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Critics' Circle names 'Matilda' top musical
NEW YORK -- The New York Drama Critics' Circle has voted "Vanya and Sonia and Masha and Spike" as best play and "Matilda: The Musical" as best musical.
The circle on Friday also handed out special citations to the New York City Center's "Encore!" concert series, to the Soho Rep for a stellar season and to John Lee Beatty for career excellence in scenic design.
Christopher Durang's "Vanya and Sonia" beat out "The Assembled Parties" for best play honor on the fourth ballot. The group chose not to pick a best foreign play recipient. "Matilda" sailed to victory on the first musical ballot.
The Circle is composed of 26 drama critics from daily newspapers, magazines, wire services and websites based in the New York metropolitan area. The Associated Press is a member. Awards have been handed out since 1936, making them the nation's second-oldest theater awards, after the Pulitzer Prize for drama.
This year's awards will be presented at a private ceremony on May 13.
"Matilda" has been nominated for 12 Tony Awards, including best musical, and "Vanya and Sonia" for six, including best play.


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Webster Alumnus Uses Crowdsourcing for Funding
Jul. 24, 2013
ST. LOUIS, July 24, 2013 – Since the age of 12, Webster University alumnus Jeff Minnis
'06, Computer Science, has been an independent entrepreneur. He started his company,
Jeff Computers, with money he'd saved from working on computers for family and friends.
Since then, it's grown to a 1,500 square-foot-office with eight full-time employees.
In high school, he developed StudyX, a learning software program that helped him study since his Asperger's syndrome made it difficult to focus and learn. Before graduating from Webster, he was able to sell more than 100 copies per month of StudyX through his website. In 2012, he formed Plazsoft, a software development company that handles StudyX and his newest venture, Yargis, a space-themed video game.
While he used traditional funding for his other business ventures, for Yargis he turned to Kickstarter, a website that allows users to post projects and receive funds from the public.
"It gives us a unique opportunity to raise funds as well as help us spread the word and connect with our players," said Minnis. "This allows us to be self-published. We're able to do what we want with the game and we don't have a publisher telling us what to do. It's up to us and the users."
In Yargis, players create spaceships and fight in missions helping the main character, Yargis, defend earth. As playersovercome challenges and advance to higher levels, they can unlock weapons and spaceship upgrades. Yargis also allows players to create their own custom game using the same level editor that was used to create the game. Users can drag and drop features such as planets and ships to customize the game and create unique adventures.
In just two weeks the Yargis kickstarter page raised more than $10,000 allowing Minnis to release Yargis as both a downloadable game and a boxed CD. Additional funds coming in will help Minnis and his team add more graphics and features to Yargis before the beta version is released this fall.
In addition to raising funds, Kickstarter has helped Minnis spread the word about the game.
"We have backers from all over the world, funds have come from right here in St. Louis and also Washington, D.C., and Philadelphia. We even have a backer from Austria."
While the interest has come from around the world, the game is entirely made in St. Louis with the graphics, programming, marketing and even an original soundtrack all developed with local talent.
Isaac Brodsky, a Computer Science major at Webster, is on the Yargis team.
"Most of what I do is designing systems and programming," Brodsky said. "I recently worked on an issue where we needed our game to be able to find other computers and after doing some research, I found a solution that's working well. It was satisfying to find, demonstrate and build a solution."
Although there is a small team of people working on Yargis, Minnis has big plans for the game.
"We think Yargis offers the action, creativity and fun to be considered for the Indie Space Game of the Year [an award given by the Independent Games Festival]," Minnis said.
With the $10,000 Kickstarter money, the beta launch of Yargis should happen in a few months. To pre-order the game, visit the Yargis website. For more information about Webster's computer science program, visit the department's website.


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The Black Pills (Crime Can't Win #9, Feb 1952)
Daniel Loprieno was drawing for American comic books in the 1940s and 1950s. He drew 'Mr. Risk' for Ace Comics and contributed to mystery and crime titles by Better Publications and Timely/Atlas, including Adventures into Darkness, Date with Danger, Crime Can't Win, Journey Into Unknown Worlds and Strange Tales. His art was also featured in titles by Hillman, D.S. Publishing and Lev Gleason. In the 1960s, he was an inker for Disney features at Dell Publishing.


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Jon Favreau and Roberto Orci were on hand to debut about nine minutes of brand new Cowboys and Aliens footage, including the big alien money shot. So what did they look like, read our description now!
The first scene opens with Daniel Craig busting into a seemingly empty home. Craig is bleeding through his clothes and starts to wash up but is interrupted by a gun cocked to the back of his head. "Palms to the Heaven, friend," says Clancy Brown! Naturally, Clancy is pissed that Craig is in his house, and carts him off to prison.
Meanwhile, on the other side of town, Boss Man Harrison Ford has one of his farm hands strung up, Hitcher-style, to two horses. The man is being accused of blowing up all of Harrison Ford's cows, and now he's going to pay. No one believes the man's story that a bright light blasted out of the sky and killed all of the cows. Ford accuses the man of being sick, but in an act of mercy he unties the man's arms and slaps the horse off. This way the guy will just be dragged to his death, instead of pulled apart by horses. (Sidenote: can horses really pull a man apart?)
Then Ford is told that Craig's character, Jake, is in prison. He takes off, seemingly to go get Craig. He rides into town right about the time the aliens attack the little one-horse town. Which you've seen in the trailer:
But what you didn't see was the townspeople's reaction. We finally got to see Sam Rockwell as the saloon owner with the stereotypical mustache, spectacles and apron, and the rest of the town's Western caricatures. Come to think of it, a lot of the characters in this film are really caricatures, The Preacher (Clancy), the man in the black hat (Daniel Craig), the Big Boss (Harrison Ford), the spoiled rich kid with the fancy suits (Paul Dano), the wide-eyed little boy (Noah Ringer). Anyway, after Craig downs the space ship with his alien tech bracelet, The Preacher starts calling the big metal pods in the sky "Demons." And there's a bit of back and forth about religion.
Ford and Craig strike up an uneasy balance, and then stare at each other for what seems like five minutes. Seriously this film can blow up the whole of New Mexico but the sparks can't hold a candle to the steely gazes these two exchange.
Then the sizzle reel started up, and things started moving much faster. Olivia Wilde is clearly the mysterious brains of the operation, and is instructing Craig on what to do when dealing with the alien foe. One of the rules: Don't look into the light. He looks into the light, naturally, and is dumbstruck and the Tron hottie has to bust open the alien beam, shattering the connection. Another quick cut revealed some sort of dark pod area with townsfolk huddled around (could these be the people that were abducted in the trailer?).
But let's get to the money shot. All we've seen of the aliens thus far in the trailers are their ships, which look like metal centipedes, and the random tentacle that sucks up townsfolk into their ships. In this super fast scene, Noah Ringer is hiding in the rocks of a clip, his back to the wall. The camera goes into his POV and a giant turtle-headed creature jumps into the cave's opening. Dark, possibly scaly, big, and aggressive. It was very fast, but menacing. Not sure what the full body looks like, since we only saw the head, but it appeared to be scary.
Another big stand out from the screening was the score. Holy hell is this music channeling old school Westerns hard. We half expected a chorus of cowboys to pop up with all the vocal ooohs and aahhhs going on and hard harmonica-esque riffs. But we're not complaining — it totally fits in with the hard Western shtick that this movie is channeling.
