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What follows is a rough translation of an interview Russian daily Kommersant conducted with Andrei Krutskikh, special representative of the Russian President for international cooperation in the field of information security and envoy of the Russian Foreign Ministry. He speaks about recent successes in the UN Group of Government Experts (GGE) regarding agreement on "the conditions of confrontation and sanctions" and potential areas for cooperation in cyberspace between the U.S. and Russia. The interview provides a rare window into the Russian perspective on principles for conduct in cyberspace:
The UN Group of Governmental Experts for the first time been able to agree on the need for rules of conduct of states in the information space. The report, compiled by experts from 20 countries, including Russia, there is a first set of such rules: Do not blame each other indiscriminately in cyberattacks, not to attack critical infrastructure of other countries, not to insert malicious bookmark in IT-products. A member of the special representative of Russian President for international cooperation in the field of information security, special envoy of the Russian Foreign Ministry Andrei Krutskikh told the "Kommersant" HELEN CHERNENKO as Russia and the United States manage to find common ground in the context of political confrontation.
- What is the significance of the last report of the UN Group of Governmental Experts?
- This is the third report of the Group of Governmental Experts (GGE), and, although the first two documents were extremely important that its significance simply revolutionary. For the first time it failed to agree on a position 20 states (among them apart from Russia were the US, China and developing countries) on a very sensitive and important issue of the applicability of international law in the field of information. Russia and China, along with other SCO countries have long pointed to the need for the rules of responsible behavior of states in the information space, but previously the Western partners are not very eager to talk about it. In the report it is discussed for the first time in such a systematic and non-confrontational manner.
Leading kiberderzhavy world first agreed to limit its actions in the information space. This follows from the report of the UN Group of Governmental Experts on international information security at the disposal of "b". In accordance with the agreements kibertehnologii States undertake to use exclusively for peaceful purposes: among other things, they will not attack the critical infrastructure of each other (nuclear power plants, banks) and to insert "bookmarks" in IT-production, but will fight attempts by hackers to carry out sabotage their territory. However, as long as these rules are only voluntary. In the future, Russia hopes to make them mandatory.
- Why do we need such rules?
- It's like in the case of road traffic: the monstrous disaster happen, but without the basic rules of conduct of the order on the road would not be at all. In 2011, Russia together with a number of other SCO member states put forward a first draft of "Rules of conduct in the field of international information security." In the West, he was criticized.
In January this year, the SCO countries have revised version of the rules as an official UN document. The new version of the emphasis was on human rights, freedom of access, the principle of capacity building in developing countries. At the same time, we immediately said that this document - not the ultimate truth, and the basis for further negotiations. Nevertheless, the West again with more suspicious of our initiative, seeing in it a veiled attempt to impose censorship on the Internet and increase state control of the Internet. Although nothing like this in this document do not.
- Allow you to argue. I think that some of the provisions of the draft regulations of the SCO can be precisely and interpreted.
- It's like reading it. The method of reading between the lines is often used in diplomacy - it allows you to pluck some of the veil. On the other hand, it often leads to that people domyslivat what is not. Eliminate doubt be in the process of discussion to which we invited our colleagues and by presenting the draft regulations on behalf of the SCO member states.
During the last meeting of the GGE, the discussion finally took place: steel nominated mutually acceptable wording of the rules, and the goal was set to continue this work in the next year in order to present its results at the 72nd session of the UN General Assembly in 2017.
- So it will be rules, principles or standards?
- The Russian side has gone on non-standard diplomatic move, offering - for the sake of compromise - to write a report in all three terms. What is the difference which term to use? About the wine is judged by the drink, not a bottle, which he poured. In this case the main thing - the content of the document. Western partners are very wary of any new regulatory measures, they fear that it will be fetters on the freedom of activity in the information space. On their insistence, the report says that the proposed rules of responsible conduct are voluntary and are not legally binding.
- This does not diminish the significance of the document?
- This is nothing terrible. We see this report as the beginning of a process. When the international community matures, the rules can be made legally binding. Until then, they will have the status of a moral obligation.
- US diplomats say that the report - the victory of US diplomacy.
- All 20 representatives of member countries of the GGE contributed to the achievement of results. It was a team effort. As for the particularly Americans, they really were largely the driving force in the preparation of the relevant sections of this report, although we are part of the discussion process is often the first to put forward the idea of particular policy. But the document was formed largely due to structural flexibility shown by the US expert, and I'm not going to deny that.
- Given the current confrontation between Russia and the United States, it does not work there so that if the Americans win something, then we lost?
- We do not see this process as a zero sum game. If someone gets something, it does not mean that the other must lose. We worked as partners. Everyone understands that in the field of information and communication technologies (ICT) and the common threat, they cross-border. These threats can only be tackled together.
Americans have made proposals on the structure of the document, expressed specific ideas on the content sections. Russia together with other countries of the SCO and BRICS need to promote the idea of ommunity awareness of threats in the information space and the priority of the topic in terms of national and global security. With these building blocks, many of which are laid in the course of previous meetings of the GGE, the group's work does not become a tug of war, and was based on a joint focus on results. All countries have the opportunity to bring to the discussion of his vision of a set of rules. And every proposal was discussed in a constructive manner.
But I will not hide, the search for compromise was not easy. US group represents an experienced diplomat Michel Markoff - a difficult and steep negotiator, perfectly owns theme. Naturally, I and other colleagues did not hesitate to defend the rights of taking care of the most complete reflection of their national positions, it is normal. The main thing is that we were all set up to draw up the report, under which could be signed by representatives of 20 countries. And it happened.
- It is surprising, because the US and Russia in recent years little as possible to agree ...
- The fact that we were able to agree on the conditions of confrontation and sanctions, makes the report even more important. It is a strong political signal that the relationship (between Russia and USA) is not hopeless, that we can agree and take joint and collective diplomatic efforts.
- In your opinion, what is most important from the fact of what has been agreed?
- In my view, the key is the fact that the report reflects the position of Russia and its partners in the SCO and BRICS, the main thing - not to legalize and regulate conflicts in the information space, and to prevent the use of ICT in military-political purposes. This is the first fundamentally important point.
Secondly, the report states that can not be indiscriminately accuse each other of cyber attacks, as it often happens today. According to the group, unilateral declarations that a State may be involved in illegal activities in the information field, enough to ascribe this malicious activity that state. The charges of organizing and carrying out cyber attacks must be proven. This eliminates the possibility of indiscriminate attraction to the responsibility for the attack, allegedly committed in the information space, as in the case of the introduction of US sanctions against North Korea in response to the hacking servers film company Sony Pictures (starring comedy about the attempt on Kim Jong Un) .
Third, the report repeatedly stresses that ICT should be used exclusively for peaceful purposes. This means that actions such as disabling using the computer worm Stuxnet Iran's nuclear facilities industry, becoming an outlaw. At least is the moral law. (According to the book "Confront and conceal: Obama's secret war and unexpected use of American power," columnist The New York Times, Pulitzer Prize winner David Sanger, Stuxnet was created by the United States and Israel).
Fourthly, the report for the first time declared illegal and harmful activity on the implementation of bookmarks in the IT-products. This item was included in the document on Russia's initiative.
Finally, the Group reaffirmed the sovereign right of States to dispose of information and communication infrastructure in their territory and to determine their policy on international information security. In addition, the document includes key recommendations to increase international cooperation in the field of international information security, noted the importance of confidence-building measures to overcome the "digital divide". Includes the study of ways to increase the volume of technical assistance, capacity to respond to incidents involving the use of ICT, the acceleration of the transfer of appropriate knowledge and technology - especially for developing countries.
- And what about the principle of non-interference in the internal affairs of States, so important for Russia?
- It is also in the report. It lists all the basic principles of the UN Charter, and expressly states that all of them, including the principles of respect for sovereignty and non-interference, are fully applicable to the field of information.
- What will happen now with this report?
- Report of the UN Secretary-General transmitted for presentation at the 70 th session of the UN General Assembly. But, as recorded in the report of standards developed by consensus within the UN mechanism, we can assume that they already have the character of existing UN recommendations.
However, to put an end to this issue is premature. In truth, we are at the beginning of the discussion about the norms and rules of behavior in the information space. This year, the group considered the topic as a first approximation - along with other important aspects of international information security. But the development of codes of conduct - it is not some abstract "high politics", it is an urgent need for all states concerned to protect itself and its citizens against cyber attacks, cyber espionage and other cyber threats. This question deserves to be considered separately and more closely. The report is the possibility of convening a new expert group, and if this idea will approve the General Assembly of the fall, the next meeting of this group will take place in 2016. The issue of standards would be her major. We hope that these negotiations will be developed more detailed document, which will then be submitted to the UN General Assembly in a resolution.
- But the UN General Assembly resolutions are not binding, too. Will Russia at some point to insist on UN Security Council resolutions on relevant standards?
- Do not be afraid to reveal the strategic plan of Russia in this regard. All three of the report of the GGE, as well as bilateral Russian-Chinese and Russian-American agreements in the field of information security, as well as other bilateral and regional agreements, including within the OSCE and ASEAN, Russia sees as a "small steps to the big goal."
- What?
- Ideally, Russia would have preferred a legally binding international convention under the auspices of the United Nations on providing global information security. But we understand that this document some of our western partners have not yet matured. Nevertheless, on the basic rules of conduct to be agreed today.
- Yet it is not clear - why? It somehow works ...
- The key word in your question - "somehow". And it works just as bad. Let me remind statistics given by President Vladimir Putin at a meeting of the FSB board in March this year: in 2014 the official sites and information systems of the Russian government was committed 74 million cyber attacks. And it's not a world record. During our talks in Beijing and at the White House on both sides cited evidence that the US and China takes almost a million cyber attacks on each other in a week. What is this if not check kiberuyazvimost? If such be found the way, the consequences could be unpredictable.
If you believe the UK government estimates, today only due to hacker attacks from the global economy each year is taken from $ 500 billion to $ 1 trillion. This information resources critical infrastructure (financial industry, medical sector, facilities energy and transport sectors, and so on. N.) Remain very vulnerable. If we agree on certain rules that can and cannot, it increases the safety and the citizens and businesses, and the state.
- But hackers do not care about the rules established by the states ...
- Hackers do not live in an isolated world. They live in the states. A report of the GGE contains an important provision that States are responsible for everything that happens in their information environment and is based on their territory. Therefore, the state should not encourage activities of hacking groups, as was the case when the head of the National Security Agency (NSA), the United States actually called American hackers to kiberkaperstvu. GGE recommendations rests with the State responsible for ensuring that it is struggling with illegal use of ICTs within their national sovereignty - not encourage such actions and not to use them for their own purposes, and to make efforts to prevent them.
- So it turns out that in 2007 the Russian authorities would be if such rules already exist, are required to prevent an attack on kiber aktivistov Estonian Internet resources after the scandal with the "Bronze Soldier"?
- The question of the attack on Estonian websites very delicate: the fact that prove the involvement of official agencies to the Russian attack anybody and could not, and then it was found that most of the traffic was through servers outside the territorial borders of Russia - according to these same Estonian experts, 80% of the attacks were carried out with the United States.
- The attacks are often carried out with the activation servers that are located in third countries ...
- According to the new report of the GGE continue to use the information infrastructure of third countries (intermediaries) for computer sabotage reprehensible. This was also the Russian proposal.
- According to US media reports, Russia and several other members of the GGE blocked the idea of the United States to make a provision in the report that the 51th article of the UN Charter (which guarantees the state the right to self-defense in the event that it carried out an armed attack) applies to cyberspace. Is it so?
- The freezing of someone's initiatives were not discussed. Was he that built all the negotiators found a compromise in the report said that all the articles of the UN Charter are applicable to the information space, which implies and 51th article. In this regard, I cannot mention the great merit of the Estonian delegate Marina Kaljurand (July 15, she headed the Foreign Ministry Estonia). She did not reproach in special sympathies for Russia, but it was set in a very constructive and serious discussion. Through her wisdom it was invited important compromise, and at the critical moment of negotiations.
- A dispute over which was conducted?
- In Article 51 of the UN Charter refers to "armed attack". But in today's world there is no general representation of what is meant by "armed attack" in relation to the use of ICTs. And if we did not hesitate to write that the 51th article of the UN Charter is applicable to the field of ICT, it will give a strong opportunity for countries to use any hacker attack as a pretext for a retaliatory use of force, that is war.
After all, the United States back in 2010 the first officially recognized the potential of cyberspace in the same battlefield as land, sea and air. And in 2011 they were the first to develop a national strategy of action in cyberspace, reserves the right to respond to Washington's computer sabotage by all available means, including the use of nuclear weapons. And if now unequivocally "bless" referring to the 51th article of the UN Charter, it turns out that strong kiberderzhavy be able to accuse any other country in the implementation of a cyber attack, qualifying it - with no legal basis - as an "armed attack" in accordance with their national interpretations and cause "retaliatory" strike, and not necessarily only cyber means.
In view of emerging risks in this regard, we and several other countries were against the isolation of the 51st article. As a compromise, we agreed on a statement that all the provisions of the UN Charter are applicable to cyberspace. At the same time, the report emphasizes that the international community needs to agree on the key terms and concepts in the use of ICT. This includes such things as "armed attack".


