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By Pearce Wagner, developmental gymnastics program coordinator.
The Level 4 & 5 Menlo Park Boys Gymnastics Team competed at the Northern California State Championships in San Luis Obispo on March 8 and 9.
Representing Menlo Park Gymnastics at the competition was Noah Kim, Rowan Irvine, Ezekiel Eason and Jaden Phillips.
In the Level 5 competition, Eason took first place all around. Kim came in 11th place all around in his age group.
In the Level 4 competition, Phillips captured fourth place all around and first place on high bar and rings. Irvine took 14th place all around in his division.
At Level 5, Kim and Eason qualified for the regional championships in Phoenix, Arizona. Eason also qualified to be on the Northern California State All Stars Team. This is the first time the Menlo Park Boys Team has qualified for the regionals.
The boys' team trains at the Arrillaga Family Gymnastics Center in Menlo Park and is coached by Cameron Matzke, Nicole Hyde and Pearce Wagner.


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February's Caption Contest Is a Roll of the Dice
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Take your chances on the big prize for this month's caption contest. There's a dev board at stake this month, too!
The stakes are high in this month's caption contest! Not only could you win the original comic from our talented artist Daniel Guidera, but the winner will also receive a CorStarter-STM32 development kit. So give those mental dice a blow for good luck and toss your best caption into the mix!
The CorStarter-STM32 dev board by ImageCraft has a 72 Mhz, 32 bit ARM Cortex M3 on board. If you've ever wanted to give something like this a try, this is your chance. Simply drop your very best caption ideas into the comment section for a chance to win. I'll choose the one that gets the biggest chuckle from me and my co-workers, and you'll get both the art and the dev board!
The specs on the board from the manufacturer's website:
- ImageCraft ICCV8 for Cortex Non-Commercial license, includes IDE, ANSI C compiler, flash programmer and C Source Level debugger (normally $99 value).
(Click Here for more information on the compiler.)
- CorStarter-STM32 base board.
- 72 Mhz STM32F105 32-bit ARM Cortex™ M3 with 256K flash and 64K SRAM, 51 general purpose I/O pins, 5 UART, USB OTG, 2 I2C, 3 SPI ports, 7 timers, 16 ADC, 2 DAC, internal temp sensor, 2 CAN
- External watchdog and reset and power monitor
- 8-bit Arduino Shield V3 compatible headers for access to hundreds of Shields (hardware expansion boards)
- Remaining I/O pins available in separate header
- One device-native micro USB connector
- One micro USB connector for the FTDI serial to USB chip (Windows Virtual COM driver)
- Power on LED, one user controller LED and one push button
- Power input: through USB, JTAG, or optional 6V-12V
- Open-source hardware design files
- A choice of either the industrial standard Segger JLINK-Edu or the ST-device-only ST-LINK/V2 JTAG/SWD pod.
- Segger JLINK-Edu can be used for any Cortex and other ARM devices by educational users only.
- ST-LINK/V2 can be used with any STM32 devices with no other limits.
- Software examples, "Getting Started" documentation, etc.
As usual, I recommend going back and reading some previous entries for some inspiration:
- January's Comic Is Fit for a King
- December's Caption Contest Is On Display
- September's Caption Contest Is Knocking on the Door!
— Caleb Kraft, Chief Community Editor, EE Times

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I lie back on my bed while listening to Janis Joplin's album Pearl. It contains one of many versions of the song "Me and Bobby Magee" that I've heard over the years. Janis is my favorite. I love how her grating bluesy voice sounds on this song, more than any other song she has recorded. As she sings the lines, "Windshield wipers slapping time, I's holding Bobby's hand in mine and we sang every song that driver knew,"
I have a mental picture of the hitchhikers riding in the rain and singing. I hear the slap, slap, slap of the wipers. Only they don't do that anymore. It's more like slap, long pause, slap, long pause, slap. Windshield wipers no longer have only two speeds, fast and slow. You can make them stop for a second, may two, or longer, just to give the light mist that used to smear across the window, a chance to build up enough to be easily removed by the wiper blades.
Flash of Genius is not exactly about how our windshield wipers became endowed with the ability to go "slap, very long pause, slap," but it is about the man who in a "flash of genius" figured out how to make them do just that;, something the "Big Three" automakers had been working on for years and failed to do. This man, Bob Kern, installed his new "intermittent wiper control" into his Ford Galaxy 500. Being a Ford man, he took his invention to Ford Motor Company who were ecstatic with the unit and then apparently stole his plans and idea. Suddenly their engineers developed the "intermittent wiper control" in their next year's models. Flash of Genius is really about the fight of one man for recognition for his invention. It is a true David and Goliath story of one lone man against a corporation with vast resources at its disposal. The film chronicles his struggles to prove that he is the inventor of the intermittent wiper control. It becomes not so much about money, but about truth, justice, and honor. I never thought a film about windshield wipers would entertain and inspire, but it did.


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Discussion in 'Star Trek: Deep Space Nine' started by Vulcan Princess, Oct 18, 2011.
Tainted alcohol was always a
concern. Quark wanted to avoid
having to call Odo for
help, because he knew that
Odo would discover the truth
about his new drunken state
"Quark's not drunk. He's just
heavily drugged by some dubious
and nefarious looking goons wearing
way too much cologne and
pants made from Karemman silk.
Garek once used Karemman silk
to make some underwear for
Kira. She enjoyed the feeling
of silk whenever she wanted
to wash laundry. She always
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DENVER Colorado theater shooting suspect James Holmes has offered to plead guilty and serve the rest of his life in prison to avoid the death penalty a deal that would bring a swift end to the sometimes wrenching courtroom battle and circumvent a prolonged debate about his sanity.
Prosecutors havent said whether they would accept the offer, and victims and survivors of last summers massacre were divided about what should be done.
Melisa Cowden, whose ex-husband was killed in the theater, said Wednesday she was resolutely opposed to a plea deal.
He didnt give 12 people the chance to plea bargain and say, Lets see if youre going to shoot me or not, said Cowden, whose two teenage daughters were with their father when he was killed.
No. No plea bargain, she said.
The attack during a crowded midnight showing of The Dark Knight Rises left a dozen people dead and 70 injured.
Prosecutors have said Holmes planned the assault for months, casing the theater complex in the Denver suburb of Aurora, amassing a small arsenal and rigging potentially deadly booby-traps in his apartment.
Then on July 20, he put on a police-style helmet and body armor, tossed a gas canister into the theater crowd and opened fire, prosecutors said.
The plea offer, made by Holmes lawyers on his behalf earlier this month, was disclosed Wednesday in a defense court filing. It was made public just days before the prosecution was set to announce whether they would seek the death penalty.
The filing didnt include the specifics of the offer. It said only that Holmes would agree to life in prison without parole instead of the death penalty and didnt mention any other concessions.
Pierce OFarrill, who was shot three times, said he would welcome an agreement that would imprison Holmes for life. The years of court struggles ahead would likely be emotionally stressful for victims, he said.
I dont see his death bringing me peace, OFarrill said. To me, my prayer for him was that he would spend the rest of his life in prison and hopefully, in all those years he has left, he could find God and ask for forgiveness himself.
Tom Sullivan, whose son Alex was killed, said he has wanted prosecutors to pursue the death penalty. But he said he wouldnt object to a plea agreement if it avoided a lengthy court battle and if Holmes got no privileges in prison.
That was kind of a sore point with us, he said, referring to privileges such as outside exercise or listening to music. We didnt think this kind of person should have any kind of privileges except the bare essentials.
Holmes, a former graduate student at the University of Colorado, Denver, had seen a psychiatrist at the school before the shootings.
His lawyers have said he was taken to a hospital psychiatric ward in November because he was considered a threat to himself. Holmes was held there for several days and spent much of the time in restraints.
In their court filing, Holmes lawyers again said they were exploring a plea of not guilty by reason of insanity and would mount a vigorous defense if prosecutors rejected the plea offer and the case goes to trial.


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Right to the point.
Before me vs sasuke
I would make a bunch of shadow clones.
One clone would transform into Itachi
All the other clones would transform into various uchihas that were killed during the massacre. :flaw:
(I would get this info from books\records etc.)
Itachi would be "popping" clones left and right and the clones would be screaming out trolling stuff.
After reading a lot of dumb stuff on here A LOT... I thought it was time for me to share a random dumb trolllol sasuke "I dislike sasuke greatly (but do not discount any of his fighting skill \ fighting genius) thoughts of mine"
Good day to all :noc:


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This website for kids tells you cool stuff about how your body works, how eating right helps you play better and feel good, and how staying active is lots of fun! En español
This initiative, launched by First Lady Michelle Obama, aims to eliminate childhood obesity and create a healthy start for children by empowering parents and caregivers, increasing physical activity, providing healthy food in schools, and improving access to healthy, affordable food in every part of the country.
Let's Move
This curriculum for an after-school health promotion program is designed to teach young people ages 11 to 13 about the complex media world around them and how it can affect their health—especially in the areas of nutrition and physical activity.
National Institute of Child Health & Human Development (NICHD)
This guide shows you how to incorporate regular physical activity into your daily life, with encouraging tips and suggested goals for getting started.
Diabetes Australia
This website makes publicly available materials that were used in the HEALTHY intervention program, which was designed to moderate risk factors for type 2 diabetes in adolescents including nutrition, physical education, behavior, and communications and social marketing. En español
The HEALTHY Study
This booklet addresses the special challenges for very large people who are physically active and provides tips and ideas to become more active and healthier—no matter what your size.
