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Dwyane Wade played arguably his worst four games of the 2010-2011 season against the Boston Celtics. In game one of the Eastern Conference semifinals, he more than erased those painful memories. Wade scored 38 points in the Heat's 99-90 victory. In the four previous meetings this season, Wade averaged 13 points and 5 turnovers a game on 28% shooting, by far his worst numbers against any team. This afternoon, however, he was ready. After the game Wade said, "I wanted to come out today and be a leader." Leading by example is the most effective form and as if to make that point, Wade came out onto the AAA floor a full three hours before gametime to work on his shot. (He went 14 for 21 from the field.)
The game was physical throughout with double technicals, flagrant fouls and one ejection (Paul Pierce.) Involved in two of those episodes was Miami sharp shooter, James Jones. Besides getting into it with Jermaine O'Neal and Paul Pierce, Jones went off for 25 points. He was 5 of 7 from beyond the arc and a perfect 10 for 10 from the charity stripe. Lebron James had another all-around solid effort, scoring 22 points to go along with 6 rebounds and 5 assists.
Boston was playing tough in the first quarter as both teams (besides Wade) were cold. With almost a week's lay-off, it may have been expected from the Celtics. Miami had trouble coming out strong against the Sixers in the first round, so their slow start was no surprise either. Add to that the fact that Boston and Miami are two of the league's best defensive teams and you had the recipe for a slugfest. A Mario Chalmers lay-up at the end of the first quarter (his only field goal of the game) definitely seemed to energize the crowd and the Heat carried that intensity into the second quarter.
Early in the 2nd Boston point guard, Rajon Rondo, was called for his third foul and from that point on never really got it going. Although he ended with a respectable 7 boards and 7 assists, he only mustered 8 points. Kevin Garnett was even less of a factor, scoring 6 points. Ray Allen led the Celtics with 25 and Pierce chipped in 19 before getting thrown out after a double technical was called when he and Wade collided on the Pierce screen.
Chris Bosh had a quiet night scoring with only seven points, but his twelve rebounds helped Miami stay even with Boston in that category. Mike Miller made an eight minute appearance, going scoreless, but had 3 boards and 3 assists. Not to be discounted, though, was his energy and a very good plus/minus.
Boston was without Shaq and Miami was without Udonis Haslem, but both could play in this series. Shaq will likely be back for game two Tuesday and Haslem, who hasn't played since November could also be available. How this would shake up the rotation is anyone's guess (as is just how effective he could be after such a long lay off. But we shall see.)
Miami is now 4-0 on its home floor in these playoffs while today's loss was Boston's first.
The play of the game, in my mind, was Dwyane Wade waiving off Coach Spoelstra's pleas for a time out just before half time, motioning his teammates to clear out and then banking in a tough shot over Ray Allen to give the Heat a 15 lead at the break. Although Boston played well early in the third and had a nice little run late in the fourth, it really felt like Miami had the game in hand from that moment on.
This was a good test for the Heat, who are 11 victories away from winning in all. Having now beaten their arch rivals twice in a row, Miami's confidence level has to be very high. As Wade stated after the game, that there is no quit in the Celtics, we all know how good Boston is. They are the defending Eastern Conference champions. When the Big 3 were constructed it was almost a given that for Miami to achieve its ultimate goal, Boston would be their main competition. No offense to what Coach of the Year Tommy T. has done in Chicago, the road to the NBA title most definitely goes right down the middle of Bean Town.
Game two is Tuesday night at the AAA. If Miami brings the same kind of effort it displayed in game one, Boston will head back home a very desperate (read: dangerous) team. Thankfully, with three straight losses to this team earlier in the year, the Celtics have Miami's complete attention.


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When it comes to winning, a low revenue team like the Royals faces a tough question. With the current revenue sharing system in place, it would seem almost wise to just keep running in place. By not winning, you can collect a nice check at the end of each season because your franchise failed to generate much revenue. On the other hand, if a team starts to win, they likely start to generate more revenue; which means the check at the end of the year gets smaller and smaller.
You would hope this is not how most owners look at the situation. But it is somewhat understandable if a low revenue, small market owner looks at it this way. Due to the new revenue sharing rules, the threshold for a low revenue owners to actually start losing money on the deal is high though. For a team like the Royals, they would have needed to see their revenue jump by at least $44 million from 2010 to 2011 to start losing money in the revenue sharing game. Is it possible for the Royals to reach that threshold?
In 2006, revenue sharing was changed for the better by making the marginal tax rate on revenue the same for all thirty franchises. Before this change, high revenue teams were only taxed at a 40% rate, while low revenue teams were taxed at a 48% rate. Now, all teams are taxed at a 31% rate. Seems fair right? Wrong. The system will never be perfect, but it still isn't as well oiled a machine as it could be. Take the Yankees for example, by their tax rate dropping from 40% to 31%, they saved themselves $39.69M in 2009. A low revenue team like the Royals though, only saw their amount taxed decrease by $26.35M due to the changed rates, doesn't seem fair does it?
With the new rate in place, teams were taxed $1.902 billion from the $6.137B they collected in revenue during the 2010 season. That taxed money is evenly divided among all thirty teams, which means each team received a revenue sharing check for $63,415,666.67 going into the 2011 season. This sounds great, except for the thirteen teams in baseball that lost money on the deal last year; which saw a spike from 2009, when only eight teams lost money. The threshold in 2010 for losing money in the revenue sharing agreement was $204,566,666.67 in revenue.
For a team like the Royals, that 63.4M million dollar check was a nice thing to receive. Unfortunately, it is not pure profit for teams beneath the revenue threshold that make money from revenue sharing. For the Royals, the amount they actually gained from revenue sharing in 2010 was $13.82M. Low revenue teams like the Royals are also awarded some money from the national TV contracts MLB has with FOX, TBS, and ESPN.
Those contracts, under their current form, bring in $722,071,428.57 dollars a year. The money is not just split evenly among the teams though. Under the current agreement, only some teams receive money from these contracts. If the leaked 2008 financial documents of the Rays are any indicator of what a low revenue team receives from these contracts, it can be estimated the Royals got another $8M from the national TV deals. So, in total, the Royals likely made somewhere in the range of $21.82M last year from revenue sharing and national TV deals combined.
While revenue sharing is helping to promote competitive balance, a salary cap and salary floor would be the most beneficial. The 2011 season painted a bleak picture when it comes to salary disparity, as the ratio of top seven payrolls to bottom seven payrolls was 3.26:1. The Blue Ribbon Panel, an independent board appointed by MLB to look into revenues in baseball in 2000, declared that a ratio of 2:1 is optimal.
