In those days you couldn't do a patent search online. You had to go to a patent library. So I made a couple of pilgrimages down to the south bay area where the nearest patent library was to see if anyone had ever patented a similar instrument, and to get a feeling for the patenting process. I also enlisted a patent lawyer, who generously worked pro bono to educate me and alert me to important issues, and to read, critique and correct the article-to-be.
Well, there's nothing new under the sun, and of course when I got into the search I found that several people had made and patented instruments related to my idea, though not identical. Whether the bentwood chalumeau would ultimately have proven to be patentable I was not able to conclude; the prospect seemed dubious but not inconceivable. But the whole exploration was a fascinating experience. The patent library is a fulsome repository of the hopes and dreams of people one will never meet, and much of what's to be found there is wonderfully improbable and impractical – particularly some of the very early patents, with bonus points for being in an offbeat field like musical instruments. Pretty wacky, some of them! Many of the patent drawings are marvelous, and the language, though often abstruse, is sometimes oddly charming in its awkward formality. Along the way I saw a lot of intriguing instrument ideas that, as far as I know, never saw commercial success.
The article "Patenting for Musical Instruments" eventually appeared in Experimental Musical Instruments Volume VI #6, April 1991. Unsurprisingly, I came away from the experience confirmed in my feeling that, in most cases, patenting is not the way to go for inventors of new musical instruments. The promise it might seem to hold will too often will prove hollow. For one thing, when it comes to commercial ideas with big money-making potential, experimental musical instruments don't exactly lead the pack: if the product to be patented is a new instrument, then the chances that it will ever justify economically the cost and effort of patenting are probably pretty slim. There's also the matter of patent enforcement: police departments don't send their swat teams after suspected patent infringers. Instead the burden of enforcement falls to the patent holder him- or herself, working through the courts. Once again, the cost and effort seems questionable when the financial rewards are likely to be so small.
Patenting is only one way to claim ownership of an idea and to keep at bay others who might want to copy it. Among other options, you can depend on trade secrets (prevent others from copying by keeping necessary information or techniques under wraps).
But then again, rather than trying to enforce one's sense of ownership of an idea, it seems so much nicer – and usually more practical, realistic, and, yes, rewarding — to just be open and share.
That statement sounds trite. But you need only look to the current movement reflected in terms like intellectual commons or information commons to find the idea widely validated. True, it's not always possible to live by the ideal of shared intellectual property: if you believe you have a financial interest to protect, then you might feel compelled to take a territorial attitude. But if you're not so compelled, then my suggestion is, just be happy that someone appreciates your idea enough to want to copy it.
So if you explore the instrumentarium in this web site, and if you see there an idea you like, please feel free to borrow. I'll be grateful if you credit me where appropriate, but in any case I won't complain. Be it understood, by the way, that very few of my ideas are truly original anyway — in fact, it's fair to say that none are. Like all human endeavors they lean heavily on the work of earlier inventors and makers, both ancient and modern. As my visits to the patent library showed, even in cases where one thinks one's ideas to be original, it usually turns out that others have already explored the territory.
If you do try out something you see in my instrumentarium, I hope you'll let me know about it. This has been one of my great pleasures over many years spent exploring ideas for new instruments: seeing other people taking ideas I've worked on, spreading them, sharing them, developing them, and often doing a better job with them than I have.


Adrien Lawyer and Elena Letourneau are what they refer to as "invisible"—a white, seemingly straight couple with a 6-year-old son.
Lawyer had his breasts removed in 2004. A year later, he began hormone replacement therapy, which deepened his voice and sprouted hair on his face. Lawyer is now legally a man. Once recognized as a lesbian couple, he and his partner have undergone not only a physical but a cultural transformation. They appear to be the all-American family. And that's exactly what they are.
In recent months, the mass media has brought awareness to the rise in GLBT suicides across our country. The sad truth and reality is that for far too long there has been a silence when dealing and coping with the issue of GLBT suicides, GLBT bullying, and GLBT discrimination.
We must rise to the occasion so those members of the Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual, Transgender community that live in fear, self hate and silence are silent no more. For those in other countries that fear for their lives because a person can still be legally killed for being GLBT, we are silent no more. For every struggling member of our community, we are silent no more.
Together, as a united front we are silent no more. Please join me, as we take a stand together at Morningside Park, Monday October 11 at 7:00 pm for National Coming Out Day. Coming together as one community so others have the courage to stand and be strong. This is not a protest or even a rally, rather its people coming together to be one voice.
Once you go, you know. Gay pride events have an energy unlike any other. They're blobs of Silly Putty rolling on a calendar, collecting a year's worth of impressions into one big, colorful gob. There's the romance of Valentine's Day, the all-American sizzle of Fourth of July, the candy-coated spectacle of Halloween, the goodwill and generosity of Christmas. And everyone buys shots like it's their birthday. Minus the shots thing, it's no wonder children love pride parades.


Every business owner wants to save time. After all, time is money. In this modern world, apps and other online tools can help you get the most out of your workday. However, there are more than 1.3 million apps in Apple's App Store and another 1.3 million in Google's Play store. Who has time to find time-saving tools?
Don't wait on hold anymore. FastCustomer will make a call for you and alert you when someone else picks up on the other end. It's one pet peeve you can cut out of your workday.
If your business deals with a lot of inventory, Sortly is the app for you. It's a free iPhone app that helps you keep track of your stuff. You can snap photos of boxes that are in your storage room, or make a list of what's in your overstock area.
Do you wrap up your day and wonder, "Where did my time go?" If you're nodding in agreement, you should check out Toggl. Several owners suggest this online tool that works as a time tracker. With this tool you can see exactly where you spend your time and make the proper adjustments.
Cost: Free and paid packages available. Advanced tracking is $5 per month/person.
Tired of sifting through a mile long email thread to figure out what's going on with a project? If so, try Slack. This tool is meant to make communication easier. You can create a project and keep all of your shared notes in one searchable spot.
"It's much better than sifting through emails to figure out who is doing what and who owes what to whom," says Josh Inglis, with PR firm Propllr.
If your business schedules customer appointments, you'll want to check out TimeTrade. Customers can see your calendar and set up a date and time that accommodates their schedule.
"It saves a lot of time in the back and forth of attempting to find a mutually available time," Linda Pophal, owner of Strategic Communications says.
Cost: Free and paid versions. Paid packages start at $49.
How many times have you come across a blog post or a guide that you want to read, but don't have the time to devote to it immediately? Rather than bookmarking the website or writing a reminder on a Post-it, use Pocket. With this tool you can save articles or videos that you want to check out later on.
It's a time-saving tool for Sherry Holub, owner of design agency, JVM Design.
Are you a Gmail user? If so, this handy tool can help you wade through the sea of email in your inbox. Boomerang allows you to schedule emails to send, set up email reminders and track your correspondence.
David Waring with FitSmallBusiness.com says it's a tool he can't go without.
"This is an awesome tool that helps keep your inbox clean and makes following up on things super easy," he says.
Cost: Free and paid versions. Paid packages range from $5 to $49.
This handy app is a checklist and project management tool. Small businesses can prioritize a to-do list, set deadlines, reorder tasks and share the list with others.
"Every small business should be using this. It has replaced the pad and pen to-do list for me," says Jay Staniforth, owner of workout clothing business Bear Aesthetics.
Another popular suggestion is 1Password. Remembering all of your online passwords can be a hassle. You don't have to write them down on a notebook or keep a mini spreadsheet on your computer anymore. With 1Password all you have to do is remember one "master password" and the app will do the rest.
Cost: Free for Androids and $7.99 for iPhone users.
One of the most recommended time-saving tools is ZenPayroll. About a dozen small business owners suggested it, which is why we've put it at the top of our list.
Small business owners say this tool takes the hassle out of payroll with an easy-to-use platform and affordable pricing options. It comes with direct deposit, tax forms, employee accounts and reports.
Cost: $25 per month + $4 per employee.
What time-saving tools do you rely on? Share your knowledge with others who are looking to maximize their time by listing your go-to app or tool in the comments.
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Like your number 2, LastPass is a password remembering program that we've used for a few years. Works great on all my Android devices and has made me a more sane person by not having to struggle to remember way too many logins and passwords. Between work and home, my spreadsheet was 9 pages long.