Weight-Control Information Network (WIN)
This guide shows you many types of exercise and physical activity. It also has lots of tips to help you be active in ways that suit your lifestyle, interests, health, and budget, whether you're just starting out, getting back to exercising after a break, or fit enough to run a 3-mile race. It's for everyone—people who are healthy and those who live with an ongoing health problem or disability. En español
National Institute on Aging (NIA)
This school- and community-based fitness program teaches kids to live an active and healthy lifestyle by running or walking 26.2 miles over six months, eating healthy food daily, and even learning to grow fruits and veggies. Available in select cities.
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These three worksheets for young women can help you figure out which types of exercise you'll enjoy most and how to get started, stay motivated, and free up time for fitness.
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Lumigon T2 Pictures
Glass and stainless steel are the materials predominant in its construction ensuring that the Lumigon T2 looks and feels like a premium device. It sports a minimalistic design that style conscious crowd will likely be quite happy with. In case you are curious about its specs, the Lumigon T2 has a 3.8-inch high resolution display protected by Gorilla Glass, and handling the computational workload is a single-core Snapdragon S2 processor at 1.4GHz. The camera on the handset's back is of 8 megapixels and can shoot 1080p video, while the front-facing camera is ideal for video conversations. We also have to mention that the smartphone runs Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich delivering the most up-to-date Android experience. But that is not all as the Lumigon T2 has a few tricks up its sleeve. With its built-in infrared blaster, the device can operate as an universal remote control, which is a feature that we rarely get to see on smartphones today. Also, it is enhanced with audio by Bang & Olufsen


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Beverly's Angie Miller and her fellow ballad-loving "American Idol" contestants took on classic rock Wednesday night. And ballads were off the song list.
Beverly's Angie Miller and her fellow ballad-loving "American Idol" contestants took on classic rock Wednesday night. And ballads were off the song list.
While many singers struggled to find their inner rock, Miller had a successful night. On Thursday's results show, she was voted into the top 3 by America and will perform again next week along with her fellow Top 6 contestents. Burnell Taylor was eliminated.
Early in the show on Wednesday, which featured the Top 7 battling for America's votes, Miller and fellow contestant Lazaro Arbos took on Queen's "Crazy Little Thing called Love."
Lararzo struggled with the lyric a bit, but Miller was back on point, receiving glowing remarks from the judges.
"Amazing as usual," said veteran judge Randy Jackson.
Nicki Minaj said she had fun watching the duo and commented that Miller sounded "amazing."
Judge Keith Urban said he felt it was a bit "variety show-ish."
For her solo song, Miller returned to her comfort zone, and despite seeming uncomfortable with the wind machine, she rocked out Evanescence's "Bring Me to Life" to close the show.
"I think that this was a good choice for you, because you were able to start on the piano but still stay true to the genre we're doing tonight," said Minaj. "Kudos. Congrats."
Jackson said he loved Miller's tender moments and her "stellar" last note.
Mariah Carey thought the song was a perfect match for the Beverly High grad, and Urban said he wanted to make sure she feels the songs she is selecting.
Check back with us next week as we follow Angie Miller's "American Idol" success online at our special section dedicated to Angie Miller at wickedlocal.com/beverly/angieidol, as well as on our Facebook page and by following us on Twitter.
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The ashes of four unclaimed World War II veterans were laid to rest April 25, after years of sitting on a shelf in the Godfrey Funeral Home in Ocean City.
Ocean City's American Legion Post 524 Commander Robert Marzulli organized the forgotten heroes remembrance ceremony at Veterans Memorial Park in Ocean City, followed by the burial ceremony at Cape May County Veterans Cemetery in Middle Township.
This was the second forgotten heroes burial for Cape May County. The first was last June, laying to rest the unclaimed cremated remains of eight Atlantic and Cape May County veterans whose ashes had been left in the possession of a Cape May Court House funeral home.
Cape May County Freeholder and Director of Veterans Affairs Gerald Thornton made a vow to correct this wrong in Cape May County.
"I said this before and I'll say it again. In the County of Cape May, no veteran remains are going to sit on a shelf," Thornton said.
Marzulli attended the June event, which inspired him to later contact his local funeral home, Godfrey Funeral Home, to inquire if it had unclaimed veterans' ashes.
The answer he received was yes. The Ocean City funeral home had the ashes of four veterans: Pfc. Edward F. Bart, Pfc. Albert A. Colavito, Pvt. James B. Davis and Cpl. Alto DuBose.
Under the leadership of American Legion Morvay-Miley Post 524, the four were honorably laid to rest before a crowd of state, county and Ocean City government officials, local veterans organizations and community members.
State Sen. Jeff Van Drew, D-Cape May, Cumberland, Atlantic, who is a primary sponsor of the legislation passed Feb. 4, 2009, that made such a burial legal, spoke at the ceremony. Van Drew said that unknown to many, the ashes of countless veterans from the state - and the country - have never been claimed.
"They have no family member, no friends, no one at all," Van Drew said. "When that happened, their remains end up on the shelves in the back of nursing homes, crematories and funeral parlors."
Van Drew said he was made aware of this situation just a few years ago.
"It was incredulous to me," he said. "I didn't know about it, and I think there were many others who dint know about it, and the more we looked into it, the more we understood it. We knew it was absolutely necessary that we had to correct this wrong."
As the law states, when a veterans' organization comes forward asking to bury an unclaimed veteran or veteran's remains, it must wait a grace period of a year to ensure no immediate relative comes forth. After that, the group could hold a proper military burial.
American Legion Post 524 did just that.
"It's been a long road. It's taken a year to get to this point, but it's been all worth it," Marzulli said.
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This dataset is maintained and distributed by the National Archive of Criminal Justice Data (NACJD), the criminal justice archive within ICPSR. NACJD is primarily sponsored by three agencies within the U.S. Department of Justice: the Bureau of Justice Statistics, the National Institute of Justice, and the Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention.
Recidivism in the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth 1997 - Standalone Data (Rounds 1 to 13) (ICPSR 34562)
Principal Investigator(s): United States Department of Justice. Office of Justice Programs. Bureau of Justice Statistics
The NLSY97 standalone data files are intended to be used by crime researchers for analyses without requiring supplementation from the main NLSY97 data set. The data contain age-based calendar year variables on arrests and incarcerations, self-reported criminal activity, substance use, demographic variables and relevant variables from other domains which are created using the NLSY97 data. The main NLSY97 data are available for public use and can be accessed online at the NLS Investigator Web site and at the NACJD Web site (as ICPSR 3959). Questionnaires, user guides and other documentation are available at the same links. The National Longitudinal Survey of Youth 1997 (NLSY97) was designed by the United States Department of Labor, comprising the National Longitudinal Survey (NLS) Series. Created to be representative of United States residents in 1997 who were born between the years of 1980 and 1984, the NLSY97 documents the transition from school to work experienced by today's youths through data collection from 1997. The majority of the oldest cohort members (age 16 as of December 31, 1996) were still in school during the first survey round and the youngest respondents (age 12) had not yet entered the labor market.
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United State Department of Justice. Office of Justice Programs. Bureau of Justice Statistics. Recidivism in the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth 1997 - Standalone Data (Rounds 1 to 13). ICPSR34562-v1. Ann Arbor, MI: Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research [distributor], 2014-02-06. https://doi.org/10.3886/ICPSR34562.v1
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Discussion in 'TV & Media' started by bigdaddy, Feb 2, 2013.
3 seasons of Haven are almost the same length as any one season of the original Star Trek.
Is it wrong that I am kind of glad? I have not liked the changes already this season (the Ava show canceled, Reagan now at home/Chris working), and when I heard about the camera format changing and the live audience, I decided I may skip those episodes.
The only thing good this year are the neighbors getting more depth and Sean Hayes.
Good point!
We've probably seen the last episode.
Wow, even more actors who have reputations as "show-killers." Usually I'd expect to hear a reference to Summer Glau, or maybe Ted McGinley. Of course, the more examples there are of actors with that reputation, the more it underlines how ludicrous the very idea is. Most TV series die young; that's the norm, not the exception. So any steadily working actor has a good chance of being in a number of different short-lived shows; indeed, that's more likely than having steady employment in a long-running hit.
Heck, just the other day, I saw that Chi McBride has got a new series upcoming, and that made me realize how many short-lived shows he's been in. He's had a couple of shows that ran four seasons each, The John Larroquette Show and Boston Public, but he's starred in a number of shorter-lived series -- The Secret Diary of Desmond Pfeiffer, Killer Instinct, The Nine, and Pushing Daisies all ran one season while Human Target lasted two. (Plus he's the voice of Nick Fury on Ultimate Spider-Man, currently early in its second season, and it's too early to tell how much life that has in it.) Yet for some reason nobody seems to have saddled him with a "show-killer" label -- perhaps because he has had a couple of successes. But then, McGinley had regular or recurring roles in several long-running series, so it's odd that he got a show-killer reputation. Just goes to show how unconnected to reality such perceptions can be.
I've never heard of McGinley as a "show killer" at least as the term applies to cancellation/ratings. The rap on him was always that his mere presence made the show "Jump the Shark" in terms of quality, usually because he replaced actors whose loss hurt the show: Richie on Happy Days, Gopher on Love Boat, Steve on Married with Children, etc. It might run for years afterwards with him on it, but it was never the same.
The promos were terrible - almost as stupid as the old Enterprise promos on UPN.
And we know what ended up happening to that show!
I know. Actually, that one was my favorite of all the Law & Order spin-offs. I thought the characters were pretty interesting. Also, J. August Richards played one of the lawyers, so I would sometimes watch it and pretend that Charles Gunn continued his legal career under a different name after Angel ended.
