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We've been working on all sorts of things the last few months, and have made lots of progress. We're not ready for a full release yet, however, there are lots of things we'd like to test, especially around how the AI behaves over lots of longer-term games.
Step 0: You must have a working copy of EBII v2.2b installed. I'm not going to repeat all the instructions on how to get one here, it's all covered there.
Step 1: Download - EBII 2.2r Patch.zip.
Step 3: Go into your \data\animations\ and copy the pack.dat, pack.idx, skeletons.dat and skeletons.idx files. Put them somewhere else - this is a backup.
Step 5: Start a new campaign - again this is not save game compatible and will make any 2.2b saves unplayable.
z3n's AI, diplomacy and other changes from his thread are all incorporated.
A revision of the finance script so that the AI no longer gets +5000 mnai whenever their debts are levelled, along with something that takes money away if they're stockpiling cash.
A major overhaul of recruitment, including several new "crossover" regions, plugging the "post-Marian gap" in Italy, fixes on infrastructure access and building upgrade paths.
Changes to settlement mechanics and underlying order - which should be trickier than it was before. Looking to make larger empires more unstable.
New features like the selective garrison script, failsafes for date-based reform events, income from raiding for barbarian and nomadic factions.
New unit stats, lots of changes to things like defensive skill for cavalry and infantry formations.
A significant update of traits, though they're still very much a work in progress.
(In the link at Step 4) New animations, including a change to the balance between swordsmen/axemen and spearmen which should make the latter less overpowered.
Forced Diplomacy and perfect_spy are moved to the campaign_script, so no longer need activating with "show me how". Just click on the "?" button to achieve the same effect.
New "war triggers" script which causes war when certain Rebel provinces are threatened by specific factions.
Changes to cavalry defense stats to make them less tank-like in melee. Also finalisation of defensive skill adjustments for cavalry.
Update to recruit_priority_offset values for skirmishers, light cavalry and medium infantry to address AI army compositions.
All AntiTraits restored for now, should address the issues with Roman offices and other random errors.
More order penalties for non-native governments in Greek communities (for Hellenistic factions only) - attached to the province building for now, but will be a special unique building in 2.3.
Starting armies equalised and in most cases increased, totals relative to number of settlements.
Numidia now starts out Steppe Nomadism, and changes to Western Mediterranean Polities on reform.
Three camps Central Asia turned into towns.
Culture mixes in Africa and central Asia reviewed and amended.
Saka and Pahlava pre-reform governments now give penalties to order after reform.
Reduced movement penalty for ClientRuler to reduce stacking of penalties over time/in winter.
Adjusted starting armies/garrisons downwards (not as low as before the previous change).
Added Voini to Allied Government pools and Parthian Border Marches government.
Numidian, Mauretanian, Egyptian and Ethiopian recruitment pools rewritten. Plugged hole in polis on Korsim/Shardin.
Revision to the availability of Celtic professional swordsmen - now only in Celtic factional governments, colonies and as mercs. Gargokladoi now universally available.
Updated capabilities of farm buildings to provide progression, and functioning bonuses.
Change to stats of a number of Celtic line infantry units. Revision to mercenary Celts and their availability.
Roman formations switched around again.
AP removed from cavalry lances - makes them overpowered when charging from the front.
Fixed Thermon client ruler bug and PotentialSuccessor trait.
Correction to faction standings bug.
Update to faction re-emergence to prevent it happening while target city is under siege. Also updated spawning stacks to be era-appropriate. Added some new locations for a number of factions.
Closed three Alpine passes to the north of Medilanon to stop Rome going directly north. Removed land bridge across Straits of Gibraltar/Pillars of Hercules, between Byzantion and Nikaia, between Mysia and Mytilene and between Attike and Euboia.
Added new faction missions for Ptolemaioi and Carthage.
Update to battle scripts to account for reinforcement battles.
CAI updates including correction of an error. Also a new "switch" to move between diplomatic and warlike states.
New fallback triggers for Hayastan/Baktrian independence - if they lose seven key neighbouring provinces, then they are independent by default. Also punitive expeditions now scripted to do something.
Update to "war triggers" to prevent perpetual notification.
Expanded Baktria's Hellenistic options in Custom Battle for era0.
Updated appearance of the Zagros mountains on the campaign map.
Zero'd starting Roman naval pools to prevent them going on an early ship-building spree.
Pergamon's starting non-levy pools zero'd and given additional money.
Updated export_units so new mercenary Celtic Heavy Spearmen display properly.
Removed camera zooms in Baktrian mission that focus on now non-existent forts.
Updated assignment of Alpine provinces - there are now only two.
Adjusted Hellenistic/Carthagnian settler colony prerequisites to be pastoral settlement compatible.
Corrected the cavalry error in the kh3/kh4.
Corrected appearance of Blastophoenicians in southern Iberia - no longer in Ilergetes territory.
Civitas Libera, Provinciae and Roman Trade Colonies now properly restricted to outside of Italy.
Updated Epeiros' colonisation script to match the others.
Halved war-weariness threshold to 6. Removed weariness-reducing "winning battles" section. Some factions start out with the diplomacy label, instead of warlike.
EDCT update and removal of non-existent building triggers.
Select a successor script consolidated down from 64 to 8 monitors. Together with the change above, almost 200 monitors have been removed.
Libyan Infantry gain powerful_charge. Also updated their models - slight increase in armour.
Revision to Celtic mercenary pools (removing levies). Revision to Hellenistic mercenary recruitment, ensuring proper transition of units over time.
Slight shrinkage of polis pools and reduction in cavalry. Rebalance of helcol pools to feature more cavalry.
Revised KH and polis-imitation governments in line with the above.
Corrected eastcol conversion in Delta Neilou (gone).
Revised "Core" recruitment in Seleukid and Baktrian Supervised Hellenic Admin governments.
Link to the updated barbarian settlement files included in the installation instructions.
Adjusted recruit_priority_offset for Trieres and Liburnes fleets, to reduce naval spam.
Corrected kh7/kh8 which weren't updated last time.
The Greek medium cavalry of the Nile Delta are Hippeis, rather than Xystophoroi.
Corrected accidental bleed-over of Xystophoroi/Aspidiotai Hippeis in Bithynia.
Removed trailing spaces from EDU and EDB - probably won't make a difference to most installations, but may aid the most fragile.
Slight tweaks to neighbour and governor conversion rates - both lowered.
Lowered the AI-switch thresholds, peaceability should come sooner for warlike factions.
Adjusted numbers of elephants and chariots so there aren't mysteriously disappearing men when you start a battle.
Added Thebais to Troublesome Regions script.
Rewrite of starting Carthaginian armies/garrisons.
Adjustment to availability of British Noble Cavalry - increase in frequency after the CelticTwilight reform.
Removed culture limits in the casse_mig so it's the same as the others.
Kretan Archers now appear in the Roman Provinciae in Syria.
Added a new building for nomadic/semi-nomadic factions: the Nomadic Enclave. It has no icons for now, but functions fine otherwise.
Reduced morale of all cavalry units by 2 points (as per LusitanianWolf's submod - but not Client Rulers).
Removed command from Roman Equites.
Increased shield value of certain Iberian infantry units.
Changed secondary weapon of Komatai Toxotai to match that of Komatai/Getikoi Hippotoxotai.
Updated formations of Brigantinoi and Mezeugenoi.
Removed loosest formation (2.7m x 2.7m). Tightened close order of Kretan Archers and Bosporan Heavy Archers.
Reduced recruit_priority_offset for Trieres and Liburnes a little more.
Decreased missile hit rate against elephants from 0.175 to 0.15.
Added a series of "AntiTrait triggers" for a number of paired/antagonistic traits.
What we're primarily interested in is how the game progresses over a 100+ turn run. Is it any different? Is it better?