The Royals would've probably been hurt by the salary floor this year, but since it wasn't in place, they have gained quite a lot of money in the last twelve months. By reducing their payroll from a bloated $74.9M in 2010, the Royals saved themselves $36.8M this past season. If you add their revenue sharing and national TV contract money from last year, the Royals gained $58.62M. The new revenue sharing check soon to be coming will likely make the Royals around the $13.82M they saw last year.
From the $58.62M the Royals have pocketed from various means in the last twelve months, $16M has to be deducted due to spending on the 2011 amateur draft and signings on the international market. The number would be higher if not for the contract given to Bubba Starling, which was a three year deal instead of lump sum bonus contract. Even with that large deduction, the Royals still have $42.62M at their disposal for the upcoming years.
So, if the Royals start winning, is it possible that they would cross the revenue threshold and start losing money in the revenue sharing deal? The easiest measure to look at would be attendance. If the Royals were to start winning, it can be assumed that attendance would rise. For this exercise, we will put Kauffman Stadium at 84% capacity during the course of the regular season as a season of sell outs is unlikely. With this number, the Royals would be averaging 32,069 fans a game. Not completely unreasonable to expect from a winning team in Kansas City, as attendance like that would've put the Royals 14th in that category this past season.
If the Royals were to average 32,069 fans a game in 2011, that would mean 873,139 more tickets in 2012 than 2011 had been sold. Using the estimated $40 an average fan spends at a baseball game, this increase in ticket sales would lead to $34,925,560 in new revenue. When looking at revenue from 2010, this would put the 2012 Royals somewhere around $195M in revenue. If this were the case, the Royals would be adding $60.45M to the revenue sharing pool and be dangerously close to the threshold where they would start losing money from the revenue sharing system.
When looking at how close the Royals are to losing money from revenue sharing under this scenario of having a winning team, it is interesting to imagine what David Glass would decide to do. If the team starts winning, payroll will have to go up, fan interest will go up and cause overall revenue to rise, which will actually cause a negative shift in the bottom line. He can still make money, but he'll actually make less money by spending more and winning. I think he's in the midst of making the right choice, we can all hope that is the case.

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What to say about tonight's game. Angel Hernandez' strike zone was incredibly inconsistent and bordered on fraudulent. On ESPN's ball-tracker, one could see how obvious balls were being called strikes. It was infuriating to watch as a fan, I can only imagine how the professionals on the field must have felt. Joe didn't Hoover up a few hits that were his way, Vazquez gave up two quick runs (which could have been more), and Oswalt was sitting down the Sox hitters as soon as he could. I'm surprised ESPN didn't put out meaningless graphics like "Teams that score first are x-y-z" as they've been doing for the World Cup.
I'm willing to forgive the first inning. After watching Garcia give up bad innings in the first 3 and then settle down multiple times, I wasn't ready to throw in the towel on Javy and fully expected him to regain his composure and get himself out of jams that he put himself in. For the next few innings, he did. And then came the 5th inning meltdown. ESPN's shots of the droves of people leaving the stadium and the insertion of "must be a blowout" Montero in the 7th led me to believe the fans and the managerial staff had apparently raised the white flag and were ready to call the streak a day.
I guess the memo didn't get to our hitters. Paulie surpassed our solemn first base coach's career club HR total in the 7th. With Oswalt gone, one T. Iguchi put the team on his shoulders and carried us to the promised land of extras in two straight innings, chasing Springer with a 3-run shot that put us back in the game in the 8th (video-audio) and then further increased Brad Lidge's hatred of pitching in the Cell by tying it up with the club's 3rd grand slam in as many days to tie it up in the bottom of the 9th (video-audio).
It must have woken up Ozzie, as he then decided to put our actual relief pitchers in. Unfortunately, BMac's also the one that got hung with the L.
To be honest, this game was a moral victory for me. While it would have been nice to have been an actual victory, it showed the kind of grit our hitters have in the face of what appeared to be insurmountable odds. Houston got the W, but they had to earn it. Our boys didn't take a blowout sitting down and once there was blood in the water, they fattened up on runs.
The interleague series has been a tale of two Centrals. The top two teams in each respectively matched one another, with ours each on a 8-1 tear so far. Even our 3rd place team is currently 8-1 on them (yes, vs. PIT and CHC for 6, but still). Our division has clobbered theirs so far, showing who the "Junior Circuit" really is this season.
So here we are closing in on the All-Star break sitting at around the same position we were during the Championship run, all of our starters have more-than-marginal winning records (including a guy that's 8-0, again), and we're blowing more teams out of the water. Outside of the NL East, ours is the only division that has so much separation between the clubs, with the top two records with the majors. And the top club has yet to prove that they can beat us.
Our 5th starter (at 8-4!) got touched up and our hitters picked him up. We didn't get the 10th straight victory, but took 2 of 3 after the Twinkies and Royals did the same, sending Houston on to Detroit with a chip on their shoulder. As long as Pittsburgh isn't Tampa Bay North, let's go for another 9 straight.


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Flatiron Building sunset. Autumn. Madison Square Park. New York City.
Late autumn in New York City has its own brisk beauty. Cold air sharply punctuates the end of every wind gust and the sun retreats earlier and earlier every day. Autumn clings to December in the brief moments before the trees drop their leaves to the ground for good and every afternoon sunset reaches through the sharp cold with its lighted fingers in one last dramatic attempt to bring warmth to the city.
This particular view is of the Flatiron Building, one of New York City's unique and classic skyscrapers, as seen from inside Madison Square Park during autumn.
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The Chrysler Building and New York City skyline.
This is a favorite view of the Chrysler Building. In truth, the Chrysler Building is my favorite skyscraper in New York City. I have always loved the art-deco architecture of it's spire and how its needle pokes out above the other skyscrapers that populate the New York City skyline in midtown Manhattan.
This particular view is looking west towards Manhattan and sitting in the foreground are the skyscrapers of Tudor City: neo-gothic historic buildings that lay their claim to fame for being part of the first residential skyscraper complex in the entire world.
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The Flatiron Building and Fifth Avenue Building Clock. Midtown.
