Chicago The Tigers on Friday made room for Evan Reeds addition to the active roster by dropping another right-handed reliever, Jose Ortega, who was designated for assignment.

The Tigers likely will outright Ortega to their minor-league system should he clear waivers. They could also trade him within a 10-day period. Ortega, 25, has had stints with the Tigers during the past three seasons, spanning 14 games.

He had been pitching at Triple A Toledo, where he was 2-2, with a 3.70 earned-run average in 45 games. He had 45 strikeouts in 56 innings, but he had also walked 36 batters, accounting for a dark 1.52 WHIP (walks plus hits per inning).

Reed, 28, was with the Tigers earlier this season and in his last 10 games at Toledo had a 1.93 ERA, with 16 strikeouts and a single walk in 14 innings. Earlier this month, sexual assault charges against Reed, stemming from a March incident, were dropped by a Wayne County District Court judge.

The Tigers were preparing Friday for a night game against the White Sox at U.S. Cellular Field. They are scheduled to play a day-night doubleheader Saturday, when another Toledo pitcher, left-handed starter Kyle Ryan, is scheduled to join the team. The Tigers will make a 40-man roster announcement ahead of Saturdays first game as they clear space for Ryan.

Showers and thunderstorms were forecasted for late Friday afternoon in Chicago, extending into early evening Saturday.

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IOWA CITY, Iowa (AP) - A University of Iowa professor who donned a robot costume to heckle Bill Clinton and Michele Bachmann has now set his sights on one of his school's famous quirks: the visiting team's pink locker room at Kinnick Stadium.

Kembrew McLeod is organizing what he jokingly calls a "Million Robot March" to coincide with an annual celebration Friday honoring legendary Iowa football coach Hayden Fry, who had the opposing team's locker room painted pink in 1979. McLeod wants the school to ditch the pink, which he says amounts to a school-sanctioned taunt that exudes homophobia and sexism.

Fry has said pink is a calming color meant to make Hawkeyes' opponents passive. But he also noted in his biography that it was the color of little girls' bedrooms and some considered it for sissies. The tactic has rattled some opposing coaches, with the late University of Michigan coach Bo Schembechler having student managers put white paper over the walls.

The paint became part of Hawkeye lore. A 2005 renovation added pink across brick walls and shower floors and installed pink metal lockers, carpeting, sinks, showers and urinals.

Many opposing players have shrugged off the color, with Michigan quarterback Devin Gardner recently calling it the best locker room in the conference because of its spaciousness.

Some feminists, lawyers, gay rights activists and editorial boards have criticized the gimmick over the past decade. But previous protests, including a longstanding threat of a discrimination lawsuit, haven't changed anything.

Fans have generally opposed the various efforts to get the color changed, saying it's a tradition that isn't meant to be a gender-based putdown.

McLeod, a communications studies professor, hopes his absurd approach will draw attention to the issue. He said people dressed as robots will meet on top of a hotel parking garage, and then march through FryFest, an annual event that draws up to 20,000 Hawkeye fans. They plan to hold signs and chant slogans such as, "Binary code yes! Gender binaries no!" and "Delete the pink locker rooms!"

McLeod, 43, was dubbed "Roboprofessor" after he heckled Clinton during a 2008 speech in costume. He followed that up in 2011 when Bachmann, then a Republican presidential candidate, visited an Iowa City diner. Video of McLeod dressed as a "gay robot" accusing Bachmann of being a "robophobe" and a "homophobe" - before getting booed and escorted out - quickly went viral.

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In addition to books, he said, the store will offer many of the same sorts of items found at Philly AIDS Thrift.

"It's going to be some clothes, some shoes, also . . . camp, pop-art collectibles, kind of hipsterish," Brennan said. "We're just going to fill the shelves."

He said his group was committed to keeping $15,000 in inventory of new lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender books at all times, adding that about a third of the store would be devoted to books.

"The aim is to keep its original vision and focus as a significant part of the store, which is that it's the United States' oldest gay bookstore," Brennan said.

Brennan said his group would also take over the bookstore's online business, queerbooks.com.

All Philly AIDS Thrifts' profits are donated to the AIDS Fund, a Philadelphia group that distributes money to organizations devoted to HIV/AIDS-related issues. Profits from the bookstore also will be donated to the fund, Brennan said.

