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Error code:   DatasetGenerationError
Exception:    ArrowInvalid
Message:      JSON parse error: Missing a closing quotation mark in string. in row 128
Traceback:    Traceback (most recent call last):
                File "/src/services/worker/.venv/lib/python3.9/site-packages/datasets/packaged_modules/json/json.py", line 153, in _generate_tables
                  df = pd.read_json(f, dtype_backend="pyarrow")
                File "/src/services/worker/.venv/lib/python3.9/site-packages/pandas/io/json/_json.py", line 815, in read_json
                  return json_reader.read()
                File "/src/services/worker/.venv/lib/python3.9/site-packages/pandas/io/json/_json.py", line 1025, in read
                  obj = self._get_object_parser(self.data)
                File "/src/services/worker/.venv/lib/python3.9/site-packages/pandas/io/json/_json.py", line 1051, in _get_object_parser
                  obj = FrameParser(json, **kwargs).parse()
                File "/src/services/worker/.venv/lib/python3.9/site-packages/pandas/io/json/_json.py", line 1187, in parse
                  self._parse()
                File "/src/services/worker/.venv/lib/python3.9/site-packages/pandas/io/json/_json.py", line 1403, in _parse
                  ujson_loads(json, precise_float=self.precise_float), dtype=None
              ValueError: Trailing data
              
              During handling of the above exception, another exception occurred:
              
              Traceback (most recent call last):
                File "/src/services/worker/.venv/lib/python3.9/site-packages/datasets/builder.py", line 1997, in _prepare_split_single
                  for _, table in generator:
                File "/src/services/worker/.venv/lib/python3.9/site-packages/datasets/packaged_modules/json/json.py", line 156, in _generate_tables
                  raise e
                File "/src/services/worker/.venv/lib/python3.9/site-packages/datasets/packaged_modules/json/json.py", line 130, in _generate_tables
                  pa_table = paj.read_json(
                File "pyarrow/_json.pyx", line 308, in pyarrow._json.read_json
                File "pyarrow/error.pxi", line 154, in pyarrow.lib.pyarrow_internal_check_status
                File "pyarrow/error.pxi", line 91, in pyarrow.lib.check_status
              pyarrow.lib.ArrowInvalid: JSON parse error: Missing a closing quotation mark in string. in row 128
              
              The above exception was the direct cause of the following exception:
              
              Traceback (most recent call last):
                File "/src/services/worker/src/worker/job_runners/config/parquet_and_info.py", line 1529, in compute_config_parquet_and_info_response
                  parquet_operations = convert_to_parquet(builder)
                File "/src/services/worker/src/worker/job_runners/config/parquet_and_info.py", line 1154, in convert_to_parquet
                  builder.download_and_prepare(
                File "/src/services/worker/.venv/lib/python3.9/site-packages/datasets/builder.py", line 1029, in download_and_prepare
                  self._download_and_prepare(
                File "/src/services/worker/.venv/lib/python3.9/site-packages/datasets/builder.py", line 1124, in _download_and_prepare
                  self._prepare_split(split_generator, **prepare_split_kwargs)
                File "/src/services/worker/.venv/lib/python3.9/site-packages/datasets/builder.py", line 1884, in _prepare_split
                  for job_id, done, content in self._prepare_split_single(
                File "/src/services/worker/.venv/lib/python3.9/site-packages/datasets/builder.py", line 2040, in _prepare_split_single
                  raise DatasetGenerationError("An error occurred while generating the dataset") from e
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__label__cc	0.702969	0.297031	Final Workshop You are here: Home / News / ATOM at Aerodays 2011 - 30 March to 1 April - Madrid Aeronautics and Air Transport Research 7th Framework Programme 2007-2013 Download the Project Synopses for the area Aeronautics and Air Transport Research ( Volume 1, Calls 2007 & 2008 - PDF 4.45 MB ) ATOM at Aerodays 2011 - 30 March to 1 April - Madrid Innovative System for Airport Security At Aerodays 2011, the "Sixth European Aeronautic Days", which took place in Madrid from 30 March to 1 April 2011, Roberta Cardinali, from SESM scarl - a FinMeccanica company, being the coordinator of the ATOM Project, presented its objectives and expected results, as well as the ATOM Consortium. She highlighted how the ATOM system is expected to increase the security level in the airport area, without interfering with normal operations, indirectly contributing also to the security of the flights. The presentation, which was made during the session "Optimising the Airport of the Future", inside the track "Ensuring Customer Satisfaction and Safety", aroused keen interest. Send this to an ATOM list ATOM at Aerodays 2011 - 30 March to 1 April - Madrid Apr 19, 2011 Meeting in Vigo, 19-20 January 2011 Jan 24, 2011 Vice-President Siim Kallas addresses the European Parliament on the use of body scanning technology in airport security Feb 22, 2010	cc/2023-06/en_middle_0053.json.gz/line6
__label__cc	0.553471	0.446529	Waiting for Baby With Baby With Child Coffee Talks Given the current situation of the pandemic, the Prenatal and Young Families Centre does not offer face-to-face conferences. We invite you to follow our Facebook and Instagram page to learn about the different virtual conferences available to you! Training Offered In order to give you access to a wide range of knowledge on subjects that affect pregnancy and early childhood, we rent our premises to various organizations that offer a range of relevant training. Mother for Life Discover a thousand tips and resources for the family, from pregnancy to baby's first teeth, throughout the growth of your child. In addition, you will find a section for fathers in the Daddy for Life section. Child Encyclopedia The Early Childhood Development Encyclopedia is an easy-to-use reference tool on early childhood development. The site is translated into 4 languages! Naître et Grandir offers a reliable source of information validated by health professionals. The site supports parents in the development of their child and accompanies future parents. Inspq From Tiny Tot to Toddler is a practical guide that contains scientifically supported information about pregnancy, delivery and the first two years of a child’s life. Be prepared for the arrival of a child and learn about government services. Midwifery service and birthing centre Find out everything you need to know about midwifery, including philosophy, training and legal framework as well as the birthing centre. The Prenatal and Young Families Centre in Vaudreuil-Soulanges is a welcoming and caring environment that accompanies and equips people who wish to be parents, parents and children by offering a diversity of resources, services and activities in order to grow better together. It adapts and intensifies its service offer for families living in a vulnerable context by offering free individual support and group activities planned according to their needs. Privacy Policy \| Legal mentions \| GTC Centre Prénatal et Jeunes Familles – All rights reserved 2022 – Design By SecrelTum	cc/2023-06/en_middle_0053.json.gz/line18
__label__cc	0.746802	0.253198	Thoughts from 242/ Heather/ Leave a Comment/ 306295 Some people like to take space between their relationships, but I’ve always preferred to impale myself head-on. After someone’s dumped me, I try to take at least seven days and dedicate myself to such self-improvement exercises as: “cyberstalking,” “maxing out my debit card,” and “going on yahoo message boards to see if my ex has borderline personality disorder.” The answer is always yes, but I’m never satisfied. Never fulfilled. A week in, I log onto my old dating website, put up my best photo-shopped selfies, and immediately go on a date with whatever street lunatic disguised as a human messages me. Several years ago, that was Jess, a self-identified “actress from New York” who liked “introspection” and “cheese fries.” There were a couple of red flags when it came to Jess, namely that she was HELLO AN ACTRESS FROM NEW YORK, but she did like complex carbohydrates. As someone with an active interest in both Lunchables and self-destruction, well. It was love at self-description. Jess asked me to meet her outside her rehearsal space, then together we’d go to a bar to grab fries and a beer. It was unclear to me why I had to meet her outside her theater and not just at the bar, but I figured she was just trying to impress me. “How cute,” I thought, though in later years I would use adjectives like: “narcissistic,” “immature,” and “outright delusional.” I was anxious yet persistent, so I showed up fifteen minutes early to the date, covered in deodorant and body lotion, ready for wherever the night might take me. Marriage? Perhaps unsurprisingly, Jess showed up twenty minutes late to the date, claiming that her director had kept her late to help her work on her “breathing.” It seemed like kind of a lame excuse to me (sorry, yoga folks, but breathing – not a skill), but she did seem apologetic, and she did have boobs. I figured she might be nervous, so I asked her a lot of questions. Where was she from? What made her want to become an actress? Did she have any shows coming up? Jess was more than happy to answer, both during the walk over to the bar, at the bar, and during the remainder of our four-hour date. In fact, Jess seemed to have a very original interpretation of the dating process! In her world, one person (myself) asked all the questions and the other person (herself) got to answer them. What a treat! A magical equation! Over the course of the night, not only did I get to hear about Jess’ home life (she came from a boring middle-class suburb – poor baby!), I became privy to the darkest recesses of New York theater – did I know that Hillary Swank once stole a part destined to be hers? (I didn’t!) That she had once written a series of one-act plays about her vagina? (Oh wow!) That at the end of every month she had to go home and eat CAN after CAN of cat food because her food stamps had run out? (That was weird) Halfway through the date, I realized that Jess was not only uninterested in my deodorant, she was uninterested in me. It wasn’t, I’d like to think, because of any inherent flaw on my part. In Jess’ world, and in the world of so many people I’ve dated, I wasn’t quite real. I was a sounding board for their fantasies about identity, a projection screen for their delusions about themselves. I couldn’t be a date because I wasn’t quite a person. And to be fair, most of the time, they were just boobs. To her credit, Jess did eventually realize she had monopolized the conversation, and made a last-minute attempt to engage me. “Wow, I feel like I’ve been talking a lot,” she said, thirty minutes into her discussion of her hypoglycemia (Interestingly, Jess’ small intestine didn’t stop her from EATING ALL OF MY FRIES ASSHOLE) “Sorry,” she said, genuinely searching for a question, “Do YOU have any digestive problems?” That was it. 3 beers, 3,000 fries, and 200 minutes in – that was the sole question Jess had asked of me in the entire duration of our date. Beer I would pay for, time I could never get back, and fries that would fly out of my asshole like fountain streams. But it wasn’t all a waste. For as much I had been dumped, I now learned that there were people like Jess who – hurrah hurrah! – were way more dumpable. “I do have digestive problems,” I told her, “which is why I need to take these fries . . . to go.” A sloppy exit, but an exit nonetheless. Jess packed up all of her things and I grabbed all the to-go containers. She might have been eating cat food, but I was the one to hear about it. I deserved this. Outside, theater-goers waited by side entrance doors, hoping for photographs, while anxious moms flagged down nearby taxi cabs. All of us cold and annoyed but confident we’d make contact, soon.взять срочный займ на карту без отказавзять кредит онлайн Antiossidanti capaci di restituire benessere o un pasto abbondante Acquisto di Viagra generico senza ricetta al miglior prezzo con alcol. Di vitale importanza in questo momento, nominato quando ci sono difficoltà con il raggiungimento di un’erezione. Incluse quelle a proposito del dosaggio o l’effetto del Vardenafil liquido si vede subito dopo la presa della medicina. dating funny LGBTQ online dating true story ← Previous Online Dating 101: Research Says You’re Making 3 Big Mistakes Next → 5 Tips to Fit Dating into Your Busy Schedule Written by Heather Heather Dockray is a writer and comedian living in Brooklyn, NY. She's a contributing film critic and features writer for the entertainment website FilmDrunk, and performs at storytelling shows throughout NYC. Feel free to check out her website or email her at dockrayheather@gmail.com if you're not from MoveOn.org. View all articles by Heather Website: http://www.heatherdockray.com	cc/2023-06/en_middle_0053.json.gz/line27
__label__wiki	0.591399	0.591399	Ukraine’s Starlight Creative Expands Into North America By Paige Albiniak \| 08.25.2022 Categories: International Marketing and creative studio Starlight Creative, is expanding its creative marketing, design and digital content services into North America, including an upcoming project for CNN Docufilms. The Kyiv, Ukraine-based company is led by CEO Olena Martynova, Executive Creative Director Oleksii Riepik and Producer of Client Service Mykola Kononuchenko and draws on more than 15 years of experience in marketing for entertainment and brand clients. “We believe that stories can make the world a better place – that they do change history and people’s lives,” said Martynova in a statement. “It’s why we help every one of our clients tell their stories with the kind of passion and proficiency that we bring to each project.” With a remote team of 200, including creative directors, designers, video editors and digital specialists, Starlight Creative is known for producing 360-degree campaigns and content for Ukrainian and international clients. On the entertainment marketing front, the studio has produced opening titles, show packages, campaigns and large-scale events for Ukrainian hits such as Love in Chains, School and Early Birds, as well as global imports such as X-Factor, The Voice, Dancing with the Stars, The Bachelor and Ukraine’s Got Talent. The company recently won a Promax Global silver award for its rebrand of CTV Network. It’s now looking to collaborate with more US-based entertainment brands. “While they are clever and eye-catching, many of our projects are united by themes of sincerity and frankness,” said ECD Riepik, also in a statement. “Our creative work aims to embrace true desires, emotions, and even universal fears like injustice or loneliness. We feel that being unafraid to inject these feelings into the creative marketing for our projects leads to exceptional results, regardless of where in the world we are speaking.” Starlight Creative also has created Media Memorial Day, an ongoing project dedicated to journalists that have been killed in the ongoing war in Ukraine. Through this project, a portion of the company’s revenue will support charity projects in Ukraine, as well as the families of journalists who have been killed or injured in the war. “We are at the heart of the world’s history right now,” said Martynova, “and our hearts are waiting to make new stories for our clients.” Starlight Creative is exclusively represented in North America by Aspire Artists Agency. [Images courtesy of Starlight Creative. From left to right in content image: Olena Martynova, Oleksii Riepik, Mykola Kononuchenko, Alex Ignatyev, Vitaly Sak] Tags: starlight creative ukraine Up Next In International International BlinkInk Adds Isabel Garrett, Samuel Mason to Roster Directors sign with London-based animation studio. International Time Warps in Metaphrenie’s World Cup Spot Spot is airing locally in Qatar as well as on YouTube and other social platforms. International Jonny, Paddy Davis to Lead Experiential at Allied Global Marketing Current Senior Vice Presidents Matthew Glass and Jennifer Granozio to retire. Promax Unveils 2022 Latin America Awards Finalists UP NEXT: Promax Unveils 2022 Latin America Awards Finalists	cc/2023-06/en_middle_0053.json.gz/line30
__label__wiki	0.549845	0.549845	Tobacco is killing us and our planet Smoking kills. But on World No Tobacco Day 2022 (May 31) North East campaigners are warning that tobacco and tobacco companies are killing the planet and harming the beaches and environment in the region. Figures show cigarette butts make up the vast majority of litter items (66%) in real numbers, with most ending up in landfill sites as toxic non-biodegradable waste. Around 2.9 million cigarettes are consumed every day in the North East, resulting in around 158 tonnes of waste annually including 66 tonnes discarded as street litter. A researcher from Fuse at Durham University has detailed the harm of tobacco on the global and regional environment. Fuse associate Andrew Russell, Professor of Medical Anthropology and Degree Director for the Global and Planetary Health MSc at Durham University, said: "Tobacco is the source of the bulk of street litter in the North East of England, and the plastics and other toxins in cigarette butts can leach out into the water supply, harming fish and other aquatic species. "It also causes deforestation, both for its industrial-scale cultivation and to provide wood for the curing process. "Tobacco is a hungry crop – it absorbs heavy metals such as lead, cadmium and mercury from the soil along with the nutrients it needs to grow. "That’s before you consider the chemical fertilisers and pesticides that are administered to the growing of plants, often days before they are harvested. "These all contribute to the 7,000 chemicals that are found both in cigarettes and the tobacco that goes into roll your own pouches." World No Tobacco Day is a national campaign by the World Health Organisation and the theme of 2022 is to raise awareness how tobacco is Poisoning our Planet. Tobacco kills over 8 million people every year but also destroys our environment through tobacco growing and production, distribution and waste, with: 600 million trees chopped down for tobacco equating to 200,000 hectares of land 84 million tonnes of CO2 released into the air raising global temperatures 22 billion tonnes of water used to make cigarettes 4.5 trillion cigarette butts not disposed of properly every year across the globe, generating 1.69 billion pounds of toxic waste and releasing thousands of chemicals into the environment Watch ‘Tobacco is killing us and the planet’ North East reps from Surfers Against Sewage have also joined calls for more to be done to protect the region’s beaches from plastic cigarette butts, as a recent YouGov survey commissioned by ASH found 81% of North East adults agreed that cigarette butts that contain plastic should be banned to protect the environment. Ailsa Rutter OBE, Director of Fresh and Balance said: "Most people know smoking kills - but too rarely do we ever stop think about how tobacco is polluting our world globally and here in the North East where we have a fantastic coastline. "Cigarette filters are made up of thousands of tiny plastic particles. One single filter puts plastic into the marine environment, while cigarette filters also contain a cocktail of harmful chemical ingredients including arsenic, lead and nicotine that pollute our soil, waterways and seas, harming wildlife. "It is one more reason to quit smoking and to make tobacco companies pay for the pollution they cause." She added: "Tobacco companies make billions of pounds around the world in profits and focus production in the developing world, causing deforestation and using vital land which could be used to grow food and creating sickness and illness among workers. Tobacco companies are increasingly trying to 'greenwash' their reputation and products by marketing themselves as environmentally friendly and we should not believe a word of it. "We are calling now on the Government to carry through its promise for a Smokefree 2030. Fewer people smoking will not only reduce the impact on our communities and healthcare but also on our environment and the burden of litter on local authorities."	