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The online service, called Startups, says the UK's growing private rental sector and the proliferation of residential lettings franchises combine to provide a relatively low risk way of setting up a business.
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Now that fall has arrived, we can rekindle themes of harvest, warmth, abundance and home by incorporating traditional fall colors.
1. Resort to Nature: What around your yard could you gather to place in a glass vase? Acorns? Walnuts? Leaves of varying colors? Dark yellow flowers blend particularly well with browns.
A piece of flat polished glass placed over an array of colorful fall leaves in the center of your table could double as a trivet for hot dishes.
Fall flowers in season and reeds or cattails standing in tall vases can evoke feelings of fall harvest. One on either side of a centerpiece adds a feeling of abundance. Some hostesses like to flank their Thanksgiving centerpieces with long stocks of golden wheat to add some simplicity to often busy table décor.
2. Remember all the colors in the earth tone family. While pumpkin orange starts to pop out everywhere by mid-September, look for muted greens, dusky yellows and reds to round out Autumn flowers and Fall décor in general.
3. Pull out the candles: Summertime is bright enough without light from a few flickering flames. Come October, however, and candles become the focal point. Save money by buying plain pillar candles at a discount store and then glue gun acorns in a ring around the bottom. Line the circumference with cinnamon sticks and adhere with glue. Float candles in water in your favorite glass salad bowl and intersperse cut red carnations or yellow Gerbera daisies.
Cluster a variety of earthy-colored candles of varying shapes and sizes in the center of the table. Place them on one of your favorite large serving dishes and intersperse the prettiest fall leaves you found today or line the dish with acorns. Candle-dominant centerpieces remind us of the comfort of gathering around the fire.
Remember that candles can stand in the centerpiece, at the ends of the table or at each place setting.
4. Jazz up a plain table cloth with placemats cut from felt in the shapes of leaves, acorns or pumpkins. If you prefer a runner on top of your practical table cloth, cut placemat-sized, fall-themed shapes from felt, glue them end to end and stretch across length of the table. Keep your table settings simpler by avoiding placemats.
5. Maximize the metals. Where hosts and hostesses tend to lay the Christmas table with dazzling bright silvers and golds, metal can make an appearance in Fall décor as well. Incorporating more burnished golds and pewters balances the sometimes bright orange and red hues of fall-themed dinner plates. Metal pitchers or drinking steins adorned with flowers and small branches bring the outside in and remind diners of earlier times.
Bereft of nice, burnished metal? Think through your wedding gifts and see if anything will serve. Something you may have rejected at first may stand a chance when adored with flowers or a berry branch. Homeowners' yard sales also tend to sell old family table décor inexpensively.
6. Unusual place cards reflect a harvest theme for your dinner party. Set a cozy, fall mood with your table décor by putting each guest or family member name on or behind the appropriate place-setting. All you need to convey the sense of an abundant harvest is a fall fruits, pins, ribbon, small cards or slips of paper and the family member with the best handwriting. Pin each name to a pear, baby pumpkin, cinnamon stick, pomegranate, red or yellow pepper or unusual winter squash.
Decorating your table for fall is about more than napkin and placemat colors. Creating a warm ambiance can lift mood and deepen the sense of family. Most of us live in one house for a long time. We can break up the sometimes monotonous home scene by changing up interior décor. More, celebrating the changing seasons can help all members of the family feel more connected to nature. While teens may roll their eyes at your table decoration ideas now, their memories will last a lifetime.

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It's quite a few weeks since I did this post. I haven't been browsing the web much. Personal life took over for a while, as is natural. However, it's here this week for your reading pleasure, so sit back, relax and read on.
Enrobed in Tranquility, now that is a perfect description for Monart, the review featured on The Taste will give you a longing for the serene.
I enjoyed reading 15 Ways to Raise the Vibrations of Your Home, it's a very interesting piece and we could all benefit from adopting some of the practices.
It was refreshing to read this article, Think Weight Loss Is About Calories? This Doctor Disagrees. Weight loss is not as straightforward as reducing calories for many people, personally, I think we'd be far better off focusing on nutrition and being the healthiest version of ourselves that we can be. We are all so much more than numbers.
I love the Art in Life, so many fabulous ideas, including charming porch decorating ideas. I'd love to spruce up the area around my front door, there are lots of inspirations here.
This post, Big Skies, No Toys, from Fionnuala at Three Sons Later was beautiful and relatable. My own children love exploring the beach, having adventures, roaming for 'treasure'.
These 'Back to School Cake Bars' are ideal for the school lunchboxes; and morning tea, coffee mornings, an afternoon treat or a picnic too!
I thoroughly enjoy reading, as do all of my children. Sara has some great suggestions in the 'The Books I Devoured This Year', she has similar taste to my daughter and I have bought books for her that she enjoyed based on Sara's reviews in the past.
Finally, I want to share 'The Empty Room', it is simply a beautiful piece of writing.
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This is a recreation of the original Command and Conquer, Real Time Strategy game entirely in HTML5 and Javascript.
This page works best on Google Chrome or Mozilla Firefox. The images can take a little while to load so please be patient.
This is still a work in progress. Any comments or feedback (including bugs), is appreciated. I intend to develop this game further - improving the AI, pathfinding (See improved pathfinding demo here), adding more units and levels. If you are interested in helping out with this effort (even by just testing the game and giving feedback), please let me know.
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Please report bugs on the github issues page or in the comments section below. https://github.com/adityaravishankar/command-and-conquer/issues
If you liked this demo, please let me know by clicking on the Like button below and leaving me a comment. Please share this page with your friends so that they can see it too.
You can read more about the development of this game on my blog. You can also check out some of the other games I have written or read some of my game programming articles.My goal is to take this game as far as possible - Add more units, optimize the code, add better AI and multiplayer games. You would be able to come to this page, find a random partner and start playing!!
DISCLAIMER: This project is only intended as a technical proof of concept to demonstrate the basic working elements of an RTS game in HTML5. No commercial use is intended. All images and sounds used are from C&C - Tiberian Dawn and are property of the original game creators.


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I was invited to give a presentation for a panel on "Satire in Medieval Law" for the 2014 Conference of the American Society of Legal History1 [1. The Association was founded in 1956, and the purpose of its yearly conference is to create "an opportunity for historians, law professors, graduate students, lawyers, and judges from around the world to gather and meet fellow travelers and to present and discuss their scholarship."]. The title of my paper is "Poetry and Punishment." The event will take place on November 7, 2014, past Noon.
In a manuscript inventorying and defining juridical concepts, now preserved at the Biblioteca Complutense (Madrid), one can find a long list of concepts made for the use of lawyers in the circle of a Pero Díaz de Toledo2 [2. Last year, in Magdalen College, Oxford University, I presented a paper on this manuscript in relation to Pero Díaz de Toledo's glosses to Iñigo López de Mendoza's Proverbios. This is part of my always ongoing project on glossed manuscripts (I have published a number of articles and a short book on this, as well as two graduate seminars).]. Along with some entries with clearly legal concepts, like conditio or fideicomisio one can also find others less likely to be there, like poetria. Stop and meditate about it.
It's not that poetry does not belong in legal thought and allegations. The question is why and how "poetry" became a legal subject and a juridical concept.
