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She looks happier when she is bathing. I know am. Happier. When I see her bathing. Is that wrong?
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If It be pleasant to look on, stalled in the packed serai,
Does not the Young Man try Its temper and pace ere he buy?
If She be pleasant to look on, what does the Young Man say?
"Lo! She is pleasant to look on, give Her to me to-day!"
--Rudyard Kipling, "Certain Maxims of Hafiz"
I'd say this young woman in her day probably had numerous serious marriage proposals from eligible young men she hadn't known for a full hour. Throw in an apple pie or a baked chicken she'd done and I'd have been glad to be one of them.
Islamists in a town in southern Somalia have imposed Sharia law in line with their vow to bring back Islamic theocracy to areas where they were ousted two years ago, a spokesman said Friday. The Mujahideen of Southern Somalia, a group allied to the al-Shabab movement, on Thursday named a 23-member board to enforce the law in Celwaq, about 650 kilometers southwest of Mogadishu. "This administration will govern the town using laws of the Holy Koran," spokesman Mohammad Osmail Indhobur said. "Youse can't do that! We got aleady got laws. Kinda."
"Bailiff! Chop off his hand!"
"Aaaaiiieeee!"
Celwaq, near the border with Kenya, is home to tens of thousands of people. It has escaped much of the civil war, but local militia allied to Islamists have moved in to plug a power vacuum in recent weeks.
Islamist fighters - accused of ties to Al-Qaeda by the US, a charge disputed by independent experts - gained control of the southern port of Kismayo five weeks ago after battles that claimed dozens of lives.
A de facto Islamist government, of which the Shabab then formed a part, was ousted from central and southern Somalia early in 2007 after Ethiopian troops invaded to back the interim Somali government, ending an administration that had brought the first rule of law in years - in the form of Sharia law - to large swathes of the country for six months. They have since turned to guerrilla attacks on Ethiopian and Somali forces, and have had rising success.
When in power in 2006, the Islamists carried out executions, shuttered cinemas and photo shops, banned live band music, flogged drug offenders and harassed civilians for failing to wear appropriate dress in public. Additionally, the Islamists severely curbed violence from inter-clan fighting in areas under their control, made inroads into ending corruption as well as virtually stamping out now-endemic piracy.
Alarmed by the strict and fundamentalist version of Sharia law, the US led Western concern over a "creeping Talibanization" in Somalia by the Islamists. The US also provided air and artillery support for the Ethipian-led invasion that forced the Islamists from power in early 2007. US allies such as Pakistan, Nigeria and Saudi Arabia impose varying versions of Sharia law, including public executions, the mandatory wearing of head coverings for women in public, the banning of cinemas, segregation of the sexes and limitations of the rights of women.
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Mujahideen of Southern Somalia
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Give me that old time religion - or die.
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Duh! The Bush Crime Family's Saudi owners are financing Sharia terror, as President Jackass waits political oblivion.
(SomaliNet) In the last week of September, at least 80 civilians were killed and more than 100 others injured in violence in the Somalian capital Mogadishu, the United Nations said on Friday.
UN-OCHA had appealed for 646 million dollars to help 3.2 million people or 43 percent of Somalia's population, which is in "dire need of humanitarian assistance". But Byrs said that the fund is still short of 231 million dollars.
Meanwhile, about 15,000 people have also been displaced following the fighting, some fleeing to safer districts in the city, while others fled to the Afgooye corridor where already 300,000 internally displaced people have sought refuge.
UN-OCHA had appealed for 646 million dollars to help 3.2 million people or 43 percent of Somalia's population, which is in "dire need of humanitarian assistance". But Byrs said that the fund is still short of 231 million dollars.
The UN refugee agency had earlier described the fighting in Mogadishu as the "most violent since February 2007", shortly after the toppling of hardline Islamists. It estimates that 700,000 people fled the capital last year, and another 160,000 have left since the start of the year.
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Somalia's population, which is in "dire need of humanitarian assistance"
Just about exactly 15 years ago we learned how Somalia deals with humanitarian assistance missions. I don't feel very humanitarian towards Somalia anymore.
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I really do believe we should deliver some "humanitarian assistance" to Somalia - via Eritrea - from the bellies of a dozen heavily-loaded B-52s.
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Sorry, Mogians, we are just tapped out. Ask yer pirate buddies for a handout. Or maybe you can deficit spend yourselves out of your problem. Contact yer buddy Bob Mugabe for the details. Maybe you can incorporate in Nevada and get corporate lines of credit. Just some suggestions.
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Let's leave this opportunity for glory to the Germans. They know how to do these things so much better than we.
(SomaliNet) The aid agency Doctors Without Borders (MSF - Medecins Sans Frontieres) has shut down two offices in eastern Chad and evacuated its staff after armed robberies, the charity said on Thursday.
The aid agency said that all activities in Ade and Goz Beida had been suspended indefinitely, leaving 70 000 people without access to health services. "The fact that MSF is being attacked on a regular basis threatens our and other aid agencies' capacity to provide assistance to populations in eastern Chad," Karline, head of mission for MSF in Chad said in a statement. "Ultimately, it is the sick and vulnerable that suffer the most," Kleijer added.
MSF said the weekend incidents, along with armed robberies on two other organisations and the hijacking of a United Nations vehicle, marked a peak in attacks on humanitarian agencies over the last six months.
The Chad government is fighting a sporadic rebellion in the east, which borders Sudan's restive Darfur province.
Rebels earlier in the year reached the Chad capital of N'Djamena before being repelled.
