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2019 Annual Central Minnesota SCI Banquet
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A Touch of Life Taxidermy has generously donated a $500 credit to be used towards a shoulder mount.
Central MN SCI thanks A Touch of Life Taxidermy for this 100% donation!
A Touch of Life Taxidermy
1045 park street
Anoka MN 55303
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P.O. BOX 724, ST. CLOUD, Minnesota, 56302, United States
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Central MN Safari Club International Terms and Conditions 2018:
Central MN SCI – Auction Program Rules and Regulations
Central MN SCI is a Section 501(c)(4), non-profit membership organization. Our members are
conservationists who hunt. Our mission is conservation of wildlife, education of the public, advocacy
for hunting and hunter's rights, and humanitarian outreach aligning with our mission. Central MN SCI
appreciates the support of its donors and members in helping to further its programs and goals. Auction
revenue funds a great portion of Central MN SCI's operating budget. The majority of the dollars raised
goes to support Central MN SCI's conservation, education, and humanitarian programs and for
protection of the hunter. The term "auction" refers to silent auction, live auction and raffle.
Items donated to Central MN SCI and amounts paid to Central MN SCI as part of the auction do not
qualify as charitable deductions. Central MN SCI is not a qualified charitable organization. No portion
of any Central MN SCI auction purchase is eligible for a tax deduction unless it is an auction item (not
a raffle item) sold for the benefit of SCI Foundation, which is a qualified charitable organization. If an
auction item (not a raffle item) is sold for the benefit of the SCI Foundation, the purchaser may be
eligible for a charitable deduction for only that portion of the payment that is over the item's fair
market (or retail) value (except for raffle ticket purchase, which are not eligible for a charitable
deduction in all cases). All auction items are donated to Central MN SCI (not SCI Foundation) by
Central MN SCI exhibitors unless otherwise noted. If an auction item is dedicated to benefit SCI
Foundation, it will be noted in the description. Refer to IRS Publication 1391, Deductibility of
Payments Made to Charities Conducting Fund Raising Events and consult your tax advisor for
information about charitable deductions.
These Auction Program Rules and Regulations apply to auctions and raffles conducted for the benefit
of Central MN SCI and SCI Foundation and the term "SCI" shall include "SCI Foundation" in all
instances where the auction or raffle is conducted for the benefit of SCI Foundation.
Any exceptions to these Auction Program Rules and Regulations must be reviewed and accepted by the
Central MN SCI board of directors.
1. You or your representative (designated individual must have written, notarized authorization by
you stating maximum bidding price for each of the items of interest) must be registered and present
during the auction to be eligible to bid. A person who bids on behalf of another person or group will be
ultimately held responsible for payment in its entirety. A person registered and bidding through the
official SCI online auction site will be considered to be registered and present for the auction.
2. All items auctioned are sold "as is." Central MN SCI assumes no responsibility for the validity of the
descriptions, authenticity, or condition of any item donated for auction. Central MN SCI makes no
warranty or guarantee, express or implied regarding any property or service sold at auction including,
but not limited to, any warranty of fitness for a particular purpose or merchantability. Values listed are
as stated by donors and are not warranted by Central MN SCI for tax or any other purpose.
3. All items auctioned (whether goods or services) have been acquired or obtained by Central MN SCI
from third parties. The purchaser acknowledges that the items have not been inspected by SCI and that
the purchaser is advised, in the case of firearms, knives, bows, bullets or other weapons, to secure a
competent inspection and test of the goods before use. No services auctioned are to or will be
performed by Central MN SCI.
4. After bidding for an item concludes and the auctioneer designates a winning bidder, the
designated winner (buyer) must immediately agree to a Buyer's Agreement. For buyers at the auction
location, the buyer must sign the Buyer's Agreement and one copy will be given to the buyer. For
online buyers, the buyer must click "accept" after reading the Buyer's Agreement which, along with
payment for the item, constitutes agreement to the Buyer's Agreement. For silent auctions, the Silent
Auction Bid Sheet is considered the Buyer's Agreement to purchase the indicated item. All signatures
on Buyer's Agreements, Silent Auction Bid Sheets and Silent Auction Sealed Bid Forms, and "accept"
with payment for online purchases, are legal and binding. Central MN SCI/SCIF will not recognize
changes, additions or deletions to any auction description agreed to by the buyer and donor unless such
changes are noted on the Buyer's Agreement and signed by the buyer and an authorized representative
of the donor, or in the case of online buyers, noted in an electronic writing exchanged between the
buyer and an authorized representative of the donor.
5. By making a purchase, the purchaser waives any claim for liability against Central MN SCI or the
donor of any property or service, and neither Central MN SCI nor the donor is responsible for any
personal injuries or damages to property that may result from the utilization of any property or services
sold. If any action or claim is made against Central MN SCI by an individual, entity, or state, local,
federal, foreign or political body for any matter whatsoever arising from the use of the auctioned items,
or any actions or parties conducting business with respect to the auctioned items, the donor and/or
purchaser will pay Central MN SCI's attorneys' fees and costs and will hold Central MN SCI harmless
from any judgment thereon.
6. By making a purchase, the purchaser agrees that:
a. The auction and purchases made at the auction shall be governed in all respects, whether as to
validity, construction, capacity, performance, or otherwise, by the laws of the State of Minnesota,
except as preempted by federal law and that venue for any and all actions, including litigation,
mediation and/or arbitration, shall be in Stearns County, Minnesota.
b. Any dispute or action arising out of or relating to the Auction and purchases made at the
Auction shall first be submitted to mediation before a mediator mutually agreed to by the Parties, with
said mediation to be held in Stearns County, Minnesota. If mediation is unsuccessful, then such dispute
or claim shall be submitted to final and binding arbitration in accordance with the rules of the American
Arbitration Association or other appropriate standard relating to disputes arising out of contract, before
one arbitrator, with said arbitration to be held in Stearns County, Minnesota.
7. If during a live auction, a final bid for an item is erroneously taken from two bidders, the bidding
is closed to everyone else except those two bidders. The high bidder acknowledged by the auctioneer
shall be the purchaser; the auctioneer shall have the sole and final discretion to determine the
successful bidder in any auction. At each live auction, there will be pre-designated bid spotters in the
audience, and it is the responsibility of the bidder to direct bids to the nearest spotter. The auctioneers
and spotters will make every attempt to acknowledge all desired bids, but Central MN SCI is not
responsible for any missed bids or bids that fail to be executed.
8. After bidding for an item concludes and the auctioneer designates a winning bidder, the
designated winner (buyer) must immediately agree to a Buyer's Agreement. For buyers at the auction
location, the buyer must sign the Buyer's Agreement and one copy will be given to the buyer. For
online buyers, the buyer must click "accept" after reading the Buyer's Agreement which, along with
payment for the item, constitutes agreement to the Buyer's Agreement. For silent auctions, the Silent
Auction Bid Sheet is considered the Buyer's Agreement to purchase the indicated item. All signatures
on Buyer's Agreements, Silent Auction Bid Sheets and Silent Auction Sealed Bid Forms, and "accept"
with payment for online purchases, are legal and binding. Central MN SCI/SCIF will not recognize
changes, additions or deletions to any auction description agreed to by the buyer and donor unless such
changes are noted on the Buyer's Agreement and signed by the buyer and an authorized representative
of the donor, or in the case of online buyers, noted in an electronic writing exchanged between the
buyer and an authorized representative of the donor.
9. Someone will come to the table of the successful bidder to collect a signature and payment. Payment
is due immediately upon acceptance of a winning bid. Payments can be made by cash, check, or
debit/credit card. Checks should be made to Central MN SCI and must be drawn on a U.S. bank and in
U.S. dollars. Visa, MasterCard, Discover and American Express are accepted.
10. Auction items purchased at the Saturday Night Auction must be paid for before the official close of
the Saturday Night Auction. Arrangements for the removal of all items must be made before the close
of the Saturday Night Auction. Any auction items that have not been paid for by the close of the
Saturday Night Auction will be subject to a 10% surcharge, which will be added to the winning bid and
this total will then become the purchase price. Any items not removed by the close of the Convention
or for which arrangements for removal have not been made will be shipped COD to the winning
bidder/purchaser, who also shall pay to SCI an additional 10% handling surcharge. Any
bidder/purchaser who leaves his/her purchases at the Convention does so at his/her own risk. Central
MN SCI is not responsible for any item not removed from the Convention by the winning
bidder/purchaser. Items purchased through an online au
leave the firearm at the table until 10:00pm, but the transfer needs to be completed before then.
