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The observation deck is organized on the Nivicky road in Herceg Novi
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This week, all work was completed on the organization of an observation platform on the Nivicky road leading from the city of Herceg Novi to the Montenegrin border with Croatia. It is also worth noting that the Agency for Construction and Development of the city of Herceg Novi in the future also provides for the organization of parking lots, which will be located on the other side of the road opposite the observation deck. The construction of a parking lot can last from one to one and a half months, and this work, as well as the arrangement of other observation platforms, pedestrian walkways and stairs located on this road, are less significant, but necessary and equally important investments for the development of the region.
As the director of the Construction and Development Agency, Boro Lucic, said, there are still many places in Herceg Novi and its surroundings that need to be improved and reconstructed, so any small or large investments are necessary and equally important.
"We have completed the arrangement of the observation deck on the Nivica road in a timely manner. This is a new holiday destination for our fellow citizens, as well as for all those tourists who come to Montenegro from the border with Croatia. At the moment we have completed the design of the pedestrian sidewalk Bijela - Kamenari, we are still working on the arrangement of the stairs of Yova Dabovich, and we also have a lot of new ideas with which we are entering the new year, "said B. Lučić.
The organization of a viewing platform on Nivitcky road included such works as: the whole area was cleared of weeds, along the embankment they installed fences that ensure safety, but not overlapping the view of the bay, brought sand and gravel, a fountain with water was installed, and also a sign "I love Herceg Novi" (I love Herceg Novi).
"When the weather conditions allow, we will start planting flowers, and we will also start working on organizing parking lots on the other side of the road. We will also install additional lighting, "announced Boro Lucic.
The observation deck on the Nivitsky road cost about 15 thousand euros.
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Q: suddenly don't have acces to Mounted Drives, chown/chmod don't help I'm having some trouble with a few drives in my computer. I have been unable to access 3 drives (one internal and two external) except as root for the past day.
All three drives are ext4 and I was able to access them before. This problem persists between my laptop (Ubuntu 15.04) and a Raspberry Pi 2 I have set up as a NAS (what the external drives are for).
I have been unable to fix this error running commands such as this
sudo chmod 666 mnt/nameofadrive/ (this was run on the pi)

sudo chown username '/media/username/Storage'

(this was run on my laptop, the name of the drive is Storage).
Does anyone have any suggestions as to what I can do to rectify this situation?
Thank you.

A: If you used:
sudo chmod 666 /mnt/nameofdrive

It will give you read and write privileges, but you need execute permission to look inside any directories. You may want to try 777 instead, though this is entirely insecure, it can definitely let you know if permissions are causing the problems.

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Wattay Aiport Expansion Expected To Be Completed In June
Sengthong Phasavath
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The expansion project, currently 80 percent completed, is to meet increasing demand of air passengers and ensure Laos is better integrated into regional air service industry, according to Project Manager Sengsanguan Chanthavong.
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What are some good alternatives? I need 200ft camera and locater. Need to be able to take video, and need it to be durable so I'm not dropping tons of money on camera head repairs. Preferably able to do 2" lines also. All I have ever used is rigid cameras, so I know nothing about any other brands. Any suggestions?


The aim of the Degree is to equip learners with both theoretical and Practical attributes underpinning Health and Social Science practice. The BSc Health and Social Science Degree is designed an honours degree for those interested in working within the health and social science sector. Through a mix of taught and online sources, it will provide the opportunity for those working in, or aspiring to work in public health or health promotion roles to develop and test their knowledge and skills through the core modules in order to inform their practice and enhance career choices.
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Critically compare between a range of health contexts, such as between individual and institutional contexts, or between national, international and global contexts.
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Critically reflect on the links between individual experience of health and health issues and the wider structural elements and social processes relevant to health and well-being across the life course.
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I finished this skirt in the morning, then happy with my make - it got put to the test in the afternoon. Running after kids and the dog, lugging bags at the supermarket, housework and all those terribly practical and non-glamourous parts of being a mum.. I was comfortable and felt stylish all afternoon - two big ticks for me! And the pockets work a treat.....can't be a mum without pockets! Then when the man-about-the-house came home he threw more than one compliment my way about my new skirt (normally he doesn't even notice new clothes on me....).
This skirt has definitely passed road testing with flying colours!!
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Sir Murray Gordon Halberg  (7 July 1933 – 30 November 2022) was a New Zealand middle-distance runner who won the gold medal in the 5000 metres event at the 1960 Olympics. He also won gold medals in the 3 miles events at the 1958 and 1962 Commonwealth Games. He worked for the welfare of children with disabilities since he founded the Halberg Trust in 1963.

Biography
Born in Eketāhuna on 7 July 1933, Halberg later moved to Auckland, where he attended Avondale College. He was a rugby player in his youth, but suffered a severe injury during a game, leaving his left arm withered. The next year, he took up running, seemingly being only more motivated by his disability. In 1951, he met Arthur Lydiard, who became his coach. Lydiard had been a famous long-distance runner, and had new ideas on the training of athletes. Three years later, Halberg broke through, winning his first national title on the senior level.

At the 1954 British Empire and Commonwealth Games he placed fifth in the mile. At the 1956 Olympics in Melbourne, Australia, he placed eleventh in the 1500 metres. Halberg won the gold medal in the three miles at the 1958 British Empire and Commonwealth Games and later the same year became the first sub four-minute miler from New Zealand. He won the New Zealand Sportsman of the Year for 1958.

For the 1960 Rome Olympics, Halberg focused on the longer distances, entering in the 5000 and 10000 m. Halberg won the 5000 m gold, on the same day countryman Peter Snell was victorious in the 800 m. Halberg later placed fifth in the 10,000 m.

The following year, Halberg set four world records in events over imperial distances. After carrying the flag at the opening ceremonies, Halberg successfully defended his  three-mile title at the 1962 British Empire and Commonwealth Games. He closed out his running career at the 1964 Summer Olympics in Tokyo, finishing seventh in the 10,000 m.

In the 1961 New Year Honours, Halberg was appointed a Member of the Order of the British Empire, for services to athletics. In the 1988 New Year Honours, he was appointed a Knight Bachelor, for services to sport and crippled children. In the 2008 Queen's Birthday Honours, Halberg was appointed to the Order of New Zealand. The following month he became only the fourth person to be awarded the Blake Medal, named after fellow countryman Sir Peter Blake, for his more than 50 years' service to athletics, and to children with disabilities. In 1963 he set up The Halberg Trust, which supports children with disabilities to be active in sport, creation and leisure. The organisation rebranded in 2012 to become the Halberg Disability Sport Foundation. For many years the organisation has managed the New Zealand Sportsman of the Year Award, which is now called the Halberg Awards.

Halberg House of Hutt International Boys' School is named after Sir Murray Halberg, and students in the house earn what are called "meter points" which relates to Sir Murray Halberg and his running career. Tauranga Boys' College also named a house after Sir Murray Halberg. Halberg Crescent, in the Hamilton suburb of Chartwell, is named in Halberg's honour.

Halberg died in Auckland on 30 November 2022, at the age of 89.

