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Contributed by Nathaniel Dean
On the night of September 9th, Nathaniel Dean, a member of Cambridge Masters Swim Club, attempted to swim across Lake Mempremagog - 25 miles from Newport, VT to Magog, Quebec, Canada. He ended his swim for safety reasons after completing 12.5 miles in 6 hours. This swim report was originally published in the Marathon Swimmers Forum. It is reposted here with permission.
Figured I'd share a swim report, since I haven't been on the forums in a while and I felt that some people could learn from my experience. I swam in In Search of Memphre this weekend but didn't make it the full distance to Magog. Here's a rundown of the weekend, and where I broke down, and some things I learned over the weekend that hopefully would help other people, including myself... I plan to go back and complete next year.
I should emphasize that none of this is to be read as an excuse. All of the mistakes leading to this DNF were solely my own, and while that is a bitter pill to swallow, I was fortunate that it happened in friendlier waters with decent support and with enough training to know that things were going very wrong, knowing when to pull myself out instead of getting myself into a dangerous situation.
For those who don't know the Kingdom, Lake Memphremagog is a very large lake stretching from Newport, VT on the south to Magog, Quebec, Canada on the north. A number of swims occur on that lake including a series during the Kingdom Games, which has a variety of distances ranging from 1 mile to 25km. ISOM is the longest of the lot, stretching from Newport to Magog, a distance of 25+ miles. This swim is to support more open borders between the two towns to improve the economy of both cities.
Two people were on the swim this year, and hats off to Mark Smitherman who accomplished this hard swim in 13 hours. We spoke a few time prior to the swim, as well as on the dock starting off, and he was a very collected and determined individual, not to mention a very good swimmer, hats off to him! I'd love to read his race report to see what happened on his trip, not to mention at the end of the swim.
The swim started at the Newport docks shortly after midnight on Friday into Saturday, accompanied this year by a 13' boat with support crew with gas motor and a very experienced kayaker. My crew consisted of my wife Katharine Owen and a fellow swimmer whom I helped train for the 25km swim two months prior, Daniela Klaz. My kayaker was Gary Golden, who handled his kayak very well.
Direction of the swim was north, and a gentle wind from the south pushed us at the beginning. Start was at 12:20am. My feed schedule this year had changed; in previous years I have fed every 30 minutes, and this strategy got me through both Catalina and MIMS, with the caveat that I had more "stuff" in my system, and thus it took longer to eliminate. My observers in the past had commented that this was something I needed to work on, so I came up with this compromise. So this year I had trained and planned to change my schedule from 30 minutes to 45 minutes, thinking this would take the pressure off my voids, encourage fewer breaks in general and increase my speed.
However, that training was not sufficient. Figuring I had already done sufficiently long distances and thus could handle longer distances, I focused on more intense shorter swims, which were also easier to fit into my work schedule. However, that combined with the feed change would set off one of a series of dominoes that would call the end of my swim far sooner than I had expected. That doesn't mean that I necessarily approve of training up to race simulation distance (I'm still of the opinion that shorter focused practices do more for you than junk yardage), but doing swims with a new feed schedule is definitely crucial to making that feed schedule stick and confirming that it is the right move.
The first three feeds (up to 2h15m elapsed time) go really well, and I'm in good spirits as I am told on the third feed that I've already crossed into Canadian waters. I had recalled that the water temperature drops a couple degrees when you do cross over, as the water is deeper at that part of the lake. I have a couple of small worries though: 1. The boat fumes were starting to overcome me, as I haven't swam around boat fumes in a while, so my support crew had to pull away, not to mention the boat fumes were getting to my crew as well. This means that I didn't get as much protection from the wind as I would like, and this would come into play later. 2. My feed system is a double ended carabiner on a rope, with hookable Blender Bottles containing the mixed feeds (for the record, this is the most fool-proof method of feeding a swimmer and I would not encourage any other feeding method). But this means that the crew has to throw the feed in front of me and then slow down so I don't have to chase the feed. But, these boats couldn't go slow enough unless they idled, and if they idled the fumes would concentrate and sometimes the engines would stall, so we didn't run the boat slow and I still had to chase my feeds.
3. For my other night swims, I have hooked a chemical glowstick onto the back of my goggles, and since this system has worked for me in the past, why mess with a good thing? This time though, my stroke had changed enough that it was easy to wedge the glowstick between my goggles and my shoulder as I breathed on my left, making it difficult for me to fall into my usual bilateral-3 pattern. 4. I had instructed my crew to use hand signals with me to signal feeds, changes in speed/pace, positioning, and other key instructions. While this had worked in previous swims where there was a lot more light from a bigger boat, in this situation the lighting was much more subtle, and the only thing I could see in my blurry goggles (defogger not working was the least of my concerns) was the light from the headlamps. So, every time Kate looked at me to count strokes per minute, I would think they were trying to signal me somehow so I'd lift my head. This also played a factor into the later hours.
At about 3 1/2 hours in, these little issues started to stack upon one another. Since I had switched from bilateral-3 to 4-2-4-2-4-2 on my right side, I was now only looking at my kayaker on the right and not the support boat on my left, making it a bit more complicated for my boat to signal me. But, I knew they were close because I could smell them. The support boat was on my left and the wind had shifted unpredictably from the south to the west and kicked up to 8 knots, meaning the fumes were blowing into me nonstop. The wind also dropped the perceived temperature of the air, which was a complete surprise to me, and one of the things I learned the most from this swim: air temperature is just as important as water temperature. The water temp was in the 70s, practically bath water. The air temp was in the low 60s, but because of the wind felt 10 degrees colder. The support boat was further out doing the right thing, but I ended up getting the fumes anyway and the wind still hit me.
That's when my traps started to seize up. The trapezius muscles extend from the neck to the shoulder and back down to the spine in a diamond pattern in your back. I was depending on them because I was shrugging my shoulders trying to keep the glowstick from not wedging on my shoulder, shortening my stroke and in the process making the situation worse. My crew gave me new goggles at the 3:45 feed (always bring backups!) that worked amazingly, but the damage had already been done. I had picked up my pace to keep ahead of the cold I was perceiving in my arms.
At this point, I started to weave between the support boat and the kayak. Unbeknownst to me at the time, this had more to do with both the support boat and kayak being pushed by the winds, making it hard for them to keep a straight line (the fact that either of them could keep a straight line at all is a testament to the mettle and capacity of all involved). However, I was under the impression that I was losing it.
4:30 couldn't come soon enough, and I gulped down my hot feed (one every three feeds). Another mistake: not only had I changed my feed from 30 to 45 minutes, I had also changed the frequency of hot feeds to cold from every other feed to every third feed. Instead of getting a warm feed every hour, it was every 2 1/4 hours. Having figured that the water temperature was 70 I didn't expect to get cold. But, sure enough, I did.
5:00 hits, the sun is starting to peak, and I'm literally counting the seconds to the next feed. At 5:15's feed I own up to it with my crew: I say that the goggles were working great but I was not, that at that point my traps seized so much I couldn't turn my neck and I had to rotate my entire body to get my face out of the water, that I was cold, and I was fighting really hard to stay with it. I was really weaving between the boat and the kayak at this point.
How much of this was psychological and how much of it was physical hypothermia I couldn't tell. All the little factors stacked up to a big monster. The inside joke of ISOM is that the swim is to search for the fabled lake monster Memphre. At this point I felt that the real monster was an amalgamation of all these little demons given a big inky canvas to weave stories of doom. I've observed for the Ice Mile, and have seem people go through mild to severe hypothermia. I've observed for marathon swimmers and while I'm lucky to not to have to pull anyone, I've seen people get out completely shivering after an 8+ hour swim in 75+ degree water. I've read about all the unfortunate people who have died during swims.