16. Although Central MN SCI has made every effort to ensure the quality of donated hunts and trips, it
cannot, and does not, guarantee the satisfaction of either the donor or the purchaser.
17. To protect our hunt donors, Central MN SCI reserves the right to withdraw any donated hunt from
the auction.
18. Some hunts are subject to VAT and GST tax liabilities. Often these taxes are due and payable
before a hunt can be taken. Other items may be subject to sales taxes. Central MN SCI does not assume
responsibility for these fees. Interested bidders and buyers should verify amounts with donor and check
with the local government where a hunt is to be taken to validate tax rates.
19. Central MN SCI has been advised that donated "worked" ivory may be sold at its auctions.
"Worked" ivory must not have been imported under any permit that prohibits the sale of that ivory. The
export of "worked" elephant ivory for non-commercial or personal uses is allowed under U.S. law, but
requires a CITES permit and must have been imported legally. Most hunting trophies have come into
the U.S. under permits that prohibit sale, and cannot be sold. Export of "raw" ivory is not allowed for
any purpose.
20. The terms and conditions set forth in the Auction Buyer Policy and the Auction Hunt Policy are
hereby incorporated herein by reference. The purchaser's acceptance of the Buyer's Agreement, Silent
Auction Bid Sheet signifies and guarantees that the purchaser has read and understands these Auction
Program Rules and Regulations, the Auction Buyer Policy and the Auction Hunt Policy, and the
purchaser accepts and agrees to completely abide by and be legally bound by all the terms, conditions,
rules and regulations for the Auction Program.
Central MN SCI – Auction Buyer Policy
Central MN SCI offers donated hunts and items to its members at official Central MN SCI events
through live auctions, silent auctions and the sale of raffle tickets for designated items. Central MN
SCI's policy for hunts or items acquired by attendees at auction or through a raffle program is as
1. Central MN SCI offers hunts, art, jewelry, firearms and other tangible items for bid during live and
silent auctions or for raffle. All items are transferred as is. All valuations are provided by donors and all
descriptions are based on information provided by third parties and Central MN SCI shall in no event
be held responsible for their accuracy. Central MN SCI does not make implied or expressed warranties
or representation of any kind, nor does Central MN SCI deem to have made any representation or
warranty of the description, genuineness, attribution, provenance or condition of any item. No
statement in the Central MN SCI publications, catalogs or brochures or in the bill of sale or invoice or
elsewhere shall be deemed such a warranty, representation or assumption of liability by Central MN
SCI. Any written warranties with respect to the items purchased are those solely and expressly supplied
by the manufacturer or donor of that item or hunt. Although third parties sometimes provide appraisals
with items such as jewelry, Central MN SCI does not verify or warrant their accuracy or origin.
Appraisals are the result of subjective valuations and estimates of value and quality can vary markedly
between competent and reliable appraisers. The provision of an appraisal does not represent a guarantee
of value. Furthermore any written or visual presentation done or offered by third parties does not
necessarily reflect the opinion or attitude of Central MN SCI.
2. The successful bidder (or "purchaser") of an item (whether through a live auction, silent auction
or raffle) will immediately sign a Buyer's Agreement. The Buyer's Agreement will be brought to where
the purchaser is sitting for signature and the bidder/purchaser will retain one copy at that time. For
silent auctions, the Silent Auction Bid Sheet is considered a Buyer's Agreement of the purchaser to
accept the indicated item and pay the bid amount. Purchaser's signature on the Buyer's Agreement and
the Silent Auction Bid Sheet demonstrate that the purchaser acknowledges that the agreement is a legal
and binding contract to accept the item and pay the accepted bid amount. Any changes, deletions or
additions to the description printed on the Buyer's Agreement, which are agreed to by the purchaser
and an authorized representative of the donor, must be noted and signed by both parties in order to be
recognized as part of the auction purchase.
3. All auctions are final and there will be no exchanges or refunds on items or hunts. Central MN SCI
has made every effort to ensure the quality of donated items or hunts. However, Central MN SCI does
not guarantee the satisfaction of the donor or the purchaser in any case. In reference to hunt donations,
it is the purchaser's responsibility to contact the hunt donor immediately and make all necessary
arrangements for hunt dates and the application for any necessary paperwork for licenses and /or
permits. Failure to make necessary arrangements may constitute forfeiture.
4. If a purchaser fails to pay for any item prior to the close of the Banquet, Central MN SCI reserves
the right to pursue all legal remedies available to it. Central MN SCI may undertake internal actions,
which could result in sanctions including, but not limited to, suspension of purchaser's membership or
expulsion from Central MN SCI.
5. Although Central MN SCI makes reasonable efforts to list all extra and ancillary expenses not
included in hunt, travel, service and other items, lists of expenses in auction item descriptions should
not be considered exhaustive or definitive and Central MN SCI will not be held responsible for their
completeness or accuracy. The amounts of additional expenses listed in auction item descriptions are
approximations and are subject to change without notice. Bidders should contact relevant donors before
bidding for additional and updated information about expenses one can expect to incur in taking a hunt
or trip or in using a service or item.
6. All of the terms and conditions set forth in the Auction Hunt Policy and the Auction Program
Rules and Regulations are applicable to attendees purchasing items at auction or through raffle and
such terms and conditions are incorporated herein by reference.
General – Any hunts, trips, goods or services purchased by buyer at auction are provided "AS IS"
without warranty of any kind, either expressed or implied, including, but not limited to, the implied
warranties of merchantability or fitness for a particular purpose. Central MN SCI makes no warranties
about any Donor's accuracy, competency or reliability, or of the buyer's satisfaction with his/her
purchase. Central MN SCI's acceptance of donor's gift or donation does not imply endorsement of the
donor or the donated hunt, trip, goods or services. In no event shall Central MN SCI, its directors,
officers, agents, employees, or representatives be liable for any direct, indirect, incidental, special,
exemplary, or consequential damages however caused and on any theory of liability, whether in
contract, strict liability, or tort (including negligence or otherwise) arising in any way or form out of the
Buyer's purchase of trips, hunts, goods, services or anything else purchased by Buyer at auction.
Hunts – Although Central MN SCI has used its reasonable efforts to ensure the quality of donated
hunts and trips, it has no control over the operation of the donor and cannot and does not guarantee that
the hunt or trip will be to the Buyer's satisfaction. The Buyer understands and agrees that it is his/her
responsibility to make all arrangements for hunt or trip dates, including travel and completion and
filing of all necessary documents, including applications for licenses and permits. SCI cannot guarantee
or warrant that a trophy animal or any animal will be taken during a hunt. Some hunts are subject to
VAT and GST liabilities, which sometimes are due and payable before the hunt can be taken. Buyer
understands and agrees that Central MN SCI is not responsible for these fees and that it is Buyer's
responsibility to pay these fees unless other arrangements are made with donor.
Goods - All goods covered by this invoice have been donated to or obtained by Central MN SCI from
third parties. The Buyer acknowledges that the goods have not been inspected by Central MN SCI and
that Buyer is advised, in the case of firearms, knives, bows, bullets, or other sporting and/or hunting
equipment, to secure a competent inspection and test of the goods before use. The goods covered by
this invoice are sold AS IS. Any written warranties relating to the goods are SOLELY those of the
manufacturer or provider.
Services - All services covered by this invoice have been donated to or obtained by Central MN SCI
from third parties, and are to be furnished by such third parties. No such services are to be or will be
performed by Central MN SCI. Central MN SCI has no control over the operation of the donor and
cannot and does not guarantee the delivery or quality of any such services and it is not liable for any
loss or damage arising from or relating to the provision or non-provision of such services. Buyer
acknowledges and agrees that in the event services purchased are outside of the United States, Central
MN SCI shall not be responsible or liable for any political unrest or instability that may occur outside
the United States, nor shall Central MN SCI be held accountable for any injuries
or damages.
No Refund Policy – This purchase is non-refundable. In no event shall Buyer seek reimbursement from
Central MN SCI and Buyer acknowledges and agrees that Central MN SCI is not liable to refund the
purchase price or any portion thereof.
