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Industrial-style offices by DH Liberty mix reclaimed objects with minimal aesthetic
London architecture firm DH Liberty has added an installation of reclaimed bottles to this figure-of-eight shaped office in a converted Shoreditch warehouse (+ slideshow).
New firm DH Liberty inserted a mezzanine level, a new staircase and a glazed glass facade to add a distinct character to building with exposed brickwork and iron columns in the heart of London's creative district, resulting in a large industrial loft-like work space.
The brief from the occupants, digital advertising agency Analog Folk, was to harness the company's use of traditional values and digital technology to inform the look and feel of the space.
The result is an aesthetic that draws heavily on reclaimed objects dotted around the 929-square-metre property alongside a simple black and white colour palette.
Walking into the lobby, a reception and waiting area features polished concrete floors and chipboard desks mixed with vintage Chesterfield sofas plus an old suitcase used as a coffee table.
Above the reception area hang dozens of bottles suspended by wire in a spiral shape. The Finding Nemo installation, explained the architects, resembles a school of fish and is symbolic of the teamwork at the company.
"We used recycled bottles and digital applications such as scripting and 3d computer programs," said DH Liberty in a statement. "We were able to give these traditional bottles another point of view in a whole new light."
Behind a partition wall fitted with wooden boxes for plants in the waiting area is a small cafe and a conference room, which can be accessed via a pair of sliding barn doors.
In the larger portion of the building lies a seating and breakout area for staff replete with double-height ceilings, frosted windows and exposed air conditioning vents.
A series of strip lights dangles above the space, attached by a single cable drawing the eye through the building.
The architects have installed a series of three phone booths for conference calls beside a library made of scaffolding, containing the company's logo.
Behind the ground floor's open-plan desk area is a series of lounge areas separated by three transparent partitions in a tunnel-shaped space.
A further meeting room has been added containing a large desk made of old doors, with large, grey square panels and up-lighting completing the room.
Upstairs contains three separate open-plan work spaces, two of which are bracketed on either side by views over the floor below.
Here's a project description from DH Liberty:
DH Liberty and project Analog Folk
DH Liberty is a newly established architectural firm based in Westbourne Grove Notting Hill. Dara Huang, a sculpture by trade has established an architectural firm fusing together her talents in sculpting and architectural design. Dara Huang has already established a great client list featuring Samsung and her past experience includes designing Manalo Blahnik stores.
Converting a 10,000-square-foot advertising agency called Analog Folk in Shoreditch was one of DH Liberty's first projects. Design Haus Liberty took on the task of injecting sculptural modernism into a traditional London Building. The design at DH Liberty opened up the building into a large, industrial loft-like working space. Adding in a mezzanine floor to enhance the space in the building, a new staircase and adding a glazed facade to add character.
The Analog Folk advertising agency hoped to incorporate their company ethos throughout DH Liberty's designs. Analog Folk's goal was to build an advertising agency that captures traditional methods people receive information but also taps in to new digital information technologies.
Design Haus Liberty defined the goal architecturally by using reclaimed "found" objects and giving them a new life in the Analog Folk office. Bespoke items included a scaffolding library with telephone booths concealed inside and reclaimed doors digitally water jet cut.
Using recycled bottles and digital applications such as scripting and 3d computer programs, DH Liberty injected old bottles into a tremendous work of chandelier lighting.


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Maytag produces a wide range of home appliances, including washers and dryers. The company makes both front loading and top loading washing machines of varying capacities and with differing features. While dryer lint filters and screens should be cleaned out after each use, washing machine lint filters can be cleaned out less frequently. However, if the filter appears damaged or too clogged to clean, a replacement should be installed before continued use.
Front Loading Maytag Washing Machine
Step 1
Make sure the washer is set to the "Off" setting.
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Open the washer door and inspect the door and sides of the door opening for a compartment cover piece that will be long and thin. If this is not visible, inspect the top surface of the washer for a small lift-up door where some models have a filter, and skip to Step 6.
Step 3
Grasp the top of the compartment piece and pull it out of the door or door opening. The lint filter is attached to this piece.
Step 4
Pull out any remaining lint in the now-exposed slot, and slide the replacement filter in place. Ensure that it goes all the way into the slot or compartment.
Step 5
Close and open the door a few times to verify that the filter is in place and does not interfere with door movement.
Step 6
Lift up the door and pull out the handle connected to the lint filter. Remove stuck lint in the compartment and insert the new filter.
Top Loading Maytag Washers
Step 1
Set the washer controls to the "Off" position. Open the washer door and locate the agitator in the center of the machine.
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Place both hands around the lower portion of the agitator, and carefully pull the agitator upward, straight out of the door opening, to reveal the lint filter. Depending on the particular model, the filter may be inside the removed agitator or connected to a rod in the center of the washing compartment revealed by the removed agitator.
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Pull the filter out of the agitator or up off the rod. Remove any remaining lint inside the washer and agitator. Insert the new filter.
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NBCUniversal Cognizant Engineers earn $44,000 annually, or $21 per hour, which is 65% lower than the national average for all Cognizant Engineers at $86,000 annually and 40% lower than the national salary average for all working Americans. The highest paid Cognizant Engineers work for Bridge Technologies and Solutions at $219,000 annually and the lowest paid Cognizant Engineers work for Family Promise of Berks County at $10,000 annually.
The salary for Cognizant Engineer at NBCUniversal is $44,000 annually.
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We, the Nordic building sector, will join forces and capitalize on our common strengths to deliver the sustainable solutions the Nordic region and the world demands. The time is now and the principles of Nordic Built Charter will lead the way.
We commit to taking leadership and implement the Nordic Built principles in our work and our business plans. We commit to taking the necessary actions to deliver competitive concepts for a sustainable built environment that benefit users, the building sector, our region and the world.
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Amuse Girl by Hannah Raymond-Cox
Amuse Girl is a very bad pun on amuse-gueule, a small dish sent out by the chef to awaken the diner's palate before a meal. The concept of amuse-gueule is also unfairly perceived as slightly naughty, because gueule is another word for 'gob'. The phrase has been hyper-corrected to amuse-bouche in Western restaurants, but still manages to retain the sense of a euphemism in being a 'mouth-amuser'. These poems intended to enliven the palate, satiate the mind, and send you on a weird culinary journey.
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As we head into the dog days of summer, the weather is heating up. For the nearly 5 million people in the United States with Fibromyalgia, they might experience a different kind of heat – the burning pain that typically comes along with this diagnosis.
What is Fibromyalgia?
Fibromyalgia is a chronic condition that can cause a wide range of symptoms throughout the body. It's usually diagnosed between the ages of 30 and 50, and 80% to 90% of the people affected are women.
The most common symptoms are:
- chronic pain all over the body
- fatigue
- memory problems
- sleep disturbances
- depression or anxiety.
Because of the wide range of symptoms, fibromyalgia can be a debilitating condition. It is not uncommon for people to begin avoiding activities altogether because of pain and fatigue. This begins a cycle of deconditioning that not only impacts the person's overall health, but also makes the symptoms of fibromyalgia worse. The cause of fibromyalgia is currently unknown and there is no cure, so physical therapy treatments are designed to reduce and manage the symptoms. This requires a multi-pronged approach. Common treatments include:
The first step in treating fibromyalgia is often helping people understand what's going on, and what they can do about it. Research has shown that people who are knowledgeable about their condition have better outcomes, more confidence, and cope better.
Physical therapists are movement experts with a lot of tools and techniques to help with the pain and stiffness caused by fibromyalgia. A PT might use gentle manual therapy or massage, prescribe specific stretches, or a simple yoga routine. They might also use modalities like electrical stimulation, biofeedback or in states where it is allowed, dry needling.
