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Arts centre gallery exhibit described as confrontational and playful.
Victory Home was created by Jesse Devost
Works by Carl Beam, Stephen Snake discovered earlier this year
Look Up was developed during a Jenni House residency
How We Walk with the Land and Water is all about relationships
More than 50 children submitted artwork featuring things they are grateful for
Murals, sculptures, photography, paintings and vinyl wraps will be added to a number of City of Whitehorse facilities throughout 2021.
The city announced Feb. 22 it had selected 25 art pieces it…
The store, expected to launch this month, is meant to help offset the impacts of COVID-19 on sales
The exhibit at the Yukon Arts Centre features the work of eight young, emerging Indigenous artists


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Polk announces MagniFi Max SR Soundbar & Wireless Speaker System
Polk's most expansive soundbar to date.
Polk Audio has announced its most expansive soundbar to date – the MagniFi MAX SR.
Designed to bring 5.1 surround sound to any home theatre environment, the MagniFi MAX SR boasts Polk Audio’s patented Stereo Dimensional Array (SDA) digital surround technology. In addition, the MagniFi MAX SR is bundled with wireless surround speakers, which automatically connect with the soundbar and help deliver true 5.1 surround sound when paired. Consumers can also purchase the Polk SR1 wireless speakers separately to upgrade their MagniFi MAX sound bar into a full 5.1 surround system.
In addition, the MagniFi MAX SR also features Voice Adjust Technology, which allows users to customise voice levels and integration with Google Home technology so you can connect with any Chromecast audio-enabled device as part of a multi-room or whole home audio solution, with users able to control the sound bar with their voice and stream music from their favourite app. The soundbar is also equipped with Bluetooth for connection to almost any other mobile streaming device. Finally, with Polk’s Smart Remote compatibility, the MagniFi MAX SR is controllable via popular IR TV remotes from Samsung, LG and Sony.
"As soundbars continue to flood the market, consumers with an ear toward traditional surround sound are met with a huge array of products and technologies that supposedly bring 5.1 audio to the forefront,” said Michael Greco, global brand director, Polk Audio. “While many soundbars certainly improve upon what TVs can offer, the majority lack the sound stage, imaging, and discrete immersive surround sound experience of the MagniFi MAX SR. With the MagniFi MAX SR, we’re aiming to change that by providing proven technological tools like Polk’s patented SDA and Voice Adjust technology, Dolby Digital and DTS decoding, HDMI connectivity and wireless surrounds so consumers have the option to create a true 5.1 system that mimics what component audio can deliver with the ease of setting up a soundbar.”
Featuring four 1-inch by 3-inch full-range drivers, two 0.75-inch tweeters, one 1-inch centre channel driver and an included 8-inch ported woofer, the MagniFi MAX SR should boast enough brawn to easily outperform TV speakers and traditional soundbars alike
The soundbar is also outfitted with several preset EQ settings for Movies, Music and Sports, which are designed to optimise the soundbar and subwoofer levels to ensure users get the clearest dialogue, big surround sound and deep bass
The soundbar includes three built-In Ultra HD 4K HDMI (HDCP 2.2) inputs, one HDMI (ARC) output, optical input for TV audio, AUX 3.5mm, Google Home featuring Chromecast for audio, Bluetooth, and Ethernet.
The MagniFi MAX SR is priced at £699 and the MagniFi Max costs £599 and, along with the wireless speakers, will be available in December, 2017 at authorised Polk retailers.
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The 2013 Relay For Life has officially started, complete with its dance party down the aisle following the kickoff celebration on Thursday night at Rolling Hills Casino.
Cochairwomen Twila Cordova and Amanda Bline welcomed the audience, along with Master of Ceremonies Darrin Stewart, and delved into the awards for top teams and sponsors.
The 2012 event raised a total of $132,239, Cordova said.
Top Team, given in recognition of raising the most money, was given to the Presbyterian Church of Red Bluff and Top Youth Team went to Berrendos Field Day.
Survivor and Caregiver Chairwomen Jackie Frazier and Julie Williams spoke about the 11 million cancer survivors and the fact that Relay For Life is all about honoring them.
Relay For Life was started in 1985 by Dr. Gordy Klatt, and came to Red Bluff through resident Debbie Miller, who lost her mother to cancer 16 years ago.
?Cancer never sleeps and that's why we walk for 24 hours to honor you,? Frazier said. ?Every experience is different, but there are common threads including the strength to carry on.?
The caregiver is an important part of the lives of those who have cancer, Williams said.
?We honor you (caregivers) for your loving hands and warm heart,? Williams said.
Honorary Survivor Chairwoman Rhonda Gleason, who is new to Tehama County, shared the story of her journey.
?The best thing about my story is that I'm here whining about it,? Gleason said. ?I come from a long line of people who served in the military, so cancer chose the wrong person to mess with.?
In May 2007, she finished her first Boobie Run and was working for the Red Cross with no idea that things were about to change, Gleason said.
In July 2007, Gleason found a spot in the area of her armpit that set off bells and whistles in hear head, but a visit to the doctor showed nothing on the mammogram and she was told she was too young for cancer, come back if it got bigger, she said.
It wasn't until 10 months later, on her first day of medical school, that she got the news that she had cancer, Gleason said.
At first, all she wanted to do was crawl between two mattresses and hide from the world, she said.
?I began to realize it wasn't just me,? Gleason said. ?This also affects my family.?
Everyone was running up to her saying things like ?I'm sorry my aunt or grandmother died? and Gleason found herself thinking ?Why talk about death? There's so much life and there's a battle to be won or lost,? she said.
Going through her journey has made her appreciate all the volunteers for American Cancer Society including Relay For Life participants who helped her fight back against cancer, Gleason said.
American Cancer Society (ACS) Regional Staff Partner Shelley Gregoire gave an update on progress made.
?I have loved relaying with you for three years,? Gregoire said. ?You're such an incredible bunch.
The American Cancer Society annual report was released today and it shows a 20 percent decline in cancer mortality since the peak in 1995.
That means more than 400 birthdays.
It's news like this that gives me hope that we are making a difference in the fight.?
Gregoire talked about a unique opportunity for anyone who has never had cancer to help out.
The ACS Cancer Prevention Study, which was used to discover a correlation between smoking and lung cancer, is getting ready to start its third study, she said.
Registration for the study, which will be screening participants 4-6 p.m. on April 23, can be done online at cancer.org, Gregoire said.
Stefanie Linsley was introduced as the 2013 Hero of Hope for the Great Valley North region.
Upon hearing the words that she had cancer, she too wanted to crawl between two mattresses, Linsley said.
?I wanted to pretend it didn't happen, but you find a way to fight back and become determined to beat it,? Linsley said.
?I was lucky that mine was caught early because it hurt so I'm thankful it hurt.?
She wasn't 40 yet and normally the first mammograms are not done until women are in their 40s, Linsley said.
Early detection is key and she urged women from 21 to 30 to have an exam done when they get their pap smears every three years, Linsley said.
?Any test that can be done to diagnose cancer I recommend it,? Linsley said. ?That's the thing ? early detection means a better survival rate.
Follow through and get exams even if you're afraid. Stay on top of things.
I think it's all of our dreams that one day there will be no cancer.?
People can help fight cancer by being on the planning committee, being a team captain or participating on a team or as a sponsor.
Fight Back Chairwoman Morgan Franklin ended the evening thanking those present for their help in ridding the world of a horrible disease.
?A huge thank you to you guys,? Franklin said.
?It cannot be said enough.
To everyone here and those who can't be here you are Relay For Life and you make a huge difference.
Some of you are seasoned veterans and some are new, but I guarantee once you are here you will never go back because you are saving lives.?
Franklin said she relays in part because she lost her grandmother to cancer, but also so that no one else has to face the disease.
?At Relay I meet survivors that are two and four years old and I said that's not going to happen anymore,? Franklin said.
?I invite every one of you to join me.?
The next captains meeting is Feb. 15 and the Relay is scheduled for May 18 and 19.
For more information visit the website www.relayforlife.org/redbluffca.
Staff Writer Julie Zeeb can be reached at 527-2153, extension 115, or at firstname.lastname@example.org
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The Otto is a whimsical and fun fat lipped jar ideal for throwing coins in or even planting small succulents. The sky is the limit with these jars and the uses one could come up with. Completely versatile and beautiful in their simplicity, the Otto Glass Vase should be collected and put on display wherever the need for glass vessels arise, and it always does!
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When it comes to BMW's core models, the BMW 3 Series and BMW X1 is most likely to be mentioned. As a core model, it is very important to obtain this 3 series formula correctly. Therefore, let us look at the advantages and disadvantages of this BMW 320i Sport G20.
1. Stable driving power
It is said that the previous BMW 3 Series F30 model has less driving dynamics because it has been adjusted more for comfort. With this new G20 model, BMW will focus more on the “lost” driving power of the F30.
2. More trendy and modern interior
BMW has taken a safe step in the interior of the BMW 3 Series G20. It is more important to evolution than revolution, which is not a bad thing. The layout of the dashboard and center console is simpler and more complex than the F30 that looks more “busy”.
3. Panel gap and consistent paint quality
In our panel gap test and paint quality level, this BMW 3 Series G20 showed consistent readings in both aspects. Although this 3 series is locally installed (CKD), its quality is comparable to German installations.
4. Doesn't look like an entry-level model/low specifications
Usually, floor models start with a body kit that is less sporty and aesthetic, and small wheels with thick tires. This is not the case with this BMW 320i Sport G20, because its body kit looks sporty and elegant. In fact, the size of a 320i wheel is equal to 18i (the size is 18 inches). The only difference is the design.
5. Fashionable and dynamic design
If you look at the appearance of this BMW 3 Series G20, you will find that the design elements of E46, F30 and E92 are integrated into a stylish package. For example, the headlights have grooves in the BMW 3 Series E46 style.
6. The ADAS system has now become a standard configuration
When this car was first launched, many people condemned BMW for not providing ADAS driver assistance systems for the 3 Series models. Please understand, why not provide this important safety system for BMW's premium cars by 2020?
This time you don’t need to worry, because the BMW 3 Series comes with the Driving Assistant package, which includes Lane Change Warning (LCW), Lane Departure Warning (LDW), front collision warning with brake intervention, rear crossroad traffic warning and rear collision prevention Features.
7. The same engine and gearbox as Toyota GR Supra SZ-R
Did you know that the BMW 320i Sport G20 uses the same turbocharged 2.0-liter 4-cylinder B48 engine as the Toyota GR Supra variant SZ-R (RZ uses 6-cylinders)? In fact, they all use 8-speed ZF gearboxes. During our test drive with this BMW, the engine was indeed sufficient, and there was no lack of power.
This 8-speed ZF 8 gearbox can also change gears quickly and smoothly. The speed adjustment is also consistent with the engine speed.
8. Mute level
The mute level is much better than F30. G20 uses soundproof glass, so the road or tire noise is much lower than before, and it can well suppress wind noise. At 110 km/h, the noise meter averages 67 dB.
9. The leg space on the back is spacious and comfortable
In the tennis test on the rear seat, all three tennis balls were located between the driver’s seat and knees (there is more space available!). This means that the rear seats are comfortable regardless of long-distance travel.
10. Although not a new model, iDrive operating system 6 is still very smooth
The iDrive operating system 6 of the 3 series model is intuitive and easy to use. It's also smooth, clean and the menu is well organized.
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By Paul Williams
Subtitled “Evangelism that takes people to Jesus,” this book provides a simple guide to overcoming our fear of talking to people and to finding joy and freedom in sharing the gospel.
Paul Williams asks challenging questions to get to the root cause of the fears that hold us back, showing how irrelevant they are in the light of the glory of the gospel message. “Do not fear what they fear; do not be frightened. But in your hearts set apart Christ as Lord” (1 Peter 3:14-15).
To overcome our fear of people, we need to fear God more, have confidence in the gospel message, and be prepared to answer questions. Williams is gentle in his approach to evangelism, not wishing us to have perfectly crafted messages.
He reminds us that it is not by our own ability that someone is saved, but only through Jesus. In 2 Corinthians 4:5 we read, “we do not preach ourselves, but Jesus Christ as Lord.”
Evangelism can be simple. It all starts with introducing non-Christians to the very thing they need most—Jesus. Since Jesus has revealed himself through the Bible, we can use it to point people to him.
Williams finishes his book with examples of questions that Christians face from their friends. He shows how to answer these questions not by our own knowledge, but by using scriptures that are fully trustworthy and point people to Jesus and the gospel.
Intentional is an easy, short read that has been clearly written. Williams powerfully yet gracefully debunks fears and excuses that hold us back from sharing the gospel, and offers a simple approach grounded in the Bible.
If you or someone you know struggles with having the confidence to talk about the gospel of Jesus, this book is a great place to start.
– Michael Bresler

