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B'nai B'rith International has selected Steve Milligan, president and CEO of Western Digital Corporation (WDC), to receive its Distinguished Achievement Award, which recognizes the accomplishments of key community and corporate leaders from around the world.
The award ceremony will take place May 8, 2014, at the SLS Hotel in Los Angeles, Calif.
"We are very excited to honor Steve Milligan and Western Digital, recognizing their leadership and dedication to the community," B'nai B'rith International President Allan J. Jacobs said. "Distinguished achievement is exactly what Steve and Western Digital exemplify."
Rejoining Western Digital in January 2013, Milligan oversees all operations for the digital information storage company. Western Digital designs and manufactures storage devices and home entertainment products under the WD, HGST, and G-Technology brands. Milligan originally came to Western Digital in 2002 as vice president of finance. In 2007 he joined Hitachi Global Storage Technologies to lead a financial and operational turnaround, allowing for Western Digital's eventual acquisition of the company.
Milligan and Western Digital's work extends far beyond the business world, placing a high value on public service and philanthropic commitment. Through the Western Digital Foundation, the company supports educational programs focusing on science, technology, engineering, math and computer literacy, especially those targeting at-risk and underserved youth. The Foundation's global commitment to corporate giving also includes support for disaster relief, basic needs and homeless prevention, environmental stewardship and employee volunteerism.
"I'm truly honored to receive this award from B'nai B'rith and accept it on behalf of all Western Digital employees," Milligan said. "We strongly believe in giving back to the communities in which we live and work. I'm proud of what we have achieved together and look forward to many more years of philanthropic service and commitment."
"Steve Milligan is an inspiring chief executive who leads by example in the worlds of business and civic responsibility," B'nai B'rith International Executive Vice President Daniel S. Mariaschin said. "Under Steve's leadership, Western Digital understands and supports educational programs that are so vital to many young people in this country. We are thrilled to have the opportunity to pay tribute to him and to Western Digital with the Distinguished Achievement Award."
For more than four decades, B'nai B'rith has presented the Distinguished Achievement Award in recognition of the accomplishments of key community and corporate leaders around the world. These exceptional individuals and companies are honored for their community service, dedicated leadership and commitment to improving the lives of the individuals they serve.
About Western Digital Corporation
Western Digital Corp. (NASDAQ: WDC), Irvine, Calif., is a global provider of products and services that empower people to create, manage, experience and preserve digital content. Its companies design and manufacture storage devices and home entertainment products under the WD, HGST and G-Technology brands. Visit the company's website (www.westerndigital.com) to access a variety of product and financial information.
About B'nai B'rith International
B'nai B'rith International, the Global Voice of the Jewish Community, is the most widely known Jewish humanitarian, human rights and advocacy organization. B'nai B'rith works to aid the victims of disaster; improves the lives of senior citizens through housing and advocacy; promotes health initiatives and education; provides youth leadership training; serves community members in need; and fights intolerance around the world. B'nai B'rith…since 1843. Visit www.bnaibrith.org.


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What To Do If You Only Have One Free Day In Wales
Sometimes, one travels to the beautiful city of Wales but can only squeeze in a day to do as one pleases with it. What to see? What to do? This is where the crafty skills of an epic itinerary maker comes in handy.
Looking for the perfect shot of Wales? Wales has beguiling backdrops of instagrammable natural splendours set in memory by the snaps you take. Plan your day so that you can visit places that will always remind you of the historical tales of Wales and the unforgettable flora and fauna that makes Wales what it is.
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Ivan has tested positive for perfection, but sadly in this world it's illegal and the law states he must attend a private clinic to be made imperfect.
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e-BULLETIN No. 108 – 12 February 2013
Hon Editor, Dr Ruth S. Kerr
1) Nominations for National Heritage List and Commonwealth Heritage List
2) Australian Prospectors & Miners Hall of Fame
3) National Archives of Australia HIVE program
4) Local history - Social Innovation Grant - Carnamah Historical Society
5) Conservation advice in emergency situations
6) Tasmania - closure of West Coast Wilderness ABT Railway
7) Discovery of Richard III's grave in Leicester, United Kingdom
8) How the librarians thwarted al-Qa'ida in Timbuktu
9) New Zealand Engineers Tunnelling Company
1) Nominations for National Heritage List and Commonwealth Heritage List
The Hon Tony Burke MP, the Minister for Sustainability, Environment, Water, Population, and Communities, invites people to nominate places for inclusion in the National Heritage List or in the Commonwealth Heritage List for the assessment period 1 July 2013 to 30 June 2014.
Nominations must be received by the Department by 8 March 2013. The following link is to the Minister's Press Release:
Call for Nominations for the National and Commonwealth Heritage Lists for the 2013-14 Assessment Period (PDF - 34KB)
Details of how to prepare a nomination are on the Department's website: www.environment.gov.au/heritage/nominating/index.html
(Source: www.environment.gov.au/heritage/nominating/index.html - 6 February 2013)
2) Australian Prospectors & Miners Hall of Fame
The Federation has a continuing interest in the Australian Prospectors and Miners' Hall of Fame (APMHF) on behalf of historians and tourists. In 2012 it became apparent that the facility was unsustainable. Government and industry have invested millions of dollars since it opened just over a decade ago.
It was decided that as the state government would inherit the building if it closed, it would use it for an expansion of the local TAFE known as the Goldfields Institute of Technology.
The actual Hall of Fame remains there and the remaining facilities are to reopen as a tourist mine, which is what it was before the Hall of Fame building was built on the site in 2001.
The new Chairman of the APMHF is the State Member for Kalgoorlie, John Bowler MLA. His main task in 2013 is to organise and manage the annual induction of members of the Hall of Fame. The median term purpose is to educate the community on the importance and flow-on effects of mining.
The APMHF website is: www.mininghall.com and the contact details are: Goldfields Highway, Kalgoorlie WA 6430, Australia; Phone: Ph. +61 08 90262700; Postal Address: PBKB 2001, Kalgoorlie WA 6433.
(Source: Chairman of the Australian Prospectors & Miners' Hall of Fame, Mr John Bowler MLA – 4 February 2013)
3) National Archives of Australia HIVE program
The program using optical character recognition is for digitization of National Archives of Australia (NAA) records and makes them accessible electronically.
The project commenced on 1 November 2012 and has no budget.
The program also provides an opportunity for the general public to correct digital records loaded on the NAA database. The system allows the public to register for an account, choose from hundreds of digitally scanned public records and correct any errors in the automatic text recognition. It is similar to the approach used by National Library of Australia in its TROVE project. (http://egovau.blogspot.com.au/2013/01/transcribe-australias-archival-records.html)
1600 pages have been transcribed so far.
3500 pages are ready to load on the system.
Consignment lists are to be uploaded in this project.
The text will be extracted for NAA's Record Search.
65,000 national servicemen's names are to be uploaded electronically in records.
A demonstration was done in Adelaide in December. The project is of special relevance to South Australia as 20 kms of South Australian records were relocated to Sydney several years ago.
A staff member of NAA is doing 'crowd sourcing' with transcribers on the Hive project.
(Source: National Archives of Australia Consultative Forum, Brisbane Meeting – 23 January 2013)
4) Local history - Social Innovation Grant - Carnamah Historical Society
Hon Colin Barnett MP, the Premier of Western Australia, announced the recipients of round six of the Western Australian State Government's Social Innovation Grants (SIG) program on 25 January. Among the six successful organisations was the Carnamah Historical Society, who received $100,000 to further develop its virtual volunteering program. The grant round was open to all organisations within the community sector.
The funding, over a two-year period, will cover research, development, trials, refinement, and also the promotion and sharing of structure and outcomes. The aims of the program are to increase the output of the society, improve social inclusion and provide additional volunteering opportunities.
The good news doesn't end there though! The success is a solid win for historical societies in Western Australia. It affirms that we are deemed to be part of the community sector and that we provide valuable services to communities.
(Source: Andrew Bowman, Carnamah Historical Society – 30 January 2013)
5) Conservation advice in emergency situations
In the wake of recent fires and floods, the following links on the National Library of Australia's website are relevant:
www.nla.gov.au/app/search/search/web/?q=Fire-damaged records
(Source: www.nla.gov.au/search?search_api_views – 5 February 2013)
6) Tasmania - closure of West Coast Wilderness ABT Railway
On 4 February 2013 the Infrastructure Minister, Hon David O'Byrne MP, issued a press release expressing disappointment at the imminent closure of the West Coast Wilderness Railway from April 30th.
The Federal Group has announced it will stop operating the service because of rising maintenance costs, the financial costs of operating in rugged isolated terrain, and the tourism downturn affecting most of regional Australia.
