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The fundamental purpose of our aid is to help people overcome poverty.
Around the world, there are 1.3 billion people living in extreme poverty. Two thirds of these people are living in Asia and the Pacific. There are also 7.6 million children who die each year before reaching the age of five, from causes that have been largely overcome in Australia.
This is not acceptable to Australians.
Australians are generous and caring people. Australian families give personal donations to overseas aid efforts that total almost $1 billion every year.
Australians give aid because it works. Over the last four years, we have helped more than 2.2 million boys and girls enrol in school. Since 2007‑08, we have provided 2.2 million people with access to safe drinking water and two million with better sanitation services in countries across Asia, Africa and the Pacific.
I witnessed the results of our aid first hand during my recent trip to Cambodia. At an eye hospital in Siem Reap, I saw the poorest of people with their sight restored for the first time in years or decades by local personnel trained by Australians with equipment from Australia.
And then in Phnom Penh, I saw local women being trained to be midwives. Consider this statistic — in Cambodia 500 women used to die for every 100,000 births. This is an appalling figure. It has been brought down to around 200 per 100,000 births as a result of the training of midwives.
This is a result made possible with Australian aid.
Reducing poverty and promoting development is also good for Australia. It contributes to peace and stability and generates demand for Australian exports. Developing countries imported $110 billion of Australian goods and services last year alone. This creates jobs in Australia.
For these reasons, the Government has increased the aid program by over 50 per cent since it took office in 2007. To return the federal budget to surplus, the Government has made the difficult, though fiscally responsible decision to defer the full achievement of the 0.5 per cent target by one year to 2016-17. This in no way diminishes our commitment to helping the world's poor or to achieving the Millennium Development Goals.
Despite challenging budgetary circumstances, we have decided to again increase the aid budget in 2012‑13, to $5.2 billion up from $4.8 billion in 2011‑12. This increase of 6 per cent in aid represents 0.35 per cent of our Gross National Income (GNI). We remain committed to increasing our aid effort to 0.5 per cent of GNI.
The 2012‑13 Aid Budget implements the Government's aid policy - An Effective Aid Program for Australia: Making a real difference — Delivering real results - released in July last year. It provides funding over four years for immunisation, education and law and justice programs in the Pacific, for the poorest countries in East Asia including Burma, and for an expanded capacity to respond to humanitarian crises and disaster preparedness around the world. New funding will also target major multilateral organisations that we have assessed as effective and able to contribute to Australian aid objectives, including the Asian Development Bank, the World Food Programme and UN Women.
As Minister for Foreign Affairs, I am committed to increasing the size of our aid effort and committed to improving its effectiveness. Australia already has a good aid program, underscored by the findings of last year's Independent Review of Aid Effectiveness. I am determined to make it even better.
As a key component of this shift, I am pleased to announce the establishment of the Independent Evaluation Committee to be chaired by Jim Adams, a former Vice President of the World Bank. The Committee will help evaluate our aid efforts and improve them.
I am also releasing a new four-year strategy for the aid program. This strategy — Helping the World's Poor through Effective Aid: Australia's Comprehensive Aid Policy Framework to 2015-16 — is a roadmap for the aid program to 2015-16. It contains a rolling four-year budget strategy, with forecasts of where Australian aid will be delivered and the results we expect to achieve by 2015-16. By providing policy and funding clarity, we will be able to plan, design and deliver aid programs with greater certainty. This will deliver better results — more lives saved, more poor children provided with an education and better responses to disasters and humanitarian emergencies. For example, we aim to help vaccinate more than 10 million children in developing countries against disease, and provide more than 8.5 million people with access to safe drinking water by 2015-16.
I will report to Cabinet and to the public annually on progress against this strategy.
These reforms continue efforts already in progress to make Australia's aid more focused on achieving results for poor people and on delivering value for money for Australian tax payers.
Bob Carr, Minister for Foreign Affairs
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In my New Year's post I was not completely honest with you. Things with my boyfriend were going downhill really fast, but since I post most of my blog entries on Facebook I did not want him, his friends, or his family to read anything negative about our relationship. At the time I was already looking for new places to live and trying to figure out how to break things off. When he found out that I no longer wanted to be in the relationship we broke things off and I was without a place to live. Fortunately I have some of the most amazing friends in the world and they stood by me and helped me land on my feet with a huge smile on my face. I was my best friend's little couch gnome for almost two months. I am now (very) happy to say though that I finally moved into a new place and I love it. They say everything happens for a reason and I firmly believe that I had to go through all the stupid shit to finally balance out. I hear the ex isn't taking the break up so well but as for me, I'm doing awesome. I'm now working 2 jobs and they are both going really well, and since I'm single now I can do all the crazy shit I couldn't do when I wasn't like dance on the bar and flirt shamelessly for tips. The only thing I miss about being in a relationship is the companionship but the apartment I moved into allows dogs so I will be bringing one home very soon. Every dog I've ever met was better behaved than him anyways… And now that I have my kitchen all set up you can expect to start seeing new recipes from me very soon and new craft projects since I have a whole new place to decorate now! 🙂
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What's with all this doom and gloom at L.A. City College? Sure there are fewer students, but that's the case everywhere. As enrollments decline, so does our money.
Your picture of LACC was far from complete. You neglected to mention some of the impressive successes recently achieved by the college's programs and students.
For example, LACC's film students recently received widespread critical acclaim for their work. Our photography students took the most honors of any college at the local county fair competition and the student newspaper took second place in a recent collegiate competition.
Our speech students have taken top prizes consistently in state and national forensic competition. Our theater department has won more than 12 National College Theater awards, and garnered rave reviews for its recent productions of "Nicholas Nickleby" and "A Chorus Line."


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I got hit with a make-him-more-pissed-off dart once. Not fun.
Vote for Tripp at Topwebcomics! It's better than laughing gas!
@Chaos Master - I give Vic marks for trying.
@godmoderncommander - Maybe...
@qazox - And now Vic knows that.
@corruption - And your username is seeming more and more fitting... :)
@Stevarooni - Because he IS worried.
@nobi wan kenobi - He forgets sometimes.
@Syncline - Vic is doing his best.
@Ink_wolf - I love A. Let's go with that.
@nobi wan kenobi - Vic's at his best wooing women, not shooting at them. :)
@nobi wan kenobi - At this point, it's probably worth trying
@nobi wan kenobi - Yep!
Didn't see that coming.
Well, we now know who will be the first victim.
Darts don't work on vampires...
He is so clueless. When drugging pretty ladies, like Coco, you must always remember to consider their weight, anything pumping through their systems, like adrenaline from being pissed off, if you are using the right type of drugs, and most importantly, having a clear get away in case things go wrong and they notice you trying to drug them.
You also don't use darts on material if you can held it. Use them on skin, and make sure that they penetrate to the blood circulatory system.
