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The Red Sox announced that third baseman Pablo Sandoval will undergo left shoulder surgery in the coming days.
The surgery will be performed by Dr. James Andrews, the noted orthopedist who examined Sandoval in Florida on Monday. Sandoval, 29, had complained of shoulder soreness in early April and was placed on the disabled list on April 13.
The Red Sox announced that third baseman Pablo Sandoval will undergo left shoulder surgery in the coming days.
The surgery will be performed by Dr. James Andrews, the noted orthopedist who examined Sandoval in Florida on Monday. Sandoval, 29, had complained of shoulder soreness in early April and was placed on the disabled list on April 13.
The Red Sox did not provide an update on how long Sandoval will be out or what kind of rehab his surgery will entail, noting in a press release that more information will be made available after surgery.
This has been a lost season for Sandoval from the start. He arrived at spring training out of shape and lost his job to youngster Travis Shaw, who has emerged as one of the team's best hitters. Sandoval opened the season on the bench and ended up going 0-for-6 with four strikeouts in a reserve role.
Last week, he said that he wasn't sure if he'd need surgery to fix an injury that first cropped up in 2011.
"I'm not a doctor," he said. "I'm going to let them make the decisions. I don't know if I'm going to get surgery or not. At least I can move it around. The inflammation went down. I hope they can look at it and see what's going on."
It turns out what Andrews saw was bad.
Sandoval signed a five-year, $95 million deal that runs through 2019, with a team option for 2020. With Shaw playing well, it's safe to say we've seen the last of the Panda for a while.
The question put before Hanley Ramirez was simple.
"Would you rather hit .330, or hit 35 home runs?"
The answer was quick.
"No question, .330."
The Red Sox first baseman then elaborated.
"Would you rather hit .330, or hit 35 home runs?"
The answer was quick.
"No question, .330."
The Red Sox first baseman then elaborated.
"I don't want to think about homers," Ramirez said. "I'm not a home run hitter. I hit homers. That's the difference."
It has been a big difference. Last year at this time, Ramirez had 10 home runs. This season's first month? Just one.
"I forgot for a couple of years. I was trying to launch everything," said of his previous all-or-nothing approach. "But now I just want to hit for average, and the homers will come."
The change has been noticeable, with Ramirez limiting his leg kick while executing a much more compact swing. Gone are the enormous, one-hand follow-throughs, and in their place are opposite field-focused cuts. (It's interesting to note Ramirez's average launch angle — the vertical angle the ball leaves a player's bat — is half the major league average, suggesting more line-drives and ground balls.)
It was a change in philosophy he made in the offseason after listening to "The hitting guy that I have inside me."
"It's better for my shoulders," Ramirez said. "It feels a lot shorter. I want a shorter swing. It's more compact. It's two different hitters, using the bottom hand and top hand. I went from top hand my first couple of years in the big leagues, to the bottom hand after the first three or four years, when I hit 30-plus homers. But now I want to go back to top hand."
It has worked for Ramirez in the past, with the righty hitter managing a .300-or-better batting average in his first four full major league seasons. Included in that run was a 2009 batting title (hitting .342), in which he finished April with just two homers but totaled 24 for the season.
And while that's the hitter he wants to get back to, the on-base consistency that was a constant throughout those early years has eluded him in the first month. Ramirez is hitting .283, but carries just a .689 OPS.
With what has been consistent defense at first base, and the Red Sox living life in first place in the American League East, the public has been patient while Ramirez finds his way offensively. He is, after all, still carrying better OPS' than fellow first basemen Edwin Encarancion, Jose Abreu, Prince Fielder and Albert Pujols.
And, for now, Ramirez is staying with the approach, convinced that the shock and awe of last April was not the way to go.
"Yeah, I was focused to much on hitting home runs. It was awful," he said. "This offseason I was like, 'No. I'm going to hit .378.'
"I just want to be in the lineup every day and go out there and compete. Just stay healthy. That's the key. I feel more consistent with my swing. I feel good."
Here's a look at the action in the Red Sox farm system on Sunday.
TRIPLE-A PAWTUCKET RED SOX (11-13): L, 5-4, at Syracuse (Nationals)
Here's a look at the action in the Red Sox farm system on Sunday.
