grew increasingly miffed by another huge embarrassment to the club. Those close to Manziel also couldn't locate him that day.

Manziel finally showed up the day after the season -- a day after coach Mike Pettine and general manager Ray Farmer were fired -- but the Browns gave him the cold shoulder, league sources said. Owner Jimmy Haslam was busy addressing the team and introducing Brown, the new football boss.

When the Browns interviewed coach Hue Jackson, he made it clear that he wanted to move on from Manziel, and the club didn't argue. By that time, they had already come to the conclusion that he wasn't their quarterback of the future -- at least not in his present state of mind.

Jackson made it clear that he wants his quarterbackto be the face of the franchise and said in a radio interview that if it's true that Manziel went to Vegas during the season finale that would say "non-starter" to him.

Jackson said in an interview on SiriusXM NFL radio that he wants a quarterback "that can elevate this football team, not anybody that's going to tear it down.'

Like Brown, Jackson spent plenty of time studying and interviewing Wentz at the Senior Bowl last week and was impressed. The Browns have the second pick in the draft and will likely take Wentz or Cal quarterback Jared Goff.

Brown also told cleveland.com at the Senior Bowl that Manziel had a chance to be back with the team, but only if he could demonstrate that "football was the most important thing


in his life."

Then came the Texas incident, in which police were called to an apartment building early Saturday morning near Texas Christian University, where Manziel's longtime girlfriend Colleen Crowley -- who might now be his ex-girlfriend -- is a student. Crowley's name was not mentioned in the police report, just a 23-year-old female, so it's unclear if she was the woman involved.

When police arrived, they couldn't locate the person who called them, but came across the 23-year-old woman who reported that she had been involved in a disturbance with Manziel in Dallas and possibly other locations. Although she was uncooperative, she managed to express to police that she was worried about Manziel -- whom she described as her ex-boyfriend -- and Fort Worth police launched a search forhim.

When he didn't answer his cell phones, police searched the area in patrol cars and then dispatched their Air One helicopter to look for him. Ultimately, he was found to be safe and in no danger. But police in Fort Worth and Dallas are still "actively working'' to determine if Manziel assaulted his ex-girlfriend. On Tuesday, both jurisdictions said they had no update on the probe.

Manziel's agent, Erik Burkhardt, did not return a call and his publicist Denise Michaels, declined to comment.

Last year at this time, Manziel checked himself into inpatient addiction rehab and remained there for 73 days. In his first interview out of rehab, he swore off his signature money sign and his Johnny Football nickname. He moved to a quiet, suburban golf community and had


one of his high school coaches, Julius Scott, move in with him for a few months to help keep him sober.

But soon, stories began to emerge of Manziel out partying again. In May, about six weeks after leaving treatment, he threw a water bottle at an 18-year-old who was hounding him for an autograph at a golf tournament in Texas. The photographs included six packs of beer nearby -- the first sign that perhaps Manziel was off track again.

The major red flag went up Oct. 12 in Avon, Ohio when Manziel got in the roadway argument with Crowley and admitted he had been drinking that afternoon. Crowley told police that Manziel beat her and shoved her head into the glass of the car, but she later recanted andhe wasn't arrested. The NFL also cleared him of wrongdoing after a thorough investigation lead by chief investigator Lisa Friel.

Upon being cleared -- the same day he was named the starter for the final six games of the season -- Manziel issued a statement saying that league's decision should put to rest any thoughts that he had hurt Crowley.

"I appreciate the NFL's diligence and discretion in reviewing a situation that was both personal and embarrassing,'' Manziel said. "Colleen and I cooperated fully with the NFL's process and completely support their goals of making sure that every family under their umbrella is safer and more secure.

"I'm grateful that the review was so thorough and fair that there should be no question left in the public mind about what actually


happened.''

Manziel vowed that he'd no longer be an embarrassment to the organization -- beginning with the upcoming bye weekend. Instead, he partied all weekend in Austin and Columbus, Ohio and then lied to coaches about it, saying the video that surfaced from the Austin bar was old.

Manziel lost his starting job, and Pettine later admitted that Manziel's problems were "deeper-rooted'' than they initially thought when they drafted him. He stressed that Manziel would have to earn back his team's trust.

Instead, he dropped the ball.

As the season wound down, stories of Manziel out partying locally increased. One source told cleveland.com that she sat at a table next to Manziel late in the season at a bar on West 25th Street, and that he sat alone doing shots. She snappeda picture of him, and immediately an employee came over and grabbed her phone and deleted the photo.

The day he was diagnosed with the concussion, Manziel showed up for work disheveled and out of sorts and was immediately sent to the trainer. He was diagnosed with the concussion that day and then ruled out the following day. Two days later, he was bouncing around Vegas as Billy and the Browns knew they had to move on.

The Texas incident -- for which he faces a possible suspension under the NFL's personal conduct policy -- was just more confirmation that Manziel was wrecking the team more than he was "wrecking this league.''

In his eight starts, Manziel went 2-6, including 2-4 this season. He's completed 57 percent of his passes with


areas District Health Management Team (DHMT) members make decisions beyond their conferred authority while in others they do not use all the space allocated by policy. DHMT members operate close to the boundaries defined by public policy in planning, remuneration and incentives, policy and performance management. However, they make decisions beyond their conferred authority in the area of information and do not use all the space allocated by policy in the area of education. DHMTs' decision-making capacity to manage their workforce is influenced by their own perceived authority and sometimes it is constrained by decisions made at higher levels. We can conclude that decentralization, to improve workforce performance, needs to devolve power further down from district authorities onto district health managers. DHMTs need not only more power andAging in cultural context and as narrative process: conceptual foundations of the anthropology of aging as reflected in the works of Margaret Clark and Sharon Kaufman.
Although the discipline of anthropology has much to contribute to the understanding of the nature and experience of aging, it is a relative latecomer to gerontology. After briefly discussing why this is the case, the authors discuss the contributions of two anthropologists who brought a substantive anthropological voice to gerontological discussion of aging. Examining the "ancestral roots" of the anthropology of aging, we spotlight the intellectual heritage of Margaret Clark, arguably the "mother" of this anthropological subfield, and that of Sharon Kaufman, her student, colleague, and a pioneer in her own right. Clark and Anderson's Culture and aging: an anthropological study of older


Americans (1967; Springfield, IL: Charles C. Thomas) remains a touchstone for the concept of situated aging. This examination of value orientations and mental health of older San Franciscans is foundational for understanding aging as an interactive, socially embedded process that is adapted to specific sociocultural contexts. Research and therapies grounded in narrativity and meaning benefit from Sharon Kaufman's The ageless self: sources of meaning in late life (1986; Madison, WI: University of Wisconsin Press), which articulated narrative thinking as a conduit for understanding, performing, and constructing identity and meaning. Kaufman's work has ongoing relevance to gerontological research on embodiment, chronic illness, and later life social transitions. Their research has continued relevance to contemporary gerontological scholarship and practice, signaling both prevailing and emergent agendas for anthropologically informed gerontology.2002, to ask whether the trust had been given any direction to transfer ownership and, if so, the contact information for the new owner. Id., ¶ 26. Victoria Alembik-Eisner did hot respond to this letter. Id., ¶ 27.
Madenfrost and his second wife, Amasilis Del Carmen Gonzales Nahmens, were divorced in Venezuela on November 24, 2004. Id, ¶ 28. Madenfrost died in Venezuela on April 2, 2006. Id., ¶ 29. Madenfrost was not married at the time of his death. Id., ¶ 30.
On April 12, 2006, National Life wrote to Victoria Alembik-Eisner stating that it was unable to identify the beneficiary of the death benefits payable under the policy due to Madenfrost's revocation of the trust. Id., ¶ 31. National Life asked for information on how the assets of


the trust were distributed. Id. On August 3, 2006, National Life received a fax from H.R. Hauenstein, identified as Madenfrost's friend and insurance agent, stating: "Henry [Madenfrost] and his sister, Vicky Alembik-Eisner were at odds. Henry tried to get Rick Alembik who is a lawyer to get Vicky to make the changes Henry wishes to no avail. Henry's only interest was to take care of his second wife and their children." Id., ¶ 32.
On September 5, 2006, Victoria Alembik-Eisner wrote to National Life, making a formal demand of payment from National Life, stating:
You are hereby advised that at the time my brother executed the notice of revocation, and at all times thereafter, he was not physically and mentally capable of managing his affairs. As set forth in theAbraham Henry Madenfrost Revocable Trust.
On December 17, 2007, National Life filed the affidavit of Madenfrost's second wife, Amasilis Del Carmen Gonzales Nahmens, in which she states that she is the former wife of Madenfrost but they had no children together. She further testifies that she believes Madenfrost's only children to be those he had with his first wife, Doris Gicherman Madenfrost. She and Madenfrost were divorced in Venezuela on November 23, 2004. Amasilis Del Carman Gonzales Nahmens acknowledged that she was aware of the instant lawsuit and understood that proceeds from an insurance policy were in dispute, but she disclaims any right to the proceeds, hoping that they would be paid to Madenfrost's children from his first marriage. Thereafter, National Life filed the instant motion to dismiss asking


suit in interpleader for the purpose of ridding himself of the vexation and expense of resisting adverse claims, even though he believes that only one of them is meritorious.").
At the time National Life had to make a decision about to whom to pay out the benefits, it had to consider among the following potential claims: (1) Madenfrost's estate (by virtue of the insurance policy which stated that if no beneficiary was named, the proceeds would go to the estate), (2) Madenfrost's descendants, the children from his first marriage and any from his second (at the time it was not definitively known whether there were any), (3) Madenfrost's second wife (as Madenfrost attempted to revoke the trust assignment in favor of her), or (4) Victoria Alembik-Eisner in her capacityon the merits, they do not mean that National Life had no uncertainty to justify the filing of an interpleader action. The Trustee's argument discounts the August 3, 2006 fax sent to National Life by W. Richard Hauenstein which states that Madenfrost and his sister were not getting along and she had refused to make the changes to the trust that he wished. That correspondence also indicated that Madenfrost had children with his second wife and he desired to care for them through the Trust.
Alembik-Eisner contends that National Life should not be entitled to protection from this correspondence because of prior correspondence between W. Richard Hauenstein and Sherry Gallison, Title Service Representative of National Life. Ms. Gallison wrote:
This letter is a follow up to a voice mail message


Know Your Local: LieghAnn Cochran

LieghAnn Cochran loves Russellville almost as much as she loves people.

