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Early one Sunday morning in August, as the sun climbs to a blaze in the aqua sky, an organic market unfolds across the park Placita Roosevelt in San Juan, Puerto Rico. Vendors and farmers from all over the island gather to share produce, expertise, and services. Chicks for sale cheep sleepily in their corner of the plaza, nestled in cages adorned with informational pamphlets on chicken care. Tabletops pop with piles of organic green beans, purple beets, and red chili peppers.

This is the largest organic market in Puerto Rico, created by the Cooperativa Orgánica Madre Tierra (The Organic Mother Earth Cooperative), a worker-owned social enterprise based in the island’s capital city. Every vendor in this plaza, and most of the customers,co-owner of the organic farm Finca Gripiñas in Jayuya, two hours southwest of San Juan.

The coop’s market also sustained losses. One Sunday session was cancelled, and just 16 farmers and vendors attended the first market following Maria (compared to the usual 45 to 50 tables). But by this past summer, between 25 and 30 vendors were regularly attending the market again.

The Cooperativa Orgánica Madre Tierra , founded in 2001, has a mission to promote healthy living through agroecology, which applies the principles of ecology to farming. It is directed by Manuel Bey, an expert on coop models who studied social science at the University of Puerto Rico. Today, its 150 member-owners include consumers, farmers, chefs, and health practitioners, each of whom purchase at least $200 worth of shares


Afghanistan's Ghani condemns CIA's 'inhumane actions'

Afghanistan's new President Ashraf Ghani on Wednesday condemned CIA torture detailed in a US Senate report, saying the United States' actions violated "all accepted norms of human rights" and were part of a vicious cycle of violence, AFP reports.

Ghani's speech came as his government attempts to revive a moribund talks process with the Taliban, whose 13-year insurgency has gained significant momentum with the phased withdrawal of US-led NATO combat troops in the country.

"The Afghan government condemns these inhumane actions in the strongest terms," he said at a specially-convened press conference at the presidential palace in Kabul.

"There can be no justification for these kinds of actions and inhumane torture in today's world."

The US Senate said in a report that CIA torture of Al-Qaeda suspectswas far more brutal than acknowledged and failed to produce useful intelligence.

Ghani, who took office in September amid hopes of better bilateral relations with the US than those enjoyed by his predecessor Hamid Karzai, said: "The reason I want to talk to my countrymen tonight is to explain our position on that report released by the US Senate.

"This report is 499 pages long and since downloading it from the Internet last night I have read every single word of it.

"This is a vicious cycle. When a person is tortured in an inhumane way, the reaction will be inhumane. And thus a vicious cycle of action and reaction is created."

One of the "black sites" mentioned in the report, where practices such as "rectal feeding" and suspending inmates by the


wrists, was a facility known as the "Salt Pit", located outside Afghanistan's Bagram Air Base.

Prison facilities at Bagram were mainly handed over to Afghan control in 2012, though the United States is still in charge of foreign detainees.

One Pakistani inmate who was interviewed by AFP in April said he suffered beatings, sleep deprivation and a sustained campaign of mental disintegration over nine years -- despite committing no crime.

An official record of his detention that was later made unclassified shows his captors suspected the same.

"Unfortunately this report shows that our Afghan countrymen have been subjected to torture and their rights violated," Ghani said.

"We want the number of these Afghans to be known, we want their names to be released so we take action for their rights and to defendtheir human dignity in a serious and fundamental way."

Activists demand action

A residual force of around 12,500 foreign troops is set to remain in Afghanistan beyond the end of the year, but its mission will be to train local forces and assist in counter-terrorism.

Ghani stressed that detentions by US forces would now be a thing of the past.

"Based on the Bilateral Security Pact between Afghanistan and the United States, after the end of this year, meaning in 21 days, nobody can take prisoners or establish prisons in Afghanistan," he said.

Sarah Bilal, a lawyer representing the families of Pakistani detainees at Bagram, said the report was "unsurprising".

"It is not surprising to us that they have tortured, we have known this for years with the detainees coming out from Bagram.

"I am


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Starr’s photographs and stories “portray four lads from Liverpool, trying to live normal lives amidst the frenzy that surrounded them,” the statement said. —AP (File) Photo

Former Beatle Ringo Starr is lifting the lid on a collection of previously unseen photographs of the Fab Four in their heyday from his personal collection, in a new photography book due out next month.

"Photograph", which will be released as an e-book on Apple's iBookstore on June 12, will coincide with a Grammy Museum exhibit on Starr, entitled "Ringo: Peace & Love", the book's publishers said on Wednesday.

A limited-edition hand-bound book signed by Starr will be available for purchase in December.

The book will include photographs from the musician's childhood in Liverpool, England, to his road to fame as part of the Fab Four,Russian fishermen are rescued from an ice floe off the coast of Sakhalin, an island off Russia's southeast coast, January 28, 2020. Russia Emergency Situations Ministry

In a nearly seven-hour operation, Russia's emergency services rescued 536 ice fishermen after they got stranded on a giant ice floe that broke off the island of Sakhalin in eastern Siberia, officials said.

Around 60 more people were able to get back onto the shore on their own Tuesday evening, emergency officials said.

Footage of the incident showed groups of people using smaller pieces of ice as rafts, trying to row to the Russian coast as the giant ice floe with the stranded fishermen slowly drifted further away from the land. Russian state television said others, on the larger piece of ice, simply continued fishing.

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According to some of the Russian fishermen, by the time they had been rescued the frigid water rift between the ice floe and the coast was already 660 feet wide. State-run TV said all the rescued fishermen declined any help from doctors.

Russian fishermen are seen stranded on giant ice floe (at left) off the coast of Sakhalin, an island off Russia's southeast coast, January 28, 2020. Russia Emergency Situations Ministry

It's the third time in a week that emergency services in the Sakhalin region had to rescue ice fishermen stuck on drifting glacial masses. On Jan. 22, around 300 people got stranded on an ice floe and on Sunday 600 others did.

Local authorities blamed the fishermen for ignoring safety warnings and going ice fishing[Surveillance of epidemiological features for epidemic cerebrospinal meningitis in China during 1980s].
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French fighter jets launched their biggest raids in Syria to date, targeting an ISIS stronghold in Raqqa just two days after the group claimed coordinated attacks in Paris that killed about 130 people, officials said Sunday. Watch the video.

An Airbus A380 superjumbo jet with 497 passengers aboard Air France flight 66 from Paris to Los Angeles was forced to make an emergency landing Saturday in Canada after one of the jet’s four engines failed as the plane cruised at.

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PARIS (AP) — French pop singer France Gall, who shot to fame in the1960s by winning the Eurovision Song Contest then produced hits and sold millions of albums over a four-decade career, died Sunday. She was 70. Her agent.

While covering President Donald Trump’s visit to Paris, France, to meet with President Emmanuel Macron, Harlow asked her audience to “just listen in to the French national anthem for just a moment.” Moments later, the Columbia.

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A train has collided with a school bus near Perpignan in southern France, killing at least four teenagers, the French Interior Ministry has confirmed. A regional train is said to have crashed into the school bus at a level crossing at Millas.

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Jul 20, 2017. Jean-Michel Mathieu, who has spent most of his career with Air France and the wider group including roles in revenue management and customer relations, has been named CEO of the new airline. “The creation of a new airline is a historic moment in many ways,” said Franck Terner, CEO of Air France.

Oct 6, 2015. Executives were taking part in meetings about how the company would slash nearly 3000 jobs when hundreds of workers stormed the Air France offices Monday.

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Professor Katsutoshi Goto, phD, a Japanese physio-pharmacologist born in 1943, is the recipient of the The Second Tomoh Masaki Award, a bi-annual prize presented on the occasion of the International Conferences on Endothelin to scientists for outstanding contributions and achievements in the field of endothelin research. The Second Tomoh Masaki Award was presented to Professor Goto at the Thirteenth International Conference on Endothelin held at Tokyo Campus of the University of Tsukuba, Tokyo, Japan, in September 2013 in recognition of his scientific contributions in the 1980s that ultimately allowed to identify and characterize the endothelin peptides. Goto's innovative work was quintessential in the discovery of endothelin which has led to the development of new therapies and new clinical applications in medicine and particularlypulmonary arterial hypertension. This article summarizes the career and the scientific achievements of Katsutoshi Goto, it includes statements of former students on his role as a mentor as well as the awardee's personal quotes, including a message to young endothelin researchers.


downward price pressure by turning on their taps.

Take the North Sea. Norwegian and British wells are pumping at record levels, up 25% since 1990. Alaskan production is up 10% since July, thanks to new wells coming on. And new entries in the world oil patch such as Yemen, Colombia, and Syria are all hoping to eat into OPEC's share of the pie. In 1992 and 1993, notes Pierre Terzian of Paris-based Petrostrategies, non-OPEC producers added 700,000 barrels a day of new supplies--while OPEC managed only 400,000. Next year, he predicts, OPEC might not be able to add any new exports at all.

Longer term, Iraq--until the gulf war, the cartel's No.2 producer--could add to the oversupply. On Nov. 26, Baghdad announced it will accept long-term monitoring of its weaponsYou are here

Not For Profit: Why Democracy Needs the Humanities

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Martha C. Nussbaum, Professor of Law and Ethics the University of Chicago and author of Not For Profit: Why Democracy Needs the Humanities.