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Damian Lillard looks to first postseason with Portland
Last season Lillard, the former Weber State star, ran away with the league's Rookie of the Year race, leading all first-year players with a 19-point scoring average.
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Fri Apr 18, 2014
Weber State basketball: Guard Davion Berry impresses at pre-draft Portsmouth
The Portsmouth Invitational has long been a proving ground for elite but obscure college basketball players who for whatever reason have been overlooked by NBA teams and scouts.
Wed Apr 16, 2014
Video: Blazers G Damian Lillard Featured On Fox Sports Live
Lillard was interviewed by fellow Oakland native, Hall of Fame guard Gary Payton.
Tue Apr 15, 2014
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WSU track star aims for Olympics
Weber State University senior Amber Henry Schultz runs in a meet earlier this season.
Mon Apr 14, 2014
Adidas re-signs Damian Lillard to endorsement deal
Adidas announced Monday "a long-term partnership extension" with Trail Blazers point guard Damian Lillard, a re-signing that had been anticipated after the footwear and apparel company was forced to act earlier than it may have planned.
Sun Apr 13, 2014
Lillard's a great ambassador for Utah - too bad he doesn't play for Jazz
Damian Lillard has become such a great ambassador for the state of Utah since coming to play college basketball at Weber State some six years ago that it seems unfortunate the Portland Trail Blazers' All-Star point guard doesn't play for the Jazz.
Sat Apr 12, 2014
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Utah Jazz: Damian Lillard torches Jazz with big fourth quarter
The first 3-pointer that stuck a dagger through the Utah Jazz felt good the moment it left his hands.
Wed Apr 02, 2014
Is Damian Lillard the Perfect Point Guard for Today's NBA?
Steve Nash left the Staples Center floor and headed toward the Los Angeles Lakers locker room long before the Portland Trail Blazers had decided what the final score would be in their 124-112 win on Tuesday night.
Quick: Trail Blazers fans need to take the time to smell the roses and drink the wine. It's been a season for the ages
It's hard to tell how well the Trail Blazers will do in the playoffs. Depends too much on who they play, who is healthy, and whether or not those long-bomb three-pointers are falling.
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It's just a game. It doesn't matter if you win or lose, as long as you try your hardest.


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This week students geared up for finals and ended off semester one.
This week at Wm. E. Hay students were busy preparing for the end of semester one, and the beginning of final exams.
Wm. E. Hay students got back into the routine as they returned from Christmas holidays.
The JV Girls had a tight game last Wednesday night against Lacombe Rams, eventually settling with a 38-30 loss.
Congratulations to the senior girls’ basketball team for winning their game against Rocky Mountain House 45-36.
Last week at Wm. E. Hay the Sr. Girls basketball team had a game against Wetaskiwin.
This past week at Wm. E. Hay was once again a busy one as students geared up for upcoming events and participated in
his week was a short two days at Wm. E. Hay, but it’s sure to be a busy rest of the month.
This week students were gearing up for the five-day break they just enjoyed.
This week was definitely a busy one at Wm. E. Hay as students participated in Challenge Day and buckled down for project week.
The two JV basketball teams from William E. Hay Composite High School hosted the Notre Dame Cougars of Red Deer on Monday night
The CARA curling championships for Clearview junior high students were staged last Thursday in Coronation.
Stettler minor hockey teams are busy on the provincial trail:
The Stettler Minor Lacrosse Association is gearing up for its third box lacrosse season.
The midget female Stettler Storm had a triple-game weekend, resulting in a two wins and one loss in North Central Minor Hockey Association
The grades 9, 10 and 11 science fair was moved to this week, because of last week’s stormy weather.
Since rattling off an 11-game winning streak, the Stettler Lightning have lost three of their past four games
The Stettler Wildcats senior boys’ and girls’ teams played in a season-opening basketball tournament at Rocky Mountain House
Junior badminton is on the rise in Stettler. Club badminton draws players from out of town, marking an enrolment increase in Stettler
This past Thursday, staff from the University of Alberta’s Augustana Campus visited William E. Hay to chat with students who had questions

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Pia Christensen (@AHCJ_Pia) is the managing editor/online services for AHCJ. She manages the content and development of healthjournalism.org, coordinates AHCJ's social media efforts and edits and manages production of association guides, programs and newsletters.
We’re closing in on the end of the year and the inevitable annual lists. We thought this would be a good time to review the blog posts written this year that got the most views. It turns out they cover a wide swath of topics in health care, from careful use of language and covering studies to vaccines and caring for our aging population.
The British Medical Association’s BMJ, one of the oldest and most respected family of medical journals, has launched a tool to better connect journalists with editors at The BMJ’s 70 or so journals.
The BMJ journals are peer reviewed, so there’s quality control and reliable standards at a time when non peer-reviewed and ethically questionable journals are popping up in our online searches. Continue reading →
Cheryl Clark (@CherClarHealth) is AHCJ's core topic leader for patient safety, a MedPage Today contributor and inewsource.org investigative journalist. For most of 27 years, she covered medicine and science for the San Diego Union-Tribune. After taking a buyout in 2008, she became senior quality editor for HealthLeaders Media.
Over the past decade, federal spending of $36 billion to stimulate health providers’ conversion of patient medical records from piles of paper to electronic format was supposed to make care safer and lives easier. It would illuminate epidemiological trends that could stop spread of disease or point to a preventable culprit.
It might even make diagnosis of patient symptoms faster and more accurate. And patients would have easier access to their medical records.
To make sure it did all that, stakeholders were supposed to build a national databank and safety center that would track near misses, injuries and deaths caused by glitches in the system — for example medication or patient record errors — many of which have driven doctors and health systems nearly crazy over the years.
Public employees have the right to speak to the press without going through the boss, but workplace gag orders continue to violate their freedom of speech, says a report from The Brechner Center for Freedom of Information, a nonprofit educational center.
The findings could have particular implications for health care journalists, the center’s director says.
Federal, state or local agencies often impose policies that restrict an employee’s ability to speak with reporters. In a report released in October that examines employees’ First Amendment rights, the center urges news organizations to challenge those rules. Continue reading →
The Association of Health Care Journalists has joined the Society of Professional Journalists and 25 other journalism and open government groups in urging every member of Congress to support unimpeded communication with journalists for all federal employees.
“It is essential to public welfare and democracy that this issue is addressed. Not allowing experts to speak freely to reporters is authoritarian and keeps sources from explaining a variety of things that are the public’s business,” the groups say in a letter sent to Congress members today.
“This ‘Censorship by PIO’ works in tandem with other assaults on free speech including restrictions on public records, threats and physical assaults on reporters, prosecution of whistleblowers and threats of prosecution against reporters.”
Many groups in the coalition of organizations have been working for several years to spark changes in the restrictions put on federal employees and the lack of freedom to speak to journalists. For more than a decade, AHCJ’s Right to Know Committee has pressed federal officials to improve journalists’ access to federal experts.
Tara Haelle (@TaraHaelle) is AHCJ's medical studies core topic leader, guiding journalists through the jargon-filled shorthand of science and research and enabling them to translate the evidence into accurate information.