We're still not done. If anyone was in doubt about this project and the apparent slowing of previews on the feeds, I hope this will allay any concerns. The team is still hard at work improving the mod, there will be future releases, and the hungry maw that is EBII is always ready to consume new talent. We have particular needs for skinners/texturers to help with units, and can always use people who can work in 3D. I can't promise when 2.3 will be, but hope it will be soon. In the meantime, we hope you'll enjoy this latest offering and update on 2.2b.
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Quick update - the Hemithorakitai had a weird, crash-causing bug which is now gone. A host of other things - including removal of recruitment limitation script.
Apologies everyone who's already downloaded 2.2d - I realised there's a bug in the script from removing the recruitment limitation script without some vestigial other bits of it elsewhere also being removed. Most likely, as soon as you interact with the bits where those counter increments are, the game will crash. I've updated the zip to 2.2d2 - please use that one.
I've updated the animations - the only change is to pikes again. I've removed the strike distances, and the side-to-side shuffling.
I think it should be savegame compatible.
Halved all upkeep costs for units.
Saka pre-reform governments now give penalties to order after reform.
Added some scripted nudges at the start of the game - AI Rome will attack Taras and Pyrrhos will attack Sparte.
Always. If the version number has not changed, the patch hasn't taken. Did you install it in the correct place?
I've built a 1st-level military settlement after establishing a Satrapy in Tolosa as Numidia and found I could already recruit a maximum of 2 Solduros and Bataros. Is this normal?
Do you mean you built a Native Colony (eastcol_one) and you can recruit them? If so, then yes, that's what a Native Colony there will provide. Along with Akus Eporedoi and Kingetoi.
Isn't it rather strange that you'd have early access to elite units, epecially strong infantry like the Solduros? I'd feel too overpowered.
Also, when will Carthage be hostile to Numidia? The description says that I have to be wary of Carthage yet they are best friends despite having grown into a powerful rival.
Bataroas aren't elites, they're regular line infantry. Colonies give professionals, Solduroi are Celtic professionals.
Give the AI time, it's probably building up for a break with you.
Indeed. Between turns 160-180, The Lusotannan mustered mustered a force and besieged Tolosa and engaged with a war that I could not simply offer a ceasefire. Only when the Celtiberians engaged a full on war against them that they sent me a ceasefire. It was quite fun sending naval reinforcement and leading a mixed force of Numidians and Celts against those Iberians.
With that regard, Is it easier to get a ceasefire from an offending faction as long as you do not have any territories directly neighboring them? You could sometimes see Carthage engaging a long conflicts against the Iberian faction but if they are at war with Rome, they can immediately offer a ceasefire.
Same goes for an ai faction mounting a naval invasion with their armies only for them to sit around doing nothing. I've seen this when an Epeirote army lay idle next the settlement of Syracuse that I've taken from them.
Also, will the Numidians have native Heavy Cavalry in the future? With the majority of their cavalry being light skirmishers and the others being nobles that are quite expensive and also very hard to replenish their numbers and very important BGs, they have experienced heavy casualties in trying to hold off the well-armored iberian horsemen. I simply cannot see myself fighting the Carthaginians when they have strong medium and heavy cavalry that can easily walk over my cavalry.
The AI is still a work in progress, but yes, sharing a border tends to make peace less palatable to the AI.
The Numidians own Nobles (same as their bodyguards) are the only native cavalry they have heavier than skirmishers. Make use of what mercenaries you can get hold of to supplement your cavalry; Celts and Iberians both have decent mediums available for hire. There isn't much you can do about heavy cavalry, though. Aside from cope with it the best you can, not every faction has access to every kind of unit.
As Pergamon I was getting on famously with Makedon until I took Byzantion (they had tried and failed several times) upon which they broke our alliance and attacked what was now my city. I seem to remember reading somewhere that new scripts included some specific stuff for each AI faction; Makedon's actions would make sense if that's the case.... but it surprised me and I thought as Pergamon I'd be aware that Byzantion was regarded by Makedon as "theirs"... am I wrong to imagine that this is the case? (Of course their attack may have been for another reason).
Continuing on with some of my questions that spawned during my Numidian playthrough.
1. Why do the Celtic Settlements near Iberia (Tolosa and Illiberri) not have not ranged units once the Satrapy has been built? A Satrapy in an Iberian settlement at least had Iberian Slingers so why do the 2 Celtic settlements have no Celtic Slingers or Archers?
2. It is already turn 250 and I see the Romans as a pushover despite having a well-rounded roster. I gave Syracuse to them because of the fact I don't want to deal with the Epeiros and hoped that the Punic Wars would happen. Instead, they are currently at war with the Sweboz. Doesn't help that they still have Camillan rosters despite the Celts already have achieved their reforms and armor upgrades.
3. Either swordsmen have no luck with projectiles or skirmishers are too good at killing front line infantry? While truly heavily armored infantry can resist the volleys of ordinary javelins, most infantry will have their numbers by brought down by a good amount. I've seen my Soldurus get reduced to only 30 men when skirmishers fired upon them or in my last Greek playthrough, the Peltastai Logades are sometimes the favorite target practice by enemy archers or skirmishers.
Otherwise, the playthrough has been quite great.
Because there's no native pool in Celtic regions. The Satrapy is composed of two parts: a core Numidian roster, and a local component. There's no local pool in Gaul, which is why you're getting no slingers or anything else there.
What you've pointed out is that there should be a regional restriction on it, it's not an intended place for Numidian factional governments.
The automatic trigger for the Polybian reform is turn 248, which you've just passed. They have to actively replace their Camillian units to get the benefits of the reform, there's no way to script a change.
Rome being at war with Sweboz is something recent map changes which will appear in 2.2g should fix (by closing the northern routes).
Javelins from which direction? Most of a unit's protection is to the front (via the shield value).
Mostly in-front. I usually keep elite units or a few swordsmen in reserve so that I don't lose precious units.
Oh, about the Twitter announcement. How does this affect the Numidians? Certain cities will no longer develop into larger cities?
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Don't worry: am in the process of slowly fixing that issue. Had a feeling it would happen.
Just a few strange happenings to report. Got a ceasefire with Koinon Helenon as Makedon, then Pyrrhus turned up and besieged Sparta so opened up diplomacy with Koinon and requested they attack a faction....Epiros. Strangely, though they were at war with them and one of their ciities was under siege they refused to attack said faction. I went to attack Pyrrhus anyway expecting the besieged army to sally out as well. No...there was noarmy from Sparta that was going to defend itself from an attack by a faction it was at war with.
Left Pyrrhus and Sparta alone (Pyrrhus made peace with Koinon before backstabbing them the next turn and taking Sparta) and besieged Athens.Made a ceasefire with Epiros. Besieged Athens for 5 turns and then assaulted the walls. Despite that when I had checked the Athenian army prior to my assault all of their units had been depleted, when the battle began ...all of the Athenian units were up to full strength (is this deliberate?).
After a lengthy and costly victory my game crashed due to an 'unknown graphical error'.
What can you do to increase loyalty with FMs?
Well what about this? I've recently played as the Arverni. Note I'm highlighting the blue celtic unit.
That's a simple one, a more up to date export_units needs to be included with the zip. Not game-breaking; if there is a 2.2h before 2.3 releases, it'll be fixed then.


