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The NIOSH Sound Level Meter (SLM) app combines the best features of professional sound levels meters and noise dosimeters into a simple, easy-to-use package. The app was developed to help workers make informed decisions about their noise environment and promote better hearing health and prevention efforts.
Developed by experienced acoustics engineers and hearing loss experts.
Tested and validated (accuracy ± 2 dBA) according to standards in a reverberant chamber at the NIOSH acoustics lab – the only proper method to validate accuracy.
Meets Type 2 requirements of IEC 61672:3 SLM standard when used w/ external microphone.
Provides the most relevant metrics found in professional sound instruments today. Averages such as LAeq and TWA, Max and Peak Levels, Noise Dose and Projected Dose according to NIOSH and OSHA standards, and all three major weighting networks (A, C, and Z).
Capability to calibrate either internal or external microphone. Reporting and Sharing data.
Up-to-date informational screens on what noises are considered hazardous, how to conduct a noise measurement, how to properly select a hearing protector, and guidelines for preventing hearing loss.
Technical support available directly from NIOSH hearing experts.
The NIOSH Sound Level Meter app has many important features, it provides a readout of the sound level using the built-in microphone (or external microphone if used) and reports the instantaneous sound level in A, C, or Z-weighted decibels. The weighting is user-selectable and can be accessed in the “Settings” screen. The app also reports the main metrics that are of importance for proper occupational noise measurements – mainly the run time (total time), the A-weighted Equivalent Sound Level (LAeq), the Maximum Level measured during the current run time, the C-weighted Peak Sound Pressure Level (LCpeak), the Time-Weighted Average (TWA) and Dose. The app also contains some basic information on noise and hearing loss prevention. In addition, the app allows the user to save and share measurement data using the smartphone other communication and media features. If location services are enabled, the app can utilize the GPS feature to provide an exact geospatial location of the noise measurement.
Note: Professional sound level meters must comply with a host of acoustical and electrical tests to meet national and international standards. The NIOSH Sound Level Meter app has met the requirements of IEC 61672:3 (Periodic Testing) sound level meter standard when used with external calibrated microphone.
Why did NIOSH develop a Sound Level Meter app?
NIOSH estimates that there are 22 million workers who are exposed to hazardous noise levels every year. In addition to damaging workers’ quality of life, occupational hearing loss carries a high economic price to society. During our studies, we realized that most of the apps on the market are oriented at the casual user and lack the accuracy and functionality necessary to conduct occupational and general purpose noise measurements. NIOSH hearing loss researchers collaborated with an app developer, EA LAB, to create an iOS based sound level meter app that measures and characterizes occupational noise exposure similar to professional instruments. The app can serve as a tool to raise workers’ awareness about noise in their work environment and help them make informed decisions about the potential hazards to their hearing. In addition, the app can serve as a research tool for scientists and occupational safety and health professionals to collect noise exposure data and promote better hearing health and prevention efforts.
NIOSH establishes recommended exposure limits (REL) for various hazards on the basis of the best available science and practice. The REL for noise is 85 decibels, using the A-weighting frequency response an 8-hour average, usually referred to as time-weighted average (TWA). Exposures at or above this level are considered hazardous. OSHA sets legally-enforceable permissible exposure limit (PEL) that require employers to take actions to reduce worker exposures. The OSHA PEL for noise is 90 dB(A) as an 8-hr TWA based on a 5-dB exchange rate.
Occupational standards specify a maximum allowable daily noise dose, expressed in percentages. For example, a person continuously exposed to 85 dB(A) per NIOSH or 90 dB(A) per OSHA over an 8-hour work shift, will reach 100% of their daily noise dose. The noise dose is based on both the sound exposure level and how long it lasts (duration). This dose limit uses a 3-dB time-intensity tradeoff commonly referred to as the exchange rate or equal-energy rule: for every 3-dB increase in averaged noise exposure, the allowable exposure time is reduced by half. For example, if the exposure increases to 88 dB(A), workers should only be exposed for four hours. Alternatively, for every 3-dB decrease in averaged noise exposure, the allowable exposure time is doubled, as shown in the table below.
Occupational standards specify a maximum allowable daily noise dose, expressed in percentages.
It is important to differentiate between noise level and time-weighted average noise exposure. While noise levels describe the intensity of sounds at a given point in time, the NIOSH exposure limits are set as time-weighted average exposures over periods of time. If noise level measurements consistently exceed 85 dB(A), we recommend that you follow up with a professional such as an industrial hygienist or an occupational safety and health specialist to conduct a professional noise survey at your workplace. Remember, protecting your hearing is a good health practice no matter where your ears are!
Why is the app only available on iOS devices?
iOS devices share common hardware and software architecture that is optimized for audio applications. Therefore, we have been able to verify that the NIOSH SLM app will perform as expected on any iOS device. On the other hand, the Android device marketplace is fragmented among many manufacturers with different requirements and specifications for microphones, audio/signal processing chips, and software tools. As a result, testing and verification of the accuracy and functionality of an Android-based app in our laboratory is not currently possible.
Please use this linkExternal to Apple’s iTunes to download the app or search iTunes for NIOSH SLM.
NIOSH researchers value users’ feedback and input in order to improve the app’s appearance, content, and functionality. Please send us feedback here.


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Cowboys and Aliens? I'm sure most of you think that new movie with Indiana Jones and James Bond battling ET in the Wild West is the first time these two crazy genres were melded together? WRONG! Coming July 5th from Shout! Factory is Oblivion, a 1994 low budget sci-fi western from Charles Band's Full Moon Entertainment. I thought the idea of Cowboys and Aliens was interesting and, though not expecting much considering it was made by Full Moon, I decided it would be worth a watch.
Oblivion, a futuristic western town is being taken over by hideous alien cowboy Redeye (Andrew Divoff) and his horde of baddies - femme fatale Lash (Musetta Vander), boneheaded Bork (Irwin Keyes) and more. The town's sheriff is gunned down by Redeye and it looks like the townsfolk are doomed. Enter the sheriff's estranged son Zach Stone (Richard Joseph Paul - three first names?) and his Native American friend Buteo (Jimmie F. Skaggs - now that's a name!) to clean up and fight for justice.
Oblivion was a silly, action-packed, sci-fi romp with a fun story and great cast. The film is like a who's who of b movie stars and has-beens - Catwoman Julie Newmar as Miss Kitty, Star Trek's George Takei as hard drinking Doc Valentine (using as many allusions to Star Trek as possible), The Addams Family movie's Lurch Carel Struycken as the grim reaper Gaunt and They Live's Meg Foster as cyborg Stell Bar. The special FX in Oblivion are surprisingly well done, especially the "Night Scorps" scene at the end. The story is hokey but it works and has its tongue firmly planted in its cheek. The DVD from Shout! Factory looks pretty good but I can tell the source was not the best to work with (very common for the seemingly endless DTV output from Full Moon in the 80s and 90s).