Once patients understand the condition and are able to move a little better with less pain, exercise often enters the treatment picture. Research has shown that low to moderate intensity aerobic exercise like walking, biking, or swimming is important in managing fibromyalgia symptoms. It can help with pain, fatigue, sleep disturbances, depression, and more. Physical therapists and patients work together to find the right type of exercise and the right intensity to best manage fibromyalgia. They often have to start slow, and make adjustments along the way.
Each physical therapy session is tailored to the needs of the patient and will vary depending on the severity of their symptoms. Despite there still being no cure for fibromyalgia, physical therapists can help with pain management, strength, mobility, fatigue and function to help patients find relief from their symptoms.
- Research (peer-reviewed)
- Exercises for Fibro – https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/32455853/
- Manual therapy for fibro – https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/32604939/
- Aquatic PT for fibro – https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/23818412/
- Effectiveness of exercise with fatigue, etc for fibro – https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/32721388/
- Aerobic exercise for fibro – https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/28636204/
- Articles and Content
- https://www.choosept.com/guide/physical-therapy-guide-fibromyalgia
- https://www.everydayhealth.com/fibromyalgia/aquatic-therapies/
- Physical Therapists are poised to treat and manage Pain (AOPT) https://www.orthopt.org/uploads/content_files/files/Pain_Manual_Draft_FINAL_6.25.2021%281%29.pdf


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John Edwards on Immigration
Democratic Nominee for Vice President; NC Jr Senator
A: We should reform the immigration system so there is a clear road map to legalization and citizenship for undocumented immigrants who work hard and follow the law. At the same time, we should work with our ally, Mexico, to better control the border and stop illegal trafficking.
A: The whole notion of earned citizenship is something that I strongly support. I would expand the number of legal immigrants that can get into the country, which helps relieve some of this pressure that we have right now. Our relationship with Mexico and Pres. Fox is in the worst shape that we can imagine. And the result of that is, we don't have the kind of security along our southern border that we need.
EDWARDS: Let me say a word about my personal experience with this issue. I grew up in a family where my father worked in a mill all of his life. And when I was young, we moved to a small town in rural North Carolina, which is where I grew up. That town is now half Hispanic.
My family moved to that town because my father, who has a high school education and is still living, believed that by working hard and doing the right thing that his kids would have the opportunity for a better life. These Hispanic families? They came to Robbins, North Carolina, for exactly the same reason. And those who came and live there, who work hard and are responsible, they have earned the right to be American citizens.
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Aleutian Deck Bag™
If you need low-profile waterproof storage on the deck of a sea kayak or SUP, look no further than Watershed's Aleutian. It straps nicely onto the front deck of most sea kayaks and paddleboards, and allows fast access to your camera and valuables. You can also use it to keep a map dry and viewable, and it will even hold a bilge pump with its handy straps
- Fits most kayaks and canoes
- 2 Elasto-Lok buckles for your bilge pump
- Convenient reusable water bottle holder
- Clear map case (you can also use your phone or tablet through the clear material)
- Comes with a plastic stiffener inside the bag that serves to "dome up" the top of the bag
- Available Colors: Orange, Blue, and Royal Purple
|19.5″ Height x 14.5″ Width x 4″ Depth (Tapers to 14.5″ x 13.5″)
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Onkyo HF Player Full 2.0.2 Apk for Android Unlocked + Key
- Current Version: 2.0.2
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Onkyo HF Player Full 2.0.2 Apk for Android Unlocked + Key
Get greater control of how music sounds on your Android device with our touch-adjustable linear-phase FIR equalizer, which offers 16,384 discrete bands of HD equalization with zero loss in audio quality. Create and save your own EQ presets or select an optimized filter created by professional musicians. HF Player for Android also enables playback of Hi-Res Audio formats including FLAC, 192 kHz/24-bit WAV, and DSD at no extra charge.
Digital Output
Enjoy stunning audio quality anywhere you like by adding an Onkyo DAC-HA200 D/A Converter and Headphone Amplifier to enable a direct-digital connection to your AOA 2.0 (Android Open Accessory)-compatible Android device via USB cable. OTG (On The Go) cables facilitate a digital connection to USB audio-compatible external devices—simply purchase our Unlock Application and update to the full-featured version of Onkyo HF Player for Android to enable Hi-Res Audio output.
Note: Audio with a sampling rate exceeding 88.2 kHz output via the headphone connection, AOS connection, digital connections via OTG cable (free version only) is downsampled to 44.1 kHz.
- High-precision equalizer (16,384 discrete bands, linear-phase FIR filter)
- Automatic upsampling function
- Crossfade playback option
- Album artwork and song lyric display
- Repeat function (songs within a list)
- Resume Playback Function
- Shuffle function (within a list)
- Selectable equalizer presets optimized by musicians for Onkyo headphones
- Easily add songs to playlists and Up Next list
- Real-time DSD conversion function (supported on paid version)
- Volume control function for USB-audio-compatible external hardware using volume keys of Android devices
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Note: Audio with a sampling rate exceeding 88.2 kHz is downsampled to 44.1 kHz or 48 kHz.
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Intel Core i9-10850K is unleashed, but 10-core Comet Lake CPU might not be as affordable as you hoped
Intel's Core i9-10850K is now official, with the 10-core CPU being released and priced up – although it might not be quite as cheap as you'd hoped.
The processor, which has been rumored for a while now, is essentially a cut-down version of the flagship 10900K, the only difference being it runs 100MHz slower across all clocks (keeping the same configuration and TDP otherwise
The other difference, of course, is that price, with Intel listing the Core i9-10850K at $453 in the US, compared to the price tag of the 10900K which is $488 (that's the company's pricing for buying the chip in bulk – per thousand units – not retail, which will obviously be higher).
So the difference between the two chips is $35, and previously, the rumor mill was indicating that the 10850K might pitch in a bit cheaper than this; but as ever, we always have to be careful around pre-release speculation.
Still, given that the performance difference is very little between these two processors – the clock speeds being notched down 100Hz is hardly a lead weight tied to the 10850K's performance, as we've seen in leaked benchmarks – any price reduction is obviously welcome.
Bigger picture
And indeed in the bigger picture, Intel is struggling to get enough Core i9-10900K silicon out there – with many retailers out of stock – so this alternative 10-core offering will prove a relief in terms of supplying inventory for would-be Comet Lake buyers at the high-end.
As we've discussed before, the reasoning behind the existence of the Core i9-10850K could simply be that it's a lesser-binned alternative that Intel can get out there quickly to relieve the aforementioned 10900K stock issues.
And the other good news is confirmation that this is a retail box release from Intel, and not just a processor which is offered to PC makers, and can't be bought directly (another theory floated early on in the rumors around the 10850K).
The upshot is that those who want a 10-core Comet Lake beast of a processor will soon have more chance of being able to buy one, albeit notched down very slightly in performance compared to the existing flagship.
And the fact that it's somewhat cheaper will certainly be more than welcome, at least in theory, because Intel's recommended (volume) price is one thing, but it remains to be seen what kind of mark-up retailers might give to the 10850K in light of demand for the CPU (given the drying up of supply of the 10900K).
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I am part of this powerful global movement empowering women to end hunger. There is overwhelming evidence that the end of world hunger cannot be achieved if gender inequality persists. Women bear the major responsibility for meeting basic needs, yet are systematically denied the resources, freedom of action and voice in decision-making to fulfill that responsibility.
Please join me in my efforts to raise [INSERT PERSONAL FUNDRAISING GOAL] to empower women worldwide to end their own hunger and create a brighter future for all. [INSERT A PERSONAL STORY OR YOUR CONNECTION TO THE CAMPAIGN HERE.]
