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Now you'll see the following when you enter the menu:
The extended menu isn't as pretty-looking as the main one, but offers much more settings. Besides the settings found in the main menu, there are:
- Various options for fine-tuning the analog signal. I don't think this is important, though, as analog signals are steadily becoming a thing of the past
- Manual interpolation setup: the main menu only offers you to enable or disable interpolation (the scaling-up of low-resolution video to the monitor's resolution) while the extended menu allows to specify how much the picture must be enlarged. Thus, you can set the monitor up so that it enlarges a low-res picture, but not to full screen. Not a vitally important feature, but anyway.
- Select the color (green or blue) and brightness of the Power indicator on the front panel. This is indeed a valuable setting because modern monitors' bright LEDs look distracting to many users.
- Switch the monitor into black-and-white mode
- Enable/disable the automatic rotation of the menu and image when the screen is turned around into portrait orientation
- Specify a schedule for the monitor to automatically turn on and off
- Enable/disable response time compensation. I think this feature is disabled by default in order not to shock the potential customer with new-fangled technologies (I should remind you again that the professional monitor market is rather conservative) which are associated with gaming monitors in the first place. But the compensation is implemented properly, almost without artifacts, so nothing prevents you from turning it on. I should acknowledge that the response time isn't important for the applications these monitors are intended for (e.g. the EIZO ColorEdge CG21, also intended for professional color processing, has a response time of 50 milliseconds!), yet a faster monitor leaves a better visual impression due to the lack of trails behind the mouse pointer and moving windows.
Below are two-dimensional response time diagrams for both monitors, with RTC enabled:
My response time measurements on halftone transitions yielded an average of 11.8 milliseconds for the LCD2190UXi (with an average RTC error of 3.0%) and 12.0 milliseconds for the LCD2190UXp (and average RTC error of 0.6%). Although the average numbers are almost identical, the monitors behave differently on different color tones: the model with an S-PVA matrix is slower on very dark tones, but faster on all others.
The gamma curves of the monitors (the diagram shows the results of the LCD2190UXi at the default settings) are set up almost ideally with barely noticeable deflections from the theoretical curves. The monitors superbly reproduce the entire range of colors at any brightness and at a contrast of 0-50%. When the contrast setting is higher than 50%, details are lost in bright colors.
The color temperature setup is excellent, too. The difference between the levels of gray is comparable to the calibrator's accuracy in most of the modes!
In my previous article called Contemporary LCD Monitor Parameters: Objective and Subjective Analysis I showed a picture composed of three photographs to illustrate a monitor with inaccurate color temperature setup. There were four squares of different levels of gray on each photograph (25%, 50%, 75% and 100%), but the gray balance was set up by the rightmost square in the first photo, by the third-from-left square in the second photo, and by the second square in the third photo. The color temperatures of the squares were different on that monitor, and the three photographs were different, too. On each of them there was only one really gray square (the one the gray balance was set up by), and the others were colored.
Here is the result of the same test on the NEC LCD2190UXp (the color temperature was set at 6500K in the menu):
This is an ideal picture: the squares are all gray. You can examine the squares with the color picker in Adobe Photoshop to make sure there is a negligible difference between them.


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Great Horned Owl... with accessories
I posted one of the shots of this brutal hunter with half of a squirrel in the talons sometime ago. However, I just discovered forgotten memory card with a few better shots.
K-5 and Sigma 500/4.5 in very early morning. The first one was shot handheld; the 2nd - from a monopod (I think ;-))
Full and Sleepy
Don't Even Think About It!
How could you forget these awesome photos.
Great shots and you nailed the captions too!
Nice crisp shots and great capture.
Like those shots, such beautiful birds.
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My Extreme III 32GB card failed to record first time. I replaced it with another one and forgot about a few very first shots.
Really nice captures of the GHO, like the one with eyes open the best.
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Great shots and you nailed the captions too!
Thank you, LPA. Actually some of your owl's shots of the last years have inspired me to look for theses magnificent creatures.
Lovely loking owl
It is better to keep your mouth closed and let people think you are a fool than to open it and remove all doubt.
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Like those shots, such beautiful birds.
They like frogs too
Nice shots. The squirrel certainly came out a poor "2nd" in that battle. Had a red tailed hawk go after one of our cats a number of years back. She just made her escape under our deck in the nick of time.
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book and lyrics by David Zellnik
music by Joseph Zellnik
"The old-fashioned musical is neither dying nor in need of saving…if you love Golden Age-style musical romances, you can still find them – if you know where to look. Right now, that place is Brooklyn, where The Gallery Players….[Yank! is] a touching and oh-so-tuneful look at a side of World War II we seldom see…"
– TalkinBroadway.com
"An old-fashioned musical with a contemporary, socially conscious sensibility.â€
– TheaterMania
"Yank! overlays a modern gay sensibility on a typical wartime crew to illustrate the sheer hell, internal and external, gay soldiers endured….More-complex emotions than many musicals allow are present."
– Back Stage
"If you're looking for a well-crafted, gay-positive musical that's sexy and heartfelt, you'll have to look long and far to find anything as terrific as Yank!"
– NEXT Magazine
"Yank! is one of the most heartening theatrical experiences in years….The choreography of this show is brilliant….The show never apologizes for its honesty…at the end of Yank! the audience (including me) was on its feet."
– The Brooklyn Paper
Read the entire Brooklyn Paper review.
"Yank! is moving, heartbreaking, funny, lyrical, endearing, and painful….The show boasts a tour-de-force by Nancy Anderson."
– Q Onstage
Read the entire Q Onstage review.
"Joseph and David Zellnik serve up a beautifully composed, entertaining slice of our secret history. But because they tell this coming out story with such rich historical and psychological detail, Yank! engages fundamental questions of love, citizenship and cultural belonging, beyond the obvious audience of lesbians and gay men….Yank! is poised to become a musical of real stature."
– nytheatre.com
Read the full nytheatre.com review.
"It would be a pity to miss a show as lovely as David and Joseph Zellnik's Yank!….Tender, touching and funny…Yank! is a delightful musical."
– Off-Off Broadway Review
Read the full Off-Off Broadway Review review.
Vote for Yank! at the NY Innovative Theater Awards site! Click the banner below.
