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Australian mid-tier law firm, Sedwick, Lyner and Palige are bucking the trend when it comes to using social media and the internet for increased marketplace visibility, brand credibility, client acquisition and retention.
“We – myself and the other senior partners – think that social media, in fact this whole online thing, is just a waste of time.” says Barry Sedwick. “From what we can see social media is full of nothing but kids and cats, neither of which are our target demographic.
“We also plan to shutter our website and blog as they’ve become unwanted distractions. To be frank I never understood why we would blog our best stuff when our entire business model is premised on us knowing more than the client does and then selling advice to them in 6-minute increments.
“Our new multi-pronged off-line marketing and sales initiative is intended to future-proof Sedwick, Lyner and Palige for years to come. The centrepiece of the program is a series of Yellow Pages ads. Yes, they’re expensive and need to be renewed every 12 months, but it says to the community ‘we’re here and we’re cool’ – if I can use that expression. It’s definitely a credibility play for us.
“We also have an aggressive client acquisition strategy rolling out which will see us extend further into letterbox drops, a heightened presence on shopping centre notice-boards, and the ongoing placement of promotional flyers on car windscreens at local train stations. And we have a skywriting campaign planned for later in the year, weather permitting.
Qantas: if you abuse us on social media, we’ll abuse you back.
Qantas are about to take the gloves off when it comes to dealing with the dark underbelly of social media. Head of Corporate Communications, Jo Fitzgerald first flagged the Qantas change of stance at the recent Business Leaders Conference in Sydney.
“Quite frankly we’ve had a gut-full of the idiots and losers who hang out on social media and pick on us for their amusement, said Fitzgerald. “And we’re also over the social media whiners who complain about EVERY LITTLE THING we do as if it were the end of the world. We think it’s time they got a life.
If you abuse us on social media, we’re going to proportionally abuse you back. Then you’ll see what it feels like to be on the receiving end of an #epicfail.
If you make a pseudo-complaint on social media in the hope of getting an upgrade or special service, the opposite will likely happen. You’ll probably end up sitting next to that crying baby all the way to London, or your luggage might just get ‘lost’ for a day or two.
If you use foul, abusive, racist or sexist language or emoticons we will publicly shame you on a dedicated Facebook page we’ve set up.
John Marshall is a landscape gardener – not that most people would ever guess that. His life was transformed several years ago after posing for a stock-image on the advice of a friend. He has now become ‘the smiling businessman’ on thousands of website homepages around the world.
“Sure, I’ve got one of those friendly-warm, wouldn’t-do-you-wrong business faces, and I got paid my $150, but it was the biggest mistake of my life.” says Marshall. “I can’t go anywhere in public these days without being accosted by people who badger me for arcane professional advice, or in some cases tell me that my business owes them money.
“I’ve been keeping track – at last count I’m splashed across 18,654 website homepages. I’m a lawyer, accountant, stockbroker, banker, tax advisor, financial planner, consultant, business school guest lecturer, bond trader, board member, philanthropist and angel investor… it’s ridiculous!
“Stock images are so cheaply available these days, but few ever consider the impact it has on us, the models. I’ve been reduced to a walking cliché – it’s hell. I’m thinking of moving to a country with low website penetration, Sierra Leone for example. I just need a chance to rebuild my life.
“And I’m not the only one who’s suffering. I met a guy a few weeks back who once posed as a suited-up businessman who had just found the answer to a problem while sitting on a rock facing out to a stormy sea. Now he gets hounded by people in the street looking for quick inspirational business advice.
“I’ve tried communicating with iStockphoto about getting my image removed but I’ve never received a response. I’d happily give them back their $150 if that’s what they want.
“The wake-up call for me came in early 2009” says Mully. “Surfing the web one afternoon I landed on a business website which had been so badly abused it reduced me to tears. It was suffering from severe content malnutrition and limping heavily due to several badly broken navigation links. Most of its pages were infested with spelling mistakes, and somebody had cruelly inserted a stock-image of a smiling businessman onto the homepage. It broke my heart. Since then Restored Site have helped save thousands of local business websites from what would have been a painful downward spiral for them.
“We’re confronted daily with business websites that have been deprived of fresh content over extended periods. If a website CMS [Content Management System] is not used regularly it shrivels to the point that it closes down completely – that’s usually the start of the end. I remember the case of an accountancy website which hadn’t seen any fresh content for over 4 years, simply because the marketing coordinator had misplaced the CMS login! It never occurred to them to seek professional help to get their password reset.
“Some of the blame for the increase of website neglect must go to social media. Business owners are being cajoled and seduced into giving away their best content to whatever latest social media craze, leaving little or nothing for their own websites to live off. People need to stop and think how propping up a faceless social media brand might be coming at the expense of their own online brand presence.
“We’re not here to judge, we want to make people aware that they even have a problem. We try to kick-start that conversation but many business-owners don’t even have a telephone number anywhere on their website for us to call. Then we’re forced to submit a contact form – and of course there’s rarely any response.
Tom Gallagher, a Melbourne based entrepreneur is turning heads with the launch of his nascent startup called a ‘cafe’. The business idea is deceptively simple. Users, or as Gallagher refers to them, ‘customers’ would physically visit the cafe and transact for items such as coffee, muffins and chicken wraps. But like many new and disruptive business models today it’s not immediately obvious how a profit will be sustainably generated. Still, Gallagher has recently closed a $17 million Series A round from investors eager to get in early.
“We initially floated the model on an episode of Shark Tank, but nobody really got it. I think we were just too early” reflects Gallagher. “You see, not only is this a new business framework, but we’ll have first mover advantage in a super-sticky transactional market space. Once we’ve achieved buyer-side liquidity we’ll obviously look to quickly scale the idea.
Gallagher admits that their revenue model still needs fine-tuning. “We launched with a sliding pricing scale based on how much food and beverage each customer consumed before leaving, but now we’re leaning towards a multi-tiered subscription model. We’re only burning through about $25K a day so we’ve got plenty of runway left to get this right.
“Our employees are of course our greatest asset – they can see the upside potential of our vision. Everybody is more than happy to be paid completely in stock options. In a tight hospitality market it’s the only way to attract and retain the brightest talent. And people just love working for us. Often times employees stick around until 10pm when we close up, and it’s not at all uncommon to see them in here on weekends.