Governing Law, Jurisdiction and Venue – This Agreement, its construction, performance and
enforcement shall be governed by the laws of the State of Minnesota without regard to any conflicts of
law provisions. For all claims or disputes in which Central MN SCI is named as a party arising under or
with respect to this Agreement or any item purchased at auction, Buyer agrees that the exclusive
jurisdiction and venue for such disputes shall be in the Minnesota Superior Court, Stearns County or
the United States District Court for the District of Minnesota, St. Cloud Division. Buyer waives any
objection or defense (including, without limitation any defense of inconvenient forum) that Buyer may
now or hereafter have to the venue of any such action or proceeding in such courts. If legal action is
required and Central MN SCI prevails, Central MN SCI shall be entitled to recover its attorney fees and
Auction Program Policies – Buyer agrees that he/she is bound by the Auction Program Policies
referenced in the auction program and made available in full at the registration table and that he/she has
read the above Disclaimers of Warranties and Liabilities and the Auction Buyer Policy and agrees to all
such terms and conditions.
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Newsosaur: Publishers Fail to Diversify Digital Audience
By: Alan D. Mutter
Though newspapers have been pretty good over the years at growing traffic on their websites, they are shockingly bad at capitalizing on the social power of digital media to broaden their audiences.
Audience diversification is important, because the typical newspaper website is read, more or less, by the same senior citizens who take the print paper. Here's how serious the demographic challenge is:
Using data from the Census Bureau and the Pew Research Center for the People and the Press, I calculated a couple of years ago that at least half the audience at the typical newspaper is no less than 50 years old, because publishers are not attracting younger readers.
Today, "the average print reader is a female nearing 60, when the average age of the national population is 43," said Greg Harmon of Borrell Associates, who has been tracking readership trends for more than a decade. "The user of a newspaper website is a little less female than the print subscriber and just over 50 years old. Our research shows that print and Web readers are basically the same people — and that the average age of the online newspaper audience keeps getting one year older every year."
As the core newspaper audience ages to perfection (and beyond), a proliferation of faster, better, and cheaper digital devices is cutting into the appetite for print among consumers of all ages.
In a poll released earlier this year, the Pew Center found that only 20 percent of Americans look to their local newspapers for campaign news, vs. 40 percent as recently as 2000. In a separate survey last year, Pew found that the early adopters of tablet computers were not 20-something hipsters who abhor print, but rather, the same sort of mature, highly educated, and high-income individuals who traditionally read newspapers.
Given the profound demographic and cultural forces challenging newspapers, how are publishers doing at diversifying their audiences via the social power of digital media to build audience and community? Just awful.
Here's how we know:
In a study (tinyurl.com/soclinks) completed in September, professor Rich Gordon of Northwestern University crawled the 300 largest news-oriented sites in the Chicago area to determine who linked to whom.
Analyzing the results, he found that 81.7 percent of the links generating traffic for sites associated with the Chicago Tribune came from within the newspaper's family of sites, and that 80.4 percent of the link-driven traffic at Sun-Times Media Group came from its corporate cousins. To be fair, newspapers were not the only large sites gaining the bulk of their link-driven traffic by steering existing readers from place to place on their own sites. As but one example, 91.7 percent of link-driven traffic at Patch sites came from other Patch sites.
Turning to the question of how well the Chicago news sites used social media to build traffic, Gordon found that small websites — which cannot hope to benefit from the legacy readership enjoyed by the large sites — are much better than the big guys at leveraging Facebook to build and diversify their traffic.
Whereas the smallest news sites in the survey drew 48.1 percent of their traffic from links on Facebook, the newspapers and other big sites got only 14.5 percent of their in-bound traffic from Facebook. On the other hand, the big properties benefited slightly more than the small ones from Twitter links to their sites. Gordon found that Twitter was responsible for 4.2 percent of big-site links and 3.6 percent of small-site links.
While there's nothing wrong with using internal links to illuminate readers and expand advertising inventory, the heavy reliance on self-referential readership means that newspapers are not expanding beyond their core audience to capture younger readers. As print inexorably wanes, the lack of differentiation in the digital audience will be an obvious impediment to publishers seeking to sustain their relevance, readership, and revenues in the digital age.
One way for newspapers to broaden their base is to be far more avid about aggregating and linking to third-party content than they have been to date. While these practices seem to be anathema to many journalists and publishers, they not only enrich a website's content offerings but also have the side benefit of encouraging third parties to link more generously to publishers.
We know publishers can do this. The Chicago Tribune created chicagonow.com to aggregate content from dozens of local bloggers covering everything from politics to pancakes. But ChicagoNow lives on its own pages and merits only a modest link on the flagship website. This isolation not only keeps bunches of interesting stuff off the main Tribune site but also cuts the odds that followers of the third-party content will see — and engage with — the Tribune's valuable, staff-produced content.
A tentative approach to social publishing won't work. If publishers don't go all in, there's great danger they will be left out.
Alan D. Mutter is a newspaperman who eventually became a Silicon Valley CEO and today advises media companies on technology. He blogs at Reflections of a Newsosaur (newsosaur.blogspot.com)


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Mornings, noons, and nights. My girl and I are early risers. Up around 5 a.m. (which is when Andy gets up to go to work), I take my shower by Christmas-tree light, and bring my trusty coffee pot and my fake candle back up to bed on the tray. Then I wait for my lady to wake. When she does, I go in and unwrap her from her swaddle and she smiles at me. Her big huge darling smile. (That's been happening for about a week. Still just can't believe she does that. It's my favorite moment of the day.) She unfolds her tiny arms and reaches up with her fists and down with her tiny toes and stretches everything. She makes her little blustering noises, tiny snorts and snuffles — it's hard to wake up. I say, "Good morning, my dear lady! What are we going to do today?" Then I pick her up and she buries her face in my neck and puts her warm hands on my chest. I kiss her neck where it's warm and soft (well, where isn't it warm and soft) and we linger here, only minutes (before she wiggles and yawps and calls for her breakfast), but for as long as she'll let me. The day begins. These lazy, busy, soft, warm, long, lovely, lovely days at the end of the lovely year with our sweet, funny, silly, snuggly, adorable, adorable, darling girl. I look into her beautiful navy blue eyes and make a wish.
Just a minute ago it was "snowing," small almost-flakes that Greta (miracle Posie assistant, who comes three afternoons a week and who has kept everything running like clockwork, running better than when I ran it myself, quite frankly) and I, both of us Midwestern girls, watched from the windows with pure longing. I can see why they call them flurries. Such a pretty and capricious word. The flakes swirled and fell, invisible as they hit the ground. Inside, we are cozy and keeping warm, piled under our various piles of calico, wool, and goosedown. We seem to have so many piles like that here. A pile for every room. We don't do much (well, dear Greta does, but the rest of us don't). Just sit, and snuggle, and drink, and sometimes rock in the rocking chair, maybe make some tea or hot chocolate, maybe watch Downton Abbey, maybe light a firelog or add some wood to one that's already flickering, and then go back to the downy pile. I like to turn all the sounds off and listen to the furnace sometimes. Last night, late last night, I finished The Long Winter. That book was awesome. I can't believe I'd never read it before. The scene where Almanzo and Cap are trying to make it back across the frozen slough with the sixty bushels of wheat and the horses keep falling through the snow? Ouf. The way she described Prince standing in the snow hole with his head down, waiting for Almanzo to help him again almost made me cry. MAN do I love pioneer lit. I still have to tell you about my other books. But I am so lazy.
New Year's Eve. A goodbye to the old year, even as everything here still seems so new. I still haven't really found the words to describe most of how I feel. Part of that is probably just plain old tiredness. I was generally worn out by the holidays when I didn't have a three-month-old baby. Part of it is (still) just plain astonishment. Even when I'm just thinking to myself, hearing my own voice ramble on inside me and not even trying to talk out loud, I'm still just mostly thinking, "I am astonished!" And that feeling looks like a big blue Montana sky.
Part of it is that gratitude just floods me moment to moment, and humbles me speechless. I think in prayers now, and I guess they have a language all their own.
I wish you a very, very happy and fun New Year's Eve, and a really wonderful new year.