:D Poe just adds a ray of sunshine to every encounter.
Man, but he has a worried look, there....
Poe does remember that he's still intangible, right?
Vic kinda had this coming.
I'm sure Tripp can fix this, and will figure out how right after Vic gets the poop beaten out of him....
let's see, how to distract/calm down a pissed off vampire...
A. Throw a bunch of beans or coins on the floor and let vampire OCD kick in with the need to count.
B. Cross a bridge or any other natural flowing water-- she can't follow.
C. Enter a house/building and make it known in no uncertain terms that she is not welcome (no invitation)
D. Make a crummy cross with two sticks or your arms.
@Ink_wolf E)(In the voice of Uncle from Jackie Chan Adventures)"USE GARLIC!"
"Vic doing his best" is like saying "Barney Fife's greatest police work".
Maybe Vic should try some of his pick-up lines on her right now. :)
If he'd aimed a few inches left, he'd have scored a boobs-eye.


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Out of the house
Dinah Birch
- The Sign of Angellica: Women, Writing and Fiction, 1660-1800 by Janet Todd
Virago, 328 pp, £12.99, April 1989, ISBN 0 86068 576 4
- Uneven Developments: The Ideological Work of Gender in Mid-Victorian Britain by Mary Poovey
Virago, 282 pp, £12.99, February 1989, ISBN 1 85381 035 5
- The Woman Question. Society and Literature In Britain and America, 1837-1883: Vols I-III edited by Elizabeth Helsinger, Robin Lauterbach Sheets and William Veeder
Chicago, 146 pp, £7.95, February 1989, ISBN 0 226 32666 7
- Sexual Science: The Victorian Construction of Womanhood by Cynthia Eagle Russett
Harvard, 245 pp, £15.95, June 1989, ISBN 0 674 80290 X
How can women come to a better understanding of their cultural situation? What needs to be changed, and why? The questions are as urgent as ever, despite wishful rumours to the contrary. Numerous books about women continue to appear, offering diverse models of thought to those looking for counsel. Psychoanalytical and deconstructionist critics have been among the most glamorous figures in the crowd, encouraging women to examine the complex linguistic processes that compose feminine subjectivity. These strategies give a new dimension to what has long been perceived as women's domain: the inward life, placed in a primarily familial setting. To privilege the private over the public as such critics do may be interpreted as a feminist gesture. But it's a self-limiting challenge, for their language often chooses to exclude the wider community, operating in terms of jokes and quarrels shared within a closely-knit intellectual family. The repressive fathers are simply shut out, excluded by language.
Feminist historians have taken a different line. Their argument has been that in order to analyse the identity of women as it is constructed now, we need to know how it has been constructed in the past. In literary terms, at least, this has sometimes been seen as a misplaced ambition – at best unsophisticated, at worst a collusion with the powers of oppression. Knowledge of the past was indicted as no more than an illusion in the sceptical light of new theoretical practices, and the women who wrote before Freud seemed so hopelessly implicated in patriarchal cultures that they were scarcely worth studying. When set beside the knowingly intricate patterns of signification which characterised the stylish theorists taking apart the bricks and mortar of patriarchal principles, the pursuit of a feminist history could look naive.
There was some justice in such thinking. The first feminist literary historians were prone to see what they wanted to see – simple patterns of dissent and resistance, right and wrong, heroism and villainy. Every woman writer was acclaimed as a doughty rebel; all others were tyrants. Such campaigns proved hard to sustain. Could Jane Austen really be read as a feminist insurgent? Were Aphra Behn's royalist politics simply a disguise for radical feminism? It became clear that more cogent and complete ways of understanding the literary past were called for. Janet Todd was among the first to recognise this need, and her developing work has made a substantial contribution towards fulfilling it. One of the most valuable things she has to offer her readers is information. Her studies of women's writing in the 18th century have greatly enlarged our sense of its richness, variety and scope. The Sign of Angellica is an ambitious survey of her chosen period, juxtaposing an account of the literary culture as a whole with specific analyses of individual authors. The focus is on what women achieved in the period, particularly in the field of fiction. But men are neither absent nor routinely vilified. Janet Todd recognises that 'the novel as a genre has both fathers and mothers.'
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text: David Lang wrote: > ideally I want to figure out how to get these keys into the kernel, at > that point any userspace can deal with them. The game keys produce scancodes that are folded into the keyboard data stream. The kernel sees them interspersed with ordinary keyboard scan codes. What it does with them depends on a lot of factors that I haven't bothered to understand in detail. I think there are several different ways that scancodes can be mapped into ASCII or other events, depending on whether you are using a console or X or whatever. I respectfully submit that getting the codes from the kernel to "any userspace" is quite a bit more complicated in practice than the above assertion seems to imply. Here is an OFW recipe you can use to see the scancode sequences: ok disable-interrupts ok stdin @ iselect ok 20 0 do begin get-data? until . loop they type some keys or press some game buttons. That will display 32 (0x20) scancodes. You can re-execute it (up-arrow, enter) to see more. OFW uses "scan set 1", so the codes that you will see are from that set. It turns out that the game keys codes are always from scan set 1; they don't change if you tell the keyboard to use scan set 2, and they don't change if you tell the EC to translate or not translate from set 2 to set 1. The general form of scanset 1 is: [ optional 0xe0 prefix ] make-code [ optional 0xe0 prefix ] break-code For a given key, break-code is 0x80 | make-code The 0xe0 prefix is generally used to distinguish between multiple copies of the "same" key. For example, a full sized keyboard has two "1" keys, one in the row above the alpha keys and one in the numeric keypad. If you try the above program with the game keys, you will see that the left and right game key clusters use the same base codes, but the right cluster has prefixes. It's also possible to ask the embedded controller to tell you which game keys are currently depressed; the return value is a bitmask of which ones are down. That's useful for early firmware tests before the keyboard event stream is initialized, but not particularly useful in the Linux event-driven regime.


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Creative Arctic: Understanding the Role of Creative Capital in Economic Systems of the Canadian North
Andrey N. Petrov1
1Department of Geography and GeoTREE Center, University of Northern Iowa, 205 ITTC UNI, Cedar Falls, IA, 50614, USA, Phone 319-273-6245, Fax 319-273-7103, andrey [dot] petrov [at] uni [dot] edu
The vast majority of studies in economic geography of talent and creativity have focused on large metropolitan areas and core regions. However, I argue that the creative capital is an equally necessary factor (an agent of economic transformation and revitalization) in the northern frontier. This theoretical account serves as the basis for the empirical study into the economic geography of talent and creative capital in the Canadian North. The paper advances the two-ring-four-sector approach to define the creative class structure. It extends the creative capital metrics to measure four "sectors" of the creative class: scientists ("talent"), leaders, entrepreneurs and bohemia. The empirical part of the paper applies the extended creative class metrics at two different scales. The findings for 288 Canadian regions suggest that the geographic distribution of the creative capital is uneven and heavily clustered in major urban centers. However, some frontier regions appear to perform exceptionally well in all rankings. The in-depth analysis of 34 communities in the Canadian North identifies creative clusters in economically, geographically and politically privileged communities that serve as creative "hot spots". Thus, contrary to the metropolitan bias, these results indicate that northern communities are not "hopeless places" fully deprived of the creative capital. Creative "hot spots" in the Canadian North exist, and could become the centers of regional reinvention, if appropriate policies are introduced in support.