A shadowy plot has been uncovered to slow down the effectiveness of the world’s largest professional social network, LinkedIn. State sponsored provocateurs are suspected of seeding hundreds of math problems onto LinkedIn newsfeeds in an attempt to lower the productivity of the people trying to solve them, most of whom are Westerners.
According to prominent psychologist Dr. Christopher Hedges who specialises in social media induced neuroses, “The math problems are just the latest in an ongoing wave of psychological attacks on the LinkedIn community. A number of observers suspected that the network was being deliberately contaminated as early as 2008 when the first inspirational quotes starting gumming up people’s newsfeeds. We also know from the findings of several studies that inspirational quotes have a depressing effect on a population by reminding people how horrible their own workplace or boss really is.
“But the math problem attacks are more sophisticated. These tests are designed to appear challenging but they are in fact easily solvable. For instance, the average 12 year-old could work out that the answer to 1x1x1x(1+1+0)-(1x1x0) = 2. Ninety percent of people do not get this wrong and correctly solving it hardly makes you a ‘genius’. But many LI members can’t resist providing an answer giving them an inflated sense of intellectual accomplishment. It can also be a desperate cry for peer recognition, approval or acceptance. This is how math problems propagate through the network at the speed they do.
LinkedIn spokesman Chip Fryberg had this say to the media, “We’ve been cooperating with the NSA [National Security Agency] for some time. We knew math problems were being posted via dummy accounts but were powerless to stop people engaging with them. The strength of our network is somewhat ironically also a weakness. At one point we asked Sir Richard Branson to post more regularly – people just love his musings and we thought it might draw the community’s attention away from the problems and they would die out… but even he wasn’t enough.
Terry Jenkins, a property developer from Cairns recently found evidence of a factual error on the web. “I almost missed it.” said Terry “I was reading a piece about Peru which made reference to Trujillo as their capital city. I was puzzled and then a bit shocked. I mean, I was on the world wide web – how could anything which wasn’t completely true make it on there in the first place? But no, a quick call to the Peruvian embassy in Sydney confirmed the error as real – the capital of Peru is actually Lima.
“What a revelation – I was almost bowled over! Then I got to thinking: if I had found one error on the web could there be other falsehoods which have been published online? And if this were the case and it became widely known, then surely the web would lose its credibility as a reliable source of information…. and people would just stop using it.
“If the web is to retain its mantle as the universal repository of truth, then whoever’s running the show needs to safeguard its integrity. I spotted one slip-up, but there could be others. At the risk of sounding cynical I’m wondering if I can continue to believe everything I see on the web. What next, I’ll discover that online local business reviews and Grumpy Cat aren’t real either?
The audience were encouraged to follow and use the official performance hashtag, #AusOpBoh which was permanently displayed in neon, centre stage.
Claudia Travers, Opera Australia’s Artistic Director hailed the first night of the trial a resounding success. “I wish Puccini were alive to see this, he would have loved it! Twitter is such a visceral medium – people can share their feelings and reactions with one another in real-time.
“We’ve already received requests to get a live Instagram stream happening too… I really think we’re about to take the operatic experience to a whole new level.” said Travers.
Ian and Judy Matthews who live in Brisbane, Australia are amongst a growing number of parents who are being asked by their children to agree to a binding social media policy.
Following on from Australia Post’s recent announcement that it would set up an off-line social network, Australia’s National Broadband Network (NBN) has unveiled its own plans to build the world’s largest network of pneumatic tubes. The below-ground rollout would happen in parallel with the laying of fibre which has already commenced. Once completed the National Pneumatic Network (NPN) would reach 98.5% of all Australian homes and workplaces. Capsules containing documents, money, small machinery parts, articles of clothing and even hot food would be sucked along a series of tubes, routed through pneumatic ‘super-nodes’, and eventually pop out at the intended recipient’s home or workplace.
Australian postal service provider, Australia Post are preparing to launch an off-line social media network called Social Post. In what is considered to be a world first, Australia Post is attempting to tap into the burgeoning interest surrounding social networking and content sharing – but in a purely analogue format.
Social Post will allow users of the free service to physically send updates to each other via their ‘feedbox’ (home or work mailbox). Once received, an update from a connection can be liked, commented on or shared. Photos and other documents can optionally be attached using a supplied paperclip. Australia Post will then collect the update in its satchel and deliver it, in turn, to all of the people the post was intended to be shared with. Any update could potentially travel through hundreds of different people gathering an accumulation of likes, comments and attachments along the way.
“We’re initially targeting people living in Australia who don’t have internet access or are just struggling with how social media works.” said Australia Post’s Head of Special Initiatives, Jim Mandrake. “Older people in particular often feel they’re missing out on what’s happening amongst their own family, friends and peers. Nobody should be forced to endure the hardship of social network marginalisation – it can be a dark and lonely place.
Inside sources have revealed that North Korean leader, Kim Jong-un has enthusiastically embraced Pinterest, the popular image-sharing social media platform.
“What started as a casual pastime for Kim Jong-un – pinning images of military hardware and swimsuit models – has apparently become an integral part of his decision-making process.” wrote Seoul University Professor Seo Jung-Won in a recent New York Times article.
“Kim Jong-un’s involvement with Pinterest can be traced back to late 2013 when he opened up a public account under the pseudonym ‘NKGuy244’. That account has since been closed, but for several days we were able to observe his pinning activity. His first governance related boards were comprised of the profile pictures of the entire North Korean Politburo, his Generals and all of his extended family. He would shift profile pins around the boards, quite erratically on some days. For example, a 5-Star General might be moved off the ‘Okay’ board and onto the ‘Looked At Me In A Funny Way’ board. In one unexpected moment we watched Jang Song-thaek’s profile pin (his Uncle) move from the ‘Family & Friends’ board across to the ‘X’ board. It was only after Jang Song-thaek’s execution in late January this year that we understood the full import of that repin.
“From what we can tell Jong-un has since opened up a new private account and has extended his Pinterest-based planning activities. According to our sources he now has additional boards for ‘Ballistic Weapons I Want’ (377 pins), ‘Nuclear Program Parts Still to Buy’ (2 pins), ‘Nations on Our Side’ (3 pins), ‘Capitalist Stooge Nations’ (187 pins), ‘Countries to Annihilate’ (187 pins), ‘Approved Haircut Styles’ (5 pins) and ‘Fun Ideas for Military Parades (1436 pins)’.
Facebook, the world’s largest social network, has unveiled a low interest lending facility called Facebook Universal (FU). The new service is aimed at small to medium sized organisations who require a fast line of credit to fund their sponsored posts. The practice of paying to increase the reach of individual posts, known as ‘boosting’ is now widely considered to be the only way that page owners can effectively reach their fans anymore.