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$25 could provide one person with Functional Adult Literacy training so she can read and write
$60 could provide one woman with a microfinance loan and financial literacy training so she can start a small business, earn an income, and support her family
$120 could train one volunteer leader in Africa who will educate families about the importance of keeping their daughters in school so that they marry later
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"Sight words" are words that can not be sounded out or learned through the use of pictures and have to be learned by sight. The original Dolch Word list (named after Edward Dolch, PhD) contains 220 words that have to be easily recognizing to achieve fluency in the English language. The list later included 95 nouns.
The Dolch sight words are helpful for adults learning English as an additional language (ESL) as well as for children.
This app has all 220 sight words plus the nouns in a flash card setting.
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Certified Nurse Midwife Career
Certified Nurse Midwives (CNMs) are becoming more common for women and mothers across the nation. Overall employment of Nurse Midwives is projected to grow 40 percent from 2021 to 2031, much faster than the average for all occupations.
What is a Nurse Midwife?
Nurse Midwives are primary health care providers for women of all ages and provide all types of gynecological, prenatal, and post-pregnancy care.
According to Mayo Clinic College of Medicine and Science, common tasks and duties include:
- Confirming and dating pregnancy
- Providing prenatal and postpartum care
- Caring for women during childbirth including monitoring the mother and fetus during labor, assessing labor progress, managing complications, assisting with pain management, performing episiotomies if needed, and delivering the newborn and placenta
- Providing education for new parents on infant care
- Supporting new mothers that are breastfeeding with education and training
- Preparing pregnant women for what to expect during the birthing process
- Performing preventive health screenings and tests
- Diagnosing and treating gynecological disorders such as sexually transmitted diseases and infertility
Become a Certified Nurse Midwife
There are many different paths in the Midwifery field. They could include:
- CNM: Certified Nurse-Midwives are Registered Nurses who have additional certification as a Midwife. That double licensure gives them additional opportunity and training in the medical field. Specific Midwifery education is the same for a CNM and CM.
- CM: A Certified Midwife is someone who is certified as a Midwife, but doesn't have a Registered Nursing license as well. The certification is identical for a CM and CNM, the only difference is the Registered Nursing license.
- CPM: A Certified Professional Midwife is certified and must have particular experience in home-birth or out-of-hospital settings. The certification requirements are much less than that of a CM or CNM. A Midwifery program may still be involved, but often it is less detailed and intense.
- Doula: Doulas are not maternity care providers, but provide informational and emotional support for a mother during childbirth. Doulas provide services to mothers while they are pregnant, during their labor and delivery, as well as after the baby is born. Some Doulas work directly for birth centers or hospitals, while others are hired directly by expecting mothers. Because Doulas don't provide medical support, there aren't direct legal requirements regarding their practice. Some doulas get formal training, though it's not required.
The average CNM salary in the United States is $117,216, as reported by Salary.com.
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Following our charity summer ball, Gina Lloret who is the model that appears on the 7formation branding, sent a beautiful note to thank the entire team both for inviting her to be the guest of honor and for the very warm welcome she received. After miraculously tracking her down in Barcelona, managing director Steve Rowell arranged for Gina and her partner to travel to the UK and spend a long weekend in the Rutland area, surprising all the 7fromation staff with her attendance at the ball. Following her stay Spanish born Gina penned this beautiful notes as a way of thanks:
Hello Steve, wGoing back to work couldn't have been harder after the awesome weekend. We really appreciate everything you, your family and 7formation have done for us this days, you make us feel like home and like we were also part of the team. Once again, the summer ball was amazing and we had a lot of fun enjoying it with all of you. We fall in love for sure with Rutland and their little fairytale towns. This weekend and meeting you have exceed all the expectations, I'd have never thought something like this could happen to me! We will remember it for the rest of our lives this extraordinary experience! My parents also send you a lot of greetings for treating us amazingly well. We will be very pleased If you ever come to Barcelona to let us know and plan at least some fun activities, restaurants and amazing local places to enjoy! We're really looking forward to see all the pictures to remember the night 🙂 Lots of love and Best wishes 🙂 We really hope we can meet again! Gina & Paul


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AWS launched Lambda in 2015 and with it helped popularize serverless computing. You simply write code (event triggers) and AWS deals with whatever compute, memory and storage you need to make that work. Today at AWS re:Invent in Las Vegas, the company announced several new features to make it more developer friendly, while acknowledging that even while serverless reduced complexity, it still requires more sophisticated tools as it matures.
It's called serverless because you don't have to worry about the underlying servers. The cloud vendors take care of all that for you, serving whatever resources you need to run your event and no more. It means you no longer have to worry about coding for all your infrastructure and you only pay for the computing you need at any given moment to make the application work.
The way AWS works is that it tends to release something, then builds more functionality on top of a base service as it sees increasing requirements as customers use it. As Amazon CTO Werner Vogels pointed out in his keynote on Thursday, developers debate about tools and everyone has their own idea of what tools they bring to the task every day.
For starters, they decided to please the language folks introducing support for new languages. Those developers who use Ruby can now use Ruby Support for AWS Lambda. "Now it's possible to write Lambda functions as idiomatic Ruby code, and run them on AWS. The AWS SDK for Ruby is included in the Lambda execution environment by default," Chris Munns from AWS wrote in a blog post introducing the new language support.
If C++ is your thing, AWS announced C++ Lambda Runtime. If neither of those match your programming language tastes, AWS opened it up for just about any language with the new Lambda Runtime API, which Danilo Poccia from AWS described in a blog post as "a simple interface to use any programming language, or a specific language version, for developing your functions."
For folks who have different tastes in IDEs (integrated development environments), AWS announced Lambda support for several popular ones including PyCharm and IntelliJ in preview and Visual Studio.
AWS didn't want to stop with languages though. They also recognize that even though Lambda (and serverless in general) is designed to remove a level of complexity for developers, that doesn't mean that all serverless applications consist of simple event triggers. As developers build more sophisticated serverless apps, they have to bring in system components and compose multiple pieces together, as Vogels explained in his keynote today.
To address this requirement, the company introduced Lambda Layers, which they describe as "a way to centrally manage code and data that is shared across multiple functions." This could be custom code used by multiple functions or a way to share code used to simplify business logic.
They also announced the Step Functions Service Integration, which allows developers to define a set of steps and triggers, which can connect to other Amazon services such as Sagemaker, DynamoDB and Fargate. This could enable developers to build much more complex serverless applications that not only perform an action, but trigger other Amazon services.
As Lambda matures, developer requirements grow; these announcements and others are part of trying to meet those needs.


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The ABIM Foundation is a 501(c)(3) charitable organization created by the American Board of Internal Medicine (ABIM) as a supporting organization within the meaning of Section 509(a)(3) of the Internal Revenue Code. ABIM Foundation bylaws state that the majority of the ABIM Foundation Board must be current or former members of the ABIM Board of Directors.
ABIM initially transferred $5 million to the Foundation in 1990. Over nearly 20 years (between 1990 and 2008), approximately $56 million was transferred by ABIM to the ABIM Foundation.
In fiscal years 2017-2019 ABIM Foundation transferred approximately $10 million to ABIM to fund numerous improvements to its programs and services based on physician feedback. These have included the introduction of a new assessment option called the Knowledge Check-In, an enhanced user-friendly Physician Portal, a redesigned abim.org website, and exploration of collaboratively developed assessment pathways with medical specialty societies.
The ABIM Foundation operates on a July to June fiscal year. Our most recent publicly available is 990 form (pdf) for fiscal year 2022 ended 6/30/22. It reflects compensation paid for the preceding calendar year (January 2021 to December 2021) and financial activity for the current fiscal year (July 2021 to June 2022).