She's primarily been in the area for most of her life, working for 12 years at her mom's consignment shop.

As a natural people person, Cochran got her master's in College Student Personnel, hoping to work on the Arkansas Tech campus. But when an opportunity presented itself for Cochran to stay at the store, she didn't turn it down.

"To be honest, it was my mom's dreams to have a consignment store, it wasn't my dream," Cochran said. "But then it became my dreams after doing it for so long and realizing that I love what I do."

The people here are her love; she loves talking to the customers, getting in trouble on occasion for talkingSmith College Now Admits Trans Women

After years of criticism, the women's college has formally changed its admission policy.

Smith College has formally changed its admission policy to be inclusive of trans-feminine people.

The prestigious women's college, which in the past has come under fire for refusing to admit trans students, released an announcement this week clarifying that it will consider any applicant who identifies as a woman.

"Applicants who were assigned male at birth but identify as women are eligible for admission," the statement reads.

In the announcement, structured as a Q&A, Smith College also stipulated that it would not accept transgender men or genderqueer applicant who do not identify as female on the Common Application.

However, the "admission policy does not affect students who transition during their time at Smith," the policy


notes. "Once admitted, every student has the full support of the college and this includes transmen."

The changes will go into effect for applicants in fall 2015.

Smith College becomes the seventh prominent women's university to announce a formal trans-inclusive policy, following schools like Bryn Mawr College, Simmons College, Mount Holyoke College, Wellesley College, and Mills College.

Smith College, in particular, has come under fire for its policy since 2013, gaining national attention for denying an application from trans student Calliope Wong because she was not legally recognized as female in her home state of Connecticut.

After a Change.org petition gathered 4,000 signatures in support of Wong, Smith's dean of admissions, Debra Shaver, announced that a committee would begin meeting to discuss the needs of prospective trans students. Smith officials said theyNow Commenting On:

Rangers stick to script in Game 2

Rangers stick to script in Game 2

ARLINGTON -- Rangers hitting coach Clint Hurdle began drilling the lessons into his players heads during the relaxed days of Spring Training in Arizona

"Use the whole field," he would tell them. "Don't lose confidence with two strikes."

Those philosophies paid big dividends in the bright lights of October as the Rangers roughed up the Yankees' Phil Hughes for 10 hits in his four-plus innings en route to a 7-2 win in Game 2 of the American League Championship Series on Saturday.

Of the 10 hits, only three of them were pulled. The rest either went the opposite way or to center.

"We were able to get good reads early," Hurdle said. "We spent so much time from


General of Panzer Troops Friedrich Paulus's Sixth Army and Colonel General Hermann Hoth's Fourth Panzer Army spent September of 1942 battering the Soviet Southeastern Front's 62nd Army (commanded by Lieutenant General Anton Ivanovich Lopatin until relieved in mid-September by Lieutenant General Vasilii Ivanovich Chuikov) back into Stalingrad and to toward the Volga River. The initial German plan for taking Stalingrad had been for the XIV Panzer Corps to penetrate south along the Volga from where it had reached Stalingrad's northern suburbs late in the day on August 23rd. Meanwhile the LI Army Corps would strike from the west, driving the Soviet 62nd Army before it. Finally, Fourth Panzer Army's XXXXVIII Panzer Corps would penetrate the city from the southeast.

Nevertheless, Soviet pressure on XIV Panzer Corps caused Paulus tomodify his planned assault. This alteration came at a critical point in the battle when the Soviet 62nd Army was a reeling, beaten force anything but the veteran formation it would become under Chuikov's subsequent command. In particular, the Stalingrad Front's 1st Guards and 66th Armies had forced XIV Panzer Corps to shift assets away from Stalingrad's northern suburbs. Paulus redirected significant air assets north to the corridor battle and on September 5th ordered LI Army Corps to temporarily halt it's advance into Stalingrad. When resumed LI Army Corps subsequent attack ended up being more to the northeast than east, further providing breathing space for a 62nd Army suffering heavily under the hammer blows being delivered by the Fourth Panzer Army's XXXXVIII Panzer Corps (the southern prong of


the German advance into Stalingrad). In fact, rather than the German Sixth Army spearheading the initial assault into Stalingrad proper, the Fourth Panzer Army played an equally significant role during much of September. For that matter the linchpin of the German assault into the southern part of Stalingrad early in September of 1942 revolved around the efforts of the understrength but capably led 24th Panzer Division.

Nevertheless, the first week of September had proven tough going for the 24th Panzer Division (pictured with this article advancing in Stalingrad's suburbs). Though this was in part because the division had been so depleted that most of the time it could put no more than three dozen tanks onto the battlefield, the reality was that the Soviet defensive effort also had beenextremely stout. Such was the intensity of the fighting that the 24th Panzer Division's commader had been badly wounded, and his replacement killed. Then, after a temporary commander led the division for the better part of a week, Major General Arno Lenski took over as the 24th Panzer's commanding officer on September 14th. However, during these weeks the 24th Panzer was able to work closely with the 14th Panzer Division (also able to field 35-40 tanks) and the 29th Motorized Division (with roughly 25 tanks in running condition and all together with these three divisions forming XXXXVIII Panzer Corps) and pound the 62nd Army's positions south of the eastward flowing Tsaritsa River. This river, because of its position in a deep ravine, helped shield the southern part of


the city center from direct attack. Nevertheless the defending Soviet 244th Rifle Division could not hold up to such a concentrated assault. An assault that included not only as many as 100 tanks then in operating condition within the XXXXVIII Panzer Corps three divisions but also featured ample air support from Lutflotte 4. Before we look at this attack it is also important to remember that though the Germans were throwing approximately 100 tanks at the Soviet defenders it could have been worse.

For instance in late July the 24th Panzer Divsion and 29th Motorized Division alone could put nearly twice as many tanks into the field (188 total tanks, 138 of whom on July 30th were operational with the 24th Panzer Division) as they in conjunction could withthe additional 14th Panzer Division one month later. Moreover, during July the 24th Panzer Division's daily number of operational tanks had declined by only 37 panzers from when it had started Blue - indicative of the nature of the pursuit operations characterizing a significant portion of that month. But because of the decision to cancel Blue's third phase as planned and the consequent heavy fighting caused by the grant of time to the Red Army to rush reserves into the region as well as the tremendous distances covered by Fourth Panzer Army as it was shuttled form Army Group B to A and then back to B again during the operational dissonance that defined Blue during this period tank readiness rates plunged throughout August.

Nevertheless, in spite of the


substantial drop in armored readiness rates as the second week of September had begun, and the Stalingrad Front's first Kotluban offensive peetered out, Luftflotte 4 had been able to concentrate substantial airpower to support the German drive into the city. Between September 5th and 12th alone Luftflotte 4 flew approximately 938 sorties per day. In response, the woefully understrength Soviet 8th Air Army could only respond with a third as many sorties. Even after Stavka redirected the Soviet 16th Air Army to assist 8th Air Army it wasn't enough. On September 9th the 24th Panzer Division (with 24 tanks in operating condition) spearheaded the XXXXVIII Panzer Corps in a drive that threatened to split 62nd Army from the 64th Army in Stalingrad's southern sector and suburbs. At thispoint, Eremenko (Stalingrad Front's commander) requested Lopatin be relieved. Stavka responded, and General Chuikov took over 62nd Army and its 54,000 men and 115 tanks. Most of the 62nd Army's armor resided in the 27th and 133rd Tank Battalions and 23rd Tank Corps. Chuikov's manpower was spread between the aforementioned armored formations as well as twelve rifle divisions, four rifle brigades, and two motorized brigades.

Chuikov's position couldn't have been worse. The night after he took command the German 29th Motorized Division followed the path blazed by 24th Panzer Division and reached the Volga River in Stalingrad's southern suburb of Kuporosnoe - isolating the battered 62nd Army in Stalingad. In just over one week of fighting the Soviet 62nd and 64th Army's went from putting 104,000 men and 225


or so tanks into the field, to only 90,000 men and 144 tanks on September 13th. Some 54,000 of these men and 100 of the tanks were in 62nd Army, with roughly half of these tanks in the Army's 23rd Tank Corps. In opposition, the German forces fighting in Stalingrad included the 29th Motorized Division, 14th and 24th Panzer Divisions, and 71st, 94th, 295th, and 389th Infantry Divisions as well as three assault gun battalions; all together 80,000 men and 110 tanks and assault guns.