Time Magazine was the first to break the story in an interview with Facebook’s Head of Revenue Streams, Franky Holsworth. In the interview Holsworth candidly admitted what many social media managers have feared for some while: “In the coming days brand-page owners will see the complete and total suppression of their organic [unpaid] page posts onto anyone’s personal newsfeed. Of course no business will ever be forced to pay a dime to have a page, but those who don’t make the investment will fall into what Mark jokingly calls the ‘obscurity vortex’. But we’re determined not to let a lack of an allocated budget for boosted posts to be an obstacle for any organisation wanting to build an engaged fan base – we’ll just lend you the money at a great interest rate. It’s as simple as that.
The US military have become the first armed forces to officially adopt the #sos hashtag for use by mariners and aviators in severe distress situations. The rise of social media and the prevalence of hashtags have contributed to the demise of the familiar SOS call-sign of dots, dashes and dots.
“We’ve been using the SOS Morse code as a procedural signal since 1908” said US Major General Richard Mayford, Assistant Deputy Chief of Staff. “But times have changed, and we must change with them. We believe that military personnel and civilians will increase their chances of being located and rescued if they make use of the #sos hashtag.
A Charleston, Kentucky resident is lucky to escape with his life after he was attacked outside his house by old social media accounts he had set up for his architectural business. “It scared the hell out of me.” said 46 year-old Kevin Johnston.
“I was cornered on my front doorstep last Friday evening by my own social media accounts. They were alive but certainly not living… pure zombie. Worst of all I recognised my business branding on each of them, but it was now distorted and hideous. They were begging me for images, videos, links, status updates – even low quality animal memes and inspirational quotes, that’s how desperate they were.
“It must have been so long since I had posted anything that I had reduced them to this state. I can remember thinking, well Kev, you’re a damned fool and you’ve brought this on yourself – you should have closed them down if you weren’t going to use social media properly. I mean, even before the attack they must have been compromising the crap out of my brand.
Samsung announced today that its entire range of HD TV’s will integrate Instagram filters as an optional part of the viewing experience. The new feature enables owners to overlay any of the 19 image filters that are available on the the popular Instagram app to any program. “It’s kind of cool” said Samsung’s head of product development, Yasuo Tanaka at the official launch held in San Francisco (the hometown of Instagram). “Imagine watching your favourite sports game with the Lo-Fi filter on – the grass will look green in a way you’ve never experienced it. Movie buffs might make use of the Earlybird or Toaster filters – we’ve found that overlaying yellows, oranges and browns lend an old-style moodiness.” In one demonstration, invited guests and the media were shown a 10-minute snippet of the original 1954 Godzilla movie using the Kelvin filter – the effect was electrifying.
The Channel 9 network in Australia has unveiled a new 1-hour weekly game show called Who Wants Likes!? The show is modelled on the popular Japanese variety program Gaki no Tsukai where contestants are humiliated and inflicted with pain as part of a series of endurance challenges. Who Wants Likes!? contestants are all small businesses-owners who are competing for Facebook ‘likes’ on their brand pages in a bid to boost their social media presence. Each contestant must last through timed milestones to win increasing numbers of Facebook fans. The winning contestant for each challenge wins an extra 5000 fans and is given $10,000 in Facebook credits to pay for boosted posts.
The show has already come under attack from groups who have labelled the challenges as “denigrating” and “disturbing.” One endurance challenge involves contestants being stripped to their underwear, tied to the floor and smeared with honey from head to foot. 100 bull-ants are then placed onto the body of each person while the host taunts contestants with criticisms about how poor their understanding of social media for business really is. Crazy enough to be dangerous? It could be. Spare a thought for a contestant in a similar game show challenge in Japan in 1994 who was hospitalised for a week after receiving repeated electric eel bites to his nose and ears.
French police in conjunction with Interpol and the CIA have captured 17 troll-like creatures who were living and operating out of a remote hill region close to Amiens in the Southwest of France. According to a recent statement issued by the Ministère Français des Communications the trolls are considered to be directly responsible for most of the hurtful and malicious posts which have been published onto people’s blogs and other social media over the last several years.
A family in Melbourne, Australia is $5 million richer after assisting a Nigerian General to move funds out of the country. Darren Smith, father of 2, and his wife Susie were emailed by Retired Gen. Edmond Abdullahi in March last year. “We received an email out of the blue from Edmond” recalls Darren. “I don’t usually read email that lands in my spam folder, but thankfully I did on this day. ‘Dear Friend’ Edmond’s email started, who then went on to explain that a $10,000,000 inheritance was due to him from a recently deceased uncle with substantial property interests. To get access to the funds however would require a foreign, joint-access bank account for the transfer. If we could assist he would evenly split the full inheritance with us.
“Well, we didn’t even know where Nigeria was back then – I remember asking one of the kids to look it up online (it’s part of Africa). After a few days of discussion Susie and I decided that it was too good an opportunity to pass up. We seeded the deposit account with the $50,000 Edmond had requested as a ‘sign of good faith’ – luckily we had the children’s education fund to draw from. We wired Edmond with the bank and deposit receipt details, and within a couple of weeks $10 million arrived from Nigeria. Edmond flew out to Australia soon after, stayed with us for a weekend and we split the money as agreed. He was a really nice guy – the kids were sad to see him go. And that’s the last we’ve heard of him.


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Enter the Exciting World of Fashion Show Production!
Fashion shows are an important component in the career of a fashion fan. We attend them, we view them, and we anxiously await their appearance at fashion week. The fashion show is the penultimate event for a fashion designer, showcasing their ideas, hard work, brand message and artistic abilities. If you are a fashion, image and style professional seeking to expand your service base then adding the certification as a fashion show event producer to your resume is critical. This is a career that can make you a success and earn you a good living. And, it’s fun! Whether you start small with regional or local shows held in a boutique or as a fund raiser or produce a big catwalk show for a client, this course will train you to handle both small and large events.
This professional course will supply students with the tools to execute their own fashion related events and shows. Training clarifies the nature of the ever-changing fashion show. It includes practical applications on how to successfully produce a fashion show and related events. Students will gain a firm command of industry terminology, ideas, as well as practical application of skills and concepts. Upon successful completion of this certificate course students will be able to plan, produce, execute, style and evaluate a professional fashion show.
