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Quotes & Info
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Quarterly Report
Forward Looking Statements
This quarterly report on Form 10-Q contains "forward-looking statements" within the meaning of 27A of the Securities Act of 1933, as amended, and Section 21E of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended. In particular, statements contained in the Form 10-Q, including but not limited to, statements regarding our future results of operations and financial position, business strategy and plan prospects, projected revenue or costs and objectives of management for future research, development or operations, are forward-looking statements. These statements relate to our future plans, objectives, expectations and intentions and may be identified by words such as "may," "will," "should," "expects," "plans," "anticipate," "intends," "target," "projects," "contemplates," "believe," "estimates," "predicts," "potential," and "continue," or similar words.
Although we believe that our expectations are based on reasonable assumptions within the limits of our knowledge of our business and operations, the forward-looking statements contained in this document are neither promises nor guarantees. Our business is subject to significant risk and uncertainties and there can be no assurance that our actual results will not differ materially from our expectations. These forward looking statements include, but are not limited to, statements concerning: future financial performance and position and management's strategy, plans and objectives for research and development, product development, and commercialization of current and future products, including the commercialization of our biopolymer products. Such forward-looking statements are subject to a number of risks and uncertainties that could cause actual results to differ materially from those anticipated including, without limitation, risks related to our dependence on establishing collaborations or partnerships for the commercialization of our products, risks related to the development and commercialization of new and uncertain technologies, risks associated with our protection and enforcement of our intellectual property rights, as well as other risks and uncertainties set forth under the caption "Risk Factors" in Part I, Item 1A, of our Annual Report on Form 10-K for the year ended December 31, 2012.
The forward-looking statements and risk factors presented in this document are made only as of the date hereof and we do not intend to update any of these risk factors or to publicly announce the results of any revisions to any of our forward-looking statements other than as required under the federal securities laws.
Metabolix is an innovation-driven bioscience company focused on delivering sustainable solutions to the plastics, chemicals and energy industries. We have core capabilities in microbial genetics, fermentation process engineering, chemical engineering, polymer science, plant genetics and botanical science, and we have assembled these capabilities in a way that has allowed us to integrate our biotechnology research with real world chemical engineering and industrial practice. In addition, we have created an extensive intellectual property portfolio to protect our innovations and, together with our technology, to serve as a valuable foundation for future industry collaborations.
The markets for petroleum-based plastics, chemicals and fuels are among the largest in the global economy. Issues associated with the prolonged use of petroleum-based products include plastic waste management and pollution, limited fossil fuel availability and price volatility, and global warming and climate change. We believe that a substantial global market opportunity exists to develop and commercialize our technology to produce sustainable, renewable alternatives to petroleum-based products including advanced biopolymers, biobased industrial chemicals and bioenergy.
Metabolix was formed to leverage the ability of natural systems to produce complex biopolymers from renewable resources. We have focused on a family of biopolymers found in nature called polyhydroxyalkanoates, or ("PHAs"), which occur naturally in living organisms and are chemically similar to polyesters. We have demonstrated the production of PHAs at the industrial scale to produce PHA biopolymers and biobased industrial chemicals, as well as production of polyhydroxybutyrate ("PHB"), a subclass of PHA biopolymer, in agriculturally significant crop plants.
From 2004 through 2011, we developed and began commercialization of our PHA biopolymers through a technology alliance and subsequent commercial alliance with a wholly-owned subsidiary of Archer Daniels Midland Company ("ADM"), one of the largest agricultural processors in the world. Under the commercial alliance, ADM was responsible for resin manufacturing, and Metabolix was primarily responsible for product development, compounding, marketing and sales. Through this alliance, the companies established a joint venture company, Telles, LLC ("Telles"), to commercialize PHA biopolymer products.
After ADM terminated the Telles joint venture early in 2012, we retained significant rights and assets associated with the PHA biopolymers business which are being used to launch the business using a new commercial model, continuing business operations, marketing biopolymer products, and identifying alternate manufacturing capability. We hold exclusive rights to the Metabolix technology and intellectual property used in the joint venture. We acquired all of Telles's product inventory and compounding raw materials totaling more than five million pounds, all product certifications and all product trademarks including MirelTM and MveraTM, and we retained all co-funded pilot plant equipment in locations outside of the Commercial Manufacturing Facility in Clinton, Iowa. In early 2012, we restructured the biopolymers business retaining a core team in our biopolymers group to provide continuity with technology, manufacturing process, and markets.
During 2012, we established Metabolix GmbH, a subsidiary located in Cologne,
Germany, to serve as a focal point for our commercial activities in Europe. This
cost effective location is intended to enable us to directly access the European
market, which is the largest for bioplastics. We also took steps toward
establishing a new commercial model for our PHA biopolymers business. We worked
closely with our core customers to supply product from existing inventory as a
bridge to new supply. We evaluated the potential applications for our biopolymer
products and narrowed our market development focus to three high value market
segments: (i) film and bag applications; (ii) performance additives; and
(iii) functional biodegradation. In March 2012, we began directly booking product sales and shipping product from inventory to our customers. During the second half of the year, we developed, sampled and launched two new products:
Mvera B5008, a compostable film grade, and I6001, a polymeric modifier for polyvinyl chloride.
During 2013, we expect to continue to use existing inventory to continue to develop the market and to supply new and existing customers. We continue to explore alternative options to establish a new biopolymer manufacturing and supply chain properly sized to our business.
For our second platform, we are developing C4 and C3 chemicals from biobased sources, not the fossil fuels that are currently used to produce most industrial chemicals today. Our process for creating biobased industrial C4 and C3 chemicals involves engineering metabolic pathways into microbes that, in a fermentation process, produce specific PHA structures that serve as precursors for the chemicals. Through our PHA technology, we are able to control the microbe biology to achieve high concentrations of specific, naturally-occurring PHA that accumulate inside cells as they metabolize sugars. This intracellular accumulation of the biopolymers inside the microbes is a unique and differentiating aspect of our technology. When the fermentation is completed, we use a novel internally developed recovery process known as "FAST" (fast-acting, selective thermolysis) that converts the biopolymer to the target chemical using heat.
In the C4 program, we have produced biobased gamma butyrolactone ("GBL") at industrial scale and demonstrated a chemical profile that meets or exceeds the existing industrial specifications. In 2012, we completed the preliminary design for a commercial scale plant to enable production of biobased GBL and, through an established conversion process, butanediol ("BDO"). This plan, which could be implemented under a potential future collaboration, includes specifications for all of the components of our fermentation and recovery process. In conjunction with our technical progress, we expect to continue discussions with industry leaders with the goal of forming the industry alliances necessary to successfully bring our biobased C4 industrial chemicals, including GBL and BDO, into commercial production.
We believe that developing and commercializing biobased C3 chemicals could represent another attractive market for our technology. In 2011, we undertook a market analysis of the global market for acrylic acid, a C3 chemical, to assess the market participants, renewable technology competition, economics, intellectual property status, and end markets.
In 2012, we continued scale up of fermentation and optimization of microbial strains to produce biobased C3 chemicals. We also successfully scaled up recovery of acrylic acid from dried biomass using the "FAST" process in our Cambridge laboratory. We also provided sample quantities of dried biomass for conversion to biobased acrylic acid for customer evaluation. We believe that strategic alliances will be required to commercialize C3 chemicals, and in 2013, we expect to continue to engage in partnership discussions.
In our third technology platform, we are harnessing the renewable nature of plants to make bioplastics, renewable chemicals and bioenergy from crops. The focal point of our plant technology efforts is around PHB, the simplest member of the broad PHA family of biopolymers. While applications for PHAs have focused mainly on their use as biodegradable bioplastics, these polymers have a
number of other unique features that will allow their use in other applications, such as the production of chemical intermediates and their use as value-added animal feeds. We are creating proprietary systems to produce PHB in high quantity in the leaves of biomass crops or seeds of oilseed crops for these multiple applications.
Our work in crops highlights our leading edge capabilities and research targeting multi-gene expression and transformation of plants. Researchers at Metabolix have designed novel, multi-gene expression systems to increase production of PHB in plant tissue. The science behind this shift in metabolism is complex since the goal is to significantly increase production of PHB to be viable at industrial scale without impairing the ability of the plant to thrive in its natural environment. In 2011, Metabolix was awarded a $6 million grant by the U.S. Department of Energy ("DOE") to engineer switchgrass producing 10 percent PHB, by weight, in the whole plant and to develop methods to thermally convert the PHB-containing biomass to crotonic acid and a higher density residual biomass fraction for production of bioenergy. Further, in 2012, Metabolix was awarded four new grants for leading-edge crop research targeting multi-gene expression and transformation of plants including important biofuel and food crops. Funding from these four grants is expected to total approximately $1.0 million and will run through 2014.
In 2013, we expect to continue to advance research under our grants, focused on increasing PHB production in switchgrass and developing a thermal conversion process for crotonic acid. We may also seek to establish alliances with partners to commercially exploit this platform. We are in the process of capturing intellectual property gained in our work in crops and will be evaluating the possibilities of monetizing that intellectual property.