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Walter Cronkite wrote a preface to the 35th edition of Orwell's classic 1984.
It has been said that 1984 fails as a prophecy because it succeeded as a warning–Orwell's terrible vision has been averted.
It was this spirit in mind that the community went into the naming party for the new Prius we just purchased.
It is this color, but we got one without all the asphalt
We have lots of naming parties at the commune. One of the more common things we name are new vehicles when we acquire them (to be clear we basically never buy new-from-the-factory vehicles, but they are "new to us" and generally in better condition than the rest of the fleet). The form of a naming party combines a long list of names suggested by members and friends, a dry erase board/butcher paper pad and a flamboyant MC.
Ezra was a wonderful MC for this evening's naming party for the Prius. It is important background that this is our first hybrid vehicle. We have some Toyotas which get excellent gas mileage, but a Prius represents a significant step up. And it was clear from the suggested names that people did not think the commune was quite up for the responsibility of owning a fancier car. Here are some of the names which were proposed:
Liberal Guilt
Hybrid Vigor
Inevitable Downfall
Greenwash
Darth Dingo
The process is hardly democratic, people get multiple votes and there is rampant cheating, despite Ezra's threats that he would dispatch kids to lick you on the face if you were caught cheating (i think Jess did get licked). At the critical moment when most people were expected to vote for the most popular name, Ezra swapped in the question "Who is voting to have me be Vice President for Life!" The president of the community is not a contested spot, but the vice president is, perhaps because of the incorrect assumption that the vice president will have greater access to vice (in egalitarian communities it is important that everyone have equal access to vice).
I held out a vain hope for Nikola Tesla to be selected as the name
As you can probably guess from the blog title, the winning name, by a huge margin was "This is why we can't have nice things". When asked for the meaning of the name Kathryn suggests "come look at the car in a year and you will understand it."
Unlike any vehicle we have ever had, this one requires a driving class, which is being offered by Trout on Saturday and Sunday. I will be away, but hopefully my pre-existing experience driving other people's Prius's will get me qualified.
So ask in a year, if the prophecy was a successful warning.

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Increasingly, couples are building into their forthcoming wedding plans the provision of a pre-nuptial agreement which sets out what would happen in the unfortunate event of the marriage breaking down within a few years of the wedding. Whilst it is not a pleasant thought that your marriage may not work out, the protection of a pre-nuptial agreement could give you peace of mind so that, in the event that the worst happened, you would not lose all that you had worked for in your life before you married.
Whilst at the present time pre-nuptial agreements are not legally binding some recent case law has shown that the courts are giving weight to such agreements in certain circumstances and forthcoming changes in the law in April 2014 are likely to make pre-nuptial agreements have far more legitimacy than in the past. A properly drafted pre-nuptial agreement can offer a significant safeguard to clients seeking to protect their financial assets in the event of the breakdown of the marriage so soon after the wedding.
Juliette Kinsey has produced many pre-nuptial agreements for clients who are getting married and wish to protect their assets in the event of an unexpected early breakdown of the marriage. Such agreements are particularly useful to clients who are getting married for the second time or have children from a previous relationship and wish to preserve their existing assets and property.


