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Game #8: Royals at Blue Jays postgame
On Monday night, I could barely hear myself think inside the pressbox — thanks to the 50,000-plus in attendance. Tuesday, some 22,000 fans came to the Rogers Centre, but the noise level was still pretty high. Wednesday? Well, everyone in the stadium had to put up with the constant heckling of one Toronto fan, who had no problem making himself heard among the 15,218 who purchased a ticket.
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"Hey LaRue! You're hitting .143! No joke needed!"
Royals catcher Jason LaRue smacked a double to right-center field right after that comment, prompting the fan to respond with: "I just got punked!"
There's always a dropoff in attendance following home openers, and I know it was the Royals in town for the opening series, but the crowd on hand was pretty pathetic Tuesday night. Don't just take it from me, either. Hear what Jays reliever Jason Frasor had to say about it:
"Hopefully we get more fans," Frasor said. "It's a lot more fun and we play a whole lot better when there's at least 25,000. Yesterday and today, it felt like it was dead — like a boring intrasquad game or something."
Ouch. Pick it up Jays fans.
EARLY EXIT: Toronto manager John Gibbons didn't wait long to turn to his bullpen Tuesday. As soon as Reggie Sanders sent Gustavo Chacin's 79th pitch into right-center for a double to lead off the sixth, Gibbons pulled the left-hander from the game. "They don't call me Captain Hook for nothing," Gibbons joked afterward.
In reality, though, Chacin had given up a few hard hits, including a homer to David DeJesus, and Toronto's 'pen was plenty rested. Frasor looked sharp — fanning the side in the eighth — and B.J. Ryan picked up his third save. At the time Chacin was pulled, it seemed questionable. In hindsight? You can't really complain with the results. And that's all that really matters. Still, the Jays would love to be able to consistently get six out of Chacin.
WALKING WOUNDED: It's not every day that John McDonald (seven career home runs) will come in to pinch hit for Troy Glaus (259 homers), but it happened in the eighth with the bases loaded. Gibbons said afterward that Glaus' "legs are beat up" but he'll be in the lineup on Thursday. Glaus has been playing with a bone spur in his left heal.
PLAY OF THE DAY: With runners on first and second with two outs and the Jays up, 5-4, in the seventh, Frasor induced a grounder from Sanders. The ball was hit sharply back toward the mound and, somehow, Frasor was able to reach back and grab it out of the air. If he doesn't make that play, KC notches the tying run and has another runner in scoring position. "I don't know how I did that," Frasor said.
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I can't help with the noise level at the Dome, but the Jays' trips to the left coast work out really well for me: Weeknights in the SF Bay area and weekends everywhere else. I could make it to 13 road games this year.
The Jays attendance always falls sharply with the start of the NHL playoffs. It is just the reality of being located in a hockey-crazed country. Having the Royals in town doesn't help things much either. However, people need to start showing up to support their team. I can't make weeknight games as I'm located in Ottawa but am making the drive down to Toronto this weekend to catch the games on Saturday and Sunday.
Worst decision I have ever seen in my life sending Glaus home on Rios' hard hit double with bases loaded and no outs.I couldn't believe my eyes when I saw Butterfield wave him home. This is exactly the kind of thing that should make people immediately realize that this team has incapable people in very important positions.There is no reasoning or excuse whatsoever to have made that decision. Hopefully Gibbons and his crew won't be around much longer as this team cannot win with them in place.
While it was in retrospect a brutal call to send Glaus, there is about 90% more to Butterfield's job than that duty. Certainly not worthy of firing someone.
I disagree that non-Leaf hockey affects attendance much at all. Same attendance decreases occured in the 2005 lockout season. And with a four game series coming up with the defending AL Champs, and Dice-K and the Red Sox next week, if I'm going to one or two games in the next week, it certainly wouldn't have been yesterday or the day before (even though I try to get to all games). Most people are probable to check out Doc/Bonderman/Otto Velez night on Friday, Saturday with AJ, or next week with the Red Sox before Towers or Chacin on a weekday.
