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Matrix Goes 5-0 for Weekend in Fall League Action
Congratulations to our Matrix teams competing in Fall League as we went a combined 5-0 in action on Saturday.
The 2019 Matrix Black 4th Grade team started the day with two morning wins in the Flames Fall League, including a wins over the Classics' 3rd Grade team and their 4th Grade team.
The 2016 Matrix Black 7th Grade team picked things up in the afternoon with a win vs. a HUGE MD Lady Clippers 2015/8th grade team. The 2016 Black team then polished off a perfect day in Maryland with a win over an 8th Grade Maryland Grizzlies team. With the win, Coach McConnell's 2016 Black team finished up an undefeated Fall league season.
To close out the day, in Mt. Vernon, VA, the Matrix 2017 Black 6th Grade team defeated the Team Sol 6th Grade team, resulting in a 5-0 weekend for the Matrix.
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The Assembly of Episcopal Healthcare Chaplains has served the Church and its chaplains since 1950. The organization's title represents the Episcopal Church's long standing tradition of ministry in hospitals. At the time of the Assembly's founding the church through its dioceses and parishes established and supported hundreds of hospitals throughout the nation. And although the number of hospitals identified as "Episcopal" had been substantially reduced, hundreds of Episcopal chaplains and other pastoral ministers continue to represent the Church in its ministry to those who suffer in mind, body or spirit.
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Over three months of Out-And-About in one go: It's the hugenormousive catch-up digest
Ye Gods. I haven't told y'all about any of the out-and-about things I've been up to since mid-July. That's over a quarter of a year ago.
I couldn't make my mind up how to go about it, that was part of the problem. Another catch-up post (in which I briefly mention what I've done, so that it's documented and thus actually happened) seemed like the obvious thing to do, but there have been a few things over the last couple of months that seemed to need a full post on their own. Inspiration struck after a lot of umming arring: why not both? Lovely stuff. Most things will get mentioned in a perfunctory fashion in this post. The odd few things that seem to require more words (this isn't necessarily related to how good they were) will get a post of their own afterwards.
So… one Saturday towards the end of July (I forget the precise date, but it was definitely before all of the rest of the things in this post. 26th, probably, but I make no promises) saw the latest Chess-meet between myself and James ex-Trucker, at The Briar Rose. I managed to win another game! I also lost another two. That puts the running total at something in the region of 381-2-1 in his favour, but I will even the score one day.
Kings Heath's loveable Hare & Hounds was the venue for the night of Friday the 1st of August (oh my God. How long ago that was…), with a Capsule-promoted Japanese double-bill taking place. The night was spoiled to some extent by a pillock acting like a pillock, but both of the bands were ace. Nissenenmondai made for a great instrumental collision between Can, Battles and Lightning Bolt. Acid Mothers Temple's set (such of it as I saw – they went on for ages. For a change I'm not bothered about late runnings, though: I think I got my fill of them) was in a lot more of a straightforward 70s rock veign than I was expecting, but there were still plenty of (old) Pink Floyd styled freakout bits. The openers came away with the honours of the night, if you ask me, but both bands were very good.
The 20th of August saw a day-trip to Aberystwyth. Note well, all of you non-regular travellers to Wales – it seems to be the custom in fair Cymru for certain trains to separate, with some carriages going in one direction and some in another. Yes, this had the predictable consequences on us. Yes, it was entirely my fault.
That aside (well, not just 'aside'. It was funny), we had an absolutely lovely day. Aberystwyth, for some reason, had a great number more Hassidic Jews wandering around than you'd expect (and I'm not making that up). We bought a sheep and a penguin.
Birmingham Opera Company's 'Idomeneo' on the 22nd was good beyond belief, but deserves a post of its own. We'll come back to this. (EDIT: Yes, here).
Friday the 29th was occasion for seeing Clutch at The Barfly (which you now enter via the old Sanctuary entrance, fact-fans). Beset by unfortunate but unavoidable delays, Clutch were already on by the time we got in there. Ah well.
I can't really mention any more than I have already that I find Clutch to be The Best Rock Band Going At The Moment. Bluesy and boozy yet still with untold energy and actual fantastic songs, and most of all grooooove. They're about the only band who can jam as much as they do and still remain interesting to me. There wasn't any harmonica at this gig (for some reason) and there were some omissions from the setlist (I know this will always be the case for a band with as many albums as Clutch, but still: no 'Cypress Grove'. Booooo), but highlights like "Escape From The Prison Planet", "Electric Worry" and "Promoter (Of Earthbound Causes)" were high indeed.
(Other accounts can be read here, here and here. Not sure about the setlist in the last one, though: I'm pretty sure they played "I Have The Body Of John Wilkes Booth" at some point in there. It was ages ago, of course; I could easily be wrong).
For the 30th, then, I caught a train over to Leamington Leam, to be picked up for the drive to REM's Twickenham concert (this sort of feels like one that should get a post of its own, but I don't really have all that much to say about it) by the incomparably wonderful Matt'n'Chel. They'd had an absolutely mad weekend and deserve salutes for even being awake, never mind travelling darn sarf for a gig. Twickenham Stadium is an impressive sight when you get in there, although you do get a hell of a lot of low-flying planes heading towards Heathrow.