References

Bibliography
 A Clean Pair Of Heels: The Murray Halberg Story by Murray Halberg, with Garth Gilmour

External links

 Page with Photo, one of two at Sporting Heroes

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Hi All, I was wondering if anyone had experience in Self Pack Containers? Or has anyone purchased a container outright and shipped to the UK? When we get there it would be a benefit to keep the container full and on our driveway as we wont have space to unpack right away? Thanks in advance.
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What do you wish you put in your container?
We're leaving in about 5 weeks and I'm starting shopping for new stuff to take either in our luggage or to put in the container. Up to now I have bought Towels Bedding (gorgeous Laura Ashley stuff) Pillows Beach Towels So was wondering what do you wish you had put in your container/luggage?
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Recent shipping container customs time? How long did yours take?
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Can anyone help? We are shipping a container load of stuff to Brisbane at the end of October. We are just starting to pack now - we have got a really good deal through a friend for £1900 - he works in shipping. I have no idea about cleaning the stuff before it goes in the container - what are the rules here? And can you take any food stuff (ie. I love a particular chilli sauce in the UK and just wondered if I could take some with me) or not at all? We mostly wondered about cleaning outdoor stuff like chairs, and tools etc. Can anyone help? Ta in advance!
Container probs please help - we donta understand!!!!!!!
:confused: OK - we were told that a 4 bed house needs a 40ft container - now we are not taking beds, wardrobes, fridges etc, sofa, in fact the only furniture we are taking is a table and 8 chairs, one dresser, 3 wooden tables and lots of boxes about the old tea chest size and they say we need a 40ft container still - WE JUST DONT GET IT. How do they pack them - do they not go up to the roof with boxes, do they only put one row of boxes on the floor and leave the rest empty????? They then want us to put our mini on a trailer and a 2nd mini in another 40ft container - so from crown - we need two 40ft containers which when you put actucally measure things we could get it in one 40ft container. At this rate we will not be able to go as it will cost too much - :cry: Are we missing something???
Our container docked 2 and a half weeks ago, the container tracking website says 'gate out full' 8 Nov - can anyone translate this into non-docker speak? The only info from the agent here is that they're waiting for customs, is it typical to have this length of time between docking and customs/quarantine clearance, delivery? as the agent is so unforthcoming does anyone know of any other way to get info on the progress of my container? I'd be interested to hear of other peoples experiences.


Real food doesn't come in a box, have a shelf life, or have ingredients you can't pronounce. If you're on a diet that advocates lots of packaged foods, just stop what your doing. Diets don't work. Remember, losing weight isn't the goal – keeping it off is.
"I don't want to bulk up," someone will retort when I encourage him or her to lift heavy. First off, no one accidentally bulks up. Bulking up takes precise training, and just because you switch from a five-pound dumbbell to a ten-pound dumbbell, you aren't going to bulk up. And there's no such thing as "toning" either. There is just muscle, and having more muscle equals a faster metabolism. Once again, you can keep doing the same cardio routine and get the same result – or you can lift heavier weights, put on a couple of pounds of lean muscle tissue, and start burning more calories at rest. Start lifting heavy.
Nothing leads to exhaustion more quickly than not fueling properly – and a huge part of fueling is water. 75% of your muscle tissue and 10% of your fat tissue is comprised of water, so it's important to replenish water frequently. Factor in variables such as intensity of exercise and temperature, and your body needs water every ten to twenty minutes during exercise. Many athletes use a timer on their watch to remind them to stay hydrated, and so should you.
Far be it from me to tell you when and how much you should drink, but if you're dissatisfied with your fitness level or your body, you can either drink two glasses of wine every day or have the body you want – but not both. Alcohol is an empty calorie, meaning it's a simple sugar and is metabolized in the body as fat. Alcohol can also interfere with recovery and other variables involved in your exercise performance. Save the delicacies for the cheat days and the weekend.
If you exercise a lot and don't prepare your body properly, then you're walking on thin ice. Rest and maintenance are key – that means things like stretching, myofascial release, and down time. Keeping your body flexible, injury free, and rested is necessary for optimal performance. If you aren't getting the results you want, look to what you're doing to maintain and recover your body.
I am a big advocate for rest, and believe you should not repeat the same exercise patterns daily, but make no mistake – the human body is meant to move. You should be doing something physically active every day, whether it's traditional exercise or not. For overall health, the American Heart Association recommends a minimum of five days a week of at least thirty minutes of moderate intensity aerobic exercise. Additionally they recommend at least two days a week of muscle strengthening activity.That's pretty much every day. Get moving.
Who are you, Bill Murray in Groundhog Day? Stop doing the same routine every time at the gym. Assuming you have a fitness or a body composition goal (and who doesn't?), you're not going to get there by simply repeating the same patterns. Our bodies acclimate to whatever we throw at them. Do what you love first, and then get out of your comfort zone to do something different. We grow through change.
In my twenties, I wanted to put on twenty pounds of muscle and looked like a linebacker – but I don't have the natural body of a linebacker. I got up to 175lbs on a frame built to carry 155, only to tear my rotator cuff from overloading my shoulder. Many of us hold ourselves to unrealistic expectations. We desire to look like a picture in a magazine when many of the models in those magazines don't even share the likeness of their airbrushed photos. Identify your body and athletic type and work to be the best with what you've naturally got.
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A few weeks ago, I posted an early look at the wOBA differential for each team in Major League Baseball. By simply focusing on the linear weight value of the hits that teams have both accrued and allowed, I think we get a better look at a team's actual performance, rather than including the noise that comes from the sequences of events, which is inherently baked into runs and wins. wOBA differential is a nice, easy way to look at a team's performance without the effects of sequencing, and provides a nice guideline as to who is actually playing well at the time.
However, wOBA isn't an an all-encompassing stat, and the wOBA differential tables always have to come with some caveats. Baserunning, for instance, isn't included in wOBA, so wOBA differential will overrate teams with lumbering sluggers who don't convert baserunners into runs at a normal rate. And there are even a few extra omissions on the run prevention side of things, as wOBA allowed only measures the outs-on-balls-in-play aspects of fielding, and not the outs-on-the-bases aspects, so teams that are good at throwing out runners, preventing steals, or turning double plays are underrated by wOBA differential as well.
But, in looking at those flaws, we actually have data for all of those events here on FanGraphs. We track the run value of a team's baserunning, and both UZR and DRS include components to reward teams for turning double plays or throwing out advancing runners (or discouraging runners from advancing to begin with) from the outfield. So, since these are fixable flaws, I decided to take wOBA differential a couple of steps further and turn it into expected run differential.
At it's heart, this is actually a pretty simple group of metrics. Since wOBA is essentially just a linear weight rate stat, converting it to expected runs scored is actually quite easy, and you don't even have to do it yourself if you don't want to; the site already has wRC — not wRC+, which is something different — which turns wOBA into an expected runs scored number based on the amount of plate appearances for a team. wRC is just wOBA converted to runs times plate appearances, so it gives us an expected runs total based on a team's offensive performance to date.
It still doesn't include baserunning, but our BsR metric that measures the numbers of runs that a team gains or loses through both base stealing and advancing on balls in play, so we can simply adjust each team's wRC by adding in the BsR value to get a baserunning-included expected runs scored total. If you're concerned about the validity of the method, the correlation between this expected runs total and actual runs scored for teams in 2013 was .95. In other words, because wOBA is such a good measure of offense, this works.
However, we don't have a pitching version of wRC on the site, so to come up with expected runs allowed, I had to run each team's wOBA allowed through the wRC formula. Thankfully, it's a pretty simple calculation — (((wOBA – lgwOBA) / wOBAScale) + (lgR/PA)) * PA, and you can get all of the necessary variables from our guts page — and turning a team's wOBA allowed into wRC allowed is pretty trivial. But that still leaves out the outs-on-bases data.
Because DRS has all three components that we're looking for — run values of runners caught stealing, double plays turned, and runners thrown out or intimidated into not advancing on balls to the outfield — I chose the DRS values to adjust the expected runs total, and simply added up the total runs saved or lost from rSB, rGDP, and rARM, which you can you find in the fielding section of the site. Then, just as with baserunning on the offensive calculation, I adjusted the expected runs allowed total based on the run value from the defensive aspects that wOBA isn't capturing.
The resulting calculations give us expected runs scored and expected runs allowed based on wOBA, but adjusted for baserunning and the parts of defense that wOBA doesn't include. The difference between a team's expected runs scored/allowed and actual runs scored/allowed will be almost entirely due to the sequencing of those events, which has little to no predictive value going forward. While run differential is often used as a more context neutral version of W-L record, this goes the entire logical distance, stripping sequencing out of not just wins, but also runs scored and allowed. If you like the idea of pythagorean expected record, this is the same idea, just for run differential.
Okay, on to the results. I'm presenting expected runs and actual runs, expected runs allowed and actual runs allowed, expected run differential and actual run differential, plus the differences between expected and actual for all three categories. I've set it so that positive is always in the "good" direction for a team, so a positive differential equates to scoring more runs than expected or allowing fewer runs than expected. The entire table is sorted by expected run differential, though you can click on any heading you want to resort and see the leaders in various categories.
Viva la west coast. By linear weights, the A's and Angels have played like the two best teams in baseball so far, with the Dodgers as the best team in the National League. The Braves record might not be supported by their actual run differential, but it is backed up by their expected run differential, highlighting one of the reasons why using pythagorean record as a proxy for a team's true talent level is a bad idea. The Rays should also be encouraged, as they've played like a team that should have outscored their opponents by 10 runs, not get outscored by 10 runs.
On the other side of the coin, the Mets underlying performance simply does not support their run differential or their current record, and the Orioles have played quite a bit worse than you might think from their pythagorean record. And the Phillies are as bad as we thought they might.
All of this data is still based on just a month's worth of baseball, and things can and will change over the next five months. You still want to regress future performance against the historical performances of the players on each team's roster, and we shouldn't expect the A's to keep this pace up. But we can say that the A's aren't fluking their way to the top of the division. They're playing like the best team in baseball.
We hoped you liked reading Expected Run Differentials by Dave Cameron!
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I am surprised to see the Brewers to have an actual run differential below their expected run differential.


