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|05.24.12 at 1:03 pm ET
The last and only time Mickael Pietrus played in a Game 7, he played for the Magic and scored 17 points on 6-of-7 shooting (3-3 3P) in a 101-82 blowout of the Celtics in the Garden to win the 2009 Eastern Conference semifinals. (Our own Paul Flannery reminds us of the similarities between that series and this one.)
Keyon Dooling hasn't played in a Game 7 since 2005, when he scored six points on 3-of-6 shooting coming off the bench for the Heat in an 88-82 loss to the Pistons during the Eastern Conference finals. Greg Stiemsma, Ryan Hollins and even Brandon Bass have never played a Game 7, not that it matters much.
How the Celtics fare in Game 7 of this Eastern Conference semifinals against the 76ers depends on how well the Big Four perform. Pietrus should start for Ray Allen, but Doc Rivers probably puts this game in the hands of Allen, Rajon Rondo, Kevin Ganett and Paul Pierce. And who could blame him? After five seasons, 85 playoff games and 50 postseason victories together, they've gotten him this far.
Between them, Allen, Rondo, Garnett and Pierce have played 12 playoff games with the series up for grabs, including five as a unit since the 2008 NBA title run (Garnett's 2009 knee injury cost him two of those). They're 3-4 as individuals, and 3-2 together — the 2010 NBA finals Game 7 loss to the Lakers freshest in all their minds.
Perhaps how those four have fared in those previous 12 win-or-go-home playoff contests (Garnett, Allen and Pierce each played a Game 5 before the NBA abolished five-game, first-round series in 2003) will offer a glimpse of what to expect in their 13th and perhaps final Game 7 together, on Saturday night against the Sixers in Boston.
|Kevin Garnett on Game 7: 'We've been here before'
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PHILADELPHIA — Kevin Garnett spoke about Philadelphia's fans after a Game 5 win in Boston. On Wednesday, following an 82-75 loss to the Sixers in Game 6, Garnett made another proclamation of sorts for Game 7 Saturday in Boston.
"Win or go home," Garnett said when asked about the team's mindset heading into a do-or-die Game 7 of the Eastern Conference semifinals. "Confidence is very high. We've been here before, very experienced. All out, nothing less."
Indeed, the Celtics have played in five Game 7s in the Big Three era of Garnett, Paul Pierce and Ray Allen. They are 3-2 in those previous five, beating Atlanta and Cleveland on their way to the title in 2008. They beat the Bulls in seven in the first round in 2009 before losing the next round to the Magic in Game 7 at the Garden. With a chance at an 18th banner in 2010, they lost Game 7 of the NBA finals in Los Angeles to the Lakers.
"Game 7s are what they are," coach Doc Rivers said. "It's nice we have it at home, but you have to go get it still. At the end of the day, you have to go play. You can't just rely on that we're at home. I do like that we have an extra day. I think that helps us a little bit."
"It's only a couple of us that have been in Game 7s, so we're not going to go on the history," Rajon Rondo added. "This is a new series, a new group of guys that are going head to head and it's been back and forth the entire series so it's going to be a tough one at home."
Neither team has managed consecutive victories in the series as the Celtics and Sixers have alternated wins in the first six games. If the trend continues, the Celtics will advance to the Eastern Conference finals for the third time in five years.
The Celtics will play the Sixers on Saturday at TD Garden. If the Pacers force a seventh game against the Heat with a Game 6 win Thursday, the Celtics and Sixers tip off at 5 p.m. on Saturday. If Miami advances on Thursday, then the Celtics tip off at 8 p.m. Saturday.
|Celtics could use some close out power against Sixers in Game 6
|05.23.12 at 1:12 pm ET
PHILADELPHIA — If there were ever a team that needed to close out a series, the Celtics are it.
They will almost certainly be without Avery Bradley (left shoulder). Ray Allen is hurting bad but will give it a go. And Greg Stiemsma has two balky feet.
The Celtics lead the Sixers, 3-2, in the best-of-seven series and need just one more win to advance to the Eastern Conference finals for the third time in five years. The previous two times (2008, '10) have ended with Celtics reaching the NBA finals.
