the true extent of the Molossion king’s ambitions. Alexander had no intention of being a ‘short-term solution’ for them, halting the Italian threat before leaving their shores for good. He was there for the long-term, hoping to form his own great empire in the West. This the Tarentines could not allow.

Fearing now for their own freedom, the Tarentines began to turn on the Molossian king. Alexander – the man who up until then they had lauded as their saviour – now quickly became a very divisive and alarming figure. A long-term alliance where Alexander would slowly tear away their autonomy and remaining power in Southern Italy was not in Tarentum’s interests they proclaimed. He had done his job – he had given a brutal lesson to the nativeItalians of the powerful allies Tarentum had and crippled their power; for that they were grateful, but now they insisted he leave. Yet Alexander had no intention of leaving. Emnity ensued.

Abandoning the Cause

The falling out between Tarentum and Alexander quickly halted Alexander’s Italian onslaught. The Tarentine troops that Alexander had accompanying his army deserted his cause and returned to Tarentum, as too did the financial assurances the Tarentines had promised the Molossian on his arrival. No longer would they cover the expenses of his army; they wanted Alexander to leave, and leave quickly!

With Tarentum’s emnity, Alexander had lost one of his strongest allies in Southern Italy. Yet the Molossian King was still confident. Many of his remaining Greek allies – still extremely grateful for liberating them from the


barbarian threat – stayed loyal. Alexander therefore remained determined to carry on his plans of carving his own empire in the West. His war in Southern Italy was to continue.

Unfortunately for Alexander however, this dispute would not prove insignificant. It had lost Alexander precious time; his Italian campaign had stuttered. And the Italians had been sure to take full advantage.

Respite

The Bruttians and Lucanians had not been idle in the meantime. Using the brief period of respite that Alexander’s break with Tarentum had caused, their forces had regrouped, intent on renewing the war with fresh vigour. Forming a new large army, its aim was simple: Crush Alexander.

News soon reached Alexander of this new threat. Hearing of it, Alexander quickly set about confronting the danger. Another great victory against thenative Italians, he most likely believed, was soon to be his; the unruly Tarentines could wait.

Arriving near a city on the borders of Lucania and Bruttium, Alexander divided his army on three neighbouring hills. From there, he intended to send his armies into the enemy lands in every direction. The strategy was sound. Little did he know however, that the city nearby was named Pandosia.

The Battle of Pandosia 331 BC

It was then that the great expedition of Alexander came to an abrupt end. Torrential rains flooded the flat lands that joined the three hills Alexander had encamped his army on, isolating each section from the rest of their force. The Lucanians and Bruttians, well-adapted to fighting in these conditions, were sure to take full advantage. Commencing a surprise


troops were a group of Lucanian exiles. Joining with Alexander, they had hoped to curry favour with the Molossian King, believing his conquest of their lands was all-but assurred. As soon as this turn of events occurred, however, very quickly their allegiance shifted. Talk of betraying Alexander to their countrymen became rife among these exiles. Sending messengers to the Lucanians, they offered to hand Alexander over, dead or alive. Yet Alexander had other ideas.

Hearing of the proposed treachery, Alexander had no intention of going quietly. Selecting some of his finest Epirotes to join him, Alexander sallied out from the blockade, inflicting death on any that opposed him. There, in the thick of the action, Alexander allegedly faced the Lucanian general in a duel, cutting him down and proving8.24.11)

On hearing the name, Alexander froze. The words of the oracle had now come freshly back into his mind, “Beware of the River Acheron.“ By campaigning in Southern Italy, Alexander had believed he would evade his fate. Little did he know that another Acheron River resided there, along with another city by the name of Pandosia.

The death of Alexander

It was this hesitation on hearing the ill-fated name of the river that would ultimately prove Alexander’s greatest mistake. Too late Alexander spurred his horse, hoping to reach the far bank and prove the prophecy wrong. It was not to be. The Oracle was right!

As he was reaching the shallows of the opposite bank, within touching distance of escape, Alexander’s body plunged lifeless into the swollen waters, transfixed by a


Lucanian javelin. Floating downriver, the Italians discovered his body and mutilated the corpse in revenge. Alexander, the man who had believed himself destined for forming a great Hellenic Empire in the West, was dead.

The result

As Alexander perished, so too did the leadership of his army. Stranded, it is presumed that any remaining Epirotes, despairing at the sudden turn of their fortunes, either remained in the Greek cities of Southern Italy or managed to make their way home to Epirus to inform their kinsmen of the ill-fated expedition. For the next 35 years, although its tribes would remain united, Epirus faded back into relative obscurity. Yet it would not remain so for long.

In 297 BC, another brilliant leader would ascend to the Molossian throne. A man who aimed totheir cities. Why fight, they thought, if they could pay others to do the fighting for them? Yet this policy would ultimately prove their downfall.

By 272 BC, all the Greek cities of Southern Italy had fallen under the influence of a new growing power in the Central Mediterranean. One that over the next 150 years, would create one of the greatest empires the world had yet seen: Rome.

End

Thus ends the story of Alexander the Molossian. In his lifetime, he had completely transformed the region of Epirus, turning it into a powerful, united kingdom. He would also set a precedent, paving the way for another, even more formidable Molossian king to attempt his own campaign in the West soon after. Yet despite all this success, Alexander’s life is ultimately


The Untouched Remains of a Pre-Holocaust Jewish Schoolhouse

June 23, 2015

Slovakian photographer Yuri Dojc, 69, insists that he doesn’t believe in miracles, and doesn’t consider himself a particularly religious man. Nonetheless, he describes his Last Folio project as the result of a series of “miracles” that began with his father’s funeral, where he met Mrs. Vajnorska, an Auschwitz survivor who became Dojc’s “second mother.” She showed him around Slovakia and introduced him to other survivors, whom he photographed. That, in turn, led to his discovery in 2006 of an abandoned Jewish schoolhouse, synagogue, and ritual bath in eastern Slovakia that had remained largely undisturbed since the day in 1942 when everyone was deported to concentration camps.

Last Folio has toured the world as an art installation, been the subject ofone-and-done players who opt to play at an under-the-radar school are usually given the chance to dominate the ball and rack up huge statistics immediately, à la Ben Simmons at LSU last season or Markelle Fultz at Washington this year. Isaac, on the other hand, is a cog on a talented team that already has a lot of weapons. Florida State is one of the deepest teams in the country, with 13 players averaging at least 10 minutes a game. The Seminoles also have a lot of returning starpower, led by sophomore Dwayne Bacon, an athletic and powerfully built 6-foot-7 wing who could play his way into the first round of the draft, and junior Xavier Rathan-Mayes, a fringe NBA prospect who put himself on the map by


scoring 30 points in four and a half minutes against Miami as a freshman.