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Posted July 5, 2013 By Ruth
I’m in the process of updating my blogroll page. Its now become 3 separate pages due to the number of blogs on it.
I know I’m missing blogs that I used to read via the GunBlogBlackList. If you read here, and you know I’ve commented on your blog, and you don’t see your blog on my blogroll please let me know, most likely I wasn’t able to find a link to you currently…..
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Blogroll has been updated with a couple of additions I probly should have added a while back and didn’t.
I also added to my blogroll a link to Ilona Andrews online story Clean Sweep, which they are adding to a piece a week.
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or is the Atomic Nerds down? I’ve not been able to get it to load in days….
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Added a couple more links to the list of things I read online. I’ve been doing this all along with out notice, but I thought today’s additions deserved notice. They’re comic strips.
The first is Retail by Norm Feuti which shoulb be a must read for anyone who’s spent time in retail, or any who hasn’t and wants to know why it works the way it does. My favorite.
The other is Non Sequitor which is hysterically sarcastically funny. I pasted the Shut Up Zone series on my desk at work till management saw it and made me take it down.


Magruder site cleanup will cost more than anticipated
Demolishing the long-vacant Mac Magruder car dealership could cost the city of Palm Springs between $335,000 and $716,000, according to nine bids submitted last week.
The lowest bid is about 10 percent more expensive than an informal cost estimate provided to the City Council last month. Officials and residents have debated whether cleaning up the South Palm Canyon Drive site is the city’s responsibility, as its private landowners have been unwilling to pay for demolition.
The long-empty Chevrolet dealership sits on the Agua Caliente Band of Cahuilla Indians reservation and is controlled by the heirs of Leonard Saubel, Sr.
It’s one of the most notorious eyesores in the city. Officials have attributed numerous fires on the property to homeless people, and a man has been charged with murdering a homeless woman found dead there in February.
Anton’s Service, Inc., of Lakeside submitted the lowest cleanup bid at $335,839, according to a city staff report. That includes work to demolish the building, remove the foundations and install a 6-foot-high fence.
The highest bid — at $716,500 — came from Cutting Edge Concrete Services, Inc., of Oro Grande.
The bids were welcome news to at least one resident who lives near the building about a half-mile south of downtown.
Jonathan Freeman can see the Magruder dealership from his front door. He helped gather nearly 800 signatures for a petition to bring down what he calls “a vagrant hotel.”
“It creates fear for local people when they find themselves in the minority in what seems to be a neighborhood of vagrants,” he said.
Freeman likened the demolition costs to the economic development grants the city uses to spur business.
But Councilwoman Ginny Foat pointed out that economic grant recipients are required to spend their own money, too — which wouldn’t be the case for the Magruder site.
Foat said she hadn’t seen the bids Monday afternoon and hadn’t yet decided whether to support demolition. Any tax revenue from new development there could be years away, she said.
“I have a hard time justifying $300,000 spent on a property that we can’t ever recover the cost,” Foat said.
City leaders on Wednesday will discuss next steps regarding the property at a City Council meeting — the last one until September. Work would take weeks to start even if a bid was approved as the city would have to negotiate a contract with the bidder, City Manager David Ready said Monday.
The job would also pull from the city’s general fund, Ready said.
“Clearly that’s not a budgeted amount. It would be a deficit expenditure,” he said.
The city is still in talks with the Bureau of Indian Affairs over possible next steps if council members balk at the bids, Ready said.
Kia Farhang is a local reporter for The Desert Sun. He can be reached at (760)778- 4625, email@example.com or on Twitter @KiaFarhang.


So, we're officially one-third of the way through the minor league season.
It's time to review who's tearing it up among Orioles minor leaguers (non-prospects too!), and get to know the guys who are raking.
On the mound, Jake Arrieta is making himself a runaway candidate for O's pitcher of the year. He already has six wins, and leads the IL in batting average against. He's top five in strikeouts, innings pitched, and ERA.
At the plate, you'd have to delve way into the lower levels to find players having remarkable seasons. Joe Mahoney at Frederick is having a great season, and Garabez Rosa is heating up at just the right time.
So, let's get to it...


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Newcastle United currently have the world at their feet. With an already strong squad and plenty of further resources at their disposal to bolster it, the future of Tyneside looks very bright indeed.
However, there is more to Newcastle’s positive horizons. They also have a very strong U21 squad, filled with top talents all over the pitch.
But who are the best players in the Toon’s youth setup? We’ve picked out a host of impressive starlets for this list, including a former West Ham United academy graduate.


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Swedes Submit Zarakolu for Peace Prize: Turkish publisher favors
Members of the Swedish Parliaments have submitted Turkish human rights
defender Ragip Zarakolu as a candidate for the 2012 Nobel Peace Prize.
Zarakolu has been sentence to jail several times for articles he
published about the Armenian Genocide and about Turkey’s treatment of
its Kurdish population.
Recently Zarakolu wrote to the Turkish parliament calling on the
lawmakers to acknowledge the Armenian Genocide.
`It is not only an obligation towards the victims but also a duty for
securing healthy way of thinking for the society. The acknowledgement
of the genocide will not belittle Turkey but will strengthen it,’
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Wallace facing six months out
Ireland flanker David Wallace is facing a minimum of six months on the sidelines following the knee injury that ended his World Cup dream.
The 35-year-old flanker suffered serious ligament damage in a tackle by Manu Tuilagi during England's 20-9 warm-up success at the Aviva Stadium on Saturday.
Wallace underwent surgery on the injury in Dublin on Sunday night, with Leinster's Shane Jennings being called in as his replacement in Declan Kidney's squad.
And Munster, Wallace's province, have confirmed in a statement on their website that he "is expected to be sidelined for at least six months".
That diagnosis means Wallace may miss the entire pool stages of the Heineken Cup, which end in January, as well as a significant chunk of the RaboDirect PRO12 season.


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Ideal public school is committed to the cause serving the society and the nation by providing education to all. The philosophy is not only to impart teaching instruction but also to develop right attitude with which an individual can actualize his true potential and contribute meaningfully to the society.
Following flagship of the society, IDEAL PUBLIC SCHOOL ingrains in – depth , respect and tolerance for a varied cultured society and it’s components. It offers life skills and achievements to the leaders of tomorrow.
In its incipient years, has seen ingenuous little ones grow into responsible citizens who have craved an alcove for themselves and the school in the society.
The red brick magnificent building of the school is nested in Kulgachia, overlooking a lush sprawling park. Strengthening the belief of the society, the school is committed of doing different things with a difference and delivering perfect performances year after year.
We would like to thank our managing committee members who believed in our vision to accomplished our quest for excellence and for their love and support.

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The bottom line of what I am reading in Francis MacNutt's book is whether or not I am going to trust God. He says that He loves me, but most of the time I figure that He won't show me. If I think He will show me, I think it will be by simply telling me something to make me feel better, not by taking care of the problem. It is easier for me to believe that my human friends care than for me to believe that God cares. After all, if He doesn't fix my problem, how can I believe that He cares? And if He doesn't care, then surely He won't fix my problem.
But maybe my unbelief and unwillingness to trust Him prevent me from receiving His answer. Maybe they keep me from being open enough for Him to show me that He loves me. Maybe if I stopped denying Him for a moment He could come in and touch me.
This morning I went to a new church. The pastor talked about choosing life and the benefits of intimacy withGod. Lord, I want to be intimate with You. It seems hard to get there. I don't think I've ever been at the point yet where I want more of You every time I spend time with You. There are so many barriers in the way! I want them to come down.
You do not ask me to bear the burden of my own healing or of becoming intimate with You. All You ask is that I be honest with You and seek after You. You don't mind that sometimes it is hard for me to trust, if I am honest with You about my difficulty. You can help me with that. You don't mind that sometimes it is hard for me to understand You if I am honest and ask You for understanding. I feel the need for faith and understanding more than anything else. I don't know what it means to love You. I want You to show me.
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SINGAPORE - Singapore's first reserved presidential election will weigh on the minds of voters when the next general election comes around, said former presidential candidate Tan Cheng Bock on Saturday(Dec 16).
President Halimah Yacob's walkover victory prompted a great outpouring of anger and frustration, and has thrown up a new obstacle for the ruling People's Action Party (PAP), he noted at a forum on the country's political future.
It will affect how people vote at the next general election, he said, in his first full remarks after the presidential election, which was reserved for Malay candidates.
"Singaporeans felt they were deprived of their democratic right to vote for a president of their choice," said the former PAP MP of 26 years, who lost the 2011 presidential election by a razor-thin margin.
"How you capitalise on this is a task for any politician wanting to see a change. And a change can only come if the electorate sends a strong signal by voting for more alternative MPs in Parliament."
Dr Tan repeatedly urged Singaporeans to step forward and help bring about change at the forum, which was part of the Future of Singapore series curated by veteran urban planner Tay Kheng Soon.
An audience of about 150 people quizzed Dr Tan on various topics during a lively two-hour question-and-answer session, ranging from whether he would set up his own political party to whether he would help bring opposition parties together. They included Singapore Democratic Party chairman Paul Tambyah and former National Solidarity Party secretary-general Lim Tean.
Revealing his post-election plans for the first time, the veteran former MP said: "I'll keep my options open, but I would also love to be a mentor to many people who want to go into the political arena."
"I'll teach them the art of winning the elections... I want to be a mentor. I've got knowledge, information. I know how Singapore runs, how it ticks," he added.
He is open to helping aspiring politicians across party lines including those from the PAP, he said, as his objective is to train good MPs who will think of Singapore first, regardless of party affiliation.
Dr Tan added that he has met "quite a few", without elaborating.
Regarding his his constitutional challenge on the timing of the reserved election which was dismissed by the High Court and Court of Appeal, Dr Tan said he took it up as "a concerned citizen".
He hopes to encourage Singaporeans to do the same, and challenge the Government when they feel something is amiss.
He also urged those interested in politics to get a better understanding of bread-and-butter issues such as transport and education.
"Singaporeans need more convincing on how alternative parties can address issues of the day that affect them," he said.
He also gave his thoughts on the current slate of PAP leaders, whom he felt could have more diverse views and backgrounds.
Recalling how then-prime minister Lee Kuan Yew wooed him into politics, Dr Tan said: "I told him frankly I wasn't enamoured with the PAP at all. He said, 'If people like you don't come forward, how are we going to bring the country forward... I don't want yes men'. That's why I went in."
Dr Tan said that he spoke up often in his years as an MP and did not always toe the party line, citing how he had voted against the Nominated MP scheme.
He added that he does not want to set up his own party "just yet", as that would just add to the number of existing political parties here.
Dr Tan was repeatedly asked if he would help rally the various opposition parties together.
These parties have their own agendas, and "too many of them have their pride and will not want to give up their positions", he noted.
But, he said: "My hope is that if all the political parties can come together, I don't mind being your mentor, being your neutral man, to see whether you can come to some understanding."
Ms Felicia Tan, 30, a communications consultant, agreed with Dr Tan that the reserved election could be a pain point for the PAP.
"There was a lot of unhappiness with the PAP in the years before 2011 GE, because they didn't handle population matters well, for example. And voters showed they were unhappy when they went to vote," she said.
" There was a lot of anger over the walkover and the changes to the elected presidency this year too, and I know the election is years away - but it's going to be an anger that will stick with some people even then."