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Author and philosopher Martha Nussbaum says a declining emphasis on study of the humanities could lead to a world of “useful profit makers with no imaginations.”

From the United States to India and the United Kingdom, humanities and arts programs are being cut in all levels of education. This trend, says Martha Nussbaum, a professor of law and ethics (who also has appointments in philosophy, classics, and political science), at the University of Chicago, has the potential to create a generation of citizens who are ill equipped to participate in a democratic society. While speaking to


With Leeds recording another clean sheet and another Herculean defensive performance from Sol Bamba (against Wigan), it’s perhaps worth comparing him with Jason Pearce – after all, they were both on the pitch on Saturday. So who is better?

Pearce was a signing I greeted with optimism in a dark period for the club, where Neil Warnock ingested Portsmouth and spat out a Leeds side. Where dross like David Norris and Luke Varney were indicative of this bleak amalgamated side, Jason Pearce was a nugget of gold in a bucket of mud. A young man, a captain and their player of the season. J-Dog struggled for consistency throughout his time at Leeds and while no one could ever question his commitment, his ability seemed to let him down.

Sure, heAFRICANGLOBE – A very disturbing video posted on Kalsan TV, YouTube and Facebook shows the patched-up remains of 9 Somalis found on an Alexandria coastal stretch.

The bodies show badly and unprofessionally stitched up torsos missing all vital organs.

Among the butchered Somalis were a mother and her three children who were identified as Adar Hassan Addawe (mother), son Abubakr Abdikarim (3 months), daughter Anfa’ Abdikarim (18 months), and another seven-year old son.

The Somalis are believed to have lost their lives to ruthless body-organs traders after they failed to pay for their passage to human traffickers who promised to smuggle them to Europe – at a hefty fee.

The gruesome remains should wake up the world to the sinister, underworld trade in vital organs which qualifies for the newest addition to


Dongria Kondh boycott Indian elections over police harassment

The Dongria Kondh tribe has boycotted the Indian general elections in protest at growing police harassment and the arrests of their leaders.

Over 30 cases are currently pending against Dongria and Majhi Kondh people who were actively involved in resisting an open-cast mine by British mining giant Vedanta Resources, and a Vedanta refinery on the tribes’ land.

Jilo Majhi – a prominent member of the Niyamgiri Suraksha Samiti (‘Save Niyamgiri Organisation’) – was detained in jail by police for over 20 days. He has since been released on bail and faces a High Court hearing this summer over a case which dates back several years.

The election boycott demonstrates the Dongria’s courageous stand against their treatment by the police, as many members of thecooker for the rapid and thorough cooking of the product, and is manually opened and the product removed. The hot oil and vapors created during the cooking cycle present a potentially dangerous condition of the end of the cooking cycle.
In use, the high pressure cooker requires release of the pressure within the cooker prior to removal of the cover. The system should therefore be constructed with some means to release the pressure and establish a safe condition at the end of the cycle, and thereby permit safe cover removal for removable of the cooked chicken. Generally, a manual or automatic pressure release means is provided to release the pressure.
The prior art has further suggested various covers having a mechanical interlock mechanism which incorporates a pressure release unit to


prevent opening of the cover with cooking pressure in place. Care is still required by the operator in the event a residual pressure condition exists in the pot notwithstanding operation of the pressure relief means and the interlock mechanism. The efficiency of the cycling is also directly related to the ease of removing the cover for access to the cooker pot.
A releasable cover having a safety interlock is shown in U.S. Pat. No. 3,976,218 which issued Aug. 24, 1976. A cover member rests on the top of a cooking pot. A pivoted arm is secured to one side of the square pot and extends over through a channel formed in the cover. A releasable latch on the opposite side secures the bar to the opposite side of theinside a specially formed rim on the pot. A clamping bar spans the pot with the opposite ends coupled to the outer rim portion. A pivoting cam on the bar to expand the cover into the interior sealing engagement. The cam has a lug aligned with a vertical pin member slidably mounted in the cover. The pressure in the cooking kettle forces the pin outwardly into an aperature in the lug to produce an interlock.
U.S. Pat. No. 2,917,200 which issued Dec. 15, 1959 discloses the cooking kettle having a heavy cover structure mounted in a hydraulically actuated vertical positioning yoke assembly. A positioning cam unit is mounted between the yoke and the cover for positively lowering and lifting of the cover. The cover has a pressure responsive pin


The proposed project focuses on the exploration of an ideology of the ‘subaltern’ within Byzantine society in the period from the reign of Heraclius (610-641) to the conquest of Constantinople by the crusader armies (1204). The period under scrutiny has been singled out due to certain geopolitical and cultural developments such as the de-Latinization of Roman imperial culture and the confinement of Roman territorial rule to the empire’s eastern parts, the geopolitical core of which consisted of Asia Minor and the Balkan Peninsula and in which the Hellenic language and culture were predominant, thus favouring greater political cohesion and cultural – religious homogeneity within the empire’s territories.

The research aim is to scrutinize the lower strata’s assimilation to, or deviation from, the ruling ideology of the imperial government, thatas ruling class vs. lower strata, centre (Constantinopolitan population) vs. periphery (provincial population), ruling ideology vs. oppositional ideologies, monolithic identity vs. discrepant identity.

Our method is based on an understanding of ideology as an analytical concept which refers to sets of ideas and beliefs of a society as a whole, not simply of a society’s ruling group or class, and that it is interrelated with power relations and social divisions. The research foresees a close reading of various sources, with primary focus on hagiographical and other similar texts, which allow insights into the social action and concerns of the common people on the periphery. The material provided by the systematic scrutiny of these texts will serve as a basis for a comparative analysis with the material from historiographical and


other sources that primarily reproduce imperial ideology.

The expected results will provide insights into the ideas and beliefs of the lower strata, thereby enabling a bottom-up view of ideology and social structure within Byzantine society. Thus, they will complement the various studies that have focused on imperial ideology and the ideas of the upper class, and will round out the image of the Byzantine society’s ideology in the period from the seventh to the twelfth century, while promoting interdisciplinary research between the research fields of Byzantine Studies, Mediterranean Studies and Social History.Huang Qi celebrating with Tianwang volunteers after being released from prison in 2011. Photo: Supplied by Huang Qi.

This post was written by Catherine Lai and originally published on Hong Kong Free Press on November 12, 2016. The version below is published on Global Voices under a partnership agreement.

Despite the continued detention of his reporters and having been imprisoned twice, the founder of the citizen news site 64 Tianwang says suppression will help the organization grow.

Reporters Without Borders on November 7 awarded its Press Freedom Prize to 64 Tianwang, which is widely recognized as a pioneering human rights defence website in China.

In an interview with HKFP, Huang said that the award is a way to recognize the work of their volunteer citizen journalists, nine of whom are currently detained


and five have been released on bail, according to Tianwang. Six Tianwang citizen journalists were detained for their coverage of the G20 summit in Hangzhou in September. One of them is still in detention.

Despite the continued crackdown, Huang Qi and his volunteers have continued their work.

In 1998, 64 Tianwang started out under a different name as an organization that focused on human trafficking, which Tianwang founder Huang Qi described as a “serious problem in the late 1990s.” The site was established the following year. Huang Qi, a Sichuan resident, founded the project with money from his previous career as a businessman and factory owner.

He told Hong Kong Free Press:

As we were helping these people who had gotten lost or separated from their loved ones or who had gonemissing, we discovered that in the mainland, behind these cases were judicial corruption or human rights infringements, so we expanded our work.

At times, their work has earned Tianwang positive coverage from mainland media, including from the People’s Daily, which is the largest official newspaper of the Chinese Communist Party. But they have also been criticized for their reporting on human rights.

Huang was jailed for five years for subversion in 2003 after hosting on his site articles about the 1989 pro-democracy movement in China that resulted in the Tiananmen massacre. He was again jailed for three years for “possession of state secrets” after investigating allegations that poor construction contributed to the deaths of schoolchildren in the 2008 Sichuan earthquake. He said:

I’m scared of being sent back to jail too,


Door-to-door scarier now than ever

Latvian worker for Southwestern Advantage creeps out South Bay stay-at-homes

From American Honey, 2016 movie about rip-off team who sell door to door.

"European people on bikes" going door-to-door have raised concerns among locals in Chula Vista.

"Anyone have two European people on bikes come to their house?" said Kim Castle-Silva this week on social media about the travelling salespeople that she found "creepy."

"I told him 3 times I had a sleeping baby on the couch. He tried to tell me how important his books were when I told him I wasn't interested because my BABY was SLEEPING on the COUCH," Castle-Silva said. "They sat in my driveway for a few minutes writing stuff down in their binder. Anyone know what they're doing?"

Another local speculated that theI thought either they went away or they would come to the back," Claire Deguzman said. "They went to the back. He knocked on the sliding door and I pulled the blinds open, I was scared he would break the glass." Deguzman added that she called the police "but they took off before the police came...This was at maybe 2pm on Saturday [June 10th]."

The salespeople in this incident were not necessarily connected to the other complaints, however.