(l to r) Maxime de Toledo as Mitch and Bobby Steggert as Stu in The Gallery Players production of Yank! A New Musical. Photo by Jennifer Maufrais Kelly
Producer: Matt Schicker/The Gallery Players
Director: Igor Goldin
Choreographer: Jeffry Denman
Musical Director: Daniel Feyer
Scenic Consultant: Ray Klausen
Lighting Design: Ken Lapham
Costume Design: Tricia Barsamian
Associate Costume Design/Military Consultant: Crystal Fergusson
Scenic Carpenter/Technical Director: Jennifer Bernstein
Casting Director: Kerry Watterson
Orchestrations: Joe Zellnik, Daniel Feyer, Josh Clayton, and Rob Berman
Production Stage Manager: Kathleen Munroe
Assistant Stage Managers: Kayla Shriner-Cahn, Kati Foy
Publicist: Paul Siebold
Featuring: Nancy Anderson*, Chris Carfizzi*, Jonathan Day*, Maxime de Toledo*, Jeffry Denman*, Todd Faulkner*, Chad Harlow*, Tyson Kaup*, Matthew Marks*, Brian Mulay, Daniel Shevlin*, Bobby Steggert*, and James Stover.
*Member, Actors' Equity Association
Photo by Jennifer Maufrais Kelly
EXTENDED! Updated Performance Schedule:
***SOLD OUT*** Saturday, October 20 at 8PM (Opening Night)
Sunday, October 21 at 3PM
Thursday, October 25 at 8PM
Friday, October 26 at 8PM
***SOLD OUT*** Saturday, October 27 at 8PM
***SOLD OUT*** Sunday, October 28 at 3PM
Thursday, November 1 at 8PM
***SOLD OUT*** Friday, November 2 at 8PM
Saturday, November 3 at 2PM
Saturday, November 3 at 8PM
***SOLD OUT***Sunday, November 4 at 3PM
***SOLD OUT*** Added Performance: Thursday, November 8 at 8PM
***SOLD OUT*** Added Performance: Friday, November 9 at 8PM
***SOLD OUT*** Added Performance: Saturday, November 10 at 2PM
***SOLD OUT*** Added Performance: Sunday, November 11 at 3PM
***SOLD OUT*** Added Performance: Sunday, November 11 at 8PM
Running Time: 2 hours 20 minutes (including one 15-minute intermission)
(l to r) Bobby Steggert as Stu, Nancy Anderson as Louise, and Jeffry Denman as Artie in The Gallery Players production of Yank! A New Musical. Photo by Jennifer Maufrais Kelly
The Gallery Players, Brooklyn's premier Off-Off Broadway theater, is proud to present a new musical work, Yank! as part of its 41st season! A universal love story that brings to light to a forgotten slice of history, Yank!, by brothers David and Joseph Zellnik, runs October 20-November 11, 2007.
Listen to a BroadwayBullet.com interview with Nancy Anderson and Jeffry Denman about Yank! and an in-studio performance by Nancy Anderson and cast!
Read Bobby Steggert's interview about Yank! on TheaterMania.com!
Listen to the nytheatre.com podcast interview with David Zellnik, Joe Zellnik, and Matt Schicker!
Read the TheaterMania casting announcement for Yank!
Read the Playbill.com casting announcement for Yank!
Read a Playbill.com interview with Nancy Anderson in which she discusses Yank!
Read the Playbill.com announcement of Yank!
Read the TheaterMania announcement of Yank!
Read The New York Times' mention of Yank! in their 07-08 Season Preview!
(l to r) Tyson Kaup as Tennessee, James Stover as Czechowski, Maxime de Toledo as Mitch, Bobby Steggert as Stu, and Daniel Shevlin as Professor in The Gallery Players production of Yank! A New Musical. Photo by Jennifer Maufrais Kelly
Yank! gets its title from Yank Magazine, a World War II publication which grew to become the most widely-read and most popular magazine in the history of the U.S. Army. A love song to Hollywood's "it takes one of every kind†platoon flicks and to 1940s Broadway, Yank! tells the story of a war reporter named Stu and an army private named Mitch, who fall in love and struggle to survive in a time and place where the odds are stacked against them. Intelligent and impassioned, suffused with songs in swing, big band and boogie-woogie styles, the show explores the stories that don't get told in wartime, and how WWII became a great catalyst in bringing gay men and women together.
Nancy Anderson and Company in The Gallery Players production of Yank! A New Musical. Photo by Jennifer Maufrais Kelly
This is the first incarnation of Yank! since playing to rave reviews at its popular run at the New York Musical Theatre Festival in 2005, where it won an audience favorite award. About the Zellnik Brothers, Karl Levett of Back Stage wrote "…all indications are that this is a musical team that is tartly talented, with promise to burn….The score [for Yank!] is melodious, with lyrics that are either witty or unashamedly romantic. Applause for those Zellniks, whose production promises a smiling future.â€
With the hot-button topics of the military's "don't ask, don't tell" policy and gay marriage currently poised to be at the forefront of national politics for the November 2008 presidential election, The Gallery Players' mounting of Yank! is timely indeed.
The Gallery Players production of Yank! A New Musical. Photo by Jennifer Maufrais Kelly
Igor Goldin directs a cast of 13, including Broadway talents Nancy Anderson ("Wonderful Town†"A Class Actâ€) and Jeffry Denman ("The Producers†"How To Succeed…â€). IGOR GOLDIN (Director) first directed Yank! in a workshop production at the Arcadia Stage, Arden Theatre in Philadelphia and then again for the New York Musical Theatre Festival (NYMF 2005) with music director Rob Berman and choreographer Chase Brock. Most recently: Pailet and Penedo's The Chocolate Tree with music director Ben Cohn (NAMT – w/Christopher Sieber and Cady Huffman), Gregor and Carner's Unlock'd (NYMF 2007), Acquisto and Buck's Like You Like It (Theatre Under The Stars/SHSU joint production), the all-star concert My First Time (New World Stages – with Matthew Cavenaugh, Hunter Foster, Ann Harada, John Tartaglia and Mary Testa, to name a few.), Unlock'd (The York Theatre Developmental Series) both with music director David Andrews Rogers, and Common Grounds (NYMF – 2006 Award for Excellence in Direction). Regional credits include: Violet, The Spitfire Grill, and The Full Monty (The Theater Barn), The Complete History of America (abridged) (Barnstormers). Igor is an on-going director of musical theater industry showcases at the American Musical and Dramatic Academy. He is a graduate of the North Carolina School of the Arts and a member of the Society of Stage Directors and Choreographers.
Rear, l to r: David Zellnik (book and lyrics), Nancy Anderson (Louise), Joe Zellnik (music). Front, l to r: Igor Goldin (director) and Jeffry Denman (choreographer/Artie). Photo by Mark Rupp for Broadwayworld.com.
Watch Nancy Anderson and cast members from Yank! sing "The Saddest Gal What Am" from the show!
Joe and David Zellnik's previous musicals include First in Flight: The Wright Brothers for Theatreworks USA, which toured the country in 2004, and City of Dreams which was produced at 2002's Midtown International Theatre Festival and was selected for the first International Festival of Musical Theatre in Cardiff, Wales (2 songs from the show appear on Alison Fraser's 2000 album "Men In My Lifeâ€.) David's plays include Serendib, which was produced Off-Broadway by Ensemble Studio Theatre in Spring 2007, and Sharon/Herzl, which received its World Premiere this summer at D.C.'s Theatre J.