This movie is going to live and die on its Western verisimilitude. It seems like the film-makers went full bore with all the Western motifs, quips and characters. Their dedication to this genre will either pay off tremendously or backfire horribly. With actors like Craig, Ford and Rockwell and Walton Goggins, you'd think they could do no wrong. But a few dialog bits in the footage made us a little bit cautious. The banter (specifically with Sam Rockwell's scene) felt a little improv-heavy. Like Iron Man 2. But then again, we only saw the tiniest bit of dialog. And everything Craig and Ford was spot on. So perhaps we're just nervous that the drama won't be able to live up to the excellent action.
And finally, don't hold your breath for the Favreau cameo in Cowboys & Aliens — after Family Guy made fun of him Fav admitted to the crowd that he probably won't be doing any cameos for a little while.


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Voices of strong women in Seven29/11/2010
On December 6th, I will play the role of Anabella de Leon in Seven, on stage in The Hague. Seven is a groundbreaking documentary play based on interviews with seven women's rights activists from around the world.
Location: Nieuwe Kerk, Den Haag. Time: 20:00 h.
Order your free ticket by e-mail: [email protected].
I am thrilled to be reading the part of Annabella de Leon, a Guatamalan member of parliament. Annabella raised herself and her family out poverty by getting an education and becoming a lawyer. She has been a congresswoman since 1995 has received death threats because of her fight against corruption and for the rights of the poor, particularly women and indigenous peoples.
Others joining in the reading are four Dutch national politicians: Mirjam Sterk (Christian-Democrat), Nehabat Albayrak (Labour), Pia Dijkstra (D66) and Jeanine Hennis-Plasschaert (VVD). The other roles are played by Farah Karimi, Director of Oxfam Novib and Birgitta Ohlsson, the Minister for EU-affairs of Sweden. You are welcome to join us for an evening of inspiration.
"The play powerfully portrays the transformative way that seven courageous women have changed their societies for the better," says US Secretary of State, Hillary Clinton
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For those of you who would like to listen to my recorded audiobook works, you can find my growing published catalog of free audiobooks at David Clarke on Librivox. My recording of The Count of Monte Cristo has been downloaded over 100,000 times and I now have 7 books published from the Canon of Sherlock Holmes by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle and am working on the 'His Last Bow'. Let me know if you enjoy them or have any suggestions for future projects – due to copyright laws, I can only offer free versions of books written before 1924.


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DETROIT – The spread is 5.5 percentage points across the state of Michigan, but the breakdown in the Metro Detroit area is very interesting.
According to a survey commissioned by WDIV, the Detroit News and WZZM, President Barack Obama has 47.5 percent of the vote in Michigan to Republican presidential hopeful Mitt Romney's 42 percent. In Metro Detroit, Obama leads in Wayne County and Oakland County while Romney leads in Macomb County.
View: Exclusive Presidential election survey results
President Obama has a 5 percent lead in Oakland County, which means the county is still in play for the Republicans. What's really interesting is usually here in Michigan it is independent voters who fuel the spread between candidates. Not this time. Independents are pretty evenly split between Obama and Romney.
"Barack Obama and Mitt Romney are tied amongst men, but when it comes to women Obama holds a 13-point lead," said pollster Richard Czuba. "I think that is a very large margin and a very dangerous margin for Republicans."
What makes President Obama vulnerable in Michigan?
The survey tested respondents on multiple issues, but it's the economy that, in the words of Czuba, is Obama's Achilles heel. The candidates are statistically tied when it comes to the economy. Romney has 45.8 percent support and Obama has 45 percent.
Obama wins likability contest in Michigan survey
When it comes to the candidate's likability, 51.3 percent of respondents would rather sit down to have dinner with President Obama than Mitt Romney. Just 31.3 percent said they would choose Romney.
What about Paul Ryan's influence?
The numbers, according to the survey, show Romney's new running mate, Paul Ryan, has not helped gain support in Michigan. According to the survey, 24.3 percent of respondents are more likely to vote for Romney now that Ryan is at his side, and 21.3 percent are less likely to vote for him due to Ryan's influence. However, the real number is the 53.3 percent who say Ryan being added to the campaign doesn't matter to them. He has not affected their opinion on Romney.
What about Stabenow, Hoekstra showdown?
Senator Debbie Stabenow, according to the survey, is in the lead in Michigan with 47.5 percent of respondents supporting her to Pete Hoekstra's 40.5 percent. Women are fueling that spread. They are coming out for Stabenow by more than 15 percent. Independents also favor Stabenow by almost that exact margin.
"In a lot of ways, the numbers mirror what's happening in the presidential race in Michigan," said Czuba. "You have both candidates largely splitting the male vote, but in this case you have Debbie Stabenow with a 15-point lead among women. That is going to be a very significant challenge for Pete Hoekstra to overcome. He's got to do something to reach out to the female vote if he wants to win."
The numbers show that both campaigns and super PACs are going to dump millions of dollars in Michigan to energize their respective bases.


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My Triathlon Story is a Little Different from the Norm by Jennifer Adams
My triathlon story is a little different from the norm. I just started this sport this year, 2014, at age 37. I'm a mother of two young girls and I have Multiple Sclerosis. Due to leg injuries that have plagued me from overuse, it was suggested that I give triathlons a shot. I'm a runner and back in the day I used to be a swimmer.
Let me define back in the day for swimming: When I was in 7th and 8th grade. I swam on the JV Swim team. I was young, but could hold my own against girls that were a couple years older than I was. Then, in 9th grade, I gave up swimming to run Varsity Cross Country. Let's be honest, getting your 'Letter' as a freshman was pretty cool. I ran when I was a sophomore, and then gave up sports all together. My father had died and I was starting to lose my way. My senior year didn't help things. I had a medical issue that was assumed to be the onset of MS, but wasn't confirmed. 6 years later I had a severe episode, that's when I was officially diagnosed. Sometimes life hands you lemons and you fall apart.
It was a great many years later that I decided to get my health back in order. By this time I had a young daughter and wanted to feel better about myself. I was doing great and then I became pregnant with child number two. The pregnancy triggered a major relapse. It started with massive tingling throughout my entire body (except my head), then my hands seized. I could not use them. None of the attempts to stop the exacerbation were working, so I was told to ride it out. My hands slowly came back but the tingling is still present. Then I had a serious health scare that had me knocking on deaths door almost a year later. As I lay in the bed after having emergency surgery, I promised myself that I was going to be around for my daughters. Once I got the okay from the doctor, I started to run. Let's be honest, it was more like a walk/jog combo. But I was moving, so I went with it. Eventually I ran. And then I did what I always thought the impossible… I ran a half marathon. Unfortunately, I was plagued with stress injuries in my legs from over training. A couple friends of mine were getting into triathlons and I was jealous. I could still swim, and I could run, but man, I was afraid of the bike. Not to mention that the thought of transition terrified me. I would watch YouTube videos, but I was still intimidated. After running for 2 years, a dear friend who I met at my first half marathon did something extraordinary. She set up an appointment in January of this year for me at Tom's Pro Bike and said, "You're going." I purchased a bike at Tom's Pro Bike, because I was going to do this thing. I was going to do it. Now, you have to understand that I had not been on a bike since I was 16. My husband was out of town on a business trip, I called him up and told him the good news. He thought I was crazy.