The Minister said, "This is a disappointing outcome which is largely beyond ours or the Federal Group's control."
"The West Coast Wilderness Railway has been a valuable tourism asset for the past decade.
"Unfortunately, the operation isn't viable for the foreseeable future, and the Federal Group has decided to withdraw," he said.
The Minister's Press Release outlined that the track has been damaged by severe weather in recent years, contributing significantly to escalating costs in maintenance. The Federal Group has advised the state government that these and other ongoing maintenance and upgrade costs are too high for the operation to remain viable. It was stated that additional investment of between $15-20 million would be required in the next five years.
The Minister indicated that it would be appropriate for the railway to be sold and a new owner to operate it, but that the state government cannot manage that level of investment on its own. He further stated that passenger numbers had dropped from 45,000 to 30,000 in 2012. Forty-eight staff will be affected. Some may be deployed to other Federal Group operations.
(Source: email@example.com – 4 February 2013; ABC News -www.abc.net.au/news/2013-02-04/jobs-in-balance-as-tourist-railway-closes/4499832?section=tas - 5 February 2013)
7) Discovery of Richard III's grave in Leicester, United Kingdom
The grave and identification of the last English king killed in battle, Richard III, has been confirmed at Leicester on 4 February 2013. He had been crowned king at age 30 on 6 July 1483. It is more than 500 years since he died on 22 August 1485 in the Battle of Bosworth fighting the Tudors led by Henry, who became King Henry VII.
A team of archaeologists and historians from the University of Leicester have announced that a skeleton discovered in 2012 during the excavation of a medieval friary under a Leicester car park is that of Richard III. DNA from the bones matched that of descendants of the king's sister, while the skeleton had the twisted spine and battle injuries consistent with contemporary accounts, lead researcher Richard Buckley said.
"Beyond reasonable doubt, the individual exhumed at Greyfriars in September 2012 is indeed Richard III, the last Plantagenet king of England," he confirmed.
"There are various traumas to the skull and elsewhere on the body, which have been looked at by the specialists who can then estimate which weapons might have been used."
DNA taken from the body matched that of Michael Ibsen, a Canadian-born furniture maker in London who genealogists said was the direct descendant of Richard's sister, Anne of York.
The ABC News report states: 'Researchers who examined the skeleton said Richard was probably killed by one of two fatal injuries to his skull - one caused by a sword and one by a halberd, a heavy medieval axe mounted on a long, spear-like pole.
The blows were so heavy that part of the back of the skull was sliced off. Altogether there were 10 wounds on the skeleton - including what the researchers call "humiliation injuries", such as a sword wound to the right buttock. After the king was killed he was probably stripped naked and slung over the back of a horse to be taken to Leicester, where his body was exhibited in a church. ... He was finally interred in an unmarked grave, naked, without a shroud or coffin. In a final humiliation, the grave was too small to properly fit his body. ... Richard is thought to have been buried at the Franciscan friary of Grey Friars in Leicester, but the church was demolished in the 1530s and its location had been lost until now. The skeleton was unearthed in what is thought to have been the choir of the church, which was also uncovered during a three-week archaeological dig at the car park.'
(Source: ABC News - www.abc.net.au/news/2013-02-04/researchers-confirm-skeleton-is-that-of-richard-iii/4500598; www.abc.net.au/unleashed/4500950.html - accessed 5 February 2013; Australian Financial Review 9-10 February 2013 p.14 including photographs)
8) How the librarians thwarted al-Qa'ida in Timbuktu
BAMAKO, Mali —
'The saving of Timbuktu's priceless manuscripts owes everything to the bravery of an unlikely group — librarians.
The coalition of Tuareg separatists and Islamic militants who overran the city last April were just the latest in a series of foreign invaders to sweep into the fabled desert city, so the owners of Timbuktu's manuscripts did what they have always done — they hid them.
An ancient city squeezed between the Niger River and the Sahara Desert, Timbuktu was a center of Islamic scholarship and trans-African trade in its medieval heyday but has gradually declined in the centuries that followed. The city's manuscripts are a unique treasure trove of scholarly information. Handwritten and many hundreds of years old, they are irreplaceable.
Each time foreign invaders threaten Timbuktu — whether a Moroccan army in the 16th century, European explorers in the 18th, French colonialists in the 19th or Al Qaeda militants in the 21st — the manuscripts disappear beneath mud floors, into cupboards, boxes, sacks and secret rooms, into caves in the desert or upriver to the safety of Mopti or Bamako, Mali's capital.
It is a tried and tested form of conservation in extremes and last year was no different.
"The manuscripts are safe," said Abdel Kader Haidara, the owner of the city's largest private collection and head of a local association of owners tasked with the protection of the manuscripts.
During an interview in Bamako, where he fled for safety, Haidara told GlobalPost that his Mamma Haidara Manuscripts Library — which houses 45,000 documents — now stands empty, as do two-dozen other private libraries in the city.
The testimony of manuscript owners has convinced many that the vast majority, if not all, of Timbuktu's manuscripts have in fact been saved from the depredations of vandals who attacked and destroyed Timbuktu's UNESCO-designated graveyards, mausoleums and tombs.
"The private library owners are convinced their materials are safe. Some hid their manuscripts in Timbuktu, others took them with them to Bamako," Professor Shamil Jeppie, an expert on the manuscripts and director of the Cape Town-based Tombouctou Manuscripts Project, told GlobalPost.
At first there was less certainty about the fate of documents stored at the state-owned Ahmed Baba Institute, established in 1973. It was considered more of a target because of its government links, (administrative buildings, along with churches, were usually the first to be attacked) and as they quit Timbuktu the Islamists attempted to set it on fire.
The first visitors to the Institute found empty shelves, boxes and smoldering papers, but the vast cache of manuscripts was missing. Some assumed they had been looted, but Haidara and others with close links to the Institute insist the manuscripts are safe.
Haidara described how, soon after the rebels reached Timbuktu, he and 15 others worked for a month at night packing manuscripts into metal trunks, cataloguing them, locking the boxes with two keys and then hiding them. He would not say exactly where, only that the manuscripts had been "dispersed" in more than 1,000 boxes.
"The manuscripts are hidden in different places where nothing can happen to them," he said.
Timbuktu's manuscripts are incredibly varied, in both length and subject. Some are fragments, single pages or a couple of leafs, while others are entire bound volumes hundreds of pages long.
They cover topics as diverse as science, medicine, history, human rights, law, poetry and literature, but the vast majority are of a religious nature: handwritten Korans, accounts of the life of the Prophet, prayers and expositions of Islamic philosophy.
The value of the manuscripts is in their documentation of Timbuktu's lost heyday as a center of Islamic scholarship and the trans-Saharan trade routes of the 15th and 16th centuries, proving the lie — in carefully rendered calligraphy — that Africa was a place of exclusively oral history until the colonialists came.
"For many, African history begins with European explorers," Haidara said. "People don't know the manuscripts [that predated them]."
"The manuscripts are a reflection of a rich written culture from the 14th century onwards, which is not often recognized," Jeppie said.
The saving of the manuscripts is a remarkable example of resistance. And a testimony to the value.
"If the manuscripts are destroyed, we lose our history," Haidara said.'
(Source: Global Post (American News Site) 3 February 2013 www.globalpost.com/dispatch/news/war/conflict-zones/130201/timbuktu-manuscripts-saved-mali-al-qaeda; The Times 3 February 2013; www.theaustralian.com.au/news/world/how-the-librarians-thwarted-al-qaida/story-fnb64oi6-1226567638593)
9) New Zealand Engineers Tunnelling Company
Commemorations of Tunnelling Companies from Britain and the Dominions
In April 2012 a group of descendants and supporters went overseas on a NZETC pilgrimage.
A slideshow of the trip can be viewed at the following URL:
and the NZETC website Updates page provides other content relating to the trip :
In the lead-up to the WW1 centennial commemorations there will be an increased focus on the activities and men of the Tunnelling Companies from Britain and the Dominions.
On the ANZETC homepage there is an appeal by the Arras Tourist Office (ATO) for photos of tunnellers. ATO is working towards an 2017 exhibition of individual NZ Tunnellers photos.
There is now a NZETC Facebook page, thought to be the first NZ WW1 unit specific Facebook page. It provides a place for NZETC descendants and supporters to share, touch base with each other and to build on plans to support WW1 commemorations:
(Source: Sue Baker Wilson, Waihi Heritage Vision researcher, NZ Engineers Tunnelling Company researcher
P O Box 333 Katikati 3166, New Zealand P +64 7 549 0496;www.nzetc.co.nz/index.html; www.facebook.com/NZTunnellingCompany - 8 February 2013)


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I won't say that Giannis is overrated. I think it's more to do with the team. They need to not change their gameplan completely for Giannis when he's on the court. In this game, there were a few points where I was wondering why the guy didn't take the shot and just ended up passing the ball to him. I think they need to keep playing their game AROUND Giannis, rather than change it completely when he's there. They were quite hot and came back, just to lose the lead.