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Square Dance with Take Two
Jan 6 @ 6:30 pm - 8:30 pm$10
Join us for a square dance at Fry's Spring Beach Club with Take Two! Hannah Johnson will be the caller for the evening. The dance will run from 6:30-8:30, with a cupcake walk around 7:30, and tickets will be $10 ($8 for Fry Springs members and kids under 12 free).
Take Two is an award-winning string band from central Virginia. Drawing on both the deep history of traditional Appalachian Old-Time music and the more global aesthetic of turn-of-the-century mandolin orchestras, they aim to please with everything from high energy breakdowns to soothing Italian waltzes to beautiful songs about groundhogs. Take Two confidently keeps one foot in the past and the other in an exciting musical future.


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Holi Bhai Dooj is observed on the second day after Holi festival. It falls on Dwitiya in Krishna Paksha of Chaitra Month in North Indian Hindi Calendars. In 2017, Holi Bhai Dooj date is March 14 (Matantare Bhai Dooj).
It coincides with Phalgun Krishna Paksha Dwitiya as per Marathi, Gujarat, Kannada & Telugu calendars.
On Bhai Dhooj, sister applies Teeka / tika/ tilak and displays her love giving sweets and other eatables. Brothers give gifts or presentations to their sisters.
The important and major Bhai Dooj festival is celebrated on the second day after Diwali festival.
In 2015, Holi Bhai Dooj date was March 7 (Matantare Bhai Dooj).
In 2014, Holi Bhai Dooj date was March 18, Tuesday
In 2013, Holi Bhai Dooj date was March 29, Friday (Matantare Bhai Dooj).
In 2012, Holi Bhai Dooj date was March 10, Saturday (Matantare Bhai Dooj).


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There are always places to go, things to do, and people to see – and this year Tyler and I want to use our time wisely so that we enjoy the full riches that the Lord has given us by investing in others' lives and gleaning from the godly teaching of others.
We hope that you will join us and and together we can enjoy listening, learning, and loving.
1. Bay Leaf Baptist Church is hosting a Marriage Enrichment Retreat January 30th.
Dr. Daniel Akin, the President of Southeastern Baptist Theological Seminary, is the (great, wonderful, wise, comical, Jesus-loving, Bible-preaching) speaker. The one day seminar begins bright and early at 8:30AM and lasts through the morning until 1:15PM. He will speak on "The Song of Solomon: God's Manual for Marital Satisfaction."
What a perfect way to begin the new year with your spouse, to spend a Saturday gleaning from a man who loves the Lord and loves his wife well teaching the Scriptures in such a way you can take it home and apply it to your every day life. Tyler and I plan to make this a mini-retreat weekend, complete with a nice breakfast and dinner date out. Perhaps for your spouse you will hire and a babysitter for the morning and take him/her out for a nice lunch at your favorite local restaurant (I recommend Winston's which isn't too far away).
2. Southeastern Baptist Theological Seminary is hosting the 20/20 Collegiate Conference : A City Within a City : Displaying the Gospel within our Culture. The conference will be held February 5-6 on the seminary's beautiful campus. The speakers include Matt Chandler, Daniel Akin, J.D. Greear, and Clayton King. It's only $30.00 for Southeastern students and $35.00 for me, you, and everybody else.
This conference's goal is to engage and equip your mind so that you will love well the Lord with all of who you are. From the 20/20 website, "God's church always finds herself in the midst of a broader human culture. Though the church is a part of that culture, she also bears witness to a Reality greater than the culture. For this reason, we as believers have the great privilege and responsibility of finding ways—in our colleges, workplaces, neighborhoods, and communities—to display the truth, goodness, and beauty of God and his gospel. Come and join us as we explore ways of bearing witness to God and his gospel in the midst of a skeptical, morally confused culture."