To ease into getting used to the bike, I used the stationary trainer. I familiarized myself with clipping in and clipping out, changing gears and the different hand positions. I rode at least once a week for a month, and then I did the unthinkable. I registered for ECC Kats Sprint Triathlon put on by Score This! In April I went out on the bike for the first time. That.was.not.fun. I was terrified and kept thinking, "What have I gotten myself into?" But, I made myself ride. I made myself swim. I made myself run. I made myself do bricks. And I practiced and practiced.
The day before ECC Kats, a great friend came over and taught me transition. We used sidewalk chalk. I took pictures. I was going to be awful, but at least I was going to look like I knew what I was doing.
Race day, I can't eat. I barely slept. What am I doing? I am waiting for my turn to swim and it's taking every ounce of self-control to not break into tears. Once in the water, my mind went blank. I was on autopilot. I did the race, the whole thing. I didn't stop, I didn't fall, and I finished. It wasn't my finest hour, but I was a triathlete. And then I registered for PAIN. And I finished that one, too! Heck, I took 3rd in my age group! I did a total of 7 Sprint Triathlons this season. In my last one, I opted to fundraise. And guess what, next year I'm planning on doing all intermediate distances and one half-iron distance. Sprints are too short and too fast paced for me.
I'm not the model athlete. I'm not tiny, I'm not fast, and I'm not young. I wear my heart on my sleeve. I give high 5's and cheer everyone on – EVEN the competitors in my age group! Don't believe me, go ask them! I anticipate an ice-cold beer at the finish line (that's my vice for a race well done), and I'm known to talk about that beer while I'm racing. I'm not letting the MS define me; I'm defining my MS. I'm on a mission to break the stigma that is associated with the disease. The greatest compliment that I receive is hearing the shock of those I tell. Every story is different, but if this one helps give people the push to do something, anything to get them moving, then I've done my job. Never let a disability stop you or define you, let your actions do that instead.
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Holsworthy, Devon, ex22 6ad
Reiki Master Usui treatments and attuunements. free consultation.Distance: 7.26 miles.
Life Balance Reiki
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LIFE BALANCE REIKI TREATMENTS You can have help with any of these conditions... Anxiety and depression and insomnia Arthritis Headaches Fibromyalgia General aches and pains Panic attacks Back pain Sinusitis Stress Reiki can bring you [...]Distance: 7.36 miles.
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Holsworthy, Devon, EX22 7ST
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My name is Paula Jacobs, qualified therapist in Reiki Healing Indian Head Massage (VTCT Level 3) Reflexology (VTCT Level 3) Thermal Auricular (Hopi Ear [...]Distance: 8.44 miles.
Earth and Heaven Training
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Based in a Crystal shop in Bideford, North Devon and only 1 1/2 miles from the historic seaside village of Westward Ho!, Earth and [...]Distance: 11.15 miles.
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Earths Energies is run by Michael and Carmen. Michael a reiki Master and advanced crystal healer Carmen a Reiki practitioner and tarot reader. We [...]Distance: 11.24 miles.
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My name is Claire and I am a Reiki Master Practitioner with a lifelong passion for holistic therapies. Treating humans and animals, I offer Reiki [...]Distance: 11.97 miles.
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Hello and welcome to harmonize. I am Cathy and I offer Reiki healing treatments from my home in the country, or mobile. My treatment room is [...]Distance: 13.4 miles.
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Reiki is a non-invasive gentle yet powerful healing energy, reiki flows through the practitioner's hands to the client. Reiki is very relaxing to receive and can promote well-being [...]Distance: 13.52 miles.
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http://mmajunkie.com An intriguing bout between Alex "Bruce Leroy" Caceres (4-3 MMA, 0-1 UFC) and fellow featherweight Leonard Garcia (15-7-1 MMA, 2-2 UFC) had been added to August's UFC on Versus 5 lineup.
UFC officials today announced that verbal agreements are in place for the fight.
UFC on Versus 5 takes place Aug. 14 at Bradley Center in Milwaukee as
part of the UFC's Wisconsin debut. The night's main card airs live on
Caceres vs. Garcia likely will be part of the preliminary card.
Caceres, a cast member on "The Ultimate Fighter 12," missed a spot on the undercard of the show's live finale because of an injury. He then made his official UFC debut at UFC Fight Night 24, where he suffered a swift submission loss to WEC vet Mackens Semerzier. While most eliminated "TUF" cast members are one and done with the organization after a loss, UFC president Dana White said the fan favorite would get another shot.
However, Caceres finds himself in a must-win situation against Garcia, who recently was part of the WEC's fold into the UFC. After a 4-3-1 record in the WEC (including three "Fight of the Night" bonuses and an unsuccessful title fight with then-champ Mike Brown), Garcia began his second UFC appearance and won a controversial split-decision victory over Nam Phan. But most recently, he suffered a loss to Chan Sung Jung via a rare twister submission at UFC Fight Night 24.
The latest UFC on Versus 5 card now includes:
- Dan Hardy vs. Chris Lytle
- Ben Henderson vs. Jim Miller
- Cole Miller vs. T.J. O'Brien
- Joseph Benavidez vs. Eddie Wineland
- Duane Ludwig vs. Amir Sadollah
- Stephan Bonnar vs. Karlos Vemola
- C.B. Dollaway vs. Jared Hamman
- Danny Castillo vs. Jacob Volkmann
- Alex Caceres vs. Leonard Garcia
- Edwin Figueroa vs. Jason Reinhardt
For more on UFC on Versus 5, stay tuned to the MMA Rumors section of the site.
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The Horse & the Urban Environment
The following is an extended excerpt from "The Centrality of the Horse to the Nineteenth-Century American City,"* an article by Joel Tarr and Clay McShane explaining the serious environmental hazards horses presented when used in large numbers and how that related to the emergence of the automobile. Dr. McShane is a professor of history at Northeastern University while Dr. Tarr is a professor of urban and environmental history and policy at Carnegie University.
While the nineteenth century American city faced many forms of environmental pollution, none was as all encompassing as that produced by the horse. The most severe problem was that caused by horses defecating and urinating in the streets, but dead animals and noise pollution also produced serious annoyances and even health problems. The normal city horse produced between fifteen and thirty-five pounds of manure a day and about a quart of urine, usually distributed along the course of its route or deposited in the stable. While cities made sporadic attempts to keep the streets clean, the manure was everywhere, along the roadway, heaped in piles or next to stables, or ground up by the traffic and blown about by the wind. In 1818, in an attempt to control the manure nuisance, the New York City Council required that those who gathered and hauled manure, so-called "dirt carting," to be licensed, also restricting aliens to this type of carting activity. Thousands of loads of manure were gathered on special "manure-yards" to undergo a process of "rotting," and "gangs" of men were employed to overturn the manure and to expose it to weathering. In 1866, the Citizen's Association Report on the Sanitary Condition of the City observed that, "The stench arising from these accumulations of filth is intolerable."