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The world's second-largest economy China has been growing by leaps and bounds for the past one year. Further, the Asian Development Bank stated in a report on Apr 11 that China would keep growing more than 6% in 2018 as well as 2019. The recent shift of focus from manufacturing to services has been pivotal in China's economic growth story.
Finally, Chinese President Xi Jinping recently announced plans to patronize global trade and set up policies to boost foreign investments in China. Under such broadly encouraging conditions, investing in stocks from China is expected to boost your fortunes.
ADB Expects China's Growth to be Consistent
Despite China's credit tightening, it has witnessed humungous growth in the past one year. If records are to be considered, China grew at an amazing 6.9% annual rate in 2017. In fact, the country experienced growth of 6.8% in the last three months of 2017.
Thus, growth actually slowed in the first quarter of 2018 to 6.7%. The reason for such a cooldown has been attributed to China's efforts to rein in its humungous debt load as well as the recent weakness in the property market.
However, despite trade-war fears, GDP growth has remained intact amid robust trade data. Also, per the recent trade data released by the country, Beijing's trade surplus with Washington increased by almost one-fifth in the first quarter of this year.
In a report published in Asian Development Outlook (ADO) 2018, the Asian Development Bank (ADB) stated that it expects the Chinese economy to flourish at a pace of 6.6% in 2018. Based in Manila, Philippines, the bank also expects the Asian giant to exhibit a 6.4% growth in 2019.
The report also stated that such stupendous growth would be achieved on the back of increased demand for Chinese products in both domestic and international markets. Moreover, the Chinese government itself estimated in March that the Chinese economy would accelerate by 6.5%. Experts are of the view that China's economic policy focuses more on financial stability and a 'sustainable growth trajectory.'
Further, China's growth has mainly been propelled by strength in its services sector, which advanced 8% in 2017. Also, the fact that the Chinese government focuses more on 'addressing debt issues' that has riddled the economy would go a long way in propelling China's growth.
China's Debt Burden Did Not Retard Growth
Of late, there has been a shift in focus toward services and consumption within China, both of which constitute a major chunk of the already humungous Chinese economy. The reason for moving toward a consumer centric economy was that such industries require low investments and therefore eases the credit load.
Moreover, growth in such areas is faster than conventional industries. Further, as manufacturing keeps diminishing in China, services have actually eaten into the economic pie. Also, manufacturing is heavily dependent on loans and increases debt burden on an economy. The diminishing trend in manufacturing in China has actually led to decreasing debt load on the economy. As a matter of fact, credit growth within China decreased to around 12% in the last one year. Lastly, decreasing debt liability will finally lead to financial stability in the economy.
Xi Jinping Vests his Faith in Chinese Economy
In a speech at the Boao Forum in Hainan province in China on Apr 11, the country's president Xi Jinping said that he is optimistic about the economy there. He also stated that China is opening up newer avenues for both domestic and foreign investments, indicating that he supports globalization.
Xi added that the Chinese government planned to lower tariffs on autos as well as protect the intellectual property rights of foreign companies operating within China.
Such comments also eased trade war-related tensions between the United States and China as he stressed the fact that Beijing is not in favor of any sort of trade surplus and is rather interested in increasing imports. He also stated that the country would adopt newer policies that would lead to a massive opening up of the Chinese economy to the world at large.
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ADB's recent forecast about Chinese economic growth and encouraging comments from Xi Jinping stresses on China's resilience. Further, impressive economic growth despite a huge debt burden and Jinping's promise to open China up to more liberal and global trade even as domestic investments are increased implies that investing in stocks from China would be prudent.
In this context, we have selected four stocks that are expected to gain from China's stupendous economic growth. These five stocks flaunt a Zacks Rank #1 (Strong Buy) or 2 (Buy). You can see the complete list of today's Zacks #1 Rank stocks here.
Autohome Inc. ATHM is an operator of an online destination for automobile consumers in the People's Republic of China.
The company is based out of Beijing and sports a Zacks Rank #1. The expected earnings growth rate for the current year is 42.97%. The Zacks Consensus Estimate for the current year has improved 18.2% over the last 60 days. Autohome has gained 60.6% in the last six months.
Kingdee International Software Group Company Limited KGDEY is an investment holding company.
The company is based out of Shenzhen and carries a Zacks Rank #2. The expected earnings growth rate for the current year is 47.33%. The Zacks Consensus Estimate for the current year has improved 14.2% over the last 60 days. Kingdee International Software Group has gained more than 100% in the last six months.
58.com Inc. WUBA is an operator of online classifieds and listing platforms.
The company is based out of Beijing and sports a Zacks Rank #1. The expected earnings growth rate for the current year is 11.29%. The Zacks Consensus Estimate for the current year has improved 2.6% over the last 90 days. 58.com has gained 21.6% in the last six months.
Yanzhou Coal Mining Company Limited YZCAY is involved in mining, processing, sale and exploration of coal in China.
The company is based out of Zoucheng and carries Zacks Rank #2. The expected earnings growth rate for the current year is 17.19%. The Zacks Consensus Estimate for the current year has improved more than 100% over the last 60 days. Yanzhou Coal Mining has gained 25.1% in the last six months.
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Parish Pastoral Council
Purpose: Members connect with parish committees to endure parish needs are identified and addressed; also provide leadership for the parish.
Contact: Tim McAnnany, (270) 843-1119; Fr. John M. Thomas, (270) 842-7777, ext. 110
Meetings: 1st Thursday of each month; three year commitment
Finance Committee
Purpose: Plans and oversees parish budget and finances.
Contact: Linda Keene, (270) 745-7217; Bill Borders, (270) 842-7029
Meetings: monthly
Debt Retirement Committee
Purpose: Coordinate the parish campaign to raise funds for our parish campus.
Contact: Nick Noble, (270) 791-0171; Leslie Priest (270) 791-8227
Meetings: monthly
Office Volunteers
Purpose: Assist with mailings, filing, serve as office receptionist.
Contact: Tami Perkins, (270) 842-7777, ext. 109
Money Counters
Purpose: Ensure proper accounting for church collections and funds.