TRIPLE-A PAWTUCKET RED SOX (11-13): L, 5-4, at Syracuse (Nationals)
— The PawSox fell to Syracuse in 10 innings Sunday as they were swept over the weekend. Trea Turner and Scott Sizemore both singled with one out, setting up the two-out, walk-off single for Jason Martinson. Turner beat leftfielder Rusney Castillo's throw to the plate, delivering the Chiefs' second walk-off win in 48 hours.
— Starter Sean O'Sullivan had a good outing as he went seven innings and allowed two runs on five hits, while walking one and striking out five. His ERA is now 3.00 on the year.
— Castillo had a good day at the plate going 2-for-5 with a double and a run scored. His average is now .246 on the year.
— Blake Swihart caught all 10 innings and at the plate went 1-for-5 with a double.
— Center fielder Ryan LaMarre paced the offense as he went 2-for-5 with a double and an RBI to raise his season average to .362.
DOUBLE-A PORTLAND SEA DOGS (8-16): W, 7-6 vs. Reading
— The Sea Dogs scored two runs in the bottom of the 10th inning after Reading scored in the top half to come away with a wild extra-innings win. Wendell Rijo's two-out double scored the two runs for the game-winning hit.
— Rijo's game-winning hit capped a terrific day at the plate for the second baseman. He went 4-for-5 to raise his average to .219 on the year.
— At the top of the order, Henry Ramos went 1-for-5 with two runs scored in the win. For the year, he's batting .236.
— From the mound, it was a tough outing for Kevin McAvoy. He went just 3 1/3 innings and allowed four runs on five hits. Mitch Atkins gave them four great innings of relief where he allowed just one run and struck out five.
— Simon Mercedes earned the win by getting two strikeouts in the top half of the 10th inning.
HIGH-A SALEM RED SOX (15-8): Cancelled due to. Next game Monday vs. Carolina.
SINGLE-A GREENVILLE DRIVE (10-12): Canceled due to rain. Next game Monday at Lakewood (doubleheader).
As Jackie Bradley Jr. said after witnessing the event from a few feet away, while waiting in the on-deck circle, "One pitch in, one pitch out."
It seemed simple. And maybe that's why Christian Vazquez was able to hit Dellin Betances' 97 mph fastball onto Landsowne Street to propel the Red Sox to an 8-7 win over the Yankees, Sunday night. It was a ball the catcher proclaimed was the longest home run of his young life.
For Red Sox Chili Davis it certainly didn't seem complicated. And that's why he offered Vazquez some important advice before going up to face Betances with two outs in the seventh inning and the game tied.
"Just trying to get him aggressive," Davis said. "Just basically said, 'Hey, I don't think this guy is going to respect you. He's going to come right at you early. Let it go. Let it fire.' Just trying to get him aggressive early in the at-bat, which he was. He got the first-pitch heater and he jumped on it."
Two nights before, Ortiz had launched a two-run homer over the left field wall on the first pitch he saw from Betances. But that came on a curveball. This one was the very pitch the reliever threw Sunday night, and wasn't going to be the same approach with the light-hitting catcher up.
"He's not going to fool around," Davis said. "David [Ortiz] knew curveball was coming because that's how he's pitches David. But for someone like Christian, or someone he doesn't really know or hasn't done what David has done, what is he going to do? He's going to try and get ahead."
"There's not guessing in this game. Every time I try to guess, I guess wrong," said Ortiz. "You pick what you think you can hit. If you don't hit breaking balls you don't pick breaking balls. If you don't hit fastballs you don't pick fastballs. … Let me tell you, whenever you step up to the plate with a bat, you have a chance. That was a 98 mph fastball. That [expletive] ended up on the moon."
For Vazquez, it was just his second major league home run. But it was also a step toward becoming the kind of hitter many in the Red Sox clubhouse believe he can evolve into.
"He's been working extremely hard," Ortiz said of Vazquez. "Trust me, I believe that the same thing that happened with Yadier [Molina] is going to happen with him because he works extremely hard on his hitting. He doesn't work just on his defense. He works on everything. At some point I wouldn't be surprised he figured it out and started hitting on a daily basis consistently.
"I'm not worried about his hitting. I love what he does behind the plate. For me, I don't care if he ever gets a hit. I like what he does at the plate. You guys see the difference when he's behind the plate. It's unbelievable."


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I'm writing a report for my physic experiment. For this I use PyLab64bit, XeLaTex, Excel. I write the measurements in an excel sheet and then use import -xlrd to get the data for the .py script with which I do the plots and calculations. The plots are saved as .pdf and included in the .tex file later.