This question plays a significant role in my general project, in which I study the process of codification of Alfonso X's Siete Partidas. In this codification Alfonso does not only discuss and translate juridical problems from roman law and the marginal glosses of Accursius' Glossa Ordinaria. Indeed, he also translates, comments, and otherwise discusses other many important sources coming from non-legal traditions, like Aristotle's Ethics and Politics, narratives of many different kinds and origins, both Occidental and Oriental, or poetry3 [3. …and this is one of the reasons why the Partidas, unlike most legal codifications, are emphatically not boring…].
In the Siete Partidas there are two special sections where poetry becomes an important subject. The first one resides in the political and administrative legislation of the second Partida; the second one, in the penal regulation of the seventh Partida. I will delve into this question —how and why poetry became a subject of the law and a juridical concept— focusing on these two parts, and in particular in the laws regarding libel and satire4 [4. I normally prefer to quote directly from the original sources, manuscripts and early editions. In this case I will be using Scott's translation of the Siete Partidas, which needs urgent update.].
Alfonso, in fact, singles out poetry as a clear vehicle for libelous defamation, giving us, in the relevant laws, an idea about the creation and dissemination of poetry. The legal code offers as well a definition and extent of satirical writing, and locates it in different spaces –the court in the Segunda Partida and urban spaces in the Séptima Partida. On the other hand, satirical poetry contemporary to the codification of the Partidas –at the time, the poetic language was Galician, also known as Galician-Portuguese–, known as cantigas d'escarnho e maldizer constitutes an exploration of the language of defamation codified in the law5 [5. Here I will enter into a discussion with Benjamin Liu's Joke Poetry, an extremely enlightened and enlightening, elegant book.]. Poetry and law share a language, while, at the same time, the Partidas acknowledges, with the Glossa Ordinaria, that "verba legis debent intelligi secundum propriam significationem, non secundum comunem usum loquendi"6 [6. "Legal words must be understood according to their technical meaning, not according to regular speech." See, for this, my "Political Idiots."]. Law and poetry explore the language of satire and defamation from two different epistemological stances, exploring, as well, different meaning of the same semantic field of punishment.
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Matt got a commission from the guys at Fourdot designer plates (The worlds finest number plates) to shoot some of their range in his studio.
See a few images from the studio photoshoot below.
A reflection shot is easy to create in the studio.
In the studio you can create really clean images, for a wide range of products.
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Kicking It with Katie Reus
I first became friends with Katie Reus on the ride up to Atlanta for the Moonlight and Magnolia's Conference in 2010. I had just sold to St. Martin's and Katie confided to me on that trip that she was hopeful about interest a publisher had shown in her wolf-shifter paranormal series.
Now, it's three years later: we're both published, and she's burning up the charts not only with her traditionally published paranormal romances (which she sold to that interested publisher), but her self-pubbed romantic suspense has landed her on the bestseller lists. And in a little over a month, her first traditionally published romantic suspense novel will come out. As you may have guessed by now, this is one hard-working lady!
And now, without further ado, let me welcome my friend, Katie Reus!
Thanks so much for having me here today, Manda!
Thanks so much for being here! I'm so excited to celebrate your new releases with you! So, let's begin at the beginning. Why romantic suspense? What drew you to it?
I discovered romantic suspense in college, years before I realized that writing was for me. The genre is such a fun escape with an HEA. Doesn't get better than that.
No, it doesn't. Is there any one romantic suspense book in particular that made you think, "I want to write like this"? What was it about that book, do you think?
All the Queen's Men by Linda Howard, hands down. It was the book that introduced me to romantic suspense so even though I didn't have a clue I wanted to be a writer when I read it the first time, that book stuck with me over the years because of the main couple. The heroine is strong and capable and the hero is so alpha delicious and his one weakness is the heroine. The characterization of their relationship is hot and complicated because in the first scene she's with the hero listening to him order her husband to 'finish the job' which will entail him blowing himself up. (They're on a mission working for the CIA at the time). Of course the h/h don't meet up again until 5 years later and then the fun really begins. The depth of the characters is amazing.
OMG! I love me some Linda Howard. Definitely a great place to get inspired! Who are some of your other favorites?
[Aside from] Linda Howard (her older RS titles), Kaylea Cross, and Cynthia Eden.
So, let's get into your own writing, now. Your self-published Red Stone Security series has been wickedly successful. What is it about these books that keeps readers coming back for more?
This has been such a fun series to write and you're right, the reception by readers has blown me away. While these books are romantic suspense, they're really character driven. The suspense is definitely second to the romance. The heroes are alpha, dominating, super sexy, and put their females first above everything else, which is incredibly hot. And all my heroines are really strong characters with no TSTL moments. I tend not to read reviews too much, but the ones I've seen and the ones my readers email me about all say similar things about loving my strong female leads paired with my alpha heroes so I know that's a big part of the appeal.
*Beta-writing Manda starts taking notes* Alpha, check. Strong heroines, check. *Looks up* So, how will your Deadly Ops series differ from Red Stone?
My Deadly Ops series is really high-octane suspense. While it's character driven to an extent, there's a balance between the suspense and romance in each book. One could not exist without the other in this series. These books are also a lot more complicated plot-wise. Headline acquired the UK/AUS rights and my editor there made a comment how filmic the first book is and I realized that she was right. It's like a big action move but with lots of romance and of course an HEA 😉
Do you see the Deadly Ops moving beyond a trilogy at this point, or is that something you'll decide later?
I would love to continue the series, but at this point that's something I will decide much later.
Let's get serious now. *Manda lowers her glasses and gives Katie the eye-brow lift that inspires fear in all interview subjects.* I heard a rumor that your husband shares some background traits with Jack, the hero of Targeted, your first Deadly Ops book.
Katie, are you just transcribing your life onto the page?
Lol, those pesky rumors! In this case, it's partially true. My husband was a sniper in the Marine Corps years ago (longer than I'll admit) so when developing Jack's character I got to grill him with a billion little questions for realism that I'm pretty sure drove him crazy. But when he read the prologue of the ARC he was like, 'hey! I told you this' over and over at different sections. It was pretty cool to see his reaction.
Okay, that's pretty darn cool that you have an in-house expert to answer your every question. *Manda makes a note to find a time-travel dating service so she can acquire a Regency-era husband.*
Moving on! You also write paranormal romance for NAL. Do you have any difficulty switching gears between your RS-writer-self and your Paranormal-writer-self?
Not really. Switching between the genres is something I look forward to. I love mixing it up. However, switching between my different paranormal worlds (I have a few novellas with Nocturne) is more difficult because there are different rules and I have to stay true to them in each 'world'.
That makes sense. So, keeping with your paranormals for a moment, you write wolf-shifters. Are wolves your favorite shifters, or are there more that you'd like to write? Badger-shifters perhaps? (Sorry, that's my college mascot. I had to ask!)
Snort, sorry, no badger shifters in the future! I absolutely love wolf shifters (or lupine shifters as they're called in my Moon Shifter series) and I've also penned some stories that include jaguar shifters. I also have an idea for another type of shifter that in 2014 I'll hopefully get a chance to write. And no, I'm not telling what 😉
You are a cruel woman, Katie Reus. Cruel, indeed. I guess I'll just move to the next question, then.
You were already traditionally published when you decided to embark upon your self-publishing journey. What was it about self-publishing that drew you in? Are you planning to continue self-publishing?