Put it all together and you have the perfect recipe for an elite player to slip through the cracks. Isaac has escaped national attention through the first month of the season by staying hidden in almost every way. In comparison to the other freshmen projected to go in this year’s lottery by DraftExpress, he has a smaller role in the offense, with less of an opportunity to play with the ball in his hands:

Florida State just hasn’t needed Isaac to take over games the way other teams have had to depend on their super-freshmen. FSU went 3–0 when Isaac was out with a hip flexor injury in the first week of December, and he playedonly 19 minutes in the team’s 83–78 win over Florida on Sunday, his first game back from the injury. But while he hasn’t had to be a star, Isaac has been a very good player for the Seminoles, averaging 14.4 points, 7.1 rebounds, 1.1 steals, and 1 block a game on 56.9 percent shooting. He has been very efficient in a smaller role in the offense, and he has found other ways to contribute to the team besides scoring. That versatility, along with his unique physical gifts, is what makes him such an intriguing prospect.

At 6-foot-10 and 210 pounds, Isaac is a supersize wing who plays primarily as a small-ball PF, and he spaces the floor out to the 3-point line.

Every NBA team needs players who can provide


National Survey of Neurosurgeons and Stroke Physicians on Decompressive Hemicraniectomy for Malignant Middle Cerebral Artery Infarction.
Several studies have evaluated the use of decompressive hemicraniectomy (DHC) in malignant middle cerebral artery infarction (MMCAI). In the United Kingdom, the National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE) has set criteria for selection of patients for DHC in MMCAI. We set out to survey the attitudes and practice of neurosurgeons and stroke physicians within the United Kingdom towards DHC in MMCAI. An electronic survey of questions on management of MMCAI in various clinical scenarios was submitted to the academic committees of the Society of British Neurological Surgeons and the British Association of Stroke Physicians for approval before dissemination through the consultant members. Responses were collected over 2 months. A total ofcame to political prominence in 2005 when, as a member of the Supreme Court, she refused a government motion to transfer Magistrates who were on strike.  Despite this, she was nominated for one of the seats on the constitutional court reserved for jurists in 2007, and accepted by the government.  She was then elected President of the court by its members.

2009 Constitutional crisis
In 2009, she led the court in two unanimous decisions opposing President of Niger Mamadou Tandja's move to hold a referendum to retire the Constitution of Niger and remain in office while a new constitution was drafted.   The first (non binding) decision, presented on 26 May 2009, triggered the President's dismissal of the National Assembly  while a further binding decision was


The Toyota Car Club of Australia (Victoria) is proud to announce the first annual Classic Japan Car Show in Melbourne.

To be held on November 20th 2011, it will be a gathering of enthusiasts of all classic Japanese marques.

Our venue will be Yarra Bend Park, Fairfield, Victoria and the show will be open to entrants from 8am to 9am, and then members of the public from 9am-1pm. Enter the venue via Yarra Bend Park Rd from Heidelberg Rd, and watch out for the speed humps.

Entry will be via a gold coin donation with proceeds going to Beyond Blue.

We are limited to 80 cars on display this year, so we are looking for a really good cross section of original and modified Japanese classics, 25 years and older.

There will beof the elements and combinations particularly pointed out in the appended claims. To achieve the objects and in accordance with the purpose of the invention, as embodied and broadly described herein, one aspect of the invention comprises a method for improving the function of a valve of a heart. The method includes the steps of placing an elongate member transverse a heart chamber so that each end of the elongate member extends through a wall of the heart, and placing first and second anchoring members external to the chamber. The first and second anchoring members are attached to first and second ends of the elongate member to fix the elongate member in a position across the chamber so as to reposition papillary muscles within the chamber.
According to another


aspect, the invention comprises a method for improving the function of a valve of a heart. The method includes the steps of placing an elongate member transverse a heart chamber so that a first end of the elongate member extends through a wall of the heart between two papillary muscles, and a second end of the elongate member extends through a septum of the heart; placing a first anchoring member external the heart; and placing a second anchoring member inside the heart adjacent the septum. The first and second anchoring members are attached to the first and second ends of the elongate member respectively to fix the elongate member in a position across the heart chamber.
According to a further aspect, the invention comprises a method for improving themember extends through a wall of the heart, and first and second anchoring members configured to be positioned external the chamber and attached to the ends of the elongate member to fix the elongate member in a position across the chamber. The first anchoring member includes a first portion configured to contact a first region of the heart proximate the valve to change a shape of the valve. Preferably, the first portion will contact a first region of the heart proximate the valve annulus to change the shape of the valve annulus.
According to another aspect, the invention comprises a splint for improving the function of a valve of a heart. The splint includes an elongate member configured to be positioned transverse a heart chamber so that each end


of the elongate member extends through a wall of the heart, first and second anchoring members configured to be positioned external the chamber and attached to the ends of the elongate member to fix the elongate member in a position across the chamber, a third anchoring member connected to at least one of the first and second anchoring members by a connection member. The third anchoring member is configured to contact a region of the heart proximate the valve to change a shape of the valve.
According to a further aspect, the invention comprises a device for improving the function of a valve of a heart. The device includes a first splint having a first elongate member configured to be positioned transverse a heart chamber so that each endof the elongate member extends through a wall of the heart, and a first anchoring member configured to be positioned external the chamber and attached to a first end of the first elongate member. The device further includes a second splint having a second elongate member configured to be positioned transverse a heart chamber so that each end of the second elongate member extends through a wall of the heart, and a second anchoring member configured to be positioned external the chamber and attached to a first end of the second elongate member. The device also includes a connecting mechanism configured to be connected to the second ends of each of the first and second elongate members external the chamber and press the wall of the heart chamber


However, it is easy to burn the oil-absorbing cotton 101 in this way and the lifetime of the electronic cigarette will be affected. Additionally, the volume of the smoke can also be increased by increasing the length of the heating wire 104. However, as the electronic cigarette is used to simulate conventional cigarette, it is more acceptable that the size of the electronic cigarette is comparative to that of the conventional cigarette. Accordingly, the cross sectional areas of the electronic cigarette and the vent tube 102 in the electronic cigarette is limited. The increasable length of the heating wire 104 is limited because of the limited cross sectional area of the vent tube 102, and the increasable volume of the smoke is hence also limited and can't meetSarah Jarosz

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SARAH JAROSZ emerged on the scene about seven years ago as someone to watch. Jamming onstage with bluegrass icons named Grisman or Skaggs, she played her mandolin with a sure touch and real joy. It looked and sounded comfortable in her twelve-year-old hands. It was not surprising then that the teen was nominated for a Grammy for her first release, Song Up in Her Head. This talented Texan picked up the mandolin at age 10 and also plays the banjo and guitar. She wrote all but two songs on her thirteen track album and currently attends the New England Conservatory of Music.

Her bluegrass tunes have earned her press on NPR and Rolling Stone Magazine. She has been compared to Gillian Welch, been called a


Chinese President Deng Xiaoping (C) ushers hand in hand Soviet President Mikhail Gorbachev (L) and his wife Raisa into the banquet hall at the Great Hall of the People in Beijing on May 16, 1989. AFP PHOTO VITALY ARMAND (Photo credit should read VITALY ARMAND/AFP/Getty Images)

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SHANGHAI -- August 22 marked the anniversary of Deng Xiaoping's birth 110 years go. Though it has been 17 years since he left us, his eyes, sharp and deep, remain vivid in my memory. Though his demeanor was that of a calm and gentle old man, his determined gaze betrayed a will as hard as iron -- a will that has shaped an entire nation.