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Paul Taber, who founded Hobee’s in 1974.
Paul Taber, who founded Hobee’s in 1974, died at the age of 72 on January 23, 1998.
Paul was born and raised in Rochester, New York. He served in the United States Navy and was awarded the Purple Heart during the Korean War in 1952. Following his tour of duty, Paul settled in Honolulu, Hawaii, where he had been stationed by the Navy. There, he met his wife, the former Mary Chambers. They wed in 1953.
Early on, Paul realized the enormous career potential in Hawaii’s burgeoning hospitality industry. For nearly two decades, he enjoyed success as owner or part owner of several of Hawaii’s most popular restaurant’s, including The Hofbrau, The Green Turtle, and The Sand Box in Honolulu, as well as the historic Pioneer Inn in Lahaina.
In the early 1970’s, Paul and his family – Mary, and children Peter and Connie – moved back to the mainland, where Paul was charged with opening restaurants for a large foodservice conglomerate. During this period, Paul became increasingly disillusioned by the cost-cutting mandates he received from his employer, which were directly at odds with his personal standards for food quality and customer service.
His frustration with corporate tactics prompted Paul to invest his life’s savings in what he termed an “honest” restaurant in Mountain View. In March 1974, the first Hobee’s Restaurant debuted at the intersection of Rengstorff and Central Expressway, at the site of a converted Dairy Belle. Paul enlisted the help of his wife and children to run the tiny eatery. Originally, all food was served out of a takeout window. Initial sales were tepid, and at one point early on, the family van was sold in order to make payroll.
A few months after opening, however, word of mouth began to spread about Hobee’s unique menu which featured fresh, healthful entrees, as well as the Taber family’s attentive, friendly service.
Paul made it a point to learn every customer’s name and order. He maintained that one of the driving forces behind his decision to open Hobee’s was the simple desire to make friends.
Several important media mentions followed. Within a short while, Hobee’s became a Peninsula favorite, especially for breakfast. The 1800 square foot restaurant was eventually expanded to accommodate seating.
Paul’s gradual success led to the addition of several more Hobee’s locations throughout the Peninsula and South Bay during the decade following Mountain View’s launch. Sales soared and accolades – including a slew of “Best Breakfast” kudos – mounted. Soon after Hobee’s began franchising in 1986, Paul turned over the reins of the growing chain to Peter and Connie. Today, 24 years after Paul took his chance in Mountain View, 11 Hobee’s gross in excess of $12 million annually.
Paul enjoyed several athletic pursuits, including golf and bicycling. At age 60, he rode his bike on an organized tour from Portland to Denver. He was also a keen animal lover, and served as a volunteer for several years at Palo Alto Animal Services.
If you have a memory about Paul you would like to share, please e-mail ptaber@hobees.com. We continue to be amazed at the number of lives Paul touched.

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The M18 FUEL Blower has the power to clear from 15 ft, gets to full throttle in under 1 second, and is up to 4 lbs lighter than competitors. Designed to meet landscape maintenance professional needs, the POWERSTATE Brushless Motor and REDLITHIUM HIGH DEMAND 9.0 Battery (sold seperately) deliver 450 CFM and 120 MPH output. The blower features a variable speed trigger and high/low speed settings for increased control. The high setting is for the most demanding applications and low is optimized for clearing debris from flower beds without moving mulch. The lock on button allows the blower to be locked on to full throttle, so the operating hand can be relaxed reducing fatigue. The M18 FUEL Blower is fully compatible with 150+ solutions on the M18 system.
Working as expected so far, but would have been great if Milwaukee included a slightly smaller nozzle attachment.
This is an Awesome blower. Cleaning out the shop, barn isle or blowing leaves, is quick work. I even use it to stoke the charcoal in my Green Egg!
Pleasantly happy with the blower. I get about an 1/2 hr on one 5amp battery. We use it in the barn daily. It has quite a bit of power on high. I would recommend it.
This tool is adequate for blowing off stoop, carport, driveway. I would have liked for it to be a bit more powerful, but it's fine for what I bought it for.
can I use the XC 5 battery for this blower ? what is different xc 5 and the 9ah ?
BEST ANSWER: Model 2724-80 will accept the XC 5 batteries. The only difference is the run time between the item. The 9 Amp Hour battery will operate a little longer.
Do you guys give proof of warranty?
BEST ANSWER: The warranty information is listed on our website.

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It can sometimes be confusing when you’re looking for a chiropractic Doctor who will give you the best chiropractic care and service. Especially if you’ve never seen a doctor of chiropractic before and you’re not 100% sure what you need to look for or ask them!
As your chiropractic Doctor, I make sure I take the time to fully explain your chiropractic care to you, and spend time with you as a patient, explaining about your treatment until you’re comfortable with everything that will be happening.
I often get told I’m a good listener and have even been able to help and advise people who are suffering from depression. That is why most of my patients feel good not only physically but also mentally after visiting with me. Most of them end up telling me I should be a psychologist!
For me, the best part about what I do is seeing you have fun and enjoying your time while you are coming for treatment. Knowing I am able to help you and cure your problem without drugs is a great feeling. I can also help educate you about a healthier life style if you’re interested.
At our clinics we can offer you both chiropractic and acupuncture treatment at the same time which gets the best results for our patients.
You can be assured you’ll be getting the best quality treatment from highly qualified and professionally trained practitioners in modern, clean facilities. In addition we have an x-ray facility right down stairs , so if you need an x-ray its easy to pop downstairs.
Your privacy is also important to us and we respect your privacy by only treating one patient at a time with the door closed.
We do our best to accommodate you and are open from morning until 7 pm and no closing during mid day which gives you the opportunity to come during your lunch break. We always book patients in and ask you to be on time, but if you’re a bit late or early we will do our best to try and fit you in. We’re very flexible and kind so that even when we’re very busy and fully booked if you’ve got an emergency or you need to change your appointment for later, we make sure to do our best to make you happy.