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Across the country, many people have started or returned to school over the past two weeks. For those attending colleges and universities, a tuition bill awaited them.
Thankfully, there are a number of resources available to help students and their families pay for their college education. Each resource has its own benefits and disadvantages that should be considered, and most often a student will end up using a mix of several resources.
One big consideration is whether to take out student loans and borrow money for your education, or whether to use your current assets to cover some or all of the cost.
Current assets could include things such as a student's summer job or working part-time throughout the school year. Student loans are unavoidable for many students, and there's no problem with that. A portion of student-loan interest can be tax-deductible, which helps lower the repayment burden. The government also offers some subsidized loan rates for students in need. Taking on some debt to be able to pursue a college degree is generally a great investment in your future. However, since it will need to be paid back eventually, it is highly recommended to only borrow what you need.
For those planning ahead for future college expenses, whether for themselves, their children, grandchildren or whomever, beginning early is one of the most powerful steps you can take. A colleague of mine, Sheila Handrick, CFP®, has written specifically on the subject of saving for college—and one of the more popular education savings plans—in blog posts that you can visit for additional information. Keep in mind that there is also a very real problem with over-funded college savings vehicles.
If a student ends up not going to post-secondary education or receiving some other type of aid or funding, unused balances that aren't rolled over to other family members may need to be withdrawn altogether. Those balances would then be subject to income taxes and penalties. For parents and grandparents who are so inclined and able, gifting the tuition directly to the institution on behalf of the student may qualify for an unlimited gift exclusion and can still be deemed paid by the student (see Income taxes next).
Your income tax return can also be an indirect way to fund a portion of college expenses. The American Opportunity Credit, for example, provides up to a $2,500 credit annually for the first four years of post-secondary education. Depending on income levels of the student and the parent, where applicable, some tax planning may be needed to maximize your benefits. A trusted financial advisor can help you optimize your financial plan strategies for tax credits, federal aid and any educational savings plans.
Outside of paying for college yourself or borrowing the money, there are opportunities to have a portion of your expenses paid for you. The Free Application for Federal Student Aid (FAFSA) should be completed annually to see if the student or family qualifies for any government aid. Scholarships and grants are also available for a wide range of candidates, including both need-based and merit-based awards. Filling out a scholarship application that results in a $1,000 scholarship would likely be two of the best hours a high school student can spend trying to pay for college. Pools of eligible candidates for each award will vary and range from being open to anyone or available only to a specific demographic (e.g. a child of a single parent pursuing a specific degree at a specific school). The high school's guidance department or the college's admissions office will be able to help students find and apply for appropriate awards.
The final mix of resources available to and ultimately used by each individual student will vary, but by keeping all of these options in mind, students can help themselves most effectively invest in their college education and their financial future.
Mark Albers, CPA, MST, CFP®, is a Senior Financial Advisor for Wipfli Financial Advisors in Green Bay and Appleton, WI. Mark specializes in estate, retirement, tax and charitable giving planning for individuals and families.
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Too Short to Become a Teacher: Chinese Woman Disqualified from Getting her Teaching Certificate Because of Her Height
China Local News
Chauncey Jung
A remarkable conundrum has got Chinese social media users talking. A woman who studied for four years to become a teacher was denied her certification – she allegedly is 10 centimeters "too short" to become a teacher, according to height requirements established by the Shaanxi Ministry of Education.
News of a Chinese university student being barred from receiving her teaching certificate because of her height has become a topic of discussion on Chinese social media.
A female student named Li was recently disqualified from receiving her teaching certificate after a medical examination measured her height as 140cm (4.6ft), 10cm shorter the height requirement of 150cm (4.9ft), Shaanxi media outlet CNWest (西部网) reports.
The student studies at Shaanxi Normal University. "Not getting a teaching certification would mean the end of my career," she told local reporters: "It would also go against the free education agreement I received when I entered the university."
Li is given exemption on her tuition fees under the so-called 'Future Teacher Scheme' by the Chinese Ministry of Education – a special programme designed to cover the tuition costs of selected university students who commit to teach at local schools upon graduation.
If Li fails to acquire her teaching certificate, however, it would kill her future job prospects. According to the 'Future Teacher Scheme' agreement, students are required to pay back the costs of their university education if they do not become a teacher.
"If there is such a [height] requirement, why would they have accepted me as a student in the first place? My four-year-long efforts now turn into nothing," Li said.
Since the issue made the news, Shaanxi Normal University responded to the issue, CNWest news reports. In a statement, the university said they were simply enforcing a 2009 provincial policy which stipulates that female applicants need to be taller than 150cm to qualify as a teacher.
The national Chinese laws on teaching, however, do not set any height requirements for teachers.
"This is discrimination. If this happened in the United States, she could get 300 million US Dollars' worth of compensation," some commenters responded on Weibo.
"If Deng Xiaoping were alive, he would fire the entire Shaanxi Bureau of Education."
Local authorities told CNWest that exceptions on the height requirement policy are occasionally made; in 2012, for example, a student who did not meet the height requirement did obtain the teaching qualification.
Thanks to the heightened media attention on the issue, Shaanxi officials have since decided to make an exception for Li. They reportedly plan to remove the height restriction starting from next year.
The sudden change in policy, however, has not made commenters on social media less annoyed. "If Deng Xiaoping were alive, he would fire the entire Shaanxi Bureau of Education," one user said. (Former Chinese communist leader Deng Xiaoping's height is listed as 150cm/4.9ft).
There are many Weibo users who question the relation between a person's height and their job a teacher: "If she is short, she can wear high heels. Does height really matter to become a teacher?"
It is not the first time that height discrimination in China makes the news. A 2015 Foreign Affairs report suggests that, despite being discriminatory, many employers in China insist on setting height requirements as a condition to employment.
The majority of netizens sympathize with Li: "This is hurtful. It is not easy to be short, why would this society make it more difficult for her?"
Other people wonder why appearances would be more important than one's psyche: "They never have requirements when it comes to people's morals and their mental health. It is disgusting to have these requirements for a person's height."
By Chauncey Jung
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Sudden Ground Collapse at Metro Station in Xiamen
A sudden collapse occurred near Xiamen's Lucuo station, just two weeks after a similar incident took place in Guangzhou.
Manya Koetse
First published December 12 2019, 23:50 CST
In the evening of December 12, Xiamen's Lvcuo (Lǚcuò 吕厝) metro station became a breaking news topic in Chinese media after a ground collapse incident occurred at a nearby intersection, followed by a major flood in the Xiamen subway.
Xiamen, Fujian Province, is one of China's major coastal cities. According to Xiamen Metro News, the collapse happened at 21:52 local time.
Ground collapsed at Lvcuo station of Metro Line 2 in Xiamen pic.twitter.com/qrkDsJjsCO
— Chenyu_Liang (@chenyuliang) December 12, 2019
At time of writing, rescue teams are still investigating the scene. It is unclear if people have been trapped or injured due to the collapse.
An apparent dashcam video shared by Sina News and People's Daily on Weibo shows the moment right before the sudden collapse.
The video captures how the road is relatively busy at the time of collapsing, and at least one car can be seen crashing into the sinkhole.
The moment before it happened pic.twitter.com/fVAxFAgD3s
Other footage shows that the Xiamen metro line is currently flooded (also see video in this tweet).
The scene of the collapse at 0:10 local time.
The metro station where this incident occurred is relatively new. Xiamen's metro line was first opened in late December 2017.
Just two weeks ago, another major ground collapse accident occurred at the construction site of a metro line in Guangzhou. Three people remain missing after the incident.
On Thursday night local time, the Xiamen metro collapse was the number one trending topic on social media platform Weibo. Many netizens commenting on the incident express worries about the safety of roads and construction sites in China.
Update (Dec 13): According to the latest Chinese media reports, the drivers of two cars who were at the scene at the moment of the ground collapse have both been recused. One female pedestrian who also fell into the sinkhole is receiving medical treatment..
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No Need for Plague Panic? China's Trending Plague Outbreak
After the Year of the Pig brought swine flue, some fear the Year of the Rat will bring the 'rat plague.'
Published November 20th 2019, 19:00 CST
For the past nine days, during which three cases of the plague have been reported in China, the deadly bubonic plague has become a hot topic on Chinese social media.
The topic first made headlines on November 12, when Chinese state media announced that two people, a husband and wife from Inner Mongolia, were transported to Beijing's Chaoyang Hospital for treatment after being diagnosed with the pneumonic plague.
The couple reportedly got sick after eating raw marmot kidney.
A 55-year old hunter from the same region, the Inner Mongolian Xilingol League, was later also diagnosed with bubonic plague after eating wild rabbit meat.
The bubonic plague, also called the 'Black Death,' is an infectious disease that is known to have caused one of the most devastating pandemics in human history, killing millions of people in 14th century Europe.
News of the three cases of bubonic plague reminded many of the 2003 SARS panic; an outbreak of SARS in southern China caused over 8000 cases that year.
The World Health Organisation criticized China at the time for covering up the scale of the problem, with officials conceding in the Spring of 2003 that China's SARs problem was "nearly 10 times worse than had been admitted."
Current online reports on the bubonic plague in China stress that there is no reason for panic, with a hospital spokesperson confirming that the situation is "under control."
42 people who are known to have come into contact with the Chinese patients have all been quarantined and were not found to have any symptoms of catching the disease.
Chinese (state) media channels are spreading social media posts this week that mainly emphasize that the plague "can be prevented, controlled, and managed," and that it can be effectively treated.
"Don't panic over plague outbreak," Sina News headlines, with People's Daily posting on Weibo that, according to the China Center for Disease Control and Prevention, "there is no need to worry."
The bubonic plague primarily affects rodents and other animals, with animals – and incidentally humans – usually contracting the infection through insects such as (rat) fleas. This form of plague is highly contagious – can spread through coughing – and could be fatal within days if left untreated (Benedict 1996, 4).