As of June 30, 2013, we had an accumulated deficit of $256,660 and total stockholders' equity was $34,597.
Collaborative Arrangements
We are not currently participating in any collaborative arrangements. Our historical strategy for collaborative arrangements has been to retain substantial participation in the future economic value of our technology while receiving current cash payments to offset research and development costs and working capital needs. By their nature, our collaborative agreements have been complex, containing multiple elements covering a variety of present and future activities.
ADM Collaboration
From 2004 through 2011, the Company developed and began commercialization of its PHA biopolymers through a technology alliance and subsequent commercial alliance with ADM Polymer Corporation, a wholly owned subsidiary of ADM. The Commercial Alliance Agreement between Metabolix and ADM Polymer specified the terms and structure of the alliance. The agreement governed the activities and obligations of the parties and included the establishment of a joint venture company, Telles, LLC ("Telles"), to market and sell PHA biopolymers, the construction of a manufacturing facility capable of producing 110 million pounds of material annually, the licensing of technology to Telles and to ADM, and the conducting of various research, development, manufacturing, sales and marketing, compounding and administrative services by the parties.
Under the Commercial Alliance Agreement, ADM was permitted, under limited circumstances, to terminate the alliance if a change in circumstances that was not reasonably within the control of ADM made the anticipated financial return from the project inadequate or too uncertain. The agreement provided that, upon termination by ADM due to a change in circumstances, we would be permitted to continue to produce and sell PHA biopolymers, and ADM would be required to perform manufacturing services for us for a period of time following the termination (subject to certain payment obligations to ADM). On January 9, 2012, ADM notified us that it was terminating the commercial alliance effective February 8, 2012, citing the projected financial returns from the alliance were too uncertain.
Upon termination of the alliance, Metabolix intellectual property licenses to ADM Polymer and Telles ended, with Metabolix retaining all rights to its intellectual property. ADM retained its manufacturing facility located in Clinton, Iowa, previously used to produce PHA biopolymers for Telles. Also upon termination, contractual payments made to us by ADM during the term of the alliance totaling $38,885 and recorded as deferred revenue on the Company's balance sheet were immediately recognized during its fiscal quarter ended March 31, 2012, as the Company had no further performance obligations in connection with the alliance.
After termination of the Commercial Alliance Agreement, the parties entered into a Settlement Agreement in which the parties agreed to specific terms related to the winding up and dissolution of Telles. Under this Settlement Agreement, we purchased certain assets of the joint venture for $2,982, including Telles's entire inventory, exclusive and perpetual rights to all of Telles's trademarks, and all product registrations, certifications and approvals for Telles's PHA biopolymers. Pursuant to the Settlement Agreement, ADM relinquished any claims with respect to certain co-funded equipment previously acquired by Metabolix and situated at locations other than ADM's Clinton, Iowa manufacturing facility, and Metabolix and Telles waived any rights to post-termination manufacturing and fermentation services under the Commercial Alliance Agreement.
In February 2013, Telles was formally dissolved and ADM notified us that no trade or other obligations remain to be paid. As a result, we do not believe that the Company is contingently liable for any third party obligations stemming from the former ADM collaboration.
Government Grants
As of June 30, 2013, expected gross proceeds of $3,996 remain to be received under our United States and Canadian government grants, which includes amounts for reimbursement to our subcontractors, as well as reimbursement for our employees' time, benefits and other expenses related to future performance.
The status of our United States and Canadian government grants is as follows:
Total Total received Remaining amount Funding Government through available as of Contract/Grant Program Title Agency Funds June 30, 2013 June 30, 2013 Expiration Renewable Enhanced Feedstocks For Advanced Biofuels And Department of Bioproducts Energy $ 6,000 $ 2,705 $ 3,295 June 2014 Subcontract from University of California (Los Angeles) project funded by ARPA-E entitled "Plants Engineered to Replace Oil: Energy Department of Plant Design" Energy 566 152 414 September 2014 Capacity Building for Commercial-Scale PHB Camelina National Research Development Council Canada 247 123 124 March 2014 Subcontract from University of Massachusetts (Amherst) project funded by ARPA-E entitled "Development of a Dedicated High Department of Value Biofuels Crop" Energy 259 213 46 June 2013 Development of a Sustainable Value Added Fish Feed Using PHB Producing National Research Camelina Council Canada 90 25 65 March 2014 Screening and Improvement of Polyhydroxybuyrate (PHB) Production Canadian Camelina Sativa Agricultural Lines for Field Adaptation Program Cultivation (CAAP) 56 4 52 December 2013 Advanced Technologies For Engineering of Canadian Ministry Camelina of Agriculture 194 194 - February 2013 Total $ 7,412 $ 3,416 $ 3,996
Critical Accounting Estimates and Judgments
The discussion and analysis of our financial condition and results of operations are based upon our consolidated financial statements, which have been prepared in accordance with accounting principles generally accepted in the United States of America ("GAAP") for interim financial information. The preparation of these financial statements requires us to make estimates and judgments that affect the reported amounts of assets, liabilities, revenues and expenses, and related disclosure of contingent assets and liabilities. On an ongoing basis, we evaluate our estimates, including those related to revenue recognition and stock-based compensation. We base our estimates on historical experience and on various other assumptions that we believe to be reasonable under the circumstances, the results of which form the basis for making judgments about the carrying value of assets and liabilities that are not readily apparent from other sources. Actual results may differ from these estimates. The significant accounting policies used in preparation of these condensed consolidated financial statements for the three and six months ended June 30, 2013 are consistent with those discussed in Note 2 to the consolidated financial statements in our Annual Report on Form 10-K for the year ended December 31, 2012. The critical accounting policies and the significant judgments and estimates used in the preparation of our consolidated financial statements for the three and six months ended June 30, 2013 are consistent with those discussed in our Annual Report on Form 10-K for the year ended December 31, 2012 in the section captioned "Management's Discussion and Analysis of Financial Condition and Results of Operations-Critical Accounting Estimates and Judgments."
Results of Operations Comparison of the Three Months Ended June 30, 2013 and 2012 Revenue Three Months Ended June 30, 2013 2012 Change Grant revenue $ 584 $ 461 $ 123 Product revenue 822 373 449 Research and development revenue 238 - 238 License fee and royalty revenue 62 89 (27 ) Total revenue $ 1,706 $ 923 $ 783
Total revenue was $1,706 and $923 for the three months ended June 30, 2013 and 2012, respectively. During the three months ended June 30, 2013, we recognized $584 of government grant revenue compared to $461 for the same period in 2012. Grant revenue for the three months ended June 30, 2013 and 2012 primarily consisted of $512 and $447, respectively, in revenue earned from the Renewable Enhanced Feedstocks for Advanced Biofuels and Bioproducts ("REFABB") grant awarded by the U.S. Department of Energy in mid-2011. During the three months ended June 30, 2013 and 2012, we recognized $822 and $373, respectively, of product revenue related to the sale of biopolymer. At June 30, 2013, short-term deferred revenue of $529 shown on the Company's balance sheet includes $206 of deferred product revenue, nearly all of which is expected to be recognized during the quarter ended September 30, 2013. The Company's product revenue recognition policy is to defer recognition of product sales until the later of sixty days or receipt of payment from the customer in order to allow discretion in accepting product returns for a period of sixty days after delivery. During the three months ended June 30, 2013 we recognized $238 of research and development revenue, which was attributable to a funded research and development arrangement with a third party.
We expect total revenue to substantially decrease during 2013 compared to 2012, due to the one-time recognition of the deferred revenue associated with the Telles joint venture in 2012. We anticipate that product revenue will increase in 2013 compared to 2012, as we continue to gain market acceptance for our products, although there will be fluctuations from quarter-to-quarter.
Costs and expenses
Three Months Ended June 30, 2013 2012 Change Cost of product revenue $ 1,196 $ 437 $ 759 Research and development 4,945 5,006 (61 ) Selling, general, and administrative 3,422 3,437 (15 ) Total costs and expenses $ 9,563 $ 8,880 $ 683
Cost of Product Revenue
Cost of product revenue was $1,196 and $437 for the three months ended June 30, 2013 and 2012, respectively. These costs primarily include inventory product costs of $705 associated with product revenue recognized during the three months ended June 30, 2013 plus current period freight and warehousing costs of $111 and $96, respectively. Inventory product costs include the cost of sample inventory provided to prospective customers. We also routinely evaluate inventory for impairment. During the three months ended June 30, 2013, we recorded a $271 charge to cost of product revenue for raw material and finished goods inventory that we determined was unlikely to be sold or converted to future sellable product based on customer demand and our current sales forecasts.
Although there will be fluctuations from quarter to quarter, we expect our overall cost of product revenue will continue to increase during 2013 and beyond, commensurate with our increasing product sales, and as our lower cost inventory acquired from Telles is depleted and replaced with new higher cost manufactured inventory, including new product grades that will enter the market during the year. During 2013, we may also incur costs for small scale commercial manufacturing operations either on our own or with third parties for our biopolymer products. Due to the expected high per unit cost of these smaller manufacturing batches, any inventory costs in excess of our expected saleable market price will be immediately expensed as cost of product revenue. We also anticipate that our cost of product revenue as a percentage of product sales will fluctuate during the remainder of 2013 as our mix of biopolymer products sales changes.