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If I look at the second example given here (http://matplotlib.org/users/usetex.html)
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ax = axes([0.1, 0.1, 0.8, 0.7])
t = arange(0.0, 1.0+0.01, 0.01)
s = cos(2*2*pi*t)+2
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xlabel(r'\textbf{time (s)}')
ylabel(r'\textit{Velocity (\u00B0/sec)}', fontsize=16)
title(r"\TeX\ is Number $\displaystyle\sum_{n=1}^\infty\frac{-e^{i\pi}}{2^n}$!",
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I want to adjust this example to match my preference. For this purpose I have take a look at this site (http://matplotlib.org/users/customizing.html) which gives me information about the rcParams settings. However I am confused and need your help to understand this better. Ideally I want that the plots are done with the fonts chosen for the .tex file. This is in my case XITS regular and XITS Math for inline formulae.
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The Library will be closing at 4PM on Wednesday, November 25th & will be closed all day on Thursday, November 26th. Make sure to stop by soon to check out some of our cookbooks if you are looking for a good recipe!
Used Book Sale Fall 2015
USED BOOK SALE! At the Barco-Duratz Cultural Center 411 Chestnut Street at the Side Entrance Thursday, November 5th from 4PM-8PM Friday, November 6th from 9:30AM-5PM Saturday, November 7th 9:30AM-2:30PM (Bag Day! Pay one price for as many books as you can fit into a bag!) Sponsored by Friends of the Meadville Public Library
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Berry Salad With Balsamic Vinegar and Honey
Total Time
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Balsamic vinegar and honey go so well together! Adapted from The Silver Palate Cookbook.
Ingredients Nutrition
- 473.19 ml blueberries, rinsed and drained
- 946.38 ml strawberries, cleaned, hulled and halved if large
- 118.29 ml honey
- 29.58-44.37 ml balsamic vinegar
- 473.19 ml raspberries
- 1 grated orange, zest of
- sour cream (optional) or vanilla yogurt (optional)
- Place cleaned blueberries and strawberries in a medium bowl.
- In a small bowl, whisk honey and balsamic vinegar together. Pour over berries.
- Cover and refrigerate for 2 hours.
- To serve, quickly rinse and drain raspberries.
- Add raspberries and orange zest to the salad.
- Toss gently and serve with a dollop of sour cream or yogurt, if you like. Enjoy!
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Very easy to make and delicious! I knew I would like it because I've had strawberries with balsamic vinegar and black pepper in the past, which is also great! I used a mixture of blueberries, blackberries, pineapple and honeydew melon. This dressing would be great on any variety of fruit. Made for the Vivacious Violets for ZWT7.
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Updated: November 28, 2012, 5:43 PM ETESPN.com news services
NEW YORK -- The Toronto Maple Leafs are the first NHL team worth $1 billion, according to Forbes magazine.
The Leafs, who have not won a Stanley Cup since 1967, are worth $250 million more than the next most valuable franchise, the New York Rangers. The Montreal Canadiens are worth $575 million.
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CCP US boss Tinney quits for games-health startup
Head of CCP's US operation Mike Tinney has left the company to create a new startup in the games and health sectors.
Tinney has been with CCP since 2006 when it bought White Wolf Games, which he joined back in 1993.
White Wolf is currently working on vampired-themed MMO World of Darkness.
The split was amicable, said Tinney, and will be able to advise whenever asked by CCP.
"CCP has gone through a fast-paced growth cycle. It's been a fun run and a lot of good experiences and memories," he said. "But I would like to move to a younger, earlier stage company, and plan to start one myself."
On the new startup, no additional details and name was given on the company.
"It's one part games, one part health and fitness," he said. "With gamification, there are a lot of people throwing mud at the wall to see what sticks. I am interested it approaching it from a massively multiplayer online view."
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The Central Davidson girls defeated West Stokes 113-56 in a nonconference dual meet at the Stokes YMCA in King Tuesday, while the Central boys also won with a 108-57 victory over the Wildcats.
In the girls' meet, Maddie Knier won the 100 and the 50 free (good for her state cut); Elizabeth Glover won the 500 free; and Lindsay Yarborough won the 100 back (state cut).
Central's 200 medley relay team of Yarborough, Anna Beck, Ashley Mills and Knier won (state cut); the 200 free relay team of Lauren Shepler, Knier, Glover and Yarborough won (state cut); and the 400 free relay team of Liane Burris, Mills, Glover and Yarborough won (state cut).