Volunteer firefighters pulled an injured man out of an overturned vehicle Friday in Frakes, Kentucky, after he crawled inside for a Bible.
The Frakes Volunteer Fire Department said the driver believed he was trapped, according to its Facebook page.
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After talking to a gentleman that had called the accident into dispatch, they learned that the occupant had been outside of his vehicle, but had gone back inside to retrieve his Bible. After making contact with the occupant, fire department personnel was able to safely get the driver back out of the vehicle and onto a blanket on the side of the roadway where department EMTs could start assessing his injuries. The individual was complaining with some pain, but was alert and oriented.
Bell County emergency crews arrived on the scene and determined the man needed to be airlifted to a hospital for treatment of serious but non-life-threatening injuries.
“Members of the Frakes Volunteer Fire set up a landing zone at the nearby Bell County Forestry Camp, where the patient was transported to by Bell County EMS. Air Evac arrived on scene and transported the patient to the University of Tennesse Medical Center,” the post read.
The department also shared photos of the overturned vehicle on the side of the road and what appeared to be the blanket:
On April 16th, 2021, at approximately 2:15 pm, the Frakes Volunteer Fire Department was dispatched to a vehicle with…
According to WYMT, family members stated the hospital’s staff later listed the man in stable condition.
The Bell County Kentucky Sheriff’s Department also shared the pictures and report about the incident to its Facebook page on Friday.


The Dell VOSTRO 15 3583 is a nice low-budget laptop that comes with a Full HD touch screen so you can have the best user experience possible. The display is bright and vigorous regardless of the surroundings with a wide range of colors.
It has a high density of 141.2 pixels per inch, which results in better picture and text quality. It also has the Dolby Home Theater Sound System, so you can experience movies and games with loud and clear sound.
Although the laptop comes with 8GB of memory, you can increase it to a maximum of 16 GB. Your system will perform much better and faster by installing additional memory.
It has a fast processor and numeric keyboard, which makes it a good choice for people who are used to carrying their work with them while traveling. The system has a lot of features and is affordable. Read this blog for an overview of the Dell Vostro 15 3583 Laptop.
What is Dell Vostro 15 3583 laptop?
The Dell Vostro 15 3583 laptop is an affordable laptop with great specifications. The system has an Intel Core i7-8565U (eighth generation) processor. The system is supported by 8GB of DDR4 RAM and a 1 TB hard drive.
Dell Vostro 15 dimensions are 380 x 258 x 19.8 mm. This laptop has a screen size of 15.6 inches and comes with a screen resolution of 1920 x 1080 pixels with an LED display.
It has AMD Radeon 520 graphics with 2 GB of memory, you can play moderate graphics games but games with high resolution are not suitable on it.
It is a lightweight laptop that is easy to carry. The Dell Vostro 15 3583 can be on your list if you are looking for a low-budget laptop with more specifications.
Specs List of Dell Vostro 15 3583 Laptop
The Dell Vostro 15 3583 comes with a lot of great features. The specifications list has a large variety. Here is the list of dell Vostro 3583 specs we are going to discuss in the blog.
- Screen Size
- Screen resolution.
- Operating system
- Graphic Card
- Memory type
|1920 x 1080 pixels
|Windows 10 Home Basic (64-bit)
|380 x 258 x 19.8 mm
|AMD Radeon 520
|Full HD LED display
|3 Cell Li-Ion battery
|Laptop with battery, adapter, and user guide.
|45 W AC adapter W
Overview of Dell Vostro 15 3583
If you’re looking for a new laptop, the Dell Vostro 15 3583 is worth considering. The laptop offers a lot of benefits, including
- A great price tag
- A powerful processor
- A full HD display with great image quality
- Long battery life, and fast charging capabilities
The Dell Vostro 15 3583 is definitely a good choice if you want to get an affordable laptop that offers a lot of value for your money. The screen has a resolution of 1,920 x 1,080 pixels and 1366 x 768 pixels on the inside of the screen.
It is an excellent laptop for students and professionals alike. It has all of the features that you need in a laptop and more. You can use it to do your homework or work on your business project.
However, it does have some drawbacks as well. For one thing, the keyboard on this laptop is not as comfortable as some other laptops on the market today.
Another drawback is that this model doesn’t have an optical drive or a touchscreen display.
So if you’re looking for a laptop that will allow you to see everything clearly on your screen without having to squint or strain your eyes, then this is not going to be the best choice for you.
But overall, it is a good laptop if you want a laptop that provides adequate performance for your school or office work.
The best thing is that it is affordable so school or college-going students can easily purchase it. But for stuff like gaming and multi-tasking, it won’t be the best choice.
What Are the Features of Dell Vostro 15 3583?
The Dell Vostro 15 3583 is a mid-range laptop, with a decent configuration, a dedicated GPU (Graphics Processing Unit ), adequate ram, and a fast processor.
These features ensure multitasking very smoothly. Read this blog further to briefly understand the key features of Dell Vostro 15 3583.
Touch Screen Display
You can consider the Dell Vostro 15 3583 if you want a budget laptop without a touch screen. The touch screen features a vigorous and anti-glare display.
You can play games and watch movies in many different colors, including black and white. This laptop has AMD Radeon 520 with 2 GB of video memory.
The touchscreen on this computer is fairly responsive, and its multi-touch capabilities allow you to use more than one finger at once.
You can also drag your finger across the screen to scroll down and scroll up through the pages. This makes it easy to read books with larger text sizes, So this laptop is helpful if you are using it in workplaces. The touch screen is sensitive enough to respond to your fingertips.
Dell Vostro 15 3583 laptop comes initially with 8 GB DDR4 RAM (Random Access Memory) but you can upgrade it to 16 GB SSD memory depending upon your needs. It has a RAM bus speed of 2400 MHz. The laptop comes with 1 TB of hard drive storage and the speed of the hard disk is 5400 RPM. It has only one (1) ram slot.
The main difference between Solid state drives (SSD) and hard disk drives (HDD) is the manner in which data is stored and accessed. SSDs use memory chips while HDDs use mechanical spinning but SSDs perform tasks faster than HDDs and consume less energy.
Data is easier to recover in HDDs rather than SSDs. If you want to add storage to your laptop or PC and the price is not an issue then you should go for SSD.
|Ram Bus Speed
|Hard Disk Storage
|Hard Disk Interface
The battery in your Dell Vostro 15 3583, like any other laptop battery, will eventually drain out. You can charge it frequently to maximize its lifespan. When the laptop is not being used and the battery is removable then try to store the battery separately and try to keep it in a cool and dry place. Try to avoid leaving your laptop in your car or any hot vehicle because the battery can get hot and may swell.
To maximize your battery life, try to charge your laptop as soon as the battery power falls below twenty (20) percent. The battery does not lose power if it is charged regularly. Try not to overcharge your laptop and recharge it before it is fully consumed because it may lessen battery life. The company claims the laptop has a battery life of 8 hours but the estimated battery time ranges from 4.7 hours – 5.1 hours.
Dell Vostro 15 3583 is a good choice for people who wants a low-cost laptop. The processor is fast and smooth for multi-tasking but it has a shorter battery time. Dell Vostro survived five hours in the run-down test which is significantly less than the battery duration of contending laptops of this price range. Last but not least, this model’s battery life is shorter than that of comparable models.
|45 W AC adapter
|Estimated Maximum battery time
|Estimated Minimum Battery time
|Claimed battery time
|is 8 hours.
The audio quality of the Dell Vostro 15 3583 is surprisingly good. It has a built-in speaker, but it can also connect to an external speaker via a 3.5mm jack or line-in. You can also use an external microphone with the laptop via a 3.5mm jack or line-out if you want to record your own voice.
The Dell Vostro 15 3583 is a laptop that has excellent audio quality. It comes with an HD webcam, so you can video chat with friends and family.
It also has Dolby Atmos technology, which makes it possible for the sound to come from all directions at once. This means that you’ll be able to hear what’s going on around you without having to crank up the volume.
The speaker and microphone are both located on the front of the laptop, so they don’t have to be uncomfortable when you’re using it on your lap or on a desk.
The specifications of the speaker are as follows:
|Two Directional Stereo Speakers
|Internal High-Definition Audio
|Speaker amplifier (Internal)
|2 W (RMS) per channel
The CPU is a processor, which is a tiny computer that helps your computer do its job. It’s there to manage the other components of your computer for example the memory, graphic card, hard drive, and RAM so that they can work together to complete tasks.
When you’re using your computer, the CPU will take care of things like calculations, processing data, and streaming content from the internet. The CPU also handles internal programs for your operating system (OS). A processor is known as a good one if it performs tasks more efficiently with lessened response time.
Dell Vostro 15 3583 has an INTEL core i7-8565U processor, which is powerful enough to handle all types of tasks even if they are running at full capacity without any issues. It has a Quad-core Turbo boost processor which increases your performance when multi-tasking.
Quad-core means that it can run more than one process with greater ease at the same time.
The reason that it can handle more than one task at a time makes it ideal. It also has an AMD Radeon 520 graphics card with a memory of 2 GB. It can shoot videos
Dell Vostro 15 3583 is not very good to use for running games with high performance and resolution but it can easily run moderate-resolution games.
|2 GB AMD Radeon 520
Dell Vostro 15 3583–Intel Core I5-8th Generation GPU
Dell Vostro 3583 i5 8th generation processor is ideal for gaming. It has four cores and generates a base clock speed of 2.8 GHz. Additionally, It has a turbo boost speed of 3.8 GHz. This processor is able to handle mid-range games like COD with high resolution, so this processor is absolutely fine for low-resolution gaming. It is more energy efficient as compared to previous generations.
TouchPad and Keyboard
The Dell Vostro 15 3583 has a touchpad that is designed to be used with a mouse. It has a maximum resolution of 1066 by 768 pixels and a resolution of up to 1,024 by 768 pixels in the vertical direction. Its touchpad provides multi-touch that supports four fingers. Its keys are arranged in a grid pattern, and its keys are approximately 1 inch (2.54 cm) high by 2.4 inches (6 cm) wide.
The touch display of the Dell Vostro 15 3583 is not very good. It has a high-speed touchscreen response but it can reduce screen resolution to save battery.
|Number of Keys
|X= 19.05 mm key pitchY= 18.05 mm key pitch
|1066 x 768 pixels1024 x 768 pixels
|4.13 in Width3.14 in Height
|Supports four fingers.
Claim and Warranty
If you have just bought Dell Vostro 15 and you have a question in your mind that does Dell claims a warranty? The answer is Yes, the warranty is for one year which starts from the date of purchase.
Many people have questions regarding how to claim your laptop to DELL. It is very simple! You can either contact the Dell support team through the phone number provided on their website or you can email them at firstname.lastname@example.org. The procedure to claim your device is as follows
- Contact the support team and provide your Dell Vostro 15 3583 serial number, model number, and date of purchase.
- They will assist you in claiming your product within 24 hours or maybe sooner.
- After your request proceeds, you will receive a replacement product in 2 business days.
Dell Vostro 15 3583 is a portable laptop that is easy to carry. It weighs only 2 kilograms. It is light enough for people to easily carry it on their business trips. The dimensions of this laptop are only 380 x 258 x 19.8 mm (LxWxH) and are very thin so it can easily fit into suitcases or backpacks.
The most recent Dell Vostro 15 3583 laptop price is around $644 which was last updated in October 2022. For a laptop with such specifications, it is a fairly budget-friendly laptop. Other laptops in the same range do not provide enough storage speed for work purposes.
Pros and Cons of Dell Vostro 15 3583
It is an adequate system but maybe not the best option. Its portability and affordability are excellent. If you want to buy a laptop with a lot of features and low prices this is the best option available.
We have listed a few pros and cons of this Dell Vostro laptop as follows.
- The laptop has an Intel-based core i7 processor which makes it a fairly fast processor to perform tasks even in multitasking too.
- The Laptop has quite an impressive 15.6 inches screen size which can be more helpful for people using it in schools or workplaces. With a larger screen size, it is easy to work on multiple documents at the same time.
- The laptop has a Full HD display (1920 x 1080) which gives a better experience in watching a movie or playing games.
- It is a budget-friendly laptop that comes with a lot of built-in features.
- Relatively smaller battery time as compared to other models in this price bracket.
- Performance is not good when playing high-performance and resolution games.
- This laptop is not good enough for gaming.
What is the best Dell Vostro laptop?
Dell’s 16-inch Vostro 7620 is considered the best Vostro laptop and one of the best laptop dell has ever made in the market. It is because it provides the best mixture of features, performance, and price.
Are Vostro and Inspiron the same laptops?
No, these are different series aimed to serve different markets. Vostro is an affordable series used for office work and small businesses whereas Inspiron is for home users.
Are Vostro laptops good for gaming?
Laptops like Dell Vostro 3446 which have a Core i3 4005U and an NVIDIA GT 820M Graphics Card can be used for mid-range games but Dell Vostro 15 3583 does not provide a good frame rate and storage speed, hence it is not good for gaming.
When was the dell Vostro 15 release date?
Dell Vostro 15 3583 was released between 23 rd July 2019 and December 2020.
Does Dell Vostro 15 3583 has a plastic body?
The lid and edges of Dell Vostro 15 are made up of an aluminum surface but the rest of its body is made up of plastic. This combination of metal and plastic gives it an elegant appearance.
Overall, the Dell Vostro 15 3583 is one of the best dell laptops with impressive specifications, a nice design, and a long-lasting battery.
It is an excellent choice for everyday use and traveling. It has everything that you need in a machine and has the best performance possible.
The screen and camera quality are really impressive and make it a good choice for entertainment purposes as well. You will not regret purchasing this laptop.
If you are looking for a reasonable laptop that has a pleasing design and offers you a decent speed then go for this masterpiece because it is an affordable option for you.