I guarantee that a solid crowd shows up Saturday/Sunday and continues throughout the Sox series (regardless of how many Sox fans make the trip).


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LG Will Take The 'Smart' Out Of Your Smart TV If You Don't Agree To Share Your Viewing And Search Data With Third Parties
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Techdirt reader Oldlad stuck this through the Submissions slot recently:
Because I will not agree to LG's Privacy Policy, I can now no longer access/use any of of the TV's network based programs: Iplayer, Skype, 3D etc.Oldlad poses good questions. Does a manufacturer have the right to "brick" certain integral services just because the end user doesn't feel comfortable sharing a bunch of info with LG and other, unnamed third parties?
As of the 7th May following a software update to our less than two year old LG TV. I was confronted with a message asking me to read and agree with a couple of important new documents. So like a good little citizen I read and agreed with the first doc regarding use of said TV. but having read the Privacy Doc I was not best pleased with the companies assumption that I would simply agree to their sharing all our intimate viewing details (plus what ever else they can see)with all and sundry.
Since I agreed not to hack into installed software (as if I Could)We cannot get around the block.
I think the company must be in breach of contract since the smart functions are no longer available. Surely in the uk at least you should not be able to change the goal posts at will. Any one sorted this problem yet??
Before some smart alec says "Take It back". We bought the set because it satisfied our criteria at the time. We did not expect some legal bully to come along nearly two years later and tell us to share all our information with the world OR ELSE??
LG certainly feels it has the right to do this. In fact, it makes no secret of this in its long Privacy Policy -- a document that spends more time discussing the lack thereof, rather than privacy itself. The opening paragraph makes this perfectly clear.
Our Privacy Policy explains and seeks your agreement for how we collect, use, and share information that we obtain as a result of your use of LG Smart TV Services, as well as how we use cookies. You do not have to agree to the Privacy Policy but if you do not, not all Smart TV Services will be available to you. [emphasis added] In that case, we will still receive certain non-identifying information from your Smart TV that we need to provide the basic functions that will be available.So, even if you don't agree to share information, you'll still be sharing information. To top it off, you won't be able to use many of the functions that put the "smart" into LG's Smart TV.
Here's a list of just some of the information LG grabs in order to ensure your Smart TV can be its smartest.
Viewing Information. This refers to information about your interactions with program content, including live TV content, movies, and video on demand. Viewing Information may include the name of the channel or program watched, requests to view content, the terms you use to search for content, details of actions taken while viewing (e.g., play, stop, pause, etc.), the duration that content was watched, input method (RF, Component, HDMI) and search queries.Additional information will be collected if you use the "smart" features, most of which require the creation of an LG SmartWorld account.
For example, some of our services require that you become a member of LG SmartWorld, which may be subject to separate terms. You may join LG SmartWorld either through your LG Smart TV or by other means, such as through certain LG websites. This Membership Information may include your user ID, password, telephone number, name, date of birth, gender, email address, address, social networking service ID, security question answers, purchase history, and related payment information, such as credit card information or details of your PayPal account and more.There's nothing particularly unusual about the LG SmartWorld data being collected, considering its tied to paid services and apps. The greater concern would be the wealth of viewing information (including "internet searches") that's collected as part of a person's non-"smart" usage.
This concern grows when you see the list of potential recipients of this information.
•When you use LivePlus, we may share certain Viewing Information, Device Information, and Basic Usage Information with third parties for advertising or analytics purposes and to enable the provision of information relevant to what you are viewing;LG seems very concerned that Smart TV owners won't allow it to provide them with "relevant ads." This focus on advertising might give one the impression that a Smart TV is subsidized by ad sales, rather than paid for completely by the end user.
•To third party vendors that LGE may engage to provide services on its behalf from time to time, such as to collect payment for content you purchase or to fulfill customer service requests or to provide advertising services
When LG was caught sending plaintext data on files stored on customers' USB devices, it amended its policies and data collection tactics to exclude this data. This happened not on the strength of a customer complaint (in fact, LG told the customer to take it up with the store that sold him the TV) but because the UK government announced its intention to dig into LG's practices and see if they conformed with the Data Protection Act.