cc/2023-06/en_middle_0053.json.gz/line38
__label__cc	0.738594	0.261406	Romance Shotgun Groom (Hired Husbands Book 1) Shotgun Groom (Hired Husbands Book 1) Olivia Montgomery is on the run for her life. Her stepfather, having control of her fortune, has plans to do away with her before her twenty first birthday so that he can have it all. Olivia, having no plans on being his next victim, flees in the night from her mansion in New York. She heads out west, where they say a man can get lost for years, without ever being missed. She is hoping to hide long enough to avenge her mother's death.Mac Kincaid... By Rebecca De Medeiros Publisher: Chrayden Publishing; 1 edition (October 8, 2013) ASIN: B00FV2L2DQ Awesome book. This author is amazing. She has taken a genre (western romance) that is primarily faith based and broadened to include those of us that like a bit of spice in our books. But, she has not strayed so far from the norm to alienate those This tale is filled with horrific suffering, endured by both whales and shipmen alike. Perfect for story-tellers and note takers. PDF ePub Text djvu book Shotgun Groom (Hired Husbands Book 1) Pdf Epub. With the help of fifty volunteers, ranging in age from 23 to 81, Joanne regressed each to the past life that was having the most impact on them now. One of those novels that you hate to put down until you finish it. I loved the story of the man who wanted to serve his country in the Air Force, but realized he could serve better by taking over production of the factory at home. March 1616: William Shakespeare is dying, with his lawyer at his bedside. They include such diverse figures as Napoleon Bonaparte, commanders on both sides of the Civil War (William Tecumseh Sherman and Stonewall Jackson), German and American World War II generals (Rommel and Patton), a veteran of the Arab-Israeli wars (Moshe Dayan), and leaders from both sides of the Vietnam War (Vo Nguyen Giap and Harold Moore). We are taken to the Vikram Sarabhai Space Centre to get a first-hand update on the Indian space program and aspirations. While I liked this story a lot, the heat factor was forced. I simply could not put it down. I hope they do even more because I would get them all. Reginald Davis is inspiring and necessary reading for all who aspire to be true followers of Christ. I think only a technical person could benefit from it. This book is an excellent choice. Excerpt from Annual Reports of the Selectmen and Treasurer of the Town of Salisbury: Together With Reports of the Road Agents and Other Officers of the Town for the Year Ending January 31, 1939; Also Vital Statistics for the Year Ending Dec. Chrayden Publishing; 1 edition (October 8, 2013) epub October 8, 2013 pdf Rebecca De Medeiros pdf Rebecca De Medeiros books Romance pdf books Read Apollyon the destroyer is unleashed left behind no 5 ebook orgashidel.wordpress.com Here Slave country american expansion and the origins of the deep south pdf link Ford TW 20 Tractor Parts Manual ePub djvu Adventure Time Marceline And The Scream Queens #1 (Filled Randomly With 1 Of 2 Covers) PDF Text Intramolecular Charge Transfer in Cinnamic Acid Derivatives: Fluorescence Studies in Complex Bio-mim PDF Text Watcher: The Shining Ones (Volume 1) PDF Text The Seven Deadly Sins Of Christian Fundraising PDF La Regenta. Nivel Superior (1600-2000 Palabras) / The Regent's Wife. Clasicos Adaptados (Spanish Edition) pdf epub Never Girls #11: Into The Waves (Disney: The Never Girls) pdf Infiltration Of Patrols By Means Of Ram-Air Parachutes pdf Catalogue Of An Exhibition Of Colonial Portraits: New York, November 6 To December 31, 1911 (1911) pdf epub University Of Oxford: A New History ebook Hidden Treasures (Chesapeake Antiques Mysteries) PDF The Vultures, The Woman Of Paris, The Merry-Go-Round; Three Plays PDF The Crucible Of Tradition: A Sea Of Heroes And Traitors (Not Self But Country) (Volume 2) ebook Allis Chalmers Tractor Parts Manual (Ac-P-5020,5030) pdf epub Teaching Holocaust Literature and Film (Teaching the New English) PDF Text Gathering together work by leading teachers and researchers in the field, this book explores a rapid... A Life Like Nun Other ePub djvu In the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Spirit Amen. Now slip on your habit and w... Legislation for the Protection of Birds Other Than Game Birds PDF Text The Traveling Soul: A Road to Self Discovery PDF Text Hit # 1 on the Amazon Best Seller's List in both the USA and Brazil. Find out why!The Traveling Soul... Earthman Jack vs. The Ghost Planet (Earthman Jack Space Saga Book 1) ePub TXT fb2 Harry Potter Meets Star Wars?Jack Finnegan only has to worry about dealing with school bullies, suff... Vampire Spirit: A Jerusa Phoenix Supernatural Thriller (The Perpetual Creatures Saga Book 1) ePub TXT fb2 She already sees the dead. But a vampire ritual gone wrong makes her a powerful, bloodthirsty target...	cc/2023-06/en_middle_0053.json.gz/line44
__label__cc	0.567649	0.432351	Lectio Poetica Lectio Poetica: Poetry as Contemplative Practice Reflections (Blog) The Poets On Terrorism "It is difficult to get the news from poems, yet men [and women] die miserably every day for lack of what is found there." -- William Carlos Williams Note: I wrote this reflection one week after the terrorist attacks in Paris. With subsequent attacks in San Bernardino and elsewhere, terrorism could easily come to dominate our consciousness. At times like these, we may be better off getting the news from poets than from the media. With all the slaughter, suffering, and sorrow surrounding us these days, it’s hard even to notice—much less accept, or, God forbid, enjoy—what’s right with the world. So much is so wrong. How dare we smile, even for a moment, when so many are dying. Or living in terror. Or poverty or hunger or pain. Somewhere in the world. Right now. How dare we indulge ourselves, with Paris [and now San Bernardino] in the news. With ISIS on the loose. Pulitzer Prize-winning poet Mary Oliver captures this sentiment precisely in “This Day, and Probably Tomorrow Also” (Red Bird, 2008): “I begin another page, another poem . . . What an elite life! / While somewhere someone is kissing a face that is crying. / While somewhere women are walking out, at two in the morning—many miles to find water. / While somewhere a bomb is getting ready to explode.” A child is about to step on a buried mine, somewhere in the world. A grenade launcher is about to fire its lethal load. How dare we write poetry. Or read poetry. What, then, ought we to do? Fixate on what’s wrong? Freeze our faces in fear? Amplify our anger? Hang our heavy heads in seeming solidarity with those who suffer sadness and loss? Disavow all that’s right and good and beautiful? Really? Poet Jack Gilbert says No. In his surprising and somewhat disturbing poem, “A Brief for the Defense” (Refusing Heaven, 2005), through gritted teeth, Gilbert says: We must risk delight. Despite everything. “Sorrow everywhere. Slaughter everywhere. If babies / are not starving someplace, they are starving / somewhere else. With flies in their nostrils.” Yes, he says, I know. The world is filled with violence and horror. The most appalling destruction of innocent lives. We see it every night on the news. But. But-- “But we enjoy our lives because that’s what God wants.” Seriously? Yes. Despite everything, we still enjoy whatever there is to enjoy. Why? Because, apparently, we’re built that way. Now I don’t know if Gilbert means God literally. Or if he’s simply making the point that Something Larger, better, and more compelling, ultimately, than sorrow, slaughter and starvation—Nature, Life itself, the World—always offers us an alternative to marinating our minds in misery. It, whatever you want to call it, presents us every morning with simple, natural beauty, among other things. If we but open our eyes. “Otherwise the mornings before summer dawn would not / be made so fine. The Bengal tiger would not / be fashioned so miraculously well . . .” Okay, but what about those women out searching for water? What about the sick and dying, lying on pallets? What about human trafficking, for God’s sake? “. . . The poor women / at the fountain are laughing together between / the suffering they have known and the awfulness / in their future, smiling and laughing while somebody / in the village is very sick. There is laughter / every day in the terrible streets of Calcutta, / and the women laugh in the cages of Bombay.” What is Gilbert getting at here? A universal truth, I suspect, one that we can easily forget in the shadow of so much pain and terror. Humans bond with one another, encourage and support one another, find small exceptions, moments of levity and, yes, laughter even in the most desperate times and places. We celebrate what’s right, together. And when we do, we are no longer alone. It is our nature as social beings, indeed, the most social creatures on earth, well, besides the ants and bees. Together, we can rediscover delight. We can retain a sense of humor. No, it may not alter the apparent hopelessness of our situation. But this is how we are made, like the Bengal tiger. This, too, is something of a miracle. If you don't believe me, listen to Viktor Frankl, about the value of humor—"to see things in a humorous light"—even in a Nazi prison camp: “Humor was another of the soul's weapons in the fight for self-preservation.” "One could find a sense of humor there as well, of course . . . only for a few seconds or minutes," he writes in Man's Search For Meaning. Frankl tells a story about training a friend in Auschwitz to cultivate a sense of humor. Despite everything. They promised to invent, and to tell each other, at least one amusing story every day, often an "amusing dream" about the future, after the war. Once, a group of prisoners being moved by train to another camp erupted in a spontaneous dance of joy when they realized they were not going to a camp with a crematorium like Auschwitz. Upon their arrival, he adds: “We laughed and cracked jokes in spite of, and during, all we had to go through in the next few hours.” What good, then, would it do to those who suffer, somewhere in the world, for those of us who do not suffer as they do to repress our own delight? Is this not exactly what they hope for, long for, strive for, day and night? To find happiness, to enjoy life? Would it not be a sort of insult to them, a slap in the face, for you and I to deprive ourselves of what’s right and good and lovely as if on their behalf? Jack Gilbert implies as much: “If we deny our happiness, resist our satisfaction, / we lessen the importance of their deprivation.” If you and I can actually have what they have been deprived of—happiness and simple satisfaction—if we resist and deny these fundamental human drives, even when they lie within our grasp, how does this make the world a better place? Does this not make the world just a little bit darker and less hopeful? Is this compassion? Some would say yes. Gilbert shakes his head, an emphatic no. “We must risk delight. We can do without pleasure, / but not delight. Not enjoyment. We must have / the stubbornness to accept our gladness in the ruthless / furnace of this world. To make injustice the only / measure of our attention is to praise the Devil.” The poet is defending gladness and delight. Insisting on it, in fact. Hence the poem, as the title implies, is a sort of legal brief in defense of enjoyment, in the courtroom of public opinion. We must not give in to despair and depression, he says. We can live without mere “pleasure,” or empty hedonism. But we require moments of genuine joy or happiness, however tiny and short-lived, simply to stay alive, to survive, and, eventually, to thrive. That’s why we must have the stubbornness, the guts, the intestinal fortitude, if you will, not just to resist evil, but to accept, to embrace, to open wide our hearts and minds to our own gladness—not because others are not suffering, but because they are. Yes, the world is a ruthless place, a furnace, at times a crematorium. It would be so easy, too easy in fact, to give up, to make what’s wrong with the world the sole focus of our attention. Like the evening news. As if there were nothing right in which to delight—no love, no light, no laughter anywhere on earth. To do that, says Gilbert, is to surrender to the terrorists and the murderers, to give them exactly what they want, to “praise the Devil” or pure human evil. If I refuse to smile when there is something legitimate to smile about, just because ISIS attacks Paris (or Beirut, or Syria, or Iraq, or anywhere else), have they not already won? The poem goes on, in the face of all this madness and mayhem: “We must admit there will be music despite everything.” We must admit. We must, if we are to retain our sanity. There will be music. Despite everything. There will be music. Okay, let’s take a deep breath. And consider. Where, exactly, will we find this music? And how will we hear it? The poet suddenly switches gears. He offers a small, seemingly insignificant example, from his own experience. When I first read this, I had to stop and stare at it for a long time. I had to close my eyes. I had to listen. Then I got it. “We stand at the prow again of a small ship / anchored late at night in the tiny port / looking over to the sleeping island: the waterfront / is three shuttered cafés and one naked light burning. / To hear the faint sound of oars in the silence as a rowboat / comes slowly out and then goes back is truly worth / all the years of sorrow that are to come.” To hear that simple sound, in that particular place, is worth all the years of sorrow that are to come. Could this be the music? After publishing an acclaimed book of poetry, nominated for the Pulitzer Prize, Jack Gilbert disappeared from the American literary scene for some twenty years, living anonymously on a Greek island. We are standing with him on the deck of his little ship one night, rocking gently in the safety of a cove, the moon behind a cloud, when a small, delightful sound breaks the silence—oars dipping in the wine dark sea. Moving serenely. Nothing but the muffled splash and drip of water. The quiet creaking of a rowboat. All is right with the world. For this brief moment in time, at least, all is well. A smile spreads across our face, like ripples across the still surface of the Aegean. We are at peace. It is, after all, these little things that make life worth living. Is this what Gilbert is saying, after all the death and devastation? What's right with the world is found, ultimately, in the little things? The small ephemeral delights? Perhaps we are standing here, holding someone’s hand. Perhaps we know, at last, what love is. What life is all about. What matters most, despite all that may be happening elsewhere in the world. This moment, then—like so many other small delights that we could easily overlook, if we were paying attention only to what’s wrong—becomes a memory, one which, throughout the years of sorrow yet to come, we can reclaim, remember, and relive. When we need it most. In her beloved poem “Wild Geese” (Dream Work, 1986), Mary Oliver says: “Tell me about despair, yours, and I will tell you mine.” But she doesn’t stop there. “Meanwhile,” she adds, “the world goes on.” “Meanwhile the sun and the clear pebbles of the rain / are moving across the landscapes, / over the prairies and the deep trees, / the mountains and the rivers. / Meanwhile the wild geese, high in the clean blue air, / are heading home again. / Whoever you are, no matter how lonely, / the world offers itself to your imagination, / calls to you like the wild geese, harsh and exciting— / over and over announcing your place / in the family of things.” Yes, there will always be despair. In the ruthless furnace of this world. Meanwhile, there will also be delight. Elsewhere, in the very same world. Whether we surrender to the one or to the other will always be our choice. Delight or despair. I was delighted, for example, to see thousands of Parisians and visitors flooding the streets the very next day—despite the danger—to place flowers and light candles for those who died, to come together in compassion. I was moved to see millions worldwide pouring out prayers and support. I was even more touched, however, to learn how one young man fleeing the terrorist attack had stopped—at the risk of losing his own life—and saved a pregnant woman hanging by her fingertips from a second-story window ledge of the concert hall where people were still being shot. Two lives were spared. One not yet born. Yes, I felt despair at the unfolding tragedy. Of course I did. But I also felt glad about this one seemingly small thing that went right. As Gilbert says, we must stubbornly accept our gladness, no matter now tiny it may appear in the greater scheme of things. Ask the young woman if that act of kindness was small. “The world,” says Mary Oliver, “offers itself to your imagination.” What do you choose to see? One more poem, to close. “Little Poem Written at Five O’Clock in the Morning” by David Budbill (Happy Life, 2011): “All this violence: wars and cruelties— / collective and individual— / carnage of all kinds . . . / Yet and still every day the sun rises, / white clouds roll across the sky, / vegetables get planted and grow, / and late in the afternoon someone / sits quietly with a cup of tea.” —Jay E. Valusek These are the personal reflections of Jay Valusek on the process of Lectio Poetica, on nature, on poetry in general, and on some of words or phrases from poems we have used in our local gatherings.	cc/2023-06/en_middle_0053.json.gz/line54
__label__cc	0.677798	0.322202	Marineff project Context and objectives Links and network The Marineff project is a collaboration between France and the UK with the goal of developing coastal infrastructure to enhance and protect the ecological status of cross-channel coastal waters. Today, coastal infrastructure (such as the seawalls, quays, piers, groynes, and moorings) do not incorporate the enhancement of coastal and transitional water ecosystems. The project aims to produce new ecological enhancement units to improve the ecological status of coastal and transitional watercourses, as well as professionals and stakeholders in the process. Improvements in the ecological status of the coastal infrastructure will be measured at a minimum of 15% compared to the original coastal infrastructure state. The INTERREG VA France (Channel) – England co-funded by the ERDF and 9 French and British partners. Our February 2022 newsletter is out now! Read it here Click here to subscribe to the MARINEFF newsletter To discover the Marineff project → The MARINEFF project was selected under the European cross-border cooperation Programme INTERREG V A France (Channel) – England co-funded by the ERDF. Marineff Brochure The partners, objectives, work packages… you will know everything about the Marineff project ! The partners, project objectives, work packages… you can find out everything about the Marineff project! To consult the brochure, just click here! Feel free to visit our Facebook and Twitter to find the network informations and much more! Best wishes 2023 The MARINEFF project team wishes you all the best for the year 2023. Back to the conference in Brussels on October 19th, 2022 On October 19th, RGI, WindEurope and Offshore Coalition for Energy and Nature (OCEaN) organised a conference in Brussels entitled “Speeding up Nature Positive Offshore Energy Infrastructure Deployment”. The aim of this event was to find solutions to accelerate the deployment of offshore energy infrastructure while restoring Europe’s marine ecosystems. As it fits perfectly into this theme, the MARINEFF project had the opportunity to be presented. Picture credits: Renewables Grid Initiative Review of the last SCM No.10 in Bournemouth On October 13th, 2022, the penultimate SCM of the MARINEFF project took place in Bournemouth. As the project ends in March 2023, this was an opportunity to review the final stages of the project. We have seen great progress and are very proud to see the MARINEFF project achieving its objectives. The last SCM will take place in Portsmouth on March 9th, 2023. > All the news	cc/2023-06/en_middle_0053.json.gz/line62
__label__wiki	0.766202	0.766202	FULL NAME Glenn Close BORN March 19, 1947, Greenwich, Connecticut, USA ASSOCIATION Actress REVIEWED ENTRIES 19 MAX. RATING Character versatility Chameleon-like appearance Classical theatrical actress Emotional range FILMOGRAPHY (ONLY REVIEWED ENTRIES) YEAR TITLE ROLE RATING 1982 The World According to Garp Jenny Fields 1983 The Big Chill Sarah 1985 Jagged Edge Teddy Barnes 1987 Fatal Attraction Alex Forrest 1988 Dangerous Liaisons Marquise de Merteuil 1990 Reversal of Fortune Sunny von Bülow 1993 The House of the Spirits Ferula 1994 The Paper Alicia Clark ½ 1995 Serving in Silence: The Margarethe Cammermeyer Story (TV) Col. Margarethe Cammermeyer ½ 1996 Mary Reilly Mrs. Farraday 1996 101 Dalmatians Cruela De Vil 1996 Mars Attacks! Marsha Dale 1997 Air Force One Kathryn Bennett 2004 The Stepford Wives Claire Wellington 2005 The Chumscrubber Carrie Johnson 2011 Albert Nobbs Albert Nobbs 2016 The Girl with All the Gifts Dr Caroline Caldwell 2017 The Wife Joan Castleman 2020 Hillbilly Elegy Bonnie "Mamaw" Vance Glenn Close was well into her thirties when she became a household name, and are one of few actors in the movie business (in addition to Meryl Streep) who've managed to command good (and leading) roles well into her fifties. American Close was raised basically in Switzerland and in Africa, travelling with her doctor father, and didn't take up acting until the seventies when she shined in various Broadway productions. She didn't make her big screen debut until she landed an important role in George Roy Hill's successful The World According to Garp, but she immediately shot to stardom, receiving an Oscar-nomination for best supporting actress in her first appearance. She followed that up with being nominated in the same category the two subsequent years (with The Big Chill and The Natural), but despite two additional Oscar-nominations (in leading roles), she's yet to win an Oscar in her illustrious career. Glenn Close has throughout her career shown her versatility and ability to chose challenging roles for her self. Perhaps best known for her "bitch roles", such as Alex in Fatal Attraction, Marquise de Merteul in Dangerous Liaisons and the role of Cruela DeVil in 101 Dalmatians, Close also has a more gentle side to her and has done a handful of very expressful emotional roles. The Academy Awards (Oscars) 1983 Nominated for Best Supporting Actress for The World According to Garp 1984 Nominated for Best Supporting Actress for The Big Chill 1985 Nominated for Best Supporting Actress for The Natural 1988 Nominated for Best Actress for Fatal Attraction 1989 Nominated for Best Actress for Dangerous Liaisons 2012 Nominated for Best Actress for Albert Nobbs 2018 Nominated for Best Actress for The Wife "I've often been mistaken for Meryl Streep, although never on Oscar night." Alex Forrest: "Bring the dog, I love animals... I'm a great cook."	cc/2023-06/en_middle_0053.json.gz/line71
__label__wiki	0.716295	0.716295	Extreme heat overtakes D.C. and the city's government opens its cooling centers in response (Petria Follett/FreeImages). Emergency heat warning declared in the District, a hallmark of D.C. summers Verónica Del Valle The District of Columbia’s government declared a heat emergency early Friday as the heat index crept into the 90s. “Residents and visitors should take extra steps to beat the heat by staying in the shade or air-conditioning, drinking plenty of water and visiting a cooling center,” said a statement from the city’s Homeland Security and Emergency Management Agency. (7/10) A Heat Emergency has been issued for the District of Columbia. Heat index of 93 degrees is expected. Visit https://t.co/URE9GBfN7u to find a cooling center near you. Find tips to beat the heat at https://t.co/hjWz8VoxZY. #StayCoolDC pic.twitter.com/TgWojCrYBC — DC Homeland Security & EMA #StayHomeDC (@DC_HSEMA) July 10, 2020 D.C. triggers its Heat Emergency Plan when either the temperature or heat index surpasses 92 degrees, the city’s benchmark for extreme heat. To date, the city has issued 16 heat emergencies this summer. These emergencies are standard procedure during in the city, according to Christopher White, deputy director of the DC Homeland Security and Emergency Management Agency (HSEMA). The city projects that the heat index will reach at least 93 degrees during the current heat emergency. Heat emergencies prompt the District to open its cooling centers, where residents can find air conditioning and water to help ward off heat exhaustion. Shelters, recreation buildings, and schools all over the city transform into spaces for the needy as soon as a heatwave strikes. This year, because of the ongoing pandemic, these cooling centers feel a little different. “It’s definitely not business as usual because the District is in an ongoing public health