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American Transmission Co. announced Tuesday that they have filed an application with the state to rebuild an aging transmission line that is partly in Western Kenosha County.
From a statement from the company:
American Transmission Co. today filed an application with the Public Service Commission of Wisconsin to rebuild a 12.5 mile, 138,000-volt transmission line in western Kenosha County. The proposed Paris-Albers Rebuild Project will run from the Paris Substation in Paris, Wis., to the Albers substation in Kenosha, Wis. The project will involve stringing new wires and replacing aging wood transmission poles with new wood and steel poles. No new right-of-way is needed and the new poles will be placed within a few feet of the existing poles. “The project is estimated to cost $12.2 million and is needed to help ensure safe and reliable transmission operations in the future and adequate clearances to the ground,” said Mary Carpenter, senior local relations representative for ATC. If the project is approved, construction will begin in late 2014 to meet an in-service date of early 2015. Additional details will be available on the PSC’s website under Docket No. 137-CE-174. A map of the proposed project and additional information can be found at www.atc-projects.com.
Here is a map of the Paris-Albers Rebuild Project. If approved, construction on this project could start this fall.
Also, ATC recently announced through a mailing to nearby property owners that two route options for a Salem to Lake Geneva electric transmission line are being finalized and should be soon revealed at two open houses in March.
The open houses regarding the Spring Valley-North Lake Geneva Electic eliability Project will be held:
- March 11, 3 to 7 p.m. at Marino’s Country Aire Banquet Hall 34816 Geneva Road, New Munster.
- March 12, 3 to 7 p.m. at Hawk’s View Golf Club 7377 Krueger Road, Lake Geneva.
ATC said in the mailing that an updated project map will be available at atc-projects.com starting Feb. 24.
The Spring Valley-North Lake Geneva project as proposed includes:
Construction of a new 138,000-volt transmission line of approximately 25 miles, stretching from the existing North Lake Geneva Substation in southern Walworth County to the existing Spring Valley Substation in western Kenosha County.
- Construction of a new electric substation near Twin Lakes.
- Construction of a new 69,000-volt transmission line that will connect the new substation to the existing substation in Twin Lakes.
- A rebuild of the existing 69-kV transmission line from the Katzenberg Substation to the Twin Lakes Substation, along with other area maintenance work.
Paddock Lake officials said at a Village Board meeting last week that village representatives were to meet with ATC officials last week about the village’s ideas about the transmission line route. A map of the route options as presented at open houses last year is here.


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At the peak of their popularity, each one of these celebrities could have slept with pretty much anyone they wanted.
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Cystic mesenchymal hamartoma is an extremely rare, benign tumor. Rapid growth to a giant size can pose a threat not only in early childhood but also during fetal life. The experience with 2 antenatally diagnosed giant hepatic cysts with widely disparate approaches to management, treatment, and outcome is presented. A giant hepatic cyst was diagnosed on routine screening ultrasound scan. Because of its extremely massive size, the cyst was treated in utero with repeated aspirations, primarily for obstetric considerations. The infant did well, and the lesion was excised laparoscopically during the neonatal period. A second fetus with a giant hepatic cyst was not treated in utero, and the pregnancy continued to term. Nonimmune hydrops fetalis developed, and the fetus was delivered prematurely at 34 weeks. At birth, the infant was noted to have diffuse neurologic injury and no urine output despite normal-appearing kidneys. The lesion was excised during the neonatal period by open laparotomy. Observations at the time of surgery and pathologic studies of the placenta showed aneurysmal dilatation of the placental veins suggesting in utero compression of the fetal intraabdominal umbilical vein. The infant died shortly after birth. The experience with these 2 cases suggests the possibility that giant mesenchymal hamartoma diagnosed in utero may cause umbilical venous obstruction leading to ischemia during fetal life. Decompression of giant hepatic cysts may reverse this phenomenon and allow normal fetal development.
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Traffic vs. WeatherAs much as a lot of people follow @MMDA (1.24M) to receive updates on traffic, @dost_pagasa has much more followers with 1.64 million receiving status updates on the weather. However, despite the large gap, @MMDA follows more accounts than @dost_pagasa, though considering their millions of followers, they have a very low following count (42 and 14).
In terms of engagement for the month of October 2014, both considerably sustain the same amount of effort. With regards to mentions though, @MMDA gets much more mentions, which makes sense since there are much more traffic activity and updates than storm activity in a day. Lastly, @MMDA tweets most on Thursdays at 7pm (which is peak hour in traffic) while @dost_pagasa is at 11pm (which is one of their standard times for providing a storm update).