Campbell stressed that Southwestern Advantage is entirely reputable.

"We're members of the BBB [Better Business Bureau]," Campbell said. "The company started in 1865."

The company has had to clear up unfounded social-media rumors in the past concerning human trafficking and kidnapping in places like Oklahoma, Oregon and Missouri.

Their salespeople are students recruited in universities


to work as independent contractors in order to "offset their educational finances," Campbell said. The company sends the students to different parts of the country where they typically stay with host families. "They all relocate somewhere," he said. "They like to see different parts of the country."

But urban legends die hard and speculation was rife in Chula Vista.

"They just came by my house," said Jessica Collinsworth on June 13th, "I just let my dog bark at him while he yelled hello 1000 times. I've seen stories on Facebook about people selling children's books to find houses that have children and then they attempt to kidnap them. I don't know if they're real or not, but those people always freak me out. I never answer my door."

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Campaign Chunk 8.5 – Solaris, the solar-powered town

The largest photovoltaic solar power plant in the United States is becoming a reality at Nellis Air Force Base. When completed in December, the solar arrays will produce 15 megawatts of power (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

Solaris, the solar-powered town

Solar power is the conversion of sunlight into electricity, either directly using photovoltaics (PV), or indirectly using concentrated solar power (CSP). CSP uses a series of mirrors and reflectors to focus a large area of sunlight into a tight beam, PV converts light into an electric current using the photovoltaic effect. The relatively small town of Solaris uses an experimental version of both PV and CSP, called HEPV(High Effeicancy Photovoltaics) and UCSP (Ultra Concentrated Solar Power) to create its power


much maligned monarch. Conversely, Shakespeare’s play of the same name was being touted as the very zenith of propaganda and the Bard of Avon himself as a sort of Goebbels with the tongue of Goethe; history’s most gifted author prostituting his talents to defame the last and most discrete of its true kings, the Plantagenets, to justify the brash and barbaric usurpers who followed, the Tudors.

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I myself, attempting to judge events in the context of the time, take the view that the Duke of Gloucester – the name by which he was most commonly known, having held the title from age 9 – was nothing more than a minor product of those crude times whose only notability lay in providing inspiration for one ofour greatest artist’s first decent works and through that stabilising a nation that had suffered two generations of civil war. In death and dramatic ignominy Gloucester achieved more for his country than his rather prosaic savagery did in life.

The first point to be made is that there isn’t a historian worth the name who doesn’t hold Gloucester responsible for the death of his nephews – the 12-year-old King Edward V and his younger brother Richard, 4th Duke of York – the ‘Princes in the Tower’.

On the death of Gloucester’s eldest brother, King Edward IV, Gloucester became Lord Protector and had the princes sent to the Tower of London “for their own safety”. He then announced that young Edward V’s coronation would be delayed, and not long afterwards the


children were proclaimed illegitimate due to their father’s alleged bigamy. Two weeks later – 6th July 1483 – Gloucester was crowned King of England and France (and Lord of Ireland.) The princes were neither seen nor heard from again. [Read more…]More than 300 Syrian refugees rescued by a cruise ship off the coast of Cyprus today staged a dramatic sit-in aboard the pleasure liner ... and refused to budge until it took them to mainland Europe.

The group was found stranded in the Mediterranean Sea after fleeing their war-torn homeland as it continued under onslaught of Islamic State jihadis.

But as soon as the Salamis Cruise Lines ship docked in Cyprus to drop them off, they stayed on board and demanded to be taken to Italy.

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Help us: The group was found stranded in the Mediterranean Ocean after fleeing their war-torn homeland as it continued to battle the Islamic State onslaught

Rescued: They were winched to safety after their rickety boat ran into trouble at sea

We will not be


moved! The group of refugees stayed on board the liner and refused to budge until they were taken to Italy

Take us to Italy: For hours they waited as Cypriot authorites debated about what to do about the group

Long journey: The group was picked up by the liner near Paphos, on Cyprus' west coast, as they attempted to sail the 1,500 miles to Italy

The situation was finally resolved shortly before dawn today after Cyprus deployed an elite team of riot police to bring them down.

After a few minutes of tense negotiations, the refugees agreed to leave.

Cypriot officials said that the 345 people, including 52 children, were to be taken to a reception center near the capital Nicosia where they would be given shelter and medical attention until authorities determinewhat will happen to them.

Police: The situation was finally resolved shortly before dawn today after police entered the vessel to talk to the remaining refugees

Disembarking: After some time negotiating with police, they finally agreed to leave, according to Marinos Papadopoulos, an interior ministry official

Safe at last: The refugees were to be taken by bus to a camp not far from Nicosia

Relief: Many of them looked relieved and happy as they were driven away by coach, some even flashed peace signs to photographers in the street

Safe now: Others did not look so happy after their long and arduous journey to safety

Rest: They would be able to shower, get clean clothes and rest at the medical centre, according to the Red Cross

Dozens of civil defense officials, medical staff and police


were waiting at dockside to receive the people after the cruise ship had docked

A small group did disembark from the ship to negotiate with authorities, authorities said, but talks broke off with the group returning to the ship

Arrested: But several adults holding small children were seen leaving the cruise ship, while one man led away by police in handcuffs

There they would be able to shower, get clean clothes and rest, according to the Red Cross.

GAMBIA'S PRESIDENT DEMANDS UN PROBE INTO 'MANMADE SINKING' OF MIGRANT BOATS TO EUROPE Gambia's president has demanded a United Nations investigation into the 'manmade sinking, capsizing' of boats carrying migrants to Europe, saying 500 citizens of his African country had died in such incidents in the past five years. Migrants have been streaming outManaging Director Kikis Vasiliou said his company received the request from Cypriot Search and Rescue authorities to assist in the rescue operation on Thursday morning while the cruise ship was returning to Cyprus from the Greek islands.

But he said the unexpected turn of events is costing his company 'several hundred thousand' euros after the cancellation of a trip by 300 mainly Russian tourists to Haifa, Israel aboard the cruise ship that was scheduled to depart late Thursday.

The Cypriot Defense Ministry said the boat had 'most likely' set sail from Syria loaded with 'civilian refugees.'

They will remain at a reception center near the capital Nicosia until authorities determine what will happen to them.

The Mediterranean has been plagued by shipwrecks in recent months involving migrants trying to reach Europe from


Africa and the Middle East.

The UN High Commissioner for Refugees says more than 2,500 people have drowned or been reported lost at sea this year trying to cross the Mediterranean.

In one of the deadliest wrecks on record, a ship carrying some 500 migrants - including Syrians, Palestinians and Egyptians - was deliberately sunk by traffickers off Malta earlier this month, leaving just 10 known survivors.

In trouble: The cruise ship had answered a distress signal from a trawler sailing some 50 nautical miles off the Cyprus coast in poor weather conditions

New liner work: The liner had been en route from the Greek island of Syros to Limassol when it received a call to assist in the rescue operation

Cyprus is located about 100 kilometres (62 miles) from the shores ofby her primary physician. When she woke up in the next morning after taking Zolpidem, she felt the best condition which she has ever experienced on her eye lids.

When she came to our hospital, she could not open her both eyes because of severe eyelids spasm. She did not report any history of head trauma, surgical incidents or neurological disease. There was no exposure to neuroleptic medication and no family history of movement disorder. On neurological examination, she did not show any abnormal finding including bradykinesia, tremor, rigidity. In repetitive nerve stimulation tests, she did not show decremental responses. On the neostigmine test and placebo injection, she showed no improvement. She showed much improvement of blepharospasm after taking Zolpidem 10 mg in 20 to 30 minutes and that


like the smell of their moms and steer clear of their fathers' dust. The findings of this research were to some degree supported by an additional research of a young male. The boy was closer to his father in a young age. As soon as he or she attained an get older slightly above three years, he soon began to show a specific option to the smells of the mommy specifically soon after she experienced intercourse. The behavior attained a top whenever he was four and slowly and gradually reduced till he or she had been six years of age when it ceased.It's one of the most preserved cities in the US. It's old. It's beautiful. It's amazing. The best part of DC is that American flags fly high everywhere. It gave me a sense of patriotism that I haven't felt since childhood.

After living abroad several times, I at times, lost my sense of American identity because I was so upset by the lack of support, education and affordability within the food, drug and health industries. Many cultures were anti-American, and it took me a long time to appreciate the good of this country.

DC (and Phili) inspired me to touch base with our nation's history. I picked up Lincoln's second inauguration speech, the Bill of Rights and a quill pen, hoping to take up the art of calligraphy and understanding.

When


in DC, be sure to also visit the Ford's Theatre, the place where Ab Lincoln was assassinated. Across the street is the place where Lincoln passed away.

In celebration of election day, I decided to make this historic form of white cake - vegan style.

It's quit easy to make, and will be the perfect sweet to eat (or binge on emotionally) while watching the polls. Sadly, one side of the party will be disappointed on November 8th.

Mary loved to entertain, and she was known for this white cake recipe that she adopted from the Kentucky baker. Her Southern hospitality welcomed countless individuals into the Lincoln home for entertaining. She made this cake even as the First Lady.