emergency,” said Lauren Kinard, a spokesperson for the DC Department of Human Services. Some cooling centers remain closed due to the threat of COVID-19, like public libraries. Even still, 19 cooling centers are scattered across the city. HSEMA targets the city’s homeless population specifically through its efforts to prevent heat exhaustion. Those experiencing homelessness are particularly vulnerable to extreme heat. In partnership with the United Planning Organization, or UPO, a group dedicated to serving low-income DC residents, the city also preforms welfare checks for those experiencing extreme heat outside. UPO manages the city’s shelter hotline and is authorized to transport people experiencing homelessness to and from shelters. Longtime exposure to high heat can cause medical complications such as heat exhaustion and stroke. Symptoms include a fast pulse, confusion, nausea, and vomiting. Vulnerable residents are encouraged to call the D.C. shelter or hypothermia hotlines at 202-399-7093 for transportation to a cooling center. Those experiencing more severe symptoms should call 911. Verónica Del Valle is a multimedia journalist, interested in questions of power, equity, and government. She covers Crystal City, Potomac Yard, and Arlandria for The Wash and loves a good crossword puzzle, but usually gives up halfway through. Working and parenting amid coronavirus quarantine "It has opened my life to what is important in life." Berivan Yousify A celebration of Japanese culture postponed by a virus. Now what? The Japan-America Society of Washington, D.C., must address new issues brought on by the coronavirus as it reimagines its postponed Cherry Blossom Festival events, including racism towards Asian-Americans. Miabelle Salzano The Metro kicks off construction for new headquarters Construction on WMATA headquarter’s new Southwest D.C. home is officially underway. The building company Gilbane is carrying out construction, which started mid-November and is currently focused on internal demolition... Maya McKenzie Fire on Church Street NW Leaves Nine Displaced, One Firefighter Injured S Street Dog Park in desperate need of repair Protected: Vandalism across Arlington County is down, but that’s little solace for victims of one targeted complex Controversy: Something Old? Something New? Protected: Spot news case study: CoHi shooting	cc/2023-06/en_middle_0053.json.gz/line73
__label__cc	0.53776	0.46224	Not so instant reaction: The Seahawks are broken November 30th, 2021 \| Written by Rob Staton The same old problems, game after game. Useless on third downs. An opponent dominating time-of-possession and registering 17 (!!!) more first downs than Seattle. The total inability to run the ball (18 yards from the running backs). An offensive line that is bullied week after week. A quarterback who is nowhere close to his best. The frustrating inability to cook up a game-plan that features your best players (in no game, ever, should D.K. Metcalf’s first catch come with 62 seconds left in the game). A passive defense that is soft, doesn’t unsettle opposing quarterbacks anywhere near enough and is too easy to move the ball against. And the pièce de résistance — when a busted coverage in the final seconds presents you with a chance to tie the game, the two-point conversion is basically a long drop-back with very little creativity. Following that, you pull off a modern-day miracle in winning back the football on an onside-kick — only to lose it again because your players aren’t lined up properly. You can only repeat yourself so much before some action has to be taken by this franchise. The entire team is broken and the Head Coach and his staff have absolutely no idea how to fix any of it. The Seahawks are a bad football team. They are going to give the Jets a top-10 pick. The journey to this point has been entirely predictable. Major change is required in the off-season. There’s nothing else to say. Please consider supporting the blog via Patreon (click the tab below)… 83 Responses to “Not so instant reaction: The Seahawks are broken” Andrew M says: Russell Wilson has to go to a new coach, or that coach has to come here. He’s been shite for a year now and we’ve just watched his worst stretch of games. Just a Hawks fan’s opinion here, but Im tired of watching Russ’s game, and hoping the Hawks are able to trade him for a big draft haul for 2022 and 2023, but with every poor game he plays this season his value keeps dropping. Russ is an athletic QB who isn’t athletic anymore. His athleticism has decreased, but his game/style hasn’t compensated for his decline in athleticism. From 2015-2018 I hoped he would change it up and settle down in the pocket and take quick shots in a ball control type offense. In 2019 it was obvious Russ would never develop into that player. I still think he has a few good years left, but he has to be in the right system with a great RB, great D, be strong up the middle of the O line, and a coach willing to let Russ throw deep and take weird sacks. The Hawks can’t offer that siruation to him in the next 2 years, probably not even 3. As a fan, I’m ready for the next show. Might be 20 yrs till we get another franchise QB, but Im ok with that. I have more hope tearing it all down and starting everything fresh than I do rebuilding around a mid 30’s Russ. That’s fine. But don’t you dare spend those next 20 years pissing and moaning if that’s what happens. If you want that, you have to own it. Oh I’ll piss and moan if it goes 20 years. Its what fans do. I’m ready for a new head coach and a GM who will develop this team through the draft. A situation like that is what will drive me back to this site in February, March and April. But with the near bankrupt draft they have for 2022 its hard to want to pay attention to the draft. I hate reading about players we’ll never have a chance to draft. PC and JS have slowly strangled my draft hopes the past 5 yrs, and 2022’s draft situation is nearly dead… Im ready to be hopeful and excited for the draft again. I’m ready for football in late winter and early spring. I’m ready to read your awesome research of the college ranks and be hopeful we might get some of those guys who’ll develop the Hawks into the next SB team. So many head scratching and mind blowing decisions by this club. But adams personifies the biggest. Again another game where he pulls up on a td. Just no effort. Even if you don’t think you stop it, you atleast try to. That is your highly paid “superstar” making big business decisions. This is the accountability you not only allow but reward. Go back and watch those early PC teams. Everyone played to the very last inch or second. Nothing embodies the fact this has gone so wrong quite like the fact the Seahawks are going to end up having spent a top five pick and a pick in the early 20’s plus a third rounder to acquire Jamal Adams. A top QB wouldn’t cost that much more. All that grief for calling out this trade too 🤦‍♂️ Saucetrich says: People blinded by their fandom unwilling to see the truth of a mismanaged roster. You were always on the money about the Jamal trade. At this point, I’m worried the Seahawks aren’t gonna be able to retain DK… I’m at the point where I hope the Seahawks aren’t gonna be able to retain DK, and that he’s part of the housecleaning. Roy Batty says: I don’t see DK wanting to stay. The teams is terrible and will be terrible next year. The only way he accepts a new contract is if a new regime is installed and they pay him $20 million a year. I don’t see a new regime starting off their tenure by blowing that much on a diva and not in the trenches. If I was DK, I’d want out. What is there to look forward to with this team? Even if Russ stays, what then? There were multiple plays last night where Russ didn’t even glance DK’s way. That’s not the treatment a #1 receiver wants from his QB. No one can tell me, Russ is good right now. And it’s not the hand. And it’s not the OL. He has issues. AWFUL reads. What the hell was the 2 point try? Throwing into triple coverage… Everett boxed out his guy, Lockett could’ve been a better option. But no. You throw to Swain into triple coverage. What the hell was that sack? Is he concussed? A 6th round rookie QB knows you throw that away. You’re outside of the pocket. Throw that away when the defender is closing. Or at least try to throw away while you’re pushed, or mid-falling down. Nah. He just fall down. Everyone can say, it’s on the whole team, it’s on the defense, etc etc. No. It’s on the offense. It’s on Waldron and Carroll too. But most of all it’s on Wilson. He didn’t have a single beautiful throw. His throw to Swain? Wide open, every QB should be able to make that. His throw to Lockett? A desperation heave to the direction of Tyler. Nice catch by 16, but it was not a special throw. Otherwise he missed his guys even when they were relatively open, he made bad reads and took bad decisions all game long. The defense got tired by the end. And they suck against the screens (probably coaching issue), and can give up some dumb plays. But they played well in general. ToP is not bad because of the long driver of WFT. It’s because of the 3 and outs by the offense. Does the OL suck? Sure…But plenty of OL sucks around the NFL. WFT had to play some backups too. And Brown, Jackson, Lewis shouldn’t be that bad. Shell is mediocre, but not awful. Yes, Pocic is awful, but this should be a mediocre OL, not awful overall. WRs, TEs should be decent if not good or even great. RBs…yeah, nothing fancy, but Collins is not a really bad RB. Dallas and Homer are backups mostly, but some teams can work with maybe even worse. This team is this bad because of the offense. And to me right now it’s at least 50-50 between coaching and the QB. With a bit better coaching this offense could be mediocre, or with a better playing QB too. I’d trade Russ without a doubt for #5, #7 and 2023 R1 and R3 for example in a heartbeat. He had some issues previously (not being able to use the middle well, having issues with short throws and jump balls, holding the ball too long), but now he is not a good QB. It might be just a hiccup, but a decline also. But even a bad or mediocre QB can do what he did in the last couple of games. And if being bad is a tendency for this team, I’d rather be bad with some additional picks and money than with a high priced QB who plays sh&^t. My offseason plan? Trade Russ, trade DK, fire PC, fire JS, fire KNJ, fire Waldron, trade/cut Wagner, trade Adams Rebuild slow, embrace that this team might suck for 2-3 years at least. Build a monster OL, build a strong run game, build a strong DL in that timeframe. Get some good CBs, get a good defense…and then try to win if you have these all. It might take 2 years or 20. I don’t mind as long as we’re moving forward. But if Carroll stays for next year, I can’t stay If KNJ, Waldron stays I’m going to have a hard time. If Russ stays, I might be OK with that, but I won’t trust this team to deliver His TD to Everett was a brilliant throw. Could not have been better. But the throws, and reads, he missed were mystifying. It might’ve been…my mind probably just erased that between the mind numbing number of questionable decisions. I can live with some, but the sack at the end and throwing into that coverage to Swain for the 2p conversion…those were absolutely horribles Blitzy the Clown says: The sack at the end was meaningless. He threw a first down pass on the next play. Should he have thrown it away? Yeah, but let’s have some perspective. Russ isn’t making good reads because he has NO time to make them. You say “Brown, Jackson, Lewis shouldn’t be that bad” but Lewis didn’t play last night. He was replaced by Kyle Fuller, who was next to Ethan Pocic. I challenge you to find a worse OL that played for any team in week 11. Name another QB who reasonably could be available with the repeatedly demonstrated ability, demonstrated again last night, to put his team in a position to win a game they had no business of winning. I couldn’t care less if you hate Russ. But be accurate in your hate. Elmer says: It all comes back to the OL in my opinion. The OL is bad. How are the RB’s supposed to run without blocking? How is the QB supposed to operate without protection? JS should have to answer pointed questions about bad drafts and the bargain basement approach to bringing in free agents. It’s not the ToP that matters, it’s the number of plays. When you let a WFT with Heinecke run 15 consecutive plays in a row, you’re a bad, horrible, terrible offense. Fudwamper says: Sorry, that throw to Lockett, the drop it right over his shoulder “heave” was vintage Wilson. What was bad was the balls sailing over people and the throw to the right of wide open Everett, his accuracy is just off. That 2 point was a tight window throw which wilson pushed to far to his right. 2 feet to the left and Swain catches it. I think the accuracy issues are hearing ghosts, getting pressured up the middle, and not following through with his throws in traffic related to his finger. He just doesn’t have time and the way Pete plays O, there needs to be a run game and there isn’t one. MattyB says: the kitchen at Seattle is the same as a Carl’s Jr kitchen just churning out the same old non-nutritional shiite – upgrade all round please even if it means replacing your favorite coffee machine Maybe you have a poorly run Carl’s Jr. in your neck of the woods, but a well executed Famous Star or Western Bacon Cheeseburger are two of the finest burgers in their price range and deserve far better than to be compared to this shite football team. Call Me AL says: Now fans are choosing well executed Famous Star or Western Bacon Cheeseburgers over their favorite football team. Truely a new low point in Seahawks football… LOL John Roberts says: WFT 17, WTF 15 Bankhawk says: Too right, Rob! Well said, each and every word of it. 🤦‍♂️ The rest of the season should be about finding out who should be here next year and beyond. To me, that includes Wilson, but more on that in a second. The ‘22 preseason should start now. Let the audition begin. Carrol needs to be gone. He hasn’t delivered on the reincarnation of his vision. Schneider too. He’s gotten too cute too often with “grading for the team” instead of pure BPA. That’s left the team with too many LJ Colliers in the draft. It’s also likely why he’s never delivered on his vision to regular draft QBs. Speaking of QB… This game was a microcosm of everything that Wilson is in isn’t. He’s a big reason why the offense couldn’t stay on the field. He’s the reason they almost tied it. He’s the reason they didn’t tie it. But the most concerning thing for me today was what he wasn’t. On a day when the running game went nowhere and the defense was playing just ok enough (17 points allowed on 70+ defensive snaps), Wilson couldn’t put the team on his shoulders and dominate in a way the best consistently do. For me, the most important question to answer is whether or not Wilson can be the focal point of an offense (the kind of offense he wants) for the rest of the season. I say put it all on his shoulders and see what happens. Can his play transcend scheme and OC? Can he adjust to a league that’s adjusted to him? It’s time to find out. One Bad Mata'afa says: The failed 2-pt attempt: the reason we drafted a 8’4″ tall TE… Kidding, in part. But it’s a good summation of this team’s complete ineptitude. A bunch of parts thrown together…the epitome of making a stew by cleaning out your fridge. Russ looks checked out, your special teams pro-bowler can’t even line up properly on a play that he does repeatedly…I could go on and on but what’s the point I don’t think Russ looks ‘checked out’. I just don’t think he’s right. That finger injury is clearly an issue. He is missing on throws he never misses on. Clayton B Russell Jr says: Rob, Russ looks unemotional, no spirit. I would too knowing that for the last 5 plus years, no one has really done anything to protect him, give him an offense scheme that is difficult for defenses or provide the offense with a defense that can lock down the Opponents WR’s or pressure the QB. Russ is playing as if he wants Pete to be gone or like he is tired of this Run first BS. It is obvious to me that the game has passed Pete by and looking back, I truly wonder if Pete and his coaching philosophy ran all three coordinators out of town. Especially, starting with the Super Bowl loss play call. I don’t know for certain, but Pete obviously has major control of the team. Does that mean, John Schneider has been caving in and drafting/trading what Pete wants done; not what John Schneider thinks should be done. The team has been spiraling backwards even with their winning records. Most of us noticed it over the years, luck was on their sides until they reached the playoffs and then the truth was exposed. As Marshawn likes to say now in the USA (Subway Commercials) to be Fresh, you gotta Refresh. That sums the Seahawks up perfectly. Hopefully, we can refresh by getting rid of the coaching staff but does Russell want anything to do with a rebuild? As that is what we are talking about. The Grey Cloud has been over the Seahawks for a few years and now it’s about to pour. Hopefully, any transition does not take a decade ala (Miami, Raiders, Cleveland, Cincinnati.) Teams constantly rebuilding with 1 good season every 10 years or so. I’d say stoic is more apt. Wilson is one of the most driven people on the planet. It takes a lot of spirit and emotion to sustain his level of dedication. He’s certainly not lacking in that department. As a leader, is Stoic what you are going for to inspire your team, knowing your coach is always looking to run first and the offensive scheme is still predictable? Russ looked pretty pumped when we initially recovered the onside kick… When you are down most of the game, things not going your way, I too would get excited if there was another opportunity and I knew, most of the plays would be passing. Agreed. Russ hasn’t checked out. That’s not in his DNA. Also agree that the finger has to be contributing to some of the inaccuracies. That said, he’s been making some terrible decisions (terrible sacks and eschewing easy throws for low percentage deep shots to name a couple). And it’s been happening for awhile. The team hasn’t been able to score consistently for a year now (last half of last season and most of this one). They live an die by the big play. Thing is, they haven’t been able to hit in the big play with any regularity since about the Vikings game last year. Some of that can be attributed to philosophy and scheme. Some of that is the lack of talent at key positions (line). And yes, some of that is absolutely Wilson. I do think some people maybe over-analyse Wilson though. I could be completely wrong on this but I suspect if we all spent time reviewing where other leading QB’s throw, we might discover a lot of them missing open options too. And this has been a down year for QB’s across the board. None of the top guys have played their best football. You don’t go from 2012-to-early-2020 Wilson and then become bad without there being a reason for it. I think the totally useless running game, an offensive coordinator who isn’t up to snuff, an interfering Head Coach and a crap O-line are all part of the problem. These are not just excuses for Wilson — who deserves blame. But those other things exist. Fair points. And I think you’re spot on. Too many people either refuse to criticize Wilson at all or think he outright stinks. I suspect that reality is somewhere between those two worlds. Wilson is a part of the current woes, but he isn’t “the” problem. Wilson has already proven he can lead a championship caliber team when complimented by a strong running game and a good defense. I think that’s just as true today as it was in 2012-2015. PCJS haven’t delivered the combination of running game and defense since then. Conversely, Wilson hasn’t shown he can shoulder the load for an entire season. Wilson is capable of the short rhythm game. He’s done it. We’ve seen it. But, for some reason, he seems to resist it. I think that’s where Carrol and Wilson couldn’t be more alike. They both have little respect for the “dink and dunk” type of offense. Overall, I think Rodgers has been excellent, if not at his very best. But that’s about it. Russ’s reaction to the recovery of the onside kick did not look like a checked out player to me. Of course, we found a way to screw that one up as well, but that’s just a theme of the season. MikeB says: He does clearly have lingering issues from the injury. I imagine that has created some hesitation. His throws are often way too late. Which only makes it more infuriating when he forces ill advised throws into double or triple coverage when freddy swain is 20’ from any defender or DK has the back quarter of the end zone to himself and is waiving for the ball (clearly within view of the guy he chose throw to). I cant tell if its his mental game being off (along with the finger), or if his blind spots have been thoroughly mapped out by DCs and that defenses can now cheat up on which parts of the field to defend. He’s not checked out. He’s bummed out that he is going to have a losing season on his record. His will to win is so strong, I personally don’t think it’s in his make up to check out. “Checked out” may not be fully accurate, and apparently struck a cord. But anyone could see there wasn’t much emotion or fire last night. Maybe ‘mentally sharp’ is more admissible? He took a big sack near the sideline when all he had to do was flip the ball out of bounds. At this point in his career, that’s a fairly glaring mental blip. I And to be clear, I’m not putting this all at Russ’ feet. This entire team is in disarray. Paul Cook: since you seem to be the #1 Husky fan here, I’ll ask……what do you think of the DeBoer hire? I really like DeBoer and what he brings to the table on the offensive side of the ball. Paired with a solid defensive coordinator, this might be something special. I read and suspected their #1 choice was Matt Campbell, offering him 7 mil a year. I watch all of the Iowa State games and am not that impressed with him. His teams often look poorly coached and I think this years team really underperformed. The D did well to keep them to 17 despite being on the pitch for 41 minutes. They have been improving but what worries me is if say for the last 2 or 3 games the O catches up and the season ends on an upbeat tone. Would that entice Carroll (if he is thinking of leaving) that there is enough meat on the bone to stay? kept the points down, but gave up a 10 min. drive in the 4th, t.o.p. is a huge factor in some of the losses TOP certainly factors. The defense can certainly do better. But I’d wager a more effective way to even out the TOP is to not have your offense go three-and-out on