Research and Development Expenses
Research and development expenses were $4,945 and $5,006 for the three months ended June 30, 2013 and 2012, respectively. The decrease of $61 was primarily due to a decrease in employee compensation and related benefit expenses. Employee compensation and related benefit expenses were $2,835 and $2,959 for the three months ended June 30, 2013 and 2012, respectively. The decrease of $124 was primarily attributable to a decrease in headcount.
We expect our future research and development expenses will increase due to costs related to our validation of potential biopolymer manufacturing sites.
Selling, General and Administrative Expenses
Selling, general and administrative expenses were consistent at $3,422 and $3,437 for the three months ended June 30, 2013 and 2012, respectively.
We expect that our selling, general and administrative expenses will increase during 2013 as we continue to expand our biopolymer sales and marketing activities, primarily in Europe.
Other Income (Expense), net Three Months Ended June 30, 2013 2012 Change Interest income, net $ 12 $ 34 $ (22 ) Other expense, net (21 ) (25 ) 4 Total other income (expense), net $ (9 ) $ 9 $ (18 )
Other income (expense), net were an expense of $9 and income of $9 for the three months ended June 30, 2013 and 2012, respectively. Other income (expense), net during both periods consisted primarily of income from our investments, offset by investment management and custodial fees.
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For over two thousand years, London Bridge evolved through many fragile wooden forms until it became the first bridge built of stone since the leaving of the Roman invaders. In David Madden's tenth novel, London Bridge is as much a living, breathing character as its architect Father Peter de Colechurch, who began work on it in 1176, partly to honor Archbishop Thomas a Becket, murdered in Canterbury Cathedral. Twenty-five years in the making, that version was a wonder of the world until it was dismantled in 1832. Continue reading »
Silent We Stood
by Henry Chappell
A Novel of the Underground Railroad in Texas
Publisher: Texas Tech University Press
Retail Price: $29.95
Issue: Winter 2014
Henry Chappell, author of Blood Kin and The Callings, fresh uses of the Western genre, has based Silent We Stood on actual events, which he describes in a preface. On Sunday, July 8, 1860, twenty-five establishments around the town square in Dallas burned. The fire was later determined to have started in the kindling box of a drug store, but suspicion that some whites among the 775 citizens were conducting an underground railroad and long-festering fear of an insurrection among the 1700 slaves in the county put the blame on three, and they were hanged. Continue reading »
Southern Festival of Books Panel Discussion (video)
Panel members discussed the daily lives of Civil War soldiers. Mr. Rosen talked about his book The Jewish Confederates, published by University of South Carolina Press. Mr. Groce talked about his book Mountain Rebels: East Tennessee Confederates and the Civil War, 1860-1870, published by University of Tennessee Press. David Madden talked about the book he edited Beyond the Battlefield: The Ordinary Life and Extraordinary Times of the Civil War Soldier, published by Touchstone Books. After their remarks the panel answered questions from audience members.
Read The Whole Story of Knoxville in the Metro Pulse by Jack Neely
New Books by Sewanee Review Authors
David Madden Presents: A Trifecta
Read the story on the Sewanee Review website.
Opinion Piece- The Asheville Citizen-Times
Community and technical colleges are becoming more and more numerous, and the quality of their facilities, teachers and students is increasing. They provide the kind of education and skill training that enables younger and older women and men to apply for a great variety of practical and much needed jobs.
A liberal arts education, on undergraduate and graduate levels, enables students to secure jobs in all fields, from engineering, computer science and medicine to creative writing, drama and the various other arts. Leaders in all fields favor employing people who have had a liberal arts education at some level.
Recent funding cuts, proposed cuts and negative comments from legislative and other elected leaders affecting the liberal arts move me to make a few observations. Continue reading »
Why We Read Novels, Letter to the Editor, New York Times
Published: May 2, 2013
To the Editor:
The headline on Nathaniel Rich's essay "Writing the End" (April 21) asks, "Should novelists try harder to confront long-term environmental crises?" As the author of 12 novels since 1961 and another in progress, I answer no.
Rich's final paragraph offers a litany of reasons we read novels. They hold "a mirror to our secret desires and fears," they allow us "to confront our long-term crises," and they help us "to understand how the vast, complex problems of our time connect with our private inner lives."
Then Rich burdens fellow novelists with the obligation "to pose the intimate questions" concerning the many ways the bad news about man's future affects us. As a writer and teacher of writing for 60 years, I cannot recall ever hearing a writer or reader testify to the value of a novel as deriving from such utilitarian purposes as Rich claims. Great novels create pure experiences that affect our emotions, imaginations and intellect in ways that are mostly mysterious.
Black Mountain, N.C.
Read Greg Langley's review of London Bridge in Plague and Fire that appeared recently in The Advocate (Baton Rouge, LA).
Madden explores imagined lives in London Bridge
Jim Engster talks with David Madden, about his new book "London Bridge in Plague and Fire" and about some of Madden's favorite writers on the Jim Engster radio show.
Reading from LONDON BRIDGE IN PLAGUE AND FIRE, Sunday , January 27, at 3:00 Bijou Theater, Gay Street, Knoxville, Tennessee. Sponsored by Lawson McGhee Library, Knoxville.

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7.8 Beta Availability
UUID support is coming! Also, due to the excess amount of tickets I have disabled new ticket creation until I go through the code base and get everything sorted out. Please be patient with me as this may take up to a month or more until I get a stable release of the plugin out
A Beta of GriefPrevention 7.8 has been released! There are still a few things that seem to be broken, but nothing that should be an absolute show-stopper. For those who want to give it a try to get GP to protect 1.6.4 features, here are some notes:
Your 7.7 configuration files will not be used. 7.8 will use Plugins/GriefPrevention instead of Plugin/GriefPreventionData, and copy data to it. If you need to rollback to 7.7, you can do so by simply replacing your 7.8 jar with the older .jar file. If you use the flat file dataStore, you will lose any claims made since you switched to 7.8. If you use MySQL, you should be fine. Configuration files will be generated from scratch in the plugins/GriefPrevention folder; both a config.yml as well as the WorldConfigs folder. Each World has it's own set of Configuration options. Most of these defaults should be sensible for most servers. many Options have been moved into separate "Rule" Nodes, which give you more control over who can do what and where. Permissions have also been changed. You will need to revise your Permission settings to use the new Permission Node values where applicable. Rules and Permissions are documented on the GriefPrevention 7.8 Configuration page.
GriefPrevention 7.8 Configuration Page
DataStore Configuration Changes in 7.8
The DataStore capabilities have been split and made more general. To facilitate possible future dataStore implementations, the configuration for data Storage has been moved to "dataconfig.yml". In order to populate this file, you will need to start your server with that dataStore selected through plugin/GriefPrevention/config.yml, under the "GriefPrevention.DataStore" option. A Fresh server setup can be initialized by starting the server to initialize the config.yml; change the Datastore to mysql in config.yml, start the server again- it will create the appropriate notes in your dataconfig.yml file. At that point you can stop the server and edit the settings in dataconfig.yml appropriately, to reflect your required connection credentials. Then you should be able to launch the server and use that dataStore.
Now under a new maintainer: Tux2!
PREVENTS all forms of grief, including build/break, theft, spam, fire, spawn camping, lava, and treetops, so you don't have to rollback! No configuration or database required! Stop responding to grief and prevent it instead. Grief Prevention will solve your grief problems without requiring you to manage a large roster of trained administrators, juggle 10 different anti-grief plugins, take away cool standard game features, publish a manual, or add a pile of explanatory signs to your world. You can also choose to integrate PvP elements into build design to finally get a PvP experience befitting a sandbox game about creativity.
Grief Prevention stops grief before it starts automatically without any effort from administrators, and with very little (self service) effort from players. Solve all your grief problems with a single download, no database, and no configuration step.
Troubleshooting and Common Questions
Save yourself some time! Check this page for the answer to your question.
Feed the Beast and Tekkit Lite Compatibility
I have heard reports on this plugin working fairly reasonably on Tekkit Lite/Feed the Beast servers, however, this is entirely unsupported due to large holes in the way mods are coded and the incomplete nature of the BukkitForge mod. If you choose to use it you do it at your own risk! There are plenty of things that bypass GriefPrevention in the mods, which means you will need to disable quite a bit (mining lasers, iTNT, etc.), including MystCraft, as the way GriefPrevention is coded it makes it incompatible with MystCraft without breaking the GriefPrevention API terribly and the need to totally overhaul of the design of the plugin.
In-Depth Topics
- Setup, Configuration, Administrative Features
- Player Experience and World Protection
- Anti-Spam (Chat Protection)
- PvP Protection and Optional Siege PvP Mode
- Frequently-Asked Questions
- Javadocs
Development Builds
Development builds of this project can be acquired at the provided continuous integration server.