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About Saskia Baden
I first started taking photographs around 1998, which paralleled the start of my infatuation with Britney Spears. I would set up scenes of my Britney Barbies in front of hand-drawn backdrops or tucked inside of my baby blue slippers and take photos with my mom's point-and-shoot camera.
At the time I felt like I was taking portraits of my favorite pop star, but now I understand them as still lives. This photographic relationship between a still life and a portrait—between life and death, the permanent and the temporary, the animate and the inanimate—has remained essential to my work twenty years later.
I was born and raised in Western North Carolina. I received my BA in Photography from Bard College In December of 2017. And after a year managing the analog and digital labs at Bard, I traveled in Mexico and did an East-to-West USA road trip. I am currently based in Olympia, Washington.


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By Josh Yerton - January 7, 2018
A new year offers us a time to think about where we have been and who are are becoming. Restoration Church was founded on Isaiah 58 with the idea if we truly engage and seek after Jesus, he will use us to be restorers. But for all that we need to be engaged.


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Have you unknowingly invited Monsanto to your garden party? Updated from 2013.
In 2005, Monsanto grabbed 40% of the U.S. seed market and 20% of the global seed market when it bought out Seminis, making them the largest seed company in the world. —supplying the genetics for 55% of the lettuce on U.S. supermarket shelves, 75% of the tomatoes, and 85% of the peppers, with strong holdings in beans, cucumbers, squash, melons, broccoli, cabbage, spinach and peas! (source)
And Monsanto has been buying up every seed company they can ever since. By going to the Seminis site, you can see their history of acquisitions. You can see Syngenta and Dow are doing the same.
Apparently, Monsanto is now legally registered or established to hold the trademark for a plethora of the named heirloom seed varieties. (See a list of names below.) This company has strategically positioned itself to profit from the growing heirloom or open-pollinated home-gardening market.
Boy, it makes me sick to send profits their way!
Bayer, Monsanto and Their Terrible Little Secrets
First, as of "2015, the Bayer takeover of Monsanto merges a chemical giant with a seed giant and leaves the control of the world's food supply in too few hands. The merger also links two key parts of agricultural production, reducing competition in the food chain. Bayer is now expected to control 29 per cent of the global seed market and 24 per cent of the global pesticide market.
"Second, there are serious concerns about increased farmer dependency on a smaller number of suppliers, and higher prices due to weak competition.
"Third, the deal increases the power of an even smaller group of companies over the intellectual property, and patents that already lock up much of the world's commercially produced food supply. The patents weaken farmers' ability to use and reuse their own seeds."
"Finally, there are ongoing food health and safety concerns related to the seeds and chemicals produced by these companies. Increasing their market share increases their power over the market and over the producers and consumers that use their products. In 2015, the World Health Organisation declared glyphosate, the active ingredient in Monsanto's herbicide, Roundup, as "probably carcinogenic in humans,""(source)
We home gardeners need to do our homework to make sure we purchase seeds from companies that aren't in partnership with Bayer-Monsanto-Seminis. The Healthy Home Economist gives us 4 ways to forget Monsanto.
4 Ways To Keep Monsanto out of Your Garden:
So, It's pretty important to make sure that none of the seeds you buy this year support Monsanto or one of the companies owned by them.
Excellent seed companies that are NOT affiliated with Monsanto:
(note: companies named on this poster could change in time, so buyer beware, and do your due diligence first!)
1.) Avoid buying anything from companies that are affiliated with Monsanto or Seminis. You can search the companies they do business with to avoid them as they are potentially compromised.
2.) Avoid buying seed or seedlings varieties that are trademarked and owned by Seminis or Monsanto. This includes popular tomato varieties such as 'Early Girl', 'Better Boy', and 'Burpee's Big Boy', as well as a host of other common home garden varieties like 'Habanero' hot pepper and 'Packman' broccoli. These are not GMO varieties, but their purchase does profit Monsanto.
3.) Ask seed companies if they have taken the Safe Seed Pledge and tested their stock for GMOs. Here's a list.
4.) Purchase, plant, and save seeds from heirloom varieties. We need to support Baker Creek Heirloom Seeds, Seed Savers Exchange, and Clear Creek Heirloom Seeds and others that specialize in heirlooms and that are NOT owned by Monsanto or Seminis. The legacy of Seed Saver's Exchange is to tell you how to collect and store seeds.
List of companies that specialize in heirlooms and that are NOT owned by Monsanto or Seminis:
Note: Always ask questions of a company if you want to verify they are not part of the corporate giant. Things change and companies are under pressure to survive. Some may sell out.
Garden Organic (UK)
Seed Site (Italy)
The Real Seed Catalogue (UK)
Baker Creek is run by a REAL family as are many of the remaining smaller seed companies! They work extensively to supply free seeds to many of the world's poorest countries, as well as here at home in school gardens and other educational projects. It is their goal to educate everyone about a better, safer food supply.
Don't forget Seed-Savers! Here you can shop hundreds of heirloom, organic, non-GMO vegetable seeds and plants to grow in your garden.
Let's boycott all gene-altering companies. Together, we can build a more sustainable world, one garden at a time!
If you know of other companies that are 'clean' seeds, please leave a link to them (or contact information) in the comments. We want to support those whose work is ethical and honest. Thank you!
If you've been encouraged or informed by something you've read here at Deep Roots, please consider liking my page on Facebook, joining us on Pinterest, or subscribing to the helpful email resources. Thank you!


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Media Index
Bring you some of the best guest and and topics in the industry! Be sure to look for your category and and I'm sure you'll ind a video or podcast that will offer you plenty of priceless esoteric information.
Church of Satan
Founded by the late Magus Anton Szandor LaVey (1930-1997), the Church of Satan is by far one of the most misunderstood establishments even within the circles of the occult.
I'll be discussing with my guest on the Satanic Church, their beliefs, as well as dissolve all the myths and misconceptions on worship, ceremonies and practice of past and present..
"We blended a formula of nine parts social respectability to one part outrage," says Anton LaVey. "We established a Church of Satan—something that would smash all concepts of what a 'church' was supposed to be. This was a temple of indulgence to openly defy the temples of abstinence that had been built up until then. We didn't want it to be an unforgiving, unwelcoming place, but a place where you could go to have fun."
And thus was initiated two revolutions which have carried over into today: 1) the integration of magic and logic, and 2) a religion based on self-indulgence, carnality (here and now instead of there and then), and pleasure instead of self-denial. Other ego-affirming, human potential programs like EST, drew from the ground-breaking attitudes and techniques of the Church of Satan….
Come and listen with an open mind as you should with all sources of the occult!
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June 19th, 2017 by Adam Armstrong
HPE Announces New HPC & AI Solutions
Today at the ISC HPC conference in Frankfurt, Germany, Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE) announced new High Performance Computing (HPC) and artificial intelligence (AI) systems, software and services aimed at accelerating scientific, engineering, and business innovation. These new systems will include the HPE Apollo 6000 Gen10, HPE SGI 8600 and HPE Apollo 10 Series. According to HPE, the new systems are workload-optimized to deliver faster, more efficient insights while reducing vulnerability to cyber-attacks and improving economic control.
Data is growing at an explosive rate but that is just one of many issues facing the industry. The increasingly complex algorithms for HPC and AI are also creating a huge demand for scalable processing performance. These demands are creating the need for expansion and flexibility in several areas including storage, compute performance, and agility. To top it off, organizations want security and lower power consumption and a smaller footprint. HPE's new solutions are designed to address all of these issues.
The new systems include:
- HPE SGI 8600 System – The first co-created system since HPE acquired SGI, the HPE SGI 8600 is a liquid cooled petascale system, based on the legacy SGI ICE XA architecture, purpose-built to solve the most complex scientific, engineering and national security challenges and:
- Delivers industry's fastest parallel processing performance
- Scales to more than 10,000 nodes without additional switches using integrated switches and hypercube technology
- Offers more choice and flexibility based on industry standards
- HPE Apollo 6000 Gen10 System – The next generation of HPE's large commercial, air-cooled, HPC platform was redesigned to deliver over 300 teraflops per rack, higher rack-scale efficiency and exceptional price performance. The HPE Apollo 6000 Gen10 is also the most secure HPC system in the world leveraging a unique "silicon root of trust" technology for security threat protection. Key new capabilities of this system include:
- Industry leading reliability, accessibility, serviceability and manageability
- Greater application licensing efficiency
- Reduced latency and higher IOPs performance
- Reduced power consumption and cooling requirements
- HPE Apollo 10 Series – New cost effective platforms, optimized for entry level Deep Learning and AI applications that are easy to manage and deploy. The HPE Apollo sx40 System is a 1U dual socket Intel Xeon Gen10 server with support for up to 4 NVIDIA Tesla SXM2 GPUs with NVLink. The HPE Apollo pc40 System is a 1U dual socket Intel Xeon Gen10 server with support for up to 4 PCIe GPU cards.
- HPE and Biovista Collaboration – This collaboration will leverage HPE's Compute capabilities and Biovista's Big Data AI engine, Project Prodigy, to identify and validate new therapeutic options for personalized medicine, and apply this approach at the community hospital setting, including in Biovista's existing collaborations with community hospitals.
Along with the systems announced above, HPE is also announcing a new compute experience for HPC and AI. This new experience will address the data intense needs of HPC and AI customers. Key elements include:
- Enhanced firmware security – Designed to protect top secret, highly confidential information, HPE offers the industry's first industry standard servers with firmware anchored into the silicon with the highest level of security, according to the Commercial National Security Algorithms.
- Increased agility with software defined HPC capabilities - The new HPE Performance Software Suite for HPC consists of the following elements:
- HPEPerformanceSoftware-CoreStack2.2-pre-built HPC solution that brings together open source, third party and HPE built components into a single integrated distribution.
- HPEInsightClusterManagementUtility8.2andNewHPE SGI Management Suite 3.5 – comprehensive system management solutions offering enhanced provisioning, management and monitoring to simplify operations.
- HPE Performance Software – Message Passing Interface – libraries and optimization tools to enhance HPC application performance.
- Validated, optimized and integrated third party software solutions for workload management and application software development to enhance agility and productivity.
- New and Enhanced Services for HPC and AI – HPE Pointnext is introducing advisory, professional, and operational services that accelerate time to value for HPC and AI. HPE Flexible Capacity will extend to HPC and AI customers to manage unpredictable demand, raise utilization levels, and reduce total cost of ownership.
HPE Apollo 6000 Gen10 System, HPE Apollo sx40, HPE Apollo pc40, HPE SGI 8600 System are expected to be available in July 2017. HPE Pointnext services for these new HPC and AI solutions will be available later this year.


