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03 and 08 shunters stand on the Boston Docks branch by the octagonal signal cabin - Nov 2003
Another shot of privately owned D2112 and D3871 in sidings at Boston - Nov 2003.
03 cab view of stone train entering docks - Nov 2003.
56059 with stone train from Mountsorrel in Leicestershire in sidings at Boston - June 2002.
The shunters stand on the swing bridge at entrance to dock with stone wagons
and conveyor unloading system - Nov 2003.
An earlier Boston 08 in Blue livery on dock estate.
This loco proudly carried "Port of Boston" nameplate.
In early 2000`s ex GCR Y7 visited Boston Docks with a photo charter
Y7 steams over the swing bridge with open goods wagons.
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This luscious pie omits the top layer of crust for a heavenly crumble topping instead, resulting in a velvety smooth apple pie experience with sprinkles of great texture to finish off each bite.
How to Make It
Step 1
Preheat oven to 350°. Combine first 4 ingredients in a large bowl; add apple slices, tossing to coat.
Step 2
Roll Pie Dough to 1/4-inch thickness on a lightly floured surface. Transfer gently to 9-inch pie plate; trim excess dough around edges, and crimp. Arrange apple mixture over pastry. Top with Salted Pecan Crumble.
Step 3
Bake 1 hour, 30 minutes or until apples are tender and topping is golden brown. Remove from oven; cool completely before slicing. Garnish, if desired.

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Okay I don´t want to rush you but I can´t wait to see the final picture!!!
A wild base mesh appeared ! well it's already more than a base mesh now, I was just fooling around with various techniques to find out what would be the most effective way to get around. Now I shall attack each of its body part one by one until the whole thing is done!
As you probably noticed I'm using Blender for the modeling. I know this soft has kind of a bad rap, I hope it won't hurt my chances, but that's the one I'm the most confortable with. I also have Zbrush Core and would have loved using it for this project but I feared my lack of practice would make me lose more time rather than anything else. Beside I've never really tried to model inorganic,"non-fleshy" characters with it, which means I would have to learn on the go with tutorials and stuff on the side and while it would probably be a great way to learn I feel too pressured by the time for that right now. So whatever, let's keep the sculpting for another time and do this the old fashion way like... moving vertices around and stuff..
Anyway, With each body part well placed I decided to work on each piece one by one from head to, er... lack of toes.
Starting with the head since it's the most important part of the character (or any character for that matter) It's probably the most difficult piece of the model (although that ring on their back looks pretty intimidating too) getting the face and the expression right quick would already be a huge step forward.
here's how the face is going so far :
Once the head is done the torso, arms and legs should be smooth sailing (except that giant ring, it scares me). I'm aiming to finish the high-poly before next week, that shall leave me one week for the retopo, texturing and rendering. plus an extra few days in case I'm running late on something (probably that ring... Why did I draw something so complicated...?).
well that's all for today, My brain feels like it's drowning in molasses right now so I'll take a quick break. See you tomorrow.
Also no Haiku; I'm way too tired right now; sorry about that.
lovely concept. Eager to see the final result!
The high-poly head is now (mostly) done! there are still a few rough edges here and there but since work is starting to slow down on it I'd rather start the next part now and come back later once I'd figure things out . I also did some viewport renders in Blender Cycles to test out some materials and stuff but nothing too fancy so far.
Also, that crown/lens/radio-thingie on top of their head was a nightmare. I'm glad it's behind me now.
Here are the renders :
so far I'm still struggling on figuring out what to do for the area under the jaw but while I think of a solution, time for level 2 : the torso!
see you tomorrow!... I believe... If everything goes okay...
It's been a while since I posted, things have kind of slowed down as of late and that's pretty unfortunate. Now I kinda burned through the entire "free week" I planned and that sucks I'm gonna have to shift into the next gear if I want to finish in time. So I changed my plans a little bit and decided to just do everything in Blender. That might not bring out the best results but that mean I can work on the modeling, texturing, and posing at the same time without having to switch software around everytime. Maybe I can still bake everything on a low poly model If I still have time for that but otherwise, I'll at least have some renders ready to be done for the deadline. I'd say the character is 50% finished overall, not nearly good enough to be called a day, I'll try to finish the modeling quickly (the hands, dress and ring are yet to be done) add the decals for further detailing, tweak the materials, posing the character (the easiest part) do the renders. then if I still have time start the low poly retopo maybe.
one of the reason of my slow down is that I was too unsure of where I was going with this characters. even with the artwork next to me, I kept wondering "Is that part ok? does this element make sense? Should I redo that part?" and I couldn't find a clear answer to all of this so I stepped back form all of this. just to find out what was going wrong with this character... or with me. The answer turned out to be pretty simple.
My character had no story.
All those elements, the details, the ornaments. They looked cool, but that was it, They had no substance. I needed context. So those last few days I decided to take a break and figure out an origin for this character. It took a bit too long for my taste but I managed to came up with a story I was happy about and It gave me a clearer idea of what I wanted to do exactly. So that each part of the character is here for a purpose and not "just because".
I will post my story later, It's really late(/early) right now and I'd rather go to sleep before sunrise.. so for now here are an update on the modeling + some few renders I did when testing out some materials.
Awesome design. She looks really unique and i love the way her face looks like.Her upper body could probably be about 12% bigger. Some of the metals could be a bit shinier. Especially the gold parts feel a bit flat.Other than that she looks really fun. Hope you can finish on time.Good luck
Amazing , you did all of that in blender ?Did you sculpt the face or modeled it ?
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@mrjar0 Thank you! ^^ I've scale up the upper body a tiny bit like you suggested (but not too much because I still want to put emphasis on the long legs) As for the materials there are just placeholders so far. Ultimately I'd want them to have a kind of old, weathered look while keeping some of the shininess. I'm looking into Cycles's node system for material generations that suits what I want, but I'm kind of a newb at this so I'm not gonna start doing anything too complex right off the bat.
@archsider Yup that's 100% Blender so far. I'm pretty slow when it comes to transitioning between two software so I want to do as much as possible in blender alone. The face and all the other ceramic parts were sculpted then retopo'd. The rest was modeled.
Anyway lately I've been experimenting with lighting and procedural material for the metals. it's slowly getting somewhere.
For those who wonder the crystal shader was made with the help of an add-on material called "Prism Glass" I found online. I love the caustics and light dispersion in creates. It even seems to have some painterly qualities to it, I'm not sure how that happened lol. I intend to keep adding on it until the crystal gets a nice and most importantly consistent iridescent feel.
NICE , this makes me want to go back to Blender xD , esp for the rendering , for me Blender cycles gives better result than marmoset tbh
Didn't disappoint indeed. That posed shot you rendered looks lovely. Keep going. We might have a winner here.
I'm not dead yet! And neither is this project. But there were some stumbles on the way, hence why I haven't shown signs of life earlier. My attempt at creating decals to add further detailing and polish to the model turned out to be a failure, the process of making the patterns, baking the maps and placing the decals was too long and the results rather underwhelming in addition to look a bit out of place. I could make it work but not in the remaining time-frame, so I decided to scrap that idea and to do everything only with polygons and procedural materials. But that meant I have to redesign some elements, or else they will end up looking unfinished., With only one week left I can't screw around anymore, this is going to be hell... But at least the hoop skirt is done (kinda...as usual). so now I only have one last element to make, the back ring it looks like big work but I thought a lot about how I want it to look and how to make it so hopefully it won't take more than a couple days... after that the character could be considered finished and any time left will be used to reshape some elements and further polish the many loose ends hiding in the nooks and crannies.
Well, looks like I won't be having much sleepy time this week.
Am I understanding correctly that the deadline got extended or is it just yet another hallucination caused by sleep deprivation? If there's any truth to it then I'd like to thanks the kind souls that are responsible for it.