I glanced at the edges of the lake, mentally calculated how long it'd take for people to get me to shore if I really started getting in trouble. If I developed the mask, if I started experiencing the claw in my stroke. None of this was actually happening to me: In fact, my stroke rate was staying pretty constant, and my crew pulled in closer to give me comfort and warmth, only for me to think they were really worried for my safety and as a side effect made it seem like I was bouncing around even more between the boats.
So 15 minutes to my next feed (which would have been a warm one), just when the sun was coming out, just when all of this could have gotten to get better, I pulled myself. I still contend that it was the right move. My crew was surprised, they asked me if I was sure. I cursed to the sky and said yep. I was pissed that I psyched myself out, but it was still a good move. I honestly felt that was at least mildly hypothermic, and was shaking and purple when pulled onto the safety boat and onto shore. Now, I've swum BLS in 58-62F and other cold swims, so who knows how much of this was psychological or physical. I contend that the difference didn't matter at that point. I let all these little things pile up into a real monster and get the better of me.
I'm proud of making it 12.5 miles in 6 hours. But I did make some major mistakes that I felt that I could help others not make:
- Get a light that doesn't extend down the neck. Those round lights like the one Mark had on his goggles are amazing and will not interfere in any way with the swim.
- Train in cold AND WIND. It's a backwards feeling for the water to be warm and the air to be frigid, and it can really strip you of heat.
- For nighttime swims, have light signals instead of hand signals. Not dry erase boards, not yelling (most times you can't hear your crew), but light signals are the clearest and can be seen through foggy goggles.
- I'm still not sure how to prepare for swims with fumes. This still gets to me.
- DO NOT CHANGE YOUR FEED SCHEDULE UNLESS YOU HAVE PRACTICED IT IN A LONG SWIM AT LEAST 2/3rds of your goal.
- Proper training lets you conquer the little demons one by one so you can stop them before they can combine to be a Voltron of evil.
That lake is no joke. It is a hard swim. Do not underestimate it. I plan to face it next year with way more open eyes than I had before.
--Nathaniel Dean


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Anyway, since I have a shiny new 01 visa, all is forgiven (not that it was ever the H1B's fault – I'm just not very magnanimous), I should call him something else. It's a toss up between Blue Eyes (he has very blue eyes), or the Rocket Scientist (he's very clever).
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Aruna Shanbaug, 25, was a nurse in the King Edward Memorial Hospital in Mumbai when she was assaulted on November 27, 1973 by a sweeper. During the assault, she was tied with a dog chain around her neck, which cut off oxygen supply to her brain and left her in a permanently vegetative state.From that day Aruna could survive only on mashed food. She could not move her hands or legs and could not talk or even move facial muscles for more than 40 years. This led journalist-activist Pinky Virani, who published a book regarding her case, titled Aruna's Story, to file a writ petition with the Supreme Court asking for the legalization of euthanasia so that Aruna's suffering could be terminated by withdrawing medical support.
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For some it's a lover, others a protector, still for others it's a killer, a slayer of men, a taker of souls and waster of lives. What is it to me? I don't know.
Recruit Clapsaddle, my rackmate, and one of my only good friends here, sleeps in the bunk above mine, and my other friends Recruits Clouser, Cooper and Shin are passed out to my right and left.
Creeping out of my bunk I slink towards the rifle rack as the firewatch roves past. He doesn't care that I'm up and skulking about. We know no fear amongst one another, for good or ill, because we have become a platoon - brothers. We dislike one another, distrust each others natures even more, but at the same time we trust one another with our lives.
I let my fingers curl around my weapon's pistol grip as I reach the rifle rack and Drill Instructor Sgt. Vega's words come back to me.
"For some of you, this will be your best friend, for others…" he paused and looked at each of us in turn. "Others of you." He stopped and my eyes locked with his as he continued "Others will hate it, but you will not fear this." His strong hardened palm slammed into the hand guard as his beady orbs bored into mine. "You don't have to like it, you can despise what it does, but never fear it. Control it. Master it."
Stalking away from us and back into the Drill Instructor duty hut, he looked back at us. Back at me.
I nodded slightly, a dangerous move, presumptuous and unacceptable, but it went ignored, but not unnoticed. Nothing ever is, not by them.
Now, weeks since that day and nearly two months since I failed to secure my rifle, I have begun to harness this tool. Master it? No. But, do I fear it? Not anymore. However there is still fear, but not of the weapon.
Running my hand along the rifle, I look at my reflection in the flawlessly cleaned window. Hours are spent each day shining every pane of glass, every sliver of steel in the squadbay, dusting, wiping and cleaning every inch of our home.
My eyes lock with my doppelganger, my face scowling at the figure in the window – the unfamiliar face. The straight jaw line, emaciated features, hallow eyes.
Hallow, but alive. They are angry, calculating eyes.
The mirror-me and I look down at the thing of steel, plastic and moving parts in our hands.
The front sight post, the compensator, the barrel, and hand guards down to the magazine well and pistol grip. I know it all. The selector switch, the iron sights and the butt-stock.
And the trigger.
I don't touch it, I caress it.
I pull down on it and meet resistance, the trigger is stopped by the safety; the final obstacle you have to cross before you place a round in your enemy.
Enemy. What does that mean, who is he? Will I ever see his face and if I do will I still fire? I should, that's what the past several months of pain, sweat and self doubt have taught me, but who is he? A young man gripping his AK 47 out of desperation and fear, or is he really going to be the crazed zealot we talk about at length; the terrorist, the jihadist, the Haji – which ironically, is a term of respect given to one who has made the journey to Mecca.
I shake my head and banish the thought, that much I've learned. If you don't have the answer and it can't be found in your chain of command ignore it and move on.
I switch it on fire and slowly steadily squeeze.
Pulling the charging handle back and setting my M16 A2 Service Rifle on safe, I place my rifle back in its rightful place and move to my rack.
It will be returned tomorrow and I will graduate a week later, leaving the parade deck as a Marine.
Lying down, I think back on that sound, on the feeling creeping through me as I pulled the trigger and heard the click.
The fear isn't from the weapon.
Lover, life saver, protector, killer.
To me it is a tool. But, with it what am I? What do I become?
When we turn in weapons the next day, others bid goodbye to girls, to friends, to companions. I return a tool to its shed, and walk away empty handed, but not unburdened.


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Well, alot has happened since my last post. I should probably apologize for not updating you on my life earlier. I still haven't figured out how to type and my daddy has been a bit busy with his new job. He is the principal of Greece Athena High School. Even though this means he will be more busy, he still makes time for me whenever I ask. All I have to do is scream and he or mommy come running. I have them trained pretty well.
A couple weeks ago, mommy took me to visit daddy in his new office. I like his office… I was able to fall asleep there really quickly, and daddy was able to keep on working. He probably won't tell you, but even though he gets focused at work, he spends a lot of time day dreaming about me. Each morning before daddy leaves for work he sneaks into my bedroom and watches me sleep. He thinks I don't know this… but actually I am not asleep, I am just resting my eyes. I can tell he is there, and I like that he watches over me. I miss him when he is at work, but he is able to leave earlier than usual because it is the summer and there aren't students in the school until September.
Daddy works with a whole bunch of new people! They are all really nice and they like to smile at me and say how cute I look. One of the people there is Jackie. She is really nice. She bought me sweet shades because it is summer and the sun is really bright on my little eyes. I think they really enhance my cool factor.
A few weeks ago I went to Genesis Pediatrics for what I thought would be a routine check up, like all the other times. I like it there. Usually mommy takes me when daddy is at work. The people are super friendly and the walls are full of colorful murals and pictures. We got into the private waiting room in the back of the clinic and the nurses and doctor checked me out, like normal. Then, the scariest thing happened. Two people, who up until that point seemed very nice and friendly, pulled out this long swords and stuck them into me. I screamed… what else could I do with strange people stabbing weapons as long as my arms into my body. Finally after what seemed like an eternity (mommy says it was only a couple seconds), mommy pushed these mean people away and held me close. I knew everything would be already, because mommy always takes care of me.