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It is INSANE AND WRONG AND HOW DARE THEY AND I AM INFURIATED they put her on the no-fly and she was wrongly arrested etc etc. This is so damned outrageous, I’m furious.
I’ve seen change.org get some petitions moving, but I see this has some movement. So outrageous, I fume.
Beautiful of you to write this apology, though, where the government lacks.
Yes, every time I think about it I get so incensed!
Do I understand that it took a judge to establish that the government had got it wrong? Well, at least the first step has been taken now. To have to wait for nine years for this outcome, I reckon, is an awfully long time! I am Australian, but I am sorry too, that these things happen. Hopefully with more concerned people like you, dear Mary-Ann, things may eventually change for the better. Of course it would also be better if we did not need to fear any terrorists. Because of these terrorist acts even our freedom of speech may be at times under some threat. Which I really do not like one bit.
A world with no terrorists. Hmmm. Can it ever be?
Hmmm, maybe not in my lifetime.
I’m happy to see something moving in this direction, thanks for sharing.


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Target The aim was to get across the subject of diabetes and associated medical facts and risk factors on the myweb.de portal in an entertaining way.
Solution Idea, conception, content and implementation for an animated diabetes quiz. Developing and writing questions and answers on the subject of diabetes according to a multiple choice system. Converting the content into an animated game.
Synopsis Question upon question on the subject of diabetes mellitus. The speaking, moving stethoscope, Doctor Stetho, guides users through the entire quiz.


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I was given this poem by a friend the morning after we had to have our Jenson put down because of lymphoma. I was already an emotional wreck and it just about pushed me over the edge. But I can read it now with a tear in my eye and a sense of peace that one day we will see him again.
Montyjoined us on 11th February 2012.

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Love and companionship are wonderful to have, life can be pretty lonely without others in your life.
No matter what you wish for in life, family and friends should take precedence on your happiness scale.
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The second film in the "Harry Potter" spinoff ends with a jaw-dropping revelation, but should it be trusted? Star Ezra Miller gives IndieWire his own take.
Many stories swirl though David Yates’ overstuffed “Fantastic Beasts: The Crimes of Grindelwald,” but most converge on one question: Just who is the orphaned Credence Barebone? In the first film, “Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them,” Ezra Miller entered the franchise as a strange wizard so filled with fear, anger, and repression that it transformed him into an Obscurial, the human host of an Obscurus (a magic parasite born of bad feelings and withheld magic). While his background was murky, it came as little surprise that the odd magic that Credence possessed would be intriguing to the evil Gellert Grindelwald.
By the time the first film concluded, Credence’s scary magic (and, frankly, bad attitude) nearly destroyed New York City, and he was believed dead. What “The Crimes of Grindelwald” supposes is he didn’t die, but fled America to join a magic circus and continue his quest to learn his true parentage. Grindelwald (Johnny Depp) wasn’t far behind, and the mystery of where — or, more appropriately, who — the sad orphan came from dominates Credence’s storyline the second time around.
The “Harry Potter” franchise has always been compelled by family trees and the way they get tangled up in each other. “The Crimes of Grindelwald” is obsessed with them, leading various characters to attempt their own revelations of Credence’s parentage, many of them dead ends. And yet the film ends on a revelation that is delivered with such weight, such ceremony, such obvious importance that it should be the final word on the matter.
In the film’s closing moments, Credence (now firmly on Team Grindelwald) meets with the evil wizard, who has long promised to tell him the truth about his family. His story is a wild one: Credence is actually a Dumbledore, and not just any old Dumbledore, but Aurelius Dumbledore, the never-before-mentioned brother of Grindelwald’s best-friend-turned-nemesis Albus Dumbledore (Jude Law).
It’s a shocking twist, but it’s also one that feels half-baked and quite implausible. Even Credence himself isn’t totally sold on it.
While Grindelwald previously promised to tell Credence about his parentage, “The Crimes of Grindelwald” eventually reveals a complicated subplot that seems to prove that there’s no way anyone could actually know where Credence came from. After a protracted period in which many of the film’s characters seem to think he’s an estranged Lestrange child, Zoë Kravitz’s Leta Lestrange confesses the truth: She switched her baby brother (the real missing Lestrange heir) with another baby on a ship bound for America, if only to relieve herself of her constantly crying sibling for just a moment.
That was some bad timing: Seconds after Leta made the switch, the boat starts to go down. In a tragic turn of events, the baby everyone thinks is a Lestrange (that’s Credence!) lives, makes it to America, and is adopted by the evil Mary Lou Barebone. The real Lestrange baby? He dies in the ocean. So who was the baby Leta switched? It’s unclear, although Grindelwald later claims to know the identity of a random infant — one whom the evil wizard says isn’t just some random magical baby, but a secret Dumbledore sibling that has never been so much as hinted at in J.K. Rowling’s wide-ranging canon.
It’s a big ask, and an even bigger stretch. Still, Miller thinks that if anyone would know about a secret Dumbledore baby, it’s Grindelwald, if only because he was once so close to the Dumbledores.
But it sort of is. Dumbledore’s family life has been well chronicled in Rowling’s books, from his relationship with younger siblings Aberforth and Ariana to the tragic tale of his parents Kendra and Percival. When the Dumbledore siblings were young, Ariana was attacked by a group of Muggle boys, a terrible incident made worse by Percival’s decision to retaliate against the boys who hurt her.
His punishment was swift and complete: Refusing to explain why he attacked the kids (he worried that it would have meant Ariana was taken away for her own safety), he was sentenced to life in the magical prison Azkaban, where he later died. So, at what point did he have another son who is believed to be decades younger than Albus?
Kendra died when Ariana was just 14, after another terrible magical accident and years of grieving and seclusion. So, at what point did she have another son who is believed to be decades younger than Albus?
Even in a magical world like the Harry Potter universe, it doesn’t add up. And even if it did, it would be a world-bending retcon that would forever alter years of books and movies. It doesn’t really seem worth it.
Miller hastens to remind us that sometimes movies and their creators can make choices that feel weird at the time. He points back to the first film, which ended with the apparent death of his character, something that took even Miller by surprise.
For a while, Miller didn’t know if his character was alive or dead, and “The Crimes of Grindelwald” attempts to set the record straight with an early, tossed-off line indicating that’s he very much alive. So does that mean that there could be still more backtracking come the third film? Who’s to say? “Look, I’m along for the ride just like y’all, man,” Miller said with a laugh.
“Fantastic Beasts: The Crimes of Grindelwald” is now in theaters.