While it may have removed that particularly egregious bit of data slurping, it still intends to gather as much data as possible in order to deliver advertising, something almost every purchaser would be willing to see less of. Oldlad asks whether the company can, under UK law, simply "move the goalposts" at will, thereby providing customers with a product with fewer features than the one they purchased.
UK law does offer some additional protections in this regard. The Unfair Terms in Consumer Contracts Regulation of 1999 notes the following in its long list of specified "unfair terms."
enabling the seller or supplier to alter unilaterally without a valid reason any characteristics of the product or service to be providedLG presenting customers with the false choice of a) giving up control of their data or b) losing access to a great deal of the Smart TV features could be construed as "altering the characteristics of the product." A lot would depend on the investigating agency's definition of "valid reason." LG's Privacy Policy claims that most of what it collects is essential to provide these "smart" services. Indeed, many of them are. But there's also plenty in that wording that indicates LG is collecting additional information solely for the purpose of providing ads. Whether or not that's a legally "valid reason" is still up for discussion.
In its defense, LG may point to the fact that this Privacy Notice is published online and could be accessed by anyone looking to purchase a Smart TV. While factually correct, the reality of the situation is that the same number of people who would proactively search out privacy policies and T&Cs before purchasing a product are roughly the same number that would balk at clicking the "Accept" button on a dialog box post-firmware update -- statistically insignificant. That number would leap appreciably if LG's intentions were laid bare in the Privacy Policy dialog box, stating something to the effect that agreeing to the policy meant allowing LG to collect and disseminate search terms, search queries and content viewed to third parties.
Being upfront doesn't result in nearly as much profitable data, however. And those who opt out, like Oldlad, are left with plain, vanilla TV rather than the smarter version they shelled out extra for.
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WoW Loses 600K Subscribers in the 2013 Second Quarter
In the latest earnings release, World of Warcraft is down to 7.7 Mio subscribers. This means a total loss of 600,000 subscribers from 8.3 Mio last quarter. WoW has definitely seen better days, as at one point they had over 12 million subscribers, and since then that number is rapidly dwindling.
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As you get older things come back to you out of the blue. They do. Unannounced, unexpected and unwanted most of the time and usually in the quiet, more contemplative moments when you just want to switch off and not think of anything. When you're young, you're busy building up libraries of experiences and memories and filling your head and heart up with trivia and absorbed knowledge. When you're older, your memory banks are stuffed to the gills and although you may not be able to remember what you did yesterday, your childhood and later years will burst out of dusty memory files, in spontaneous clips of recollection and without apparent rhyme or reason.
So it is with me and especially concerning HIV. Not only HIV actually but almost every mistake I ever made as a child, teenager or young adult, reappears to jab insistently at my conscience again. Some of them are still too embarrassing. I just have to shrug them off with a shudder and a, 'can't cope with that now' sort of thing. However others are things I never imagined would resurface and although uncomfortable, probably need to be faced.
The HIV memories though, are a special category to themselves and they've been interrupting my present life with unnerving regularity lately. It's probably to do with accepting your mortality and all that sort of amateur psychoanalysis and I admit, that is a tricky concept for me but I also believe that there's nothing wrong with revisiting horrors and traumas. I'm not looking for any sort of closure; people with HIV don't get closure until their last breath, but I find it therapeutic looking back and knowing that I can deal with it now when I couldn't at the time.
Here in the Netherlands, the death surge due to the virus came a short while after that in the US. We looked across the Atlantic in slight disbelief, at the stories that were emerging out of New York, San Francisco and other big cities. It just didn't seem a global threat at the time because it wasn't happening here on the same scale. Of course people were beginning to die; especially people working in the airlines and other international companies at the same time but unless it touched us personally, we carried on pretty much as normal. Then my partner and I slowly but surely learned of friends and acquaintances being infected and the hospital, house visits and funerals began.