"My wife is as handsome as when she was a girl, and I,James Binney receives the Occhialini award in Rome

30 September 2015

The Occhialini Medal and Prize was presented to Prof. James Binney in Rome on 21 September by the Institute of Physics’ incoming president-elect, Prof. Dame Julia Higgins.

Higgins presented the silver medal and the prize of €3000 during the 101st National Congress of the Italian Physical Society, which confers the award jointly with the IOP. The award is made in even-dated years to a physicist who is based in Italy and in odd-dated years to a physicist based in the UK or Ireland. Following the presentation, Higgins gave a brief address to the congress.

Binney, a professor of physics at the University of Oxford, received the award for “his work on galaxy dynamics, in particular for developing an understanding of how


of air and light it gets.

Such farm factories are fast becoming a reality indoors, located in warehouses and industrial buildings.

Hothousing them in this way allows for a faster and smarter way of growing greens, thanks to agrotechnology - such as the use of artificial LED light, computer-controlled watering and fertilising, and genome editing of crops. At the same time, such vertical farms have a smaller physical and energy footprint.

There has been rising interest around the world in indoor farms, said Associate Professor Sanjay Swarup from the Department of Biological Science at the National University of Singapore. "Not only (are we seeing) large-scale production which is under controlled conditions, but it is also now comparable to what people can get from outdoor cultivation."

Currently, there are around 200 food farmsin Singapore producing fish, eggs and vegetables - 15 of which are indoor farms.

PRODUCTIVITY THE NEW BUZZWORD

With erratic weather patterns arising from global warming, an increasing population and Singapore's heavy reliance on imported food, productivity is an oft-repeated buzzword in the local farming industry.

On Mar 7, the Government unveiled its Farm Transformation Map, with innovation and the use of technology seen as key means to boosting farm yields.

Likewise, productivity-related criteria were included in the tender assessment for new farm plots in Lim Chu Kang and Sungei Tengah, with farmers to tender for plots starting in August.

In an exclusive interview with Channel NewsAsia, Senior Minister of State for National Development Koh Poh Koon stressed the importance of the farming industry in contributing to Singapore's food security: "As opposed to


gates. Each person monitors the gate for two non-consecutive weeks per year.

We work closely with the security service for Mystic Shores and our local law enforcement personnel for Comal County.

An informative NHW packet is distributed to each new resident of The Peninsula.

Click here for the charter of the NHW Committee by the Board of Directors of The Peninsula.Ethnobotany, phytochemistry and pharmacology of the genus Caragana used in traditional Chinese medicine.
The genus Caragana is a member of the family Fabaceae, subfamily Faboideae and is native to arid and semi-arid areas of the temperate zones of Asia and Eastern Europe. Many species are cultured for dune-fixation, livestock forage and biological resources for fuel energy and fiber production. More than 10 species in this genus have a long history of use in traditional Chinese, Mongolian and Tibetan medicines and are believed to "nourish yin, invigorate the spleen, temper the blood and promote blood flow". They have been used for the treatment of a wide range of ailments including fevers, inflammation, wounds and infections, dizziness, headache, hypertension, female disorders, arthritis and cancer. Over 100 phytochemicals have been identified with


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Bishops Conference in Europe talks with government

January 1st, 2003

Representatives from the Bishops' Conference of England and Wales have held a meeting with Baroness Patricia Scotland, a British government representative to the European Convention. Mgr Andrew Summersgill and Dr David Ryall, Secretary of the Bishops' Department of International Affairs, talked to Baroness Scotland - Parliamentary Secretary in the Lord Chancellor's Department - about the Church's contribution to the European Convention. At the meeting, Mgr Summersgill presented the minister with The Future of Europe: Political Commitment, Values and Religion, the COMECE (Commission of the Bishops' Conferences of the European Community) submission to the Convention. COMECE drew up the document with the support of the Holy See as a contribution to the Convention's work. It focuses upon thevalues that should underpin the institutional changes that will accompany the EU's proposed enlargement in 2004. The Future of Europe urges the Convention should have at its core principles such as the "centrality of the human being, solidarity, subsidiarity and transparent democracy". The submission goes on to argue that if the enlarged EU is to be truly a "community of values" then the Convention's recommendations must "enhance the EU's contribution to peace and prosperity in Europe and fulfil its responsibility for promoting development, justice and freedom elsewhere in the world". Baroness Scotland welcomed the Bishops' Conference's interest and said she felt it was important for the Church to contribute to the debate on Europe's future. Mgr Summersgill said: "It was a very positive meeting. The COMECE submission is


Elle Woods has it all. She's the president of her sorority, a Hawaiian Tropic girl, Miss June in her campus calendar, and, above all, a natural blonde. She dates the cutest fraternity boy on campus and wants nothing more than to be Mrs. Warner Huntington III. But, there's just one thing stopping Warner from popping the question: Elle is too blonde. Growing up across the street form Aaron Spelling might mean something in LA, but nothing to Warner's East-Coast blue blood family. So, when Warner packs up for Harvard Law and reunites with an old sweetheart from prep school, Ellie rallies all her resources and gets into Harvard, determined to win him back. But law school is a far cry from the comforts of her poolside and theMike Leach took Texas Tech to new heights, going 84-43 in 10 seasons, including an 11-2 finish in 2008. Leach was fired by the university in December 2009 after being accused of mistreating receiver Adam James, the son of ESPN broadcaster Craig James. Leach has denied any wrongdoing in the case. Here is his account of the incident from the his new book, Swing Your Sword.

Copyright © 2011 by Mike Leach. All rights reserved, including the right to reproduce this book or portions thereof in any form whatsoever. For more information, email info@diversionbooks.com.

"Adam [James] was a kid who seemed like he had been given everything he wanted his whole life and acted like if things did not go exactly how he wanted, then it was because someone was


treating him unfairly or his failures were somebody else's fault. He was a selfish player on and off the field who was counterproductive for our team and would be for any other team."-- Graham Harrell, Texas Tech, QB, 2004-2008

Staffs debate their players' merits all the time. When Adam James was a receiver prospect from Celina, Texas, most of the Tech staff was against recruiting him. They didn't think he could play. I thought Adam could develop into a contributor.

Adam's daddy, Craig, came around and campaigned for his son. He talked about how good Adam was. It all started when we beat Cal in the Holiday Bowl. Craig, who was there to announce the game, came up to our hospitality room. He started talking about how great his kidwas and how great the bloodlines of the James family were. I later found out that he tried giving the same sales pitch to the Nevada staff after calling their bowl game too.

Our staff thoroughly researched whether Adam James had any other scholarship offers. We didn't find any. We offered him a grayshirt, which meant that his scholarship wouldn't go into effect until January. He needed as much time as he could to develop. He was the last guy we signed in that recruiting class.

The thing about it is, Adam was big enough and moved decently. He was not fast, but he had pretty good hands. He could've fit into the role of tight end for us, but because he didn't work hard he was only marginally effective.


We could never get him to move out from behind his father's coattails. Together, they believed that playing time was determined by politics and influence rather than hard work.

My biggest regret was not cutting Adam James. I kept hoping he'd develop a work ethic. He had two position coaches, first Dana Holgorsen, then Lincoln Riley. He didn't get along with either one.

As a coach, you want it to work out. We invested a lot of time in coaching Adam James. We worked hard to try to rehabilitate him to make him a working part of the team. We thought he may have simply been the victim of his dad's little-league father tendencies, and that he'd eventually find a way to be his own, independent person. But that didn'tturn out to be the case. I should've cut my losses, but I was really hoping that he'd improve and stuck with him.

On December 14, 2009, as we began to prepare for the Alamo Bowl, I noticed Adam James nonchalantly going through our first period of practice. I told him if he didn't improve his effort, I was going to send him to "Muscle Beach," which is the area designated for injured players and for lifting weights that Bennie Wylie, our strength coach, oversees. Adam ignored the warning, so we sent him along with two other players over to Muscle Beach. Bennie told the three players they had to run laps and stairs. According to Bennie, Adam gave him attitude. Adam was the last one to finish each


exercise and he danced through the discipline like he was mocking it. After the session at Muscle Beach, the other two players admitted their effort on the field had been unacceptable. They said they would work harder. Adam told Bennie that his effort had been fine and that the Tech coaches didn't know what they were doing.

Three days later, on December 17, Adam James again displayed his contempt for team rules and the coaching staff. He arrived at practice twenty minutes late, in street clothes, wearing sunglasses. He said he had a concussion. The team physician acknowledged that James had a mild concussion and limited him from physical activity until he was symptom free. The team policy dictated that all players, including injured players, attend practice in practiceattire and participate in the manner permissible given the nature of their injury.

According to Steve Pincock, the team trainer, James was "walking the field" in an indifferent way. James was wearing street clothes and had a baseball cap on backwards, which, injured or not, he knew was against team rules. I asked Pincock why Adam wasn't dressed appropriately for practice. Pincock said he didn't know. This was the first he'd seen him because Adam was late. I asked him why Adam was wearing sunglasses. Pincock said Adam's eyes were sensitive to light because he had a concussion. I told Pincock to remove James from the field since he wasn't dressed properly, was late, and had a bad attitude while the rest of the team was practicing hard. I


the injured players. He asked me what I wanted him to do with Adam James. I told him do whatever he did last practice. Then, as I went down the tunnel to start practice, another one of our trainers told me Adam was in the media room.