I have always loved the ornate clocks that line 5th Avenue, especially the Fifth Avenue Building Block that has a prime destination near the Flatiron Building. At 19 feet high, the cast-iron clock was installed in 1909 and was crafted by a Brooklyn Iron Works company. It's a type of clock that was introduced in the 1860s. They were popular with business owners who wanted to attract extra attention and also served a functional purpose as time-telling pieces in a busy area of Manhattan.
The juxtaposition between the Flatiron Building, one of New York City's iconic skyscrapers and this cast-iron clock has always put a smile on my face. The Flatiron Building, which was completed in 1902 is also a landmark in Manhattan. Its name is in reference to its resemblance to a cast-iron clothes iron.
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Manhattanhenge overlooking 42nd Street and Tudor City Overpass. New York City.
This was taken during last year's Manhattanhenge sunset.The experience was rather intense. Even though I got to the overpass an hour and a half before sunset, I was told that many photographers had set up their equipment as early as 3 pm. When the sun started its very dramatic descent all that could be heard was the sound of cameras clicking away. It's definitely a phenomenon I don't plan to ever skip now that I have experienced it.
While the sun's dramatic dip only lasts for a few minutes, it's enough to take one's breath away for the entire duration. The city is bathed in the light from the sun and the most beautiful red glow is cast through the streets.
Manhattanhenge is a semiannual occurrence in which the setting sun aligns with the east–west streets of the main street grid in the borough of Manhattan in New York City. The term is derived from Stonehenge, at which the sun aligns with the stones on the solstices. It was coined in 2002 by Neil deGrasse Tyson, an astrophysicist who is the director of the Hayden Planetarium at the American Museum of Natural History.
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During the regularly scheduled Greensburg Community Schools (GCS) Board of Education meeting, a price raise of 10 cents for lunches and breakfast was approved, and plans are being laid out for summer maintenance and renovations.
GCS superintendent Tom Hunter told the board that the changes in school lunches for the 2012-13 school year were mandated but not funded, resulting in the first price increase in several years.
School lunches will now be $2.10 for students, and $3.10 for adults. School breakfasts will now be $1.30 for students, and $1.60 for adults.
Policy changes in school employees are also scheduled, and GCS is seeking to find a new health plan that is affordable for the schools and the employees. Hunter alluded to a price increase for the first time in five years.
Four teaching positions will not be restaffed, Hunter told the board, due to lower enrollment and the need to accommodate a $400,000 reduction in GCS' budget.
When Board President Al Moore asked if the positions would be restaffed should an unexpectedly high enrollment occur in the classes, Hunter responded that the school was unlikely to restaff the positions.
Hunter said the money wasn't in the budget to hire new teachers, and that he did not wish to create a budget that would put GCS in the red. If there is a surprisingly large enrollment, Hunter said, the classrooms may have to be larger.
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I need a float for a 53 cub. I already went to case and they have an updated carb for it, but I would like to keep it original. Also there used to be a website that sold the floats wegner or something like that.
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Convicted of molesting a 12-year-old boy, 28-year-old Sonja Childers pleaded with jurors for a lenient sentence. Her effort paid off. Five years probation.
"That doesn't sound right, not if she molested a child," said parent Glenn Allen.
Outside the courtroom, the logic of the sentence was lost. "I think that's too easy," said Kelly Morman. "She should have gotten the full 99 years," said Keisha Washington.
Parents, waiting to pick up their children outside the victim's former school, wondered if the sentence would have been so light if the perpetrator had been a man. "I think it is a double standard," said Allen. "I think if she had been a man she'd have gotten more," said Washington. "More than likely, if she'd been a man she'd be gone, and she should be as a woman," added Allen.
Two witnesses who testified against Childers expressed shock over the sentence. Declining to appear on camera, they echoed the sentiment of double standard. Despite the slap on the wrist, the prosecutor remained positive. "Regardless of what the sentence is, that we got a sex offender off the streets and is now recognized by citizens of Lubbock county and wherever else she travels then that's a win," said Assistant District Attorney Will Boyles.
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Hello Guardians!
I have a lot of things to cover, so this one may be longer than normal. Most of it is just general tank stuff, but there are a couple of Guarfdian-specific things I'll cover as well.
Buraan Joins TiB!
This is by far the most important piece of news I have to announce. After Wens quit because of R/L and my own guild's inadequacies, there's been a distinct lack of heroic-level content on TiB. I've always maintained that the best theorycrafting is done by 1 part math and 2 parts practical experience. With that in mind, I needed someone to pick up the slack in terms of heroic content.
Who better to have talk about it than (agruably) the #1 Guardian in the world? Yeah, I don't have an answer to that either.
In any case, it is with great pleasure that I announce Buraan as the new contributing author for TiB. He'll be covering heroic progression content through SoO and hopefully beyond.
Obviously you should follow him on Twitter and watch his stream as well.
PTR Changes
There are an absolute fuckton of these this time around. I'll try and make sure I catch them all.
Vengeance now grants Attack Power equal to 1.5% of the damage taken, down from 1.8% (The tooltip said 2% but it was actually 1.8%).
Tanks no longer receive Vengeance from many persistent area damage effects (standing in the fire) or from missed attacks (dodging and parrying an attack will continue to work as it has before).
There are now diminishing returns on Vengeance gains while tanking multiple targets. Each additional target grants progressively less Vengeance.
The first two are pretty obvious. Vengeance was getting out of control compared to tank survival, and standing in fire to increase your Vengeance was a design oversight anyway. It's the last one that's rather vague. Thankfully Lore posted some details for us:
The basic, concise explanation is as follows: The Nth strongest (based on pre-mitigation average auto attack DPS) mob that has hit you in the last 5 seconds grants 1/Nth of full vengeance with their attacks. N is recalculated on every hit taken.
So here's an example. Say you're tanking 3 mobs – we'll say it's a boss and two adds. The boss has pre-mitigation average auto attack DPS of 1500k, one add does 400k, and the other add does 300k. The game will form a list of those mobs from 1-3, like so:
1. Boss: 1500k DPS, 1/1 (100%) of normal vengeance is granted
2. First add: 400k DPS, 1/2 (50%) of normal vengeance is granted
3. Second add: 300k DPS, 1/3 (33.333%, repeating of course) of normal vengeance is granted
This would of course continue as more mobs are being tanked (granting 1/4, 1/5, 1/6, and so on). Also, if the second add were to land a hit at any point when the first add hasn't attacked you in the last 5sec (such as if it swings first), that attack would grant 1/2 Vengeance instead of 1/3.
