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From Inside Bay Area : “An Oakland attorney was shot to death Friday night and his girlfriend arrested in the killing at a Dimond district home, police said. Michael Porcella, 36, was found shot about 11:29 p.m. Friday on the porch of his home in the 3700 of Laguna Avenue. Porcella, who worked as an attorney for the criminal defense firm of Robert Beles, was pronounced dead at the scene. His girlfriend of about six months, Rennie Pratt, 28, was arrested at the house, police said. The gun that police believed was used in the shooting was found inside the house. Pratt, who works as a barber at the Rossmoor retirement community in Walnut Creek, declined to talk to investigators, Sgt. Gus Galindo said Saturday. Galindo said it appears the couple was having an argument. He said the two had previous altercations when police had been called. The couple had been living together at the Laguna Avenue house, but Pratt said she had moved out the day before the shooting but could not remember her n...

I didn't make this video but I've always wanted to have one on the blog about this group. So consider this a placeholder until I can talk with them.

From Friday's first home game of the year at the Oakland Coliseum.

From Friday's first home game of the year at the Oakland Coliseum.

YouTuber "established1968" created this video of the starting roster of the 2009 Oakland A's. But for the record here's the active rouster: Active Roster Pitchers B/T Ht Wt DOB 49 Brett Anderson L/L 6-4 215 02/01/88 40 Andrew Bailey R/R 6-3 235 05/31/84 13 Jerry Blevins L/L 6-6 180 09/06/83 51 Dallas Braden L/L 6-1 200 08/13/83 53 Trevor Cahill R/R 6-3 210 03/01/88 44 Santiago Casilla R/R 6-0 200 07/25/80 30 Dana Eveland L/L 6-1 215 10/29/83 39 Sean Gallagher R/R 6-2 235 12/30/85 55 Josh Outman L/L 6-1 185 09/14/84 36 Russ Springer R/R 6-4 225 11/07/68 48 Michael Wuertz R/R 6-3 205 12/15/78 31 Brad Ziegler R/R 6-4 205 10/10/79 Catchers B/T Ht Wt DOB 35 Landon Powell S/R 6-3 260 03/19/82 8 Kurt Suzuki R/R 5-11 200 10/04/83 Infielders B/T Ht Wt DOB 18 Orlando Cabrera R/R 5-9 185 11/02/74 3 Eric Chavez L/R 6-1 220 12/07/77 7 Bobby Crosby R/R 6-3 205 01/12/80 14 Mark Ellis R/R 5-11 195 06/06/77 1 Nomar Gar...

  More at Zennie62.com At YouTube , Yahoo , MySpace , Metacafe , DailyMotion , Blip.tv , Stupid Videos , Sclipo , Viddler and Howcast On Thursday April 9th a criminal incident impacting nearly a million people in three counties of Silicon Valley went largely unnoticed by the media, both mainstream and blogs, yet has enormous national security implications far beyond the scale and scope of September 11th 2001 or "9-11" and potentially impacting millions of Americans. What was it and why? On that day, someone one or a group of people cut a fiber-optic and landline network placed beneath a manhole cover in San Jose, California. No one knows who did it, but the act crippled operations in hospitals, stores, banks, and supermarkets. No one could make a call using a cell phone or regular phone, or get information from the Internet. The full extent of the impact of this act is as of this writing not known, but imagine not being able to call the police or the fire departm...

The good folks on Myrtle Street have a "stone in their shoe" and it's not a rock, but a company called "Crime Scene Cleaners." As I reported earlier this week , the company, which cleans up crime scenes, is dirtying up relations with the locals. Here's what was explained on the blog " Myrtle Street Review ": It's been a rough week on Myrtle Street since Crime Scene Cleaners, Inc., owned by Neal Smither and based in Orinda, moved onto our block. Neal Smither, according to the Chronicle, owns a million-dollar house near the Round Hill Country Club in Alamo, so we are guessing he has no plans to relocate to West Oakland. Our neighbors went over to Crime Scene Cleaners to introduce themselves and were immediately faced with threats and shouting. Residents, apparently, are not allowed on the sidewalk in front of Crime Scene Cleaners or they will get a restraining order and it will take Mr. Smither "about twenty minutes" to arrange th...