I stand corrected. I'd never heard of the show before, nor had I ever heard that Eric Balfour was on it. Good for him.
Is it any good?
I didn't realize that about Summer Glau. I mean, I knew she was on Firefly & The Sarah Connor Chronicles but I figure a sci-fi icon like her falls into a slightly different category. Sci-fi shows are notorious for gaining a fiercely loyal cult following and then getting cancelled. Also, I hadn't realized she was on The Cape. (To be honest, everything I know about The Cape I learned from that one episode of Community. "Six seasons and a movie!")
Pushing Daisies lasted 2 seasons, although the first was cut short by the 2008 WGA strike.
Wow, they're taking Up All Night to a live audience format?
I saw the show a few times just because it was on in between better shows. It was a pretty decent show, not great. But turning the show into the exact kind of stupid format the 'psuedo-doc' format was rebelling against? Do they really think anyone's going to go for that? I doubt any of the show's fan base wants a switch to a format that tells them when to laugh.
They might as well convert Parks & Recreation or Modern Family to the 'series of unconnected gags that tell you when to laugh' format.
Anyway, back to Do No Harm, CBS news radio actually did a snarky little story on its cancellation this afternoon. Kind of came off as kicking a rival while down.
Haven is goofy, and frequently insane, but strangely addictive. And Balfour seems to be having a good time playing a wise-cracking ne'er-do-well with a heart of gold . . . who is one-third of a love triangle involving the show's heroine.
The show itself has been running on the Syfy Channel for years now.
If you could compare it to one other show, what would it be?
Hmm. Imagine a cross between X-FILES and WAREHOUSE 13. A couple of local cops investigate weird happenings in a strange little town in Maine. Less overtly comic than WH13, but a bit more whimsical than THE X-FILES. And a complicated arc plot that defies rational analysis . . . .
Did I mention that the Season 3 finale involved a shape-changing serial killer, a deadly meteor storm, and a mysterious barn that only appears once every 27 years?
Yes, it's that kind of show.
The Barn wasn't a barn, that was just Hicksville hillbilly camouflage which is how the Supernatural powers that be saw fit to talk down to and patronize the sad little muggles frightened and confused by all the goings on.
Well, I didn't want to give too much away . . .
I was talking about a Barn circa 1920 which Caretaker used to house his rape victims in the pilot of Voyager just yesterday and the similarity to Haven was amusing. This is taking "if it's not broke, don't fix it" to extremes that these boogymen can use the same mummery to calm the masses for hundreds of years and expect the greatgrandchildren of the first dopes to fall for this crap to be equally as dull witted.
It did look extremely stupid, but I like Steven Pasquale, and I think he could be a very effective lead with the right story.
As for the big networks, I'm often astonished at how little of an effort they seem to be making in the face of so much vastly superior opposition, so much choice. When film was threatened by television, they staggered for a while, but eventually embraced the changes that needed to be made, and the filmmakers, actors, writers and the like who could bring about those changes in a commercially viable way.
It's not the best comparison, but I do see parallels, and I do wonder if a network like NBC can embrace its own assortment of necessary changes.
I don't think it's about a network adjusting to the reality of the market place. I think it's about a network making poor creative decisions. Look at CBS and ABC, they are doing very well.
Especially CBS. They get a lot of eyeballs watching their shows. They may not be the riskiest creatively, but... they know how to entertain a vast swath of the American population.
Which is wise, considering that other parts of the body are not as good at watching shows as eyeballs.
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City girl finds way to show rabbits at Victoria Livestock Show
Feb. 22, 2014 at 6:03 p.m.
Updated Feb. 21, 2014 at 8:22 p.m.
Rebecca Moore, 17, always wanted to be a part of the Future Farmers of America, but the Victoria West High School junior didn't know what she could raise living in the city.
"Originally, I thought about chickens - but they're dirty," she said. "I never really knew what I wanted to do."
After learning about rabbits from a friend, Rebecca used her own money to purchase a male and female rabbit - a buck and a doe - built a cage in her backyard and prepared the couple to mate.
But there was a problem: The two would not procreate, and her buck became ill and died. With the help of her friend - the one with the rabbits - she was able to mate her doe, Mrs. Kay, and ended up with four baby rabbits.
To present at the Victoria Livestock Show, Rebecca said exhibitors have to have four rabbits, three to show and one alternate.
"I'm taking everything I have to the show," she said.
Rebecca ran her hand around the back of one of her rabbits to show off what the judges would look for - wide hips and the more meat, the better, she said.
She went into raising the rabbits knowing that the three she shows will not return home with her.
"You have to go in knowing they're not going to be fluffy little pets," Rebecca said. "They're meat animals."
Her mother, Tamra Denoyer, 40, said her daughter has always had an outdoors mentality, saying that she hunts and shoots.
"She's actually got an incredible shot," Denoyer said. "They call her Annie Oakley."
Rebecca said she plans to raise more rabbits after the livestock show. If her returning rabbit is a male, she said she'll mate it with its mother. If it's a female, she said she'll sell her or use her as a second doe for next year's show.
"It's been a really good experience - I've wanted to do it since I was a little girl," Rebecca said. "It's something I can check off my bucket list."


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Read the full story here Web Link posted Wednesday, February 6, 2008, 12:00 AM
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Atherton, Menlo Park councils slam plans for high-speed rail
Original post made on Feb 6, 2008
Read the full story here Web Link posted Wednesday, February 6, 2008, 12:00 AM
a resident of Menlo Park: Central Menlo Park
on Feb 6, 2008 at 8:13 pm
I can't imagine what prompts resonably educated people to oppose HSR through Menlo Park. As the article states, such trains trave "UP TO 220 MPH" which doesn't mean that is the only speed they travel. As As I wrote to the local press, Zurich and Geneva Switzerland are served by ICE and TGV high speed trains, although like the peninsula CalTrain tracks, Switzerland has no high speed track. The run on the same two tracks as other trains.
These trains, in countries where they are heavily used, travel at high speed only after leaving built-up areas on well protectd ROW.
Just as the AmTrak Superliner was displayed at the Santa Cruz Boardwak that is only accessible on 10 MPH track, high speed trains can reach San Francisco at normal commute train speeds. If HSR requires extra tracks, that is an HSR cost, not a city cost.
I find all this poorly placed fear mongering.
a resident of Menlo Park: University Heights
on Feb 8, 2008 at 1:39 am
I agree with Jobst Brandt's post above.
The High Speed Rail fear mongerers seem to be the same people who oppose grade separations, which would improve traffic and pedestrian safety at railroad intersections. It is impossible to know all that is going through anybody else's mind, but sometimes I think they have a misguide belief that allowing more commuter trains to run through town will degrade the quality of life for the citizens of Menlo Park and so they must fight it by opposing any project that improves or adds to our rail system.
Unfortunately, this view disregards the realities of the world we live in today, a densly populated urban environment with a growing population and that is causing serious problems, especially air pollution caused by automobiles. Studies have shown time and again that modern commuter trains are the cleanest and most fuel efficient methods of transportation, so we need trains to get people out of their cars and clean up the air we breath.
I hope the HSR initiative passes, because it would be a great thing for California. Even if it doesn't, Menlo Park still needs grade separations for the railroad track.
a resident of Menlo Park: Park Forest
on Feb 8, 2008 at 3:10 pm
"I want the truth!"
"You can't handle the truth!"
Our advice to all the high speed train advocates is, think, do some homework, find out whether what we are being sold is real, or only smoke-and-mirrors.
Do you understand that this project will cost 2 to 3 times the now estimated $45 billion price tag?
Do you know that you, and all the rest of us in California, will be paying for this project out of your pockets? Bond issues are like mortgages. Do we need a $10 billion mortgage this year or next year in a state that is already in hock for $14.5 billion (and rising)? Bonds have the highest priority to access funds from the State treasury.
This project will saddle California with never ending annual operating deficits. Just wait for the inevitable sales taxes and the state income tax increases to pay for it!
They claim the train will be profitable. No passenger train in the US has ever been profitable. Most foreign passenger trains are heavily subsidized by their governments.
When you repeat their claim that this project will carry from 117 million to 120 million passengers each year, do you know who all these people will be, where they come from, and why they would want to be rushing up and down the State?
Remember, the State now has 38 million residents and that number may go up to 50 million (or, it may not). Why would over 100 million people have to go from San Francisco to Los Angeles every year? That would be every man, woman and child in California riding the train three times a year. If you think about it, are these number really plausible? And, if you are still in doubt, it's about one third of the entire population of the United States.
This project will never get the Federal funds that Governor Schwarzenegger has demanded, nor will it get the private funds he also wants. The State will end up paying for almost the total cost of construction, possibly well over $100 billion. No project in the history of the human race has ever been even close to that expensive.
This project has serious environmental problems, which, by themselves should prohibit the project from being built. Evidence for that requires a whole separate discussion.
They claim that it would cost $50.00 one way from Anaheim to San Francisco. That's nonsense. Look at train ticket costs around the world and in the US.
This project would basically be a luxury train for the well-to-do, costing the State taxpayers billions of dollars to build and millions each year in subsidies to operate. It will not be a commuter train. Is that a good investment of tax dollars in a state that is cutting health and education budgets?
And, here's the really bad news. This project is really all about making billions of dollars for the developers and the construction firms. The prime contractor is Parsons Brinckerhoff, contractor of the infamous Boston "Big Dig", which ran 5 times over budget and took a decade longer to complete than forecasted. They just settled a $458 million claim for faulty construction of the project.