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The "Bridesmaids" star wears nothing but a pink neckerchief and high-waist trousers as she covers her breasts with her hands in the revealing shot for Manhattan magazine.
Despite appearing body-confident in the shoot, Byrne tells the publication she was actually an introvert as a young girl.
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'Silicon Valley': Welcome to the Valley of Insecurity
In episode one of HBO's Silicon Valley, the show's creator Mike Judge, exposes one of the industry's deepest, darkest secrets: everyone needs a hug.
Our introduction to Judge's Silicon Valley, which airs Sunday night, is a swank party for Goolybib, a fictional startup that is feting a recent $200 million-plus sale to Google with a faded rockstar (Kid Rock) and liquid shrimp hors d'oeuvres that cost $200 per quart. Just behind the glitzy veneer and pyrotechnics, however, is a world that is chronically insecure and self-unaware.


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In my code, I have a bunch of scripts contained in .js files. Whenever one of the scripts contains an error, I get this:
javax.script.ScriptException: sun.org.mozilla.javascript.internal.EcmaError: ReferenceError: "nonexistant" is not defined. (<Unknown source>#5) in <Unknown source> at line number 5
What bugs me is the <Unknown Source>. Multiple files are in one ScriptContext, and it can be hard to track down an error. It also looks horrible.
Is there a way to replace <Unknown Source> with the actual file name? None of the methods I see support passing a File object, so I'm really confused here.
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Big East M5: 12.14.12 EditionPosted by Will Tucker on December 14th, 2012
- It's become overwhelmingly clear that the seven Big East Catholic basketball schools will publicly articulate their plan to split off from the league, although it appears outright dissolution is off the table; "a more likely scenario will be that they simply break away and start anew." As one of the departing ADs told Kevin McNamara at the Providence Journal, "the train has left the station. Get on board or get run over." The basketball schools will likely shun the wandering eyes of UConn and Cincinnati in favor of raiding the A-10 of programs like Butler and Xavier, who will view a centralized Catholic basketball league as a destination rather than a stepping stone affiliation. There remain a tremendous number of loose ends to tie up before either of the splintering Big East factions can move forward developmentally. Branding rights (the "Big East" title––however toxic––carries AQ status); a tournament venue in Madison Square Garden; exit fees; NCAA Tournament units, which are much more lucrative than television revenue, and will provide a rolling annuity for another five or six years –– we're entering uncharted territory, and these issues will be painstakingly hammered out in court for months or years to come. Pete Thamel's piece (linked above) does the best job of depicting the tedium of what has quickly become the most convoluted episode in the realignment saga to date. As one AD told Thamel, "If anyone tells you they know what's going to happen with the legal issues, the brand, the name, Madison Square Garden and all those issues, I don't think they're being honest."
- Michael Carter-Williams describes the exasperation he experienced in his freshman year, as the former McDonalds All-American resigned to riding the pine behind a veteran backcourt. Yahoo!'s Jeff Eisenberg presents a vignette from the Syracuse locker room after a win at Providence in January: The freshman sat by himself after his teammates left, dreading the disapproval of his local friends and family who had traveled to see him play only to watch the Scoop Jardine and Dion Waiters show for all but four minutes. The notion of a blue-chip recruit waiting his turn is an old-school ethic that's becoming harder and harder for coaches to sell, and Carter-Williams demonstrated a patience that would have eluded many 18-year-olds accustomed to the superstar treatment. "Michael had to pay his dues like when I went through high school and college," said MCW's high school coach, Mike Hart. "He got very frustrated at times. But we all knew his time would come and I'm glad everyone was patient." Syracuse fans probably share that sentiment.
- Two weeks after undergoing surgery to install an orthopedic screw in his fractured left hand, Louisville's Gorgui Dieng is out of his cast and could return to the court in about a week. Pitino was initially hoping his center could return by the Cards' Big East opener against Providence on Junary 2, and my pessimistic outlook for Dieng-less Louisville had been predicated on that timetable (the joke is on me for credulously accepting one of Pitino's infamously conservative injury prognoses). On his Wednesday night radio show, the UofL coach said he was eying the December 22 Western Kentucky game as a good opportunity to ease Dieng back into the lineup. The coach said he'd "love to get 15-18 minutes out of him" against WKU to prepare for the Battle for the Bluegrass five days later. Though Kentucky will presumably enter the Yum! Center with a "3" in its loss column rather than beside its initials, Pitino won't trivialize any Calipari-coached UK team after losing four straight against the Cats. Barring a medical relapse, you can bank on Gorgui Dieng playing 20-plus minutes in that game.
- Rutgers AD Tom Pernetti has suspended Mike Rice for three games without pay and fined him $50,000 for inappropriate behavior in practices. Rice has caught flak in the past for sideline misanthropy, and was cautioned by his AD after being ejected for the first time in his career in a loss at Louisville last season. So it wasn't much of a shocker when Brendan Prunty at the Newark Star-Ledger reported that the suspension was triggered by an internal investigation that revealed "abusive, profane language" he used towards his team and an episode in his first two seasons "in which Rice threw basketballs at some players' heads during practice." The timing couldn't be any worse for the RU coach, whose team will play decent UAB and Rider squads without him before tripping to Syracuse to play the role of sacrificial lamb in Cuse's Big East opener. Rutgers is off to a 6-2 start –– its best since 2010-11. In that season, Rice's inaugural campaign ended in a 6-15 nosedive. This is the kind of distraction that could trigger a similar collapse.
- With the imminent addition of Vincent Council, Kris Dunn and Sidiki Johnson to Ed Cooley's arsenal, Friarblog declares "the gang's all here." Not only will the Providence coach have a bevy of skilled bodies at his disposal after struggling to field the most spartan rotation all year, but that depth will grant Cooley wider latitude in exploiting mismatches on offense and not forcing players to play roles outside of their comfort zones. For example, he can slide LaDontae Henton primarily to the three-spot, and stop plugging an uncomfortable Josh Fortune in at point guard due to attrition at the position. It will be a relief to see Providence finally catch a break and watch what they can do with a promising roster at full strength.


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Warned weekly about no cheering in the press box, the role of aloof observer transfers seamlessly to the recliner.
On Saturday night, safe from NCAA watchdogs, the prohibition was ignored and Stanford was rooted on.
Taking a stand was more anti-Oregon than pro-Cardinal and had nothing to do with the Southeastern Conference possibly being shut out of the BCS title game or the hideous wing-adorned uniforms. For weeks, the word has been that Oregon�s rapid-fire offense is unstoppable, that the lack of strength in the Pac-12 should not prevent the Ducks from playing in the title game, and how it was a shame that Alabama had lost because the Crimson Tide defense vs. the Ducks� offense would have been epic.
The love affair with the Ducks was too much. Years ago, dominance of the Yankees provoked a similar distaste.
Stanford�s victory was old fashioned, predicated on splendid defense, controlling the ball more with a solid running game, generally good decisions at quarterback, and an edge in the kicking game.
The ultimate offense failed on 13 of 17 third downs and twice on fourth down. Hitting .210 on conversions won�t get it.
The way Stanford played defense says football smart and smart in general are not mutually exclusive. Not long ago, the theory was that Notre Dame (11-0) couldn�t win because of academic standards and that Vanderbilt (7-4) and Northwestern (8-3) were in a similar bind.
Once Baylor�s rout of previous No. 1 Kansas State was final, we were told folks in Tuscaloosa, Ala., were glued to the Oregon telecast. Eventually, somebody realized that Georgia is also in line for the BCS title game.
Alabama won�t lose to Auburn this week and Georgia shouldn�t lose to Georgia Tech. If both come through, the SEC champion will be 12-1 and headed for the Jan. 7 game in Miami. The only way the winner in Atlanta is excluded is if Georgia loses to its in-state rival and then defeats Alabama � unlikely, but not impossible.
Last weekend, the SEC went from being an outsider to being one upset away from providing both teams in the title game for the second year in a row.
This week, Notre Dame is No. 1, followed by Alabama, Georgia and Florida. Unlikely, but say the Fighting Irish cave under the pressure. From there, Alabama over Auburn and Georgia, combined with Florida over Atlantic Coast Conference champion Florida State, adds up to the Crimson Tide at No. 1 and the Gators at No. 2.