There were so many factors, but control and reaching readers faster were two huge deciding factors. I'm a fast writer and there's no way NY could keep up with my output so the explosion of self-publishing came along at the right time for me. About two and a half years ago I dipped my toes in the water with a novella that was supposed to be an experiment (Killer Secrets) in self-publishing. At the time I was too busy with contractual stuff to even think about doing more than that, but it was a good experience and got me semi-prepared for when I would jump into the deep end of self-publishing a year later.
A few months after that I pitched a proposal to my agent meant for a certain Harlequin line and while she liked it she said (in so many words) that the heroine was too 'alpha' for the line. And she was right. I was weeks away from having my first baby and had other contractual obligations that were pressing on me so I shelved it even though I was almost completely done with the story and totally in love with the characters. Normally I'm pretty amenable to suggested changes but there was no way I was changing my heroine's personality. So almost exactly a year later I decided to take the plunge full on into self-publishing with that story (No One to Trust, book 1 in my Red Stone series) and by the end of 2012 I had self-published four stories in the series and my readers were clamoring for more. Then in April of 2013 I hit the USA Today bestsellers list for the first time with the 6th story in the series. For me, self-publishing has been the best move for my career because it's let me reach more readers and now I have a better understanding of exactly what my fan base wants. Seriously, I can't write fast enough for my readers!
That is so freaking cool! I love hearing about authors (like our own Rachel Grant) jumping into the deep end and having it pay off!
So, By my count (and I'm no math major) you've got two traditionally published series' going and you're continuing to put out a ton of self-published stories. What is the secret to your incredible output? And will you give me some of whatever you're taking?
I'm just a total maniac. I have a bit of a type A personality and once my readers started wanting more-more-more, it only pushed my internal drive even harder. I've got a two year old and a husband with a crazy work shift so I have to carve out time to write but when I do, I go completely offline and just focus. This might sound crazy, but I've got a 'to do' list from now until December and I know exactly what I'll be working on every week and what word count I need to hit every day to make my goals. I'm just very goal oriented. And post-it notes really help my focus, lol.
That said, I also have a lot of help. I've got a really supportive family who helps out with my son when I'm on deadlines. Without them I would be lost. Not to mention I've got an amazing critique partner, great beta readers, editors and proof readers. All of that helps in turning out books fast because I need multiple sets of eyes before I'm comfortable putting anything out there.
I'm just so incredibly proud of you, my friend! Thank you so much for stopping by K&T today to let me pick your brain. (In a totally not-creepy way, of course.) Anything else you'd like to add?
Thanks so much for having me here today!
I'd love to give away a copy of Wicked Firsts, the anthology that I just co-published with five other amazing authors! Just tell me; what's your favorite thing about romance books and be entered.
Hear that, folks? What is your favorite thing about romance books? One lucky commenter will win a copy of Wicked Firsts!
A little about Katie: USA Today bestselling author Katie has been reading romance since a young age—ever since she discovered her mom's hidden stash. Luckily the addiction stayed with her into adulthood. She now spends her days writing dark paranormal romance and sexy romantic suspense. To learn more about her please visit her website, blog, facebook or find her on twitter @katiereus.
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What I love about romance books is that I get to be the heroine. When I read I am a part of the book and all those alpha males are mine! And, what is better than that?
My poor hubby has had hundreds of conversations with me that I have no idea what was said. He knows now to make me put a book down before a serious talk… like when does he get supper. But, he's my real life alpha male so I don't mind.
Thanks Manda and Katie for the fun interview and awesome giveaway.
You are so right, Julie! Part of the thrill is definitely putting yourself into the story! You obviously have a hero-quality hubby:)
Manda (and the ladies of Kiss and Thrill!) thank you so much for having me here today! I remember that long car ride! We talked almost the entire way that it flew by so fast and I was like 'how are we here already'?
I know! Those are the best trips:) So happy you're here today and just thrilled about all of your success! Can't wait to buy TARGETED!
I love the happy endings!
Nothing beats a great happy ending, does it, Tamara? It's so wonderful!
I love to become immersed in a romance book- it takes me outside my own world and into someone else's where I know there will be a HEA
Escaping into another world is definitely a reason to love romance!
I love the Happily Ever After, it makes me smile
It does, doesn't it, Tanja? I love catching myself wearing a big goofy grin when I've finished a great book!
Waving at both Katie & Manda & wishing you both fun & fans! 😀 I got Wicked Firsts & can't wait to read it!!!
Hi Rashda! Great to see you, too! Feels like our Silken Sands meet up was forever ago!


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The Chinese company Yi Technology has been shaking up the camera industry this year. A few months ago, the relatively unknown brand dropped a 4K action camera into the market—one that just about matched the Hero4 Black feature-for-feature, and did so at half the price of GoPro's then-flagship.
Now Yi has jumped into the mirrorless camera game as well with a new Micro Four Thirds body. Like the action camera before it, the Yi M1 sells for close to half the price of competing cameras in its class. You can currently pick up a body and a detachable lens online as a package for just $350.
If you've ever wondered what would happen if you took the camera interface of your average cellphone and bolted it onto a Leica-inspired compact Micro Four Thirds body, well, you'd have the M1. The design owes a debt to the Leica T. The compact body with flush dials, minimal buttons, and even a distinctive red logo mark all recall the Leica T, along with some of Panasonic's Leica partnered efforts. Priced as low as it is, however, the M1 is definitely not a Leica T.
Yi's camera sports an almost entirely touchscreen UI. There's a mode dial and a control dial for setting shutter and aperture (depending on which mode you're in) and just two buttons on the back, one for playback and one for AF selection. There's a hot shoe, but there's no flash of any kind in the box or on the camera.
Holding the M1 is comfortable. It's a lightweight, mostly plastic camera that feels more like a point-and-shoot than a mirrorless MFT. For comparison's sake, it's about a half inch narrower and shorter than the Panasonic GX 85 I tested last month. The shutter button is well placed and easy enough to find by feel—not that you'll have the M1 held to your eye, as there is no viewfinder. Just picking up the camera puts your fingers where you want them, something a surprising number of compact cameras get wrong. There's a dedicated video button in the center of the mode dial that's somewhat less easy to find by feel.
The control dial is similarly well placed, just under where my thumb rested while holding the M1. I primarily shoot in aperture priority mode and had no trouble with the control dial. The mode dial also manages to find the sweet spot between "easy to turn" and "doesn't accidentally turn in your bag". Aside from the playback button and AF select button, that's it for the physical interface of the M1.
Controls on Tap
The rest of what you'll want to control in the M1 will be done through the touchscreen. The simple menus follow touch UI conventions with swipe gestures as well as tab buttons. The interface works quite well and is responsive enough, though it's nowhere near as fast as the UI of a phone. I bring this up mainly because the target market here seems to be cellphone users who want to move up to a "real" camera. The UI won't be a problem for anyone who's well versed in mobile device photography, but the experience is somewhat slower.
The lack of physical buttons means that you'll need to dive into the menus quite a bit, which can make it tricky to get the settings you want quickly. This will depend somewhat on how you shoot, but for me the biggest annoyance was no quick access to ISO settings. On the other hand, if you were upgrading from a cellphone camera and just stuck with auto for most things, you won't likely be hindered by any lag in the UI.
There are three tap-target circles on the left edge of the screen in shooting mode. They are, from top to bottom, aperture, shutter speed, and EV compensation. To adjust them you can just select by tapping and use the control dial. Alternately you can tap on them and adjust via the touchscreen, though this takes much longer.