I love the way mommy takes care of me and protects me. If you haven't noticed, I have really long dark hair. Mommy loves to give me baths and wash my hair. I really like it too… the other day, mommy thought it would be fun to blow dry my hair and see what would happen. Well, I must say, I looked pretty funny. Mommy sent daddy pictures at work and everyone thought they looked really funny. Daddy said I had the sweetest white girl afro ever. I have to agree. Mommy always takes the time to make sure I look good by dressing my up in cute dresses and nice outfits. She also sometimes puts bows and hairbands in my hair, they usually fall out, but I look so darn cute with them in. Daddy says I am the cutest baby he has ever seen… he is a little biased though.
My grandparents can't get enough of me… Grama Kirk comes down from Canada every week for a day or two. Grama and Grampa G come over often. They argue over who I love the best and whose name I will say first. I like being fawned over. Its fun.
Next week I will be going on my first vacation. It has been busy life so far and I really do think I deserve a break. Mommy and daddy are taking me to the Algonquin and Muskoka region of northern Ontario. It is going to be so much fun. I will write my next blog posting when I get back. Hope you are all doing well. Come for a visit soon.


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No need to be rich with thousands in your pocket just to try to dine sosyal in a pa-sosyal restaurant in La Union called Halo-Halo de Iloko. You know, Palagutom Boy is very poor that he can only afford to eat cheap food with price from 100 pesos and below and he found what he is looking for in La Union. An affordable yet sulit halo-halo priced with only 140 pesos. It was big and it can be good for 3 (so it is about 45 pesos per head per share) unless if you have a huge appetite like Palagutom Boy.
Buko Halo-Halo Fiesta @ 140 pesos, about 45 pesos per head (Good for 2-3 persons)
So if you read my previous post, you will be aware why I am featuring these foods below. When I became gutom (that's the Tagalog for hungry, and so what?) in La Union, I looked for an affordable yet sulit food in Halo-Halo de Iloko and the first one that caught my attention is the Buko Halo-Halo Fiesta for 140 pesos which is good for 2-3 persons..
Copied from my travel blog, uh.
Copied from my travel blog again and why not coconut? | These are the prices. The chepaest is 55 pesos. It depends upon your appetite.
Ay nakalahati na agad?
Yun pala eh, kinuha ko na lahat. Hihi.
Yun oh! Mga palagutom boys! Hating kapatid lang! Note: Bawal ang magkapatid sa labas :0
So this is what we ate for lunch with my palagutom buddy who happens to be oh-so poorer than me, and also happened to be my bro, my younger bro. I know I look younger :p
Bagnet! Yes, there is also Bagnet in La Union!
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We are also offering source books for each of the 5 races, which will bring not only a history for that race and detail how they reached the Consortium, but new and unique equipment for each!
Every Stretch Goal unlocks a new book - the initial funded goal will bring you 3 expansions, but the further the funding goes, the more expansions you receive, for free!
What to know more about what is in each book? We did a Livecast, where Ed did a thorough explanation of each existing book and talked about the upcoming ones:
Era: The Consortium is set in a Hard Sci-Fi universe of adventure in space, where you can play as Human or Alien in a galaxy filled with possibilities.
The Consortium is a huge, interplanetary society, comprising of multiple alien races who populate three star systems. The government of the Consortium is one where financial power gives one direct political power. As a result, the eight most powerful companies effectively rule over the Consortium, defending their monopolies and manipulating each other and the population in an unending struggle for power.
The Resistance has responded to this by attempting to overthrow the Big Eight. Although they are labelled rebels, many fight for the good of the people.
You can join either faction as a member of any of 5 playable sentient species who inhabit the Consortium, choosing from huge numbers of backgrounds and decide where in the 500 years of history you wish to play. You might...
...be one of the first colonists on a new world, far from Earth.
...explore strange, new worlds.
...make first contact with an alien race.
...fight in a war where the very existence of the Consortium hangs in the balance.
...join a Resistance movement and fight to save 14 billion lives from a plot by powerful individuals.
You may begin as a terrified civilian, forced into combat, but you'll have abilities that will keep you alive and ahead of the Smertios Security soldiers who are pursuing you... as long as you keep your wits about you!
You'll have your chance to become a trusted member of the Resistance, or to join another company within the Consortium for protection... You won't be worrying about equipment - you'll be given whatever it is you need to complete your mission.
This game gives you a universe of choices: fight with a faction or choose your own path.
This is Era: The Consortium. There are no limits.
Want to know more about the Backstory? Check out the website page!
Era: The Consortium has been reviewed by numerous individuals over the last 3 years, and Ed has several new interviews planned during this Kickstarter!
"Era: The Consortium is a truly unique SF. The mechanics […] certainly work really well and complement a game that distinguishes itself through a rich history, the opportunity to play in different time periods and a multitude of genre and style options a GM can choose from."
- RPG.Net
"It is literally the best sci-fi Role Playing Game I have ever seen and hence Era The Consortium is the game that I have been looking for."
- RPG Knights Review, Game Running Review
"There are a number of other books being launched for this and given the work that's gone into this, I can see them going far."
"It is powered by a solid rule set, and is elevated by entertaining setting vignettes and great artwork that really conveys the game. All provided in a great looking PDF."
From RPGRelicHunter:
"It's certainly a roleplaying game gem..."
From Talking About Games:
Also from Talking About Games, a review of the Fifth Race expansion:
"Reading over this game has made me want to start GMing again!"
"The only game I have ever played that got grapple rules right - they were simple and easy to follow."
"An absolute beginner to tabletop games, I picked up the rules quickly and was having fun within half an hour on my first session!"
"I find one of the strongest points of your game to be the massive amount of story and options for your character to take when customising them."
Want to know what a session sounds like? Check out the "Dice and Stuff" podcast of their game as the Resistance's "Claymore Unit"!, which has been running for over 3 years!
RPG.net Chat - Ed answered a bunch of questions on 23rd October!
We're Not Wizards - Ed returns to speak with Richard about Era: The Consortium!
Egg Embry had 12 questions for Ed, which he answered right here!
High Level Games had a few questions for me, which I was happy to answer!
The RPG Relic Hunter has produced another video about Era: The Consortium's expansions, which I very much enjoyed contributing to! Check it out here:
The Era d10 ruleset is designed to allow you to experience this universe in a way that is as unobtrusive as possible without being misrepresentative. By choosing your skills carefully, your character can dominate in any of 5 forms of combat, talk their way out of any situation or protect their teammates from harm.
The rules could be described as "A Success-counting dice pool system where you roll Attribute + Skill in d10s and the difficulty of the task determines which numbers count as Successes."
In case that was a bit too brief or jargony, here's a bit more detail:
The system is based around multiple dice - the more skilled you are, the more dice you have - and a variable goal based on activity difficulty.
Using an Attribute and Skill system, which each define their own areas of influence, you roll your dice depending on what you're attempting - whether Dexterity + Engineering for a precision piece of work, Intelligence + Engineering for a more theoretical problem or Luck + Engineering for a complete long shot, you'll be able to adapt to your circumstances and focus on your strengths.
Although you roll more dice the more skilled you are, the number you are attempting to reach varies depending on the difficulty of the action - if shooting someone in clear conditions, the GM would ask for a 7. If someone was laying a mine, more likely a 6. Firing over your shoulder at someone 30 metres away, while crouching behind a low wall would definitely be a 10!
You can download a character sheet from our website.
Character Creation - In this video, I create a Smertios Security Guard called John Smith to give you an idea of how it works!