According to Pincock's statement, he specifically told James not to go into the electrical closet by the media room. James admitted under oath that he ignored Pincock's instructions. He admitted that he let himself into that closet and that he shot a video -- a video that would start a firestorm of allegations -- because he thought it was funny.

Craig James told Tech chancellor Kent Hance that Adam had spent three hours in that electrical closet based on instructions from Pincock. Thatnight, Craig called Larry Anders (chairman of the Tech board of regents) and complained that Adam had been forced to practice with a concussion and had been locked in an electrical closet. We'd already held out the starting quarterback for a month that season because he had a concussion -- the starting quarterback. Adam was forbidden to practice because he had a concussion. We wanted him away from the field.

According to both his and Anders's depositions, Craig demanded that I be fired. Hance called me and said that Craig had phoned Anders to complain about his son being forced to play before his concussion was healed, which was simply not true. I explained the situation to Hance, and also told him how often Craig called up the Tech


the Adam James matter, to be conducted by university attorney Charlotte Bingham. Interestingly, Bingham worked for Hance, not the president's office. Later that night she interviewed Craig James, who told her that Adam was required to stand in an electrical closet for hours.

She interviewed Adam, who told her that he had been forced to stand in the closet for five minutes. Neither of these statements were true.

Turner contacted Bingham on December 21, before she'd interviewed a single witness outside the James family. Turner instructed Bingham, Tech president Bailey, and AD Myers that the investigation should be used to terminate me. Neither Turner, Hance, nor any of the regents should've been involved or interfered with any of this. It is strictly prohibited by university policies and procedures. The entirematter should've been handled exclusively by the president and the athletic director.

Despite that, Bailey advised me that same day that while the investigation was no big deal, he was concerned that Hance was going to "railroad" me because of his business connections to Craig James. Bailey was so concerned that he had his assistant attend and keep a record of the investigation interviews.

When Bingham interviewed me, I told her about Adam James's poor work habits, that he showed up late for practice, that he did not have workout gear on, and that I did not want him loafing while his teammates were working hard. I also told her that I wanted the trainers to take him away from the field and put him in a dark place because


Karlo is a mutant full of shame and self-loathing. Will he be able to realize meaning though a crimewave of the lowest order? Find out in Mutant Bike Thieves!

Starring Karlo Banaga, Escamilla Oswald, Money Abimbola, and Quest Haswell

by Konju/ Gotham Parks

Last night’s rain had swamped the cratered road leading to Karlo Banaga’s cramped tin garage in Willets Point. Pondering delinquency, he poked his head out of the open garage door to check the outside operating conditions. A grin broke out across his face as he rubbed his hands to the outbound clouds. His frumpy black hair and long beard danced windswept in the easterly breeze that cool autumn morning as he prepared to enter the city to burgle and steal. He’d just inherited the garage from an unclein the past month but was putting it to unlawful uses as the nerve center for his budding band of mutant bike thieves. All of his small crew were addicts, either to the thrill of crime or designer drugs or both and then some. Notwithstanding rumors of such a grouping having existed in Newark in the early 1990s, they were the first confirmed street organization within the five boroughs that was both all-mutant and stole bicycles as of this writing.

Karlo was hungry that Saturday morning, getting suited and booted early to do some solo work before meeting any colleagues later. He wiped the floor-sleep off his face with a damp cloth and did the same over his armpits before running his fingers through his hair. He still smelled.


Surly topped the list. But right now he just wanted to steal whatever was in front of him. So he took hold of the thin u-lock that fastened a grimy, beat-down mountain bike to a beefy cast-iron rack planted firmly in the sidewalk. The area was still very crowded, so he worked nervously, hardly able to even look directly at what he was doing.

He would buzz his clenched fist on the metal but then kids and old folks stopped and looked weirdly at his awkward posture as they heard the loud hum in spurts. Karlo would try to grin back but it always turned into a pathetic wince. He just needed a parting of the crowd for long enough to give it that real sustained college try tohe slowed with tears of shock blurring his vision. A further half block and he had to stop, his hands over his mouth, aghast at his great fall, and that one of his greatest mentors had confirmed it so fully. He stood like that for at least five minutes before recovering in the cold breeze and continuing on home. Old folks saw, and mostly shook their heads.

***

Karlo woke from a shallow and shiftless nap in the mid-afternoon with a recharged will to steal. He had more serious loot in mind now, and wouldn’t use the vibration technique twice in the same day but rather a more persuasive and subtle approach. He texted his newest potential colleague, Money Abimbola, to meet him at the bike racks at the Whole


Foods in Gowanus. Meanwhile he boarded the 7 train towards Times Square.

Just as Karlo once was a strong persuader of other minds, he could translate that ability onto himself, mainly through allowing his craving to totally consume him. This got him out of bed again after such crushing humiliation. This and the rumble and rattle of the train through his bones to drown out his self-doubt and self-loathing.

The train screeched around the roller coaster arch that is the elevated IRT line in Long Island City, the Queensboro Bridge and the Manhattan skyline looming ahead before it came to a stop at Court Square. Karlo beheld the view, a thousand turned-up battle-station turrets in a tight bundle, before descending the stairs into the underground complex to transfer to thePassenger Pigeon, a small, gray bird that went extinct in the 1900's. If anyone was following him, they would soon be left far behind. Flying head on into a flock of regular pigeons, he became practically invisivble. Only an expert could tell him apart from the other birds.

Eventually, Starfire would read the letter. Chances are, he would occasionally run into the heros, or villans, in his new line of work. But he would take that chance.

(Gonna have to correct and tone down the part where Grass says there's bodies practically everywhere. At most there would be three or four. Star is a pacifist and would never condone so many casualties. Only unavoidable ones: The elderly, the overweight, and the disabled who would not have time to evacuate)

I continued


keep out all others trying to enter, and the only reason you were allowed in was because Gameboy is a high ranking member and allowed you in." She waved him to come with her as she reached into her pocket dimension and pulled out a wrist communicator for him. "Here is your communicator. It's pretty simple. It has a screen and a texting feature. You can contact any other member either by choosing them onscreen or saying 'Contact' and then the member's name. When not in use it becomes an unassuming bracelet." She handed it to him and ran off rather quickly.

(Sorry Codi, I can't wait for your character to accept it because Lektra is very busy)

Going into the halls and passing by the room where she hadpreviously dropped off the Doc from the Time Gate lab, she saw that he had settled in just fine. She then headed off to the Datacenter to start the machines working on Starfire's armor, at least the clothes part. She would need to visit Grendel to see if he could make Diamond Dust and Tempered Steel-Titanium. She also started to come up with vehicle designs. Sitting back in the lounge chair, she directed the machines from a distance and started to draw up plans on the huge computer. She was about to go out and talk to Grendel but was interrupted by Rachel calling in again.

"Yes Rachel?"

"The bad guys are still shaking down my people. We could use some backup here. Some of them are starting to question


this.

Ralph was really buying into the whole abandonment thing, while Bert was just standing there scared. Really, Ralph was too naive. Meanwhile Belle was assessing the situation and sizing Malchior up and down with her beady eyes, trying to look like she was scared as well. When Ralph started to be unsure about things, it was time to escape. She threw down two smoke bombs, covering a twenty foot radius with black smoke.

Bert grabbed Ralph and yelled at the villains. "We're not corruptible! The city will be free of you one day!" The three ran off in the confusion, and Ralph would be reminded what they were fighting for. Freedom from oppression, and returning the city to order.

I was sitting on a chair looking up at Ninjice init was addressed to him. I then picked it up and held it for him until he would wake up.

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Ninjice was sedated though he still remain somewhat alert to the outside world. His years of training as a ninja gave him a heightened awareness, even when sedated. He felt the pain go as his ribs were being fixed by the healing chamber. The machine used a form of telepathy and biomagic. The rib pieces wold be pulled back together from the memory of the body's blueprint while the biomagic allowed the cells to


remerge and the ribs becoming whole. He kept thinking about what he had planned for the sisters to make up. Meanwhile, he kept thinking of Nightwing and wondered where he was.

He hoped they would find soon so they could end this war once and for all. He would need to be retrained though Ninjice figured that would take only hours. Ninjice then hugged himself as he felt the scars from the accident that changed his life forever. He was only 15 and it was his first ski trip. It was part of a special Honors program for before winter break. There, he met the old man.

His sensei, his master, Ōkami Shimo or Shimo Ōkami in the western world. The "Frost Wolf," he was a legendary master of allthe ninja arts and learned to channel the secrets of the ice and snow in his tactics. He grew old and had a large family though. Visiting his great grandson in the states, his old age took a toll on him and was found collapsed in the snow.

Diego noticed him and despite the hard work, Shimo-sensei recovered and was thankful for the boy. Throughout the 2 weeks, he shared with Diego tales and myths of the Eastern world as well as teaching him Japanese language and even kanji and katakana. However, the greatest thing he did was save Diego and allow him to be reborn.

It was during an intense blizzard that came out of nowhere. The wind was howling and Diego was struggling to get back indoors, haivng


made sure everyone got to safety. He didn't remember the details because of all the white in the area...