I'm done with the circle thingy on the back. and I finally managed to tweak the crystals colors so they give out random yet relatively consistent colors. That problem was very frustrating I'm glad I could find a solution to it. I also made a procedural background for presentation purposes. So that's where I am now. All the elements that compose the character are now here and that's a big milestone in my eyes.
Looking at the render now, there are several issue I'd like to address. mostly regarding contrast and silhouette. The character is starting to feel kind of cluttered to my taste which is not a very common problem for me to deal with. (the kind of models I'm used to make are early-PS2 style low-polys, I've never really worked in high-poly before...) Once I remake the few last lackluster elements, I'll have to think about making some cleanup and maybe streamline the design a little bit If I still got time for that.
Also I didn't feel like having to tell this before but if anyone have any advice or ideas to share you're welcome.
PS: I've changed the thread title to the character's new name : Mintaka. I'll post their story once I'm done with the modeling. mostly because if I post the story now and decide to change something about the design later I'l get the feeling of going against my own canon. But I'm fairly certain I won't change the name anymore as I got quite used to it. So it's just going to be Mintaka from now on. ^^
Hi, me again Let me preface this by saying that i absolutely love the character you are creating. With that said there are a few thing i personally find a bit uncomfortable.1. The background feels like it is swallowing the whole character. There are places where it is hard to say where the character ends and the background begins. Especially when you look at it from further away.2. The thigh guard / skirt parts feel too thick/dense. Your character is thin and elegant yet those pieces appear big and sluggish.3.The area around the chest and neck is really hard to read. I cant exactly tell which part starts where.
Those are my personal opinions so take them with a grain of salt. It would probably be rude of me to complain about things and not present any solutions to them. Those too are only my opinions so don't put that salt away just yet
1.Remove most of the colors from your background. At least those that coincide with the colors of your character. If you want to stick to the sky version of course.2.Either make the skirt shorter and thinner or go full out and do an 1850s style skirt. You already have the ring around the stomach area to do that kind of skirt. Make it semi transparent perhaps.3. You already said that you are aware of the cluttered parts so i think you know how you want to solve them.
Those are simply my suggestions and ultimately it is your character and you should feel free to do whatever you desire with it.
Since the deadline has apparently been extended you should probably be able to finish on time.Good luck
@mrjar0 Hi thanks a lot for the suggestion! actually I agree about the background and I was already, I just forgot to mention it I guess since I was still working on it. I think it's on of those things that will keep getting more subtle with time.
I didn't really mind the skirt but you raise some good points, looking back at the art, the straight lines give it a more dynamic look compared to the "bubbly" style I did on the model. I might try to reshape it a bit, maybe even redo some parts if needed. It's not supposed to be a skirt though, I just call it like that because that's what it looks like. I also kinda wanted to make them look like wings, but I guess I didn't do a good job at it. ^^'Still for the time being I tried to make them smaller
As for the neck I blame the circle on the back for that, but just in case I had the idea of redoing the neck piece to suggest more the idea of a neck rather than a single piece of jewlery awkwardly floating in the middle.
oh damn <3 the colors The render looks absolutely fabulous. You know some advance stuff in Blender it seems
Re save them as jpeg maybe? You loose a bit of quality, but it should reduce the file size a lot. Png is somewhat big
So is this it? am I good? is everything in order? this is stressful.
Alright, after a good night/day of sleep my adrenaline levels seem to have stabilized. I'll take the opportunity to talk a bit about what happened this last week and give more insight on the character them-self.
So like I said a few post above, I wanted to use the extended week to further polish the model and make it more presentable. And by polishing I don't mean tweaking some stuff left and right but remaking whole portions of the model from scratch. Because I'm a mad man and I hate myself. So among the redone stuff the most notable are the skirt/guard the head, the hands, the arms and the plating on the torso.
then there's the whole story about the ring. Basically, it's gone. I really didn't like the way it looked in 3D. It just ended up looking busy, messy and heavy. I guess I could have made it work given enough time but, in the end I decided it just was not worth the effort.
So I went back looking at some old drawings and concepts I doodled on sheets of paper while browsing through references. and rethought about the idea of a floating ribbon behind the back in the style of these Buddhist deities, which I like because I want to include more Asian inspirations into the design. Back then I didn't use that idea because I didn't want to use objects made of fabrics (for story reasons I only wanted materials that can withstand the test of time like metals and ceramics) Then one day suddenly I was struck with the idea of make a ribbon out of a nebula. It just fitted well with the character's concept of being the byproduct of a star and solved many problem I had at once. It's striking and eye-catching, it adds colors to the model and give a nice twist to the design, it has light, ethereal even somewhat magical properties, and it doesn't weight down the character. And with it I was more comfortable with making a more subtle and elegant background.
I really wanted to do it, but there's was a problem, I didn't know how... Modeling? sculpting? procedural? then I remembered "hey, Blender has a built-in Smoke simulation feature, let's see how it goes" and after maybe 30 minutes of scrubbing through tutorials on Youtube and a few trials and errors later, I got a smoke sim going on. I loved the results but there was a problem. turns out smoke sims can be very time consuming especially in addition to the rendering. I ran almost out of time. but thankfully I made it just barely, I just wish I had the time to make a few more renders for the detail sheet but oh well...
So that's the story of how I didn't give signs of life for more than a week and got to post my stuff just a few hours before the deadline.
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COVER STORY COVER STORY Model homeVillage Square, San Jose Condos rise on location of former San Jose night club
Townhouses are being built on the land now, but starting in the late '40s, anyone who was anyone on the West Coast nightclub circuit appeared at Lou's Village in San Jose.
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- the prosecutor is the same dude who went after I."Scooter" Libby and he was not the person who was leaking information- it was somebody else.
- He's not doing his job. The defense has the right to total access to ANY EVIDENCE that the prosecution has. They didn't get the chance to address these issues in the Illinois senate- why- who knows. If the investigation is still going on that's the only justifiable reason I can think of.
- The statements made are obviously very general and that makes the prosecution look pretty stupid as far as whether they have any real evidence of wrong-doing. You can't arrest somebody for using foul language- that's a First Amendment issue albeit a controversial one.
- Mr. Blagoyevich better get back to Illinois get the best lawyer he can and fight like hell if he is innocent and quit making the rounds to the media. Hey Rod, if you're gonna shoot off your big mouth do it in court instead of on FOXNEWS, CNN, MSNBC, C-SPAN, ABC, and The View!
- Quit doing deals and sounding like some modern mobster. I hope your mom washes your mouth out with soap you Liberal nut-case!
- I hope they strip Mr. Burris of his seat and that due process takes place eventhough the previous governor can do what he did.
- This is the most disgusting thing to date since the Craig case last year. I'm not happy at all with either party and until they act like they have some brains, respect their constituents, and they do the right thing by the average American tax-payer including getting rid of some the dumbest legislation in American history, we are going to be very messed up for a very long time. That even includes the TAX SYSTEM that allows Congressionall officials to go get a lawyer to help them pay their taxes- what?! Well if that's the case- the average American should do the same so JK Harris here we come! (RASPBERRY!)
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Roti Mataba Restaurant on Phra Arthit Road
Today I am going to recommend you a restaurant on Phra Arthit Road, a road in Bangkok's old town which is very close to Khao San Road.
Roti Mataba Restaurant is one of the popular restaurants for local on this road. Many people always visit and have a meal here when they come to this area.
I have heard about this restaurant so many times, but I had a chance to try it last week. The restaurant is not big. The first floor has 2 main areas: cooking area and eating area. This floor does not have air conditioner. On that day, the weather was very hot, so my friend and I headed up to the second floor which has air conditioner.