industry_corpus2: Health & Medicine


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General Mills, Inc. - Noshly - Wise eating, made easy.
General Mills, an American food production company that mainly produces baking mixes, breakfast cereals, yogurt, snack foods and desserts. The company has approximately 80 factories in North America, Asia/Pacific, Europe, Central and South America and South Africa and employs about 35,000 people.
Research i.e. dirt on and praise for General Mills, Inc.
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A friend of mine asked me the other day, “Bri if you could create your ultimate COUNTRY concert, who would be in it?” I love country music, so I wasn’t shocked at the genre specified… but it made me have to think REALLY HARD! So many great country artists past and present… so little time. I think I have narrowed it down to who would be in my Country Concert of Epicness. 🙂 These artists are not in any particular order. I love them all equally. It was also NOT EASY keeping this list at 10.
ALL HAIL THE KING!! I have been in love with this man since I was 11 years old… My first crush if you will. 😉 I have EVERY album he has put out… I still have the vinyl of his first album Strait Country from 1981.
I am going to share a video from that 1st album.
In my not so humble opinion, she is one of the 2 Queens of Country. I ADORE her… I have seen her live many times and have never been disappointed. What you hear folks on the album is what you get live. Her voice is pure… perfect. With that, I am gonna give you a live video of a very special song.
I loved this duo, I have never been the same since they “retired”. Ronnie Dunn is doing some incredible music solo, but it’s just not the same.
Been a fan for years. One of my favorite country artists since he first hit the radio. Yes, I did include him in my post 10 Songs I Love, I love him. What can I say? Here is his ultimate and epic deployment song, in video form.
I love me some Bluegrass! I love me some Alison Krauss and Union Station! Her voice is like an angel’s.
I first heard Patty Loveless when she came out to mainstream back in 1986. Like I said above, I love me some Bluegrass and Patty has the perfect voice for it. She is the other Queen of Country Music, in my not so humble opinion. I have to say that Patty Loveless is my ULTIMATE Female pipes in this genre. She has recorded something with everyone in the Country industry known to man. Take a listen and you will hear why.
Another lady I can listen to all day. She is considered multi genre, from Folk and Bluegrass to Alt- Country and Pop. What ever you want to niche her in, she’s is one of THE BEST Female musicians ever to bless the Country genre. Singer, songwriter, guitar player, multi Grammy Award winner… played with everyone known to man…. What else is left to say? Take a listen.
There you have it.. My ULTIMATE Country Music line up. Feel free to share yours below. If you enjoy the music, visit the artist websites and BUY THEIR MUSIC!!
That is one great line-up! If it was a true concert it would be well worth the ticket fee twice fold!


text: For me being a Wedding photographer is as much a privilege as it is a job. The opportunity to spend time with a Bride and Groom on their wedding day is something not all photographers appreciate. One of the most unique things about Wedding photography is the natural emotion that allows me to capture people being people. Whether that is the tears through smiles during the ceremony, the delight and pride on families’ faces, or the romance of a first dance the emotion is raw and that makes for wonderfully honest photographs.


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When you set up a distribution partnership, it is not enough simply to hand over to the partner your existing sales collateral. Experience has shown that salespeople in the distributor’s organisation need more information about the business benefits of your products and services. You need to raise your profile in the distributor’s sales organisation, get your company noticed, make it easy for the salesforce to sell your products and convey key messages consistently to the market.
The major output of the Strategic Sales Program is the Sales Guide, a comprehensive but compact document containing everything your partner needs to know about how to sell your products and services. Provide this to your channel partners and the results are increased sales (through more effective selling) and lower support costs (because the distributor’s salespeople need less help from your own resources).
Salespeople, both internal and within channel partners, are the main determinant of the success or failure of a product or service. In today’s high-tech world, solutions to a business need are often complex, their benefits sophisticated, and their life-cycles short. These characteristics make it difficult for salespeople to determine which customers they should target – and even after they have chosen their target customers, they often have difficulty presenting the solution effectively because of a lack of pertinent information.
The Strategic Sales Program addresses these issues directly. We begin with a process of extracting key information from our client’s product, marketing and sales experts. We then structure this information in a logical and concise way, and make it available to the salesforce in the form of a paper document, CD and/or web pages.
If you believe your company would benefit from the Strategic Sales Program, then please call or email us at Istaris Business Services.

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Is disagreement with policy, values, or leftest doctrines considered anger?
You may want to email the Professor with that question, who knows he may reply. Here is the course description.
This course charts the rise of the "angry white male" in America and Britain since the 1950s, exploring the deeper sources of this emotional state while evaluating recent manifestations of male anger. Employing interdisciplinary perspectives this course examines how both dominant and subordinate masculinities are represented and experienced in cultures undergoing periods of rapid change connected to modernity as well as to rights-based movements of women, people of color, homosexuals and trans individuals. (Same as WGSS 365.) Prerequisite: WGSS 101 or WGSS 102, or permission of the instructor. LEC.
How do these so called "schools"
Teach racism and still keep their accreditation?
Nah man, this is an OPPORTUNITY! An op to see why all those white men are angry. I really want to be in that class!
I don't need an anger management class, it takes a real lot for me to get angry, but if someone does get me to that point, they better watch out. People I know know I am even tempered and mild mannered, but have seen what happens if someone does not listen to reason and keeps after me trying to get me to fight with them. I will walk away or tell people I do not fight, I do not loose my cool very easy. But if I do....the SHTF and there are no rules. I will take down a person in seconds, I grab them by the throat and cut circulation to their brain.
Oops. The Hulk in me is starting to show.
I would never use a gun for anything other than protection though, I used to take my frustration out on a deer, putting a different face on the deer when I shot it. I usually emptied my gun on the deer and felt nice and relaxed for years after shooting one.
LOL, just like any other movement...the goal is not equality, but to push ones own agenda ahead of the other one.
From South Africa, at least the generation and community I'm in, it is more a sense of deep sadness, betrayal and especially fear.
Actually I'm too scared to even talk about much politics anymore at the moment.
I'd rather withdraw to a forum where I can be silly and happy.
But that is all due to fear.
Whatever dude....you are really Mr. Furious from Mystery Men aint ya. Go on...apply for this course man!
Although, going down in one of those shark cages is on my bucket list.....unless it makes me angry.