But it won't be easy if history is any indication. In the "Big 3" era of Paul Pierce, Kevin Garnett and Allen, they are just 2-10 in potential closeout games on the road. They won the Eastern Conference finals in Detroit in Game 6 in 2008. They swept away the Knicks in the first round last year. So, well before Garnett's comments about the Philly fans, tonight was going to be a monstrous task.
On the injury front, Bradley said at Wednesday morning's team shootaround that he has felt little improvement in his ailing left shoulder and he will almost surely miss his second straight game of the series as Boston attempts to close out Philadelphia in Game 6 here at Wells Fargo Center.
"Right now, I'm not playing," Bradley said, as he received treatment from strength trainer Bryan Doo. "I'm definitely frustrated but all I can do is keep getting stronger and keep improving for my team. I'm just trying to get it better. It's been the same. I just have to keep trying to get is stronger everyday. I just want to make sure I'm 100 percent for my time. I'm just taking it day-by-day right now."
"He's a little better, not much," coach Doc Rivers added. "I don't think he'll play. He won't do anything in shootaround for sure, and then do what we did the other night. We'll let him warm up and see if he can warm up and then go from there."
Bradley had the shoulder pop out early in the third quarter of Game 4 last Friday night and missed Game 5 with the injury. Allen started in his place in Game 5 and will start again for Bradley in Game 6 should Bradley — as expected — miss Game 6. There is some uncertainty regarding Allen and his ailing right ankle.
"It is what it is," Rivers said of Allen. "He's a go right now. Obviously, if he can't go, we'll have to go somewhere else."
Stiemsma also reaggravated his foot injury in the second half of the Game 5 win Monday. He was at shootaround Wednesday and is expected to be available off the bench.
"He's good," Rivers said. "The foot was aggravated again [Monday]. He says he feels much better today. He'll definitely play. He's the definite of the three guys."
Appearing on Dennis & Callahan on Wednesday morning, Bulls coach Tom Thibodeau said the Celtics are in good position to record another finals appearance thanks to an intensity that is helping defensive pressure. He also said health, confidence, intensity, Doc Rivers and Rajon Rondo have been contributing to Boston's success.
"Right at the start of the game you could see the intensity in the Celtics and I thought they were so aggressive and I think that's part of their understanding of how important that game was," said Thibodeau, a former Celtics assistant. "And you know the one thing, the one thing that they've done well, they've gotten into the Sixers pretty well. The Sixers, during the course of the season, rarely turned the ball over and [the Celtics have] been able to force turnovers against them and they've also kept their own turnovers now, which I think is a huge plus for them.
"I think the intensity of the defense dictates a lot. And if you can get some easy baskets off your defense than that can allow you to go on a quick run."
Thibodeau also said confidence has been a large factor in Boston's success this postseason.
"You have two teams that are extremely well-balanced, basically slugging it out, and I think the Celtics right now are playing with a lot of confidence," he said.
Confidence and intensity may be two of the biggest assets the Celtics have at the moment, but Thibodeau added staying healthy is the biggest key.
"Well, the Celtics have everything that you need," Thibodeau said. "The biggest thing is going to be health, and you guys already hit on that. How healthy can they be? That goes for everybody, and things can change quickly."
|Paul Pierce, Celtics have reason to be very desperate and bring 'hard hats' in Game 6
|05.22.12 at 12:47 pm ET
In his days in Boston, Paul Pierce has always stormed off the court, pumping his fist, waving a towel or firing headbands into the crowd following an emotional and significant win like the one the Celtics pulled out of their hats Monday night against the Sixers.
But in the final moments of Boston's 101-85 win over Philadelphia that put them one game away from the Eastern Conference finals, there was a different look on Pierce's face – one of business not yet finished.
There was obviously something else that was likely running through his mind: "If only we didn't blow Game 4."
If the Celtics had held on to their 18-point lead in the third quarter last Friday in Philly, they would have at least the next two days completely off to rest their weary bodies. But instead, they have to finish business on Wednesday at the Wells Fargo Center at the corner of Broad and Pattison in South Philadelphia.
'We know how tough the playoffs are, there's nothing easy about the playoffs," Pierce said afterward. "We know there's a long journey to get to where we need to go. We understand how difficult it is, nothing's easy."