The menu has 2 languages: Thai and English. You can order it as a meal or just only dessert. Since we were not hungry, we ordered just only 2 dishes to try: Roti Mataba chicken and Banana Roti with condensed milk and chocolate topping.
I liked them both. The taste was good, but I did not feel the different between the Roti at this restaurant and the other Roti that I bought from street stalls. If you happen to be around there, you can give it a try.
Update: April, 2015
Location: On Phra Arthit Road, opposite Phra Sumen Fort (or Pom Phra Sumen), Chana Songkhram, Phra Nakhon, Bangkok.
Opening Hours: Tuesday to Sunday, from 9.00-21.30 (closed on Monday)
Price: less than 100 per person
Website: http://www.roti-mataba.net/
Have you ever been to Roti Mataba Restaurant on Phra Athit Road? Do you like it? Share you thought with me in the comment!


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My first blog post
I'm excited to be writing my first blog post in my Heylo Bags website. About 6 years ago I sat down and developed my Heylo bags. They are based on the heat retention principle that people have been using for a long time. The name Heylo bags references the hay box way of cooking that is a proven way of cooking using minimum energy.
I have been promoting my bags at Festivals and Markets, but now am going all out to tell everyone how wonderful they are. I am also aiming to market them globally from my home here in sunny Nelson on the top of South Island.
My plan is to update my website regularly with recipes and ideas as the seasons lead us into the year. I have a very productive spray free vegetable garden and an abundance of fruit trees that will keep my supplied with produce and inspiration for new recipes.
As a professionally trained Cordon Bleu chef I am able to test and adapt recipes easily but as I have other interests I do not like to spend a lot of time in the kitchen. I love to prepare a dish and cook it for 10 – 15 minutes, put it into a Heylo bag and be able to "walk away' for a few hours. This is the beauty of a Heylo bags.
Watch this space for more posts.


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Outtake: Direction #AndinoandHaven
Hey, loves!
So I get quite a few requests for Andino outtakes with Haven - is anyone surprised? LOL. So while I work on doing some of the requests in the form, I have super old ones I just never got to or didn't have the inspiration to write, I will work on sprinkling a few Andino outtakes in here for all you Andino/Haven lovers.
Do you have an outtake you want to see from me? If you do, drop it in HERE, and do not simply give me character names, thanks.
Now, onto the outtake …
An Andino + Haven Outtake
Andino POV
"Andino, be serious."
"I am being serious."
Haven gave him the most exasperated look over her shoulder as she slipped her feet into heels that would make her legs look fantastic, but made his feet ache just thinking about her walking around in them all damn day. She never complained, though, so he figured she liked it.
"Really?" she asked quietly.
He stayed leaning in the walk-in closet of their master bedroom—they finally moved into that mansion on the hills, as John would say, and Andino fucking loved it. He bought the place the week after they married, closed within thirty days, and walked his wife over the threshold the day after the ink dried. It took a couple of months for the interior designer to do her work on the inside, but the place was all theirs.
Every fucking inch.
And now he wanted to start filling it.
With babies.
"Really," he said.
Haven gave him another one of those looks. It said she thought he was acting fucking crazy, and shit, maybe he was. Before Haven, kids had never crossed Andino's mind except when his mother felt like she needed to point out that, you know, she didn't have any goddamn grandbabies.
Then, he met Haven.
He got her down the fucking aisle.
All he thought about now were fucking kids—like a switch had gone off inside his head, and his focus in life changed entirely. Andino wasn't complaining about it, that was for sure.
"I just …"
"What?" Haven asked, standing straight.
He was right.
Those heels did make her legs look great.
"I don't think you should switch your shot to an IUD," he said, shrugging. "I think you should just … do nothing."
"I am a month away from the bar opening."
Andino tried not to scowl.
He really did.
And failed like a motherfucker.
Haven raised her brow at him.
Andino fixed his face and his attitude.
The bar was hers—she bought it. And not with his money, no, with hers. He was not allowed to touch the bar. He was not allowed to ask about the bar. He was not allowed to look in the direction of the paperwork for the bar.
It was a line in the sand, Haven drew it, and she promised to paint it with his motherfucking blood if he thought to mess with it.
So, maybe she was a little touchy.
You know, 'cause he fucked up her other one.
Andino deserved that, though, so he shut the fuck up, and let his wife do whatever she wanted. And if that meant opening a bar that he wasn't allowed to have any hand in, then that's what it meant. It made her happy, and God knew Andino had enough work and business of his own that he didn't need to be playing in Haven's.
"So, we can't have a family because we work?" he asked quietly.
"That's not what I said."
"Then what are you saying?"
"I've never held a baby, Andino," she said, laughing. "Not one that young, and—"
"Do you want kids?"
Her answer was so sure that he didn't feel the need to question her on it, not that he would have even if she said no. Just because his mind was made up on something didn't mean that Haven's would always be in the same zone. And it took two people to make this thing called marriage work, right?
That's what everybody kept telling him.
If she didn't want the same things, then fine.
He wanted her.
That's what mattered.
"Do you want kids now?" he asked.
Haven's bottom lip caught under her teeth, and she took a beat to reply with, "I never really thought about it, you know?"
"So, think about it now," he murmured.
"Right now?"
"Why not?"
"Right now," she repeated, "when you know I am heading out to finalize things for the bar, I have a lunch with your mom, and an appointment with my doctor to put in this fucking IUD."
"Right now," he returned, "because of that appointment. Think about it now."
"And if I say no?"
"Then the answer is no, Haven."
What else did she expect?
"Well, if I was going to get the IUD put in, then don't you think—"
"You told me why you wanted that. Because you won't have to go in as often for your shot. It's not about anything else, it's for that."
"I thought …"
"What?" he asked when she hesitated.
"That you would want to wait because we haven't even been married a year yet."
"Is that what you want?"
"I thought it was because I thought it was what you wanted, too. And now you want something different, and I'm just thinking about it."
Andino grinned. "Oh?"
"Don't get arrogant."
"Oh, you think this is arrogance, huh?"
"You're arrogant about everything, Andino."
Well, she wasn't entirely wrong.
But in this case, she was.
"Actually, it makes me very happy to think about you being the mother of my child," he said, shrugging one shoulder, and holding her stare. "I just figured out the reason why I never really thought about having kids was because I never found the right woman to raise them with me, and I finally found you—now, it's all I want."
A sweet smile curved his wife's lips. "You really do have a way with words when you want to."
"My mother says I'm charming."
"Yeah, well, you're also her only child, and she spoiled you fucking rotten, too. I know, I deal with it everyday, now."
God, he loved this woman.
More than she would ever know.
He didn't deserve her.
She could both put him in his place, and make his heart race with love all in the same goddamn breath. He was a lucky fuck because he'd done terrible things—some might say to her, and to others, too—and somehow, he was still able to wake up to this woman every single morning of his life.
"I love you, Haven," Andino said, "and if what you want is to wait, then that's we'll do."
"And if I don't want to wait?"
"Then you best cancel those fucking meetings today. All of them."
She glanced away from him, her tongue snaking out to wet the seam of her lips before she replied, "Even dinner with your mom?"
"Where's your phone?"
She laughed.
Andino wasn't joking. "Where's the phone, Haven?"
"In my bag on the bed."
Andino supposed he had his answer, then. And they wouldn't be leaving this bedroom today because of it. After all, he did like to keep his promises to his wife. That had been his vow, and he intended to keep it.


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What's Your Torque?
Recently I came across this definition of torque, brought about by a discussion with an automobile enthusiast friend of mine. Apparently this saying among race car drivers explains it best.
"Under steering is when your rear end hits the wall.
Oversteering is when your front end hits the wall.