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Manchester United manager Jose Mourinho has discussed his unhappiness at Gareth Southgate and the FA regarding Phil Jones, claiming that he was not informed that his in-form defender had received injections during the international break.
Jones has been in red hot form under the Portuguese boss this season, and understandably, the centre-half has been relied upon by both club and country this term. However, with United having to pay particular attention to Jones' fitness (nursing a thigh injury for a number of weeks), the defender was then forced off halfway through England's recent international friendly against Germany.
When Mourinho was asked whether he'd spoken to Southgate regarding Jones, the United boss responded bluntly:
"No," said Mourinho, according to Football 365.
"I think it's a conversation between doctors because I'm not a doctor.
"I just get information from my doctor, and the information from my doctor was that they consult him in relation to Phil Jones with a little problem in the knee when the national team starts working."
The 25-year-old Jones was said to have received six injections by England in order to play for the team - but having left the field early against the Germans, he was then ruled out of his club's weekend victory over Newcastle.
"But then no more contact. The local injections before the match, we were not informed (about).
"Apart from that, I don't have to speak with Southgate. I just wish (him) good and want him to be successful."
Mourinho then decided to take another swipe at the England boss when discussing Chris Smalling - the Portuguese manager has obviously been left with a bitter taste in his mouth:
Mourinho on Smalling, "I hope he doesn't get an international recall because they always come back injured, I mean real injuries. Not injuries that keep people out of friendly games and then they start on the Saturday."— Chris Winterburn (@cmwinterburn) November 21, 2017
"I hope he doesn't get an international recall because they always come back injured, I mean real injuries. Not injuries that keep people out of friendly games and then they start on the Saturday." He said, according to Chris Winterburn on Twitter.


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2008-2012. Part of the work I set out for myself on the NYC Department of Parks & Recreation's Freshkills Park development team was to develop and design a range of outreach materials performing a variety of functions: explaining the history and infrastructure of the Freshkills Park site, the regulations and process governing it and the park development projects underway within it; and helping the public re-imagine a site that had been so identified with waste and environmental neglect as a refuge and space for recreation, regeneration and environmental stewardship.
Anchored by a set of visual identity guidelines produced by consultant Project Projects, I produced a range of materials to suit different contexts and points of engagement. I served as primary writer, editor and designer of these materials and products.
In addition, I developed the content and assisted in oversight of consultant design work for temporary and permanent exhibits and signage.
Tags: Strategy, Graphic Design, Illustration, Writing, Urban Planning
2015. A 22"x32" poster and animated video produced for Trade Unions for Energy Democracy and Rosa Luxemburg Stiftung to advocate for labor unions, globally, to take up the cause of public ownership of energy infrastructure. Through Meerkat Media, I co-produced, co-wrote the video's script and poster's explanatory text, illustrated and designed the poster, designed, directed and co-animated the video.
Tags: Advocacy, Animation, Graphic Design, Illustration, Writing
2015. Information graphics produced for ioby for two reports: one detailing the breadth and reach of its impact and one documenting citizen-driven projects to improve or re-imagine a component of public transit service (for which there is also a web version, pictured here).
Tags: Advocacy, Graphic Design, Urban Planning
2013. Project storybook for a service design research project I co-led, through a fellowship with Public Policy Lab, investigating the successes and challenges of the NYC public high school choice process undertaken by 7th and 8th graders each year. I was recruited as the design fellow on the project (along with a strategy fellow and an ethnographer) but also contributed substantially to research strategy and synthesis of findings.
Subsequent to the research project, I created graphics and animation for a video documenting the project.
Tags: Research, Strategy, Graphic Design, Writing
2010. ResilientCity.org held a design ideas competition to solicit new strategies from urban practitioners in planning and designing cities to be resilient to large-scale shocks like climate change and peak oil. Urban designer Michael Haggerty and I prepared a response to the prompt of designing for food self-sufficiency in an urban neighborhood.
Beyond concept development and writing, I laid out and developed design language for the proposal and produced photo-illustrations and diagrams.
Tags: Research, Strategy, Graphic Design, Illustration, Writing, Urban Planning, Urban Design
2014. A tabloid-sized fold-out poster invitation to the 12th annual benefit supporting community design and advocacy organization Hester Street Collaborative.
Tags: Graphic Design, Illustration
2006. Part of my contribution to our MIT team's Milla Digitalurban design vision for the City of Zaragoza's public/private redevelopment were proposals for several built interventions and digital services to engage citizens in considering the potential of their role in the city through technology. For the printed prospectus, I conceived and produced a series of two-page spread graphic scenarios illustrating these proposals.
Tags: Strategy, Illustration, Urban Design
2000-2001. As a Features Designer, I worked on every Features section of the newspaper, including special sections and inserts, as well as contributing original illustrations.
Tags: Graphic Design
2014-2016. The house I lived in was a cooperative: 20 of us shared a single household and the responsibilities for managing and growing as a residential community. After moving into the house, I conducted both formal and informal research on the challenges I and my housemates faced in operating as a household and as a communal group. In conversation and co-development with them, I developed procedural and physical responses to help address challenges in membership recruitment, accountability to house commitments, mutual support, compost management, group meals, budgeting, bedbug control, landlord relations, storage and workspace needs.
Pictured here are a selection of these projects.
Tags: Research, Strategy, Programs, Community
Cook/Clean Sign-up Calendar
The calendar through which we sign up for our two regular cook and clean shifts used to be a page from a spreadsheet printed every five weeks and taped to the wall. It was hard to read and harder to tell whether everyone was participating—an empty dinner table was often the only way to note a gap in participation. I designed a more visual calendar that balances more clarity and accountability with celebration of housemates (whose beautiful portraits are featured in the magnetic photo frames during their birthdays or special occasions). When a housemate has signed up for their shifts in a given cycle, they flip over the magnets beside their name label from red to green (the name label is itself a whiteboard magnet, to accommodate a shifting house population). The vibrant visual indicator helps remind housemates to sign up and makes them more accountable to the rest of the house.
The dining table we shared sat 10 people at an absolute maximum—half the residents of the house. Housemates were eating in shifts or in separate rooms and were wary of bringing friends to dinner for fear of crowding. I surveyed the space and the different needs and constraints for the table—meetings, meals, projects, parties, daily clean-up—and proposed some options for a new, custom table. Since the proposal was for a much larger table than before, I made a paper prototype and placed it on the ground for housemates to maneuver around and weigh in on. The final design we developed—built by a carpenter friend—can be separated into two halves to add additional table space, and easily bolted back together. The inside legs of both halves are inset so as to allow comfortable seating at either of the short ends.
2007. My master's thesis (PDF, 10MB) in urban planning focused on mobile user-generated and location-accessed digital annotation of physical places with text and media, and how this emerging field can be useful to urban planners and designers. The thesis establishes a taxonomy of modes of spatial annotation (both physical and virtual); catalogues annotations made in two neighborhoods each for the projects Yellow Arrow (in New York City) and [murmur] (in Toronto); and develops a preliminary methodology to analyze and compare trends in distribution, placement and content of annotations. So-called 'placelogging' content is found to distinguish itself from other forms of spatial annotation by its application a wide range of public and private places with predominantly subjective, first-person content.
Participant interviews and research on related technologies are used to support claims that placelogging could be used to identify sites of shared meaning in the city as well as to foster place attachment, claim to space and social connections among participants. Uses in community development are considered through three case studies of implementation. Uses for revealed meanings are proposed in preservation, identification of development priorities and sensitivity of response in urban development.
Tags: Research, Graphic Design, Writing, Mobile, Community, Urban Planning, Urban Design
2013-present. A 5-week course I teach to graduate students in the Programs for Sustainable Planning & Development at Pratt Institute. The course introduces students to methods and principles of visual representation and reasoning and coaches them through thinking strategically and comprehensively about how information could and should be communicated in a planning context.
The course focuses on:
1) developing critical capacities in order to evaluate and discuss the effectiveness and suitability of different approaches to representing information;
2) using information graphics to synthesize various sources of information and to formulate argumentative narratives about the built environment; and
3) initiating in a design process that employs some advanced methods and tools for making graphics, while integrating common software tools.
Tags: Strategy, Graphic Design, Urban Planning
Course blog. Not just a place for syllabus and resources—also the major site of peer critique and feedback on work in progress.