He then remembered uimaginable pain. He figued something happened with the lift and one of the seats ended up breaking, not only landing on him, but the shrapnel tore him and left him to bleed. As he felt his wounds and the cold began to overtake him, he saw the familiar face of the old man and the blizzard seem to pause.

Diego then blacked out.

He awoke days later, in a remote temple in Japan. Although he was bandaged, he needed to be taken to the Special Springs to heal from not only the wounds, but from the frostbite. With him being presumed deceased, he was to begin anew.

And so afterhis recovey, he began his training. Through the use of special techniques, he was able to learn much faster than a normal person. His body, mind and spirit began being honed to amazing levels while he learn to channel his qi through the element of ice, learning to create structures, shoot snow and even create a freezing aura.

Eventually, he left the temple to seek his purpose in the world and he met the Titans.

He was 16.

It had been a long 10 years, but he would go back and do it all over again.

He then heard the alarm and the liquid drained as steam came out. The healing pod opened and he grabbed the towel from the rack to wrap around his waist to cover himself. He was caught


up in his thoughts he didn't notice Blackfire. Ninjice felt the scars still on his chest and back.

He looked at his reflection briefly on the glass. Back when he was younger, he was rather chubby and now he was pretty well-built, but still had that boyish charm to him. He grabbed the spare uniform that was brought from his room and he went in a changing room to dry and put it off.

When he came out, he smiled to Blackfire and saw the package she held. "Hey, sorry if I worried you," Ninjice told her with a smile as he was in his normal uniform. He looked at the package.

It came with Blueprints for some Mass-produced robodrone owned by the villains, and another of some cube-robot thing. Thereyoung woman introduced herself as Lektra and that she was the resident tech expert for the Renegades and designed all of the tech that they used. She then pulled out a phone and explained that her Technomagic scan would reveal all necessary info about me as a green light came from the phone that went from my head down to my feet. After receiving the data, which I noticed she didn't even look at her screen for, she told me that my info was recorded in the Database and that I would be allowed inside the base. She then led me into an elevator which took me down into a large circular room with many tunnels spreading out from it. She explained that one of the reasons I


was allowed in was because Gameboy was apparently a high-ranked member of the Renegades. She then reached into her pocket, which seemed to be deeper than it looked, and pulled out a bracelet with a small screen on it that she said was a communicator. As I looked it over, she had apparently ran off.

"Must have had something important to do." I said to myself as I wondered which tunnel would lead me to Gameboy's room so I could talk with him. "Eeny, meeny, miny. That one." I said as I went through the decision game I played as a kid to choose the tunnel to the diagonal right of where I stood. I put the communicator on and saw as it turned into a normal bracelet beforeHeadache. "Ah, sorry about that Headache. No, I wouldn't want to meet you in a dark alley at night" he apologized, before giving a humoring laugh. He moved the tendril around a few more times, when suddenly he began to notice shockwaves echoing out across the walls and the floor. He sighed and shook his head.

"Sorry about Starfire, she can be a bit loud when she spars" he notes jokingly, and tilts his head to the adjescent that Starfire was fighting in. He rubbed his chin, looking back to Headache, and began to get an idea. THe tendril clustered towards his shoulder bones, and began to expand outwards, forming large squares in the air. It began to shape itself further from the expanding, and as it began to


one of them would be armed with a plasma chaingun, a M.F.R.L., and a Diamite-powered lightning gun. Since we had already confirmed Lektra was capable of unleashing voltage-based attacks, the Solution Commandoes were capable of taking that voltage and could turn it into power. Any excess power would simply be grounded and negated.

"Yep, brought 'im jus' as ya asked," Billy smiled as a small squad of his clones carried the man to me. "Still sleepin' like a baby."

Indeed, he did recover the man who I had been looking for. Plasmus. Harmless while asleep, but when awoken, he became a near unstoppable monster of destruction. Definitely, we had plenty of opportunity to use him to our advantage. For now, he was sedated, but when we needed to unleash hiswrath, I had just the jolt I needed to stir him into ferocious action.

"Well done, Billy. Well done," I told him, appreciative of the fact. "According to our emissaries, the Titans are still in their holes. Every second they spend doing nothing is another second they spend losing, ha ha!"

It really did seem as though Malchior had the three of these minions under his glare, but then just as the young man questioned his loyalty to the Titans, one of his companions had a sudden urge of a deathwish. Two smoke bombs suddenly went off.

"We're not corruptible!" The fool shouted. "The city will be free of you one day!"

"Shame you won't be alive to see it," Malchior laughed.

With a single flap of his enormous dragon wings, the smoke


Headache it wasn't something he wanted to fight in a dark alley, but it didn't seem all that sincere. He didn't seem scared or anything. Headache wondered if her form was scary enough. Headache started to wonder about their overall power. Eventually, Susano did his own trick, by making wings made of fire. It was kind of cool, but deep down, Headache had to wonder.

"Can you fly with them?" Headache asked. "I can grow wings too." Headache eventually started to think hard again, and in about a minute, Headache grew wings. The wings were pretty small at first but after another minute started to grow even larger until they were the size of Susano's flame wings.

Headache then started to flap her wings and in no time, she startedwork. It didn't take her long to find the database to the brotherhood, and what she saw pleased her. She typed up "Magic tapir" and got plenty of results. First of which was of coarse...

Name: Detour
Gem: Pink
Power: Detour has power over ones mind. She can create thoughts that can mess with a target's brain, giving it an intellectual advantage.
Owner: Izu Miramoto
Bio: Detour is the first of these creatures that was ever discovered. She isn't particularly strong or fast compared to other tapirs, and is considerably stout.

This info didn't impress Mirage, as she already knew that. But she pressed on.

Name: Seeker
Gem: Dark Blue
Power: The Seeker can read the thoughts of others. As well, she can discover the lies and secrets of anyone she touches, regardless of their thinking process.
Owner:


scary. "Okay, now you got me shaking in me boots" he joked, and started to flap his own wings. The fire felt different, when suddenly the black portion of the blaze vanished, leaving the silver blaze in the center of it behind in a solid form. He flew to his knees, comepltely caught off guard. "What the hell?" he said, and tested the solid silver wings. They were heavy, but worked a little, giving him a bit of height above the ground. He flapped more, and got level with Headache. "This is seriously awesome. My fire can be solidified" he said in surpirse.

As Ninjice and Blackfire went into the tech room, a heroness followed them. Dressed in a nurse's tunic, along with a green face mask, her facewas a placid wall of no emotion, though her deep green eyes danced with an odd pleasureful light. In her left hand was a small cross bow, with a hollow arrow loaded onto it. Inside the arrow was her signiture ability. She was a master of different toxins and venoms, and was able to create more with just a twirl of a meter stick and a beaker. At the moment, her latest concautcion was a harmful, though the exact effects were a guess to even her. "Ninjice, Blackfire. Mind testing my lastest. Venom?" She asked in a broken tone, not forming a solid sentence.

The VR Room was getting rocked by exploding Starbolts, sending shockwaves outside, and I was getting tired. I had cuts in places from getting thrown


earlier encounters.

But I was seriously getting tired. "Stop program." I said out loud as the computer complied and ended the simulation. The forest landscape with rubble and fallen trees vanished, returning the room to blackness covered in a blue force field. I shuffled over to take Silkie out of the protective carrier, as well as Moth's card which I had placed on top of it. Silkie curled up around my neck between the shoulders again, and I carried the card in my left hand. He had awakened and was shouting at me to let him out.

I then shuffled over to the door and let myself out, shutting it behind me and collapsing on a nearby rest couch to watch what seemed to be Headache test fighting Susano. IShe was thinking, not hard, but rather letting her mind wander.

With her right hand she slipped her smart phone out of her pocket. She checked the screen, 15 messages. Really? She was used to having 2 or 3 after turning the ring off for a couple days, but 15? Something was up.

She set the messages to play on speaker. She wasn’t worried about anyone hearing anything confidential up here.

“Where the devil are you girl?” roared the first message. It was Brother Blood’s voice. He gave her a couple villainy hints a few years back, and still seemed to think she owed him, “You were supposed to report in an hour ago!”

The next message was more of the same, only this time he was berating her for being two


over the edge of the roof, spreading her arms. It seemed counter intuitive, but she knew what she was doing, because she immediately started to transform into a Lesser Horned Owl. The transformation took a while though, she barely finished transforming in time not to smash into the pavement. Silently the predatory bird swooped higher into the air, then headed towards City Hall.

"That's freaky to look at, no offense," Susano said to her. "Okay, now you got me shaking in me boots." Headache thought of something else. Her wings were feathery. Headache thought harder about her wings, and eventually they started to become leathery, more like bat wings. These wings actually fit her current form, so it was easier to take her seriously.

But eventually, Susano managed to usehis wings to fly. It kind of amazed Headache as she had no idea that fire could fly. "Wow! That's amazing," Headache said to Susano, kind of admiring him. Deep down, she was starting to see something in Susano. But then she remembered what he told her, about the OTHER Baku lady he broke the heart of. Headache didn't want to end up the same.

But then, she noticed that her surroundings vanished. As if by some type of magic. Headache looked down and noticed Starfire down there. "Hey Starfire," she called out. "Want to fly with us?"