The first memory that came back to me recently was of a friend who was what you would call a 'snappy dresser' and someone who took pride in his appearance and enjoyed life to the full. When his face and body became covered with KS lesions and his mouth was constantly surrounded by saliva, I remember still thinking that it had little directly to do with me and still felt somehow detached. Don't get me wrong, I wasn't cold-hearted or unemotional; at that time, I just felt that this sort of thing could never invade my own life. What I do remember, is how sad it made me feel that someone so vital and so fastidious about his appearance could be so quickly reduced to those purple blotches and little else. When he died, my partner and I were given some unimportant, small things but above all, his clothes. I still break out in a cold sweat remembering how odd that felt and how 'wrong' somehow. I also can't remember his funeral and that troubles me. Maybe that will come back one day too.
What these memories do allow me to do, is come to terms with my dispassion at the time. I was naïve and I realize that now and maybe it's a human reaction to separate yourself from reality in order to protect yourself. Soldiers at war must do it all the time.
Another awkward recollection that surfaced recently was that of a colleague and friend who calmly told me one day in the Staff room at school that he was positive. I was shocked but not surprised. Of course I knew he was gay and knew a little of his personal life and although his behavior was no more risky than the rest of us, we were all slowly becoming more aware of the dangers and the consequences. He carried on teaching for quite a while and to his eternal credit, told the head of the school and school governors straight away. This memory is a positive one in that I was, and still am, full of admiration of the way they handled it. These were early days and yet the school supported him through thick and thin and although he was teaching young children who had daily accidents with bleeding and bruising, they trusted him to always do the right thing and he did. I somehow doubt that school authorities would be so understanding these days and that's really sad.
I was one of the last people to speak to him as he lay dying at home and it was his compassion to me as I struggled to hold back the tears that sticks in my memory. He took my hand, said it would be okay and that he was okay with it and then said goodbye; with meaning. An hour later he was gone. Yet in the memory that recently came back, I remember most clearly the white pimples on his face which I know now were probably caused by the medication. Strange what sort of things stick in the memory!
I had to speak at his funeral in front of his friends and family, other teachers and one or two parents and it was unbearable. Needless to say, I didn't do a great job of it and only just struggled through to the end. That still feels so bad because I'm sure he would have been far more composed had it been the other way round.
His partner was the next to go in our circle. We didn't know him that well but had got to know him during the last months of Steve's life. He was a young guy, cynical and street-wise and we visited him in his last weeks too. That particular memory hit me in the middle of the night sometime last week and took me back to his small, third story apartment with white walls and dozens of genuine, religious icons, paintings and statuettes filling the place with a church-like atmosphere. It was almost surreal seeing him so ill in that context but I can still see those religious symbols and still recall how ironic I found it at the time. Then again, he collected them for their aesthetic appeal and not their personal religious significance; nevertheless it seemed bizarre.
I recently saw a documentary about how AIDS struck the Dutch national airline KLM, pretty severely in those years. The airline kept much of it hidden from the public which may seem slightly underhand now but behind the scenes, they cared for the victims and their families and went out of their way to 'share' the problem. The public silence was probably understandable at the time but the in-house after-care was impressive. We had made friends with two KLM employees a year or so before and got on with them really well but they too eventually succumbed to AIDS. Those memories are luckily of good times and laughter with these guys and not so much of the details of their deaths. By that time, nobody was surprised anymore when they heard that someone in their circle 'had it'. You and they got on with it and you did what you could when necessary. The virus had made us all into cynics with walls but also people who learned to deal with it when it happened.
That built-up experience probably saved my sanity when my partner also became ill. No details necessary here but among the memories that flood back more often than ever these days, is that of driving to the hospital every day with his mother, just hoping above hope that the doctors had found something new to try. He had a PCP type lung infection and lay there, a skeletal shell of the man he used to be and there seemed to be only one inevitable outcome. He's since told me that looking in the mirror and seeing himself as he was, shocked him into triggering a subconscious fight back which probably saved his life; plus the fact that the fantastic doctors found an antibiotic combination at the last minute which allowed him to slowly begin to claw his way back to health.