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The House of Representatives on Tuesday asked the National Electricity Regulatory Commission to immediately stop distribution companies from further increase in electricity tariff.
This came up during plenary as the House summoned NERC and the Discos to appear before it to answer questions on the issue to ensure Nigerians were not short changed.
The resolution emanated from a motion sponsored by Solomon Maren (PDP-Plateau Mangu/Bokkos) on the need to arrest the proposed “unrealistic upward review of electricity tariff” by the distribution companies.
Mr. Maren expressed concern that power generation and distribution in the country was in a state of comatose leading to the closure of industries causing unemployment and hampered development of Small Medium Enterprises (SMEs).
He explained that though the House had resolved against the further collection of flat rates termed illegal and not in tandem with best practices, Discos had begun devising other means of collecting monies from Nigerians.
“In many parts of the world, electricity tariffs are reducing due to fallen oil prices as much of electricity is generated by gas which is a component of crude.
“If not checked, these unwholesome practices will continue to the detriment of the Nigerian masses which will also slow down the development of SMEs which spur industrial development.
“Discos took over the distribution of electricity from PHCN close to two years now, what have they added to the sector since they took over that warrants increase in tariff,’’ Maren asked.
The motion was unanimously adopted by the House presided by the Deputy Speaker, Suleiman Lasun.
Mr. Lasun advised NERC and the Discos to immediately begin the provision of prepaid metres to every consumer nationwide.
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You know it’s going to be a good day when we get a new visual from our favorite Icy Girl, Saweetie. “Icy Girl: Charging by the minute cause her time is really pricey.”
Bay-area raptress, Saweetie popped off the week with the release of her new visual, “ANTI”, a freestyle over @SOBxRBE’s song of the same name.
The grainy visual is directed by Bana Bongolan and Soben Phy. The video depicts Saweetie and her friends having a girls night out at Moonlight Rollerway in Glendale, Calif.
In “ANTI” Saweetie raps, “Love my attitude so he call me lil’ brat, brat. He love me long time. Cause his cash. Yeah I match that. Never took an L, lesson learned, and I bounced back.”
Saweetie stated in an Instagram caption that all of the gorgeous girls in the video with started with her from the bottom-oh and they’re all graduates of The University of Southern California.
Saweetie’s official EP, High Maintenance, is scheduled to be released March 16th. The EP is said to be produced by Cash Money AP and her very own cousin, Zaytoven!
Saweetie stated in a tweet that ANTI will be her last freestyle. All of the songs on her EP will be original content.
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After signing with Warner Bros earlier this year, Saweetie has officially put her talent on the map. And we couldn’t be more excited about Saweetie’s promising career. She is a fresh face with a headstrong personality and that’s needed in the rap game.
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Seeing You With Open Eyes
They work together seamlessly, operate in such fluid tandem in the field and in the office, undercover and during operations, that it makes perfect sense they would fit together here, like this. Callen/Kensi. A love story in seven parts.
A/N: I started this story sometime last year and just got around to finishing it now. This is a Callen/Kensi story, and while I recognize this is a pretty peripheral pairing, there has always been something about these two together that has intrigued me. I hope there are still some Callen/Kensi fans out there, and if you are not one and choose to read this, I hope you can still respect my pairing choice. This takes place through seasons 3 and 4, beginning with "Crimeleon."
"Sometimes you find them, or sometimes they find you. You just have to keep your eyes open." –Henrietta Lange ("Imposters", 2.23)
It's the tattoos.
Kensi is used to being used as bait. Lord knows, they had done enough of these ops, and she puts up with them with good humor. After all, these were the kind of ops that (usually) required a girl, and last she checked she was the only one who fit the profile on the team.
The stubborn, independent feminist inside her is inclined to take offense at being dangled like a juicy worm on a hook, but as she sashays into the Edison downtown, leaving a trail of turning heads in her wake, a part of her feels a delicious excitement. Most ops of this nature required her to blend in with the rest of the crowd, dress correspondingly to what other women were wearing, but tonight, the tattoos snaking sinuously up the length of her legs, twining across her shoulder blades and down her arms, framed by the plunging back of the Hetty-approved dress that clung to her every curve, had her on display like a peacock in heat. Kensi would be lying if she said a part of her didn't secretly enjoy it, the appreciative, heated looks sent her way by both male and female alike, fueling the rush of seductive power that runs through her. This job didn't leave her much time to enjoy the perks of being a beautiful woman in a city like Los Angeles, and if she had to rely on an undercover op to dress up and act like a normal, young, single woman, then she was damn well going to take what pleasure she could from it.
Case in point: within seconds of sitting down at the bar, a suave, handsome stranger approaches her and buys her a drink. She knows they're here to catch a killer, a deadly chameleon who could look like anyone, but her instincts aren't screaming at her when this guy looks her in the eye and hey, he was cute. Kensi knows Deeks is somewhere behind her and she can sense Callen watching her from across the bar, looking dark and dangerous in black, and she cheekily turns up the charm.
"Not him. I shot the guy in the face, he should have a scar on his right jaw. Cut him loose," she hears Callen tell her through her earwig. He's right but she protests a little just to needle him, and she can feel his eyes bore into her across the distance. Kensi meets his gaze for a quick moment and the strange intensity she sees there rattles her for a split second, sends an unexpected, illicit thrill coursing up her spine.
Callen turns away the next second, feigning disinterest and commanding curtly into his drink, "Lose him."
Kensi tamps down her flash of annoyance and does so without preamble. She hears Deeks chuckle and looks back at Callen, shooting him an are you satisfied? look, and sees him glancing down at the bar, trying to hide a smirk. She should have known Deeks would have a quick comeback to her play, and she rolls her eyes good-naturedly at the familiar, deliberate flirtation and cockiness in his reply.
"We could be in the car right now heading home, you'd be drunk, sitting on my lap, telling me how I'm gonna wake up with bite marks on my neck," Deeks taunts shamelessly.
To her irritation the image he paints sticks in her mind, and involuntarily she pictures herself draped across Deeks' lap as he drives them back to his place, pressing open-mouthed kisses against his neck. But just as quickly the hand that is draped suggestively across her thighs turns into Callen's hand, and she imagines what it would feel like to nuzzle her face against the rough stubble of his jaw, run her hands across the short strands of his hair.
Where the fuck did that just come from? Kensi shakes herself violently and tunes back in to hear Deeks loudly declare that she wasn't his type.
"I am too your type," Kensi retorts automatically, and immediately wants to smack herself. She hadn't meant it the way it had come out, only meant that with the way she looked tonight, hell, she'd be anyone's type, and he'd be damn lucky if someone like her chose to go home with him and he'd do well to know it. Of course, it doesn't come out that way, and of course, Deeks seizes it and runs a mile with it.
"I'm sorry – what? Can I just get confirmation that we just heard that?" Even through her earpiece Kensi can hear the unbearable smugness in Deek's voice.
"I heard it," Sam responds.
"I heard it too," Callen says in that aloof, impatient tone of his, and Kensi suspects that she's just handed the boys fuel to tease her with for weeks to come.
"Kens." Callen's nickname for her has her looking up at him, and he meets her gaze directly. "Take a walk. Let's get you a little more exposure."
"You got it." Kensi gets up lithely from her seat, still grasping her drink, and brazenly saunters her way through the crowded club. She knows Deeks has his eyes peeled on her every move from his new vantage point by the bar and it's her turn now to be smug, but it's the knowledge that Callen is a few steps behind her, eyes drilling a hole against her bared back, that sends that startling flush rippling across her body.
She hears Callen and Sam comment on an admirer and jerks around in time to see the blonde creep following her turn and bolt at the sight of Callen.
"I think I might have scared him off," Callen says, catching her eyes, and Kensi can read a brief second of reluctance to leave her before he moves to follow the guy.
"I'll powder my nose until you get back."
She heads to the restroom and finds herself puzzling over the disconcerting way her body has been reacting to Callen's presence tonight, trying to figure out where it's coming from. Callen and her are colleagues, friends, have been for a long time, and yes, there may have been a time when she had a bit of a crush on him when she was a rookie and first joined NCIS, but that was partly due to her being young and impressionable and the sheer legend and mystery that surrounded him. He was a chameleon in his own right, one of the best operators NCIS had ever seen, a ghost – a man with a letter for a first name and no past. She looked up to him as a mentor, a leader, and now, a colleague. She's since lost count of the number of times they've gone undercover together and had to depend on each other for survival, and while Kensi knows she cares greatly about him, it's been a while since she examined those feelings closely and dismissed them as anything more than the distinct bond formed between teammates. But tonight – she doesn't know if it's the situation or the nature of this particular op, being put on display and attracting such blatant male attention, including those of her teammates – something about the way Callen's gaze raked over her tattooed skin has her responding in unsettling ways.
Kensi is so engrossed in her thoughts that she doesn't notice the tall, bearded man until he's nearly behind her, and then she silently berates herself for her momentary lapse in vigilance. This is an op, she reminds herself.
The man moves fast, and as he ushers her through the back door of the bar and shoves her against an alley gate, pushing himself against her, Kensi finds herself caught unawares for the second time that night. The role of seductress is almost second-nature to her by now, but she's only ever had to go so far in the ops like this she's done; never had a stranger thrusting his tongue down her throat and forcing his hands under the hem of her short dress in a dingy, deserted back alley. He smells of cigarettes and tastes like ash and hard liquor, and his hand trailing up her thigh is harsh and unyielding. Earlier in the day she told Kallstrom that she would be prepared to kill without hesitation, and in the back of her mind Kensi knows she could probably kick this guy's ass twenty times from here to Tijuana, but the fact that she's actually being sexually assaulted right now shocks her senses into momentary paralysis.
She barely hears the snap of the switchblade he pulls out before Sam bowls into them, sending the guy to his knees with a brutal punch to his lower back. Kensi steps quickly to the side and tries desperately to clear her head, to focus, and when Callen bursts out the door, Deeks on his heels, she grips Callen's shoulder briefly in instinctive relief. Callen's gaze lands on her swiftly, coolly appraising, before he reaches over and grabs her assailant's head forcibly, twisting his face, checking for a scar.
"You okay?" Deeks asks her, and she can hear the concern in his voice, except this is when the adrenaline finally starts to hit her.
"Yeah. I'm fine," she tells him tersely, and watches as Sam and Callen search the guy, trying to regain her mask of cold impassivity.
Until the guy – Rinaldo Maggio – tells them that he answered a personal ad that paid him to take her outside and cut off her panties. That's when the disgust and revulsion sink in fully and Kensi covers her mouth at the realization at how close she had been to –
"He set us up. He wanted us to be here." Callen's voice dawns with realization at DeGramont's ploy and his face takes on the familiar preoccupied, dogged expression where he's rapidly scanning and assessing for potential threats.
With a shove, Sam sends Rinaldo stumbling towards Deeks. "Take him home. Get his laptop, check his story."
Callen barely spares her a glance as she and Deeks head towards the car, and Kensi manhandles Rinaldo a bit more roughly than necessary into the backseat of Callen's sleek Aston Martin when the valet finally pulls it up. To his credit, the guy has the good sense to avoid so much as taking another peep at her, judging by the death glares Deeks shoots him in the rearview mirror anytime he has the audacity to glance up.
Unfortunately, Rinaldo's story checks out, and they are forced to let him go at his apartment after sending Eric the requisite information. On the drive back to OSP, Kensi tries to erase the feeling and taste of Rinaldo's mouth on hers and attempts not to be sickened by her own inability to react more swiftly and appropriately. Kensi has plenty of confidence in her skills and abilities, and if there was one thing she's learned on the job, it was that it was no good to second-guess oneself after an operation. Things happened in the heat of the moment and you had to make split-second decisions in the middle of full-throttle action that made them fruitless to try and over-analyze later. Except – tonight, she didn't really make a decision or take any action at all. All things considered, the night's op turned out to be pretty tame – no bullets exchanged, she wasn't hurt, not really, and even though they didn't get their guy, they might be one step closer to finding him. However, Kensi is left with the realization that while she could be cool as a cucumber in the face of flying bullets, when confronted with a situation that probably happened way more often than she felt comfortable thinking about to defenseless women everywhere, she – strong, independent Kensi – had fucking frozen and had to have Sam come to her rescue.
The disappointment and guilt leaves an acrid, stinging taste in the back of her mouth, and she can't shake a mental image of Rinaldo with a knife to her throat, slowly ripping her underwear off. She can't help the involuntary shudder that spasms through her, and Deeks doesn't miss it.
"Hey," he says, laying a hand gently on her arm. "It's okay. You're okay."
She smiles at him faintly, feeling a sudden rush of gratitude for the solidness of his presence next to her. Before long they're driving into OSP and she's inside ripping the dress over her head in the changing area, wanting nothing more than to be rid of it and changed into her regular, unassuming jeans and T-shirt. She wants to go home to her shower, scrub herself until her skin is pink and raw, tattoo-less, until she can wash the smells and tastes of this night right out of her skin. Then she wants to pass out until she has to come back in and possibly have to do this all over again.
It's already past midnight by the time she grabs her bag and swings out of OSP, but she bumps into Deeks by the entrance and he grabs her arm, steadies her slightly. "Let me drive you home," he says, and his eyes are earnest and insistent. It's been a long night, and Kensi nods, following her partner out to his car.
Deeks drives in silence for a while, but he keeps sneaking glances at her out of the corners of his eyes until Kensi finally snaps, "What?"
Deeks looks sheepish. "Just…I'm here if you know, if you want to talk about it."
Kensi swings her gaze back out the window, to the view of miles of uncharacteristically empty highway stretching before them. "What's there to talk about?"
"I know there's something bothering you, and I know when you say you're 'fine', you're really not," Deeks continues resolutely, oblivious to her attempt to shut him down. "I'm your partner."
Kensi sighs. Deeks is her partner, but the reason they worked so well thus far was because the depth of their interaction consisted of banter, teasing, and the underlying, flippant flirtation that was so pervasive in their relationship. They didn't delve beneath the surface – like the way they avoided addressing whatever the "thing" was that was between them. They didn't share personal details with each other, and Kensi preferred it that way. Hell, she rarely shared private information with anyone, and she didn't see it changing with Deeks.
Despite how much she liked to complain about him, Kensi truly appreciated her partner for his levity, for his ability to make her laugh in any given situation, for his capacity to bring some light to her dark corners. She wanted to keep it like that, for a while; didn't think they were anywhere near the relationship Sam and Callen had, able to understand each other on an instinctive level. Truth be told, she didn't even understand how it was possible to reach that level of partnership, or what it took.
"Deeks," Kensi replies, flashing him a reassuring smile. "Thanks for your concern, but I'm fine–" She realizes what she's just said and huffs out a breath ruefully. "I'm good. Really. There's nothing to talk about."
Her partner remains mute, surprisingly, and it isn't until he pulls up to her apartment block that he finally speaks.
"Want me to come in? We could watch some Top Model reruns, you could demonstrate some of those bite marks I was talking about earlier," Deeks waggles his eyebrows and grins at her, and just as suddenly their old dynamic is back in place, and Kensi feels another rush of gratitude towards him.
"For the record, you totally could not have picked me up, I'm so completely out of your league, and don't think you're coming inside again for a long time," Kensi retorts teasingly, but squeezes his arm softly before she gets out of the car.
Deeks rolls down the window and looks out at her for a moment, eyes searching. "You sure you're going to be okay?"
"Yes," Kensi rolls her eyes. "I'll see you tomorrow, Deeks."
She knows he's watching her as she makes her way up the steps, waiting to see her enter her apartment before he pulls away from the curb, but she doesn't glance back. Kensi heads straight for her shower, and she stays in there for a long time, letting the steam and heat and the scent of her soap cleanse the remnants of the night away. She droops against the bright tiles of the stall, allowing her muscles to finally relax under the pounding stream from her showerhead, watching the water swirl away in rivulets down the drain.
When she's done, she wraps a towel around herself and steps out into her living room to find Callen sprawled on her couch, flipping through his phone. He looks up at her entrance, raises an eyebrow at her outfit but doesn't say anything.
Kensi starts in surprise, only to discover an immediate sense of ease and reassurance flooding through her at the sight of him, a reaction that she wants to avoid thinking too long and hard about at the moment.
"G, what's up?" Kensi asks in greeting, as if it's the most natural thing in the world for her to find him sitting in her apartment at 1 a.m.
Callen looks amused at her question, and he nods at the door. "Sorry, I knocked but you were obviously showering. Let myself in."
Kensi is fairly certain he probably picked her lock but can't find it in herself to be annoyed about it just now as she pads into her tiny kitchen. "Do you want something to drink?"
"No," he says, although he follows her into the small space, leaning against her refrigerator. "Kallstrom's dead."
"What?" Kensi straightens up quickly, tucking the towel more securely around herself.
Callen fills her in about the video and the follow-up calls he and Sam made after she and Deeks left. "We need to be back at OSP in a few hours."
"Okay." Kensi rubs her face tiredly, then glances at him, notices the way his eyes are startling blue in the fluorescent light of her kitchen, the way they're roving over the tattoos still inked across her arms, and all of a sudden she is achingly alert and acutely aware of his proximity to her. Without warning he takes a step forward and reaches a hand towards her arm, fingers hovering hesitantly over the area where the tribal design snaked around behind her shoulder.
"Couldn't wash these off?" His voice is low, quiet, and against her volition Kensi's heartbeat quickens against her chest.
"Makeup artist said it might take a few days to come off." Kensi nearly jumps as his fingers make contact with her skin, at the electricity that sizzles from his fingertips straight to somewhere in her gut.
"Callen," she manages to bite out, trying in vain to ignore the humming of her body. "Were you just here to tell me about Kallstrom? You could have just called." Her voice sounds entirely too high-pitched to her own ears.
He shrugs noncommittally. "I was in the neighborhood."
Kensi quirks an eyebrow at him, waiting. He meets her eyes and sighs. "Guess I wanted to make sure you were okay. I know the op tonight might have been…uncomfortable."
Kensi focuses on his words and feels a sharp surge of irritation rise to the surface. "What's with you boys tonight? I don't need you and Deeks asking me if I'm okay every five minutes, checking to see if I'm going to fall apart – I don't need you guys coming to my rescue, because I'm sure as hell not some damsel in distress."
Kensi's words come out jagged and she glares at the man in front of her, but he merely stares at her in silence, and after a moment the discerning blue of his eyes has her dropping her gaze and exhaling a long breath. It was hard to hide from Callen, especially when she was in the direct path of that knowing, shrewd look of his. It was part of the reason they worked so well together in the field, why they could communicate tacitly with a single look. On some fundamental level they understood each other: understood the walls each threw up as impenetrable defenses; understood the gaping holes that lay behind those walls. But with Callen, Kensi was slowly realizing with trepidation, maybe her walls weren't as impenetrable as she thought, and maybe that explained some of her behavior tonight.
"I'm used to guys wanting to hit me. Kill me. I can handle that, no problem. I wasn't expecting a guy to assault me in that–that way, and when he told us what he was planning to do – I guess I was caught off guard," Kensi admits quietly, with a measure of chagrin. "I should have reacted faster."
"Kens," Callen's fingers close around her arm, warm and firm. "You were always going to be all right. Sam, Deeks and I were right behind you, the whole time."
"I know. But I didn't need Sam to rescue me. I don't want you to think I can't handle myself in a situation like that."
Callen looks surprised at that. "I don't. I wouldn't ever." He strokes his fingers down along her arm, following the path of her tattoos, and Kensi barely suppresses the shiver that runs through her. He doesn't miss it.
"You're one of the most capable agents I know, Kens. Sam just had your back. Like we all do."
Kensi lets her gaze flicker over Callen's face, noting the deep shadows under his eyes, and she realizes with sudden clarity that he was genuinely worried about her, that what had driven him to her door so late after the op tonight somehow stemmed from some deeper emotion. And it's that thought that floors her, sends her breath hitching in her throat and anticipation thrumming through her veins.
"What I hate most about these ops is having some random guy's hands all over me. I feel like I can't get them off me for days," Kensi whispers after a beat, and her admission and the trust she unreservedly offers him alongside it astound her.
"I know," he murmurs, so softly she has to strain to hear him. "I hate that too." Callen takes a step closer, and Kensi wonders if he can feel the heat that's crackling between them, and she is intensely conscious of the fact that the only thing standing between them right now is a towel. It would almost be absurd, her and Callen of all people, mere inches separating them in her kitchen, were it not for the fact that she's watching his eyes darken to a mesmeric shade of indigo, pupils dilating, and it sends a pool of desire straight to her stomach, between her legs.
They stand like that for what seems like ages, hovering on the brink of an unspoken precipice, until Kensi takes the plunge and closes the distance between them, wrapping her arms around his neck and pressing a kiss in the hollow behind his jaw, her smooth cheek rubbing sensuously against his unshaven one. She hears Callen's low growl, and then all thoughts flee her head as he slides his mouth against hers.
This is nothing like their few undercover kisses, cursory and perfunctory. This is explosive and all-consuming, devouring them both, and if Kensi had room left in her brain to analyze anything she'd be stunned at the intensity with which they come together. He presses her back hard against the fridge, hands gripping her waist so tightly she thinks they might leave an imprint, and she runs her hands feverishly through his close-cropped hair. Callen smells comforting and familiar, like leather and gunpowder, and he tastes faintly of whiskey and something that's intangibly Callen. She can't seem to get enough, and she clutches him tighter against her, slides a bare leg between his, needing more.
"Kensi," he pulls away abruptly to whisper in her ear, breathing heavily. "Kens–"
She realizes he's got a hand on the top of her towel and he's implicitly asking for her permission. She unwraps her towel in one smooth motion, lets it drop to the floor, and takes primal pleasure in the sound of Callen's guttural groan as his hands come back to her skin, skimming over the tats on her back to land on the curve of her spine. His touch sears her and she actually lets out a moan, nipping at his ear. Callen reacts like a livewire, curling a hand in the tangles of her hair and yanking her head back, setting teeth and tongue down the long line of her throat, and Kensi shudders as she slips his jacket off, feverishly begins to unbutton his shirt, and he hoists her up against him, her legs wrapping around his hips.
He takes them into her bedroom, spreads her out on her queen-size bed, covers her with the length of his body, and time seems to stop. When she flips them and arches over and around him, she wonders if it was the tattoos that led them here, if having them still imprinted on her like a second skin was akin to taking on an undercover persona. Wearing them, she could pretend that she was someone other than herself; that they weren't Kensi and Callen, that they wouldn't wake up the next morning with yet more masks and secrets to tuck behind their walls. That they would be able to find their way to something more than this one night.
She wonders if there will be anything left after this fire burns through them.
Later, as they lay quietly together side-by-side, Callen traces the lines of her painted-on ink in meaningless patterns, up her legs, across her thighs and down her arms, and in a surprising gesture of tenderness after the heat and ardor of before, presses a soft kiss to her shoulder. Kensi lets her eyes droop closed, and thinks sleepily that she's not sure how they ended up here but she wouldn't have chosen to end the night in any other way. She falls asleep to the taste and smell of Callen on her skin, now.
When she wakes up a few hours later, the sky still dark outside her window, the spot beside her on the bed is cold, and he is gone.