Other adjustments—metering mode, white balance, ISO—require going deeper into the UI with a swipe to the right. This will bring up three screens worth of settings and adjustments. Swiping the main screen to the left bring up some different output settings. It's a lot of swiping, but overall I would put the M1's UI at about average for the field.
The M1 can connect to its companion app running on your phone via both Bluetooth and Wi-Fi. The YI Mirrorless app as its known, is basic, but functional. It can grab any JPGs from the camera and pass them on the app of your choice. If you're shooting RAW you'll need to first convert them to JPG using the in-camera conversion software.
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The $350 base model comes with one lens, a 2-40mm f/3.5-5.6 zoom made by Yi. For $450, you can get it with Yi's macro-capable 42.5mm f/1.8 prime lens instead. Spend $550, and you get both lenses. The lightweight plastic lenses have the build quality you'd expect at this price, which is to say they don't fall apart, but they're a long way from solid. If you have other MFT-mount lenses, they'll fit onto this camera, so that widens your choices quite a bit.
The zoom is predictably soft at the edges until you get above f/8. The prime is much sharper and makes a decent portrait lens. Unfortunately, the manual focus wheel on it is just for looks. This makes the macro feature next to useless on what would otherwise be a pretty decent "macro-capable" prime lens.
The other reason the lack of manual focus is disappointment is that autofocus is not the M1's strong suit. Focusing is slow, and not just in low light. The M1 takes a noticeable amount of time to lock onto static targets. If your subject is moving, forget it. You might think that switching to continuous AF would help, but alas, it does not. Combine C-AF with burst mode and you'll get some hilariously bad results. I tried to shoot this way while my kids were flying a kite at the park and found that the M1 was never actually able to refocus after the first shot, to say nothing of tracking. If shooting moving subjects is a requirement, this is not the camera for you. You could mitigate this shortcoming by going old-school with a manual focus lens and small aperture, but if that's how you shoot, you aren't in the target market for the M1 in the first place.
Hot Chip
The M1 uses a 20-megapixel Sony sensor that produces either JPEG or DNG RAW files, but not both at the same time as some Micro Four Thirds cameras do. The image quality of both the RAW and JPG files is quite good. I found the color rendition of the JPGs to be a bit washed out, but the RAW files had decent dynamic range. You can easily pull out an extra two stops of detail in the shadows before the noise gets too bad. Speaking of noise, the M1 will shoot up to ISO 25600, though in my testing anything over 6400 was largely unusable. At that level, images where very noisy in RAW and a blurry mush in the camera-corrected JPGs.
The M1 is capable of quality video at 30 frames per second, which is an impressive spec for a $350 camera with two lenses. Unfortunately, it does some serious cropping when shooting in 4K, which means wide-angle shots are largely impossible. There's also no external mic jack, and, as with stills, AF speed is an issue.
I would suggest avoiding the double lens kit. At that price there are other options in this price range that are considerably more capable. Both the Olympus PEN E-PL7 and Panasonic GX85 are only $100 more than the M1 full kit and can run circles around in it nearly every category. However, the body with zoom lens for $350 is a much better deal.


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The big story for the Wildcats is that with the win, they finish the 2019 season with a 5-2 NEAC record, clinching the #3 seed in the NEAC Postseason. The Wildcats will make their first playoff appearance in the history of the program. The Wildcats will take on Keuka College in the first round of the NEAC Tournament.
The Wildcats offense was on full display. They scored nine goals in the first half. SUNY Poly had five players record two goals in Saturday's contest. Edward Rosaschi (Highland Mills, N.Y.), Daniel Cuddihy (Eden, N.Y.), Ryan Mead (Churchville, N.Y.), Jacob Elliot (Troy, N.Y.), and Chase LaCava all had two goals in the Senior Day contest.
- Shane Wyman (East Greenbush, N.Y.) led the Wildcats with a game-high four points scoring on one goal and assisting on three others.
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CAMBRIDGE, Mass. — Janet Standley of Gloucester, Massachusetts, wandered with her grandchildren through the green room filled with recorded bird songs and nature photographs, but quickly exited. Other visitors to the Harvard Museum of Natural History moved swiftly through the room as well.
But Sarah Duignan from Dublin, Ireland, stopped at the photos of mountains, rivers and lakes.
Duignan walked to a photo of a moose calf ambling through a stream and stopped. Walking over to another photo of a Maine forest colored brilliantly as if by paint, Duignan stood silently for a few minutes.
"I didn't know where this was or what this was about. But the photographs are beautiful. They do inspire you," said Duignan, who had just arrived in Boston with her husband on their honeymoon.
"This place is obviously gorgeous and would definitely inspire you to go to Maine."
Few seemed drawn in by the photographs and historical text at the exhibit on Henry David Thoreau and the Maine woods here on one rainy weekday in May. Be that as it may, Harvard Museum's Executive Director Jane Pickering remains determined to get the exhibit, "Thoreau's Maine Woods: A Journey in Photographs with Scot Miller," to Maine.
Pickering and Janis Sacco, Harvard Museum's director of exhibits, believe when the Maine Woods exhibit closes in February 2015 it should travel to Maine. They're just not sure where that might be.
As of last week, they had not found a willing museum or exhibition hall in Maine to host the exhibit, which opened last November.
But the say they're not giving up.
"Museums try to tackle issues like climate change and environmental issues," Pickering said in her Cambridge office. "Many issues are controversial. But museums are usually a trusted source to approach these issues in an intellectual and honest way.
"Art brings people who don't necessarily think of themselves as outdoors people into the outdoors. People interested in photography hopefully will see this and say, 'I've got to get up to Maine.'"
As it turns out, museum directors and Native American historians in Maine, even some who knew nothing of Pickering's hope, share her vision.
Sheila McDonald, the Maine State Museum deputy director, said the state museum does not have the resources to shepherd the exhibit through the state, but it's a worthwhile idea.
"It's a timeless story, and the photographs bear viewing and understanding," she said.
The director of the University of Maine's Hudson Museum of Art, Gretchen Faulkner, had not seen the Harvard exhibit, but voiced an interest in it. She said the story of Thoreau's journey through the Maine woods with Penobscot guides is an important, relevant story today.
"We would probably be interested in it," Faulkner said. "It is definitely something on topic for the Hudson Museum, as our collection includes Maine Indian holdings and we have a Maine Indian gallery. It is the path Thoreau took that is central to the native people of Maine. Katahdin is sacred to them. Mainers should learn about that."
And James Francis, the Penobscot Nation tribal historian, couldn't agree more.
"I think we certainly can find a venue before next spring. Then we can look elsewhere for it to travel. The more people this can reach the better," Francis said. "I think it is vital. I think through Scot (Miller's) photographs and also his trip, it gives people a view of the wilderness that is still out there. That same wilderness Thoreau and his guides experienced. I don't think a lot of people get to witness those places. They're hard to reach. And it's vital people from all walks of life see them."
The exhibit tells the story through photographs and historical panels about Thoreau's journey through the Maine Woods. It's a contemporary view of Maine's "wildest country" that was traveled by Thoreau on three trips in the mid-1800s, seen through the Texas photographer's eyes.
Along with the images are quotes and historical accounts from Thoreau of the natural sites he saw, from Chesuncook Lake and the Allagash River to the East Branch of the Penobscot River and Mount Katahdin.
"Ktaadn, its summit veiled in clouds, like a dark isthmus in that quarter, connecting the heavens and the earth," Thoreau is quoted in the exhibit.