As is required for supporting organizations by governing accounting standards, the audit report for ABIM and the ABIM Foundation has been consolidated throughout the ABIM Foundation's history. Our most recent audited financials for ABIM and Affiliated Foundation comprise the consolidated statements (pdf) of financial position, activities and cash flow as of June 30, 2021 and 2020.


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Self-Organization and Identification of Web Communities ( Gary William Flake, Steve Lawrence, C. Lee Giles, Frans M. Coetzee ; IEEE Computer Magazine 2002-03)
Realizing the Benefits of Virtual Teams ( Charles Steinfield ; IEEE Computer Magazine 2002-03)
Enhancing E-Communities with Agent-Based Systems ( Simon Case, Nader Azarmi, Marcus Thint, Takeshi Ohtani ; IEEE Computer Magazine 2001-07)
Developing Groupware for Requirements Negotiation: Lessons Learned ( Barry Boehm, Paul Gr�nbacher, Robert O. Briggs ; IEEE Software Magazine 2001-05)
Tactical Approaches for Alleviating Distance in Global Software Development ( Erran Carmel, Ritu Agarwal ; IEEE Software Magazine 2001-03)
An Experience in Collaborative Software Engineering Education ( Jes�s Favela, Feniosky Pe�a-Mora ; IEEE Software Magazine 2001-03)
Globalization by Chunking: A Quantitative Approach ( Audris Mockus, David M. Weiss ; IEEE Software Magazine 2001-03)
Using Different Communication Media in Requirements Negotiation ( Daniela E. Herlea Damian, Armin Eberlein, Mildred L.G. Shaw, Brian R. Gaines ; IEEE Software Magazine 2000-05)
Visualization in Teleimmersive Environments ( Jason Leigh, Andrew E. Johnson, Maxine Brown, Daniel J. Sandin, Thomas A. DeFanti ; IEEE Computer Magazine 1999-12)
Developing Educational Software Components ( Jeremy Roschelle, Chris DiGiano, Manolis Koutlis, Alexander Repenning, Jonathan Phillips, Nicholas Jackiw, Dan Suthers ; IEEE Computer Magazine 1999-09)
Leveraging Distributed Software Development ( Junichi Suzuki, Yoshikazu Yamamoto ; IEEE Computer Magazine 1999-09)
Collaborative Computing: The Next Millennium ( ; IEEE Computer Magazine 1999-09)
Architectures, Coordination, and Distance: Conway's Law and Beyond ( James D. Herbsleb, Rebecca E. Grinter ; IEEE Software Magazine 1999-09)
Engineering on the Internet for Global Software Production ( Jerry Z. Gao, Cris Chen, Yasufumi Toyoshima, David K. Leung ; IEEE Computer Magazine 1999-05)
The Role of Government in IT Standards ( Jim Isaak ; IEEE Computer Magazine 1998-12)
Information Visualization for Collaborative Computing ( Hsinchun Chen, Jay Nunamaker Jr., Richard Orwig, Olga Titkova ; IEEE Computer Magazine 1998-08)
Why Does Digital Participate in Standards? ( John Hurd ; IEEE Computer Magazine 1998-06)
Conflict and Consensus: The Role of Standards ( Charles Severance ; IEEE Computer Magazine 1998-01)
Emerging Calendaring and Scheduling Standards ( Frank Dawson ; IEEE Computer Magazine 1997-12)
Is There a Better Way to do UNIX Workgroups? [2001/12/29]
Which Open Source Projects Are -Really- Collaborative? [2001/09/14]
Open-Source "Ratings & Recommendations" Software? [2001/05/14]
Multi-Headed Multimedia Presentation Software? [2001/05/10]
On the State of Scientific Telecollaboration? [2001/05/05]
Computer Aided Carpooling? [ 2000/10/24]
Free Web Meeting Environments? [ 2000/09/21]
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ToutDoux - ToutDoux is a project manager extensible with plug-ins. ToutDoux is based on hOpla (link PostgreSQL-XML), including data's structure, template and data. {(L)GPL}
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Caliber-RM - Caliber-RM is collaborative, Internet-based requirements management software that facilitates requirement definition and management throughout the development lifecycle. Its centralized repository and automatic change notification enables collaboration am [Windows 95/98/NT client and Windows NT server; and/or Web browser] {comm}
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Chomping at the bit to get "into the game"
Dear Office-Politics,
I recently started working as a full time temporary employee with a college institution in their athletic department. I made it clear that my intentions were to hopefully become a permanent full time employee at some point. The pay is several hundred dollars more a month and is really where my husband and I need to be financially.
My department's director has been trying for several months to get the approval to switch me to permanent. Here's the catch:
Within the same department as mine, there is am employee, a coach, that was hired on as permanent full time. She is the only coach out of four that has this classification. She was able to hire on under this classification with the exception that during the summer months while school is not in session, she will have to continue working in the student information center answering phone calls and taking applications. The other coaches will get these summer months off to be with family.
However, she has been taking all her vacation time during these summer months. When she does come to work, it's for a few hours and then she leaves saying she's doing "coach" business in her athletic office. This is not the case as she is really leaving for the day. The college knows she is doing this, but will not demote her back to a normal contract or fire her. If they demote her down to a normal contract, there is a law stating they still have to pay her the same amount as if she were still permanent. However, if she decides on her own accord that she doesn't want to work over the summer and then gets demoted, it will open up this same opportunity for me to become permanent. She knows of this stipulation and is riding it out.
One would ask, "Why don't they just fire her if she's not doing her job?" They could and should. But, she is a great coach while school is in session. They probably won't take such a grandiose action when her performance as a coach of a ball team is wonderful.
This is where I'm stuck. Office politics is keeping an uncooperative employee in a position that I am much more willing and qualified to do. What should I do, if there is anything I can do?
Dear On-the-Bench,
It does seem unfair that superstar athletes get the playing time, the big contracts, the media attention, and the special perks at restaurants or shows; while the referees look the other way when they foul an opposing player, or the player is allowed to break rules, skirt practice requirements, or worse. Some star athletes even start to ride their own hubris into a feeling of entitlement that includes feeling above the rules, accepting booster club gifts or recruiting favors, even feeling above the law (Officer, do you know who I am?). And meanwhile, other competent, well-intentioned players are on the sidelines, chomping at the bit to get "into the game" and show their stuff, putting in the practice time, following the rules, and paying their dues.
No one is saying it's fair, but let's face it –– that's life in the big city and that's the reward package that often flows to those responsible for a team's winning percentage. The alumnae association or even city government can reward this cycle when the wins keep coming, the fans pay for tickets, and the headlines are raving about the post-season. So you're in a similar scenario, and it's unrealistic to expect a great coach to do the laundry and grunt work when the powers that be at the college are fully aware of her actions (and non-action). So, sorry to say, there's no magic pill or elixir on this one to get you off the bench.
It seems the only actions you have are:
1) Let people know your goals that are supported by the department director in ways that do not upset those in power, and lobby graciously for consideration since you love working there and really want to stay. Stress what you believe you can contribute, not how the star coach is coasting on the peon part of the job. Offer to pay your dues big time, but request some sort of pathway to greater stability and job security, possibly through some additional funding or loophole that could pave the way. After all, it does seem the college is not a stranger to finding ways of making allowances, so if you're valued as a team player then perhaps someone will push a bit withOUT threatening the star coach.