I had recently been impressed with the amount of weight my sister had lost while she was on Ideal Protein. On New Year's Eve, I was getting dressed for a performance and none of the clothes I wanted to wear fit me anymore! I was so upset at my weight gain. I decided that if my sister could lose the weight, I could too. Ideal Protein was the solution for me.
"I have become the healthier, thinner person that I deserve to be."
It was easier to change my patterns of eating than I thought it would be. At first, giving up certain foods is hard but it just becomes second nature after a while and much simpler. I've truly come to enjoy this new way of eating.
I enjoy feeling healthier and being more fit. I'm at a healthy weight now and that truly feels amazing.


This is a cutting die from Pinflair that cuts a 3d poinsettia. Can be used to create shapes to enhance your craft projects. Especially great for cards, scrapbooking & altered art.
The Pinflair Die is compatible with the following machines - Sizzix BIGKick, Bigshot, Vagabond, Cuttlebug, Grand Calibur & Pinflair Badger. It may be compatible with other machines on the market not listed here. Please check before purchasing.


Japan's Yusuke Suzuki broke the 20km race walk world record* at the Asian Race Walking Championships in his home town of Nomi on Sunday (15), exactly one week after Yohann Diniz set the previous mark.
Diniz's mark is so recent it is yet to be ratified, but Suzuki improved it by 26 seconds, winning at the IAAF Race Walking Challenge meeting in 1:16:36.
Suzuki had started the year by finishing second at his national championships, watching compatriot Eiki Takahashi break Suzuki's national record.
But like the famous phrase relating to buses around the world, you wait ages for one world record and two come along almost at the same time.
With Diniz's feat as motivation, 27-year-old Suzuki – who is renowned for setting off at a fast pace – went out quicker than he ever had done before, passing 6km in 22:53.
It looked as if he was on course for a world record, after he covered 8km in 30:25 and went through the half-way mark in a national 10km record of 38:05.
The last time he won here in 2013, he was 38 seconds slower, which equates to about 180 metres, and he still set an Asian record on that occasion.
The weather this time helped Suzuki – who, because he speaks no English, tells you his name by imitating a revving bike, like the make of his famous namesake.
A mild 15C was in contrast to previous Nomi races where squalls, rain and wind hampered progress.
However, Nomi is a challenging circuit and has seven turns on a 2km loop. Race walkers have got used to a straight up, straight back route but the course in the recently created city on Japan's southern isle of Honshu is anything but easy.
It was clear that he was on course for a fast time if he were to maintain that pace, but that had often been his downfall in the past.
Not today, though. He continued operating at world record pace, passing 12km in 45:45 and 14km in 53:23. His pace began to slip slightly, going through 16km in 1:01:07, but not enough to ruin his chances of breaking the world record.
He finished well clear of his rivals, smashing Diniz's mark of 1:17:02 set at the recent French Race Walking Championships in Arles.
This is Suzuki's third Asian title, having won in 2010 and 2013, and although his scintillating performance dominated the race, there was a fabulous six-way battle behind him, which on any other day would have held centre stage.
It was won by Isamu Fujisawa, already 36 seconds behind Suzuki by 5km but who had six others in his wake with a second to spare between them.
It was exactly the same at half way, but as the pace wound up it was down to four going into the last 5km.
Fujisawa sprinted for the line and threw himself over it to win by just a few centimetres from his compatriot Daisuke Matsunaga, with both given the same finishing time of 1:19:08.
Needless to say, both broke their previous bests by considerable margins.
Fujisawa did so by nearly a minute and Matsunaga's time was more than two minutes better than his eye-catching effort a year ago in Lugano.
Kai Kobayshi was four seconds in arrears for fourth place, but the 22-year-old clocked 1:19:12, which sliced more than a minute off his previous best set just a month ago to the day in Kobe.
Last year's winner had to settle for fifth, but only a second behind Kobayshi.
The result was bittersweet for Korea's Hyunsub Kim. Although he lost out in the final mad dash for the tape, he broke his country's national record for the second year in a row, this time by 11 seconds.
In fact, it's the fourth time Kim has dipped under 1:20:00 since 2008, and he too, like Suzuki, clearly favours Nomi, having recorded 1:19:31 there in 2011 to underline the 29-year-old's consistency.
The women's 20km race was won by Yongbo Hou in 1:29:25, an improvement on her personal best of 1:02. But, unlike in the men's contest, the Chinese 20-year-old had to wait until the last 5km before she edged ahead.
Kumiko Okada attempted to emulate Suzuki by charging to the front and forging a 23-second gap by 5km.
No doubt spurred on by a personal best set only last month, she was 39 seconds up by halfway in 44:06.
However, she ran out of steam from that point and was seemingly walking through treacle over the last 5km.
Her laboured last 5km in 23:08 was a minute slower than the first segment, but it still netted her a personal best by more than two minutes in 1:29:46.
Canada's Rachel Seaman was the only race walker outside Asia to reach the podium, going under 1:30:00 for the first time when finishing third in 1:29:54. Another 50 metres and it is likely she would have caught the struggling Okada.