These builds have not been approved by the BukkitDev staff. Use them at your own risk.
Development builds can be found here
The Source Code for this plugin can be found at Github. The source found here will reflect the current latest development build. If you want to contribute, be sure to give the Source Code contribution guidelines, which have some tips and 'rules' that can make getting your changes into the main repository easier for all involved.
Feature List
Yes, everything is customizable. See administrative details.
- No database or world backups required.
- Extremely efficient CPU / RAM usage.
- Land claims are easy to manage.
- New players get automatic claims around their first chests.
- Players who ask for help in chat get an instant link to a demonstration video.
- Resizing claims and creating new claims is done with ONLY the mouse, no slash commands.
- When a player appears to be building something nice outside his claim, he's warned and shown his claim boundaries.
- Claim boundaries are easy to see, and don't require any client-side mod installation.
- Extremely easy-to-remember, single-parameter slash commands for giving other players permissions.
- Claim subdivision and granular permissions are available to organize towns and cities. Watch this video.
- It's IMPOSSIBLE to grief a land claim. Watch this video.
- No building or breaking.
- No stealing from ANY containers.
- No using crafting equipment.
- No sleeping in beds.
- No button/lever usage.
- No adjusting redstone repeaters.
- No pushing blocks in with pistons.
- No pulling blocks out with pistons.
- No TNT damage.
- No creeper damage.
- No damage from TNT cannons.
- No explosive damage from other plugins, like Extra Hard Mode or Magic Spells.
- No enderman block changes.
- All doors may be automatically locked (optional, see config file).
- No killing or luring animals away.
- No stealing water.
- No trampling crops, by players, animals, or monsters.
- No growing trees inside the claim by planting outside.
- No building overtop, all claims reach to the max build height.
- No placing or breaking paintings / item frames.
- Fluids will not flow into a claim from outside.
- Excellent anti-spam protection
- Warns, then mutes, then may kick or bans (configurable) spammers.
- Most spammers get only one message out before they're muted.
- Almost no false positives.
- Blocks server advertising.
- Blocks repeat message spam.
- Blocks ASCII art (ex. Nyan Cats) spam.
- Blocks similar message spam.
- Blocks unreadable (gibberish) message spam.
- Blocks CAPS.
- Blocks macro spam (very different messages in quick succession).
- Blocks login/logout spam, even when the spammer has multiple accounts.
- Blocks death spam.
- Blocks slash command spam, including /tell, /emote, and any more you add.
- Wilderness Protection and Rollback
- Fire doesn't spread or destroy blocks.
- Creepers and other explosions don't destroy blocks above sea level.
- TNT doesn't destroy blocks above sea level.
- Griefers can't dump water or lava above sea level, unless they claim the land first.
- The fluid will not flow out of the claim.
- Deleting the claim removes the fluid to prevent spillage.
- No planting trees on platforms in the sky ("tree grief").
- Instant, point and click nature restoration for not-claimed areas. Watch this video.
- Insanely easy and fast fixes for penises, swastikas, and anything else unsightly.
- Point at what you don't like and click, and it's fixed. Even from far away.
- Never accidentally changes blocks inside land claims.
- No need to investigate who built it, who broke it, or when they did it.
- Doesn't matter if the griefer built with "natural" blocks, it will still be fixed.
- No database.
- No backups.
- No chunk regeneration (it's dangerous for technical reasons).
- Fixes bad chunk generations, like floating islands. It will be better than new.
- Fills holes, even next to water to correct big spills.
- Smooths noisy terrain.
- No griefer construction is safe. If it's unnatural enough to be noticeable by players, it will be removed or filled-in.
- Land claims can't be used as a griefing tool.
- Land claims beyond the first require a golden shovel.
- Minimum claim size prevents sprinkling small claims to annoy other players.
- Max claim allowance grows with time played on the server, and can't be cheated by idling.
- It's impossible to get a player "stuck" inside a land claim.
- A simple administrative slash command will instantly remove all of a griefer's claims, no matter where they are.
- Catches clever griefers.
- Enhances the /ban command to ban ALL a griefer's accounts (not just his IP address).
- Logs sign placements.
- Optionally, logs whispers and opens them to administrative eavesdropping.
- PvP Protections.
- When PvP is off, no setting fire or dumping lava near other players.
- Absolutely bullet-proof anti-spawn-camping protection, which requires no configuration.
- No logging out, stashing items, or using plugin teleportation to escape combat.
- Optional siege mode, to answer players who hide in their claimed houses to avoid combat.
- Supports your server growth.
- Permit players to exchange server currency for claim blocks (requires configuration and other plugins).
- Grant claim blocks automatically for votes, donations, etc (console command provided, other plugins required).
- Even works with Tekkit (requires configuration).
There is a DynMap plugin for GriefPrevention, which adds markers for player claims to your DynMap.
If you want to your players to buy/sell/lease claims, then you can install the Real Estate plugin for GriefPrevention. This Plugin has been updated by SuperPyroManiac to work with more recent GriefPrevention Builds. You can find his version of GP-RealEstate here.
GriefPrevention Flags adds flags to your grief prevention claims for PvP (admin claims only), and Mob spawning at the moment. (More features in the works!)
Flags Is a fork of GP-Flags that also supports other Region/claim type plugins, as well as adding several other features, such as support for Subdivisions, Multiple Worlds, and even flags on a world itself.
HardcoreClaims is a plugin that will allow a player's claims and GP information to be wiped when they die. thus every time a player dies they are set back to square one. It also integrates with Flags to allow per-claim control over whether a claim is deleted.
More Great Plugins!
- Anti-XRay
- Limits how quickly players can mine valuables, based on their play time / values mined ratio.
- Keeps your valuables in the ground, so non-cheating players can find them (unlike ore loggers).
- Practically free to run, unlike the tremendously expensive Orebfuscator.
- Most legit players won't notice, but xrayers will ragequit and move on.
- Population Density
- Automatically assigns new players to wilderness where they'll find other new players and plenty of space, wood, and ore.
- Optional teleportation system which can't be abused by players to escape combat or save them from being lost.
- Login queue to guarantee fairness when the server is full.
- Optional reserved spots for administrators.
- Automatically removes idle players when the server is nearly full.
- EnderHoppers
- Allows the use of Hoppers with EnderChests inside a Claim
- Items are taken from and added to the EnderChest inventory of the Claim owner
- Supports The Better Ender Chest Plugin
Command Reference
Player Commands
|Deletes the claim you're standing in.
|Toggles if explosions are allowed in the claim.
|Gives another player permission to edit in your claim.
|Revokes any permissions granted to a player in your claim.
|Gives a player permission to use your buttons, levers, and beds.
|Gives a player permission to use your buttons, levers, beds, crafting gear, containers, and animals.
|Lists the permissions for the claim you're standing in.
|Switches your shovel to subdivision mode, so you can subdivide your claims.
|Puts your shovel back in basic claims mode.
|Grants a player permission to share his permission level with others.
|/Untrust All
|Removes all permissions for all players in your claim.
|Deletes all of your claims.
|Converts server money to claim blocks.
|Converts claim blocks to server money.
Admin Commands
All of the permissions below start with "griefprevention.". For example, "restorenature" is "griefprevention.restorenature".
|Adjusts the number of claim blocks available to a player.
|Switches the shovel to restore nature mode.
|Switches the shovel to aggressive restore mode.
|Switches the shovel to fill mode.
|Toggles claims override.
|Switches the shovel to administrative claims mode.
|Switches the shovel back to basic claims mode.
|Deletes the claim you're standing in.
|Deletes all claims belonging to a specific player.
|Kills a player, optionally giving his items to another.
|Lists a player's claims and claim block details.
Note: these permissions are for GriefPrevention versions 7.7 and previous. Version 7.8, currently available as a Beta, does not use these permissions. For information on the development build configuration and permissions, be sure to check out the Dev Build Documentation
|Allows the use of the /deathblow command
|Allows the use of the /restorenature command
|Allows the use of the /restorenatureaggressive command
|Players with the permission may place lava anywhere they have build permission, but still not near other players.
|Allows creating, deleting and building for an admin claim
|Allows the player to ignore claims using the /ignoreclaims command
|Allows the player to delete and resize other player's claims
|Allows players to create additional claims when Claims.CreationRequiresPermission is set to true
|This permission is granted to everyone by default, and is necessary for the claims-related slash commands.
|This permission is granted to everyone by default and allows the player the ability to buy/sell claim blocks
|Allows the player to adjust player's bonus claim blocks amount
|Allows the player to see PMs
|Only in versions for MC 1.5 and up Allows a player to see PMs from players with the griefprevention.eavesdrop permission as well.
|Allows the player to bypass the spam protection
|MC 1.5 and up Allows the player to bypass the login spam protection
Official Servers
You can experience this plugin for yourself (as a player) by joining any of these public servers. :) I maintain these servers personally, which helps me catch bugs and spot opportunities for new features and improvements. Have fun!