industry_corpus2: Film & Entertainment


text: A certified arborist, Chad Thomas serves as Atkins’ Ornamental Tree & Shrub Health Director. Since 2007, Thomas has been a part of the Atkins team where he has managed and developed all programs involving landscape and native plants for our commercial and residential customers. Thomas’s plant growing and management experience makes him one of the best plant resources in the area. He started his training and green industry career with Stark Brothers Nursery in Louisiana, Mo., where he primarily dealt with plant propagation and Integrated Pest Management (IPM). In addition, Thomas is a certified nurseryman. He also spent six years managing a nearby vineyard and dealt with IPM development, propagation, harvest and training.

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Hashocea is a cloud mining website created more than 2 years and a half years ago to the United States and it has 6 data centers in the world (2 in San Francisco, 1 in New York, 1 in Nuremberg and 2 in Singapore). Serious and transparent, it one of the biggest cloud mining sites of the world.
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Slice of Life: Real Stories, Real People is a new series of storytelling events sponsored by the Mid-Island StoryTellers performed at the MacMillan Arts Centre in Parksville, BC. And we are looking for “real people” to tell “real-life stories”.
If you are a person with a story to tell, we want to hear from you Stories must be no longer than 10 minutes, told and not read. Stories can be comedic or dramatic, and can range from the mundane to the sublime.
We offer support to all our storytellers, plus free admission to the event for the teller and a guest, and a rehearsal one week prior to the event.
You can also contact Susan Warner by email for more information.