Yank! opens Saturday, October 20 and runs through Sunday, November 11, 2007 (16 performances only). Performances take place Thursdays, Fridays, and Saturdays at 8PM (no Saturday 8PM show on November 10); Sundays at 3PM. Additionally, The Gallery Players is offering a Saturday matinee performance at 2PM on Saturday, November 3 and Saturday, November 10 only. The closing performance takes place on Sunday, November 11 at 8PM. A complete list of performance dates and times can be found above.
Bobby Steggert on Yank!:
"The character narrating Yank! says something that really resonates with
me in a very personal way: 'I think, what has it cost me to be in
love? To be with anyone? And would I have been as brave as Stu was?'
When asking myself that question, I didn't quite know the ultimate
answer. But I knew that I wanted the responsibility of portraying
someone who did. Yank! is unique in that it transcends the story of
a young man in love. It is about the courage to fight for a love that
in today's relative freedom, we tend to take for granted. I am
excited and hopeful that Stu's bravery, and the wonderful story of
Yank! created with such style and grace by the Zellnik brothers will
resonate with audiences as purely as it does me."
Nancy Anderson on Yank!:
"Because Yank! is presented in a classic Broadway Musical setting, or even MGM movie musical setting, it creates a background for an every day American "war-time" love story. Seeing this love story as it glides on a bed of almost familiar Bing Crosby-style standards, the audience can't avoid seeing the central relationship, which happens to be between two men, as normal, albeit heartbreaking – you don't see it as gay or straight- it's just love….I'm also interested in the shrewdly historical look the Zellniks take on homosexuality during and after World War II- the fact that there was thriving gay culture during war time, and that many gay veterans settled in San Francisco after the war, paving the way for the cultural revolution that ensued there."
Jeffry Denman on Yank!:
"[Yank!] is a universal story about love between two people and how outside forces, like judgement, fear and in a larger sense, war can sometimes threaten to destroy that love. There are many wars in Yank! WWII being the most recognizable. But the wars that are waged between and inside the main characters are just as real and revealing."
Nancy Anderson sings songs from Yank! at Birdland. Photo by Mark Rupp for Broadwayworld.com.
More about Yank Magazine:
By the end of WWII, twenty-three various editions of Yank Magazine had been published. At the height of the magazine's operations, there were printing presses in Honolulu, Cairo, Tokyo, Okinawa, Rob, Trinidad, Saipan and other places, and the weekly achieved a worldwide circulation of 2,600,000. It is thought to have been read by ten million. The magazine, which was staffed entirely by enlisted soldiers, printed its last issue in December 1945, realizing for the War Department a profit of $1,000,000.
Maxime de Toledo (foreground) and Nancy Anderson in The Gallery Players production of Yank! A New Musical. Photo by Jennifer Maufrais Kelly
From the Blogs:
"Give me a respectful, carefully paced, sensitively acted gay romance with equal parts of unrequited love, shame, and intermittent explosions of passion and you will have me bawling… which is exactly what I was doing at David and Joe Zellnik's Yank!….Led by a stunningly charming Bobby Steggert and swoontastic Maxime de Toledo, we have here a funny and heart-wrenching, old-school style, big musical about seldom explored stories of gays in the military during WW2. Thanks to Igor Goldin's tight, smart direction and a well cast company…this is one hell of a good production…."
– showshowdown.blogspot.com
"I fell in love with the musical Yank! at NYMF two years ago….Now it's back (at The Gallery Players) with some judicious changes in a production that is even more effective and moving than the one I saw in 2005….The story, of the gay romance between two enlisted men during WW2, could not have been told in popular culture at the time it is set, and a good deal of the show's poignancy and power comes from telling it now in the style of old-fashioned music theatre….The score is dazzling…The show's book is also accomplished and impressive."
– justshowstogoyou.blogspot.com
"Yank! may be a new musical, but it's deep in homage to the past, allowing it to feel like a revival, while still being topical (gays in the military before Don't Ask Don't Tell). There's chemistry between Hollywood-cool Mitch (Maxime de Toledo) and bumbling farm boy Stu (Bobby Steggert), and even without the trappings of behind-the-scenes WWII reportage, these twin tales of self-discovery and the struggle for identity would still be winning."
– newtheatercorps.blogspot.com
"[Yank! is] far better than any new musical I've seen since Spring Awakening."
– Pop Surfing (Michael Giltz of The Advocate)


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So Where Is PureXML for DB2/400?
Published: March 12, 2007
by Timothy Prickett Morgan
With much fan-fare last week, IBM rolled out its "Viper" database technology into the version of DB2 for its z/OS-based mainframes. Viper is not just a relational database, which can store information in the traditional format that is friendly to SQL and other query methods, but also can store information in an XML format as well--and do so natively.
IBM calls the native XML capability PureXML, and unlike past approaches, including prior releases and versions of DB2 for the mainframe as well as the Unix/Linux/Windows variant andcurrent approaches with DB2/400, PureXML allows XML documents to be stored without losing the hierarchical information that is inherent in them and still allows the elements of the XML documents to be queried. This technology has been in development for five years, and was first released in the DB2 V9 releases for Windows, Unix, and Linux in July 2006. IBM holds a patent on the PureXML approach, by the way.
According to Bernie Spang, director of data servers at IBM--data server being the new-fangled name for a database management system at Big Blue these days and not to be confused with a database hardware appliance--past approaches to dealing with XML data were not exactly ideal. The approach, he explained, is to store a whole XML document inside of a database field; while this works, SQL queries only work across cells, not within them, which means you could not easily index XML documents for fast searches and queries.
The other approach, which is called shredding, takes the XML document and parses it up into chunks and then stores the chunks inside different columns within the same row in the relational database management system. This approach allows for the elements of the XML document to be queried, but it is no longer a hierarchical XML document that can be used in production. Recomposing it on the fly out of the database obviously takes a lot more resources than hitting a single cell in the database to retrieve the whole XML document, as can be done in the other approach.
With PureXML, IBM has figured out a way to store the XML document, index the data within documents and across documents, and allow a single SQL query to scan documents. This capability is clearly important for the services oriented architecture (SOA) approach to application development, which uses XML as a kind of superglue between disparate and often incompatible systems and applications to create individual services and then composite applications built from those services.
"With SOA, you can't just say, 'Whatever. I just need an SQL data server,'" says Spang. "The decision about what data server you use is every bit as important as the application server you choose."
Various industries are standardizing the XML documents they intend to use for services--ACCORD in financial services, HIPPA in healthcare, ARTS in retail, and so forth--and this PureXML capability is something they are looking for--especially since the same DB2 database can store plain old row and column data used to traditional transaction processing systems. But, perhaps more importantly, the DB2 Viper family of products is showing that it can handle XML data with anywhere from three to right times the performance of prior DB2 versions, which were using the two other methods mentioned above to cope with XML documents.