Winning for the Central boys were Clay Vickers in the 200 free and 500 free (state cut); Jonathan Hutchens in the 200 IM (state cut) and 100 back; Matthew Allred in the 50 free and 100 free; and Austin Martin in the 100 breast (state cut).
The 200 medley relay team of Hutchens, Martin, Vickers and Allred won; the 200 free relay team of Arturro Aguirre, Martin, Gray Lackey and Scott Barbee won; and the 400 free relay team of Vickers, Lackey, Hutchens and Allred won (state cut).
Central swims Dec. 15 against Salisbury, South Davidson and Lexington at Catawba College in Salisbury.
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Okay. So, it's common knowledge that Chris Brown is a sleeze ball. He has an outrageous temper, constantly throws child-like tantrums, and happens to have some sort of charisma and a good singing voice (which is honestly debatable). But… some people never learn.
We all remember the beating that Chris Brown handed down to then-girlfriend Rihanna in 2009, beating the bloody hell out of her face and then leaving her stranded on the side of the road. Chris was persecuted heavily for it, and with good reason. (Though, if one of Hollywood's elite lays a hand on a female, he should be stripped of his 'royal ranking' and kicked out on his royally bitch @ss!)
People revered Rihanna for leaving Chris, for being honest about the situation. She managed to walk away from a domestic abuser, which is honestly hard for many women who find themselves in relationships such as that.
But, she recently made the decision to call out Chris Brown… to do a duet! Their new single Birthday Cake (which you can listen to below) is hitting the charts — though I can barely stomach the song myself. Not because it's a bad tune, but because the implications in the song are sickening.
However, Rihanna has come under fire for her choice — and, again, with good reason. Trying to put out the fire of anger from her fans, Rihanna went on the air with Ryan Seacrest to explain her choice. But… I don't think it made her look any better.
'I reached out to him about doing Birthday Cake because that's the only person that really… it made sense to do the record,' she told Ryan. 'Just as a musician – despite everything else – that was going to be the person. I thought about rappers, and I've done that so many times, and the hottest R&B artist out right now is Chris Brown.' What – A – CROC!
Now, we could certainly go into all of the rampant speculation that the duo are reconciling personally, but the point would be moot. I could tell you that Rihanna sent out this cryptic tweet only days ago, sparking that already flaming fire higher: 'When they see me with you, wonder what the crowd would say? When they find us together, what will all the people say?' But what would be the point?
And if I could tell Rihanna one thing, I would probably quote her own words back to her: 'I want to give as much insight as I can to young women, because I feel like I represent a voice that really isn't heard. Now I can help speak for those women.' Yes, and what a wonderful role model you've been, Rihanna. You showed all of America's women that it's cool if the dude beat you… as long as he can further your career.[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m2JTFyg2hcU[/youtube]


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Ecosystem could be "the word" of 2013, if only vendors, providers, ISVs and other technology conglomerates stop acting in a "This Town ain't big enough for the both of us" way.
As an App user* I am increasingly amazed, affected and annoyed by what in my view can only be described as turf wars between various technology providers. Increasingly cooperation - that originated by a desire to have a quick time to market - is being replaced by outright competition driven by a desire to own the full stack. Some recent examples:
- Phone manufacturers replacing perfectly good map applications with in-house brews*
- Search engines wanting to become social networks*
- Social networks* and web retailers* wanting to become advertising specialists
- Photo filtering apps opting out of 140 char event timelines* and v.v. event timeline apps adding photo filtering*
- Email providers abandoning the use of third party sync to enterprise messaging apps*
- Providers replacing third party music and movie services with in-house variants limited to their stack*
- Just about everyone adding their own inline chat and messaging functionality*
- Not to mention the various patent wars companies are waging, trying to block each other out of their home markets*
Now I am not against healthy competition (on the contrary) but as a consumer I fail to see how these developments are benefiting me. It seems many companies are answering the markets desire for integration by forcing consumers into their own, closed, single stack shops.
With cloud computing rapidly breaking down the walls between traditional industry segments, times are confusing for providers. Where we used to buy hardware and software form different vendors and solicited help - to get these two to work together - from yet a third category of providers, these demarcation lines are now rapidly blurring. Hardware and software are merging into services, while at the same time we see phones behaving like camera's, tablets behaving like PCs and TVs behaving like tablets. Naturally companies are worried about where in that blurring supply chain the largest profits will fall and as a result everyone seems determined to own the whole chain, wall to wall and soup to nuts.