I kinda felt the same way last year in game 6 between the Raptors and Bucks. The Bucks team were able to drag their way back from 26 down to take the lead, and then when they changed the game, the Raptors were able to get back control of the game (well that, and getting the ball out of Lowry's hands that game ). I was relieved because I felt if that team (the team on the run) had won and went into game 7, they would end up upsetting the Raptors.
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One of television's most critically-acclaimed dramas returns for one more mission as 24: Live Another Day arrives on Blu-ray on September 30th from Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment. Starring Emmy winner Kiefer Sutherland as legendary hero Jack Bauer, the action-packed series follows our hero in real time over 12 episodes as a new terrorist threat unfo ...Read more ›
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I believe in constellations, in the man that can spin 20 basketballs at once even when it seems it couldn't be so. I was born with Cerebral Palsy and was supposed to be crippled for life and was never supposed to walk. With experimental surgery this was proven untrue (I was the first to have my foot rebuilt from within and would have been in medical journals and the news but my parents didn't want the publicity to scar their baby….said I might be an astronaut someday…). I was expected to be a brave struggling child with all the surgeries , blood tests ,leg braces and a one week stay in a chemo ward at Stanford hospital for tests in first grades where they ran out of beds. This also was proven untrue. I was a goofy, curious and creative kid that was unaware of any struggle, any ride against the rapids; It was just the way things were. I knew nothing else. No one does, but when it came time to choose a career, a path, an adult identity for life, I chose constellations and it was different. It was difficult. This was simply not how things go I was told "This is not normal". It was against the stream, but I had been a happy child for one simple reason that I never told anyone. I never thought I needed to. I was many people at once. Somehow amongst the cat scans, spinal taps, birthday parties and bowls of cereal in front of the tv I understood this—I knew nothing else. I was son, brother, friend, patient, grandson, birthday boy. This crowd was in my skin and I knew nothing else. I never succumbed to the teasing at school or the chorus of "do one thing". I am now a successful new media/locative media artist/writer, musician, theorist , professor, fiancée ,brother and son and above all happy. I believe in constellations: in the sum of identity and in pursuits of happiness in this life. I know nothing else.
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Halloween Horror Month continues with Chris' pick, John Carpenter's The Thing, an adaptation of the short story Who Goes There? and the 1950s horror classic The Thing from Another World. A particular favorite (And hugely referenced) film of the Geek Out trio, The Thing marked the beginning of Carpenter's collaborations with Kurt Russell and turned the former child actor into a mature leading man. Watch along and listen as the trio revisit this the iconic sci fi horror film!
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Splash News is the latest celebrity photo agency to go after blogger Perez Hilton [Wikipedia entry] for posting photos without permission. Hilton, whose real name is Mario Armando Lavandeira, was served with a cease and desist order on Tuesday while sitting in The Coffee Bean & Tea Leaf café, where he regularly works on his popular blog.
In a letter drafted by L.A. law firm Makarem & Associates, Hilton was ordered to remove exclusive photos of Britney Spears holding her baby Jayden James, taken in Louisiana by Splash snappers Aaron St-Clair and Steve Dennett.
The legal move by Splash, one of the biggest paparazzi agencies in the world, comes just weeks after a photographer from FilmMagic confronted Hilton at a Hollywood event about pilfering his photos.
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DNZ Property targets minimum 2.5% annual dividend growth
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Sept. 5 (BusinessDesk) - DNZ Property Fund, the country's sixth-biggest listed property investor by market value, wants to lift its dividends by at least 2.5 percent a year after the board evaluated the current market and make-up of the firm's property portfolio.
The property investor expects to pay a dividend of 9.5 cents per share in the 2015 financial year, up from 9 cents a year earlier, and expects that return to lift every year, chairman Tim Storey told shareholders in Auckland. DNZ operates a dividend policy of paying between 95 percent and 100 percent of distributable profit, a practice Storey described as "prudent and good practice" to maintain the company's financial position.
"After a careful review, we are confident that DNZ can continue to deliver a positive dividend growth path," Storey said, according to speech notes published on the NZX. "That target takes into account current market conditions and outlook, portfolio review and expiry profile, completion of the Westgate project and planned divestment activity, and is based on the current distribution policy."
Shares of DNZ were unchanged at $1.735, giving the stock a dividend yield of 5.24 percent.
DNZ appointed Peter Alexander as chief executive this year, and tasked the former Auckland International Airport executive with restructuring the property company to boost returns.
Alexander told shareholders DNZ cut staff numbers by 15 percent, and anticipates savings of about $1 million a year, coming into full-effect from the 2016 financial year.
"In making the changes, we took particular care to ensure that the company is fully resourced to continue business as usual activity, as well as successfully deliver important initiatives such as the Westgate project," Alexander said.
Construction on DNZ's Westgate mall development began earlier this year, and Alexander said the firm will be strongly focused on having the site fully leased and open for business in October next year.
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THE CHRONICLES OF WARSHARD (book 2): SAVAGES
Chapter Two
Swords clashed at the top of the hill. Horses reared and whinnied. Shouts tore across the desert, and panic ensued.
Breen dove between her brethren, nearly twenty men and women on the sand, half as many as the Seaburn warriors. The once wild horses of the hills tore past the tribesmen on all sides, slipping through to the camp, while others engaged in battle.
Her gaze flew from the small matches before her, and the tents at her back. Seaburn soldiers weaved between their homes, searching for something. More soldiers for their army?
Would they dare take the children now?
A snarl ripped from her throat, through her teeth. Fire burned through her chest and licked at her heart. She leapt for the nearest soldier, thrown free of his horse.
The man leapt to his feet, heavy armor slowing his movements. Breen spun and sliced at his chest. His sword rose to block hers. Metal clanged loudly in the chaos. She spun again, faster this time. While men had strength on their side, she had speed. Her blade clanged against his armor this time, denting the metal.
His boot slammed against her stomach, sending her flying. Her breath whooshed from her lungs. Hot sand burned her bare arms, though she hardly noticed it against the anger consuming her chest. Gasping in a breath, she leapt to her feet in time to block the man's swing. Her lips pulled back and she growled, inches from his face.
He pushed hard against her blade.
She jumped back.
All of his weight toppled forward. She jammed her sword through the break in the armor at his waist. Blood poured from his gut onto the sand. He gasped, wide brown eyes meeting hers. The familiar hooded eyes of a fellow tribesmen met her gaze.
Her breath caught in her throat.
So it was true.
Seaburn was using their own kind against them.
Breen pushed him back, and he slid from her blade. He hit the ground hard, and didn't get up.
Cries rose from the tents. Breen spun towards them, her eyes wide. No. Not them. Not the children. Panic bubbled in her chest. She fled the battle for the white tents dotting the sand in a wide misshapen circle.
I'm coming, she thought desperately.
She had to save them. Had to protect them. They were her family.
They were children.
Her boots pounded the sand as she ran. Soldiers clad in armor pulled two of her students from the Lesson Hut. Their screams rose above the fighting.
"Stop!" she cried.
One soldier looked up in time for her blade to slice clean through his arm. Her student flew back inside the tent, tears streaking his cheeks. The man's arm hit the sand, blood sticking the fine grains together.
The soldier shouted in a foreign tongue, his eyes wide as he dropped his sword to hold the stump where his arm once was.
The second soldier spun on her, dropping Aura back to the ground.
"Aura," she whispered. Rage stabbed her chest like knives. She lunged across the severed arm, blocking the man's path to Aura. "Stay away from her!"
Aura skittered back, whimpering quietly.
The soldier grinned, his dark hair sweeping across his forehead in the breeze. He spoke in the same foreign tongue. His words were clipped, arrogant and angry. Though she didn't understand the words, she got their meaning. Breen lashed her sword at his chest. He leaned back, the tip of her blade scratching the metal plate protecting his breast.
"Get back inside," Breen snapped at Aura. She didn't dare turn her gaze from her opponent.
The soldier narrowed his eyes and lunged. She leapt to the side, his blade sailing over her shoulder. With all her strength, she tackled him into the sand. Aura crawled back inside the tent while Breen leapt to her feet.
Slowed by his armor, the man rolled to his back. Breen dove, her sword held to his throat. He froze. Her hand trembled around the hilt.
Never had she been so angry. Never had she wanted to kill so badly.