five straight drives. I’d also wager the most important stat is points. They offense ranks 25th in points scored. The defense ranks 6th in opponent points scored. I wouldn’t go too hard on the defense right now. Are we holding the good teams to low scores or just benefitting playing a lot of bad teams? It’s a bit of everything. They’re 4th in red zone defense, 6th in points allowed, 22nd in defensive DVOA, and last in yards allowed. That suggests they’re good at preventing touchdowns but not particularly good at getting off the field. And that matches the eye test. A bend-but-don’t-break defense that’s doing a lot of bending and a bit of breaking. BK Matty says: pardon my ignorance but couldnt they have challenged the horrifically bad and game altering call on that PI at teh end of the first half? Or was it a holding call that isnt reviewable? Either way between that and what is the most preposterous rule in football the refs were a nightmare too, they were just as bad as the Hawks were all around. PI isn’t reviewable any more thanks, that was really one of the worst calls Ive seen in ages and borderline criminal given how long after the play it took for em to call it, really seemed suspicious…. Totally changed game too. Malc from PO says: When Pete’s analysis/takeaway is “we were really close at the end, just need to clean things up”, the circle will be complete. I haven’t seen anything on Pete’s presser, anyone know if there was anything telling from it like last week? seen a small tidbit on pft this morning, once again kind of throwing shade at Wilson, about film doesn’t lie, missed some throws etc., but totally leaving out the fact of the d stinking it up so much Nothing about the running game? sonicreducer says: What is Jamal Adams doing on the 2nd McKissic touchdown?? This is the 2nd time he has refused to lay a shot at goal line and just let the ballcarrier waltz right in the endzone. Pete paid 17 million for that? What happened to “defend every blade of grass”?? He makes me sick. Oh, Earl Thomas, where are you?? lol DT says: Dude is defintiely out there making “business decisions” when it’s not a highlight play hit. Simon McInnes says: Rewatched it and disagree on that one. He had a bad position, so if he lunges at the ball carrier, the most likely outcome was that he knocks Wagner away from being able to tackle McKissic. As it happens, Wagner could not complete the tackle anyway, but we cannot just use hindsight on these things. Sorry, I completely disagree. I watched it again from a few different angles. Jamal had ample opportunity to lay a good hit on McKissic and simply refused to do so. SeaTown says: Speaking of Earl. You know I was really ticked off when he gave Pete the bird after breaking his leg. Looking back, I was wrong. He was right. This arctile accurately sums up the Seahawks problems across the board. The cumulation of years of poor team building, both roster and coaching staff. Its really a travesty that things have degraded to the point that RW can no longer carry this team even against mediocre teams. I believe Russ’s finger is causing him issues and thought he came back to soon. But, this teams trajectory was in plain view long before he injured his finger. What a waste of a franchise quarterback. Ownership needs to step up and make a statement right now by firing Pete Carroll. I think B Wagz needs to face the inevitable and pack on 45lbs so he can play next to mone and woods. He’s one of my all time favorite Seahawks and it’s a little tough to watch him try and keep up. Time to turn the keys over to Brooks. Every other team seems to have a clever little rub (pick) play they run at the goal line, and/or for 2 point conversions. Just drop Wilson back 10 yards (making the throw more difficult) and hope someone comes open? We didn’t even roll him out to threaten the defense with the potential of a run. This team feels like a high school team in the way it is coached. They’ve not run a two-point conversion all season. And that was their go-to play call with the game on the line. Speaks volumes. Isn’t it great to hear people say how “Adams is playing better” now? They are so desperate for the trade to not be a disaster, that him making a couple tackles a game, and being in the right spot to catch a deflected interception, is some great thing. I hated the trade and sign, but he is playing better. Not 17 Mil better but he playing better. I commented in the game thread that Adams will never be worth what we paid (and pay) for him, but I always want him to play well. And aside from McKissic’s 2nd TD, Adams played well last night. It should go down as the worst trade in franchise history. The value of this upcoming 1st just compounds things. It’s feels like we traded three 1st round picks. I remember people saying it wasn’t as big a deal because they would be two low 1st round picks. It was a horrible trade that made 0 sense the day we made it; & that was before knowing the compensation. If they truly wanted him they should have traded for him before the 2020 draft when we knew the value of the 1st #1. Why did we wait if we thought that highly of him? We were fine at Safety; As Rob said it was a total “Panic Trade.” End of the 2nd quarter. Washington has just scored off of the Collins fumble. Seahawks have 1 minute and a timeout in their pocket. Washington’s kicker is visibly injured and the chances of a turnover/punt and long FG try being successful are miniscule. First play – 8 yard pass to Everett. Great start Second play – short incompletion to Everett. OK fine. 3rd and 2 at the 36 yard line w :32 to play. Seahawks call a run to Deejay Dallas. Not only is it completely idiotic to call a short run to Dallas (again!), it does not matter if he converts the first down! You’ve committed yourself to burning the timeout, and now you’re at, what, the 40 yard line with :23 to play and you have one shot, maybe two if you have a perfect sideline play, to get into FG range. So instead of 3 or 4 shots downfield, you trot out your worst first-down play and option, knowing that you’ve completely burned two plays and a timeout. Inexcusable. Pete said Russ told him before the final long drive, ‘we’ve done this before’. Why didn’t either Pete or Russ say that at the end of the half? How big would a FG have been in this close of a game? This playcall drove me crazy. It is just dumb football. Also, why did we only have 1 timeout left when we started the drive? I am just sick of the really stupid game management, year after year. If Jodie Allen is in coma and decides to just let PC/JS run this team into the ground for another year, Shane Waldron can’t come back, right? I mean he’s in way over his head. PC fired Shotty after he oversaw the highest scoring team in Seahawk history. How do you let Waldron survive this disaster? Waldron clearly isn’t up to the job. Wait till Detroit beats the Hawks for their first win. And once that happens, wait until the apologists come out to try and defend it once again. Sneekes says: It’s a perfect storm of QB finger injury, QB poor decision making, inadequate OL, shitty play-calling, virtually no scheming. I’m calling that 1/5 bad luck, 1/5 on Russ and 3/5 on Pete/Waldron. Nice breakdown of offense. Here’s the defensive breakdown: 5/5 Pete JimQ says: The lack of direction & play calling is very much a big part of the problem. I think the Offensive players are starting to question what the heck they are supposed to do & feel limited by coaching decisions. Defensive players are feeling the heavy toll of being on the field so long. I predict another “players only” meeting may be the “final shoe to drop” for PC’s coaching career, and it can’t come quickly enough. PC isn’t dumb, he’ll eventually see it’s time to hit the rocking chair, maybe that happens pretty soon or at the very least, when this season is over. It’s been a good run, but all good things eventually come to an end & it’s time for PC to face reality for the good of the team. General rules question – was it ever explained what the illegal formation on the onside kick recovery was? As far as I could see, they had five players either side of the kicker, so could not think what else applied. It’s about having a player inside the hash mark. Wilson looks broken, and without him this offense in 1992 bad. Scary. Tomas says: Trade anyone, or no one, but don’t trade Russ. He’s playing with a seriously screwed-up finger on his throwing hand, and we’re acting startled and concerned he’s lost his remarkable passing touch? All he needs is a few months rest and a competent HC and OC, who among other things understand that offensive lines are rather important to a team’s success. My comment above made in general, not directed at Mandrake, who makes a fair observation. However, I’m confident Russ is merely temporarily “broken.” My big hope is he escapes further injury this year. OK, the offense is bad. In two words , Pop Warner. No offense meant to the Pop Warner kids. There are clearly several causes, but which of these do you all thing is the most harmful single cause? a. the OL can’t run block b. the OL can’t pass protect c. they have no quality RB’s. If you are getting neck vertebrae fused, you probably should quit football d. the QB can’t function because the OL can’t protect him e. the QB can’t function because there is something wrong with him f. the in-game play calling is bad g. the offensive scheme is bad, too simple, too elementary, too easily defended against What an indictment of Carroll and Waldron: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=rBeJXKDtyEY STTBM says: Despite the ridiculous lineup penalty on Nick Bellies, our Special Teams has been great. Izzo should be retained by Seattle, if possible, but I still feel the entire group excepting him, from GM and Head Coach to the quality control guys need replaced. Russ needs a coach who will challenge him to make throws into tight windows, to use the entire field rather than just throw sideline crossers and seam routes, and to throw timing patterns. Under Carrol and Carl Tater Smith, Russ has become afraid to make so many throws every qb in the NFL makes. They ignore the middle of the field, especially the End Zone. You cannot do that in today’s NFL, and there is no reason to with a QB of Wilson’s caliber. Trading Wilson is asinine. Not one damn good coach would prefer three first rounders right now over inheriting Wilson. Russ needs a great coach, an coach, and Offensive System. He needs coached up, not replaced.	cc/2023-06/en_middle_0053.json.gz/line76
__label__wiki	0.675613	0.675613	The Smiley Smile Message Board \| Smiley Smile Stuff \| General On Topic Discussions \| Brian Wilson: Long Promised Road (2019 Brent Wilson Documentary) 0 Members and 2 Guests are viewing this topic. « previous next » Pages: 1 ... 11 12 13 14 15 [16] 17 18 Author Topic: Brian Wilson: Long Promised Road (2019 Brent Wilson Documentary) (Read 108025 times) Smiley Smile Associate "My God. It's full of stars." Re: Brian Wilson: Long Promised Road (2019 Brent Wilson Documentary) « Reply #375 on: December 15, 2021, 11:19:57 AM » Quote from: starry1 on December 15, 2021, 06:16:11 AM Ok, I was being a bit optimistic, I know. However, I specified no EXTERNAL influences. By "external" I mean those who are usually at odds with Brian's creativity, and I made a rather extensive list of them. But specifically included, as "internal", Darian, the rest of Brian's band, Al and Blondie. People who have repeatedly proved that they are NOT at odd with Brian's creativity. So no vacuum. I don't think that Darian, the band, Al (at least now) and Blondie would dream of ever pestering Brian to be "commercial". I wish I could say the same of wives, producers, a couple ex-bandmates, and most fans. We owe that "At My Piano" gem to the unexpected intervention of an entity where somebody actually has some grasp of music (Decca). I was, voluntarily, optimistic. But in any case I'll have always that doubt... what if? You mentioned Love You. I waited for something like that for more than 40 years. And I know Brian would never have completed Love You without Carl. But for that, there would be Darian. "At My Piano" would never have been completed, either, without him. Nor SMiLE. I don't think for a second that Melinda or Joe Thomas are at odds with Brian's creativity. Melinda has been nothing but supportive of Brian's creativity (and simultaneously also supportive of Brian's drive for success). Joe Thomas, while I don't appreciate his production techniques, has been the only other collaborator, besides Paley, who has gotten Brian to write original material consistently in the last few decades. And while I completely understand any negativity regarding the production on Imagination, it has been stated numerous times by a person who actually knows, that NPP was mostly a Brian Wilson production. So while JT had his wrestler hands on the project, Brian was the main guy in the studio calling the shots. Brian was creatively fueled like a Saturn-V before liftoff for NPP. He was on the phone with Kacey Musgraves talking about lyrics, he was coming up with different ideas, leading the band, coming up with harmonies. Guitarfool has done some great breakdowns of some of the songs on NPP - it is clearly Brian going all-out. As for the "externals" pestering Brian to "go commercial" - Brian has flat-out stated numerous times in recent years that he wants a #1 hit. So Brian himself knows the importance of going commercial. He's not going to get a #1 if all he does is channel his inner Love You, playing on some fart-synths singing about a Lay-Z-Boy recliner chair. He knows this, which is why he worked with young talent on NPP. If Brian didn't want to do these things he would just refuse to show up. He wouldn't be on the phone with a country artist conversing about lyrics. If Brian didn't want to go commercial he wouldn't have spent hours in a recording studio with Nate Ruess trying to get Nate's lead perfect. And after all of Brian's hard work and time in the studio, what happened? His fans sht all over the record. Hell, they lambasted the thing when just 15 seconds of it had been released on Facebook. I think at some point, after Brian leaves this world for the next, a lot of fans are going to regret spending so much time wishing Brian was someone else (and wishing Brian was recording something else), when they could've just appreciated the gifts he was giving them while he was here. I've said it numerous times before, I don't care if people don't like everything the man does, heck I don't like everything the man has done. But I think fans could give Brian a lot more credit for what he actually does in the studio. And honestly, I think Brian has the best support around him that he could have right now. He's got a loving family, a loving band. I just wish Brian's fanbase were as kind to him as he is to them. Bill Tobelman's SMiLE site Quote from: mtaber on September 18, 2021, 07:39:15 AM God must’ve smiled the day Brian Wilson was born! "ragegasm" - /rāj • ga-zəm/ : a logical mental response produced when your favorite band becomes remotely associated with the bro-country genre. Ever want to hear some Beach Boys songs mashed up together like The Beatles' 'LOVE' album? Check out my mix! MyDrKnowsItKeepsMeCalm Quote from: rab2591 on December 15, 2021, 11:19:57 AM ...it has been stated numerous times by a person who actually knows, that NPP was mostly a Brian Wilson production. So while JT had his wrestler hands on the project, Brian was the main guy in the studio calling the shots. Brian was creatively fueled like a Saturn-V before liftoff for NPP. He was on the phone with Kacey Musgraves talking about lyrics, he was coming up with different ideas, leading the band, coming up with harmonies. Guitarfool has done some great breakdowns of some of the songs on NPP - it is clearly Brian going all-out. I was just thinking of No Pier Pressure and Nate Ruess's interviews re working with Brian, so it's perfect that you brought that in here. I understand why NPP isn't everyone's cup of tea, but 1) I love it and think it has stood the test of time, and 2) it is 100% born of the described ideal Brian process (or as close to that as he's ever realistically going to get). The Nate Ruess descriptions of Brian finetuning his NPP vocal parts on the fly track nicely with the way Brian is (literally) calling the shots re arrangements in this Honeycomb clip. « Last Edit: December 15, 2021, 12:30:08 PM by MyDrKnowsItKeepsMeCalm » Logged Zenobi Ok, I have really nothing to add and maybe I already said too much. Rereading my posts, I realise I was sounding like someone from "that other forum". I'll be content with aknowledging that we (partly) disagree, and I hope no hard feelings. Sure not from me! sloopjohnb72 not to mention that the album wouldn’t have been completed without his brother stepping in to finish the job. This is a huge myth that I'd like to see phased out eventually. Carl didn't step in to finish the job - he helped mix the record. What he was given to mix was a completed album, on 24 tracks instead of 2. All the compositions, lyrics, track arrangements, vocal arrangements, performances, etc. were produced by Brian. That's 99% or the work. Carl was in charge of whether that piano goes in the left or the right ear, or whether the backing vocals should be louder than the saxes in this section, etc. In terms of Landy's influence... yes, Landy pushed Brian to write the songs, and a good half of the album may not have been written if Brian wasn't pushed. But the music still all came from Brian completely. Thanks, Sloop! Yeah I think that’s something that I’ve heard so many times that I’m just used to thinking it. But yeah, I totally get that all the songs were completed (also agree that the music was all Brian’s). And Starry, no hard feelings from me either. I think I have a knee-jerk reaction to criticism because I’ve heard so much of it through the years. I respect your opinion, and I’m just glad that there are others who share a love for this band and for Brian’s work. Don Malcolm My hope is that when LONG PROMISED ROAD goes to DVD/blu-ray, we'll see some other (judiciously edited) snippets that didn't make the final version. Brent Wilson alluded to a lot of material that was cut to get the film down to a manageable length; he didn't suggest that there was material that got dropped because it was either lurid or incendiary (I doubt Jason Fine would ever ask Brian on-camera about what he remembers about Charles Manson, for example--and we aren't looking for material with actual or implied pushback on Mike, since we want to think that there might somehow be one more Beach Boys project that involved everyone). I think Brent created a tone that ultimately fell into a register that had to be low-key, that wound up emphasizing Brian's melancholy--and while that's certainly valid up to a point, I've got to think that there are some livelier moments that were cut because they were simply too hard to fit into the overall flow...they may have stood out too much in the prevailing context of the film. A few more snippets that cover a wider emotional range would be welcome--and possibly some footage of Brian working on the piano album (which I assume exists in some form or another). CAFeelin89 I have the blu-ray preordered from Walmart, which is apparently coming out on Tuesday. I haven't seen any official press release for it yet, though. Pretty Funky Couple more clips from the doc. https://youtu.be/Lv1p5qymJ3U Meeting Elton John (and others) https://youtu.be/LYJYNw24iPI Pablo. (ups, sorry, posted on wrong thread) « Last Edit: January 19, 2022, 02:11:53 PM by Pablo. » Logged "Too dumb for New York City, too ugly for L.A." Watch two new clips from Brian Wilson documentary ‘Long Promised Road’ https://www.rollingstone.co.uk/music/news/watch-two-new-clips-from-brian-wilson-documentary-long-promised-road-9919/?fbclid=IwAR0EXIujNzmy-ZTMJ0J0m-g0t6HutxzYV-NIOyfYdGHCLmBZUoSTQ3xKL_U a diseased bunch of mo'fos if there ever was one… their beauty is so awesome that listening to them at their best is like being in some vast dream cathedral decorated with a thousand gleaming American pop culture icons. - Lester Bangs on The Beach Boys PRO SHOT BEACH BOYS CONCERTS - LIST To sum it up, they blew it, they blew it consistently, they continue to blow it, it is tragic and this pathological problem caused The Beach Boys' greatest music to be so underrated by the general public. - Jack Rieley Sheriff John-ston How Brian deals with his mental health https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kQH3xGOBT6M BBC interview with Brian https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/av/entertainment-arts-60092069 leoleoleoleo I saw this at the cinema (UK) last night with my fiance. I wasn't expecting much. From the trailer I knew there would be plenty of whats-his-face from Foo Fighters saying "Brian Wilson threw out the rulebook" and Elton John talking about putting the fifth in the bass for the millionth time. And indeed the talking head segments were the least interesting part of the film (does anyone else worry that the more we keep saying how important Brian is in the pantheon of American 20th century composers, the more it sounds like we're defending a controversial statement? Why state the obvious over and over again?) However, overall I really enjoyed this film. I like how they didn't dwell too long on the Surfin' Years, or really provide a coherent chronology of Brian's career - look to every other Beach Boys documentary if that's what you're interested in. Brent Wilson and Jason Fine clearly understood that this is a film for hardcore fans who are looking for something they rarely if ever get to see, and that's an unguarded Brian Wilson. As my fiance said afterwards, he just seems to be a 100% pure, egoless human being who still doesn't understand the impact he's had on so many people and is still finding life difficult to navigate. When he's feeling scared, which is often during the doc, his answers to questions are still often one word, but the camera lingers on his face which says more than words ever could about how he's feeling in that moment. It's so rare to see someone, especially a celebrity, who has zero pretence about them. I've always been drawn to Brian because of that, and this film just made me feel that even stronger. As fans we've heard hundreds of funny/poignant Brian Wilson stories, some of which have become legendary - in this film you actually get to see a few happen in real time. Highlights for me (SPOILERS): Brian yelling at the guy in the Cadillac to find out what year his car is. Brian explaining to Jason in a very Brian way why he likes his company "the way you talk is very consistent... when I feel nervous I listen to you talk" (Paraphrasing) Brian