But increasingly the limiting factor in market success is no longer the ability of providers to supply functionality, it is the capability of consumers to absorb functionality. Aan - at least at my age - once I mastered the science how to color my pictures, how to create a playlist, how to interact socially, how to access my email, etc., etc., I just want to be able to continue to do so, but in a seamlessly integrated fashion. I don't want to replace it with a new app, that does virtually the same, but in a different way.
Just a couple of years ago there was a lot of talk and enthusiasm about "Open Innovation", where companies could make the market pie bigger by working together (instead of fighting over who got what piece of the existing pie). To some extend it is the old "single vendor" versus "best of breed" dilemma, do I concentrate on having a good enough homogeneous product that does it all, or do I focus on building the best product for my functional area and work/integrate closely with others (at the risk their area turns out to be more profitable (in market speak: has a better business model)). In other words do I go integrated/closed/proprietary or more interoperable/open/standard.
My believe (or at least my hope) is that companies that act more from the perspective of consumers/customers, than from their own financial/shareholder perspective, will eventually come out better. Note however that in this context it is very important to understand exactly who the customer is: is it the user buying access to the service or the advertiser buying access to the user (in which case the user is merely the product being sold). If the app economy is to continue to grow, it will need to increasingly address the primary customer (the users). And if (granted, a big if) the market is a bit like me , it will prefer ecosystems of leading open apps over fully integrated closed stacks.
Traditionally, before the current trend towards exclusion instead of collaboration took hold, the silicon valley pressure cooker was the center of such collaboration. Maybe Europe - being a collaborative environment by nature - can step into its place and use this as much needed differentiator against the increasingly mega-large, mega-integrated and mega-closed conglomerates from Asia and North America.
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Every Standardized Writing Prompt
In just about every quarterly assessment and every state assessment, my students are asked to do a writing prompt where they advocate for something involving their own education. It sounds like a great idea. "Write a letter to your principal about whether or not you should have school uniforms" or "Write to the district office about whether students should be required to go to PE."
But it's a joke.
The very test itself is evidence that student voice doesn't matter. False authenticity, where one advocates to a rubric rather than a true audience, becomes a bold reminder to students that they have no voice. Writing make-believe letters to people who will never read them teaches students a subtle lesson that advocacy is an act of make believe.
If you want to grade student writing, let them choose a topic. Give them creative writing prompts. Let them be fantastical or logical. Use the six traits and the little boxes and all of make up the score if you need to. Give them some freedom and see where it goes. Or don't give them writing assessments at all and simply assess their writing instead.
But please don't teach them that pseudo-advocacy is what the adult world expects of them.
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My daughter got very cross when she discovered that the principal wasn't really going to make them come to school on Saturday, or abolish lunchtime or whatever the writing task was. Her words were, "the teachers lied to us just to get us to do good writing.".ReplyDelete
On the other hand, I've heard of some great projects where a class is concerned about an issue, whether requesting council to build a footpath, or even a class who went to a anti war demonstration. One where kinder children, after having a story in the paper read to them, were concerned about people stealing trolleys and dumping them. The children decided to make posters to tell people to stop stealing trolleys, and to write a letter to the paper. I think they made front page. That's authentic use of text, and led by the children.Replies
I love that contrast of authenticity and artificiality.Delete
- AnonymousSeptember 21, 2012 at 3:16 PM
Dragon skin boots. Nice one, John.ReplyDeleteReplies
Thanks, anonymous.Delete
I also hate the "tell me a once prompt" on state exams. Students either lie about the experience or tell the truth to some faceless bureaucrat. Maybe it's the introvert or libertarian in me, but someone hired by the state to score these tests has no right to read any personal revelations.
I don't ask for the personal narratives in a class until I've established a solid rapport with most of the class.Replies
Absolutely true. The libertarian in me gets angry at those as well.Delete
Very well stated, and I like the snake skin boots reference.ReplyDelete
I am a huge fan of "Write a letter" prompts. But I also give them one more thing...an envelope or access to email. No kid should ever write a letter and not send it. When we "write a letter to the President" they hand it to me in the envelope.ReplyDelete
What I have found makes these assignments most powerful, is not the writing and sending, but receiving a response back. We get to compare the responses, and ultimately the responses that are personal and not robo written are always to kids who spent the most time editing and revising, and to kids who took the time to write with passion.