secrets is a horrible way to live. Sloane Davis should know.
kept her son a secret from his father for almost a year.
face with the only man she's ever loved – her son's father.
bring back a flood of memories, feelings, and an unexpected surprise.
Railyn Stone hails from the Tar Heel State and is a romantic at heart.
I love reading stories that involves unexpected pregnancies where the father has no knowledge about the child and discovers it in the middle of the story. To me, these kind of tale shows how a mother could fight, thrive, and do the right thing to provide for her child. The love of a mother is extraordinary! Sloane Davis shows her devotion to Brayden (her child with Gates). The relationship between Sloane and Gates is chaotic at first, what with Sloane leaving Gates for no apparent reason. Although, his love for her is real, the thought of being abandoned by the woman he only loves and values is too much to bear that he often expresses his anger instead of his undying love for her. Thus, having Sloane second guess in confessing her secret to him thinking that it would only cause more problems than resolution.
There were moments in the book that made me feel tearful. Felt palpitations as I read Sloane and Gate's point of view, albeit written in third person the amount of information, emotions are just too real! Sloane's friend are all wonderful characters! They are her voice of reason and pillar of strength when she's about to give up.
Overall, it was a good story. However, some dialogue were reiterated a few times. It would be a lot more exciting if those repetitive conversation between characters are focused on character development, resolution of some conflict, or expanding minor characters.
A nurse by profession with an incurable obsession in reading and hoarding fictional books. Who aspires to be a columnist or librarian, but if both don't pan out will settle to be an owner of a massive book collection.
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I love making baby circle skirts! They're so fast (free pattern download here) a bit addictive, and easy to pair with a onesie.
This time I made a double-layered version (also easy) and it was even more bouncy and girly.
Some of you have asked about a double-layered circle skirt, so here's what you do.
Print off the skirt pattern above, or make your own. Then cut two skirts, cutting the underneath layer about 1 inch longer than the top layer. Just eyeball it, no need to make another precise pattern. If you want the under-layer to hang out extra long, cut it 1 1/2 inches longer….just do what works for you.
• Hem each layer separately.
• Join the two layers together at the top and baste (sew) or serge them together all the way around the top waist.
• Add your elastic and you're done!
If you have a little label, throw it on the back (more on my labels here).
Just do your best. No one will notice when they're looking at how cute the skirt is on your babe.
Then make about 6 more skirts so you have gifts on-hand.
Then pair it with a little onesie, plain or decorated.
And dress it up with a sweater and tights for church.
This cute business is exhausting.
(ps, these photos were taken a few months ago when Clara was 2 months old. I can't believe how much she's changed! 5 months old now. Time for a new month-by-month comparison).
Votre petite fille est magnifique!!
Its funny you posted this because I had leftover material and wanted to make a double layer circle skirt for my 3 week old…great timing!
I love these! They ARE so easy; I just started sewing in December, so I'm so happy to have found fun, easy & useful projects like this. Thanks!
Same here! Nice to know supergirl is just as human as the rest of us!! I looooove your style Dana! So inspiring that I am going to have to make a few of these skirts this afternoon for a baby shower this saturday. I already have a gift but throwing in some handmade items will be a treat. Thanks Dana!
Every single time I come over here I want to dress my baby in cute skirts. My baby boy. I might need to make another. Baby that is.
I was just looking at the tutorial this morning. Baby girl #2 is due in 3 weeks. I think I need to get started on a few for baby and big sister 🙂 Love the red/white and blue fabric!!!
These are so cute. My daughter made one for our soon to be baby girl who is due in about 3 weeks. Can't wait too meet her. I need her to make some more for her new sister. Clara is so cute. We might have to try the double layer skirt too.
She is stylin'!!! Those skirts are really cute!
Dana – your eye for photography is always stunning. I adore these skirts, so simple, yet so adorable!!! Thank you so much for sharing.
I have been thinking about making a circle skirt for me, and I have lots of fabric I want to use to make things for my girl…she is going to have tons of skirts and dressses for next year! Little babies and little skirts are just too cute.
So super cute. I think I might just make myself some and see if the cuteness effect rubs off… Love those shoe-tights – did you make them yourself?
So adorable! Oh, and the skirts are super cute too;) And love that swiss dot fabric. I wish I could find that in every color where I live. It's so classic.
adorable! I've been adding ruffles to pre-made shirts to give as gifts, but this idea is so cute & looks like an easy fun project to make ahead of time, no wonder you've been making lots!
Oh, CUTE! The picture of Clara in her little sweater, skirt and tights just kills me! I'll have to make some of these.
Oh my word..she is DOLL!! I love these..so sweet & simple..thanks for sharing!!
we missed you already dana! keep us posted!
I have made several of these for my new baby niece and my new little neighbor. They are genius! Also, my JoAnn's has (in the baby section with the crocheted hats and headbands) fold over elastic in a small selection of colors and patterns. It's so soft and it was super-easy to work with. It comes in a package of 2 yards each of 2 different colors. Now to finally make one of these for my own girl!
Such fun, fresh skirts! As always your fabric choices are delightful Dana. I particularly love the mocha colored skirt with the cream dots. Can that material be purchased somewhere or is it something vintage? I would love to get my hands on a yard of that!
Yea, the brown dotted swiss is some vintage stuff I found in my Grandma's attic.
Somehow I knew that was the case 🙂 Thanks so much!
Seeing this post made me so happy! Clara gives the BEST faces. Such a cute girl.
Thank you for sending us those skirts. She always (without fail) gets compliments when she wears them!
How do you do labels please??
So, I have this REALLY cute dress from Baby Nay(?) that was a gift, but it is a onesie with the skirt attached to it. It is really quite wonderful – because I hate it when the skirt slides up on baby. How would I go about attaching this wonderful circle skirt to a onesie so I don't have to fiddle with waist bands riding up or down on baby?
So maybe it couldn't be done with the circle skirt, but….
those are really cute and you have made really great little outfits!
Awesome, that's what I was wondering (if you could make them for older kids) I have three girls 2,4,8 and I think my younger two would really like something like this.
Is that your regular presser foot in the pic near the top, or is it something special ?
one photo is my standard presser foot and the other photo is my serger.
How many inches from the top of the fabric to the bottom hem on the finished shirt?
How cute are these??? Love them and of course, I love the little model!
These are the cutest skirts.
I'm just learning to sew & thought this would be a perfect beginners project. Well…how the heck do you hem on a curve?! I've tried this skirt twice & both were horrible looking at the hem! I was so frustrated I trashed them. This is a super cute skirt…but for whatever reason I am incapable! LOL. Any tips or advice?
It just takes some patience (mine aren't perfect by any means :)). a serger really helps to seal off the raw edge. But if you don't have one, you might try binding it with bias tape for a fun twist. then you don't have to do any hemming!
she is sooo beautiful. love those skirts. have to make some for my granddaughter.
Call me creepy if you want, but I just really want to kiss those tiny cheeks!!! Also my own tiny person is going to look gorgeous in these. . . . Thanks!!
Love this! You are so talented. Where did you get the adorable white bow headband? I've been looking everywhere for one just like it.
Hi, I used your pattern and made one of these. I used bias tape on the hem and a waistband where I inserted elastic. I had made bigger ones for a 4&6 year old as well. All three matching. Thanks for the pattern!
I'm desperate for dimensions for 6, 9, 12, 18 and 24 months!
Perfect opportunity to use my rolled hem foot, that makes them extra cute and spunky!
Was wondering what dimensions you suggest using for bigger sizes?
I recently featured this tutorial in a sewing roundup on my blog: http://www.newmomdesigns.com/blogs/news/11904085-lets-make-cute-baby-things.
Hi..can i know where you buy the dritz elastic colored n the fabric?
I put the fabric right side down on elastic (with pinning) and sewed it that way and then top- stitched it down flat, which gave me a much nicer edge and kept it very straight.
I also used the little circle (trimmed down a bit to make a fabric yo-yo with a button to attach to the same color of elastic for a sweet little headband. THere are lots of tutorials on how to make yo-yos on google and youtube. and are soooo easy!
I saw a tutorial you did on ruffled skirts with three layers…. going to try that one next. Made two skirts using your awesome turorial for two of my granddaughters and they're so stinking cute. I have a ton of jersey knit so I made yoga waistbands instead of elastic. Thanks for all your free easy to follow tuts and advice !
Do you happen to have a 3-6 month pattern in this?
Oh that's great! Thanks for letting me know – I'm glad it turned out well. 🙂 And congrats on your upcoming addition!
Looking for circle skirt for 6-12 months. Could you provide pattern or dimensions want to make for my grand baby for the holiday season. This is super cute!!!
Clara is beautiful and the skirt is lovely. thanks for sharing.


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Home News The 'World's First Iron-Ion Battery' Now Exists, Though It Needs More Development
"World's first" iron-ion battery is developed by a tech research team in India. But in its current state, it's only about half as powerful as lithium-ion.
According to a recent EnergyTrend article, a India Institute of Technology research team has developed the first iron-ion battery.
The technology could provide a "low-cost, stable alternative" to the common lithium-ion battery, according to the article. The research team's creation is made of low-carbon steel with a vanadium pentoxide cathode — suitable for iron ion movement.
Why iron-ion?
The new development in battery technology are more cost-efficient than lithium-ion and feature a better power storage capacity. They're also more stable, says EnergyTrend.
And because iron cannot produce dendrites, it prevents any short circuits from occurring when electricity is discharged, says the research team.
More from the research team:
"The redox potential of iron ion is higher than lithium-ion, and the radius of the Fe2+ ion is nearly the same as that of the lithium-ion. These two favorable properties of iron have been overlooked for so many years. And that's the reason why we don't have iron ion rechargeable batteries."
Despite these benefits, the iron-ion batteries will need further development, the EnergyTrend article says. The research team's findings show that it is only capable of 150 cycles of charging and discharging at present stage.
The energy density of the battery is also only able to reach around 220 Wh/kilo. That's only about 55% of the 350 Wh/kilo of lithium-ion batteries, the article says.
When it is developed enough to be on par with lithium-ion batteries, the iron-ion battery will likely still take a while to see regular use in Western markets. But when that does happen, we have to imagine lower operating costs for battery-powered devices will be welcome in a world where consumer electronics come with increasingly-high price tags.
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The late, great Van Alexander
We lost a beloved figure in the Hollywood music community on Sunday. Van Alexander, the bandleader and composer who (with singer Ella Fitzgerald) wrote the jazz classic "A-Tisket, A-Tasket"; who scored dozens of favorite 1960s sitcoms as well as several cult-classic films; and who wrote a seminal work on arranging for big bands that influenced dozens of arrangers in later years, died at the age of 100. I wrote an obituary for Variety that sums up his career, but I'd also like to point you to a story I wrote about his 100th birthday party just over two months ago that shows how strongly the community felt about him. Van was not only a fantastic musician, he was a sharp and very funny guy.
This entry was posted in Composers, Film Music, Obituaries, Television Music and tagged Van Alexander, Variety on July 20, 2015 by Jon Burlingame.