Much of that time is still a blur. More specific memories will probably emerge the older I get. I frequently think of the effect that had on his family and friends. His sister came up from France with her boyfriend, who stood the whole time at the foot of the bed like the angel of death and didn't say a word. There was something both weird and spiritual about that at the time but really, I don't think he knew what else to do. My partner's best friend since his school years also eventually visited after putting off and prevaricating because she couldn't cope with it. She wasn't much use, bursting into tears and staying about ten minutes. I understood that perhaps better than he did but he never forgave her and they never spoke again. Other disappointments with other friends and acquaintances at that time aren't worth remembering but they were there. My partner survived, recovered to his old self and despite two serious illnesses since, is still going strong and although we eventually split up, we still have a close relationship. What doesn't kill you makes you stronger eh!
So that's what's increasingly happening to me in my old age. The past drifting in and out of my consciousness like so many ghosts. I can't shut these recollections out because I can't predict them but then again, I'm glad of them because they allow you to revisit situations in glorious memory technicolor and re-evaluate what they meant. I still can't remember what I did two days ago, or who played what on the TV but memories from long ago seem to pop up via a smell, or a taste, or a tune, or just in the empty quiet times between living.
Perhaps as you get older you have more of those times and your memories get the chance to sneak in because your brain isn't so hyperactive. At first, I took it as a negative sign that I was speedily heading into senility because I remember my grandmother doing the exact same thing but now I'm glad that these things come back because we never take photos at the time; or perhaps that's exactly what our memories are.
Read more of HIV and Neuropathy: How to Avoid Becoming a Nervous Wreck, Dave R.'s blog, at TheBody.com.


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Table of contents
Introduction (Joan V. Gallos).
About the Editor.
Part One: The OD Field: Setting the Context, Understanding the Legacy.
Editor's Interlude.
Historical Roots.
1 What Is Organization Development? (Richard Beckhard).
2 Where Did OD Come From? (W.Warner Burke).
Evolution of the Field
3 Revolutions in OD: The New and the New, New Things (Philip H.Mirvis).
Theory Versus Practice
4 Theories and Practices of Organizational Development (John R. Austin and Jean M. Bartunek).
Part Two: The OD Core: Understanding and Managing Planned Change.
Editor's Interlude.
Understanding Planned Change.
5 Kurt Lewin and the Planned Approach to Change: A Reappraisal (Bernard Burnes).
Intervention Theory.
6 Effective Intervention Activity (Chris Argyris).
Action Technologies
7 Action Research: Rethinking Lewin (Linda Dickens and Karen Watkins).
8 Action Learning and Action Science: Are They Different? (Joseph A. Raelin).
Appreciative Inquiry.
9 Toward a Theory of Positive Organizational Change (David L. Cooperrider and Leslie E. Sekerka).
Models of Change.
10 Leading Change:Why Transformation Efforts Fail (John P. Kotter).
11 The Congruence Model of Change (David A. Nadler).
Part Three: The OD Process: Diagnosis, Intervention, and Levels of Engagement.
Editor's Interlude.
12 Teaching Smart People How to Learn (Chris Argyris).
Small Group.
13 Facilitative Process Interventions: Task Processes in Groups (Edgar H. Schein).
Large Group.
14 Large Group Interventions and Dynamics (Barbara Bunker and Billie Alban).
15 Understanding the Power of Position: A Diagnostic Model (Michael J. Sales).
16 Reframing Complexity: A Four-Dimensional Approach to Organizational Diagnosis, Development, and Change (Joan V. Gallos).
Part Four:OD Consulting: Leading Change from the Outside.
Editor's Interlude.
Consulting Process.
17 Masterful Consulting (Keith Merron).
Consulting Phases and Tasks.
18 Flawless Consulting (Peter Block).
19 The Organization Development Contract (Marvin Weisbord).
20 The Facilitator and Other Facilitative Roles (Roger Schwarz).
21 The Right Coach (Howard Morgan, Phil Harkins,Marshall Goldsmith).
Part Five:OD Leadership: Fostering Change from the Inside.
Editor's Interlude.
Understanding Options and Challenges.