Mammals such as rabbits or marmots, as eaten by the recent Chinese patients, but also rats, squirrels, gerbils, mice, etc., can all harbor the disease.
Although the disease is increasingly rare, and for many is something from the history books, there were still 3248 cases worldwide between 2010 and 2015, leading to 584 deaths, according to the World Health Organization.
Although Chinese media stress that there is no need to panic over the recent outbreak of the bubonic plague, many netizens still fear an epidemic, making comments such as: "The Year of the Pig brought the [African] swine fever, now the plague is starting just before the Year of the Rat!" (The word for 'plague' in Chinese is 鼠疫 shǔyì, literally meaning 'rat plague' or 'mouse plague').
Others are asking questions such as: "Do we risk the plague more if we have mice in the house?" and "How can we prevent getting it?"
Meanwhile, according to Jiemian News reports, the area in Inner Mongolia where the patients originally contracted the illness is currently under strict control by the Ministries of Health and Agriculture; some roads are closed off, and there's temperature screening for those taking public transport.
The area has seen four cases of plague over the past decades, the most recent one before this month being in 2004.
Last news on the current three patients was from last Saturday, when it was reported that at least one of the patients is now in stable condition.
Benedict, Carol Ann. 1996. Bubonic Plague in Nineteenth Plague in Nineteenth Century China. Stanford University Press.
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Swimmingly
Summary: In which Eomer and Johanna beat the heat.
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It is yet another warm and drizzling afternoon at the garden isle manse, hot and sticky enough to make the day a generally unpleasant one. Johanna can be found in that great hall, draped elegantly — in her mind, anyway, it might look a bit more like a slump — in one of the chairs as she whips a hand fan back and forth to try and stur the humid air. A goblet half empty goblet of what was once chilled wine sits beside her, but she ignores it now that it's become somewhat less refreshing and closer to tepid.
Well, bleh. Who wants to be out and about in such weather, rather than floating in a lake or something. But duty (and debt) calls, and Eomer is ever dutiful… well, no. He's not, but he is in debt and feeling fairly happy with his bruise-free face, which is nearly as good. He's left his coat and scarf behind, today, and his sleeves have been rolled up to his elbows. He still uses a kerchief to wipe at his brow as he steps into the great hall. "Do you know what we need?" he proposes by way of greeting. "Cold wine, fresh from the cellar. I bet it would restore the curl to your hair, my lady."
"I had some brought up, but it's warm now," Johanna complaints as she cuts the fan through the air back and forth, causing the few loose curls to sway. "I should have them bring more." She motions to the table, to the seats near her, "Make yourself comfortable." The fan stops after a moment, lips quirking into a smile. "Are you saying that my hair is flat?"
"Yes they should," Eomer agrees, his voice a touch scandalized that fresh, frigid wine hasn't simply appeared out of the ether. He sits down with a small huff and another swipe at his brow. "Damn this heat," he sighs, "If I wanted to bake like the Dornish, I would have gone to Dorne." He smiles softly and holds up a hand as if to ward away Johanna's disapproval. "I would never say such a thing, my lady. I only say that we all feel the heat. In every bit of our person." Even hair.
Johanna's blue eyes narrow on him skeptically, but it doesn't appear to truly annoy her. Or if it does, it's well hidden. After a moment she smiles and lifts a hand to beckon over one of the servants. "Chilled wine. Some of the gold this time, I've had enough of the red." With that done, she looks back to Eomer. "And how have you been, Ser?"
"Ah, you know me, Lady Johanna," Eomer replies, stretching out his legs and offering a small grin for her use of his dubiously-gained title. "I keep my head above water, even when it's sweltering and I'd rather I was under it."
"I would suggest that you should sink, but I think I fear what you might do if you did," Johanna points out, offering a grin at him in return. With the servant gone, and the exceptionally guards busily looking looking up at the ceilings, she plucks a letter from the chair beside her and slides it across the table to him. "So it's best that you just keep afloat as you do."
"Haunt you foreeeeever," Eomer agrees, holding up his hands so he can wiggle his fingers in spooky fashion. "Especially in the bath." One hand reaches and quietly accepts the letter, tucking it into the pocket of his jerkin.
"You would do that, wouldn't you?" asks Johanna, laughing again. "You would pop up at the worst times, too, I imagine. The worst and likely least appropriate times." She doesn't say a word about the note that was passed, but does give a slight nod as it's tucked away.
"What fun would it be to haunt anybody if I couldn't," Eomer agrees with a laugh, "so think carefully on it if you should ever wish me ill. My misfortune may become yours, oooooh." More spooky fingers!
Johanna laughs and holds up both hands, as though to try and physically fend off this threat of mystical misfortune. "I surrender, I surrender. I promise not to wish you any ill, if only for that reason."
"Whew," Eomer breathes out, pressing a hand to his chest. "Your fondness… or, at least, your lack of apathy… warms the very cockles of my heart, Lady Johanna."
"Oh, I am terribly fond of you, Eomer," Johanna assures him with a grin that edges nearer playful. "I would never wish to see anything terrible happen to you, it's just that I hope that even more if your demise means my being haunted."
"Why Lady Johanna," Eomer murmurs, lowering his gaze and peering up through his lashes like a maid might. "I think you may cause me to blush with all of this kindness." His head turns a little, looking hopefully towards the doorway where a servant ought to eventually appear with fresh, icy wine.
"Eomer, you don't blush," Johanna points out as she sits back in her chair, laughing and twitching the fan that had since gone still. The servant should be back, but apparently something is holding them up. It's Garden Isle, so who knows what.
"Only because I'm tan," Eomer argues around a lazy smile, "and generally unkempt." He lifts a hand to rub idly at his bristly cheek. "Otherwise, I'd blush near constantly."
"Like a maiden," Johanna adds, just for her own amusement as she watches him with bright, mirth filled eyes. "As you are ever so sweet and innocent a thing."
Eomer flutters is lashes and ducks his head, just as a maiden might. "I am, I am. Such a rare gem in this jaded world of ours."
"Oh, you most certainly are," Johanna goes on with the joke, trying very hard not to laugh again, and largely failing. "And so fair to look upon too, it's a wonder that you're still unmarried Eomer. You must have a string of— er," she might have been about to say 'Garvins' and stopped herself, "People flocking to court you."
"Ah, well," Eomer demures with a small flick of one hand to dismiss such gallant compliments. "I suppose I have my share of beautious female suitors looking to win my hand, but I confess, none has yet captured my heart."
"I imagine you must," Johanna remarks, grin returning as she considers him, though the grin dims somewhat as the maid finally comes back with a bottle of wine that is cold as you're going to find during this hot weather, and a pair of goblets. "Ah, here we go."
Eomer reaches for the bottle and the goblets, though he at least fills up Johanna's first before his own. He takes a swallow, closing his eyes and sighing softly. "Mmm, that's far better. Thank you, my lady, for your gracious hospitality."
Once her wine is poured, Johanna picks up the goblet with a small nod towards Eomer, and then she takes a large drink of the cooler wine. "You're welcome. Gods but it is stuffy today, this time of year is just awful. I will be happy in a few months when it cools again."
"Well, there's always swimming," Eomer offers. "Feels wonderful in this sort of weather. Nothing better than sinking up to your neck in cold water when the whole town's gone hot."
"I should like to swim," Johanna admits with a sigh. "Some cold creek or pond where you can sit and relax, get some relief from the horrid heat. I haven't done that in quite a while."
Eomer glances around before noting, with a small grin, "Why don't we, then?"
"Do you know of a place?" asks Johanna, brows creeping upward, curious. "I don't yet, but I've only been here a short while so I've yet to discover all of those lovely, hidden places."
"Ah, Lady Johanna," Eomer says with a soft laugh, "of course I know of a place."
"Of course you do," Johanna laughs again, shaking her head. "Of course you do, between you," her voice lowers quite a bit as she speaks, "and our mutual friend, I don't expect there isn't anything that can't be found in this city."
Eomer winks and touches the side of his nose before draining his goblet of quickly warming wine. "Shall we, then?"
"Oh, I suppose," Johanna tries to sound reluctant, but the prospect of being somewhere more comfortable is entirely too appealing to be passed up. "Let me go get a few things, and then we can be on our way." She brings her goblet with her as she turns to hurry up the stairs now.
So Eomer takes the opportunity to, of course, fill up and drain his glass, again. What? It's just going to get warm if he doesn't.
And he has plenty of time to do that, it's a number of minutes before Johanna returns with a basket slung over one arm, and wearing a different dress than she was earlier. "Ready to go?"
"Ready," Eomer agrees, picking up the bottle and falling into step beside Johanna. "Basket. Intriguing." He considers, fingers tapping on the neck of the bottle. "Picnic lunch?"
"No," Johanna replies with a laugh, shaking her head. "Not that I would be opposed to it, but if we're going out beyond the city, I may as well bring this in case I find anything useful to bring back with me. All sorts of things grow wild."
"Mmmm, or turn wild," Eomer agrees with a wink as they head out of the manse and down along the river. "What got you interested in herbs and such?"
"Terrible," Johanna tells Eomer with a momentary grin, leading the way to the door and then out. "I wanted to make a magic potion," she tells him. "I can't even recall what the potion was meant to do, something about dreams, it was in some storybook that I'd read as a child and I was set on making it. It didn't go quite as expected, but it led me to where I am now."
"Oh dear," Eomer laughs. "What happened? Did someone become sick? Were there hallucinations?" He takes her down one of the roads, letting it follow the river until the path is a dirt one, rather than cobbled and it leads them to the fields outside of Oldstone.
"No, nothing so exciting as all that," Johanna admits, shaking her head as she follows alongside him. "I wound up burning myself because I made it in secret, when I shouldn't have been, and got into trouble."
"How did you manage to burn yourself with herbs?" Eomer asks, one brow quirking upwards. "Or, I suppose to had to build a fire to brew them or whatnot."
"Boiling them in a pot," Johanna explains, glancing at him with a smirk. "The herbs on their own were harmless, it was all the damnable water I spilled on myself that did me in. The Maester started asking me why I'd done it, and I explained to him what I was hoping to do, and that led to a discussion of herbs and their actual uses," she makes a vague gesture here. "He may have regretted it, once I was healed I wouldn't leave him alone, and didn't for more than ten years. He was probably relieved to see the back of me."
"Oh, I very much doubt that," Eomer replies. "Maesters appreciate beauty wherever they find it, even in inquisitve young women with burnt fingers. Here, just down this little hill, here." The river dips and then, in the small valley, widens into a pool, perfect for swimming, before flowing on its way to the sea.
"My feet, actually," Johanna explains, making a gesture toward the ground. "A bit on my legs too, but it was worst on the top of one foot. I learned my lesson that day." She follows him down the path and to that pool, smiling at him once they arrive. "This is a lovely place, I'm so glad you knew about it. I'd never have found it on my own."
"But now you'll be able to, I expect, and it's a wonderful place to be able to find," Eomer agrees, walking across the grassy bank and over to the pool. He drops into a sit so he can begin tugging off his boots. "Poor foot. I'm glad it recovered."