So the example Lore gave is totally unrealistic. In order to put it in perspective I came up with something that most Guardians are probably familiar with: Heroic Tortos Bats. Details below (note this for 10m heroic):
A Vampiric Cave Bat on 10m heroic has an autoattack DPS of ~85k (taken from a friend's log from last week's kill using approxmiate Mastery values) give or take. Click here for log.
Which means under the current Vengeance scenario we'd cap out at around ~240k (20 * 85000 * 0.018 * 8) after 20 seconds. The bats die long before that happens though.
Under the new scenario we'd end up with: 30 + 15 + 10 + 7.5 + 6 + 5 + 4.28 + 3.75 = 81.53.
Slashlove (one of the Tanking forum regulars) made a quick post positing that using 1/sqrt(n) would be a better idea than simply 1/n while accomplishing the same goal (Source). Let's look at what happens then:
30 + 21.2 + 17.3 + 15 + 13.4 + 12.2 + 11.3 + 10.6 = 131.
Suddenly much more palatable. Yeah, I like Slash's better. Another thing to remember is this same logic also applies to Challenge Modes and Proving Grounds, both of which feature a plethora of AoE pulls. So maybe we'll see a change to this formula, and maybe not. Only time will tell.
So as not to affect Challenge Mode leader boards, the above Vengeance changes will not apply there. For Challenge Modes, Vengeance will continue to work as it did in patch 5.3.
Well apparently time did tell. There you go.
Chance on being hit by a melee attack to gain a 20% reduction to all damage taken for 15 sec. (Approximately 2.57 procs per minute, ICD: 3 sec)
So this is the update to the tanking meta gem that was mentioned last week. The change to all damage reduction by itself is really good, but bumping the RPPM up to 2.57 takes it to almost a 50% uptime (actually ~47%, but hey). That makes it incredibly good, and definitely much, much better than it was before.
Does it compare to the existing DPS LMG? Probably not yet. However I'm definitely expecting that tank RPPM mod to get nerfed with extreme prejudice in an upcoming build. That will definitely put the tank LMG solidly ahead.
Trinket, enchant, set bonus, and legendary meta-gem effects whose triggered effect benefits from haste no longer also have their chance to trigger the benefit from haste. Activation chances for those effects have been adjusted to compensate.
There's been a whole host of changes to the RPPM trinkets. I took the liberty of updating the RPS spreadsheet with the changes, and here's the result:
Note, all of these trinkets are the double-upgraded versions. Primarily I'm just trying to show how fucking good Renataki and Bloodlust are now. Everything is basically complete shit by comparison. The new RPS trinkets in SoO don't even come with passive stats, so they're fucking awful. Granted almost everyone is going to be using the CDR trinket anyway, but still. It's good to know what your RPS options are. Special thanks to Theck for helping me sim Bloodlust with the new ICD.
Thick Hide now reduces the cooldown on Barkskin by 30 sec.
I'll admit, my first reaction to this was WHAT THE FUCK. Then I realized this was probably part of the whole "solution to Nazgrim" thing GC was tweeting about last week. I checked with Buraan, and he agreed with me. So with the CDR trinket we'll have a 25 second CD on Barkskin (30 / 1.2 = 25). This means that we can have up to 2 minutes and 12 seconds of 100% Savage Defense uptime. That's actually kind of ridiculous. Close to triple the current value.
That screams broken to me, but what the heck do I know. Everything about this patch screams broken to me. However I wouldn't be surprised if our 2pc bonus changes as a result.
Dream of Cenarius now increases the Critical Strike Chance of Mangle by 10%. Chance to proc a Dream is reduced to 40%.
I actually just tested this on the PTR. The proc is now 20 seconds in duration, which is pretty incredible. The real question becomes is the Mangle change enough of a DPS gain to offset the GCD loss?
Well the number of procs we get in ~553 gear is: 0.8 * 0.4 * 0.21875 * 60 = 4.2. So that's 4 GCDs we'd spend per minute (out of 40) on Healing Touch / Rebirth. For the sake of argument let's assume that all of these GCDs are Lacerates. We then know that Lacerate does 0.616*AP in damage, so missing 4 per minute would be a loss of (2.464 + 1.848) or 4.312*AP in damage.
We also know that Mangle does (0.5*AP) + 7*WeaponDPS in damage. In the course of 1 minute you would have ~13 Mangles (0.21875*60). Without DoC those Mangles would deal 11.05*AP + 154.7*WeaponDPS in damage. With DoC this number increases to 11.7*AP + 163.8*WeaponDPS. A difference of 0.65AP and 9.1 WeaponDPS.
Subtracting like terms we get 9.1 WeaponDPS = 3.662AP. Since we know a 561′s weapon DPS is 8187.5 that means the break even point is (9.1*8187.5)/3.662 or 20345 AP.
So yes, it's still a DPS loss. How much?
At 200k AP it comes out to around 12k DPS or so. Nothing to sneeze at to be sure, but look at what we gain in return. It's probably most analagous to the old Battle Healer glyph. Yes we trade a bit of DPS, but we gain a ton of very effective healing in return, plus a little Rage as a bonus. I'll take that trade any day of the week.
Yeah, changing the way it works. Long term, we want Guardian less focused on dodge more on AM. High armor and health are cool.
At first this caught me by surprise. However after a bit of thinking I realized that this is definitely a 6.0-era change. What could it be? Well a while ago on MMO-Champ (I'll be damned if I can find the exact post) there was a suggestion to have Savage Defense also increase our Armor. I think that's the direction GC is talking about here. Cool by me.
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What a ride the America's Best Racing Tour has taken us on so far … but it's only the beginning. As the 'second season' of our tour kicks off officially on Wednesday in Oceanport, N.J., I am doing my best to get in the "Garden State of Mind." From everything I've heard, Monmouth Park is a very pretty racetrack just minutes from the beach. I figured I would go ahead and answer a few questions those of you readers may have about the first stop of our upcoming trip …
So where exactly is Oceanport, N.J.? It's about an hour to an hour and a half south of New York City and about two hours Northeast of Philly. It's also about 45 minutes east of New Brunswick, the home of Rutgers University. Oceanport is a small, touristy town with a population under 6,000. It borders Long Branch, N.J., which is actually where the hotel I will be staying at is located. Long Branch has a population of about 30,000.
Will we be doing any fist-pumping while in New Jersey? I'm not going to rule it out just yet. However, I have learned that New Jersey natives absolutely hate being associated with anything related to the MTV reality series "Jersey Shore." This was not shocking to me, but I did want to make somewhat of a spoof video where all of our ABR Ambassadors spend a day at the track acting as if we were each a character from the hit show. Who knows if it will actually happen, but hopefully we will do something funny incorporating "Jersey Shore" into our visit.