Nineteenth century urbanites considered the stench or miasmas produced by the manure piles a serious health hazard, but cleaning was sporadic at best. Manure piles also produced huge numbers of flies, in reality a much more serious vector for infectious diseases such as typhoid fever than odors. By the turn of the century public health officials had largely accepted the bacterial theory of disease and had identified the "queen of the dung-heap" or fly, as a major source. Inventors and city officials devised improved methods of street cleaning and street sweeping became a major urban expense. Increasingly, however, it became obvious that the most effective way to eliminate the "typhoid fly" (so named by L.O. Howard, chief of the Bureau of Entomology of the Department of Agriculture and a leader in the campaign against flies), was to eliminate the horse.
Because of the manure on the streets, especially when rain created a quagmire, "crossing sweepers" (like those in London), appeared, to help ladies and gentlemen wade through the liquid manure. Citizens frequently complained about the "pulverized horse dung" which blew into their faces and houses and which covered the outside displays of merchants. The paving of streets accelerated the problem, as wheels and hoofs ground the manure against the hard surfaces and amplified the dust. Writing in Appleton's Magazine in 1908, Harold Bolce argued that most of the modern city's sanitary and economic problems were caused by the horse. Bolce charged that each year 20,000 New Yorkers died from "maladies that fly in the dust, created mainly by horse manure."
Although not as serious a problem as the manure, the noise created by horses' iron shoes and the iron-tired wheels of cars and wagons on cobblestone streets was a constant annoyance. Benjamin Franklin complained in the late-eighteenth century of the "thundering of coaches, chariots, chaises, wagons, drays and the whole fraternity of noise" which assailed the ears of Philadelphians. Boston and New York both passed ordinances banning traffic from certain streets to protect hospitals and legislative chambers from the noise. As late as the 1890s, a Scientific American writer noted that the sounds of traffic on busy New York streets made conversation nearly impossible, while the author William Dean Howells complained that "the sharp clatter of the horses' iron shoes" on the pavement tormented his ear.
If the horse created many problems for the city, it was also true that urban life was extremely hard on the horse. The average streetcar horse had a life expectancy of about four years, and it was common to see drivers and teamsters whip and abuse their horses to spur them to pull heavy loads. Overworked and mistreated urban horses often died on the city streets. In 1866, the Atlantic Monthly described Broadway as clogged with "dead horses and vehicular entanglements," and in that year the mistreatment of the urban horse stimulated Henry Bergh to found the American Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals. Streets paved with cobblestones or asphalt were slipperier than dirt roads, and a horse that broke a leg would have to be destroyed. Veterinarians recommended that city draft horses be shod with rubber covered horseshoes, but few followed this advise. In 1880, New York City removed 15,000 dead horses from its streets, and late as 1916 Chicago carted away 9,202 horse carcasses. Special trucks were devised to remove dead horses; since the average weight of dead horses was 1,300 pounds, one text on municipal refuse advised that "trucks for the removal of dead horses should be hung low, to avoid an excessive lift."
Because of their size and numbers, the disposal of dead horses presented a special problem. In New York City, for instance, horse carcasses, as well as those of other animals, were sometimes dumped with garbage into the bays or the rivers, often floating there or washing up on the beaches. Dead animals, however, also had value, and they were frequently collected and processed by fat, offal and bone-boiling firms. In the late 1860s, an "offal dock" stood at the foot of West 38th Street in New York City. From there, the carcasses of horses as well as other dead animals and offal from the city's slaughter houses was either dumped in the bay or sent to a rendering plant outside the city. Any animal parts that had a special value were removed beforehand to be made into various products such as gelatin, glue, and fertilizer. By 1880, most large cities contracted with a specific rendering house to take all dead animals. Because they were productive of extreme nuisance, cities attempted to keep these rendering firms outside their borders (at least 10 miles from downtown), but often without success.
Horses did not disappear from cities overnight. Rather, they went function by function. It has already been noted that, while horse-powered machines persisted in manufacturing until about 1850, they were largely replaced by other energy sources in the following decade. The next use of urban horses to disappear was pulling streetcars. Their demise was very rapid, as between 1888 and 1892 almost every street railway in the U.S. was electrified. A few small companies kept horses for about another decade because they could not get permission to electrify, but they were a minor element in the industry. The rapidity of the change is explained primarily by the incredible technological advantage of electric traction in terms of speed in spite of its capital intensiveness. Another benefit was that the pollution from streetcars was reduced, and moved from a non-point mobile source (the horse) to a fixed point source, the coal-burning electrical generating plant. In addition, cities no longer had to worry about removing dead traction horses from their streets.
The coming of the automobile dealt another large blow to the horse. Experimental motor cars had been around for a long time, but cities had always banned them. The crisis of the 1890s and early twentieth century, involving public health fears about pollution, traffic jams, and rising prices for both hay, oats, and urban land, made municipal governments and urban residents much more ready to switch to autos. A number of articles in popular magazines repeated the argument by a writer in Munsey's Magazine that "the horse has become unprofitable. He is too costly to buy and too costly to keep." The process of substitution went faster in the U.S., than in Europe, because American incomes were higher, cars and fuel cost less, and distances were greater. Leisure drivers came first, since the early car was purely a luxury vehicle. (When Woodrow Wilson rode a carriage in his 1917 inaugural, the last president to do so, he marked the end of the horse as a status object.) By 1907, urban doctors and some members of footloose occupations (salespersons and construction engineers, for example) had adopted cars. Mechanized cabs became commonplace around the same date. In 1906, motor buses replaced horse-drawn omnibuses on Fifth Ave., New York City, likely the last omnibus service left. In 1912, New York, London, and Paris traffic counts all showed more cars than horses for the first time. The drop in Model T prices that followed after Henry Ford opened the first assembly line plant in 1913, led to the adoption of cars by commuters. Most cities experienced their first diurnal traffic jams throughout the central business district in 1914.
*"The Centrality of the Horse to the Nineteenth-Century American City" (with Clay McShane); The Making of Urban America, (Raymond Mohl, ed.), NY: SR Publishers, pp. 105-130, 1997.


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Litchfield business group discusses Stop & Shop proposal
LITCHFIELD >> Representatives from Stop & Shop and the opposing group PLAN Litchfield each got a chance to speak at Tuesday's Litchfield Area Business Association (LABA) meeting in what became a heated debate.
Stop & Shop currently has an application in to the Planning & Zoning Commission, which, if approved, would be the final step for the company to build its upgraded 38,000 square foot facility in the Village Green plaza. The application includes the demolition of three existing buildings in the area. A hearing on the proposal has not yet been opened by the zoners.
Thomas Cody, the attorney representing Stop & Shop, urged members of LABA and the public at large to come out to the public hearing before the Planning & Zoning Commission on June 3, which he said will likely be continued to the following meeting.
These are two opportunities to hear in-depth facts about the site plan and design of the proposed building, which includes roughly 12,000 additional square feet from the current Stop & Shop located on West Street.
Cody, along with Anthony Colavolpe, managing principal of the New Haven-based real estate advisory company Citron Group LLC, presented a rendering of both the current store and what the new store will look like. An architect with Stop & Shop composed these computer generated renderings by combining the site plan with photographs of the current site.
The new store, the representatives said, would include a new fish department, which is not available at the current store. A People's Bank will be added, if there is space, as well as an expanded meat department and an organic foods section. Additions, Colavolpe said, will "make the store function better overall." Colavolpe tackled the question of why Stop & Shop doesn't relocate its store in the adjacent Rite Aid lot, something that he said the store looked at long ago and that it "did not work." He called it "not a user-friendly environment."