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Up to three weeks ago, I hadn't been to the dentist for multiple years. So when my lower left jaw started to hurt on and off, I was a little concerned for what might be happening in there. My dentist told me that what was happening in there was that my bottom left wisdom tooth was decaying at a rapid speed.
After a couple of weeks of procrastination and some escalating tooth pain, I made the appointment to get my tooth yanked. As the day of my surgery approached, I got more and more excited. Not only would the nagging pain in my face be going away, but I would have free license to sleep all weekend.
Friday morning before my appointment I put my laptop, some magazines, bottles of water, and the TV remote on the bed next to my pillow. I put my electric blanket on standby next to the bed in case I needed it.
I felt this same way when I was ready to give birth for the second and third times. I looked forward to my hospital time because I got to relax in my hospital bed for two days. Getting a wisdom tooth out is even better because you don't have to breastfeed the tooth every two hours. Nor do you have to stay in the hospital.
I've whiled away the past couple of days napping, taking my medication, and watching bad TV. When I need something, I call downstairs to my husband and he brings me things like soup. And ice cream. And he's been sympathetic and happy to do it.
When I've seen my kids, they've been happy to see me and well behaved. I haven't had to count to three all weekend to make someone do something.
All together, this has been one of the better weekends I've had lately. I may have to get my other wisdom teeth taken out soon. One tooth—and one weekend—at a time, of course.
Original DC Metro Moms Blog post.
Jean also blogs at Stimeyland.


text: Whether you're a small business or a multi-billion dollar corporation, customer success is essential for keeping and growing your business. Every conversation, engagement and experience with your company must be thoughtfully designed to the very last detail. Because in this day and age, if your customers aren't happy there is competitor around the corner ready to ease their burden. Here are six ways to get happier customers today.


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Redefining Diets
The word Diet has been associated with so many negative connotations, that now days it's a difficult topic & even makes people nervous to talk about.
The funny thing is that the term itself means "the kinds of foods that a person habitually eats" so basically your diet describes what you consume on a regular basis. Simply put, your diet is defined by your eating habits or what you are eating, that's all.
Unfortunately, in our modern society dieting has become a value of judgement & even shaming. If you are on a diet whatever your goal may be, it's seeing as a bad deed. Connected with unhealthy fad diet trends, of being deprived, restrictive & extreme are attached to it's meaning.
It's time to change the way the word diet has been defined & embrace it with a new positive attitude. Your diet, being on a diet or dieting should be your lifestyle, rather than a quick, short-term fix.
There shouldn't be a deadline on your diet, your goals may have an end-date or change, but it's not like you'll ever stop eating, so your diet is constant. You are either making healthy or not so healthy food choices, which make up your eating habits.
Whether you want to lose weight, gain weight or you don't really care, I hope you agree with me, our well-being is a priority. We want to feel comfortable in our skin, healthy & happy. That's why we should follow a diet that improves & maintains our well-being.
As with shoes, there is no "one size fits all" so finding a diet that works for you requires organisation, perseverance & discipline. Creating new habits takes time & so does achieving results. As long as you are being mindful about the food choices you are making, you shouldn't feel like following a diet is a dreadful experience.
There is nothing wrong in trying different ways of eating, ultimately to find the diet that fits in with your goals & works for you long term.
Your diet should compliment & enhance the beautiful life you are living. We are so lucky to be in a world filled with such great diversity, that we shouldn't feel restricted & punished by the way we choose to eat. Eat the rainbow, there is an immense variety of wholesome foods that can brighten up your life, make you feel good from the inside & look good on the outside.
What we eat & the food choices we make, affect our body in every level, including our mood. So look for balance in your diet, if you feel like eating something that is not so healthy, it's OK. You are listening to your body, you don't need to be hard on yourself by having guilt.
If you choose to be on a lower calorie diet, with the purpose to lose weight, it's also OK. It doesn't mean that is depriving or is detrimental to your health. It simply means that you are probably making healthier food choices over not so healthy ones, to achieve your specific goal.
That's why there shouldn't be any negative association with the word diet, if it's balanced & supports your well-being. Build a healthy relationship with food, one that nourishes you with goodness.
I hope this post helps you see diets in a positive light & you can embrace it to live beautifully.


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Famous for their delicious stuffed hashbrowns and wonderfully thin pancakes, Parks Place promises you'll never leave hungry! Open for lunch, stop in and try our half pound burgers and amazing soups! Open 7 days a week 6am-2pm. Parks Place Cafe, where it's always morning!
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We are approaching 100 years in business and it all started back in 1921 on Central Ave in Albany when James A. McCarroll Sr. followed his passion and started McCarrolls The Village Butcher, serving the surrounding communities with delicious meats and groceries. Since those early days both the business and family have grown and proudly continue the family tradition of providing quality and service.
James A. McCarroll Junior followed in his father's footsteps and joined the family business after serving in the US military. Previously having several locations in Albany, they opened the family's business in Delmar. James A. III started to cut meat at a very early age, sitting on a stool at the block with a butter knife!
Located in the Delmar Marketplace at 406 Kenwood Ave is truly a family business, joined by his wife Christine, daughter Lauren, son James A. McCarroll IV and now the 5th generation 2 granddaughters! They keep the long-standing tradition of the Village Butcher, Inc. going. McCarrolls is known as a fixture in the community and a center piece in the town of Bethlehem.
Over the last century a lot has changed in the world, but our commitment to serve the community and supply a pleasant shopping experience continues. We offer delicious meats cut by our Master butchers, Boars Head products, award winning Breakfast Sandwiches, lunch sandwiches, fresh homemade salads, Ready-to-go meals and baked goods and we cater all types of events and gatherings. We are truly the Village Butcher Shop and so much more. We look forward to serving our loyal customers for many years to come.