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Canada's Auger-Aliassime faces 90th-ranked Finn to kick off Australian Open campaign
Felix Auger-Aliassime of Canada plays a shot against Russia's Daniil Medvedev during their semifinal match at the ATP Cup tennis tournament in Sydney, Saturday, Jan. 8, 2022. (AP Photo/Steve Christo)
Published Thursday, January 13, 2022 10:04AM EST
MELBOURNE, Australia - Felix Auger-Aliassime, the top-ranked Canadian at the Australian Open, will face Finland's Emil Ruusuvuori in the first round of the first tennis major of the year.
The 21-year-old from Montreal is ranked ninth in the world compared to No. 90 for the 22-year-old Finn. But Ruusuvuori showed little respect for the numbers at last year's Miami Open when he upset world No. 7 Alexander Zverev of Germany 1-6, 6-3, 6-1 in second-round play for only his second career win over a top-10 opponent.
Auger-Aliassime reached the semfinals at the U.S. Open, his last major, where he lost to eventual champion Daniil Medvedev of Russia. The Canadian made it to the fourth round of last year's Australian Open before losing to Russian Aslan Karatsev.
Auger-Aliassime, who captained Team Canada to the ATP Cup in Sydney last week, could face another Russian, fifth seed Andrey Rublev, in the fourth round this year.
Denis Shapovalov of Richmond Hill, Ont., ranked 14th, will open against Serbia's Laslo Djere, ranked No. 52.
The 22-year-old Shapovalov made it to the semifinals of last year's Wimbledon, losing to another Serbian -- world No. 1 Novak Djokovic. Shapovalov reached the third round of last year's Australian Open, losing to Auger-Aliassime.
He could face Zverev, seeded third, in the fourth round.
Leylah Annie Fernandez of Laval, Que., was drawn against Australian wild card Maddison Inglis, ranked 139th in the world.
Fernandez, seeded 23rd this year, was knocked out in the first round by No. 18 seed Elise Mertens in Melbourne last year. But she went on to reach the final of the U.S. Open before losing to Britain's Emma Raducanu.
The 19-year-old could face a tough road with 16th seed Angelique Kerber of Germany and second seed Aryna Sabalenka of Belarus possibly awaiting in rounds three and four, respectively. Fernandez beat Sabalenka in the U.S. Open semifinal.
Vancouver's Rebecca Marino won her first two qualifying matches and will make the main draw with a victory over Russia's Kamilla Rakhimova.
Brayden Schnur of Pickering, Ont., lost his first-round qualifying match to Argentina's Thiago Agustin Tirante.
Indicators show Omicron wave peaking: Tam
City crews to begin hauling away snow from some local roads this weekend


Psalm 120:1-7 (Part of the None series).
Preached by Paul Davies on 10th April 2016 (Sunday Morning).
Preached by Paul Davies on 8th December 2013 (Sunday Morning).
Ephesians 1:15-23 (Part of the None series).
Preached by Paul Davies on 8th July 2012 (Sunday Morning).
1 Corinthians 1:1-18 (Part of the None series).
Preached by Paul Davies on 10th July 2011 (Sunday Morning).
1 Peter 1:1-12 (Part of the None series).
Preached by Paul Davies on 12th September 2010 (Sunday Morning).


My name is Martine Næss Johansen and I am a 28 year old author, SLAM!poet, editor, graphic designer and content developer. In 2015 my first novel was published called "Hvite jenter kan ikke synge blues". The second, "Lykkelige mennesker har ikke bikkje", was published in 2018.
I have a Post Graduate Degree in Journalism from London School of Journalism. I have worked for Bogstadveien Magazine, AltrockLive music magazine and Luft!g travel magazine while pursuing my studies.
I am editor of the queer cultural journal, MELK and the queer publisher littMELK. I perform SLAM!poetry and host poetry and writing-workshops for kids and young adults+.


Many of you have this annoying problem with the High Definition (HD) Audio Driver. Problem with HD Audio Driver appears when you try to install it and failing.
Go to Start - Settings - Control Panel.
For Classic View double click: System.
Select Hardware Tab and go to Device Manager.
On the System Devices Rollout you will find Microsoft UAA Bus Driver for High Definition Audio.
Right Click on it and try or to Uninstall or to Disable it.
After this go to Sound, video and game controllers Rollout you will find High Definition Audio.
After All is done, you must install your Audio Driver.
If these errors persist find another driver for your Audio Card.
Hope this trick was useful.


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Army Trucks Start Clean-Up Operation In Salisbury
Serving personnel have begun the decontamination of what have been identified as the nine nerve agent "hotspots".
23rd April 2018 at 8:48pm
The military has arrived in Salisbury to start the clean-up operation following the poisoning of former spy Sergei Skripal and his daughter Yulia.
These include The Maltings, the cemetery, Zizzi and the Ashley Wood compound.
The work is expected to take a number of months and is currently being overseen by the Department for the Environment and Rural Affairs (DEFRA).
Military Personnel To Help Nerve Agent Clean-Up In Salisbury
Earlier this month, it was announced that the Army and the Royal Air Force would support the clean-up operation in Salisbury, following the nerve agent attack in March.
Around 190 specialist military personnel from the Army and RAF will be supporting the operation to ensure the sites safe for public use.
Last week DEFRA's Chief Scientific Adviser Ian Boyd, who is chair of the decontamination science assurance group overseeing the work, said:
"Our approach is based on the best scientific evidence and advice to ensure decontamination is carried out in a thorough and careful way."
"Our number one priority is making these sites safe for the public, so they can be returned to use for the people of Salisbury."
However, the level of contamination at the sites is still unclear.
Public Health England have reaffirmed that the risk to the general public is low.
Residents and visitors will see more activity in the city as the work gets underway.


The State of Maryland published proposed building code regulations in the Maryland Register issued on January 4, 2019 at http://www.dsd.state.md.us/MDR/4601.pdf.
The stated purpose of the proposed regulation is recodification of existing building code regulations and amendment to adopt certain of the 2018 Codes.
Public comments may be made to the State of Maryland as noted on page 17 of the Maryland Register.


If you're anything like us, you don't like to put your kayak away, but it's a necessary part of life and you might as well do it right. Whether inside or outside, long term or short term, storing or traveling, covering your kayak's cockpit is important because the last thing you want to do is sit on a creepy crawler's nest or bird poop. Yes, bird poop -- it happens!