As an interpreter for Deng and other senior Chinese leaders in the 1980s, I wasfortunate to have had the opportunities to be in touch with this great statesman at close range. Deng with Italian journalist Oriana Fallaci

Deng was a true character with a famously blunt and direct manner. When he received Italian journalist Oriana Fallaci in 1980, they spoke for hours and she asked very tough questions. During a break, Deng asked her: "Do you also speak to your father like this?" Fallaci said yes. "Doesn't your father give you a slap on your face?" Deng asked, laughing. The combative Fallaci was clearly impressed with her combative subject who spoke so candidly on and off the record.

I also observed Deng in his meetings with foreign leaders, including Kim Il-sung from North Korea, Robert Mugabe from Zimbabwe, Mikhail Gorbachev from the Soviet Union


and Jerry Rawlings from Ghana. Deng with Kim Il-sung

Kim Il Sung visited China in 1982 when the North Korean economy was going through a particularly difficult time. Kim told Deng that one way he was planning to overcome his difficulties was to raise more common quails than chickens because, Kim said, he had learned from the president of Pakistan that quail eggs are twice as nutritious as chicken eggs!

Deng, let's say, was non-committal and steered the conversation elsewhere. He talked to Kim instead about his observations concerning China's impoverished northeast on his way back from a visit to North Korea in 1978. After decades of revolution, he said, most rural areas were still dirt poor. Believing that socialism should have brought wealth and not poverty, Deng was notso interested in talking about quail eggs as he was about shifting the whole nation to a path of economic development and modernization. The measures he wanted to adopt, he told Kim, included opening up to foreign technology, management, and capital.

While many socialist nations at the time were still thinking of minor technical adjustments, Deng was already considering fundamental reforms.

My views today were shaped in such discussions Deng held with Kim and other socialist leaders. In my mind, there are three kinds of reform models among socialist countries.

First, there is the conservative model adopted by North Korea and Cuba. Holding onto a planned economy with limited market mechanisms, the overall result hasn't been good and the economies remain poor.

Second, there is the radical model adopted by the Soviet


Union and Eastern Europe. This model amounts to a de facto revolution that has sought to transplant the Western multi-party system and market economy onto their own soil. We know the results: When the Soviet Union broke up, Russia's economy was larger than China's. Now, China's foreign reserves of U.S. $4 trillion is more than the GDP of Russia and Central and Eastern Europe combined.

The third approach is China's model of steady reform. The facts speak for themselves. Less than 20 years after Deng's death, China is the world's second largest economy, headed for the first slot in the years ahead.

"WE WERE PUNISHED FOR THE GREAT LEAP FORWARD AND THE CULTURAL REVOLUTION"

Robert Mugabe visited China for the second time in 1985. He admired Mao Zedong and half ofhis cabinet members were trained in a military academy in Nanjing. As during his first visit in 1981, Mugabe felt China was marching towards capitalism and was not happy that the Chinese had ditched Chairman Mao.

Deng told Mugabe that China was only upholding the principle of "seek truth from facts," a key element of Maoism. And the presupposition for the Four Modernizations (agriculture, industry, national defense, and science and technology) was socialism. Deng was firm on two unshakable core principles: the leadership of the Communist Party and common ownership. As long as these two elements were intact, he felt any mistake could be corrected.

Since Mugabe was quite a leftist, Deng spent a considerable amount of time recounting the lessons China learned from being "left" -- the Great Leap


Forward and the Cultural Revolution. "We were punished," for these mistakes, Deng bluntly told his surprised guest.

At the same time, Deng also reassured Mugabe that China would stick to the so-called Four Cardinal Principles -- upholding the socialist path, upholding the dictatorship of the proletariat, upholding the leadership of the Communist Party, and upholding Mao Zedong Thought and Marxism-Leninism.

During Mugabe's next visit in 1987, Deng spoke about these principles further.

There is only one objective for upholding them, Deng said, and that is to ensure stability in China. Without stability, Deng believed, China's modernization would be destroyed by pro-western liberalization.

These principles, however, were not dogma, Deng stressed, but must be guided by "seeking truth from facts." In short, realities on the ground, not ideology, would pragmatically guide China's reformwere two political forces in China. One the one hand, we had the students whose hero was Gorbachev, known for his prioritization of political reform. The students welcomed their hero with a slogan -- "Today's Soviet Union, Tomorrow's China" -- which was very appealing to China's intelligentsia.

On the other hand, we had Deng who believed that the most urgent task was to improve people's livelihood. In his view, all other reforms, including political ones, had to serve this primary goal. He believed that copying the Western model and placing political reform on the top of the agenda, like the Soviets were doing at the time, was utterly foolish. In fact, that was exactly Deng's comment on Gorbachev after their meeting: "This man may look smart but in fact


Has IRS Probe Re-Energized the Tea Party?

The tea party movement, after heating up to a roaring boil in the 2010 election cycle, diminished to a simmer over the past few years.

Some of the movement’s allies who helped Republicans retake the House in 2010 were defeated two years later, President Barack Obama was re-elected by a wide margin to serve a second term in the White House, and House Tea Party Caucus founder Michele Bachmann, R-Minn., went straight from a failed run for the GOP presidential nomination to a narrow re-election to hold her seat.

A Rasmussen poll earlier this year revealed that the movement was at its lowest popularity since its inception, with only 8 percent of respondents identifying themselves as tea party supporters, down from 24 percent in2010.

But in the wake of revelations that tea party groups seeking tax-exempt status were among those targeted by the IRS for extra scrutiny, things are starting to look up for the national coalition of lawmakers, political operatives and concerned citizens who preach for smaller government, advocate lower taxes and fight against infringements on civil liberties.

For perhaps the first time in three years, tea party leaders are seeing a renewed recognition of their relevance, which they anticipate will bring back old supporters, enlist new allies and perhaps even broaden the political base.

Started with the slogan “Taxed Enough Already,” the tea party has, since its 2010 start, catered primarily to those on the far right who slam excessive taxes and efforts to tighten gun laws. The movement arose as part


Nathan Fillion will be joining us at Phoenix Comicon 2014! Known for his portrayal of Captain Malcolm Reynolds in Firefly and Serenity, Captain Hammer in Dr. Horrible's Sing Along Blog, and currently starring in ABC's Castle as Richard Castle. Nathan has also appeared as a voice actor in video games including Jade Empire and Halo among many other roles. Nathan is also known for his charitable works including co-founding Kids Need to Read, and for generally being awesome on the internet.

Stand By Me (1986) ~ Teddy (Corey Feldman): This is my age! I'm in the prime of my youth, and I'll only be young once! Chris (River Phoenix): Yeah, but you're gonna be stupid for the rest of your life.the WB network in 1999, but went on a yearlong hiatus after the first two episodes due to poor ratings. The show returned in 2000, only airing for four more episodes, before being officially canceled. Mission Hill had a cult following through late-night airings on TBS and Cartoon Network’s Adult Swim block in the coming years, and solidified its place in cult TV history upon its DVD release in 2005.