"I will," Johanna agrees as she moves to sit on the ground beside him, taking off her slipers, heavier and leather, the sort that are best for walking in. "It healed fine, I've only a bit of a scar there now."
"Aww," Eomer tuts for even the idea of a scar. He shrugs out of his jerkin, leaving his lighter shirt on for modesty's sake. Lady present, and all.
"I know, it's a tragedy," Johanna jests as she gets to her feet again. The gown she wears is a sort that wraps around and ties discreetly in the front, easy to remove, and even easier to put back on without the help of a maid, leaving her in a shift, which she keeps on. For modesty's sake.
Once Johanna gets down to her shift, Eomer deems it acceptable to kick out of his trousers, leaving him in his skivvies which are, well, modest enough. He stands, rolls his neck and then drives into the water with a satisfying splash. the water is calm, clear, and delightfully brisk, chasing the heat of the day from one's skin and replacing it with a surprising shiver.
Johanna doesn't go so far as to dive, that would be unladylike, and also she'd get her hair wet. With hair as curly as hers can get, you just don't do that unless you've got two maids present with combs at the ready. Instead she wades into the water carefully, which only makes the shocking change from hot air to cold water all the more brutal, as it's gradual, rather than all at once.
Eomer has a much easier hairstyle and he surface with a laugh, giving his soggy head a shake as if he were some sort of dog. "Oh," he gasps, moving to float on his back. "Wonderful. Are you feeling restored, my lady?"
Johanna is only just past her waist in the water by the time he surfaces, pausing at that point to look up at the sorry sort of knight. "Definitely much less hot than I was a minute ago," she assures him, giving the sort of cleched-teeth grin that suggests she's trying to keep them from chattering. Still, she doesn't complain.
"Just dunk in," Eomer advises, wiping water from his face. "Otherwise it's a slow, cold creep and that's never pleasant."
Johanna draws a deep breath and nods slightly, screwing up her face as she drops suddely, yelping a little as the water is abruptly up to her neck. "So cold," she mutters, but keeps there at that height as she tries to become accustom to the chilly water.
"I know," Eomer agrees, though the words sound more gleeful than apologetic. "We'll stay in here a little longer, then climb out and let the sun dry us, and what felt so hot and unpleasant before will be suddenly warm and welcome." His eyes close as small kicks push him towards the middle of the lake. "It's all perspective, my lady."
"Yes, I imagine it will," Johanna's teeth clack together a little as she sits shivering in the water, but she doesn't complain. Not after being so hot and miserable earlier, cold and shivering appears to be the preferable alternative right now. "How did you meet our mutual friend?" she asks, and even out here, she doesn't use his name.
"Hmm?" Eomer asks. "Oh. Gambling. Where else?"
"Of course," Johanna replies, only able to keep beneath the surface for so long before she rises, shift clinging interestingly to her figure now that it's wet. "I should have guessed."
"You should have," Eomer agrees before sinking under the water one more time. He then swims for shore, climbing out and offering Johanna a hand. Perhaps just to get a better look at the way that shift clings. "I suppose we're both just gentlement who understand discretion."
"Yes, I imagine that you both are," Johanna replies, taking hold of the hand and he offers and climbing out of the water, that shift continuing to cling, as wet fabric is wont to do. She is certainly a girl with curves, natural, rather than corset driven.
And Eomer, it seems, is a man who can appreciate natural curves, though he doesn't linger overlong on the display. Courtesy, you know. His own shirt and shorts hug his figure, but it's a considerably less exciting one. He settles on the grass in the sunlight, closing his eyes and tipping his face up to the sun. "How did you come to meet our mutual friend?" he queries.
"A tavern," Johanna answers as she settles in the grass beside Eomer, careful to leave enough distance between them that it doesn't appear too inappropriate. "We sat near one another and began talking, I enjoyed his company, and he mine. It's been an interesting friendship, that is for certain."
"I should frequent more taverns, if that is where such lovely friends can best be made," Eomer replies with a soft sigh.
"I imagine they are far easier made at taverns, than gambling tables," Johanna points out, laughing as she turns her face to the sun, eyes closing. "Less likely to try and stab you for your winnings, too."
"Oh, you well meaning and proper folk have no idea," Eomer laughs. "There are plenty of games of chance that happen in taverns and plenty of jovial, agreeable people at gambling tables. Though, I grant you, most would not look so fine in a shift as you do, my lady. Really, the stabbings are quite few and far between."
"Don't we?" asks Johanna as she turns her head, one arm flung up to block the sun from her eyes as she squints at him. "And what does that make you, Eomer? Ill meaning folk?"
"Worldly," Eomer replies, "and perhaps a little garish." He tucks his hands behind his head and stretches his legs out. "I recommend it."
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Ken Borsuk Sep. 17, 2020 Updated: Sep. 18, 2020 10:35 a.m.
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GREENWICH — For the first time ever, the town's police union has jumped into election season and endorsed a candidate.
The Silver Shield Association cited the law enforcement accountability act, which was recently passed by the state Legislature, as the reason for its endorsement of Republican candidate Kimberly Fiorello in the race for the 149th House District.
A vocal opponent of the bill, Fiorello spoke out against it in several op-eds and videos on social media, which the union cited it in its endorsement this week.
"We trust that Kimberly will not falter in representing us, unlike the many elected officials who have," the union said. "Out of all of our local state legislators, including those challengers running for office, Kimberly was and is the only person who asked us for our opinions before the bill was voted on. When the bill became law, once again, Kimberly was and is the only person taking their time by talking to us and others in the law enforcement community on effective strategies to correct this horrible bill."
Fiorello said she was proud to receive the police union's endorsement.
"I'm truly humbled that Silver Shield would entrust this historical endorsement in me and my campaign," she said. "They have my word that I will represent them with the equal respect and integrity all constituents deserve. I'm thankful that the officers of the Greenwich Police Department always have our back, and now it's our turn to have theirs."
Lt. Louis Pannone, union president, confirmed the endorsement was the association's first since it was founded in 1958.
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"We did not take this step lightly, as we have always preferred not to weigh in on political matters but rather concentrate our efforts to serve best the many partnerships, organizations, youth and folks of our wonderful town," the union said in its announcement.
Union vote
The union board approved the endorsement in a 9-3 vote. As president, Pannone did not vote but said he would have voted yes if it had been a tie. The board includes eight representatives selected by the nearly 150 active members of the union.
A member of the Representative Town Meeting, Fiorello is seeking to succeed the retiring state Rep. Livvy Floren in the 149th District, which includes backcountry Greenwich and part of North Stamford. Democratic candidate Kathleen Stowe, vice chair of the Board of Education, is also running for the open seat.
It is "disappointing to see the police union taking this unusual step into the political arena, particularly at this sensitive moment," Stowe said.
"The more important issue here, however, is that we cannot make this dialogue into a police versus community narrative. The police force is asked to protect and serve the community. We should be working together toward a common goal, enhancing the safety and well-being of all of our citizens," she said. "I know many current and retired officers and in my time on the school board I have worked with the police leadership and I know they share these goals."
Pannone said the union did not approach Stowe before the endorsement, nor did she approach them.
"We did not want to come across like we're soliciting candidates at all," he said. "Then we're getting involved, and we don't want to get involved in this."
Signed into law
The state House and Senate passed the law enforcement accountability bill during a July special session before Gov. Ned Lamont signed it into law. It mandates use of police body and dashboard cameras, creates an inspector general's office to investigate complaints of police misconduct, bans choke-holds in most circumstances and requires officers to intervene if they witness brutality.
A controversial part of the law limits qualified immunity for police officers, which could make it easier to pursue litigation against individual officers.
"To us, the bill was rushed through the state House and Senate with no input from police officers, police chiefs, unions and other stakeholders who are directly impacted by this knee-jerk reaction to an out-of-control national anti-police climate," the union said.
"We can no longer stay silent when politicians threaten the integrity of our profession and place unnecessary risk and harm to all police officers. Make no doubt about this; these changes are life-altering not just to the police officers, but to the communities we serve."
Of Greenwich's legislators, Sen. Alex Kasser, D-36, and Rep. Stephen Meskers, D-150, voted in favor of the bill, while State Rep. Harry Arora, R-151, voted against it. Floren was unable to attend the special session due to the coronavirus pandemic. She said she would have voted no on the bill.
When asked about other endorsements, Pannone said, "we'll see." He noted that Fiorello was the only candidate who had reached out to the union.
"The others who voted on it one way or the other did not seek our input either prior or after the bill," he said. "Kimberly came to us before the bill was voted on and we liked what she said. She said she has our backs and supports us and that's what we're looking for. No one else offered us those assurances whatsoever."
'Entirely politically neutral'
Pannone acknowledged there "absolutely" was some concern about the union getting involved in a political race.
"This is a very serious step to go out on this limb, but we don't have any other choices to see change," he said. "We are neutral in our work but this was a point where we had to take actions that were available to us."
Chief of Police James Heavey said officers can be active members of political parties as private citizens as long as it does not affect their duties.
"The decision to endorse a candidate was solely the choice of the Silver Shield Association, which is a labor union whose members are Greenwich police officers up to the rank of lieutenant," Heavey said. "The Office of the Chief of Police, and his administration, were not involved in the matter. The Greenwich Police Department will remain entirely politically neutral in their approach to elections."
First Selectman Fred Camillo, whose duties include police commissioner, said he felt the union had acted within its rights.
"I support their right to do it," said Camillo, a Republican who also backs Fiorello.
Stowe noted that at a Black Lives Matter protest earlier this summer outside police headquarters, Heavey and members of the GPD command staff communicated with protesters and took a knee in solidarity.
"It was a great sight to see Chief Heavey and some of his officers kneeling with protesters on Greenwich Avenue earlier this year," she said. "I particularly appreciated that because I've always sought to recognize all sides of an issue and look for common ground. I would prefer that our local union follow that example of embracing the community so we can work together to make progress on these important issues."
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Ken Borsuk has been a reporter for Greenwich Time since 2015 but has been covering Greenwich news since 2000. He has extensively covered local government including the Board of Selectmen, Board of Estimate Taxation and Representative Town Meeting.
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Draughton (pronounced Draftun) is a village and civil parish, population 240, in the Craven district of North Yorkshire, England.