I am always amazed at companies and gov't departments that take the time to have someone high up (or at least a representative who signs their boss' signature) respond with a personal message to my kids. And never surprised that the companies that the kids worship the most, give the kids nothing but a form letter. I have had kids who stopped purchasing a product just based on the lame response of the company.Replies
Yes! That's exactly my point. If they're going to write a letter, make sure and send it. I have them write letters and send them to relatives, to politicians, to government agencies, to companies. This was more often the case in social studies, but I still do that.Delete
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Saeed Ajmal uses the 'teesra' from time to timeNo, I'm not talking about the one you buy from sweet vendors. For those of you who are puzzled about this, let me get you started with a couple of technical terms. As most of us know, an off-spinner bowls his stock delivery where the ball pitches somewhere between the off stump and the middle stump and then turns towards the leg stump. Now most of the off-spinners we know
Imam-ul-Haq at the 2014 U19 World Cup, the level he has already masteredIslamabad were knocked out of the 2016 Pakistan Cup on Thursday after their defeat to Baluchistan, but there was a fine script written on the day about one of their batsmen - the 20-year-old Imam-ul-Haq, the nephew of Inzamam-ul-Haq, who scored his very first century at the senior level.Imam's century, a 126-ball 102 at the top of the order, came against the grain of ev
Adelaide Oval hosted the first ever day-night Test match last yearThe Australian Cricketers' Association claimed that players would "prefer" to play only one day-night Test this summer.It has been confirmed that Australia will play a day-night Test against Pakistan at the Gabba in mid-December. Cricket Australia also remains "optimistic" that the third Test of the three-match series against South Africa in Novembe
Wasim Akram married Shaniera Thompson in 2013 and the couple is blessed with a baby girlOne of the greatest fast bowlers of all time, Wasim Akram, recently showed that he can bowl a 'maiden' over off the field too when he displayed his romantic avatar in the famous 'The Kapil Sharma Show' on Indian small screen.The Pakistan cricket legend made a public appearance with his wife Shaniera on the Indian show, which w
Junaid Khan represented Pakistan in 22 Test matches Pakistani fast bowler Junaid Khan lost his first child a few days ago while his wife is recovering and is still hospitalised. The reason behind the death of the child is yet to be revealed by the cricketer.Junaid tweeted the terrible news recently. Worst day in my life i have lost my first baby but with the grace of allah my wife health is good and she is doing better now. Thanks Allah
West Indies will play two tests, five ODIs and two T20s on their tourPakistan cricket authorities want the West Indies to play a day-night Test during their tour in October, as they prepare for their historic pink-ball Test against Australia in December.The West Indies are set to play two Tests, five One-Day Internationals (ODIs) and two Twenty20 Internationals, during the series set for the United Arab Emirates. Media reports say the Pakist
India and Pakistan would be joining hands yet again to promote the game of cricketThe cricketing rivalry between India and Pakistan has been well-chronicled in the sport's folklore and they have played many memorable and intense cricket matches over the years.However, their camaraderie off the field hasn't been any less popular, with the two nations often being seen going the extra mile to promote sport and harmony between themselves.