Nevertheless, the Germans inadvertantly helped Chuikov when General Hermann Hoth, commanding Fourth Panzer Army, turned the 14th Panzer Division south to attack the 64th Army's bridgehead over the Volga in Stalingrad's southern suburbs. This left the 24th Panzer Division as the sole panzer divisionassaulting Stalingrad proper in the middle of September. Moreover, the grind of weeks of intense fighting had virtually taken the panzer out of the panzer division. On most days in September 1942 the 24th Panzer fielded around 20 tanks in operating condition, with the division's armor park peaking at 34 tanks in running condition on October 17th before dropping to around 14 'runners' early in November. This meant that the 24th Panzer division had the equivalent of just over one full strength company of tanks in operating condition on any given day during most of the battle for Stalingrad.

The Soviet attacks northwest of Stalingrad tied down XIV Panzer Corps to such an extant that Stalingrad's southern and central sectors constituted the primary focus of Paulus' efforts in September.


To that end, in the middle of the month Hoth transferred command over XXXXVIII Panzer Corps to Paulus. The main German assault began on September 13th, spearheaded by the LI Army Corps in the center and XXXXVIII Panzer Corps to the south. Though the intense German artillery and air bombardment severed much of Chuikov's ability to communicate with his army's component rifle divisions and tank brigades, the 62nd Army still managed to post a strong defensive effort, including against the 24th Panzer Division which faced not only the 244th Rifle Division but the 133rd Tank Brigade's nearly two dozen heavy KV tanks. Chuikov aggressively counter-attacked the slow-going German advance, but achieved little other than weakening his defensive front. As a result, the 71st Infantry Division from LI ArmyCorps was able to drive east to within hundreds of meters of Chuikov's command post and even reach the shores of the Volga near the vital central landing stage. Nevertheless, the timely arrival of the 10,000 man strong 13th Guards Rifle Division helped stabilize the situation. In contrast, Paulus failed to exploit the 71st Infantry Division's advance.

Nevertheless, on September 15th it was the 24th Panzer Division's turn to lead the way in Stalingrad's southern sector. The 24th Panzer Division divided into two kampfgruppen for it's attack, Edelsheim and Hellermann. Of the two, Kampfgruppe Edelsheim was by far the stronger, containing the bulk of 24th Panzer Division's hitting power as follows:

10 tanks from Panzer Abteilung Lancken

26th Panzer Grenadier-Regiment plus 1st Battalion from the 21st Panzer Grenadier-Regiment

Part of 670th Panzer


Jager Battalion (including five 76.2mm self-propelled guns)

2nd Company, 40th Panzer Jager Battalion

4th Motorcycle Battalion (minus it's 1st Company)

40th Panzer Pioneer Battalion's 1st and 3rd Companies as well as all flamethrowers

89th Panzer Artillery Regiment (minus it's 4th Battery)

Within hours of beginning its early morning assault, Kampfgruppe Edelsheim (supported by elements of Kampfgruppe Hellermann and Luftflotte 4) advanced two kilometers into the southern part of Stalingrad and then turned north to slice another two kilometers toward central Stalingrad, losing only five of its 25 tanks in the process (with three knocked out by friendly fire from 71st Infantry Division). Now, four kilometers may not sound like much, but in the context of the fighting within Stalingrad a single day advance of this depth was monumental.

A follow-up thrust on September 16thfurther destablized 62nd Army's defensive positions to such an extant Chuikov was forced to withdraw his left-wing deep into the city's southern sector, albeit with several Soviet units infiltrating and recapturing important buildings lost in the initial German thrust. The Germans lacked the infantry to consolidate the gains made by 24th Panzer Division and completely encircle the temporarily cut-off Soviet troops. This allowed many Soviet units to escape the carnage in part and dig in amongst the Grain Elevator, Lumber factory, and Food Combine's numerous buildings. Together, this would greatly complicate the German attack as XXXXVIII Panzer Corps was forced to deal with dug-in Soviet infantry not only in areas it thought it had cleared but before it as well. The effort to dislodge these forces from the


southern part of Stalingrad would consume much German effort in the final weeks of September. Here again Paulus may have acted imprudently. He yanked 24th Panzer from the line to redeploy north to assist in the attack on the factory district - prematurely as it turned out given the 94th Infantry Division (also with orders to reploy north) and 29th Motorized Division would struggle throughout much of the remainder of September to clear the rest of southern Stalingrad.

Nevertheless, before it was pulled from the line 24th Panzer Division and the 71st Infantry Division had been able to link up on September 17th. This meant that the XXXXVIII Panzer Corps and LI Army Corps held a unified front for the first time in the battle. Furthermore, the 244th RifleDivision and 42nd Rifle Brigade had been cut off in a pocket just south of central Stalingrad. In addition, the Germans had brought substantial combat power into the city center and less than one kilometer from Chuikov's command post near the Volga. All told, the Soviet 62nd Army had been pushed into a narrow strip reaching at best four kilometers west of the Volga and running seventeen kilometers along the river's length. Moreover, the 62nd Army had suffered tremendous armored losses in Southern Stalingrad; totalling 46 tanks and including 23 T-34's. The 24th Panzer Division, however, was down to 23 tanks in operating condition: seven Panzer II, nine Panzer III, 5 Panzer IV (four with the long barrel 75mm gun), and two command tanks. Though the southern half


of the city was in danger of falling Chukov once again received timely support as the Stalingrad Front's Second Kotluban offensive kicked off to the northwest of Stalingrad. Moreover, Chuikov received reinforcements that would make the German task that much harder within the city; with this time Eremenko granting him the 92nd Naval Infantry Brigade and 137th Tank Brigade (albeit with the latter consisting of only 15 T-60 light tanks hardly capable of replacing the substantial losses in T-34's endured in the fight against XXXXVIII Panzer Corps).

This highlights something else that is often overlooked within Stalingrad, the reinforcement battle. Though the German Sixth Army hammered the Soviet 62nd Army, Chuikov's command received a steady drip of reinforcements from Stavka that enabled him to largely maintain his army's strengthat approximately 50,000 men throughout much of the battle. The 13th Guards Rifle Division's deployment had been crucial in restoring 62nd Army's defensive front at a critical point in the battle when Chuikov's command was on the verge of being totally defeated. In fact, throughout September and October Stavka would feed into Stalingrad nine rifle divisions, two tank brigades, two naval rifle brigades, and numerous smaller units - roughly 100,000 men.

In contrast, throughout all of September and October the Germans only added three infantry divisions to those fighting in the city (100th Jager, 79th Infantry Division, and 305th Infantry Division) all while shuttling 14th Panzer, 24th Panzer, and 29th Motorized Division in and out of the battle. Moreover, the divisions fighting in the city weakened over time. The


not being used to effectively support Army Group B, no less the Sixth Army and Fourth Panzer Army. During 1942 the German economy dramatically increased its year-over-year production of tanks, assault guns, machine-guns, mortars, light artillery, and anti-aircraft weapons - to name a few such weapons. Now, the typical response there is that the increasingly active Red Army and high tempo of operations eliminated most of that output. However, that's simply not true. For example, though the Wehrmacht wrote off 1,708 armored fighting vehicles as destroyed between July 1st and December 1st the German economy in turn actually produced 2,730 such replacement vehicles with the total inventory of tanks, assault guns, and self-propelled anti-tank weapons rising from 6,749 to 7,798 such vehicles. The majority of these weapons werequalitatively superior to those manufactured earlier in the year - with Panzer IV and StuG's produced in 1942's second half almost uniformly armed with high-velocity cannon for example and replacing older models. For instance stocks of obsolete Panzer II and Pz 38(t) light tanks with the Ostheer dropped from 732 in July to 271 in November. By all accounts in October of 1942 the German army didn't just have enough weapons to equip its 246 divisions, but also equip the growing Waffen-SS, and Ersatzheer - and do so with far more potent weaponry than available the year prior.

As it was, by the fall of 1942 the German army held huge surpluses of weapons such as machine-guns, mortars, 20mm anti-aircraft guns with small but still substantial surpluses of artillery


pieces. So why wasn't Army Group B being reequipped as needed? What was going on? Logistics and questionable German decision-making comprises much of the answer to those questions. For instance, during the last six months of 1942 the combination of factory output, the fruits of victory and related capture of enemy models, and additional measures to requisition civilian vehicles for military use meant that the German army added over 100,000 trucks to its fleet. But far too few of these vehicles were being sent to Southern Russia. And this was a huge problem. Though not as much an infrastructure wasteland as North Africa, the reality is that Southern Russia possessed nowhere the rail lines neccessary to support Army Groups A and B. Moreover, increased partisan activity was havinga noticeable impact on the availability of rail lines behind the Ostheer's entire front. Regardless of the fact German forces in Russia needed to alleviate this and ideally do so with more of the manpower then sitting in the Egyptian strategic cul-de-sac, cooling its heels in Western Europe, and being used to form new divisions Army Groups A and B also needed those trucks and largely were not getting them.

But beyond logistical concerns we also have German decision-making in other spheres. For intance during the same time the 24th Panzer Division was doing much to clear Stalingrad in spite of having only 25 tanks on average in operating condition the Ostheer actually saw its tank park rise 2,060 machines in July to 2,677 in November. At the same


Red Army. For instance, there was Paulus' lack of timeliness when he reinforced his units in Stalingrad. One can only imagine what would have happened had the 100th Jager Division been available to exploit the 71st Infantry Divisions drive to the Volga in mid-September, or the 24th Panzer Division's near contemporaneous drive through southern Stalingrad; instead of what happened in reality when Paulus waited until September 25th to bring up the division as a reinforcement. In contrast, Stavka acted much more decisively in bringing in reserves when needed. Then again, Stavka had prepared for such circumstances whereas the Germans had not. Now, before you scream 'wait a second the Red Army was generating rifle divisions as fast as they were being destroyed so of course Stavka had thereserves available' - don't forget that for all the post-war talk about German manpower shortages and quantitative factors influencing the war's outcome the reality was that the Germans had enough available combat power to have decisively influenced the battles in Southern Russia: they just chose unwisely in deploying it.