Horsepower is how hard you hit the wall, and
Torque is how far you carry the wall once you hit it."
That definition made me laugh out loud.
It also made me wonder:
How much torque do you and I have when we encounter an obstacle?
Maybe "torque" is another word for "grit."
And maybe "grit" is another word for "faith."
May 16, 2019
The metaphors and analogies were thought provoking. Torque is my new synonym for faith.
May 17, 2019
Hmmmmmmm I will answer the invitation to share. In a nutshell I have put my story into a book I published last year entitled: Embracing God's Rainbow" -how God took me from Black and white to Technicolor. It is my transparent story of my journey from a frightened parochial school girl to a full spectrum creative women of God, still healing and still growing.. I share in my book the Transformational tools that helped and include a workbook playbook of exercises and creative fun ways to heal in a less daunting way. A huge Shout out to Laurie Beth Jones who is in my book as a pivitol influencer and helper in honing my mission. Since I published on Amazon last year my husband and I have opened our home with a group art studio called: Paxson house- center for Creative Endeavors… http://www.paxsonhouse.com I love collaborating with other like minded harted, spiritreneurs, entrepreneurs. I look forward to connecting here and maybe someday in person. Connie Gregg McDonald


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To Fight Cybercrime, Financial Institutions Must Identify Rogue Actors
Cybercrime continues to be a growing problem for community banks and credit unions. Today's criminals continue to develop increasingly sophisticated tactics to exploit systems. The goal of an attacker is to gain access to an organization, locate and extract valuables, and avoid being discovered. These intruders are referred to as rogue actors.
What is a Rogue Actor?
There are two types of rogue actors. The first type of rogue actor is an external individual or group who enters an organization's systems without prior authorization. This unauthorized access could come from an external attack, or through a physical presence. This physical presence could be accomplished using social engineering techniques. In this scenario, the adversary poses as a printer repair tech, or any potential vendor, and gains unauthorized physical access to your systems. The second type of rogue actor is an adversarial insider attempting to obtain unauthorized access to valuable data for personal gain or malicious intent.
How to identify a Rogue Actor?
One effective strategy to identify a rogue actor is for organizations to place decoys throughout their environment. Since there are no legitimate reasons for the decoys to be accessed, an alert will notify the appropriate groups on the anomalous activity. If the organization's other security layers are bypassed, these alerts enable the organization to quickly remediate the issue. There have been several major breaches over the last few years that likely would have benefitted from these types of decoys within their organization. It is important to be aware of any suspicious activity so you can successfully mitigate risks and prevent data loss.
What is the impact of a Rogue Actor?
The impact of having a rogue actor on a network can be devastating to a financial organization, with the main risk being theft or unauthorized access of data. Financial institutions are prime targets due to the amount of sensitive data they house. A data breach at a bank or credit union not only affects that organization but also all customers or members whose personal information may be compromised or stolen. Rogue actors can then hold the compromised data for ransom or sell it on the black market.
Solution for Financial Institutions
Safe Systems' proprietary solution, Rogue Actor Detection (RAD), is designed specifically for banks and credit unions. RAD places banking-specific decoys inside an institution's environment. Implementing RAD will enable financial institutions to identify when an intruder is present, identify curious internal employees, identify rogue internal employees, and uncover suspicious activity to reduce dwell time and minimize damage.
It is critical to defend your institution through a variety of security layers, but firewalls and anti-malware are simply not enough anymore. This additional security layer will guard against cybercrime and help ensure your IT network is secure. On average it takes an organization 191 days to become aware of a compromise. With RAD, you can detect threats early, and remove threats before they cause any damage or loss.


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A Hollywood ending for Mills?
SAN ANTONIO — An NBA title-clinching victory in Sunday's Game 5 of the NBA Finals would provide a Hollywood ending for a planned documentary film about Spurs guard Patty Mills that a young Australian filmmaker has been piecing together for the past year and a half.
James Rush began working on the film, titled "For My People," after visiting with Mills in San Antonio last season. Though the documentary intends to focus on Mills' unique ethnic heritage as the son of an Indigenous Torres Strait Islander father and an Indigenous South Australian mother, Rush said Mills' important role in the Spurs' run to the brink of a fifth championship has put the final cut on hold to see how that story plays itself out.
"We still have to shoot more scenes," Rush said by telephone from Melbourne, Australia.
"If Patty and the Spurs win the championship, that would be the ultimate fairy-tale end to the documentary."
Mills said he got behind the film as a means of letting the world know more about his cultural heritage.
"I think it's very rare, as the only Indigenous Australian to have come this far in basketball, to the NBA Finals, so I am representing and waving the flag to promote where I'm from," he said. "It's huge for people back there that really live on the islands and within the islands.
"Knowing that they're back there right now watching the games over here really is huge and something I think is important."
Mills has done his part in getting the Spurs one win from that stranger-than-fiction finish Rush hopes to include in the film.
During the Finals, Mills has averaged 8.5 points and 1.5 assists per game while playing an average of 14:32 minutes while backing up Tony Parker.
Mills' emergence this season as a solid reserve and an important member of the NBA's most productive bench required he earn the trust of coach Gregg Popovich, a process he does not take for granted.
"To be honest, I think I still am earning his trust," Mills said. "I have a chip on both shoulders that I have carried all season, and I have to go into every game with the attitude of letting those chips grow and still having some things to prove and earn the right and earn the trust."
Popovich cited Mills' offseason dedication to reshaping his body as the first step in gaining that trust.
"When he came to camp this year all trim and very aggressive, very focused, he made us notice him," Popovich said. "Then as the games came and went and he played more and more minutes, I think he gained a confidence, and we gained a confidence in him to the point where sometimes he's out there, and I leave Tony too long."
Rush began filming the documentary last summer when Mills returned to Australia after the 2013 Finals.
Some scenes in a film trailer were shot during workouts when the two visited the Torres Strait Islands, where most of Mills' father's family still lives.
"When he was filming, it was during that period that I had the mindset of wanting to contribute during this part of the season," Mills recalled. "So now that I am here and we're fortunate to be at this stage, you look back and see how much of a following I have in Australia, and people are getting behind our team. It is really huge."
Rush said the Finals has become a daily topic of conversation all across Australia, where games are being viewed live in early afternoons.
"People can't believe it," he said. "Here's this 6-foot Indigenous kid doing such big things in America. It's every kid's dream. The interest here is massive. It's so inspiring."
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Successful consumer protection class action against malevolent payday lender highlights the benefits and power of individuals uniting in class action lawsuits
On Monday evening, the Public Justice Foundation held its 36th Annual Gala & Awards Dinner at the Denver Center for the Performing Arts. As part of the ceremony, Public Justice recognized victorious attorney efforts with its Trial Lawyer of the Year awards. This included a focus on and video describing Inetianbor v. Western Sky Financial. [Read more…]


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The most successful bands are now the ones that engage their fans. These fans don't just bring recognition – they bring financial success too. They are what allows the band to make money and prosper.
Businesses want to do the same, so we asked Mark Jennings, founder of Subba Media, to reveal how musicians are engaging with fans, and the lessons business can learn.
Engagement – it's become one of the most prolific buzzwords in marketing. We hear about the volumes of engagement that top showbiz influencers achieve through social media.
The music industry is in the midst of dramatic change in the way that artists and musicians conduct their business and make money. Forging valuable connections via word of mouth and keeping fans engaged has never been more important to artists' success.
And with more digital channels open to fans and musicians alike, the relationship is more direct and more measurable than ever before. So what can businesses learn from successful artists?
An open conversation
At Subba Media we've seen the shift in the music industry first hand. The traditional template for bands has gone: While a band 30+ years ago would get the time and space of a number of albums to build their audience and establish their sound, now they get an EP – if they are lucky enough to get signed in the first place.