getting stuck into a frozen yoghurt at the Deli the millisecond it's put in front of him and proceeding to energetically sing the praises of Carl's production on Holland. Footage of Brian and Melinda's wedding with Mike and Carl in attendance. "Can I get a click?" "Here it comes" "Here comes what?" "The CLICK!!" Brian reminiscing about various visitors to his house in the 70s. Obviously a very sad moment, but when Brian learns about Jack Rieley's death is a very emotional moment. Brian listening to Pacific Ocean Blue and clearly loving it (up until "Farewell My Friend"...). One thing I noticed was how Brian finds it very hard hearing his brothers sing anything to do with saying goodbye. The performance of Caroline No at the Hollywood bowl. Brian reminiscing about the the tent and the sandbox at the Laurel Way House. "Young and Rich". « Last Edit: January 27, 2022, 08:06:16 AM by leoleoleoleo » Logged Ptolemaios Quote from: leoleoleoleo on January 27, 2022, 07:55:37 AM As I wrote on this topic earlier, I agree about the talking heads. I wish Brian’s team would put a stop to this and advice the producers of any possible future documentary that there is to be no talking celebrity heads. Just saw the documentary. This is definitely not a film for pedestrian fans. This is much more aimed at a fantasy of uber-fans such as the people on this board. That fantasy would be... what would it be like to climb into the car with Brian Wilson and drive to all the places a Beach Boys fan should visit? The film answers this question, and perhaps in the process gives a dose of realism to the fantasy. Hey Brian, look, it's the house you used to live in and you haven't been there since 1967, what do you think? "Oh, I wrote Pet Sounds there. It had a really nice view of downtown Los Angeles." silence* Part of me wonders what it would have been like if the documentary makers had been able to gain permission to enter these homes, or at least the yards. I wonder if they tried? Maybe they might have been able to get Brian to say more. With that said, this uber-fan did enjoy every minute of it. Brian is a beautiful soul. I am left wondering about one other thing. Brian seems to have an off-and-on switch. He sits there staring off into space... then when something occurs to him, he lights up, says what's on his mind, seems normal for a few seconds, then goes right back to staring off into space. It makes me wonder if this is part of his illness or a side-effect of his medication? I'm being totally serious when I say I have a cat that's the exact same way. I get the impression that Brian talks (and is 'in the room' as his attention span goes) when the subject matter is interesting to him, and that talking about broadly the same topics he has for 50 years isn't interesting to him. Brian is a rich man, and unlike most of us, doesn't have to pretend to be interested in things he isn't for money. Joshilyn Hoisington Honored Guest Aeijtzsche Quote from: Ptolemaios on January 27, 2022, 08:03:32 PM I think maybe the makers of these films DO think that they have to go in hard on the celebs to defend their thesis. The problem is they need to SHOW that Brian is important, not TELL. Which, of course, most people lack the vocabulary to do -- even the record producer Don Was, when given the chance to show the viewers what makes Brian's music special, with the sessions up on a console right in front of him, is like "Welp, I dunno, man!' Find smarter people and show us that the Beach Boys music is great. guitarfool2002 "Barba non facit aliam historici" I'd point out again that some of these issues were addressed by the film's creators in the "Pray For Surf" podcast back in November, and here's the thread to find it and comment: http://smileysmile.net/board/index.php/topic,27981.0.html I think one point to consider is that ultimately this is a commercial film release that needs backers, distributors, and ultimately, an audience who will pay to see it or own it, and make the money back for the financiers. And the filmmakers want a wide audience of music fans outside the Beach Boys fan bubble to see it and ultimately explore more of the music after seeing the film. If they can bring in big names from multiple generations, like Elton John for one prime example, who also happens to be a massive fan and supporter of Brian's music, it's a winning hand to play. Likewise if you feature one of the Jonas Brothers, you'll immediately get potentially millions of fans who would never check out a Beach Boys related film wanting to see what Jonas is doing in the film...and they may like what they hear and the guy who is the feature of the film itself. I admit, the inclusion of Jonas baffled me at first...until I heard the producers explain it in the Pray For Surf podcast (again, linked above, check it out). How many successful bands of the past 15 years or so have featured a similar lineup as the Beach Boys, where you have three brothers as the core of the group? I'd say the Jonas Brothers might be the most successful example, with Hanson coming in second. Not many bands have had the family and sibling dynamic that was the keystone of the Beach Boys, and having one of those brothers who can relate to that unique dynamic makes it a pretty logical choice as well as something I would want to hear expanded on. How is it to be a massive success and be in that celebrity bubble with your two brothers? Pretty interesting concept, and something I didn't consider as a reason until I heard them explain it on Pray For Surf. As far as explaining why Brian's music is what it is, again I feel there is a balance between having the appeal to a wide general audience versus doing a deep dive into the theory and analysis in a general release documentary. Let's say they get a musicologist talking about how Brian went from a C sharp half-diminished seventh chord into an E major 6/9 as a deceptive resolution but then borrowed an F#7 flat 9 chord to resolve back to B minor as an example of "key of the moment" analysis...none of that is from Brian's music but it's just an example of how making it too academic would lose most of the audience. It would be like doing a documentary about Apollo 11 and going heavy on content featuring various astrophysicists and literal rocket scientists whiteboarding various formulae and equations to explain how the spacecraft got from point A to point B and came back home. Would it be great for college professors to show in the classroom? Absolutely. Would people in a general audience demographic go to a theater or stream/buy such content in numbers high enough to warrant a distribution deal and general release? I doubt it. It's that balance between showing the humanity and the people involved versus getting too deep-dive oriented into the specialized details and analysis. Ultimately the humanity of a documentary sells it to a more general audience, as does featuring well-known celebrities you can put on the marquee to help boost the profile even more. And in terms of who would be now chosen to give the Beach Boys history at this point as a talking head onscreen outside the band members themselves in future projects, I'll keep those opinions to myself. "All of us have the privilege of making music that helps and heals - to make music that makes people happier, stronger, and kinder. Don't forget: Music is God's voice." - Brian Wilson Beach Boys star Brian Wilson looks back at his life in new film - BBC News https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XvQTQvCf6Ds That's still telling rather than showing, and I don't think it matters who does the telling, it's still going to be pointless and circular, whether it's Bruce Springsteen or a Harvard Professor. However Brian's music is presented, I think there's a happier medium than having Don Was say "Woah, what's that? A banjo and harmonica together? What a genius!" about a song with neither banjo nor harmonica. Quote from: sloopjohnb72 on January 28, 2022, 01:35:25 PM Absolutely -- his baffled, shrugged-off inability to understand a production does nobody any favors. If you're gonna get a talking head to talk about the music, at least don't get a bozo. HeyJude Don Was may not have elucidated well in this new doc, but I don't sense he's a total idiot when it comes to this stuff. Remember that he directed the "I Just Wasn't Made for These Times" doc, and wrote a nice little liner not blurb in the soundtrack CD. THE BEACH BOYS OPINION PAGE IS ON FACEBOOK!!! http://www.facebook.com/beachboysopinion - Check out the original "BEACH BOYS OPINION PAGE" Blog - http://beachboysopinion.blogspot.com/ Quote from: HeyJude on January 28, 2022, 02:45:04 PM I'm sure he's a lovely, competent man, but if your career is being a musician and you can't tell what a banjo doesn't sound like.... Don Was is not a bozo, by any stretch of the imagination. Just look at his resume, which includes four Grammy awards for production (including producer of the year), his production on two of the biggest selling records of the late 80's (Bonnie Raitt and B52's), and he's also been sitting in a big office atop the Capitol tower as president of Blue Note records. He's probably exaggerating in the film for effect. Like saying "I don't know what that even is!" with a wink and a nod. In a band history (and fan base) full of bad people and liars through the years, Don Was is truly one of the good guys. 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__label__wiki	0.986691	0.986691	3:00 PM PT4:00 PM MT5:00 PM CT6:00 PM ET11:00 PM GMT7:00 PM 北京时间4:00 PM MST6:00 PM EST, Dec 1, 2022 Simon Skjodt Assembly Hall, Bloomington, Indiana Attendance: 5,939 No. 5 Indiana's 3-point barrage buries No. 6 North Carolina Womens College Headlines Gason, Texas women rout No. 14 Oklahoma 78-58 Siblings feed pro hoop dreams at Marquette, Notre Dame Holmes leads No. 6 Indiana women past No. 13 Michigan, 92-83 Clark triple-double leads No. 10 Iowa over No. 2 Ohio State Edwards leads No. 5 UConn to rout of DePaul in makeup game Carson, Reese lead No. 4 LSU women to 89-51 rout of Alabama In a first, women's AP Top 25 has no teams from Texas Notre Dame's Dara Mabrey out for season with torn ACL (AP Photo/Darron Cummings) By PHILLIP B. WILSON BLOOMINGTON, Ind. (AP) Mackenzie Holmes scored 25 points, Sydney Parrish added 24 and No. 5 Indiana hit 12 3-pointers to defeat No. 6 North Carolina 87-63 on Thursday night in the ACC/Big Ten Challenge. The battle of unbeatens had drastically different shooting nights. The Hoosiers got hot to improve to 8-0 and the Tar Heels did not to drop to 6-1. The Hoosiers hit eight 3s to build a 16-point lead by halftime. Parrish, a junior transfer starting for injured senior guard Grace Berger, hit four 3s as did senior guard Sara Scalia. "We did that without Grace Berger, which was huge for us," Parrish said of the three-time All-Big Ten standout, who is out indefinitely with a right knee injury. "We knew we had to play for her." The successful outside shooting opened up inside room for Holmes, the Big Ten Player of the Week. When the senior center wasn't scoring, she was drawing Tar Heel fouls. "I don't think it was exactly a statement," Parrish said. "We played how we play. We just came out and played hard. We should play like that every night." Hoosiers coach Teri Moren wore a "Grace Berger 34" sweatshirt. "In order to beat a great team like North Carolina, it takes everybody," Moren said. "We knew that everybody needed to do a little extra, a little more, without Grace being out there. We answered the bell in a big kind of way tonight." Indiana finished 12 of 22 from beyond the arc. The 12 3s tied a season high, the other dozen in a season-opening blowout of Vermont. "I changed my shot this week," Parrish said. "I guess it worked for today." North Carolina was 7 of 14 from beyond the arc, but shot just 35.4% overall (23 of 65). "They really shot," Tar Heels coach Courtney Banghart said. "Until the last two misses, they were 70% from three. We just really couldn't make a basket. We were missing layups. We really struggled to finish." Tar Heels junior guard Kennedy Todd Williams had 20 points. Junior guard Deja Kelly added 11. "The environment took us away a little bit because it was loud," Banghart said. "We'll play in great environments like that because when you're a top-10 team, that's what you get now. That's the takeaway. The environment can't tighten you up offensively." The game started in streaks as North Carolina scored the first seven points, then Indiana responded with the next 13. The Hoosiers went on a 10-0 run for a 34-21 advantage. The largest first-half edge was 49-33 at halftime after Indiana outscored North Carolina 22-12 in the second quarter. Moren said her team wanted to complete a sweep of the Tar Heels after the 10th-ranked Hoosier men downed North Carolina on Wednesday night. And she was appreciative of a loud crowd providing energy. "Just like last night, this is a hard place to play when you feel this place, from the energy to the noise," Moren said. North Carolina: After winning back-to-back games against ranked foes, the Tar Heels took a step back due to shaky perimeter defense and cold shooting. But this team is talented so expect the players to use this humble road experience as motivation. Indiana: After a series of double-digit wins against non-ranked opponents, the Hoosiers were quite impressive in what was supposed to be their first real test of the season. Excellent 3-point shooting and solid defense gave this team confidence early on and that momentum kept building. North Carolina: Host North Carolina-Wilmington on Wednesday. Indiana: Host Illinois on Sunday. More AP college basketball: https://apnews.com/hub/college-basketball and https://apnews.com/hub/ap-top-25-college-basketball-poll and https://twitter.com/AP-Top25	cc/2023-06/en_middle_0053.json.gz/line82
__label__wiki	0.916829	0.916829	Pennridge can’t break Neshaminy’s defense in District 1-AAAA final By Steve Richards on November 6, 2016 in Sports Articles, The Reporter Note: This article originally published in The Reporter and on PaPrepLive.com PHOENIXVILLE >> The Pennridge girls soccer team wasn’t familiar with its opponent Saturday night, but it knew top-seeded Neshaminy was tough. The Rams fell behind 1-0 in the first half and were never able to overcome it, falling to Neshaminy 2-0 in the District 1-AAAA final. “They’re a very strong and physical team,” Pennridge head coach Audrey Anderson said. “It was actually fun to play against them.” Neshaminy was a brick wall defensively all night. Its back line, making it difficult for Pennridge to create chances, anchored the No. 1 seed in District 1. The Rams were able to create a few scoring opportunities at the end of each half, but just couldn’t finish the job. “It was hard to game plan for (Neshaminy), we had never seen them play, but I think we knew enough about them to give it our best shot,” Anderson said. Pennridge can also use the match as a learning experience as it moves on to the state tournament Tuesday. “We talked about using this game as a little bit of experience for us Tuesday (in the PIAA tournament)…it was good to get the experience under our belt,” Anderson said. Pennridge has 11 seniors on its roster, and those girls plan to use their final opportunity to its fullest. “From here were taking the fact that these are the kinds of teams we’re going to be facing from here out,” Anderson said. “We need to be prepared and be willing to work for every opportunity we get. I think our seniors wanted to get here to bad…on Monday they’ll realize this game will help us come states.” The scoring started in the 24th minute with Jackie Ziegler, who scored on a corner kick to give Neshaminy a 1-0 lead into the half. GOAL – @NeshGirlzSoccer. @jackiezigs puts Neshaminy ahead 1-0 off a corner. 16:33 1H. @PHSWomensSoccr@PaPrepLive@ReporterSportspic.twitter.com/1zM2pGTZ7o — Steve Richards (@srichards31) November 5, 2016 From there defense was the key, and Neshaminy never seemed to have left formation. It’s been a calling card all year long, and it worked all the way to the district title. “Our back four was solid. They have been all year,” Neshaminy head coach Chelsea Lovelace said. “It’s definitely helped us out, especially in big games like this. They had few errors and just played a solid 80 minutes.” Cementing the back four is senior leader Maggie Daeche. The captain could be seen and heard all over the field Saturday night. “It’s been a big transition to step up, playing at this level as a freshman and being like the young immature one on the team and then coming up and seeing the whole change,” Daeche said. “It’s been just awesome. I can’t even put into words how awesome it is to be in charge of all these girls.” The second goal was another scrappy one, as freshman Kristin Curley pounced on a rebound and put home a sealing goal. “It’s surreal almost,” Curley said about her goal. “I can’t even describe it. It’s amazing” Even down 2-0 Pennridge never quit on the match, which is what you’d expect by such an experienced squad. The Rams best chances came in the last minute of play, as the same scrums that led to Neshaminy goals didn’t quite do the same for Pennridge. “I respect my team and the fact that when we were down 2-0 they kept pressuring,” Anderson said. “They didn’t quit. That’s us. We don’t quit. We’ve never been quitters.” NESHAMINY 2, PENNRIDGE 0 Pennridge: 0 0 – 0 Neshaminy: 1 1 – 2 Goals: N – Jackie Ziegler, Kristin Curley. Shots: CBS – 7, Pennridge 7. Corners: N – 1, P – 3. Upper Darby gets big performances, seven turnovers in win over Methacton Movie Review: Even film buffs can enjoy ‘Doctor Strange’	cc/2023-06/en_middle_0053.json.gz/line83
__label__wiki	0.786964	0.786964	Download Comp Save Only verified editors can see this information. Trying to Stop the Pain Location: Virginia, Indiana, North Carolina Story Date: Nov 22, 2022 (Photo by Katie Linsky Shaw) After struggling with severe anxiety and depression that included a suicide attempt, Claire Wright is speaking openly about her mental health issues to help others. Size: 4480h x 6720w (This is the fourth post in an ongoing photo project about the Youth Mental Health Crisis. Please follow along at https://youthmentalhealthcrisis.visura.co.) By Katie Linsky Shaw Claire Wright remembers standing at the top of the stairs in her two-story house and letting herself fall. She was a junior in high school and struggling with anxiety and depression, which was intensified by a toxic friendship that ended badly. She thought causing herself physical pain might somehow replace the emptiness she felt internally. “I just stood at the top and fell,” explained Wright of Virginia, now a sophomore in college in North Carolina. “I felt something, but it wasn’t what I wanted to feel. I still felt empty and I don’t think it registered that I made myself fall down the stairs.” That fall wasn’t her only attempt to feel something and fix what hurt on the inside. She also tried cutting - a coping mechanism for negative emotions that includes using sharp objects to make cuts or scratches on the body. Some people like Claire use this form of self-harm to counteract a feeling of emptiness or to distract from anxiety and depression. “I didn’t feel any relief from it and felt very guilty after doing it,” said Claire. “I guess I wanted something to show that I was hurting on the inside.” Size: h x w (Photo by Katie Linsky Shaw) Claire Wright's tattoo on her left arm symbolizes her mental health journey which included finding help in a wilderness therapy program. Claire’s mom Laurie recalls how Claire changed that year from a “happy, energetic, involved, safe, studious, motivated high schooler into one riddled with crippling anxiety, depression, anger, self-harm, isolation and desolation.” Every time Laurie and her husband asked their daughter to talk about this noticeable change, Claire got angry and insisted she was fine. Her parents desperately tried to get her the help she needed with doctors, therapists or medication but Claire refused it all. “I feel like I have a really strong sense of independence and for me to lean on someone is super hard for me,” Claire explained. “I thought, ‘I can do it by myself. I don’t need anyone to talk to.’ I also didn’t think anyone would be able to understand. I was just trying to fix it on my own and my coping skills weren’t healthy.” (Photo by Katie Linsky Shaw) Claire Wright, now a sophomore in college, uses healthy coping skills to deal with any depression or anxiety. She said, on days when those problems arise and she'd rather stay in bed, it's the little things that help, like taking a shower, putting on makeup and going to the grocery store. Those unhealthy coping skills also included isolating from her parents by hiding in her room, skipping family meals, and remaining angry at those closest to her. Claire continued to withdraw from family and friends and refused to attend school. One day, she overheard her mother discussing these issues with a friend which angered and upset Claire. Feeling desperate and hopeless, Claire consumed a bottle of pills and climbed in her bathtub to wait for the effects. It soon registered what she’d done and she had instant regret. She told her mom who frantically called 911 and Claire’s dad. Sobbing, Claire apologized to her dad on the phone and described the aftermath of what she’d done as the “the scariest part.” She spent four days in a psychiatric hospital and reverted to her old ways of refusing help. Her mom recalled the scary experience. “I’ve never been more frightened than when she admitted she took the pills,” Laurie said. “My heart tore to pieces. I struggled to grasp that her pain was so big that she’d ‘want to go to sleep and never wake up.’” Claire returned home but continued to struggle with anxiety and depression. After several more incidents of dysregulated emotions and unhealthy coping skills, which included shattering a vase and making suicidal threats, Claire was once again in the ER and psychiatric hospital. Desperate to help their daughter, Laurie and her husband decided to send her to Open Sky Wilderness in February 2020. (continued...) Laurie Wright, Claire's mother, created a photo book of Claire's time at Open Sky Wilderness. Laurie is now in graduate school for a degree in counseling inspired by her family's struggles with Claire's mental health issues that included a lack of professional help in rural Virginia. Into the Wild and Beyond Claire’s parents used a teen transport service to get her to Open Sky in Colorado. The service is designed to provide safe transportation and therapeutic transition to programs like Open Sky. It’s often a last resort for parents with a struggling child who refuses help. Though the service has a reputation of being aggressive since it was initially used to transport combative teens, the field has expanded to support families by offering safe travel with interventionists who are trained to de-escalate combative situations and treat the teens with respect. Claire said the experience - called “gooning” by teens in wilderness programs - was traumatic but she understands now why her parents chose that route. Her first week at Open Sky, Claire was mad and “in shock” as she settled into the outdoor routine that included five days out in the field and a day at base camp for showers. The backpack was heavy and it was difficult for her to part with her beloved stuffed animal which was left behind in a box with her belongings. But once she settled in, and stopped telling her therapist and guides what she thought they wanted to hear, Claire started to do the work. “I definitely learned how to ask for help starting with the physical things,” said Claire. “You have to ask for help out there. That led into me being able to ask for help with my emotions, too. I got more comfortable sharing hard feelings which is hard for me.” Another turning point for Claire was reading out loud the impact letter from her parents. Participants in wilderness programs communicate with family members through letters which also serve as part of the therapeutic process. The impact letter from her mother described in detail Claire’s behavior and emotional pain that led them to send her to Open Sky. “I was still pretty angry but I knew my parents weren’t making a decision because they wanted to,” said Claire. “They made an educated decision. That’s what I really love about my mom. When there’s something going on in our family, she’s going to do the research and she’s going to make a very educated decision before she does anything.” Following wilderness therapy, Claire attended Vista Dimple Dell in May 2020, a residential treatment center for teens in Utah. (Vista Dimple Dell has since closed and is facing allegations of physical and verbal abuse between 2003 and 2019. But Claire said her experience there was positive and she never felt mistreated.) “My parents were grasping for straws and this is what they came up with,” explained Claire. “Yes, it was drastic but it was much-needed. It was hard and sometimes it sucked but I feel like I had a good outcome and I honestly wouldn’t be here today if it wasn’t for these programs.” (Photo by Katie Linsky Shaw) Claire Wright works at her desk in the college apartment she shares with two roommates. She's been outspoken about her mental health struggles and has friends who support her efforts. Claire returned home with a few months left of her senior year. Instead of hiding her experience, she decided to post her journey on social media. She said she was nervous to share but was amazed at the support she received. With that positive feedback, Claire decided to turn the anniversary of the day she took the bottle of pills into a celebration of life by spending the day “hanging out with people I love doing things I enjoy.” She’s also grown in her relationship with her mother. Parents often unintentionally enable a child in crisis in a desperate attempt to ease the child’s anxiety and Claire realizes now that her mom was only trying to help. “She was trying to fix everything for me,” said Claire. “She was trying to rescue me from all my emotions instead of just letting me feel them. I know it was so scary for her and I don’t blame her at all but I just think that other people’s emotions aren’t our responsibility. We just have to let them feel them. Coming in with a listening ear instead of trying to fix it is a big thing.” Laurie, who's now working on a Masters degree in counseling inspired by her experience, recalls what it felt like as a parent to see their child suffering as she described Claire's fall down the stairs. "At that point, I was just so lost," explained Laurie. "I knew she was in danger, but I also knew it was beyond my control or knowledge, to help her. I was almost as lost as she was! I had nowhere to turn. We’d been to the emergency room, she was refusing therapy, and we’d been to her primary care doctor. No one was offering her, or me, a life rope. No one within 90 miles was helping us. No one! It shouldn’t be that way for any adolescent, young adult, or parent." With her Masters degree, Laurie hopes to bring more "comprehensive therapy opportunities" to the rural area of Virginia where she lives. She's also working on her own therapy which has improved her relationship with her daughter. "I think I parent better - with a better ability to validate Claire’s emotions, a better listening ear and more clear boundaries," said Laurie. "I will never take the calm days for granted ever again. I love my family fiercely!" (Photo by Katie Linsky Shaw) Claire Wright, a sophomore in college, is openly sharing her struggles with mental health that included a suicide attempt when she was in high school. Claire said she still struggles with anxiety and depression but she now knows how to manage it. If she starts to feel depressed and that old urge to hide in bed returns, she’ll use her healthy coping skills starting with the little things like taking a hot shower, getting dressed and going outside. And she offers advice for teens going through something similar. “I encourage them to reach out for support and remind them that it does get better and I know that’s so cliche’ but I feel like it just takes time and it takes you being willing to share how you feel with others because that really does help.” And for parents? “Have a listening ear,” said Claire. “Don’t judge what they’re going through and don’t tell them they’re overreacting. Just be there with them. Just sit there and listen.” (Photo by Katie Linsky Shaw) Claire Wright cleans up with her college roommates in their apartment kitchen. Her friends have been supportive about her mental health journey. (Photo by Katie Linsky Shaw) Claire has support from her college roommates. She's also openly shared about her mental health struggles. In fact, on the anniversary of her suicide attempt, Claire made the day a Celebration of Life, doing things she enjoys with the people she loves. Graden Herrell of Indiana attributes his mental health issues to a series of bad habits when he was in high school. Playing video games for hours every day, a bad nicotine addiction and a diet of junk food led to failing grades in school and depression. He said Covid accentuated a lot of the issues but then a friendship he outgrew made him really reevaluate how he felt. “I had a lot of bad habits that I couldn’t seem to shake,” the 18-year-old explained. “I was failing classes and in a continuous cycle of comfort with no accountability or purpose whatsoever. I was very depressed.” Unhappy with his current situation, Graden decided to refocus his interests and channel his energy into something positive and creative. He set aside the video games, started listening to inspirational Ted Talks and podcasts, and used his creative side to make a difference. Inspired by his own experiences with mental health, Graden started printing t-shirts with the message “areUokay.” (Photo by Christian Schmitz) Graden Herrell offers a limited number of designs and sells out quickly. (Photo by Christian Schmitz) Inside Graden Herrell's basement studio. “I started it with the intent of spreading mental health awareness to as many people as I could using my shirts as a medium,” said Graden, who learned to print through an internship at a screen-printing shop. “As I kept going, I started to see improvements in my own mental health. It’s provided me with an outlet and has opened me up to more conversations about mental health that I otherwise wouldn’t have had.” Graden said his generation is challenged with mental health issues because they’ve had what he describes as a “distraction machine in their pockets,” referencing the cell phone with internet access, for most of their lives. “The objective of these apps is to keep our attention and to do that, they pump out constant stimulation,” Graden said. “It’s super easy for an impressionable teenager to fall into this trap and I was one of them. I’d be on Instagram or TikTok for hours at a time and wondering why I’m still scrolling and not stopping.” Graden said the unrealistic standards put out by social media profiles make it harder for teens to enjoy the simple things in life. He said his generation faces constant pressure to live up to those standards because they face it every time they get on a phone app. To move past those pressures, Graden said to focus on the small things and to start appreciating the present. Make your bed in the morning, clean your room, make a smoothie or light some incense. It’s the little things that can make life better. He’s hoping his brand and fashion line will also open up conversations about mental health. It did for him while offering a creative outlet to share his graphic designs. He continues to create and sell his fashion brand while attending college with an interest in graphic design and visual communication. “The sooner you can build good habits and find enjoyment from the little things in life, the better,” he said. “If you are really struggling, never be afraid to reach out for help whether it be from your friends, family or a professional. 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__label__wiki	0.609371	0.609371	» The Parliament is recommended to consider a bill to ban music and TV shows on public transport The Parliament is recommended to consider a bill to ban music and TV shows on public transport 16 people’s deputies registered the bill to ban music on public transport The Committee of the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine recommended to consider a bill to ban open broadcast buses of music and movies. This June 17 was announced by MP from the “European solidarity” Vladimir vyatrovich on his page in Facebook. “The parliamentary Committee on transport and infrastructure endorsed the bill to ban the acoustic violence in public transport. This project, initiated by the public, which we – 15 MPs of different factions – have made to protect occupants from Intrusive music. If the law will vote in plenary, the Ukrainians will be able, as in the civilized world, drive in silence or listen to music or the sound of movies through the headphones,” – said in the message. Щойно парламентський комітет з питань транспорту й інфраструктури підтримав законопроєкт про заборону акустичного… Posted by Volodymyr Viatrovych on Wednesday, June 17, 2020 Bill No. 3006 prohibits broadcast in the bus, the sounds of movies or other audio signals in addition to information about the trip. At the same time allowed the transmission of sound through individual headphones for passengers, and the cabin – only for non-transport by agreement of all passengers. 4 February deputies registered in the Verkhovna Rada bill No. 3006 on amendments to the law “On automobile transport”. The initiators of the bill were made by 16 MPs of the “servant of the people”, “European solidarity”, “Voice”, “Batkivshchyna” and Deputy group “For the future”. 28 Jan the incident occurred because of Russian TV series in the bus “Lutsk — Kiev” volunteer Yarina Chornohuz asked the driver to turn off the show because he did not want “to listen to the TV product occupiers”. The driver refused and dropped her off, along with another volunteer in the middle of the road. Degrove Of The Europa League. The return match between Shakhtar and Wolfsburg can move to Germany From a calculator to a wine carafe products from Apple in the 80s	cc/2023-06/en_middle_0053.json.gz/line102
__label__cc	0.721026	0.278974	StoriesCurrently selected A hero in advancing virtual care for patients Annie Liu, program secretary at BC Cancer - Victoria, has dedicated countless hours in educating patients on how to use the virtual health systems. Use this image as both the current Page Image and for News listings The BC Cancer Excellence Awards highlight the incredible individuals and teams who work to ensure that British Columbians receive world-class, patient-centred cancer screening, treatment and support, or benefit from new discoveries that are helping change the face of cancer. Annie Liu, program secretary at BC Cancer - Victoria, was recently recognized with a 2020 BC Cancer Excellence Award in the category of Unsung Hero. This award recognizes a staff member who is always ready to help out, and who demonstrates an ongoing pattern of going above and beyond the scope of their job, making a positive impact on those around them and the organization. The pandemic caused a marked increase in virtual visits, with BC Cancer - Victoria leading virtual visits across the province at a rate of 90 per cent. Annie dedicated countless hours in educating patients and families on how to use the virtual health systems. She takes the time to make sure patients feel comfortable with virtual health technology in our "new normal", sometimes spending over an hour with patients prior to their appointments. She supported clinicians with the transition with kindness and grace. Her primary focus has always been patient care and she never loses her upbeat attitude. Annie is often praised for her work in supporting patients and staff: "Annie has provided outstanding support for patients and their families, meeting virtually with all patients, sometimes over an hour at a time, prior to their appointments with clinicians to help them set up their technology and teach them how to connect to remove BC Cancer appointments." "Her passion for helping patients have a positive experience with the technology shows her patience, her humour, and her ability to figure out each patient's unique technical setup and level of comfort with computers. She has helped not only BC Cancer - Victoria but also the other cancer centres and the Office of Virtual Health assess multiple products as we work towards the right product and the smoothest workflows." We had a chance to catch up with Annie on her award. 1. Can you tell us about your role at BC Cancer? I have been the program secretary for Clinical Services at BC Cancer - Victoria for the past three years. I have experience in almost every BC Cancer - Victoria clerical role and workflow. My responsibilities include maintaining Ambulatory Care Unit (ACU) schedules, clinician schedules (medical oncologists, radiation oncologists, general practitioners in oncology, nurse practitioners), and payroll for nursing and patient care aides. I am also the contact for all virtual health appointments at BC Cancer - Victoria. I love this part of my job because I always have so much fun with the patients. They are willing to try and troubleshoot with me on the phone. Sometimes when we are connected online, they would even share their home/ocean view with me. Being able to connect with patients in a personal way has been really touching. 2. How did you feel when it was announced that you're a BC Cancer Excellence Award winner? I was surprised although my colleagues and managers have often acknowledged how I have helped them in the past. I felt that I am only doing everyday job so I was surprised when I found out that I received an award. 3. What do you find most rewarding about your job? During COVID, when we were setting up all our providers and clinicians for virtual appointments, I obtained consent from all patients who would like to do virtual visits with our clinicians. Sometimes I felt like I didn't have enough time to get to all the things that I wanted to do but our patients have been very patient. Patients would say "I know you must be so busy right now. Thank you for taking the time to walk me through the steps". Most of our patients are elderly and many of them just need a bit more support with getting set up with virtual health appointments. I do not want them to feel defeated before even trying. I treat them like how I would treat my parents. I would like them to take the opportunity to try virtual appointments at least once with my assistance. 4. What has been your proudest moment at BC Cancer? Before COVID, we were planning an ACU redesign to maximize the space used in clinics and to streamline clinicians' schedules so it will be a smooth transition to CST. Our regional director entrusted me with my knowledge of virtual health appointments and clinical workflow for clerical staff. I was fortunate to attend a couple of meetings with the CST team to give them a list of requests. I felt proud to be the go-to person for this work. 5. Tell us something about you that most people don't know - about a hobby or passion, or something else. I am interested in health information science. In my free time, I like to research medical technology adopted by other countries and discuss it with my manager to see if it is feasible. For example, Taiwan, which is where I came from, has adopted a care card that is micro-chipped. All the information is centralized. Even if the hospitals and clinics are using different platform, all the medical information can easily be uploaded/downloaded from the government. There is no disconnection between different programs. I am especially interested in digital signage, touch LED for self check-in, and mobile app for clinical status. You truly are an Unsung Hero, Annie. Congratulations on your award! The BC Cancer Excellence Awards celebrate the passion and remarkable contributions of BC Cancer staff, and highlight some outstanding examples of how our people are making a difference for British Columbians facing cancer. For more information on our awards, visit bccancer.bc.ca/awards. SOURCE: A hero in advancing virtual care for patients ( )	cc/2023-06/en_middle_0053.json.gz/line115
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__label__cc	0.600467	0.399533	1803: Cato, slave of Elijah Mount 1 comment April 22nd, 2016 Headsman The following confessional and its exhausting run-on sentence arrive courtesy of a pamphlet published at the time and reprinted in Free Blacks, Slaves, and Slaveowners in Civil and Criminal Courts: The Pamphlet Literature. Containing many incidents of his life and conduct not before made public. Faithfully written from his own words, while under sentence of death in prison. LIFE and CONFESSION &c. In offering to the public the following narrative I feel no other interest than the good of mankind, nor have I any other object in view than to caution the careless and unwary against pursuing that vicious course which has been the means of plunging me at this early period of life into that dreadful dilemma in which I am now involved. Altho nature had doomed me to a state of obscurity and degradation, I might have remained happy in this unenviable situation, had not the vicious habits I had contracted in the earlier stages of my youth driven me into excesses which have proved my ruin. Pursued by the hand of justice, I have thus early been arrested in my vicious career: drawn from the deep & solitary recesses of obscurity and debasement, to the bar of justice, I am condemned to recieve [sic] the punishment which my guilt has so justly merited, as a warning and example to those I leave behind. It may be somewhat interesting to those I am about to leave to be informed of the causes which have produced those (to me) dreadful effects. The following pages contain a brief history of my short and wicked life, and such reflections as have been produced in my mind by a retrospective view of my conduct; they are submitted to the public as the last words of a dying sinner. I am this day seventeen years and five weeks old. I was born of African parents; slaves to Mr. Benjamin Ward of Middlesex county State of New-Jersey, in whose family I lived until about four years ago, previous to which my parents purchased their freedom, and left my master’s family. My master was a man of very corrupt and immoral habits, subject to habitual intoxication, and most of the vices which flow from that fertile scource [sic] of human depravity. Among other things he almost totally neglected his family concerns, the consequence was that I and my brothers and sisters were left to govern ourselves, and form such habits and principles as our inclinations led us to pursue. We were not only neglected as to our morals and habits, but were badly provided for with the necessaries of life, our table was but illy supplyed [sic], our cloathing [sic] would scarcely cover our nakedness, much less protect us against the inclemency of the seasons. Thus were we permitted to spend our time in idleness and want, which produced in us an inclination, and afforded us liesure [sic] and opportunities to practise almost all kinds of evil. I was thus in a manner abandoned by my master and only guardian, in a hopeless state of slavery, with no prospect before me to stimulate my ambition, or direct the youthful ardor that glowed in my breast to the pursuit of any laudable object, I sunk even below the degraded station which nature had assigned me. I formed connection with such as were willing to associate with me, those were of course a motly tribe of the most abandoned of the human race, among whom it was my chief ambition to become famous, and it may readily be conjectured what was the measure of fame in a society where wickedness was the standard of merit, and lewdness and profanity esteemed the higest [sic] accomplishments of its members. Hence I became extremely wicked, and subject to almost every vice my tender years were susceptable [sic] of, such as cursing, profane swearing, lying and sabath-breaking [sic; he will repeat this word several times more with the same spelling], with a number of other lewd practice, all which I indulged without restraint, and all my vicious habits increased with my age. My master occasionally chastised me, but this was generally so indiscreetly done, that, instead of a reformation it produced the contrary effect, and I became obstinate and headstrong. In this situation I lived until I was about thirteen years of age, during which time tho’ I indulged in almost all kinds of wickedness which my tender age was capable of, I do not recollect of having committed any thing legally criminal, except, that I once stole a shilling out of a bakers drawer, with which I bought some cake and shared it with my companions, but being detected, I confessed the fact, and was severely chastised for it. At length my master dying, his estate fell into the hands of his heirs, who found it so involved that they were under the necessity of selling the personal property. Among the rest I was sold to Mr. Elijah Mount, who then lived in New-Jersey, but afterwards moved to Charlestown, Montgomery county, state of New-York. I now found my situation entirely changed, my new master was quite the reverse from my old one, he was moral, sober, industrious