Giovanni's Room, which is named for the 1956 novel by James Baldwin, prospered for many years. It wholesaled books to Europe, Australia, and New Zealand and had $100,000 in inventory in the early 1990s.

As with many other bookstores in recent years, Giovanni's Room's profits dwindled amid Internet-based competition, said Ed Hermance, the founder and former operator of the store.

Hermance said the new operator had a good chance of succeeding because of the array of items the store will offer.

Brennan said that Giovanni's Room would open in a few weeks, but that its grand reopening would be Oct. 10, 11, and 12 to coincide with Philadelphia Outfest, the city's annual gay block party.

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A new emergency room expansion is currently under construction at McDonough District Hospital and is scheduled to be finished in late 2015. It is estimated to cost $32 million.

There are bonds that will be paid back by hospital revenue over the next number of years, said John Maguire, Leader of Public Relations and Fund Development at McDonough District Hospital.

There are also donated funds that will be used for the geriatric psych portion. There was a trust gift to the hospital many years ago that was designated to serve seniors and the funds from that gift are being used to pay for that portion of the renovation.

The new expansion will be three stories and will include: 10 large private treatment rooms, a comfort room for family and friends during a crisis situation, relocation of rehabilitation services to the third floor of the new addition, direct access to diagnostic technology and construction of a new geriatric psych wing on the second floor of the new edition.

There is supposed to be substantial completion by June of 2015, Maguire said. There is a specific part of the new structure that is supposed to be ready for patient occupancy and usage no later than July 1, 2015, and thats the new geriatric psych inpatient unit that will be on the second floor.

When it came time to add new space for the emergency room there were some other features that were deemed beneficial to add, Maguire said. The geriatric psychiatric unit will be inpatient care for people who are 65 or older who may have mental illness issues that need to be addressed in an inpatient setting. The third floor of the new addition will enable to take our services for rehabilitation and physical therapy that are currently in the basement and move them to the third floor, which will allow them a better physical space for that type of activity.

Currently the emergency patient entrance will be rerouted to the hospital main entrance.

The current emergency main entrance we are using can be inconvenient at times; it can get a bit crowded, but it will be better once the new expansion is finished, said Eric Mccleery, a paramedic for McDonough District Hospital. The new expansion will allow for a lot more patient privacy.

There will also be other new changes coming with the construction of this new expansion, which includes renovations of current rooms to private, single patient rooms, relocation of the heliport pad, expansion of the parking lot and changing the traffic flow to two-way.

Our current emergency room is what I would describe as an open area, which means there is no audio privacy, Maguire said. If Im treated in bed one, the only thing that separates me from bed two is a curtain and if you dont want to know what your neighbor is having done or you dont want them to know what youre having done, patient privacy is non-existent. Logistically, the setup needs to be modernized. In order to do that and to keep your current emergency room running, you need to add new space.

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Carlos Delfino may not be with the Clippers long. (USATSI)

USA Today reports that after the Los Angeles Clippers traded Jared Dudley to the Milwaukee Bucks for Carlos Delfino Tuesday, LA plans to waive Delfino immediately using the "stretch" provision allowed in the last CBA:

Yet according to a person with knowledge of the Clippers' situation, it's likely that Delfino - who is owed $3.25 million next season and has a team option for the 2015-16 campaign - will be waived using what's deemed the "stretch provision." The provision allows the payment of a player's contract (and the related salary cap hit) to be stretched out over several years, and would allow the Clippers to make another addition via free agency (or perhaps even two). Because the Clippers used their non-taxpayer midlevel exception on center Spencer Hawes in July, they are operating with a hard salary cap and have less than a million dollars remaining to work with because of it. The person spoke to USA TODAY Sports on the condition of anonymity because the moves had not yet been made.

One strong free agent possibility is 27-year-old shooting guard Chris Douglas Roberts, though he can't sign until the aforementioned moves are made. Roberts averaged 6.9 points and 20.7 minutes for the Charlotte Hornets last season in 49 games. Another possibility is big man Ekpe Udoh, the 27-year-old who visited with the Clippers on Tuesday. Udoh, who was taken sixth overall by the Golden State Warriors in the 2010 draft, spent the last three seasons coming off the bench for the Milwaukee Bucks. Raduljica is also likely to be waived by the Clippers, and his possible buyout (he's owed $1.5 million) could also create more salary cap space.

via Clippers trade Jared Dudley to Bucks.