And it certainly won't be easy on Wednesday. Yes, the Celtics are the smarter, more disciplined team. They've even shown to be the tougher team under pressure, like Monday night. But the Sixers – with all due respect to Kevin Garnett – represent something inherent in all Philadelphians – they're street fighters. That's exactly what Pierce is expecting when he steps onto the court Wednesday.
"You've got a very resilient Philadelphia group who just won't go away," Pierce said. "I take my hat off to them, they are one of the better teams we even played in the last few years because of their fight, and they got great coaches and their players are mentally tough. We know they're not going to go away so we've got to have our hard hats on for the next game, Game 6, to try to put 'em away."
|Paul Pierce: Second-half meltdown 'was really on us'
|05.19.12 at 1:35 am ET
PHILADELPHIA — There will be those who say the Celtics were taken out of their rhythm by the foul trouble that hit the Celtics late in the third quarter of Friday's 92-83 loss to the Sixers in Game 4 of the Eastern Conference semifinal series.
Not Paul Pierce. He's been around long enough to know what really caused the Celtics to blow an 18-point third-quarter lead and fall back into a 2-2 tie in the series.
"Once they picked up their intensity, I didn't think we really played with a sense of urgency in the third or fourth quarter," Pierce said. "That's a chance where you have a team on its back, you're up 15 and you really take their confidence. We didn't do that. You give a team some life, they went on a run and it just carried over all the way through the third and fourth quarter. That was really on us."
Pierce wasn't blaming the offense, which managed just 37 points in the second half.
"I really don't blame it on offense," Pierce said. "You look up defensively, you give up 28 and 30 points in the third and fourth quarters. Regardless if we score 15 or 20 points [in a quarter], our defense should be able to win the game. Our defense just didn't come through. We didn't rebound the ball, didn't defend at a high level in the second half and allowed them to get in the game. We gave away too many free throws, easy opportunities, gave up the three, and then turned the ball over."
"Of course, we have to expect that. Your back's against the wall, you have to expect that. You're down on your home court. You have to really expect them to come out and play their best. I said coming into the game, 'expect their best.' Obviously, it wasn't their best first half. They came out in the second half and used the energy of the crowd and we just didn't respond. Even though it was a tight game down the stretch, we had our opportunities but we gave up two late threes to [Andre Iguodala] to seal it."
Rajon Rondo, Brandon Bass and Avery Bradley all picked up their fourth fouls late in the third quarter but Pierce didn't even mention that as a possible reason for falling apart.
"That's part of the game," Pierce said. "You have other guys to come in and step it up. You have to really put the knockout punch to a team and we just didn't do that."
|Fast Break: Celtics collapse in second half, 76ers even series
|05.18.12 at 10:53 pm ET
The Celtics scored the first 14 points of Game 4 and had a 15-point lead at halftime, but they failed to keep that momentum in the second half, as the 76ers came back to win, 92-83, evening up the series at two games apiece. For the 76ers, Andre Iguodala scored 16 points. Paul Pierce had 24 points (8-of-13 shooting) and Rajon Rondo had 15 points to go along with 15 assists. The Celtics look to regain control of the series Game 5 on Monday night back at the Garden.
Benched: Doc Rivers looked to his bench to hold the fort after the Celtics built a 22-8 lead midway through the first quarter. Things quickly went awry — Philly went on a 10-2 run to pull within six, 24-18. Rondo stopped the bleeding with an old-fashioned three-point play, and the Celtics closed the half on a 22-13 run, taking a 15-point lead into halftime. While the lead was re-established, Rivers would have preferred not to have had the starters expend more energy.
Foul play: The 76ers should have been in contention all night with the lopsided free throw advantage they had. In the first half, Boston took five free throws to Philly's 21, but the Sixers only hit 13 of those attempts. In the second, half Rivers was forced to go back to his bench after three starters — Brandon Bass, Avery Bradley and Rondo — had four fouls midway through the third quarter. Philly finished with a season-high 34 free throw attempts.
Board to death: The refs certainly didn't help Boston's cause, and the validity of the free throw differential is up for debate, but the C's should have been more focused on the glass. Neither team had been dominant rebounding the ball until Friday night, when the Sixers had 12 offensive boards through the third quarter. This was critical because the Celtics held Philly to just 32.8 percent shooting but the 76ers were able to have multiple chances at the basket because of their rebounding advantage. Philly finished with 17 offensive rebounds. Meanwhile, the Celtics only had five.