2) Keep paying your dues so that your stats are impeccable–– no strike-outs (including no striking out at the coach who should be fouling out!), no high-maintenance activity, and no slumping your way through practice drills –– play all out on the job! Meanwhile, stay good natured, a cheerleader as well as "role player" that you are awaiting your opportunity, just like pro athletes do (and sometime that chance comes by injury to the star, a roster spot, a special need, whatever, so you just need to be available and ready to play on that day your time comes…that's what the newspaper articles about bench warmers always say!).
3) You might consider, depending on your own relationship with the slacking off coach, somehow tactfully offering to take some pressure off the fouling coach by good-naturedly discussing your willingness to do even more of HER grunt work (analogous to being water boy!), taking the heat off her and making it even easier for the power holders to let the scenario continue. Yes, this is counter-intuitive to suggest helping the situation get even worse, but maybe it has potential? You are getting close to the coach and helping her to be a goof-off! Why? Possibly to earn favor and gingerly explore whether you can make life even easier for the slacker, hoping for a good word to the Director and others in return about how invaluable you are. The coach is getting plenty of extra favors already. Any chance your ongoing support and coverage for her guaranteed could eventually become another benefit the coach enjoys in her eyes? You never know, stranger things have happened.
Otherwise, we're realists. We feel for you but also read about this every day in the sports section! Play fair, but be aware. Thanks for writing to OfficePolitics.com.
Good luck,
Rick and Marty
Rick Brandon, Ph.D. and Marty Seldman, Ph.D. Co-authors,
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Rick Brandon, Ph.D. and Marty Seldman, Ph.D. are Co-authors, Survival of the Savvy: High-Integrity Political Tactics for Career and Company Success. Dr. Rick Brandon is CEO of Brandon Partners. He has consulted and trained tens of thousands at corporations worldwide, including Fortune 500 companies across a variety of industries. Dr. Marty Seldman is one of America's most experienced executive coaches. His 35-year career includes expertise in executive coaching, group dynamics, cross-cultural studies, clinical psychology, and training.


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Lines, bars and pies are usually just boring charts on a PowerPoint presentation, showing you dull numbers while someone drones on about stats. But only in Metrico+ do these come to life as fiendish platformer puzzles.
Genre(s): Puzzle
Developer: Digital Dreams
Publisher: Digital Dreams
Release Date: August 2016
Played: All levels
Platforms: PC
Purchase At: Steam, Playstation 4
Source: Review Copy provided by Publisher
Metrico+ is a puzzle platformer and as many other puzzle games, it's light on plot. You start as either a male or female protagonist, no names whatsoever, and as you traipse through each level your character will suddenly grasp a part of their body in pain, a short sequence lasting only a few seconds. Then at the end of the level, he or she enters an orb where there are two doors. On opening one, they'll see their reflection on a mirror float and one of its extremities darken or glow. If you cross the door, stand on the pedestal and press the appropriate and infuriatingly-ever-changing button then that's what happens to them.
As the progress bar that deletes them completes, you can see the full charts you puzzled through appearing in the background, as if consuming your body printed them.
I'm sure there's something completely symbolic and philosophical about it all, about losing ourselves as individuals, what makes us people and just becoming statistics, just another number on a line or bar, but I'll leave it to you to confer them meaning. I know I did and found myself depressed, because all my interpretations were slightly fatalistic.
I really enjoyed the platforming puzzles. Jumping and dropping to make bar charts grow or shrink, move left or right for line charts to do the same or just move around, using 'loading' circle icons to respawn and either reset the environment or trigger a bar chart with that requirement. Discovering how to make each puzzle work was fantastic. The more elements they added, the better it became, save for the bounced shot mechanic and levels. These are some of the new elements, I believe and I don't feel they add to the experience as much as they take away from it.
Puzzles in this game have a rhythm to them and most importantly a sense of wonder that culminates in the "Eureka!" moment that all good riddles should have. But when the bounce-bullet puzzles come into play, it stops being about figuring out the right actions needed, or their sequence, which was the fun it, and it becomes a game of geometry, finding the right angle to bounce the bullet at so that it does what you need it to do to clear the puzzle. The pacing slows to a crawl and in my case, boredom replaced the sense of wonder, particularly because these puzzles abandon the platforming almost completely—and the cursor is finicky as all hell. These levels bring the overall experience down.
Visually it's great in its minimalism. It's all about solid colours, striking ones against stark backgrounds, the same way you'd see charts on a paper or a computer screen. They really sell you on the idea of platforming through charts. The newer levels have more of a neon feel to it, bright shiny colours against darker backgrounds. It works, but it lacks the pleasantness of the first ones and clashes with the overall visual theme.
I have issues with the Sound. The soundtrack is repetitive, in a bad way. Often the pieces are just a couple of notes repeated over and over to the point of annoyance. While you're puzzling, solving and platforming you'll most likely ignore them, but the moment you start struggling with a puzzle the more grating the music becomes. Also, I don't know who had the idea of giving the bullet cursor a sound effect. If by any chance you tab out, as I often do, the volume goes crazy and ramps up to 11, turning a mild hum into a migraine-inducing buzzing.
I like Metrico+ up until it switches from puzzle platformer to geometric shooter. Then it becomes tedious. At best, the music is harmless but not memorable, but migraine inducing at worst. The new levels don't feel like they add to the experience but rather take away from it.
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Samara King began her literary journey at the age of twelve years old while sneaking to the back of the library and indulging in romance novels; soon after, she wrote her own! She has penned three novels and eleven novellas all within the multicultural erotic romance genre, as well as two poetry collections.
In 2010, Samara launched SK MINIs, her novella imprint to be headed by Samara King Books, her self-publishing company.
Her first poetry collection, The Ebony Kryptonite, will be followed by The Naked The Bare. She has been published by Cobblestone Press, Changeling Press, Loose Id, and Total-e-Bound to date.
Currently she is working on her next SK MINI project.
Samara lives with her teenage son, where she encounters new adventures every day that service her in the creation of each of her stories!
A masked lover
A year ago, Club Reign owner, Belinda Gilles threw the first Grown & Sexy Masquerade Ball without a hitch – that was until she encountered a masked man whose touch made her forget about her past. Did she dare to believe that her masked lover would show his face again?
What lies beneath…
When Jordan Harris discovers that Belle is the woman he encountered under the mask a year ago, he sets out to make her his, even if it means opening old wounds she'd vowed to never forgive him for.
In your opinion, what are the ingredients to making a great character?
A great character is like an intoxicating glass of wine. You (the reader) are pulled in by their scent, essence, speech/dialogue, back history or notes that tell a deeper story behind the initial face. Multifaceted in personality and in their inner conflicts is what draws a reader in and makes them wonder if the character will be able to conquer all.
Who is your favorite character from someone else's work and why?
I have too many to count, but I am immediately attracted to characters who are bold and have voices that stand out and take no prisoners. Those are the type of characters that will have you reading every page.
Who is your favorite character from one of your works and why?
I love Nicholas Herrera from Herrera's Temptation, Leo from Midnight Whispers and Gabriel from Pulse and Liam from The Panty Affair…ah, I could go on. I guess I cannot just single down to ONE. I dig my heroines, too. Lol. I love my characters because they all have their own ways of being in each story. I remember them long after I've written them and still carry them (in case they'd like to make a comeback).
Chapter One
If there was one thing a woman always remembered about a man, it was the way his hands felt against her skin.
Well, depending on the right man, Belinda Gilles thought, turning to the left, right and then returned center mast to stare at her reflection in the full-length mirror. There was nothing sane about wanting a man whose name she didn't even know. Yet, her fingers had touched every inch of his body, one night – one year ago.