Now that PureXML is available on the mainframe as well as Unix, Linux, and Windows servers, this begs the obvious question: When will the DB2/400 database at the heart of i5/OS get the PureXML technology? I contacted IBM's press relations people, and I received a cut response that "there's no release date on that yet." I asked if I could get a more concrete statement about whether it was in development or not, and if I could talk to the good people in the Rochester labs about if, when, and how the remaining strategic IBM server platform would get PureXML support. So far, my phone line has been real quiet. But, I will start poking around.
My guess is that one of the reasons why the future i5/OS V5R5 or i/OS V6R1--whatever IBM calls the future operating system version or release for the future Power6-based System i servers--has PureXML support, and if there are reasons to push that operating system release out to early 2008, then adding PureXML to the database is one good reason to take a little extra time. Then again, for all I know, IBM is happy for customers to keep using DB2 XML Extender, a tool for grafting XML support onto DB2/400 that has been around for several years.
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U of M Law Library > UM Law Students > LLM Exchange Humphrey Students Guide
Library Guide
For LLM Students, Exchange Students and Humphrey Fellows*
*Humphrey Fellows enrolled in a law school course.
Direct feedback on this page to firstname.lastname@example.com.
Table of Contents
General Library Information
Finding materials
The University of Minnesota Law Library is one of the best law school libraries in the country. Most of the collection is available for browsing in the "stacks" (the shelves) on the four floors of the Library. To find a book or other item, you will usually start by searching the catalog, MNCAT Discovery Catalog, and getting its "call number." This number represents the item's location in the Library. Once you have a call number, check this chart to see what floor the item is on: http://library.law.umn.edu/locationguides.html#Callnos
Generally, frequently-used U.S. law books are located on the first floor. Government documents and books on sociology, criminology, economics, and other topics are on the second floor. The third floor contains some of the international law materials, United Kingdom and Canadian materials, a special Human Rights collection, and some U.S. state materials. The fourth floor has most of the foreign law collections, including European Union materials; more international law materials are on this floor too.
Maps of the Law Library are available here.
Checking books out
Once you find a book or other item that you would like to check out, bring it to the Circulation desk. If you cannot find what you need, ask the reference librarians for help. They are located in the Reference Office. Consulting the reference librarians is a good way to save time, and to learn US legal research. They can help you find the right electronic database, use Bloomberg Law, Lexis Academic, and Westlawnext, get materials from another library, and much more.
Some library material is in areas restricted to library staff. The most important of this material is the Reserve Collection, located behind the Circulation Desk. (Your professors may refer to some reading materials that are "on Reserve.") These frequently-used materials can be checked out for only two hours. You can also check out Reserve items two hours before the Library closes, but they must be returned within half an hour after the Library opens the next morning. If you do not return Reserve items on time, you will be fined $1.50 per hour. For other information about Library fines and Circulation policies, see the Circulation Services web page.
Some of the Library's older books and certain items from India and Pakistan are located in Storage. To get these items, ask for them at the Circulation desk. Other old and rare books are kept in the Library's Riesenfeld Rare Books Research Center, located in Room N-30 Subplaza Level of Mondale Hall.
Library hours and acceptable use
The library's hours are here. But as a law student, you can use the Library at any time. Your U Card should provide access after hours. If you are in the Library when it closes to the public, you will be checked in by a security guard.
It is acceptable to nap, drink beverages, and eat snacks in the Library. Please clean up after yourself. Students have asked that the Library remain quiet, so please do not talk loudly (either on your cell phone or to anyone in the Library). If someone is making noise, you may ask them to be quiet or ask a library employee to take care of the problem.
Books and other resources to help you in law school
Books that explain the law in a simple, brief format.
Many law students (LLM and JD) find that their lectures and casebooks are confusing. If you would like a straightforward explanation of the subject of your class, you may want to look at a "Nutshell." A Nutshell is a trademarked name for a small paperback book, used mostly as a study aid. Lawyers also use Nutshells as a quick introduction to a legal subject.
For most law school classes, there is a Nutshell on the topic. Here is a Law Library guide with information about Nutshells and other study aid publications that you can check out from the Library's Circulation desk.
The most recent Nutshells are kept on Reserve at the Circulation desk, which means that you may check them out for only two hours. You can often find a slightly older Nutshell in the regular library collection, and can check these out for much longer. These older Nutshells are still useful because they explain basic principles of law on the subject. Newer cases or changes in the law, however, will not be included.
Sample exams
Some professors allow the Law Library to place one or more old exams on Course Reserve at the Circulation desk. Generally, these exams are not available until halfway through the semester. Some professors do not choose to make any old exams available. They are not required to do so.
To locate these old exams go to the Course & Materials web page on the Law School's website. From this page you can browse a list of courses for the current semester. Click on the course details link for your course(s) to access links to items (including sample exams/model answers) that your professor has made available.
Some professors also provide sample or model answers with their sample exams. Other professors just offer a sample exam. Even without the answers, you can benefit from looking at the exam. Many law school exams require you to read a long hypothetical situation and identify the relevant legal issues—this is sometimes called "issue-spotting." Try to identify the issues in the practice exam. You may want to talk to other students in the class, or to your professor, to see if you have correctly identified the issues. Then, you may want to practice writing an answer to each question.
Professors Ann Burkhart and Robert Stein have written a very useful book to help law students succeed on their exams. It is called Law School Success in a Nutshell: A Guide to Studying Law and Taking Law School Exams (2d ed. 2008). Reserve KF283.B871x 2008.
If your professor does not choose to make old exams available, you may want to look at exams from other professors who teach the subject. Remember, however, that each professor may choose a different format for the exam.
Study aids
Oxford Language Dictionaries Online
A book especially for LLMs
You may want to read Rachel Gader-Shafran, The International Students' Survival Guide to Law School in the United States: Everything You Need to Succeed (2003) KF283 .G33x 2003. The author of this book, who received a J.D. from American University, surveyed many LLM students and wrote a book designed to help future LLM students succeed in law school. Her excellent book includes information about culture shock, strategies for dealing with law school classes, and many more topics. Another, more recent title you may also find helpful is, George E. Edwards book, LL.M. Roadmap: An International Student's Guide to U.S. Law School Programs (2011) Reserve KF272.E385 2011.
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Many members of Congress spoke out regarding the Ukrainian Famine
and submitted their remarks to the Congressional Record
By Michael Sawkiw Jr.