22 Reframing Change: Training, Realigning, Negotiating, Grieving, and Moving On (Lee G. Bolman and Terrence E. Deal).
Leading as the Internal Consultant.
23 What Constitutes an Effective Internal Consultant? (Alan Weiss).
Leading as the Boss.
24 Reversing the Lens: Dealing with Different Styles When You Are the Boss (Gene Boccialetti).
Leading the Boss.
25 Relations with Superiors: The Challenge of "Managing" a Boss (John Kotter).
Building Support.
26 Enlist Others (James Kouzes and Barry Posner).
Part Six: OD Focus: Organizational Intervention Targets.
Editor's Interlude.
27 Business Strategy: Creating the Winning Formula (Edward E. Lawler).
Organizational Design.
28 Matching Strategy and Structure (Jay Galbraith).
Structure of Work.
29 Designing Work: Structure and Process for Learning and Self-Control (Marvin Weisbord).
Workspace Design.
30 Making It Happen: Turning Workplace Vision into Reality (Franklin Becker and Fritz Steele).
31 So How Can You Assess Your Corporate Culture? (Edgar H. Schein).
Workforce Development.
32 What Makes People Effective? (Edward E. Lawler).
Team Development.
33 What Makes a Team Effective or Ineffective? (Glenn M. Parker).
Leadership Development.
34 Developing the Individual Leader (Jay Conger and Beth Benjamin).
Part Seven: OD Purpose and Possibilities: Seeing the Forest for the Trees.
Editor's Interlude.
Fostering Mission and Commitment.
35 Creating a Community of Leaders (Phillip H.Mirvis and Louis "Tex" Gunning).
Integrating Systems.
36 Designing High-Performance Work Systems: Organizing People,Work, Technology, and Information (David A. Nadler and Marc S. Gerstein).
Utilizing Diversity.
37 Diversity as Strategy (David A. Thomas).
Creating Learning Organizations.
38 The Leader's New Work: Building Learning Organizations (Peter M. Senge).
Creating Humane Organizations.
39 Compassion in Organizational Life (Jason M. Kanov, Sally Maitlis,Monica C.Worline, Jane E. Dutton, Peter J. Frost, Jacoba M. Lilius).
Fostering Growth and Development.
40 Generating Simultaneous Personal, Team, and Organization Development (William R. Torbert).
Part Eight: OD and the Future: Embracing Change and New Directions.
Editor's Interlude.
Practitioner Perspective.
41 Emerging Directions: Is There a New OD? (Robert J.Marshak).
Scholarly Perspective.
42 The Future of OD? (David L. Bradford and W.Warner Burke).
The Digital Revolution.
43 From Cells to Communities: Deconstructing and Reconstructing the Organization (Rosabeth Moss Kanter).
44 Actions for Global Learners, Launchers, and Leaders (Ron Ashkenas, Dave Ulrich, Todd Jick, Steve Kerr).
Knowledge Management.
45 Knowledge-Worker Productivity: The Biggest Challenge (Peter F. Drucker).
Sustainability and the Environment.
46 Beyond Greening: Strategies for a Sustainable World (Stuart L. Hart).
Organizational Values.
47 The Healthy Organization (Richard Beckhard).
Name Index.
Subject Index.
New To This Edition
- Foreword by Ed Schein
- All-star contributor list: Includes the top names in the field including Warner Burke, David Cooperrider, Jay Galbraith, Chris Argyris, Peter Senge, Peter Vaill, David Nadler, Ed Schein, Richard Hackman, Ed Lawler, Jay Conger, Peter Block, Jerry Harvey, Lee Bolman, Terry Deal, Jim Kouzes, Barry Posner, Billie Alban, and Barbara Bunker among others.
- Comprehensive Overview of OD Topics: Covers philosophy and foundations of OD; managing change; appreciative inquiry; action coaching; changing culture and strategy; workplace design; developing teams; developing leaders; consulting; coaching; leading the boss, building and organizing internal support, group process, organizational learning, organizational diagnosis; intervention, facilitation; crisis management; globalization; knowledge management; sustainability, and the role of technology/virtual teams.


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