Like most brilliant shows that were unjustly cancelled, Mission Hill was plagued by the typical TV network missteps: awkward advertising and little recognition from popular press outlets. Combined with the fact that Mission Hill was placed on Friday nights at 8pm, when most people are actively trying not to stay home and watch TV, the show had a difficult


time locating a core audience.

Of all the cancelled animated shows of the past decade, what makes this one in particular worth noting? Most importantly, Mission Hill came from rich blood. Former executive producers for The Simpsons, Bill Oakley and Josh Weinstein, created Mission Hill, alongside artistic designer Lauran MacMullan the former animation director for The Simpsons, The Critic and King of the Hill. Likewise, Mission Hill featured the vocal delights of Tom Kenny (SpongeBob SquarePants), Brian Posehn, and Jane Wiedlin (of The Go-Go’s) to name a few. Beyond the brilliant creative team standing behind the show, Mission Hill’s content appealed to the 18-35 demographic by presenting characters whose identities were torn between post-college dreams and the harsh realities of the working world.

In Mission Hill, 24-year-old waterbed salesman andsame time, the foreground featured brighter, warmer colors across the landscape, contrasting the dark city lurking behind the characters. Lines are drawn jagged and then smooth at times, shifting between focused and unfocused, that provide the show with a transitions between chaos and order. Beyond simply looking stunning, Mission Hill was able to use its distinct animation to prescribe attributes to each of its characters. The character of Andy is drawn slouched in order to personify his apathetic demeanor, while Kevin, the precocious young genius, is always drawn upright and stiff.

Mission Hill was destined to fail from the get-go. Most previews for upcoming shows that year neglected to even mention Mission Hill. Likewise, a similarly named show on MTV forced creators to change the name from the originally


Immunology in Singapore--past and future.
In the past, immunology in Singapore was mainly confined to serology for the diagnosis of certain infectious diseases. Postgraduate education for immunology was not well developed and its undergraduate training was restricted to a few lectures within bacteriology. With the establishment of the W.H.O. IRTC in 1969, training and research in immunology were further developed and a group of scientists and technicians to conduct research work was subsequently built up. This enabled the Centre to provide some immunological services to the Government and University, and soon extended these to our neighbouring countries as well. Further research and the maintenance of international standards are essential for the future development of immunology in Singapore. And this is only possible with the moral and financial support ofHAMBURG, NY (WKBW-TV) — Nobody has a train set like Judd Wright of Hamburg. His train layout fills his basement-completely. It's powered by twenty transformers. Judd says "When you get old you need bigger toys because you can't see as well,"

The train set was designed and built by Rick Fisher at Artcraft Toy Trains in Hamburg. The cost was as much as a hundred thousand dollars but Judd admits he didn't really keep track of it.

Judd says he thinks he has about thirty engines, tons of track, too many train cars to count and possibly six miles of wire running under the table.

After he retired from a career with the Social Security Administration he acquired a family inheritance. He says it all started with his grandfather who was


When John Heuser finished medical school at the height of the Vietnam War he was immediately eligible for the draft. Luckily for him, and for cell biology, he fulfilled his military service at the National Institutes of Health (NIH) in the United States Public Health Service. It was there that he brought the concept of "membrane recycling" to light.

He brought to Thomas Reese\'s lab at the NIH a postdoctoral project he had started with Sir Bernard Katz at University College, London---an attempt to capture a picture of neurotransmitter "quanta" being released as Katz had proposed. The only approach available to him at the time, Heuser recalls, "was to stimulate the nerve like hell and throw it into fixative." But he soon realized, "the chances were still almost zeroof catching it." The method, however, gave him images of nerve terminals at the frog neuromuscular junction that had "weird vesicles and membranous cisternae" inside. Heuser, now at Washington University (St. Louis, Missouri), recalls that other scientists who saw the images said the overstimulated nerves were "disgusting," "just destroyed," and "not relevant to anything."

Heuser had a hunch, however, that the internal structures were not just signs of degradation, but instead were products of endocytosis. Together with Tom Reese, he decided to investigate his idea using horseradish peroxidase (HRP), the endocytic tracer that was just coming into its own as a powerful marker in electron microscopy. They stimulated frog nerve terminals while bathing them in extracellular HRP and found that HRP first appeared in clathrin-coated vesicles that formed from


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‘The welfare state’ in all its many forms has had a profound role in many countries around the world since at least the Second World War. The Routledge Handbook of the Welfare State explores the classical issues around thewelfare state, but also investigates its key concepts, along with how these can be used and analysed. Over forty contributions from renowned international specialists in the field provide readers with expert analysis of the core issues related to the welfare state, including regional depictions of welfare states around the globe. The book combines essays on methodologies, core concepts and central policy areas to produce a comprehensive picture of what ‘the welfare state’ means around the world. In the midst of the credit crunch, the Handbook addresses some of the many questions about the welfare state. It will be an invaluable reference book for students and scholars throughout the social sciences, particularly in sociology, social policy, public policy, international relations, politics, and gender studies.

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interaction with developments and changes in such policy areas as pension policy, family policy, labour law, tax policy and social assistance. The book advances existing efforts aimed at conceptualizing and measuring welfare state change by proposing a clear-cut conceptualization of social policy regime change and introduces a comprehensive analysis of the transformation of the welfare-work nexus between 1980 and 2010 in Germany. This book will be of interest to students and scholars of social policy, comparative welfare state reform, welfare politics, government, governance, public policy, German politics, European politics, political economy, sociology and history.

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This ebook is a selective guide designed to help scholars and students of social work find reliable sources of informationwelfare (state) research and analyses the main recent developments necessitating a new focus on European Welfare Systems. The twenty-seven chapters on the welfare systems of the member states are written on the basis of a common structure by experts from the individual states. An additional chapter analyses the current social and welfare policies of the EU and focuses on the interplay and limits between European and national social policies. Two concluding chapters provide (a) a first comparative analysis on the basis of all twenty-seven European Welfare Systems and (b) a theoretical reflection both arguing for and venturing the idea of politically limited pluralism in European welfare politics.

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Neoliberal reforms have seen a radical shift in government thinking about social citizenshipsilence is usually more intense when there are more people conspiring-and especially when there are significant power differences among them. He concludes by showing that the longer we ignore "elephants," the larger they loom in our minds, as each avoidance triggers an even greater spiral of denial. Drawing on examples from newspapers and comedy shows to novels, children's stories, and film, the book travels back and forth across different levels of social life, and from everyday moments to large-scale historical events. At its core, The Elephant in the Room helps us understand why we ignore truths that are known to all of us.

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He was upset that Russian stars such as Alex Ovechkin and Evgeni Malkin weren’t allowed to stay and play in Sunday’s KHL All-Star Game, although fellow NHL stars Ilya Kovalchuk and Pavel Datsyuk did.