It is situated  east of Skipton. The Embsay and Bolton Abbey Steam Railway passes under a road bridge some  north of the village.

On 5 July 2014, the Tour de France Stage 1 from Leeds to Harrogate passed through the village.

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External links

 Draughton Parish Council

Villages in North Yorkshire
Civil parishes in North Yorkshire

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You will see this box on the Manual Recon Screen to the right of the Matched Difference and Description boxes.
It allows you to search all transactions, reconciled and unreconciled, to find ones which match the search criteria. There are three criteria: Amount Range, Date Range and Reference search. The amount range is defaulted based on the Matched Difference and the Date Range on the newest date of the selected transactions. Reference is a free text box which can be specified if required and will find matches across all of the reference fields. Bank and Cashbook is selected based on the sign of the matched balance and the selected transactions.
To configure the default Date and Amount Ranges for each account click on the Configure link. The default range for Amount is +-R0.1 and Date is +-1 weeks. Amount Range options are +-R0.1, +-R0.5, +-R0, +-R1, +-R5, +-R10. Date range options are +-1 week, +-2 weeks, +1 week/-3 weeks, +3weeks/-1week, +0 weeks/-4 weeks, +4 weeks, -0weeks.
Clicking Search will load all transactions that match the criteria on the Bank/Cashbook Transaction Screen. The search criteria is also shown so you know what you were looking for.
If the required transaction is reconciled you can break the existing match then select the transaction/s using the check boxes and click the 'Match Selected' button. The selected transactions will be automatically moved to the Matched section of the manual recon screen so you can do your reconciliation.
If you want to stay on the View Transaction Screen and search for other transactions simply use the existing filters. Any transactions returned on this screen can be moved to the Matched section of the manual recon screen, it doesn't matter how they were found.