Artists now need to spend more of their time building a following independently, before they even consider what they will do if, and when, a record label chooses to invest in their talent.
Whether you're an up and coming band or a new startup, the message is the same. Consumer expectations across the board have changed dramatically as we conduct more of our lives online, across numerous platforms, and it's becoming harder to hold people's attention for long.
Relationships with publishers and media have also evolved with traditional media losing its clout, and you need to be thinking differently about how to get your message out to your audience and keep them interested.
In many ways, the power has begun to be handed back to fans and consumers, who are driving the conversations on social media and user generated content platforms such as TripAdvisor.
This means a lot more work falls directly to the artist in terms of creating and nurturing audience relationships, but it also creates a lot of new opportunities to have conversations with fans, find out what they want and keep them updated and informed about what's in the pipeline.
With the right approaches, you can forge more meaningful relationships with your audience and keep them engaged with who you are and what you do, without the large marketing and customer services budget that would have been an advantage five to ten years ago.
Actions for better engagement
There is no shortcut or magic formula to engage an audience. It all starts with your core identity and aims.
You need to stay grounded – and grab every opportunity to tell your story and promote what you do. But you also need to allow space for audiences to share their own stories and desires.
For bands and artists in particular, fan participation is the holy grail; giving your audience a place where they feel they have a voice and play a role in shaping your direction.
Take Lady Gaga for example, her fans or 'Little Monsters' as they are otherwise known are made to feel like part of her entourage.
They benefit from exclusive access to pre-release tracks, priority show tickets and much more. In return she receives near unconditional loyalty, and which artists (let alone brands) can claim that?
Simply broadcasting and hoping for a reaction is no longer enough; audiences are bombarded with advertising messages across all their digital media usage. You need to be able to cut through the noise in the following ways;
1. Be authentic
Marketing is becoming increasingly story-led. Artists, brands and businesses need to show a more complete and authentic picture of who they there and what they stand for.
For example, the National Geographic engaged 350 million global followers via storytelling content marketing on social media – stories are that powerful.
But it's not just about your story – you need to be able to talk to your audience in a way that shows you want to listen to theirs too. Authentic people are those who ask questions and open up conversations.
As in daily life, these conversations will be multi-genre, they may be political, they won't always relate directly to what you do or make, but they will show your values and identity. Avoid sitting on the fence.
A good example… when your fans are getting fed-up with ticket prices, availability and secondary sales do something about it. Ed Sheeran did. He went out of his way to ensure tickets to his shows were only available through reputable ticket exchanges.
2. Build a community
User generated content platforms are driving conversations between fans and artists/businesses. We've all seen how powerful fan communities can be on social media platforms such as Twitter, so it is important to focus on creating your own niche community around your identity.
For example, forums have served as a place to bring music fans together in the last decade or so, but now these are evolving into more sophisticated online communities.
Any space that can offer a sense of exclusivity, and give audiences control over what they see and what is sold to them will keep people engaged.
3. Make data your friend
Engagement and interaction always provide you with an opportunity to learn from your audience. There are so many ways you can use technology to understand your audience's online behaviours – and you don't need to employ any shady or privacy invading tactics to do so.
Remember, anything you or they publish digitally is a tool to discover what your target audience responds to, enabling you to anticipate future patterns trends in more granular detail.
Some tools that will help you measure and monitor audience behaviour include Google Analytics, and Amplitude, a platform that allows you to track user response trends in real time.
Ultimately data needs to be approached not just by looking at the numbers but at what is driving those numbers, so invest some time in developing your analytical brain!
4. Be generous
You want to incentivise your following and give them rewards for their presence – this can come in the way of competitions, exclusive first samples/listens to new products and music, follower discounts on merchandise, etc.
For example, Radiohead let their fans decide what to pay for their album 'In Rainbows' with their 'pay what you want' scheme – showing fans that they cared about them, and their relationship with them wasn't just about the money.
Work out what is most appropriate for your business and the stage that you are at – for example if you want to increase your email database, give them an incentive to sign up, if you want to encourage more word of mouth brand ambassadors, use merchandise.
5. But don't give everything away
Don't just give everything you've got in the hope that people will return the favour! It has to be employed with restraint, and there needs to be some benefit to you.
Free content and services are powerful means of showcasing what you are about and giving people the feeling of being a valuable part of the club.
For musicians it can be a difficult balancing act – open access can help you get a viral hit and a loyal following, but you have to be paid for what you produce. Whether you're a musician or a business – remember, it's also much harder to roll back and begin restricting access to your content when you started by giving things away for free.
There are a few big success stories of artist's having been discovered through giving away content; Carly Ray Jepsen, Shawn Mendes and even Mr. Bieber himself, but there are many many more not so successful stories whereby providing free music via streaming platforms didn't provide the big break the artist was hoping for.
In some cases it can even lead to a backlash, for example U2 gave away their album 'Songs of Innocence' free on the iPhone 6 – and it caused a massive backlash and didn't generate the additional sales they had hoped for. In fact, it was a classic example of devaluing the product.
It's the same with business, giving your product away for free doesn't mean it will reach the masses, it just devalues the product. Ever heard the brand slogan "reassuringly expensive"?
6. Be responsive
It may not be possible to respond to every comment on your page, but you should be paying attention to them all. Take the time to respond to as many as you can; the positive, the negative, the suggestions and constructive criticism.
If you are updating your site or products on offer, share an update and explain how audience feedback and comments helped to drive your decision. And if your community is not yet forthcoming with opinions and ideas, show you want to hear from them by conducting polls and asking questions – this can be easily done on social media channels, blog posts and via email campaigns.
Trailers and sneak previews are a great way of giving your nearest and dearest fans a taste of what's to come, whetting their appetite so-to-speak.
Childish Gambino is a great example of an artist who relishes fan engagement by providing sneak-peaks to new, sometimes even unfinished videos. He continually reacts to the zeitgeist and comes up with ways to whet his fans appetite and keep them engaged.
And remember, if you leave them wanting more, make sure you're responsive enough to follow up!
7. Be direct
Reaching people in private inboxes helps to add to the sense of community and involvement with something bigger. In an instant message age, communications direct to a personal inbox have more resonance.
People don't want intrusion or anything with a whiff of 'salesy-speak', so don't bombard them every other day with your latest offers. Do keep in regular touch with well thought-out messages telling them something you know they will be interested in.
Where applicable this can also be employed with direct mail – used thoughtfully and with a specific purpose, it can be an effective tool for grabbing attention away from the digital noise. Communication shouldn't come through just one channel; the conversation needs to continue offline, online, in store, at live events, and through product and service development.
Without engagement, your audience are passive observers. Engaged fans are consultants, brand ambassadors and cheerleaders for everything you do.
Remember, Airbnb, Uber, Deliveroo all got where they are now without advertising in the early stages – their users became their advocates because they were engaged with their mission and their customer support was superb. So, the more involved your fans are, the better – and the more likely your business is to succeed.
About the author
This guide has been written exclusively for ByteStart by Mark Jennings who set up Subba Media with the aim of disrupting the publishing market. Subba-cultcha.com is a fan generated music and festival reviews platform. Built from a strong loyal community, the content is produced by music fans and festival goers, enabling artists and brand sponsors to reach a new, more engaged audience.
More on promoting your business
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- Turn your ecommerce website into a deadly selling tool with these 5 steps
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- How to Measure Your Social Media Performance
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- How to harness the power of Google for your business
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Tuesday, March 1, 2011
Taking shape ... slowly.