Contact: Leslie Pfingston, (270) 842-7777, ext. 103
Meetings: weekly
Building Committee
Purpose: Oversee concerns, problems, and repairs for all buildings on parish property
Contact: Dave Kaminski, (270) 842-7777, ext. 108
Meetings: as needed
Grounds Committee
Purpose: Assist in maintaining landscaping; small projects as needed
Contact: Dave Kaminski, (270) 842-7777, ext. 108; Steve Bowra, (270) 781-8840
Meetings: as needed


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You never know what a night on patrol will turn out like. A patrol officer came across a suspicious car in a parking lot. This is what "routine" police work looks like…$17,700 in cash found hidden in his pants and over a pound of illegal narcotics.
Back to school time… not just for your kids, but also for our newest academy graduate, Officer Saunders.
We continue to get out into the community. We took part in our second "Police Chatter" event. This has given us a chance to meet our residents face to face and hear their concerns first hand. We are looking forward to our next Police Chatter event, sometime before the end of the year.
Unused medication disposal at the police department is back! This new version of the program is run by the Snohomish Health District in partnership with the Med-Project. The box is open during normal business hours. You can safely dispose of prescription drugs. No inhalers or needles!
Say hello to Kristi Rousseau, our new part-time parking enforcement officer.


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In a society that is widely influenced by mainstream and social media, girls are often referred to as the children who are 'getting older younger.' Many of the issues that seemed to arise in late primary, early secondary years, now often find themselves firmly placed in the early primary classroom – and sometimes earlier.
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The rooms have Telephone, TV, Central Air Conditioning, Balcony, Central Heating, Background Music, Terrace, Soundproofing, Plasma TV , Hairdryer, Bathrobe, Bathtub, Slippers, Jacuzzi, 24/24 Room-Service , Laundry Service, Wi-Fi, Internet Connection, 1, Radio and Safe , and among our services and facilities available we have Air Conditioning, Lifts, Heating, Outdoor Summer Terrace, Jacuzzi, Cot, Babysitting Service, High Chair, Children´s Park, Darts, Bar Cafeteria, Garden and Terrace. We also have Multilingual Personnel, Guide Service, Use of Mobile Chargers, Wi-Fi, Tourist Information, Use of Laptop Computer, Parking for Buses and Garage. Activities and relax: Jacuzzi, Sauna, Solarium, Spa, Turkish Bath, Vichy Shower, Hammam, Bicycles, De 5 a 10 Máquinas, Massages and Horse ride. Cuisine: Mediterranean, Celiac Menu, Diet Menu, Children´s Menu and Early Breakfast. Pets not allowed. Credit Cards: Euro/Mastercard, Master and Visa.


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This week's announcement that car sharing company Zipcar had been bought by Avis Budget Group for $500 million was met with skepticism by some business pundits and wistfulness by others.
With its technology pedigree and unique customer experience, Zipcar, which launched in 1999, was supposed to revolutionize the rental car world. Despite that promise, Dennis Berman of The Wall Street Journal wrote that the company was unable to grow at a rate to be profitable.
Now, a company that is the antithesis of the traditional rental car industry has been swallowed up by Avis Budget Group, part of the rental car establishment and not exactly known for being on the cutting edge of anything.
From an M&A communications standpoint, Avis CEO Ronald L. Nelson was less-than-enthusiastic in a call with analysts, saying that he'd always had reservations about the car sharing model. He did say that Zipcar could help the company "unlock new business opportunities abroad and with younger consumers."
To do that, Avis must quickly crank up an effective marcom plan, one that can lure more drivers into the Zipcar fold. The good news: Avis has the budget to do this. The bad news: Avis is a large company with 29,000 employees, and corporate silos may dampen the creativity and innovation needed to lift the Zipcar brand.
It will be up to communications pros to break down the silos and integrate the now-mergted company's media departments to take Zipcar to greater business heights. If not, Zipcar may go the way of the Segway.
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When It Comes To Twitter, My Way Is The Right Way
It's ironic, almost comical, that there seems to be more and more blog posts out there about the "right way" to "do Twitter."
What's especially ironic are posts from folks who say Twitter should be used for two-way communication. They go on and on about how Twitter should be used to cultivate a robust personal learning network. Some even create awesome presentations about Twitter's do's and dont's. Go ahead and check out Twitter for Educators on Slideshare and you'll see exactly what I'm talking about. I would put a link there, but I'll let you actually do some work after reading this post.
Does Twitter have to be two-way communication?
For some people yes, that's why they use it, and that's what they want it to be. For others, they are content to simply lurk. There's another Twitter using group that just want to see what their favorite celebrity had for breakfast. And yet, there are millions of people who don't use Twitter at all. For me personally, nothing beats a lively conversation via Twitter, but that can be easier said than done.
Ironically, some of the Twitter evangelists are the same folks who either don't respond to an inquiry sent to them via Twitter and/or they have an extremely low follower/to following ratio. Now I know you "Twitter critics" are going to say, "Jenn, just because you follow someone, doesn't mean they have to follow you back." And you're absolutely right. They don't. I know that. Heck, Paige Woodard preaches that in one of her Twitter tip You Tube videos (yes, I will link to the work of a student because students rock and more educators need to start sharing more of their great work versus writing vague references to it, or worse, keep it to themselves). But that's not my point here.
I'm not saying someone has to follow me back. I lose followers daily. I'm fine with that. Maybe it's because some people might think I Tweet too much. Maybe it's because I…whatever the reason, I honestly don't care. The people who follow me obviously think I have some value as a member of their PLN and for that I am truly grateful and honored. Who people choose to follow or not follow is highly personal. But what irks me are the people who are all rah-rah over Twitter, but reach out to them for help, and you get nothing. Now how is that suppose to motivate someone to believe in the power of connection? That being said…
Twitter is not about numbers. And I'm talking about me here. For me it's about the quality of my network, not the quantity. It's not about "doing Twitter right." It's my Twitter account and I will Tweet about whatever I choose to. As digital citizens we all have the right to use Twitter and any other social network for that matter the way in which we choose. Keep in mind though that if you are an educator, you also have a responsibility to model appropriate online communication for your students.
I currently Tweet about digital citizenship, career resources for students, assistive technology, educational technology and leadership, and anything else I might find interesting, inspiring, or thought-provoking on the web. I Tweet about my students. I Tweet about my school and colleagues. I Tweet about whatever I please. Because I can.