Harvard Museum of Natural History sits in a vast complex that encompasses three other research museums. The flagship museum amounts to a virtual dive into ancient and prehistoric times. Rooms full of century-old exotic taxidermy mounts, dinosaur skeletons and world-renown glass wildflower models are the draw here.
Nestled within these 150-year-old halls, the Thoreau exhibit appears more of a contemporary art gallery sandwiched between displays on evolution and kiwi eggs.
Pickering and Sacco said as a traveling exhibit, the photographic collection could have a greater impact in Maine than in Boston.
"People who live in Maine should see this exhibit," Sacco said. "They live in this wonderful area and they may or may not have a good sense of what they have. Having grown up in Washington County I know you don't have many opportunities there. I felt this needed to go to those places.
"There's a connection there, because you can experience (the Maine woods) today the way Thoreau did."
Pickering, like so many Maine tourists, has been as far as Acadia National Park in Maine, but has not wandered inland from the coast. Now she hopes this small exhibit inspires others to do so.
"I've never been to the North Maine Woods but I think it's stunning. They're powerful images," she said.
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Early Beatrix Potter illustrations brighten Bonhams' rare books auction
Early Beatrix Potter illustrations brighten Bonhams' rare books auction
These captivating watercolours were made to go with Potter's Amiable Guinea-Pig poem
Bonhams' Fine Books and Manuscripts auction looks to have something from everyone. We've already reported on the classic texts marking mathematical and scientific progress alongside a beautifully illustrated piece of historic travel writing.
However, a set of illustrations of a very different kind are also on offer - some early watercolours by Beatrix Potter.
The affection felt for Potter's works is sometimes underestimated. Back in November 2009 we reported on a selection of original works by the writer, artist and scientist which easily beat their estimates at Bloomsbury auctions.
Notably, a Jeremy Fisher scene in full, beautiful watercolour over the oval pen and ink drawing sparked a small bidding war and quadrupled its expected price of 3,000-5,000 to be taken home for 16,000 (nearly $26,000). So her work is well worth considering as an investment.
The illustrations on offer at Bonhams are associated with The Amiable Guinea-pig.
Classic early Beatrix Potter illustrations
To be precise, this sequence of 5 vignettes was drawn in 1893 and three of them redone years later for The Amiable Guinea-pig from Appley Dapply's Nursery Rhymes, first published in 1917. Potter's journal entry for February 5th, 1893 recounts:
"I went to the Pagets somewhat guilty. This comes of borrowing other people's pets. Miss Paget has an infinite number of guinea-pigs. First I borrowed and drew Mr. Chopps. I returned him safely. Then in an evil hour I borrowed a very particular guinea pig with a long white ruff, known as Queen Elizabeth.
"This PIG - offspring of Titwillow the Second, descendent of the Sultan of Zanzibar, and distantly related to a still more illustrious animal named the Light of Asia - this wretched pig took to eating blotting paper, pasteboard, string and other curious substances and expired in the night... I suspected something was wrong and intended to take it back,
"My feelings may be imagined when I found it extended a damp - very damp disagreeable body. Miss Paget proved peaceable, I gave her the drawing."
The Amiable Guinea-pig is among the earliest of rhymes that Potter used for the 1917 work, and the illustrations are listed here at $12,000-18,000 for Bonhams' auction which takes place on February 13, 2011 in San Francisco, California, USA.
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A new technology that measures the precise level of carbon in soil could drive a national boom in carbon farming.
Central Queensland company Carbon Link recently secured $1 million from the Federal Government to commercialise the system, which they have been developing for nine years.
One farmer, Andrew Lawrie, already estimated he could add 50 per cent to his grazing income through the technology.
The process requires days of drilling on a property for soil samples to determine the initial level of carbon.
Crops and grass are then planted to pull carbon from the air into the ground.
In five years time, the soil is examined again to determine how much carbon they have managed to store, earning the farmers money.
The technology opens up another industry for producers who can sell off the stored carbon in their soil to polluters under the Emissions Trading Scheme.
Cattle farmer Andrew Lawrie is trialling the system at his cattle farm at Gogano, west of Rockhampton, and said it offered both environmental and economic benefits.
Carbon Link business manager Ian Hall said carbon is beneficial for the growth of plants and soil health, and does not cause negative environmental effects when underground.
"Farmers will be able to use these managements practices to increase their soil carbon, and the productivity [of the land] and offset the effects of global warming," Mr Hall said.
"They get improved drought resilience, as it allows for the soil to retain the moisture longer, and less erosion, so there's a benefit like even to the reef because there's less run off occurring."
Mr Lawrie said it is still a risky move as it will not offer a financial return for years.
"There's no income from it, there's a fairly big upfront cost now, and then we need to measure it in five years and we get paid on the difference," he said.
"It's something that we can't see in the ground, so you know there's a lot of research saying we can make money, but we have to look after it properly.
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"In the world of trading, when you make a profit someone else makes a loss", mused Daniel Chia, 36, a financial professional who had been managing money for hedge funds and sovereign wealth for well over a decade. The man sounded dismayed at corporate life. "I research and build systematic strategies that finds biases in the market to make money. It's exciting, but soon you start to wonder – what are you doing with your life? Does your work add value for yourself? Does it make an impact on others?"
His business partner, Cynthia Siantar, 30, is an ex-investment banker. As she rose amongst the ranks in the male dominated financial and tech industries, she reveals a love of being in places where no one ventures.
When asked why she chose to quit her job to build a start-up from scratch, her answer: corporate politics. Working in a large corporate (bank) means you inadvertently end up with bureaucratic throat-cutting. More time is spent on unproductive politicking rather than work that is meaningful for the client.
"I was feeling like I was losing the spark. The fire in the belly. I wanted that back", recalls Cynthia.
The tech duo are the minds behind the app Call Levels. The investment tool sits on your phone and alerts you when your stock hits the target price you set. Call Levels had such tremendous potential that ex-Head of Commodities for Forex and Short Term Interest Rates in sovereign wealth fund GIC, Timothy Teo, sank USD$100k into the development of the technology.
Corporate burnout is affecting more and more young professionals. More are ending up with medical problems, including insomnia, depression and hypertension, as well as all-round dissatisfaction with their work.
The benefits of running your own business is a calling that can be hard to ignore.
How do we get going? Is it sheer hard work, or would a great idea see a project through to fruition?
"The great idea is just but the first step. The rest of the magic is in how you execute the idea. Case in point, when Facebook and Google came about, there were already similar platforms. The idea wasn't unique. How they executed it was. If you comb through the billion dollar apps, they weren't just about ideas", said Cynthia.
"I'd say its 99% luck", argued Daniel. Here's the reason he gave: you need the right mix of energies to meet the right people at the right time. It doesn't matter if luck follows work, or vice versa, you need it.
You need to work very very hard to get the odds slightly in your favour. Things will happen and things might snowball, but you have to keep working at it. And then, you can try to get lucky.
Ok so what about if I had a great idea, but no money? Is there such a thing as the zero dollar start-up?
"I was in Harvard when Mark Zuckerberg started. Even that wasn't a zero dollar startup, they had to raise money right at the start. They had to work very hard at their project. Work for free," Daniel recalled.
It couldn't be absolutely zero dollars. Even at the initial stage, even if the founder himself/herself can do everything on their own, there is still opportunity cost.