The wine colored dress clung to every curve of her voluptuous body. She was not the type to hold out for the unexpected; hoping for something that was nearly impossible to occur just brought a lot of heartache. Her past had taught her that. It had also taught her that being in love with two men was an impossible feat to master. Someone always stood to lose. One was buried underneath eight feet of earth and the other watched it happen.
Belinda shook her head. She didn't want to think about Nate or Jordan tonight.
Skeletons had best take their bones elsewhere.
She'd come a long way from her days in Leimert Park. Memories flashed through her mind of hot summers, lowriding and the two men that had captured her heart at a time she'd needed love most.
Tonight she wanted to relish on her success, inhale the accolades of yet another memorable event under her wing. Club Reign was one of the most exclusive clubs in L.A. Stars and celebrities visited from all over the country. And she had been doubly rewarded for her success as the club had blossomed into thespot. Her spot. She smiled. "You go, girl."
She knew what others thought of her, that she was a gold digger for marrying Brandon Forde when he was 59 and she was 24.. Brandon had been good to her. He'd loved her and in her own way she'd loved him. He'd never expected more out of her than she could give. His death had been a blow to her and she missed him, with a ferocious need for his confidence. He'd been more of a mentor than her husband. She'd never stepped out on her marriage, had taken their vows seriously. Despite what the society set thought, she'd been Mrs. Brandon Forde in every way that counted in the nine years they'd been married before he'd died of a heart attack.
Belinda smoothed her hand through the twisted knot of her hair, the dangling crystal earrings glittered against the bathroom spotlights. She was ready for this evening; the anticipation was thick as it'd been last year. She loved a good party and she loved that fact that people knew who was throwing it.
She'd put so much of herself into Club Reign, having little of a social life outside of the organizations and associations she donated to. For the outside world, she was the widow of Brandon Forde. No one would suspect that she was highly in need of being fucked, but not by just any man. Him. She didn't want anyone else. This time she planned on concreting the deed and making her mystery man aware of how she felt.
Her fingers trailed down the side of her neck. Memories assailed her senses with longing. Her eyes fluttered closed His lips soft and so giving one moment and commanding and unyielding the next. His hands had branded every part of her. She felt it every time she thought of the orgasms she'd experienced with him that night. The call for more of his touch had long ago become hard to ignore.
The throb between her legs made her densely aware that it'd been exactly a year since she'd been touched, desired sexually in the fashion she craved.
Belinda had gotten repeated offers from other men to be her lover. But she wanted only one thing, another night, followed by another with this man. She'd found herself daydreaming about him, counting down the days as she and her staff planned for the second Grown and Sexy Masquerade Ball.
At the most inappropriate times, she would be found smiling. Belinda pretended her glow had nothing to do with anything other than her excitement about the plans for the ball. If only they knew. Her mind was filled with a heart-pounding requisite to feel him inside her again, stretching her, filling her with the delicious sensations.
She could remember only one other time in her life that she'd craved a man as intensely as this one. It was a memory she chose to forget. Nothing like this. She couldn't forget him if she wanted to.
Her body had melded into his without regret or justification of their tryst. She was not the type of woman who hoped in wayward emotions like love, but she hoped for him, all of him tonight.


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Memories of Imperial Russia
by Gerald Hamilton
[Gerald Hamilton was born in the 1880s in Shanghai China, but was sent back to England for his schooling at the famous Rugby public school. An amazing character, whose life virtually encompasses everything we associate today with Western Europe of the first half of the 20th century. He was close friend to royalty, nobility, the famous and infamous; author, bon-vivant, and food and wine critic. His closest friends included Winston Churchill (who had Hamilton interned during World War II for his loudly anti-war sentiments), Christopher Isherwood (who used Hamilton as the model for Arthur Norris in his famous novel "Mr. Norris Changes Trains"), Jean Cocteau, Alfred Lord Douglas, Tallulah Bankhead, Guy Burgess, Benjamin Britten, and E.M. Forster, among many. He even met Anna Anderson, after which he was most certain she was not Grand Duchess Anastasia. This fascinating person is truly more like some character out of a Nancy Mitford novel, but in fact, he was most real. He passed away in 1970, just one year after this was published, at the age of 82.]
All the year 1912 was spent by me in Russia - a year of great happiness to me and one of the most agreeable of my life.
I went to St. Petersburg as my father's two sisters were brought up at the Court of Hesse-Darmstadt and were contemporaries of the Tsarina. My audience with the Imperial Family is still vivid in my mind. I received a notice from the Court Chamberlain to go to Tsarskoe Seloe, where the Court then was and where the Emperor would receive me in audience on a certain day and at a certain time. On the day appointed, one of the Court automobiles fetched me and a few hours later I found myself within the precincts of the palace, after passing innumerable sentries.
My first surprise was caused by the immense silence that reigned in this royal palace; although the whole of the Imperial Family was in residence, there seemed to be no bustle or any movement at all. There were sentries and Cossack attendants posted round the large hall; but no one came or went. After waiting about an hour in an ante room I was conducted to the Chamberlain's apartment and taken immediately by His Excellency to a large studio, or morning room, with two bow windows. A few moments later a small door in the wall opened and the Emperor, dressed in a very simple Russian costume with tall boots, came into the room and greeted me with a grave, frank courtesy, to which I found it easy to respond. He spoke perfect English and seemed to be positively glad to talk in that language, telling me that the Empress and himself very often used it when alone together.
I was struck by the extraordinary melancholy of his eyes, which every now and then dropped as he spoke. The impression he conveyed was rather that of a country gentleman than of a monarch. As I sat talking to him I thought he must, to some extent, resemble Charles I of England and Louis XVI of France. All three were monarchs whose blameless and indeed edifying private lives stand out in strange relief amidst surroundings of incredible corruption and profligacy. All three were noble in thought and weak in action. All three fell under the fatal, if well-meant, influence of wives who had utterly failed to appreciate the mentality of their enemies and the dangers which lay ahead.
After I had chatted with the Emperor for about ten minutes he sent to enquire if the Empress had returned from a drive in the palace grounds. Shortly after, a lady-in-waiting came to us and asked the Emperor to come with me to the Empress's apartments.
I found the Tsarina very gracious and still retaining a certain soft Germanic beauty, but much stouter than the photographs of her would have led one to suppose. She remembered my father's two sisters very well and gaily related incidents of her schooldays in Damrstadt. As tea was being served in large glasses after the Russian fashion, the door burst open and the Tsarevich romped into the room. He evidently expected to find his mother alone, and was very shy when he saw a strange visitor. A Scottish lady, his governess, and a tall Cossack accompanied him to the door and beckoned him back - but his mother told him to stay.
I have never seen a more timid child; though slightly built and boyishly dressed in a sailor suit, he looked far older than he really was. He had most extraordinarily gentle, almost beseeching eyes. After much hesitation and shyness on the part of the Tsarevich we finally became great friends, and he showed a lively interest in a little gold pencil-case which I carried; on being touched lightly at one end, out shot the pencil and, on being pressed a second time, the pencil withdrew into its shell. So delighted with the pencil was the boy that I laughingly asked the Empress to allow me to give it to him. The Empress hesitated a moment, but then thanked me and told her son to accept the pencil, which he did, making me a quaint little bow. I did not see any traces of ill-health on the Tsarevich's features, but he was certainly a most nervous timid lad.
The time came for me to return to St. Petersburg, and it was with genuine gratitude that I thanked the Emperor and Empress for their kindness in receiving me so informally. The scene I left engraved itself extraordinarily clearly on my mind, and I can still see quite distinctly today the Empress seated on a sofa with the Tsarevich beside her, his little arm round his mother's neck, the Grand Duchess Tatiana, a very beautiful girl, tall and slim and rather haughty, talking to the two ladies-in-waiting, as all three stood by the window; and the Tsar, also standing, lost it seemed, in a reverie as he looked after me with those strangely wistful eyes.