By the same token, it wouldn�t take much for No. 7 LSU, which should beat up on Arkansas on Friday in Fayetteville, to wind up in the BCS Sugar Bowl. At 10-2, the Tigers would likely jump the loser of the SEC title game and a Florida team that loses to Florida State, even though the Gators beat LSU 14-6 in early October.
Meanwhile, it�s feast or famine for bowls with SEC tie-ins. Let�s say that Florida and South Carolina beat the Atlantic Coast Conference�s best, Florida State and Clemson, this week. From there, Alabama and Florida meet the per-conference max of two teams in the BCS.
That leaves Georgia, LSU, Texas A&M and South Carolina with 10 wins each. The Aggies are the most attractive with gee-whiz quarterback Johnny Manziel, who was likely to get invited to the Heisman Trophy ceremony even before leading candidate Collin Klein threw three interceptions against Baylor.
With first choice, the Capital One Bowl would go for A&M and Aggie fans would flock to Orlando.
The Cotton Bowl has first preference from the Western Division so LSU plays in Arlington. Georgia and South Carolina fill up Tampa and Atlanta. The SEC has five other bowl ties and only Vanderbilt and Mississippi State are eligible.
The Sun Belt will be among the conferences happy to fill in the blanks.
Harry King is sports columnist for Stephens Media�s Arkansas News Bureau. Email: email@example.com.


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Hustle helps Cuddyer hold NL batting title
LOS ANGELES -- All was decided long before the Rockies' Michael Cuddyer stepped into the batter's box in the fifth inning Sunday. Yet, it mattered.
No matter the result, Dodger Stadium was going to be the site of an on-field pep rally as the boys in Dodger Blue prepared for the playoffs. The Rockies would finish last in the National League West. And no matter what happened with that at-bat against the Dodgers' Ricky Nolasco, Cuddyer had sewn up his first NL batting title.
Yet, when Cuddyer hit a slow ground ball that Dodgers shortstop Michael Young had to backhand, Cuddyer responded the only way he knew -- to bust his buttons dashing down the first-base line. The infield hit on a 1-for-5 day was the last of the 162 hits he used to fashion a .331 batting average. The Braves' Chris Johnson, who did not play Sunday, finished second at .321.
"No question, that's the way it should have gone," Cuddyer said with a laugh.
Cuddyer, 34, entered the season with a .271 career batting average with the Twins (2001-11) and the Rockies (2012). In some respects, this season was not much different. He finished with 20 home runs, 31 doubles and three triples for 54 extra-base hits. He had 48 last year, when an oblique injury cost him the final two months and limited him to 101 games. He also had 51 in 2011, 56 in 2010 and a career-best 73 in 2009.
But this season, he piled up the singles. A habit of dashing hard out of the batter's box always puts him in position to reach on infield balls, like the one Sunday. But he dashes out of the box the same, no matter how hard his hits. This year, the successes happened to add up.
"It's more singles -- a lot more singles," said Cuddyer, who had a club-record 27-game hit streak from May 28 to June 30. "I don't know what to attribute that to. It just happened. My approach didn't change. Nothing really changed. For some reason, I got more singles."
Teammates appreciated Cuddyer's work. On the day when they said heartfelt goodbyes to first baseman Todd Helton, who is ending his 17-year career, they paused after the game to give a postgame clubhouse ovation to Cuddyer, who most likely will play more first base than outfield next season.
"It was really cool," Cuddyer said. "Obviously they are as much a part of this as I am. It's a special day for all of us."
Rockies manager Walt Weiss said Cuddyer was rewarded for his leadership and hustle.
"It's really cool when you see the game reward guys like that," Weiss said.
Cuddyer became the sixth Rockies player to win a batting title. He joins Andres Galarraga (1993), Larry Walker (1998-99, 2001), Helton (2000) and Carlos Gonzalez (2010).
At the start of next season, Cuddyer will receive from Louisville Slugger the sterling-plated Silver Bat, which is 34 inches long and will be engraved with Cuddyer's statistics in a ceremony at Coors Field.
With it, Cuddyer may receive some criticism, because Rockies offensive statistics are often discounted because of the offense-friendly reputation of Coors Field. Though Cuddyer hit .356 at Coors Field, he also managed a .313 average on the road.
"I guarantee you this is the highest I've ever hit on the road, so I don't think you can bring the Coors Field factor into it too much," he said.
Cuddyer missed two weeks early with a neck issue, and he battled bruised ribs, a severe cold that cost him a few games and, earlier this month, a left wrist sprain that made the final days painful. But he hit .385 (30-for-78) in September.
"I remember 2009, I think I hit 10 or 12 home runs in September and October to help [the Twins] get into the playoffs," Cuddyer said. "So I typically feel like I finish strong most seasons."


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One particular organism being affected is our coral reefs, which are among the most biologically productive ecosystems in the world. Scientists have reported that chemical-based sunscreens may be accountable for dying coral reefs. It has been reported that four widely used sunscreen ingredients activate viruses that kill the algae that feed off the coral.
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There should be fewer secrets about educators accused of wrongdoing, the State Board of Education agreed yesterday.
There should be fewer secrets about educators accused of wrongdoing, the State Board of Education agreed yesterday.
The board discussed 10 suggestions aimed at tightening the state's teacher- discipline system to ensure that accused educators are fully investigated and punished appropriately. All would be on top of new measures included in legislation approved by Ohio lawmakers last week.
The board hopes to vote today on recommendations after Ohio Department of Education officials tweak their original suggestions. Many would remove some of the mystery about why educators were disciplined and shine a light on those who are arrested.
Among the ideas:
� The department should provide the reason for teacher discipline, even when it's based on a sealed conviction. Now, in cases where the department punishes an educator based on an expunged conviction, the reason must be kept secret.
� Courts should automatically revoke educator licenses for some serious offenses.
� Schools would be forced to take teachers accused of serious offenses out of their classrooms until an investigation is finished.
� Children-services agencies should tell the state when an educator is suspected of abusing his or her own children. The department wants to be told even when claims are unsubstantiated, because they might involve unprofessional conduct.
The discussion was prompted by the findings of a 10-month Dispatch investigation, "The ABCs of Betrayal," which was published in mid-October.
Most of yesterday's discussion centered on the department's suggestion that when educators are arrested, they should notify police that they hold a teaching license.
"I question how practical it is," said Robin C. Hovis, a member-at-large from Millersburg. "Such a requirement assumes that you're dealing with an honest person."
Virgil E. Brown Jr., an elected member from Cleveland Heights, argued that it's probably not legal to force anyone to make a statement to police.
Members agreed that educators should at least be forced to tell their employers about their arrests. Charles See, the department's deputy chief of staff, said he will bring amended suggestions to the board today.
Ohio lawmakers recently passed a bill that requires the department to create a code of conduct for educators. It also told the board to spell out specific punishments for types of wrongdoing. Officials said they hope to bring punishment guidelines to next month's meeting.


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Kristina M. Kermanshahche is Chief Architect for Intel's Digital Health Group.
Simple interventions can save lives and reduce the cost of healthcare. Home care for patients with co-morbidities can mean the difference between life and death. For example, with ongoing monitoring of vital signs, patient condition, and medication levels, sudden changes outside of the patient's established thresholds can be detected, which can mean the difference between extended hospitalization and rapid decline in health, versus maintaining a quality of life in the patient's home, surrounded by family and friends.
Similarly, maintaining tight control over blood glucose levels during gestational diabetes can mean the difference between premature birth with a whole host of medical complications for both mother and child, versus a stable healthy maternity and normal delivery.
Remote patient monitoring (RPM) can be significant to both examples just cited, and the effectiveness of RPM depends directly on the availability of standardized information from a variety of health-care data sources, including patient health summary, prescriptions, lab results, daily vital signs collection, and functional assessments.
Remote Patient Monitoring Use Case
In this section we discuss a typical Remote Patient Monitoring (RPM) use case, to set the context for applying health-care informatics standards and to explain how subtle nuances in clinical workflow and system interactions can have a profound impact, both on the design of the end-to-end information integration as well as on future enhancements to informatics standards.
Figure 1 was adapted from the HITSP RMON Business Use Case [6], representing a superset of actors, steps, and functionality across a number of finer-grained but related use cases. We currently work with clinicians in a variety of regions worldwide but primarily based in the United States and the United Kingdom. Clinical delivery and reimbursement models are very different between these two regions. Some health-care delivery models rely upon visiting nurses, community outreach, and clinical call centers to perform primary patient engagement, monitoring patients remotely and within the home, and only referring the most acute cases for physician or hospital intervention.