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For hours on end, Clare Francis would stare at the blank page on her computer screen, the ideas, which usually flowed so easily, simply refusing to come.
Working on her previous books – 14 of them, including eight bestselling thrillers – she would often write all day, sometimes seven days a week.
But now she found herself seized by an inability to write anything.
In her mind’s eye, normally so adept at conjuring up vivid scenes and colourful characters, she could see only the harsh and unforgiving landscape of Helmand province.
She had been left dazed by news that her soldier son had been injured in Afghanistan.
Back in the Seventies, Clare was best known for being a brilliant yachtswoman who twice sailed the Atlantic single-handed.
But for the past 30 years, she has experienced extraordinary success as the author of psychological crime novels.
Since her first – Night Sky in 1983 – she has sold millions of books and been translated into 20 languages. Her work has made her millions and she is adored by her fans. And yet since 2007, she has written nothing.
That was the year her only son, Tom, a soldier serving in Afghanistan, was injured in a Taliban mortar explosion. She has been struggling for nearly five years to come to terms with the incident.
It prompted her to think, ‘What is life all about’ – a question she still ponders today.
Her devoted fans obviously knew she had stopped writing – but not the reason why.
Clare, now 66, revealed to The Mail on Sunday the story behind her cryptic message. ‘Tom had always been determined to go into the Army,’ she says. ‘I wanted him to do something that would make him happy and never tried to dissuade him.
‘He was a 28-year-old lieutenant in The Rifles regiment out in Afghanistan. He had eight British soldiers and 30 Afghan soldiers in his platoon. Around Christmas in 2007, he was on foot patrol from a remote base somewhere in Helmand province.
‘We used to speak once or twice a fortnight and he always said how quiet it was – but I have since discovered soldiers are encouraged to lie to avoid worrying their families.
‘Unbeknown to me, Tom had been moved to a hotspot where they needed reinforcements. They went into a village and there was a mortar explosion. One of the Afghan soldiers was injured and Tom’s arm was peppered with shrapnel, with one piece nicking a vein.
When the helicopter came for the injured Afghan, Tom was told he should also go to the military hospital.
Clare is usually remarkably self- reliant. She brought up Tom single-handed after divorcing his father Jacques, a fellow sailor, when their son was six. But this news shook her to the core and she turned to others for comfort.
‘I talked a lot to the parents of one of Tom’s friends who had returned from duty, because I knew they would understand what I was going through,’ she says.
She looks a little sheepish as she explains that before Tom suffered his injury, she had bought a terrier puppy ‘to help me cope when Tom was away, to keep me company and give me a focus’.
‘I called him Bertie,’ Clare says. ‘He was an absolute poppet, full of character and energy, and I poured all my emotions into him.
was just ten weeks old – and died just over three months later.
She says: ‘My relationship with Bertie had become very deep and it was also quite complex. I had a child who was grown-up but in a dangerous place, which made me feel very vulnerable. And I also had a substitute child at home who was unwell.
Sadly, the recovery was short-lived.
‘I kept taking him back to the vet and it was only when he had a blood test when he was six months old that I learned he had canine parvovirus, a disease that had destroyed his gut. He died shortly afterwards and I was absolutely devastated.’ Bertie’s death came five weeks after Tom was injured and the incidents made Clare reassess her life.
‘I was finding it harder and harder to go into my study and work,’ she says. I had been writing fiction for 30 years – hard solid graft on my own. I always demanded so much of myself – always thought I could do better and always given myself a hard time.
I suddenly remembered the words of a concerned friend who had said to me, “Clare, what is the good of dying rich if you haven’t had a good life” What happened to Tom and Bertie brought her words back to me.
When Clare took stock of her life, she decided to move house. ‘I had lived in a beautiful five-bedroom house in Kensington for 28 years but, as Tom had moved out in his early 20s, I had much more room than I needed. It was the perfect time to change.
‘It took me a while to find somewhere else but I am now in the middle of totally renovating a newly acquired three-bedroom house in Kensington, which I am thoroughly enjoying. I am also having lots of fun. I go to art exhibitions with friends and then stay out for lunch, something I would have felt far too guilty about before.
‘It took two years for the guilt about not working all the time to wear off. But once I stopped work, everyone said they had never seen me so relaxed. A year after Bertie died I got two more terriers, Biskey and Red, who make me laugh.
Clare usually hates talking about her sailing days and during an earlier conversation had chided me more than once for mentioning the subject. ‘It all happened so long ago, why can’t people move on and see me in a different light’ she had said.
However, now she raises it herself. ‘I haven’t felt this carefree since my first trip across the Atlantic in my 20s,’ she says.
Clare, who at 5ft 1in is petite and dainty, had to draw on all her willpower when she contracted ME shortly after her divorce 22 years ago. For four years she was so ill she could manage only to crawl out of bed to write for a couple of hours each day.
‘At one point I couldn’t handle bright light or loud noises,’ she says. ‘Luckily I was one of the 60 per cent of sufferers who recover – though are never quite the same. It took me about ten years to feel better.
Clare says: ‘I had very different choices. I would have loved to have had more children and be living with someone, but that is not the way things turn out. I worked because I had to support my son and bring him up. Tom, who is now a captain, did a second tour in Helmand last summer but this time working in intelligence.
‘He was still in the middle of nowhere but sitting behind a computer. He is back in the UK now and has a steady girlfriend, Christa, who is super. She is a primary school teacher from a Service family – which helps, as she understands.
‘Stories never stop whirring round my head and I’ve put lots of thoughts in my ideas file,’ she says. ‘When I move into my new home, hopefully in September, I want to come back to writing. I should feel really fresh, but this time I want to find the right balance between a wonderful real life and a wonderful fantasy life.
But how would she feel if she didn’t write again She pauses, then says: ‘I would be sad not to exercise my craft as a storyteller, which I enjoy so much. I would also feel a responsibility to my loyal readers.
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Researchers at the Institute for Molecular Bioscience (IMB) at The University of Queensland (UQ) have developed a novel peptide-based inhibitor of the acid sensing ion channel isoform 1a (ASIC1a). ASICs are members of the epithelial sodium channel/degererin family of receptors and are activated by decreases in intracellular pH. Alternative splicing of four ASIC-encoding genes leads to the expression of six subunits (ASIC1a, ASIC1b, ASIC2a, ASIC2b, ASIC3,and ASIC4) that combine to form hetero- or homotrimericchannels that differ in their pH sensitivity, kinetics, and susceptibility to desensitisation. Postsynaptic ASIC1a channels are the dominant ASIC subtype in both human and rodent brain and have been implicated in a number of diseases, including stroke.
Neurodegenerative disorders such as Huntington’s and Parkinson’s disease.

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For 24 years, Frédéric Jaouen and Frédéric Breuilly have used their expertise and know-how to approach yacht construction and refit by applying a shared focus: technical efficiency and on-board comfort. The design office at JFA Yachts works in close collaboration with the architects, designers and, of course, the owner and their representative. Constant monitoring of the superyacht industry enables us to propose the best technical solutions for our clients’ sailing programmes. Our team – qualified in propulsion, mechanics, painting, equipping and woodworking, are guided by project managers who ensure planning and coordination of work so that timeframes and budgets are respected.
JFA Yachts obtained the prestigious title of “Company of Living Heritage”, and has been ushered into a select group made up of the most distinguished businesses in France. This title, given by the Ministry of Economy and Finance, is a worldwide symbol of French savoir-faire. It is the only distinction given by the state recognising French businesses for their excellence and know how in industry, art and gastronomy.
The energy invested into quality has built the reputation, durability and sustainability of JFA Yachts. All the while remaining at the service of their clients, JFA Yachts have managed to exact a business culture but on a human scale.
We are capable of working all materials whether steel, aluminium (our specialty) or composite materials including carbon.
Our shipyard has teams specialising in all types of mechanics and plumbing.
JFA has its own team of qualified cabinetmakers, artisans who still work according to the ancient rules of the trade.
Furthermore, JFA has the capability of undertaking the studies needed to complete such projects. Indeed, the size and complexity of these projects require an inhouse team that can design, organize and monitor execution.