We arrived in time for the half of "Sao Paulo", Guillemots' last song. A shame, since it was sounding absolutely fantastic with added percussion jam and such, but there we are. Such things can't be helped. Editors were the piggies-in-the-middle. The sound wasn't so great, sadly, and their already echo-y (ta Matt) atmospheric indie rock was made even more echo-y by the sound and less atmospheric by the bright blue sky and periodic aeroplanes. Still very good, though, with choons from first album working really well.
REM were, unsurprisingly, great fun (setlist here). They sounded a touch (only a touch) more rocky-sounding live than one might have expected, and a fair few of their more well known songs were excluded (most obviously no "Everybody Hurts", but also no "Stand", no "Star 69" etc. They have an even huger back catalogue than Clutch, though, so no-one can really complain), but did play a fair bit from my fave album "Document" ("Disturbance At The Heron House", "Exhuming McCarthy" and of course "The One I Love". No "Finest Worksong", though) and even "Country Feedback". Stipey (as he's known to his friends), meanwhile, made for an endearing frontman. My only complaint would be that the hurrah-ah for Obam-ah stuff all got a bit Leni Riefenstahl at times. I've no problem with bands talking about things that are important to them, but pictures of politicians displayed on the big screens can begin to feel like a bit too much…
(There are reviews of this here, here, here, here, here, and no doubt a bunch of other places but I'm bored of looking now).
The End-Of-August Weekend O'Gigs culminated with the last day of the Moseley Folk Festival, on Sunday the 31st. This is another one that'll need a post of its own, though, so I'll come back to that. (EDIT: Heeeere y'go).
Gomez, lord love 'em, decided to mark the tenth anniversary of their first album ("Bring It On") by doing a tour in which they played the entire thing in its entirety every night. On one hand, it seemed a lot like pointless nostalgia and smug self-reference. On the other hand, it is a good record and I'd never seen them before. I ended up going to The Academy (bah) on Wednesday the 3rd of September.
There's not a lot to say about this one: it went pretty much as one might expect. The sound was very rough to begin with but cleared up after the first few songs, "Tijuana Lady" sounded gorgeous, and "Rye's Wagon" was epic. An encore featured a few more recent songs and a new one, and… Well, it was good stuff. I'm still not sure what the purpose of the exercise was, but it was good stuff.
(Another write-up here).
Life was a Cabaret (old chum) at The Rep on Friday the 5th. Blimey, Wayne Sleep isn't half a funny looking little troll-thing (and thus very well-suited to the role of the MC in this, of course). Samantha Barks was just-about-passable as Sally Bowles, and (to my surprise) the production didn't shy away from facing up to the Nazi themes throughout the play, often quite graphically. I enjoyed it.
(Reviews here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, and probably elsewhere).
Birmingham's annual weekend o'free stuff took place between Friday the 12th and Sunday the 14th. The best bit was unquestionably Stan's Café's Of All The People In All The World (AKA The Rice Show). That's something that deserves another post on its own, though (EDIT: here). We went to a whole tonne of things outside of that, so I'll just mention the best bits: the Hair exhibition at the art gallery (not part of Artsfest as such, but lots of fun. Anything where you can try on wigs will always be fun); the lights projected onto the wall of the council house on Friday night; Treefrog Theatre's "Paradise Mislaid", in which Satan challenges God to a game of Monopoly for the future of creation; MDCC Theatre's Shakespeare quiz and short-form version of his history plays; the sheer number of helium balloons that one could see making their break for freedom on the Saturday afternoon/evening; the 'Classical Fantasia' performance with the CBSO, the Birmingham Royal Ballet and the Birmingham Opera Company (far less Proms-ish than last year, and I'd hazard not quite as good, but it was a wonderful thing to hear our King Idomeneo from a few weeks before singing "La donna è mobile". They were never going to top the fireworks from the previous year, I suppose); the preview reading of the beginning of "The Bad One" (we'll come back to that in a bit); and Birmingham Library Theatre Company's "Advice To Iraqi Women", an oddly unnerving performance demonstrating (I reckon) the contradictions in a safety-first health-conscious society that sends it's citizens halfway across the world to die in wars.
(There are probably five squillion things about this across the internets, so I'll just link my mother's account of our weekend).
Netherton Victoriana Day on Saturday the 20th was a bit crap (just not enough there, really), but we did get a chance while we were over there to pop into Ma Pardoes/The Old Swan, which was great.
The Approximately Infinite Universe tour bumped down into The Hare & Hounds in Kings Heath on Tuesday the 23rd: a series of collaborations between Finnish and American musical artistes which varied in quality but made for a good evening overall. Kemialliset Ystävät & Axolotl were on first, doing a sort of Pram-esque dreamscape sort of thing that occasionally threatened (just threatened) at funkiness. There was also some drone of the kind I'm pretty sure we've all heard a thousand times before. Es and Fursaxa did a really enjoyable thing that could be described as something akin to ritualistic psych-folk. 'Dream Triangle' played drone of the kind I'm absolutely sure we've all heard a thousand times before. Islaja, Blevin Blectum and Samara Lubelski seemed like the b(l)est of the lot, albiet by far the most song-based. Islaja really does have a very affecting voice, complemented well by the driving wobbly bass that kept surfacing. We had to leave before they'd finished (what with the time having been what the time was and would later have gone on to have been), but they definitely got my 'ensemble of the night' honours.