To that point, please note what we are discussing when we are talking about "reserves". The 13th Guards Rifle Division numbered 10,000 men, the 100th Jager Division was a comparably sized force. Yet, the 13th Guards Rifle Division, though virtually destroyed within days of being committed to battle, proved just enough to stop the Germans before they split the city in two and made 62nd Army's survival in Stalingrad completely untenable. The narrowness of success or failure within Stalingrad is


often overlooked when the wisdom of the Stavka's strategy in using 62nd Army as a sponge to absorb Sixth Army's attention is considered. Simply put, Stalin and Stavka were playing a dangerous game as they built up their reserves on Sixth Army's flanks.

In both September and October the Sixth Army came exceedingly close to destroying the 62nd Army and taking Stalingrad. If Paulus had been a more aggressive commander, or if the German high command had acted with more deciseveness in prosecuting the campaign in Southern Russia (that Hitler himself had just months before declared would decide the war) then the battle for Stalingrad may have ended well before November began. Regardless of Paulus' tardiness in deploying his reserves, it has to be considered what was possible ifPaulus hadn't needed to look over his shoulder as Stalingrad Front pounded into Sixth Army's northwestern flank (a prominent reason 100th Jager wasn't redeployed earlier from XI Army Corps). For instance, if he had possessed even one more infantry or panzer division on hand to exploit circumstances exactly such as those created by 71st Infantry Division or 24th Panzer Division in mid-September then in all likelihood Stalingrad would have fallen.

What makes this all the more galling from the German perspective is that such reserves existed. For instance, veteran German panzer and infantry divisions spent the entire month of September in a strategic dead-end deep in the North African desert with by that point no ability to press further east into Egypt or defeat the British Commonwealth forces arrayed


win the World Series for so long. 2003 was also the year that he tested positive for steroids. That was all the evidence I needed. Of course, the announcement wasn’t made until July 20, 2009, but it still didn’t cause any less of an impact on the baseball world.A man I looked up to despite my sworn allegiance against Boston, was nothing but a cheater. I had believed his endless reassurances that he was clean and always had been. So now, not only was he a cheater, he was a lying cheater, and I had completely lost respect for him.

The announcement couldn’t have come at a worse time. It was the first season that Manny would not be protecting Ortiz in the lineup, the Red Sox were inFive-time Group One-winning sprinter Sole Power has been retired

Five-time Group One-winning sprinter Sole Power has been retired with his form dropping off in three recent starts at Meydan.

Trainer Eddie Lynham said the 10-year-old would spend his days at Horse Park Stud in Ireland.

Sole Power won 12 of his 65 starts and was placed on a further 14 occasions.

He was a dual winner of the King’s Stand Stakes and also the Nunthorpe Stakes, beating Australian horse Starspangledbanner in 2010.

His final Group One win came in Dubai in the 2015 Al Quoz Sprint but he was unplaced in the race last year behind Australian Buffering.

“He’s been a wonderful horse and he’s going out on his own terms as he’s totally sound,” Lynam said.

“His form up to 2015 had been at


it from time to time in the fulness of her
contentment. ‘Who shall gainsay your claim when they see you thus,
my Herbert’s living image? my son! My son, my lost unhappy son!’
and in a moment she was in a paroxysm of tears.

Herbert was quite accustomed to her now. At first he had been
dismayed by her sudden outbursts. The rapid transition from joy
to sorrow, from smiles to hysterical tears, were sufficient to
frighten him, and when to these were added her wild talk, her
bitter self-reproaches, her mysterious hints of his coming
greatness, he scarcely knew what to do or say. But by degrees he
became familiar with her eccentricities, and he felt that although
she might be queer, she was certainly uncommonly kind.

‘I cannot control myself when I think of the miserable past. But,
pleasepack.’

‘I didn’t, I swear.’

‘After all, it’s only one man’s word against another’s,’ said the
colour-sergeant, magisterially.

‘How else could it have got there? Don’t you know,’ Hanlon asked
of Jubbock, ‘don’t you know that Larkins is in hospital, and been
there these three days past? How could he have touched the pack?
He’s not been in the room for three days or more.’

‘That’s right,’ said the colour-sergeant. ‘There’s no more to be
said. Jubbock, I would not be in your shoes. You must go to the
guard-room.’

‘No, no, no;’ the men were all furious. ‘He’s the thief, the mean
hound. Let’s settle it ourselves. A court-martial, a barrack-room
court-martial, sergeant.’

‘Well, have it your own way. Here, Snaggs, Cusack, Hippisley, and
Muldoon, you’re the four oldest soldiers in the company; go into my
bunk and talk it over. Say what’s


our
hero, Herbert Larkins, prominently to the front.

‘The movement was not general, certainly not,’ Diggle had said.
‘One of the companies, F, Ernest’s in fact, did not take any share
in it.’

‘Does Ernest deserve the credit of that?’

‘Not exactly. It was due rather to an astute young corporal, who
quietly locked the doors of the men’s rooms. They couldn’t get out
to join.’

‘Really? He was promoted, of course?’

‘Yes; he is now a sergeant, and is sure to get on. Oh yes, young
Larkins is sure to get on.’

‘It was young Larkins, was it?’

‘Do you know him?’

‘I think I do. I will tell you about it one of these days.’

Diggle, as one of the Farrington family, would soon have a right to
know.

CHAPTER XI.

SOME OLD FRIENDS MEET.

For some time after their arrival on the Rock, themy eye--father lived
at Newark-on-Trent; he was a small tradesman, but well enough to
do. Mother died when we were quite chicks, and we grew up to have
things much our own way. Annie was a real beauty, and had dozens
of lads after her always, but she never fancied none of them. At
last luck sent a recruiting party of the 12th Lancers to Newark.
One of them was a young corporal, as proper a chap as ever took the
shilling, fair spoken, well educated, and superior to the common
run. He soon got courting our Annie, and he was the first she
favoured. Father did not like it--not a bit. He hated soldiers, and
was very rough about Corporal Smith. Annie and he had high words
over it, and one day she was not to be found.

‘The


with what prosecutor Mark Gibson described as a "support dog" while testifying.

"I always thought that dogs were for children and very old people," Richter told the court.

Magistrate Belinda Wallington replied, "No, they're also there for vulnerable and traumatized people."

When Pell last lived in Melbourne, he was archbishop of Australia's second-largest city. He progressed to archbishop of Australia's biggest city, Sydney, before moving to the Vatican as a prefect of the church's economy ministry in 2014. He intends to return to that job once the criminal charges are resolved.

In 2016, it was Pell who was testifying by video to an official inquiry into sexual abuse.

He was in Rome and had health reasons for not making a long flight to testify in person to Australia's longest-running royal commission, the country'shighest form of inquiry. It had been investigating since 2012 how the Catholic Church and other institutions responded to sexual abuse of children in Australia over 90 years.

The inquiry issued its final report in December. Pell was questioned about his knowledge of and response to allegations of child abuse when he was a priest and bishop, but no allegation was made that he was a perpetrator.

Pell's lawyers told the court last month that the current criminal charges stemmed from publicity surrounding the Royal Commission into Institutional Responses to Child Sexual Abuse.

The lawyers said the first complainant approached police in 2015, 40 years after the alleged crimes, in response to media reports about that inquiry.

On Monday, Richter cited Pell's age and medical condition as reasons why the cleric should


the pope in potentially perilous territory. For Pell, the charges are a threat to his freedom, his reputation and his career. For Francis, they are a threat to his credibility, given that he famously promised a "zero tolerance" policy for sex abuse in the church. Advocates for abuse victims have long railed against Francis' decision to appoint Pell to the high-ranking position in the first place.

When Pell was promoted in 2014, he was already facing allegations that he had mishandled cases of clergy abuse during his time as archbishop.

After years of alleged cover-ups and silence from the church over its pedophilia scandal, abuse survivors and their advocates have hailed the prosecution of Pell as a monumental shift in the way society is responding to the crisis.

So far, FrancisBogus prescriptions fuel illegal drug trade

Law enforcement officials say the latest racket from organized crime rings pushing drugs in North Carolina is flooding local pharmacies with bogus prescriptions.

"They may get five in a car, and they'll take two or three cars," explained Donnie Varnell with the State Bureau of Investigation. "Every five minutes, one will walk into a pharmacy, fill that forged prescription, and go back and get in the car. And then the next person goes five minutes later."

Varnell explained drug traffickers use software readily available on the internet to print their forged prescriptions for narcotics like hydrocodone, OxyContin, and Xanax.

"They're making a lot of money," said Varnell.

A single 30 milligram OxyContin pill sells for about $30 on the street. They're dangerous and highly addictive drugs that


die in the state every year from prescription drug abuse, and that's higher than the national average.

"You see people operating machinery and driving under the influence," said Cooper. "You're seeing more robberies and burglaries as a result of people trying to get their hands on prescription drugs."

Cooper said one of the ways to curb the problem is potentially using electronic prescriptions. Cooper also wants more pharmacies using the Controlled Substances Reporting System.