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According to the Bukkit wiki, a CraftBukkit server should have 1GB of RAM per 20 player slots. If you follow that guidance and run a reasonable number of plugins, I guarantee that you will not have a problem with lag or memory usage. I can say this with certainty because I'm running a middle-tier (as in, average pricing) hosted servers with the recommended RAM/players ratio, and I run several additional plugins with no issues. This has been my experience over several months running anywhere from 1 to 4 servers with an active player population.
It is normal for your server to spend more time running Grief Prevention code versus other plugins. After all, GP is watching all your players all the time, and is keeping them all happy while not bothering you. Grief Prevention is extremely efficient at doing its job - performance has been and always will be the most important factor in design and implementation decisions, because the only thing worse than a griefy server is a laggy server.
Of course any server owner will eventually have a problem if he pushes his hardware too much, for example by running lots of heavyweight plugins. If you do have a problem, the solutions are to either add more RAM/cpu power, re-prioritize your plugins to drop a few you don't desperately need or reduce your max players.
Notes for Tekkit Servers
"Classic" Tekkit servers are currently running Minecraft 1.2.5. That means you must download an earlier version of GriefPrevention which is compatible with 1.2.5. Currently, the best version compatible with Tekkit is GriefPrevention 5.5.1, which you can get by clicking the blue "files" link at the top of the page.
To protect the NEW container blocks added by Tekkit, you must add their block IDs to your Grief Prevention config file. Also, you'll want to add blocks which blow themselves up (steam engines, nuclear reactors) to that same config file.
Tekkit is NOT 100% compatible with Bukkit, AND it is not designed for Multiplayer (it was designed for single player). Some Tekkit items and blocks completely bypass all Bukkit plugins, which means they bypass any anti-grief code, are not logged by block loggers, and can't be rolled-back by block loggers. Therefore, a few Tekkit items MUST BE BANNED if you run a public or semi-public server. I highly recommend that you install TekkitCustomizer, because it has a very good default ban list, and it's extremely easy for you to customize.
If you're running Tekkit Lite or some other flavor of Tekkit, you may need a DIFFERENT version of Grief Prevention which matches your CraftBukkit version. Further, you should read this.
Developer's Notes
We are rather accepting of possible features that can be added to the plugin. Particularly since those features, depending on content can be made either optional or only applicable to the scenario they are useful in (trying to parse Forge configurations, for example). One thing that is less likely to occur however is advanced hooks into other plugins. One common request is to hook into the popular "factions" plugin. This is not likely to occur because it fits more as a separate plugin for compatibility between the two plugins. Such a 'compatibility' plugin could also extend factions too. Basically neither factions nor griefprevention should have to know about nor care about the existence of the other. The same applies to requests to include special support for other world protection plugins.
Of the features listed below, those in bold could be implemented as extension plugins by using the public API I've provided. Those in italics can be accomplished by running another protection plugin like WorldGuard or Residence in addition to GriefPrevention, by restricting the other plugin to be used only by administrators. You can read more on the Frequently Asked Questions page.
- Enter/Exit messages for claims.
- Adding flags to claims to pause hunger, prevent monster spawns, etc.
- Putting claims inside of claims inside of claims inside of claims inside of claims inside of claims inside of claims...
Extending GriefPrevention
Hey developers, have something to add? :) Public API Documentation
Contacting the Devs
Both BC_Programming and Tux2 check comments and Tickets here, so if you leave a comment or Ticket we will see it within a few days. We are also available on IRC, at irc.mibbit.com in the #pinoygamers channel.
Table of contents
- 1 GriefPrevention 7.8 Configuration Page
- 2 DataStore Configuration Changes in 7.8
- 3 Troubleshooting and Common Questions
- 4 Feed the Beast and Tekkit Lite Compatibility
- 5 In-Depth Topics
- 6 Development Builds
- 7 Feature List
- 8 Command Reference
- 9 Permissions
- 10 Official Servers
- 11 Developer's Notes
- Date created
- Dec 14, 2011
- Categories
- Last update
- Mar 02, 2014
- Development stage
- Mature
- License
- GNU General Public License version 3 (GPLv3)
- Curse link
- Grief Prevention
- Downloads
- 233,230
- Recent files
- B: 7.8-beta-b282 for CB 1.7.2-R0.3 Mar 02, 2014
- B: 7.8-beta-b213 for CB 1.7.2-R0.2 Dec 19, 2013
- B: 7.8-beta-b197 for CB 1.6.4-R2.0 Dec 03, 2013
- R: 7.7 for CB 1.5.1-R0.1 Apr 05, 2013
- B: 7.6.3-beta for 1.5.0 Mar 18, 2013


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(WMC-TV) - Teresa and Mary Mayes both accepted plea agreements Friday for the kidnapping of two little girls and the murder of their sister and mother.
Teresa's sister, Bobbi Booth, is shocked at the outcome of her sister's plea agreement, but is relieved it is over.
"I just want it over with," she said. "I know that sounds cold hearted but I just want closure for them, the whole deal."
Bobbi Booth's sister was married to Adam Mayes, who investigators say killed Jo Ann Bain and her 14-year-old daughter, Adrienne. The two youngest girls were then kidnapped.
After a manhunt, Adam was found in the woods by Mississippi wildlife resource officers. He took his own life and the girls were rescued.
Prosecutors say Mary Mayes knew about the kidnappings and that Teresa Mayes was around for both the murders and kidnappings.
"Let me make it clear, my sister needs to be punished for her participation," said Booth. "No matter what, there is no right answer in this situation."
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Chuck Todd
|Chuck Todd
|Charles David Todd
April 8, 1972
Miami, Florida, United States
|George Washington University
|Host of The Daily Rundown, NBC News Chief White House Correspondent and Political Director
Contributing Editor to Meet the Press, Adjunct Professor, Johns Hopkins University
|Reform Judaism
|Kristian Denny Todd
|Margaret Todd
Harrison Todd
Charles David "Chuck" Todd (born April 8, 1972)[1] is NBC News Chief White House correspondent and political director, as well as the host of The Daily Rundown on MSNBC. He became political director in March 2007. He also serves as NBC News' on-air political analyst for NBC Nightly News with Brian Williams, Today, Meet the Press, and MSNBC.
He has served as Chief White House Correspondent since December 2008, a position he will vacate upon taking over as anchor of Meet the Press starting September 7, 2014.
Early life and education[edit]
Todd was born in Miami, Florida, the son of Lois Cheri (née Bernstein) and Stephen Randolph Todd.[2] He is Jewish on his mother's side, and was raised Jewish.[3] He graduated from Miami Killian Senior High School in the Kendall neighborhood of greater Miami. Todd attended George Washington University from 1990 to 1994. He played French horn and attended on a music scholarship.[4] Although he majored in political science and minored in music, he did not graduate.[dead link]
Political campaigns[edit]
Before coming to the world of political reporting and analysis, Todd earned practical political experience on initiative campaigns in Florida and various national campaigns based in Washington, D.C.[5] While in college, Todd worked for the 1992 presidential campaign of Senator Tom Harkin (D-Iowa) and later started part-time at The Hotline.
The Hotline[edit]
From 1992 until March 12, 2007, Todd worked for National Journal's The Hotline, where he was editor-in-chief for six years.[6] As part of his position, Todd also co-hosted, with John Mercurio, the webcast series Hotline TV, consisting of a daily show lasting between three and seven minutes and a weekly show ranging between 20 and 30 minutes. He became a frequent guest on political discussion shows, such as Hardball with Chris Matthews and Inside Politics with Judy Woodruff.
NBC News[edit]
Tim Russert brought Todd to NBC from The Hotline in March 2007.[6] He became NBC News' political director at that time. After Russert's death, Todd was a candidate to replace him as the host of NBC's Meet the Press,[7] but David Gregory was ultimately selected for the job. As NBC News Political Director, Todd often provides on-air political analysis on political discussion shows, including Morning Joe, Hardball with Chris Matthews, Meet the Press, NBC Nightly News with Brian Williams, and The Rachel Maddow Show[6] and blogs for MSNBC.com at "First Read."[8] He also does a weekly Question and Answer ("Q&A") session with users at Newsvine.
On December 18, 2008, NBC announced[9] that Todd would succeed Gregory as NBC News Chief White House Correspondent, partnering with Savannah Guthrie on the news beat. He retained his title as NBC News Political Director and was also named Contributing Editor to Meet the Press. Todd was a focus of an August 2008 Los Angeles Times article paralleling Todd's rise to the rise of cable news networks in coverage of U.S. politics.[10] The article noted the emergence of Todd's fans, deemed "Chuckolytes".
On July 6, 2009, former MSNBC television personality Dan Abrams launched a website service, Mediaite, reporting on media figures. The site ranks all TV-based journalists in America by influence. Todd ranked, as of October 2009, right before Mike Wallace as number five.[11] Todd rose to number two as of December 21, 2011, but has since fallen to 90 as of January 9, 2013. On January 11, 2010, Todd became co-host, with Savannah Guthrie, of The Daily Rundown on MSNBC, weekday mornings from 9 to 10 a.m. ET.