"Several clubs look down on the international aspects of hockey development and think that it's better to stew in your own stock. They could have released the players without any harm, but greed has strangled them and they didn't allow it," Medvedev was quoted as saying.

Never mind that Medvedev has enjoyed, since September, having 40-plus NHLers in his league because of the lockout, including the very best of his homegrown superstars.

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cloths, used by researchers to harvest the bugs.

The ticks, which can sense distant vibrations and small amounts of CO2, mistake the robot for an animal, scuttle toward the tube, and wait for the robot to pass. When they latch on to it, the poison gets them.

The idea for a tick-killing machine cam to Squire after he found ticks on his toddler years ago.

Public concern about ticks returns every summer. In June, a 6-year-old girl from North Carolina died from Rocky Mountain spotted fever after being bitten by a tick in Texas.

In VMI's initial tests conducted at the tick-infested Hoffler Creek Wildlife Foundation in Portsmouth, Va., only one in 10 ticks survived. Later tests found zero survivors.

The researchers will now focus on how soon an area will repopulate withwhy, and how vertebrates stopped relying on external factors to regulate their body temperatures and began heating themselves internally -- have long intrigued scientists.

Now, a team led by researchers at the California Institute of Technology (Caltech) has taken a critical step toward providing some answers.

Reporting online in the early edition of the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS), they describe the first method for the direct measurement of the body temperatures of large extinct vertebrates -- through the analysis of rare isotopes in the animals' bones, teeth, and eggshells.

"This is not quite like going back in time and sticking a thermometer up a creature's back end," says John Eiler, Robert P. Sharp Professor of Geology and professor of geochemistry at Caltech. "But it's close."

Studying the mechanisms


and extinct vertebrates from 13C-18O bond abundances in bioapatite," are Edwin Schauble of the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA); Thomas Tütken of the Universität Bonn in Germany; Richard Hulbert of the Florida Museum of Natural History; and Aradhna Tripati, who has appointments at Caltech, UCLA, and the University of Cambridge.

Their work was supported by grants from the National Science Foundation, and by a Caltech Chancellors Postdoctoral Scholarship.

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Michael Bennett celebrated a sack vs. 49ers with a raised fist

Michael Bennett sacked 49ers quarterback Brian Hoyer late in the first half. After sacking Hoyer, Bennett raised his fist in celebration.

It was the first sack celebration of note that mirrored anything close to the national anthem protests the NFL has seen since 2016.

Bennett has been sitting for the national anthem since the preseason started in August. He made headlines after he shared his account of abuse he experienced by Las Vegas police the night of the Mayweather-McGregor fight.

The sack is Bennett’s first on the afternoon, and gives him 2.5 on the young season.

The union also filed for a temporary restraining order that would allow Elliott to take the field while the legal process plays


at the RNC convention, Obama had probably secured his reelection 11 months before November 2012, and four months before Romney became the presumptive nominee.

Trump is currently very vulnerable despite a relatively strong economy. He is stuck at 42 percent in the FiveThirtyEight polling average and has yet to show any improvement since the end of the Mueller investigation. He continues to struggle in states like Michigan, Wisconsin, and Pennsylvania, and if he loses all three, he’s toast.

This is not a call to shorten the primary or reduce the number of candidates. A long primary that traverses all the battleground states can strengthen both the party and the eventual nominee. Barack Obama was able to win Virginia, North Carolina, and Indiana in 2008 because he had been forced toReserve Officer Training Corps cadet Erin Fahey of Western Michigan University makes her way across a stream during the 2007 Army ROTC Ranger Challenge Competition held at Camp Atterbury, Ind., October 20, 2007. Women in the United States may have to start registering for the draft in 2018 after the Senate passed legislation requiring it Tuesday. Photo courtesy of the U.S. Army.

WASHINGTON, June 15 (UPI) -- U.S. women may soon be required to register for the military draft when they reach the age of 18.

The Senate passed a $602 billion defense bill Tuesday that would make it compulsory for young women to be available for Selective Service.

The National Defense Authorization Act was overwhelmingly approved by 85 votes to 13, although some Republicans vehemently opposed the draft amendment.

Texas Sen.


Ted Cruz last week branded the notion of conscription for woman as "a radical departure."

After voting against it on Tuesday, he explained: "I could not in good conscience vote to draft our daughters into the military, sending them off to war and forcing them into combat."

But the chairman of the Armed Services Committee, Arizona Sen. John McCain, described the move as "simply fair" now that the Pentagon has opened all military roles to women.

"Every uniform leader of the United States military seemed to have a different opinion from the senator from Texas, whose military background is not extensive," McCain declared.

Cruz never served in the military, unlike McCain who was a naval aviator and prisoner of war in Vietnam.

The Pentagon in 2013 ended restrictions on female service members participatingin combat roles.

"It's my personal view," Gen. Robert B. Neller, the commandant of the Marine Corps, told the Senate Armed Services Committee in February, that with the complete lifting of the ban on women in combat roles, "every American who's physically qualified should register for the draft."

The United States has not used conscription since 1973 during the Vietnam War.

Under the Senate bill passed on Tuesday, women turning 18 on or after Jan. 1, 2018, would be forced to register for Selective Service, as men must do now.

Failure to do so is illegal and can have adverse effects for people seeking federal employment or student loans.

Because the policy would not apply to women who turned 18 before 2018, it would not affect current aid arrangements.

Selective Service, was reinstated in


1980 following the Soviet Union's invasion of Afghanistan. Its mission is to "furnish manpower to the Defense Department during a national emergency."

According to the Selective Service website, "Almost all male U.S. citizens and male immigrants, who are 18 through 25, are required to register with Selective Service."

The Pentagon has never called for compulsory conscription to be reinstated.Cherry Blossom Watch Update: March 19, 2013

The folks over at the National Park Service have revised their official forecast. They now say peak bloom should come between April 3 and April 6. Their original forecast, issued at the beginning of the month, was for March 26 to March 30. But colder weather has arrived.

It hasn't felt much like spring around here the past few days. As predicted, it's been dreary and cold, with rain, sleet, and even some snow. And we're not out of the woods yet: it's going to be a cool, windy week, with some local forecasts even predicting the potential for a few snow flurries before the week is out.

The cherry trees, which have been a brackish gray all winter, are now starting to show


a hint of color. This isn't the flowers just yet--it's the contrast between the green and brown of the florets, which gives the trees a faint orange-brown tint. The florets are now clearly visible, and the NPS aborists decided that they'd reached the stage of 70 percent of the florets visible two days ago, on March 17. We still have several stages to go before we get to peak bloom. The next stage to look for will be the extension of the florets, which averages 12-17 days before peak bloom.

Around the Tidal Basin, the parking lot on the northeast corner (Maine Ave SW) is now closed in preparation for the crowds, and marquee tents, porta-johns, and picnic tables are being set up in it. The NPS arborists areDescription Dinesh D'Souza speaking at CPAC 2012 | Source http://www. flickr. com/photos/n3tel/6859827729/ Dinesh D'Souza speaking at CPAC ...