Wednesday the 24th saw me (just me. A gig on my own; usually so common, of late so rare) heading to Digbeth's Barfly. Punk-funk types Mirror! Mirror! are a band I always think I probably could like but then actually end up thinking are just OK-ish. Rolo Tomassi, meanwhile, were and are awesometacular. Choppy-changy assortments of guitar and keyboards and screaming and clean vox are made to feel both random and unpredictable and perfectly cohesive and right, all at the same time. They're (yet) another band I've written about too many times to have anything to add now, but they're bloody ace.
(There's a Brum Live review here).
A trip to The Rep Door on Friday the 26th, for Women And Theatre's The Bad One. A look at the dangers of repressing emotion and creativity staged in a fairytale gothic setting, the script didn't exactly shake out a massive number of new or original observations but was very nicely executed. Janice Connolly (better know to me as 'Holy Mary from Phoenix Nights') was wonderful, just about (only just) managing to keep the excess of broad comedy on the right side of annoying by dint of strong performance, while Susie Riddell gave a good turn as Jackie (this was most strongly disputed by one of our party), effectively altering her mannerisms to suit the arc of the plot. Good but not great, I'd call it overall.
(Some others liked it, some others didn't, some others did).
Coldrice! On Saturday the 27th of September, this one was. I'm not quite sure how much I'm meant to say or not: this was the first time I've ever been to one of their semi-secret invite-only gigs, at a location I'm absolutely certain I can't mention (if you're interested in future ones then you can get yourself on the path to attending with the information I've already provided). We absolutely loved it, though – a great atmosphere and some great bands. The Solomons started affairs off and absolutely rocked: a two-piece (guitar/vox and drums) playing a sort of blues-rock (Led Zep writ large at times) with the odd grungey bit. Some fun riffs combined with a really effective sense of dynamics, as well as the singer having an interesting voice (unquestionably American-aping, but interesting. I won't mention the former thing, though, 'cos apparently they don't like it. Nope. Won't mention it at all). Band of the night were fellow locals-playing-American, Black Mekon. I've already mentioned my like for them elsewhere, what with their high energy rock'n'roll and such. It almost feels like I'm damning them with feint praise (since so many bands can be described thusly) but they were genuinely energetic, genuinely rocking and to reasonably authentically rolling. Also: masks. The Jam Messengers (AKA Rob K & Uncle Blucher) were on last, the leastmost band of the night in terms of music (although amazing considering that they were a two-piece consisting of one guy singing and one guy playing guitar, singing the backing vocals and pedalling the hi-hat and the kick-drum) but a massive, massive, massive amount of fun. They could easily have been irritatingly wacky, but your man's peace-and-love-and-sex spreading preacherman vibe was hugely entertaining. Also: they were spitting images of Prince & Dave Gorman.
Stevie Wonder returned to Birmingham for the second time in just over month (his first European tour in lord-knows how long, but his second Birmingham gig within it) and we had the pleasure of being there (after a second visit to "Of All The People In All the World". I will be coming back to that in a subsequent post, I promise. [EDIT: As above, here]). He was more or less exactly as you'd expect Stevie Wonder to be, which is – needless to say – very good. Also: he's still blind. There was a slight touch of too much soloing at times (oh hey lets introduce the band and let them all have a go at it in the usual boring-as-motherfork fashion), some outright bizarre things going on here and there (getting the promoter onstage for an applause at the end), but mostly really good. There were obviously highlights a-plenty, perhaps predictably including "Signed Sealed Delivered", "Superstition", an amazing rendition of "Higher Ground", and why y'know I actually like "I Just Called To Say I Love You".
(Most of the reviews that I can find online relate to his other Birmingham gig a month before, but there is this and this).
My first ever trip to The Glee Club took place on Wednesday the 8th, to see Mark Steel (why do I always get such a strong urge to add an 'E' onto the end of his surname?). For me, this will forever be remembered as the night my beau was described as 'The Most Pedantic Woman In The Midlands' by a famous comedian. Nothing else I could say would even come close to living up to that. Steel-y boy was very funny, anyway; this show discussed how a 40-something goes about squaring up his leftiness with everything else going on in life, and was very clever as well as being hugely and warmly humorous.
(There's a review here).
The lefty-comedian jamboree continued on Tuesday the 14th, with Mark Thomas at Adrian Boult Hall (as part of The Birmingham Book Festival), although this wasn't a stand-up comedy set as such. Still hugely funny, he talked about his new book and read bits out before answering questions. Hilariously, Coca-Cola (y'know, the multi-squillion-billion-unit-of-currency-makers) seem to think that he's "picking on" them. The real world continues to lampoon itself far more effectively than any satire ever could.