5 comments:
- AnonymousMarch 1, 2011 at 2:43 PM
Nice :)ReplyDelete
Although, your tyre logo/ valve alignment needs some work ;)
- AnonymousMarch 2, 2011 at 12:50 AM
I forgot to add - what handlebars have you got up front?ReplyDelete
Also liking the look of the Salsa Anything cage. It'll be good to see a pic of the whole bike built and loaded up
It's got a pair of Fleegle bars on. Don't know if they'll stay yet, it may end up with some Salsa 17 degree flats.ReplyDelete
I'm also looking forward to getting the cages. At present someone I've never met is awaiting delivery in the US ... he's then going to send them over here with his relations who are visiting him ... the lengths you have to go to ;o)
I really like the idea of the wide spaced fork. I'm considering a long trip on my SS next year and this would allow me to fit another wheel up front with an alternative ratio. One for hills, one for flats...erm a 2 speed single, ahem!ReplyDelete
Why is it that no matter how simple you make your bike the shopping list stays just as long?
I've been looking at the Topeak Modula XL Bottle Cage and adapting that as means of carrying the tent and getting everything bar waterproofs and water on my back.ReplyDelete


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Craig Revel Horwood plays the horrible Miss Hannigan in the touring production of the favourite family musical about a young orphan girl, Annie.
Set in 1930s New York during The Great Depression, brave young Annie is forced to live a life of misery and torment at Miss Hannigan's orphanage. Determined to find her real parents, her luck changes when she is chosen to spend Christmas at the residence of famous billionaire Oliver Warbucks. Spiteful Miss Hannigan has other ideas and hatches a plan to spoil Annie's search…
With its award-winning book and score, this stunning new production includes the unforgettable songs Hard Knock Life, Easy Street, I Don't Need Anything But You and Tomorrow.
Lesley Joseph play Miss Hannigan on 14 November.
Looking to see some musical theatre? Find out more about London musicals.


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SUPERMARKET chain Tesco is to snap up 10 stores from rival Morrisons in its latest move to sell off the former Safeway empire, it said today.
Morrisons said it had agreed to sell the sites - which have a book value of é87.6 million - for an amount in line with expectations.
The disposal is the latest move by Morrisons to sell off stores it acquired through the takeover of Safeway earlier this year.
In order to comply with competition regulations, Morrisons was ordered to hive off 52 sites.
Today's move brings the total number of disposals to date to 42 and includes stores in Crewe and Sheffield.
Bob Stott, Morrisons joint managing director, said: "Our integration of the Safeway business is progressing and today's announcement is a further step in the overall process."
The group said it would give further details, including the amount received for the stores, once the sale was completed.
The sale to Tesco is subject to approval by the Office of Fair Trading.
Morrisons has already sold stores to Waitrose, Sainsbury's, Co-op and Asda.
The poor sales performance of the unconverted Safeway stores recently led Morrisons to announce its first ever profits warning, although it said those stores to have been converted were trading well.
The group secured Safeway after a protracted é3 billion battle involving Asda owner Wal-Mart, Tesco, Sainsbury's and Arcadia owner Philip Green.


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Readings for this week July 15 – 19
Click here for a pdf of this week's readings
Day 1 – Unexpected Follower of an Unexpected King
Silence, Stillness and Centering before God (2 minutes)
Scripture Reading – Mark 2:13-17
Levi, son of Alphaeus, was not a popular person. In fact, he was an outcast, a pariah, scorned by his fellow Jews because of his line of work, and because his work was in service to the authorities, in this case directly to the Herodian family, and behind them the Romans. People passing from the land overseen by Herod Antipas into the land ruled by Phillip were required to pay a toll in order to be allowed through. Levi was one such toll collector, and hence was not beloved of his fellow citizens. We know nothing about how he got the job, whether he supported the Herodians or not, whether he had chosen the job or been forced to take it.
But Jesus doesn't ignore him, scorn him or berate him for his job choice. He comes to his toll booth and invites Levi to "Come follow me." Shocking for Levi; shocking for anyone else watching too. Levi worked for the enemy, for the forces of oppression – for a family that claimed to be the true royal family of Israel. But now he was following another who claimed to be king, and as Mark's gospel continues, more and more signs of Jesus' true kingship will slowly be revealed to Levi and the other disciples. Time after time Mark shows us how the words and especially actions of Jesus strike at the very heart of the political, cultural, social and religious expectations and practices of the time, and how he aroused opposition from almost every segment of society.
Questions to Consider
In what ways are you an unexpected follower of Jesus? How do you prepare space to welcome other unexpected followers to God's family?
Father God, thank you for loving us all, no matter where we have come from and what we have done. Your love knows no boundaries and leaves no one out. Help me love the same way. In Jesus' name, Amen.
Conclude with Silence (2 minutes)
Day 2 – New Wine, Which Wineskins?
Silence, Stillness and Centering before God (2 minutes)
Scripture Reading – Mark 2:18-22
We bottle our wine these days; the ancient world stored their wine in wineskins. Putting new wine in old skins would eventually burst the skins, wasting the wine. This image of the new wine needing new wineskins tells us that what Jesus was doing could not be fitted into the old ways of thinking and living. God was doing something new, and to take on board this new thing of God's would require a change in thinking, an expanding of horizons, a willingness to think and act in ways that might not fit in with previous ways of thinking and acting. To try and keep God's new ways within the boundaries of the old ways of living – to try and store the new wine in old skins – would only lead to disaster: the destruction of the old skins and the loss of the new wine. Jesus was challenging the Galileans to think differently, more expansively. The call to accept the new is always a difficult one that challenges the very core of our being, especially when the new challenge is to our way of life.
When God is doing new things we need to join the feast, not moan about the fact that the new wine God has lavishly poured out for us might burst our old wineskins. The challenge for the church has always been distinguishing between the new wine and the old wineskins. What worked before won't necessarily always hold for the future. When we spend all our time arguing over the wineskins rather than celebrating the wonderful gift of the new wine, that is a sign that the transforming 'new thing' Jesus did, the new in-breaking of God's kingdom, has not yet taken full hold of us.
Questions to Consider
How have you experienced God's newness? What changed for you?
Lord God, may we celebrate your newness and seek to always be faithful to you, the way you have been faithful to us, in the old and in the new. May we focus on the wine, not the container. In Jesus' name, Amen.
Conclude with Silence (2 minutes)
Day 3 – Looking for a Scandal
Silence, Stillness and Centering before God (2 minutes)
Scripture Reading – Mark 2:23-24
"Contemporary analogies are fraught with danger. But there exist certain persons in modern western society who are elected to no office, hold no government position, carry no authority from the police or the judiciary, and yet who appoint themselves to be the guardians of public morality. From this unofficial position they assume the right to scrutinise and criticise every movement of the royal, the religious, and the politically active – all of whom gnash their teeth but remain powerless. I refer, of course, to journalists. Far be it from me to attack all members of such a noble profession with criticisms appropriate only to some; and yet it cannot go unremarked that some journalists not infrequently bind heavy moral burdens, hard to bear, and lay them on the backs of those whose activities they report, while they themselves do not attempt to lift such burdens with their little finger. This is not a mere digression. It reminds us of two important points. (a) One does not have to be a member of an official thought police in order to have considerable influence within a culture. (b) The self-appointed guardians of public behaviour might not cross the street to inspect the private behaviour of an unknown individual. But they will happily go to the other side of the world, and hide in places far less congenial than Galilean cornfields, in order to take one surreptitious photograph of a princess wearing somewhat less than she would normally put on for the cameras.
To bring this back to the first century. Even if … we were to grant that the average Pharisee would not inspect the hands, or worry about the corn-plucking habits, of an ordinary Jew, we must insist that, in anyone's terms, Jesus was not an ordinary Jew. He was a prophet, announcing that Israel's god was becoming king. If a humble monk suddenly becomes Archbishop, or a country boy decides to run for President, all eyes are upon him. If he has already given broad hints of adopting unfashionable or unpopular policies, some of the eyes will be eager for scandal."