Mirage was done with her research and logged off. But even though her research was successful, she couldn't help but feel annoyed by the tapirs she didn't have. Who was this Lesley


while 'her' mysterious eyes remain hidden.
With that, the fox took the little 'girl' in her arms, before levitating down towards the ground. "Hmm.. I remember working with some heroes back in the day."

Just then, the fox-eared lady picked up a scent. She looked up, and saw a broken window. "Oh sweet Inari."
The two then hovered up towards the broken window, to find a child crying beside a partially-eaten carcass.
"Oh Hecate, what happened..." the 'girl' was gasping with horror.

"Wow! That's amazing," Headache said to Susano, kind of admiring him. Susano blushed a little, and scratched the back of his head as he tried to keep his wings flapping. He wasn't good with compliments.

"Thanks Headache. Your abilities are pretty cool too" he said, trying to appease her with a compliment.Her powers were pretty cool, though it was really creepy to see a flying rat tailed, bat winged Baku in front of him. Izu could have implanted a method of this into his thoughts, and scared him off. On second thought, that could've been a better option than what happened. Susano, while in thought, noticed something odd. The vibrations in the air had stopped, and the surrondings changed slightly. Starfire walked out, thouroughly beaten, and looked like she might fall to the ground at any moment. It was a little shocking, and Susano nearly dropped down with his wings straight out like solid iron flames. "Starfire, need me to call in the medic?" he asks, concern eveident in his voice, as was the shock and concern on his


audience, he saw Lektra's grin and realized she was cooking up an idea. He wondered what it was. She then began to explain it to them.

They needed a Phantom Zone Projector. The only people with access to that were the Justice League, specfically Superman... and possibly Batman.

From what Ninjice understood was that they needed a main crystal for this and they only had the chemical formula. He had faith that Grendel could probably make the crystal, however, he probably wouldn't understand the forumla.

Fortunately, he knew someone. He then turned to see Venomess. "Not now, Venomess," he told her as he saw her examine the chemical formula. "Not to be rude, Venomess, but I am not sure how much you can help. It be easier if the chemical equationThey’d already toasted a hobo, but that was about it. No civilians were interested in being out in this dangerous city.

Angel sighed, she was getting a bit tired. Drache was looking pretty fatigued himself. At least she thought he was, it was kind of hard to tell for sure what a dragon was feeling. He headed upward. Cautiously, she followed. Her suspicions were confirmed as he asked about ‘heading back to roost.’

Reluctantly Malchoir agreed and ordered his minions to follow. They touched down. Malchoir ordered his minions to keep watch around the city, while he himself settled down in the middle of the roof. Drache regained his human form, looking for all the world like he needed a nap.

Angel shrunk her wings and headed towards the roof access


door, “Let’s see if anything new has developed...”

Malchoir’s minions snapped at an owl as it approached their roost.

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Bloodbath turned swiftly, closing her wings and diving steeply away from the vicious dragons on the rooftop. That was new. Actually, it was pretty damn unexpected.

She spread her wings and came in for a landing on the sidewalk. She started to transform back, even before her feet hit the ground. Her feathers shrank away, hair grew out, clothes formed. She was never quite sure where everything went when she transformed, but it always came back just fine.

She smoothed down her clothes then turned and headed inside. She dodged a couple booby traps, and a few dozen Billy clones as she made her way to the elevator.idea was finding vast pieces of rubble and transporting them to headquarters so Grendel can commence repurposing the materials. Ninjice mentally began going through the heroes he knew had the capability to transport large materials in short periods of time with absolute secrecy.

He figured тень (Tehn) could help out. He came from a Russian family who at least half were agents during the Cold War. He picked up the trade and joined the military, where he was exposed to experients regarding the prperties of shadow and dark matter. The result was тень's powers. He could blend into the shadows and take anything he wanted. He could open a hole and let stuff sink in, for it to appear elsewhere. Beyond that, he is good in Espionage, having come


come down and give you an energy boost. WHo knows what could happen up top while you're down." he argues, and whips out his communicator. He presses a few buttons, and makes a call. "Venomess, Starfire just exhausted herself. Can you get down here, she needs a boost?"

"Yes. On way" Venomess replied disjointedly, her head still lulled to one side. She picks up her crossbow, and dashes out the door of the tech room, and rushes to the Training Room. From her brief years in the EM room, and the repeated experaments on herself with her concoustions, her speed has had a slight increase. She's not super speed fast, but she has enough speed in short bursts to outrun a trained human in the same race. She dartedMenchu Essay. Racial Oppression Essay. Words | 6 Pages. Rigoberta Menchu, a Quiche Indian woman native to Guatemala, is a recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize for politically reaching out to her country and her people.

In her personal testimony tittled “I, Rigoberta Menchu” we. Rigoberta Menchu: An Indian Woman in Guatemala Rigoberta Menchu, grew up in a life full of hatred and oppression, but these things were what made her become a stronger person, and led her to be the person that she became.

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components of the generator to age under cycling and/or in function of the time.
The components aging is evident at the current collectors level, and results in the formation of passivation films or in the degradation of the surface of the collectors because of the reactions between the components of the generator, namely the active materials of the electrodes, and the chemical components of the organic electrolyte. The formation of such films, more or less insulating, at the interfaces, significantly alters the quality of the electronic exchanges between the collectors and the electrode active materials, which are generally present in the form of composite.
In a polymer electrolyte medium, the effect of the passivation phenomenons is sometimes amplified because in the solid state, the products formed by the reactions ofthe organic solvent, the lithium salt, the electrode materials or from other components of the generator, tend to accumulate at the interface because of the lack of the convection of the solvent or the solubilization of the films formed, or because of the lack of corrosion/dissolution reaction of the metal and the renewal of the exchange surface. The attack of the collectors or the formation of passivation films at the surface by the oxidation-dissolution of the metallic conductor is generally caused by electrochemical reactions, namely oxidation or reduction, initiated by radicals, acid-base reactions or oxidation-reduction chemical reactions more or less catalyzed by the materials present. FIGS. 1a) and 1b) illustrate a collector/electrode composite assembly and the localization of the passivation film at the interface collector/electrode after cycling.
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lead to the complete disintegration of the collector.
In dry polymer medium, the formation of passivation films on the aluminium collector of a vanadium oxide-based cathode (V2O5) does not lead to the dissolution of the collector, but rather to the formation of passivation films more or less insulating, that increase the electrical resistance between the collector and the composite cathode. There is then observed the formation of oxygen and fluorine-based oxidation films of aluminium, which are visible under electronic microscopy, that reach thicknesses higher than that of alumina films initially present at the surface of the aluminium. Such films are more or less electrical insulators and thus impair the passage of electrons between the collector and the electronic conduction and active materials present in the cathode.
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Brazil's World Cup stadium in Manaus, the venue for England's opening-game showdown with Italy, has been labelled "horrific" after problems plagued a test event in the Amazon heartland.

Local fan Francisco Alves touched upon issues after attending the arena's practice match, as reported by Ed Riley of the Daily Star:

It was horrific. There were not enough stewards to help supporters. It was chaos. I got in line for some food with 15 minutes left in the first half but the second half was about to start and I still couldn't order.

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Riley also detailed a wide range of further problems, highlighting there is plenty of work to do before the Three Lions battle against Italy's Azzurri on June 14:

Angry fans told of leaks in the roof,unfinished toilets, tickets sold for non-existent seats and 30-minute queues to buy food. Others said building materials still littered the £174million Arena Amazonia at Manaus in northern Brazil’s steamy rainforest. And many supporters in wheelchairs complained that they couldn’t reach their seats because of the rubble.

This shambolic trial of the Amazon Arena comes shortly after workers went on strike after a third construction-related death marred the stadium's completion, per Mike Dawes of the Daily Mail.

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After the second accident at the end of last year, safety on the building site was scaled at "zero" by worker Jose Aristoteles de Souza Filho, reported by Brazilian website G1 News (h/t Jonathan Watts of The Guardian).

England boss Roy Hodgson outlined Manaus as "the place ideally to avoid" before the World


awards flood in from across the country after his breakout campaign, tributes which might have exceeded expectations even if Bosa had decided to set any before his first season with the program.

He wasn’t expected to be a starter on the completely rebuilt defensive line, with Noah Spence and Adolphus Washington tabbed as the next great stars up front heading into their sophomore seasons. Among the heralded 2013 recruiting class, much of the focus centered on the game-breaking talent of hybrid weapon Dontre Wilson, the bright future for safety Vonn Bell or the possibility of a pair of touted linebackers cracking the lineup at a thin position on defense.

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All those who think that DNA can store only our genetic information, think again. Researchers at Harvard University have succeeded in storing 70 billion copies of a yet-unpublished book using DNA binary code.

The technology was developed by George Church and Sriram Kosuri from Harvard University's Wyss Institute for Biologically Inspired Engineering. The results of their collaborated project were published in the University's peer-reviewed journal Science Aug.17.

"Most non-DNA methods store on a plane, while DNA can be stored in the volume (beaker). The density is remarkably high - as little as one bit per base, one base per cubit nanometer. So we can store on the order of almost a zetabyte in a gram of DNA - a millimeter volume," Church told.