It was to Birmingham Symphony Hall on Wednesday the 15th, for another genuine legend in the form of Stephen Stills. I'm only really familiar with odd bits of his 30+ year cannon and so a lot of what he played was far less familiar to me than (it seemed to be) with the vast majority of the audience, but naturally I enjoyed it no less. It was a game of two halves (Oh, Greavsie. Silly Tory), with the first half (acoustic with occasional band accompaniment) sounding fantastic and achieving particular heights during "Treetop Flyer" and "Suite: Judy Blue Eyes". His age did seem to be catching up with his voice at a few points, but literally (and happily) only at a few points. The electric/rockier latter half (after an interval) had long spells of what were little-more than strings of standard pub-rock/blues-rock clichés, but certainly still had its moments. The closing "For What It's Worth" was great, as was the encore of "Love The One You're With" (its quite bizarre lyrics aside). Definite enjoyment.
(Another account here).
The Roots Manuva gig at the ever-sickening Academy 2 was the place to be (or just the place we were, possibly) on Friday the 17th, even though the venue does get my vote for worst gig room going (even worse than the main Academy room). Good lord was it hot in there, even if we did end up moving to another part of the room where it was even hotter and there was even less space halfway through. Sigh. I was surprised to find that Rodney didn't have a band this time (he has both of the previous times of seen him), instead going for the DJ + sidefolks approach. This has to be the leastmost Roots Manuva gig I've yet been too, but he it was still reasonable grooving fun. "Witness (1 Hope)" absolutely tore the place apart, naturally. It always does. His weed-addled between-song speeches about buying "two trainers" (pairs or individual shoes? I suppose we'll never know) were as endearing as ever.
The UFC card at the NIA on Saturday the 18th unquestionably deserves a post of its own. Unquestionably. (EDIT: here we are).
The book festival rolled on, and Carol Ann Duffy graced Adrian Boult Hall on Tuesday the 21st. I love Carol Ann Duffy, writing as she does lines that are often witty, and always extremely clever but never obscure. This evening consisted just of readings, with no chance for audience questions or anything. There seemed to be quite a few poems from "The World's Wife" (I have read that, but years ago), as well as a sequence from Rapture (which I absolutely adore. It didn't include "Give" from that volume, though, my joint-absolute-favourite of hers alongside "Deportation"). I can't say she has a great voice for reading, sadly, but you acclimatise.
An afternoon off work was booked for Thursday the 23rd, to go and see Tony Benn at The Grand in Wolverhampton ('orrible theatre, but never mind). I don't believe in heroes, but if I did then good ol' 'Tone would be one. Bless him, the man is a legend. He's fairly deaf these days (there was something akin to donkey chaos when you combine this with the fact that questions from the audience were coming from both the balcony and the floor but with neither of the theatre-employees carrying the microphone knowing who should go next), but every bit as sharp-witted, passionately humane and committed as ever. An example to us all. I really, really enjoyed this afternoon. His phrase about democracy taking power away from the market place and into the polling station/away from the wallet and into the ballot was brilliant.
Capsule struck again on Friday the 24th, this time at The Hare & Hounds. Bilge Pump opened, sounding not quite as funky as I seem to recall them from the first time I saw them but still pretty good. They were something akin (in broad terms) to Gang Of Four adding funk and stadium rock parts. This is, of course, a likeable thing. Beestung Lips seem to be everyone's favourite band nowadays, and as far as gestalt decisions go I don't think that's a bad one. They're like a high-speed Jesus Lizard drooling the amphetamine back out of their mouths, or maybe a something someone doing something possibly to someone else or something. Half of the fun is deflecting the bodies flying around the dancefloor away from yourself, obviously.
I had to leave halfway through big-time touring American headliners Oxes, but they were OK with their math(s)-post-rock instrumental doodling lark (yes, that's right: mathS). I'd been led to believe beforehand that they're use of boxes was more exciting than as a little platform to get on and off the stage with, but there we are. I approve of having a nice little rug on stage when you play. I approve of this most strongly.
I got quite excited when I heard that Gabrielle was supporting Al Green at The NIA on the 28th, with thoughts of hi-larious "ghost/toast" lyrics to laugh at. It was then pointed out to me that I was getting her confused with Des'Ree. Oh well. Gabrielle turned out to be as bland as you'd expect.
The Reverend Al Green looked a lot more sprightly than I remember him being the last time I saw him, although still every bit as Cosbyesque. I'm getting to know what an Al Green gig consists of by now: highlights as ever included "Let's Get Married", "Let's Stay Together", "Everything's Gonna Be Alright", "Tired Of Being Alone", lots of roses handed out to lucky ladies, a selection of little bits of other peoples' songs he loves, and of course the closing "Love And Happiness" with the horn riffs that work so well live. Familiarity does not breed, contempt, of course (and nor does a lack of "Take Me To The River") – this was magnificent a life-affirmingly joyful. Probably the second best time I've seen him: better than last time, but not as good as that first one at Symphony Hall.
That brings us to the end of October, which seems like a perfectly sensible place to stop being as we're at the end of October. Henceforth I'll try to keep up to date.


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The newest Washington Post/ABC News poll indicates some very clear trends in the immigration debate, and it has good news for all but the anti-immigration hardliners.