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Arbutus Catering and Arbutus At The Forum not only cater for customers in our restaurant, we also cater for all kinds of events in the city - from graduation celebrations to job fairs to weddings and everything in between. Our restaurant offers the best deals in the city and the relaxed atmosphere for lunch or dinner is a perfect getaway from the busy city.
Our philosophy of serving up the finest and freshest local produce combined with excellent service guarantees an enjoyable dining experience. We achieve this by continually training our staff on customer service, hand picking our preferred suppliers and dedicating time and expertise to the creation of our
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Roscoe Blog
Tuesday, February 06, 2018
The flu season this year is being characterized as more intense than any since the 2009 swine flu pandemic, with more people seeking medical help for flu-like symptoms and a high rate of hospitalization among those who fall ill.
Here's what you can do about it at your company to protect your employees from catching the flu, at the sink and beyond.
Flu shots are the first line of defense. Their effectiveness, however, depends on how well matched the vaccine is to the strain responsible for the outbreak, which can be difficult to determine in advance. This year's flu virus is a particularly virulent strain, health officials say, for which the vaccine may be less effective.
Although they are recommended, you cannot rely solely on a flu shot to protect yourself from getting sick.
Friday, January 20, 2017
Winter is here and so is cold and flu season. What's worse is that there's a new strain of norovirus circulating, which can cause intestinal discomfort and is running rampant across Chicago now. Restrooms, doorknobs, elevator buttons – it seems everywhere there's a potential for infection.
However, with the right supplies, Roscoe will help you combat sickness during the chilly months with a range of products to keep you healthy.text


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Luna arrived two days after Matilda, June and their daughters from a property in Lancaster after other animals on property had been advertised for sale, their babies advertised as cheap meat. We originally responded for others, and inquired about Luna once we saw her. But she had already been purchased and we being prepared. Heart broken, we left with our four and returned to Ojai. But couldn't get Luna out of our heads. We called the rancher for a chance she was still alive, and he said that the original buyers had changed their minds after discovering she was pregnant. We raced over and brought Luna home..She will never lose another baby, never not receive all the care she needs for her prenatal health. She will deliver her baby in a warm heated stall and supported in every way she needs.
Luna is very nervous and stays as close as she can to Matilda for comfort. Wer'e leaving her with the space she needs to settle in, decompress, and receive all the pre-natal care she needs for a healthy pregnancy.


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Start with And.
Dropping Either/Or from your thinking,
Even from just how you speak day to day,
Is going to put you in motion.
Either/or constrains you,
Limits your options,
Validates your doubts,
Holds you in place.
The power of AND
Is the corners you begin to light,
The options you begin to see,
The steps you begin to take,
The grace you start to offer yourself,
The guts you start to live into.
Fear you'll fail.
Doubt you can.
Create "what ifs."
Dread some of the steps.
Go do it.
This creates the result
Of not taking our fears so seriously.


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By Lorraine Kay
"Shelf Life" is Matt O'Ree's third album and just like the two previous ones is a great showcase for the award winning guitarist. O'Ree's guitar playing has won him many awards including the 2006 Guitarmageddon "King of the Blues" 2006. And Shelf Life gives him lots of space to show what he can do. A versatile guitarist and vocalist, O'Ree plays out several moods and musical styles on this CD.
Featuring Matt O'Ree on guitars and vocals, Captain Hal B. Seizer on Bass and Bob Pantella on drums and percussion, "Shelf Life" successfully marries rock 'n' roll with the blues well enough to equally hold the interest of rock and rollers and blues lovers. The big question is whether it is a blues album or a rock and roll album. It is impossible to answer because it is both.
When it was first released "Shelf Life" won four awards for O'Ree at the 2005 Asbury Music Awards, winning Best Release, Song Of The Year (for Saints And Sinners), Best Guitarist and Best Blues Band. After listening to it once it is easy to see why. O'Ree's guitar playing is everything expected of an award winning guitarist, but his vocals are an even nicer surprise. Bold and gritty his vocals hang right in there along side some of the best in Southern rock like the Allman Brothers and the Vanzants.
For information on how to purchase this CD visit www.mySpace.com/MattOree
Track by Track review
1. Over – High powered blues rock with Matt out front on guitar and vocals. It makes you want to get up and dance.
2. Running Home – Slowing the tempo down just a bit, this is still Southern Rock in the tradition of Lynyrd Skynyrd. Easily commercial enough this one could be a hit on its own. There is even a touch of Paul Rodgers in the vocals on this one.
3. Marry You – Great funky groove on this one. The big guitar on the intro is reminiscent of Leslie West.
4. Saints and Sinners – This one rocks. The drums are out front and kind of funky – almost a Bo Diddley beat but not so much that they overwhelm O'Ree's gritty vocals.
5. Worth the Live – A slow blues groove ala "Fool for your Stockings". Definitely a down and dirty hip grinder.
6. What You Got – Picking up the tempo again, this one jumps out at you with a slight Hendrix groove going on. Just kind of fun. "
7. Back Home – Another old bluesy feeling with some interesting surprise twists.
8. Stay – A nice medium groove that is easy to dance to that shows off O'Ree's versatility on guitar. There are some big guitar licks in there that are whisper of Leslie West.
9. Alibis – This is straight ahead rock and roll A guitar-driven song, the drums are pretty out-front as well.
10. Think about That – Another throw back to the Allman Brothers, especially on the guitar licks. This is another sexy dancing groove.
11. Good Thang – Oh watch out SRV! This one rocks but has definite Texas thing going on.
12. Another Man – Another just good rock and roll. It drives hard but not too fast.
13. God Send – A nice ballad, this one slows down for the last dance. There is some nice bottle-neck slide licks going on in this one.


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Project Matters Rebrand & New Website Launch/
Logo Redesign + Branding + SquareSpace Website Design + Business Card Design
I've had the pleasure of working with Amy Beechy of Project Matters on several community projects through my past work at our county Chamber of Commerce and Economic Development office.
It was exciting to finally work on a very special one: her own. In the service and consultant industry, we often get caught up with putting our clients first and it's easy to put our own marketing on the back burner!
Amy came to me with the need to update her website. Her old website, although tidy was not 'clean' due to the table lines and lacked personality. Her current brand was not as recognizable as it should be. Moving forward, as I begun casting a vision for the new Project Matter's website, I really wanted Amy to look at changing up her brand. Previously, her logo honed a terrific font and layout but it lacked the right coloring to properly reflect her brand and image.
In order to find the correct color palette for the new Project Matters brand, I had Amy find pictures of things she was attracted to. They could be anything and everything. I put them all together on a mood board.
As you can see, I saw a very similar pattern form. Amy is very attracted to burnt orange, mustard, cool shades of gray and black which is what I pulled out for her new branding. She likes clean lines and rustic textures.
Amy's original colors were lime green and navy blue. For the new Project Matters logo, I kept the same font from the original design because it was perfect but I swapped out the navy and lime green for the new brand colors, resulting in a much better fit for the new brand.
Stock Images
For the brand's image, I looked for stock photos featuring soft tones of burnt orange, mustard and grays with rustic, industrial textures.
These stock images really set the tone for the Project Matters brand and website.
Professional Headshot
Headshots and lifestyle portraits are an important piece to the branding puzzle. I wanted to make sure Amy's updated portrait was professional but branded with the right colors and texture. If done right, your headshot can help set the tone for your brand. I met Amy at Debruler Images in Rochester, Indiana where we worked with photographer Dave Fincher on the right image. Dave nailed it and captured my vision perfectly.
For the Project Matters website, I wanted to keep the homepage clean and simple. Amy does contract and consultation work especially for non-profit organizations. I wanted to create a design that allowed potential clients to keep digging further to learn more about Amy's work but display her professionalism, organization and creativity up front.
Since Amy is attracted to rustic, industrial textures, I thought the brick pattern behind an opaque white background would set a nice clean stage but still allow for personality to shine through.
Each page contains an action item at the end that leads potential clients into the next step. Once we've learned about Amy's background, we then visit her area of expertise then onto past projects she's completed, clients she has worked with followed with client testimonials. We end the website visit with a Contact page that features the mustard colored chair. After discovering the services of Project Matters, one should feel relaxed and ready to reach out and hire Amy.
I love the mustard yellow featured in the header front. It provides a soothing atmosphere but paired with the capital letters, it shows that Amy is serious about putting 100 percent into each project she takes on.
Visit the new Project Matters website!
Business Cards
Business cards and referalls are a very important marketing tool for Amy. I wanted to make sure that the atmosphere of her new brand was represented during that first impression.
The new business cards for Project Matters hone style and professionalism. Right away you find Amy's area's of expertise and services listed. We feature Amy's important contact information. I love how the card is branded but doesn't look cluttered.
Client Testimonial
I've enjoyed working with all of my clients but Amy truly stands out as one of my favorites. Her organization, passion and attention to detail when it come to her business is like none I've encountered. We make a great team!
On the flip side, I asked Amy about her experience working with OBS creative services.
"I was long overdue for an updated web site but dragging my feet to go through the process because I know it can be tedious. Not only did I need a website update but some tweeks made to my branding. I had worked with Kelly Whiteman Snipes in other capacities and recognized her talent and professionalism so when she started her own business, I was very comfortable working with her on my website. The experience was outstanding. Kelly has graphic design skills that are some of the best I've ever seen. She created a site that truly reflects my brand and my business. The process was organized, timelines were met, and I'm really happy with my new site, new logo, and new business cards. I highly recommend Kelly and I refer her services to fellow business owners on a regular basis! "
- Amy Beechy, Project Matters


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Students at the Grantley Adams Memorial School battled the elements today as they marched through the Branchbury, St Joseph community for their Founders' Day March, marking the school's 62nd anniversary.
Cadets and members of the Student Council, reading programme and the Inter-School Christian Fellowship braved heavy downpours to make their way through the community in quick step to the beat of the drums from The Lodge School's Cadet Corp.
"Last year we did a similar march through the district of Horse Hill. However, this year we did not want to leave out the members of the Branchbury community as they are one of the communities near the school," said principal Denis Browne.
He added that the march was not only for the students to celebrate Founders' Day, but for them to reconnect with members of the community and to send a message to the public that the school is on a path to greatness.
Browne said his aim was for the Grantley Adams Memorial School to be parents' number one choice for their children sitting the Common Entrance Examination.
The school has introduced cosmetology and has a salon on the compound, which the principal believes will set it apart from the island's other secondary schools.
With that in mind, Browne and members of the teaching staff were planning a proposal for a sixth form to be established at the school by September 2018.


