound to Alt+ either of these keys at the moment, but I have slots for them on Bartender so that I can put fight-specific stuff there.
All of my seals are handled with the mouse wheel. The wheel's unmodified behavior is zooming in and out (I frequently do this during fights for a better view of what's going on, or to zoom in to see the ground beneath me better). I used to use Shift+Wheel for auras in Cataclysm, but found that once in a while I'd accidentally change (or turn off) auras during combat when I was trying to cast and zoom at the same time. With auras removed in MoP, it was logical to move seals to these keybinds (Seals used to be Shift+R, Shift+T, Shift+G) since they're not as commonly changed, but to avoid the "accidental swap" issue I changed the modifier keys to Alt and Control.


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ESA planning missions to take out space trash
Half a century of space exploration has created a shroud of junk around Earth. As part of its Clean Space initiative, ESA plans to tackle the problem directly: by designing dedicated removal missions.
Around 5000 space launches since 1957 have led to an orbiting population of more than 22 000 trackable objects larger than a coffee cup. Only about 1100 of these are working satellites – the other 95% are space debris.
More than a hundred European experts from industry, academia and national space agencies gathered at ESOC – ESA's European Space Operations Centre in Darmstadt, Germany – on 17–18 September to discuss ways to actively remove debris from orbit.
The event took place as part of ESA's new Clean Space initiative, developing techniques and tools to reduce the space industry's environmental impact and ensure its sustainability.
The initiative covers ground-based industrial activities, but also the preservation of near-Earth space in a usable manner. Europe is far from the biggest space polluter – but the problem affects everyone.
ESA's Director of Human Spaceflight and Operations, Thomas Reiter, underlined the subject's urgency: "Modern life has become unthinkable without uninterrupted services delivered from space. However, space has become crowded and our spaceflight activities are exposed to increasing risk."
Debris-avoidance manoeuvres have become routine for International Space Station crews, and the problem is getting worse: low orbit debris levels have increased 50% in the last five years.
Reducing debris from future missions is not enough. Even if all launches ended tomorrow, the total amount of debris is bound to go on increasing.
Four decades ago, NASA space debris expert Don Kessler correctly foretold the 'Kessler Effect', observing that, once past a certain critical debris mass, collisions form further debris and lead to more collisions, in a chain reaction.
"The most severe collision in low-Earth orbit to date involved the Iridium-33 and defunct Cosmos-2251 satellites on 10 February 2009," explained Director Reiter.
"With a relative velocity of 36 000 km/h, the collision left more than 3000 trackable fragments."
Collisions remain rare for now, but old satellites risk exploding due to leftover fuel or partially charged batteries kept illuminated in orbital sunlight. Such explosions risk driving debris levels to 'critical density'.
"The only way to overcome this is to intervene and reduce the number of objects in the environment by an active retrieval of decommissioned objects," the Director added.
"The removal of a large, uncontrolled object is an enormous technological challenge – but by removing on the order of five to 10 such objects per year, it would be possible to control debris growth while normal spacecraft activities could be continued."
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The fifth ATV, flying in 2015, will include experimental optical sensors that could be used for future rendezvous with 'uncooperative targets'.
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Summer Intern Honors Program in EPA's Office of Regional Counsel in Dallas (Region 6)
Under this program, EPA Region 6 will select students to work as interns in an intensive training program that will expose them to demanding front-line environmental enforcement (civil and criminal) or counseling work.
What do interns hired under this program do?
If accepted, you can expect to:
- work on both substantive and procedural matters involving almost every EPA program (e.g., Superfund, RCRA, Clean Air Act, Clean Water Act, etc.),
- attend strategy meetings with agency clients and negotiations with the regulated community in enforcement and other cases,
- receive formal briefings from agency expert attorneys on current front burner issues, and
- participate in local environmental bar educational and social sessions.
Who is eligible?
To be eligible for an internship with Region 6's Office of Regional Counsel, you must be a current law student (or LLM student), rather than a law school graduate.
You must meet the requirements of section 3(b) and 8(e)-(g) of the EPA Order 3100.4B.
What is the typical length of employment?
The program typically runs from late May to early August each summer. We understand that you may be available only during part of the summer and will try to accommodate your availability.