The Tsarevich suffered acutely from haemophilia and much controversy has been inspired by this illness and the influence that Rasputin gained over the Imperial Family thanks to the temporary cures which he was able to effect. I think we must, on that evidence, attribute Rasputin's influence to hypnotic powers, which he was able to exert even by telegram. Strange as this may seem, the solemn fact remains and cannot be gainsaid that not only did the Tsarevich's health always improve when Rasputin was near him, but that the Tsarevich actually depended upon Rasputin's ministrations to keep him alive. I cannot venture an explanation of how these alleviations of suffering were wrought, and Derevenko, physician in attendance on the Tsarevich - not the sailor of the same name mentioned later - was frankly dumbfounded at Rasputin's success.
Rasputin's peculiar powers of healing spread his fame as a wonder-worker. Whether these powers were miraculous, as was generally believed, or whether they derived from the peasant lore of a remote Siberia, we do not know, but in due course in Kazan he met the famous Bishop Michael and soon his name was heard even in St. Petersburg. He travelled there modestly at the invitation of a religious organization and made the acquaintance of Anna Alexandrovna Virubova, daughter of the Director of the Private Chancellery of His Majesty. Later I often met this lady, who was an intimate friend of the Tsarina and who succeeded in persuading her to allow Rasputin access to the afflicted Tsarvich.
At that time, about 1908, this Prince had a Russian nurse, but was watched over by the sailor Derevenko, to whom he was devoted, and who never let his Imperial charge out of his sight. I cannot trace any rivalry between Derevenko and Rasputin. The sailor was so anxious for an amelioration in his charge's health that he was not in the least jealousy when he found that, in very truth, Rasputin was able to affect an improvement.
It was the Countess Anna Virubova who was kind enough to take me to Rasputin's third-floor flat at 64 Gorokhovoy Street, in 1912. Rasputin held a kind of levee each morning and anybody who cared to call was made welcome. Unfortunately I did not speak Russian and could, therefore, do no more than just kiss his hand. Crowds of people were all around him. I saw rich ladies push bundles of notes into his hand; he never looked at the notes, but when he saw a poor supplicant merely handed on the money just as he had received it. He had no interest in money, though people asserted the contrary, since he had all he needed, as well as the protection and friendship of the entire Imperial Family.
My reason for wishing to see Rasputin was because at that time all St. Petersburg was talking about his power of healing and how the Tsarevich remained well, happy and healthy when Rasputin visited him daily.
Rasputin's power of healing was interesting and I had myself been present on a second occasion and was afforded the evidence of my own eyes. A mother called with her son who was epileptic and I saw him restore the child. What impressed me so much about his cure (which I was afterwards told was a permanent cure, not just relieving one epileptic fit) was that while he stroked the boy's head, muttering Russian prayers, breathing into his ears, mouth and nostrils, this huge, heavy peasant of a man seemed to become pale and even frail and when the boy was definitely cured (the whole affair lasted about ten minutes to a quarter of an hour) Rasputin sank back in a chair, utterly exhausted and almost helpless. It seemed indeed as if all the good had gone out of him. I considered it a great privilege to have seen undeniable proof of his extraordinary gift of healing. It may seem profane to mention Jesus Christ in any connection with Rasputin, but for all I know God may choose odd vessels to do his work.
The parrot cry against Rasputin that he was an unfrocked monk is utter nonsense since he had never taken Holy Orders, so could not have been an unfrocked monk. His immoral life had nothing to do with the powers of healing and prophecy which he undoubtedly possessed. The British like their heroes to be spotlessly white and their villains darkest black. They have tried to put Rasputin, who did so very much good in his lifetime, into the latter category. I shall always remember my two visits to him with gratitude and deep respect. He, for his part, did not care for English people at all and on my first visit he had received me somewhat cautiously, but the second time I was received with much greater enthusiasm, no doubt because the Countess Virubova had spoken favourably to him about me.
This was written by Gerald Hamilton. It is excerpted from the chapter "Memories of Imperial Russia" in his autobiographical book "The Way it Was With Me", Leslie Frewin publishers, London, 1969.
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On February 6, 2015 the Supreme Court struck down Canada's ban on doctor-assisted suicide. In the following story from October 2014, Emmett Macfarlane considered the implications of the challenge:
The Supreme Court will hear a new Charter of Rights challenge to the prohibition against assisted suicide on Wednesday, roughly 21 years after its justices upheld the law in a similar case by a narrow 5-4 vote.
The new case raises a number of interesting issues in addition to the central question of assisted suicide: Can/should the Court effectively overrule itself? Or, more specifically, if the Court determined in 1993 that a ban on physician-assisted suicide was a "reasonable limitation" of Charter rights, why is it deciding the issue again? And should the Court even be the institution to have the final say about such a values-laden, morality-based question?
Why is the Court considering assisted suicide again?
A number of important developments explain why the Court can easily distinguish this new case from the one in 1993. First, a wealth of comparative evidence from countries with regulated, legalized assisted suicide now exists and it answers a lot of questions that worried the Court two decades ago. Many of the arguments against ending the ban rely on slippery-slope reasoning, suggesting that permitting physician-assisted dying will invariably lead to the involuntary euthanasia of the ill by their families or of those lacking the mental capacity to consent. The Court's majority at that time expressed concern about the "uncertainty" of lifting the ban, suggested Canada would be unique among Western countries if it did so, and asserted there were not adequate safeguards to prevent abuse.
It will be much more difficult to make the same assertions today. After a very thorough examination of expert-witness testimony and studies in other jurisdictions, including the Netherlands, Oregon and Belgium, the British Columbia trial court judge found that while existing safeguards are unlikely to be 100 per cent effective, there is little evidence to support the contention that vulnerable persons have been placed at risk where assisted suicide has been legalized. It's important to note that the Supreme Court normally gives significant deference to such findings of fact at the trial level.
Second, the Court's approach to Section 7 of the Charter—the right to life, liberty and security of the person—has evolved considerably since 1993. The Court has recognized and articulated new "principles of fundamental justice" against which violations of Section 7 are judged, specifically, laws that are overly broad or that create harms that are grossly disproportionate to the objectives of the law. The Court has applied these principles in numerous decisions, including those striking down Criminal Code provisions on prostitution last year, and overturning the federal minister of health's attempt to shut down Vancouver's supervised drug-injection facility in 2011. On Wednesday, the Court will deal for the first time with arguments invoking these principles as they relate to the assisted-suicide ban.
The hearing will also involve novel arguments that the Court did not consider in 1993. One of these pertains specifically to the right to life: the argument that the current law risks shortening the lives of terminally ill patients, because some may choose to end their lives earlier than they otherwise would, knowing they will be unable to obtain assistance to do so later when they are unable to do it themselves.
In short, the Court has accepted leave to hear this case on the basis of a new evidentiary record, major developments in its approach to the Charter since 1993, and new legal arguments. Further, the Court is no stranger to overturning its own decisions. One notable example is a 2007 decision recognizing that collective bargaining is protected under freedom of association, overturning its own 1987 decision where a majority of justices held the opposite view.
It is also worth noting that Chief Justice Beverley McLachlin, the only judge there in 1993 who is still on the Court, was in the minority at the time.
Is the Supreme Court the right place to settle this question?
While there are a lot of reasons to think the Supreme Court will strike down the ban on assisted suicide, another question is whether it should. Grant Huscroft, a professor of law at Western University, has argued the Court should leave the issue to Parliament. Assisted suicide involves questions of medical ethics, health policy-making and its associated uncertainty, personal morals and societal values. There are good reasons to prefer that a representative body such as Parliament have the final say on such questions.