The I-Team discovered that only one quarter of pharmacists are registered to use the system.

Jay Campbell is the director of the North Carolina Board of Pharmacy. He says he's urged pharmacies to use the system.

"Is it a useful tool? No question about it. Is it a magic bullet? No," he offered.

Campbell says some pharmacists feel the registrationand (2) was it reasonable for lawmakers to believe that use of the challenged classification would promote that purpose. Western & Southern, 668. The purpose of California's retaliatory tax was determined to be that of putting pressure on other states to impose a nondiscriminatory tax on insurers and to thereby promote interstate commerce, which in turn would promote California's domestic industry. The retaliatory tax was upheld despite the United States Supreme Court's conclusion that statistical data showed the retaliatory tax to be of questionable value. Western & Southern, 674.
In 1985, or two years after the first complaints were filed by plaintiffs, the United States Supreme Court entered another opinion dealing with the foreign/domestic insurer tax classification. Metropolitan Life Ins Co v Ward, 470 US 869; 105 S Ct


Gaza precisely because it was clearly used as a pretext for tightening its hold on the West Bank and East Jerusalem, rather than serving as the first step in a broader dismantling of the settlement enterprise.

Indeed, if Israel’s primary objective during its 45-year occupation was security, it could have maintained a military occupation from 1967 to the present day without building a single settlement, and in so doing remained in compliance with IHL. However, once Israel began establishing civilian settlements, the occupation became a political-territorial project that directly contravenes international law and is defined by the systematic commission of war crimes. This is why Israel is so adamant about having the PA agree not to pursue war crimes charges at the International Court of Justice or International Criminalstatus at the UN, until one side breaks the mould, rockets and bodies will continue to fall on both sides of the Green Line.

Mark LeVine is professor of Middle Eastern history at UC Irvine and distinguished visiting professor at the Centre for Middle Eastern Studies at Lund University in Sweden and the author of the forthcoming book about the revolutions in the Arab world, The Five Year Old Who Toppled a Pharaoh. His book, Heavy Metal Islam, which focused on ‘rock and resistance and the struggle for soul’ in the evolving music scene of the Middle East and North Africa, was published in 2008.


recovery of the patients due to the anti-inflammatory and trophic action of the inhaled solution and promoted normalization of mucociliary clearance. The therapeutic effectiveness of the Myramistin spray was significantly lower than that of the solution. The results of the study provided a basis for the development of the optimal technologies for the application of the Myramistin inhalation solution to the treatment of the children presenting with acute respiratory diseases of the upper and lower parts of the respiratory tract.Onward!, the official motto of Calgary, is more apt than ever in the wake of the major flooding the city experienced in June 2013. A year later, the casual visitor would have been hard-pressed to find any traces of the flood. As of November 2016, the only changes visitors may notice are the closure of boating through the Harvie Passage section of the Bow River, and a few remaining sections of bike paths that are closed as a result of flood damage or for riverbank stabilization.

Calgary is Alberta's largest city and Canada's fourth-largest, and is located near where the prairies end and the foothills begin. That makes it the eastern gateway to the Rocky Mountains and an important center of trade and tourism for the western prairies. It


is your best point of access for Banff and Jasper, and a worthwhile destination in its own right. Calgary is the heart of the largest metropolitan area between Toronto and Vancouver, with over 1,210,000 people as of 2011 (1.1 million within city limits), making it Canada's fourth largest metropolitan area.

Calgary was founded by the Northwest Mounted Police (NWMP) in 1875 and was originally called Fort Brisebois. (The name was changed to Fort Calgary in 1876, named after Calgary Bay on the Isle of Mull.) The NWMP was sent west to ensure that Canada would not have an American-style "Wild West". Grave concerns about this were raised after the Cypress Hills Massacre of natives by drunken wolf hunters in 1873. Calgary was one of several forts established in Westernthought of figuring out the pattern behind their appearances was enough to send his motivation into retreat.

Such was the overwhelming threat of the grotesque existence of the Witch.

Even formulating plans to resist felt ridiculous. Managing to cripple his will to fight before the fight had even begun, compared to the gargantuan White Whale, the Witch’s small figure was infinitely more frightening.

[???: ――――]

Even though the Witch only stood there motionlessly, Subaru could feel his heart withering away.

The Witch made no effort to move. Nor did she seem to mind the turmoil of Subaru’s thoughts. She simply stood there, immersed in her own world.

Time passed in this state of indecision.

His breathing, the irritatingly loud beating of his heart, and the sensation of profuse, lukewarm sweat rolling down his forehead all


an office while Karem worked from home, the room had recently outlived its usefulness and often sat vacant. Meanwhile, the dog-lover struggled to keep her three pets occupied and well-behaved whenever she had to confine them, so she transitioned the office into a stylish pet bedroom, complete with cushy bedding and a window-height platform for squirrel watching.

The home office found its way into a much more accessible, well-lit space inside the house’s large, window-lined den. Resting just behind a couch that once was pushed against the wall, the office nook confines the clutter of business papers and notes while offering a workspace with clear views of the television, fireplace, into the next room and the backyard. Easy chairs near the mantle create a cozy spot for a sharedOverview
The AACAP Jeanne Spurlock Research Fellowship in Substance Abuse and Addiction offers a unique opportunity for minority medical students, or students whose project will focus on minorities, to explore a research career in substance abuse in relation to child and adolescent psychiatry, gain valuable work experience, and meet leaders in the child and adolescent psychiatry field. The fellowship opportunity provides award recipients:

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Upon receipt of the fellowship, the first installment of $3,000 will be sent to the student's mentor to be disbursed at the onset of theThe U.S. Export-Import Bank has suspended or removed four officials in recent months amid investigations into allegations of gifts and kickbacks, as well as attempts to steer federal contracts to favored companies, several people familiar with the matter said.

One employee, Johnny Gutierrez, an official in the short-term trade finance division, allegedly accepted cash payments in exchange for trying to help a Florida company obtain U.S. government financing to export construction equipment to Latin America, according to a person familiar with the inquiry. Mr. Gutierrez was escorted from the Ex-Im Bank building in April, said two people familiar with the matter.

Mr. Gutierrez's lawyer, Douglas McNabb, confirmed his client had been placed on leave after an investigation by the agency's inspector general, but he wouldn't comment on details of the


[Prefectural health administration's view on otorhinolaryngological care in medical rural areas].
In a previous study, we investigated otorhinolaryngological care by the general practitioners in medical rural areas and demonstrated that a close relationship between general practitioners and otorhinolaryngologists was necessary. In the present study, a survey of prefectural health administration's views on otorhinolaryngological care in medical rural areas was performed. A questionnaire for otorhinolaryngological care in medical rural areas was sent to the divisions of health administration in the 47 prefectures of Japan. Of these prefectures, 46 (97.9%) responded. About 80% of respondents have medical rural areas, and the otorhinolaryngological care is inadequate in most areas. General practitioners of internal medicine or surgery are primarily demanded in about 75% of the prefectures. Otorhinolaryngological care in medical rural areas hasLast updated on .From the section Football

Mohamed Raouraoua

Algerian Football Federation president Mohamed Raouraoua has withdrawn from Fifa's executive committee elections.

The 67-year-old will now lose his place at football's top table in a dramatic fall from grace.

The former boss of Algerian television was elected as one of Africa's four Fifa representatives four years ago.

It marked a swift rise up the ladder of football politics and marked him out as a potential future leader of the Confederation of African Football.

Raouraoua was due to be one of four candidates in the running for two places on the committee to be decided at Caf Congress in Cairo on 7 April.

Jacques Anouma of Ivory Coast, Tarek Bouchamaoui of Tunisia and Constant Omari Selemani of the DR Congo are the three who remain in


the race.

Anouma is an incumbent while the other two are attempting to win a place for the first time.

Each of Caf's 54 member countries will vote in Cairo.

Raouraoua was elected in 2011 to a seat traditionally held by a candidate from the southern region of the continent in a surprise flouting of previous convention.

Although it was not written into its statutes, Caf had previously chosen its executive committee members for Fifa from various geographical regions with one seat automatically held by the organisation's president.

However, such was Raouraoua's initial appeal that this tradition was dispensed with.

The Algerian was touted as a possible successor to long-standing Caf president Issa Hayatou but has since been frozen out.

In April, Caf are to formalise rules on the election of Fifa executive committee members.

Fromhopes so. Computer programmer and designer Jada Michaels has given up on finding the perfect match. Her last three relationships ended badly because her ex-boyfriends spent more time at the spa than she did. Besides, it wasn?t like she didn?t have a man in her life. Patrick Kaye was her best friend and sounding board. Who needed a boyfriend when she had Patrick? Desire: Desire is when you close your eyes, think of what you want...then you can smell it, taste it, and feel it stroking your skin. It's almost better than sex...almost. Communications Specialist Nick Lavery never thought he would be the recipient of a Dear John letter. When his girlfriend ran off with another man, she left it taped to the refrigerator door. He wasn't thinking


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minute after Tevonne Morris found him with a lovely lobbed pass to set him up from about 10 yards out. Mason took the ball on his own just 57 seconds of game time later to seal his hat-trick.

UPIKE then took the chance to pull a goal back in the 28th minute after a foul in the Cumberland penalty box led to a penalty kick, which Mashing Johnson converted calmly.

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a mass suicide. The comet, says the leader, is a sign, and he's spurred his people to take their own lives to achieve "the next level of being."