Darren Sammy with the ICC World T20 silverwareOften mistakenly referred to as Shahid Afridi's younger cousin, the owner of PSL's Peshawar Zalmi, Javed Afridi has written a letter to the Pakistani President, Mamnoon Hussain requesting the latter to confer an honorary Pakistani citizenship to the present West Indian T20I captain, Darren Sammy.Javed Afridi, in his aforementioned letter to the president of Pakistan, stated that Samm
Younis Khan has gotten himself into a tangle by resorting to hasty decisionsThe standoff between senior player Younis Khan and the Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB) is taking one turn or the other. In a significant development, the national board has decided to deal the issue with a firm hand by issuing a show cause notice to the 38-year old and prohibiting him from returning to the Pakistan Cup.Dawn reported that the national cricket board issued a p
The news regarding death of Afridi's daughter is fake A photo that did the rounds on social media for several hours claiming that Shahid Afridi's daughter Asmara has died due to cancer is absolutely fake. This might be due to some sort of misunderstanding as that photo depicted a dead young girl resembling the all-rounder's daughter.The photo that circulated on social media isPak Cricketer Shahid Afridi's Daughter
Both the Pakistani players have created enough furore in the past with their off-field anticsPakistani international Umar Akmal was reportedly involved in a brawl at a theatre in Faisalabad after he demanded a song to be replayed. The administration's reluctance to oblige resulted in the fight.Things calmed down when he was forced to leave the hall after the audience recognised him as a Pakistani International Crick
England captain Alastair Cook during an argument with the umpires In the game of cricket, umpires have the highest authority to judge all the on-field aspects of the game. According to the laws of cricket, umpires can make their decisions and the players have to accept it without any question.However, umpires are also human beings and they also make errors but that is to be expected. While in most cases a controversial umpiring decision
Wasim Akram was a great exponent of reverse swingReverse swing, as the name suggests is exactly the opposite of conventional swing. Before going into the complexities of reverse swing, we need to understand how a cricket ball swings. When a cricket ball wobbles in the air and changes direction sideways, it is known as swing. A cricket ball has two sides separated by a seam. The bowlers are advised to hold the seam with their two fingers to genera
Younis Khan is Pakistan's leading run-scorer in Test cricketVeteran Pakistani batsman Younis Khan has reportedly managed to escape a 3-match ban after he offered an apology to the Pakistan Cricket Board for walking out of a domestic tournament following a row with the umpires.The incident had occurred during the Pakistan One-Day Cup when Khan expressed his displeasure over some poor umpiring decisions and made some remarks to fourth umpire


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Join us! On April 5, call the White House and tell President Obama to keep his campaign promises by vetoing any PATRIOT Act renewal bill that lacks substantial new checks and balances to protect the privacy of innocent Americans.
The Electronic Frontier Foundation said Friday that "Microsoft appears to have turned off the always-use-HTTPS option in Hotmail for users in more than a dozen countries," calling the move "deeply disturbing."
"For Microsoft to take such an enormous step backwards – undermining the security of Hotmail users in countries where freedom of expression is under attack and secure communication is especially important – is deeply disturbing," wrote EFF International activist Eva Galperin on the Deeplinks blog.
n a statement, the EFF (Electronic Frontier Foundation) offered further explanation, and called for a swift correction of the as-of-yet unexplained security snafu:
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Eva Galperin, a Electronic Frontier Foundation staffer followed up, and found that the "always-use-HTTPS option in Hotmail for users in more than a dozen countries, including Bahrain, Morocco, Algeria, Syria, Sudan, Iran, Lebanon, Jordan, Congo, Myanmar, Nigeria, Kazakhstan, Uzbekistan, Turkmenistan, Tajikistan, and Kyrgyzstan, had been turned off."
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In the United States, telecommunication companies do not have to report precisely what material they collect, said Kevin Bankston, a lawyer at the Electronic Frontier Foundation, who specializes in privacy. He added that based on court cases he could say that "they store more of it and it is becoming more precise."
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Understanding How Race and Ethnicity Influence Relationships in Health Care
Article first published online: 10 JAN 2006
DOI: 10.1111/j.1525-1497.2006.00305.x
Journal of General Internal Medicine
Volume 21, Issue S1, pages S21–S27, January 2006
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Cooper, L. A., Beach, M. C., Johnson, R. L. and Inui, T. S. (2006), Delving Below the Surface. Journal of General Internal Medicine, 21: S21–S27. doi: 10.1111/j.1525-1497.2006.00305.x
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- Article first published online: 10 JAN 2006
- Accepted for publication September 13, 2005
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There is increasing evidence that racial and ethnic minority patients receive lower quality interpersonal care than white patients. Therapeutic relationships constitute the interpersonal milieu in which patients are diagnosed, given treatment recommendations, and referred for tests, procedures, or care by consultants in the health care system. This paper provides a review and perspective on the literature that explores the role of relationships and social interactions across racial and ethnic differences in health care. First, we examine the social and historical context for examining differences in interpersonal treatment in health care along racial and ethnic lines. Second, we discuss selected studies that examine how race and ethnicity influence clinician-patient relationships. While less is known about how race and ethnicity influence clinician-community, clinician-clinician, and clinician-self relationships, we briefly examine the potential roles of these relationships in overcoming disparities in health care. Finally, we suggest directions for future research on racial and ethnic health care disparities that uses a relationship-centered paradigm.