Prominent conservative author and Obama critic Dinesh D'Souza has resigned from the from the presidency of The King's College, an evangelical Christian liberal arts school based in Manhattan, the college's board of trustees announced Thursday.

The sudden departure comes after days of controversy over accusations of marital infidelity against D'Souza, who reportedly attended a recent event on Christian values with a woman who was not his his wife of 20 years and shared a hotel room with her. (The story of D'Souza's relationship to a woman, Denise Odie Joseph II, was first reported by WORLD magazine).

Andy Mills, chairman of the college's board of trustees, made the announcement on Thursday afternoon to students,


faculty and staff.

"God has a mighty future for Dinesh, but there are some things he has to go through first," Mills said, according to the Empire State Tribune, a student newspaper at the college. "I have to admit, I got a bit over-enamored with him," said Mills, who emphasized to students that much of the college's funding does not come from D'Souza's high-profile connections. Mills will take over as interim president, a position he has twice held before.

“After careful consultation with the board and with Dinesh, we have accepted his resignation to allow him to attend to his personal and family needs. We thank him for his service and significant contribution to the College over the last two years," Mills said in a statement in which he askedfor prayer for D'Souza.

The event where the controversy arose happened on Sept. 28 in North Carolina and was called Truth for a New Generation. On Tuesday, D'Souza, who had been president of the college since 2010, said in an interview with the Associated Press that he and his wife, Dixie, were "living in a state of separation for two years" and said he did not share a hotel room with Joseph II, who he said was introduced as his fiancee at the event. "

"Obviously, I wouldn't have introduced her as my fiancee if I thought we were doing anything improper," D'Souza told the AP. He added that they had canceled their engagement. A college spokesman added that Mills had known about the separation for at least two years.

D'Souza's


former positions include being a policy analyst for president Ronald Reagan's administration. He is best-known for his controversial criticisms of President Barack Obama, such as the film "2016: Obama's America," which was based on his earlier book, The Roots of Obama's Rage. His 2007 book, What's So Great About Christianity, propelled him into being a sought-after Christian public speaker.

According to The Daily Beast, D'Souza may not have been the most popular president during his term. The news website reported:

...members of the King’s faculty and board alike had grown hostile to D’Souza’s presidency over what they saw as a failure to earn his reported million-dollar salary. D’Souza has spent much of the past few months promoting his documentary, 2016: Obama’s America, and his high profile in the media wasTag Archives: Ann Arbor

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One of the more shocking images circulating on social media this week is one of a sign vandalized with 30 bullet holes. The sign marks where the body of 14-year-old black student Emmett Till was found in 1955.

Kevin Wilson Jr., a New York University graduate student working on a film about Till, shared the image on Facebook. Till was a black teen who was brutally murdered after he spoke to a white woman. The perpetrators were acquitted, but Till’s murder is one of the most infamous examples of individual, racism-inspired violence whose perpetrators walked free. The photo has gone viral, with accompanyingcommentary about how American racism persists.

I'm at the exact site where Emmett Till's body was found floating in the Tallahatchie River 61 years ago. The site marker is filled with bullet holes. Clear evidence that we've still got a long way to go. Posted by Kevin Wilson Jr. on Saturday, October 15, 2016

The fact that Emmett Till's memorial sign was shot up is so evil & depressing, I can't even wrap my head around it. — Kumail Nanjiani (@kumailn) October 22, 2016

It’s bigger than the sign: Some people see civil rights, diversity, and equality as threats to their well-being

Dave Tell, an associate professor at the University of Kansas, works with the Emmett Till Memory Project. Vandalism to civil rights memorials is common, and symptomatic of bigger problems, he


players have been fantastic for English football. From the early years of exotic number 10s like Cantona, Zola & Bergkamp to David Silva & Eden Hazard. The foreign players have increased the technical level and professionalism of English football- notably United’s class of ’92 took their lead on training standards from Cantona.

The decline in English players in the Premier League over recent years has been justified by two points- firstly England isn’t producing good enough players and secondly The Premier Leagues leading clubs need to import to stay ahead in The Champions League.

On the first point England are now Under 20 World Champions, under 19 European Champions, Double Toulon tournament winners and European Under 17s runners up.

On the second point the last Premier League team to win theChampions League were Chelsea in 2012. Since then only 2 of the last 20 Champions League semi finalists were from the Premier League whilst La Liga produced 4 champions.

Meanwhile despite the Premier League’s vast riches the worlds best players remain out of reach. Whilst Morata, Mendy and Salah did come to England M’Bappe, Neymar and Dembele (the best players on the market) went elsewhere and the brightest new star of next summers World Cup will join either Real or Barca, as Ozil did in 2010 & James in 2014.

There are a lot of theories doing the rounds as to why the Premier League clubs keep failing in Europe.

One problem I can see is none of the current premier league clubs have a club culture. By that I mean


success unless the player happens to be a Gareth Bale level player.

In Germany and Spain youth development is seen as key in first team success- even at Real Madrid where Marco Asensio (aged 21) has been promoted to the first team possibly explaining why Real allowed Morata to join Chelsea.

Meanwhile at Stamford Bridge John Terry said on departing the club one of his reasons to go was he didn’t want to stand in the way of Nathan Ake, Nat Chalobah & Kurt Zouma making their first team claims- by the end of the the transfer window Chelsea had sold 2 and loaned out the other of those 3, together with Ruben Loftus Cheek, Christian Atsu & Dom Solanke. A penny for John’s thoughts now!

The curious case of JadonSpecial counsel Robert Mueller’s report, released on Thursday, raises a lot of new questions — but in one section, in just under 320 words, it answered another one, putting to rest one of the most harmful political conspiracy theories in recent memory.

The report definitively disproved the notion that a Democratic National Committee staffer named Seth Rich was the source of leaked DNC documents later published by WikiLeaks, and that his July 2016 murder came as the result of his decision to leak those documents to WikiLeaks.

This wasn’t true, although Trump associates like Jerome Corsi, Roger Stone, and countless others, have argued vehemently for years that it was. And WikiLeaks, and its founder Julian Assange, knew it.

On July 10, 2016, shortly before the DNC emails were released, Seth Rich


Exoskeleton device helps paralyzed Olive Branch veteran walk again

OLIVE BRANCH, MS (WMC) - A Mid-South hero is taking his first steps again thanks to new technology.

Veteran Tyler Densford became paralyzed in 2016 after a training exercise in the U.S. National Guard.

A grim prognosis has changed for the Olive Branch man, who could soon be walking on his own thanks to advancements in medicine and technology.

Densford recently took his first steps after being bound to a wheelchair for nearly three years.

“I think I was a little shaky,” Densford said. “Obviously different than anything else I experienced, but very gratifying.”

It was a movement the 25-year-old thought he would never feel again.

Two years after enlisting in the National Guard, Densford was injured during a training exercise in Memphis. An equipment malfunctionPanthers activate David Gettis from PUP, Pilares to IR

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The last time anyone saw David Gettis, he was a reasonably productive receiver on a reasonably awful 2010 Panthers team.