The proposed bond proposition is already a "pork barrel" measure. Ten percent (10%), $950 million, doesn't go to HSR, but rather to other transit agencies, which in turn were "bought" to give their support for the project.
Mike Brady, Morris Brown, Martin Engel
Founders of DERAIL, a 501 C-3 organization
a resident of Menlo Park: Central Menlo Park
on Feb 8, 2008 at 5:30 pm
I do not understand how HSR will help get people out of cars. I am absolutely serious. Sure, I can understand that if there were no train from A to B, just a road with cars that need to go just from A to B, a train (oh yea, a HSR) would use less energy per person. But that's not what we need to compare.
The rail line is already served by Caltrain, so people who CAN get where they want to go can already take that even if it might be a little slower than HSR.
Most of the traffic congestion around here is from people who travel within local towns and to/from places the proposed HSR tracks will not be going.
What we REALLY need are other public transit offerings that go where people need to go, and run at hours when they need to travel. Neither Caltrain or BART do this, so why would HSR?
I think I'm a realist, not a fear mongerer.
a resident of another community
on Feb 8, 2008 at 6:50 pm
High speed rail would not get people out of cars for local trips, but it might get them out of cars or airplanes for longer trips. Modern trains are much more energy efficient per passenger mile than are airplanes. Just look (and sniff) at the exhaust when a plane takes off and you can see how badly airplanes pollute. We take planes because they are faster and more convenient than driving, and are cheaper because the government subsidizes air travel by paying for much of the infrastructure. If we gave that much of a boost to trains, they could be competitive. Unfortunately, many politicians expect train systems to support themselves financially in a totally twisted and unfair market. Then you get snobs like Menlo Park and Atherton residents who want to deny the benefits of rail to everyone because they don't see anything in it for themselves. Atherton wanted to keep their train station open even though nobody used it. I guess they just liked to be able to call people from the phone in their Mercedes and talk about how their town has a train station.
a resident of Menlo Park: Downtown
on Feb 8, 2008 at 7:19 pm
We have a train to L.A! Why not try to figure out a way to make that service faster (for example, not shunting the train off to the sides whenever a freight train comes along) before investing a lot of money in a duplicate system?
It's folly to think that most people who use airplanes will switch to the train. Or that people who drive will take the train. We're talking about L.A. -- if you don't drive, you need a car when you get there, and that's just one more hassle.
This is a boondoggle and some people are planning to make a lot of money from it. And they're making every effort to derail the opposition by accusing us of being fearful. That's the number one tactic in their playbook--don't fall for it.


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Left (Q)4 Dead: BlackBerry Posts $4.4B USD Loss, Only Ships 1.9m Phones
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Company is sitting on a year's worth of unsold inventory, is losing four times its revenue
Veteran phonemaker BlackBerry, Ltd.'s (
) fell to a horrific earnings report as it was slammed with losses on unsold devices that compounded already financially painful layoff costs. There were clear signs in the earnings report that BlackBerry is preparing to exit the high-end devices market -- and likely the American market -- within the next couple quarters.
I. We're Going Down Swinging
narrowly missed being purchased
earlier this year; one of its top investors nearly pulled it private but
decided it was too risky
In Q3 (fiscal Q2 2014) the Waterloo, Ontario company "recognized revenue" (aka, sold) only a tiny number of devices compared to its rivals.
During the quarter Samsung Electronics
Comp., Ltd. (
and Apple
, Inc. (
), respectively the number one and number two device makers, alone shipped roughly 120 million smartphones. By contrast BlackBerry -- formerly known as "Research in Motion" -- shipped only 1.9, with shipments in Q3 half of what they were in Q4. In other words, BB was outshipped 100-to-1 by Samsung and Apple alone.
new chief executive, John S. Chen
, has
taken a far tougher approach with the company's staff
, acknowledging the grimness of the financial reality his firm faces. While that tough love is certainly an improvement over
his predecessor Thorsten Heins
ever the optimist
-- he's been dealt a hand that's simply hard to win. If you thought
Q2 was bad
, Q3 proved far worse.
John S. Chen inherited this mess, becoming CEO at the end of Q2.[Image Source: SAP/Sybase]
One reason why BB has hung on as long as it has, despite plunging sales, is that it's been relatively proactive in tapering production. BB's strategy, while clever, has created a lot of confusion.
Since its struggles began around in mid-2010, BB has released two sets of figures -- shipments and sales. The keyword to decoding BB's earnings report is that "recognized revenue on" is being used to imply "shipped", whereas sold, indicates a mix of new and old devices:
...as you can see BB still has about 17.3 million handsets in its channel, sitting around unsold. This is
similar to what we saw during the fall of Palm Inc.
Things are looking pretty dire on the handset front, even with BB doing its best to taper.
Note that BB is sitting on 17+ million unsold handsets, still. Also note that it's basically halted production of BlackBerry 10 platform.
Combined with the revenue/earnings numbers and you arrive at a pretty devastating picture, even by BB's standards. During the quarter, BB made $1.2B USD in revenue. The company's pre-tax losses were $4.6B USD. No you did not misread that; BB literally lost close to four times what it sold its devices and services for in the quarter. Even with exclusions for GAAP, the loss still stood at an epic $4.4B USD.
But that's unlikely to be the worst of it for BB. BB has $3.2B USD in cash. In other words it can only survive one more quarter like the last one, unless it finds new sources of debt. Given its poor performance, it's doubtful many investors will be eager to lend it much money -- particularly when it is sitting on a massive unsold inventory of 17 million handsets; basically a full year's worth of stock at current sales levels.
II. BES & BBM -- Bright Spots or Noise?
The good news is that most of the loss is thought to be due to the latest round of layoffs. BB is laying off an additional
40 percent of its workforce, or roughly 4,500 employees
, cuts which follow
last year's cuts
of over 5,000 jobs. Last year these layoffs drove BB to a loss of $235M USD on revenue of $2.9B USD. So it's likely that roughly half of BB's losses came from the layoffs, with inventory write-downs accounting for another half.
Some other parts of the report sound hopeful. For example, in the first seven months (Feb.-Sept. -- or Mar.-Sept. in some regions) on the market, BlackBerry Enterprise Server 10 (BES 10) was sold to only 25,000 servers. In Q3, BB tacked on 5,000 new BES 10 servers, to bring its total BES 7 and BES 10 client base to 80,000 servers in the wild.
BES 10 has seen tepid adoption.
However, that's the glass-half-full outlook. Consider that the subscription numbers are about half what they were at BB's (then RIM) peak in 2009 (150,000 servers) [
; PDF]. Further, nearly two thirds of BB's servers still haven't upgraded to BES 10 -- and it's questionable if they will.
The biggest selling point of BES was always BlackBerry smartphones. BB has tried to become more viable as sales have faded, offering BES support for Google Inc.'s (
) Android and Apple's iOS via
products like Fusion
. It also
tried to cut its fees to win back clients
. These cuts, while inevitable, certainly haven't helped BB financially.
And despite the cuts, BES 10 ultimately remains relatively expensive for what it offers; a good value if you use BB10 devices, perhaps. And basically no one uses BB10 devices, so BES 10 is headed the way of the dinosaur, like its smartphone companions.
The same
goes for BBM (BlackBerry Messenger)
. BBM's strongest selling point -- like BES was primarily BlackBerries. Granted it was one of the first secure PIN based messaging services. Today, it's just one of many alternatives on platforms like Android,
competing with solutions like SpotRED and Spotbros
BBM is seeing modest pickup on Android. [Image Source: TechCrunch]
In two months BB says it racked up 40 million iOS/Android BBM customers. But the only major OEM it scored a bundling deal with was
LG Electronics, Inc. (
) (the third place smartphone maker in the U.S. behind Apple and Samsung). BBM is perhaps BB's most promising product in the long-term, aside from budget handsets. But it won't be a huge moneymaker, given the abundant competition.
III. BlackBerry/RIM is Effectively Dead to the U.S. Market
Looking ahead, BB has
already announced it will be partnering with Taiwanese ODM
Hon Hai
Precision Industry Comp. Ltd.'s (
) subsidiary Foxconn --
a top Chinese manufacturer
-- for
new handsets.
It looks like these handsets will almost all be a new breed of next generation budget handsets. The focus
will be on Indonesia
-- as the first model's codename "Jakarta" indicates -- as well as "other fast-growing markets" according to CEO John Chen. Production will also be sourced to Mexico, another targeted emerging market.
Jakarta will likely be
a slightly cut down version of the Q5
-- which is already selling well in Indonesia and other emerging markets.
Q5: the first budget BB10 device
The devices will likely not be viable in the U.S. or EU -- and perhaps even BB's own home nation of Canada. Despite the abysmal financial Mr. Chen says his firm has a "commitment to the device market for the long-term" -- but he offers no promise of a commitment to the high-end U.S./EU devices market.
BlackBerry Z30: Dead
BlackBerry Q10: Dead
Further evidence of BB10's high end flight is found in the earnings report, in which BB writes:
During the third quarter, the Company [shipped] approximately 1.9 million BlackBerry smartphones compared to approximately 3.7 million BlackBerry smartphones in the previous quarter.
Most of the units [shipped] were BlackBerry 7 devices.
BB has almost completely ended production of its high end BB10 fleet. The Z10, in particular -- while arguably BB's strongest attempt to compete with Android, Windows Phone, and iOS -- also proved the company's worst failure. BB
singled it out in Q2
(fiscal Q3 2014) for poor financials.