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The Connectivity of Our Community
Often, when someone moves to Western Springs, they are asked, "How did you find our Village?" It seems that there is almost always a personal connection that has influenced their choice to live here. People who grew up in Western Springs often return to raise their own families here, and the co- mingling of the past and the present is part of what makes our town so connected.
District 101, with 3 elementary schools and a junior high school, serves as one of the hubs of this connectivity. The connection between D101 and Western Springs residents extends beyond simply current or past attendance as a student. Many D101 teachers and staff were raised in Western Springs, themselves attending the schools at which they now teach; some have parents still living in town who are now grandparents to D101 students.
The D101 school buildings are legacies of the generosity of Western Springs residents and their commitment to an educated community. Elmer McClure, a one-time D101 school board president, donated the land for McClure Junior High School, and, to support his belief in a well- rounded educational experience, required some green space for students' athletic pursuits. The Grand Avenue Community Center, a building older than the Village's water tower, was once a D101 grade school, and it was only saved from demolition because of a dedicated group of Western Springs residents. The Grand Avenue Community Center now hosts a senior center, daycare, and music studio. The current D101 buildings host school, but also spelling bees, sporting events, student musicals, scout meetings, recreational team sports practices, and serve as local voting locations. In the summer, activity camps are held at the schools, allowing Western Springs youth to experience coding, art, yoga, creative writing and more.
Back in 2021, McClure Junior High served as a familiar, nearby location for an optional COVID vaccination clinic for approximately 200 Western Springs senior citizens. Staffed by D101 teachers and staff, the clinic enabled those community members most at risk to receive care as close to home as possible. What's most impressive is that the catalyst for the senior citizen vaccination clinic was a D101 parent who called the school and offered to help.
Following the success of the McClure clinic, D101 collaborated with the Village of Western Springs and hosted another COVID-19 vaccination clinic, serving approximately 2,000 individuals, many of whom were Western Springs senior citizens. D101 teachers, staff, parents and students registered senior citizens over the phone, volunteered to staff the clinic, helped complete necessary paperwork, and pushed wheelchairs for those who needed assistance. The Village provided the Recreation Center as a local and accessible location, as well as volunteers including police for traffic control and EMTs as back up to the pharmacy staff administering the vaccine. It is the dedication of the whole of the Western Springs community that made these clinics possible.
Similar to Mr. McClure, the parents and residents of Western Springs are not only educated themselves, they are supporters of education, many in the most literal sense. Over half of the employees at D101 schools are Western Springs residents, many whose children are/were D101 students. These Western Springs residents, former D101 parents, return year after year as dedicated staff members who support the continuing education of our community, a community where close to
80% of the population over age 25 has a bachelor's degree or higher (census.gov). The teachers at D101 are equally well educated, with 83% of certified staff holding master's degrees.
The education of Western Springs' youth is a holistic and collaborative effort. We are a community of educators through not only our schools, but also through our collective and individual actions. Western Springs businesses provide many young residents with their first job and all its accompanying lessons. Residents lead by example with their dedication to the Village. It was a resident who launched the annual Tower Trot, a community-wide race event that includes the young and the not-so-young, inviting them to run, walk or push a stroller while raising money for charity! Recently, the Tower Trot raised funds in honor of a D101 teacher who unexpectedly passed away. Another resident and D101 parent, launched Safety Village in our town. Safety Village is a program dedicated to educating our community children on best safety practices in real world situations, such as fire safety and stranger danger. This is accomplished by utilizing a mock town made up with small buildings representing local Western Springs businesses.
Western Springs is a great place to live because the collective well-being of the Village remains at the center, evidenced through our residents' relationships with and contributions and commitment to the D101 schools and our local businesses.
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There is, I believe, an inevitability that programmatic buying will play a larger part in your media buying landscape over time. The level of efficiency it brings as well as speed of response is likely to drive part of the agenda in the majority of media pitches.
As with all procurement activities, understanding the subject matter and mechanics of how the deal is constructed and how the system works will lead you to a better final solution.
This contention I feel is doubly true when dealing with media, and the perception that a lack of transparency continues to plague the industry.
For the marketers involved in the pitch as well their procurement colleagues there are a range of key questions you should be asking: not all of the answers may be to your liking but at least you can make an informed decision based on a more robust data set.
Below, in no particular order, are 5 key questions we would start off talking to the media agency about; clearly there are many more but this will certainly get the process moving.
Understanding and minimising click fraud should be an essential component of your media agency's arsenal. Being clear on how they detect, prevent and manage it through black and white lists is important. You should also be diving a little deeper into both the automated controls and human intervention as well as gaining clarity on how much they currently spot and what they do with other clients to minimise the cost impact of fraud.
Programmatic is necessarily using high levels of automation. Understanding where your agency will be placing your brand is key. Putting your Ad on blog sites that are either not relevant or contain content really not suited to your target audience, or even just out of kilter with your campaign is not going to generate any value.
Getting this wrong will not only cost you campaign dollars, but may also damage your brand in the eyes of the consumer.
Understanding where the money is going is always going to be important, regardless of the channel. Understanding who's getting it, how many layers its going through is clearly important to help you work out overall cost and value.
You should be looking for your agency to be clear on who the intermediaries are and how much they are getting paid. Is this the best route to get your message onto that channel?
Low costs / low cpms' are not the aim of the game. Your agency should, and must be able to show you quality and effectiveness throughout the campaign. The metrics shown, by the very nature of programmatic buying, can be markedly more tailored to your requirements. Make sure you push the agency, before you commit, to demonstrating exactly how it will deliver against your campaign goals and that it will hit exactly the right audience.
You're not an experiment, they've done this before. Ask your agency to show you clients who have used this service and find out how it worked for them. Use your combined experience (procurement and marketing) to really ask detailed questions around the results and service to check the answers given to you by the agency.
A pitch process can be a very enlightening thing, but the reality of actual service delivery has to live up to these expectations.