Blood pumped through her veins and angry tears stung the back of her eyes. "You will not hurt my family," she hissed between her teeth. She pressed her blade closer to his flesh.
Garbled words and a smirk were his only response.
Breen thrust her sword through his neck.
He choked, blood gurgling from the back of his throat and between his lips. His eyes rolled back and he lay still.
The roaring of hooves across the sand stole her victory. She spun toward the noise, her bloodied sword ready. A black-skinned man in golden armor flew toward her. She leapt from his path. The horse flew passed, but the back of his sword slapped her back. She fell face first. Harsh grains rasped her tongue.
She spat the sand from her mouth, rising to her knees.
The ground trembled as the huge man leapt from his horse and hit the ground. Breen glanced over her shoulder as he bore down on her.
Scrambling to her feet, Breen stood in time for him to slice a curved steel blade at her chest. She leaned from reach, giving him time to step into his swing and kick her feet out from under her.
Air exploded from her lungs, and she gasped for breath.
Cold metal pressed against her exposed throat. She froze. Anger seeped from her trembling limbs. No. She never lost.
The man narrowed his dark eyes, his lips twisted in a frown. "You killed my men." He slurred the words of her language, but she understood.
"Your men would kill mine," she spat.
Steel pressed closer, nipping and stinging her skin. Something hot dripped down her throat. Blood. She hissed, her teeth snapping together.
His eyes roamed her from head to toe. "You will do."
"Do what?" The tip of his blade rose from her throat to her chin. She tilted her head until it touched sand, and she had nowhere else to go.
She glared. Her fingers twitched against the hilt of her sword. If only she could get the momentum, she could swing his sword from his hands and jump to her feet. Her chin stung as the sharp tip of his sword cut through, as if he sensed her intention.
"Drop it." His voice was monotone, deep, and merciless.
She released her hold on her hilt. He kicked it out of reach.
"You'll pay for this." She held his gaze.
His dark eyes gave away nothing. "Stand." He stepped back, the sting leaving her skin. Once given a foot of space, Breen slowly stood, her eyes never leaving the soldier. "Turn around." She did. "Move." He poked her spine with his blade.
Her fists clenched. But she listened.
Marching ahead, silence stilled the desert sand. The sounds of battle had died, and the scent of copper wafted through the air. Her heart leapt into her throat. How many had they killed? How many of her tribesmen were dead? Were her parents alive?
Breen stepped through the maze of tents, and into the open where the battle had been. Several soldiers lay dead. Several of her tribesmen joined them. Their blood soaked the sand. Their eyes turned to the blue skies, unseeing.
Her eyes widened and burned with tears.
Between her brethren and the Seaburn soldiers, at least a dozen were gone.
Why must they do this? Why did they wish to steal the lives of her family, and ravage their lands? So many lives had been needlessly lost. And for what?
Breen gritted her teeth against the coming tears. She would not cry. She would not show such weakness in front of these men. Steeling herself, Breen followed where the soldier directed her, to a line of her brothers and sisters kneeling in the sand. The man pushed her to her knees.
Lukerin met her gaze. Blood poured down his face, matting his short dark hair and bathing his harsh cheekbones and angular jaw. His eyes mirrored her sorrow, her fear, and her anger.
Another soldier stepped up behind her, his boots crushing sand. A cold blade pressed against the base of her skull.
The soldier clad in gold stepped to the front of the line of eight. He slipped his sword back into its sheath and crossed his hands behind his back. He walked the line slowly, inspecting them like livestock.
Her lips pulled back in a snarl and her fists shook at her sides.
They were outnumbered. Hardly any of their best warriors remained.
Cries of protest broke the quiet. Several soldiers led the rest of their tribe to the far end of the slope, closer to the tents. Dozens of children, elders, her parents, and some of the older warriors were forced to kneel.
The dark gaze of her father found hers across the sand. The leather band that typically wrapped his forehead was gone. His thick brows furrowed, and his beard trembled as he mouthed words to her.
Be strong.
She nodded. Breen would be the strength their tribe needed. She'd kneel because she had to. She'd kneel because she'd rather die than let these men hurt her tribe. And they would. The spears facing the large group by the tents told her as much.
"These eight will do," the black man said. He nodded to the guards at their backs.
"We should fight," Lukerin whispered, barely audible over the breeze.
Breen shot him a glare. "No." She wouldn't have his desire for revenge outweigh the lives of those left.
Rough twine encircled her wrists and burned her skin. Gloved hands pulled her to her feet and thrust her down the hill to a smaller pack of soldiers waiting beside two horse-drawn trolleys. Bars of wood created a box atop the back of the carts. Cages. She gulped the lump in her throat.
This is what they wanted. The fighters. The young warriors. Those who would grow and become one with their armies.
Breen shook her head. She had no choice. She had to follow.
The man at her back thrust her forward. She stumbled ahead, but kept her footing. Glaring over her shoulder, Breen cursed them for this. A curse for hurting her family, endangering the children, and for causing fear to stir in her chest. She didn't know how Seaburn could create such loyal soldiers out of those they called savages. Yet, the men she had fought proved they could.
Clenching her fists, she paced across the sand, the rest of the clan's warriors following. She'd follow as long as she had to, but then she'd escape.
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The journey from the Savage Lands to Seaburn was long and arduous. Desert sand and hills spread out on all sides. They crossed the river at the single wooden bridge to the east, before turning west to escape the jungle. The trolley bumped along the rough terrain, keeping sleep at bay.
They didn't stop for food, water or rest. The soldiers were determined. After a full day's ride, the horses came to a stop somewhere north of the jungle—far from any tribe village. They were on their own. Breen needed to escape.
"We could head for the jungle." Breen nudged Lukerin's arm with her elbow. They sat side by side at the back of the cage. Three others accompanied them, while the remainder of the warriors taken occupied the smaller cart behind two dark mares.
"We have no weapons." He glanced at her, his lips pressed in a thin line. For hours she'd spouted possible plans of escape, but he had yet to agree with any.
"We'll take them from the soldiers."
"With our hands tied behind our backs?" He scoffed.
Shouts rose from the soldiers at the front of the party. Breen glanced nervously at them before returning her gaze to Lukerin.
"I can get mine in front of me." She'd done it before as a test long ago in her lessons with Kianne. Her mother's foresight had to be excellent, for Breen never imagined she'd need to use this knowledge.
"Without anyone noticing?"
At least thirty soldiers led the party, all on horseback or atop benches at the front of the carts. While maybe a dozen led the way back to Seaburn several feet ahead of their wide wooden cart, fewer stayed behind to watch their captives. She took pleasure in knowing their numbers had diminished since their attack. At least they'd made a dent in Seaburn's army.
"I may need a distraction," she admitted.
Lukerin nodded. "What do you have in mind?"
"Make a scene. Shout. Holler. Pretend you're injured—" She glanced at the blood dried to his face. "—More injured than you are."
"And what will you do?"
"Get my hands in front of me. When the soldiers check on you, I'll grab whatever weapon I can and stage our escape." The dark eyes of the other warriors flickered in their direction. Soldiers at the front of the party dismounted their horses and approached the rear.
So they were taking a break. This was the perfect time to spring an escape plan. They were weary from the journey, sleep deprived and hungry.
Her own stomach rumbled. She narrowed her eyes at the leather covering her gut. Hungry or not, she'd use every last bit of her strength to get away.
Several yards to the south, the dark jungle rose out of the sand, as if by magic. Thick green moss covered visible stones and vines hung from the tall trees, brushing the desert's edge. How could such dense forest survive in this heat?
"I don't know, Breen." Lukerin sighed.
He didn't meet her gaze. Instead, he stared at the wooden floor of their prison. She'd never seen this side of him before—the side that would give up. She was glad she'd never accepted his proposal.
"Then what do you suggest?" she hissed between her teeth.
"Someone's coming," one of the others snapped.
Her teeth clacked together, cutting off their conversation. She leaned back against the bars of the cage. Rough wood dug into her spine.
Foreign mumbling approached. Two men dismounted their horses at the rear of the pack. Another two joined them from the front.
Cursed traitors.
Breen barely held back her snarl. The faces of tribesmen, not her own, but of others to the north. They'd given in to Seaburn. She could never forgive such an act. Her fists clenched at her back. She waited. Maybe they'd move them. Outside this prison would be easier to flee.
"We're camping for the night," one of them said. His soulless black eyes looked right through her. "Try anything and you'll be beaten. Try again and you'll lose a hand. Try a third time—" He smiled. "—and we'll bury you in the sand and leave you out here to die."
She couldn't help the widening of her eyes. How cruel.
Breen set her jaw. She'd have to choose her moment carefully.