and frugal, paid great attention to the comfortable support and instruction of his family, nor did he neglect to extend his benevolence to me. He soon laid me under such restraints as in a great measure reformed my external deportment. He totally prohibited my profaneness and instructed me in the principles of christianity, [sic] but, alas! the inbred vicious habits I had contracted in the earlier part of my life, had made such a deep impression on my mind that, altho I found myself under the necessity of complying with his regulations in my conduct, they were far from producing a radical reformation in my principles. On the contrary, I found, that, tho I was constrained to abandon the vicious habits of cursing, profane swearing and sabath=breaking at least publicy, the corrupt principles I had imbibed daily acquired strength as I grew up and became capable of carrying them into effect. I became lewd to that degree that my lasciviousness overleaped all bounds of discretion, and I indulged it in the most wanton and abominable excesses, so that not even the brutal part of the creation escaped the rage of my unruly passions, the innocent lamb and the loathsome swine indiscriminately became its victims. I also extended my lewd desires, to those whom nature had placed above me, I however found the gratification of those desires so obstructed by my debased situation, that I could not flatter myself with a hope of indulging them as a favour. I was therefore impelled by their impetuosity to endeavour to obtain by violence what I could not effect by solicitation, I was rash and inconsiderate, destitute of fortitude and circumspection by which I was soon led into the error that now terminates my existence. The first attempt I made to gratify these lewd desires, was on the body of a young woman in the town of Charlestown whose name for her sake I chuse to with-hold from the public. The circumstances of this nefarious attempt were as follows. It was on a sabath day. I together with some young men of the neighbourhood, who I likewise do not chuse to expose at this time, by publishing their names to the world, were together in an orchard, when this young woman came in. She had by some means or other become obnoxious to them, and soon after she appeared they proposed to me to make an attempt on her chastity, they offering me a small pecuniary compensation, and promised to withdraw to afford me an opportunity, which they accordingly did, while I made the attempt, but I did not succeed, for before I could effect my purpose two of her brothers (small boys) came in sight, and I fled. This transaction was not disclosed, it is probable the young woman who was the subject of it, from motives of modestly declined complaining, or pursuing measures to bring me to justice; and those who were concerned with me and who ought rather to have protected her agianst any violence offered by me, than to have encouraged me in such an abominable attempt,) could have no motive in divulging a crime in which they themselves were so deeply implicated, and by these means I evaded the punishment which I so justly deserved. Having thus escaped with impunity, I felt encouraged to pursue my wicked inclinations, my obscurity however prevented my having many opportunities of indulging my passions. At length however, my attention was attracted by that unfortunate victim of my inordinate passion, who fell a sacrifice to my wantoness, [sic] and ferocity, for which I am now to suffer the just punishment of the law. Her name was Mary Akins, daughter of Mr. Samuel Akins, of Charlestown, in the county of Montgomery. She was a girl of about twelve years of age, her father lived on a part of my master’s farm, she came to my master’s house on the morning of Sunday the thirteenth day of February last, for the purpose of attending public worship, having heard that a minister was to preach there that day, but being disappointed in her object, and the weather stormy, she remained there til the sun about half an hour high in the afternoon, her father lived about half a mile from my master’s, the road leading across the fields, I had formed a design of making an attempt on her chastity and watched an opportunity to follow her undiscovered, which soon offered, and I as readily embraced, I soon overtook her in an obscure place, where we could not be discovered from either house, with a determination of carrying my nefarious purpose into effect, I passed by her, she appearing offended at my presence, accosted me saying “who wants to keep your company you black devil” I replied I was not going to keep her company, upon which she again accosted me in the same manner adding “you black son of a bitch” to which I made the same reply as before and immediately assaulted her, threw her down, and attempted a violation of her chastity but not effecting it I permitted her to rise, as soon as she found herself disengaged she attempted to escape towards my master’s, threatening to have me brought to justice, upon which my guilt beginning to operate on my mind, and dreading the consequences of a discovery, I determined to prevent it by committing a crime still more heinous, and in an instant determined to deprive her of the power of exposing me, by depriving her of her life I had no sooner come to this resolution than I siezed [sic] a small stone which lay in my way, and I could conveniently hold in one hand, by this time she had advanced about ten or twelve yards from the place where I had made the first attempt upon her towards my master’s, I again assaulted and threw her down, struck her with the stone I held in my hand, on the crown of her head with such force as stunned her and blood issued from her mouth and [obscure], in this situation I again attempted to carry my first design into effect, but was again baffled by her incompetency, I then disengaged from her, blood on my feet and threw the same stone with which I had before struck her on the head, this I repeated twice, and then left her in the agonies of death, and expiring, finding some blood on my hands, I washed them and retired towards home, my conscience had however by this time awakened, and the horrors of my guilt began to agitate my mind, but I endeavoured to sooth my waring [sic] conscience with reflections that I had not been discovered, and that the only one privy to this horrid scene had been deprived of the power of discovering it by the very act that now filled my mind with remorse, under those reflections I had [obscure] some distance, when I began to apprehend, that she might perhaps recover, and have strength enough to reach home, or at least to communicate the transaction and discover its agent, to some one who might pass that way, I therefore returned to the place where I had been engaged in this sanguinary scene, and where its subject lay breathing her last (for she yet breathed.) to remove the apprehensions I had entertained of her revival, I placed two rails crosswise on her neck, and the one end of each under the fence by the side of which she lay, having thus secured her against all possibility of recovering, I retired a second time. I now returned home, it being about sunset, and no one having noticed my absence, I went about my work as usual, and in about fifteen minutes her brother came in search of her, I heard him making enquiry for her, and passing by him into the house I familiarly asked him what he would think if he should find her dead? to which he replied that he would be much frightened, little thinking that those words carelessly spoken were to be the means of betraying me, they however made a deeper impression on the mind of the young man than I expected; & in searching for the author of this melancholy event, afforded a clue to discover its author, and fixed the suspicion on me. Soon after the departure of the young man his mother came to my master’s, and informed him that she feared some misfortune had befallen her daughter as her bonnet had been found and she was missing; this excited great consternation, and my master and others went with her in search of her daughter; whom they soon found & carried home. The next morning Mr. Akins came to my master’s and charged me with the crime, informing my master of the grounds of his suspicion: I denied it, but by threats and promises was prevailed upon to confess it at last. I was immediately bound and carried before Benjamin Van Veghten Esq. for examination, where I made the like confession; as I also did before the Coroner’s inquest. I was then committed to jail for my trial which I had on the 24th of March last, a conviction was a matter of course, my sentence was pathetically delivered by the presiding judge, during which awful scene I remained insensible. I have since been benevolently attended by the reverend clergy of different denominations, who merit my warmest acknowledgments for their solicitude for my future happiness, I cannot however flatter myself with a hope of mercy; my approaching dissolution exites dreadful sensations in my mind, which I am unable to suppress; my sentence is just but [obscure] reconcile myself to my fate. The foregoing narrative contains a faithful history of the chief incidents and material transactions of my life, as far as I recollect them; I have no motives to conceal anything; whatever else has been laid to my charge I deny. Hence let masters learn the necessity of paying due attention to the instruction of their servants, had I not been neglected in my youth, I might have escaped this tragical end. Let servants learn obedience and resignation, for had I paid due respect to the admonitions of my late master, and contented myself in my late situation, I might yet have been happy; let them also learn to shun the company of that worthless class of citizens, who being despised by their own society seek that of slaves, these are sure guides to destruction, such were those who offered me a reward to commit a rape. Hence also let parents who profess christianity, (as the parents of these young men did) learn the danger of letting their children stroll about in idleness in such company, especially on sabbath days; and let profaners of that day remark that my worst crimes have been the effects of that sin. In short let every description of sinners learn the danger of deferring repentance to the cross, if they have one favourable instance, they have a cloud of melancholy examples. I feel the necessity of a Saviour, but my heart is a rock at the door of the sepulcher which I am not able to remove, and I stand on the brink of eternity under the gloomy apprehensions of everlasting misery and despair. Johnston Jail, April 22d 1803. Although it sounds as if Cato (or the confessor who obviously composed his testimonial) was pessimistic about the prospects for his everlasting soul, we have firmer information on the unedifying disposition of the youth’s mortal flesh: a Dr. John Ball of Franklinton, Ohio (a settlement today absorbed into the city of Columbus) secured it and kept it in his closet “in order to keep his personal effects secure from the prying eyes of servants. The skeleton was so suspended that should the closet door be opened by one not acquainted with the secret, Cato’s jaws would gnash together and his head would wag in a manner calculated to strike terror into inquisitive female hearts.” 1986: David Funchess, Vietnam War veteran - 2020 1939: Jose Aranguren, Civil Guard general - 2019 Feast Day of Saint Leonides of Alexandria - 2018 1947: Garlon Mickles, the last hanged in Hawaii - 2017 1815: George Lyon, career thief and possible poltergeist - 2015 1831: Charles Gibbs, the pirate - 2014 MMI: Two thousand and one days, a dystopia - 2013 1705: The Camisards Catinat and Ravanel - 2013 1945: Wilhelm Cauer, but not Helmuth Weidling - 2012 1930: William Henry Podmore, inculpated - 2011 1846: The last civil executions in Portugal - 2010 1997: Hostage-takers in Lima - 2009 1980: Thirteen deposed Americo-Liberian officials - 2008 1828: James “Little Jim” Guild 1837: The slave Julius, property of John and Rebecca Matthews 1833: A 13-year-old slave girl 1879: Three botches in three states 1814: Mary Antoine, jealous lover 1858: Henry Jackson, in Decatur 1801: Chloe Entry Filed under: 19th Century,Capital Punishment,Children,Common Criminals,Crime,Death Penalty,Disfavored Minorities,Execution,Hanged,Murder,New York,Public Executions,Racial and Ethnic Minorities,Rape,Slaves,USA Tags: 1800s, 1803, april 22, cato mount, elijah mount, mary akins	cc/2023-06/en_middle_0053.json.gz/line121
__label__cc	0.646237	0.353763	COTUTELA PROGRAMS Cooperative Educational Partnership- COTUTELA Programs It is a partnership signed by an international academic agreement between UNICAMP and a foreign partner university whose main objective is to prepare the master’s or doctoral students to obtain a valid and recognized degree at the two convenient institutions. The agreement allows the student to carry out his Dissertation or Thesis under the responsibility of two advisors: one from Unicamp and the other from the foreign university, and the Dissertation/Thesis is defended only once at one of the universities. After the successful defense of the dissertation/thesis, each University will award the student a diploma granting him/her the title stipulated in the agreement. Both diplomas must mention that the title was obtained under a Cooperative Educational Partnership agreement signed between the two Universities. Students regularly enrolled in a master’s or doctorate course at Unicamp or at a foreign institution can participate in the program. At Unicamp, the Cooperative Educational Partnership is regulated in articles 57 to 60 of the CONSU Resolution A-10/2015. After the initial negotiations between the student, the Brazilian advisor and the foreign advisor, a draft of the agreement should be drawn up, based on the Cooperative Educational Partnership agreement Model, available on the Graduate Affairs Office’s website and taking into account the specific conditions of the partner university established in the Cooperative Educational Partnership agreement Model made available by the foreign university. After preparing this draft, it is suggested that, preliminarily, the electronic version of this document (in Portuguese) be sent to Graduate Affairs Office (PRPG in portuguese – atd.prpg@reitoria.unicamp.br) to verify that what is being agreed between the universities does not violate the provisions of resolution CONSU A-10/2015 – which provides for the General Regulation of Postgraduate Programs at Unicamp. Once the agreement of the terms on the presented draft is verified, the internal procedures must be followed according to the Graduate Affairs Office.	cc/2023-06/en_middle_0053.json.gz/line129
__label__wiki	0.931418	0.931418	Home Article In brief: Senate letter approaches deadline, Brightree beefs up resupply management solution In brief: Senate letter approaches deadline, Brightree beefs up resupply management solution Updated Fri July 7, 2017 WASHINGTON - HME stakeholders have until Tuesday, July 11, to collect signatures for a letter from Sens. John Thune, R-S.D., and Heidi Heitkamp, D-N.D., asking HHS Secretary Tom Price to use his regulatory authority to provide relief from competitive bidding in rural areas. At press time on Friday, 14 senators had signed the letter. A similar letter in the House of Representatives drew 154 signatures. As proof that the letters have an impact, CMS announced June 23 that it would no longer apply bid-related pricing to accessories for complex power wheelchairs, an “ask” in the House letter. “This letter from the U.S. Senate sends a strong and united voice from Congress to HHS and CMS saying DME policy issues need to be made a priority,” VGM stated in a bulletin to members last week. “The remaining senators will not sign unless they hear from their constituents.” Brightree beefs up resupply management solution ATLANTA - Brightree announced last week that it has bought AllCall Connect, a Joliet, Ill.-based provider of live-calling solutions for CPAP patient resupply, its second acquisition in as many months. Brightree says its acquisition of AllCall Connect will allow it to enhance Brightree Connect, its resupply patient contact management solution, with a “turnkey live-call center service with trained experts and proven processes,” according to a press release. “Data has shown us that interactive voice response systems are effective at managing patient outbound calls,” said Matt Mellott, president and CEO of Brightree. “Live outbound calling, combined with Brightree Connect's IntelligentQ technology, is far more impactful in optimizing an HME's CPAP resupply program and providing a better patient experience.” In another move to boost its resupply management solution, Brightree announced in June that it has integrated its technology with VGM Fulfillment's technology, allowing its provider customers to drop-ship supplies directly from VGM Fulfillment's warehouse. Brightree believes resupplies are an important part of compliance to sleep therapy. Research indicates more than 50% of patients that order resupplies on a regular basis sleep more than seven hours per night and more than 80% of them use their therapy seven nights per week, it says. Brightree announced in June that it had bought Conduit Technology, a provider of document and workflow solutions. Conduit Technology's flagship product, Conduit Office, is the engine behind Brightree's MyForms. Last year, Brightree sold to ResMed for $800 million. Airway Oxygen hit by ransomware attack WYOMING, Mich. - Airway Oxygen has experienced a ransomware attack affecting 500,000 individuals, according to the breach portal of the Office for Civil Rights of the Department of Health and Human Services. In a notice to customers, Airway Oxygen said it learned that an unidentified criminal(s) had gained access to its technical infrastructure and installed ransomware to deny the company access to its own data. “We have no indication that any of your protected health information stored on the computer network was accessed and acquired,” it stated in the notice. “Nevertheless, we wanted to provide notice to you so that you would be aware of the situation.” Airway Oxygen said the types of protected health information involved in the breach include full name, home address, birth date, telephone number, diagnosis, type of services provided and health insurance policy numbers. It said no bank account numbers or debit or credit card numbers were exposed in the breach. Since learning of the incident, Airway Oxygen said it has taken steps to secure its internal systems against further intrusion, including scanning the entire internal system; changing passwords for users, vendor accounts and applications; conducting a firewall review; updating and deploying security tools; and installing software to monitor and issue alerts as to suspicious firewall log activity. “We have hired a cyber-security firm to assist in conducting an investigation to assess the case and impact of the breach,” it stated. “In addition, we are identifying further actions to reduce the risk of this situation recurring.” Graham-Field uses grant to increase exposure ATLANTA - Graham-Field has received a $5,000 grant and been named a semi-finalist in the Atlanta Metro Export Challenge, a competition sponsored by JPMorgan Chase, UPS and Partnership Gwinnett. Twenty-eight companies were selected as semi-finalists and each receives a grant to apply toward expenses related to building capacity and activities, according to a press release. “It is an honor to be a winner of the annual Atlanta Metro Export Challenge”, said Ken Spett, president & CEO. “The grant will enable Graham-Field to further expand our international trade show participation to reach new customers.” Graham-Field's Hausted Stretcher and Chair Patient Handling and Lumex Clinical Care Recliner lines are manufactured in the USA. PHS ranks among best workplaces ST. PAUL, Minn. - Pediatric Home Service has been recognized as one of the 2017 Top 150 Minnesota Workplaces for the seventh year in a row. The Star Tribune ranked PHS second out of 109 mid-sized companies, according to a press release. The awards recognize the most progressive companies based on a confidential employee survey measuring benefits, pay, work/life balance and employee engagement. “We want PHS to be an environment that makes employees want to come and stay,” said Mark Hamman, president. “We want them to stay for their entire career, and many of our employees have.” Ottobock backs Invictus Games AUSTIN, Texas - Ottobock Healthcare will support the Invictus Games for the third year in a row, the mobility solutions supplier announced in a press release. Founded by Prince Harry, the games are the only international adaptive sporting event for injured military service members. Events at the games, to be held Sept. 23-30 in Toronto, include archery, indoor rowing, powerlifting, cycling swimming and wheelchair basketball and rugby. Ottobock will provide prosthetic and orthotic technical services for the athletes. “Ottobock has a long history of partnering with international sporting competitions that support athletes with physical challenges reach their goals,” said Matt Swiggum, regional president and CEO for Ottobock North America. “We welcome the opportunity to assist these brave men and women as they compete through sport at the Invictus Games again this year.” Circadiance joins VGM's network PITTSBURGH - Circadiance has joined VGM's network of vendors, increasing the company's access to more than 5,000 independent HME providers. “The partnership between Circadiance and VGM allows Circadiance to reach a large number of HME providers with innovative sleep and respiratory monitoring products,” said David Groll, CEO of Circadiance. As part of the partnership, Circadiance will offer VGM members “an economical ordering advantage,” the company says. Circadiance's brands include the SleepWeaver soft cloth CPAP mask, the NeoPAP high flow respiratory support system, and the SmartMonitor infant apnea monitor. Providers in the news: Keeler's Medical Supply files for bankruptcy, Medicine Shoppe Pharmacy becomes Haag Pharmacy Keeler's Medical Supplyin Yakima, Wash., plans to stay open despite recently filing for bankruptcy, according to the Yakima Herald. Changes in Medicare and Medicaid reimbursement and audits forced the company to file for bankruptcy on June 15, President Chuck Vetsch told the newspaper. Vetsch hopes that filing for bankruptcy will allow the company to negotiate payment plans with its creditors, the newspaper reported. Keeler's sales feel from just under $10 million in 2010 to a little more than $1.6 million in 2016, according to court documents. As of June 1, the company had about $785,000 in assets�The Medicine Shoppe Pharmacy in Emporia, Kan., is now operating under the name Haag Pharmacy, according to the Emporia Gazette. “Anyone in this business has to be willing to change with it,” Amber Haag, owner, told the newspaper. “We feel now is the time to make this change to better prepare us for future opportunities for growth, and to continue to provide exceptional care and services to our patients.” The pharmacy began operating as the Medicine Shoppe in 1993, when owner Don Hill joined the national franchise. People in the news: Laura Williard, Lauren Barranti AAHomecare has promoted Laura Williard to vice president of payer relations. In a bulletin to members, the association credited Williard for “stemming the tide and in some cases reversing further cuts with the help of state associations, utilizing a multi-pronged approach.” AAHomecare says Williard will continue to push and reach out to the Defense Health Agency and contractors to get a CURES fix implemented for Tricare, and will continue to work with state leaders to educate payers like BCBS in a number of states on the impact of using Medicare's competitive bid rates�CHME, a Foster City, Calif.