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Georgia vs. Japan, 10 a.m.
South Korea vs. Hawaii, 3 p.m.
The team from Honolulu Little League defeated Georgia 3-0 on Saturday to win the U.S. title and advance to the championship game. Hawaii has now made the LLWS title game in four straight appearances and is looking to become the seventh U.S. state to win at least three LLWS titles. The state won titles in 2005, when West Oahu Little League defeated Curacao, and in 2008, when Waipio Little League defeated Mexico.
Meanwhile, the team from South Seoul Little League held off Japan 2-1 in the international title game. South Korea has now made it to the championship game in five of six LLWS appearances. It won titles in 1984, 1985 and 2014, and lost in the championship game in 2016 to Maine-Endwell Little League from New York.
Pitching has been the difference for the two unbeaten teams. Entering Sunday's final, Hawaii pitchers have allowed just three runs in 28 innings of work, while the South Korean pitching staff has given up four runs in 25 innings.
History would seem to favor South Korea. U.S. teams are just 16-35 all time against international teams in LLWS championship games, and international teams have won five of the past six titles. Last year, Tokyo Kitasuna Little League from Japan defeated Lufkin Little League from Texas 12-2 in the title game.
In addition to the championship game, Georgia (Peachtree City American Little League) and Japan (Kawaguchi LL) will play in a consolation game at 10 a.m. ET on ESPN/WatchESPN. Georgia (4-2) suffered both of its losses to Hawaii, while Japan's only two losses came against South Korea.
Only Hawaii and South Korea remain in contention for the Little League World Series title.
With Saturday's victory over Japan (3-2), South Korea (4-0) has an opportunity to win its fourth LLWS title. That would be the third most by an international team, trailing only Chinese Taipei (17) and Japan (11). South Korea has an overall record of 20-4 in the LLWS.
In the international final, Ji Hyung Choi led the way. He threw 78 pitches in 4 2/3 innings, allowing three hits and one run and striking out seven batters. He also belted a home run in his third straight game and is the only player with a hit, RBI and run scored in every game. In addition to hitting .636 in the LLWS, Choi leads all hitters in home runs (three), slugging percentage (1.455) and OPS (2.169) and is tied for the lead in RBIs (six) along with three other players.
Along with Choi, South Korea has gotten plenty of offensive contributions from Gi Jeong Kim (.455 BA, 1.208 OPS), Yeong Hyeon Kim (.956 OPS, five RBIs), and Shoo Hoo Choi (.444, 1.250 OPS).
Due to his workload against Japan, Ji Hyung Choi is ineligible to pitch Sunday. South Korea manager Ji Hee Su said Yeong Hyeon Kim will be the starting pitcher, with Soo Hoo Choi set to appear in relief. Of the 29 outs Kim has recorded during the LLWS, 25 have come via the strikeout.
Kim made an incredible play to end the game Saturday. He caught a hard line drive back at the mound by Japan's Masato Igarashi and threw out Takumi Nakata at first base for a game-clinching double play.
Soo Hoo Choi has made one pitching appearance in the LLWS. He threw a six-inning complete game against Mexico last Sunday, allowing three hits and one run and striking out six batters. He is one of four players with a six-inning complete game in the tournament, joining Hawaii's Aukai Kea, Georgia's Jansen Kenty and Puerto Rico's John Lopez.
Hawaii (4-0) enters the championship game with the best team ERA (0.43) and run differential (plus-20) in the tournament.
In Saturday's win over Georgia, Aukai Kea turned in another dominating performance. Kea threw a complete-game, three-hit shutout with 15 strikeouts, the most in a U.S. or international championship game since the LLWS field expanded to 16 teams in 2001. The previous high was 14 by South Korea's Youbin Choi against Panama in 2016.
Kea, who is ineligible to pitch Sunday, threw 16 2/3 scoreless innings in the LLWS, allowing only six hits and three walks with 31 strikeouts -- the most by a player in a single LLWS since Japan's Takuma Takahashi struck out 35 in 2014.
Ka'lou Holt is the likely starter for Hawaii. He has made appearances on the mound in three of four games in the tournament, totaling 6 2/3 innings while allowing one run and striking out six. Dating back to regionals, Holt has thrown 15 1/3 innings, giving up three runs while striking out 24.
At the plate, Kea and Sean Yamaguchi have starred for Hawaii. Kea has gone 7-for-14 (.500), while Yamaguchi is 5-for-12 (.417) with a team-leading five RBIs and a .563 on-base percentage. Combined, they are hitting .462 (12-for-26) with nine RBIs, while the rest of the team is batting .182 (14-for-77) with eight RBIs.
In the U.S. championship game, John De La Cruz, Taylin Oana and Bruce Boucher were a combined 3-for-4 with two RBIs after going a combined 0-for-12 with zero RBIs and six strikeouts in their first three games.
Leadoff batter Mana Lau Kong was 0-for-3 in the U.S. championship game, but he ran up Georgia's pitch count. He saw 16 pitches in his first two at-bats of the game.
Justin Page and Jose De Leon of the ESPN Stats & Information Group contributed to this report.

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On a recent trip to a Penzey’s Spices store, I became fascinated by all the different kinds of cinnamon they have. I smelled those cinnamons for far too long than would be reasonably acceptable. I bought two kinds of cinnamon and have been anxiously awaiting the time to make something with them.
Last week, I pulled out this recipe I’ve been meaning to make for a while. I set it out in anticipation of actually having time to make them. This morning, I woke up to the wonderful smells of cinnamon drafting in from the kitchen. That’s right. Quinn was making muffins. What a lucky girl am I?
Quinn said they whipped up in no time. He used Penzey’s Ceylon Cinnamon, which is a bit smoother, subtler cinnamon than you usually find in your average grocery store. His only change to the recipe was to lower the oven termperature to 375 degrees and cut the baking time to about 15 minutes.
These are wonderful muffins. The texture is just perfect. A little crusty on the outside, soft on the inside. The cinnamon flavor was incredible. And, of course, we all know how much I love pecans. Pretty much the perfect muffin.
Penzy’s spices! Love them. I also used to love going to The Spice House when I was in Milwaukee. Mmmmm..the smell. These look really good. Pecans are my favorite.
These look great! Why is it that so many muffin recipes only make 9 muffins while most muffin pans have room for 12? I think it’s annoying so whenever I create a new muffin recipe, I don’t consider it perfect unless the batter fills all 12 muffin cups 😉 I’m gonna try to KA blueberry muffin mix today with my brand new mini muffin tin!
Nicole, I had that same conversation with myself just the other day. It’s not like it’s easy to increase the recipe by 33% to make 12. I’m anxious to find out how your blueberry muffins turn out!
I don’t know if I missed something or not, but I did not realize you are from MS! Me too! Small world. BTW, these muffins looks good. I LOVE cinnamon AND pecans!
yum. these look delicious. too many muffins, too little time!!
This is the third blog I’ve seen Penzey’s mentioned. I’m going to have to get there someday.
Those look great. My how my dad would love them.
Claire, it’s good to find another MS girl in the food blog world!
Abby, Penzey’s is incredible. The best part was getting to smell everything!
I love ceylon cinnamon! It’s so much better than the grocery store kind, which really isn’t “true” cinnamon at all. The ceylon has a wonderful flavor.
I agree, Natalia. It’s my new favorite cinnamon variety. I’ll have to buy a bigger container next time.
Made this muffin recipe today for my folks homecoming. I wish they had been a bit sweeter for coffee time but other than that they’re good! I would up the sugar a bit next time, but they were very easy to make and very easy to clean up afterwards.