Members of Protect Litchfield Action Network, also called PLAN Litchfield, spoke out against Stop & Shop, as they have throughout the process. Michele Crow of PLAN mentioned how this shopping center will have an adverse effect on Litchfield's unique qualities and brand.
Big box stores like this one, Crow said, "remove the fabric that makes this town what it is" and said that the short term benefits of it are not worth it.
LABA members brought up their own concerns, including the design of the building. One Litchfield resident in attendance called the current Stop & Shop an "asphalt scab." Cody said that design issues, as well as any traffic problems will be discussed at Planning & Zoning.
Another issue brought up at LABA was the possibility of jobs being lost when additional services are added to the store that would compete with, for instance, local drug stores, banks or florists.
"It doesn't make any difference what we put in the store," Colavolpe said during what turned into a heated back and forth between the Stop & Shop and a few LABA members. "It's not going to put anybody out of business."
Earlier in the meeting, Litchfield resident Jake Horne presented the Student Compass Program, a career planning and transition mentoring program for high school and college-age students.
Sixty percent of students coming out of college are either unemployed or under-employed, Horne said. This, he said, stems from a lack of embedded soft skills like the abilities to effectively negotiate, collaborate and be creative.
"[You need to] know who you are, what your strengths and weaknesses are before you decide what to do next," Horne said.
The Student Compass holds both group and one-on-one seminar sessions for college and career planning, college skills, gap years and more.
LABA, formed as a network to connect local businesses, now has 79 members with the recent additions of Bantam Market and Bantam Fuel.
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On November 4, 2001, almost two months after 9/11, Ahmad Chalabi called a telephone number in Lebanon, according to Mohamad al-Zobaidy, who took the phone call at his apartment in Beirut, greeted Chalabi and noted his instruction. Chalabi's code name in Zobaidy's records was Our Big Brother. Take care of the two men in your custody, Chalabi told Zobaidy on the phone. Don't let anyone see the men, he insisted. Don't let them talk to anyone. Zobaidy nodded and reassured Ahmad Chalabi before hanging up the phone. Zobaidy knew how to keep secrets and how to make sure people did what he told them to do. He's not a large man, but he carries himself as if he is. A veteran of the INC (Iraqi National Congress), he wears a rakish little goatee. And he lived the life of a secret agent, ranging across borders to serve the organization's needs. In fact, his own code name in the INC was Al Deeb, The Wolf. Zobaidy, who kept an immaculate diary, would later become bitter toward Chalabi and his INC, but in 2001 and 2002 he was still a loyal and dedicated secret soldier in its cause.
Chalabi's phone call to Zobaidy puts Chalabi in the middle of one of the earliest and most significant propaganda operations run by the INC after 9/11: an elaborate series of claims that Saddam ran a school for training airline hijackers at a terrorist camp called Salman Pak.
It was Francis Brooke (Chalabi's loyal American aide) who got the message out to Aras Kareem Habib and others right after 9/11: "Get me a terrorist and some WMDs, because that's what the Bush administration wants!" He tells the story in various ways: "If you've got it, bring it on, because now's the time" is the phrase he used in another conversation. Whatever Brooke's specific instructions were, the INC campaign had two themes: to find Iraqi defectors who were prepared to make allegations about Saddam's WMDs on the one hand and defectors who'd make allegations about Saddam's links to terror on the other. All in all Chalabi's people — defectors and sources — produced four major story lines about Saddam, all of them false, but all with worldwide media coverage.
(The) story in the Times broke on November 8, 2001 — the headline was gripping, coming in those months after 9/11: "Defectors Cite Iraqi Training for Terrorists" — and it linked (Iraqi defector Sabah) Khodada's and (fellow defector) Abu Zainab's yarns together for the first time. "Two defectors from Iraqi intelligence," wrote (reporter Chris) Hedges, "said yesterday that they had worked for several years at a secret Iraqi government camp that had trained Islamic terrorists in rotations of five or six months since 1995." The story cited both Khodada and Abu Zainab, whom it called a "former lieutenant general." Abu Zainab was evocative in his descriptions, calling the Islamists at the camp "a scruffy lot" who had trained in Iraq how to take over airplanes. "We were training these people to attack installations important to the United States," Abu Zainab said in the article. "The gulf war never ended for Saddam Hussein. He is at war with the United States. We were repeatedly told this." The New York Times article pointed out that the allegations were "likely to fuel one side of an intense debate in Washington over whether to extend the war against Osama bin Laden and the Taliban government of Afghanistan to include Iraq."
Capitalizing on the publicity
Chalabi lost no time in capitalizing on the publicity. Working over the weekend at the Pennsylvania Avenue address of the INC, just blocks from the White House, the INC was anxious to prove that the hundreds of thousands of dollars per month in information-collection program funds were being spent well. The INC dashed out a report to the State Department, boasting that it continued to "collect sensitive information that reveals Iraq's link with September 11th aftermath." That's an intriguing part of the story, because it indicates that the State Department, while not believing Chalabi's information, should have been aware of the propaganda operation.
As dramatic as all the information was, the Central Intelligence Agency never bought it. "It was tainted," said one member of the Iraqi Operations Group. "We knew that Salman Pak was used to train Palestinians in the 1990s but not al Qaeda." The agency's Iraqi Operations Group wrote up an analysis stating that "we have determined that much of his (Abu Zainab's) information is inaccurate and appears aimed at influencing U.S.(and probably Western) policy on Iraq."
And a year after 9/11, on September 29, 2002, well before any invasion of Iraq, the CIA produced a secret report to explain its views about Salman Pak. "At least one of these defectors," the CIA analysts wrote, referring to Abu Zainab, "had embellished and exaggerated his access. . . . No al Qaeda associated detainee since 11 September have said they trained at Salman Pak."
This might have put it all to bed, except it came far too late. At a bare minimum it was fifteen days too late. On September 12, 2002, President George Bush stood before the General Assembly of the United Nations and gave a speech that largely foreshadowed the case for war, as troops were already heading toward the Gulf. That same day, the White House released a fact sheet to go along with the presidential speech, which was supposed to assist reporters in their coverage of the story. It repeated the now well-worn allegations about Salman Pak. "Former Iraqi military officers," it said, clearly referring to Abu Zainab and Sabah Khodada, "have described a highly secret terrorist training facility in Iraq known as Salman Pak, where both Iraqis and non-Iraqi Arabs receive training on hijacking planes and trains, planting explosives in cities, sabotage, and assassinations."
It had been nearly a full year since Ahmad Chalabi met with the DIA (Defense Intelligence Agency) to tell them the tale. It had been fully investigated and essentially discarded. Even Chalabi's own people didn't believe the chief source.
But still, Chalabi's allegations about Saddam's role in training hijackers had found their way into the White House press office as it made the case for war.
The whole story cost the INC no money at all. Not a dime. After all, the group's budget was entirely paid for by the State Department, which grudgingly and unwittingly paid for all expenses. Abu Zainab's expenses … and everything the INC spent on their efforts was paid for by American taxpayers.


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Arrival and departure
International students should arrive at the latest by the compulsory information sessions. These always take place on the Wednesday and Thursday before the official start of classes.