Even then, as you grow, one person can't do everything. You had to pay for the right mix of people to work for you, even if it means outsourcing to other vendors.
"You can't be stingy on manpower and talent. To attract the right talent for the company, the compensation must be competitive or in the start-up world, offer opportunities for growth and upside through equity", reminded Cynthia.
"It also helps if the boss is hot", joked Daniel.
If you do, both of them advised against jumping into any project if your only fuel is passion and faith.
"But I'd say, if you really believe in it, just do it", said Daniel with conviction. "If you really believe in something, there is no risk too big. If you have tremendous conviction on something, you have to be bold and go for the jugular."
Everyone wants to be a business owner but the caveat is – you must understand and be willing to accept the consequences of failure. Go in with both eyes open. Not just a fluffy feeling of passion and faith.
"I have a safety net, even if I fail, I still have a home to stay in. I have a good track record and I can get employment. Be aware of the consequences, don't spend the rest of your life paying back a mistake," warned Cynthia.
After some thought or actual experience, you may discover that entrepreneurship may not be your cup of tea. It is OK. Many have gone through the process of setting up businesses, failed and subsequently climbed higher and further in the corporate world.
Lessons learnt and business skills adopted would have added to your collective experience and will certainly have practical application to your working life.
The business world needs talent with an entrepreneurial attitude and an entrepreneur's motivation.
On a national level, Secretary-General of the NTUC, Chan Chun Sing shared similar views. At May Day Rally 2016, he described the modern business cycle as "becoming more frequent and intense" and workers are changing jobs more often and moving between industries.
Chan discussed the needs of young workers, amongst which include career development opportunities, training programmes and opportunities to network and to work beyond Singapore. These evolving needs show a labour force in transition and it is also a test on how the Labour Movement will adapt to the changes. Already the Labour Movement is growing its network to reach a new profile of workers, such as freelancers, self-employed, SME employees and other professionals.
As a Labour Movement, their intentions are simple and clear – to help workers get better jobs, better pay and better lives – but they also need to be sensitive to any changes in the work landscape. As mentioned during NTUC's May Day message in April this year, "The interests and needs of our rank and file, professionals, managers, executives, part-timers, freelancers and even the self-employed are all different. Hence, our services for them must be similarly diverse."
If you have a robust plan, an exciting idea and a fluttery feeling in your guts that it just might work, why not give it a go and give it your all? At the end of it, if it doesn't work out, there's always a job there for you and with the new skills you have gained – you won't be any worse off.
The writer is a full-time unionist who crafts stories pertaining to labour issues.


text: Drakeardian 246 Posted September 17, 2019 Share Posted September 17, 2019 Something seemed to start in Karl, maybe it was that itch, maybe it was the hunger. Maybe it was the Adrenaline in his system as his amygdala flooded his brain with fight or fight chemicals. His claws starting to burst out of his gloves and the glowing scars on his arms starting to glow red, his mouth opening to show his fangs. He was definitely hungry but he seemed to find it in infected flesh. That kid did look a bit too appetizing. "Goddamnit Karl, focus on those monsters!" thought the Lasiran as he looked around to where the voice was coming from. He frowned and looked to the others. "Did you all hear that?" he asked with a concerned look on his face. Link to post Share on other sites


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Caffé Il Latte
Overall Rating: 5.300
|Notes: Outdoor Seating
|Formerly Café Lil Bean. A tiny, Asian-American-run, European-themed sidewalk cafe goes heavy on the Illy theme. Filled with the cramped charm of random Italian trinkets, small art prints, and walls covered with Polaroids of worldwide tourists. Frequented by European tourists from nearby Union Square hotels, so don't be surprised if you're captured by "paparazzi." Understaffed, so service is often painfully slow (part of its homage to European cafés?). Espresso is served with little crema with a mild, herbal flavor and an unfortunate sour edge (too cool a brewing temperature?). [CLOSED: Farm:Table cafe as of 2009.]


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It's a new year, and with it comes a crop of fresh album releases. From Judas Priest to Paul McCartney to Five Finger Death Punch, this year is already looking up when it comes to new tunes. Read on for 10 much-anticipated albums releases (in alphabetical order) on the way for 2018.
A Perfect Circle
It's the year for new A Perfect Circle music. The band has promised to unleash their first studio album since 2004's eMOTIVe sometime this spring, and judging by the band's two new tracks, "The Doomed" and "Disillusioned," the set will be doom-y and atmospheric, in classic A Perfect Circle style. Guitarist Billy Howerdel has a fancy for Gibsons, especially Les Pauls. "It's all I really play," he told Gibson.com in a previous interview, adding that, "They're solid. They do well when you throw them 30 feet in the air. Plus, there's the beefiness of the sound, the playability, the scale. I prefer the Gibson scale. It really comes down to the sound for me. To me, there is no other guitar I go towards."
Alice in Chains
Even years after the passing of original vocalist Layne Staley and, more recently, bass player Mike Starr, Alice in Chains forge ahead. Jerry Cantrell and the group consistently tour and create new music with vocalist William DuVall and have reportedly been working on new music the past year. Will the fresh set hit ears this year? Considering the band recently announced a handful of spring North American tour dates, things are looking up.
Five Finger Death Punch
Judas Priest
You know it's going to be a good year when new Judas Priest music is involved. The British metal heavyweights continue to soar with their towering classic metal sounds, and their new album, Firepower, is expected to drop in the early part of 2018. Longstanding members Rob Halford and Glenn Tipton wrote the tracks with their newest band member, the talented Flying V and Les Paul player Richie Faulkner. "Gibson is part of who I am as a player," Faulkner told Gibson.com in a previous interview. "It's been synonymous with rock 'n' roll and blues and wherever you can imagine."
Megadeth enjoyed major success with their 2016 studio set, Dystopia, which earned the band their first Grammy Award for Best Metal Performance. Now, is new Megadeth up ahead for 2018? Frontman Dave Mustaine recently tweeted that the band will be back in the studio to work on a new album by the middle of 2018. "I work in the studio all the time. Do yo mean for the new record? That will be prolly the mid of 18," he tweeted in response to a fan's question. Bring it on!
Myles Kennedy
Myles Kennedy has become a household name, thanks to his time singing with Les Paul great Slash in the Conspirators and fronting Alter Bridge. Now, Kennedy is putting his soaring tenor to good use with his debut solo set, Year of the Tiger, which is due out on March 9. Hopefully a solo tour will follow, because Kennedy's vocals are always pristine live.
Ozzy Osbourne
Metal icon Ozzy Osbourne has already announced that his farewell tour will run from 2018 to 2020, but what about a final album? Ozzy has been dropping hints that he's working on a new record, and now that Zakk Wylde is back in the fold, we're extra excited for Ozzy's final studio collection.
Paul McCartney
Sir Paul is looking to unleash some new tracks in 2018. In a Q&A posted on the Beatle legend's official website, McCartney said, "I'll probably be putting out a new album. So, I'd like that to be something I really love and then hopefully the fans will love it, too!" He added that he's "putting the finishing touches (on the project) now and at the beginning of next year."
Pop Evil
Michigan rockers Pop Evil have achieved major radio success with powerful tunes such as "Hero" and "Torn to Pieces." Now, the crew is gearing up to release their self-titled follow-up to 2015's Up. Look for the new set on Feb. 16. Frontman Leigh Kakaty is a big fan of Gibson Hummingbirds and Les Pauls. "I write on a Hummingbird, and I've been writing more on Les Pauls lately and doing some more electric work, too," he told Gibson.com in a previous interview. "We've had such success with acoustic guitar, and with this band, I always like to explore different things, so that's where writing on the Les Paul is coming into play."