Blackberry Z10: Dead
In that regard the
, and
(BB's four BB10 handsets to date) may be the last of their kind. BB will likely focus on slightly lower-end devices more akin to its current BB7 models. Jakarta will be 3G-only (no LTE; further proof that the device has no place in developed markets) and will launch in March or April 2014, according to Mr. Chen's
earnings call comments
Thus as Commander Spock would say, "It's life, Captain, but not life as we know it."
Named after Jakarta, Indonesia [pictured], BB's new BB10 device will lack LTE and likely marking an end to U.S. sales. [Image Source: Real Jakarta]
The BlackBerry U.S. consumers knew -- a premium devicemaker -- is effectively dead. It will taper down for a couple quarters, but even if it hangs on, its own imprint on developed markets is expected to be a handful of apps and services.
The question, though, is whether BB can survive that restructuring. Q1 2013 (fiscal Q4 2014) for BlackBerry will certainly see a smaller loss given layoffs being wrapped up. But with nearly 17+ million handsets left unsold BB must tread carefully to avoid a lethal write-down, given its relatively small cash pile and weak position.
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Every group of like-minded people has its annual summit, a combination group hug, think-tank, motivational kick-in-the-pants, meat market, and (sometimes) drunk tank. Fantasists have Comic-Con, pagans have PantheaCon, computer hackers have DEFCON, and the cinema elite have plain old Cannes (some of you just pronounced that correctly for the first time).
Enter RollerCon celebrating its fifth year in the Las Vegas heat bringing together everything roller derby under one roof (or two…or maybe three). Started by three veteran skaters in 2004 – KC Bomber (Los Angeles Derby Dolls), Chola (TXRD Lonestar Rollergirls), and Ivanna S. Pankin (San Diego Derby Dolls) – this event has grown exponentially with the sport itself. 2009 numbers topped 1,000 registered participants, including skaters, coaches, referees, officials, announcers, fans and media. The ranks of unregistered and unwitting accomplices grew as the weekend unfolded. Events like outdoor bouts on Fremont Street and a Vegas flavored scavenger hunt captured the imaginations and hearts of tourists from around the world.
What could possibly be on the agenda besides skating and mayhem? As the "Con" in RollerCon implies (well, besides relieving innocent bar-standers of their extra cocktail cash), the week also included seminars, roundtable discussions, industry vendors (more than booty shorts – think wheels and safety gear, as well as custom skates), the requisite welcome banquet, thirty bands, a derby wedding, and a grand Black and Blue Ball.
In the spirit of full disclosure, I'd like to point out that the RollerCon attendees were not, in fact, the oddest ducks in the pond (nee Las Vegas Strip) over the last week of July, merely the easiest to spot and swoop down upon. DEFCON, the aforementioned computer hackers' convention (website temporarily down as of this writing; Hacked perhaps?), took place at the same time and place, and there was inevitable co-mingling of geek and…gal? Upon entering the casino's Geisha Bar in the wee hours of the morning and spying a couple mired in flirtatious conversation, you tell me who stood out more, the girl wearing the hot pants and Converse or the guy wearing the working Tetris game hanging from his belt.
See the RollerCon 2009 promo video
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Prospect Salazar making first Majors start Thursday
By Mark Emery / MLB.com
CLEVELAND -- Danny Salazar is going to start his first Major League game on Thursday afternoon against Toronto.
Tribe manager Terry Francona announced Salazar as the starter before the Indians opened a three-game set against the visiting Blue Jays on Tuesday. Salazar, Cleveland's eighth-best prospect according to MLB.com, is 3-2 with a 3.40 ERA across 10 starts for Triple-A Columbus this season. In 42 1/3 innings, the right-hander has 49 strikeouts against 13 walks.
"He's getting a lot of strikeouts," Francona said. "He's got good velocity. He's got all the tools. He's only probably up to 85-90 pitches. We have to be cognizant of that, especially pitching at a level where you know he's going to be amped up. But his future is really bright."
Salazar, 23, also started seven games for Double-A Akron this year. In those outings, he went 2-3 and compiled a 2.67 ERA. He racked up 51 strikeouts while issuing 10 walks over 33 2/3 innings.
The Indians also announced on Tuesday that Salazar was named the organization's Minor League Player of the Week for July 1-7, during which he went 2-0 while keeping his opponents to three hits and no runs over 10 total innings.
Francona said that Salazar will probably be sent back down after starting on Thursday. When that happens, he'll return to the same squad as Carlos Carrasco, who would have been the starter on Thursday, but was designated for assignment and optioned to the Clippers after another disappointing outing. In six starts with the Indians, Carrasco has an 0-4 record and a 9.10 ERA.
When Cleveland decided to have Carrasco take his next turn in the Minors, Salazar got his shot.
"When the coordinators had come through a couple weeks ago, that was one of the topics -- was he ready to handle one of these spot starts, and it was a unanimous 'yes,'" Francona said. "So, we're kind of excited."
Chisenhall posting impressive numbers since callup
CLEVELAND -- Lonnie Chisenhall dug into the box on Monday with two outs on the scoreboard and two teammates on base. It was the second inning, and the Indians trailed Detroit by one run. About 60 feet away stood Max Scherzer, the owner of a perfect 13-0 record.
Chisenhall took a changeup for a ball before falling into a 1-2 count after a couple of heaters from Scherzer. Then came four more fastballs, three of which clocked in at 99-mph. Chisenhall fouled the next three off and took the fourth for a ball, as Mike Aviles and Michael Brantley moved up by stealing second and third. At that point, Scherzer stepped off the mound to speak to an umpire, and a 20-minute rain delay commenced.
When play resumed, Scherzer followed his six straight four-seamers with an 89-mph changeup, which Chisenhall smoked into right field. In came Brantley and Aviles, and the Tribe grabbed a 2-1 lead.
"That was a hard at-bat to go up there after sitting for that long," said Tribe manager Terry Francona, who's been generally pleased with how Chisenhall has hit since being recalled from Triple-A Columbus on June 18.
"It was kind of a weird at-bat," Chisenhall said. "It started raining right in the middle of it. He kept challenging me before the rain delay. Fastballs, fastballs. They called it, and I wasn't very happy. Kind of in the middle of the at-bat, we're both battling.
"I mean, right after the rain delay, first-pitch changeup, and I got the barrel on it, got a single to right. It was awesome. We really needed it at that point. We went down 1-0 in the top there, so it was nice to get something going and get the wheels going."
In 17 games since his callup, Chisenhall, 24, owns a .293/.339/.500 slash line with six doubles, two homers, nine RBIs, four walks and 11 strikeouts. The numbers signify a pretty dramatic turnaround for a player who started the season as the Tribe's Opening Day third baseman before his demotion on May 13.
At that point, Chisenhall was hitting .213 with four doubles, three home runs, 11 RBIs, three walks and 11 strikeouts over 26 games.
"I feel good right now," Chisenhall said. "Baseball's a tough sport. It comes and goes as it pleases sometimes. But right now, I feel good in the box. I feel confident."
That's good news for the Indians and their manager, who feels Chisenhall could be a major building block in the organization's future.
"For the most part, when he's gotten pitches to hit, he's hit them, and he's laying off pitches out of the zone much better," Francona said. "If he gets a pitch to hit, he's going to have some success. He's got quick hands, and he's a pretty strong kid. When he swings at balls, again, middle of the plate, he's going to do some damage. And for the most part, he's done a pretty good job with that."
Chisenhall, who was selected by the Indians in the first round of the 2008 First-Year Player Draft, made his Major League debut in 2011. In 152 career games, he's put together a .255 average to go along with 58 RBIs and 17 homers.
"When I'm going good, I'm not going out of the zone too much," Chisenhall said. "I put together some good at-bats. I think two or three nights ago, I saw close to 30 pitches. When I'm going well, I'm fouling off pitches that are tough to hit and hitting my pitch. I'm starting to feel good as of late."
Tribe exploring options for rotation reinforcement
CLEVELAND -- The Indians have already been linked to the Cubs' Matt Garza. Now, they're reportedly interested in Milwaukee's Yovani Gallardo.
At the moment, those two pitchers are Cleveland's "main and only pitchers of interest," according to a CBSSports.com story by Jon Heyman. The Tribe is seeking a pitcher to "pair with ace Justin Masterson," according to a source in the report. The Indians want a starter with high-end stuff, but they might be content to leave their rotation untouched if they can't reach a deal for a top-of-the-rotation player.
"We like the group of guys we have and believe in their potential," Indians general manager Chris Antonetti told MLB.com's Jordan Bastian in an e-mail. "But if there's an opportunity to improve our roster or our depth, we'll pursue it."
This season, opposing clubs have devalued Gallardo, whose performance in 2013 has not reflected past success. Through 19 starts, the Brewers' right-hander has assembled a 7-8 record and a 4.85 ERA while averaging 7.4 strikeouts per nine innings. In each of the past four seasons, Gallardo kept his ERA under 4.00 and struck out at least nine hitters per nine innings, on average.
Gallardo, 27, has another year on his contract, plus an option after that.
What's true of Gallardo does not apply to Garza, who will be a free agent but remains open to signing on for more time in Chicago after this season ends. Over his last five outings, the 29-year-old righty has gone 4-0 and put together an impressive 0.97 ERA. Across that stretch, Garza has issued eight walks and posted 34 strikeouts, while holding opponents to a .180 batting average.
According to Jon Morosi of Fox Sports, the Indians were one of five teams to scout Garza's start on Monday, when he held the White Sox to five hits and two runs (one earned) over seven innings. In 10 starts this year, Garza is 5-1 and owns a 3.22 ERA.