On August 14, 2014, NBC announced that Todd will take over as the host of Meet the Press beginning September 7, 2014. [12] While remaining NBC News political director, Todd will leave his role as chief White House correspondent as well as anchor of The Daily Rundown.
Other professional ventures[edit]
Todd is an adjunct professor at Johns Hopkins University.[13] He is also co-author, with Sheldon Gawiser, of How Barack Obama Won: A State-by-State Guide to the Historic 2008 Presidential Election, published in 2009.[14]
Personal life[edit]
Todd resides in Arlington, Virginia, with his wife, Kristian Denny Todd, daughter Margaret, and son Harrison.[15] Kristian Denny Todd is a communications professional and cofounder of Maverick Strategies and Mail, which provides direct mail and consulting services for Democratic candidates and progressive causes;[15][16][17] she was spokesperson for Senator candidate Jim Webb.[18] He received the honorary degree Doctor of Humane Letters in recognition for his work in journalism from Marymount University during its sixty-second commencement ceremony.[19] Despite growing up in Miami, Todd is a lifelong supporter of the Green Bay Packers, [20] but as far as college football, shown by numerous posts on his Twitter account, Todd is a supporter of Miami Hurricanes football. Todd practices Reform Judaism.[17]
- ^ "Hotline Says, "On Sunday, NBC's Political Director Officially Turns Old"". Fishbowl DC (Media Bistro). April 6, 2007.
- ^ "Charles David Todd (b. 08 Apr 1972)". Familytreemaker.genealogy.com. Retrieved 2013-11-30.
- ^ Bloom, Nate (2012-11-13). "Interfaith Celebrities: Nate Silver, Another Bond, and Happy End". InterfaithFamily. Retrieved 2013-08-17.
- ^ Lipman, Joanne. "Is Music the Key to Success?". New York Times. Retrieved 14 October 2013.
- ^ "Chuck Todd Leaves Hotline, Joins NBC News As Political Director". Fishbowl DC (Media Bistro). February 14, 2007.
- ^ a b c Barnhart, Aaron (2008-06-14). "MSNBC's Chuck Todd and Rachel Maddow are young, geeky and hot". Kansas City Star.
- ^ Calderone, Michael (2008-06-14). "Sundays after Russert". Politico.com.
- ^ "First Read". Firstread.msnbc.msn.com. Retrieved 2013-11-30.
- ^ "Chuck Todd Named NBC News Chief White House Correspondent". NBC Press Release. 2008-12-18.
- ^ Gold, Matea (2008-08-17). "For political conventions, cable networks are the go-to channels". Los Angeles Times.
- ^ "Chuck Todd". Mediaite. Retrieved October 11, 2009.
- ^ Carter, Bill (2014-08-14). "NBC Chooses Chuck Todd to Replace David Gregory on 'Meet the Press'". The New York Times.
- ^ "Chuck Todd NBC News Political Director". MSNBC. 2007-06-12.
- ^ Vintage Press ISBN 978-0-307-47366-0
- ^ a b [1][dead link]
- ^ "Kristian Denny Todd large relationship map". Muckety. Retrieved 2013-08-17.
- ^ a b Boorstein, Michelle. The Washington Post, 8 October 2008, "D.C. Area's Take on Yom Kippur's Downtime". Accessed 14 August 2011.
- ^ Washington Post: "Democratic Organizer Quits After Calling Allen 'Macacawitz'" by Tim Craig October 5, 2006
- ^ "News Details". Marymount.edu. 2013-02-22. Retrieved 2013-08-17.
- ^ "Conversation with NBC News' Chuck Todd, devoted Packers fan". 620 WTMJ. 2013-09-13.
External links[edit]
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- The Daily Rundown with Chuck Todd on msnbc
- Chuck Todd bio on msnbc
- Chuck Todd on Twitter
- Appearances on C-SPAN
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Congratulations to Gerald Lenoir for carrying the torch and blazing the way for so many social justice issues from HIV/AIDS awareness in the Black community to his recent work in just migration for Pan Africans. Much success on your new work! Farewell to Alona Clifton and much success in Atlanta. Congratulations also to Almaz Negash, founder and director of African Diaspora Network in Silicon Valley for her national recognition and award at the Continental African Leaders Summit in Washington, D.C.
July 9, 2014
The Glide Memorial Church family worked wonders at the celebration of San Francisco native Maya Angelou's life that she requested before she died. They juxtaposed carefully chosen visual moments with prerecorded Maya moments, which made her presence so palatable that the sanctuary lights came under the control of Spirit Maya and played with our collective vision – the room almost dark and the lights flickering off and on.
March 3, 2014
Russell Maroon Shoatz is out of solitary confinement! Hugo Pinnell had his first contact visit in 40 years last weekend. Kiilu Nyasha announced this wonderful news at a reception following the second public hearing on solitary confinement called by Assemblyman Tom Ammiano, Feb. 11.
February 5, 2014
I am recovering from a huge blow – my computer was taken along with other personal irreplaceable items. We stopped by Loon Point to visit the shore before driving back to the San Francisco Bay Area Jan. 30. It was early, we'd just finished our first session of the Winter Quarter. We left our luggage in view in our cohort's car. In Oakland, we'd not have done that, but somehow the seashore, mountains and quiet terrain deceptively seduced us.
December 2, 2013
This season we have lost two pillars of our San Francisco Bay Area community, Samuel Fredericks and Upesi Mtambuzi. Cedar Walton, pianist, also made his transition this year, along with Donald Duck Bailey, drummer, both men beautiful human beings. Upesi, Samuel, Cedar and Donald all brightened our world. Their unique hues and shapes and sounds will be missed … that last live jam.
December 2, 2013
On Monday, Nov. 25, President Barack Obama visited the Betty Ann Ong Chinese Recreation Center in San Francisco to talk about his Common Sense Immigration Bill slowly making its way through the United States Congress. Immigration is always topical in a country where most of us are immigrants even in the visible absence of its First Peoples.
October 31, 2013
Gina M. Paige explained that the organization, African Ancestry, started with Dr. Rick Kittles, genetic researcher at Howard University who was interested in isolating the gene that caused prostate cancer, one of the leading causes of death in our community. He found this research methodology applicable in other genetic detective research and so in 2003 African Ancestry was founded with Ms. Paige.
September 2, 2013
On the 20th anniversary of the demise of my father, Fred Ali Batin Sr., the 18th anniversary of the Maafa Commemoration San Francisco Bay Area – the Ritual Sunday is Oct. 13, 2013; see http://maafasfbayarea.com/ – and approximately the 60th day of the hunger strike to end the inhuman conditions in California's Security Housing Units or SHUs, I just want to pause and reflect.
June 1, 2013
I'm thankful to Wanda and the Bay View. We all are. I love the world that Wanda takes me to, because it exists outside of the typical realm of negativity that swamps the prison environment. The Bay View is a necessary tool for prisoners, and I urge anybody who has a subscription to get subscriptions for others who may not be able to get it for themselves. Because who knows, you just may be in a position to save a life too.
March 8, 2013
Back when Mumia was a member of the Black Panther Party, he traveled west to work with the Oakland chapter – an important time in his evolution as a radical journalist. Now the story of his life and revolutionary times comes to The New Parkway Theater. Read about it and all of Wanda's Picks for March 2013.
February 2, 2013
The 23rd African American Celebration through Poetry is Saturday, Feb. 2, 2013, 1-4 p.m. at the West Oakland Branch Library, 1801 Adeline St., in Oakland, (510) 238-7352. All are welcome and if anyone didn't hear of the event in time to be a part of the featured program, we do have an open mic at the end of the program.
October 5, 2012
Judith Jamison looked regal on stage with Farai Chideya last month in The Forum Conversations at Yerba Buena Center for the Arts. Her message seemed to be one of preparedness and presence – being, as our sister Ayana Vanzant says, in spirit. Muslims call this the sirata-l-mustaqim or the path of the rightly guided.
September 10, 2012
Paul S. Flores' new play, "Placas: The Most Dangerous Tattoo," is riveting. I was sitting on the edge of my seat all through intermission; the drama was that intense and unsettling. Fausto, Edgar's father, spends nine years in prison and upon release decides to have his tattoos removed for his son, whom he doesn't want to follow in his footsteps.
September 7, 2012
With the storm approaching New Orleans, I spoke to Dwight Henry, co-star in the film, "Beasts of a Southern Wild," currently in Bay Area theaters. I spoke to three men who are riding the storm out: Parnell Herbert, Angola 3 activist and playwright, Mwalimu Johnson, community organizer and prison abolitionist, and Malik Rahim, former Black Panther.
September 6, 2012
I didn't know what to expect and was pleasantly surprised when Esperanza Spalding, the singer-musician, treated her audiences to a socially conscious tour of America with stops at the doors of the prison industrial complex and Mother Nature. The evening moved fluidly from a fireside chat on relationships and love to the concluding number, which spoke to Spalding's philosophy.
August 8, 2012
Dr. V. Diane Woods is the architect of the California Reducing Disparities Project's African American Strategic Workgroup report, "We Ain't Crazy! Just Coping with a Crazy System," which looks qualitatively and quantitatively at Black mental health in California and its blatant racialized disparities.