Could 2018 be the year for new music from Maynard James Keenan's Tool and A Perfect Circle? We can hope. Fans have been begging Tool to release their follow-up to 2006's 10,000 Days for years now, and drummer Danny Carey has implied that the new tunes will be out by the middle of 2018. That said, rumors of a new Tool album have circulated for years. What is confirmed is that Tool, along with A Perfect Circle, will both perform at Rock on the Range festival this May in Columbus, Ohio.
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A day that will go down in Ducati's history
Ducati Marlboro Team riders Troy Bayliss and Loris Capirossi finished MotoGP's 990cc era in awesome style at Valencia yesterday, storming to a dominant one-two finish in front of a capacity crowd of 129,000 noisy fans.
Ducati's recently crowned World Superbike champion led from start to finish in a one-off ride replacing the injured Sete Gibernau, while Capirossi came through from third on the first lap to shadow his team-mate to the flag. Along the way Capirossi smashed the lap record, secured the team's first one-two MotoGP finish and took third overall in the World Championship, the Ducati Marlboro Team's best finish in the MotoGP riders' series.
The race was a perfect end to the 990cc Desmosedici project that started so well at Suzuka 2003, where Capirossi scored a podium result first time out. Bayliss' brilliant win brings the team's total of MotoGP wins to seven, the other six won by Capirossi in 2003, 2005 and at this year's Spanish, Czech and Japanese GPs.
During its four seasons in MotoGP the Ducati Marlboro Team has also scored a total of 27 podiums, nine pole positions and eight fastest laps. Next year MotoGP switches to 800cc engines.
Troy Bayliss, Ducati Marlboro Team, race winner, 19th overall, 25 points
"Honestly, it's been a fairytale weekend, I'm still pinching myself. I've had a great year, winning the World Superbike championship was a good start! Then just when I was kicking back I got a phone call asking if I was interested in doing this ride. It was something I couldn't knock back because I started the Desmosedici project with Loris at the end of 2002 and had some great times in 2003 and 2004, so to be able to come back and finish off the story at the last 990 race was incredible. I brought a few guys with me- Paolo Ciabatti, Davide Tardozzi and Ernesto Marinelli - and together with my old squad from 2004 we took it step by step and really enjoyed the weekend. Thanks to everybody because this will be my last ride in MotoGP, I've had some great times but I'm really comfortable where I am and this is probably best left to the young guys. To take a win is incredible - I've showed I can still ride around in circles pretty fast."
Loris Capirossi, Ducati Marlboro Team, 2nd, 3rd overall, 229 points
"This has been an incredible season, one of the best, with many different race winners and a lot of nice fighting. This weekend started really well, Friday and Saturday were very good and today was pretty good. My start wasn't so great, some guys overtook me. Anyway, I got past them and tried to follow Troy, but he rode really, really well today. My pit board told me that second was good enough for third in the championship but it would have been difficult to beat him. I am really happy with third overall and we are only 23 points behind the champion. I have had some bad moments this season but all year my team did a really great job, so my thanks to them because my bikes were always so good and I never made any mistakes. Now we are ready to put all our focus into next year. We start testing the 800 again in a few days and we know the bike is already not so bad. We also believe a lot in Bridgestone's power, sometimes the tyres weren't perfect but sometime they were really good. Congratulations to Troy. When I saw how fast he was on Friday I said ?wow, this is a good talent, a good guy!'."
Federico Minoli, president and CEO Ducati Motor Holding
"This day will go down in Ducati's history. This is the first time we have had a one-two finish in MotoGP, the first time we have won the first and last races of the season and our best-ever championship finish. It's a great end to the year, a good omen for 2007, great for team morale and very important for our technical partners Bridgestone and Shell Advance and all our sponsors."


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With the dollar weak in Europe and gas prices near record highs, many Americans are opting to save some cash and take short-distance travel alternatives for this year's summer vacation.
The economy drive is understandable, but following the herd has never been my style. I still wanted to find a way to take my children to another country this summer to give them the experience of being immersed in a different language and culture.
The solution: a vacation in Quebec, where my 10-year-old son and two daughters, ages 13 and 7 years, would find 98 percent of the residents are Francophones. Quebec is not France, of course, but it is sufficiently foreign to serve as a budget substitute at a time when fuel costs are driving transatlantic air fares ever higher.
In our drive for our kids' cultural immersion, my wife and I didn't want to just drive to a hotel staffed by English-speaking employees. We wanted the full cultural experience, so we opted to travel by motorhome, which would put us at campgrounds, grocery stores and gas stations throughout our trip. Our vehicle was a 31-foot Jayco Melbourne motorhome, loaned to us by the RV Industry Association to get a taste of RV travel.
Of course, virtually all of those French-speaking Quebecois speak more than enough English for us to be able to communicate, but we hoped we could get the kids to try some French too. And we wanted to find out the cost benefits of our approach: How much cheaper is it to travel by RV?
RV sales have hit the skids of late, and it's not difficult to see why. With gas at around $4 a gallon, our motorhome, with its 55-gallon fuel tank, costs $220 for a fill-up. We never had to face that scenario because we were never so reckless as to run our Melbourne all the way to empty, and because other than the diesel pumps at truck stops, the credit card approval for regular gas pumps won't let you buy that much fuel.
Fueling at about 400 mile intervals, we burned $550 worth of gas on our six-day trip. We plotted a course north of Washington, D.C. to Harrisburg, Pa. From there we rode Interstate 81 all the way to the Canadian border, reaching it after an overnight stay on the shores of Lake Ontario in Sackets Harbor, near Watertown, N.Y. Once in Ontario, we drove east to Montreal. Our return took us through Lake Placid in New York State's Adirondack Park, picking up Interstate 88 west of Albany and Interstate 81 back to Washington, D.C.
Most of the pumps we encountered along the way cut off at $75, and we typically put that in twice per stop. We did encounter a Sheetz station in Pennsylvania that allowed us to buy $125 worth of gas at once, so while earlier $150 fill-ups totaled more, that $125 on a single receipt marks the largest gas purchase I've ever made in one transaction. It also marks the first purchase of fuel that exceeded the cost of my first car, a 1964 Ford Falcon.
The guy was asking $100, but as a crafty 14-year-old I talked him down to $95. Remember the old joke about how to double the value of a Yugo — fill it up with gas. That joke is now true for rusty old Falcons.
So why travel in a fuel-thirsty RV when gas is at record prices? Because it's still cheaper than flying and staying in hotels. Our family of five stayed one night in a New York state park for $20 and four nights in the Kampgrounds of America Montreal South campground for $50 on each of four nights.
Online travel agency Travelocity.com says that it can send me to Montreal in the air and put me in a Knights Inn for the $550 we spent on gas, but that's per person. And you have stay in a Knights Inn. Nicer hotels brought the travel tab to around $800 — again, per person.
Unlike most hotels, our RV had a refrigerator, a freezer, a stove and microwave/convection oven, so we were able to prepare most of our meals ourselves, making for huge savings. Considering the $125 tab at a creperie in Old Montreal, I didn't want to eat out very much.