In a real Star Trek episode, is it at all likely that our heroes would approve? Wouldn't Kirk simply employ his usual blustery oratory to talk them out of it? In any case, this much is certain--the Enterprise dudes wouldn't have stood for this castration crap for a second.

One year ago this week (March 26), the "Heaven's Gate" cultists were found dead at Rancho Santa Fe in California. Illogical as their mass suicide was, and heavily examined as it was, one factor of it has gone largely unprobed: the cult's reverence for science fiction in general and for Star Trek inparticular.

The tie was reinforced by the ghastly fact that one dead cultist, Thomas Nichols, was the brother of actress Nichelle Nichols, who played Lieutenant Uhura on the original series and in six of the feature films. In one of the cult's farewell videos, a woman touches a communicator and says "39 to beam up."

Shortly after the event, the Star tabloid ran the headline "How Star Trek and X-Files led loonies to their deaths." How, indeed? The Heaven's Gaters grievously misread Star Trek (and The X-Files, for that matter) if they thought their action was in the show's spirit. Star Trek wasn't great as art; it was mostly junk. But it was high-blooded junk. It deserves better than an association with these literal-minded twits.

Let's look at the record. There's


an original-series episode not so different from the Heaven's Gate scenario. In the third season's The Way to Eden, the Enterprise is commandeered by a band of space hippies who follow a bald, wide-eyed guru on a mad, self-destructive quest for a paradise planet. Things don't work out well when they find it--the plants turn out to be full of acid, the fruit deadly poisonous. Yet the guru insists on eating it and dies.

Star Trek has become a pop myth largely because of the lustiness of its values. The show was about the need to retain our humanity in a universe of ever-accelerating technology and discovery. Its most frequently explored theme was the danger of relying on cold intellect over hot blood. It saw human pain, frailty andLet no one take any bows for the events of Jan. 13, 2020, one of the darker days in major-league history.

Not commissioner Rob Manfred, who issued appropriate penalties to the Astros for stealing signs illegally in 2017 and ’18, but presided over a sport that did not police the explosion of video technology until it was too late.

Not Astros owner Jim Crane, who made the appropriate decision to fire general manager Jeff Luhnow and manager AJ Hinch after baseball suspended both for the 2020 season, but presided over an organization marred by poor communication and a win-at-all-costs culture.

And not the Astros players who escaped penalty because Manfred determined in September 2017 he only would hold a club’s GM and manager responsible for sign-stealing misconduct — and because he


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Saints to Retain Tim Hightower

Tim Hightower made an incredible comeback last year once he got the start after Khiry Robinson’s injury. He was cut twice by New Orleans last season before being brought back late in the season as a replacement for Robinson.

Saints fans always felt comfortable when the ball was in the hands of Hightower knowing he would close out the game. Katherine Terrell of the New Orleans Times-Picayune reported the Saints and the veteran running back have agreed to terms on a new contract.

Hightower will turn 30 this year and had not played for four years when the Saints took a chance on him last year. The story of Tim Hightower is a reminder to never let go of your dreams and to always remain readyThe intensity of Schistosoma mansoni in the fishing villages of Bugonga and Kitubulu in Entebbe Peninsula, Uganda.
The intensity of Schistosoma mansoni infection in the fishing villages of Bugonga and Kitubulu, and the occurrence of snail intermediate host population in the two villages are described and compared. A total of five hundred and six faecal samples from both villages were examined by modified Kato's technique and the prevalence infection rate at Kitubulu was 40.3% with mean egg count of 187 eggs per gram(epg) while in Bugonga it was 32.4% and 126 epg respectively. The snail intermediate host for S. mansoni in the two villages was 2,750 Biomphalaria choanomphala at Kitubulu and 1,268 at Bugonga. But at Kitubulu in the vicinity of the village 185 Biomphalaria peifferi occurred in small


at the former military base RAF Bentwaters, near Ipswich, 30 years ago, during which he saw beams of light fired into the base then heard on the military radio that aliens had landed inside the nuclear storage area.

He said: “I believe that the security services of both the United States and the United Kingdom have attempted – both then and now – to subvert the significance of what occurred at RAF Bentwaters by the use of well-practised methods of disinformation.”

The site was then the base of the US 81st Tactical Fighter Wing.

Capt Bruce Fenstermacher, a former US Air Force officer, also claims he saw a cigar-shaped UFO hovering above a nuclear base in Wyoming in 1976..[fonte]having been seen by more than a single man.

Bradley shook his head. "I can't make it out," he said. "One of those boches must be pretty clever to come it over us all like this; but they haven't harmed us as much as they think; there are still the extra instruments."

It was my turn now to shake a doleful head. "There are no extra instruments," I told them. "They too have disappeared as did the wireless apparatus."

Both men looked at me in amazement. "We still have the compass and the sun," said Olson. "They may be after getting the compass some night; but they's too many of us around in the daytime fer 'em to get the sun."

It was then that one of the men stuck his head


tower was empty, and I lost no time in clambering up, looking about me. About a hundred yards off lay a small, swift cruiser-raider, and above her floated the German man-of-war's flag. A boat had just been lowered, and I could see it moving toward us filled with officers and men. The cruiser lay dead ahead. "My," I thought, "what a wonderful targ——"

I stopped even thinking, so surprised and shocked was I by the boldness of my imagery. The girl was just below me. I looked down on her wistfully. Could I trust her? Why had she released me at this moment? I must! I must! There was no other way. I dropped back below. "Ask Olson to step down here, please," I requested; "and don't let anyoneand Billings mounted the pilot's seat. There was a moment's delay as he assured himself that he had everything necessary. Jimmy Hollis went over his armament and ammunition to see that nothing had been omitted. Besides pistol and rifle, there was the machine-gun mounted in front of him on the plane, and ammunition for all three. Bowen's account of the terrors of Caspak had impressed us all with the necessity for proper means of defense.

At last all was ready. The motor was started, and we pushed the plane out into the surf. A moment later, and she was skimming seaward. Gently she rose from the surface of the water, executed a wide spiral as she mounted rapidly, circled once far above us and then disappeared over the crest


somersault; but it was up again almost instantly, though in the brief second that it took it to scramble to its feet and get its bearings, it exposed its left side fully toward me, and a second bullet went crashing through its heart. Down it went for the second time—and then up and at me. The vitality of these creatures of Caspak is one of the marvelous features of this strange world and bespeaks the low nervous organization of the old paleolithic life which has been so long extinct in other portions of the world.

I put a third bullet into the beast at three paces, and then I thought that I was done for; but it rolled over and stopped at my feet, stone dead. I found thatTyler and his wife could not by any possibility have survived during all these long months; no more could Bradley and his party of seamen be yet in existence. If the superior force and equipment of my party enabled them to circle the north end of the sea, they might some day come upon the broken wreck of my plane hanging in the great tree to the south; but long before that, my bones would be added to the litter upon the floor of this mighty cavern.

And through all my thoughts, real and fanciful, moved the image of a perfect girl, clear-eyed and strong and straight and beautiful, with the carriage of a queen and the supple, undulating grace of a leopard. Though I loved my friends, their


the massive jaws from which protrude the limp legs of the dead man. Then, as though struck by the hammer of Thor, the creature collapsed and crumpled to the ground. Bradley's single bullet, penetrating the body through the soft skin of the belly, had slain the Titan.

A few minutes later, Bradley found the others of the party. The four returned cautiously to the spot where the creature lay and after convincing themselves that it was quite dead, came close to it. It was an arduous and gruesome job extricating Tippet's mangled remains from the powerful jaws, the men working for the most part silently.

"It was the work of the banshee all right," muttered Brady. "It warned poor Tippet, it did."

"Hit killed him, that's wot hit did, hand hit'llyou may both go with us."

Billings heard and speaking in English, asked Ajor if she would go.

"Yes," she answered, "If you wish it; but you know, my Tom, that if Jor captures us, both you and Co-Tan's man will pay the penalty with your lives—not even his love for me nor his admiration for you can save you."

Bradley noticed that she spoke in English—broken English like Co-Tan's but equally appealing. "We can easily get you aboard the ship," he said, "on some pretext or other, and then we can steam away. They can neither harm nor detain us, nor will we have to fire a shot at them."

And so it was done, Bradley and Co-Tan taking Ajor and Billings aboard to "show" them the vessel, which almost immediately


Liam Gallagher has dubbed Blur‘s ‘Lonesome Street’ “song of the year”, seemingly having put a rivalry that dates back to the mid-90s to bed.

The former Oasis and Beady Eye frontman tweeted his approval of the song, which features on Blur’s Number One album ‘The Magic Whip’, earlier today (May 4).