Ukrainian National Information Service
The Ukrainian Weekly
Ukrainian National Association
Parsippany, NJ 07054
October 25, 1998
WASHINGTON - Members of both houses of Congress have passed a
concurrent resolution commemorating the 65th anniversary of the Ukrainian
Famine of 1932-1933 in which 7 million perished as a direct result of Soviet
The resolution was passed by the Senate on October 21 and by the House of
Representatives on October 10 (1998).
During the Columbus Day weekend, members of Congress were in legislative
session to deliberate and negotiate the federal budget for Fiscal Year 1999.
The legislators cleared a few moments from their busy schedule, however, as
Rep. Benjamin Gilman (R-N.Y.), chairman of the House International Relations
Committee, introduced the commemorative resolution on Saturday, October 10,
thanked the co-sponsors of the resolution, and commented on the brutality of
the former Soviet regime toward the Ukrainian people. The resolution was
passed that same day.
House Concurrent Resolution 295 (H.Con.Res. 295) was sponsored by Rep.
Sander Levin (D-Mich.), co-chair of the Congressional Ukrainian Caucus.
Supported by the other co-chairs and members of the Congressional Ukrainian
Caucus, the Ukrainian Famine Resolution attracted 71 co-sponsors.
The resolution expresses "the sense of Congress that the 65th anniversary of
the Ukrainian Famine of 1932-1933 should serve as a reminder of the
brutality of the government of the former Soviet Union's repressive policies
toward the Ukrainian people."
Copies of the resolution will be transmitted to the president of the United
States, the secretary of state, and the co-chairs of the Congressional
Ukrainian Caucus. The secretary of state is further instructed to transmit a
copy of the resolution to the government of Ukraine.
Prior to the official passage of the resolution, during a private luncheon
for Prime Minister Valerii Pustovoytenko with members of the Ukrainian
American community, UNIS Director Michael Sawkiw Jr. informed the head
of the Ukrainian government about the work of the U.S. Congress regarding
anniversary commemorations of the Great Famine.
The Ukrainian government will officially recognize the tragedy of the
Ukrainian famine with a special day of observances on Sunday, November 8,
the same day as has been designated by the Ukrainian American community
for commemoration of the famine in the United States.
During deliberations on the House floor, several members of Congress
expressed their support for the Famine resolution. In his introduction of
the resolution, Rep. Gilman stated: "Soviet dictator Joseph Stalin and other
Communist leaders knew people were starving to death as a result of their
policies. The Soviet regime and its leaders did nothing to help the famine's
victims, instead using it as a means to better subdue Ukrainian resistance
to the Communist regime and the rule of Moscow."
The chairman of the International Relations Committee, a long-time supporter
of Ukrainian issues, expressed his opinion that, "it [the resolution] serves
as an important reminder, not just of the innocent victims of the Famine,
but of the reasons why the United States and its democratic allies engaged
in a Cold War."
Democrats and Republicans were given 20 minutes each on the House floor to
provide their comments on the resolution. Rep. Alcee Hastings (D-Fla.), a
member of the International Relations Committee, also expressed his views on
the message the resolution sends: "Congress condemns the former Soviet
government's disregard for human life, human liberty and self-determination
during the Famine, ... Congress sees today's Ukraine moving toward
democracy, a free-market economy and full respect for human rights and
supports the United States assistance to Ukraine as it proceeds down this
The main sponsor of the resolution, Rep. Levin expressed his appreciation to
the chairman and ranking member of the International Relations Committee for
scheduling the resolution on the floor. "At least 7 million Ukrainians
died," stated Rep. Levin, "not by natural causes of drought or flood or a
poor harvest - rather 7 million died because the leaders of the former
Soviet Union chose to use food as a weapon ... It is important that we
remember the Ukrainian Famine and its victims. We must remember and do
everything we can to prevent similar tragedies from happening again."
Rep. Jon D. Fox (R-Pa.), co-chair of the Congressional Ukrainian Caucus,
also spoke: "The Ukrainian Famine was a tragic period of history in which
the Soviet Union inflicted a brutal repressive policy upon the Ukrainian
people. This policy was designed to punish the people of Ukraine for its
aversion to the oppressive and imperialistic government of the former Soviet
Rep. Chris Smith (R-N.J.), co-chair of the Helsinki Commission, expressed
his strong view about the Famine: "The Famine indeed constituted genocide,
with Stalin using food as a political weapon to achieve his aim of
suppressing any Ukrainian expression of political and cultural identity and
self-assertion. The Ukrainian Famine is a glaring illustration of the
brutality of a totalitarian, imperialistic regime in which respect for human
rights is a mockery and the rule of law is a sham."
Many members of Congress also submitted their remarks to the Congressional
Record. The following is a small sample of the remarks offered by many
members of Congress in recognition of the Ukrainian Famine:
Rep. Steven Rothman (D-N.J.): "By passing H.Con.Res. 295 today, Congress
will be bringing the world's attention to this tragedy and will help the
emotional scars of those who endured the Ukrainian Famine ... This
resolution offers a small measure of justice to the thousands of Ukrainian
Americans who still suffer from the cruelty exacted upon them by Soviet
authorities earlier this century."
Rep. Louise Slaughter (D-N.Y.): "As a co-chair of the Congressional
Ukrainian Caucus, I am pleased that the House leadership has chosen to bring
this resolution to the floor. I would also like to thank my friends at the
Ukrainian Congress Committee of America for working so hard on this issue.
Today Ukraine stands out as a fledgling, young democracy. Its people and its
government [are] working to build a system of fair competition and free
Rep. Maurice Hinchey (D-N.Y.): "As a Ukrainian American I wish to call
attention of the House and the American people to the crimes against my
family's people ... The Ukrainian Famine did not end until Stalin had gotten
his way and subjugated the Ukrainian people. They still suffer today from
the consequences of his actions: they have never been able to fully rebuild
the agricultural economy that had once made Ukraine the envy of the region.
I believe they will rebuild it, hopefully with our help."
Rep. Nita Lowey (D-N.Y.): "Sixty-five years ago the Ukrainian people were
suffering from a horrific man-made catastrophe. It is a testament to their
strength as a people that today's Ukraine is progressing with democratic and
economic reforms, and is one of the strongest allies in the region."
Rep. David E. Bonior (D-Mich.): "We should never forget this tragedy. We
should honor the memory of the millions of victims. And we should support
the efforts of the people of Ukraine, who were subjected to the Famine and
to decades of oppressive Soviet rule, as they continue on their path to
democracy, respect for human rights and economic progress."
Rep. Tom Lantos (D-Calif.): "It is most appropriate that we commemorate - in
sorrow and regret - this tragic episode in the history of Ukraine ... This
is also an occasion for us to rejoice that the people of Ukraine are now in
the position to determine their own destiny. It is important for the people
of Ukraine to know that we in the United States welcome their independence
and that we are committed to their success."