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For the second time this summer, the New England Holocaust Memorial in Boston was vandalized when a 17-year-old allegedly threw a rock Monday evening through one of the glass panels, shattering it.
The male teenager, who is from Malden, was quickly tackled by two bystanders and held until police arrived. He is charged with willful destruction of property, and police are investigating whether the incident was a hate crime.
The vandalism, which happened just before 7 p.m., came just two days after a white nationalist rally in Charlottesville, Va. turned violent, and less than two months after a 21-year-old with a history of mental illness shattered a glass panel at the Boston memorial.
The glass towers of the memorial, which was installed in 1995, had never been vandalized before the June incident.
“It’s a reminder that we as a community need to be united, both in our opposition to all forms of hate but also in the important role that memorials play in our community,” said Robert Trestan, regional director of the Anti-Defamation League.
Trestan said it was important to let the investigation unfold before jumping to conclusions, but said the destruction was jarring, no matter what the suspect’s motive was.
“It’s a second blow to the community, and it comes at a time when most of Boston is standing in solidarity [against] the hatred that we saw in Charlottesville over the weekend,” he said.
On Twitter, Mayor Martin J. Walsh of Boston wrote: “Today and every day Boston stands up against hate. I’m saddened to see such a despicable action in this great city.”
In a statement, Boston Police Commissioner William Evans said “Clearly, this type of behavior will not be tolerated in our city. And, in light of the recent events and unrest in Charlottesville, it’s sad to see a young person choose to engage in such senseless and shameful behavior.”
At the memorial, police tape cordoned off two of the glass towers, and public works crews scooped up the glass with shovels.
Jeremy Burton, the executive director of the Jewish Community Relations Council, noted that the memorial in Boston stood for two decades before it was vandalized.
“It’s shocking and it’s particularly shocking for us in the Jewish community, coming as it does in a week in which so many of us spent our weekend watching Nazis marching in Virginia.”
Burton said the panels on the memorial are made from a “very resilient” glass.
“I can only say from what I know of the June attack, it takes a very, very conscious effort to break this glass,” he said.
Austin Giles was passing through the memorial and reading the panels, which bear numbers representing victims of the Holocaust, when he heard glass shatter on the opposite end. He saw police take the suspect into custody.
“I was just walking through and observing,” said Giles, who lives in Marshfield. “My first instinct was, what the hell? Did a rock hit it or something? I couldn’t fathom somebody would possibly do this.”
Scott Strauss and his family, who are visiting from Miami, said his grandparents on both sides of his family were Auschwitz survivors, and he wanted to show the memorial to his children.
Walking past the scene, Strauss explained to his 6-year-old that the memorial was for “grandpa.”
“It’s just awful,” he said.
“This right here doesn’t represent the city of Boston,” Strauss said. “It represents hate and evil.”
Natalia Pfeifer, 23, of New Jersey, said she was across the street with a friend in front of the Boston Public Market when she heard a “big shattering sound.”
When they went to cross the street, Pfeifer said, she and her friend saw a man with a hooded jacket standing right where the glass was.
According to Pfeifer, the man put up his hood and ran through the memorial and across the street before he was tackled.
Danielle Souza, 27, of Everett, said the timing of the vandalism was distressing.
“Especially with everything going on right now, it breaks my heart,” Souza said.
The memorial reopened around 9 p.m. A family with young children was the first to walk through.
“It’s for the Holocaust,” the adults explained.
Police said that at least one officer would be posted at the memorial throughout the night.
Emily Sweeney and Mark Arsenault of the Globe staff contributed to this report. Aimee Ortiz can be reached at firstname.lastname@example.org. Follow her on twitter @aimee_ortiz. Adam Vaccaro can be reached at email@example.com. Follow him on Twitter @adamtvaccaro. Reena Karasin can be reached at firstname.lastname@example.org. Follow her on Twitter @reenakarasin.