And the need to buy groceries added to the cultural experience, with nary a word of English overheard while stocking up in the Canadian supermarket. Having food right there on hand allowed speedier starts to each day's sightseeing, because there was no need to first go to a restaurant to get breakfast. It's hard to beat the cost and convenience of having a box of cereal, cold milk and dishes right there in the motorhome.
There were other benefits. The kids had been begging for a trip in an RV, and they really did play games at the dining table. At Canadian playgrounds they played on seesaws and merry-go-rounds — equipment rarely found on American playgrounds these days.
Also, the ubiquity of wine in Canadian camping shops — along with the batteries, milk, Coleman fuel and other camping essentials — was a benefit to their parents. Perhaps more importantly, there was the benefit of not having to struggle through an airport for an international flight with kids in tow.
For an air travel-weary dad, that aspect was priceless.
Perhaps these advantages are what drive RV enthusiasts, or perhaps it's the money they save. One fellow we encountered at a gas station, who was towing a Jeep behind his motorhome (with a scooter on a rack at the back of the Jeep), said he was getting a respectable 9.4 miles per gallon with his rig. Respectable, that is, for a house on four wheels. It's worth remembering that, unlike the car in your drive, a motorhome has to carry your family, three beds, a fridge, stove, sink and shower.
RV drivers calculate their mileage to the tenth of a gallon, because when you're filling up a 55-gallon fuel tank it really does matter. Gas has always cost more in Canada than in the United States, but we saw more RVs there and more RV dealers than anywhere in the United States outside the warm weather snowbird destinations. A fellow guest at the Kampgrounds of America campground in Montreal explained that he and his wife have 51 days of holidays and vacation a year, so they travel extensively in their RV.
In RV jargon, our 31-foot Jayco Melbourne was a "Type C" motorhome, built on a cutaway van chassis. In English, that means that it's one of those RVs that has the front part of a van and a camper stuck on the back, very much like many rental moving trucks and airport parking shuttles.
Jayco seemed to have executed most of the "home" aspects of the Melbourne impressively, with particular kudos for the impressive quality of the cabinetry. The air conditioner, refrigerator and combination microwave/convection oven all worked well, and the sliding windows were easy to operate for cross-ventilation when parked.
The table and couch convert to beds, in addition to the queen-sized bed in the rear bedroom. The manufacturer rates the camper's capacity as suitable for four adults and two children, but the table and couch beds were cramped even for the kids to share, so we'd rate its comfortable capacity as four people.
But the Melbourne has its drawbacks. Several of the light switches are located at knee height and are mounted in panels with multiple switches, so you have to bend down to see which switch does what. And the addition of stabilizers to hold the vehicle still when parked would be an improvement. Any tossing and turning by people in bed shook the whole vehicle and prevented other campers from dropping off to sleep.
With a price tag of $91,022 the Melbourne is the top of the line for Jayco's Type C van-based RVs, but you can get into a smaller, less well-equipped model for $69,786. The cost equation of RV travel is attractive as long as you can justify at RV's purchase price. We spent $550 on gas and $220 on campgrounds for six days of travel for a family of five, and our grocery bill was about the same as it would have been at home, though we did indulge in a few extra meals out so we could enjoy Quebec's French cooking.
And, yes, the kids bicker when packed together for a week, but they do that in hotel rooms, too. And they also play games and look out of the windows at the changing landscape. RV travel, it turns out, is a little like a visit to Quebec. It's a little foreign in some ways and very familiar in others, which makes it an exciting combination for the kids.
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Basepoint Bournemouth Add Extra Festive Cheer with Carol Service Match Fund
Hundreds of people joined Autism Wessex at the Christchurch Priory for their annual Carol Service on 5th December.
The performances included Ambassador Sophia Grech, an internationally renowned Opera Singer, the Funky Little Choir Company and students from our Lifeskills College, as well as biblical readings.
The event raised a fantastic £1,361.01 with donations from those that attended and sponsorship. Basepoint Bournemouth were pleased to match fund the event as part of our pledge to donate £10,000 to help fund the Information and Advice Service in 2017/18.
Karl Fuller of Basepoint Business Centre in Bournemouth said; "We are delighted to provide a festive boost to the money raised at the Carol Service! We know the work that Autism Wessex does with its Information and Advice Service is life changing for local people and are pleased to be able to support it by donating £10,000 over the year."


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Patient Information
Venous Hum
People often worry when they hear that their child has a heart murmur. Happily, most heart murmurs in children are perfectly normal. One such murmur is the "venous hum".
What Causes It?
The venous hum is caused by turbulence in the jugular veins (the vessels in the neck that are very visible when people sing on television). In children, the jugular veins become narrow in a particular spot as they pass under the collar bone (clavicle), and the blood going through this narrow area makes a whooshing sound very much like water through a kink in a garden hose. This whooshing sound is the murmur we call a venous hum. It is very clear that the venous hum is not caused by any type of heart defect – it is a normal sound.
Who has them?
The venous hum may occur in as many as one fifth of all children from time to time. Commonly, a venous hum will come and go over time.
What does it mean?
It is very important to understand that the venous hum is perfectly normal. It does not suggest any type of heart disorder. Children with a venous hum can play sports just like any other normal child, and do not require special medical treatment when they go to the dentist or have other medical procedures. In fact, it is perfectly fine not to mention this murmur when one is filling out forms for insurance companies, school sports clearance, and dental visits. Finally, it is not generally necessary for a child with a venous hum to have additional visits with a cardiologist unless they are under a year of age, in which case one additional visit is sometimes recommended just because a lot of changes take place in a child's heart over the first year of life.
What do I tell the grandparents?
Your best bet is to say that your child has a normal heart. Please feel free to share this information sheet as an explanation for anyone with whom you like.
Web Links
Here are some Internet links that might be helpful. They look pretty good, but I cannot vouch for their accuracy or quality. As always with the Internet, browser beware!
American Heart Association: Innocent Murmurs
American Academy of Family Physicians - Heart Murmurs in Children--What Parents Should Know
iVillage: Are Infant Heart Murmurs Common?
The Nemours Foundation: Heart Murmurs


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I never done any overclocking but i will probably do some basic OC in the future. I don't know if i am wrong by going for X470 mobos rather than B350 mainly because of durability and better VRM (i don't care about RGB and advanced and complicated overclocking)
So i am trying to get a 16Gb (2x16) 3200Mhz ram under 160$ that will work out of the box at full speed or over 3000Mhz with just enabling XMP without advanced overclocking.
I can't buy the G Skill Flare X mainly because the 250$ price.
And for what i have found, msi B350 is the only decent mobo that have th G skill ripjaw V F4-3200C16D-16GVRB on its memory support list, but i am concerned about its quality and VRM.
So i have been told to go with the Corsair Vengeance LPX 16 Gb (2x8) 3000Mhz with X470 mobos and its on the memory support list of Gigabyte X470 ultra ga.. and msi X470 pro ca....
But by knowing that mobos BIOS are frequently updated i am worried that not getting the G skill 3200Mhz ram is not a good idea as it will probably get supported by msi X470 mobos (because it is supported by msi B350 Tomahawk) in the future.
Please if anyone can help, i don't mind switching to another mobo with long durability and good VRM and get a guaranteed compatible 3200Mhz 16 Gb memory
PS: I want to build a pc that handles 3d rendering, video editing, 3D animation, gaming and streaming so i am between going with ryzen 5 2600X or ryzen 7 2700X (2700X may be overkill for me so probably i will go with 2600X).