Where would I work?
You would work in EPA's office in Dallas.
Are the positions paid? What are the benefits?
Our office is not able to provide financial compensation. You might be able to find stipends or grants from outside sources or obtain course credits from your law school. Interns are considered unpaid volunteers rather than federal employees. You would therefore not receive federal employee benefits, although you would be entitled to claims under the Federal Employees' Compensation Act and the Federal Tort Claims Act.
Although Region 6 encourages applicants from across the nation, we cannot provide travel expenses.
How and when do I apply?
Selections will be made on a rolling basis until all positions are filled. Applications must be emailed, postmarked or faxed by February 15.
In order to be considered for the program, you should submit:
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- EPA Form 3100-14, Volunteer Service Program Participation Agreement(1 pg, 47 K)
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Ellen Chang-Vaughan (6RC-EW)
Office of Regional Counsel
U.S. EPA Region 6
1445 Ross Avenue
Dallas, TX 75202-2733
Fax (214) 665-3177
Phone (214) 665-7328
Questions regarding this program should be addressed to Ms. Chang-Vaughan at (214) 665-7328.
View general information regarding EPA Region 6 and some of our key issues.
Model Sponsorship Letter
Ms. Ellen Chang-Vaughan
Office of Regional Counsel
U.S. EPA Region 6 (6RC-EW)
1445 Ross Avenue
Dallas, TX 75202-2733
Re: EPA Region 6 Summer Intern Honors Program
Dear Ms. Chang-Vaughan:
This is to inform you that [student name] is a student in good standing at [law school name] and eligible for participation in the EPA Region 6 Summer Intern Honors Program. If [student name] is accepted to the Summer Intern Honors Program the work [he/she] performs under the Program will be relevant to [his/her] educational goals in that [he/she] has a strong interest in environmental law, and the experience will complement [his/her] law studies at [law school name]. If you have any questions regarding this matter, please call me at [telephone number].
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Helen Clark: The London School of Economics, International Growth Centre Public Lecture "The next global development agenda: From aspiration to delivery"Jan 21, 2014
London, UK - My thanks go to the London School of Economics and the International Growth Centre for this opportunity to discuss the prospects for the post-2015 development agenda. I also commend the International Growth Centre for the role it is playing in providing independent and research-based advice to developing country governments on economic growth.
My topic today is: "The Next Global Development Agenda: from aspiration to delivery". Discussion on the renewed agenda is well under way, with a view to it succeeding the MDGs from 2016.
The signs are that this agenda can be bolder than the MDGs were, responding to the challenges faced by developed and developing countries alike. It will be a sustainable development agenda with poverty eradication as a central imperative.
The MDG agenda largely set targets for developing countries to meet, with a partnership goal outlining measures which would support development – from better trade rules to debt relief. A Sustainable Development Goals agenda could be more transformational – encouraging transitions to sustainable economies and societies by all, and supporting developing countries with the means to make those transitions.
Already the UN's Member States have agreed that the agenda should have a "single framework and set of goals – universal in nature and applicable to all countries, while taking account of differing national circumstances and respecting national policies. It should promote peace, and security, democratic governance, the rule of law, gender equality, and human rights for all." Those were the words of the outcome document of the leader-level meeting on the MDGs and post-2015 last September in New York.
That document expresses a high level of ambition. The world would be a better place if its aspirations could be delivered on. Are Member States likely to agree on that agenda and on what it would take to achieve it? What are the world's peoples saying about it? What stands in the way of meeting them? Those are some of the issues I will address in my lecture tonight.
The Global Challenges to Sustainable Development: These encompass but go well beyond the major environmental challenges to include:
Persistently high income inequality, inequality of opportunity, and other non-income disparities, together with significant numbers of people still living in extreme poverty.
Equality was highlighted as a fundamental value in the United Nations Millennium Declaration in 2000, when world leaders acknowledged that: "in addition to our separate responsibilities to our individual societies, we have a collective responsibility to uphold the principles of human dignity, equality and equity at the global level."
Yet little progress has been made in combating inequality in its various forms. Global income inequality stands at a very high level: eight per cent of the world's population earns half the world's income, with the remaining 92 per cent earning the other half. Such a distribution is rightly viewed by global civil society networks as unacceptably high, as it is both unjust and undermines development progress.