Grapple Rules - In this video, John Smith faces off against the famous Ximian Worker Styxtirian in a grapple to the death!
Ranged Combat Rules - In this video, John Smith goes up against drunken sniper Alex Gyter and proves that not every shot he fires is lethal!
Persuasion Rules - In this video, John Smith faces his greatest challenge yet, a persuasion attempt from Steve Adams, the Voice of the Resistance!
This Kickstarter will unlock brand new Expansions:
Traders, pirates and everything between have existed since the early years of the Consortium. As the society has grown, so have the opportunities: Hardcastle Haulage has at least one station in orbit of every inhabited planet in the Consortium and a trader can make a lot of money buying and selling in the right places. Of course, they can make even more if they don't have to buy the cargo...
Free Trader brings players the chance to register as an independent trader and carry cargo between the worlds of the Consortium. It includes new rules for piracy, a complete list of cargo prices at each location and a detailed list containing a variety of cargo types and their legality.
Gaia Adaptation and Adjustment is a company built on biological innovation: by combining the genetic traits of foods, they invented Enviromorphic Fungus. Now, they seek to analyse what alien races may exist beyond the Consortium. By combining various DNA forms, they have created a series of test subjects...
Predictive Genetic Algorithm brings the opportunity to build your own alien race! To achieve that, it offers a large number of options for traits which the races can possess and a points system to ensure balance. Create a race which encounters the Consortium, become an escaped sample from a speculative race grown in a lab and much more with this expansion!
Very few ships venture far outside the solar systems of the Consortium. When one of those few is taking an obstacle-free course between two Oort Cloud locations, the crew discovers a wormhole, leading to a whole new Star System. Amazing opportunities await on the first New Worlds that the Consortium has had access to in 250 years!
New Worlds offers untouched regions of space to explore. Grab what you need from a new selection of exploration equipment, discover the secrets of the New Worlds and decide which faction to inform about their existence with this expansion! With the raw materials they offer, the fate of the Consortium may be in your hands...
The continuing Campaign, a fan favourite from the last Kickstarter, includes 10 sessions per book. Each contains a prologue, pre-made characters and a list of equipment, armour and weapons to help you on your mission. The other half of the book is for the GM and features a Session Summary and a set of Routes to Success.
We're currently approaching 50 sessions with this campaign and are offering 2 books for unlock as Stretch Goals - Parts 4 and 5!
Every Faction, even every group in the Consortium has enemies. Often, the only true place of safety is your home base. It may be based on a spaceship, a space station or on a planet, but the headquarters you build is one of the few places where you can be sure of protection...
Home Base brings new rules for creating a base, along with giving you the opportunity to assign space within: choose to have a training room, a research lab or whatever else you need! Each room gives the group bonus abilities, and the chance to improve their performance both in and out of the field...
Sirona. The very name strikes terror into the heart of every Sentient Being in the Consortium. Once you go there, you never come back. But Crone Correction, the company which runs this prison planet, recognise your skills may be of... use.
Sirona Specials is a brand new campaign for Era: The Consortium. Written by Ed Jowett and Egg Embry, this campaign will give the players a chance to earn their freedom from the dreaded prison of the Consortium, just by completing a few simple tasks! Travel across the Consortium for Crone Correction and get freed for doing the things you were imprisoned for in the first place!
Get the existing expansions!
Become a secret agent for the Consortium or the Resistance in The Secret War - gain access to new weapons and equipment, specially designed for working alone!
Follow the next 3 years of the Consortium's mythos in The Fifth Race: encounter a new playable alien race, gain plasma weapons and gravity control technology and uncover the mysterious "Prophecy"...
Enter the virtual environments within computers with Rapier - learn about advanced hacking techniques and get new abilities while inside cyberspace!
Gain Psionic abilities from telepathy to mental lash with A New Dawn... but watch out: with the addition of Psionic abilities comes an inevitable descent into instanity...
Explore the Sadoko in an homage to the Survival Horror sub-genre of Sci-Fi with Revival. In the best traditions of Aliens and Dead Space, explore an abandoned alien vessel, infested with creatures. Will You Survive?
Travel back to the start of the Consortium with Time Travel Camapign Parts 1-3. Will you be able to stop the Consortium falling into its annihilation by reshaping it? Find out in these detailed campaign books!
Any Paperback or Hardback Add-ons will cause an increase in postage prices. Please contact us with any questions!
The model last time worked very well, so we're back with the same again!
40% Creation of the Expansions!
Every penny that isn't used for getting the rewards to you will be used for development of the expansions! This will include artwork, writing, layout, editing, proofreading... everything we need to get the expansions made, short of printing (see below!)
10% Kickstarter Fees
Kickstarter takes its usual 8-10% cut. We'll transfer anything that doesn't get taken for that straight into creation!
50% Printing and Shipping
Experience has taught us that the majority of the costs relating to any Kickstarter are getting the rewards out to you guys, safely and in a timely manner. We've had a fair bit of experience now (this is actually our company's 15th Kickstarter!), so we're confident we'll be able to fulfil in a way you'll be satisfied.
Every backer will get all unlocked Stretch Goal books in Digital Format, so no-one will miss out!
Risks and challenges
This is Shades of Vengeance's 23rd crowdfunding campaign on Kickstarter, including multiple Core Rulebooks and a similar campaign to this a year ago!
While we haven't been mistake-free, we've always delivered on or ahead of time (except for two occasions, where a delay was agreed with Backers to give them more content!). We use each successive Kickstarter to build on the lessons learned from the previous, and we learn fast. At this point, we're confident in our ability to deliver the rewards we're committing to and to keep you informed if there are any delays.
The biggest individual challenge for this Kickstarter is managing a team of artists and writers from all over the world. We all live in different timezones, so coordinating is a huge logistical challenge. Ed's a Project Manager by trade and has some experience in this area, however!
We're dedicated first and foremost to continuing delivering you the best material we can, and secondly to bring it to you on time. We hope you'll support our efforts to do that!Learn about accountability on Kickstarter
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Gotham Murder Survivor - MBP TV e25
This week on MBP TV, the bears discuss three fall premieres: 'Gotham,' 'How to Get Away With Murder,' and 'SURVIVOR.' Are these shows worth your time? If you don't mind some spoilage, check out our thoughts!
Time Index
Intros: 00:00-03:47
Gotham: 03:37-28:52
How to Get Away With Murder: 28:52-45:43
Plugs: 01:13:17-END
Brad: Simpsons vs. Family Guy, Episodes 16-22 of 'Agents of SHIELD'
Casey: 'Madame Secretary' and 'Transparent'
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QuickTip: Comparing installed HotFixes on a two node Cluster
Wednesday, January 12, 2011
We had a Risk and Health Assessment Program (RAP) for SQL Server running in our environment in the last few days and one of the issues in the final report was: My PowerShell "wheels" started to roll and I suggested our team have a script to check for such inconsistences. So, here's how we can perform a quick check against a two node cluster (or any other pair of computers) using PowerShell and find if the installed hotfixes are not identical. First we use the Get-HotFix cmdlet to retrieve the list of...
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She's not been on a film set for a while, but Aishwarya Rai Bachchan still steals the spotlight
She might not have stepped on a film set for a while, but Aishwarya Rai Bachchan wants you to know that she's been right here.
Here's what I think: social media taints us. It's like dirty air, except, instead of giving us allergies, it rams opinions down our throats—mischievous, mostly speculative.
I am sitting in the hushed environs of Janak, the muted and understated Bachchan castle tucked away in a leafy Juhu lane. Pictures and posters from movies of yore and more trophy statuettes than you can count surround me, reminding me of a time when it was still called Hindi Cinema (the derivative 'Bollywood' still a long way off).