For the supporters of comprehensive immigration reform, the poll shows record support for creating a pathway to legal status — either citizenship or residency — for the estimated 11 million people currently living in the United States without proper immigration documents.
For the supporters of border security, the polls shows that Americans want to feel that the U.S. border with Mexico is secure before those living in the U.S. without proper documentation are allowed to remain permanently. They also want to require businesses and individuals to ascertain the legal status of a person before hiring them.
The poll shows broad support for legalization across party lines — from nearly half of all Republicans to three-fourths of Democrats. Almost as many Americans favor citizenship for undocumented immigrants (57 percent) as legal status — either citizenship or permanent residency (63 percent).
The clear message of the polls: Inaction is not a viable political option. It also means there is little political wiggle room for Republicans who want to bar citizenship but allow immigrants to remain indefinitely in the U.S. without the rights of Americans.
But compromise could remain politically complicated.
Take a look at the data and tell us what you think it means…


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A Chicago-area teenager charged with terrorism in what prosecutors call an attempt to bomb a downtown bar has pleaded not guilty to new charges that he tried to have an FBI agent killed.
Adel Daoud looked relaxed as he entered a Chicago federal courtroom for his arraignment Friday. The 19-year-old smiled, waved to his parents and fist-bumped his attorney, asking, "What's up, man?"
Defense attorney Thomas Durkin later told reporters that Daoud's cheerful demeanor raises questions about his psychological state and whether he appreciates the gravity of his situation.
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Durkin says allegations that Daoud tried to arrange the murder of a federal agent who participated in the sting that led to his 2012 arrest are "laughable."
The Associated Press left messages seeking comment from the U.S. attorney's office.


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Today started as a regular day. My son woke up at 5am, at 7am I got a coffee, walked to the subway and after a 40-minute commute I arrived at the office.
But this ain't no regular day.
This is the day Procter & Gamble (P&G), the maker of products such as Head & Shoulders, will have to stop ignoring the voice of the more than 185,000 people from around the world who are demanding it stops sourcing palm oil linked to forest destruction. As we revealed last week in a year-long investigation, P&G must come clean and stop making us a part of their forest destruction scandal.
Just as I opened my computer I found out that P&G, in a very sneaky move, started to delete comments placed by our supporters on the social media pages. Let me make this clear. P&G went from ignoring people's demands to trying to hide them from the world. Busted!
After this poor start, I'm curious to see what they will do about this video we released this morning, highlighting the hypocrisy of a company that claims to support Moms, while making orphans. Orangutan orphans. Check it out here:
But while videos, posts and other social media materials are a great way of communicating our demands to the company, we need to make sure they get to the top decision makers, the big shots, who hold the power to change P&G's policies and guarantee it's supply chain is free from forest destruction,
And that's exactly what a group of activists are doing.
As I write, Greenpeace activists are hanging two banners at P&G's global headquarters in Cincinnati, in the US. One of them went further and is floating from a zipline that connects both buildings. The messages: "Stop putting tiger's survival on the line" and "Head & Shoulders, wipes out dandruff and rainforests".
Now let's see if they can erase that one.
The bottom line of all this is simple. Instead of ignoring the demands from thousands of people and trying to hide the facts, P&G needs to seriously address the issue. It will only do that when it adopts and implements a No Deforestation policy that goes beyond their commitment to buying palm oil that, while certified by the Roundtable on Sustainable Palm Oil (RSPO) as sustainable, is still linked to the destruction of forests, including orangutan and tiger habitat.
If other companies like Nestlé, Unilever, L'Oréal and Ferrero can move beyond the RSPO and commit to No Deforestation, then so can P&G.
Add your voice to the thousands of supporters who've already signed our petition. Let P&G know that you don't want the products you use to be tainted with forest destruction.
Joao Talocchi is a forest campaigner at Greenpeace USA
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Juiliette H. and Brian Fitzgerald, Greenpeace supporters...
Guess this is where civil disobedients powered by Mercedes B...
Juiliette H. and Brian Fitzgerald, Greenpeace supporters...
Guess this is where civil disobedients powered by Mercedes Benz is leading to: a decent man and a decent woman saying enough is enough.
Sign the OSTRICH-Manifesto to tell OBAMA to take good care of Phil Radford.
Sun Wu, godfather of the Rainbow Warrior III
PS: please, just give me a break for a while, ok?
I am tired.
I have to relax and get myself ready for becoming the next CEO of Greenpeace International.
But as hard as I might be trying: being a decent man of moral truth I can't shut up reading about this high profile campaigning...shit, these Germans, unbelievable.
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propaganda... They just sealing their name as Enviroment protector
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Good to see GPI still can't make their own videos and have to use other groups video footage without asking
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Good to see GPI still can't make their own videos and have to use other groups video footage without asking
This video footage was done by International Animal Rescue
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you will find that International Animal Rescue was dutifully credited at 01m45s as well as in the video description.
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Way to go Green Peace! I live in Cincinnati and many of us salute you for a job well done!
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Thanks Lori Wheeler. I too live in Cincinnati. I consider these guys heroes. I am horrified what the prosecution is doing. I would like to help lo...