· Gain a clear understanding of the history of the fashion show, and functions of the fashion show.
· Demonstrate knowledge of fashion Industry Terminology, Categories of fashion shows, and the role of the producer.
· Demonstrate the ability to calendar a task and time line list for a fashion show production cycle.
· Create and develop a show theme, title, marketing and design plan.
· Develop a communication system and act as liaison to convey information regarding the show to all designers and other show production team members.
· Develop and work a Marketing and PR Plan utilizing both social media and traditional marketing methods.
· Plan and develop the show’s physical and creative space design.
· Develop a show budget.
· Plan and define the requirements for show workers, models, dressers, stage hands, DJs, caterers, entertainers, volunteers, stylists etc. and, participate in securing those workers.
· Pull Merchandise, set up style racks (tracks), style models and use style boards in a show.
· Demonstrate the ability to evaluate production team members, models, audience and the show.
· Produce and execute a real or virtual fashion show.
· Suggested Resources: Current fashion magazines, trade publications, forecasting services, and Internet sites.


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MORE THAN 400,000 PEOPLE CAME TO KNOW JESUS AS THEIR SAVIOUR THROUGH THE MINISTRY OF EVERY HOME FOR CHRIST!
Leaders from eighteen Africa countries - where Every Home for Christ is actively at work - came together in Pretoria during the first week of February to report on the great harvest of souls in their countries and to plan for greater fruitfulness.
God was in our midst. How do we know that? We know because of the love for one another.... and for HIM! We praised Him every day - and we had good reason to! During the past year we had the privilege to "taste and see that God is good" - through Every Home for Christ and related ministries - more than 400,000 of Africa's lost reached out to Jesus for salvation! We praise God for every soul saved and for every backslider who slid back to Jesus.
During the deliberations and celebrations, we honoured those who could not be there, but who helped us make this happen through their prayers, personal involvement and financial contributions. I want to thank you on behalf of all of us who are part of the Anglo Africa Region: Michael from Sierra Leone, Sydney from Liberia, Karl from Ghana, Timothy from Nigeria, Cleopas and his team from Zimbabwe, Zambia and Malawi, George from Swaziland, Robert, Josias and Simon from Lesotho, Pieter and Ursula from Namibia, Cor and Aléta from South Africa, Nicholas from Kenya, Tanzania and Uganda, Pete representing Madagascar and Ethiopia, Julio and his team from Mozambique, our brother from Sudan as well as my staff and I in the Anglo Africa Regional Office.
We heard from Michael how his house was burnt down during the atrocious foreign invasion and civil upheaval in Sierra Leone. Sadly, Michael lost 5 of his family members during this war.... but there is forgiveness and hope. His wife and children fled into the mountains and were saved by the grace of God. Due to a lack of funds, his house has not been rebuilt yet.
Karl Menyah from Ghana told us how a whole village of witches in the north of his country was evangelized by an EHC team. Most of them were saved and must now be trained. A training centre will be built in the area.
Pete Simonis reported on wonderful breakthroughs in Madagascar where EHC works together with churches and other strategic ministry partners. One group of enthusiastic young evangelists started 14 new churches in three months, in some very remote areas. In August of last year, 4,000 pastors and other leaders came together for further training in Tananarive, the capital city. These leaders vowed to help reach every home for Jesus on this island. They were so enthusiastic that they even promised to produce 400,000 hand written Gospel tracts for the first outreach thrust!
From every region encouraging reports told just one story: The Church of Jesus Christ is winning the battle for Africa by God's power and grace.
In South Africa, the director and his wife were hijacked at gunpoint and lost their car. Although this happened two years ago, it is only now that the final chapter has been written: During that fearful night they could stand there praying: "Forgive us oh God! If we and others like us, had done a better job of evangelising, this would not have happened. May the man who waved the gun in our faces come face to face with Jesus and be saved!" A few months ago they received a letter from the prison where an EHC team distributed some "Help from Above" booklets. It was from a hijacker who had found Christ through our ministry, was gloriously saved and begged forgiveness from the one's he terrorised! This is what God can do - if we trust Him and do things His way. To God be all the glory!
Please stand with us again this year. Together we trust, obey and work together to see great harvests come in ..... and to reach the last home for Jesus.


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Pharmacy 777 proudly supports athlete health.
We are committed to enhancing the quality of life within our community and helping you stay fit and healthy!
Pharmacy 777 can provide a range of nutritional and evidence based supplementary support for athletes as well as help you on your off days, in case of illness or injury.
Fo professional, caring and exceptional service with a collaborative approach to your individual and family health care, have a chat to one of our Pharmacists.
Pharmacy 777 & Cycling Development Foundation partner in support of the community - September 2017.
Pharmacy 777 and the Cycling Development Foundation (CDF) partnership reflects a joint commitment to support triathlon development.
“We look forward to developing a long standing relationship and encouraging more people to improve their health and well being through physical activity”.
As part of its community objectives local riders and athletes, alongside accredited coaches, the CDF will host quarterly women only social rides, host monthly Ride2Work events in the Perth CBD for the thousands of Perth commuters and help deliver a series of cycling events across different disciplines on behalf of charities.
CDF Secretary and spokesperson Mark Hedges said the ongoing and positive relationship with Pharmacy 777 was instrumental in the success of the program and provides major financial benefit to up and coming riders who in turn played an important role as ambassadors for sport.
“To receive this support from Pharmacy 777 is indicative of the success of the CDF and our racing teams and community programs over the past three years,” said Mr Hedges.
“We are excited that Pharmacy 777 shares our objectives and we look forward to working together in 2017 and beyond,” said Mr Hedges.

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This document describes the process for requesting access to the ADF Libraries Source Code. It is a guide for the customers to show the process behind it.
This procedure is intended only for the ADF libraries source code and not for any other source code from other products or extensions. Specifically, it is not possible to request source code for any JDeveloper extensions as SOA, BPEL, WebCenter, OWSM, JDeveloper IDE itself or others.
As of May 2012, these requests are considered Non-Technical, and thus, are handled by the Oracle HUB and not by ADF Support.

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Make your own checks to pay employees according to your wage agreement.
When employees perform work for their employers, the U.S. Department of Labor requires the small business owner to pay the employees accordingly. Giving employees a payroll check for services rendered shows proof of payment, as opposed to just handing out cash. Some employers outsource their payroll processing tasks to a payroll service provider. That company makes the checks and sends them to the employer. As an employer, you can make your own payroll checks.