He’s finally back.

According to Steve Reed of the Associated Press, Gettis will be activated from the physically unable to perform list today, and the Panthers will place receiver Kealoha Pilares on injured reserve to make the roster spot.

After catching 37 passes for 508 yards and three touchdowns in 2010, while catching passes from Jimmy Clausen, Matt Moore and Brian St. Pierre, Gettis looked like a promising prospect in 2010, when the Panthers went 2-14. But an ACL tear in 2011 ended his season, and a nagging hamstring kept him on PUP


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Like humans, fruit flies are highly active during the day and sleep throughout the night. The authors found that disruption of Eaat2 in fruit flies caused excess daytime sleepiness.

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Washington (CNN) - It's the symbol of America, and for the first time, the U.S. government has granted a Native American tribe a permit to kill two bald eagles for religious purposes.

The permit application was filed in 2008 by the Northern Arapaho Tribe in Wyoming and, after years of review, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service issued it on March 9.

"They did make a case for why the take of a bird from the wild was necessary," Matt Hogan, Denver regional director for the Fish and Wildlife Service, told CNN.

Last year, the tribe filed a lawsuit in federal court challenging the federal government for denying the application, saying it "unreasonably burdens the religious rights of tribal members," court documents stated.

The case is pending.

Hogan, who was


in charge of granting the permit, says the lawsuit was not the reason the permit got approved when it did. He says it took time to make sure all the criteria were met and that the permit was in accordance with the Bald and Golden Eagle Protection Act, which allows bald eagles to be used by Native Americans in religious ceremonies.

The eagle "flies higher then any other creature. It sees many things. It's closer to the Creator," said Robert Holden, deputy director of the National Congress of American Indians. Holden said he was bothered by the comments he was hearing: that this permit would lead to a mass killing of bald eagles.

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Farewell, Crest Bakery. On behalf of Akron, thank you for all the cherry cups, creme sticks, wedding cakes, and, most of all, the generations of memories.

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"Everyone is born a Flamengo fan, but some degenerate along the way."

This local phrase does much to highlight the swagger and self-esteem of Brazil's most popular club, a huge institution whose history does much to illustrate that of the game in this giant country.

Formed in 1895 as a rowing club, Flamengo took up football a few years later and were in their early years an institution for the elite.

But in the 1930s Brazilian culture was changing - previously persecuted, the samba musicians were suddenly becoming national heroes.

Flamengo sensed the changing times and carried out a clever re-branding. They signed the leading three black players of the day and presented themselves as the club of the people.

It was a


masterstroke.

At the time Rio de Janeiro was Brazil's capital. Radio carried Flamengo's games to the far-flung corners of the land - where millions identified with the team.

To this day Flamengo can still fill stadiums thousands of miles from Rio. What happens at Flamengo resonates across the country, whether it is a big win, a frustrating elimination - or the heartbreaking tragedy of Friday morning, when fire took 10 young lives.

That working class and black support base saw the club labelled as the 'urubu' - the vulture. It was meant as a racial slur. But in the manner of these things, it was adopted as a motive of pride. Flamengo's training ground, where Friday's tragedy took place, is the 'Ninho do Urubu' - the vulture's nest.

Legendary Brazil playmaker Zicospent the majority of his career at Flamengo, making over 200 appearances in two spells

Part of the tradition of the club is its youth development work. "We produce our stars at home," is another famous Flamengo phrase. Pride of place goes to Zico, the club's supreme idol, and the generation of home-grown talent that he spearheaded in the 1970s and 1980s.

In 1981 his team beat Liverpool 3-0 in Japan in the annual meeting of the champions of Europe and South America - a date that barely registers for Liverpool fans, but is considered the most glorious moment of Flamengo's history. They have spent almost 40 years trying to repeat it.

Frequently they have been blown off course by financial chaos. In the early 1990s they were in such a


and probably knew some of those who have lost their lives.

Paqueta, for example, will never forget the bridge situated close to the dormitory. When he was a youngster his mother used to take him as far as that bridge. "I've brought you up to here," she used to tell him. "The rest is up to you."

But cruel destiny can also have its say.

There are no guarantees that those who died on Friday would have gone on to become stars of the game. The odds are against. Many fall by the wayside.

But 15-year-old goalkeeper Christian Esmerio was clearly on the right track. He had already been called up to represent Brazil at under-17 level, and was being watched by European scouts.

He was entitled to have a head full ofnot appeal.
Lt. James H. Butler, a police officer, testified that he had investigated the three burglaries. Cooper was arrested first and admitted that he had participated in the Division Street burglary. On information obtained while he was questioning Cooper, the officer also took Williams and Carter into custody.
After the arrest of all the defendants, Cooper made a statement to the police in the presence of Williams and Carter in which he said that the three of them went to 710 Newington together; that he had remained outside while Williams and Carter went inside and got the television; and that they took *252 the television in a taxicab to Williams' apartment at 2003 Madison. Williams did not deny the truth of the accusation and Carter admitted that he had


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Williams also made a statement to the police in the presence of Carter in which he said that, after he had informed Carter that Cooper was always leaving stolen property at his place, he asked Carter to help him move a television and hi-fi set from his apartment to Cooper's home. But Carter neither denied nor admitted what had been said.
When the police officer was asked at the trial what other evidence there was against Carter with respect to the Madison Avenue burglary, he replied that although Williams had said that Carter had helped him move the television and hi-fi sets, he did not know whether or not Carter had done so. The officer alsoaffirmed.

The Carter Cases
While two questions are presented on appeal, both relate to the sufficiency of the evidence to support the convictions. We agree with the contention of the defendant as to one case but not the other.
*254 In the case charging Carter with the Newington Avenue burglary under indictment 2092/62, the evidence was sufficient to sustain the conviction. There was evidence that the defendant after his arrest admitted to the investigating officer that he had been with Cooper and Williams when the television was stolen from the burglarized premises and was taken in a taxicab to Williams' apartment. And although Carter testified at the trial that he did not know anything about the burglary, the trial court chose to believe the testimony produced by the State and to


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Morrissey is the epitome of a never-give-up attitude. It took him several years and a great deal of effort to finish his degree, but claims it is ansubmission. As of Street Fighter IV, Justin made a dramatic shift in his play style, becoming highly-aggressive with his Rufus play.

This transferred over — to his detriment — in Street Fighter V with Karin. Being unable to play her in a passive style, he had to continue a rushdown style of play that didn’t fully suit him. It often appeared that Justin would be perplexed on how to deal with scenarios just simply based on being consistently outside of his comfort zone.

That began to change as of March, when Canada East Championships first saw him using Menat full-time. Finding that she had all the options to play a passive, spacing-based game, Justin’s stock rose. This character has fit him in a way that we haven’t seen in a


long time.

With only a handful of exceptions — once at Toryuken, and another time at DreamHack Montréal — Justin has rarely strayed from his newfound main. But when he has — picking Falke against Problem X, or picking Karin against NuckleDu — he has had calculated reasons for doing so that ultimately worked out.