industry_corpus2: Subject Education


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Who’s Chris Do, and why should I listen?
Chris Do is the founder and CEO of the award winning brand strategy design consultancy Blind. He’s also the founder of The Futur, a platform intended to disrupt design education.
It’s through The Futur that I discovered Chris. Earlier this year he released a video discussing ‘how to price design services and make more money’, which I personally watched with admiration, and it clearly had an impact on others too as it went viral, causing a lot of discussion in the design community.
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The concept that we could possibly be living in a computer simulation has been suggested by science writers and others, and was formalized in a 2003 paper published in Philosophical Quarterly by Nick Bostrom, a philosophy professor at the University of Oxford.
With current limitations and trends in computing, it will be decades before researchers will be able to run even primitive simulations of the universe. But a University of Washington team has suggested tests that can be performed now, or in the near future, that could resolve the question.
Currently, supercomputers using a technique called lattice quantum chromodynamics (LQC), and starting from the fundamental physical laws that govern the universe, can simulate only a very small portion of the universe, on the scale of one 100-trillionth of a meter, a little larger than the nucleus of an atom, said Martin Savage, a UW physics professor.
Eventually though, more powerful simulations will be able to model on the scale of a molecule, then a cell and even a human being. But it will take many generations of growth in computing power to be able to simulate a large enough chunk of the universe to understand the constraints on physical processes that would indicate we are living in a computer model.
However, Savage said, there are signatures of resource constraints in present-day simulations that are likely to exist as well in simulations in the distant future, including the imprint of an underlying lattice if one is used to model the space-time continuum.
The supercomputers performing LQC calculations essentially divide space-time into a four-dimensional grid. That allows researchers to examine what is called the strong force, one of the four fundamental forces of nature and the one that binds subatomic particles called quarks and gluons together into neutrons and protons at the core of atoms.
“If you make the simulations big enough, something like our universe should emerge,” Savage said. Then it would be a matter of looking for a “signature” in our universe that has an analog in the current small-scale simulations.
Savage and colleagues suggest that the signature could show up as a limitation in the energy of cosmic rays.
In a paper they have posted on arXiv, they say that the highest-energy cosmic rays would not travel along the edges of the lattice in the model but would travel diagonally, and they would not interact equally in all directions as they otherwise would be expected to do.
“This is the first testable signature of such an idea,” Savage said.
If such a concept turned out to be reality, it would raise other possibilities as well. For example, co-author Zohreh Davoudi suggests that if our universe is a simulation, then those running it could be running other simulations as well, essentially creating other universes parallel to our own.
“Then the question is, ‘Can you communicate with those other universes if they are running on the same platform?’” she said.
There are, of course, many caveats to this extrapolation. Foremost among them is the assumption that exponential growth of computers will continue into the future. Related to this is the possible existence of the technological Singularity, which could alter the curve in unpredictable ways.
And, of course, human extinction would terminate the exponential growth — or its simulation.


text: Statistical and Econometric Methods for Transportation Data Analysis 2nd Edition by Simon P. Washington and Publisher Chapman & Hall. Save up to 80% by choosing the eTextbook option for ISBN: 9781439881194, 1439881197. The print version of this textbook is ISBN: 9781420082852, 142008285X.

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The moral sense is not an innate idea or knowledge, but a determination of our minds to receive the simple ideas of approbation or condemnation, from actions observed, antecedent to any opinions of advantage or loss to redound to ourselves.
This may claim a pure moral intuition, but it is also close to Kantian universalising of the rules for behaviour. It is also a variation on Descartes' 'natural light' of reason. Of course, if we say the ideas are 'received', where are they received from?


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The customs area is an extremely complex topic, both in terms of export and import, with many complicated laws, regulations, exceptional regulations and constant updates.
It requires highly-specialized knowledge in the field of customs and trade agreement law. We have this know-how, so that we can manage the entire customs processing at Bornemann at our own responsibility.

industry_corpus2: Law & Justice


text: Discover refined senior living at Revel Lodi. Models now open! Call (209) 912 3122 today to learn more and schedule a tour.

industry_corpus2: Real Estate & Construction


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My Rise of the Runelords, Pathfinder game is tomorrow night, and we are on Session 5. Last week the party had to move to a new inn since the one they were staying in burned down. So they took up lodging at The Rusty Dragon, which just happened to be next door to their old inn.
I found a really nice map online to use that was made specifically for this inn, but it is a large file and it would not load for at least one of my players. That prompted me to go ahead and make a new map using CC3. I based the foundation of the inn on the map that was provided with Rise of the Runelords, so the inn size should be pretty accurate. I only did one floor however, even though I am sure there are at least two floors.
The owner is also a bard that plays for her patrons each night. So what I decided to do was make a round stage in the center of the room, that had a stone bar that goes all the way around it. My idea here is that the owner would serve drinks at the bar, then when she decides to play, she can just hop up on the stage behind her and play for the crowd. The rest of the main hall is full of tables. Then you have the kitchen to the back and the lodging rooms to the left side of the inn. The rooms range from a cheap common sleeping area to a couple of nice private rooms in the back.
Since I bought CC3 I have spent a lot of time playing around with its features, watching tutorials, and trying to figure out what all I need for the different games I am playing. One thing that kept coming up, I even mentioned it in my previous post, was my need for several maps of cities. Mainly because my Pathfinder campaign was fighting off a goblin raids throughout many different places in the city. So I decided to go ahead and dive right into the Profantasy software and bought City Designer 3 as well.
I am glad I did, it has a lot of good stuff in it and it has definitely made mapping cities a lot easier. I made this map very quickly and easily with the software. It is for a play by email game I am playing with one of my buddies. I enjoyed making it and feel like it is a pretty good map, especially considering it is my first city map using CD3. The software was definitely worth the investment. Let me know what you think.
I started playing with a new online group again this year and have enjoyed the first three sessions so far. GMing for a new group, using a game like Pathfinder, has really made me remember the importance of maps. I’ve been playing with a group that doesn’t really utilize battle maps with games where they don’t really matter for so long, that I am out of practice.
It excites me though because I always used to love making maps. I always sucked at it, but I still enjoyed it. After a few days of me trying to make maps on my own in MyPaint, I realized that yep, I’m still no artist. So I decided to use some Christmas money and buy a mapping program.
The first program I decided to go buy was Dundjinni. I had always liked the program and had considered buying a few a years ago, but never did. After looking at the maps that it could produce, I once again decided to give it a try and downloaded the demo and played with it for a bit. Once again I liked it and went to buy it and then I found out something unpleasant. It was no longer for sale! It seems the owner went MIA a year or so ago and no can buy it anymore. Made me sad to have the money in hand ready to give it to someone and not be able to.
Then I went over to Profantasy and started looking at Campaign Cartographer 3. I had also liked this program before but didn’t consider it at first because it is (edited for clarification) more expensive and, I felt, more of a professional’s piece of software, and I am far from a professional. However, after talking with the community and looking through some of the items, I decided to buy it. I also picked up Dungeon Designer 3 as well and then I started watching the tutorials. And boy, and I glad I did!
It has nice user made tutorials by the way, you should check them out if you are interested. However, I did run into a problem when I couldn’t get it to work properly on my Windows 7 64 laptop. I could install it and run it, but if I tried to create a new file, it dumped me out every time. I tried everything they had listed in the forums as fixes, but nothing worked. I have put in a ticket to the support guys but haven’t heard anything yet. (It has only been a day or so, and over the weekend, so I didn’t expect to.) Then I decided to give it a try on my Linux laptop using Wine and guess what, it worked with no problems. I didn’t even have to do anything special. Anyway, I hope to get that sorted out soon as well.
That being said, I am absolutely loving CC3 and DD3. It is a great piece of software that makes sense and is much easier to use that I have been led to believe. Yes it has a higher learning curve, but just after a few video tutorials I was able to make the map you see below. I think anyone could learn to use this software well. Hats off to Profantasy for a good piece of software that is worth the money!
So the first map I decided to make was, naturally, an inn. Because let’s be honest, you can never have too many inns. I mean, your PC’s are always itching to go to an inn and decide what to do next. I decided to name it The Stag Inn, since it is close to the name of one of the inns in the city the players are currently in, and I think I can just transplant them to it. Please take a look and tell me what you think. I used Dungeon Designer 3 to make the entire thing. I’m happy, but still need to figure out how to do a few things, like make the road look more like a road and connect some of the corners of the walls better.
Download the full version without a grid here, and with a grid here.
Interested in my game? Check out my Obsidian Portal page!
I have started running a new game this year. I decided to go with a game that is popular and would not be hard to get players for. The game I went with is Pathfinder and am I enjoying it so far. I will be posting logs and actual plays as I continue with the game. I went back to Maptool for this game, and look forward to GMing the AP Rise of the Runelords.