July 13, 2012
The parody currently on stage at American Conservatory Theater, "The Scottsboro Boys," staged by director-choreographer Susan Stroman ("The Producers"), through July 22, 2012, takes a historic tragedy in American history and recasts it as buffoonery. Black America should not be surprised. Classic guilt is always re-envisioned in this paradigm. The boogeyman is always Black and male.
June 3, 2012
I would like to wish all the fathers a blessed and happy Fathers' Day 2012. It is a hard time to be a parent of a youngster, not to mention an adolescent or youth. The challenges are great, in direct proportion to the rewards. I'd like to congratulate the young fathers who are stepping up and participating in their children's lives, especially when society equates parenting with one's largess or paycheck.
April 4, 2012
The Oakland International Film Festival is Friday-Sunday, April 6-8, at the Oakland Museum of California, 10th and Oak Street, Oakland. Visit http://www.oiff.org/2012schedule.pdf. This year's headliner is one of the most controversial independent films ever made, "The Spook Who Sat by the Door." Watch it again here.
March 7, 2012
When the Occupy San Quentin rally ended, San Rafael police followed us to the Richmond Bridge. I don't know if it was Jabari Shaw's orange CDCR jumpsuit that kept them wondering – Is he an escapee, one of ours? – or if it was the sheer magnitude of fearlessness represented by women like Kelly, a former prisoner who would not let her traumatic experience silence her. One brother got so full looking at the guards on the other side of the gate watching that he looked like he was going to leap the gate and hurt someone as he recalled the violations of his person over and over again. Members of All of Us or None dropped everything to embrace him when he left the stage.


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The Western State Climbing Team in Albuquerque, New Mexico For a story on the climbing team go to: www.western.edu/news/article.php?id=311
Go WSC! You guys Rock!! (I know, bad pun, showin my age) Now there's a team that this Alum can get excited about.
Names, we want names.
Left to Right- Christen joiner, Jordan Wemett, Will Anglin, Elizabeth "Biz" Opie (Back), Morgan Fields (front), Nick Heller, Jacey Jacobson, Eli Steiger, Matt T (Not part of the team)


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I love this rug! I've been very pleased with this purchase. It was easy on the budget, and it allowed me to add texture and a more casual feel to my formal dining room. You can visit my blog to see detailed photos I took of the rug after I first purchased it here: http://www.thewriterandresidence.com/dining-room-rug-photos/. I bought the rug over a year ago when I began my dining room makeover, and it has really held up well. You can see photos of how the rug looks in my finished dining room here: http://www.thewriterandresidence.com/virtual-tour-dining-room/. I think the rug is really rich-looking�there are very subtle variations in the color, which give it added dimension and interest. The rug is quite thick too! (I did, however, order the recommended rug pad as well.) Like several other reviewers have noted, because this is a natural fiber rug, there was a faint odor at first (nothing unpleasant at all) which quickly dissipated. There was some slight shedding initially, but this has also subsided. The rug cleans up well (I vacuum it regularly, with my vacuum set on "medium pile" to protect the weave). In summary, a great purchase, and I'm considering ordering another one when I tackle my upstairs bedrooms next!
I love the rug. It is exactly as I expected, except softer - which is nice. The only caveat is that this rug MUST have a carpet pad underneath it as it will scratch the hardwoods beneath it. I learned this the hard way. I should have known this, so I can't slam the rug for it. Great rug and order the pad.
I cannot believe this is the same rug that people bought before and wrote those great reviews about it. I'm not such a difficult customer and i find the rug to be beyond rustic. it has extremely uneven loops and so many loose ones. The picture that I remember seeing on the website is no longer there, the one that is there now is much closer in color to the real rug but I never saw that picture before ordering. I honestly think that there is something wrong with this rug in particular or reviews are no real.
This rug is very rustic, with a chunky, thick fiber and a large boucl� weave. It's reversible which is an advantage over latex-backed natural fiber rugs. If the decor you like is country, cottage, beach house, casual, or natural, you'll love it. If you like more elegant, formal, or refined decor, you won't like it. Some customers have mentioned an odor, which mine does not have, and I just received it today. I replaced a smaller sisal rug I purchased on OS about 6 years ago, and I like the look of this one much better. Another quality worth mentioning: my two cats haven't shown any interest in scratching on it, which they loved to do on the sisal rug. I'm very pleased with this purchase.
After ordering this rug it arrived quickly and before unwrapping it I started to feel guilty. I was redesiging a large bedroom and had most everything else done and was feeling like I should not have splurged on the rug. I was considering sending it back before I even opened it. But decided to just unroll and look at it. Thats all it took. The rug is down permanently and it is absolutely gorgeous. I was going for a beachy/earthly look to the bedroom and it turned out better than I imagined. I did the walls in venetian plaster; a pretty light tan color, ordered 70" bamboo shades from Overstock for the 2 large windows and a tan matelasse bedspread and white matelasse coverlette from **** for the bed. Painted 2 old dressers a creamy linen color, installed pepple tile on top of them and hung white billowing sheer drapes on the sides of the shades. The rug made the room and brought the whole look together. I'm not disappointed nor do I feel guilty anymore. It does have a grassy smell, but it doesn't bother me and I'm sure it will fade with time....after all it is jute. Not sure how to handle spots or spills but since this is a guest bedroom I'm hoping to get many years of use from it. I believe its the fringe on this rug that sets it apart from the others. The shine from the venetian plaster along with the roughness of the jute rug and bamboo shades give the room so much texture.
I love this rug- the way it looks and feels. I plan to buy more for other rooms. And the price was amazing.
This is the best deal in town. I am an interior designer and LOVE this rug. Its reall thick and chunky and yet soft. It has a very expensive feel to it. The fringe at both ends also makes it feel more luxurious and adds a custom aesthetic. The only negative is that it is not really 8 x 10 its slightly smaller by about 6 " in length. I almost returned it but decided to make it work. Great rug!!
This rug is beautiful except is smells strong of dirt, like wet earth. I understand its made of natural materials but the smell is quite musty. We have had it 3 days now, If it doesn't go away I'll have to return it. It also has bits of twig and what looks like tree bark wound in so be careful barefoot, it hurts if you catch one.
I really love this rug, just what I was looking for to add a beachy feel to my bedroom. Quality for the price is fair, It feels nice to walk on its not to hard. There has been a bit of shedding and dust under the rug but nothing a quick sweep or vacuum cant fix. I would buy this rug again.
Nice jute rug and thicker than most others. I enjoy the tasseled ends for a slightly different look. 8X10 without tassels, which add about 6 inches
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There's been lots of buzz over the Powerball ticket sold in South Philadelphia, but there's also a big winner in New Jersey from last Friday's Mega Millions drawing.
A 250 thousand dollar ticket was sold at Gorman's Wine and Spirits in North Cape May.
That ticket matched all five numbers, but not the gold Mega-ball.
The winning numbers in that drawing were: 3--14--17--40--50-- and a Mega-ball of 3.


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Brady Hoke Points at Things
i totally get tumblr now
Brady Hoke in a special alumni interview, hosted by Jim Brandstatter
Alumni association asks alumni to send in alumni questions for special alumni interview with alumnus Jim Brandstatter.
The HokeManBeast Returns to Muncie
incognito with Nate Davis
Hoke, coaches make impression in Detroit
Hoke's jokes are better than RR's, not like that's saying much: "[Hoke] introduced Fred Jackson last and referred to him as "Tom Harmon's coach.""
Brady Hoke talks about family, tradition and his dream job
"This is a special place from the academics to the history and traditions of Michigan football. All of the great men who have worn the winged helmet- for all of us - it's where we've always wanted to be. It's great working with these kids."
U-M fans remind Brady Hoke: Beat Ohio State
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Human Rights Watch issued a statement late Saturday saying it regrets that former Israeli prime minister Ariel Sharon has died "without facing justice for his role in the massacres of hundreds and perhaps thousands of civilians by Lebanese militias in the Sabra and Shatilla refugee camps in Lebanon in 1982".
According to Almesryoon, the director of the organization's Middle East and North Africa Division, Sarah Leah Whitson, said that Sharon's passing is "a grim reminder that years of virtual impunity for rights abuses have done nothing to bring Israeli-Palestinian peace any closer." "For the thousands of victims of abuses, Sharon's passing without facing justice magnifies their tragedy", Whitson added.
Sharon died at the age of 85 on Saturday after eight years in a coma caused by a stroke he suffered at the pinnacle of his political power. He will be buried on Monday in a military funeral on his farm in southern Israel.
Meanwhile, Palestinian refugees in the Ain al-Hilweh refugee camp in Sidon, Lebanon celebrated Sharon's death on Saturday by singing in the streets while Palestinians in the Gaza Strip handed out sweets to passers-by in celebration.
Palestinians in the Gaza Strip handed out sweets to passers-by in celebration of Ariel Sharon's death.
Abu Jamal still remembers when Lebanese militiamen allied to Israel woke him and his family early one September morning more than three decades ago and dragged them out into the street.