As I watch the door through which the younger Mrs Bachchan will walk through any minute, I wonder: what will walk in? The list is endless: Top brand model, actor, Cannes regular, The Most Beautiful Woman in the World, Goodwill Ambassador for UNAIDS, Padma Shri awardee, The Most Successful Miss World Ever, fairytale princess, wife, mother. The thought could make your head swell up enough to not make it through the doorway. And that is just the tip; the rest of the Wikipedia iceberg goes on and on. Better to take a deep breath and just see what happens.
Good advice.
Because when she walks in, all words, opinions, upper-case grand titles and hyperboles vanish like wood smoke in a breeze. What breezes in, instead, is the human being without the Post-it stickers, those errant little suckers that fly around with things scribbled on them. I've read the snide remarks about her weight gain: there is none evident. One might expect a little guardedness, for someone who has led a parallel life in a virtual world of print and film, but there is none; just a healthy dollop of a cheerful and happy demeanour. Because of just how buoyant she appears, I ask if she has been playing with her three-year-old daughter, Aaradhya. She avoids the question. Later, when I ask her to describe motherhood, she says she wished she had more time for it—but that it was all cool and lovely otherwise. One thing is clear through the course of our three-hour meeting: while she launches forth on everything, that is one part of her life she wishes to keep private.
Once my tea-and-biscuit needs are graciously taken care of, I ask her what she has been up to in all her time away from the media lens, and about the current hoopla swirling around her comeback.
Comeback? What a strange word. Comebacks are for people who cashed in their cheques, switched off the bright lights, retired to the Bahamas, and then sheepishly snuck back in realising they still had a little gas in the tank for one more. Why, she never went away. "Yes, there was a maternity leave, just like any other working woman—in fact, I was working right up to my sixth month, with my various product endorsements and other stuff. There were no movies, obviously," she says.
There were no movies, no, but we do remember seeing that exquisite partum glow on her cheeks as she tossed her hair for L'Oreal. "Yes, and the UNAIDS work carried on as well. They had approached me way back in 2001, and I had declined it then; there was too much going on at the time for me to do justice to it. I wanted to be more than just a pretty face issuing PSAs; I wanted to be hands on. Almost 12 years later, this seemed like the perfect time. Then there were the endless meetings to ideate new things, future movie roles, more and more brands…" she smiles, as if to reiterate, "What comeback?"
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I like taking photos of my dogs but for Luci, it is quite difficult to take photo specially when using only my phone camera as she is very gullible. She is very active and moves a lot. Whenever I take her photos, they always end up blurred, it is only a luck if I can get a good shot on her. So, whenever she is asleep, I try to take as much pictures as I can because it is the only time that I can get good shots of her.
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There is growing concern that Samsung Electronics' operating profits may decrease to the 7 trillion won level in the second quarter.
According to sources in the financial investment industry on July 6, given a continuing downward trend after Q3 2013, Samsung is unlikely to post operating profits of 8 trillion won in Q2, well below the estimated projections, to cause market shock. In Q3 2013, the firm's gross operating profits surpassed 10 trillion won for the first time.
Some analysts and fund managers predict that Samsung's operating profits will slip below 8 trillion won for the first time in two years. Korea Investment & Securities Co. estimated the figure at 7.914 trillion won (US$7.833 billion), and Samsung Securities with 7.929 trillion won (US$7.845 billion). The Korean tech giant will announce its Q2 estimate on July 8.
Samsung's worsening performance is mainly attributable to the slowing growth of the smartphone market. The information technology & mobile communications (IM) division represented 60 to 70 percent of the company's gross operating profits in the past, but profits of the IM division were greatly reduced in Q2. Analysts in the securities industry estimate operating profits of Samsung's IM unit at high 4 trillion won to low 5 trillion won in Q2, down from the 6 trillion won level.
Google has recently been accelerating the launch of a new offensive to dominate the market with a series of M&A deals and the expansion of new businesses. In contrast, Samsung has yet to make a breakthrough, which contributes to market anxiety. It is a very difficult time for the Korean tech company, since Chairman Lee Kun-hee's poor health, an improvement in corporate governance, and business succession are all happening at the same time.
An industry source said, "Google is involved in the smart home business by acquiring Nest Labs, and the search engine giant is expanding its businesses to wearable computers and driverless cars based on its Android operating system (OS)." The source added, "Next year, the situation may be far worse for Samsung, because its own Tizen OS still has a long way to go. Moreover, it doesn't have any visible promising new businesses."


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When oil starts to shimmer
reduce heat to medium and
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chicken until browned and
releasing from the bottom of
the pan (about 3-4 minutes).
Turn chicken over and place
skillet in the oven. Bake
chicken until juices run clear
when pierced with a fork
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Season chicken liberally with
salt and pepper. Preheat 1
tablespoon oil in a sauté
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cook until browned on both
sides and juices run clear
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Place the chicken breasts
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tenderize the meat and
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Marinate for a few hours in
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lemon zest). Heat a lightly
oiled grill to hot and place
breasts on. Cook 3 minutes
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Massage chicken liberally
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An aerial view of AT&T Park, a privately financed baseball park, the first MLB park to be privately financed since 1962
A series win for the Phillies has been very rare this year for this Phillies team. The Phils will go for a series win this afternoon in San Francisco.
The Phillies are now a full 15 games behind the Washington Nationals and the Phils home win/loss record of 26-36 is the worst in the National League.
In yesterday's game, Antonio Bastardo was tagged with his second loss in a week, and he had another blown save thrown in during this week as well. Bastardo's ERA has ballooned to 4.64 as well.
Ryne Sandberg doesn't seem like he has an answer to the Phillies woes this season. His postgame recaps almost sound like a carbon copy of one another, in this the worst season since the Phillies won the World Series, now 6 years ago.
This week's ESPN's Power Rankings had the Phillies at 26 of 30 MLB teams.
It's game 124 on the season for the Phillies today.
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Here's what happened. I didn't feel great around the 4th of July and shuffled off for an afternoon nap in the upstairs bedroom with the vaulted ceilings and views of the pasture in what we often call "Camp Mama." Fast forward, late July hot as blazes in our great State and my skin is hot and itchy and sloughs off in shallow sheets of itself. I am puffy and there is some pain.
In the weeks that followed, I ended up in the ER and then in the hospital on three separate occasions. I saw a lot of friendly and familiar faces. I spent the night in Intensive Care which was different from the bone marrow zone. In ICU, the nurse has two rooms he/she is responsible for and their desk sits just behind a row of windows looking into the two rooms where we patients lay on a bed. There is no bathroom, a commode is brought around when you need to go.
After spending one night in Intensive Care I moved up to the bone marrow floor. I was recognized by many friendly faces some of whose names I remembered. Some not. Everyone was calm and efficient. One day my veins were not cooperating and after six "pokes" I was still not connected to the bag of goods waiting to fill my tank. I think I may have cried as we waited for another IV nurse (people who specialize in IV installation). She swept into the room with a shock of deep silver hair crowning her vivid eyes nodded down to me and said "I remember you." And I remembered her. You could tell from the way she nestled the needle right into place without me feeling a single thing that she knows what she's doing. When someone with a full well of experience comes into a room crowded by one patient and several caregivers and makes it all better, it shows that she knows, she knows what she's doing. As the door closes after her, the Nurse Kelly with a whisper y throat and a raised head nods as she says "She's (huff and puff) been here for like thirty years!" Next time I'm up on the hill in need of an IV, I know who to mention.
That said, it looks like they have found a good donor who is almost (but not quite) a perfect match. She is mismatched by one "DQ" which is the same mismatch I had with my first donor. The new donor is 22. Younger is not imperative but it is helpful. A 22 year old immune system, I'll take it! There's a chance I will be able to have the transplant outpatient (which means going home every night) but if I do have to stay on the 16th floor it has been remodeled these last few years and the food is sooooo much better and I know more than before what to expect. Glass half full.