Half the battle: As great as the Celtics were in the first half, they failed to score a field goal in the first seven minutes of the second half. To their credit, the Sixers battled and clawed their way back from an 18-point deficit to tie the game in the opening stages of the fourth quarter. From that point on, the game would be a back-and-forth battle. These scoring droughts from the C's are nothing new but are still staggering to watch, especially after they displayed incredible efficiency in the first quarter.
Of course, it wasn't just the offense. The aforementioned rebounding and free throw disparities hurt Boston. Additionally, the Sixers finally flexed their youth, outscoring the Celtics 27-13 in fast break points. Finally, the C's committed 17 turnovers (including seven from Kevin Garnett alone).
Going for the kill: What was more impressive: The C's scoring the game's first 14 points, or the fact they only allowed Philly eight shot attempts (the Sixers only hit one) to their 16 shot attempts through five minutes of action? It has been difficult to differentiate between good defense versus bad offense during the lockout-shortened season, but this was a case of the former. The Celtics were relentless in their defensive approach, specifically Rondo and Bradley. Offensively, Boston started the game shooting 7-of-8 from the field. It was clear, the Celtics wanted no part of coming back to Philly for a Game 6.
The maestro: The C's early dominance was largely because of Rondo's performance. For the second straight game, Rondo played in complete control, dominating all facets of the contest. He had four assists in the first four minutes, took wise risks defensively, and controlled the pacing. He finished the first half scoring nine points (4-of-6 shooting) to go along with nine assists.
Gone fishin': Bass had a great regular season for the C's — first as a reserve off the bench, then as a starter — but he has had an uneven playoffs. In Game 3, Bass showed signs of coming to life, scoring 10 points on 5-of-10 shooting. That confidence carried over into Game 4. In the first half, the 27 year-old scored 13 points, only one point shy of his previous playoff high, knocking down five of the seven shots he took. Bass only had one basket in the second half, however, and finished with 15 points.
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Invaders Must Die
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I'd like to offer my apologies to the Prodigy. In this line of work, it's easy to lose your faith. Aging bands tend to adopt a downward trajectory after touching or glimpsing the limelight. The rest of their careers tend to be defined by that singular moment, either as a reaction against it or a desperate attempt to recapture it.
This seems particularly so with electronic(a) groups, who are forced to fluctuate between identity and zeitgeist politics, sacrificing either their integrity or continuity depending on which avenue they decide to traverse. Usually, what we the listeners wind up with at the end of this game is some kind of muddled compromise, one that attempts to please every one, but often awes no one. Concurrently, the tunesmiths and producers get older while working out their angle in a scene that rewards only eternal youth.
The Prodigy sounded like they were running out of steam on Always Outnumbered, Never Outgunned, their last proper album in 2004. Stripped to a solo project like the also-lackluster-and-waning Massive Attack, the Liam-Howlett-only Prodigy was slower than ever, though they did retain pummeling volumes of noise that situated them somewhere between more finely tuned versions of electroclash and the Electric Ladyland compilations (both scenes being far to inchoate for the Prodigy). The host of guests suggested a lack of ideas by the groups ideas man and a desperation for relevance on the part of the Prodigy brand.
By that point, the group had become relevancy addicts. From their influence on the short-lived Toytown techno/ candy-raver regressive epidemic through their central impact as an oppositional force to the criminalization of British parties to the controversies surrounding their breakthrough "Firestarter" and "Smack My Bitch Up" singles from their Göring-quoting Fat of the Land album, the Prodigy had built a solid audience not only by killer tunes, but also a barrage of publicity.
It is only now that the band have been freed from relevancy, to the point where no one really expected them to even put out another album, that they are free to put out the big dumb awesome rave album that we've all been waiting for since the 15-year-old Music For the Jilted Generation. Sure, Invaders Must Die contains a pack of interchangeable, vaguely rebellious lyrics aimed at no particular target ("Now the writing's on the wall/ It won't go away/ It's an omen", "This kind of thunder breaks walls and windowpanes", "Are you ready for the war? …Bring your colours to the floor"), but the band sound more exciting than they have in a great while now that they are independent of scenes and movements.