So what are New Jerseyans proud of? The Boss. Bruce Springsteen is probably the most famous musician to call New Jersey home. In fact Brian Skirka, a New Jersey native who handles marketing among other things at Monmouth Park, informed me that as the horses are walking onto the track before the Haskell, they play the Springsteen song "Born to Run" every time. Hence, we decided on our Twitter/Instagram hashtag for the event: #BornToRun.
What should we expect from this weekend's racing? A show. Sunday's $1 Million Haskell Invitational Stsakes brings together Preakness winner Oxbow for Hall of Fame trainer D. Wayne Lucas and Hall of Fame rider Gary Stevens; Wood Memorial Stakes winner Verrazano, who last out won the Grade 3 Pegasus Stakes for trainer Todd Pletcher; Power Broker, who handily won the Easy Goer Stakes last out at Belmont and is trained by Hall-of-Famer Bob Baffert, who has the most wins for a trainer in the Haskell (6) and has conditioned the last three Haskell winners; Golden Soul, who finished second in the Kentucky Derby this year for trainer Dallas Stewart; Micromanage another Pletcher trainee who is coming off a win in the Long Branch Stakes at Monmouth; and who knows who else might show up for this mid-summer showdown deemed "where champions prove their greatness."
Want more on the Haskell? Check out these links:
- How to Haskell: A Guide to Monmouth Park from Followhorseracing.com
- History of the Haskell Invitational by Ambassador Chip McGaughey for Followhorseracing.com
- Top Moments in Haskell Invitational History from DRF.com


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A great salute and credit to Chris Murphy, the WordPress Theme Creator. He made it so well. Chris make this wordpress theme based on his own site. He is using this same wordpress theme too actually.
Another wordpress theme designer who release his own site design as a free to download wordpress theme is my friend DezinerFolio.com. They also share their site theme for free. And as you can see, the web 2.0 template is just so beautiful.
I would say that if you are looking for a free wordpress theme or blogger template, then try to find a designer who shares his/her own site template for free first.
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You can download the template via the link below.
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Now let me know how do you think about this template? Leave your feedback on the comment form below. thanks
Currently if you want to change the flicker images on the bottom footer, you have to do it manually since it is not widgetized yet. I don't know how to get the flicker javascript codes, since on the wordpress theme it uses a php script to generate that images.
It would be great if any of you knows how to get the flicker codes :), just tell me on the comment. thanks
new added: OK here is a tip from Amanda Fazani, a good friend from Blogger Buster
If you still need the JavaScript for Flickr photostreams, you can get the code from here: http://www.flickr.com/badge.gne
You'll need to log in with a Yahoo account to access this, and may also need to tweak the code generated for your needs. I have used this in Blogger before now, and it's really useful once you get the hang of using it.
Thanks Amanda.
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Oops there are some points you have to do after installing this template that I forgot to mention on the post. Now I have update it, please read the instruction again.
This post is long enough to make me lost my train of thought
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How to change the top image on the header? The FarFromFearless Image?
Can't Add New Page Elements / Widgets ?
Some readers said that they can't add any new page elements, if only they mentioned what's the error message too.
Make sure that you have at least 4 HTML Widgets. To fix this problem, I guess you just easily re-upload this new template.
I have met this problem once before, and I can fixed it by uploading the XML file twice. Hope it works. Thanks
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Actually I have mentioned about this on the post above.
After you download the template, you will see a text file named: Widget_Content.txt included in the zip file.
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|Staff are incredibly rude and the pub has a hostile, unfriendly atmosphere. By far the worst night spot in Moseley, frequent at own risk.
Kennedy84 - 1 Apr 2013 22:25
|Fairly stark - in a fashionable, cream-walled sort of way - local pub not far from the centre of Moseley. The near-ubiquitous Pure Ubu on pump which was nice.
rainlight - 4 Nov 2011 22:09
|In there again, excellent Guiness, large screen footie game and impressively friendly staff, extra bonus points.
Blastbeat - 25 Nov 2010 16:28
|Sort of local for grown up uni students. Not much to knock it for, maybe a bit cliquee. Being a nob though I had a pint of Brew 11 for nostalga sake, some things are best left in the past! Good pub.
Blastbeat - 15 Sep 2010 10:48
|Lively pub, well worth a visit, if doing a tour of Moseley. Guinness was a bit on the dear side at Ł3 a pint, but it was a good pint. Loud jukebox, dominated by Indie rock. Before it was fully refurbished quite a few years ago, this pub used to be known as the Trafalgar, as it is on the corner of Trafalgar Road. Would suggest it reverts back to the traditional name, and have a mural of Lord Nelson instead of some poet.
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FORMER Prime Minister PJ Patterson says the failure of the Golding administration to respond in a timely manner to the global economic recession, was the main factor that caused Jamaica to return to the International Monetary Fund (IMF).
In 1995, Patterson received much accolades when he announced that Jamaica was ending its borrowing relationship with the IMF.
"Goodbye, ta-ta, au revoir," Patterson said as he made the announcement to thousands of supporters attending a conference of the Peoples National Party (PNP).
In the 1970s, the PNP administration, then led by Michael Manley entered into a borrowing relationship with the IMF in a bid to rebound from the ravaging effects of the world oil crisis.
However, the imposition of strict loan conditionalities forced successive administrations to effect cost cutting measures which had devastating social consequences, including massive public sector job losses, wage freezes, the closure of some public institutions and a significant reduction in Government spending.
For many, the IMF's structural adjustment programme represented an albatross around the necks of Jamaicans.
However, in 2008 Jamaicans were stunned when they were informed that the Golding administration was engaged in efforts to resume a borrowing relationship with the fund. Through much public relations, the then administration sought to allay the fears of Jamaicans by suggesting that the IMF had changed its posture and was no longer a harsh institution.
The following year, then Finance Minister Audley Shaw completed negotiations which resulted in a 27-month standby agreement between Jamaica and the IMF.
But speaking at the weekly Jamaica Observer Monday Exchange, Patterson said he was disappointed with the move to return to the IMF.
"I believe when the signs were emerging of trouble in the international economy, which would have an adverse impact on Jamaica, we hesitated too long before taking appropriate action on the domestic scene, and as a consequence, by the time the size and the nature of the problems, and its impact on the Jamaican economy became evident we really had no recourse," said Patterson, who was providing an overview of Jamaica's progress and development since 1962.