While in the hospital for fevers they put me through a CT scan which is where you remove your bra unless it's wireless and lay on the table and they pass you through a hole in a big machine and the woman in the machine says "Hold your breath" as you slide under and then when it is done she says "now breathe." Here is a paragraph from the report none of which I really understand.
Right lower lobe resection line is noted. Tiny parenchymal nodularity is noted again within the right upper lobe, right middle lobe and right lower lobe which is not significantly changed since the prior study. Subsegmental atelectasis persists in the left lung base as well the right lung base. The lungs are otherwise clear. There has been overall decrease in size of axillary, mediastinal and cervical adenopathy."
The spell check is telling me several of those words are spelled wrong, what does it know. When Dr. Meyers gave me the news she had a smile on her face so, I'm going with that. The plan is, to keep doing the treatment I've been doing to help lower the number of CLL cells in my body. Two more sessions will see us through October. In November Mom and I are going to spend some time in Paris. She gave me this trip as a Christmas present back when we weren't thinking about transplants. The Doctor says we can go so we're going. And then, if it all lines up, I'll have a new immune system installed early in 2011.
More than one person has looked at this as good news! Mom is hoping we go to Paris, have some wine, walk by the river, listen to the French speaking people and that when we get home the Leukemia will be gone. If not, we're as ready as we'll ever be and looking forward to surviving.
If, in reading this, you feel too sad or bummed out please, stop reading! I am not trying to dwell on the dour matters and sometimes I don't want to include the facts of the situation in case it will overwhelm someone. Then I say "Good God" and go on jotting down all these this's and that's.
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Newfoundland and Labrador
Commission for Destination Canada
Battle Harbour, Labrador Coast
Situated on an island on the eastern seaboard of Canada, Battle Harbour was once the economic and social centre of the area. A thriving saltfish industry was first established here in the 1770s before cod fishing dwindled and the area was abandoned as a permanent settlement.
The Battle Harbour Historic Trust now operate the site as a living museum and I was given the opportunity to stay in the perfectly restored Battle Harbour Inn.
I let time slip past in the company of good friends, whales and icebergs... pretty special. It's a perfect place to disconnect for a bit.
TIP of the ICEBERG
Almost 90% of an iceberg is under water hence the phrase above. The Titanic had no chance!
The blue "vein" in the picture opposite is caused by melt water. As glaciers creep over land, meltwater fills the crevasses and later freezes, creating clear, bubble-free ice.
The majority of icebergs we saw off Newfoundland and Labrador had come from the glaciers of western Greenland and the rest from glaciers on islands in Canada's Arctic area. They are best viewed in late May and early June along the coast of Newfoundland, and between March and July along the coast of Labrador. We were there in July and were spoilt for choice.
NEWFOUNDLAND Vikings
At the tip of Newfoundland's Great Northern Peninsula, lies the first known evidence of European presence in the Americas. A Norse expedition had sailed from Greenland, building a small encampment of timber-and-sod buildings around 1000 years ago.
Attracted by the forests which were beneficial to boat-building, house-building and for iron extraction there was also an abundance of food in the rivers which are still teeming with Atlantic Salmon today.
The remains of the Norse camp at L'Anse aux Meadows is the oldest known European settlement of the New World and was declared a UNESCO World Heritage Site in 1978.
Gros Morne National Park
A world heritage site located on the west coast of Newfoundland, Gros Morne National Park is encircled by tiny seaside communities, and comprises of forests, freshwater fjords, bogs, barren lowlands, striking cliffs and shorelines.
The barren Tablelands also tower over the park, looking more like a scorched desert than it's green surroundings. This burnt orange outcrop – an ultramafic rock known as peridotite – was forced up from the Earth's depths during a tectonic plate collision millions of years ago.
Gros Morne's grandeur and scale reminded me of Yosemite National Park in the US, only without the crowds of people and motorhomes. Epic.
Newfoundland and Labrador Tourism
Tour Labrador
To reach the West Coast of Newfoundland & Labrador, catch a Provincial Airlines flight to Deer Lake from St. John's. Gros Morne National Park is around an hours drive from the airport.
For Battle Harbour, you'll need to take the ferry from St. Barbe to Blanc Sablon. Check in with Carmen Hancock of Tour Labrador who will be able to handle all of the logistics associated with getting you further North. Carmen can also sort you out with dinner and digs in the tallest lighthouse in Atlantic Canada en route. Pretty special especially when you step out the front door and watch a pod of humpback whales cruise past. Seriously.


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UPDATE: CBR has heard from Marvel that, much like the teasers for Matt Fraction's "Fantastic Four" and "FF" teasers in August, the "Wanted" and "Killers" teasers are connected.
In a double-whammy of Marvel NOW! teaser goodness, Comics Alliance has posted a second teaser following today's earlier reveal of Dennis Hopeless and Salvador Larroca's "Wanted" teaser. The new image features "The Ultimates" writer Sam Humphries and "Ultimate Comics: Captain America" artist Ron Garney together over the word "Killers" in purple.
As the fourth teaser in the second round of Marvel NOW! books, Humphries and Garney's "Killers" teaser continues the trend of mystifying readers as to what the book could be. The Marvel Universe has many killers, and the color purple is associated with any number of them -- Norman Osborn's Green Goblin and the Purple Man -- but everything is set to change when "Avengers Vs. X-Men" wraps at the end of September, so whoever the "Killers" are is anybody's guess.
Today's teasers follow a number of other images released by the publisher this week including Dustin Weaver's interlocking "Avengers" covers depicting Jonathan Hickman's roster for Earth's Mightiest Heroes in a post-"AvX" world, Daniel Way and Steve Dillon above a targeted "Lightning" and Dennis Hopeless and Kev Walker above a blood-spattered "Survive."


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Since our return from Cordevalle Stanford Golf has hosted two of its fundraiser events. The Cardinal Classic was held on November 12th and the Big Game Cup took place yesterday (November 18th). Both were held at the Stanford Golf Course and were lots of fun for everyone, but most importantly they provided great opportunities for coaches and players to express thanks to its many friends and avid supporters of the Cardinal golf program.
The Big Game Cup matches up die hard Cal Bear supporting golfers against their Cardinal counterparts in the run up to Big Game football weekend.
Here is the Big Game Cup scoresheet published:
By an extremely narrow margin (32.5 to 30.5), Stanford BEAT CAL ...It all came down to the last score posted!
In the Big Game Football matches, Cal have been victorious in the past 7/8 matches. Like Coach Harbaugh, Coach Ray recalled similar dismay for his side prior to this latest Big Game Golf Cup encounter. However, whilst no-one can precisely quote the correlation between Big Game Golf and Big Game Football, Ray and his Stanford supporters are hopeful that perhaps this triumph signifies a turn in fortune.
Friendly rivalry was the spirit of the day and both Coach Desimone of Cal and Coach Ray of Stanford exemplified that spirit in their post match presentations. Turning attentions to the strength of present day Men's Golf teams on both sides of the Bay, "In all my years coaching, I have never known such a phenomenally high standard of college golf and the absolute icing on the cake would be to see Stanford and Cal battle it out down the stretch for the PAC 10 Championships at Stanford and then the 2011 NCAA National Championships at Oklahoma State," said Coach Desimone.
If you are up early tomorrow morning you can listen to Coach Ray and Coach Desimone talking Big Game on 680 am radio "Hooked on Golf" at around 7.15am.
The Cardinal team now break for Thanksgiving followed by "dead week" before "finals" exams.
Happy Thanksgiving!