Thanks Lori Wheeler. I too live in Cincinnati. I consider these guys heroes. I am horrified what the prosecution is doing. I would like to help locally, possibly petitioning the Mayor, City Counsel, Deter (lead prosecutor here) or whoever we can put pressure on to back off. I consider these guy political prisoners. Greenpeace: Please let me know what I can do to help. If you can give me a contact I can email to discuss or even call someone that would be great. I feel very motivated to help these selfless individuals who have to deal with the Cincinnati Police.
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WESTPORT, MA-The University of Massachusetts Dartmouth's equestrian team finished first at their home Saturday, November 13th, which the Corsairs hosted at the Two Rivers Equestrian Center in Westport, MA.
Freshman Emily White (Westport, MA/Westport HS) finished first in the Open Flat class. In the Intermediate Flat class, senior captain Kerin Devine (Hanover, MA/Hanover HS) placed second. Freshman Chelsea O'Brien (North Attleboro, MA/Bishop Feehan HS) placed first in both her Novice Fences and Flat classes, and was named the High Point Rider. In the Walk Trot Canter Advanced class, freshman Hayley Paige (Springfield, MA/Cathedral HS) placed second, and in Beginner Walk Trot Canter, freshman Kathryn Gardner (Concord, MA/Concord-Carlisle HS) came in first.
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Macalester beat Hiram (Ohio) 31-14 in a game played in Elmhurst, Illinois, a neutral site halfway between these two schools. The Scots led 17-7 at halftime on a couple Clark Bledsoe (Jr., Jacksonville, Fla. / Episcopal) touchdown strikes and on the day collected 401 total yards and 24 first downs. The Scots have won three of their past four games and are now 3-3 on the season. Hiram of the North Coast Athletic Conference falls to 1-5.
T. Joe Loiselle (Sr., Chippewa Falls, Wis.) ran for 91 yards and Joe Dykema (So., Roseville, Minn.) wrapped up the win with a 39-yard interception return early in the third quarter. Riley Koval (Jr., Mount Horeb, Wis.) caught eight passes for 83 yards and Bledsoe was 20-for-31 for 239 yards and no interceptions on the day.
Tyler Hill (Jr., Beaver Dam, Wis. / Wayland Academy) led Macalester with 10 tackles and Nate Sands (Sr., Madison, Wis. / East) registered nine. Mac's defense forced a loss of yardage on nine plays and gave up just three third-down conversions.
Macalester scored on its second offensive possessions with a quick 65-yard drive which culminated on a 15-yard Bledsoe to Mike Snavely (Sr., Minneapolis, Minn. / Southwest) TD strike. On the team's next drive, starting when Hiram ran out of downs, the Scots marched 83 yards on 12 plays. The big plays were a 30-yard Koval reception and 16-yard Bledsoe run. Mac capped it off with a Bledsoe pass to Sam Marshall (Jr., Sun Prairie, Wis.) pass from 11-yards away.
After Hiram cut the lead in half at 14-7, Auburn Jimenez (So., East Los Angeles, Calif. / St. John Bosco) booted a 22-yard field goal to put the Scots up by 10 at the break.
Hiram began the second half with a three-and-out and after a Mike Adams (Jr., Chippewa Falls, Wis.) 28-yard punt return, the Scots struck again to remain in charge at 24-7. Adams, who set a school punt return record last year with a 10.7 average, is averaging 10.5 on 14 returns this season. He's also netting 24.7 yards per kickoff return.
Loiselle capped the drive with a 1-yard run for his 22nd career rushing touchdown, tying the school record established by Jake McDonnell (2006-10). He has rushed for 583 yards through the season's first six games.
Dykema ran his third pick of the season back 39 yards early in the third quarter to give Macalester a 31-7 advantage and put the icing on the cake.
Hiram was led by Oliver Dickerho with 15 tackles and Richard Simpson with four catches for 51 yards and a touchdown.
This was the first game ever between these two schools.
The Scots get next weekend off and will return to action Oct. 22 at home against Carleton at 1 p.m.


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Yellow perch are here
Daylight hours have been getting longer, yet most days, temperatures keep us in winter. But the yellow perch know that their springtime is here.
Moving now into the deeper water of the tributaries, they are forming large schools and staging. Yellow perch are the earliest fish to spawn in the Tidewater, and their run is the first trumpet sounding the Bay's piscatorial spring.
Called yellow neds, ring perch or just plain neds, they are one of the most mouth-watering fish that swim our Chesapeake.
Frequently growing to 14 inches or more and sporting a rich olive back and golden yellow flanks, the perch is marked with vertical olive-green bars along its sides. They also sport bright-orange pectoral and pelvic fins this time of year. The meat is white, firm and deliciously sweet.
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The smaller males are already moving up in the tributaries toward the headwaters. There they await the older, larger males and finally the big, gravid females that are ready to spawn. These females, arriving in various sized pods over the next two months, will exude their long egg sacks into the shallow streams where they themselves were born. The waiting males will spew their milt over the eggs, fertilizing them.
The spent females will then head back downriver. But the males hold station until the very last females have arrived and deposited their eggs. Only then will they, too, head back downstream.