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Attorney Polan Named to Super Lawyers® Rising Stars? 2021 "Top 100" Members
Attorney Polan Named to Super Lawyers® Rising Stars℠ 2021 "Top 100" Members
Attorney Parker Polan of Briggle & Polan, PLLC in Austin, Texas is known by his peers and locals as an experienced and dedicated personal injury attorney. In recognition of his excellent casework, he has been named to Super Lawyers® Rising Stars℠ 2021, which is a title he has earned every year since 2014. Furthermore, Parker has also been named among the "Top 100" for the 2021 Texas Rising Stars℠, an honor he has earned for a few years in a row.
From everyone at Briggle & Polan, PLLC, we would like to congratulate Attorney Polan for another year of great professional achievements. You embody our firm's dedication to providing outstanding legal counsel to our clients that is backed by genuine care and compassion. Thank you for everything you do, and we look to many more years of helping clients throughout Austin together!
What is Rising Stars℠?
Super Lawyers® Rising Stars℠ are attorneys who have been selected to the organization for an annual membership. Only attorneys who meet the organization's high standards can earn the title, which must be re-earned each year. A patented multistep selection process is used to review lawyers and pick finalists.
Rising Stars℠ members are those who are either under the age of 40 or who have been practicing for 10 years or less. They are considered "attorneys to watch" throughout the legal community. "Top 100" Rising Stars℠ represent 100 attorneys that the organization determined to be truly exemplary.
You can learn more about Rising Stars℠ by clicking here and viewing Attorney Parker Polan's profile on the official Super Lawyers® website. If you want our firm's help with a personal injury claim in Austin, then please call (512) 400-3278 or contact us online.
Aug 16 Attorneys Briggle & Polan Named to Austin's Top Attorneys 2021
Attorney Hayden Briggle and Attorney Parker Polan have always led Briggle & Polan, PLLC by example. They have built a strong ...


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Анголо-південноафриканські відносини
Правлячі партії в обох країнах, Африканський національний конгрес в Південній Африці і МПЛА в Анголі, воювали на одній стороні під час Громадянської війни в Анголі[Ангола] та війні за незалежність Намібії. Вони разом боролися проти бунтівників з УНІТА, що базуються в Анголі, а також проти режиму апартеїду в Південній Африці. В останні роки громадянської війни в Анголі Нельсон Мандела виступав посередником на переговорах між МПЛА і УНІТА. У 2009 році президент ПАР Джейкоб Зума очолив делегацію з 11 міністрів під час державного візиту до Анголи. Це стало першим офіційним візитом Джейкоба Зуми до Анголи і дуже важливим кроком у розвитку двосторонніх відносин.

Південноафрикансько-ботсванські відносини
У 1910 році між цими державами (які в ті часи називалися Південно-Африканський Союз і Бечуаналенд) був укладений митний союз. У 1986 році Південна Африка почала військову операцію в Ботсвані з метою завдати удару по членам Африканського національного конгресу які осіли в цій країні. Цей напад було засуджено президентом США Рональдом Рейганом. У 1986 році президент Ботсвани Кветта Кетуміле Масіре повідомив, що сусідні країни Південної Африки постраждають найбільше у разі якщо західні країни введуть економічні санкції щодо ПАР. Також він зробив уточнення: «Очевидно, що ми не можемо заборонити Заходу ввести санкції щодо Південної Африки, ми вітаємо будь-яку форму тиску на режим апартеїду». 22 червня 1994 між країнами були встановлені відносини на повному дипломатичному рівні. У 2003 році президент ПАР Табо Мбекі завдав візит президенту Ботсвани Фестусу Могає. Глави двох держав обговорили двосторонні, регіональні та міжнародні питання, а також питання представляють взаємний інтерес, такі як Угода про створення спільної постійної комісії зі співробітництва між Ботсваною і ПАР. Лідери двох країн також заявили про необхідність «надати допомогу народу Зімбабве у вирішенні проблем, що стоять перед їх державою». У листопаді 2008 року президенти двох країн домовилися працювати разом над вирішенням кризової ситуації в Зімбабве.

Південноафрикансько-намбійські відносини
У ході Першої світової війни, в 1915 році, війська Південно-Африканського Союзу захопили Намібію. У 1920 році ПАС отримав від Ліги Націй мандат на управління Південно-Західної Африкою. Після припинення діяльності Ліги ПАР відмовилася здати мандат і продовжувала контролювати цю територію, встановивши там режим апартеїду. ПАР розглядала Намібію як буфер, що захищає країну від «ворожих» держав Чорної Африки. З 1966 року Народна організація Південно-Західної Африки (СВАПО) розпочала боротьбу за незалежність від ПАР. Бази СВАПО розміщувалися на території Анголи і Замбії, а підтримку їм надавав Радянський Союз: офіційною ідеологією СВАПО був марксизм. Саме тоді вперше стало вживатися назва «Намібія». Міжнародне співтовариство також не визнавало право ПАР на управління цією територією. Проте лише в 1988 році влада ПАР погодилися піти з Намібії. 21 березня 1990 в присутності Генерального секретаря ООН і президента ПАР була проголошена незалежність Намібії.

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1.http://www.academia.edu/6303511/Внешняя_политика_ЮАР_Спб_2014


WOW! We can't believe it. This month Common Digs Forest School turns five years old!
Five years of growing! February 2014 we started out with a group of four children. Forest School was essentially unknown at that time. Forest School Canada had just started up and Lisa had taken the first pilot Forest School Practitioner course. We questioned if we would ever get enough children to commit to running Forest School full time.
We remember when we have our first open house and all of the parents could sit on one picnic blanket! Now we are in disbelief that over 500 children have participated in our programs.
Launching Forest School - Of course bringing Forest School to the Calgary and area communities has been a highlight of the last five years and with that helping to launch Children's Commons Ecological Society and Calgary Nature Kindergarten to bring programming to more families and bring the forest school philosophy into the educational system.
Jon Cree from the Forest School Association in the UK once told us that you don't need a forest to run Forest School but a few trees is nice. The children in the inner city programs have taught us that this holds true - a rich and deep awareness and connection to the environment can be cultivated anywhere, when given the time and access.
Working in a pilot program urban farming with teens and young adults with autism in partnership with Janus Academy - We have always believed deeply in the benefits of connecting to nature for people of all abilities. Although this program only ran one year, our time and energy taken by Forest School, it deepened our belief of how empowering it is for people of all abilities to grow their own food and know their food from seed to table.
What we gave to that program has given back to us even more that we still carry in our hearts today. This group taught us to slow down, to savour in the experience. To lay back in the grass and laugh without inhibition after a hard day of work and the value of smelling a seed and not only the flowers. These young people taught us how to listening even when sometimes someone has no voice. They have in many ways been our greatest teachers and better prepared us to work with young children with greater sensitivity.
Meeting and supporting Teachers and Early Childcare Educators through workshops and public speaking - We have been blessed to have the Calgary (and Alberta) community of educators reach out to us to learn about what Forest School is about and ways they might incorporate a small piece of forest school and more outdoor play into their schools and centres.
We were so very privileged to be chosen as speakers at the International Play Conference in 2017 and will never forget the powerful experience that transpired when our group of young forest schoolers led the adults in a session on large-scale loose parts play - reminding us that the children themselves tell the story best.
Up-scaling and down-scaling - We made an intentional decision at the beginning of this journey to grow the organization organically, leading with our hearts. Through this we have experienced and tested many different locations throughout the city as the opportunities presented themselves. We ran two sites for a couple of years and then made the difficult decision to temporarily return to one site to build up our organization from within. In many ways, it has been a very personal journey, but one we've tried to stay true to making the work both meaningful and intentional and coming to the realization that our truest measure of success has been the growth within ourselves.
Growing a team and community we love - A community beginning with parents who have shared with their friends about the programs or helped us to find land to run programs and have entrusted their children to our programs. Industry advocates who generously shared our name with their peers, and educators who have reached out to us and come to workshops.
Past and present educators who have showed up everyday with curiosity, a love for nature and for learning with children and have been so willing to learn, to question, to teach and to walk alongside us on this path.
The children, whom we learn from each and every day. And finally, to our own families who have given us courage and the freedom to undergo this journey, even when it meant that we weren't always as available to them as much as we wanted to be.
Through all of this, we have learned that it is not so much us that have grown a community but the community that has grown us. We are so grateful for all of the community support, we would not be celebrating today if it weren't for you.
Thank you all so very much. We look forward to the next five years!
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Have you ever had a patient call your Dental Office enquiring about something that doesn't seem to make sense or that you don't understand?
Were you able to help the caller and find a solution for them as well as make an appointment?
In most Dental Offices a call that begins with some confusion and misunderstanding usually ends the same way.
Having the skill on the phone to determine the needs of the caller is a skill that is needed to be developed in the dental Office.
I recently had a similar experience while in Paris.
Now given English is not the first language of the French I did expect there to be moments on my trip where there could be some misunderstandings.
One example stands out in my mind.
I was looking forward to a Gin and Tonic before my dinner in a restaurant. I asked if I could please have a piece of lime instead of the usual lemon. The waiter, who could speak some English, looked at me in a baffled kind of way. I then tried to explain I didn't want lemon but lime in some way that he would understand. After all lime makes a big difference to the taste of the drink.
I then thought about how to differentiate between the colours of the two fruits. Finally I asked for a "verte" (green) lemon not a "citron". Suddenly the waiter nodded his head as he now knew exactly what I wanted.
The lime story is a lot like those of our callers and patients, and the confusion that can occur over the phone and in the dental Office on a daily basis. Once we eliminate the confusion there is trust, and a belief by the caller that you are going to be helping them with their Dental needs.
Think about your Dental Office. How many callers end their conversation just as confused and often even more confused than before they called you. Why then would they want to make an appointment at your office?
The skill of the Front Office Person to cut through confusion over the phone is crucial to the success of the Dental Business.
Does your Dental Office know how to ask the right questions to overcome confusion?
Think about how many potential patients have called your office and did not make an appointment because their problem was not addressed.
It's probably a significant number.
Reducing that number, and increasing your conversions, is a way to a more successful Dental Practice.