Rep. Dennis Kucinich (D-Ohio): "The victims of the Ukrainian Famine should
be solemnly remembered, Congress should condemn the systematic disregard for
human life, and material to assist in the dissemination of information about
the Ukrainian Famine should be compiled and made available worldwide for the
study of this devastation."
In a similar manner, on October 21 the United States Senate passed its
version of the Famine resolution, which had been introduced by Sen. Carl
Levin (D-Mich.) on October 1. The senator gave a brief overview of the
devastation of the Great Famine and its effects on the Ukrainian people.
Sen. Levin underlined the assault on the Ukrainian intelligentsia as a means
of subduing the Ukrainian nation. "When children in the United States study
the dark periods of human history," remarked Sen. Levin, "it is important
that the Ukrainian Famine of 1932-1933 be included."
Sen. Levin added that, "despite the tragedy the people of Ukraine endured at
the hands of Stalin's government and many years of Soviet domination,
Ukraine has re-emerged with its vibrant cultural and religious traditions
The chair of the Helsinki Commission, Sen. Alfonse D'Amato (R-N.Y.)
remarked on the work of the Ukraine Famine Commission, which was
established in 1985 to examine the causes and effects of the famine.
the Ukrainian Famine occurred within the context of a Soviet system which
denied and vigorously opposed democratic values, the rule of law, and any
respect for elementary human rights," stated Sen. D'Amato.
Sen. D'Amato said he "strongly agrees with the resolution's assertion that
it is essential that the United States continue to assist Ukraine as it
proceeds towards democracy, a free-market economy and full respect of
human rights. It is imperative for America and for the West to support
independence and democracy in Ukraine."
All senators and representatives urged their colleagues to join them in
supporting the resolution. Members of Congress have five legislative days to
revise and extend their remarks regarding the famine resolution.


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Here Kathleen Graham, manager of Curraghs Wildlife Park, writes the third in a series of columns updating you on the goings on around the park
WE'VE had a busy October.
In fact we've had more visitors in this month than any other October since records began.
We have now had more visitors than the whole of last year so we are on track for the busiest season since 2006.
The Hop-tu-Naa event was really well attended, with the help of Crossroads Caring for Carers so a big thank you to them and all the people that attended and helped to make it such a good event.
We may be closed now during the week but we are still open at weekends and the work never stops.
We are preparing exciting events for the Christmas period with a fun packed weekend on December 15 and 16.
We are also busy with schools during the week as Liz runs her ever popular Rain Forest Theatre and Colour Me Wild education sessions.
I recently went across to Shepreth Wildlife Park near Cambridge to attend the BIAZA (British and Irish Association of Zoos and Aquariums) small collections meeting.
This is a great event where similar sized wildlife parks and zoos can swap ideas... and animals.
I dropped off two pink-backed pelicans (we still have four at the park) to Bristol Zoo, four Cain oads for Folly Farm in Wales and the last of our beavers for a release site in Scotland, where they will be living a life in the wild.
I brought back a female raccoon as a mate for our male and the park's first African crested porcupine.
He is a very young male; in fact he is so small at the moment that we are keeping him off show in an animal house until we have his enclosure ready (the old beaver enclosure).
We will then find a female to join him soon.
The fishing cat kitten is continuing to thrive and grow...this has perhaps been the best achievement this year and makes all the staff's hard work worthwhile.


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Some Lafayette County residents say they've received cellphone text alerts telling them their debit card has been deactivated, and the Lafayette County Sheriff's Office is calling the messages a scam.
The text message asks the customer to call First National Bank. When the customer calls the number, they're given they're asked by an automated message to enter their 16-digit card number.
Investigators said no one should respond to the message, and it's unlikely a financial institution would contact customers via text message with this type of request.
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"I just tweaked it a little bit," Modano said. "There's an outside chance I'll play Wednesday. We'll see how the next couple of days go."
Stars coach Rick Wilson, who had already planned to give Modano the next two days off before Wednesday's game against Los Angeles, said the team's leading scorer is day-to-day.
"It's not too bad," Wilson said.
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Aaron Wissner interviews Robert Rapier after ASPO 2011
Following last year's ASPO conference, I was interviewed by Aaron Wissner of Local Future, which is a non-profit educational organization dedicated to issues of energy, the environment, and sustainability. Aaron just made that interview available, and instead of an R-Squared Energy TV episode this week, I thought I would share this interview with readers.
Among other things, we discuss:
- The reasons that I became interested in energy issues
- My Long Recession hypothesis
- The relationship between oil prices and recession
- The importance of taking control of your personal energy consumption
- Why lower oil consumption in the U.S. didn't lead to lower oil prices
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28 Days Later | G Diet Afterthoughts
Contributing Monkie Sarah Backhouse
Published on January 4, 2009
Filed Under Fitness/Diet, G Living Tags diet, Vegan
I know you've been suffering withdrawal symptoms since my G diet diary ended, so I thought it was a good time for an update — the results of which may surprise you. You know what's funny? At the time, I viewed giving up fish and dairy as a short-term sacrifice, something to do for 30 days just to see what it was like. But who would have guessed that this "experiment" would transition into my preferred way of eating. As mentioned at the conclusion of the diet, I still give myself 5% wiggle room (actually more like 2%), which means I no longer choose to eat animals or animal products, but I can as a last resort option at restaurants.
What a turnaround. It's weird to admit, but my love affair with bellinis? Over. Egg white omelet? Not interested. Yogurt atop granola? Pass.
Interesting times indeed. And definitely not anticipated.
I guess the lesson to be gleaned from all this is that it doesn't happen overnight. Your body (like mine) may not like switching to a plant-based diet at first. You might feel hungry, have a grumbling tummy, miss that full feeling you get from eating a cheeseburger or think you require more protein than you actually do. However, little by little, you'll get used to eating whole, fresh food from the earth and feel satisfied with it. My signature lunch salad — I'm a creature of habit — has switched from salmon, avocado, cucumber, greens and a creamy dressing to pinto beans, baked tofu, tomatoes and greens with a little oil and vinegar. And it's not going back.
You know, this "G" lifestyle is insidious. I'm no longer content just rethinking what's in my refrigerator, I'm peering into the wardrobe and eyeing up my collection of bags and shoes. Not that I'm about to throw out any Manolos, Guccis, Miu Mius or Marc Jacobs. (I may have become more mindful, but I certainly haven't lost my mind!) But I'll definitely be more conscious of new purchases in the designer bags and shoes department.
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What We've Already Seen
Nothing. Zip. Nada. The game was only officially announced a couple of weeks ago, so seeing it in San Diego was a surprise to us.
What We're Seeing Today
Prior to Comic-Con, only 11 people had seen the game, something the lead designer Mike Laidlaw was fond of pointing out to the gathering of gamers that descended on San Diego last weekend. This means they've been working hard on the game, and they were very ready to show off the improvements they have made so far.