industry_corpus2: Gaming


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Samsung's Galaxy S8 was heralded as one of the first phones released to the masses that ditched the home button and drastically attempted to rid itself of bezels on both the top and bottom of the device.
Meanwhile, the Galaxy S9 built on the foundation laid by its predecessor and refined the user experience by moving the fingerprint sensor below the camera module for instance.
That is because the outlet, citing "people familiar with the matter", stated Samsung is "toying with an S10 prototype without a headphone jack", hinting the South Korean tech giant could remove the age-old port with its next device.
OnePlus' move leaves only LG and Samsung as two of the biggest smartphone manufacturers still offering flagship devices with a headphone jack.
If such a rumour is true, some Samsung fans could be tempted to pick up an older device from the South Korean firm when the S10 debuts if they have not invested themselves into a Bluetooth ecosystem fully.
In addition to presumably arriving in typical S10 and S10 Plus models, the outlet also stated Samsung is working to deliver "a more affordable version" of the new phone.

industry_corpus2: Computing & Telecommunications


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With more than 1700 staff across Australia and New Zealand, Airbus Group Australia Pacific is assembling and delivering and supporting helicoptoers for the Australian Army and Royal Australian Navy. The company maintains the Royal Australian Air Force’s AP-3C Orion and C-130J aircraft.
Airbus supports the Royal New Zealand Air Force’s C-130s and P3s while being recognised as a leader in propeller and engine maintenance.
With more than 1700 staff at 19 sites across Australia and New Zealand, Airbus Australia Pacific is assembling and delivering 47 MRH90 multi-role helicopters for the Australian Army and Navy and supporting 22 Tiger ARH armed reconnaissance helicopters for the Army. Airbus maintains the Royal Australian Air Force’s AP-3C Orion reconnaissance aircraft and C-130J Hercules transports. Through the work of subsidiary Safe Air, the Group supports the Royal New Zealand Air Force’s C-130s and P3s while being recognised as a leader in propeller and engine maintenance.
Airbus Defence and Space CyberSecurity is the European specialist in cyber security, putting innovation at the heart of its strategy in order to defend its customers against ever-evolving cyber threats. We are dedicated to protect our customers with respect to their specific constraints and whatever their needs may be: from threat prevention and detection to response in crisis environment.
We provide a global cyber defence approach that dynamically associates monitoring, attack detection and investigation, through to incident response. Thus we ensure that our customers gain significant time in detecting Advanced Persistent Threats at early stage. We have developed a range of trusted infrastructure products and solutions in order to ensure the protection of your networks, data and workstations. Security awareness and cyber security training are at the heart of operational performance, which is why we provide our customers with an offering tailored to their specific needs and constraints.
From the smallest electronic parts to the full in-orbit delivery of satellites, from very-high-resolution Earth observation instruments to unprecedented deep-space exploration missions, from today’s most reliable telecommunication satellites to unfailing International Space Station operations: with cutting-edge capabilities and decades of experience, Airbus Defence and Space designs, develops and operates major space systems. Based on an exclusive access to our radar optical satellite constellation, we provide decision makers with sustainable solutions to increase security, optimize mission planning and operations, boost performance, improve management of natural resources and protect our environment. Our extensive portfolio spans the entire geo-information value chain.

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industry_corpus2: Biopharmaceuticals