Entering the 2013 campaign, Cleveland's starting rotation was considered the club's primary weakness. The starters have performed better than expected, though lately manager Terry Francona has gone to his bullpen earlier in games than he'd probably like. Entering Tuesday's tilt, Tribe starters are 30-34 with a 4.58 ERA. They've thrown 506 2/3 innings (12th in the American League) and racked up 453 strikeouts (fifth in the AL).
Even if the Indians don't make a deal for a starter, they'll receive second-half reinforcement in the form of Zach McAllister, who hasn't pitched since June 2 because of a right middle finger sprain.
Smoke signals
• The All-Star break is within sight, and Francona said the Indians "will use it to our advantage" to tinker with the rotation for the second half. Along with pitching coach Mickey Callaway, Francona is meeting with his pitchers to figure out how best to assemble his starting staff. The manager did mention that he would prefer to have All-Star Justin Masterson make the first start of the second half in Minnesota.
"Even if he pitches [in the All-Star Game], that would give him three days. That would be about perfect," Francona said. "And then we'll work from there."
• While the Indians decided to make Salazar their starter on Thursday, Francona admitted that prospect Trevor Bauer was considered as well. Bauer, 22, has made four starts for Cleveland this season, going 1-2 with a 5.29 ERA.
"I think at this point, this time, we thought it'd be in his best interest to kind of stay where he is pitching," Francona said. "He's trying to fight through the mechanical things and everything. His last outing with us was a pretty rocky one. So, you balance development, winning at the big league level, all those things, and decide to let him stay where he is."
• Injured catcher Lou Marson, who last appeared in a baseball game on June 7 in Triple-A Columbus, was transferred to the 60-day disabled list on Sunday, the same day Cleveland designated Carrasco. Marson is on the DL because of right shoulder inflammation.
"He's trying to ramp up on his throwing program. He's able to hit," Francona said. "He's running into some road blocks from time to time, so it hasn't gone as quickly as I think we've hoped, but that's where he's at now."
Marson's shoulder has limited his playing time with the Indians to three games in April. Cleveland acquired him in a Deadline deal with Philadelphia four years ago.
Quote to note
"I've been really impressed with his game clock, like the speed of the game. He sees everything on the field very well. And again, when you play against him, you knew he was a really good player. But then when you're with him every day, you see how the game's not very fast for him."
-- Francona, on shortstop Asdrubal Cabrera
Mark Emery is an associate reporter for MLB.com. This story was not subject to the approval of Major League Baseball or its clubs.


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Midvale • Monday was beautifully warm and sunny but the Road Home, Salt Lake City's downtown homeless shelter, opened its winter facility in Midvale where 65 families are finding a temporary home weeks before the snow flies.
The cinder-block warehouse, at 529 W. 9th Avenue, used to take in the homeless community's overflow population during the winter months, opening its doors on Nov. 1. But a surge in numbers of desperate families began bumping that date earlier in 2010.
"We've been in an upward trend for the last 3 years," said Road Home Executive Director Matt Minkevitch. "We're on track to again surpass any previous records. If we go back about six years, we've had a 300 percent increase in the number of families that we're serving."
So far, in 2012 Utah's largest homeless facility has served 709 families. Years ago, they wouldn't see that demand in a two-year period, Minkevitch said.
"Family homelessness has increased significantly and disturbingly," Minkevitch said of the growing trend manifesting itself throughout the country.
Michelle Webster, 46, readied two cots for herself and her five-year old son Michael. He is one of four children, but 18 years separate him and his next older brother, she said.
"I was a baby having babies," Webster said of her first pregnancy at age 16, which interrupted her education. She later finished her high school training while doing jail time. Now divorced twice, she plows ahead in a tough economy as a single parent, working on a plan to find a job and put food on the table.
"A lot of these people have lost everything," Webster said of the parents and children settling in around her. "It's kind of hard to hold on to stuff when you're just trying to keep your head above water and feed your little mouths."
Without the Road Home and public assistance programs available through state agencies, Webster said that she and her son would be on the streets.
"I'm grateful," Webster said of the "hand-up" she's receiving, "and I hope that everybody makes it out of here."
According to Minkevitch, most will. Unfortunately, a flood of families with continue to flow through the shelter for awhile.
"The odds are 90 percent in their favor that the people here today will move out of this shelter and never come back again," Minkevitch said. "It's just too bad that we have others coming to us at the same time."
Rapid rehousing funds, a valuable tool initially provided through federal stimulus dollars, will cover a few months rent and utility costs for many of these families so they can quickly relocate into area apartments.
Rachel Jeffers, 22, held on to that hope as she claimed cots for herself and her 1-year-old daughter Keiana. Her son, 3, was spending the day with his father but will soon join his mother and sister at the shelter.
The family's downhill slide began in May when Jeffers took maternity leave, did not return to work in time and subsequently lost her job. She found another job, but finances had already spiraled out of control and soon the young family lost their car and apartment and everything else.
"Then we had no choice but to come here," Jeffers said. She previously managed a fast-food franchise, where she made $10 per hour and worked plenty of overtime.
Sharing a large concrete warehouse with dozens of roommates can be daunting, although the facility touts an on-site laundry and large kitchen with several stoves, refrigerators and shelves stacked with canned foods and jars of peanut butter.
"I just have to take it day by day," Jeffers said. "It's all a challenge from knowing what you're going to feed your kids to trying to accomplish something to get yourself out of here."
Jeffers acknowledged feeling trapped and alone at times. But one look at her kids strengthens her resolve to stay positive and forge ahead.
"I know that if I'm not happy, then they're not going to be happy," Jeffers said.
Downy Zuver, Road Home case manager, said that 198 new cots so far have been set up at the Midvale warehouse. The ability for families to do laundry and prepare their own food there provides a bit more stability than the downtown shelter, she added.
"It's kind of its own little community," Zuver said. "For the most part they try to help each other out. They babysit each other's kids and become friends."
Minkevitch remains upbeat about the many challenges the homeless community faces.
"These are problems with solutions," he said, adding that more federally subsidized housing vouchers would be a giant step forward in reducing homelessness.
"Housing is just too expensive," Minkevitch said. "Especially for folks with incomes as challenged as those who are coming to us."
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In this astonishing and startling book, award-winning science and history writer Robert Whitaker investigates a medical mystery: Why has the number of disabled mentally ill in the United States tripled over the past two decades? Every day, 1,100 adults and children are added to the government disability rolls because they have become newly disabled by mental illness, with this epidemic spreading most rapidly among our nations children. What is going on?
Anatomy of an Epidemic challenges listeners to think through that question themselves. First, Whitaker investigates what is known today about the biological causes of mental disorders. Do psychiatric medications fix chemical imbalances in the brain, or do they, in fact, create them? Researchers spent decades studying that question, and by the late 1980s, they had their answer. Listeners will be startled - and dismayed - to discover what was reported in the scientific journals.
Then comes the scientific query at the heart of this book: During the past 50 years, when investigators looked at how psychiatric drugs affected long-term outcomes, what did they find? Did they discover that the drugs help people stay well? Function better? Enjoy good physical health? Or did they find that these medications, for some paradoxical reason, increase the likelihood that people will become chronically ill, less able to function well, more prone to physical illness?
This is the first book to look at the merits of psychiatric medications through the prism of long-term results. By the end of this review of the outcomes literature, listeners are certain to have a haunting question of their own: Why have the results from these long-term studies - all of which point to the same startling conclusion - been kept from the public?
This is an outstanding work of science journalism and it is likely to surprise the vast majority of its readers. Plus, Ken Kliban is a great narrator. As a both a scientist and a mental health clinician, I support the methods and the conclusions of this book strongly. The irony, though, is that I'm probably not alone. Many, if not most, scientists at the top of NIMH and major universities wouldn't disagree with two of the most important ideas; first, that the "chemical imbalance" hypothesis is basically nonsense, and second, that the outcomes literature for psych drugs are poor. I saw a talk given by Thomas Insel, Director of NIMH, in April (2010, that is) and he said two things that are consistent with Whitaker's conclusions. First a direct quote: "Current treatments help too few people get better and very few get well." Second, he advocated for research focused on the "connectome," that is, a developing understanding of how a typically functioning brain's circuits are interconnected and how disruptions in those connections "cause" mental illness. I think understanding the connectome is important but unlikely to reveal anything about "mental illness" for various empirical reasons I won't go into here.
Of course, what most clinical psychiatrists won't agree with is that the drugs are part of the problem. But I suspect the current generation of psych drugs are going to go the way of tobacco (which used to be promoted for its health benefits). Eventually there's just going to be too much evidence against them. Hopefully Whitaker's work will help accelerate that.
I'm going to recommend this book to everyone I possibly can. I'm also going to teach it to psychiatry residents. Well, to be honest, I'll probably teach the primary sources rather than the book itself because, if Whitaker is right, teaching the book could be bad for my career...
26 of 32 people found this review helpful
I tend to agree that anti-depressants and anti-psychotics are overly prescribes, particularly since the effects are not well understood. I also agree that drugs are used when cognitive behavioral techniques would be successful (but not make much money for drug companies). I further agree that drug companies have not uncommonly created unfair pro-drug testing regimes. BUT the author makes conclusions that don???t seem to be supported by any data and weaves a deeper conspiracy than the evidence seems to support. Repeating the same evidence is not more evidence. Also the author makes the key mistake seen in such books; Assume the hypothesis then search for data that supports the hypothesis. This is just not how real science is done. So if you read this, take it with a big grain of salt.
38 of 49 people found this review helpful
The information was fascinating. I'll be checking some of the research just to confirm the author's conclusions. There was a mind-numbing amount of repetition.