Other delivery models rely upon physician practices to monitor patients directly, at times delegating these tasks to trained staff that operate as part of the practice under their clinical supervision. These two models exist in both regions regardless of patient acuity, frequency of monitoring, or reimbursement models. (In the health-care context, patient acuity refers to the type and severity of illness, with acutely ill patients requiring emergency care.) It is important that use cases and the supporting informatics standards comprehend these types of variation in order to deliver an effective RPM solution.
Figure 1 represents three primary actors of concern -- the Patient, the Remote Monitoring Management System (RMMS) that operates the RPM solution, and an external Electronic Health Record (EHR) system, which might represent anything from a clinical electronic medical record system to a purpose-built system developed specifically for chronic disease management (CDM) or home health monitoring. The primary monitoring of a Patient's wellbeing by a Clinician can occur either within the RMMS itself or by extension, from within the EHR system. The sequence diagram is triggered by the event of patient data collection, including vital signs and assessments defined by a Treatment Plan, which specifies not only what data to collect but also the frequency and schedule.
Typical patients are asked to collect vital signs anywhere from one to four times per day (an average of eight vital sign readings per day), ranging anywhere from three to seven days per week. Patients work with a variety of peripheral device types including blood pressure cuff, glucose meters, weight scales, and pulse oximeters. Vital sign measurements are combined with assessment questions that are geared to assess patient adherence to the treatment plan, functional status, and coping mechanisms with regard to their specific set of co-morbidities, such as congestive heart failure, diabetes, and chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD).
Once the RMMS aggregates the vital sign and assessment data, it compares the values against a pre-established reference range or threshold to identify those readings that are out of normal range. Optionally, alerts and notifications may be generated to the EHR system and members of the clinical team, notifying them of the abnormal readings. Next, both normal and out-of-range information is transmitted to the EHR system, either in raw or summary format. The clinician reviews the information, makes clinical notes, and as needed, generates referrals and modifies the Treatment Plan. The updated Treatment Plan is transmitted to the RMMS and subsequently communicated to the Patient and the patient-local devices.
The significance of the use case and sequence diagram just described are as follows:
- There is a high degree of variability in where patient data are maintained. The clinician and clinical support team review and annotate patient information in multiple systems of record. The RMMS is generally deployed in addition to multiple legacy systems used to manage patient healthcare, and typically, little to no integration exists.
- Some healthcare use cases and informatics standards assume that a clinician event is responsible for triggering the transfer of information from one clinical team to the next; however, this use case underscores several examples where data transmission is triggered instead by system events, and it is important for informatics standards to comprehend both scenarios.
- The type, frequency, and schedule of the information collected is also highly variable, which must be comprehended by informatics and system deployment designs alike. The more standardized the information, the more it will drive machine computability, advanced analytics, and improved healthcare at lower costs. However, informatics standards must always balance the goal of perfect information requiring every data element, with a pragmatic approach to incremental adoption, relying instead on implementations to deliver best effort results in populating standard data elements with carefully designed constraints.
- A consistent, appropriately encoded specification of the treatment plan is just as important as the data collection itself. Initial focus is rightfully on capturing and transmitting RPM data, yet to truly measure patient adherence and prognosis over time, we also need a consistent method to specify the treatment plan in a semantically meaningful way.
Figure 2 reveals several additional deployment considerations with respect to RPM. Step 1 represents the transmission of patient session data to the RMMS. The RMMS aggregates trend information, compares vital signs against reference ranges, and generates alerts and notifications. It has its own data repository, consisting of historical patient treatment plans, reference ranges, clinical notes, patient monitoring data, and customer-specific configuration information. The RMMS is necessarily designed to be an online transaction processing (OLTP) system, since its primary goal is to drive RPM in a high-performance, transaction-oriented manner.
Optionally, Step 2 and 3 depict a Care Manager who reviews the Patient's status from within the RMMS. The Care Manager may modify the Treatment Plan directly, or annotate the record and refer to a Clinician for review and follow-up. The Care Manager may also play a key role in assessing the viability of the data collected prior to escalation. For example, in the case of a very low weight reading generating an alert, the Care Manager might confirm that the Patient's grandson had in fact triggered the scale.
Step 4 represents some form of data synchronization between the RMMS and the Integration Services environment. The primary goal of the Integration Services environment is rapid query, retrieval, translation, transformation, and guaranteed delivery (push/pull) of health-care information between a number of participating entities (Step 5). Integration Services, therefore, are commonly a mix of online analytic processing (OLAP) combined with logical mechanisms of extract, transform, and load (ETL). Trend analysis and summarization may also be performed at this stage. The Integration Services environment is best developed according to SOA principles, largely due to the complexity and number of end points, the variability of legacy and standard interfaces, and the number of different workflows and external services required. We discuss the rationale and benefits of applying SOA to RPM in more detail later. The mechanism of data synchronization depends upon patient acuity, data latency, and a number of other considerations, also discussed later in this article.
As a part of the transformation that occurs in Step 5, multiple calls may be made to services across the Internet (Steps 6 and 7) in order to complete the health-care dataset, including identity match; terminology encoding; record locate; patient consent; or data enrichment, incorporating the latest lab results, prescription history, or drug-to-drug interaction checks.
Finally, the RPM information is transmitted to the EHR (Step 8), where it is reviewed and annotated by the Clinician (Step 9). Note that many providers will require manual review of the data for clinical accuracy prior to committing it to the EHR. This review requirement poses significant workload and process implications to the future viability of RPM, discussed in more depth later.
The Clinician enters modifications to the Treatment Plan and generates requests for consultation (Step 10). Changes to the Treatment Plan are returned to the RMMS (Step 11) and transmitted to the patient-local devices (Step 12). The inbound data flows undergo similar decomposition and transformation as outbound flows (Steps 5-7), remapping identity and terminology to local code sets.
System designers should anticipate the need to support a large number of end points with a high complexity and variability of transforms (e.g., HL7 v2.x, HL7 v3, proprietary XML, proprietary delimited files) and translations (e.g., SNOMED CT, LOINC, RxNORM, ICD9/10) required across an array of different transport protocols (e.g., SOAP over HTTPS, SFTP, MLLP, and proprietary sockets). A powerful approach is the implementation of the HL7 v3 CDA [4] in the Integration Services environment (Step 5) as a normalized view of RPM information, leveraging the full richness of the HL7 v3 Reference Information Model (RIM). The CDA becomes in effect a Rosetta Stone, making the subsequent translation to legacy, proprietary, and standards-based systems predictable, reliable, and semantically correct. The incremental adoption model inherent in CDA ensures the relative ease with which we can populate optional segments with new information, such as Plan of Care, while the SDOs work through the optimal encoding scheme. It also ensures straightforward compliance with new CDA document types, such as the Continua Health Alliance Personal Health Monitoring (PHM) Report [3], as a minor transform from the baseline CDA.


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About 58 percent of Facebook's more than 900 million users are women, according to a Pew Internet and American Life Project study.
Then why are there no women on its board?
That is the question one advocacy group is asking and it is urging that the Menlo Park-based social network change its way.
The group Face It says it has collected more than 52,000 signatures on a petition demanding the company diversify its seven member board, which consists of all white males.
The group plans to gather at Facebook's New York office on Wednesday at noon to hand the petition to the company.
"We have no doubt that you are well aware that women make up the majority of your users, produce the majority of your content and drive your profits," Face It Campaign founders Alice Baumgartner and Alice Buttrick wrote in a letter to the company's board. "In the spirit of your own company, we are asking you to add women of all colors to your board before you go public."
Facebook is expected to raise up to $5 billion in an initial public offering as early as next month. It would be the largest opening for a publicly traded Internet company ever.
The social-networking site's business practices have been put under a magnifying glass ahead of its IPO.
Mark Zuckerberg's company's board is in contrast with other major tech players when it comes to diversity on its board.
For example both Apple and Google have women on their boards.
In fact, a recent Catalyst study found that just 11.3 percent of Fortune 500 companies had all male boards.