We recommend arriving earlier to be able to participate in the welcome program and the preparatory language course. This program usually starts one day after your move-in, which is about two weeks before the first week of classes.
After your online-application you will receive a letter with all necessary dates. You may also click on the links above. In any case it is best to arrive on the official move-in day. It is not possible to arrive Friday afternoon, on a holiday or on weekends!
Move-in: The day of move-in is generally the first weekday of October (winter term) and April (summer term) between 8.00 am and 3.00 pm. The latest day of move-in is the first compulsory information day (Wednesday) before classes start. When making travel arrangements be sure to take into account German public holidays: Two examples are 3rd October (German Unification Day) and Easter, when the LUE will be closed. The student village does not have a reception office and will be closed as well so in this case you would have to stay in a youth hostel at your own expense.
Move-out: You need to be present when the caretaker checks your room. That is only possible Monday through Friday until 4.00 pm and not on Saturdays, Sundays or public holidays! Therefore, please do not plan to move-out outside the caretakers' office hours. Mondays to Thursdays are the best days for moving out.


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He may run a huge company, but away from his day job, Mark Zuckerberg tells Matt Lauer in an NBC News exclusive that he has only one drawer at home for storing his 20 identical gray T-shirts and reveals how he and wife Priscilla Chan pulled off the surprise wedding of the year.
Updated 10/4: Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg sat down last week with TODAY's Matt Lauer for his first television interview since the social network's IPO. The interview airs on Oct. 4 on TODAY and Rock Center with Brian Williams, but we already know exactly which moment will make you chuckle the most.
"I mean, I wear the same thing every day, right? I mean, it's literally, if you could see my closet," Zuckerberg starts to explain, as Lauer asks if he owns 12 of the same gray t-shirt. "Maybe about 20," Zuckerberg admits, somewhere between discussing the future of Facebook, his daily routine, the iPhone 5, and his wedding to college sweetheart Priscilla Chan last May.
The Facebook CEO says that he doesn't really have much in his closet — it's mainly used by his wife, who graduated from medical school at the University of California at San Francisco shortly before their marriage. Instead, Zuckerberg's identical t-shirt collection lives in the one drawer he's allotted.
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Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg speaks to TODAY's Matt Lauer.
Story: Seventh of world 'Likes' the social network
"Wait a second, are you telling me," Lauer interupts. "At home you have one drawer?"
"I have one drawer," Zuckerberg confirms. "Like men everywhere. Like men everywhere."
While Zuckerberg's words don't seem entirely appropriate in the presence of Lauer — who has found himself on more than one "best dressed" list — they do fit in with the unchanging attire maintained by some other tech leaders and executives, the late Apple co-founder Steve Jobs (black turtlenecks, Levi's 501 jeans) and his successor, Tim Cook (dark, long-sleeved button ups), to name a few.
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Maintaining a consistent appearance could signal having bigger concerns than fashion ... like the day-to-day operations of a company that serves hundreds of millions of people, or that seemingly age-old iOS vs. Android debate, perhaps.
Lauer couldn't resist nudging Zuckerberg about the iPhone 5.
"It's a wonderful device," the CEO said, after admitting that Cook sent him the new iPhone model, gratis. Facebook's mobile strategy has been a significant concern of users and investors alike, and Zuckerberg clearly spends a lot of time thinking about what people are doing with their smartphones. As he tells Lauer:
iPhone is a great platform. There are more people who use Facebook on Android — because Android is just — more people use it, at this point. And the thing that I think a lot of people don't think about is that there are actually more people in the world using Facebook on mobile Web, right, so not using the apps on iOS or Android, but actually just going to a browser on a phone. There are more people doing that than the iPhone and all of Android phones combined, right? So it's actually a pretty diverse ecosystem.
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Recently I have been able to give out the fabric triggers to a few test users for an informal experience and feedback collection.
The users were given a fabric prototype to keep for a few days in their homes. There were also given a scribble pad with a few questions to record their thoughts and ideas and were asked to take photographs of where and how they tried to use these fabric triggers.
This process has been extremely interesting and insightful. I will soon share more findings and user feedback on this blog.


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'If you're not fast, you're last' is one of the choice phrases I, Angela Gannon, routinely hear from my two sons as I invariably end up sitting in the back of the car having been beaten to the front passenger seat … again! So it is too that in the list of Scottish council areas for the Day of Archaeology, my first to third choices had already been selected by colleagues. But should West Lothian really be number four in my list anyway? Well, of course not. As one of RCAHMS' archaeological field investigators, and living just outside West Lothian, I have spent many a Sunday afternoon visiting sites and monuments here, from the cairn and henge on Cairnpapple Hill to the lesser known fort that crowns the summit of Cockleroy Hill.
It is the latter that I want to champion today because, despite the regular procession of visitors traipsing to the top, I suspect it is only a small percentage who recognise the fort – even though the well-worn path they follow to the summit passes through the original entrance. Situated on the boundary of Beecraigs Country Park, the path leads walkers to the viewpoint on the top, and on a clear day you can see Ben More, near Crianlarich, 74km (46 miles) to the north west, Goat Fell on Arran 106km (66 miles) to the west-southwest and Black Hill in the Scottish Borders 53km (33 miles) to the southeast – or at least that's what the directional arrows on the viewfinder lead us to believe. Over to Fife are the hills of Dumglow and East Lomond, both with forts on their summits, and to the east the profiles of the Bass Rock and North Berwick Law are readily recognisable. We ourselves have visited Cockelroy on many occasions and under very different conditions – in shorts and T-shirts in March to wellies and waterproofs in July. And, yes, I haven't got the months mixed up!
The fort has much to commend it. As a prominent and conspicuous hill, it occupies a commanding position in the landscape, overlooking Linlithgow and Grangemouth with fine views north over the Firth of Forth. Its perimeter is defined by a stone rampart that follows the leading edge of the summit with stretches of stone inner and outer faces still visible. From this we can tell that the rampart was originally about 2m thick and had an earth and rubble core. On the west and southwest, the ground drops precipitously but on the northwest it falls more gently and here the fort is defended by an additional line of defence. This too takes the form of a stone faced rampart. Alongside the viewfinder and the Ordnance Survey triangulation station within the interior of the fort, four ring ditch houses were recorded in 1985, but I have yet to visit the site and be convinced. Perhaps under better lighting conditions and with a more positive 'eye of faith' I might see them.
So next time you venture up Cockleroy remember to look down – the archaeology is there at your feet. But in the meantime, do have a look at our site record for the fort including the oblique aerial photographs taken under snow.
There are also some great kite aerial photographs taken by Jim Knowles of the West Lothian Archaeology Group which are well worth a look too: http://www.armadale.org.uk/cockleroy.htm
This is what I've chosen for Day of Archaeology, but why not tell us your favourite archaeological sites in Scotland on Twitter using #MyArchaeology.


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The diverse habitats of the Botanical Garden offer visitors a chance to see dozens of species of birds throughout the year. Bring your binoculars and walk the Garden grounds with an expert.
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Good diet helps people manage celiac disease
(HealthDay)—For people with celiac disease, an accurate diagnosis and proper diet are essential for good health, experts say.
Celiac disease is an intolerance to the protein gluten, which is found in wheat, barley and rye. When people with celiac disease eat gluten-containing foods, the lining of their small intestine is damaged and can eventually be destroyed, which prevents adequate absorption of nutrients and leads to other health problems, according to the Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics.