The man slipped a key into the thick metal lock barring their exit. He turned it and the lock clicked. The gate creaked open.
"Out." He motioned to the sand. "One at a time."
Three soldiers waited at the man's back. She sighed. She had no other choice. Slipping from the cart and onto the hot sand, Breen stepped from the trolley, only to be grabbed by one of the men. His rough fingers wrapped her bare bicep. He thrust her forward.
She stumbled, and turned a glare on her captor. He stared back with hard eyes.
What had Seaburn done to these men? They were vacant. Barren of feeling. Did they not see their own brothers and sisters here? How could they go along with whatever this was? How could they obey the Emperor?
The man pushed her forward again.
She didn't bother glaring.
The others dismounted, led by one soldier each. A small camp formed around them. The sand darkened with the setting sun, casting long scorched shadows over the surrounding dunes.
The soldiers brought tents up on either side of their party, building fires outside each. One remained tall and lavish, most likely for whatever General led them. The other was small, worn beige fabric and brittle polls to hold it aloft.
The soldier leading her grabbed her shoulder. His fingers dug into her skin as he forced her to the ground. "Sit," he commanded.
Breen's fingers itched against her restraints. She pulled on the ties, but did as he said, sitting cross-legged on the hot earth. The others joined her until eight of them sat about a foot from each other.
Five soldiers stayed to guard them, surrounding the tribesmen in a small circle.
By the time the camp had risen from the dust, the sun had disappeared behind the horizon. It would take some time for the sand to cool. At least her pants were thick enough to keep her from burning.
Two more soldiers approached their party. "Eatin' time," one of them growled. He tossed two burlap sacks and a leather water canister to his comrades.
Another slurred back in the foreign tongue she assumed belonged to Seaburn. The soldiers joined in laughter, while she glanced at her brethren. What was so funny? A soldier kneeled at her back and grabbed the twine at her wrists. It dug into her skin, rubbing her already raw flesh.
She gritted her teeth until a dagger snipped the thin rope and her hands were freed. He stepped away from her and another soldier placed the water canister in her lap.
"Share," he slurred, motioning at the circle around her.
Irritation flashed through her chest. She nodded.
She wasn't an imbecile.
Breen uncorked the bottle and took a quick sniff of the contents; just to be sure they hadn't been poisoned. Nothing but the scent of her own sweat met her nostrils. Fresh water. Finally. Her dry lips parted and she took a deep gulp. Warm water washed down her throat. She sighed blissfully.
Reluctant to give up the water, though knowing she needed to, Breen took one more quick sip before passing it to Lukerin. His brows rose and his hard features relaxed. Relief. Breen sat back
With one of her present concerns cleared, she could think clearly.
Though seven soldiers stood nearby, there were eight of her tribesmen. Even with armed opponents, her tribe should be able to fight their way through them. But they'd need to do it together. Glancing around the circle, Breen assessed the warriors.
Two sisters and five brothers.
Three half-asleep from the looks of their drooping eyes and hunched shoulders. Two on alert and two injured, including Lukerin. With only three ready to fight, including herself, it would be a blood bath.
They'd never be able to pull this off.
Her stomach soured. She still wanted to try. Death might very well be better than finishing the journey to Seaburn. Whatever waited for her to the east, she didn't want to know.
Lukerin met her gaze. His brows furrowed. He knew she was up to something. She flicked her fingers against the sand, motioning in a circle to the guards surrounding them. He narrowed his eyes. No. He was telling her no. But he wasn't the Chief's daughter. She was.
Breen sought out the other two on alert. One sister, Osana, a year older than she, and one brother, Gryn, a year younger. She made sure they were paying attention to her before glancing at the surrounding guards.
Her short-haired sister nodded, determination setting her hard gaze. Osana wanted blood. She wanted escape. She wanted freedom. Just like Breen.
Gryn hesitated, his lips parted as he glanced between the guards and their warriors. He had the same concerns as Breen. They'd be well outnumbered in this fight. But it would be a test of her strength and resolve. All she needed was a sword, and she'd have them.
The soldier behind her stood at attention, though his gaze wandered to the setting sun. He wasn't paying attention. With his sword held carelessly at his side, she could knock it from his hand and sweep it from the sand before he could attack.
Lukerin shook his head in her peripheral. He knew her plan. Would he try to stop her? Or join in the fight?
It was time to find out.
Breen leapt to her feet and slammed her knee into the guard's groin. Breath fled his lungs in a gasp as he buckled forward, releasing his sword. She grinned and swept it from the ground, turning back to the enemy.
Lukerin and three of the other tribesmen joined her, sending fists, knees and feet at their opponents.
Yes! They could do this.
Two guards lunged at her, swords brandished. Breen parried the attack of the first, slipping through his defenses and slicing open his gut. Before he hit the ground, she spun to block the swing of the second. A snarl passed her opponent's lips. He gritted his teeth and thrust her back.
She leapt away, in case he moved to counter. He didn't. Not right away.
Blood soaked the ground at her feet.
The second soldier swung wide. She stepped from his path and kicked his unarmored knee. The man's eyes flew wide before he toppled to the sand.
Breen lunged after him, swiping for his hand.
The man cried out as her blade sliced his flesh. He released the sword, giving her a second to work with. Plucking it from the sand, she held both swords to the back of his neck. He froze, mid-crouch.
"Release him, savage." The black-skinned, gold armored man who'd taken her, held his long curved blade to the throat of the kneeling Lukerin.
Her breath caught. Her heart sped.
"Release him," she countered.
Osana and Gryn had been taken down, pinned to the earth. Osana met her eyes, an apology on her lips.
Breen shook her head. Damn.
"Release my soldier now," he commanded. Blood trickled down Lukerin's exposed throat. He winced.
Breen gritted her teeth, looking left and right. Soldiers stepped up on either side of her. It was no good. She was trapped.
And she couldn't risk the lives of her tribesmen.
She dropped the swords and stepped away from the soldier. They didn't hesitate on grabbing her arms and throwing her into the sand. Grains irritated her eyes, nostrils and throat. She coughed them from her lungs and looked up at the gold-clad man.
His boot pushed her head back down.
She gasped, struggling to push herself up.
Two soldiers held her arms behind her back.
She sputtered, sand filling her mouth and throat, stealing her saliva and the sweet relief of the water she'd been given.
"You are no longer a warrior," the man droned. "You are a slave. You will obey me, and my soldiers. We are your betters. We are your masters. If you want to live, you will listen."
Breen struggled against their grasp. Her cheeks and eyes burned. She thrashed her shoulders.
"Stop!" Lukerin shouted.
Something heavy hit the ground nearby.
"Silence," a soldier said.
"You will learn to obey, slave," the man continued.
Her lungs burned. She couldn't get air. She was suffocating. Panic lent strength to her limbs, while oxygen deprivation stole her senses. They held her to the ground until pain filled her chest and her movements slowed.
The boot lifted from her skull.
They pulled her up before throwing her back down. Coughs exploded from her chest. She gasped in air, her sides heaving with the effort. She'd nearly died. He'd nearly suffocated her on the sand.
"Let that be a warning." The man spun on his heels and trudged away from the group of tribesmen.
Weakness seeped into her muscles. Her cheek lay against the earth as she blinked sand from her lashes.
So this was Seaburn. This was their army. Cruel. Merciless thugs.
Her fists clenched around the cooling sand beside her face. She took another deep breath. If this was Seaburn, she needed freedom. Whether she found freedom in life or death—she would soon find out.
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Death toll from Legionnaires' disease up to 12, NYC Mayor says
The reported number of deaths from the largest outbreak of Legionnaires' disease in New York City has increased from 10 to 12, NYC Mayor Bill de Blasio said during a press conference Monday. The total number of Legionnaires' cases is now 113, up from 101 on Friday. Of those patients who have been hospitalized, 76 had been discharged as of Monday afternoon, de Blasio said.
De Blasio confirmed that the bacteria had also been found in an additional two cooling towers in the neighborhood, and officials said a total of 12 of 39 cooling towers in the South Bronx had been impacted. Those cooling towers, which are used to cool down large air conditioning units, have been disinfected or would be by the end of the day Monday, the mayor said.
City officials confirmed Friday that five Bronx buildings tested positive for the bacteria, and on Saturday that an additional five also tested positive, including two courthouses, a post office and a high school. Those buildings have already had their cooling towers cleaned and do not appear to pose any danger to locals, health officials said.
"We are still several days away from getting final results of those tests that will allow us to make firmer conclusions, but everything that we know today points to one or more of those five original sites as the problem location," de Blasio said Monday.
Following an order Thursday from the NYC Health Commissioner that building owners with cooling towers disinfect their towers, the city began collaborating with the state and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) to deploy teams for testing.