Laidlaw said BioWare knows where Dragon Age: Origins fell short last time, and what most of the complaints were. In fact, he came right out and asked gamers "What didn't work?" Bioware is pretty hard on itself, since this game did very well, because their laundry list included graphics, controls, and combat. But this means they're improving all of those areas, and we're all for that.
Here's a list of the fixes coming to Dragon Age 2.
- Graphics: They're using an enhanced graphics engine and a new, distinct style. This will be evident in the trailer they release next month, but the game looks grittier and the character models look like they are clawing their way out of the Uncanny Valley.
- Controls: Are now more responsive. Orders are easier to issue, and happen immediately. According to Laidlaw, "I want something awesome to happen every time I hit a button."
- Combat: They want you to be able to "Think like a General, fight like a Spartan" when you play this game, meaning you're thinking about tactics while you're up front hacking and slashing.
- Silent Player: Last time around, your character was completely mute, even though others were talking to you throughout. This time around, you'll actually hear your responses.
- Framed Narrative: Dragon Age: Origins took place over two years, but Dragon Age 2 has a 10-year timespan. You'll see your character evolve over that time and see the direct results of your actions on the world. "It's the most reactive game we've ever made," said Laidlaw.
They've also added some new elements to enhance the story. "Tapestries" are what they are calling their interstitial animations. These are the equivalent of newsreels from the 1940s, although done in a woven tapestry art style. They will update you on the story, and fill in information between missions. There is also a very welcome addition to the conversation wheel. As you select your response to a character, you'll notice an icon in the middle of the wheel. This tells you, generally, what type of response you're giving. For instance, if you give them a hostile response, you'll see a red fist. Play it cool and easy, and you'll see a green leaf. Or my favorite, give the smartass response and see a yellow "comedy" mask.
I only were able to play in one extremely small area, with one boss at the end, but you can feel the change in the controls immediately. I had control of two characters, a mage and a warrior, and it was very easy to hack and slash up front with the warrior, while you stood back as ranged artillery with the mage. Enemies explode into a blood mist with certain attacks, which leaves only their boots standing. Issuing orders can be done on the fly, or while the game is paused, and coordinated attacks are much easier to pull off. Heck, the mage even has his own finishing moves for boss battles now.
I spoke to Laidlaw after the demo who answered a few questions:
- On the main character Hawke being human only: "We wanted to focus on how humanity has been affected by the events in the game, so it made sense for our main character to be human."
- Will previous game achievements carry over? "Yes, although we haven't said how we're going to do it yet. We definitely want to reward characters who have played Origins and the DLC, and we want to reward them in a way that can also continue past Dragon Age II.
- On special editions and DLC: "We will definitely be talking about a special edition at some point, and the DLC from Origins will be tied to this game as well. You will see characters from that DLC in this game."
- PC interface: "The PC interface will definitely be more robust."
Obviously, it's impossible to get a feel for the entire game based on the sliver I saw, but it definitely looks improved across the board, and the graphic updates are most welcome. I'm sure we'll see more of this game in the coming months so we can bring you more information and a more in-depth preview, but for now, I'm impressed.
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I cannot wait for more Dragon Age, my sword is getting rusty....that sounded more perverted than macho, huh?Posted: August 12, 2010 7:11 AM
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These tender, lemon-flavored muffins are studded with juicy red raspberries and have a lemony, streusel-like topping for crunch and extra sweetness.
In a large bowl, whisk together the egg, brown sugar, butter, milk and lemon zest. Add 1 ½ cups flour, salt and baking powder to the bowl; whisk until well combined. Put the raspberries in a small bag with a tablespoon of flour and shake gently until the berries have been evenly coated. Fold the raspberries into the batter and then divide the batter evenly among a paper-lined muffin pan. Set aside. Next, make the streusel topping by mixing the flour, sugar, butter and lemon zest together with a fork or your fingers until the mixture resembles small crumbs. Sprinkle the topping evenly over the muffins and bake in a 350°F oven for 18 to 20 minutes or until a toothpick inserted into the center comes out clean. Cool for 5 minutes in the pan and then transfer to a wire rack to finish cooling. Muffins are best eaten the day they're made, but can be kept at room temperature in an airtight container for up to two days.


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Upon leaving the concert at the Manchester Arena, one fan says: "Two giants of the pop music world together on one stage all makes one unforgettable night! Amazing show, great vocals - these bands have still got it! I haven't danced and sang so much in years and I can't wait till they do this again - hopefully sooner rather than later!" Clearly the two bands have still got the talent to drive girls crazy. On their reunion tour, Backstreet Boys stopped off in Manchester and Winkball reporters were there every step of the way to see them drive girls wild and capture the passion. Do you have a view on the Backstreet Boys? Leave a wink online now.
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Toronto After Dark Review: Deadheads
Mike (Michael McKiddy) wakes up in a laboratory with amnesia, somehow less dead than the other zombies running around the countryside. He quickly teams up with Brent (Ross Kidder), an even more talkative zombie, and finds himself on a quest to win back the heart of his girlfriend Ellie (Natalie Victoria). Trouble follows wherever they go, and there's nothing quite like watching the trials and tribulations of two of the undead. Deadheads is a zombie buddy comedy with a heart, and an incredibly fun one at that.
This is the type of independent horror film I really love to watch. Not only is it flat-out entertaining, but you can tell that it is made with dedication and respect for a variety of genres. Deadheads is incredibly witty and clever, somehow managing to create a zombie romantic comedy that doesn't seem ridiculous. Brother writing/directing team Brett and Drew Pierce craft a script with unhealthy amounts of zombie madness, but also featuring a road trip and romance. What else could you ask for?
These aren't your typical zombies, and you should be prepared for that going in. As Ben Bussey in his FrightFest review of Deadheads noted: "take the film in the spirit it is intended." There's no better advice before you watch Deadheads, which is meant to be a dark, funny, unique take on the subgenre. If you over-analyze it, you will not enjoy Deadheads, which would be tragic because the film is genuinely entertaining. From a great beginning where Mike, a zombie himself, runs from other zombies, to an absurd yet rewarding ending, there's a lot here to enjoy. Additionally, there's an interactive element to Deadheads that I loved, solely due to the continuous and often hilarious pop culture references. Though I usually consider festival screenings a rather sacred space and ban myself from talking, I couldn't help leaning over to a friend and asking if a certain sequence was a Ferris Bueller's Day Off reference. This doesn't make Deadheads a perfect film – it falls flat at times, and the middle runs slowly, heavy with the strain of too many characters. That being said, it all pays off in the end, in a silly, reflexive moment.