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Written by Tami Blumenfield, Siobhán M. Mattison, and Mary K. Shenk.
While tourism studies scholars debate the impact of tourism on indigenous people living in relatively remote areas, individuals, villages, government units and companies all over China are cashing in on these areas’ appeal to the newly affluent touring class. Opening the doors to tourists often means a huge influx of money, at least in the short term. The resulting economic changes and the presence of all these visitors can also bring about dramatic changes in social organization and family structure, as Xianghong Feng and Jenny Chio have pointed out in their books on rural ethnic tourism. A growing inequality between villages in tourist zones and those just beyond those zones often results, leading us to wonder how the effects of tourism – both positive and negative – are viewed across these regions.
Tourism to southwest China’s Lugu Lake, an alpine lake tucked deep in the Hengduan Mountains at an altitude of 2650 meters, has been booming for over two decades in some lakeside villages, as has been discussed elsewhere (Blumenfield and Mattison). But in others, tourist visits have only recently reached numbers significant enough to turn most people’s attention toward hosting visitors. Villagers in those areas have not completely given up on farming, fishing, and raising livestock, but they depend less on these activities for their income than before. Meanwhile, young people in many of these villages have started returning. They previously worked outside their villages, in construction, in the hotels and restaurants of other tourist areas, or in other casual jobs that nobody expected would last a lifetime, but that offered better opportunities for earning money and seeing the world than staying at home. Now, though, with people from across China and around the world coming to their region and possibly even to their villages, young people see plenty of opportunities, both financial and otherwise.
As part of a comprehensive research study examining the transition to a more market-based economy in rural southwest China, we interviewed people in twelve different villages in 2017. The villages fell into three categories: (1) uninvolved in tourism, (2) completely transformed by the work of hosting tourists, and (3) somewhere in the middle: somewhat involved with tourism, but not very much. Most villages were primarily home to Na people, who are also known as Mosuo or Menggu. In the four villages where other ethnic groups lived as well, we focused our interviews on Na families and individuals. We wanted to understand why people are eager to participate in tourism, despite the dramatic and sometimes disturbing changes it can bring.
Surprisingly, very few people we spoke with commented on negative effects of tourism. Those who lived too far away from the lakeside tourist zones to attract tourists in any meaningful numbers were particularly vocal about their hopes for the interactions and income they thought tourism would provide. A few people in villages transformed by tourism, though, had different perspectives. One Luoshui man in his forties spoke of tourism as an active agent that had ‘wasted a generation.’ Suddenly flush with cash after their families had leased their guesthouses to outside entrepreneurs and given up most of their farmland, many of this man’s contemporaries had begun leading hedonistic lifestyles filled with drinking, eating, gambling and little responsibility. Their health was suffering: he and many others with whom we spoke noted that elderly people seemed to be in much better health than their children. All kinds of new illnesses, including what are known in Chinese as ‘the three highs—high blood pressure, high cholesterol, and high blood sugar,’ were having unpleasant and serious effects on people’s lives. True, they could afford to seek high-quality health care in cities they may not even have been able to reach before, but this did not help their health conditions very much.
Health challenges were not the only unanticipated consequences of the tourism boom. Interpersonal relationships, too, had changed significantly. Where before people would help one another out without expecting direct compensation in return, by 2017, few people in the primary tourist zones remained willing to provide much help. They were often too busy, anyway. Some spoke longingly about the slower pace of life in previous decades, when everyone had time to chat with neighbors and visit with relatives. ‘I miss those days,’ said Lujin, perched on a stool next to her cousin’s hearth. (Her own home had been reduced in size to accommodate a restaurant expansion and no longer had its own hearth room.) She and her husband had built a new home away from the lake, but she still spent many days in the village.
It was hard for us, spending several days filming interviews in a lakeside village where people commented sadly on relationships that had changed for the worse and noted their declining health through the diseases of prosperity, then going to a village that was in the early phase of reorienting itself to host visitors. Visitors could ride horses across the village plain, eat sumptuous meals cooked by Na families, and if they paid enough to cover stipends for all the villagers, join in evening dance festivities held just for them. The young village head, moving beyond the loudspeakers of an earlier era of village governance, had created a WeChat group to communicate with the other villagers. Many of them could not read, but they could listen to the audio messages and participate in plans for dancing festivities or other activities. People in this village still helped one another out, they still farmed and raised livestock, and they were still in good health. Was the extra cash really worth it?
But of course, it was not our decision to make. And in any case, though we stayed in that particular village for a week, the only other outsiders we saw were tourists that our Lijiang friend brought over from the lake to eat one of those sumptuous meals. I worried aloud to their hosts, wondering whether the visitors were bothersome to the woman who spent entire mornings preparing those feasts or to her frail, eighty-year-old mother.
‘They’re not bothersome (mafan)!’ Sona replied, eyes twinkling. She was proud that they enjoyed her cooking, even if they could not always manage the fatty pork. The fifty yuan (about $8 US) that each person paid for the meal brought an infusion of cash that her family really needed in the increasingly cash-based economy. And Sona’s mother loved hosting them. Besides, groups only came three or four times a month—not enough to make a major difference in their routine. There was talk in the village of finding an investor who could build some guesthouses and provide more infrastructure for visitors. In the meantime, villagers like Sona remain primarily occupied with non-tourism-related tasks, and analyzing the significant transformations in village life requires looking beyond tourism to other reasons for economic and social change.
With a provincial border running right through the lake and through the region, this zone is uniquely positioned to shed light on how local and regional government practices vary. From their different approaches, we can also see how policies affect the people and families living along the lake’s many kilometers of shoreline. Different sets of policies are in place on the Yunnan and Sichuan sides of the lake to protect ‘Moso culture,’ build infrastructure, and address ecological challenges brought by an influx of tourist visits, and we are exploring their effects. We hope those involved with promoting tourism will listen to the voices of those already affected by it, whether directly or indirectly, as they make plans for future expansion. Perhaps then villages like Sona’s can find that elusive balance as they welcome more tourists, meeting their monetary needs without sacrificing their health and well-being in the process.
This article is based in part on research supported by Awards BCS-1461520, BCS-1461514 and BCS-1461522 from the U.S. National Science Foundation for the project, “Collaborative Research: A multidimensional investigation of the dynamics of market transition and social change in rural China and Bangladesh.” Any opinions, findings, and conclusions or recommendations expressed in this material are those of the authors and do not necessarily reflect the views of the National Science Foundation. We thank the individuals who assisted with our research and took time to share their perspectives with us. We especially thank Melissa Kuester for her contributions to the research.
Tami Blumenfield is Assistant Professor of Asian Studies and Co-Chair of Women’s, Gender and Sexuality Studies at Furman University. Siobhán M. Mattison is assistant professor of anthropology at the University of New Mexico. Mary K. Shenk is Associate Professor of Anthropology and Demography at Pennsylvania State University. Image Credit: CC by Evilbish/commons.wikimedia. Names cited in this article are pseudonyms.

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The Manchester United legends Phil Neville and Ryan Giggs were all praise for their former boss Sir Alex Ferguson in their recent interview.
The two said that the 72-year old Scot would always remain a highly respected figure in their eyes.
Neville and Giggs spent almost their whole Manchester United career playing under Ferguson and they saw all the success there. From the league to the European Cup title, they won everything at Old Trafford.
Giggs retired in the middle of the last season to take the job of the interim manager at United, while, Neville retired a few months before him i.e. in the summer of 2013.
While, Giggs represented only the Red Devils throughout his career, Neville played for Everton too, but, his peak performances came at United only.
Giggs is associated with United even now. He is Louis Van Gaal’s assistant there currently. Neville was also supposed to take some kind of a coaching role after retirement, but, he has not done so as yet.
Giggs and Neville were together interviewed a couple of days back by an English daily and they were asked various questions about their United career there.

industry_corpus2: Sports


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Sysco Corp. has terminated its planned $3.5 billion takeover of US Foods, it announced Monday, after a federal judge blocked the combination. The company is opting instead to add $3 billion to its stock-buyback program.
With the deal breaking up, Sysco will pay a $300 million termination fee to US Foods and a $12.5 million fee to Performance Food Group, which had agreed to buy some US Foods facilities. Sysco, based in Houston, plans to make the share repurchases over the next two years.
Rosemont, Illinois-based US Foods operates a major distribution center in Fishers. Sysco has a large warehouse at 4000 W. 62nd St., in Indianapolis.
Sysco had fought for more than a year to gain government approval for the transaction, which antitrust regulators said would hurt competition and lead to higher prices. Sysco and US Foods dominate a market known as broadline foodservice, which supplies school cafeterias, restaurants and hotels. Sysco had argued that the acquisition would bring $1 billion in savings, letting it offer lower prices to customers.
Investors have responded with relief to the deal’s demise, reflecting concerns about the company undertaking an ambitious merger. Sysco shares rose 3.1 percent the day the transaction was halted by U.S. District Judge Amit Mehta, and the stock climbed again Monday morning after the merger was withdrawn.
Mehta blocked the merger on June 23 when he granted a Federal Trade Commission request to delay the transaction. The FTC had sued the companies in February, saying the deal would give Sysco an oversized share of an industry where it’s already the biggest player.
In arguments before Mehta in May, the two sides clashed over the scope of the market in which the companies compete. Sysco and US Foods argued that the commission was relying on a “tortured” analysis, ignoring the variety of distribution channels available to customers.
Sysco said on Monday that it weighed embarking on an appeal but decided against it.
Shares of Sysco rose as much as 1.6 percent to $39 in early trading. The stock had slid 3.3 percent this year through the end of last week.