Evidence suggests that income inequality impedes long-term growth; is associated with poorer health outcomes; generates political instability; contributes to higher rates of violence, including for homicide; erodes social cohesion; and undermines the capacity for the collective decision-making necessary for effective reform. Economic exclusion compounded by political exclusion can be a toxic mix – as a number of uprisings in recent years suggest.
Beyond income inequality, gender-related discrimination, and inequalities related to geography, ethnicity, religion, age, and disability – to name just a few - plague countries in both North and South, and are detrimental to all. Using the inequality-adjusted Human Development Index, which takes into account not only the average achievements of a country on health, education, and income, but also their distribution, the 2013 Human Development Report concludes that the average loss to human development worldwide due to inequality was 23 per cent.
The jobs crisis: The ILO estimates that more than 34 million workers lost their jobs with the onset of the global recession of 2008, and an additional 185 million workers joined the ranks of the working poor who subsist on under US $2 dollars a day. Despite a moderate pick-up in output growth expected for 2013–14, the number of unemployed worldwide was projected to rise by 5.1 million last year to more than 202 million, and by another three million this year. Six hundred million more jobs are needed over the next fifteen years just to keep unemployment rates at their current level.
Environmental degradation, including to climate, ecosystems, and disasters associated with this: These threaten the health and livelihoods of people around the globe. The Fifth Assessment Report of the Inter-Governmental Panel on Climate Change, issued last September, considered new evidence and painted a grim picture. It noted that: "Continued emissions of greenhouse gases will cause further warming and changes in all components of the climate system. Limiting climate change will require substantial and sustained reductions of greenhouse gas emissions."
The cost of action is high, but as Lord Stern and others have long pointed out, the cost of inaction is higher. Natural disasters, many, but not all of which are climate related are estimated to have cost $2.5 trillion this century. The poorest people and countries suffer the most impact.
• War and Conflict: The terrible events in the Central African Republic and South Sudan in recent weeks have demonstrated yet again how devastating violent conflict is for development. Syria is estimated to have lost 35 years of human development progress since its conflict began. Its crisis has spillover effects in its sub-region. The destabilisation in the Sahel following Libya's upheaval also shows how the impacts of conflict are not neatly confined within national boundaries.
The World Bank estimates that more than one and a half billion people around the world are living in countries affected by armed conflict and fragility. But the ripple effects go much further – as seen in the attack on Nairobi's Westgate Mall, the London underground, the Twin Towers attack, and more. Violent conflict is a global concern wherever its origin.
As well, scarce resources needed for development are impacted on by the scale of humanitarian relief required to save life and limb where there is conflict and where peacekeeping forces are deployed. The budget for UN peacekeeping operations for July 2013 – July 2014 was more than US$7.5 billion. The force in Darfur alone costs US$1.36 billion per annum, in DRC US$1.46 billion, in South Sudan close to US$ 1 billion, and over half a billion US dollars each in Haiti and the Ivory Coast – the list goes on.
The cost of crime and citizen insecurity also has to be factored in to the challenges faced globally. Many countries have precious resources diverted from development to law and order enforcement. Funding more comprehensive and developmental approaches to tackling these problems was the subject of a UNDP Human Development Report for Latin America released late last year.
Taken together, the big challenges facing us as a global community call for a shift in the way we think about and do development: one which brings together economic and social progress with environmental sustainability, and specifically recognises the role of peace and security, democratic governance, the rule of law, gender-equality, and human rights – as was recognized by leaders last September.
As well the absolute size of the emerging economies and their populations and the interconnectedness and universal nature of global challenges mean that the full engagement of both the world's North and South are needed on new pathways to development which are sustainable and inclusive.
The Global Conversation About the Next Agenda
Although the MDGs were derived largely from the inter-governmentally negotiated Millennium Declaration, their targets and indicators were largely determined by a relatively small group of insiders. This may explain in part why the MDGs took some time to get traction.
A review of "What Makes International Agreements Work" done by New York University and the Overseas Development Institute last year concluded that, "multilateral agreements that bring a range of actors into the process to support the accord, including domestic actors like government officials and civil society groups, are more likely to be agreed and implemented." This was precisely why the UN development system's initiated the "global conversation" on what people want in the post-2015 agenda.