industry_corpus2: Hospitality & Catering


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Queen Coo-ee-oh dropped the rope, tottered and fell headlong into the water, sinking beneath the surface, while the Skeezers in the submarine assist her and only stared at the ripples in the water where she had disappeared. A moment later there arose to the surface a beautiful White Swan. This Swan was of large size, very gracefully formed, and scattered all over its white feathers were tiny diamonds, so thickly placed that as the rays of the morning sun fell upon them the entire body of the Swan glistened like one brilliant diamond. The head of the Diamond Swan had a bill of polished gold and its eyes were two sparkling amethysts.
"Hooray!" cried the Su-dic, dancing up and down with wicked glee. "My poor wife, Rora, is avenged at last. You made her a Golden Pig, Coo-ee-oh, and now I have made you a Diamond Swan. Float on your lake forever, if you like, for your web feet can do no more magic and you are as powerless as the Pig you made of my wife!"
"Villain! Scoundrel!" croaked the Diamond Swan. "You will be punished for this. Oh, what a fool I was to let you enchant me!"
"A fool you were, and a fool you are!" laughed the Su-dic, dancing madly in his delight. And then he carelessly tipped over the other copper vessel with his heel and its contents spilled on the sands and were lost to the last drop.
The Su-dic stopped short and looked at the overturned vessel with a rueful countenance.
"That's too bad?too bad!" he exclaimed sorrowfully. "I've lost all the poison I had to kill the fishes with, and I can't make any more because only my wife knew the secret of it, and she is now a foolish Pig and has forgotten all her magic."
"Very well," said the Diamond Swan scornfully, as she floated upon the water and swam gracefully here and there. "I'm glad to see you are foiled. Your punishment is just beginning, for although you have enchanted me and taken away my powers of sorcery you have still the three magic fishes to deal with, and they'll destroy you in time, mark my words."
"Shoot her! Shoot the saucy bird!"
They let fly some arrows at the Diamond Swan, but she dove under the water and the missiles fell harmless. When Coo-ce-oh rose to the surface she was far from the shore and she swiftly swam across the lake to where no arrows or spears could reach her.
"Please make us prisoners and take us to your mountain, and feed and keep us, for we have nowhere to go."
"Not so. I can't be bothered by caring for a lot of stupid Skeezers. Stay where you are, or go wherever you please, so long as you keep away from our mountain." He turned to his men and added: "We have conquered Queen Coo-ee-oh and made her a helpless swan. The Skeezers are under water and may stay there. So, having won the war, let us go home again and make merry and feast, having after many years proved the Flatheads to be greater and more powerful than the Skeezers."
So the Flatheads marched away and passed through the row of palms and went back to their mountain, where the Su-dic and a few of his officers feasted and all the others were forced to wait on them.
"I'm sorry we couldn't have roast pig," said the Su-dic, "but as the only pig we have is made of gold, we can't eat her. Also the Golden Pig happens to be my wife, and even were she not gold I am sure she would be too tough to eat."


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In order to meet the diverse and changing service needs of families and communities, Growing Home Southeast has developed and incorporated various community-based programs into its array of services. Services are designed to support and strengthen families.
be flexible, are crucial to and respond to real family needs, and are linked to a wide variety of other services, such as housing, substance abuse treatment, mental health, health, job training, etc.
Growing Home Southeast offers the following community-based programs. For more information call us at (803) 791-5513 or toll free at 800-344-5498.
In-home Services – In-home Services provides intensive home and community based therapeutic interventions for emotionally and/or behaviorally disturbed children and their families. The overall goals of in-home services are: 1) prevent unnecessary removal of a child/youth from their home or 2) re-integrate a child/youth into their home and community or 3) to assist a family in crisis. Services are short term, intensive, therapeutic, psycho-educational, with interventions and counseling being provided to families in their home and community setting. Services are individualized, strengths-based, family-centered services that are developmentally sensitive to the emotional, behavioral, social and physical needs of the child.
Community-based Prevention Services – The Community-based Prevention Services program is designed to provide secondary prevention and engagement services to families that have been identified as having risk factors that without services have the potential for abuse and/or neglect. Community-based Prevention Services are provided in 36 counties through a contract with the South Carolina Department of Social Services (DSS). Growing Home Southeast contracts with other community service providers who engage families and provide services in their areas of the state.
Services include in-home visitation and monitoring, parent education, counseling, concrete services and referral to community programs to support the family. Many of the families referred for services by DSS would not have received any services without this program. The program is filling a gap in services for many of the families that we engage. The program is not meant to take the place of DSS investigations. High-risk families or allegations of abuse and neglect must be investigated by DSS. Families at lower risk are referred to the program where we are able to engage families, complete a family assessment and family plan in collaboration with the family to address their needs and the factors that can cause risks to child safety. The family plan provides an agreement and guides the work for family members and the case worker.
Strengthening Families Program – The Strengthening Families Program is a nationally recognized parenting program for high-risk and regular families. It is an evidence-based family skills training program found to significantly reduce problem behaviors in children whose parents participate in the program. The 14-week parenting classes are held at St. John’s Baptist Church. Groups for parents and a separate group for their children are part of what makes this program so successful. The program is possible due to a grant from the Children’s Trust of South Carolina.