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Charles J Carter, I am an architect by profession. But love to write about different things related to home and kitchen .
I have started this blog to share innovative kitchen staffs and home decors ideas with my readers .


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I could describe the specific steps that led us from attending a quiet open house to the day, barely two months later, when we moved into this 1948 gem by A. Quincy Jones. Suffice it to say, we knew we wanted it within sixty seconds of walking in, and we’re more sure of it every day. But the task I’ve set for myself is to use words to deconstruct this physical artifact, to a degree that attempts to objectify its essence. Here goes.
The simple description of the house is this: It’s barely changed from its original 1950 condition, it’s a modest size that feels manageable, and it has a floor plan that is perfect for us. In 1200 well-choreographed square feet, there is a spacious living/dining room, a kitchen more functional than anything we’ve previously experienced, three bedrooms, two bathrooms and a gracious entrance hall. For Los Angeles, it sits on a large lot and has several mature trees. There is a strong visual and physical interior/exterior connection. None of this, however, describes the essence of this house. Why does it feel so good to be in it? Why does it appeal to architects and non-architects alike?
I believe it’s because the design of the house is a studied, conscious collaboration of intuition and intellect, two concepts that are rarely successfully integrated by one architect. Both aspects of a house can be appreciated by anyone, but in general, I define intuitive those physical aspects of a house that might be found in any good space from any era, may or may not bear the mark of a specific designer, and are typically appreciated more universally. Christopher Alexander’s A Pattern Language was an attempt to catalog those aspects in the built environment. Intellectual aspects typically come with the territory of design education, and they are initiated in a desire for consistency and reason. They may be appreciated by non-architects (and are high on the list of what makes life worth living for us architects), but they can be obscure and hard-won.
I’ve recently visited several houses by prominent architects built within 5 years of this one, and each one leans toward the intuitive or intellectual end of the spectrum. Included in that group is the Payson House by Chermayoff (1952), the Potter House by Breuer (1950), the Farnsworth House by Mies van der Rohe (1951), and the Glass House by Johnson (1949). Each of these houses is an investigation of larger tenets of modernism and specific interests of its architect. Each has its own character. Breuer’s Potter House may be the “earthiest” of all of them, with its robust stone walls and informal massing techniques exemplifying an intuitive manifestation of modernist principles. The Farnsworth House, on the other end of the spectrum, is a fastidious intellectual exercise, gets an A for its flawless logic, and was, unfortunately, a difficult house for its owner to live in or appreciate.
Another aspect bridging both intuitive and intellectual realms is in the structure of the house, which is based on a post-and-beam concept. Its visual expression is something that almost everyone notices and responds to. In a built environment predominated by vast surfaces of gypsum wall board hiding any and all expression of what holds the building up, there is a structural revealing to post-and-beam which is appealing, as well as being visually complex. Here, the post-and-beam system has been reduced to a very economical assembly. Columns are built up of smaller pieces (typically a 2” x 7 ½” core with 1 ½” x 3 ½” stiffeners on each long side). But the consistency in this system, along with how it is adapted for particular joints on the house is quite remarkable. Nothing is wasted. At doors, for instance, the stiffeners are also the jambs for the French glass and screen doors. Every column assembly is integrated perfectly into doors, windows, cabinetry, wall finishes and concrete block walls. The mental process of the architect, working many hours to refine these details to make them consistent and economical, is evident. Indeed, it is an elusive look into the mind of a talented and fastidious detailer.
A third example of intuitive and intellectual success of the structure is evident in the big, compositional gestures of the house. A desire for complexity is typically a common interest of my clients, although it’s defined differently by each client. For architects, the desire for consistency can sometimes conflict with a desire for complexity. I believe architects are accused of desiring emptiness and reduction simply because they love seeing the architectural concept when it’s clearly expressed, without extraneous details obscuring it. In this house, they both coexist: Order reigns, in the insistent structural grid, the clear expression of shear walls, the use of a specific material always perfectly suited for the task, the form of the house never arbitrary. These attributes would be clear to a second-year architecture student who had learned to diagram building concepts (and to other architecture fanatics). But still, there is much complexity that appeals to others, as well. In a limited palette of just a few primary materials—including concrete block, redwood post-and-beam, douglas fir plywood, tongue-and-groove redwood siding, and glass—a matrix is created with a seemingly infinite number of intersections occurring, each one perfectly resolved. Similarly, an interior division of space with a very limited number of partitions yields a rich suite of spatial experiences: contained, open, ambiguous, defined, et al.
Still, the house continues to reveal its wonders in layers. As I learn one aspect of its logic, I discover another to be examined. The essence as well as a comprehensive understanding of the design remains elusive. And in the intuitive realm, each season interacts with the house in a different way, imbuing the various spaces with evolving moods depending on the quality and angle of the light.


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Here’s a good Top Ten Tuesday from The Broke and the Bookish: “Top Ten of Your Auto-Buy Authors.” Like Linda, I don’t necessarily buy all these books, but I am very, very eager to get my hands on them somehow; we’ll call them my “auto-read” authors if not “auto-buy” (though in the case of most of these authors, I have at least one of their books on my home bookshelf. If not all their books. Or in at least one case, multiple copies of the same book).
Ann Patchett: Hands down, Ann Patchett is the first author who comes to mind in this category. I’m still absurdly grateful to the friend at her publisher who got me an advance copy of State of Wonder in February (for my birthday!) when the book didn’t come out till June. I adore everything Ann Patchett writes – fiction, nonfiction, essays, blog posts.
Audrey Niffenegger: I’ve already told my husband that when the sequel to The Time Traveler’s Wife comes out (there was a sample – Alba, Continued – included in the e-book version of TTW), I will need a minimum of five days entirely alone with no distractions of any kind. “It’s not going to take you a week to read,” he observed (correctly), but I don’t plan to read it just once. Memorization takes time.
Rainbow Rowell: I have adored all four of her books and am sad that Carry On is embargoed, as it comes out in October of this year and I may be somewhat busy then. (But not too busy to read, right?) Plus, Rebecca Lowman narrates the audiobook versions of Rowell’s books, and that is a match made in heaven.
Maggie O’Farrell: Instructions for a Heatwave sent me scrambling for her backlist, which I quickly read my way through (save one). Cannot wait to read whatever she writes next. Such empathy for all her characters, such heartbreaking plot twists.
Maggie Stiefvater: What an astounding imagination she has. The Scorpio Races is still my favorite, but the Raven Cycle is amazing (still waiting for the fourth and final book!), and she even succeeded with werewolves in the Wolves of Mercy Falls trilogy. I wasn’t as keen on Shiver but am excited to see where she’ll venture next.
Neil Gaiman: Again, I haven’t read everything he’s written, but I have loved all his most recent work (Trigger Warning, The Ocean at the End of the Lane, etc.). (Yes, in this case I’m the person who “discovered” your favorite band long after you knew it was cool.) What Gaiman does with magic and myth is deeply satisfying, original, dark, and timeless.
Tana French: The Likeness is still my favorite, but the Dublin Murder Squad hasn’t dropped off in quality after five books; these mysteries are all deliciously creepy and psychologically dark, with exceptional character development. Plus the covers are gorgeous.
Chris Cleave: Just when I was beginning to wonder if/when he would publish a new novel, I see that Everyone Brave is Forgiven is due out in May 2016. I was going to say that I didn’t care what it was about, I was going to read it anyway, but the publisher’s description includes the words “WWII” and “London” and “1939,” so I’m even more hooked. And naturally there is a love triangle.
Nick Laird: I couldn’t possibly buy every book I read, or even every book I love, but I do find that it’s worth it to buy poetry, because (1) someone has to support the poets, and (2) I remember lines and sometimes stanzas but rarely entire poems, and poems are like songs: when parts of them get stuck in your head, the only thing to do is to read/listen to the whole thing. To A Fault, On Purpose, and Go Giants have a permanent place on my bedside bookshelf.
Four Americans and the rest English or Irish. Hmm.
I’m sure the moment I publish this I’ll think of at least five more “auto-read” authors, but I feel good about these ten. Also, impatient for their next books.
Ann Patchett should probably be on my list too. I haven’t read all of her books, but at this point I’m likely to read all of her future books as they come out.
Nick Hornby! I knew I’d forget at least one.