De Blasio said there is no evidence that there have been new Legionnaires' cases since Aug. 3 and that the new cases could be attributed to a lag time in reporting. The number of new daily cases peaked July 30.
"We have encouraging news that this outbreak has slowed," city health commissioner Dr. Mary Bassett said during the press conference.
Legionnaires' disease is a respiratory disease that causes pneumonia-like symptoms, and isn't transmitted from person to person but rather by contact with the bacterium Legionella. The bacteria can thrive in warm water and become especially dangerous when the water is turned into a mist that can be inhaled. Medical investigators have linked past outbreaks to public fountains, air conditioning systems, spas, showers and even the misters than keep fruit moist in supermarkets.
The elderly, the young and individuals with underlying health issues are most at risk. Officials aren't sure what started the current outbreak, which began last month.
The CDC estimates that between 8,000 and 18,000 people in the United States are hospitalized with Legionnaires' disease every year, but the actual number may be higher due to underreporting. More illnesses usually occur in the summer and early fall.
"It is vital to remember that because this is not a contagious disease and because it is a disease that can be treated with antibiotics, it is still crucially important to inform anyone in the affected area who believes they have the symptoms that they must get care immediately," de Blasio said.
The Associated Press contributed to this report.


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The Sustainable Living, Arts and Music Festival, or Slamfest, is an open-air music and ecology festival in Humboldt. Held on Saturday April 21 in the Gist Hall parking lot at Humboldt State University. Slamfest 2007 offers a wonderful chance to hear music and encounter the political activists that make this area so fertile.
Headlining this year is global reggae superstar Pato Banton. Banton hails from Birmingham, England where he started working for Illegal Reggae Soundsystems starting at age 9. Emerging as the champion emcee of Birmingham in the late seventies, Banton honed his skills as a bandleader and songwriter in the eighties and beyond.
In the 1980s he recorded albums and had hits like "Don't Sniff Coke," and "Go Pato," leading to collaborations with UB40 and a string of successful tours. Banton is a contemporary of Burning Spear, Steel Pulse, and Dennis Brown; he embodies conscious up-tempo reggae music.
The Mystic Roots band will back Banton on the stage. A standout reggae outfit born in Chico, The Mystic Roots is a seasoned crew well-prepared to rock a large crowd. The band draws inspiration from ska and rock to create a tight sound. The Mystic Roots have become the tour band for Banton, so expect some synergy with these two acts.
Thicker Than Thieves is a hard-rocking reggae-inspired band from San Diego. Heavy metal guitars and ska horns create a pulsating contrast. Regular contributors to Reggae on the River, Thicker Than Thieves showcases a great sound, a la Sublime.
The winners of Humboldt State's Battle of the Bands will also get a chance to shine on the stage. AKA Bella and Steel Toed Slippers will offer up the sounds that propelled them to the top.
A vital part of almost every party, protest and artistic clash is the HSU Calypso Band, complete with pounding drums and a huge dancing posse. Last year they abandoned the stage for an impromptu march through the festival that drew in children and adults alike with their infectious rhythms.
Slamfest is intended to be a space where music and political connections can be made. Along with the bumping sounds, the festival will be alive with political tables and booths, volunteers, petitions and heartfelt speeches.
Democracy Unlimited of Humboldt County, houseless activists the People Project, and A.W.A.R.E. (Always Working For Animals Right and Equality) will offer short workshops. Former State Senator Wes Chesbro will speak and dozens of other opportunities for political and ecological engagement will be available.
The event is billed as a "zero-waste" event, using plant matter recyclable silverware and plates to ease in decomposition and solar and biodiesel generators to provide the electricity. Although it is worth noting that even plant-matter plastics require enormous energy to grow, process and manufacture, impacts of mono-cultured corporate crops like corn become easily recycled tableware. The culture of sustainability of Slamfest offers an honest attempt to reduce the impact of festivals on our community and should be applauded. In an effort to reduce the impact further, festival goers are encouraged to bring their own dishware and carry them out.
Slamfest is a wonderful space for kids of all ages. Last year the Campus Center for Appropriate Technology, CCAT, staffed a children's art space complete with pedal-powered blenders to make papier Mache.
The event kicks off at noon and ends at 8 p.m. and costs $5.
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Obama Endorses Mandatory Voting
By David Knowles, Bloomberg
At a town hall meeting in Cleveland, Ohio, Wednesday, President Obama discussed the idea of mandatory voting, and said "that may end up being a better strategy in the short term" in helping to diminish the influence that money has on politics in the post-Citizens United era.
"It would be transformative if everybody voted," Obama said during the event. "That would counteract [campaign] money more than anything. If everybody voted, then it would completely change the political map in this country."
Compulsory voting is the official law of the land in 22 countries, though only 11 actively enforce penalties to citizens who do not. A woeful percentage of Americans who are eligible to vote, actually do so—just 36.4 percent did during the 2014 midterms, the lowest number since World War II.
"The people who tend not to vote are young, they're lower income, they're skewed more heavily towards immigrant groups and minority groups," Obama, who had never publicly commented on the subject, said. "And they're the folks who are scratching and climbing to get into the middle class and they're working hard. There's a reason why some folks try to keep them away from the polls. We should want to get them into the polls."
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- SmackDown kicks off with a Payback recap video and the fallout on RAW.
- We go to the arena as Daniel Bryan's music hits and he "YES's" his way to the ring. Bryan pauses in the middle of the ring as we get "YES" chants. He says on Monday something happened to him that hasn't happened in his 13 years; he has never had a match stopped due to injury. He says when the doctor asked him if he was good he said, "Yes!" He says they stopped the match because they think he is the weakest link and think he's not tough enough.
Bryan sends to the video on the Titantron and says Orton is the biggest one at fault. We see as Orton shakes Bryan's hand at the end of the footage. Bryan says instead of raging to have the match continue, Orton patted him on the head like a little dog, with pity. Bryan says he will prove he is not the weak link when he beats Randy Orton tonight. He goes into a "YES" frenzy.
Orton's music hits and he comes to the ring. Orton says Bryan has it all wrong. He says people were concerned for Bryan's well-being and he respected the fact that Bryan just kept coming. Orton says he put his arm around Bryan, not out of pity, but respect. Bryan isn't buying it and he is still paranoid about being weak. Orton agrees to the match but he says he will hurt Bryan tonight and when it gets stopped, Bryan will get carried out. He says, "Respect that!" and walks up the ramp. Bryan shakes his head in the ring.
- Chris Jericho faces Alberto Del Rio tonight, along with Curtis Axel vs. Wade Barrett for the Intercontinental Championship.
- Sheamus comes to the ring. We're back from a break as Sheamus awaits Cody Rhodes in the ring. He is accompanied by Damien Sandow in a suit. Is he in the Main Event Mafia too?
Sheamus vs. Cody Rhodes
We see on the WWE App that Cody and Sandow drew straws to determine who faced Sheamus tonight. Sheamus and Cody feel each other out. Sheamus brings Cody down off the top the hard way. The action goes to the floor and Rhodes gets the upper hand as he throws Sheamus into the wall and awaits him in the ring.
Cody hits stomps back in the ring but Sheamus fights out of the corner. Cody works Sheamus' left arm and shoulder and kicks him in the head for 2. Cody rolls Sheamus up with the tights for 2. Sheamus fights back on the apron but Rhodes catches him in an arm submission in the ring. Sheamus gets back to his feet and hits a series of axes and the rolling senton. Sheamus kicks Sandow from the apron and goes for White Noise but Cody counters. Sheamus applies the Cloverleaf for the win.
Winner by submission: Sheamus
Sandow immediately jumps in the ring and kicks Sheamus in the back of the head and unleashes a vicious assault on him. Sandow and Rhodes leave the ring with Sheamus laying. Sandow and Sheamus have a stare down across the ramp.
- Cole sends to another Wyatt Family vignette.
- Curtis Axel and Paul Heyman make their way to the ring as we go to a commercial. Wade Barrett is in the ring as we return. Lilian Garcia makes the formal ring introductions. Nice touch. The Miz is on commentary.
Intercontinental Championship: Curtis Axel (c) vs. Wade Barrett
Wade and Axel lock up to a stalemate. Wade hits some shots in the corner but Axel comes back with a dropkick and he starts to build momentum. Axel hits a knee off the 2nd buckle, a la Bret Hart, for 2. Axel continues with strikes. Barrett comes back with a suplex for a near-fall. Barrett starts to work Axel over in the ropes. Barrett hits knees to the head and kicks Axel in the head, to the floor. Barrett sends him back in; Axel gets the advantage.