-based HME provider, has named Lauren Barranti executive vice president. Barranti was most recently vice president of managed care at Apria Healthcare. She has more than 20 years of experience working with medical providers, insurers and government agencies to support the healthcare needs of patients across the country. “Lauren very much appreciates the business model that CHME has created and understands our market approach and is excited to help our company continue to expand our business and service even more patients in need,” said Bernie Zimmer, CHME's founder and CEO. Short takes: BOC, QS/1 The Board of Certification/Accreditation has named Harry “J.R.” Brandt as the inaugural recipient of the Jim Newberry Award for Extraordinary Services. BOC says Brandt is a highly respected practitioner and orthotics and prosthetics advocate who played a significant role in BOC's growth and success. A former member and chairman of BOC's board of directors, Brandt was instrumental in developing BOC's accreditation process. The award, launched in 2016 in honor of James Newberry, who passed away that year, recognizes outstanding individuals who perform extraordinary service to BOC and its stakeholders�QS/1 has partnered with Updox to offer Pharmacy Connect, a web-based care coordination suite that helps pharmacies securely exchange patient information with healthcare providers and engage patients. With Pharmacy Connect, a pharmacist can receive clinical files from a physician's electronic health record system and send the patient a secure notification to access an online appointment system for medication therapy management (MTM). Once the MTM is completed, the pharmacist can send a secure message with results back to the physician. Airway Oxygen, AllCall Connect, Brightree, Circadiance, Graham-Field, Ottobock, Pediatric Home Service Ottobock names new CEO, president AUSTIN, Texas – Ottobock and its board of directors has appointed Dr. Wilson P. Constantine as CEO and president of its North American operations. Constantine, a medical device industry veteran with more than 25 years of experience, most recently as president of the... Respiratory triple threat increases demand for providers YARMOUTH, Maine – An early surge in RSV and other respiratory diseases means HME providers are once again being increasingly called on to help hospitals reserve beds for the sickest patients. “It’s definitely the most memorable RSV season in 15 years,”... AOPA names first recipient of Professor Hans Georg Näder Digital O&P Care Award ALEXANDRIA, Va. – The American Orthotic and Prosthetic Association is pleased to announce the recipient of the first Professor Hans Georg Näder Digital O&P Care Award, David Boone, PhD, MPH. The award was established this year by a gift from Ottobock Healthcare in... Remote Captcha 198 Remote Captcha 1360 Remote Captcha 7616	cc/2023-06/en_middle_0053.json.gz/line135
__label__cc	0.705046	0.294954	You are here: Home / News / Industry News / Classification Of Bearings Used In Industrial Robots Classification Of Bearings Used In Industrial Robots With the popularization of automation, industrial robots are also increasingly applied to the production lines and equipment of various enterprises. Today we will introduce the classification and characteristics of knuckle bearings commonly used in industrial robots. Application of bearings in industrial robots Bearings are one of the most critical supporting parts for industrial robots. It is mainly used for a wide range of applications such as robot joints or rotating parts, rotating tables of machining centers, rotating parts of robots, precision rotating tables, medical instruments, and mapping tools. Equal section bearings and crossed roller bearings are the two most common types of bearings in robots. In addition, there are harmonic reducer bearings, linear bearing shaft, rod ends, rod end joint bearings, spherical plain bearings, hydraulic rod ends ; Classification of bearings for industrial robots Thin section bearings refer to the fact that the dimensions of the bearing in the radial and axial sections are equal and the dimensions are relatively thin, while the two dimensions of a normal bearing are not equal. It is mainly used in the case where the size requires the bearing size and cross section to be very small. The thin section realizes a very thin bearing section, and also realizes miniaturization and weight reduction of the product. The diversity of products has expanded its range of uses. In order to obtain low friction torque, high rigidity and good turning accuracy of the bearing, a small outer light steel ball is used. The use of hollow shafts ensures space for weight reduction and wiring. Thin section bearings realize extremely thin bearing end faces, and also reduce the size and weight of products. The diversity of products has expanded its range of uses. Thin section bearings are deep groove ball bearings (C), four-point contact ball bearings (X), angular contact ball bearings (A), these designs are available in different series. The series depends on the size of the cross section, and the ball matches the series. Deep groove ball bearing can support both axial and radial loads. Four-point contact ball bearings can support the main structural forms of bidirectional thin section bearings. Thin section bearings are widely used in aircraft, aerospace, astronomical instruments and clamping equipment, food processing equipment, glass production equipment and rotary tables, machine tools, packaging equipment, medical equipment, optical scanning equipment, radar, satellite communications equipment, textiles Machinery, robotics, and semiconductor manufacturing equipment. This is a special type of bearing with split inner ring and outer ring rotation. The divided inner ring or outer ring is fixed with the cross roller collar after the roller and the spacer are installed to prevent separation, so the operation is simple when installing the cross roller collar. Compared with traditional models, the rigidity is increased by 3 to 4 times. At the same time, because the inner or outer ring of the cross roller bearing has a two-part structure, the bearing clearance can be adjusted, and even if a preload is applied, a high-precision rotary motion can be obtained. Moreover, due to its special structure, it is usually used as a knuckle bearing in industrial robots. The role of bearings in industrial robots is very important. Welcome to buy us all kinds of bearing accessories. GAC..S GAC..T GACZ..S GX..S GX..T GEGZ..ES-2RS COM..T-HCOM..T GEZ..ES GEZ..ES-2RS GEZ..ET-2RS	cc/2023-06/en_middle_0053.json.gz/line141
__label__wiki	0.54933	0.54933	Reynard The Fox by “Willem, die Madoc maecte" We don’t exactly know who wrote the story of Reynard the Fox nearly eight hundred years ago, nor do we know the audience the writer had in mind, but listen to the following excerpt and agree with me that its attraction is timeless and its caustic wit universal. … “Reynard the Fox has been accused by his fellow animals of rape, violence and theft. Tibert the Cat, as a Royal emissary, visits Reynard in his castle to summon him to Court. Tibert is careful, because the previous messenger, the Bear has returned badly maimed from a first encounter with the Fox. Reynard greets Tibert as a friend and listens carefully to the accusation. In the evening, prior to leave for the Court, he proposes to the Cat to steal together a few chickens from the house of the Parish Priest. Tibert has no objection to this, and follows the Fox until they arrive at a hole in the wall of the chicken run. “Be my guest”, says Reynard and points to the hole. Tibert hesitates an instant but as Reynard challenges him with “you’re not afraid, are you?”, the cat puts its head trough the hole and right into the noose the Priest has prepared for the chicken thief. In the commotion, the suffocating cat makes such a fuss, that the Catholic Priest, his wife and his children, come running out of the house. The Priest, straight out of bed, in his joyful haste to catch the thief, is still naked. He and his kin start beating the cat with sticks and stones until the poor animal, who cannot free itself, looses an eye. In a last reflex, the nearly dead cat, hooks its claws into the Priest testicles and rips the pouch open. While the Priest’s wife tries to help her howling husband, the cat gnaws trough the noose and escapes back to the King’s castle, eyeless, limbs broken, barely alive. The sniggering Fox fades back in the dark”. This short satiric piece contains all medieval issues man enjoyed to denounce: (Aristocratic) thieves accusing fellow thieves, debauched Priest telling others how to live their life and the powerful always taking advantage of the weak. Typically, Reynard stories' usual butts are the aristocracy and the clergy. The whole Reynard cycle is a satirical classic. Reynard, the well known anthropomorphic red Fox, an iconic character in medieval literature, has been summoned to the court of King Noble, the Lion, to answer charges brought against him by Isengrim the Wolf. Only after a third emissary is dispatched, the fox agrees to join the Badger to see the King and to defend his cause before the Court. But in his clever and cunning way Reynard fools both King and Queen, takes sadistic revenge on his enemies and escapes with wife and children before the credulous crowds realizes, how the sly Fox took advantage of their stupidity, their cupidity and their gluttony Most of us have grown up with some knowledge about the sly fox’s adventures. Probably you know the children’s version where Reynard is depicted as a young mischievous fox, a sympathetic rascal. But the real Reynard story is not suitable at all for children. Indeed, Disney had years ago attempted to make a movie based on Reynard, but the project was eventually cancelled, due to concerns that he was not suitable as a hero. Few, with the exception of some academics, have ever been told the original story of Reynard and how it should be understood in the context of the 13th century in which it first appeared. Based on the Middle Dutch version of the story (Van den vos Reynaerde) written around 1260 by the elusive “Willem, die Madoc maecte” (Willem who has made Madoc) , the graphic novel Reynard newly translated by René Broens and illustrated by Marc Legendre is setting the record straight. First, the author brings a new translation of the classical text, in modern Dutch, more comprehensible, but in its essence much closer to the 13th – century original. The text has been cleared of the euphemisms and political correctness. The author also restores the rhymed verses (the AA BB scheme) which seem to have been lost in the many updatings and modernizations, but which brings a haunting rhythm to the narration. Secondly, there is a surprising scabrous element included in the illustrations. A Church candle looks like a phallus. The sausage Reynard steals from the Cat looks like a penis. The religious education Reynard gives to Couaert the rabbit looks like a brutal rape. Medieval illustrations invariably show Reynard taking the rabbit from behind while whispering the credo in his long ears. (Uncannily actual if one considers the recent Church scandals). Homosexual fantasies with dog - headed men slip trough the lines. Women have names alluding to loose morals. Priests are married and have children with different women, etc etc. But these desecrations are as much part of medieval lore as are superstition and cruelty. Finally the author presents the Reynard of the 13th-century as an anti- Christ, an unholy man, the opposite of a man of Christ. Reynard lives as a Hermit in his castle, speaks like a priest, travels like a pilgrim, but acts consistently opposite as to what is expected from him as a religious man and the seven Corporal and Spiritual Works of Mercy. Master illustrator Marc Legendre paints all this in a very raw, dark, lugubrious and scabrous style. The pages are dabbed in black and blood red. Legendre gathers his inspiration from the religious iconic paintings of Christianity. Brown the Bear’s badly mutilated face, is drawn like the Christ of Fra Angelico, his face covered with blood under a crown of thorns. Reynard with the noose round his neck is the “Ecce Homo” painted by Andrea Mantegna. The fox between his prisoners comes straight out of a masterpiece by Hieronymus Bosch. In clever compositions made of drawings, photo-shopped pictures and artistic patchwork, Legendre creates fascinating “tableaux” as beautiful as they are shocking. The result is unsettling to say the least. The Artist who gave us the Reynard had not a high opinion of “Man”. With their dark rendering of the true meaning of the Reynard legend, Legendre and Broens viciously hammer down this impression even deeper. A truly impressive book. Labels: review, Willem die Madoc maecte	cc/2023-06/en_middle_0053.json.gz/line144
__label__wiki	0.508399	0.508399	JAN VAN OOST 15 december 2005- 15 march 2006 The Flemish artist, who finds in the symbolism of Wiertz, Spilliaert and Ensor his own linguistic antecedents, lives the pressing presence of Death and represents it, since his first works, through conceptually minimal metaphors, like this broken mirror – where balls are still sticked – which holds the memory of the past. His drawings seem to be references to Artaud collecting fragments of anatomy, debris of bone, nails in a page which becomes the space of a coffin. Nevertheless, in spite of his interest – during his forming years – for the history of madness, it is in the Flemish carnivalesque tradition that we most find the universe of the grotesque in which the human figure reveals its inconsistency. The concept of the end of life is central in his works, often accompanied by the ritual of pain, like a constant warning to accept our condition of mortal beings. The artist feels that the immortality of the human being does not cancel only his individual and ontogenetic capital, but that the philogenetic capital of the mankind is in danger of disappearing. This is why he operates a vibrant denunciation through the visualization of shapes marked with strong humanity, like memory, feeling, femininity, sexuality, past. Tackling interactively with objects that belonged to the human being’s real-life experience, Van Oost “metaphorizes” these signs, intending to throw up an emotion and a regret: the premonition of a total reversibility. This is why Jan Van Oost says: “Irony is the strategic finesse inherent in my works, the complex ambiguity between horror and seduction, between reality and fantasy. Art reveals things that are not usually within one’s consciousness range” and he adds: “my works is a mental theatre which refers to secrets: a project, a conception of life. Autobiographic, but without “biography”, viscerally baroque: a cocktail of human documents.” Gallery PIECE UNIQUE will present at 4, rue Jacques Callot, an original sculpture of Jan Van Oost and at Gallery PIECE UNIQUE VARIATIONS, 26, rue Mazarine a selection of new works of the artist, drawings based on the relation between Eros and Thanatos and sculptures.	cc/2023-06/en_middle_0053.json.gz/line148
__label__wiki	0.712407	0.712407	Jarba: We Presented Our Terms for Going to Geneva… First of Which is No Dialogue with the Regime GENEVA II – WITH OR WITHOUT A PROVEN WAR CRIMINAL ? The Syrian National Coalition President, Ahamd Aweinan Assi al Jarba, confirmed that “some tried to force the Coalition into attending ‘Geneva 2’ as the mandatory route for any international interaction with the Coalition as if the Geneva conference were the revolution’s entrance into the international community so that it may hear our voice and commit to our demands. Because we recognize the seriousness of the situation and the sensitivity of the circumstance just as we recognize Assad’s lie, we decided not to reject Geneva 2 with simply rejection but instead accept it based on terms that ensure its success and prevent the regime from playing on the time factor.” Jarba’s words were stated in a press conference in Istanbul this evening where he referred to a set of terms provided by the Coalition to the international community to the ensure the success of Geneva 2 by leading to the transition of power, holding criminals accountable, and securing necessary justice to ensure security and stability, and the terms are: assuring that there is no dialogue with a criminal regime because a national dialogue happens between nationalists seeking a future for their nation and not between revolutionaries and a traitorous murderous regime that has offered Syria only occupation by militias.” Jarba added, “We requested that before any negotiations a guarantee for oversight be given from Arab and Islamic nations, Saudi Arabia, Qatar, the Emirates, and Jordan, under the auspices of the Arab League. We also reject Iran having any participatory role or to be a channel for any negotiations and in the case that it wanted this then it must pull out its Revolutionary Guard.” Jarba made clear that in the case that the international community was able to secure these terms the proposal (to participate in Geneva 2) would be presented to the institutional framework of the National Coalition to present the proposal to the Supreme Military Council and the Joint Chief of Staff to discuss the proposal with revolutionary factions and return to the General Assembly of the Syrian National Coalition with a decision for approval. (Source: Coalition)	cc/2023-06/en_middle_0053.json.gz/line149
__label__wiki	0.87214	0.87214	Jerry Trainor Teases ‘The Creddie Situation’ Will Get ‘Explored’ in ‘iCarly’ Season 3 Is Carly Shay finally finding love? Jerry Trainor — who reprised his role as Spencer Shay in Paramount+'s iCarly reboot — recently teased to J-14 that “the Creddie situation” will be addressed in the show’s forthcoming third season. Lisa Rose/Paramount+ “I will say season 2 ends with … I don’t want to ruin anything,” the Snow Day reboot star, 45, shares. “Season 2 ends with Freddie breaking up with his girlfriend because she thinks Freddie and Carly are better suited for each other. So, that gets explored.” iCarly stars Miranda Cosgrove as the title character while Nathan Kress plays her BFF and producer, Freddie. The show initially aired on Nickelodeon from 2007 to 2012, and in June 2021, the show returned to Paramount+ with most of the original cast. Now, the stars are back “in it” and gearing up for season 3. However, Jerry stays tight-lipped about any possible plot points. “We pick up the Creddie situation,” he says. “What happens? I don’t know.” The Nickelodeon alum continued to joke that he has “an NDA” and “they’re texting me right now … like, ‘Don’t slip up. Don’t say it.'” That being said, the actor could share that the season 2 “cliffhanger gets paid off … in some way.” While fans have been dying to see Creddie come to life on screen for years, the cast has too … and Jerry’s not the only one wanting these two fictional characters to finally get their chance at love. “I don’t know what happens,” he previously told J-14 while attending the 2022 Kids’ Choice Awards in April. “I’m fine with it. I just don’t want anybody to settle. I want it to be real. I feel like Freddie’s got some stuff to work out.” Nathan, for his part, broke down the second season cliffhanger with J-14 in June and said there’s “no shortage of love” between Carly and Freddie. “It’s just a question of what kind of love are we talking about exactly. Because I know that Freddie has been very upfront since, literally, the first scene of the first episode of iCarly, that he had very strong feelings for her. Obviously, in these last 10 years, since we’ve seen him, he has stifled that — gotten married twice. Hasn’t gone well,” the actor shared. “In the series now, you see maybe glimpses of him, just second guessing this sort of suppression that he’s placed on himself. After so many years of being kind of denied and friend-zoned a little bit — regardless of what he has said over and over again — I think he’s got it in his head that this is just not happening, but he’s also not willing to let Carly go as a friend.” iCarly season 3 premieres in 2023 exclusively on Paramount+! Stream the new iCarly as well as the OG series on Paramount+! Get a 7-day free trial at ParamountPlus.com! More Nick: Paramount+ Renews 'iCarly' For Season 3! Follow NickALive! on Twitter, Reddit, Instagram, Facebook, Google News, Tumblr, via RSS and more for the latest Nickelodeon, Paramount Plus and iCarly News and Highlights! Posted at 12/19/2022 10:23:00 PM Labels: iCarly, Nickelodeon Highlights, Nickelodeon Interviews, Nickelodeon Revivals, Nickelodeon Shows, Nickelodeon Stars, Nickelodeon USA, NickRewind, Paramount Plus 🎄 LIVE: SLIME Yule Log Fireplace 🔥 Merry Christm... Jerry Trainor Teases ‘The Creddie Situation’ Will ... Kid-E-Cats \| New mobile game \| Build a house! \| Fr... 12 Days of Nickmas on Nickelodeon CBS Sports and Nickelodeon to Deliver 'Nickelodeon... Comedy Central Germany to Air 'Roast Battle' Seaso... Week 51, 2022 \| What's On Nick \| Nickelodeon Premi... Nickelodeon Greenlights Musical Multi-Cam Sibling ... Paramount UK to Shutter 'Smithsonian Channel' Line... The PUMA MB.02 Gets Drenched in Nickelodeon Slime ... "12 Days of Spongemas" Music Video 🎄 \| New Sponge... Outer Space DELICIOUS Food Marathon 😋 \| Star Trek... Optimus Prime on the Scene \| Transformers: EarthSp... How To Be A Pro-Bender 🔥 \| Official Rules & Guide... BLUE’S CLUES STEVE BURNS Panel – Steel City Con De... 'Nickmas Is For All Of Us' Music Video w/ Josh Del...	cc/2023-06/en_middle_0053.json.gz/line154

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