Facebook's chief operating officer and perhaps its most public face in recent months, Sheryl Sandberg, does not sit on the board but she has publicly stated that she supports gender equality on Silicon Valley boards.
Facebook so far has not responded to requests for comment.
Group Protests Facebook's All Male Board
About 58 percent of Facebook's more than 900 million users are women, according to a Pew Internet and American Life Project study.


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On Diwali, the Kanchi Shankaracharya, Jayendra Saraswathi, was arrested on charges of murder. On the next day, the title of an article in a national daily read 'Seer heads 5,000 crore empire. Another article in a leading national newspaper read, 'Of high priests and their lust for more power.' He has been variously described as high profile, influential and the seventh most powerful man in India.
The Shankaracharya is in custody, the police are on a wild evidence hunt, and the media is marauding a large cut of the spoils. The seer's high profile status has somehow been conveniently used to imply that he is a goon-wielding, power kooky tycoon. The assets of the Kanchi Math are being referred to as if they were the acharya's personal possessions, and every one of his past actions is being interpreted according to the revised image that the press has decided to give him.
As a 19-year-old boy, he stood in hip-deep waters and embraced asceticism, pledging detachment from every material pursuit. Ever since, he has eaten minimally for subsistence, not slept on a comfortable bed and not indulged in any sensual pleasure. He has no next of kin; he severed ties even with his parents. Austerity in the absolute sense. For more than 50 years, he has lived such a life in complete public view. He is a scholar of wide attainments and great versatility who has mastered the Rig Veda, the Dharma shastras, the Upanishads under all the Veda Shakas, Vyakarana, Vedanta, Nyaya and Tarka shastras through the course of his life.
All the articles that holler about the 'high profile' pontiff do not devote any newsprint to how he has utilised his position of authority. Jayendra Saraswathi, after taking over as the Shankaracharya, is singularly responsible for opening 55 schools and a string of hospitals, professional colleges, child care centres and universities throughout the country. The services in these institutions are offered free of charge or at subsidised rates, and benefit large sections of society. In addition, charitable trusts for aiding poor families, old-age homes, rural development trusts, food donation projects, and research projects have also been flagged off by the acharya. Although the seer is perceived as a Hindu Brahmin icon, the condemnation of his arrest by the Muslim and Christian clergy is a comforting testimony to the tolerant, secular face of Hinduism that he has presented in crises.
The Shankaracharya wears saffron according to the canon prescribed for a sanyasi, thereby giving the media and the literati, an easy stereotype. So, the Shankaracharya gets pigeonholed with the paan-chewing, debauched politician who views the ochre as lucre. Hinduism's lack of rigidity does not prevent all and sundry from donning saffron. What is unfortunate is that we are not able to distinguish between a genuine ascetic and a masquerader.
For the most poignant players in this drama, the followers of the acharya, these are nightmarish times. Within a matter of hours, a man, who for many years, had graced their puja with the Gods, had been disgraced. The episode itself, with the unceremonious arrest of the venerable religious leader on an auspicious day, after a yagna, by commandos, was a rude jolt.
To exacerbate the wounds, the acharya, a 70-year-old diabetic, was held in custody for the outrageous reason that he would abscond to Nepal. He was not allowed to cook his own food, despite his religious caveats that prohibit food from outside, since it was alleged that he would attempt suicide. He was denied transfer to a hospital or house, unlike most high profile captives. His bail application was adjourned and he was remanded to judicial custody.
To the followers who have seen the Shankaracharya in all his glory, the image of an old man with failing health, drinking ragi porridge given to prisoners, and performing pujas in a cell, is heart-rending. Yet, unlike any other community in the world that can speak up when it is hurt, they find themselves mute. Before they could feel the impact of the shock, the VHP and the rest of the Hindutva brigade were already well on their way to politicising the issue and promoting party agendas. Worse yet, due to their public perception as extremist troublemakers, the support of these parties in this issue is a liability for the followers of the acharya.
For them, this intensely personal moment of distress does not have a sounding board. The denigration of one of the last bastions of their faith has left them disoriented, victimised and hurt. Their grievances will never get print footage, as they will be viewed with saffron coloured glasses and quickly branded as 'right wing' or 'fundamentalist.' Since their cause is not as fashionable as those of large dam project victims, people of alternate sexuality or people in another country's war, they are media-untouchables.
The overriding concerns in this issue are its actual intent and impact. The arrest of a religious leader is unprecedented. If the seer is proven guilty, the law will take its course of action as it rightfully should, for every citizen. However, speculation is rife on the political machinations and the frame-and-blame-game in the case. If the seer is proven not guilty, then where do we go from here? If this case is a political conspiracy, what is to become of the millions of devotees of the man? Do the politicians enmeshed in the throes of the immediate, understand the cultural and moral impact of this issue, and the possible damage that they have done?
In the smutty power and revenge match between individuals, along with the arrested seer, a 2,500-year-old institution has also been sullied, an institution that has stood the test of time, of cultural invasions and of religious warfare. The Shankaracharya is not a person, but a sacrosanct position of eminence in people's minds. After this episode, irrespective of its outcome, will the devotee still feel the sanctity of this position and this institution? Will he not feel demoralised and despondent about his faith, against the overwhelming backdrop of scepticism? Will millions of our citizens, with a beaten spirit, be able to place credence and hope in a leader again?
Shobha Vasudevan is a PhD student at the University of Texas at Austin


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How to casually do the required Software Engineering and designing?
I am an inexperienced developer and face the following problem:
- My company is a start up and has no fix Software engineering systems.
- I am assigned tasks with not very clear and conflicting requirements.
- I don't have to follow any designs or verify requirements officially.
- I code all day and finally get stuck where requirement conflicts and I have to start over again.
- I can-not spend a lot of time doing proper SRS or SDD.
How should I:
- List out Requirements for myself. (Not an official document)
- How to verify and validate the requirements?
- How to visualize them?
- How to design them with minimum effort? (As its going to be with me only)
I don't want to waste my time coding something that's gonna collapse according to requirement conflict or something!
I don't want to compromise with quality but don't want to re-write everything on some change that I didn't expected.
I imagine making a diagram for my thought process that will show me conflict in the diagram itself, then finally correcting the diagram - I decide my design and structure my code in terms of interfaces or something.
And then finally start implementing my design.
I am able to sense the lack of systematic approach, but don't know how to proceed!
How can I have diagram that I talked about for requirement verification?


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Enchanted Mesa
Enchanted Mesa rises above the Acoma Pueblo Indian Reservation in New Mexico.
Yuccas at Sunset
Yuccas glow in the sunset at White Sands National Monument in New Mexico.
Sunlight and Sand in Antelope Canyon
Sunlight and sand play inside Antelope Canyon on the Navajo Reservation in northern Arizona near the Utah border.
Sands of Time
The sands of time in Antelope Canyon on the Navajo Reservation in Arizona.
Antelope Canyon Spirit
Antelope Canyon on the Navajo Reservation is a mystical place. Is this just sand playing in the sunlight or my spirit guide?
Sunset from Sandia Crest
The sun sets as seen from atop Sandia Crest (10,678 feet) to the east of Albuquerque, NM.
Laguna Sunset
Amazing New Mexico sunset in Laguna, NM.
San Luis, NM
The colors in the sky seemed to dance above the abandoned grave yard in the almost ghost town of San Luis, NM.
Grand Canyon
Words can't describe the grandeur of the Grand Canyon in Arizona.
Staring across the Grand Canyon in Arizona.
Cerro Pedernal Sunset
The sun sets behind Cerro Pedernal in Northern New Mexico. Pedernal (the flat top mountain) was a favorite of the artist Georgia O'Keefe and is where her ashes were spread.
Bisti Hoodoos
More Hoodoos in the Bisti Badlands (also known as the De-Na-Zin Wilderness) in New Mexico. The clouds weren't cooperating as they were hiding the stars.
A hoodoo stands guard in the Ojito Wilderness area in New Mexico. Formed by wind and water erosion.
The Sandia Mountains reflect in the water at Shady Lakes outside of Albuquerque, New Mexico. Not bad for an iPhone pic.
Sandia Mountains
A touch of snow caps the Sandia Mountains as the Rio Grande River flows by.
Fall along the Rio Grande
Fall colors in late October along the Rio Grande River in Northern New Mexico.