At one time in the not-too-distant past, the yellow perch run was a major celebration every year all around the Bay, with whole families gathering to fish. Fried yellow perch and perch roe were a traditional part of the early celebration of springtime.
But years of developmental stress and the greed of commercial netters who intercepted most of the fish before they could spawn virtually eliminated this annual event. Four years ago, Department of Natural Resources finally reined in uncontrolled commercial fishing, allowing the yellow perch a chance to rebuild.
Within just a few years, they have started to rebound. The fishery is once again assuming its place among the Bay's time-honored traditions. Chasing yellow perch, you will find, banishes cabin fever and the cobwebbed doldrums of winter.
If you haven't tried fishing for neds, you owe it to yourself to experience it this February and March. Any medium-action spin rod will do the job. The first fishery — in the Upper Bay around North East — is a particularly rich staging area.
A couple of charter captains there will take out interested parties. Try calling Herb's Tackle Shop in North East (410-287-5490) for an update on how and where they're biting, and perhaps reserve a spot on Captain Mike Benjamin's boat for a morning or afternoon on the Bay. The limit is 10 yellow perch per person; the last year or two it has been an easy task to fill that.
Later in February and into March when the fish journey farther up into the headwaters, shoreline fishing can be just as productive. The better spots on the Western Shore are the upper reaches of the South River, the Severn, the Magothy and the Patuxent. Eastern Shore honey holes can be found higher up on the Northeast River, the Chester, the Tuckahoe, the Choptank and the Wye.
Learning no lessons from the apprehension of two commercial boats last week, eight more commercial oyster boats were surprised by Natural Resources Police and caught poaching on the same Tangier Sound Oyster Sanctuary. Five escaped, but three were corralled and charged by NRP officers. The watermen's associations have constantly claimed that illegalities are the acts of a few rotten apples. But this is telling another story.


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"How'd you draw the short end of the stick?" Chris Christie asked me the first time I walked into his office for an interview.
By this point in early 2011, Christie was barely a year into his New Jersey governorship, and I'd been covering him for just six weeks. But I had already witnessed him call some state workers " stupid," argue with a high school student about sending his own kids to private school and falsely claim that cops in Camden, N.J., get their birthdays off as an outrageous union perk. In those six weeks he had appeared on the cover of the New York Times Magazine looking like a bouncer at the Bada Bing, threatened to commit suicide if someone else asked him if he was running for president and used his annual budget address to compare New Jersey under his leadership to the 1980 "miracle on ice" hockey team.
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"Look around," he said. "Much like that band of hard-charging, take-no-prisoners college kids did in Lake Placid 31 years ago, New Jersey is inspiring the nation."
Since then, I've spent the last three years following Christie around the state and across the country, watching him try out strategies for his inevitable 2016 presidential run. CNN's Jake Tapper may have gotten to ride the bus with Christie on his gubernatorial re-election day, but the local reporters who follow Christie around know him better, from his ability to cultivate a conservative agenda without turning off Democrats to his canny use of celebrity endorsers for cross-cultural appeal.
The local reporters get our own unique treatment—revealing, off-the-record, end-of-summer beers at Jersey Shore bars and profanity-infused Christmas party conversations at the governor's mansion. But we also get our own unique abuse: We know what it's like to be put in the "penalty box," as Christie calls it, briefly shut out from the inner circle for writing something Team Christie hates. And we've all been dressed down in State House hallways by Christie's chief spokesman, Michael Drewniak, an expert at channeling his boss's fury.
Christie's press conferences are meaty affairs, providing enough fodder for tweets, blog posts and weekend stories as he lingers long after his press secretary calls out "two more questions!" And his town hall meetings are masterful spectacles in political communication. New Jerseyans literally laugh and cry at these things. It all makes for great copy.
Short end of the stick? Beside the fact that I too often found myself filing stories at rest stops on the New Jersey Turnpike, this was one of the wildest rides in American journalism. Christie likes to tell crowds at press conferences that I must have pissed someone off at the Philadelphia Inquirer to get the Christie beat, but he's lying. He knows he fulfilled his promise from that first day we met: "We're going to do our best to keep you entertained."
October 4, 2011
After weeks of rumor and speculation, Christie announces that he will not run for president. At a standing-room only press conference televised nationally from the Trenton State House, he says he has just one regret about not getting in the race: "The only regret I have is that I've given such great TV exposure to some of the local reporters. I mean, who's gonna have Katz on TV now that I'm out of this race? Nobody is gonna have Katz on TV. He won't be able to get on News 12 for God's sake."
I'm sitting in the back corner of the briefing room. We haven't made eye contact. He has not called on me to answer a question. I have no idea why he is saying my name on TV, and neither do my friends who are now texting me from California.
Regardless, he's right: After Christie's non-announcement I would not get booked on MSNBC or This Week or News 12 New Jersey or any of the shows that had been suddenly, and fleetingly, interested in me, the guy writing a blog called " The Christie Chronicles." But why is he using his biggest moment of media exposure to date to smack-talk the local beat reporter who follows him around?
Christie uses reporters the same way comedians use those in the front rows at stand-up shows. The back-and-forth amuses him, amuses his staff, amuses us (sometimes). We also act as his foil, tossing the alley-oops for the sound bites that land on the gubernatorial YouTube channel. The clips are emailed to every political reporter in America and likely a few county Republican chairs in Iowa. (I can't confirm where the emails actually go; I've repeatedly asked and been denied those records.)