Delfino is a productive forward and a crack shooter, but surgeries have gone badly and his healing process has been complicated. He may not be able to play any time soon.

Delfino worked tirelessly with Bucks trainer Scott Barthlama during spring and summer. But bone not healing properly after 2 surgeries.

In related news, the Clippers reportedly worked out free agent center Ekpe Udoh on Tuesday.

In other Clippers news, I'm told free agent big man Ekpe Udoh is on a visit in Clipper Land today.

Udoh would be a supreme fit for what the team needs. They added Spencer Hawes in free agency but they desperately need a bench rim protector. Udoh has failed to generate playing time in several stops, but maintains a very healthy defensive efficiency on/off differential (compared to teammates), indicating he's got some value. We'll see what the Clips do to generate space and how they use it.

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Studio 804 has been working on an addition to Marvin Hall on the KU campus since last fall. Dubbed "The Forum," the addition should be open for business later this year.

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From left, architecture graduate students Renee Brune, 25, and Christina Harwood, 23, screw pedestals to flooring inside the new Marvin Hall addition.

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The Kansas University School of Architecture, Design and Planning might never have had a lecture hall of its own if the schools students had not built it themselves.

John Gaunt, dean of the school and a professor of architecture, said the finances for an addition to Marvin Hall might never have worked out without the schools Studio 804 program, a yearlong design-and-build course.

Costs for the $2 million building would have been nearly double if the school had sought an outside contractor, Gaunt said. At the same time, it took several years for the studio to build up its reputation and credibility across the university and the state, both of which had to approve the project.

It required a kind of planetary alignment, Gaunt said.

The addition, dubbed The Forum, will house a 120-seat auditorium and a commons area that will overlay the schools previous jury room for viewing projects. With the main construction wrapping up in the late summer, The Forum could start holding some classes later in the fall semester.

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"This drug is misunderstood," said, "Mark Trudeau, the President and CEO of Mallinckrodt Pharmaceuticals on "Mad Money". "It's actually approved for 19 different indications. It's a drug that's really delivering value. And there's future value to be unlocked."

However, in addition to the pipeline, Cramer likes Mallinckrodt for reasons that are strictly financial.

"The company is headquartered in Dublin, Ireland. Therefore it's subject to the Emerald Isle's extremely low tax regime," Cramer said. "And that means when Mallinckrodt acquires a U.S. company, it can instantly boost the target's earnings simply by gobbling that company up and making it Irish."

The catalyst isn't simply theoretical. "In the last year, Mallinckrodt has done two sizable deals, buying Cadence and then most recently announcing the acquisition of Questcor Pharma in April," Cramer said.

Given the pipeline and the ability to generate profits through acquisition, Cramer thinks the stock should have room to run.

"They're doing everything right," Cramer said.

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"Even though Mallinckrodt has already had a monster run, up more than 64 percent since being spun-off from Covidien last summer, I think it could have a lot more upside, in part because this company can keep snapping up other drug businesses to become a pharma colossus, or it could be swallowed by someone else looking to become a part of a lower tax regime itself."

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Inside the operating room, video cameras track every movement. Outside, a small computer-like device analyzes the recordings, identifying when mistakes are made and providing instant feedback to surgeons as they operate.

This is the dream of the surgical "black box." Operations could become flawless. Post-operative complications could be significantly reduced. Surgeons could review the footage to improve their technique and prep for the next big case.

Such a device isn't far from reality.

Researchers in Canada are working on a surgical tracking box -- like the ones placed in airplanes -- that records surgeons' movements and identifies errors during an operation.

By pinpointing mistakes and telling surgeons when they're veering "off course," a black box could prevent future slip-ups, says Dr. Teodor Grantcharov, a minimally invasive surgeon at St Michael's Hospital in Toronto. Unlike the so-called black boxes in aviation, which are used after disasters occur, the surgical black box Grantcharov is creating will be used proactively to prevent major patient complications.

A number of hospitals have already expressed interest in using the device, Grantcharov says.

But the litigious medical environment may make its implementation problematic. If the recordings were used in court, they could open the floodgates to a new wave of malpractice concerns, which would be counterproductive to surgeons and patients, Grantcharov says.

"We have to ensure the black box is used as an educational tool to help surgeons evaluate their performance and improve," he says.

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