Order checks from the bank where you have your payroll account, or see if an office supply store offers cheaper payroll checks. Hand-write these types of payroll checks. The check should include the company name, check number, check date, net pay amount, the employee's name and possibly address, and the bank that the check is drawn on.
If your state requires you to give employees a pay stub, you can order preprinted payroll checks with the stub attached from a stationery shop. Hand-write these types of checks, print them on a typewriter or use payroll software. If you use your bank's checks, you can make your own pay stub using a spreadsheet program.
Buy payroll software to create payroll checks. This method is particularly useful if your payroll includes more than 10 employees. Payroll software eliminates manual processing. The software calculates wage and deductions and creates paychecks and pay stubs.
Small companies with relatively straightforward payroll processing tasks can use software such as QuickBooks. Medium-sized companies with multi-state and multiple pay frequencies can use software such as Ultimate Software. Larger organization with more complex payroll requirements including timekeeping importation and piece rate payments might use FACT software.
Order blank payroll checks and the special toner used to print these checks, typically from the payroll software company. Use a laser printer when printing checks via payroll software. Ensure that you have enough toner to avoid pale print on the checks.
Enroll in an online payroll services. Companies, such as Intuit and Sure Payroll allow you to process your payroll and create paychecks online. You receive a unique user ID and password, allowing you to upload payroll data for each pay period, print paychecks, manage employee payroll records, print payroll reports and access employee W-2 forms.
If the employee has direct deposit, the top portion of the pay stub may resemble an actual check. It should have “Non-negotiable” printed on it. This means that the employee has already been paid and therefore cannot cash the stub.
U.S. Department of Labor: Are Pay Stubs Required?
Ferguson, Grace. "How do I Make My Own Payroll Checks?" Small Business - Chron.com, http://smallbusiness.chron.com/make-own-payroll-checks-3603.html. 04 March 2019.

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Wise Guys Events has the best ideas for corporate team building events, whether it’s an executive retreat at the Claremont Hotel, a school orientation game at Jack London Square, an escape room experience at the Z Hotel, or a pub crawl scavenger hunt in downtown Oakland. Your team will bond as they’re having fun together out of the office, but that’s just the beginning. Our team building Oakland activities comprise mental, physical, and creative games. We shine a spotlight on the team’s diverse talents, but also illuminate cool nooks and crannies in every neighborhood where we run our novel team building games. We know all the best places for team building events, team bonding games, and private parties in Oakland. We want to make your team building Oakland event extraordinary. So tell us: where do you want to play?
Jack London Square Team Building: Oakland’s most popular pedestrian thoroughfare is chock-a-block with fun pubs and bars, public art, foot traffic, and great shopping and photo ops. Team building Oakland games in Jack London Square are among our signature offerings, and there’s no one in town who does it better.
Tilden Park Team Building: The great outdoors and Wise Guys Events’ intelligent fun are the secret ingredients to our team bonding programs. Compete in a park challenge course, play a photo scavenger hunt, or compete in our Amazing Race game. Great for corporate clients!
Hotel/Resort Team Building: Whether you’re looking to fill a one-hour breakout session, add an ice breaker to a cocktail hour or reception, or deliver team building entertainment to a group of hundreds in a ball room or conference center, we can bring the experience to you at your hotel, meeting space, or resort. The Claremont Hotel, the Oakland Marriott City Center, or the Clarion Downtown Oakland City Center: any one of them is a good pick for our on-site team building games.

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According to the Merriam Webster Dictionary, “atrophy” is defined as a decrease in size or wasting away of a body part or tissue.
In other words, if you don’t use it, you lose it.
Lupe & Brian: Welcome to another episode of Sjogren’s Strong. This is Lupe. And my name is Brian.
Lupe: Today we want to discuss atrophy of the muscles and the mind. Having had Sjogren’s for 10 years now, I’ve not only had good days and bad days. I’ve also had good months and bad months.
Brian: At the end of every year, Lupe and I evaluate that year. And we discuss good’s, bad’s, what worked, what didn’t. We really wanted to share what we’ve learned over the last few years. Now being human, sometimes we don’t even take our own advice, but most of the times we do. Especially when it comes to physical activity and strengthening the mind.
Lupe: We understand everybody’s body is different and responds differently. By no means are we trying to call anyone lazy in this episode.
Brian: But we want to encourage people to push themselves. It’s not always easy. It’s not always fun. But if you can get up and go to the restroom, when you need to go to the restroom, you can take an extra lap around the house. And just by that little gesture, you’re going to strengthen your legs, you’re moving your body, you’re using muscles, instead of just going to the restroom and back to the couch.
Lupe: For example, when we go to the grocery store, supermarket, Walmart, Target, you name it, wherever it is you go. And let’s say we only want a couple of apples. Instead of going directly towards the apples, which are right as you enter the store, we actually go the opposite direction. And we walk the entire store. In doing so, we walk extra steps.
Brian: When we’re driving to the store, we park pretty far from the entrance and A, it’s easier to find parking. Because everybody wants to park as close as possible, but it forces us to walk a little farther. These little tiny things that we do, we’re pushing our body. We’re taking more steps. We’re burning more calories. We’re utilizing muscle just a little bit longer.
Lupe: At work, when I print an email and I have to go grab it, the printer is actually like five steps away from where I sit. But I actually go the opposite direction and I walk… I have to take like maybe 30 extra steps, if I walk the opposite direction. But again, that’s extra steps.
Brian: So, we started the exercise routine, Autoimmune Strong and one of the things we were instructed to do is called short foot. And it’s funny how simple it is to do short foot and if you’re not familiar with it, with your feet flat on the floor, you just kind of push your big toe down. And that shortens the length of your entire foot. But you’re utilizing muscles in your feet that are very important for balance.
Brian: And I find myself at the end of the day, because I’ve done this, you know, I try to do 10 reps again every time I think about it. And it’s pretty easy to do. You scrunch your foot, you hold it for a count of 10, you let go 10, so on and so forth. But at the end of the day, my feet will actually feel a little sore.
Brian: Lupe you’re still doing leg raises at your desk, correct?
Lupe: That’s correct. And I tried to do that as often as I can. Which is probably most of the day because I’m usually sitting at my desk for 8-9 hours a day. And I also, if I’m going to go to the fax machine, if I’m going to go to the bathroom or just every 10, 15 minutes, I tried to get up and stretch my back, stretch my neck, and you know, all those little things help.