At the same time, it's the perfect merger of the band's commercial sensibilities and their expert nostalgic a posteriori headfuckery. All the grinding square-waves distorted to resemble metal guitars ("Run With the Wolves") and squealing high-pitched video game synths ("Colours") dance together so harmoniously that you may just delude yourself into believing the band's capricious back catalogue was a straight arrow in perfect keeping with the futurism of the hardcore continuum.
Making a welcome return is the manic energy of the Prodigy's first two albums (masterpieces both)—that unbridled e-rush of the heat and the energy that once inspired utopian visions that now seem almost tragic in their present remove. Prodigy's rearview mirror romanticism is hardly starry-eyed though and this fact is probably what saves the album from sounding desperate (though the album's best song is undeniably the nitrous-doused breakbeat barnburner "Warriors Dance"). They're still far too concerned with fucking shit up in the now to yearn for better days. In the world of Invaders Must Die, there's no recession, just some fantastic and concise escapes.
The album paces itself at breakneck speed for its 46 minutes, a duration which relays as both generous and brief. Lead-off track, first single, and album-titler "Invaders Must Die" (the name itself another ambiguous rebel yell) commences with some wobbly bass and a tumbleweed showdown riff before launching into the album's ultimate declarative statement: "We are the prodigy." The key word here is "we", as the band has once again expanded to include Keith Flint and Maxim Reality. Flint and Maxim share vocal duties on most tracks with Howlett at the helms, getting assistance on a few tracks by James Rushent, who is surprisingly competent here considering that his other band is the abysmal Does It Offend You, Yeah? Flint and Maxim mostly help to get fists back pumping in the air for the stadium set, which is not to diminish the extent to which they succeed. For all Flint's contrived posturing during The Fat of the Land days, the band sounds more punk on tracks like "Piranha" and "Colours" than Flint's old haircut ever could have suggested. As mentioned before, the words themselves are mostly superfluous, but that doesn't mean that it's not fun to mouth along to them.
And if that's not your thing, the massive load of earthquaking bass, confrontational guitar stabs, requisite reggae samples, unstoppable drums, and, yes, pitch-perfect old skool synth lines should probably do the trick.
Dave Grohl also shows up to pound on a few tunes ("Run With the Wolves", "Stand Up"), but the real thrilling beat science belongs to Howlett who is back in fine form. In a weird hall-of-mirrors case of art imitating art that was itself imitating art, the video for "Omen" included on the bonus DVD shows a little girl playing the song's xylophone line overcome by facial dysmorphia and screaming at an older gentleman a la the video for Aphex Twin's "Come to Daddy", itself a supposed reaction to "Firestarter". Howlett employs some Aphexy skills himself in the disjointed fills and acutely tweaked percussion on the album.
The rest of the DVD is mostly fills the gaps for a completist's narrative. The video for "Invaders Must Die", which graffitis the Prodigy's bug emblem all over the landscape, is oddly out of pace with the song. The rest of the videos, all comprised of live footage, are better at keeping up, but are feature editing that's busy enough to upset stomachs (there's also a disclaimer about inducing epileptic fits).
The final track, "Stand Up", is the album's only real left turn and it's probably the most disappointing. Filching the massive riff off of Manfred Mann Chapter Three's "One Way Glass", the song aims for that late 1990's aesthetic of anthem-by-force, whereas the rest of the album is effortlessly anthemic by its uncontrollable need to be. It's not a bad song, but amidst all the retro-isms it finds The Prodigy vying for Fatboy Slim's seat, for which they were never really competitors.
Overall though, I think I owe my sincerest apologies to the Prodigal Sons. We laughed, we danced, we fucked shit up. It was almost like they never left.
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In this action western, bandits under the command of El Chuncho manage to steal a cache of arms from a train so that they can profit by selling the stolen weapons to a band of revolutionaries. When one of the passengers named Bill Tate assists them during the robbery, he is allowed to join their gang. But El Chuncho and his men are unaware that Tate has a secret identity. He is actually a hired assassin working for the government of Mexico.
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The Surprisingly Depressing Experience of Going Viral
By Ethan Renoe
January 7, 2016
MTV called my 5-mile run "the jog seen 'round the world." By the time I got back, the video had already been viewed over 24,000 times. My friends and I went to sushi and watched on our phones as the count rose by the tens of thousands.