N. T. Wright, Jesus and the Victory of God, p.392.
Question to Consider
How does the scrutiny applied to Jesus also apply to and affect us?
Heavenly Father, help me live a life beyond reproach in service of you. No hint of scandal, just love for you and for others. In Jesus' name, Amen.
Conclude with Silence (2 minutes)
Day 4 – Another Controversy, Another Messianic Claim
Silence, Stillness and Centering before God (2 minutes)
Scripture Reading – Mark 2:25-26
Notice what Jesus doesn't say here. He doesn't disagree with the Pharisees and dispute their claim about the disciples. He doesn't deny that the disciples are outside the bounds of traditional Sabbath observance. The Pharisees actually have a point. Instead, Jesus claims special circumstances as a reason for the disciples' behaviour and even gives a scriptural example to back up his claim for the disciples' exemption from Sabbath observance on this occasion. And, as we would expect by now, he does so in a way that makes some very strong, controversial claims for himself, who he is and what he is doing.
This episode in the life of King David came at a time when he had been anointed king by the prophet Samuel, but had not yet actually been enthroned as king. He was hiding from Saul, trying to gather support, and waiting for when his time would come. The Pharisees (and any others listening) would have been shocked by the parallels between David and Jesus that Jesus was claiming here: the true king, ordained by God but not yet recognised and vindicated as king. And like David, Jesus, as king, was claiming the right to be able to bypass the usual rules and regulations in order to feed his people. His claim was a messianic one. He was not casually trying to cover for his wayward disciples. The kingdom was coming; God was doing a new thing and new life was bursting out all over the place, in new and unexpected ways.
Questions to Consider
What do you think of what David did and Jesus' claim to be doing the same? What do you think the disciples thought of this?
Loving Father, others need to see the new life you have given me, need to see the new way to be that you want for us – and I need to see the new ways to live out this new life. Show me and teach me. Amen.
Conclude with Silence (2 minutes)
Day 5 – Not Just Another Day
Silence, Stillness and Centering before God (2 minutes)
Scripture Reading – Mark 2:27-28
I am old enough to remember when there was a difference between the week and the weekend, Saturday as well, not just Sunday. The biggest difference: apart from New Brighton Mall on Saturday mornings, shops were closed. These days, leaving aside online shopping, everything is open almost all the time. So many jobs (especially in the retail sector) require workers to work weekends or at least be available to do so. Sunday is now just another day of the week; for many it would be merely coincidental that church services are held on that day. Only those young enough to be at school would notice any particular difference. It can be hard to observe a Sabbath when we are pressured to view all days as essentially the same.
Such a view isn't helped when Jesus' statement that "the son of man is master even of the Sabbath" is interpreted to mean that we need not observe the Sabbath because Jesus has abolished it. Not at all. The point is not our freedom from the Sabbath but the good news that we have been set free for the Sabbath. God cared enough for his creation to give us a day of rest. We know life is busy. We know that there is even an entire profession devoted to helping people relieve the pressures of modern life, and entire sections of the pharmaceutical industry geared towards alleviating the stress caused by the pace of life today. Perhaps if more of us observed the Sabbath and kept it as a time of holy rest and renewal, these pressures would not be so great, for us and for those who see our example.
Questions to Consider
How is your Sunday different from other days of the week? Why?
Creator God, thank you for knowing us and what we need, and for giving us a day to rest, to refresh ourselves in you and with others. Amen.
Conclude with Silence (2 minutes)


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Button signs up for Virtual Le Mans
Formula 1's 2009 world champion Jenson Button has entered a team in June's Virtual Le Mans 24 Hours.
Button will drive for his Team Rocket outfit, which also competes in the GT World Challenge Europe series, in the virtual edition of the French endurance classic.
The real-world Le Mans 24 Hours has been postponed to September 19-20 as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic. The esports event, which is a partnership between Le Mans organiser the ACO, the World Endurance Championship and Motorsport Games, will take place on the real race's original June 13-14 date.
Button made one real-life Le Mans appearance with LMP1 privateer team SMP Racing in the 2018 edition of the race, but his car retired during the final hour with terminal engine trouble.
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The 2009 F1 world champion is no stranger to sim racing, having participated in a number of esports events since the postponement of all real-life motorsport. He's competing in the SRO GT Esports series and made a one-off appearance in F1's Virtual Grand Prix at Albert Park.
In the Virtual Le Mans 24 Hours, Button will share an LMP2 with fellow British driver Alex Buncombe, who was previously a part of Nissan's brief LMP1 project. The line-up will be completed by Jan van der Heyde, who represents Nissan e.dams in the Formula E Race at Home Challenge series for esports drivers, and British sim racer Matt Richards.
They will compete against the likes of Formula 1 stars Max Verstappen, Lando Norris and Pierre Gasly as well as two-time Indianapolis 500 winner Juan Pablo Montoya, IndyCar champion Simon Pagenaud and double Formula E champion Jean-Eric Vergne.
The Virtual Le Mans 24 Hours will be streamed live on Motorsport.tv and Motorsport.com. The race starts on June 13 at 14:00 BST or 15:00 CET.
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How do you bet like a professional ?
Before you can learn to do that, you must learn to think like a professional in every respect. This is not a technical chapter based on selection processes and staking plans. They are, of course, crucial, but so too are the mental processes associated with betting professionally.
The main difference between a professional punter and an amateur is that the professional spends less time and effort looking for winners and more time looking for prices. That is the aspect of betting on which you must concentrate if you are ever to become professional.
A professional wouldn't walk into a bookie's shop, stare at the Racing Post on the wall for ten minutes, then hurriedly fill in an each-way yankee based on his favourite jockey's mounts. I know that is an obvious example, yet so many thousands of punters every day hand over millions of pounds by acting in such a way.
The problem comes when you have a decent win by doing something like that – because it postpones the time when you will reach your senses – sometimes by years. Quite simply, you cannot be a professional and act in such a manner. A professional, by the very nature of the word, has to win. Not every day, or even every week – but he has to win to make a living, or at least to sustain the one he's got.
Just imagine yourself in the position where you have to win – perhaps some of you have been in it. How would you act then? You would certainly take much more care over your selections – but is that enough? You will hopefully have set up a betting bank, and have decided roughly how you are going to stake from it. You will hopefully have a good grasp of value – the most important thing in betting. If you haven't grasped the concept of value, then quite simply you will never be a professional – it's as simple as that. You must be on the lookout for it all the time – you are not looking for winners, you are looking for value.
It is very tempting for me to start writing an in-depth analysis of value, selection processes, betting banks and staking plans – but I shall leave each to their own chapter, so that I can try to emphasise the emotional involvement that you will encounter in your quest to make a living.
First and foremost, you must be absolutely sure that your methods are right – so sure that you will never ever doubt them no matter what happens. Once you begin to doubt your methods you are in big danger. No matter what sort of losing sequence befalls you, you must never doubt the fundamental methods that you have learned. By attempting to drastically change them you are heading for disaster.
One basic principle about Psychology Of Betting which you should never forget:
No matter how bad your recent results have been, they do not, in any way whatsoever, affect the chances of today's bet. Not in the slightest. Just because your last seven bets have lost has no bearing on the chances of the eighth. Everyone encounters sequences – it's a part of life that things happen in sequences. You need to be aware of sequences and how they will affect you, but you also need to realise that every investment you make is a completely independent entity, unaffected by anything before or after.
Once you understand sequences (and it takes a long time), then you will treat the inevitable losing runs with a completely different attitude. You will begin to be unaffected by them – not totally, but enough to ensure that they are not on your mind as you make your next selection. This is important – if you are psychologically affected by being in the middle of a losing sequence, your judgement will be affected as you make your next bet. There is no doubt about it.