Twitter is WHATEVER I WANT IT TO BE. If you are trying Twitter for the first time, or you're just getting started, do the same and make it whatever you want it to be. Don't buy into all the hype about the right versus wrong way to use Twitter. If you want to follow "rock star" educators, go to Slideshare like I mentioned earlier, and you'll find at least 50 presentations about Twitter for teachers with recommendations on who to follow and they will all give you at least 25 of the same accounts. However…
Want to follow a celebrity? Go for it. Want to start the hashtag #replacesongtitleswithpants, knock yourself out. Dean Shareski did that recently and he has almost 20,000 followers. The beauty of Twitter is that if you want it to be one-way communication, it can be. If you want to engage in conversation, it can be that too. If you want to start a quirky hashtag, no one is stopping you. But when it comes to choosing who to follow, and I'm sorry for giving more advice again but I just have to, be mindful that not every person out there who preaches about PLN's talks the talk and walks the walk.
But then again, what do I know? I don't have a huge network (remember it's not about numbers), so odds are you'll stumble across an eloquently written post about Twitter from someone with a much higher klout score than me who will convince you, better yet, teach you, about the "right way to do Twitter." You can skip all that and just keep these three things in mind:
1. Do Twitter YOUR way.
2. That is the only RIGHT way.
3. If you decide that you're not going to try Twitter at all, then so be it.
But here's why I still feel the urge to preach the power of Twitter.
It's an incredible tool to use for filtering and curating content
I have rediscovered Diigo and have been bookmarking what I find on Twitter into my Diigo library. I've then shared a link to my public Diigo library via Twitter using the hashtag #ATchat (assistive technology). Whatever course you teach, odds are there's a chat related to it and there's where you can start meeting people and building your own library of digital resources for your course curriculum. Following certain hashtags can also lead to coming up with your own ideas. After nominating Paige for a Bammy award, it triggered an idea for a new project in my Digital Literacy course that I am excited to try later this month.
Twitter is filled with incredibly generous people
Some of whom have no hidden agenda whatsoever. Some who really want to collaborate and share ideas. Many who are in education because they love teaching and they want to be better for their students and their schools. These are educators out there who really do "talk the talk" when it comes to PLN's and Twitter. These are the people you need to find and connect with. Some of these people have large networks for a reason.
They are helpful and sincere and as I mentioned, they are in education for the right reasons. They care about kids and their colleagues, both in and outside of their own school communities. They are the kinds of people that I am glad to have as a part of my PLN. An example of such person is Nicholas Provenzano, aka "the nerdy teacher." I sent Nick a Tweet last night just before sitting down to write this post inquiring about his upcoming TEDx event, as I am looking for as much inspiration for my TED-Ed Club members as possible, and what did Nick do? HE RESPONDED! Imagine that?
I keep hearing more and more educators, and some very smart and successful business people, talking about how social media is changing. Perhaps that is why people are heading to Google+ (give it time, you'll get on it eventually), or perhaps that's why more educators aren't using social media at all. I think that those who aren't active on some type of social media platform are missing out, especially in terms of having incredibly easy access to a vast amount of classrooms resources, not to mention the opportunity to develop some pretty amazing friendships (this really does happen). But at the same time, I do understand why people aren't on sites like Twitter.
So how do we get everyone, those with thousands of followers and those who are still eggs, to use Twitter as a two-way communication tool? The answer is, we don't. The more appropriate questions would be:
1. How do we get educators to understand that they can have complete control over their Twitter account?
2. How do we help educators understand that Twitter can be used to help support and meet their individual professional (or personal) needs?
3. How do we get young people to find a balance between using Twitter as a social communication tool, while at the same time, helping them understand what they Tweet contributes to their digital identity?
I don't know the answers to these questions, but I hope I find myself in a chat where these issues are being discussed. Perhaps Paige could moderate?
All I know is that if you are going to write about connecting and Twitter and sharing and engaging and collaborating and PLN's…then the next time you get a Tweet, or a comment on your blog, then at the very least, you should take two seconds and respond to it.
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PERFORMANCE MONITOR (Pre-Windows Vista)
Description: One of the most useful tools in diagnosing system performance issues is Performance Monitor (Perfmon) logging. Perfmon allows the user to turn on performance counters for various objects relating to system performance, such as: Memory, Network Interface, Physical Disk, Processor, Process, etc.
Scoping the Issue: Perfmon logs can be gathered on any Windows system to aid in troubleshooting poor system performance. If you suspect a performance related issue on the system, capturing Performance Monitor logs during the time the problem is happening on the system may help to determine the cause of the problem.
Data Gathering: In all instances, collecting either MPS Reports with the General, Internet and Networking, Business Networks and Server Components diagnostics, or a Performance-oriented MSDT manifest must be done.
Perfmon logs should include the timeframe when the problem is happening on the system. You can create the log parameters manually, or by using the Performance Monitor Wizard. You can capture the logs locally on the system, or remotely from another computer. The Perfmon capture interval is determined by the length of time it takes the server to go from a normal state, to a problem state. Please use the table below to set the capture interval.
If the average time to issue is:
The capture interval should be:
14 minutes
120 seconds
5 seconds
Troubleshooting / Resolution:
When using Performance Monitor, you may find that some counters are missing or do not contain any counter data. In this scenario, the counters may need to be re-enabled or rebuilt. There are three ways to accomplish this.
- Rebuild the counters manually by referencing the following KB article: Microsoft KB Article 300956: How to manually rebuild Performance Counter Library values
- Download the Windows 2000 Resource Kit tool, Extensible Performance Counter List (ExCtrLst.exe). Use the "Performance Counters Enabled" checkbox to first disable, then re-enable the problematic counters.
- Rebuild the counters by using the Performance Counter Rebuild Wizard (PCRW). This tool is not available for public download, you will need to contact Microsoft Support to obtain PCRW. This wizard automates the steps outlined in KB 300956 referenced above.
A common problem encountered when attempting to collect Perfmon logs remotely is that by default, the Performance Logs and Alerts service is started under the local computer's "System" account. For steps on how to enable a network account to have permissions on the Performance Logs and Alerts service, please refer to Microsoft KB Article 240389: Log is not started when you try to start a log with remote counters in System Monitor.
Additional Resources:
- Microsoft KB Article 246758: How to Monitor Performance of a Remote Computer Without Logging on to It
- Microsoft KB Article 299059: You receive Application Center Event ID: 1008 Perflib error messages on Performance Data Counters
- Microsoft KB Article 969639: Error message when you try to access the Performance Monitor (Perfmon.exe) on a remote computer: "Access Is Denied"
- Microsoft KB Article 888989: A Performance Monitor counter for the Physical Disk performance object may not be displayed in Windows 2000
- Microsoft KB Article 185349: Problems Remotely Accessing W3 or FTP Perfmon Counters
- Microsoft KB Article 248993: PRB: Performance Object Is Not Displayed in Performance Monitor
- AskPerf Blog: Windows Cluster Servers and Logical Disk Counters


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Close Encounters with a Blurred Mind; Considering "She's One of Us"
by Michael Joshua Rowin, with responses from Jeff Reichert and Michael Koresky
[indieWIRE's weekly reviews are written by critics from Reverse Shot.]