Before long, my phone was buzzing with interview requests, Facebook marriage proposals and thousands of social media followers.
It soon felt like little burglars were running through the halls of my cyber house, scouring the web for all they could find about this new viral sensation. Every picture on my Facebook was ripped and reposted on dozens of websites; every tweet I had posted weighed on some subjective scale of judgement.
The pressure to measure up is tremendous.
It is at once jarring and flattering to have thousands of people commenting on my videos and photos, almost all of whom have never met me. To watch people speculate about my sexual orientation, grooming habits, religious views, preferences in women, and every other possible topic. I almost wanted to reply to every comment, correcting their mistakes and assumptions and thanking them for the compliments.
Then the rumors came out, declaring my friends and I bigoted homophobes for operating an outreach ministry in a gay neighborhood. (We actually worked all over Chicagoland and one neighborhood happened to be Boystown.) This kindling fueled the fires of hundreds of angry responses, heaping hate on me—who they had never met—all thanks to some spotty journalism.
Since the night my run was captured on the news and distributed around the Internet, I have been hit on by the reporter from TIME magazine, named "The Sexiest Man on Earth" by CBS, and featured on many other major news sources. Nervous admirers and sheepish husbands ("It's for my wife") approach me for pictures. I have been invited to lead a Bible study that Justin Bieber and the Kardashians sometimes attend. I was offered my own TV show and nominated for The Bachelor.
From an outside perspective, it would certainly seem like I was on top of the world. And it certainly was fun for a while.
But while I became Internet famous, but what I did not become was known.
Humans have this innate desire for fame and recognition. We crave an endless amount of fawning and attention, and in this digital age, where "likes" are the measure of our worth, this is exponentially more true.
Receiving a sudden flood of attention reminded me that our desire for these things is misplaced, though. The masses were in love with me, but I still felt empty. It turned out that Ecclesiastes 1:8 was right; the eye never has its fill of seeing, nor the ear its fill of hearing, nor the Twitter its fill of retweets.
Donald Fairbairn once wrote that the most "insidious effect" of America's celebrity culture is its "constant, subliminal message that we are not really important." If celebrities are the gods of the modern age, what does that make the rest of us "normal" people? We take selfies with the famous to attach ourselves to something of significance—someone who will let us feel like we have meaning.
Perhaps what we really crave, more than praise from ten thousand mouths, is intimacy—truly being known.
No amount of media attention or Instagram followers will ever fill this void within us to be known and appreciated.
Yes, millions of people in the world now know my name, but they don't know me. They don't know what makes me laugh. We don't have inside jokes, or a history of crazy stories together. They've never held me when I cried, and they certainly don't know if I'm worth marrying.
No amount of media attention or Instagram followers will ever fill this void within us to be known and appreciated. The Bible tells us about the incredible nearness of God to His people. He knows us better than we know ourselves.
In fact, the Bible says the relationship of God to His people is like that of a husband to a wife. No amount of Insta-fame could compare to this sort of intimate knowledge. Our hearts pine to be known in ways that can't be displayed in an interview or a social media profile.
Rather than attaching ourselves to celebrities, we should attach ourselves to the One who truly is significant, who truly is glorious, and who knows us with a kind of intimacy that frees us from our soul's desire for fame.
Unsurprisingly, Tim Keller puts it best:
We want someone of ultimate glory loving us. Not just love in general. What we need is this ultimate assurance of who we are, ultimate assurance of our worth. We need someone like that loving us like that. We need someone we think the world of thinking the world of us. We need the praise of the praiseworthy.
When we lock eyes with the one who created the very idea of "attention," the obsessions of our own hearts are unbent from years of crooked crowd-seeking. "We love because he first loved us." When we know what this means, we can focus on the people around us, rather than the distant A-listers.
Even when the attention from "going viral" recedes, I know I can focus on the Lord, who knows every one of us better than our best friends.
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Amazing article! We always watch contents go viral from the spectator side. Here the author gives an inside view at "the other side". Also, the biblical message accompanying this unusual perspective is rock solid.
I've never gone viral but that's so true...