Christie creates his own reality show, playing up the Jersey guy persona he's cultivated for the national stage. State workers are on site at his public appearances to tweet out one-liners and attach hashtags (#StrongerThanTheStorm). They are there to film his comments and immediately cut clips on their laptops, email-blasting the best nuggets while I'm still on my way back to the office to file a story. My biggest competition is not other reporters; it is the man himself. He is his own news outlet.
My biggest competition is not other reporters; it is the man himself. He is his own news outlet.
July 9, 2013
Christie's off-year re-election campaign begins in earnest six months after Superstorm Sandy turbo-boosts his approval ratings from 56 to 77 percent, with Christie taking victory laps around the Jersey Shore with Prince Harry, Matt Lauer, President Obama and other new celebrity friends.
By July, Christie is getting a hero's welcome. And that's when I meet Jon Bon Jovi. I'm in Sayreville, the pool reporter for one of Christie's many visits to towns hit hard by Sandy. It's Bon Jovi's hometown (who knew?), and he's returning to announce $1 million he's giving to a Sandy relief fund, and so of course there Christie is bear-hugging him on a street corner.
Few things in life are crazier than having five feet of Sandy storm water rush through your front door—but for these residents, Bon Jovi and Chris Christie walking down your street comes close.
The locals clearly didn't know Christie was coming. They are rushing to their curbs, looking for hugs and handshakes. "Are you running for president?" they ask.
"Oh, we'll see," Christie says.
Near the end of the walk, with Bon Jovi still chatting with a kid who plays on the same Pop Warner football team that the rocker once suited up for, Christie looks at me. He wants to talk about my Steve Kornacki tweets.
"You reading my tweets?"
The day before, MSNBC host Kornacki, a former New Jersey political reporter, had told Christie's Democratic gubernatorial reelection opponent, state senator Barbara Buono, during a live interview that he didn't think she could win. He later apologized on Twitter. I live-tweeted the whole mis-adventure.
"Governor, she can't even get a break on MSNBC!"
"You gotta earn your breaks, Matthew, you gotta earn your breaks."
Allow me to translate: Democratic fundraiser/world-famous rocker Bon Jovi doesn't just fly in straight from a tour in Europe to meet any old Republican on any old street corner. You gotta earn your breaks, Matthew, you gotta earn your breaks.


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"I could walk downstairs now and buy a Ferrari, but all of my friends are hurting. I don't feel like buying random toys." This wealthy coxcomb, one Michael Hirtenstein, has fallen prey to what Newsweek terms the new phenomenon of "luxury shame," in which rich people feel uncomfortable throwing money around. So now luxury goods makers will have to trick them into shopping!
Says Newsweek's Johnnie L. Roberts:
Unofficially, profligacy became passé on Oct. 6, when disgraced Lehman Brothers CEO Richard Fuld appeared at a congressional hearing after the firm's historic $600-billion bankruptcy. He encountered a blizzard of scorn over his half-billion-dollar compensation and baronial lifestyle: a $21 million Park Avenue penthouse, a $25 million estate in Greenwich, Conn., and an estimated $200 million art collection.
Since then, we've seen Vogue slumming it at Wal-Mart and luxury ad numbers drop.
It seems like even if the uberwealthy are not personally suffering, it's now in poor taste to flaunt what you've got. Call it conspicuous austerity: a newfound sensitivity has made restraint temporarily chic. And not all luxury brands can keep up: according to the New York Times,Time Style and Design, which closed before the economic downturn, now feels anachronistically tone-deaf as the totaled items "would cost more than $51 million, or about 340 times the annual income of its average reader." As one woman told The Guardian, "now, when someone admires my dress, I never say it is by Balenciaga or Bottega Veneta. I tell them it's an old Phillip Lim. This neatly conveys the message that, just like everybody else, I've cut back on shopping and am happy to wear something by a modest label." And according to the article, luxury goods makers are taking different tacks: "highlighting heirloom appeal, ", "cultivating a guilt-free image" by teaming up with charities, or allowing secret splurging with sites like Gilt.com, that send purchases in unmarked brown boxes. Says The Guardian article, "the web offers the perfect opportunity for a new breed of 'stealth shoppers', embarrassed about flaunting their wealth, or what is left of it."
While asceticism is a reality for most of the world right now, it seems unlikely that everyone with riches of this magnitude will be able to maintain such a low profile after the novelty really wears off: empathy has its limits, after all - that or the luxury industry will get wily enough to get around peoples' guilt altogether. The Depression, as we know, saw some of the starkest contrasts the country has ever known, and historically speaking, great poverty has never dampened the relative pleasures of money much. If restraint is in with people who can afford it, well, they can afford to get tired of it in a year, too - which is probably what the $175-billion global luxury market is counting on.
Luxury Shame [Newsweek]
Celebrating Luxury In The Time Of Melancholia [New York Times]
Stealth Shoppers Shun Stores And Splash Out On Luxuries Online [The Guardian]


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