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I want to share with you my recent progress and the signs of emotional recovery. I truly have struggled in this lifetime to recovery from my emotional wounds and injuries that I accumulated over many lifetimes. I have encountered similar souls and some of the same souls over many lifetimes.
Regrettably, during these encounters, my interactions with these souls caused many of my emotional wounds and injuries as I failed to learn my life lessons during these encounters. As as result, these life lessons simply repeated over and over again for many lifetimes with these souls.
During this lifetime, however, as early as the age of eight years old, I vowed to myself to heal these emotional wounds, and I used every ounce of my energy, intention, and determination in my heart and soul toward this goal. Five years ago, my Kundalini energy rose, I believe, as a vehicle and for the purpose of helping me reach this goal.
My life now is everything I have ever hoped for as I found my purpose for this lifetime through my profession, peace within my heart as my suffering finally ended, and my struggles to find my path are gone as the Universe paves the way through synchronicity and karma to guide me. It is as if the Divine has placed her hand on me guiding me and telling me that I found the right path.
This is how it feels. I still have human frustrations and difficulties, but I feel that others cannot truly hurt me as I am protected on my path and live without fear now. My past yearnings for those who are wrong for me or harmful to me have vanished, and my compass truly points in the direction that enriches my life and naturally bring positive outcomes into my life.
The negative patterns of destruction, victimhood, infidelity, denial, self deception, addiction, and chaos are no longer part of my life now along with those who still practice them. I no longer appear to attract these individuals, situations, and dynamics into my life now.
This has come as such a relief to me, and I finally found what I believe to be paradise on earth. Instead of running from place to place and lover to lover seeking paradise externally, I found this within myself and paradise is wherever I live, stand, and breathe. (Copyright 2016 Awakening Journey with All Rights Reserved)