Moon Rise
The moon rises over the Sandia Mountains and casts a reflection across the Rio Grande.
Sunbeam in Antelope Canyon
The sunlight inside Antelope Canyon is mesmerizing. This shaft of light only appeared for about a minute when the sun was in the perfect spot. It almost looks like water.
Can you see the Eagle? Another amazing formation inside Antelope Canyon.
Antelope Canyon Path
The path through Antelope Canyon.
Beam of Light
A beam of light comes streaming through Antelope Canyon. The beam is so strong it almost looks like water.
An Acequia (Spanish for irrigation ditch) in Albuquerque, NM.
The Alien Throne
The Alien Throne in the Bisti Badlands of New Mexico. The landscape here looks like something out of a sci-fi movie. The clouds were covering up the stars this evening but I still like how this pic turned out.
Fall in the Bosque
Another shot of the Bosque along the Rio Grande River in Albuquerque, NM. Fall colors are simply beautiful.
Christmas Day Sunset in Encino, NM
Driving on Christmas Day and the sun began to set with this gorgeous color. I rushed to get to the windmill down the road and got there just in time to snap this shot.
Yucca and Full Moon Rising
The full moon rise over the Yucca at White Sands National Monument in southern New Mexico.
Yucca and Full Moon 2
The Full Moon has now risen over the mountains on the horizon and darkness has settled over White Sands National Monument in NM.
Saguaro Sunset
Sunset at the Saguaro National Park near Tucson, AZ.
Sunset at White Sands National Monument
White Sands National Monument is a sea of white in the normally brown desert. This is also where the first atomic bomb was detonated.
Monument Valley
The beauty of Monument Valley. Mother Nature carved these beautiful formations over millions of years.
The Mittens
The Mittens in Monument Valley.
The Path
Where does your path lead you?
Arizona Sunset
Sunset outside Phoenix. I love saguaros and seeing them silhouetted against the sunset is something I never get tired of.
Sunset Over White Sands
Yuccas stand out in contrast to the White Sands of White Sands National Monument at sunset.
Sunset Highway
Sunset over a lonely highway in Arizona. Taken Feb '20.
Arizona Saguaro at Sunset
The mighty saguaro stands tall as the sun sets outside Phoenix, Arizona in Feb '20.
King of Wings at Sunset
The King of Wings is a rock formation found in the Valley of Dreams (Navajo name - Ah-Shi-Sle-Pah). It seems to defy gravity in this landscape that appears to be on a distant planet. At sunset, the view is spectacular.


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Ken Rosenthal might just be throwing some shit against the wall, but it looks like Terry Francona is headed back to the dugout.
Francona emerged as a candidate for Manny Acta's old job (along with Albert Belle, sort of, and Sandy Alomar Jr.) after he'd visited with the Indians last week. HardballTalk writes,
Some may call the Indians an odd destination for Francona on the surface, as they don't have the talent or the payroll that he was blessed with in Boston, but maybe we shouldn't be so surprised. Francona worked as an advisor with the Indians in 2001 and has maintained a relationship with general manager Chris Antonetti and team president Mark Shapiro. Of course, Francona's father, Tito Francona, played six seasons for the Indians from 1959-64.
Of course. Albert Belle will continue sitting on his couch, waiting for his phone to ring, and the boyfriends of America can breath a big sigh of relief.


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Spiritual Health
"Bidden or not bidden, God is present."
- Carl Jung MD
TMC's Spiritual Wellness offers the services of a chaplain for patients and visitors. Chaplains are available:
- To listen and offer spiritual and emotional support
- To accompany those in crisis or grief
- To share prayer and sacraments and to lead worship
- To reflect and consult on ethical concerns and decisions
Chaplains are members of the professional care team at Truman Medical Center. As with all healthcare professionals, they are professionally trained and certified to be a positive, healing resource. A Chaplain is always present at our Health Sciences District Campus, 24 hours a day -responding to the spiritual care needs of patients, families and staff in our busy and vital medical setting.
TMC chaplains believe healing can occur even when a cure is not possible. They support patients and families in prayer, pastoral counseling, and as a link to the patient's own faith community. Our interfaith chaplains can meet with patients and their families in a hospital room, in the TMC chapel, or wherever there is a need. TMC chaplains are available to people of all faiths and religions. The chaplain team seeks to provide sensitivity and care to all diverse expressions of spirituality.
TMC chaplains will walk with you on the journey of healing and stand with you as you make decisions concerning treatment and care, healing, and physical renewal. They will help you through the process of grief and loss, in addition to celebrating the important events of life. If you have chronic illness issues, end of life issues, need a support group, or wish to discuss advance healthcare directives, TMC chaplains are here.
Medical Center Chapel
The Borden Interfaith Chapel is located off the main lobby of the medical center. It is a welcoming sacred space for all people. Our chapel is open each day from 8:00am to 9:00pm. Regular worship services include Islamic Salat-Ul-Juma every Friday at 1:15pm and Christian Worship on Sundays at noon.
How to reach a chaplain
Chaplains make regular rounds at TMC. You can contact us through your nurse or by calling the medical center operator. Our office is contacted at 816-404-3400.
Caring for body, mind and spirit.


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Maison Redpath (1886-2014)
steve_36 posted a topic in Demolished buildingsThe redpath mansion is crumbling, but residents and protectors of the city's heritage buildings balk at allowing a developer to raze the house and build anew LINDA GYULAI, The Gazette August 19, 2010 The remains of the Redpath Mansion on downtown du Musee Ave. have stood for 24 years as a vestige of what preservationists hoped was a bygone era of battles to save heritage in Montreal's Square Mile. However, a developer's renewed request to demolish what is left of the deteriorating structure at 3455-3457 du Musee to replace it with a 14-unit condo project is again sparking debate. The Ville Marie borough will hold a public hearing Tuesday on the project by Amos and Michael Sochaczevski, who are father and son, as well as on five other rezoning projects around the borough. The Queen Anne-style mansion was built in 1886 by architect Sir Andrew Taylor for the Redpath family, which founded the sugar-refining company of the same name, on a slope of Mount Royal overlooking Sherbrooke St. W. Demolition was started in 1986 when members of the Sochaczevski family bought it, but Heritage Montreal sought a court injunction to halt it. That left the facade and about 10 metres of the side walls standing. A city appeal board blocked a second request by the Sochaczevskis to demolish the remaining structure in February 2002. Now, the latest project calls for demolition and construction of a seven-storey building with 28 underground parking spaces. The top three floors would be of glass and recessed on all sides so it's not noticeable from the street, the owners say. The project, which passed first reading at a borough council meeting in July, would stand 25 metres high, while the zoning allows for 16 metres. However, Heritage Montreal says the plan violates an agreement it signed with the city and the Sochaczevskis in 1986 after the initial demolition was halted. The agreement called for any future project to preserve and integrate the remains of the original building. It also called for the project to respect the scale and design of the original building. "The Redpath project involves 24 years of trying to have discussions and it's being treated in a very shallow fashion," Heritage Montreal policy director Dinu Bumbaru said. However, the Sochaczevskis say the project is greatly reduced from an initial plan to build 11 storeys, and will breathe life into a derelict site. "Finally, after 20 years, we have a project that will put a development worthy of the Golden Square Mile on the site," Michael Sochaczevski said. "There is no building, there is only a ruined front." The plan is to use the foundation of the original building and reuse some elements, such as the stone, in the new project, he said. " We took a lot of things into account and we tried to please everybody and still have a reasonable project that makes common sense," Amos Sochaczevski said. Moreover, the site is surrounded by 11-, 17-and 20-storey towers on neighbouring streets, the Sochaczevskis say. However, Bumbaru countered that most of the towers date back to the 1970s when Montreal was a "frontier town" that lacked zoning rules. "Nobody here says: 'Don't develop,' " said Jean-Francois Sauve, who lives behind the mansion on de la Montagne St. "Just respect the agreements that were made and the (zoning) rules that are in place. Sauve says he's also concerned the project will block sunlight on his property and allow residents to peer into his garden and home. "It's quite surprising that we're right downtown and the city can't enforce simple zoning," he said. "It's actually quite alarming." Read more: http://www.montrealgazette.com/Mansion+again+target+demolition/3415685/story.html#ixzz0x4A1M8SA