The pressure is, I imagine, indeed crazy - you can do this and stay strong and be an example... so many eyes are on you right now! Being a man of integrity at a wildly popular moment in life like this will be an amazing test but one you can come through.
Philippians4:13! You'll have a testimony that will bring God honor and glory ❤
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beautifully written. It is about being known and knowing others intimately. That is true connection. Never forget that
"done 4 consecutive one-armed pull-ups. He has not fallen in love but he did fall in the pool twice" hahaha amazing. Laughed out loud..
Thank you for this article. I have a friend who won a popular dance competition, and it seems that her private life is no longer her own. It's interesting. Humankind is so fascinating. I certainly have actors, singers, etc., that I look up to in terms of their talent and artistry. I also admire one's ability to be very real in the midst of such a tempting platform to be so fake. Thank you for the work you do for the Lord, and for using this platform with wisdom. Following on FB for more writing :)
This is a very funny story: My life as a celebrity after running shirtless in the rain. This would be a great kickoff for a memoir or even a novel. Go ahead and minister to Justin Bieber if you get the chance: Here is a celebrity who really seems unable to handle the spotlight! Maybe give him a few tips?
This article was so timely for me at this time in my life. It was such a blessing. Thanks for writing it and sharing your heart.
Thanks for this Ethan! Great wisdom on your experience!


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BRIGHTON, Mass. – With the NHL trade deadline a mere one day away, the Bruins will keep two veterans, who could be shipped elsewhere, out of their lineup tonight against the Arizona Coyotes at TD Garden.
Matt Beleskey and John-Michael Liles will both be scratches as the B's try to make it seven wins in eight tries under interim coach Bruce Cassidy. Tuukka Rask will get the call between the pipes against the Western Conference foe. The Liles scratch means that Colin Miller draws back in after being the healthy scratch in the Sunday matinee victory in Dallas.
The lines and pairings will look the same as they've been most of the time over the past seven mostly successful games. The Bruins will be focused on setting the tone rather than worrying about what the new-look Coyotes are going to do.
"The road trip is behind us and Arizona is in front of us, and that's about as simple as we can make it," said Cassidy. "They're one of the teams that is on our schedule. I'm not being disrespectful at all in any way, shape or form, but our focus is on the Boston Bruins and getting our game in shape to play. Then we'll make the minor adjustments we have to make."
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Spooner, coming to life with Bruins, feels Julien 'just didn't really trust me'
BRIGHTON -- The Bruins' third line has been reborn under interim coach Bruce Cassidy, and the players are now openly admitting they desperately needed a change.
Claude Julien never trusted Frank Vatrano, Ryan Spooner and Jimmy Hayes enough defensively to play them together, but this line has blossomed under Cassidy: Six goals, 15 points and a plus-11 in seven games. They've survived in the defensive zone by rarely playing there. Instead, they push the pace, make plays to keep the puck out of the D-zone and, most importantly, keep producing the secondary offense that wasn't there in the first 55 games of the season.
No one has been freed from the shackles more than Spooner, who is back playing his natural center position after being forced to play left wing under Julien. The 25-year-old said Tuesday that getting a clean slate with a new coach has been extremely beneficial to him, and that perhaps he didn't always love playing for the guy now minding the bench in Montreal.
"I felt like the last coach ... he just didn't really trust me," said Spooner, who has two goals and six points along with a plus-1 rating in seven games post-Julien. "It might've been kind of on me not really playing to the potential that I have, but at the same time . . . I just don't think that he really liked me as a player. It's kind of in the past now. It's just a part of the game. It's up to me to just go out there and just play, and not have that stuff in the back of my mind.
"I just kind of have to go out there and believe in myself and I think at times I wasn't really going out there and doing that. Maybe that's something to learn. This sport has ups and downs, and I've had my downs. You learn that you can just sort of push through it. If you do that then things can be good."
Spooner has 10 goals and 33 points along with a minus-3 this season, and could potentially surpass last year's numbers (13-36-49) in his second full season.
Most felt that the speedy, skilled Spooner would be one of the big beneficiaries of the move from Julien to Cassidy, and now he's showing that with a new lease on life in Boston.


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Flasks and Flagons Pastels and Profiles, Vistas and Landscapes by Francis Saltus
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