"I can only say that I was disappointed in the extreme that we reached that point where the return of the IMF became inevitable," said Patterson.
Former Finance Minister, Shaw has previously been criticised as a result of his slow response to the global economic crisis.
In the early days of the recession, Shaw stated that Jamaica would not be hit by the recession, but could instead benefit from its effects.
However, in subsequent attempts at clarifying his position, Shaw said he had to take such a stance, as anything else would have created panic.
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The biggest West Marine Store in Maryland, located at 8640 Pulaski Hwy in Middle River, will have a Community Day 9 am – 7 pm on Saturday, December 7, 2013 to benefit Chesapeake Bay Memories Charities. Chesapeake Bay Memories Charities is an all volunteer non-profit organization, dedicated to providing high-caliber, hands-on Chesapeake Bay watershed-focused education, leadership and community outreach programs for youth ages 8 -18. Over 20,000 local children have participated in their stewardship and youth leadership programs.
In the spirit of the holiday season, West Marine's Middle River store, located at 8640 Pulaski Hwy in the Golden Ring Mall Shopping Center, will donate 5% of their sales on Saturday, December 7 to Chesapeake Bay Memories Charities. In addition, a Knotty Kids Gift Making Workshop will take place from 9:00am – 12 noon, where kids can have fun making nautical gifts for the holidays. A parent must accompany each child. Supplies are limited.
"Wow! West Marine's Middle River store is offering a generous gift and tremendous opportunity for local kids. We are honored to be chosen as West Marine Middle River's Community Day benefitting organization," says Penelope Soteria, Executive Director, "When Joan Macri from our Advisory Board shared the great news and I broadcasted it to the families of our past youth program beneficiaries, overwhelming immense heartfelt gratitude shined through amongst the community for this generous holiday season gift. West Marine's support will go a long way towards helping us benefit even more local youth in 2014. We hope many people will join us at West Marine's Middle River store on December 7th."
Chesapeake Bay Memories Charities' programs have been recognized with 179 national, state, and local awards. The 11 year old organization operates on an annual budget of $25,000, the majority being in-kind donations of educational resources that youth participants use and meals consumed during programs. Programs are offered at no cost to youth participants thanks to the help of many dedicated and talented local volunteers, working in collaboration with other community organizations such as the Middle River Recreation and Parks Council.
"This gift from West Marine's Middle River store location is fantastic! Thanks for helping the children think about their futures and get excited about the Bay," says Marita Andrews, mother of two October 2013 program participants, "Chesapeake Bay Memories covered so much ground with these children they hadn't been exposed to before. Thanks for this one-of-a-kind opportunity that more children should have."
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You may have heard of Dr. Abraham Morgentaler. His book, Why Men Fake It: The Totally Unexpected Truth About Men and Sex, has made quite a splash in the last few weeks. Yes, the title invokes some tittering and inevitable double-take (wait…can men really…fake it? The answer, according to the opening chapter, is yes). But beyond the salacious intro, this book contains a much deeper, and darker, look at what's really going on inside the heads of men. As a doctor who's spent decades treating men for every type of sexual dysfunction, Morgentaler is perhaps the best source to discuss what's really going on behind all the culturally-condoned ideas of masculinity. We spoke to him about relationships, role models, and, of course, sex.
HOWABOUTWE: You've been helping treat men with sexual problems for a very long time. What's the single biggest thing you've learned about men?
ABE MORGENTALER: I'll tell you the biggest surprise for me. When I started doing this work, I didn't have that high an opinion of men. I'd been around men my whole life — team sports, school, the locker room — and I thought the standard narrative about men was pretty accurate — men are insensitive, selfish, they care only about themselves in relationships — because that's how guys talk to each other.
I don't feel that way anymore. I feel like guys are not just admirable, but noble. The problem is that they get in their own way about how they present themselves. Men are stuck in ideas of masculinity and machoness that are holdovers from a previous era.
What changed me was not any one patient, but hearing the same concerns and worries and fears over and over again from so many men of all ages, races, etc. At one point, there was a guy in my waiting room who looked too cool for school — he presented himself as the hippest dude imaginable. He looked like someone who wouldn't care about any woman. And when he came into my office, he breaks down into tears because he has a girlfriend and feels like he can't satisfy her sexually because he suffered from premature ejaculation. There's a HUGE difference between men in the waiting room and men in the exam room. Guys have a sense of needing to look cool, and to have a devil-may-care attitude. But in the end, what I recognize is that men, once they have feelings for a woman, acutally care MORE about their partner's pleasure than they do their own.
Here's an example of that: I describe in my book a 27-year-old guy who's a paraplegic, so he can't function sexually. But he's married. I treated him so he could have sex again, and he comes back to my office a changed man. He says, "my wife is happy, and I feel like a man again." Now keep in mind, he can't FEEL anything during sex, no feeling below the waist, no sexual sensation at all. But he was able to make his wife happy. So he's feeling like a man — he's able to provide for his wife. In one way or another, thats what it's all about for men.
HAW: So do men value sex in the way we typically think they do? As the key to everything?
AM: Almost everything we think we know about men and sex is wrong. The idea that all a man needs to get excited is a stiff breeze blowing by is nuts. Part of what perpetuates the myth [of men always wanting sex] is how men talk to each other. They talk in an ultra-macho way, but it's not authentic. A man's definition of great sex is when the woman says, "that was great sex."
HAW: What about the trend of women wanting more sex than their partners? Is that a new thing? Or are we just recognizing it and discussing it now?
AM: Once a guy has adult responsibilities — a job, a child, a couple of gray hairs — he's not getting erections the way he was when he was 17. I had a patient for erectile dysfunction — when he was in the city where he lived with his wife, he couldn't have sex. But every weekend, they went to their country house, and he could have sex fine. The reason? During the week, he was busy thinking about his work, the pressures, his responsibilities, etc. In the country, he was relaxed. Guys get stressed.
The other part of it is that we used to think it was always the guy who wanted sex more than the woman. A friend of mine, who's my age, likes to say, "it's only a few years ago that guys figured out that women even enjoy sex." When I was young, guys used to think that when a woman had sex with them, you had this feeling of eternal gratitude, like they'd done you a favor. That was the cultural wisdom in those days: guys want sex, and women don't even like it. In the '50s and '60s, there was a popular expression: women performing their wifely duty. Women were supposed to submit to sex as part of the mariage contract of keeping their husband happy, and they supposedly got nothing out of it.