Philip Rowe
Friday, November 19, 2010
Friday, November 5, 2010
Cordevalle - The final event of the Fall
The Cardinal are heading down to Cordevalle this weekend to dispute the final event of the Fall. "Both as a team and for each individual player, this is the last chance we'll get to put it on show in 2010" rallied Coach Ray to his men following a team workout earlier this week, "it's time to make a statement ahead of a spring Championship season that is really not far away now".
There several causes for optimism as the players prepare to compete at the UCLA hosted event:
1. It feels somewhat like a home event given that the venue is situated only 45 minutes south of the Stanford campus at San Martin. The players know the course well and had a chance to play the course on Monday this week.
2. Stanford picked up first place last year after shooting a team total of 24 under par... See last years results on Golfstat.
3. Sihwan Kim and David Chung finished 2nd and tied 3rd at Cordevalle last year respectively. Sihwan is also a former champion of the event having won it his freshman year. Andrew Yun is fresh off an individual victory at the Prestige and a 4th place finish at Isleworth.
4. David Chung has just returned to the lineup since representing Team USA at the World Amateur in Argentina last week and the Junior All-American is tipped to notch up multiple collegiate victories this season '10-'11. Chung is a player who knows how to win since his stellar summer of winning top level amateur events (the Porter Cup and Western Amateur) back to back this past summer.
5. Top 3 team finishes in the last two events without the Chung and Kim duo in the lineup have demonstrated the Cardinal team's strength in depth. The Gifford Collegiate at Cordevalle is a 6 man team counting 5 from the 6 scores, therefore this 'extra man' format is likely to be advantageous.
See the full team lineup here, follow us live from Cordevalle via http://www.golfstatresults.com and then check back soon for a coach's Fall Season roundup and update.
Go Cardinal!
Philip Rowe
There are only a couple of team slots left available for the Cardinal Golf Classic event held at The Stanford Golf Course on 11/12/10. Please contact the Men's Golf office to reserve one of those last spots.
PPS. Want to BEAT CAL! ? ...team up for Stanford and take on your Cal counterparts at The Big Game Cup on 11/18/10. Likewise, contact the Men's Golf office for more information and to reserve your spot.
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I know what you are thinking it's just another timelapse video, but I have to say I really enjoyed this film created by Joel Schat. There is just something different about this one compared to others I have seen recently. I think it conveys a sense of journey, which makes it more compelling then just a bunch of starlapse clips mashed up next to one another. I love the shot of the deer ice sculpture, the tight shot of the moon, the house with the smoke stack, and the hot air balloons. The film really did give me chills.
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Regula is showcasing a variety of innovative authenticity verification devices at the world-leading identity solutions event SDW 2018. This year the conference and exhibition is held from 25 to 27 June at the QEII Centre in London, UK. SDW 2018 is expected to gather the largest ever crowd of more than 75 security document experts, along with over 150 leading international exhibitors from around the globe. The event is supported by multiple organizations, such as Authentication Solution Providers' Association (ASPA), EEMA and European Association for Biometrics.
Regula, as a platinum partner of SDW 2018, is exhibiting its broad range of the latest document verification devices, as well as Document Reader SDK for iOS/Android applications. The software has already been implemented by various organizations, including IATA.
The full list of solutions demonstrated at SDW 2018:
Visit our booth #C21 on the 3rd floor where Regula representatives will share their experience in identity technology solutions!


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Bitter sweet moments of celebration! Come join J Soto and I, as we close out this placeless space, talk about what we have ruminating, see the work, watch the dances, and say good bye to our temporary Philly home. Thanks to all who have come out! More info below!
Please join us on Sunday, December 18th at 2pm for a performance by exhibiting artist Meg Foley followed by a gallery talk exploring all of our Nov-Dec exhibitions moderated by Philadelphia Museum of Art Curator Erica Battle. Exhibiting artists Kirk McCarthy, Kelsey Halliday Johnson, Stephanie Acosta, J Soto, and Meg Foley will be on hand to discuss their exhibitions and practices- an afternoon of bodies, things, images, ideas, and of course, snacks.
Erica F. Battle is the John Alchin and Hal Marryatt Associate Curator of Contemporary Art at the Philadelphia Museum of Art, where she has worked on exhibitions and collection building since 2006. She is currently spearheading the production of a new video installation by Rachel Rose, a project that will inaugurate a series of co-commissions and joint acquisitions between the Museum and the Fondazione Sandretto Re Rebaudengo in Turin, Italy. Additional project highlights include Bruce Nauman: Contrapposto Studies, I through VII (Fall 2016); the Philadelphia presentation of International Pop, a major exhibition originating from the Walker Art Center, Minneapolis (2015-16); Allora & Calzadilla: Intervals, a collaboration between the PMA and the Fabric Workshop and Museum (2015); Dancing around the Bride: Cage, Cunningham, Johns, Rauschenberg, and Duchamp (2012); and Bruce Nauman: Topological Gardens, the official U.S. entry to the 53rd Venice Biennale, which garnered the Golden Lion for Best National Participation. Battle is an alumna of the Center for Curatorial Studies at Bard College and the University of Pennsylvania.
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Pies, pasties fuel Minnesota summer road trip
Traveling always yields interesting facts about the places on a well-planned itinerary.
So when Mr. G and I embarked on our annual summer road trip eight days ago, it was with great anticipation — and empty stomachs — that we headed the car north, destined for the Boundary Waters Canoe Area Wilderness (BWCAW) outside Ely, Minn.
Along the way, I learned six important things.
First, St. Paul, Minn., is a hotbed of restaurants and chefs serving up local flavor — Minneapolis's twin sister holds her own when it comes to serving up from-scratch cuisine such as migas, roasted red-pepper eggs Benedict with artisan sausage and homemade pie.
Second, thanks to private guide Bill Griffin of Ely Outfitting Company and Boundary Waters Guide Service, I discover how to successfully portage a Kevlar canoe loaded with daypacks and fishing gear across boggy, rocky terrain.
Third, Griffin demonstrates that baiting a hook with a juicy, slippery and slimy extra-large leech — and that leeches come in different sizes, for goodness sake — is easier if you dry off said leech on your nylon hiking pants.
Four, a mosquito's incessant drone can be heard even through noise-canceling headphones.
Five, The Chocolate Moose in Ely — a popular stopping-off point where fishermen, hikers and troops of Boy Scouts gorge on burgers, fish sandwiches and steaks before heading into the woods to subsist on beef jerky and trail mix — makes a mean summer fruit pie.
And six, the regional savory pie known as the pastie — sometimes spelled pasty, say, in Michigan — is indeed pronounced "pass-tee" and not "pace-tee."
That last lesson came the hard way when I ask two young girls working behind the Zup's Market deli counter if they carry fresh pace-tees, thus revealing my you're-not-from-here ignorance.
Suppressing giggles and eye rolls, they responded almost in unison with, "Oh, you mean pass-tees?" Pointing to the case directly in front of me, I grab a fat pastie and head to the checkout; a convenient dinner in the event Mr. G and I don't catch any bass.
Let's go back to the beginning of the trip, an overnight in Minneapolis with breakfast at The Neighborhood Café in St. Paul, where locals flock for breakfast, lunch, happy hour and dinner.
I choose their interpretation of migas, a Spanish dish with scrambled eggs, tortilla strips, cheese, salsa and black beans. The plate arrives pretty as a picture, with cornmeal pancakes substituting for the crunchy tortillas.
"We're known for our pancakes," co-owner Mike Noyes nodded at the sign above The Neighborhood Café's pick-up window declaring in neon-colored chalk, "Best Pancakes in the Twin Cities."
"What about pie?" I volley the question to Noyes.
"Oh yeah, we have pie."
Noyes trots back to the kitchen and returns, cradling a glass Pyrex pie dish with two remaining gigantic pieces of French silk pie and some errant crumbs.