To date, over 1.7 million people from more than 190 countries are estimated to have been engaged – through national consultations, consultations on major themes which could be included in the agenda, and through the global MY World survey which asked people to rank their priorities for the new agenda. Among the main messages were the following:
1. Don't give up on the MDGs. Eradicating poverty and hunger, achieving gender equality, and improving health and education services remain very high in people's priorities. They want these issues to continue to be addressed directly now and in the future.
At the same time people ask that we learn from and build on the existing goals. They call for a greater emphasis on the quality of basic services — not just access to them. It is not just the number of children in schools that matter, but what they learn. People have also expressed a clear desire to 'raise the bar' for the next set of goals. In education, for example, people are calling for the next framework to include early childhood and secondary education and vocational training.
2. Tackle inequalities in all their dimensions. In the 88 national consultations, people aired their frustration with inequality in all its forms, and expressed their desire for dignity and respect for all. In recognizing the multiple dimensions of poverty, they conveyed a clear sense that our world is deeply unfair, and that the dynamics of power and exclusion have left certain people, groups, and countries behind. These groups become invisible when numbers, percentages, and rates of progress are reported. As one leader in Ghana noted, "I can't very well go back and tell my village that they are seven per cent better off than they were last year."
The clear message was that governments and all their partners and stakeholders should work to reduce inequalities between women and men, rural and urban areas, ethnic and religious groups, rich and poor, and on all other dimensions. A compelling call was made for the empowerment and advancement of women and girls, investment in their education and health, and for ensuring that their rights, including their sexual and reproductive health and rights, are upheld.
3. Prioritise decent work and livelihoods. Another strong call was for opportunities for decent work. People spoke of the impact of breadwinners having to leave family members behind on small plots of land, while they went elsewhere for work. They spoke of the impact on young people of a lack of work and livelihoods. People reported taking jobs — any jobs — regardless of dangerous conditions, mistreatment, or whether the job was just for a day or a few hours. The strong message was to include decent work as a core development objective in the new framework.
4. A desire for better governance. In almost all countries and across the thematic discussions, people called for more honest and effective government, and for a say in the decisions which affect them. They want governments which can deliver decent public services, manage natural resources sustainably and fairly, and facilitate peace and security. Participants from every region have, in the global MY World survey, consistently ranked honest and responsive government among their highest priorities.
5. A call for a more transformational and universal agenda. People are seeing the way the world is going as unsustainable. They cited the rapid onset of climate change and mismanagement of natural resources as reasons why their societies were becoming more unequal and less secure. They want environmental sustainability incorporated alongside economic and social development in the new framework.
People were well aware that addressing growing inequalities and unsustainable practices will require transformational change by all countries and co-ordinated global action.
They want action on carbon emissions and all other forms of environmental degradation. They want the new agenda to be based on the universal values expressed in the Millennium Declaration – including human rights, equality, and justice. They want factors damaging the global economy, like excessive volatility, illicit financial flows, and tax havens operating with impunity, to be acted on. In this and other ways, the call is for a new agenda which reflects new realities and tackles shared challenges.
6. The call for an accountability revolution. Those who've been engaged in the conversation want to stay engaged to ensure that their views are taken into account, monitor the real time progress in their countries, and to hold their governments accountable for results. Echoing the Secretary-General's High Level Panel, they have called for a revolution in data, - so that regularly updated, reliable, and disaggregated data is available about their communities, countries, and world. They see a data revolution as the foundation for an accountability revolution.
The report on the global conversation, "A Million Voices: The World We Want", was released before leaders met at the UN in New York last September. It was encouraging to see the leader's statement emphasize that: "Our deliberations have taken account of the voices of people worldwide, and the concerns and priorities they conveyed." In the end, it is Member States which will negotiate the new framework. That will now be done with full awareness of the public feedback.
• The report of the UN Secretary-General's High Level Panel on Post-2015 has also been very useful in framing the issues and advocating for transformative approaches which:
• leave no one behind
• put sustainable development at the core of the new agenda,
• transform economies to provide jobs and inclusive growth,
• build peace and effective, open, and accountable institutions, and
• forge new, wide-ranging global partnerships for sustainable development.