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I’m a stickler for automated testing and being consistent in writing good code. When I work in a company environment I always imbue good testing practices and habits in the colleagues around me.
Part of my rhetoric is to define project specific automated tests that are configurable.
Mocha or whatever your preferred test coding framework is.
Istanbul for code coverage tests.
Sass coding style checks, stylelint is my go to tool.
Screenshot software, I like Pageres.
Textlint to check for typos and writing style.
I create two bash scripts. One that runs through the tests and one to create screenshots of the site at different sizes.
Screenshots form a focal discussion point with designers, developers and usability people.
Screenshots are helpful for circulating to non-technical stakeholders in the business. This allows stakeholders to see the outcome of new features and prompts them for feedback.
Run the test script through Jenkins (or your preferred alternative). I also run linting and validation tests hooked up to a task runner, sharing the same configuration rules. This process ensures simple coding style check results get to the coder at the right time. In case a rebel developer doesn’t play by the rules, Jenkins would catch them later.
In environments where companies don’t use a build server. Add the script to a git hook.
Here is a sample script. I will step through some of the important points.
echo "Please Note: An internet connection is REQUIRED for all tests to run successfully"
echo "Waiting for Node to start..."
This is how to define an array in a bash script. A useful technique to create a single point of truth for common objects to test.
I define key pages to test at the start of the script, for accessibility testing and broken link checks.
When I start Mocha I use an npm run script. The test command code is in my package.json file. The more site specific code we can move to one place, such as the package.json file, the better. The test script will be more portable which is always a good thing.
This is a snippet from a package.json file. Running npm run test will call the Istanbul script and run mocha.
The broken link checker is inside a loop. Assign each item to a variable and pass it in to the URL.
Loop through the URLs. Save each report in to a folder named “accessibility”. Named the URL.
Prevent the process running after the tests have completed.
I run text linting in a separate script. Writing is subjective so it shouldn’t fail the build.
My text-lint config is on GitHub and a list of tech terms validated against on the blog in this Gist.
Running bash scripts such as this will catch fixable problems. Leaving you free to ponder over the trickier issues that need attention.

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After arriving in Lhasa, local tour guide will welcome you atthe airport/train station, then transfer the guests to the hotel. Acclimatizethe high altitude in the hotel.
The tour will beginfrom UNESCO World Heritage site - PotalaPalace, which is also the winter palace of Dalai Lama. It's situated at 12,139 feet above sealevel. It's a 13-story high building that contains over 1,000 rooms, variousstatues, stupas, murals and artifacts.
Then continue to Jokhang Temple,another UNESCO World Heritage site. It’s a spiritual center for Buddhists in Tibet. Next tothe temple there is Bakhor Street,filled with pilgrims and street vendors, selling traditional Tibetan items suchas prayer wheels and jewelry.
In the morning, tourists are going to visitDrepung monastery which was one of the “three greet” Gelug monasteries of Tibet and wasfounded in 1416. Ganden palace is used as Dalai Lama’s palace in the Drepungbefore moving to the Potala palace.
Afternoon, Sera Monastery---It was one of the“three great” Gelug monasteries of Tibet and was founded in 1419. Thehighlight is the Monks debate at around 3 - 5 in the afternoon.
Drive from Lhasa to Gyantse. Admirethe Gampala pass (4790 m) onthe way, and get a glimpse of Yamdrok-tso (4400m), which is surrounded by many snow-cappedmountains. Then continue to drive west towards Gyantse. In Gyantse, touristswill visit the famous Pelkor Monastery and Gyantse Kumbum. After one and a halfhour's drive, clients will arrive in Shigatse, which is the second largest cityin Tibet.
Drive to Lhatse where touristscan take lunch. Then drive to Shegar and if the weather is clear enough,tourists can view the Mt. Everest in thedistance on the way back down. After 4 to 6 hours, arrive at Rongbuk monastery,but on the way there, clients will pass Pang la Pass, one of the highest passesin Tibetat 5050m. Fromthat pass, enjoy view all of the five highest peaks in the world.
In the morning, tourists cansee the sunrise appear on the top of Mt Everest, and have a full view of themagnificent Mount . Tourists may trek from tent to the base camp 4km one way, or go to EBC by local bus. Thendrive back to Shigatse.
Today, exploreTashilunpo monastery of Gelug Sect, the seat of the Panchen Lama, built in1447. The monastery houses a giant statue of the Maitreya Buddha - the biggestgilded statue of Maitreya (Buddha of the future) in the world and a tomb of allthe Panchen Lama, containing jewels and gold. In the afternoon, you will driveback to Lhasa,which will take around 6 hours.
In the morning, drive from Lhasa to Lake Namtso. On the way,clients can see Nyenchen Thanglha( snow mountain ranges )and lots of nomadstent with grazing yak and sheep densely-populated around the mountain side. Namtso Lakeis the Heavenly Lakewhich is one of the four holy lakes of Tibet and also the highest saltlake. You can do a very relaxing trekking around the lake side and Tashi Island.
To spend a night at lake shoreis fantastic to see the stars.
Enjoy the clear morning at thelake shore; you can trek along the lake shore to Tashi Dor Islandto explore the meditation caves. Drive to Dumxung to have lunch.
In the afternoon, tourists mayenjoy Yangpachen hot spring (Optional) and have both indoor and outdoorswimming pool filled with hot springs water.Finally, head back to Lhasa.