Deadheads is a well-rounded film complete with heartwarming scenes, and some genuinely dark moments that surprised me. The actors look like they're having as much fun as I did watching it, and the film wouldn't work without good chemistry between the two leads, Michael McKiddy and Ross Kidder. Natalie Victoria is also a welcome addition, as gorgeous and earnest in person as she is on screen. Backed by a fresh, fast-paced script filled with quick, witty dialogue, Deadheads is the perfect film for late-night viewings with groups of friends, and is absolutely ideal for a screening at a drive-in. (I will continue to hope for US and Canadian distribution so this can actually happen.)
Deadheads was helped along by being paired with perfect short – Play Dead, which focuses on the lives of our pets in the aftermath of the zombie apocalypse. Also a unique and darkly funny take on zombies, Play Dead made me smile and cringe, which set the perfect tone for two hours well-spent in a theater.


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Consists of hands-on practice of the procedures most frequently performed in the physician's office laboratory. Learning to perform basic tests manually gives students a clear understanding of the theory behind the test, as well as an understanding of how the automated laboratory equipment works. CLIA and OSHA, Universal Precautions and quality control are utilized throughout the course. Chemistry, microbiology, hematology, urninalysis, venipuncture and capillary punctures are practiced throughout the course. Required is 75 hours (5 hours/week for 15 weeks) clinical experience at a physician's office.
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Hiram O Taylor Post 189 of the American Legion Veterans Day parade, will be held Sunday, November 6, at 1 p.m. A shuttle bus will run at noon, from Post Hall, School Street in Sterling. A speaking program will be held at Memorial Park at the end of parade. The Avenue of Flags will be held weather permitting. The parade will start from Hillside Cemetery on Route 62.


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CLEVELAND — The imposing right-hander on the mound to start the game looked like Justin Masterson, All-Star and Cleveland Indians ace.
But he certainly didn't pitch like a No. 1 starter. Not even close.
Masterson followed up a stellar start on opening day with a dud, lasting just 32/3 innings as the Indians were outslugged 10-7 yesterday by the Minnesota Twins, who won the final two games of the three-game series.
Masterson's outing continued a poor early trend this season for Cleveland's five starters, who are a combined 0-2 with a 5.83 ERA.
Manager Terry Francona said it's too early to worry."
"I don't think you start to give up on your guys on April 6," he said.
Masterson pitched brilliantly last week at Oakland, breezing through seven shutout innings. He struggled from the outset against the Twins, allowing five earned runs and seven hits. He also walked three, hit two batters and needed 97 pitches to record just 11 outs.
Hardly the start the Indians have come to expect from Masterson, who gave a critical review of his performance, referring to himself as "a big dummy" and "fool."
"It seemed like it was one of those days in general," he said. "You want to make some adjustments, but it just didn't happen. That was kind of the hard part. … I wasn't able to get into the strike zone."
Chris Colabello drove in four runs and Brian Dozier scored three times for Minnesota.
The Indians battled back from a 6-2 deficit by scoring three times in the fourth on Jason Kipnis' bases-clearing double and then tied it in the fifth on David Murphy's RBI double.
But Colabello broke the tie with a three-run double in the sixth off Blake Wood (0-1), who created the mess by walking two and hitting a batter to load the bases.
"That hurts because we had just clawed back into it," Francona said.
Joe Mauer had three hits and scored twice for the Twins. Anthony Swarzak (1-0) picked up the win in relief of Ricky Nolasco, and Glen Perkins worked a perfect ninth for his second save.
Murphy had four hits and Yan Gomes hit a two-run homer for Cleveland, which couldn't capitalize on other scoring chances. The Indians grounded into rally-killing double plays in the sixth and eighth innings and stranded 12 runners.


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Health > Saratoga Chiropractic Therapy
Saratoga chiropractic therapy benefits more than just an achy back. Learn the basics of this holistic health practice and discover how Saratoga chiropractic therapy can benefit you. Ready to make an appointment? Find Saratoga Springs NY chiropractors here!
What is chiropractic therapy?
Chiropractic therapy is a holistic health care discipline that focuses primarily on the body's musculoskeletal structure as it relates to the central nervous system and proper body function. Practitioners manipulate your musculoskeletal structure (mainly the spine) to achieve relief and healing throughout your body.
Why does chiropractic therapy work?
Chiropractic therapy holds that "subluxations," or misaligned vertebrae, cause blockages along nerve bundles in the spinal column.
Mechanical disorders interfere with nerve signals to the brain, thus having a debilitating effect on proper nerve function. Because the majority of your body relies on the central nervous system to function properly, chiropractic medicine asserts that susceptibility to other diseases increases when your spine suffers from these subluxations.
Following the same logic, chiropractic treatments, such as musculoskeletal manipulation and spinal realignment, are believed to greatly improve nerve function and therefore help restore you back to health.
What can chiropractic therapy treat?
Patients most commonly visit the chiropractor's office for neck aches, back pain and migraine headaches, but Saratoga chiropractic therapy benefits more than just these ailments.
Chiropractic therapy may also be instrumental in healing a wide range of other disorders, including frequent colds, infantile colic, joint problems in the shoulders, knees and jaw, PMS, asthma and a variety of other conditions. Many of these ailments seemingly have nothing to do with spinal mobility or musculoskeletal function, but when viewed in light of central nervous system function, the correlation becomes more evident.
What is the visit like?
Prior to treatment, there is typically an evaluation. Similar to most medical practitioners, chiropractors ask a series of questions about your medical history, lifestyle and exercise routines in addition to performing physical examinations. Chiropractors may identify mechanical disorders by using x-ray imaging, physical examination or simply listening to your complaints. These evaluations are part of a standard routine to help the chiropractor learn enough about your condition to effectively diagnose and treat your problem.
After the diagnosis, treatment begins. The patient lies, usually facedown, on a flat, comfortable table, which resembles a bed.
During the process of spinal manipulation, the chiropractor may also incorporate massage, heat, water, ultrasound or electrical therapy. Many of these techniques help to loosen up tense muscles that are holding parts of the skeletal structure in misalignment. Straps and braces may also be necessary for support during treatment.
Chiropractors do not perform surgery on their patients; nor do they prescribe medications. This is due to their strong belief in the body's self-regenerative qualities. They may, however, give recommendations for changes in diet and exercise patterns to aid in this process.
In New York State, licensed chiropractors must earn a degree as a Doctor of Chiropractic from an accredited chiropractic college, as well as pass both written and practical ("hands on") examinations.
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Just in time for the recession, Roberto Cavalli has introduced an exclusive snakeskin credit card.
Rather than the platinum of the "other†cards, the snake hide card is made of authentic snake. Why stick to a boring bank card when you can carry around a shimmering piece of animal-print plastic?
Special VIP services at every Cavalli boutique worldwide, special sale privileges, and exclusive invitations to fashion shows and events are the tip of the diamond iceberg of Cavalli card benefits. The card is set to go global as of March 1st.