About one of every 141 Americans has celiac disease.
"While the only treatment for celiac disease is a gluten-free diet, the good news is, once the diet is started, the road to recover begins, and people with celiac disease can lead long, healthy lives," registered dietitian and nutritionist Rachel Begun said in an academy news release.
"Managing celiac disease is not just about eliminating gluten from your diet. It also entails ensuring you get all the vitamins and nutrients your body needs, such as iron, calcium, fiber and B-vitamins like thiamin, riboflavin, niacin and folate," she explained.
Many healthy foods are naturally gluten-free, including fruits, vegetables, lean meats, poultry, fish, eggs, beans, legumes, soy, nuts, as well as the grains amaranth, buckwheat, corn, rice, teff and quinoa. Also, there are gluten-free flours made from almond meal, chickpeas and garbanzo beans, brown rice, coconut, potato, sorghum, tapioca and white rice.
An accurate diagnosis is a crucial for people with celiac disease.
"Do not diagnose yourself. If you have any symptoms, talk with your health care provider and get tested," Begun said. "It's important to keep eating a normal gluten-containing diet while being tested to ensure an accurate diagnosis. If you are diagnosed with celiac disease, a registered dietitian-nutritionist will help you understand which foods are safe to eat and ensure you are getting the important nutrients your body needs."
Celiac disease symptoms can include bloating, gas or abdominal pain, chronic diarrhea or constipation, fatigue, itchy skin rash and tingling in the hands and feet. However, some people with celiac disease do not have any of these symptoms.
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Google launches Android app to help you find empty parking spots
Android just got that much better: Google has just released an Android app called Open Spot that lets users leaving parking spots share their spots with other users searching for parking. How cool is that?
It gets cooler. Open Spot has three degrees applied to a parking spot based on the amount of time since it was marked as open wit red pins for new open spots, orange for spots that have been open for over five minutes and yellow for over ten. After 20 minutes, Google takes down the open spot (Google also acknowledges that 20 minutes, especially in densely populated areas, is a long time for a spot to stay open, but they counter that with a "the more info the better" argument – we'll have to see if people get a bit of parking rage when they show up 18 minutes later and the spot is gone).
Google even has a name for people that falsely mark spots: "griefers", saying:
"We're watching for behavior that looks like a griefer spoofing parking spots. We have a couple of mechanisms available to make sure someone can't leave a bunch of fake parking spots. If we see this happening we will take steps to fix it."
Oh, and Google also might have just added a new dimension to check-ins: on Open Spot, you earn "karma points" for telling other people about your open spot. So maybe this is kind of like a reverse check-in… Karma points are also prominently displayed on the app.
This will be a very interesting app to watch, and hopefully it will graduate out of Labs quickly (note: we had heard about this idea before from Google, but now it's a reality).
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Braun returns after stint on bereavement list
MILWAUKEE -- Ryan Braun declined to detail the family medical emergency that sent him home to Los Angeles and onto the Brewers' bereavement list for four days prior to the All-Star break, but he said he was ready to get back to baseball as the team opened the second half against the Marlins on Friday night at Miller Park.
"This was one of those moments where I needed to be home with my family," Braun said. "Everybody is doing much better."
The family emergency came to light only two days after Braun was activated from a month-long stint on the disabled list with a right hand injury. He played one game against the Reds, going 1-for-3, then took a planned day off before the Brewers traveled to Phoenix to face the D-backs for the final four games of the first half. The following morning, he informed club officials he needed to head home.
The unexpected trip gave Braun another full week to rest the inflamed nerve in his right hand, but as he prepared for batting practice on Friday, he said the issue remained, "status quo."
"I think that's what we've been told to expect," Braun said. "I'm optimistic that at some point it will start to get better, but we've been told to expect it to be where it's at. As long as 'where it's at' is where I'm able to play, that's all I can really ask for."
Braun was in left field and batting third in Friday's 2-0 win over the Marlins. He went 0-for-3 with a strikeout before leaving the game after six innings, part of manager Ron Roenicke's plan to ease Braun back into action.
"It wasn't necessarily six [innings], it was just how the game went," Roenicke said after the game. "We wanted to get three at-bats. … At least right now we're thinking about putting him in there again [on Saturday]."
Of Braun's hand pain, Roenicke said, "It's not gone, but he's better, and hopefully he can swing the way he wants to."
"It does feel good to see him back out there," Brewers right-hander Kyle Lohse said of Braun. "It's definitely a presence. He went 0-for-3, but it's the fact that you know at any moment he could put one out of the park. It will be good to get him healthy and back out there on a nightly basis, and watch him go do his thing."
Braun has declined to field questions about the other issue looming over his second half, Major League Baseball's investigation into the Biogenesis anti-aging clinic to which he has been linked.


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The 'Err' indication can be displayed on both the digital flexible tip thermometer and on the soother thermometer. This means there is a malfunction.
What does the 'Err' indication on the display of the Digital thermometer mean?
Resetting 'Err'
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Today's final athlete run-in story is about one of our favorite people around here: Famed party guy Derek Lowe, who never met a lady (or ladies) he couldn't slur over. This story almost makes you feel a little bad for Lowe, until you visit On The DL and check out some of the great tales over there. But anyway, to our story, from Mike in Boston.
It's common knowledge in Boston that the players like to hit the bars after games. While some made a name for themselves last year with their boozing (just take a look at the pics from "On the DL"), none were as infamous as Derek Lowe in his time here. His lifestyle has been well chronicled since his departure from the city, but most people knew what was going on. One of my sister's friends saw Derek pitch a few years back. He threw real well and got the win. After the game, my sister's friend went to Landsdowne Street. For the people that don't know, that's the street directly behind the wall or "green monster" with a bunch of clubs and bars. He was standing in one of the places when an already drunk DLowe stumbled in with two girls under his arms... neither of which was his GORGEOUS wife. He approaches Derek to have this convo: Friend: Hey Derek, great game tonight. You pitched well. Lowe: (slurring) Thanks man. Friend: I wonder if your wife and kids were watching. Lowe: (expletive) you! At that point, the two women immediately ran away, prompting Derek to chase them down. I want to say that was karma for Derek, but the man code of law was kind of broken here. Still funny nonetheless.
For the record, we highly recommend you not do this when you run into an athlete at a bar. Just a suggestion.
Athlete Run-In: Julian Tavarez's Rocket Arm [Deadspin]


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Detained Palestinian journalist Muhammad al-Qiq ended on Friday a 94-day hunger strike after his lawyers struck a deal with Israeli authorities.
The 33-year-old journalist from Ramallah initially went on a hunger strike in November to protest against the ill-treatment he faced in Israeli custody, but his protest developed into a challenge of Israel's use of administrative detention, internment without trial or charge.
The journalist was arrested by Israeli security forces on November 21 and held in administrative detention. Israel's controversial administrative detention law allows the state to hold suspects without charge for six months, a period which can be renewed indefinitely.
The military judge at the Ofer Military Court said al-Qiq is accused of "incitement," "working with media associated with Hamas" and also of being a "threat to security." The Shin Bet, Israel's intelligence service, said al-Qiq was arrested for "terror activities" as a collaborator with Hamas.