Now we know and recognize that women enjoy sex as much as men do. If women didn't have sexual desire, there'd be no human beings on this planet. So now we have this strange variation — I see a lot of couples where the woman wants sex more than the guy. Sometimes it's just life, and sometimes there are medical reasons. When men are on SSRIs like Paxil or Zoloft, the medications can reduce desire and make it difficult to ejaculate. In some men, testosterone levels decline. We think of lower testosterone as being common only for older men, but I've seen men in their '20s with declining levels.
HAW: Pop culture tends to depict men as sex-crazed bumbling morons incapable of reason when they want sex (which, according to this stereotype, is always). I think we all know that's a gross oversimplification. How do we get out of this social rut? It seems to damage both sides – men think they should conform to it, and women think that's all men are capable of being.
AM: It's gotten increasingly difficult over the last few decades to know how to feel good about yourself as a man. And one of the biggest problems men have is that they don't talk to each other, and they don't talk about anything that involves vulnerability for them. I think men are embattled right now. Sheryl Sandberg may be talking about what women need to do to break through the glass ceiling in the boardroom, but what no one disagrees with is that there are more women right now graduating from high school, college, grad school, So in a relationship, the woman often has the better job, and the higher pay. So the traditional male role as being the provider is fading.
How men can figure out a way to feel good about themselves as men, while embracing the strong, capable, and now sexually-aware and free woman — that's the challenge for today's man. There are lot of cultural hurdles for it. We don't have a lot of positive role models. TV and music are, frankly, awful. TV shows where you just see everyone cheating and acting awful — how do you get inspired by that? How do you figure out how to live your life? A lot of young men I see know there's something wrong with that [paradigm], but they don't really have a model of how to be.
HAW: So what can men do to feel good about themselves, in a healthy way?
AM: Men do have an inborn feeling that they want to be providers. If they can't do that outside the bedroom, there's more pressure to do it inside the bedroom. Men who are perfectly normal and healthy ask me for Viagra all the time. I ask them, "what do you need it for?" They tell me, "it's tough out there — I feel like I need to keep up."
HAW: What advice would you give to a 25-year-old man today?
AM: I would tell him to have sex only with women he actually likes. Having sex doesn't mean that he has to be committed forever, but it's an incredible and hard-to-explain part of who we are, that brings about all sorts of feelings and emotions, and we are very vulnerable when it happens. Both for men and women. Life is so much better when sex is meaningful. There's nothing manly about quantity. Let [sex] be something that is special, where you actually feel like there's the possibility of something really good to come from it.


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Efforts have been made to take the show back to its glory days (namely Series 3-6) in terms of the production, even though the narrative is set a decade after the last full series. These episodes were shot in front of a live studio audience, set designed to evoke past seasons, have action set on both Red Dwarf and Starbug, and include the return of physical models for the effects sequences.
The first episode has the crew receiving a distress call from the Trojan, a doomed Space Corp ship. Thrill turns to horror when Rimmer discovers the Trojan is commanded by his all-conquering, younger brother Howard. At the same time Kryten decides to install a new ship computer, the lethally logical Pree.
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February 28, 2014
March 21, 2014, marks the fifth anniversary of the police murder of Lovelle Mixon, who was killed after he murdered four Oakland police officers and wounded a fifth, around 73rd and MacArthur Boulevard in East Oakland. "The Ghosts of March 21" is a documentary about the bloodiest day in the history of Oakland law enforcement, shot by Damon "Hooker Boy" Hooker and directed, written and edited by Sam Stoker.
February 2, 2014
The Block Report is in a rebuilding phase after being unjustifiably banned from the Pacifica airwaves under a plan engineered by former Pacifica lawyer and current Oakland mayoral candidate Dan Siegel. One of the main campaigns we are working on right now is to expose Siegel's pro-police history to the left leaning crew that supports him in his Oakland mayoral campaign.
January 4, 2014
Word reached The Liberator Magazine that revolutionary Black independent media is about to expand with the impending launch of Block Report Radio Station on the internet. So they sought out its founder, Oakland journalist JR Valrey, to ask him why he devotes his life to independent media and what we can expect from the new Block Report Radio Station.
October 5, 2013
Tracy Rosenberg is the executive director of Media Alliance, an action and resource organization in Oakland advocating just, accountable and diverse media. She has been a listener representative on the KPFA Local Station Board since 2007 and a member of the Pacifica National Board of Directors since 2010. We asked her to comment on the situation from her perch as an insider. Here's what we talked about.
July 2, 2013
KPFA is not living up to its own creed when it ignores the fact that there are more Black people in prison now than were in slavery in 1850. The station is vacillating on whether or not to grant three hours of special coverage to the California prison hunger strike. Pacifica and KPFA are definitely ruining their brand of "progressive" radio with this racist activity. I want to thank all of you who signed the petition to restore me to the airwaves and contacted management at the station and the network on my behalf. But we can't stop. We must loosen the grip of racism that is killing KPFA.
June 27, 2013
The 15th Annual San Francisco Black Film Festival was a huge success with hundreds in attendance. Some of the headlining films included documentaries on Iceberg Slim and Sly from the Family Stone. Tupac Shakur's 42nd birthday was celebrated in style with a number of revolutionary and reality rap legends in the Fillmore celebrating him 17 years after his assassination in Las Vegas in '96.
May 30, 2013
In the spirit of young freedom fighters like Lil' Bobby Hutton, Young Malcolm will live forever in the hearts and minds of oppressed people who want to be free, especially those incarcerated in jail cells and in Amerikkkan ghettos. We love you and we will never forget you. We will make sure that the young people of today and tomorrow use your life as an example to keep up the fight that so many have given their lives for over time. Long live Hajj Malcolm Latif Shabazz! May you rest in peace with the other warriors from our movement.
May 9, 2013
Cynthia McKinney's fundraiser tour for the SF Bay View was a huge success up and down California, hitting San Diego, Los Angeles, Oakland and Santa Rosa. The tour, which was titled "Latin America, Africa, and Obama," coincided with the release of McKinney's second book, "Ain't Nothing Like Freedom," an autobiography about her years as a six-term Congress member from Georgia.
April 9, 2013
On March 6, the Bay's "Free Speech Radio" aka KPFA suspended one of the best broadcasters and shows that they had on the air because The People's Minister of Information JR Valrey of Block Report Radio, who's also the associate editor of the SF Bay View, reported on the fact that members of management and of the CWA union, aka the "White Citizens Council" inside of KPFA, have been engaged in racist activities.