"Sunny Lane Pies, owned by two sisters, makes our pies," he said, waving the pie under my nose, tempting, tempting, tempting.
I snap a picture of Noyes and his business partner, co-owner Kris Masanz, posing with my two towering slices of French silk before they place them in a to-go box. Mr. G and I leave The Neighborhood Café, tummies full for the four-hour trip up north, road pie in hand.
While eating the pie — mile after mile of pines and tiny lakes zipping by the car windows — online research reveals that The Chocolate Moose is not only the place to go in Ely for some darned good home cooking, but is a pie pleasure palace.
Open only during the season — read: closed during northern Minnesota's harsh winter months — the restaurant takes full advantage of summer fruits and slices some eight to nine pies bursting with blueberries, cherries, peaches and rhubarb every day for hungry locals and tourists.
Before setting off on our wilderness adventure, Mr. G and I make a pie stop at The Chocolate Moose and settle in at the bar, ordering up strawberry-rhubarb and blueberry a la mode from server Brynne Ryan.
Seconds later, she plops down two plates of thick-crusted, home-baked pie, scoops of snowy-white ice cream melting in pools.
"People usually get pie here," Ryan said. "It's one of our things."
As we dig into our pie, Tim and Ione Prange of Lake Village, Ind., are swooning over a shared slice at a table behind us.
The couple has returned to Ely to celebrate 38 years of marriage and the place where they spent their honeymoon nearly four decades ago, long before The Chocolate Moose was on the cuisine scene.
"It's really good," acknowledged Ione, closing her eyes for a nanosecond while Tim devours forkfuls of pie and ice cream.
Looking around The Chocolate Moose, I see tables of families, a Boy Scout troop, individuals and couples like the Prange's, eating pie, mostly in silence.
Necessary sustenance, I think, for the outdoor rigors ahead.
About those pesky pasties. One afternoon, after an arduous hike on the Bass Lake Trail, Mr. G and I visit a beloved Ely watering hole, the Kwazy Wabbit. Recounting my story about buying pasties at Zup's earlier in the week, affable owner Jim Boal chuckles at my mispronunciation of the local delicacy.
He quickly emphasizes one important fact.
"A pastie," he said, refreshing my club soda and Mr. G's craft beer, must have rutabagas. And douse 'em in ketchup."
Seven. I learned seven things on my trip to the spectacular BWCAW.
Kimberly Winter Stern — also known as Kim Dishes — is an award-winning freelance writer and national blogger from Overland Park and co-host with Chef Jasper Mirabile on LIVE! From Jasper's Kitchen each Saturday on KCMO 710/103.7FM. She is inspired by the passion, creativity and innovation of chefs, restaurateurs and food artisans who make Kansas City a vibrant center of locavore cuisine.


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26 Lower Strabane Road, Castlederg, Co Tyrone, BT81 7AZ, Northern Ireland
Stories from the area on hi-tech video wall. Model of the Alamo Fort, Texas, where Davy Crockett made his last stand. His family came from the Castlederg area. Wheelchair access. Other times by arrangement.
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"2014 will be great. I'm thrilled 2013 is behind me. I plan to lose twenty pounds. I'm going on a diet and giving up sweets. I'm going to the gym three times a week. I'm taking more vacations this year. These are only a few of the resolutions I heard in the first weeks of the new year.
In her book, Mindset: The Psychology of Success, Carol Dweck has a quote: "Becoming is better than being". Popular in the 1960s, I wonder if it still holds weight in today's instant gratification always on society.
In a previous post, I wrote about Dweck's definition of fixed versus growth mindsets. People have good intentions with new year resolutions. Yet, most fail according to Franklin Covey and other research studies.
Dweck says our mindset — our reaction to setbacks – determines long-term success. How do fixed mindset people respond to negative performances and important life events?
For the fixed mindset, a poor performance is not permitted or allowed. Perfection is assumed because they are suppose to have the 'right stuff'. They believe success comes naturally and that effort and hard work is not required. The notion of 'becoming' or that of the journey is secondary. Instead, they believe the destination and result is the trophy.
When a fixed mindset person fails, they carry around a black mark over their head for a long time. They feel unworthy and inadequate and avoid challenges that require effort.
Growth mindsets, on the other hand, recognize setbacks as temporary. They see failure as essential for success and an opportunity for growth and learning. They are aware they have a choice and often ask for feedback and help to overcome challenges they identify as important.
An example of the growth mindset is Jim Marshall, a defensive lineman who played for the Minnesota Vikings for 18 years and started in an astonishing 270 consecutive games. He also played in two Pro Bowls and four Super Bowls. In 1961, while playing against the San Francisco 49ers, he made one of the most embarrassing mistakes in NFL history. He recovered a fumble and ran the wrong way, giving the 49ers a touch down before halftime.
He entered the locker room ashamed and devastated, aware that millions watched his blunder on live television. In an interview with Steve Young, author of Great Failures of the Extremely Successful, Marshall recalls how he felt:
"I was real down. And I was terrified. I hurt the team and I knew when I went back out on the field, I was going to be faced with ridicule and humiliation. It was then that I remember what my father and grandfather taught me: 'Be responsible. If you make a mistake, you got to make it right.' I realized I had a choice. I could sit in my misery or I could do something about it."
The coach decided to play Marshall in the second half. Marshall seized the opportunity and played his heart out. The Vikings won the game 27 to 22. What's more amazing is Marshall's mindset off the field afterwards. He received and responded to letters from people who felt dejected after suffering their own shameful events. He championed this group and spoke publicly about standing up after an embarrassing failure.
The Growth Mindset and Technology
In technology, we are often asked to improve on the following: productivity, efficiency, time, stress, speed. The only way to create a result is to measure the difference between point A and point B of whatever you are measuring.
The change or delta, whether negative or positive is how we measure technology. In mathematics, calculating this change is called the slope of a line, which kids learn in seventh grade.
Professor Dweck and her colleagues, in an experiment, were interested in measuring how teachers evaluated a student with only one piece of information — their mathematics exam score. The teachers were asked to complete a survey and evaluate a hypothetical student, who received a 65 perecent on her math exam. The majority of teachers surprisingly completed the survey and evaluated the student, based on the single exam result without asking other questions.
However, one teacher was upset and wrote Dweck's team saying,
"The test uses a faulty premise, asking teachers to make assumptions about a given student based on nothing more than a number on a page. . .
Performance cannot be based on one assessment. You cannot determine the slope of a line given only one point, as there is no line to begin with. A single point in time does not show trends, improvement, lack of effort, or mathematical ability."
When you begin a new habit, it is crucial to record your progress over several points in time. If you have a coach or trainer, this is one of the first things they do. Most people give up too quickly based on a single event.
The teacher who complained about the evaluation was right. You cannot measure peformance or ability with a single event. Over time, if you track your performance regularly, you will work hard to improve and reach your goal. This investment in the journey represents the growth mindset.
Do you have something you want to achieve in 2014? How do you react when you make a mistake or encounter an obstacle?


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GolfLogix GPS + Putt Line
By GolfLogix, Inc.
- Category: Sports
- Release Date: 2009-07-30
- Current Version: 7.2.0
- Adult Rating: 4+
- File Size: 261.58MB
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- Compatibility: Requires iOS 9.0 or later.
- App Ratings: 4/5 (80,091 App Reviews)
- Price: Free
GolfLogix GPS + Putt Line Details
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No other app has all of this groundbreaking technology to help you shoot lower scores. There is even an option to turn-off the Putt Line when playing in USGA sanctioned events.
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GolfLogix has mapped over 35,000 courses worldwide for GPS distances and is the only app with highly-accurate 3D green maps that show you where to place your approach shots and how your putts will break on over 12,000 courses. It's like having a professional caddy with you at all times to help you manage your game and shave strokes off your score!
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