The Process from here?
Since early last year, an Open Working Group on Sustainable Development Goals, appointed by the UN General Assembly, has been meeting to formulate proposals for post-2015. It is expected to report by September this year. Parallel to that an expert group on financing for sustainable development is also meeting.
Before the end of the year the UN Secretary-General will bring a synthesis report to the General Assembly on all the inputs to date to support the Member State negotiations to be launched next September. The aim is to have world leaders agree on a new agenda at a world leader's summit in September 2015.
To support the process, the UN development system is continuing consultations on how a new agenda might be implemented and monitored, and will work with a number of governments to test how targets and indicators might be developed in more challenging areas like governance, peace and security, and disaster risk reduction.
In tackling the big challenges, where should the new agenda prioritize action?
While much of the detailed work to establish practical goals, targets, and a supporting framework is yet to be done, a number of themes are clear.
1. "Leaving no one behind" has a lot of traction – as it should have. That could include goals to eradicate poverty by 2030, to eliminate chronic hunger, to end avoidable child deaths, to extend access to essential services like health cover to all citizens, and more.
But delivering on such goals requires reaching those living in fragile countries and remote areas, and all those affected by violence, discrimination, exclusion, and extreme poverty. Estimates of the extent of the concentration of extreme poverty in fragile states range upwards from one-third of the global total today, to projections of fifty per cent by 2018, and two-thirds and upwards by 2030. The eradication of extreme poverty cannot be achieved if parts of our world continue to be wracked by violent conflict and fragility – and by gross inequality, including that based on gender.
This directs us to focus on the drivers of development – as the leaders' declaration of last September shows an appetite for doing. Those may include good governance, the rule of law, fair and responsible management of natural and state resources, gender equality and the empowerment of women, and effective strategies and employment opportunities for youth. A focus on peace and security in the new agenda would also help underlying causes of conflict, violence, and instability to the fore.
In countries with a legacy of conflict and disaster, it is vital to invest in the fundamental pillars of lasting peace and stability, including reconciliation and dialogue, the rule of law, good governance, social cohesion, and economic and environmental sustainability. These areas are all too often left at the margins while economic growth and service delivery are focused on. ODA funding must prioritize these issues.
There is already much debate on what was underlying the tragic events which have unfolded in South Sudan since mid-December. There was huge donor support to establish the new state, but almost certainly insufficient attention to the need to address the legacy of conflict and build cohesion from the community level up. UNDP and no doubt other actors, will be looking to step up support for grassroots processes of healing, reconciliation, and recovery which must accompany any political process agreed on if a lasting peace is to be established.
2. Tackling inequalities, however, is a broader agenda than "leaving no one behind. Many types of inequalities have been increasing, including where economic growth and poverty reduction have been rapid. The problem affects countries across the development spectrum. It cannot be satisfactorily addressed only by social policies endeavoring to mitigate its effects. Inclusive, job-rich growth models are needed, along with fairer sets of rules at the global level in a range of areas from trade to finance to tackling climate change. In these ways, the ambitions which post-2015 and the SDGs are likely to express are linked to progress being made in other multilateral forums and to the development of a more people-centred globalization.
3. This must be a truly sustainable development agenda, which promotes economic and social progress without wrecking the ecosystems we all depend on. Environmental sustainability must be one of the cornerstones of the new agenda, and be integrated throughout it. The growing problem of unsustainable production and consumption patterns needs to be directly addressed.
The earth's resources ultimately sustain all life. Freshwater resources will be shared between an additional two billion people and the industries which service them by 2050. Providing sufficient food, water, nutrition, and energy to all people in all countries is a pressing global challenge now. Failure to provide these basics has human development and even security implications.
Universal access to energy needs to be achieved at the same time as the shift is made towards more renewable energy generation and greater energy efficiency. Public finance and the capacities to access it and loan finance and private investment are all needed to make this happen.
Climate change is already casting a long shadow over development gains made by all countries. The design of the post-2015 development agenda, the SDGs, and the progress of the climate change negotiations therefore need to complement each-other.