Lonesome St by BLUR song of the year LG x — Liam Gallagher (@liamgallagher) May 4, 2015

Gallagher’s endorsement of the Blur song may come as a surprise to fans of both bands given the long standing fued between Oasis and their Britpop rivals. While Noel Gallagher has made his peace with frontman Damon Albarn in recent years, brother Liam has remained critical of the band and labelled them “panies” in a 2012 interview with NME before criticising Noel forthe jury could have reasonably found the following facts: On the night of July 21, 1978, Keith Kopeck entered a bar known as Partners II in Bridgeport. The barroom was dark and there were approximately fifteen to twenty people present. After ordering a beer and talking with several friends, Kopeck entered the dining room adjacent to the barroom. He saw the defendant, whom he had seen in the same bar once or twice previously, enter the bar with about four of his own friends.
*522 A short time had passed when the defendant approached Kopeck and asked him if he had been present the night when someone had tried to run the defendant down with a car. In response to Kopeck's negative answer, the defendant replied, "Well, I think


you were.... I will be back."
The defendant left Kopeck's company, but a few minutes later the defendant returned, tapped Kopeck on the shoulder and, as Kopeck was turning towards the defendant, punched Kopeck in the face. The force of the blow knocked Kopeck over a table. Once he got up, the defendant hit him on the back with a chair, causing Kopeck to fall again.
As Kopeck lay on the floor, the defendant struck him in the head with the leg of a chair. Other patrons of the bar then joined the fracas, and the victim received more blows, not all of which were delivered by the defendant. The whole incident ended quickly and caused much confusion. The defendant's blow to Kopeck's head with the chair leg caused twoMellon, Lirong Xu, and Celina M. Prince in support of the MRI tests. This work was supported, in part, by NIH Grants AG043540, DA028555, NS036126, NS034239, MH064570, NS043985, MH062261, AG043540, AI113883 and DOD Grant 421-20-09A, the Carol Swarts Emerging Neuroscience Fund and the Nebraska Research Initiative.

This publication is dedicated to the life and legacy of Professor Michael D. Boska who was killed before his time in a plane crash and during the manuscript preparation. His friendship, intellect and scientific vision are very much part of these text pages and he is missed beyond simple words.

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BDK, MDB and HEG conceived the project. BDK, BMO, TK, RD synthesized and characterized the nanoformulations and performed the laboratory and rodent experiments. YL, CW and BRS performed the magnetic resonance imaging tests


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US Custom House sold again, this time to Boston-area firm

US Custom House (image courtesy Wikipedia Commons)

BY BRIAN LIBBY

Portland and Boston have had numerous connections over the years. The original coinflip that gave Portland its name (after the city in Maine) could alternatively have seen it named Boston. One of Portland's largest corporate headquarters is Adidas, which owns Boston area-based Reebok. Boston may be to New York what Portland is to Seattle: the smaller but sometimes scrappier of two regional cultural capitols. After the Portland Trail Blazers' greatest star, Bill Walton, parted with the franchise a couple years after winning the team won the 1977 NBA championship and he the 1978 MVP, he eventually made his way to the Boston Celtics, winning a second title there and a sixth-man-of-the-yearArchitects estimated the building needed $18 million to $24.3 million in repairs, in 2009 dollars.

The 78,838-square foot, four-story building encompasses a full block in the Pearl District, bounded by NW Broadway, Everett and Davis Streets, and NW Eighth Avenue. Originally built in 1901, it was designed by James Knox Taylor, who - ironically now given the current sale - had studied at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and designed many government buildings. Construction was supervised by local architect Edgar Lazarus, who also designed local/regional landmarks like Vista House at Crown Point in the Columbia River Gorge and one of the major buildings for the Lewis & Clark Exposition of 1905. The latter is particularly notable, because this world's fair marked one of the most important turning points in


Portland's history: when the muddy streets, plank roads and Victorian houses of a large frontier town gave way to a major American city. The Custom House, which was listed in the National Register of Historic Places in 1974, expresses that growing ambition, with an Italian Renaissance Revival style: grafting the lines of quintessential historic city-states like Venice onto the DNA of a metropolis still in its infancy.

As its name indicates, for the building's first 67 years the US Custom Service was located there, before the agency moved next door to the post office in 1968 - itself a building now destined to be either reimagined or torn down with the letter carriers set to move out. For several years the Army Corps of Engineers had its offices inthe Custom House, and then the Portland International School became one of a handful of potential candidates to nearly move in. It almost became home to the University of Oregon's Portland campus, which instead renovated the cast-iron White Stag Block along the waterfront at Naito Parkway and NW Couch Street. A major boutique hotel chain also had at one point joined the potential suitors.

In its press release, the developers seem to say the right things. “We are thrilled and honored to be the new stewards of this important piece of Portland history,” co-founder Brian Kelly of Eastern Real Estate is quoted as saying. “It is an absolute gem of the Pearl District and the city, and we look forward to the building’s active use on the North Park


a variety of tenants, just one, or a few. But the new owner seems to recognize that the building's value lies not in the structure itself, which needs repairs, but in its long-term value as a historic property of a large scale with the ability, like the Brewery Blocks, to attract hoardes of people. According to an Oregonian report by Elliot Njus published today, the company says tenants have not yet been determined.

The Custom House is also ideally situated on NW Broadway, the border between the tony Pearl District and the rougher but burgeoning Old Town, with downtown just a few blocks to the south. It's also just a few blocks from the trains of Union Station as well as the MAX line. It also looks out onthe North Park Blocks, just across the street from a cluster of art galleries and the Museum of Contemporary Craft; 511 Broadway, itself being converted into a home for the Pacific Northwest College of Art, is also just a couple blocks down Broadway. Powell's Books and the Brewery Blocks are also an easy stroll, as are any number of cultural offerings, shops and public spaces.

GBD Architects, which has a now extensive history of green renovations in the Pearl District, such as the five-building Brewery Blocks mixed use development, the Portland Armory (now home to the Gerding Theater), and an in-progress renovation of the Meier & Frank warehouse into a headquarters for Danish wind turbine manufacturer Vestas. KPFF Consulting Engineers is also on the team.

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In the next episode of "Backstory," Don Van Natta Jr. digs into two baseball players "banned for life," and in exploring "Shoeless" Joe Jackson and Pete Rose, finds a drama that is still playing out a century after it began. (1:00)

"Baseball is the heart of America. As a patriot, I would never do anything to degrade ..."

"Besmirch. It's better."

"... to besmirch our national pastime."

--Arnold Rothstein (Michael Stuhlbarg), rehearsing his testimony with his attorney before the grand jury convened to determine whether the 1919 World Series was fixed, "Boardwalk Empire," Season 1, Episode 8 ("Hold Me in Paradise")

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Kurkjian's October tales: The paranoid pitcher and the biggest Reds fan in theto prevent states other than Nevada from legalizing sports gambling. But then Major League Baseball and MGM Resorts announced last November that they had entered into an agreement to promote legalized gambling just in time for the 2019 season, and ever since, the gnats of irony have been buzzing about. A group of Chicago White Sox players, including Shoeless Joe Jackson (top row, far right), was accused of accepting bribes and throwing the 1919 World Series against the Cincinnati Reds. Bettman/Getty Images

They just happened to choose the centennial anniversary of the 1919 World Series and the 30th anniversary of commissioner Bart Giamatti ejecting Pete Rose to roll out this new policy. The same Pete Rose who often signs autographs at MGM Resorts' Mandalay Bay resort in Las Vegas.


The same MGM Resorts that owns the Borgata, a rose-colored high-rise paradise north of the Boardwalk in Atlantic City. The same Borgata where disgraced NBA referee Tim Donaghy liked to try his luck.

Oh, and how's this for irony? Borgata is lingo in Italian for mafia. Among the protégés of Arnold Rothstein, the man behind the fix, were such mob legends as Meyer Lansky and Lucky Luciano.

All of which brings me to the Borgata on this beautiful late-summer day. As a baseball romantic and a gambling agnostic, I am curious to see if MLB is selling its soul to the devil or just keeping up with the Joneses -- all the other major team sports have embraced wagering as a way of increasing both revenue and "fan engagement."

The realArnold Rothstein, as portrayed in David Pietrusza's excellent biography, "Rothstein," would certainly like it here. "The Brain," as he was known, loved poker so much that he literally died for it, and there's a world-class tournament going on. He was a billiards aficionado, helping to bankroll New York Giants manager John McGraw's pool hall near New York's Herald Square, and there's a billiards table in the men's spa at the Borgata. There are restaurants and shops and slot machines and games of chance and patrons galore.

Deep in the heart of the casino floor is a sportsbook and restaurant called Moneyline, where a litter of puppy TV screens surrounds one big 40-inch LED mama. Turned to various sports events, they shed their ambient light over gamblers nursing drinks and


fix the Series was formally hatched. It too happened in a hotel, the Buckminster in Boston. According to "Eight Men Out," Eliot Asinof's classic account, that's where the first-place Chicago White Sox were staying as they played out the regular season and where first baseman Chick Gandil invited an old acquaintance, gambler Joseph "Sport" Sullivan, up to his room to discuss a proposition. Chick and seven of his teammates could make it so that the underdog Cincinnati Redlegs would win the upcoming Series. All they wanted was $80,000, 10 grand apiece. Chick and friends had won the World Series two years before; this time they preferred filthy lucre to a shiny trophy.

The details of the scandal are still being debated. How much did Rothstein really have to doTribune of Oct. 14, 1919:

"WULF-ROTHSTEIN -- Mr. and Mrs. Charles Rothstein announce the engagement of their daughter, Lillian, to Mr. William Wulf."