What to do with a film as formally daring, visually arresting, and irretrievably muddled as "She's One of Us"? You'd have to be pretty unadventurous not to follow director Siegrid Alnoy into the postmodern environment of moral questioning she conjures in her audacious feature-length debut. But it's impossible to ignore the hollow platitudes lurking beneath the film's glossy, quasi-experimental exterior. The "she" of the title is Christine Blanc (as in white, or "blank," get it?), a lucidly aware if oddly disconnected temp. Looking to belong in a world in which she serves as thankless understudy, Christine (a dull Sasha Andres) fumblingly attempts to befriend Patricia (Catherine Mouchet), her temp agency contact. In order to feign relative normality, Christine parrots overheard conversations and even adopts Patricia's porcelain owl- collecting hobby as an entrée to friendship. Yet she commits a major faux pas when she snaps and violently kills Patricia at an indoor swimming pool in a scene which rivals late Bergman for blood-curdling screams. According to the logic of every single ironic existential narrative, the character's moral nadir must coincide with material fulfillment, and right on schedule Christine is soon accepted into society with a permanent job and new friends.
"She's One of Us" immediately establishes an unceasing hallucinatory aesthetic that shoves the viewer into Christine's world of barren emotion: sinuous camera movements, off-kilter compositions, pronounced usage of reflections and mirrors, elliptical editing and unorthodox modulations in focus and lighting that emphasize the unreality of streamlined corporate architecture. The sound mix is actually the most radical element of the film, abruptly and dramatically switching from rumbling ambient noise to silence and then back again, all within a few exhilarating seconds. Sound designer Gabriel Scotti deserves mention for creating a unique soundscape in which running water, rustling trees, and panting breaths are amplified to the point of discomfort. But while the film initially accomplishes the intended effect of rendering palpable Christine's heightened subjectivity, it soon settles into a rote exercise. Unlike Michel Gondry, Alnoy never seems to know when to hold back in order to achieve pace or concentrate on minute details. Few films (I'm particularly thinking of "Natural Born Killers") can pull off immersing the viewer in a relentless stream of kinesis and disorientation. "She's One of Us" misses the cut.
"She's One of Us" so desperately wants us — needs us — to see the vapidity of capitalist society's products and living centers (the homogeneous supermarket makes a mandatory appearance, as does the local shopping mall) that every shot screams "Isolation!" with all the subtlety of "One Hour Photo." The film sinks into self-parody — and contrived commentary — when it becomes evident that Christine's redemption lays not only in nature (yes, the Rhone valley is indeed gorgeous) but also in a guardian angel in the form of an adorable, casually-attired intern who constantly trails her. After endlessly parading gloomy tableaux of soul-deadened automatons dispassionately looking out into the void, Alnoy hits the viewer with an infuriating conclusion: all along Christine's regained humanity was waiting to find expression in that sugariest of clichés — the belted-out pop singalong, from within a car, no less.
Alnoy might be given the benefit of the doubt as a first-time feature-length director overeager to say everything all at once. But the film's failure to poignantly, or even originally, convey workplace ennui is the most disappointing of its missed opportunities. Anyone can film antiseptic, fluorescent interiors and deem the result an investigation into the "wasteland" of contemporary culture — it takes a real eye to transcend the mundane. There's a scene in Mike Judge's "Office Space" where an entire workplace sings "Happy Birthday" to a colleague so half-heartedly that they hilariously look and sound lobotomized. This simple moment, equally absurd and pathetic, expresses more about corporate dehumanization and social conformity than all of the drab posturing of "She's One of Us."
[ Michael Joshua Rowin is a staff writer at Reverse Shot, has written for the Indypendent, Film Comment, and runs the blog, Hopeless Abandon. ]
Take 2
by Jeff Reichert
"She's One of Us" is a film easier to appreciate than it is to love, though given the sterile clinician's eye which director Siegrid Alnoy applies to her subject, I'm not sure that she'd necessarily view this observation as a backhanded compliment. I admire her willingness to put the camera in places you wouldn't expect (most wondrously shooting through frosted glass so that its protagonist Christine literally fades to white), and to cut abruptly to lovely, empty, pillow shots of mountains, driving, and buildings where further dialogue would be unnecessary.
But this interest in pure visuality does run with certain risks, and the film's occasionally too Gursky-esque frames rehash the familiar anticapitalist arguments: Too much! Too anonymous! Too identical! Her decision to loop a repetitive techno beat underneath the first fifteen minutes of the film pays similar dividends — it's easy to appreciate the radical intentions behind the gesture without finding it wholly successful. But so it often goes with first films. Just finding a young filmmaker willing to shun convention who is also able to sustain a mood and pair it with some semblance of an inquiry over the course of a feature is practically a revelation. And that this feature puts us in such close quarters with a character who should be unpleasantly familiar to anyone who's worked in an office, yet remains compelling and empathetic, marks Alnoy as a filmmaker worthy of attention.
[ Jeff Reichert is co-founder and editor of Reverse Shot. He is currently employed as Director of Marketing and Publicity for Magnolia Pictures and co-director of the Providence French Film Festival. ]
Take 3
by Michael Koresky
It's easy to reduce the hypnotic "She's One of Us" by dumping it into the genre subset of "workplace dehumanization films," but Siegrid Alnoy's precariously erected debut is deceptive. Its visual signifiers of alienation and conformity may seem reminiscent of sketches from well-trod territory, yet its classically existential concerns evoke Camus more than Antonioni, its frame more attuned to the tougher questions of identity than self-involved angst. Alnoy's constantly descending and undulating camera can't truly express detachment because the intention seems to be to exhilarate rather than confound; so joyous is the film's constant flow of visual and aural revelations that its ultimate effect is of stimulation rather than disconnect. Perhaps Christine Blanc is indeed connected — to the shifting spasms of contemporary self-definition, plugged into a binge-and-purge approach to spiritual fulfillment: porcelain owl-collecting to impress potential new friends, passing her auto exam, maintaining a comfortably unexceptional relationship with a male coworker.
In a limited world in which the emergence into self-worth is hearkened by the procuring of a driver's license, then how to truly assert one's humanity? Alnoy's rush of eerie imagery, admittedly overwrought yet compellingly so, audaciously quotes both "The Stranger" and "Crime and Punishment," still having the good sense to remain an elusive spectator to those authors' more desperate inquiries. When Christine's coworkers are toasting the magnitude of her recent passing grade at the auto school, they begin to chant the French barroom standard "Elle est des notres" ("She's One of Us") creepy in its conformist implications; Bach suddenly engorges the soundtrack, drowning out the false cheers of the revelers, and then finally the sound and picture zap out, creating an awkward moment of dead screentime. The burden of acceptance is sometimes too heavy.