The gunmen forced him and other Palestinian refugees in the Sabra and Shatila camps to line up, separated the men and women, and dragged young men from the line to be killed. Abu Jamal's son, 19 at the time, was among those they chose.
"He was in his last year of school," said Abu Jamal, who wears a button with his son's picture on his sweater and asked that his full name not be used. "He never saw his diploma."
Israeli troops did not intervene during the bloodshed, which went down as one of the worst atrocities of Lebanon's 1975-90 civil war. Ariel Sharon, who died on Saturday, was defense minister at the time and many Palestinians in Sabra and Shatila still blame him for the killings.
Over three days, beginning on September 16, 1982, around 2,000 men, women and children were massacred in Sabra and Shatila on the southern outskirts of Beirut.
Some 500 more simply vanished without a trace.
Israel had invaded Lebanon three months before, and the brutal killings, the work of Israel's Lebanese Phalangist allies, were carried out as Israeli troops surrounded the camps.
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- PRAA 2014 Fall sports Shop day at DSG
- Elbow Injuries Article
- Baseball Tournament Champs 2014
- 2014 PRAA Spring Fast Facts
- 2014 PRAA Parking Guidelines
- Welcome PRAA Spring Message
- 2014 Registration Links
PRAA Families,
This Saturday, August 23rd, we will be holding another PRAA member
day at Dick's Sporting Goods at their Matthews location from 1-4 pm.
This is a great time to purchase your fall sports needs and any
last minute back to school clothes, shoes or other items and receive
20% off your entire purchase.
Click on the DICK'S SPORTING GOODS image below to print your coupon!!
Elbow Injuries in Young Throwers
With the increasing participation and competitive level of today's youth sports, more adolescent and pediatric patients are being evaluated and treated for a variety of elbow injuries. Each year over two million children participate in Little League activities. Previous surveys have shown elbow pain occurs in up to 20% of all little league throwers and a more recent study found a 26% frequency of elbow pain in 9-12 year-old baseball players.
Most of this pain is due to overuse. The most common elbow injury in young baseball players is medial epicondyle apophysitis, better known as "little league elbow." This is an overuse injury to one of the growth plates on the inside of the elbow. While it is most frequently seen in baseball pitchers and throwers it can also occur in softball, tennis, golf or any other sport that puts significant stress on the elbow.
This type of injury occurs in young athletes because their growth plates (apophyses) are weaker than the muscles that attach to them. The stress placed on the growth plates from repetitive throwing can cause them to become inflamed and produce pain and swelling. If the child continues to throw through pain the growth plate may even begin to separate from the rest of the bone.
Along with pain, throwers often complain of decreased ability to throw as hard or as far in comparison to pre-injury levels. They may have pain with batting and even daily activities outside of sports. Swelling and loss of elbow motion may occur. Any child who experiences such symptoms should immediately be removed from sports activity and evaluated by a pediatric specialist. X-rays or other imaging studies may be taken to help assess the extent of damage to the injured joint. With mild injuries, non-surgical treatment is appropriate. This usually entails rest from throwing (and sometimes other activities), rehabilitation exercises to improve strength and flexibility and a gradual return to throwing as tolerated. This process typically takes at least 4-6 weeks. When significant displacement of the growth plate occurs, surgery may be needed to ensure proper positioning of the detached cartilage. In surgery, the detached fragment is reattached with pins, screws, or suture stitches. Throwing is often prohibited for six months after surgery.
Another common injury in young throwers is osteochondritis dissecans (OCD) which is the leading cause of permanent elbow disability in adolescent athletes.OCD is an erosion of cartilage and underlying bone in part of a joint. Over time, OCD may lead to bone chips in the joint (so-called "loose bodies"). OCD produces a gradual onset of pain usually on the outer aspect of the elbow, which is often worse during the cocking and early acceleration phase of throwing. Swelling, joint locking or stiffness are late (and more concerning) findings. X-rays and MRIs are frequently ordered by the treating physician to assess the joint surface and extent of damage. In children, prolonged rest (> 6 months) sometimes allows healing of the damaged bone. Cases that do not respond to rest or those in which loose fragments are present typically require surgery.
Acute fractures and dislocations within the elbow joint are seen less commonly and considered orthopedic emergencies. Swelling and disruption of the elbow structures can damage one or more of the major nerves in the elbow joint which control the forearm, wrist, and hand. Even partial damage to the blood supply can lead to a very serious condition called "compartment syndrome." Failure to recognize this condition can lead to permanent loss of function.
As throwers reach their late teens and their growth plates close they are at higher risk of suffering from tendonitis and ligament injuries.These injuries can often be treated with rest and rehabilitation. Sometimes, as with certain tears of the ulnar collateral ligament (UCL), surgery may be necessary which can keep an athlete out of throwing for up to a year.
The key treatment of most elbow injuries is prevention.This responsibility is widespread, involving the team physician, coach, athletic trainer, parents and officials. Emphasis must be placed at an early age on preseason conditioning, proper throwing mechanics and proper warm up exercises. The main culprit of pediatric elbow injuries is simply allowing children to throw too much. Because of this, most youth leagues have pitch count rules in place. Complete pitch count guidelines should take into account the age of the thrower and include limits on the number of pitches that should be made during each game as well as the maximum number of pitches that should be thrown in a week, during the entire season and even throughout the year. Adhering to pitch count guidelines is critical for the longevity of a pitcher's arm.
Consult your primary care physician for more serious injuries that do not respond to basic first aid.
Another Proud Moment for PRAA Baseball
This past weekend the Porter Ridge 10U select team competed in their first Select CCBL tournament against teams that were well coached from the Lake Norman and South Charlotte area.
The boys went undefeated and were Tournament Champs! Coaches and Parents are very proud of these boys, they competed very hard with class and respect! It was great to see the 10U neighborhood boys back on the field wearing PR on their chest.
Congratulations boys - WELL DONE!
Porter Ridge Athletic Association where it's all about the kids having fun!
To our members at PRAA,
The spring season has begun and in our continued initiative of open communication, I have highlighted some information for you about PRAA. I want to again thank all the executive board members, commissioners, coaches and volunteers who have truly done so much behind the scenes to help launch this 2014 spring season.
Springtime Sports Facts
• We have over 650 children playing sports (Soccer, Softball, Baseball) this spring at PRAA
• Soccer has 28 teams including 310 children players and over 45 coaches/assistant coaches
• Softball has 8 teams including 82 children players with 8 coaches/assistant coaches
• Baseball has 24 teams including 238 children players and over 50 coaches/assistant coaches
Spring time costs
With any facility, there are maintenance issues and upkeep. This spring so far, some of the costs include, but are not limited to;
• Soccer spent $7,600 on new goals which were desperately needed.
• Baseball Spent over $3,000 on field upgrades/maintenance and a new pitcher's mound.
• Plans are underway to repair the dugouts at the softball fields and top dress the infield. (We are working with a sponsor & volunteers to accomplish most of this)
• The PRAA spent over $6,500 replacing all the doors to the field house.
• The PRAA spent just under $10,000 renovating both the Porter Ridge Elementary and Porter Ridge Middle School baseball fields which are used by both the schools and PRAA.
If you want to learn more about the how PRAA runs, our next board meeting will be on Sunday, April 6th at 6pm at the Hemby Town Hall.
If you would like to get a better understanding of our financial status/processes, please email Scott McGillivray for an appointment.
Scott McGillivray
Porter Ridge Athletic Association
Dear PRAA Members,
Our number one priority is for these kids to have fun and be safe. Our association continues to grow and parking is becoming more of an issue. It is very important for the safety of all the children that you follow the parking guidelines.
Parking Guidelines
When parking in the main lot (where the buses usually park) please park appropriately close to the car next to you so we don't waste space.
No Parking on the playground
It is strictly forbidden for anyone to move the parking stanchions unless approved by a commissioner or executive board member (only).
No parking on the fields.
We will be creating a parking area for handicap guest. You must have a handicap plate/tag to park in these spots or your vehicle will be towed.
Please do not leave valuables in your car as PRAA and or Union County are not responsible for any items reported stolen from your vehicles.
Please always drive slowly through the parking lot knowing that children are all around the park.
Please keep the parking lot clean.We have plenty of trash barrels in the parks where you can throw trash away.
These are simple guidelines and we hope you will make an effort to follow them. It won't be easy to police this program however we hope you will understand this is for the safety of the children and policing will not be necessary. If you see someone not following the guidelines, please communicate the issue to the concession stand volunteer or reach out to me directly.
A special "Thank You" to Paul Cimino for all his work in making up the new stanchions. They will assist us in keeping our children safe.
Thank you for caring,
Scott McGillivray
Porter Ridge Athletic Association
Welcome to the Porter Ridge Athletic Association
Spring is here and it's time to sign the kids up for Soccer, Baseball and Softball. Click above on the sport you're interested in and if you have any questions, please go to the "contact us" tab and reach out to the appropriate commissioner.
We look forward to another great season of youth sports.
Thank you!