According to Kosuri, the total world's information, whichis 1.8 zettabytes, could be stored in about four grams of DNA.

Church, a founding core faculty member of the Wyss Institute at Harvard, and his team encoded in DNA a book, co-authored by Church himself, which they then decoded and copied. He is also a professor of genetics at the Harvard Medical School who helped develop the first direct genomic sequencing method in 1984.

While DNA being the genetic storage unit of all living things has fascinated scientists from the day it was discovered. While this is not the first attempt at exploring the data storage potential of DNA, it is perhaps the most successful as Church and his team were managed to encode 1,000 times the largest amount of data previously stored in DNA.

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important things for them to be doing.” As a child psychiatrist, he is less concerned about small items being poached than potential confrontations between children and thieves. More than anything, Lipman feels it is worth having a reasoned, community discussion, not merely heated exchanges on social media. “It would be nice to know some of the data, some of the cost, some of the statistics, and it might be worth trying.”

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Northeast Denver Neighbors for Racial JusticeAmong those opposed to the idea of security patrols are members of Northeast Denver Neighbors for Racial Justice, an alliance of local people who are concerned about issues of race, diversity and social justice, with 331 people listed in their Facebook group. In an impassioned conversation on Facebook, some members ofachieve the foregoing and other objects, a tape circuit board includes an insulating base film having a first surface and a second surface. An adhesive layer is formed on the first surface of the base film. Further, wiring patterns are formed on the adhesive layer. Conductive bumps extend through the base film and the adhesive layer and are connected to the wiring patterns. The conductive bumps extend above the second surface of the base film.
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polished tooth slices. This proved difficult to control, and often repeat polishing and etching of tooth slices was required to obtain the best imaging of the exposed enamel rod profiles. Both standard mode and backscattered mode SEM were acceptable for creating high‐magnification montage maps of the enamel layer, but inter‐rod material was more prominent, and caused more interpretive interference in the former and this was the reason why the latter approach was chosen as the method of choice for this investigation.

All past reports of enamel rod distributions in cross‐sections of rodent incisor enamel have been qualitative in nature and have focused on features such as enamel thickness, general organization of rows of rods within the inner enamel layer or various angles at which the decussating enamel rods crossExperience this stunning resort-style rental machine optimally located near exclusive gated beach access within the heart of Frangista Beach. This incredible nine bedroom, eight bathroom property is one of the lowest price-per-foot offerings along Scenic Highway 98 featuring over $100,000 in upgrades performed since 2017. Notable improvements include fresh paint as well as designer furnishings to optimally configure this 5,880 square feet home. Masterfully built as a rental magnet, this property has over $160,000 in projected annual income for 2020 as well as a solid rental history for 2019.Notable features include ample parking, spacious courtyard with lagoon style pool & walled privacy with adjoining summer kitchen, gulf views from the third floor as well as ample living space perfectly functioned for entertaining. The layout is extremely open with


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Stephan Ross (in striped uniform) and family members of late soldier Steve Sattler (seen in framed picture) met Sunday.

By Sarah Schweitzer
Globe Staff
November 12, 2012

Some 67 years ago, a broken, emaciated boy looked up and saw an American soldier sitting astride a tank outside the gates of Dachau, the 10th concentration camp the boy had endured during the long war.

The hazel-eyed soldier hopped down and handed the boy rations he was eating. The boy ate with his fingers before dropping to his knees and kissing the soldier’s boots. A radio crackled with orders for the soldier to move on as part of the liberation effort. But first, the soldier hoisted the boy up and handed him


saying to Stephan Ross on the phone. “And I think my grandfather could be the man you’ve been looking for.”

Holding the phone, Ross recalled thinking: “If this is true, there is some God in this world.”

The families compared biographies, photographs, and oral histories. The points of intersection lined up. Sattler was a member of the 191st Tank Battalion, which was part of the liberating American forces at Dachau. A photograph of Sattler in Germany shows him wearing the leather pilot cap he wore under his helmet. It was the same hat Stephan Ross remembered seeing on the soldier. During the war, Sattler’s wife had sent him a hunting knife, which he often used to eat. Ross remembered his soldier eating the rations with what he referred to asa bayonet.

And then, improbably and importantly, there was this: In October 1986, Steve Sattler was stricken with heart disease. He had just had triple bypass surgery and was walking with his daughter, Gwen Allanson, who was visiting the family farm. On a dirt road, her father had suddenly felt weak. “I have to sit down,” he said, lowering himself to a rock. It was an awkward moment, her stoic father who had never betrayed weakness now not strong enough to stand. Allanson sought to divert his attention by asking him to tell her a story he had never told.

He told of being at Dachau during the liberation. Of being outside its gates and seeing a boy and giving him food. “And I gave him something else,” Allanson recalled


suffering from medical experiments performed on him, having his spinal cord broken during a particularly brutal beating, and the family he lost — his parents and all his brothers and sisters, save one.

When Americans entered his barracks on April 29, 1945, he was lying on the ground, too weak to move and unsure of what to make of men shouting in a foreign tongue, “Freedom!” They fed him water by spoon and later soup.

When Ross, his brother, and a friend exited the camp, they headed toward Munich, seeking hospital care. It was along the road that they encountered Sattler.

For Ross, the handkerchief that Sattler handed to him was a mysterious object. Only later did he learn what it was. What struck him in the moment was the soldier’sMagical girl dominatrix goes super deformed

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of trucks manufactured by Hoffman. In this litigation, Brodstein allowed zeal to becloud judgment and championing of his client's interests to overcome integrity, and in doing so transgressed the code of the profession. He quickly realized *87 his error and himself paid $12,000 to Miss Baumwald, the amount she had been claiming from his client. Because of this straying from the paths of professional rectitude, Brodstein was suspended as an attorney for three years.
At the end of the period indicated, Brodstein resumed the practice of the law, determined to so comport himself that the stain on his professional shingle would not only be completely eradicated but that his conduct might be cited as exemplary. He was eminently successful in this noteworthy endeavor. He labored long and arduously, heput his heart into his work, he plunged into religious, civic and charitable activities, he treated his brothers at the bar and his fellow-men with respect, kindliness and amiability. His friends became legion. He so earned the good will and the esteem of the bar that in 1951 he was elected President of the Berks County Bar Association.
And so the years passed. He had now reached his sixties, enjoying in the community in which he lived and practiced, "honor, love, obedience, troops of friends," when he was charged with crime. He was accused by the United States Government of having evaded the payment of income taxes for the year 1954, 1955 and 1956, in the total amount of $7,664.69.
He paid the Government the full amount claimed, and then


the teachings of every religion in the world.
I would hold that whatever Brodstein did in 1930 should not even be referred to, much less be held as a crippling factor in the adjudication of what occurred thirty years later. Brodstein paid his debt to the opposing litigant involved, he discharged his indebtedness *93 to society, he met his responsibility to the law, he satisfied the mortgage on his career held by the Berks County Bar Association for three years. What more does the Berks County Bar Association want? To brandish the sin of thirty years ago, like a spiked club, over the head of the ill and aging Ellis Brodstein is, in my estimation, suggestive of cruel and unusual punishment. It is like rereading pages of the misfortunesgroup, the intracranial arterial and venous systems were completely filled with ink. The gray matter was colored uniformly black, and light coloring was observed in the white matter. During retrograde cerebral perfusion, the majority of ink was returned to the inferior vena cava, and only a small amount of ink was found in the innominate artery draining from the brain. Massive ink filling was observed in the sagittal sinus and other venous sinuses in all the pigs. Vessels on the surface of the brain and large vessels in the brain were also well filled with ink. However, only 10% of capillaries were filled with ink during retrograde cerebral perfusion relative to the number observed with antegrade cerebral perfusion. Retrograde cerebral perfusion supplies a limited amount of blood to


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RP Machine Enterprises Inc. has purchased the assets of Butler Rubber Products to give it a strong presence in the silicone covered wheels sector, according to RubberTimes.com.

RP Machine Enterprises Inc. has purchased the assets of Butler Rubber Products to give it a strong presence in the silicone covered wheels sector, according to RubberTimes.com.Butler Rubber's Guntersville, Ala., manufacturing plant, which was established by Sam Butler in 1967, will continue operating for the time being.However, production of its silicone and other products eventually will be moved from the factory to Fletcher Machinery's 100,000-square-foot plant in Lexington, N.C., said Kelvin Gantt, vice president of rubber products for Fletcher, a subsidiary of RP Machine. It has not been determined when the move will take place."Sam Butler decidedground and space services to local, regional, national and international TV broadcasters across West Africa. SES will be providing the space segment and specific ground services, while CWG will be managing the teleport services as an SES partner teleport operator, providing high operational standards. The service will start in September 2014.

The 28.2 degrees East orbital position is SES's prime orbital position for West Africa and its FTA reach is one of the highest in the region. Today, SES already transmits 28 FTA channels at the 28.2 degrees East neighbourhood.

Austin Okere, Founder and CEO of CWG, said, "For years, the majority of households in West Africa has been shut out of the digital broadcasting experience. Together with SES, we are excited to enable broadcasters to deliver their content cost-effectively,