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Like many who write about free software, I spent yesterday writing about Ubuntu Edge, the effort to crowdfund a project to promote innovation in the phone market. The story had more than enough points of interest to keep me busy, but one aspect I didn't have time to examine in depth was the idea of a company attempting to crowdfund. In some ways, the attempt seems contrary to the whole idea of crowdfunding.
Make no mistake -- that is what Ubuntu Edge is about, despite the fact that the name includes Ubuntu rather than Canonical. Even though it's unclear whether Ubuntu Edge is intended to be even modestly profitable, the total absence of any mention of licensing suggests that Ubuntu Edge will be proprietary technology, not open hardware.
But even if Ubuntu Edge turns out to have a free license after all, Canonical will still be the corporation best positioned to take advantage of the project. If nothing else, Canonical will gain a reputation for innovation in a market where it currently doesn't even exist as a niche player. In effect, Canonical is asking others to fund its technical research.
Not that Canonical is doing anything illegal, let me hurry to stress. The fundraising campaign is being hosted by Indiegogo, and Indiegogo has no restrictions on who can raise money for what. By my count, Ubuntu Edge could not be hosted on KickStarter for at least three reasons (because it might include business apps and websites, because the campaign includes preorders of finished products, and because it makes unclear how far along the prototypes are), but on Indiegogo, none of these reasons are relevant.
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All the same, the campaign leaves something of a bad taste. Although dozens of exceptions are posted on both KickStarter and Indiegogo, the public impression is that crowdfunding is for projects that couldn't get funding any other way. Mention crowdfunding, and the images that come to most people's minds are of an independent artist or a small-time producer whose work is too original to receive funding anywhere else. Often, the image includes an impression of people who are looking -- partly for ethical reasons -- for new models for the distribution of music, movies, or other copyrighted material.
This impression is incomplete and overly idealistic. However, its existence is very real. It is one reason for the animosity directed towards certain famous successful campaigns. Musician Amanda Palmer, for example, was criticized for asking the public for money, then supposedly asking local musicians to play for free on each stop of her tour. In effect, Palmer was accused of escaping the limitations of a standard recording contract by becoming an exploiter herself.
Similarly, when Rob Thomas set records for funds raised to fund a film based on the cult TV show Veronica Mars, many bloggers felt that Thomas had no business crowdfunding because he was, after all, an established TV producer rather than a wannabe or semi-professional. Moreover, the show he was trying to continue had been on a major television network and sold successfully on DVD, making it something less than a backyard effort.
The Ubuntu Edge campaign is open to the same sort of objections. It is one thing for the Yorba Foundation to attempt (unsuccessfully) to raise funds to finance the development of the Geary email reader. Unlike Canonical, Yorba has applied for non-profit status, and exists only to develop free software tools like the Shotwell photo manager. Members of Yorba would have benefited only by being able to work full time on Geary, which gave the campaign a degree of idealism lacking in Ubuntu Edge.
If anything, the use of the Ubuntu name leaves a feeling if not of duplicity, at least of marketing slickness of the kind that many people in the free software community retain deep suspicions about. The fact that Canonical's relations with the greater community have been strained in the past does nothing to quiet the misgivings, either.
As with the Palmer and Thomas fundraisers, the impression is left that the already established are abusing the mechanism of crowdfunding -- a trend that could quickly discredit and destroy it if too many others do the same. Not only that, but here is a corporation trying to exploit community goodwill again.
Crowdfunding, many idealistically believe, is supposed to be an alternative to traditional business methods, not a continuation of business under a slightly different set of rules. That's why the affluent -- especially among the young -- often donate large portions of their income to crowdfunding campaigns, even though they receive no tax-receipts. It's not just for the mostly token thank-you-gifts for their contributions. Although Ubuntu Edge keeps to the letter of crowdfunding on Indiegogo, many may be nagged by the suspicion that it breaks the spirit simply by existing.
Of course, not everyone feels that way. Canonical and Ubuntu have fans who follow their every move with breathless adoration, both in the general public and among professional journalists (one of the former periodically contacts me, trying to convince me of the errors of my ways whenever I say anything that is less than uncritically complimentary, an attitude that terrifies me). Focusing mainly on the technology, they care little about licensing or implications.
And who knows? Maybe they are right to act the way they do. Maybe crowdfunding has come of age, and the idealism with which it began is overdue for being abandoned. But, one way or the other, campaigns like Ubuntu Edge's show that crowdfunding is overdue for re-evaluation.comments powered by Disqus
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