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And this shift in his playstyle has led to him having his best season on the circuit ever. Where Justin had so often failed this year, he was able to find success.

While he had been able to take Ranking events last season — and continued to do so this year, winning Toryuken for the second year straight, as well as winning DreamHack Austin — he had failed to take down Premier afterto the one gear that we typically expect of him.

After Montréal

But the problem I feel for Justin is how he’s been able to follow up his performance, in Montréal. While we were proven emphatically last year that the run-up to Capcom Cup is not the penultimate indicator of success at the big dance — Dogura won Canada Cup last year, and yet was unable to crack top 16 — it shows where your strengths and deficiencies lie. And there’s been some cracks in his defensive walls.

At Canada Cup, he had one of his closest sets ever against Xiaohai to put him into Losers Bracket. While as of the time of writing Capcom Fighters has yet to upload the matches, several crucial rounds came down to the clock, with


Xiaohai losing simply by misjudging the lifebar by a pixel and losing. The runback on Losers side, however, proved to be far more convincing, as Xiaohai just dominated Justin.

Similar happened at North American Regional Finals, where NuckleDu — having cut it close at DreamHack Montréal against him, brought out a brand new character in G to take two quick games off of Justin’s Menat. This shows that when players know how to counter his defense with the right aggression, Justin still falters.

This led Justin, at least in the case of NuckleDu, to play far more aggressive. While it worked in the short term, this only sent Du back to the counterpick game, once again edging him out. So while Justin has been working on his approach to theOn Tuesday, 70 years after the liberation of Auschwitz during World War II, the trial of a 93-year-old former Nazi guard at the camp started in Germany.

Oskar Groening, one of the last remaining Nazi SS members alive, stands accused of his role in the Holocaust. He spoke at the opening of the court proceedings to admit a moral guilt, but added that prosecutors would have to determine his legal culpability.

"I ask for forgiveness," he told the judges. "I share morally in the guilt but whether I am guilty under criminal law, you will have to decide."

Groening, who was known as the "bookkeeper of Auschwitz," is charged with some 300,000 counts of acting as an accessory to murder. The Nazis killed at least 1.1 million people, mostly Jewish victims,


at the concentration camp.

The former guard appeared in a 2005 BBC documentary, Auschwitz: The Nazis and the Final Solution, in which he acknowledged witnessing the systematic slaughter and abuse of prisoners at Auschwitz, where his job was to collect the money they brought with them.

"I saw the gas chambers. I saw the crematoria. I saw the open fires. I was on the ramp when the selections [for the gas chambers] took place," Groening said in the film, speaking out against Holocaust denialism. "I would like you to believe these atrocities happened — because I was there."

Fourteen survivors are expected to testify in what could be a months-long trial, one in which Groening himself is expected further discuss his role in the Holocaust.

That Groening is not accused of directlymurdering anyone but is being prosecuted for his complicity is a recent development in how Germany is investigating and prosecuting crimes from the war, according to Lawrence Douglas, an Amherst College law professor and author of a forthcoming book about the last major Nazi prosecution, The Right Wrong Man: John Demjanjuk and the Last Great Nazi War Crimes Trial.

"For a long time the German legal system wasn't even about to try to people like Oskar Groening, but that changed with the Demjanjuk conviction, which made possible a new legal theory to try relatively low-level guards," he told VICE News.

John Demjanjuk had been living in the United States when he was extradited to Israel in the 1980s to face trial for being identified as a bloodthirsty guard at Treblinka


extermination camp in Poland known as "Ivan the Terrible." Though convicted, Israel's Supreme Court later acquitted him on new evidence in 1993.

But Demjanjuk spent much of the following decade in court fighting deportation to Germany on new charges of his role as a guard at the Sobibor extermination camp. He was ultimately extradited and convicted in 2011 as a 91-year-old accessory to the murder of 28,000 people. During his 18-month trial, he often appeared in a wheelchair and sometimes lying down. Demjanjuk was sentenced to five years in prison and died while awaiting appeal, which had the quirk of invalidating his conviction under German law.

After Demjanjuk's case cleared the way for other prosecutions of low-level participants in the Holocaust, prosecutors moved to aggressively pursue alleged offenders while theywere still alive. They reopened about 30 cases but found that only about three could go forward, Douglas said — one of which was Groening's.

"It's the 11th hour," Deborah E. Lipstadt, a Holocaust scholar at Emory University, told VICE News, referring to the fact that such offenders will not be around for much longer. "There are those who argue that these are old men — leave them alone, don't bother them — but it's important to remember that they went after old men and little babies, all sorts of people who couldn't defend themselves. It's part of justice."

Groening "has openly acknowledged serving as an SS officer," she noted. "His forthcomingness will probably be taken into account by the court."

The defendant has been applauded for his willingness to admit


US Ambassador to Germany Richard Grenell,who met with German Foreign Ministry officials on Wednesday, needs to rethink his role in Germany or risk becoming a "highly ineffective" ambassador, a prominent lawmaker from Chancellor Angela Merkel's conservatives told DW.

"[Grenell's] time may be quickly running out to be an effective and workable ambassador to this country," Andreas Nick, a Christian Democratic Union (CDU) lawmaker who also sits on the Foreign Affairs Committee in the German parliament, said on Tuesday.

'Learn more about German history'

Grenell has been roundly condemned in Germany after he said it was his goal to "empower" anti-establishment conservative forces in Europe in an interview with right-wing news outlet Breitbart.

Read more: Who is Richard Grenell, the US ambassador to Berlin?

Andreas Nick sits on the Foreign Affairs Committee in theGerman parliament

Grenell's language, Nick said, was "highly inappropriate" and, when translated into German, reminiscent of language used by extremist politicians in the 1930s.

"If you translate 'awakening' and 'empowering' in this context, very ugly German language comes up, which resonates with the 1920s and 1930s," he said, adding that Grenell would "be well advised" to learn more about German history "and the sensitivities that result from that."

Read more: Opinion: The US is fueling European divisions

'PR person for the alternative-right'

Grenell, 51, had already caused a stir in May when he told German companies to "immediately" wind down their business in Iran following US President Donald Trump's decision to withdraw from the 2015 Iran nuclear deal.

Asked whether Germany should expel Grenell, Nick said it was up to the United States to


decide on its representative in Berlin. But he added that Grenell risked his long-term clout in Germany if he continued to act as he had until now.

"If he is not here to be a traditional ambassador but a PR person for the alternative-right movement in Europe," Nick said, "we will have an issue."

Among the German politicians expressing concern at Grenell’s behavior has been former Social Democrat leader and ex-European Parliament president Martin Schulz. "What this man is doing is unheard of in international diplomacy," Schulz told the German press agency DPA.

US State Department defends Grenell

The US State Department defended Grenell's comments on Tuesday. Spokeswoman Heather Nauert said US envoys "have a right to express their opinions."

"As an American, we believe in the right to free speech that otherBelgian company TVH Equipment is making a £348m takeover bid for Lavendon to create a pan-European powered access hire giant.

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