You may forego value to try and retrieve the situation with a short-priced favourite, which normally you would dismiss as giving no value at all. This is fatal, and must be resisted at all times. If you stick to the methods you know are proven, you are bound to win in the long term.
What I am trying to say is that after a while a week will become about as significant to you as a day used to be. Years ago I remember being upset as I trudged home after a 'bad day'. How ridiculous that seems to me now. A 'bad week' barely affects me now, because I know that my methods have stood the test of time – and I also know that sequences follow us all through our betting lives, both 'good' ones and 'bad' ones.
On the other side of the coin, a 'good' sequence must never ever lead to rashness or complacency. If we remember the golden rule that each bet is completely independent of every other, we must know that ten winners on the bounce doesn't give the eleventh any better chance than it already has.
If you ever make a bet purely because of the outcome of a previous one, whether it be because you are well in front so you decide to try to extend the winning streak, or whether it be because to want to recoup losses quickly, then you have not grasped the basic psychology required for the discipline of successful betting.
If you can't sleep, and sit up all night and flip a coin repetitively – will there be times when six or seven heads appear one after another? Of course there will, and vice versa. You can't stop it happening – it is a sequence. We have to live with them.
A losing sequence doesn't necessarily mean that you are doing anything wrong, and in the same way a winning sequence doesn't necessarily mean that you have the key to long-term profit. The only way to decide whether either is true is to keep cumulative long-term records of your bets.
In summary, here are my 5 golden rules to ensure you keep a cool head and the ability to concentrate positively and exclusively on your next bet:
1. Know your trade inside out.
2. Once they are tried and trusted, stick to your methods at all times no matter what.
3. Eliminate self-doubt.
4. Eliminate over-confidence, but not self-confidence.
5. Know that sequences, both good and bad, are an inevitable part of betting.


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MARKET PULSE: Can Jesus (Aguilar) save your team?
By Joseph Pytleski @ShoelessJoeHQ July 16th, 2017 12:04am
Market Pulse keeps your ear to the ground in order to give you a more complete look at the free agent market. Using data from OnRoto.com, this column identifies the players who have been Most Added and Most Dropped during the previous week. For additional context, the column provides links to the prior week's PT Today, PT Tomorrow, Facts/Flukes and Call-Ups columns that mention that player, to give a holistic picture of their circumstances.
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OneUp Components is a Canadian company based in Squamish that produces various mt. bike accessories. Previously probably more well known for their drivetrain parts to extend your gear range. Their newest bit is this clever multi-tool that stashes either in your fork steerer tube or in their new mini-pumps. They managed to fit 2 through 6 and 8mm Allen wrenches, T25 Torx, tire lever, emergency chain breaker, quick link breaker, flat screwdriver, 4 sizes of spoke wrench, a spare chainring bolt, slot to store quick link, and cassette lock ring notch tool. Spec also lists presta valve core.
I got the 70cc pump setup as my intention was to replace as much of this that I carry as possible. The pump is Presta only head, which removes to become a CO2 inflator. The tool consists of an aluminum sided multi tool with the wrenches and aluminum bodied chain tool that is held onto plastic tire lever which nestles together to snap into the plastic frame. This then slides into the handle of the mini-pump.
The multi tool is well constructed, plated bead blast finished steel tools sandwiched between anodized aluminum plates held together with what looks to be stainless screwed pins. They fit firmly together, no play, which makes using the tools nice. The tolerances of the bits are also quite tight, if the fastener being worked on is rusty, it might have some trouble fitting! I initially thought they had combined the 2 and 2.5mm on a single wrench, I was mistaken. The Devo hat step on that tip was made to fit the 2mm with the larger base needed to fill the gap. There is a separate 2.5mm, I wasn't paying attention. The flatblade is combined with the lockring cap tool which also functions as the quicklink breaker, and then combines with the adjacent 5mm to become the 8mm allen.
The second piece of the tool functions as a tire lever on one end. The other end has the anodized aluminum chain breaker bolted with a chainring bolt, so in a pinch you have a spare bolt too. If you go to EDC's site, I notice they call it a chain breaker, not chain tool. So I think it is mainly to remove a damaged chain link. It's design requires you to have the links bent at 90 degree to fit into the tool, using it as a normal chain tool would be difficult. You can loosen the bolt and rotate the body of the tool 90 degrees and the tire lever becomes a handle for additional leverage. Machined into the sides of the chain tool are 4 spoke wrench notches. It being aluminum, you probably wouldn't want to build up a wheel with it, but it'll work for trail repairs. Again, the tolerances seem to be very tight. But being so tight, I tried using the largest spoke wrench as a Presta core tool, it didn't fit. I was about to chock this up as one disappointment. Nope, turns out the gap for the chain breaker pin is the Presta core tool!
The final piece of the tool is the plastic frame that the other two pieces nestle and snap into. It does also have two holes that you can use to store a chain quick link in, and one end has threads to accept either a CO2 cartridge, or their little stash tube. This assembly then can slide into the handle of their pump, or the steerer tube of your fork. If you go for the fork storage, you need to get their proprietary fork cap system and use their tap tool to tap threads into the inside of your steerer. So you end up going back to a threaded steerer, kinda. It's actually quite clever, you replace the star nut and conventional cap with this threaded ring that uses cassette ring tool to tighten the headset preload. You still use your normal stem to do the clamping. This leaves a hole that you can slide the EDC tool into.
As n excise, I decided to use the tool to do some servicing on my bike. The tire lever was quite usable. If you have a tight bead combo, it'll be difficult to manage with just one lever, but it worked fine for me. As mentioned, the allen keys are quite tight tolerance. The tool worked fine for all the bolts I worked on. I confirmed the unusual 8mm fits, however I did not try to remove my pedals with it. I am doubtful it would be good for that. It should work for emergency if your pedal ever fell off on the trail, right? (Yes, it's happened to someone, who will remain unnamed, and it wasn't me!) I was even able to improvise removing the crank cap with the tool. Not a very good fit, but the cap shouldn't be that tight anyway.
I have yet to try the conventional and quick link chain breakers. Also there is the tool to fit cassette lock ring notches. Again I don't think you could get the force, but might work in an emergency. It is meant more for the OneUp headset preload ring.
The pump is likewise well constructed of aluminum. Only fits Presta valves. I tried pumping tire at trail pressure to get it higher, it was pretty difficult, but there should be no problem getting a soft tire to trail pressure. The valve head can be removed to be used as a CO2 inflator, but I rarely use CO2. The pump is nicely sealed with o-rings and plugs, it should hold up to dirt and splashes well.
This was a long review, they managed to fit an impressive amount of tools into the space. Yes its about $50 for the tool and another $50 for the pump, not cheap. Yes, it's made in Taiwan, but it's well designed and well executed. 4 out 4 multi monkeys.
Addendum, I just used the quick link breaker. It works, I guess. You need some heavy monkey grip to do it as shown in OneUps video, with soft middle aged thumbs and fingers, it wasn't happening. Ended up using my swiss multi-tool pliers to squeeze the tool together to release the quick link. And if you use wet lube your hands will be a greasy mess.


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Considered the largest human migration on the planet, the 40-day period was forecasted to see about three billion trips.
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LogiLink® Projector mount, arm length 150 mm, white (BP0057)
The LogiLink projector mount is made of an aluminum construction and holds projectors of up to 13.5 kg with a range from 54–320 mm in diameter. It can tilt and swivel up to -15°/+15° and can be rotated up to 360°. The mount is suitable for flat ceilings and is supplied with the necessary installation material for an easy installation.
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