Brian: These little things add up as the day progresses. Remember you’re strengthening your body and you should feel, over time, less and less fatigued because your body stronger.
Lupe: And you also have to stimulate your brain. For example, you could do Sudoku, crossword puzzles.
Brian: Even a simple game of words with friends, that app on your phone.
Lupe: There’s a lot of apps on your phone that you could download. And you have crossword puzzles and just all kinds of things.
Brian: In this brain stimulation is obviously going to take your mind off fatigue or your mind off an ache or a pain. For example, Lupe just started a class.
Lupe: I’m so excited to share this with you guys. I signed up for a class last week. And it’s something that I’m really interested in. It really intrigues me. And I find myself wanting to just dive into it. And I’m at work, I’m thinking about my class. I can’t wait to get home and just jump into doing my homework. It’s helped my mind.
Brian: And the weird thing is it’s keeping her mind off the pains and the aches. Some days she would come home from work, you know, 5:00 we’d hang out, exercise little bit, run through some Autoimmune Strong, eat dinner, clean the kitchen, and she might be down and out, 7PM. Done for the day.
Brian: But now having her mind focused on accomplishing these tasks that are assigned to her in the class, she’s up until 10-10:30 doing homework, organizing notes, reading required materials. And it’s really cool for me to see her motivated. And I don’t want to say distracted from Sjogren’s, but in all reality, it’s a distraction from Sjogren’s. And you’ve got something to do other than sit there and take a nap.
Brian: So again, encouraging you to get up, walk, move around, find something to do to stimulate your mind. Is what this show is about.
Lupe: Last week, like I said, I signed up last week. The second day of school I left work, I went straight to school. I went to the library, I walked around, I was so excited. I encourage everybody to find something you’re passionate about because you’re going to get excited about it.
Brian: So, this is where I’m going to get a little militant. Some of you are aware, I spent time in the Marine Corps. And one thing I learned when it comes to physical exertion, the mind is the thing that gives up long before the body will. And when I was in, serving, I could walk five more miles, than I thought I could. And the crazy thing is once you do that and you accomplish that, wow, I just hiked 30 miles with 70 pounds on my back.
Brian: The next time you have a 20 mile hike, it’s like, yeah, whatever. No biggie because you’ve done 30. And I think we can equate the same when we’ve done some peaks of local mountains around here.
Brian: We hiked Mount Baldy. It’s the tallest peak in Los Angeles County, California, I don’t know, seven months later. It’s like, yeah, let’s go climb this mountain. No training, no preparation for it, but we drove out to the trail head and we hiked and peaked Saddleback, and it was tough. It was hard, but in the back of our minds, it’s not as tall as Baldy was, so of course we can do it. So we kept going and we did it.
Lupe: And it’s just a beautiful feeling when you finally peak. And you get this beautiful view and you feel accomplished.
Brian: That’s why we want you to challenge yourself. Push yourself a little farther. We’re not telling you to go climb a mountain. We’re not telling you that, you know, doing short foot at your desk is going to make you a bodybuilder. But push yourself and if you push yourself just one step farther, 10 steps farther a week, week after week after week, you’re going to get to a place to where it’s not as daunting as you thought it once was.
Lupe: Start off with five minutes. Five minutes today. Tomorrow maybe you could increase it to seven. By the end of the week, you might be doing 20 minutes, maybe even half an hour. It’s the small wins.
Brian: And it is the small wins. And we encourage you to find those things where you can chalk up that small win. Whether it be, I got up and walked around the block today. Or I got up and I walked five miles today.
Brian: Wherever your fitness level is and your capability is, that’s cool. But build upon that. Walk a block and a half, walk five and a half miles. Push yourself to go a little farther or a little faster each and every time you set out to accomplish something.
Brian: And yes, we understand it’s tough, but if you don’t attempt it, you won’t accomplish it.
Lupe: You’re going to start feeling a little bit better, a little bit stronger. Every day, push yourself a little bit more. The first day, don’t do too much to where you’re going to be so sore the following day that you’re going to quit. So, baby steps. Remember a little bit at a time.
Brian: If you’re looking for a little encouragement along the way, along finding something you’re passionate about or pushing your body a little bit farther. Or utilizing some muscles you normally don’t use. Join us on Living Sjogren’s Strong. It’s a Facebook Group. It’s a closed community. You’ve got to answer a couple of questions and we will allow access into this group. But this is a place where we’re bouncing ideas and comments and concerns, off each other to motivate each other. To push ourselves to be a little stronger, a little faster, and live a little better with Sjogren’s Syndrome.
Brian: Listen, I know it’s tough some days, if not most days. But I encourage you, please take baby steps and start moving your body. We’ve heard it time and time again, if you don’t use it, you lose it.
Lupe: If you’ve ever broken an arm or leg, you can relate. When it comes out of the cast, your muscle is smaller and weak. Why? Because you haven’t used it in months. So again, start using what you have while you still can.
New Speaker: Challenge yourself. Five more minutes of walking. Read one more page before you put the book down.
New Speaker: Take simple steps every day to push yourself. If you want, nobody else will.
New Speaker: Let’s live Sjogren’s Strong together.
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The Iowa Transportation Commission approved the state Department of Transportation’s outline for projects that will be conducted over the next several years.
The Interstate 74 bridge replacement, a tandem project of the Iowa and Illinois departments of transportation, will increase capacity and facilitate mobility on an important corridor that links the two states.
Some of Iowa’s leaders in automated vehicle research are seeking volunteers to help test the results of high-definition mapping and data collection.
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After threatening to slash $9.7 million from the Iowa Department of Transportation’s operating budget, the state’s Legislature voted April 29 to slice that figure in half to $4.85 million before adjourning for the year.
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Editor’s note: The United Nations adopted 17 sustainable development goals (SDGs) in 2015 and urged all its member countries to make efforts to achieve them by 2030.
But how should companies introduce those goals in their businesses?
The Asahi Shimbun interviewed 10 top executives of companies belonging to the Global Compact Network Japan (GCNJ), which mainly consists of firms supporting SDGs.
The following is the fourth of the series. The interviewee is Yoshihiro Hidaka, president of Yamaha Motor Co., a major boat maker.
Yamaha Motor Co. is selling outboard engines throughout the word. It is also making efforts in developing countries, such as those in Africa, to exploit new markets.
We developed highly durable outboard engines for fishermen who were rowing their boats by hand to go to the offing. As the engines do not easily break down even with poor-quality fuel, fishermen’s fishing areas expand. Therefore, the engines contribute to heightening the economic levels of fishing villages.