[ Michael Koresky is co-founder and editor of Reverse Shot, as well as the assistant editor and frequent contributor of Film Comment. ]
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Men's T-shirts are casual wears and therefore, are most appropriate for casual occasions or events. You might look out of place if you decide to wear one to a formal occasion or meeting. There are different ways to style t-shirts because of their versatile nature. If you're thinking of going out on a date, or an evening with the guys, or any other function with a t-shirt, you could consider the following while you're thinking of styling.
1. A pair of jeans trousers/shorts: Jeans trousers do not only look good but make you look cool, smart, young and attractive. Wearing a pair of jeans on a t-shirt is very much popular and you really cannot go wrong should you decide to dress like this. If you're having an outdoor informal meeting, a pair of shorts will flatter your legs and definitely make you look more good-looking.
2. A pair of sneakers: Sneakers are shoes which are most fit for casual occasions and therefore, are perfect for t-shirts. Asides sneakers, however, men's shoes like loafers, brogues are also never a bad idea.
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Every little girl needs a tutu skirt!
Living and dinning rooms decorated for party!
Tissue pompoms
Snack Table
Chocolate covered pretzel rods...Very yummy!
In keeping with first birthday tradition, cupcakes!
The candies and pretzels on the snack table went with my pink, purple and white theme. So I decided to make the cupcakes go with the color theme as well. They are strawberry cake, with french vanilla butter cream icing, and a cute little fondant flower. Very simple but very cute!
The party was just family, but even that is 14 people!!! It was a great day and lots of fun with family!


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Latest Questions...
What is the Creator Collective?
The Creator Collective is a free content creation and marketing education course. Our objective is to get a new breed of creators in Singapore excited about storytelling and content marketing. Participants will learn to create content that drives the right messages through different platforms to build an audience and generate ROI.
What do I get out of this course?
Participants will gain clarity, focus, and enthusiasm for storytelling and most of all, leave with achievable, specific next steps for a future in content creation and marketing.
When and where does the course start?
The course will take place from 9am to 2.30pm every Saturday, beginning on 27 January, 2018. There will be a break for Chinese New Year and Easter. All workshops will be held at PIXEL Studios, 10 Central Exchange Green, Singapore 138649.
Is this course certified?
The course is certified by award-winning content marketing agency Brand New Media (BNM) and the Asia Content Marketing Association (ACMA).
What if I can't attend a class? Will I be penalized or not be certified?
All participants are required to complete 8 out of 10 modules. Please refer to Course Modules in our Learn section.
Who will I learn from?
You will learn from media industry experts and popular content creators, and they won't just be delivering presentations! Each topic will include hands-on experience, individual group guidance or an extensive Q&A session with the speaker. Please refer to Speakers in our Learn section for more information.
Where can I download course material?
You can download all course material in our Learn section. We will be uploading all our slides after class through the Missed Something? portal. Also, look out for our Tips And Tricks to help you create your content solution!
What are the course pre-requisites?
There are no strict course pre-requisites. We'll be looking for individuals who are enthusiastic about making great content and learning how to market their solutions. However, it would be a plus if you have already started making content on your own.
How much is the course?
This course is being offered free of charge (and no, there isn't a catch).
What do I need to bring to the workshops?
At the first workshop, we will provide a workbook and stationery, which we hope you will use throughout the programme. We would encourage you (or at least one person in your team) to bring a laptop.
Who owns the content submitted to the Creator Collective?
The Creator of course!
If you submit content to us to publish as an example of your work, you'll be granting us a license to publish and distribute it – but the content belongs to you.
Are there any restrictions on content?
There's a sign at Speaker's Corner in Singapore that reads:
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We agree with them, so we tend to avoid content that we feel will cause unnecessary conflict or ill will.
That only applies to the content that appears on the site of course, and we will hope you understand.
Please note that as a Singapore publication we are also subject to local laws. You can find a summary of content that is 'not allowed for ratings' (NAR) here at the IMDA site. (Located on page 10)
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Why was I rejected for the workshop?
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What is needed to be selected as a participant?
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Following last summer's successful London to Paris and Devon coast to coast cycles, I realised that despite meticulous planning and the belief that my bike was in perfect working order, it was more by luck than judgement that I got back from both trips without having suffered a wheel, gear, or brake related failure that would have left me totally stranded.
The fact that my bike was in pretty good condition meant that I was of the (foolish) belief that I only really needed the equipment and knowledge to carry out a puncture repair. Therefore, the only tools I took with me on both trips were a puncture repair kit, a pump, a couple of spare inner tubes, and a multi-tool with allen keys and screwdriver heads.
At the very end of my London to Paris trip, when I'd already arrived in Paris, my rear wheel rim suffered a pretty catastrophic failure, resulting in a broken spoke and a significantly weakened rim. It was sheer luck that the bike was still just usable, and I was able to limp from train to train and get home without having to take the bike to a shop to be repaired. Had this happened in the middle of the countryside, miles from the next village, let alone the next town with a bike shop, I'd have been totally stranded.
Given that I'm going to be cycling on my own through France for around 12 days in June, the majority of which will be rural cycling, I thought it would probably be a good idea to both invest in the tools to carry out more major repairs, and to equip myself with the knowledge to be able to do so.
Therefore, when my current wheels were showing signs of excessive wear, and it was clear they'd soon need replacing, I decided to keep them on the bike over the winter (so as not to mess up a new set of wheels on wet, dirty, gritty roads) and set about researching how to build a new set myself.
It's been a very steep learning curve, and has taken a lot of research, but I've managed to build a very good, strong pair of touring wheels, and in the process have learned a lot of new skills. Whereas before I'd have been clueless, tool-less, and stranded in if I'd hit a pothole and knocked a wheel out of line and/or broken a spoke, if this happens in June I'll have both the tools and the know-how to carry out a repair myself.
So, if there are any cyclists reading this who are new to touring, and lacking the skills needed to carry out their own repairs, here are my recommendations for what you need to know how to do for yourself, and the tools you'll need for the job.
Flat tyre:
You will need:
- Puncture repair kit containing glue, patches, sandpaper, chalk (not essential)
- Tyre levers
- Spare inner tubes
- Pump
The spare inner tubes aren't essential. But imagine yourself getting a puncture in the driving rain towards the end of a challenging day. Do you think you'll fancy repairing a puncture by the side of the road with no shelter to hide in? I thought not. Having spare inners will mean you can whip the old one out, put a new one straight in, pump it up, and get on your way. The repair can be carried out in the comfort of your tent/hotel room/log cabin.
I know of many novice cyclists who don't know how to repair a puncture, and will take their bike to a shop for it to be repaired. Don't do this! Even if you only go out for a day trip on your bike, you can get a puncture anywhere. It is very easy to repair a puncture, and there are plenty of videos on YouTube showing you exactly how to do it.