UNDP has been advocating for "triple win" policies to advance economic and social goals while safeguarding vital ecosystems. There are good examples in practice across the world's regions. A number of countries have been able to generate livelihoods for people in poor communities in ways which increase energy efficiency, maintain forests, and preserve biodiversity. There will need to be a lot of support for institutional and capacity building for these approaches to be effective and go to scale. "Whole of government" approaches across sectors and silos and longer term planning horizons are required.
A post-2015 agreement on financing for sustainable development and adequate climate financing would drive joined up approaches which achieve climate and broader sustainability and poverty eradication objectives simultaneously.
Advancing the agenda; some key points
1. Target setting: The MDGs were time bound, measurable, and easy to communicate. That helps an agenda get traction. But the targets have not always been a good match with national or local contexts, because they were established as global targets and on the basis of global trends. To be most relevant, targets often need to be localized to reflect what can be achieved – which may be more or less than the indicative global targets suggest.
On this basis, the Secretary-General's High Level Panel on Post-2015 recommended that "all Goals in the future agenda be universal, representing the common aspirations of all countries; while almost all targets be set at national or local levels, to account for different starting points and contexts".
This proposal has gained traction in the UN Member State's discussions. Recently the proposals have gone further, suggesting that a core set of global goals and targets should be agreed, alongside a 'menu' of potential priorities. Using that menu, countries would select those priorities most relevant to them and define realistic, yet ambitious, national and local targets in these areas.
Maintaining global targets in the post-2015 agenda and monitoring them is important for two reasons:
i) to work for the ambitions of individual countries to add up to achieving shared global goals, such as ending poverty, achieving universal access to water and sanitation, or making the transition to sustainable development overall, and
ii) to ensure that countries can compare their own progress relative to others.
2. Partnerships and mutual accountability: Big partnerships across governments and many non-state actors – civil society, NGOs, academia, the private sector – are needed to make a global agenda move. Should an accountability framework go beyond the usual suspects – governments – to include the non-state actors? The High Level Panel argued that as the number and importance of non-state development actors grows, including them is essential for the effectiveness of the agenda. They suggest indicative targets to incentivise businesses, for example, to adopt transparent and green accounting practices and codes of behaviour which strengthen accountability norms.
For Member States it will be important to define what "common but differentiated responsibility" for a universal and transformational sustainable development agenda means. It could mean, for example that:
• developing countries, particularly the poorest, look for a commitment from developed countries to provide "bedrock" public financing for sustainable development, which would be used in a catalytic way to attract and grow new sources of financing. That would mean the provision of reliable and sufficient levels of ODA, along with specific funding to enable poor countries to deal with pressing global and developmental challenges, including climate change. At some point, this must mean taking an overview of all funding streams – climate finance for addressing adaptation and mitigation, for example, is directly related to advancing sustainable development.
• developing countries could commit to implement and fund, according to their abilities, transitions to sustainable development – raising and allocating their own resources, but with funding support for poorer countries as outlined above, and with middle income countries assuming a greater share of the burden of tackling global challenges. All developing countries, however, will want to see firm commitments made by developed countries to technology transfer, knowledge sharing, and capacity building. The developed North will also need to lead the way in adopting sustainable consumption and production patterns at home.
Global agendas matter. They draw attention to critical priorities; they can identify emerging issues; and they can galvanize partnerships for change.
Progress against the MDG targets at the global level has been broadly encouraging. One would not want to assume cause and effect between target setting and a benchmark being reached. Yet with respect to the health MDGs, the rate of decline in the burden of disease in targeted areas is considered to be rather greater than the pre-MDG trends would have produced. In these cases and no doubt others, the global goal-setting focused action and resources, and got results.
So, what goes into the post-2015 agenda and SDGs matters. They will set the global sustainable development agenda for the next fifteen years – years when we need decisive breakthroughs on poverty eradication in all its dimensions, on achieving greater equality, and on ensuring we live within nature's boundaries while advancing human development.
My final message is: stay engaged. Member States need to continue to hear from their citizens on post-2015. At UNDP and our sister organisations, we will continue to advocate for the voices of the global public to be heard, and for a big, bold agenda. But your voices need to be heard by your governments, and your networks need to be heard by all governments, as they negotiate through the UN process to determine what the next agenda will be.