Miz says he can smell the slime on Paul Heyman. Barrett his another big kick to the head for 2. Wade goes to the 2nd buckle and flies off but Axel avoids the elbow. Axel hits 2 spinning neckbreakers and gets the pin.
Winner by pin And Still Intercontinental Champion: Curtis Axel
Miz gets up from commentary and gets in the ring. Heyman takes the belt from Axel as Miz removes his jacket. Heyman backs Axel away from Miz and they leave the ring. Paul can be heard saying that his client doesn't work for free.
- A RAW recap is shown of Mark Henry's "retirement." They cut out parts including references to Sexual Chocolate and Mae Young.
- Back in the arena, new Divas Champion AJ Lee makes her entrance with Big E Langston. Natalya is in the ring as we return. We see footage of the AJ / Kaitlyn saga. No nip slip.
AJ Lee vs. Natalya
Natalya shoves AJ on her butt twice and goes to work. Natalya hits a dropkick to the back and looks for the Sharpshooter early. Natalya applies a submission but AJ reaches the ropes. AJ mounts Natalya from behind and applies a chokehold. Layla and Kaitlyn look-on in the back. AJ gets 2 as we go to break.
Natalya lays AJ out with a clothesline for 2 as we return to action. AJ bites Natalya's arm to free herself from her clutches and wins with the Black Widow as Natalya taps.
Winner by submission: AJ Lee
Layla and Kaitlyn react in the back. Aksana shows up and calls Kaitlyn "trash" and Kaitlyn goes off on her. The other Divas have to Kaitlyn off and calm her.
- Chris Jericho makes his entrance. Ricardo introduces our World Champion, Alberto Del Rio.
Chris Jericho vs. Alberto Del Rio
Jericho gets an early lead and gets 2 on Del Rio. Del Rio comes back with stomps in the corner. Jericho moved and Del Rio falls through the ropes. Jericho hits a springboard dropkick to the floor and takes it to Del Rio at ringside. Ricardo distracts Jericho and when he gets in, Del Rio is waiting for him with a big kick to the face. Del Rio is in control as we go to break.
Del Rio knocks Jericho to the floor as we return. Del Rio with 2 back in the ring. Jericho comes back with a flurry and hits an axe handle from up top. Jericho goes for the Walls but Del Rio counters out and kicks Y2J in the head for 2. Del Rio runs in for the Enzuigiri but Jericho moves. Jericho comes off the top with a crossbody but only gets 2.
Jericho hits a bulldog and the Lionsault but doesn't capitalize. Del Rio has a cut over his right eye. Back and forth. Jericho goes for the Walls but Del Rio turns it into a cross armbreaker. Nice. Jericho counters back into the Walls. Ricardo gets on the apron and Jericho puts the Walls on him, Lion Tamer style, as he taps. Dolph Ziggler hits the ring and attacks Del Rio.
Winner by disqualification: Alberto Del Rio
Del Rio and Ricardo escape through the crowd. Jericho and Ziggler argue; Jericho hits him with the Codebreaker and leaves. Del Rio and Ricardo come back to assault Ziggler. Del Rio knocks Ziggler out with a kick to the head.
- Drew McIntyre and 3MB are in the ring. Christian is introduced.
Christian vs. Drew McIntyre
Drew tries a get aggressive but Christian sends him to the floor and follows up with a dropkick through the ropes. Drew catches Christian from up top and drops him for 2. Christian comes back and hits an elbow from the 2nd buckle. Heath Slater and Jinder Mahal get on the apron but are unable to distract Christian too long. Christian hits the Killswitch in the ring for the win.
Winner by pin: Christian
Christian grabs the mic in the ring and he says that after 10 long months, it feels good to be out in front of his peeps. He says he came back for "One more match." The Shield's music hits and they attack from the normal entrance, not their usual crowd entrance. They surround the ring and maul Christian. They hit the triple powerbomb and stand over Christian.
- The Rob Van Dam video is shown.
- Back from a commercial to a CM Punk recap video of Payback and the following night on RAW with Brock Lesnar.
- Renee Young gets comments from Paul Heyman in the back. He asks Renee about her relationship with her father. He brings up things about her fiancée and her breaking up. She looks hurt. Paul says CM Punk is his best friend and not his client and it is personal. He will not air-out dirty laundry on TV. He tells her to ask him about Cutis Axel next time.
- Randy Orton makes his entrance to the ring. Daniel Bryan has entered the ring as we return from a break.
Randy Orton vs. Daniel Bryan
The bell rings and they waste no time going at it with intensity. They take turns with mounted shots in the corners. Orton gets the first decided advantage with a suplex. Orton hits a couple of knees and leaps for another one but Bryan moves and the grapple on the mat. Bryan tries to weaken the arm for the No / Yes Lock. Orton escapes the attempt and hangs Bryan out on the top rope. Orton tries a suplex from the apron to the floor but Bryan counters. Orton gets the suplex; Bryan almost lands on his feet. Bryan is laid out on the floor.
Back from a break with 8 minutes left in the show. Orton stops Bryan's strikes with a dropkick for 2. Orton puts Bryan up top and headbutts him. Orton goes up for a superplex but Bryan blocks it and headbutts Orton down. Bryan hits a missile dropkick and the ref counts both of them down. Bryan does a kip-up and goes into a frenzy of offense. Bryan gets 2. Bryan screams that he is not the weak link as he unloads on Bryan. Orton snaps off a powerslam and gets 2.
Orton starts to get that look in his eyes; Bryan hits a backslide for 2. Bryan unloads with Yes Kicks for 2. Bryan goes up but Orton meets him and makes him lose his balance. Orton measures Bryan for a shot to the face and hits a superplex but only gets 2. Orton hits his ropes DDT. 3 minutes left in the show. Orton coils up but Bryan rolls to the floor. Orton goes out and suplexes Bryan into the security wall. Bryan comes off the apron with a knee to Orton and gets back in the ring at the count of 6. Bryan flies back through the ropes with a dive onto Orton.
The ref starts the count over. Bryan makes it back in at 9. Orton makes it in after 10.
Winner by count out: Daniel Bryan
Bryan grabs a mic a demands the match be restarted because he doesn't want a count out victory. The ref tells him, "No," but Bryan starts a "YES" chant as we go off the air.
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Conflicts and fears, embedded in our subconscious, drive our thoughts and actions. We learn from birth to see the world through a lens inherited from parents, schools, the media, and the world around us. Because of this lens, many of us grow up believing that money is success, that we have to be afraid of failure, or that our value lies in how we compare to others. We learn to judge others by the same standards, and to reject those who fall short.
Meditation is a tool which allows us to explore the mind and escape these limiting patterns of belief. But the tricky thing is that in order to meditate we must first learn how to relax.
Our Brain
The brain is a complex computer, containing 10-13 billion cells called 'neurons'. Its function is to receive and interpret information from our senses – sight, touch, sound, smell and taste. In order to do this, our brain relies on memory. Our mind compares the information from our senses with the information stored in our memory. If there is any disparity, our brain sets up a tension response. If our view of the world is based on fear and limits, this tension response becomes our natural state.
Only a small amount of the information from our senses reaches our conscious perception. This means that what we perceive is dictated by what our mind lets us see. If we believe that the world is filled with trouble and pain, then that is what we will see.
Things you can do to clean up your mind
1. Accept yourself. You are not your behaviours. Everything you do is a product of the lens through which you view the world.
2. Reduce your need to find happiness in outside things. Ask why you need them so much? What need do they satisfy in you?
3. List your greatest desires. What do you value and why? Were your parents the same? Begin to get to know yourself – you may be surprised by the things you take for granted.
4. Accept other people fully. They are looking at the world through their own lens. They have reasons for acting the way they do.
5. Live in the now. Take a lesson from Kung Fu Panda: 'Yesterday is history, tomorrow is a mystery, but today is a gift – that is why it is called the present'.
6. Try not to identify completely with your mind. It is a small part of you. Become aware of the underlying consciousness, the 'watcher' that is always there.
7. Be authentic and open with others. Don't pretend to be someone you're not, or someone you think you should be.
8. See the potential in others. We can all escape our lens. We all have a deeper state of being. Some people just don't know it.
9. Difficult situations are there for a reason – they show us the way our mind works. Watch the way you react to other people. Why do some people irritate you so much? What is it about them that threatens you?
10. Walk in someone else's shoes. Our reaction to life is usually automatic, based on our thought patterns. Think about why that person is reacting the way they are.
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Biomolecules 2014, 4(1), 20-55; https://doi.org/10.3390/biom4010020
Misfolding of Amyloidogenic Proteins and Their Interactions with Membranes
Department of Physics, University of Genoa, Genoa 16146, Italy
Research Centre on the Molecular Basis of Neurodegeneration, Florence 50134 Italy
Department of Chemistry, Saint Lawrence University, Canton, NY 13617, USA
All authors contributed equally to this work.