11 of 14 people found this review helpful
Excellent study and case for the problems with the drugs used to treat mental illness. However, the book is too long. After listening to a few cases for the first couple hours, it was good. Repitition of more cases with similar statistics and results in the next few hours started getting boring. I held on for 10 hours hoping that something new would arise in the book, but it was the same thing over and over, I finally quit the book.
6 of 8 people found this review helpful
This audio book is loaded with facts, data and information about the current epidemic of mental illness. 3.5 million children on Ritalin; 250 people a day going on Social Security Disability for various mental health issues. The solution has been to use truckloads of pharmaceuticals to control behavior or provide relief. The author presents a very convincing case that our systematic overdosing on these drugs is exacerbating a problem, indeed turning young children who act out in school into drugged young adults who, in some cases, have a life long dependency problem.
Until 1960 most of the modern psychological diseases that are prevalent in the US did not exist. Once big pharma ( the people who fill the evening news with chemical solutions for what ever ails you) cranked up its marketing machine it became essential for many of us to find the "right" pill.
This is an important book for anyone who has children or friend/relatives who may be taking or considering modern psychotropic drugs. This book makes a compelling case that the cure may be worse than the disease.
8 of 11 people found this review helpful
Amazing book and I think essential for every person to read. We all know someone who has taken medication of been instructed to take medication for depression, anxiety, bipolar, and ADHD. Reading this books makes you much more informed to make the decision about medications. At the very least, every parent should read this book before they allow their child to take any kind of medication.
10 of 15 people found this review helpful
I managed to make it through the entire book, but it's not easy to stay alert listening to the driest narration possible. I think I'm going to stick with fluffier nonfiction books for now on. Plus, I now know to truly listen to the audiobook sample and ask myself, "Could I listen to this narrator for 14 hours?" In the case of this book, I did, but it took the perseverance of a saint. I'd recommend you read this book and listen to something else.
6 of 9 people found this review helpful
Would you listen to Anatomy of an Epidemic again? Why?
"Anatomy of an Epidemic" will appeal to mental health professionals, psychiatrist, medical doctors, and individuals impacted by psychotropic medications. The book posits one simple question: "why have the rates of mental illness skyrocketed in the last 20 years despite the reported advancements in psychotropic medications?" The author, Robert Whitaker, attempts to answer this question armed with data, peer-reviewed research, and a no holds barred investigatory diligence. Overall, Mr. Whitaker suggests that the American public has been sold a bill of goods by pharmaceutical companies relative to the true effects of psychotropic medication on human behavior. He provides a history of psychotropic drug development, picks apart the research funded by pharmaceutical corporations, and examines the social factors that incentivize a diagnosis of mental illness.
Mr. Whitaker does not supply any useful answers to the complex problems encountered by those affected by mental illness. Instead, he challenges the conventional wisdom and public beliefs around the effectiveness of medications such as Prozac, Paxil, Respirable, and Zyprexa. If Mr. Whitaker has one message for readers the message would warn individuals suffering from mental illness to be very cautious before following the advice of a mental health professional to start taking psychotropic medications. There is clear evidence these medications can potentially exasperate a mental health condition and become lifelong endeavors.
Mr. Whitaker is an excellent writer. "Anatomy of an Epidemic" is very readable although it deals with very technical peer-reviewed information. He has a clear and efficient writing style that communicates very well to readers with a basic familiarity related to psychotropic medication and mental health diagnosis.
2 of 3 people found this review helpful
Unfortunately, the truth is much more complex than either the mental health medication industry or Robert Whitaker want us to believe. While the causes and treatments of the astonishing growing rates of mental health problems is a very important topic to examine, Whitaker commits the same errors as the pharmaceutical industry, just in the opposite direction, by intentionally omitting any data or study that contradicts his conclusions. In addition, with the exception of a one sentence dismissal, he completely ignores vast areas of multiple contributing factors that have had devasting effects on mental health in our modern society.
This book does help to raise some important questions, but it is unfortunate that it is done in such an obviously biased manner as it causes one to question the conclusions it reaches. The causes of mental health problems are much more complex than Whitaker is willing to admit. Therefore, the evaluation and treatment of mental helath problems deserves a more honest and multifaceted approach than Whitaker is able to acknowledge with this biased oversimplification of this important topic.
2 of 3 people found this review helpful
This book was an eye opener and very scary! When my youngest daughter was in the third grade her teacher said she had ADHD and wanted her to take drugs for it. Her father and I said "NO" and put her on a strict exercise program plus a time limit for almost everything. We bought and set timers in every room, so when the timer went off - she had to stop whatever she was doing. It worked! And the school wanted to know what we did? She's now in college and just finished two tours of duty in Iraq. I'm very proud of her.
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Is Marilyn Manson Engaged to Occult Filmmaker?
Has Marilyn Manson once again asked a woman to share his sun-shunning life, until death (or the pallor of death) do they part? Life & Style claims the whey-faced rocker has popped the question to his supposed lady friend of five weeks, actress and self-described independent occult filmmaker-cum-industrial Goth rock artist Seraphim Ward, 27.
This would make at least the fourth time that Manson, 43, has proposed (previous fiancées include Rose McGowan, Evan Rachel Wood and Dita Von Teese, the only one who made it down the aisle with him).
"Marilyn proposed with a family ring," says a Seraphim insider. "I think it was his grandmother's. It's Celtic, and Seraphim says it has a magical bonding to the receiver."
Ward tweeted a photo of a sparkler (below), although this one doesn't so much say "family heirloom" as it does "available for five more minutes on QVC." She also bubbled, "I am still speechless and in shock!" But are they really engaged?
Even though Ward's rep seemed to confirm the betrothal rumors by telling L&S, "Seraphim is in a committed relationship and is over the moon about what her bright future holds with her partner," and enthusing to E! News, "Seraphim has recently made a life commitment to her partner and couldn't be happier!" Manson's manager tells Gossip Cop the report is "totally false."
"Marilyn Manson is not engaged to Seraphim Ward," adds his spokesman. "He has never met her."
Seraphim then cleared up the matter by tweeting, "WOW... HOW THE MEDIA TWIST THINGS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I am NOT engaged to Marilyn Manson, I look up to him and his work! I am with an x-bandmate, but it is NOT Manson!"
The story went that Manson fell hard and fast for Ward because they have so much in common, like a love of supernatural phenomena (she makes films about the paranormal and tweets witchy messages such as, "Bless It Be! There's MAGIC in the air and LIFE in the Runes!") and tortured souls ("The torments of my mind has become my gift," reads Seraphim's Twitter intro).
"They share an interest in the occult and have bonded fast," alleged the L&S source. "He's gotten her a house in the Hollywood Hills."
Here's hoping that ostensible house hasn't already magically bonded to the receiver.
For those keeping score, Manson's marriage to Von Teese ended 2007 after a year of togetherness. His on-again, off-again romance with so-called "twin" Wood fizzled in 2010, but it left us with his lasting words of love, including this gem: "I have fantasies every day about smashing her skull in with a sledgehammer." Last month, Marilyn raised eyebrows when he was seen in the company of Lana Del Rey."
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Re: The General Footy Thread
Yet again, the other results went our way & we failed to take advantage, we always do this & it pisses me right off. Not taking anything away from Bolton, they kept up pressure well on us & had a good game but we just didn't make the most of the game in general. I think Fergie needs to give Owen a chance over Rooney as his head is clearly up his arse at the moment, he seems to be more bothered about getting laid & not getting clocked than playing football. I'm also a little puzzled as to why Rio didn't get at least a run out if not a full game. O'Shea needs to fuck off!
Well chuffed with that performance from Bolton - should've been 3-1 if Elmander hadn't skyed his one-on-one - 2-2 was a fair result, but you boys looked a little out of sorts all over the pitch, so I'm not getting my hopes up for the rest of the season just yet - we played some nice football in parts though.


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PRINCETON, N.J., June 14 (UPI) -- Americans still blame the country's economic ills more on former President George W. Bush than on President Obama, a Gallup poll released Thursday indicated.
Sixty-eight percent of Americans still blame the Bush White House while 52 percent said Obama was at fault, results indicated.
The relative economic blame ascribed to Bush over Obama in the latest poll is virtually the same as it was in September, the Princeton, N.J., polling agency said.
Gallup first began assessing blame in July 2009, six months after Obama became president. Then, 80 percent of Americans indicated they gave Bush a great deal or a moderate amount of blame for the bad economy compared with 32 percent who ascribed the same level of blame to Obama.
Results are based on nationwide telephone interviews with 1,004 adults conducted June 7-10. The margin of error is 4 percentage points.


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The Keystone Honors Academy at Cheyney University Prepares Students for Graduate Study
Angelitta Anderson
October 18, 2013
More than 100 students passed through the 2013 Fall Graduate School Fair sponsored by the Keystone Honors Academy at Cheyney University to have their questions answered by representatives from each university.
The Keystone Honors Academy (KHA) at Cheyney University hosted its Fall 2013 Graduate School Fair on Thursday, October 17, 2013 from 2 to 5 pm at the Marcus Foster Alumni Student Center. More than 100 students passed through the various booths seeking information about programs to help them further their careers. The annual event was open to all Cheyney University students as well as the public.
"The graduate school fair is an opportunity for students to engage with higher education professionals who serve as excellent resources to students about graduate programs, admissions requirements, and career pathways," explained KHA Dean Tara Kent. "Students benefit from these interactions, not only in an advisory capacity, but they may also cultivate valuable relationships with faculty, admissions deans and recruiters who will play a role in evaluating their application materials."