However, our business does not end with the sale of the engines. Our company’s employees remain in the villages for the time being for maintenance.
In addition, we have introduced fishing methods, such as longline fishing and dragnet fishing, to fisherman. During the period from 1977 to 1995, we published a newspaper-style “Fishery Journal,” which introduced Japanese fishing methods and fish storage methods with illustrations.
The next step is boats. My company is also manufacturing boats made of fiber-reinforced plastics (FRP). If fishermen use wooden boats, the quality of fish they caught may deteriorate by the time they return to port. If boats are equipped with facilities to store fish in cold conditions, they can keep the fish fresh. As a result, fishermen can sell high-quality fish in distant places. The productivity of fishermen drastically improves.
By manufacturing boats in those countries and raising engineers, we can also generate new employment. As these fishery-support activities have gained high praise in developing countries, we’re also going to spread these activities positively from now on.
What I’m feeling now is that young employees’ awareness toward social contribution is heightening. I think that if society is filled with goods and education is sufficiently implemented there, a desire to make the entire society better will spread. Making it clear that what they’re doing is leading to solutions for social problems is useful to maximizing the motivation of young employees.
Activities for social contributions will not continue for a long period if they are conducted on a voluntary basis. The activities must come into existence as a business while solving social problems. The coexistence of the two factors is a condition to be able to continue the activities.
Motivation and a sense of mission are important for young people. In addition to these, corporate managers are required to judge whether the activities can come into existence as business opportunities. If they can make the judgment, they can tackle projects while predicting circumstances of five years or 10 years later.
I think that activities for SDGs will also contribute to companies’ brand strategies.
My company is also engaged in installing small water purification systems for providing safe water in countries, mainly those in Africa. It installed a total of 24 systems in 12 countries by the end of 2017.
The business has produced few profits. But we’re continuing to do the installations, thinking that we want people in those countries to have good impressions of the Yamaha brand in places close to their daily lives and become familiar with it.
Yamaha Motor is Japan’s largest company in the marine business, such as the production of outboard engines and boats. It is also manufacturing motorbikes and helicopters for agricultural purposes.
In December 2017, the firm expressed its participation in the United Nations Global Compact as part of its efforts for SDGs.
In Japan, Yamaha Motor is engaged in activities to protect loggerhead sea turtles, an endangered species, along the Enshunada sea area's coast in Shizuoka Prefecture, where its head office is located.
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Getting a clear, punchy mix is not just about processing and effects – it starts with setting the right levels at which you track and mix. Get tips on how to achieve proper gain staging – including how a good, simple VU meter can help you.
Are your mixes weak and lackluster? Wimpy and devoid of energy? Brittle and grainy, with an unpleasant trace of harshness around the edges?
No, this isn’t an advert for a multi-vitamin. What we’re talking about is the importance of gain staging – a basic yet crucial audio concept that can have tremendous impact on the quality of your recordings and mixes.
The answer lies in the name itself: It’s the process of setting the optimum level (i.e, the best possible “gain”) at every stage in the signal path.
Back in the olden days of analog, this involved tweaking voltages with faders or knobs. When you sent a signal into a track of a tape machine, for example, you’d use the channel and buss faders to record the level as hot as possible short of distortion – a necessity due to tape hiss. Similarly, if you sent a signal into a compressor, you’d adjust its input knob to accomplish just the right amount of squashing, and you’d also use the output (“makeup gain”) knob to compensate for any resultant loss in level.
In the digital world, of course, you don’t have to worry at all about tape hiss; in fact, there’s really no appreciable “noise floor” at all, especially if you’re working in 24-bit.
Nonetheless, if you record at too low a level – or if you send signal to a bus or processor plugin at too low a level – you won’t be taking advantage of the full length of the available digital “word” (in a 24-bit system, this is 24 ones and zeroes). The unused “bits” at the beginning of the word will instead be filled with zeroes, and when that signal is converted to analog at the very end of the chain (that is, just before it reaches your speakers), it will exhibit a distinct lack of clarity and punch – the weak and wimpy sound we referred to at the beginning of this article.
In other words, what you have to worry about when recording digitally is leaving yourself enough headroom.
Technically, headroom is the amount of available gain before your system overloads.
Imagine that you’re sitting in a chair in a room with a six-foot ceiling, with music being played through speakers mounted at the top of the walls. If you happen to be 5'11" tall, when you stand up, the top of your head will fit perfectly under the ceiling and your ears will be exactly at speaker level, allowing you to easily appreciate even the finest subtleties in the music.
If you happen to be 5' 9", you’ll still fit under the ceiling, but you won’t hear the music quite as well… and if you’re a really short dude (or dudette), you’re going to have trouble discerning some aspects of the music that’s playing, though you’ll have no problems standing up.
This is similar to working with levels that are too low – the sound ends up weak and ill-defined.
Now, clearly, then, the taller you are, the better you can hear the music.
But what if you’re 6' 1"? You may get to hear the music well when you stand up, but you’re also going to bump your head on the ceiling, which is probably going to cause an appreciable “ouch.” And if you’re 6'2", it’s going to hurt even more when you stand up; in fact, your “ouch” may completely overpower the music, obliterating your ability to hear it in the instant you bang your head – the equivalent to the loud burst of noise that occurs when you severely overload a digital system.
That’s headroom in a nutshell. Just as you can only fit so much liquid in a glass before it overflows, and just as you can only fit so much “you” in a room with a low ceiling, you can only fit so much audio in a digital system before the “ouch” of clipping occurs. (When a signal clips, the peaks in the waveforms are cut off abruptly, causing audible distortion). The goal is to get your signals reasonably hot – though not too hot (after all, your mix needs to be able to breathe!), and without any danger of ever exceeding the finite ceiling.
Which meter do I use for basic gain staging?
Every DAW, of course, provides a multitude of software controls – usually knobs or faders – that allow you to adjust the input or output gain of your audio signal at every stage of the recording and mixing process. There are also usually equivalent ways of controlling the input to and output from most signal processing plugins. To determine if they are set correctly, simply put the plugin in and out of bypass. The overall level should not change when you do so; if it does, that’s an indication that you need to alter the input and/or output.