My great-grandfather Charles Rothstein and Arnold's father, Abraham Rothstein, were both in the garment industry. I have yet to find a direct connection, but were there so many clothes-making Rothsteins in New York at the turn of the century that they weren't related? Maybe Arnold went to the wedding after he didn't fix the World Series. I do see a facial resemblance between my grandmother and Arnold. And I know that before the Series, he met with gamblers in New York's Hotel Astor ... which is also where my father had his bar mitzvah. The author's grandmother, Lillian -- here with his sister, Karen -- married William


public to reduce the possibility that sharp bettors could benefit from inside information. A Swiss company called Sportradar is now the official distributor of major league baseball data. On July 25, the fantasy sports site DraftKings announced a multiyear agreement with MLB to become the "Authorized Gaming Operator." Peeking into the future, Matt Rybaltowski of SportsHandle.com wrote, "Imagine a scenario if Los Angeles Dodgers pitcher Clayton Kershaw is facing New York Yankees outfielder Aaron Judge in Game 7 of the World Series. The bet types could allow fans to wager on whether Kershaw's next pitch would be a ball or a strike." While the eight "Black Sox" players accused of throwing the 1919 World Series, seen here in court in 1920, were eventually cleared by a grand jury,that baseball now says it's okay to do." It's so, Joe: White Sox outfielder "Shoeless" Joe Jackson hit .375 with six RBIs, the only home run and no fielding errors in the 1919 World Series. APA/Getty Images

Another interested party in baseball's changing views on gambling is Allison Jackson, a 24-year-old fitness instructor from Greenville, South Carolina. She also happens to be the great-great-grandniece of Shoeless Joe, who was banned from baseball because of his alleged involvement in the Black Sox scandal. "He had the highest batting average and the only home run in the 1919 World Series," she says. "He has the third-highest batting average in history and he was proven innocent in a court of law. And you're gonna tell me that betting's not so bad now?"

But


legalized gambling comes with a larger concern than injustice -- namely, treachery.

Holzhauer, for one, isn't worried. "I can see why any discussion of gambling makes people think of the Black Sox," he says. "But that scandal has nothing to do with the current state of sports betting. If a team tried to throw the 2019 World Series, the extreme imbalance of betting action in today's regulated market would get them caught immediately."

Kevin Braig, an attorney from Columbus, Ohio, is uniquely suited to talk about the subject because he is an expert on gaming, a die-hard sports fan (he grew up in Cincinnati watching Rose) and a baseball historian with a particular interest in the 1919 Black Sox. Braig agrees with Holzhauer that gambling is too well-regulated now toallow a repeat of 1919: "By moving into the gambling space, MLB is strengthening the integrity of the game. There was no commissioner then and a weak National Commission that did not want to engage with gambling at all. There is another reason we should trust the outcomes. The most valuable asset in sports is rivalry -- Ohio State vs. Michigan, Yankees vs. Red Sox. Nobody has a greater interest in making sure that the games are contested to maximize authentic, genuine rivalry than an organization like MLB.

"I have zero, zip, zilch concern about MLB and gambling. None." Two years before he became the ringleader of the Black Sox scandal, first baseman Chick Gandil helped lead Chicago to a World Series championship. In 1916 a Cleveland newspaper described


Gandil as "a most likeable player, and one of excellent habits." BETTMAN/GETTY IMAGES

Eddie Dominguez begs to differ. He's a former Boston police officer who was the security agent for the Red Sox from 1999 to 2007 before moving over to MLB's Department of Investigations in the aftermath of the Mitchell report on use of steroids and other PEDs in the game. With co-authors Christian Red and Teri Thompson, Dominguez wrote the 2018 book "Baseball Cop," subtitled "The Dark Side of America's National Pastime."

"The vast majority of players and coaches are honest, decent people," Dominguez says. "But I can also envision all sorts of scenarios in which someone with inside information who doesn't make a lot of money will tip off friends who gamble as to what a pitcherwill throw on a certain count. Baseball can't control everybody around the game."

Dominguez should know. In one chapter of his book, he relates a story about former Red Sox star David Ortiz. In the summer of 2005, Dominguez says he became suspicious about a member of Ortiz's clubhouse entourage known as "Monga." Dominguez says that an informant close to Monga, Ortiz's "top aide-de-camp," witnessed Monga placing a bet on a game in Chicago between the Red Sox and White Sox. Dominguez had Monga and some other members of the group banned from the clubhouse. Ortiz was not happy.

Dominguez takes it from there: "The All-Star Game was at PNC Park in Pittsburgh in 2006, and I was sitting at home watching the Home Run Derby when I saw Monga


that that investigation, which led to multiple arrests in 2008, did not implicate any players."

(Flash backward: When American League president Ban Johnson recognizes Black Sox fixer "Sport" Sullivan sitting in the stands in Yankee Stadium during the 1926 World Series between the Yankees and the St. Louis Cardinals, he orders the police to throw Sullivan out of the ballpark.) It was here, at Boston's Hotel Buckminster, that Chicago White Sox first baseman Chick Gandil met with a gambler bidding to fix the 1919 World Series and allegedly promised him, "I think we can put it in the bag." Bizuayehu Tesfaye/AP PHOTO

"The one constant through all the years, Ray, has been baseball." --Terence Mann (James Earl Jones) in "Field of Dreams," the 1989 movie based on the novel "ShoelessJoe"

Just before a Sept. 14 game at Citizens Bank Park, Phillies president Andy MacPhail agrees to share his unique perspective on baseball's changing attitude on gambling. Besides being a 1976 graduate of Dickinson College with a degree in American studies, he is a third-generation baseball executive. His grandfather, Larry MacPhail, introduced night games to Major League Baseball in 1935 as general manager of the Reds, won the 1941 National League pennant as president of the Dodgers and nearly traded Joe DiMaggio to the Red Sox when he owned the Yankees. His son and Andy's father, Lee MacPhail, was the general manager of the Orioles (1958-65) and the Yankees (1967-73) before becoming the highly respected American League president for nine years.

Andy has had his own distinguished career, first as


the GM of the Twins, who won the World Series in '87 and '91 under his guidance, then as the president of the Cubs, who won their first postseason series in 95 years under him in 2003, the Orioles and -- after a three-year sabbatical -- the Phillies. And now there's a fourth generation: His own sons, Drew and Reed, work in baseball.

"My grandfather and father would have had very different views on legalized gambling for baseball," Andy says. "Larry would have thought, 'This is great. It'll create fan interest.' He lived through the Black Sox Scandal, but he was also all about bringing people to the ballpark.

"My father would have been much more cautious. He would want to make sure we checked all the boxes on integrityto the postseason in eight years.

They do have a real appreciation of history in Philadelphia, so all the new Harper jerseys are interspersed with Schmidt and Utley and Rollins and Carlton and, yes, even a vintage Rose from 1980.

The game itself is a battle between Eduardo Rodriguez of the Red Sox and Aaron Nola of the Phillies, neither of whom allows a run for the first six innings. The teams trade runs in the seventh inning, and for a moment in the bottom of the eighth, when Rhys Hoskins hits a fly ball deep to right, it looks as if the Phillies might win. But the ball dies on the warning track, the Red Sox push across a run in the ninth, and the Phils lose 2-1.

Despite the


in 1920. The White Sox would not win another American League championship until 1959 (a then-record 40-year gap) nor another World Series until 2005. New York Times/Getty Images

Sitting across from me, studying his crib notes, is James, a supermarket manager from Long Island. "I've been to a couple of places in Atlantic City," he says, "but this is clearly the best." We're watching the Nationals at the Cardinals, Max Scherzer vs. Adam Wainwright -- he has the Cards, I have the Nats.

James, who was a pitcher in high school, clearly knows baseball and betting: "I've got the Cardinals in a parlay with the A's and the Yankees. I'm a Yankees fan, so that's the one that worries me. The one rule I have is, 'Bet with your head,Find out what's next in games at IGNITION West, Business Insider's conference on the future of mobile, taking place March 21 in San Francisco. Mobile gurus from Zynga, Disney and Rovio will be speaking at the event. Early-bird tickets are still available.

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documentsKUWAIT CITY - Iraq's interim Governing Council requested the closure Saturday of the Iraq-Iran border to prevent an influx of mourners at the funeral of slain Iraqi Shiite leader, Ayatollah Mohammad Baqer al-Hakim, a British military spokesman said.

"The interim Governing Council has requested that the border with Iran be closed today for the funeral of Hakim. It is a decision by the Iraqi body, we will carry out their request," Captain Hisham Halawi told a press conference here.

Halawi, spokesman for the British forces occupying southern Iraq, said the border would be closed only on Saturday.

Hakim will be buried on Tuesday in Najaf, 180 kilometres (110 miles) south of Baghdad, the holy city where he was assassinated Friday in a car bomb blast outside the Tomb of Ali mosque,


his nephew told AFP in Najaf.

Ammar Abdel Aziz al-Hakim also said plans were underway to hold a funeral procession in Baghdad's Shiite neighbourhood of Kadhimiyah on Sunday at 7:00 am (0300 GMT).

On Monday, his body will be transported to the Shiite holy city of Karbala, 80 kilometres (50 miles) south of Baghdad, before it is returned to Najaf for burial, the nephew said.

The British spokesman also denied reports that the border had recently been closed.

"There is no substance to that, there was no closure of the (Iran) border with Iraq a few days ago," he said.

Asked whether Hakim's assassination would adversely affect relations between British coalition forces in southern Iraq and the mainly Shiite Muslim population in the area, Halawi said, if anything, the attack, which killed 82arsenal and all its atomic projects are for civilian purposes.

So far, Iran has adamantly refused to bow to the international pressures, demanding that in return for signing the additional protocols, the IAEA provide it with advanced nuclear technologies.

Meeting the EU Minister, President Mohammad Khatami reiterated that Islam prohibited atomic weapons. "Atomic weapons have no place in Iran's defense policy", Khatami said, adding however that Iran had an "absolute right to peaceful nuclear technology".

Solana met high-ranking Iranian officials one day after IAEA Director Moahammad el-Bradei told the BBC that Iran had shopped for nuclear components on the international black market and called on Tehran to be more "proactive" and "transparent".

In the interview aired on Friday, he also said Iran's nuclear program had been going on "far longer than the