Indeed, in interviews conducted for my book, Governing from the Bench, many of the justices who took part in the 1993 case essentially agreed with Huscroft. In addition to uniformly describing the case as one of the most difficult they faced (a couple describing personal anguish on their part), one of the justices, interviewed anonymously, stated, "I believe you're stressing the limits of the judicial function in that case to, in effect, say that a prohibition against assisted suicide was unconstitutional . . . Is this just a legal question? What's the input coming [from] philosophers, medical science, care-givers, social workers?" As I further note in the book, former Justice Claire L'Heureux-Dubé, who was part of the minority voting to strike down the law in 1993, has publicly stated she was relieved that the majority won and the matter was left to Parliament.
And yet, Parliament, whether under the control of Liberal or Conservative governments, has been unwilling to properly engage the issue, even in spite of public opinion that overwhelmingly opposes an absolute ban. This is not to suggest that public opinion should be the primary factor in making such decisions, but if Parliament will not act to protect and promote rights, at what point should the Court step in?
As Huscroft correctly points out, the Charter is comprised of vaguely worded, ambiguous provisions over which reasonable people can reasonably be expected to disagree. And yet, it is difficult to conceive of an issue more central to "life, liberty and security of the person" than the capacity to exercise one's own bodily autonomy free of government interference, including government interference in the guise of imposing criminal sanctions on those who might aid someone who has made the choice to end her own suffering.
When the government violates rights, it has an opportunity to advance an argument about why its actions are reasonable. On Wednesday, the government will have to justify why it effectively compels terminally ill individuals to die deaths in which the suffering exceeds the threshold at which they find life worth living, and it will need to do better than slippery-slope arguments disproven by the comparative evidence or invoking red herrings such as involuntary euthanasia, which can and should remain illegal.
We should be extremely cautious about the constant appeal to the judiciary to solve our most pressing and controversial social and political problems. The Court's role is particularly troubling in contexts where the justices are expected to balance competing rights, or to delve into complex policy matters, such as those relating to the design of the health care system or determining the distribution of scarce resources. In such cases, even when the Court reaches a decision whose policy outcome we might agree with, we should perhaps not be quite as comfortable as we are with the prospect of judges—whose expertise lies in the law and not public policy—making the decision.
But the exercise of judicial power becomes more palatable in cases where the state imposes significant harm on people, where the rights issues at stake strike at the core of the Charter's values, where an obstinate Parliament refuses to deal with an issue (let alone have a full-fledged debate about it), and where the state acts not to balance different rights among different groups of people but instead acts, in former Chief Justice Brian Dickson's words, as "the singular antagonist of the individual."
Emmett Macfarlane (@EmmMacfarlane) is an assistant professor of political science at the University of Waterloo. His book, Governing from the Bench: The Supreme Court of Canada and the Judicial Role, is published by UBC Press.


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Maybe we need a destination that is powered by the young women who currently occupy the bottom floors at major publishing houses.
Amidst all the chatter about the inanity / insanity of Goldberg's PandoDaily post, this is the bit that stuck out for me. My first thought after skimming Goldberg's piece was "well, he'll have a hell of a time recruiting a good editor-in-chief now…who in their right mind would join Bustle after this?" But remember, his DNA is Bleacher Report, which was built on a community of distributed contributors covering individual teams. Bleacher worked because they rode the blog wave, surfing on the backs of geographically distributed fans who were writing about their local pro / college / high school football / baseball / basketball / soccer teams. The natural hierarchy of the sports media market meant that an individual contributor with a strong voice in a local market could get "famous" through B/R by covering games, spouting off about their local team, and slagging their rivals.
I don't think Goldberg can run the same play here (to abuse a metaphor). The content structure isn't the same (sports > leagues > cities > teams), and, frankly, the world's moved on from the B/R model. The "young women who currently occupy the bottom floors at major publishing houses" don't need a Bustle for exposure — they're already doing it through Twitter, Tumblr, Instagram, etc. And without a strong editorial voice & vision at the top of the masthead (which would now be nearly impossible to recruit) what's left to attract those young women to power the site? $6.5mm won't buy you high quality content for long…just ask The Daily.


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Greenville Track Club-ELITE - a post-collegiate, Olympic-development program
10 USA Olympic Trials Qualifiers
established 2012
10 USA Olympic Trials Qualifiers
established 2012
ASICS Greenville Track Club-ELITE's Trent Binford-Walsh and Alison Parris ran to victories in the 26th annual SouthPark Turkey Trot 8K on a brisk and sunny Thanksgiving Day morning in Charlotte, NC. Binford-Walsh took the lead after the first mile and ran to a new course record of 24:03, besting the 24:13 set by Adam Freudenthal in 2012. Teammate Chris Caldwell placed third overall in the field of over 8,000 with a time of 24:46. Parris's time of 27:31 was over a half-minute ahead of the second place woman.
GTC-ELITE is sponsored by ASICS, the 42-year old Greenville Track Club, Performance Therapy, Greenville Health System's North Greenville Hospital, ScanSource, Soleus Running Watches, Boston Bill Sunglasses, The TD Bank Foundation, The Kroc Center, Carolina Spine and Rehab, ElliptiGO, the Bare Minimum Track Club and generous individual contributors.
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HPE EMEA boss confirms shuffling of exec deck
Round holes, square pegs... or something like that
HPE GPC '16 Hewlett Packard Enterprise's latest EMEA chief has lined up his generals and the divisions they will run from the start of the new fiscal year beginning November.
Andy Isherwood, who replaced Peter Ryan as senior veep for the Enterprise Group and MD for EMEA in July, is preparing for life after Enterprise Services and the Software division.
He said David Chalmers, HPE's EMEA chief technologist and veep, who runs the pre-sales and technology group will head up an expanded unit that also includes business development and "enablement solutions".
"What we've done is pull together all of this capability to try to build more repeatable solutions… and we'll have an end-to-end process of working out what we do in specific markets and how we package that."
Iain Stephen, EMEA veep and GM for servers will run a data centre and hybrid cloud group, which will draw upon the hardware and couple it with software defined products.
"[We are trying] to nurture new growth opportunities. I don't think incubation is something we've done very well at HPE, we create lots of great stuff but we don't create markets quick enough and we don't tap into those profit pools as quickly as we can," said Isherwood.
The third group will concern industry verticals, "building out IP around some of our solutions", drawing upon alliances with other vendors and HPE's inside sales team. The leader will be confirmed next week.
Finally, the EMEA channel, SMB and Service Provider division will be run by Carlo Giorgi, currently veep and GM for EMEA storage at HPE. He also has worked on corporate strategy with former EMEA MD Ryan.
This means that after five years as channel overlord, Gilles Thiebaut will be moving on to an as yet unconfirmed new pasture within the company. We are told his next role will be confirmed by the middle of next week.
HPE has sold its ES business to CSC and the Software wing to Micro Focus, leaving the Enterprise Group and Financial Services as the last divisions at the company, turning over circa $30bn.
Five years ago when CEO Meg Whitman grabbed the controls, HPE's revenues were $110bn, but the split with HP's PC and printer busines, the other "divestitures" and a sales declines changed all of that.
Isherwood said his employer was going from an "unhealthy balance sheet" prior to the sales, to a "very, very strong balance sheet with $5bn net cash" that will swell to "$10bn" by the end of next year.
"We will have a big bank of money to hopefully allow us to do things moving forward."
"[It was] interesting being big but we need to make sure we are relevant," he said, "make sure we really focus on what we're good at… because we are smaller we've got to be quicker to take share and seize the opportunities in the market". ®


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