Qadura Fares, the head of the Palestinian Prisoner's Society, told Ma'an News that even though Israel had not agreed to al Qiq's immediate release, a "compromise" had been reached.
The deal stipulates that al-Qiq, who is hospitalized in the northern city of Afula, will not be transferred to a Palestinian hospital in East Jerusalem as he initially requested. However, his six-month administrative detention sentence will not be renewed, and lawyers pushed the date of his release to May 21. Al-Qiq will also be allowed visits from his family, including his wife and two children.
The Israeli army confirmed al-Qiq's sentence would end on May 21, but added the situation would then "be examined to determine whether there is new information or security circumstances which require extending detention."
The journalist has been in a critical condition for days. According to medical sources he is lucid but his body is growing weaker and faces the risk of collapse. Advocacy group Physicians for Human Rights said al-Qiq had survived longer without food than any other hunger striker on record.
Palestinian prisoners being held in Israeli jails often start hunger strikes to protest against poor conditions and unlawful detentions. According to Addameer, a prisoner's rights group, there are nearly 7000 Palestinians being held in Israeli prisons, of whom about 660 are held without trial or charges.
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I wonder how Osterman is going to justify the new language in HB3634 with 2 IL Supreme Court decisions on the definition of a case on the record. It will be even more interesting to see if the House tries to overturn the judiciary decisions by passing this bill.
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Recessed Lighting in the Limelight
Recessed downlights are among the most popular installed lighting fixtures for new and remodeled homes. One study in the northeastern United States found that new homes had an average of 23 recessed cans per home. Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (PNNL) estimates at least 350 million recessed downlights are currently installed in U.S. homes, and around 20 million are sold each year.
All those replicating fixtures seem to offer irresistible efficiency opportunities. But the vast majority of recessed downlights use incandescent light sources, because incandescent reflector lamps are readily available in various wattages and sizes and are relatively inexpensive. In California, 60% of homes built since 1990 contained recessed downlights, according to a recent study, but only 0.4% of these fixtures used compact fluorescent lamps. At the national level, annual reported sales of fluorescent residential recessed downlights make up less than 1% of total residential recessed downlight sales.
Standard recessed downlights, which often allow air to leak from conditioned to unconditioned space,waste both lighting and space conditioning energy (see Figure 1). (See also "A Recessed Can of Worms,"HE Jan/Feb '01, p. 42). Many states are addressing the air leakage problem through building energy codes. To date, 33 states have adopted building codes that require recessed cans installed in the building shell to be airtight. (For a complete description of the air leakage standard, reference test procedure ASTM E283.ASTM E-283 is an air leakage standard for window and door assemblies that was subsequently adopted in the 1995 Model Energy Code as a way to test and quantify the reduced air leakage requirement for recessed cans.) California recently adopted this requirement in its revised Title 24 building energy standards, which will become effective in October 2005.As California's code already requires lighting fixtures in kitchens and bathrooms to use a highefficiency light source, the market for airtight CFL recessed cans is expected to grow in the nation's most populous state.
Surmounting Technical Challenges
Still, the transition to full deployment of high-efficiency recessed downlights is not a seamless one.These lights pose unique operating challenges. Temperature extremes can affect both the light output and the life span of a CFL. In an airtight recessed can installed in insulation, heat has little opportunity to dissipate, causing the temperature inside the can to rise. PNNL tested 11 recessed downlights in a simulated insulated ceiling, and found that measured ballast case temperatures ranged from 69.1°C to 110.0°C, compared to the industry average maximum rated temperature, which is about 75°C.
To encourage lighting fixture manufacturers to develop and bring to market high-efficiency recessed cans that perform well in airtight insulated ceilings, the DOE is sponsoring the Recessed Downlights project.As a part of this project, PNNL developed a specification for high-efficiency recessed downlights, including the following requirements:
• The fixture must use pin-based CFLs—to prevent replacement with incandescents—with average rated life of 10,000 hours.
• The housing of the fixture must be airtight to prevent air leakage into unconditioned attics or other spaces.
• The fixture must be IC rated for direct contact with insulation.
• The fixture must have electronic ballasts for quiet, flicker-free operation.
• At least 50% of the lamp's light output must leave the fixture, which translates into a fixture efficiency of at least 50%.
• The lamp must have a minimum light output of 900 initial lumens, net of fixture losses, to approximate the sustained light output of a 65W Energy Policy Act of 1992 (EPACT) reflector lamp.This specification takes into account the typical lumen depreciation of 20%–40% over the life of the CFL.
In addition, PNNL developed a test regime to evaluate the performance of these fixtures.The purpose of the tests was to assess the reliability of the fixtures, and to determine their light output and operating temperature when operated in an insulated ceiling.To simulate an insulated ceiling, fixtures were placed in an enclosure filled with 12 inches of loose-fill cellulose insulation (equivalent to about R-45).The fixtures were subjected to short-term and longterm tests within this environment.
In the short-term test, fixtures were subjected to continuous operation for 12 hours.Temperature measurements were taken at the ballast case, the lamp base, and the ambient air surrounding the lamp.The temperature of the ballast case had to remain below the rated and warranted maximum for the fixture to pass the test. Room temperature during the test was held at 25°C ± 1°C.
In the long-term test, fixtures were subjected to cyclic operation (three hours on, 20 minutes off) for 12 months. Lumen output measurements were recorded every other week.To pass this test, the fixtures had to operate without failure for the duration of the testing period.This test approximates eight years of normal operation at three hours per day.
One of the key parameters tested by PNNL was ballast case temperature, which greatly affects the life of the CFL. For every 10°C increase in ballast case temperature, ballast life is halved. It is very important that the ballast case temperature remain below its rated maximum, and the four fixtures described below succeeded in doing so (see Table 1). Other fixtures exceeded their rated ballast case temperature during the testing period, thus failing the test.
Several new energy-efficient recessed downlights that performed well in both the long-term and short-term tests are now available at specially negotiated prices (see Table 2).To take advantage of these prices, contact the manufacturer directly and reference the DOE Recessed Downlights project.
Innovative Lighting
PowerLux Corporation of Carlsbad, California, has developed an innovative recessed downlight instant retrofit kit that addresses the problem of heat buildup by placing the electronic ballast in the trim ring of the fixture, below the ceiling and away from destructive lamp heat.This patented feature is called the PowerRim. PNNL testing has shown that the PowerRim fixture operates at substantially lower temperatures than fixtures where the ballast is located in the insulated ceiling.The PowerRim fixture is UL listed for both retrofit and new construction applications.The PowerRim has been installed in retrofit and new construction projects in hotels, theme parks, schools, and commercial and residential properties.
Technical Consumer Products (TCP), Incorporated, of Aurora, Ohio, offers energy-efficient recessed downlights in both retrofit and new construction models.TCP products have been featured in Energy Star homes, as well as in hotels and multifamily housing.TCP's retrofit downlights were recently featured in a tour of remodeled homes in the Northwest. TCP also provides a full line of CFLs and other high-efficiency lighting fixtures, including surface mounts, table lamps, and floor lamps.
D-Light, a division of DiSci Labs LLC, is based in Corpus Christi,Texas, and has manufacturing facilities in Sparks, Nevada.They offer high-quality recessed downlights for new construction applications.Two of their new construction models have successfully completed laboratory testing conducted by PNNL.
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