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Rebecca's Journey - 8
Dear Friends,
(This is Paul taking dictation. I've put a PS at the bottom with a progress report.)
In the early days after my accident I felt the Lord refer to my being His "prisoner", and that my body, in many ways, was for me His "prison cell".
This week my sister Judy has been meditating on the Apostle Paul's years in a Roman Prison. She was struck with the fact that, probably, the believers around him prayed for his immediate release, having no idea that the letters he was writing them would become the foundation of our faith 2000 years later. The Apostle Paul was indeed "God's prisoner".
In the late 1600's Madam Guyon, a French noble woman, was imprisoned because of her faith. She spent 10 years in solitary confinement, in a prison that I can hardly imagine. This week I received from a friend, a poem that she wrote. This is just the first verse:
A little bird I am, Shut from the fields of the air, And in my cage I sit and sing, To Him who placed me there; Well pleased a prisoner to be Because, my God, it pleases Thee.
In the early 1900's Amy Carmichael, missionary to India, became an invalid as a result of an accident. She was bedridden for the last 20 years of her life. Much of that time she was in great pain, and yet produced some of her most profound writing and poetry. She, too, saw this limitation as her prison. The last two verses of her poem, "Light in the Cell", (Acts 12:7) read:
Light of Love shined in the cell, Turned to gold the iron bars, Opened windows to the stars; Peace stood there as sentinel.
Dearest Lord, how can it be That Thou art so kind to me! Love is shining in my cell, Jesus, my Immanuel.
I would not in any way compare myself to these who have gone before me, but their example this week has given me fresh courage, and encouragement. I've thought of the different "prison cells" that the Lord has given me in the past, which I failed to recognize and receive from His dear hand. What a privilege and joy that He is my Jail Keeper, and His name is Love. As the Psalmist says, He has stored up goodness for me today.
I pray you've had a good week, full of His life. Thank you again for the encouraging notes and e-mails. He has called us to this adventure together.
PS From Paul: Rebecca is driving her new wheelchair with ease and confidence - even going in and out of elevators. Her nausea has substantially diminished, allowing her more extended times of therapy. We pray that it will not again become a limiting factor. She has extended her time sitting up in her chair to 1 hour and 20 minutes at a stretch. Today, for the first time, she used an exercise machine, kind of like the wheel of a bike, for the strengthening of her legs (her right leg is still quite
Also yesterday the doctors stopped the night feeding through the stomach peg. She is now eating enough on her own to sustain herself.
These are all answers to prayer. The progress is "little by little", but progress none-the-less, and we are grateful.


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Romance | Q&A Camilla Isley | A Christmas Date
I'm delighted to be hosting Camilla Isley in my hot seat today chatting to us about romantic comedy novel, A Christmas Date.
Find out which authors have influenced Camilla, her thoughts on movie adaptations and more.
- 229 pages
- Publisher: Pink Bloom Press (17 Oct. 2018)
- Language: English
Available to purchase in digital and paperback formats.
No one wants to be single at the holidays.
Even Little Miss Grinch, Nikki, a successful and independent woman, must face her bachelorette status at the most horrible time of the year.
December is her personal version of holly-jolly hell: a merry torture made of couples kissing at every corner, forced vacation days, and an inescapable family reunion.
And when her baby sister announces she's engaged—to Paul, the man Nikki is secretly in love with—and that he's spending the holidays with them, Christmas starts looking bluer than ever.
Nikki can't possibly survive an entire week trapped home as the family's spinster. But she has no time to meet men or to try the newest dating app, she's too busy working as a video producer for an advertising agency.
So what's a girl to do?
Nikki has the perfect solution: to hire a fake boyfriend.
Luckily, her job gives her access to an endless catalog of gorgeous actors to choose from.
But Nikki will soon discover that keeping business and pleasure from mixing isn't so easy, and that she might not be immune to a little mistletoe magic. Especially not when she picked out the perfect man as her Christmas date…
A fun, festive romantic comedy with lots of bad behavior and Christmas spirit. Like a creamy hot chocolate with marshmallows, you won't want to put this deliciously hilarious novel down.
Hi Camilla,
Welcome to Jera's Jamboree.
Please summarise A Christmas Date in 20 words or less.
Single sister hires fake boyfriend to survive holidays family reunion at Christmas when her younger sibling announces she's engaged.
What was the idea/inspiration for your novel?
I know how hard it can be to be single during the holidays. Plus, I knew I wanted to write a Christmas story, and I love romances with fake-boyfriends/marriages so I guess the two just came together naturally.
What are your thoughts on movie adaptations Camilla? Do they do books justice? Do you have a favourite?
Depends, sometimes yes, other times no. Sometimes—please don't recoil in horror— I even prefer the TV Show (Like with True Blood and The Vampire Diaries). Sometimes I hate a movie adaptation, especially with long books that's hard to summarize well in 2/3 hours of screen time. And sometimes I think the show and book are equally good, like with Game of Thrones. I know most readers are angry the book hasn't come out yet and that the TV show has gone in its own direction with the story, but I'm actually excited to have to different versions of the same story and will enjoy them both.
Who would you cast in the role of your characters if your book were optioned for a movie?
Nina Dobrev
Gabriel Garko
Lily James
Chris Evans
Mr Darcy
Panster or a plotter?
Definitely a panster… All my stories go directly from brain to page. As soon as I start on a new book I begin wherever I imagine the first scene and move ahead from that, I don't outline chapters or anything else.
Which authors have influenced your writing Camilla?
My biggest inspiration is Sophie Kinsella, she's the Queen of Romantic Comedy and my muse. I love her books so much she made me want to write stories of my own…
Have you done any creative writing courses that you would recommend to others?
I'm a mechanical engineer by training, so creative writing—or any writing—wasn't a big part of my education in college. Before I sat down to write my first novel I took several online courses to freshen up my knowledge. They were more focused on the craft itself rather than on story structure or character creation, but I found them very useful.
I used these two websites https://www.coursera.org and https://www.edx.org where top-notch universities offer courses that you can follow online. Most courses are free to take as "auditor" meaning you can follow the lectures and access all the material for free but also have a paid option if you want to earn a verified certificate at the end.
Finally, If your book is part of a series, what is in the future?
It is part of a series, book 3, but also reads as a standalone. In every new book, one minor character from previous books becomes the main love interest. In the next book, the protagonist will be Christian—Hollywood's most wanted bachelor—who I introduced in book 2. While my heroine will be a new entry unknown to readers so far. However, Diego and Nikki will make small appearances in the book so the readers will get a small peek into their lives after "Happily Ever After." I love when series progress this way, as the romance is fresh with a brand-new couple, but there's also the comfort of re-encountering old characters.
Thank you for being my guest today.
Wishing you success with all your writing projects.
A Christmas Date is available to purchase from:
Amazon: https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B07GBXB5PK
Apple Books: https://geo.itunes.apple.com/us/book/a-christmas-date/id1424973663
B&N: https://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/a-christmas-date-camilla-isley/1129274291?ean=2940155770961
Kobo: http://www.kobobooks.com/search/search.html?q=9788887269253
Google Play: https://play.google.com/store/books/details/Camilla_Isley_A_Christmas_Date?id=p4ZoDwAAQBAJ
Snuggle up with a book.
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Camilla Isley is an engineer turned writer after she quit her job to follow her husband on an adventure abroad.
She's a cat lover, coffee addict, and shoe hoarder. Besides writing, she loves reading—duh!—cooking, watching bad TV, and going to the movies—popcorn, please. She's a bit of a foodie, nothing too serious. A keen traveler, Camilla knows mosquitoes play a role in the ecosystem, and she doesn't want to starve all those frog princes out there, but she could really live without them.
Connect with Camilla Isley
Website www.camillaisley.com
Twitter: https://twitter.com/camillaisley
Facebook: www.facebook.com/camillaisley
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/camillaisley/
Goodreads: https://www.goodreads.com/author/show/14135080.Camilla_Isley
Pinterest: www.pinterest.com/camillaisley
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I love the sound of this, I'm intrigued!
Shaz Goodwin
Sounds entertaining Kate. x