March 31, 2013
The award winning play, "The Mountaintop," looks at the everyday divinity of ordinary folks and places Martin King right there with them. His greatness is not a greatness which is inaccessible or isolated. In the Lorraine Motel that night, King listens and even agrees at some point with the young maid, Camae, a Malcolm X radical in an apron.
March 20, 2013
For the second week in a row, one of the largest audiences for any show on KPFA was disappointed not to hear the People's Minister of Information JR Valrey and his Block Report on the air Wednesday at 8 a.m. Instead we heard an announcement by interim general manager Andrew Phillips that JR has been suspended. Getting punished for doing "too well" happens to Black folks much too often. Sign the two petitions to end the suspension of JR Valrey from KPFA and attend the Town Hall Meeting, Thursday, April 11, 6 p.m. at Laney College. This story is constantly being updated with new signatures and comments.
March 6, 2013
RUMEC has been at the forefront of the new labor movement. We would like to unify our people through construction, religion, art, music and education. We seek the liberation from outside forces that foment ignorance, oppression and poverty. We aspire to escalate into an established position of recognition and respect as an independent, all inclusive institution that represents our striving people.
December 7, 2012
Monday, Nov. 26, at the Bay Area Black Media Awards event hosted by Greg Bridges and sponsored by the San Francisco Bay View and Block Report Radio, it was so wonderful to see all the media friends and family for an evening of celebration. KPOO, KPFA, New California Media/Pacific News Service, Wanda's Picks Radio, Oakland Post, Globe, Poor News Network, Oakland International Film Festival, Black Panther newspaper alumni and others were in the house as "Best" this and "Best" that were saluted.
November 21, 2012
The fiery writing of JR Valrey began appearing in the Bay View a dozen years ago. JR made our original vision for the Bay View reality: to inspire Black youth to build a powerful Black community. As the Bay View's associate editor and one of KPFA's most popular programmers with his provocative Block Report Radio shows, JR and the youth who grew up on his empowering words and pictures are growing in influence, making a difference every day – and they're just getting started.
March 29, 2012
Just when I thought I could almost start to trust KPFA, I hear that the Morning Mix may be snatched off the airwaves. I gave my first donation to KPFA ever because of the Morning Mix. To be real – I gave to the Morning Mix because of Block Report Radio on Wednesday mornings, 8-9 a.m.
February 8, 2012
"We're having a big benefit concert for my son on Feb. 10 at 330 Ritch in San Francisco. And I'll just list a few of the artists who will be there: The Jacka, J-Diggs, Mac Mall, Turf Talk, Beeda Weeda, Cellski, Matt Blaque, Laroo, plus The Doe Gang, Undagod and Fly Benzo. It's hosted by Chuy Gomez, music by DJ JR, The Minister of Information," says Denika Chatman, mother of Kenneth Harding, murdered by SFPD. Come celebrate Kenny's life. For tickets and more information, go to http://justice4kennethhardingjr.eventbrite.com/.
November 7, 2011
Prof. Johanna Fernandez' acclaimed film, "Justice on Trial: The case of Mumia Abu-Jamal," will be screened Thursday, Nov. 10, 6:30 p.m., at Twinspace, 2111 Mission St., Third Floor, San Francisco. "Mumia," she says, "is a world famous African-American journalist, a humanist and one of the most important revolutionary voices of our time."
August 16, 2011
Lynne Stewart is one of the legendary activist lawyers of our time and also one of the many political prisoners of our time, who was incarcerated because her style of lawyering was called aiding and abetting a terrorist organization, by one of the biggest terrorist organizations ever known to humanity: the United States government.
June 4, 2011
Gerald Perreira has lived and worked in Libya as an organizer and journalist and has been giving regular reports to Block Report Radio and the San Francisco Bay View newspaper. It is important to develop our own media and experts who can speak from an African perspective.
April 15, 2011
'Block Reportin' is a collection of captured conversations, continuing the rich African oral tradition, passing on stories and information to us in the format of an interactive dialogue. The next book signings are April 16, 4 p.m., at Marcus Books and April 22, 12:30 p.m., at Alexander Books, both in San Francisco.


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West Virginia is joining the Pew Charitable Trusts to study its juvenile justice system and find better ways to keep youthful offenders out of detention centers.
West Virginia nearly doubled the rate it sent youths to juvenile facilities from 1997 to 2011, a stark contrast to decreases nationwide. West Virginia had higher rates than the other three states with increases: Nebraska, North Dakota and Idaho.
The study will review programs within the Division of Juvenile Services, Department of Health and Human Resources and the Department of Education.
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(08/08/12) - There was a big upset in Saginaw County Tuesday night, as long-time prosecutor Michael Thomas was defeated in the Democratic primary.
Thomas became Saginaw County's prosecutor during the second term of the Reagan administration. He's held the job for 23 years, but that will come to an end in January.
Thomas was defeated by the city prosecutor John McColgan in the primary by more than 1,000 votes.
Crime was a big campaign issue.
Thomas argued that crime rates are declining, while McColgan said he planned to create a special unit within the prosecutor's office to handle the cases of the most violent offenders.
John McColgan Jr. admits he is a little surprised he knocked off long-time incumbent Mike Thomas in the Saginaw County Prosecutor's race, but his confidence grew with every door he knocked on.
"He has survived so many challenges, all the doors I knocked on, like I said, time for change, need for change, but until they get out and vote, there is not going to be change, but they did," McColgan Jr. said.
The McColgan campaign put out controversial ads just a few days before the election that suggested Thomas gave out favors to friends. McColgan says that's in the past campaign, and he will now focus on November.
"My platform is we need to get off this list of the country's most violent cities or else we are not going anywhere. What I intend to do is to get a task force within the prosecutor's office, the best and brightest over there to focus on these violent criminals," he said.
He says he plans on retaining a number of the current assistant prosecutor's and says he will be in the courtroom on cases as well.
One factor in McColgan's upset could have been the Milton Hall police shooting case. It was five weeks ago when the Saginaw man was shot by police officers, and there has been no decision made yet by the prosecutor's office on if the shooting was justified, or if excessive force was used.
John McColgan will face attorney Matthew Frey in the November election. Frey ran unopposed in the Republican primary.
Mike Thomas released a statement, in part, thanking Saginaw County voters for their years of support.
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