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Received: 4 November 2013 / Revised: 13 December 2013 / Accepted: 17 December 2013 / Published: 27 December 2013
(This article belongs to the Special Issue Protein Folding and Misfolding)
AbstractIn this paper, we discuss amyloidogenic proteins, their misfolding, resulting structures, and interactions with membranes, which lead to membrane damage and subsequent cell death. Many of these proteins are implicated in serious illnesses such as Alzheimer's disease and Parkinson's disease. Misfolding of amyloidogenic proteins leads to the formation of polymorphic oligomers and fibrils. Oligomeric aggregates are widely thought to be the toxic species, however, fibrils also play a role in membrane damage. We focus on the structure of these aggregates and their interactions with model membranes. Study of interactions of amlyoidogenic proteins with model and natural membranes has shown the importance of the lipid bilayer in protein misfolding and aggregation and has led to the development of several models for membrane permeabilization by the resulting amyloid aggregates. We discuss several of these models: formation of structured pores by misfolded amyloidogenic proteins, extraction of lipids, interactions with receptors in biological membranes, and membrane destabilization by amyloid aggregates perhaps analogous to that caused by antimicrobial peptides. View Full-Text
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All the latest news, views and transfer rumours from the Emirates Stadium...
Whilst Arsenal fans may not be particularly happy with recent transfer dealings - or lack thereof - manager Arsene Wenger is taking an active approach when it comes to keeping hold of his current stars. Experienced stars Per Mertesacker and Tomas Rosicky have agreed new deals to stay in North London, and Wenger was evidently delighted to tie up their futures with the club.
"They are players of exceptional quality and experience," Wenger said. "They have consistently proven themselves at the highest level. There is a great feeling of togetherness and belief in the group and this news will only help to strengthen this further."
Mertesacker and Rosicky could be joined in staying at the Emirates Stadium by midfielder Aaron Ramsey, with the Welshman reportedly offered a bumper £100,000 per week contract. The five year extension is a huge boost to Wenger and Gunners fans, who have witnessed the 23-year-old develop into a key player this season.
But one player who won't be staying with the club is striker Nicklas Bendtner, with the Danish international unhappy at his lack of first-team opportunities. The 26-year-old wants to leave at the end of the season, and believes he can turn his career around by moving to a new club.
"I'm not going to stay at Arsenal – first team football is what I'm after. The plan is for me to move on. I'm ready for a new challenge. When I find my right club, I am sure that everything will be all right in itself, if there are no more injuries," said Bendtner.
Meanwhile, manager Wenger believes Champions League opponents Bayern Munich are weaker than when they won the competition a year ago. New manager Pep Guardiola prides his teams on ball retention, but Wenger doesn't think the Germans are as good as they were under Jupp Heynckes - despite trailing the Bavarian club 2-0 from the first leg of their tie.
"Last year, Franck Ribery and Arjen Robben were playing together and they were in great shape, so Bayern were really powerful going forward. This year they still have an awful lot of possession but I think they're less dangerous – we saw that at Arsenal. Even though we were playing with 10 men they didn't really create an awful lot," he said.
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Government Watchdog Calls for National Strategy to Improve Food Safety Oversight
A recent report by the watchdog Government Accountability Office calls for the development of a national strategy to address fragmentation in the federal food safety oversight system. The agency believes such a strategy should establish sustained leadership at the highest level of the administration with authority to implement the strategy and be accountable for its progress. It would also need to identify roles and responsibilities; identify staffing and funding requirements as well as the sources of funding for its implementation; establish milestones with timeframes, baselines and metrics to monitor progress; be sufficiently flexible to incorporate change identified through monitoring and evaluation of progress; include short-term actions focusing on preventing outbreak of food-borne illnesses to gain traction in improving the U.S. food safety system; and involve all relevant stakeholders.
According to the GAO, of the 16 federal agencies that collectively administer at least 30 federal laws governing food safety and quality the Food and Drug Administration and the U.S. Department of Agriculture's Food Safety and Inspection Service have primary responsibility for food safety oversight. The FDA is responsible for ensuring that all domestic and imported foods, excluding meat, poultry, catfish and processed egg products, are safe, wholesome, sanitary and properly labelled. FSIS, meanwhile, is tasked with, among other things, ensuring the U.S. domestic and imported commercial supply of meat, poultry, catfish and egg products is safe, wholesome and correctly labelled and packaged. Other important agencies include the USDA's Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service, which is responsible for preventing the introduction or dissemination of plant pests and livestock pests or diseases, and U.S. Customs and Border Protection, which inspects food and other products for compliance with U.S. laws and regulations and assists all federal agencies in enforcing their regulations at the border.
For more than four decades the GAO has reported on the fragmented nature of federal food safety oversight. For example, the agency has described how the FDA is generally responsible for ensuring that eggs in their shells (referred to as shell eggs) are safe, wholesome and properly labelled; FSIS is responsible for the safety of eggs processed into egg products; the USDA's Agricultural Marketing Service sets quality and grade standards for shell eggs, such as Grade A; APHIS manages the programme that helps ensure laying hens are free from Salmonella at birth; and the FDA oversees the safety of the feed that hens eat. In another notorious example, the GAO has reported how the FDA has primary responsibility for regulating manufacturers of frozen cheese pizzas, FSIS has primary responsibility for regulating manufacturers of frozen pizzas with meat, and multiple additional federal agencies play roles in regulating the components of either type of pizza.
Similarly, past GAO reports have examined how FSIS inspects manufacturers of packaged open-face meat or poultry sandwiches (i.e., those with one slice of bread) but the FDA inspects manufacturers of packaged closed-face meat or poultry sandwiches (i.e., those with two slices of bread). However, establishments producing closed-faced meat or poultry sandwiches intended for export to Canada can be inspected for Hazard Analysis and Critical Control Point compliance by FSIS under a voluntary inspection programme and samples collected by FSIS are tested for certain pathogens by AMS.
Fragmentation in federal food safety oversight has caused inconsistent oversight, ineffective co-ordination and inefficient use of resources. Notably, the GAO observed in January 2007 that a challenge for the 21st century was to find a way for federal agencies with food safety responsibilities to integrate the existing web of food safety programmes and strategically manage their portfolios to promote the safety and integrity of the U.S. food supply.
In its prior work, the GAO has identified various options for reducing fragmentation and overlap in food safety oversight, including alternative organisational structures. These options include establishing a single food safety agency, a food safety inspection agency, a data collection and risk analysis centre, and a co-ordination mechanism led by a central chair. Congress may also want to assess the need for comprehensive, uniform, risk-based food safety legislation or to amend the FDA's and USDA's existing authorities.
A number of actions have been taken over the past decade to improve the federal food safety oversight system, including the establishment of the Food Safety Working Group in March 2009, the enactment of the FDA Food Safety Modernization Act in January 2011, and an update also in January 2011 of the statutory framework for performance management in the federal government. In addition, the FDA and FSIS are involved in nine collaborative mechanisms to facilitate inter-agency co-ordination on food safety, although none of those mechanisms provide for broad-based, centralised collaboration.
The GAO has identified five criteria that must be fully met in order for the federal food safety oversight system to be removed from its high-risk list, but as of February 2015 that criteria had either been partially met or not met at all. Partially met criteria include a demonstrated strong commitment and top leadership support, an agency's capacity (people and resources) to resolve the risk(s), and an ability to demonstrate progress in implementing corrective measures and resolving the high-risk area. However, a corrective action plan that defines the root cause of the problem, identifies solutions and provides for substantially completing corrective measures does not yet exist, while a programme to monitor and independently validate the effectiveness and sustainability of corrective measures is also absent.
Accordingly, the GAO is calling on all appropriate entities within the Executive Office of the President, in consultation with all relevant federal agencies and other stakeholders, to develop a national strategy that states the purpose of the strategy, establishes high-level sustained leadership, identifies resource requirements, monitors progress, and identifies short- and long-term actions to improve the federal food safety oversight system. The USDA stated in response to this recommendation that it is not yet convinced that developing and implementing a national strategy would result in significantly different outcomes in protecting public health by preventing food-borne illness with its partners. However, the USDA also noted that, should major changes to the federal food safety system be proposed, it is imperative that they are data-driven, well-designed, collaborative and ultimately continue to enable the United States to have the safest food supply in the world. Even with the USDA's reservations, the GAO continues to believe that a national strategy would provide a comprehensive framework for considering organisational changes and resource decisions to improve the federal food safety oversight system.


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