Dr. Griffin was born and raised in Knoxville. Even as a young child, he knew that dentistry would be in his future!
A product of Bearden High School, Dr. Griffin completed his undergraduate degree from The University of Tennessee-Knoxville. He received his Doctor of Dental Surgery degree from UT-Memphis, graduating with honors. He has subsequently received extensive specialized training in dentistry, including: Implant fixture placement and advanced bone grafting procedures from the Midwest Implant Institute One-year externship program on implant placement Training at the Medical University of South Carolina in advanced soft-tissue and bone grafting Residency in conscious sedation at the University of Alabama at Birmingham; ACLS certification; oral and IV sedation certification from Tennessee State Board of Dentistry.
Dr. Griffin and his wife, Lexie, married in 2000. They now have four children: Bay, twins Addie and Asher, and Isabella.
A very active family, you may find the Griffins on the baseball field, at a cheerleading event, a guitar recital, or just playing on the lake. The Griffin's are involved with Two Rivers Church and help support GO Ministries in the Dominican Republic. Using dentistry or baseball as a way to love on the people in the DR has brough a lot of joy to the Griffins. With the addition of Izzie in 2014, the Griffins are now involved with Down Syndrome Awareness Group hoping to help make Knoxville a great home for those individuals.
IV Sedation, dental implants, pinhole surgical technique and soft-tissue and bone grafting are Dr. Griffin's areas of focus at Cornerstone Dental Arts. Dr Griffin focuses on making implant therapy a pleasant experience for every patient. When not treating patients at Cornerstone, Dr.Griffin teaches other dentists implant dentistry as a faculty member of the Midwest Implant Institute and director of MII Tennessee.
"I love our group. It's great to meet so many interesting people every day. I truly enjoy spending time with my patients and with my partners and team."


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Shippin' Out April 15-21: The Witcher 2 Xbox 360
New release slate led by enhanced console port of CD Projekt Red RPG, Trials Evolution on Xbox Live, and Disgaea 3: Absence of Detention for PS Vita.
By Eddie Makuch on April 16, 2012 at 4:56PM PDT
This week's new release slate may not be deep, but what it lacks in quantity, it makes up for in prominence. CD Projekt Red's The Witcher 2: Assassins of Kings - Enhanced Edition arrives on the Xbox 360 this week alongside another much-anticipated game, Trials Evolution.
Geralt makes his console debut this week in The Witcher 2.
The Witcher 2: Assassins of Kings - Enhanced Edition for the Xbox 360 is a direct sequel to CD Projekt's original and picks back up with professional monster-slayer and titular witcher Geralt following a failed assassination of Temerian royalty. Geralt then sets out on a quest to track down the king's attempted killers while continuing to pursue those responsible for murdering other witchers.
The PC edition received a 2.0 update in September, adding an Arena mode, extended tutorials, a harder difficulty setting, and various other updates, all of which will be included in the Xbox 360 version.
On the downloadable front, RedLynx Studios' Trials Evolution zips to Xbox Live Arcade this Wednesday. A follow-up to 2009's Trials HD, the game sports 60 tracks spanning hills, valleys, rivers, and roads, as well as urban and industrial-type areas. The game supports four-player local and online play, as well as a track editor system and a means to share creations online.
Also out this week is The House of the Dead 4 on the PlayStation Network, multiplatform fighting game Deadliest Warrior: Ancient Combat, and PlayStation Vita turn-based strategy game Disgaea 3: Absence of Detention.
For further details, visit GameSpot's New Releases page. The full list of downloadable games on the PlayStation Store, Xbox Live Marketplace, and Wii Shop Channel will be revealed later this week. Release dates are based on retailer listings and are subject to change.
Deadliest Warrior: Ancient Combat--X360, PS3--345 Games
Disgaea 3: Absence of Detention--PS Vita--NIS America
The House of the Dead 4--PS3--Sega
The Witcher 2: Assassins of Kings - Enhanced Edition--X360--Warner Bros. Interactive Entertainment
Trials Evolution--X360--Microsoft Game Studios
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Disgaea 3: Absence of Justice
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Process drivers, inter-model spread, and the path forward: A review of amplified Arctic warming
Patrick C. Taylor
Robyn C. Boeke
Linette N. Boisvert
Nicole Feldl
Yiyi Huang
Peter L. Langen
Wei Liu
Felix Pithan
Sergio Sejas
Ivy Tan
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02/09/22 Taylor, P. C., R. C. Boeke, L. N. Boisvert, N. Feldl, M. Henry, Y. Huang, P. L. Langen, W. Liu, F. Pithan, S. A. Sejas, and I. Tan (2022), Frontiers in Earth Science, 9:758361, doi:10.3389/feart.2021.758361.
Arctic amplification (AA) is a coupled atmosphere-sea ice-ocean process. This understanding has evolved from the early concept of AA, as a consequence of snow-ice line progressions, through more than a century of research that has clarified the relevant processes and driving mechanisms of AA. The predictions made by early modeling studies, namely the fall/winter maximum, bottom-heavy structure, the prominence of surface albedo feedback, and the importance of stable stratification have withstood the scrutiny of multi-decadal observations and more complex models. Yet, the uncertainty in Arctic climate projections is larger than in any other region of the planet, making the assessment of high-impact, near-term regional changes difficult or impossible. Reducing this large spread in Arctic climate projections requires a quantitative process understanding. This manuscript aims to build such an understanding by synthesizing current knowledge of AA and to produce a set of recommendations to guide future research. It briefly reviews the history of AA science, summarizes observed Arctic changes, discusses modeling approaches and feedback diagnostics, and assesses the current understanding of the most relevant feedbacks to AA. These sections culminate in a conceptual model of the fundamental physical mechanisms causing AA and a collection of recommendations to accelerate progress towards reduced uncertainty in Arctic climate projections. Our conceptual model highlights the need to account for local feedback and remote process interactions within the context of the annual cycle to constrain projected AA. We recommend raising the priority of Arctic climate sensitivity research, improving the accuracy of Arctic surface energy budget observations, rethinking climate feedback definitions, coordinating new model experiments and intercomparisons, and further investigating the role of episodic variability in AA.
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Our day-care staff looks after the children. The volunteer would be an additional person who could add his/her ideas for our nursery. There are around 60 children from one month to 12 years old adopted by the orphan nursery. These kids are rejected from their single mothers or found on the street after their birth.
Playing with kids, teaching them things like the alphabet, poems, songs etc. Volunteers would also help feeding the children, which often implies literally putting food in their mouths.
� Assist arts and crafts session, work with children with special needs.
� Accompany outing to place of interest.
� Breakfast where appropriate, settle children into free activities.
� Morning activities, both indoors and outdoors.
� Eaten together, socially, talking, sharing etc. Clearing up.
Visit to community service projects.
Placement in community service project.
Ongoing support by local volunteer coordinator.
Volunteer work (from 8 to 12 weeks).


Last month it was a beautiful crazy month, was the first time we had the pleasure to help a wonderful little family fundraise their hearts out for The Champion Centre and that we did!
Queen's Birthday at Ferrymead Heritage park!
Last Monday was the Queens Birthday, It's a public holiday here in New Zealand and we spent it at Ferrymead Heritage park. A beautiful day with the trams, steam train, faeries and happy people everywhere! Small businesses, food trucks and all the wonderful things to see and do, even the double decker bus was out and about with $2 rides or $5 family rides. Which of course I had to jump on and have a ride around too.
We had the pleasure of holding a stall at the First Bumps, Bubs and Beyond Autumn market! It was amazing, crazy with lots of gorgeous items, businesses and people! Once I had Time2Shine Photography all set up. I quickly whizzed around a few stalls to snap up a couple of my favs before heading back to my stall to greet all the beautiful people that came and seen me. It was awesome! Totally Loved it! Introducing myself, sharing the Time2Shine name and what we're all about with everyone and anyone that wanted to chat. Of course I also sent them to our neighboring stall Kaji Kids who has the most beautiful kids shoes ever! And I mean I love my skate shoes and these looked pretty comfy and I wanted some in adult sizes for the office and studio lol!