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China blasts off first data relay satelliteApril 26th, 2008 - 1:18 am ICT by admin
Beijing, April 25 (Xinhua) China launched the country's first data relay satellite Tianlian I Friday night. The satellite was launched on a Long March-3C carrier rocket from the Xichang Satellite Launch Centre in southwest China's Sichuan Province at 11.35 p.m. (local time).
The satellite, however, will not go into function until the Shenzhou VII mission scheduled for the second half of 2008. It has been developed by China Aerospace Science and Technology Corp.
It will improve the amount of data that can be transferred between the Shenzhou VII spaceship and the ground, according to Zhang Jianqi, a top official with China's space programmes.
"The Yuanwang space tracking ships along with China's over 10 ground observation stations can only cover 12 percent of Shenzhou VII spaceship's orbit in the space," Jianqi said.
The Tianlian I satellite alone, according to Zhang, can cover 50 percent of the orbit of Shenzhou VII, or any other China's spacecrafts.
With the help of the satellite, scientists can get more scientific data without delay, and can know when a malfunction takes place on China's spacecrafts much faster, said Zhang.
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There's a Last Time for Everything
If you have young children, you may have noticed there's one thing EVERY "more seasoned" mother tells you: "It's going to go so fast. Enjoy every second!"
In my head I know that's true. But there are still some moments of motherhood that seem to be going reeeeaaally slow (carseats, diapers, pack meeting, bed wetting). There are definitely a handful of "lasts" that I'm looking forward to.
But a few weeks ago my mom sent me a poem that opened my eyes to a few "lasts" I'd never thought of before.
The Last Time
From the moment you hold your baby in your arms, you will never be the same. You might long for the person you were before, When you had freedom and time, And nothing in particular to worry about.
You will know tiredness like you never knew it before, And days will run into days that are exactly the same, Full of feedings and burping, Diaper changes and crying, Whining and fighting, Naps or a lack of naps, It might seem like a never-ending cycle.
But don't forget … There is a last time for everything. There will come a time when you will feed your baby for the very last time. They will fall asleep on you after a long day And it will be the last time you ever hold your sleeping child.
One day you will carry them on your hip then set them down, And never pick them up that way again. You will scrub their hair in the bath one night And from that day on they will want to bathe alone. They will hold your hand to cross the road, Then never reach for it again. They will creep into your room at midnight for cuddles, And it will be the last night you ever wake to this.
One afternoon you will sing "the wheels on the bus" and do all the actions, Then never sing them that song again. They will kiss you goodbye at the school gate, The next day they will ask to walk to the gate alone. You will read a final bedtime story and wipe your last dirty face. They will run to you with arms raised for the very last time.
The thing is, you won't even know it's the last time Until there are no more times. And even then, it will take you a while to realize
So while you are living in these times, remember there are only so many of them and when they are gone, you will yearn for just one more day of them. For one last time.
-Author Unknown-
Last year, we asked women to submit photos of themselves with their mothers, children, grandchildren, and nieces and nephews. We put together a video for our song, "Walk You Through the Night," and the result is a beautiful tribute to the firsts, lasts, and in betweens of mothering. Enjoy!


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While Paul's contract is for NetDocuments support, his capabilities extend to other areas of technology and I know I can rely on his fast responses
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In June 2017 we decided to formally contract with Hoffbrand Consulting to provide its enhanced NetDocuments support service. We have been impressed with the level of knowledge and the high level of service provided when we need support. In June 2018 we renewed our support contract.
We had successfully worked with Paul Hoffbrand in the past and wanted to work with him again with our NetDocuments project as we needed to provide focus in order to allow us to keep delivering a high level of service to our users. We were keen to engage someone who could assist and work at various levels of the project, from supplier coordination, project management and hands-on technical with an ability to listen and learn.
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Inspire us Tuesdays – Happy Strawberry Month!
Welcome to Inspire Us Tuesday #27! Last week our party had #97 fantastic links submitted! We love getting to check out all of your recipes, projects, and crafts each week.
Before we get into the fun of the party, we want to share some great info for you about dental health for dogs and how yummy Whimzees treats can help keep their teeth clean.
Did you know that it is Strawberry Month?
Strawberry tips and facts from the Florida Strawberry Growers Association:
1. Eating eight strawberries a day has been shown to lower blood pressure and improve memory and heart health.
2. When you're on the run, take strawberries with you in a plastic container or sandwich bag.
3. Strawberries taste best at room temperature.
4. Strawberries are picked at full ripeness. Unlike some other fruits, they don't ripen once they are harvested.
5. A dash of balsamic vinegar, lemon or orange juice will bring out the flavor of strawberries.
6. Strawberries are the only fruit that have seeds on the outside —about 200 of them. Each seed has the potential to become a new variety. Strawberry seeds are all those little bumpy spots on the surface of the berry.
In honor of such a sweet occasion we are featuring all things Strawberry!
Winnish has tummies rumbling around the world with her recipe for White Chocolate Mud Cake with layer of Strawberry Cheesecake.
Daily Leisure shared a picture perfect breakfast idea with Pancake and Strawberry Skewers.
Frugal Coupon Living created a drink that the kids are going to adore! It is perfect for Valentine's Day! Cupid's Strawberry Float sounds delicious!
Irresistible Pets has a recipe that is perfect for your pup. We really hope Mommy makes us a batch of Frozen Strawberry Smoothie Dog Treat soon!
We really love strawberries! We wag our tails in delight when we have these Strawberry Freezer Pops! Staying hydrated is always important and these sweet treats make it easy to enjoy extra fluids!
Oven Dried Strawberries make a great treat to share with friends, human or four legged.
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Jon Foreman's lyrics have always pulled at my soul. He's the lead singer of the bands Switchfoot and Fiction Family, and he also does music independently. Switchfoot's Beautiful Letdown literally changed my life. i can remember sitting in my room, listening to "24" and thinking, "i'm not 100% sure what these lyrics mean, but they really move me." i would go through the album booklet, reading and re-reading lyrics until i thought i fully grasped what Jon was saying. years later, these songs still make me think deeply, and pull me closer to my Creator.
Jon is my best friend's favorite artist, and it was a joy to watch her interact with his music. she knows every word to every song. isn't it amazing how one person's heart, put on paper and tied to a melody can change someone's world? that's my favorite aspect of music. no matter where i am in life, there's a song that fits it. i'm thankful for artists like Jon that are not afraid to be vulnerable with their craft.
my favorite part about last night's show was Jon inviting a fan on stage to sing with him. how cool is that? and homegirl blew us all away... what an amazing opportunity! i'm sure this is a night she'll never forget, and neither will i. going to this show has made me fall in love with music all over again. Jon knows how to capture the essence of sound and lyrics, and present it to you in a way that's inviting and familiar. check out more pics below, and if you're interested in Jon's music, start off by listening to "Your Love Is Strong". you can follow Jon online: @jonforeman


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The Fourth Trimester
Have you heard of "the fourth trimester" term yet? It's the name I like to call the first three months of a child's life. This time should also be spent in the mother's womb, that is why you need to organize a good substitution. How to do that? I have some clues for you.
The first thing that is changing for the baby after birth is… stop of movement. Being part of a mother's life means you move a lot. That is why rocking is such a natural way to fall asleep for newborns. They need to be rocked to calm down, because it is pretty similar to womb movement. Although it may get tricky and your baby may easily get addicted to rocking. You should not let that happen.
The baby also needs to hear familiar sounds, like a heartbeat and blood flow. If you get close together, hug or breastfeed - it is enough for the baby. But you cannot provide the sound all day long. But you may substitute it with white noise. There are white noise apps available, or the MP3 record will work as well.
The other thing that the newborn baby is used to is… confined space. Your baby does not need a lot of space at first, especially when trying to fall asleep. Mother's womb is very little. To simulate those conditions you may consider wrapping. Wrapping the baby stops unconscious movements and lets the baby to feel more relaxed.
If you'd like to know how to rock your baby and how to stop at good point, or when to use the white noise and for how long - check out my sleep training guide. You will also find the guide of wrapping and few more tips for the first few weeks of motherhood. Then, you can gradually move to the main sleep training.
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