Finally, remember to check the tyre to see if the cause of the puncture is still embedded in the rubber. If it's still there when you pump the tyre back up, you're going to be fixing a lot of punctures…
Broken spoke:
For the front wheel, you will need:
- Spare spokes of the correct length and type
- A spoke key
And for the rear wheel, in addition to the above, you will need:
- A cassette lockring removing tool
- A chainwhip
If you get the chance to build your own set of wheels, have a go at doing so rather than asking a shop to build them for you. You can always take them into a shop to be checked over if you're not confident you've done a good job. By the time you've finished, you'll have learned a whole load of new skills, and replacing a broken or bent spoke will be easy.
It is easier to replace a broken spoke on your front wheel than on your rear one. This is because no extra tools are needed in order to take the old spoke out and thread a new one into the wheel. The extra tools are required for a rear wheel break because the rear cassette (the stack of gears sitting in the middle of your rear wheel) are right up against the edge of the hub. This prevents you from being able to get at the spokes on that side of the wheel. Have a look at your rear wheel and you'll see what I mean.
It is impossible to remove the rear cassette without a lockring removal tool and a chainwhip, but as soon as you have these tools, it is an easy job to do.
Spoke lengths are very specific, and are calculated to the nearest millimetre. In order to calculate the length of spokes your wheel needs, you need to know some key measurements of your hub and rim, and then run these numbers through a spoke length calculator. The spokes for the front wheel will be of one length, and then there will be two more lengths of spoke for either side of the rear wheel. Therefore, you'll need to carry at least three spare spokes to be sure of having the right length to replace a broken one.
Working out your hub and rim measurements, and calculating spoke lengths, are pretty complicated topics which I won't attempt to explain here. Either research these areas on Google or ask your bike shop to calculate the spoke lengths for you and provide you with some spare spokes. If you're in the middle of nowhere with a broken spoke, you only need the spares, and to know which one to use depending on which wheel has suffered a break. You don't need to know why they're the length they are or how that's calculated.
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A snapped cable is an easy thing to learn how to repair, but impossible if you don't have a spare cable, so don't go touring without some! I didn't know how to replace either of these when I first got into cycling, so when I've needed to replace my cables I've watched YouTube videos in order to learn how to do it, rather than taking my bike to a shop to be repaired. It's a five minute job at most, and and essential skill to have if you don't want to be stranded in the middle of France with a snapped gear cable.
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Provided your chain is in good condition and is well maintained, it is unlikely you'll have to carry out a chain repair, but it's still a possibility and if you're in the middle of the countryside without the tools you're vulnerable. This seems like a difficult job if you're not familiar with how to do it, but once you know how, it really isn't difficult. As ever, YouTube has a multitude of very good instructional videos you can use to help you learn.
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This isn't a repair you should ever need to carry out on the road, unless you're on an extended tour of a week or more. If you check your brake pads before you leave and there's plenty of life left in them, they're not going to wear down enough to need replacing in the course of a week or so.
However, if you're going to be touring for an extended period of time, and you're carrying lots of weight on the bike which will increase the forces you're having to use on your brakes, extra pads are essential. Changing the pads is very easy, requiring only an allen key to release the brake cable, remove the old pads, and fit the new ones. Guess where you can learn how to do this…yes, YouTube.


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Here is a look at the new Serfontaine Autumn/Winter 2011 collection that I saw in London last week. These jeans are made specifically for the Bodymetrics Scanner in Selfridges. You can read my experience on the scanner here.
I was excited to see that they have brought out some distressed styles in the Ruby, Sapphire and Emerald fits. At the moment they just seem to have the plain washes so it's nice to see some variation. There was one pair in particular that I liked and they had silver sequins under the distressed parts of the denim. They also had some classic washes and white denim as well. You can view the images in the gallery below.
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Nevertheless, there seem to be plenty of cross-platform-savvy computer users who share my belief that the next 12 months could see Apple claim significantly larger sliver of the PC pie.
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I'm a big fan of Jim Collins. Good to Great and Built to Last are two well researched and written business leadership books – ones I recommend highly. They are even good books to read for church leaders – to a point.
In an earlier post about the Emergent Church, I pointed to an article written by Dr. Alan Roxburgh, in the June MLI Newsletter. Alan spoke of the corporate leadership model that began to take precedence in the church in the middle of the last century. The focus on the church was in the delivery of services (whatever those might be – child care, Sunday School, preaching, music, etc.) by a professional team, led by a Senior Pastor – the church CEO, if you will. The church no longer was the ingathering of God's people in community, but was rather a gathering place where people went once or twice a week to sing and to receive teaching that might have some impact on their lives – a corporation in its own right – rather than a corporate body of believers. (I admit that this is a gross over simplification, but stay with me for a moment.)
Church leaders began to adopt the language of the marketplace. Setting goals, detailing budgets and measuring success by the numbers of bottoms in the pews. We created Big Hairy Audacious Goals, attempted to get the right people on the bus and the wrong people off and wanted to be able to say to the Lord at Judgment – see what we did with the talents you gave us. And in the process we forgot that we were called to be in relationship first and foremost – that people aren't numbers, they are creatures made in the very image of God, with value beyond measure. (If the creator of the universe was willing to lay down His life for each of us, how can we devalue anyone.)
Jesus did not call us as church leaders to build corporations – he called us to grow up disciples – in the manner of a Jewish Rabbi – a Rabbi who spent three years in intimate relationship with twelve disciples, eleven of whom would go on to rock the world – even as they laid down their own lives. He was with them day in and day out. Eating with them, laughing with them, chastising them, teaching them and always loving them. And when He left them, he left them with the power to forever change the planet. (The best teaching on Jesus rabbinic teaching style I've ever heard was by Rob Bell on the DVDs from this year's C3 Conference @ Fellowship Church in Texas.)
The great leaders that Collins speaks about in Good to Great have many admirable leadership qualities – a profound level of selflessness in most, a commitment to the organization over themselves and a desire for the ongoing health of the organization long after they are gone. Rather than desiring this kind of leadership for the church, we should recognize the Biblical principals being honoured in these leadership attributes – not confusing the source of the leadership insight in the process.
Don't buy into the Jesus CEO nonsense. Jesus is the relationship restorer – the relationship builder – and that is what we are called to be – both becoming and building disciples who will rock the world through radical relationships that transform communities. It's a lot more exciting than building corporations.
UPDATE: After I wrote this post I came across this quote from Saddleback Pastor, Rick Warren:
I happened to be, probably 20 years ago, at a philanthropy conference, and I met (Peter) Drucker, and he said something that I thought was very important. He said, "The purpose of management is not to make the church more business-like, but to make it more church-like." And I thought, that's what I want because I don't think churches should be a business. I think fundamentally that's the wrong motif; the church is a family, it's built on relationship. (Hat tip: Bagga's Blog)


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