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Governors work with the Headteacher and senior leadership of the school to set the strategic direction for the school, agree how the budget should be spent and monitor and evaluate the school's performance. Our work includes agreeing performance targets, ratifying school policies, approving staffing levels, the content of the curriculum and the school's improvement plan.- SIP. We both challenge and support the Headteacher, using the range of expertise which the collective governing board brings to meetings. While the head is operationally responsible for the day to day running of the school, he is accountable to the governing board for the decisions he makes and the outcomes for pupils.
Following changes to the way Ofsted inspects schools, we are now considered integral to the leadership and management of the school and are inspected with the senior leaders. .The governing board's committee structures, Code of Conduct and agreed processes are set at the annual business meeting, which agrees our plan of work,driven by the priorities in the SIP.
The Governance Handbook 2017 provides the legal parameters within which we operate.
Governors must be over 18, but anyone with the right skills to meet a vacancy on the board, and an interest in improving education opportunities for pupils, may volunteer. While we are all unpaid volunteers, it is important to realise that we sign up to spend time supporting the school, whether by attending meetings and events in school, attending training to develop personal skills, or just working from home to research and check information. Our Governing Board is drawn from the school and wider community and includes parents; school staff; representatives of the Local Education Authority and community governors. We also co-opt specialist support from Associate members. Realistically, this could be an average of 5 to 10 hours a month, but some months could be much busier than others.
Our Instrument of Governance- IOG- is the legal document which determines the number of members on our governing board. At Brandles there should be 10 full members.
Two parent governors: (including carers) of registered pupils at the school. A "'Parent" may be 'any individual who has or has had parental responsibility for, or cares for, or has cared for, a child or young person under the age of 18'. It includes a person with whom the child lives, or who looks after the child, irrespective of what their relationship is with the child, and must be someone involved in the full-time care of the child on a settled basis. However, in the event of there being no other applicant, if you are not a parent or carer of a child in school, but have a child elsewhere in education in Hertfordshire this will be acceptable.
Parents are elected by vote, unless there are insufficient applications. In the case of only one applicant the governing board will notify parents before confirming an appointment.
We have one staff governor elected by other staff.
All paid teaching and support staff are eligible for staff governorship. Staff governors are elected by ballot by the school staff.
We have one LA governor appointed by the Local Authority.
The remaining five members, formerly community governors, now called Co-opted, are appointed by the Governing Body to represent community interests. Co-opted governors can be both people who live or work in the community served by the school, or others who do not work or live close to the school who share the goals of providing a positive education experience for the pupils of the school.
Additionally, there are associate members who serve on one or more committees. The definition of Associate member covers those who are able to contribute specifically on issues related to their area of expertise (for instance, Health and Safety, HR ). Associate members have limited voting rights according to the terms of their appointment. They do not have the same statutory obligations of full governors. This role might appeal to anyone not able to make a full commitment to governance.
The Full Governing Board- FGB– meets twice in the Autumn term, once in the Spring term and once in the Summer term. The Finance and Personnel Committee meets once each term just before the FGB. Additionally, small working groups meet to approve: staff pay recommendations before they are put to the FGB; budget summaries and other performance or resources issues which then go to full meetings. These groups enable much more time to be spent interrogating the data and information provided, so that summary information can then be circulated to the whole governing board before the full meeting.
Governors form panels which are required from time to time to hear complaints, grievance matters or in the rare case of extreme pupil indiscipline review decisions to exclude pupils. Membership of these panels requires governors to be further supported by other professionals and additional training.
Annually, the headteacher's own performance is evaluated by a panel of governors who, with the guidance of the School Improvement Partner, then agree with the head his performance targets for the following year.
Governors also visit the school to observe assemblies, presentations, talk with pupils and link with curriculum staff.
Are you interested in becoming a governor? If so, please contact the Chair of Governors, Helen Jones, who will be happy to talk to you and discuss the work of governance in more detail.
or call the school office to ask for a meeting to be organised.


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The number of simultaneous synchronous requests a server is capable of supporting is determined by the number of threads in the server's thread pool. If all of the threads are busy dispatching long-running operations, then no threads are available to process new requests and therefore clients may experience an unacceptable lack of responsiveness.
Asynchronous Method Dispatch (AMD), the server-side equivalent of AMI, addresses this scalability issue. Using AMD, a server can receive a request but then suspend its processing in order to release the dispatch thread as soon as possible. When processing resumes and the results are available, the server sends a response explicitly using a callback object provided by the Ice run time.
AMD is transparent to the client, that is, there is no way for a client to distinguish a request that, in the server, is processed synchronously from a request that is processed asynchronously.
In practical terms, an AMD operation typically queues the request data (i.e., the callback object and operation arguments) for later processing by an application thread (or thread pool). In this way, the server minimizes the use of dispatch threads and becomes capable of efficiently supporting thousands of simultaneous clients.
An alternate use case for AMD is an operation that requires further processing after completing the client's request. In order to minimize the client's delay, the operation returns the results while still in the dispatch thread, and then continues using the dispatch thread for additional work.
To enable asynchronous dispatch, you must add an ["amd"] metadata directive to your Slice definitions. The directive applies at the interface and the operation level. If you specify ["amd"] at the interface level, all operations in that interface use asynchronous dispatch; if you specify ["amd"] for an individual operation, only that operation uses asynchronous dispatch. In either case, the metadata directive replaces synchronous dispatch, that is, a particular operation implementation must use synchronous or asynchronous dispatch and cannot use both.
In this example, both operations of interface I use asynchronous dispatch, whereas, for interface J, startProcess uses asynchronous dispatch and endProcess uses synchronous dispatch.
Specifying metadata at the operation level (rather than at the interface or class level) minimizes the amount of generated code and, more importantly, minimizes complexity: although the asynchronous model is more flexible, it is also more complicated to use. It is therefore in your best interest to limit the use of the asynchronous model to those operations that need it, while using the simpler synchronous model for the rest.
The ["amd"] metadata changes the name of the dispatch pure virtual function to <operation-name>Async. This dispatch function returns void and accepts the operation's in-parameters by value, followed by two callback parameters provided by the Ice run time.
There are two processing contexts in which the logical implementation of an AMD operation may need to report an exception: the dispatch thread (the thread that receives the invocation), and the response thread (the thread that sends the response).
These are not necessarily two different threads: it is legal to send the response from the dispatch thread.
Although we recommend that the exception callback be used to report all exceptions to the client, it is legal for the implementation to raise an exception instead, but only from the dispatch thread.
As you would expect, an exception raised from a response thread cannot be caught by the Ice run time; the application's run-time environment determines how such an exception is handled. Therefore, a response thread must ensure that it traps all exceptions and sends the appropriate response using the exception callback. Otherwise, if a response thread is terminated by an uncaught exception, the request may never be completed and the client might wait indefinitely for a response.
Whether raised in a dispatch thread or reported via the exception callback, local exceptions may undergo translation.
Since the asynchronous proxy API and the asynchronous dispatch API are similar, it is possible to implement an asynchronous dispatch by sending an asynchronous request to a proxy.
If your AMD implementation uses a oneway proxy, remember that the AMI response callback is not called: you need to call the AMD response from the AMI sent callback.
Given a two-dimensional grid of floating point values and a factor, the interpolate operation returns a new grid of the same size with the values interpolated in some interesting (but unspecified) way.
If interpolateGrid throws an exception such as range error, we capture this exception and pass it to the _exception callback. If the interpolation was successful, _response is called to send the modified grid back to the client.