The problem is that you have no real way of knowing what the optimum values are unless you’re able to “see” the levels (or, more accurately, a representation of the levels) on a meter. Every channel and buss on a DAW will provide such a meter, though it will almost always be a variety known as a “full-scale peak meter.” These show the highest peaks in a signal with one-sample accuracy, measured in a unit called a dBFS (short for “decibels Full Scale”). In theory, interpreting what they are displaying is simple enough: Anything under 0 dBFS is safe, while anything over it will cause clipping. The higher the value above zero, the greater the distortion.
In practice, however, it’s not so simple. That’s because the very characteristics that make a full-scale peak meter so attractive – their speed of response and focus on the very loudest moments in the music – don’t necessarily provide all the information you need.
What’s actually a lot more helpful is a meter that responds the way you hear. The good news is that these kinds of meters have been around for a very long time – since the 1930s, in fact. They’re called VU meters (VU is short for “volume unit”) and hardware versions have long been built into analog mixing consoles and signal processors.
Today, equivalent digital versions are available, including the new Waves VU Meter plugin.
Unlike full-scale peak meters, VU meters are slow by design. So is human hearing, which behaves more like a VU meter than a peak-level meter. A VU meter’s relatively slow response time (typically around 300 milliseconds) averages out many of the short peaks, giving you a more realistic expression of the changes in level that are occurring as the music plays.
Of course, you need to know just how loud the signal is. That’s why, when used in a DAW, a VU meter needs to be calibrated to a digital reference level. If you know, for example, that -18 dBFS (the level of the signal you’re sending from a channel or mix buss) is displayed as 0 dB VU on the meter, then you have 18 dB of headroom.
This is how much room you have to play with. -18 dBFS is in fact the reference level recommended by most professional audio engineers. Set it much lower, and the signals around 0 VU will lack punch and definition; set it much higher and those same signals may well distort.
The Waves VU Meter allows you to specify the desired headroom (from 4 dB to 26 dB) and offers the ability to delay activity so that meters on different busses will appear time-aligned even if those busses exhibit varying latencies.
The bottom line is that VU meters allow you to measure what you care about rather than endless peaks, giving you a better understanding of the dynamics in your mix. This doesn’t mean that you can forgo full-scale metering. You still have to avoid clipping; for that you need peak meters (make sure the loudest transients in your track never exceed -8 to -10 dBFS). But try recording or mixing with a combination of both types of meters. You’ll almost certainly achieve improved results – no vitamin supplements required!


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They are so proud of themselves. Poor guy never gets any dates.
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that has “ the girl for me” is never, ever agree to a set up, double-date. My friend has arranged a blind date with a woman he has talked with over the phone at work.
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Of course it could be YOU they feel needs some help — how is this going to make you look to the girl they have in mind for you?
Then what do you do? First and foremost — what is the mindset of someone who is setting you up, anyway?
What is a double blind date The priming date is something I go into great detail explaining here.
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First Profession of Vows. Following Matthew's 30-Day Spiritual Exercises, God confirms his call to poverty, chastity and obedience. On October 29, Matthew and Aron offer their First Profession of 3-year vows of poverty, chastity, and obedience at the Mass of First Profession in Christ the King Chapel at the Franciscan University of Steubenville. During mass, they receive their black habits and their new names: Brother Paul Kostka and Brother John Ignatius.
Invitation to Denver. After visiting the seminary in Denver, the community has supper with Archbishop Charles Chaput, OFM Cap. Archbishop Chaput invites the community to move to Denver. The Servants adopt St. Ignatius Loyola’s Formula of the Institute as their provisional rule, and submit statutes of their Association of the Faithful to Archbishop Chaput, the next step to forming a religious community.
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Approval of Statutes. Archbishop Charles Chaput approves the statutes of the Servants of Christ Jesus as a Private Association of the Faithful. On November 23, Archbishop Chaput establishes Saint John the Baptist Chapel at the residence of the Servants, with permission to reserve the Holy Eucharist. During the 30-Day Spiritual Exercises, the Lord confirms Br. James' call to poverty, chastity and obedience. On November 13, Br. James professes his first vows to the Blessed Sacrament at Church of the Risen Christ in Denver.
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Community growth. On November 1, Br. James Claver professes perpetual vows, becoming the third perpetually professed member of the Servants of Christ Jesus.
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In Rome on Ash Wednesday, Fr. John Ignatius and Fr. Paul Kostka are commissioned by Pope Francis to be Missionaries of Mercy during the Jubilee Year of Mercy. On May 14, Fr. James Claver is ordained as the third priest of the Servants of Christ Jesus in Denver, Colorado. That same month, the Servants purchase their first primary residence in Denver. Patrick Lanning is admitted as a novice to the community and given the name Br. Thomas Gonzaga.
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My son who is very nearly 2 1/2 years old has a balance bike of his very own. He likes to push it around the house, but has been unreceptive to my demonstrations regarding the transition to "scooting" around the house.
I wonder if he might do better modeling behavior of other children instead of big clumsy daddy on his tiny balance bike?
I once saw a local pre-school riding a set of balance bikes and scooters around an elementary school playground, but I was neither able to determine which organization was conducting the exercise nor was I able to learn their schedule.
Do any of you fellow parents in this area have some standing play-dates that might serve as a demonstration for my little boy and his balance bike?
Where are you based? We're in Arlington - my kids are often at Hayes Park or Central Park (the one by the Central Library) on their bikes - my 2.5 yo on a balance bike - and they're rarely the only ones, especially at Hayes. In fact, the thing to do seems to be to bring a kid on a balance bike to ride around Hayes Park, and to teach an older kid to ride without training wheels at ASFS across the street. Their preschool, AUCP, has a set of ride on toys that all the kids use, including scooters and balance bikes, which they set up daily in the parking lot.
I wouldn't worry too much about it; I think the important thing is for the kids to get comfortable with the bike (weight, how it moves, steers, etc.) and that may take awhile before he gets on and rides off. Make sure seat is high enough so that he can walk it effectively while on the saddle. If you push him around while he's sitting on the seat he'll probably figure out that this is a potentially faster way to move with the bicycle than walking alongside it. Or send him off down a hill. Just kidding, don't do that. My older son straddled it and walked around for a few months before it clicked and he actually started to ride it. He didn't have any examples; that might have accelerated the process, though I think it was really just about him learning the bike. And now, fastforward a couple years, he can ride his pedal bike for a few miles which starts to really open up the possibilities.
My three year old always wanted me to push her and never wanted to ride on her own. Until... I showed her a few YouTube clips of kids her age on balance bikes and she immediately wanted to go try it on her own.


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