The event allowed students to meet representatives from graduate programs from across the region in a wide variety of disciplines including: Medicine, Law, Business Administration, Public Health, Psychology, Social Work, Education, and many more. Cheyney students networked with some of the area's best schools and made some incredible connections.
Participating universities included:
• Howard University
• Rutgers University
• University of Pennsylvania
• Temple University (Master's and Ph.D. programs)
• University of Delaware
• John Jay College of Criminal Justice
• Temple University Beasley School of Law
• Cheyney University
• Holy Family University
• West Chester University
• Wilmington University
• Bloomsburg University
• Temple University School of Podiatric Medicine
• University of Pittsburgh
• Temple University College of Education
• Lincoln University
• Immaculata
• Shippensburg University
• Neumann University
Cheyney Senior Rosalyn Mitchell Jackson said the fair was rewarding. The Liberal Arts Major looked at a number of schools' programs but Lincoln University's weekend masters program caught her attention most. Senior Psychology Major Mia Duppins was also glad she came. "The whole event has been very informative and I thank Dr. Kent for having it. I feel blessed to be here," she exclaimed. Sophomore Fine Arts Major Niseeah Grasch, already thinking beyond graduation, said he was impressed with the "wide selection of graduate schools" and found it to be "a great opportunity."
According to Kent, KHA "is actively involved in assisting students prepare for post-baccalaureate work, and with the strong academic foundation established through coursework in their disciplines, our students have become increasingly more successful with placement."
Funded through the Bond-Hill Scholarship Program, the Honors Academy hosts an array of activities throughout the academic year which are designed to assist students in preparing for post baccalaureate work. Faculty across the university serve as advisors and mentors to students interested in graduate study, and the Academy collaborates with faculty to provide students with the needed resources to help them succeed as they prepare for studies for advanced degrees.


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Robin Thicke may be taking the meaning of his new single "Blurred Lines" a little too literally. The soul crooner's new video featuring rappers T.I. and Pharrell, was taken down from YouTube shortly after its debut last week for allegedly being borderline X-rated.
The unrated clip for the funky upbeat tune off his upcoming sixth record, due out this summer, features Thicke with a few topless women who are only wearing nude-colored panties.
The suggestive nature of the video might have resulted in its removal from YouTube, but it still amassed over 1 million views before it was taken down. Thicke later tweeted his disappointment that the video was removed, but directed fans to Vevo, where it could still be seen.
Representatives for YouTube have yet to comment on the exact reason for the removal. Usually the site takes down videos that contain nudity (which this one does), gratuitous violence, or otherwise violates YouTube's Terms of Use or Community Guidelines. Of course, in their Terms of Use it does state "YouTube reserves the right to remove Content and User Submissions without prior notice," so the site can decide to remove a video for any reason it likes.
It seems that Thicke might have known that his NSFW video would get people talking. The hashtags "#THICKE" and "#BLURREDLINES" appear in big, bright red letters on the screen several times during the clip just urging you to start tweeting.
Though the happily married singer appears in the video with several scantily-clad models, Thicke said in an interview with the Washington Post last week that he sought the approval of his wife Paula Patton before releasing the clip, explaining, "It's entertainment … Obviously if she didn't like it, I wouldn't put it out."
Fans can also watch a censored version of the video on Vevo.
– Britt Bickel, 94.7 The WAVE


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List of Americans Abroad
Hahnemann, Reading come up short to Burnley in promotion playoffs.
Bocanegra scores, but Rennes is upset by Guingamp 2-1 in Cup final.
Hahnemann, Reading fall short of Premier League promotion, get second chance.
Hahnemann posts two shutouts, Reading has Sunday shot for promotion to Premier League.
Howard saves in tiebreaker lead Everton past Manchester United in FA Cup semifinals.
Reading finally scores, but Hahnemann concedes lead in 2-2 draw with Blackpool.
Dempsey scores twice, adds assist to spark Fulham past Manchester City.
Edu scores first goal, Beasley injures rib in Rangers victory.
Friedel is sent off from Villa's 5-0 rout at hands of Liverpool.
Howard, Everton are on the upswing in English Premier League.
Bradley helps Gladbach mount effort to escape relegation.
Donovan to wrap up Munich tenure and rejoin Galaxy in MLS.
Healthy after long recovery, Spector is recording playing time with West Ham.
Foul tackle leaves Beasley bruised, but apparently not sidelined.
Bradley scores tying goal in Gladbach's 1-1 draw at Bremen.
McBride, Beasley stay put as transfer window closes.
McBride could return to Fulham of EPL, Altidore moves.
Friedel posts two shutouts for Aston Villa which defeats Portsmouth, ties Doncaster.
Beasley, Edu struggle for playing time for Glasgow Rangers.
Americans Abroad
(Tuesday, May 19, 2009) -- United States midfielder Clint Dempsey was honored by Fulham's fans, being voted the club's "Monster Player of the Month" for April. The designation falls somewhere between most valuable and most popular.
On Saturday, Dempsey put in another hard 90 minutes for Fulham, which used Diomansy Kamara's 41st-minute strike to defeat host Newcastle United 1-0 in an English Premier League match at St. James' Park.
Newcastle was not helped when left defender Sebastien Bassong was sent off in the 60th minute, four minutes after Dempsey received a yellow card.
With one match left in the season, Dempsey is somewhat improbably tied with striker Andrew Johnson as the Cottagers' top goal scorer at seven goals.
Fulham is in seveth place at 14-12-11 with 53 points.
In the second-tier English League Championship, the news was not good for American goalkeeper Marcus Hahnemann, who was released by Reading Friday after the club failed to win promotion to the Premiership.
"I knew it was coming. . . but it was still hard to take," Hahnemann, who turns 37 on June 15 and is now a free agent told reporters. "But I'm not done playing in England yet."
Hahnemann, who was with Reading since 2001, was told early Friday morning, along with three other veteran players, that their contracts would not be renewed. The moves come as part of a general housecleaning three days after visiting Burnley defeated Reading 2-0, completing a 3-0 aggregate sweep that end the Royals' season in the promotion tournament semifinals.
"Marcus has been a key player for us for a number of years now, and he has been a great ambassador for our club and very popular with our supporters." Royals chairman John Madejski said to the team's web site..
Defender Graeme Murty, forward Leroy Lita and defender Michael Duberry were also released a day after Steve Coppell was fired as manager.
"The players who are leaving will all sorely be missed, but this week has seen the end of an era and it's time for the club to move on," Reading director of football Nick Hammond said to the web site. "Marcus has been a tremendously consistent and reliable goalkeeper for many years, and has without a doubt been one of our most important players in the last decade."
Had Reading won at home over Birmingham City in the season finale, the Royals would have finished second and earned automatic promotion. Instead, Reading fell 2-1 and placed fourth at 21-11-14 with 77 points.
In the Premier League, American goalkeeper Brad Friedel put in another solid 90 minutes in net for visiting Aston Villa, which overcame an early deficit to salvage a 1-1 draw against relegation-challenged and desperate Middlesbrough at The Riverside Stadium.
In the 14th minute, Friedel was surprised by an acrobatic bicycle kick by Tuncay Sanli and was caught flat-footed. Villa drew level at 1-1 in the 57th minute on a goal by John Carew and then held on to limit Middlebrough, which would need a victory in its final match and some help not to be demoted.
U.S. keeper Tim Howard did not post a clean sheet, but host Everton, behind a pair of goals from Louis Saha, cruised to a comfortable 3-1 victory against shorthanded West Ham United at Goodison Park.
West Ham scored in the 24th minute on a hard 30-yard shot from Radoslav Kovac, but the match turned in the 37th when West Ham's James Tomkins was sent off and Saha converted the subsequent penalty kick.
Howard did not have a busy day with only a pair of saves, but in the 13th minute he stopped Diego Tristan, sent in on goal by Kovac after his pass split the defense.
U.S. defender Jonathan Spector came on at halftime and played well for West Ham, receiving a yellow card in the 73rd minute.
American defender Zak Whitbread went the distance for Millwall which ousted Leeds 2-1 on aggregate thanks to a 1-1 road draw Thursday in the third-tier English League One promotion playoff semifinals.
Forward Mike Grella came on in the 90th minute for Leeds.
The Lions move on to the single-match final at Wembley where they will meet Scunthorpe United, 7-6 penalty-kicks winners over the Milton Keynes Dons after a 0-0 tie and a 1-1 aggregate draw. American striker Jemal Johnson was not dressed for the Dons.
In Scotland's Premier League, Glasgow Rangers (25-4-8, 83 points) have opened a two-point lead over arch-rival Glasgow Celtic (24-4-9) with two matches to play after a 2-1 home win over Aberdeen at home at Ibrox Saturday.
Celtic could only manage a 0-0 draw with host Hibernian at Easter Road Stadium.
U.S. midfielder Maurice Edu went 90 minutes for Rangers in the strange effort which saw Aberdeen lose Charlie Mulgrew to a red card in the 18th minute, Rangers was reduced to 10 men when Madjid Bougherra was sent off in the 40th minute.
The match was scoreless to the 66th minute when an Aberdeen own goal gave Rangers a lead they didn't relinquished.
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Fails Of The Week — Mike Bloomberg, Marc Jacobs, and Usher's Brother J. Lac
Fail: Looks like Mayor Mike Bloomberg is not a fan of the first amendment. After two months of Occupy Wall Street protests, Bloomberg was seemingly fed up with the OWS movement earlier this week. The events that followed would result in members of the press/media being kept away from the protestors while they were booted out of Zuccotti Park.
Redemption: Upgraded, luxury tents for all!