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God is the one perfect life-energy flowing through you. God is the one pure substance out of which your organism is formed. God is the power that gives you motive power; the strength that holds you upright and allows you to exercise the members of your body; the wisdom that gives you intelligence in every cell of your body, every thought of your mind.
God is the only reality of you and everyone. All else is but a shadow that is cast by foolish belief or the unwise combination of thoughts and elements of being. When you let light flood you with sunshine, all clouds vanish and you begin to see yourself in a new way of being and doing, which leads to health and wholeness, satisfaction and growth.
The free flow of God’s life through you becomes hindered in its expression if your thoughts and acts imply a belief in a limited number of years, in a hoarding of strength, substance, or supply. You must prove here and now, for yourself, your faith in God as omnipresent good and eternal life.
Resentment, hurt feelings, and unforgiving emotions are heavy burdens that are not only difficult to carry, they tend to create toxic conditions in the body. Sometimes a person will ask me why, after they have prayed and done everything they could to heal their bodies, that healing didn’t come. When I ask them if they have forgiven everything and everybody who could possibly need to be forgiven by them, they reluctantly say that they have not.
The first step in self-healing is to start to substitute a perfect model for the imperfect one.
An excellent form of treatment is to realize that you are Pneuma, divine spirit. If you can realize Pneuma clearly enough it will heal anything. Every time you get any realization of the Spiritual Plane, your whole psyche including your body-model improves automatically.
Thoughtless people sometimes say that our affirmations and meditations are foolish because we state what is not so, “To claim that my body is well or being healed which it is not, is only to tell a lie,” said one distinguished man some years ago.
This is to misunderstand the whole principle. We affirm the harmony that we seek in order to provide the subconscious with a blueprint of the work to be done. When you decide to build a house your architect prepares drawings of the completed house. Actually, of course, there is no such house on the lot today, but you would not think of saying that the architect is drawing a lie. He is drawing what is to be, in order that it may be. So, we build in thought the conditions that will later come into manifestation on the physical plane.
What is your intelligence for if not to be used in building the kind of life you want? The time has come when intelligent men and women must understand the laws of Mind, and plant the kind of mental seeds they want produced in their bodies and affairs. It is always wise to plant seeds of Truth in your mind of the healthy body you desire. They will ultimately produce after their kind. – Adapted from Around the Year with Emmet Fox.
Right now, the perfect Life of God permeates every cell of my body.
I am whole, strong and free as God created me to be.
I give thanks that I am perfectly healthy in mind and body now.
Golden Key Ministry-Unity is a worldwide prayer ministry. We welcome prayer requests for health & healing, and all good desires. Write your prayer request in confidence to us. We will immediately begin to pray with you, and respond by letter. Send your prayer request to:RevJohn@GoldenKeyMinistry.com Please include your full name and your e-mail address.
Four in ten families are now buying more organic products today than a year ago, according to a study by the Organic Trade Association.
The growth in sales of herbal dietary supplements in the U.S. in 2010 was 3.3%, according to a report in Herbal/Gram. Sales of herbal supplements have risen in 9 of the last 11 years.


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FAS have set the bar high as a Chartered Firm of Independent Financial Advisers since 1991 across Kent and the South East.
With FAS, it's our business to think ahead with a clear, ethical and unbiased approach that puts our clients first, always.
With FAS you get a team of friendly, experienced and professional financial planners that you can trust for the long term.
FAS take the time to listen and get to know our clients; part of a customer focused philosophy that will never go out of fashion.
Friendly, professional and technical; whatever the case, with the help of FAS you'll be able to face the future with confidence.
Welcome to Financial Advice & Services Ltd.
In Financial Advice & Services Ltd you will find the perfect partner. Whatever advice you need, from achieving the best return for your savings and investments to preparing for a long and secure retirement, we’ll ensure you’re ready to face the future with confidence. It’s our business to think ahead after all.
Established for over 25 years, FAS has developed a reputation for being a friendly, professional and ethical firm of Chartered Independent Financial Advisers.
With modern offices in Folkestone and Maidstone, FAS are well respected by clients, business owners and fellow professionals in London, Kent and throughout the South East, who rely on us to provide quality financial advice with an exceptional level of service. Our ethos is about being a company you can trust and depend on. So, if you are looking for personal service matched by technical expertise and experience, you’ve come to the right people.
Give us a call to start the conversation.
FAS provide the experience and expertise to fulfil the full potential of your business.
FAS have over 20 years' experience supporting staff to help your business deliver.
FAS has the financial expertise to help you to navigate the process and start again.
FAS specialise in financial planning, helping you to put your savings and income to work.
FAS provides specialises financial advice to ensure you and your family can afford the best possible care.
FAS offers a full mortgage review service, whether it's financing a new home or your best options for the next one.
FAS offer comprehensive retirement planning advice giving peace of mind for a happy, fulfilling life after work.
Tax planning is an integral part of what we do at FAS, helping you to plan your life or business, whatever the bracket.
FAS are experienced in dealing with all aspects of trusts, helping to provide security for the future.


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August headlines from around the web brought to you by the Wasp Buzz.
You don’t typically think about barcodes when you go to the doctor or to a hospital. But think for a minute about what hospitals and medical clinics would be like without barcodes. Barcode hardware and software play a larger, more important role in healthcare than you might think. Barcodes – both seen and unseen – can help healthcare systems deliver services faster, more accurately, and, most important, more securely.
For small business owners, taking a vacation is usually very necessary, but sometimes it’s just not convenient. Summer vacations for many small business owners are on hold this year as they start to see sales show gradual signs of recovery. Others are skipping summer vacations in order to offset slumping sales and prepare for fall.
One of the biggest challenges for small businesses is managing a budget. Therefore, the Wall Street Journal asks The Experts for insight into where small businesses waste the most money. We particularly like the information from John Jordan, CEO of Sonoma County’s Jordan Winery, regarding small businesses having excess inventory that can consume their cash.
Typically, surveillance systems are used for keeping track of mischief and reducing crime. New technologies, however, are helping storeowners to use existing security cameras to boost business and marketing efforts. Although the technology can be helpful, some patrons take issue to it because they believe it invades their privacy.


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February 10, 2001: WaveCatcher 2.0 released! Follow this link to download the latest version.
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· New long-range weapons are introduced: you no longer have to be immediately adjacent to a cell you want to attack. New weapons allow battles to be waged over great distances. Take a look.
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On today’s episode of Scaling Software Teams, we’re airing part two of our interview with veteran software leader and co-creator of the python web framework, Django, Jacob Kaplan-Moss.
Today’s interview touches on two things that every startup leader should be thinking about as they grow their team: how to craft company policies that are equitable and accessible to all, and how to document those policies so they have an equitable impact.
Late last year, tech management leader Camille Fournier wrote a piece about why Manager READMEs are an ineffective means of communicating a leader’s needs to their team..
It’s the perfect jumping off point for our discussion with Jacob, who believes that while Manager READMEs can be more useful than Fournier gives them credit for… they are effective only so long as the manager works to ensure that they’re a clear, self-aware articulation of written and established policies.
If your Manager README is a self-serving document used to bludgeon your team, or justify bad work habits of your own, however, you’re not doing your job as a manager.
Many progressive software startups pride themselves on a lack of internal policies - believing that unlimited PTO or work remote capabilities will lead to happier, more productive teams.
But as Jacob points out, it’s impossible to have zero policies; the only choice is between documented and undocumented policies, and the latter can become a sticking point in your organization that privileges few, while confusing everyone else.
Reasoned and informed written policies allow teams to do their best work by setting defaults and universal understanding within your organization.
Finally, when making policy decisions, leaders need to make a conscious effort to incentivize the behaviors that they want to see in their organization.
Jacob spoke with us about an organization he worked with whose unlimited PTO policy had resulted in employees taking fewer vacation days. What’s more, it led to giant racial and gender disparities between who felt comfortable asking for time off. This could have been prevented, Jacob says, with more clearly articulated policy and incentive structure.


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