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IITs an integral constituent of 'Brand India': Dr Singh
Last updated on: August 20, 2012 17:05 IST
Prime Minister Dr Manmohan Singh was the chief guest at the Golden Jubilee Convocation at the Indian Institute of Technology-Bombay at Powai. This is how he inspired the students of the prestigious institute.
I am delighted to be here at your prestigious institution on this auspicious day. I wish each one you a life of purposive action and professional fulfillment. Standing here this afternoon, my thoughts go back to those early days after Independence when our national leaders built great institutions of learning to help lay the foundations of a new India. The Indian Institutes of Technology were part of this great nation building effort. I salute the memory of all those who dedicated their lives to building this and other such great institutions of academic excellence.
The IITs have become an integral constituent of what is known as 'Brand India', like our nuclear science institutions, that Dr Kakodkar has dedicated his life to, like Mr Premji's Wipro and Mr Narayanamurthy's Infosys and like so many other centres of research and teaching that have given several generations of young Indians new opportunities that my own generation could only dream of.
Today, as we celebrate the Golden Jubilee of IIT Bombay, we feel a sense of pride. But that pride must be tempered by the concern that we still do not have the required number of such institutions to offer adequate developmental opportunities to all our bright young women and men.
Every year when I see how many hundreds of thousands of students apply for admission to these institutions, and when I see how high have become the minimum cut-off marks for admission, my heart is pained by the limits we are placing on the opportunities available to our youth.
That is precisely why our government took the initiative to expand the opportunities for higher and technical education in India. During the last eight years Indian higher education, as well as secondary and technical education, have experienced a quantum jump in terms of the investment being made and the number of seats being created for students. I compliment my colleague Shri Kapil Sibal for leading this effort.
Our government has opened new IITs, new IIMs and new institutions for teaching and research in the sciences. We have increased investment in school education. We have increased scholarships for the disadvantaged sections of our society. We have set up new institutions in different parts of the country so that our children can get the best education available closer home.
One of the major challenges that we face today is to ensure that this quantitative expansion in institutions and seats also fosters a qualitative improvement in the working of institutions of higher learning. India currently lags behind many other countries in terms of research and development and we must work much harder to bridge this knowledge gap.
I am happy that IIT Bombay has made research a priority. I am told that a number of centres in the institute are engaged in research on several important areas. These include the National Centre for Photovoltaic Research and Education, the 1 Megawatt National Solar Thermal Test Facility and the Indo-US Clean Energy Centre for Photovoltaics. I am sure these efforts will result in very useful outcomes.
As India's economy becomes bigger and more developed, so too must our knowledge base. A developing country like ours has to catch up with other more developed nations and this 'catch-up' process depends vitally on our ability to harness human resources for development.
Another challenge is to ensure that the investment we make in higher education in fact contributes more directly to nation building. Here the IITs face an immediate challenge of making their curriculum more relevant to our needs. I am aware that this is a subject of much lively discussion among your faculty and alumnus. How do we incentivise our engineering graduates to bring their professional knowledge to bear more directly on our development processes? This would be in keeping with the vision for IITs that Pandit Nehru articulated when he laid the foundation stone of IIT Bombay. He said, that the role of the IITs would be, and I quote, "to provide scientists and technologists of the highest caliber who would engage in research, design and development to help building the nation toward self reliance in her technological needs".
Many of our best IIT students have, over the years, migrated abroad in search of better opportunities. I do not grudge that. Some of them have returned home to serve our Motherland. Some do so from where they are, in some of the best institutions of the world. A large number of our IIT graduates move away from their core disciplines into management, finance, marketing and even the civil services. Without doubt, they have much to contribute in their new fields of work.
The students graduating today have a long list of IIT Bombay alumni to inspire them. Each of the preceding 49 Convocations of this great institution has seen the graduation of a very talented group of young men and women. They have made important contributions in a wide range of disciplines and have added lustre to the global image of India. Several of them have risen to top positions internationally including Arun Netravali, former head of Bell Laboratories, and Nitin Nohria, the current Dean of Harvard Business School. One of our brightest Cabinet Ministers, Shri Jairam Ramesh is an alumnus of IIT Bombay, as is Shri Nandan Nilekani who carries the enormous responsibility of implementing India's ambitious programme for providing all its citizens with a Unique Identification number.
India needs millions of engineers and millions more of technically qualified workers and skilled professionals. There was a time when engineers like M Vishwesharayya and K L Rao provided leadership to our power projects and irrigation projects and were regarded as national leaders. Today India needs national leaders from the fields of engineering and science. Not just politics, sport and cinema!
Friends, India is on the move. And so, you enter a world of opportunities. How you make use of these opportunities, how you shape them, how you create new opportunities for newer generations of our youth will shape the future of this ancient land.
I know that in the recent past we have lived through a period of excessive pessimism and negativism. Some of this is natural. Our society has been experiencing a 'revolution of rising expectations'. Hopes are high, but are often not realised. This breeds cynicism. The challenge before you is to retain your sense of hope and optimism even as you surmount the hurdles you face and overcome the challenges that are posed.
When I look back at my own life I am humbled and gratified by the distance my generation has travelled. I studied in the light of a kerosene lamp in a dusty village that had no power, no school or college. I had to walk miles to school. In all these matters, there has been an enormous improvement in the 65 years of independent India. Even then, the progress that has been registered has often fallen short of the expectations of our people, particularly the youth. In some ways, the enormity of the task ahead of us as a nation is daunting, but our achievements so far give us confidence and hope.
India's journey, as indeed IIT Bombay's journey, these past 65 years, is a matter of great pride. After half a century of zero rate of economic growth, from 1900 to 1950, we managed to register 3.5 per cent growth for three decades after Independence, from 1950 to 1980. But from 1980 to now, over the subsequent three decades, we have nearly doubled that rate of growth. In 2003-08 we showed that we can march forward at an even higher rate of growth of 9.0 per cent.
These are not just numbers. They translate into employment opportunities for newer generations. They create new incomes and new possibilities. They help increase the government's revenues so that we can invest more in education, in health care, in eradicating poverty, hunger, disease and illiteracy.
I know that in the past year India's economy has slowed down. But this is not an inevitable or irreversible outcome. The fundamentals of our economy are sound and with greater effort being made to mobilise all the latent physical and human resources, we can go back to the growth rate of 8 to 9 percent per annum achieved from 2003 to 2008. The large investments in the development of human resources that we have made in the last 8 years would facilitate that outcome.
Science and technology have to play a major role in the transformation of our economy. The educated youth of our country have to lead the process of social and economic change. I am confident that young people like you will take the flag from our hands and march forward. I am confident that your generation will make us proud. I am confident about the future of India, because YOU are that future.
As you enter a new phase of your life never forget those who have made it possible for you to be here today. Your parents, your family and friends, your teachers and the society around you that has enabled you to receive good quality education and build the foundation of your professional life.
May your path be blessed. Jai Hind!
Image: Prime Minister Dr Manmohan Singh presented the President Medal, at the Golden Jubilee Convocation of IIT Bombay, in Mumbai on August 18, 2012.
Photographs: PIB
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