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A car exploded outside Russia's military headquarters in South Ossetia on Friday, killing seven soldiers in what leaders of the Moscow-backed separatist region immediately described as a terrorist attack launched from Georgia.
The blast came amid continuing tensions in the area as a ceasefire deadline approached for Russian troops to withdraw from territory around the breakaway republic, which has declared its independence from Georgia.
Preliminary reports indicated Russian forces had seized the car in a Georgian village outside South Ossetia and taken it to Tskhinvali, the capital, where it exploded, a South Ossetian spokeswoman said on Russian state television, which showed ambulances rushing from the scene as thick black smoke filled the air.
Seven Russian servicemen were killed in the blast, and seven others were wounded, the commander of the Russian forces, Maj. Gen. Marat Kulakhmetov, told the Interfax news agency. The wounded were airlifted to military hospitals in Russia, he said.
The death of Russian soldiers could jeopardize the fragile ceasefire brokered by European leaders last month. Russia invaded Georgia and routed its forces in a five-day war in August after a Georgian attack on South Ossetia killed several Russian peacekeepers stationed there.
The Russian Foreign Ministry condemned the explosion as a "crime" intended by "certain forces" to destabilize the region and undermine the ceasefire, the official RIA-Novosti news agency said.
The South Ossetian leader, Eduard Kokoity, was more direct. "The latest terrorist attacks in South Ossetia prove that Georgia has not renounced its policy of state terrorism," he said on Russian television. "We have no doubt that these terrorist acts are the work of Georgia special forces."
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If a random Georgian city won't be obliterated, I'll be very disappointed.
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Grom, do you mean 'surprised' rather than 'disappointed'?
If not then you should leave Israel and go back to Russia. I'm sure there's a place for a Jew in the rising cult of personality around Putin, as there always has been for Jews when Russia goes nationalistic and expansionist and xenophobic. [/sarcasm]
My father's family is Russian/Ukrainian. I grew up in a dual language household as a small child, celebrated the religious (Orthodox Christian) rites and the cultural holidays. And for my part you could not pay me enough money or political power to entice me to move back there. But perhaps your tastes are different.
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Preliminary reports indicated Russian forces had seized the car in a Georgian village outside South Ossetia and taken it to Tskhinvali, the capital, where it exploded
so, did they steal a car bomb? This is so poorly written you can't tell what happened
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Preliminary reports indicated Russian forces had seized the car in a Georgian village outside South Ossetia and taken it to Tskhinvali, the capital, where it exploded, a South Ossetian spokeswoman said on Russian state television,
The Russians are the ones who had the car in their possession, and were transporting it around, but in your opinion that's good enough evidence to destroy a Georgian city?
The Defense Department announced today that charges against Ahmed Khalfan Ghailani have been referred to trial by military commission. Ghailani is alleged to have been involved in the planning and preparation of the attack on the U.S. Embassy in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania, on Aug 7, 1998.
In accordance with the Military Commissions Act of 2006, the convening authority has the sole discretion to determine what charges will be referred to trial. In exercising her independent judgment, the convening authority, Susan Crawford, referred nine charges against Ghailani. The case was referred as non-capital, meaning the maximum possible punishment is life in prison.
Ghailani is charged with the following substantive offenses: murder in violation of the Law of War, murder of protected persons, attacking civilians, attacking civilian objects, intentionally causing serious bodily injury, destruction of property in violation of the Law of War and Terrorism. In addition, he is charged with conspiracy to commit all of the above offenses. Ghailani is further charged with providing material support to terrorism.
The charges are only allegations that the accused has committed offenses under the Military Commissions Act, and the accused is presumed innocent unless proven guilty beyond a reasonable doubt.
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Geez, he looks like Obama's half brother that lives in the shack on $12 a year.
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Geez - I saw this, and wondered where the article came from: The charges are only allegations that the accused has committed offenses under the Military Commissions Act, and the accused is presumed innocent unless proven guilty beyond a reasonable doubt.
Defenselink is pretty straight, and it's a legitimate inclusion. Too bad AP, Rooters, the NYT, LAT, et cetera, ad nauseum, didn't include similar wording when they were reporting about Haditha.
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Yep, it appears he's still with us...
The tape appeared to be recently recorded, as Gadahn pointedly spoke about America's financial crisis, referring to "the escalating chaos and looming meltdown threatening the crusaders' economic system."
Probably pissed they're was nothing in the bailout for him.
What has for past several years appeared an innocuous even if an illegal side ‘‘business’’, namely cattle trade, could be a hidden source of terror funding, say top UP government officials. A substantial part of the Rs 15,000 crore illegal trade is being funelled to fund terror, according to officials.
The connection between cattle smuggling and big crime first came to light when one Mizanur Rehman turned out to be the key accused in the kidnapping of Kolkata-based proprietor of Khadim Shoes, Partho Burman. MizanurÂ’s younger brother, Azizur Rehman Sardar, 22, was found to be a Harkat-ul-Jihad-e-Islami (HuJI) activist serving time in Lucknow jail. Mizanur was also known to be the trusted aide of HuJI area commander Jalaluddin, alias Babu Bhai, who too is in Lucknow jail. A part of the Rs 4 crore ransom in the Burman abduction case was suspected to have been diverted to Omar Sheikh, one of the alleged killers of US journalist Daniel Pearl in Pakistan.
The local administration has ordered Afghan refugees in Bajaur Agency to leave the area within three days. There are an estimated 70,000 Afghan refugees in the agency. Authorities believe that elements among refugee population are supporting the Taliban.
Taliban killed: Also, troops backed by artillery killed 25 Taliban in the latest clashes in the agency, officials told AFP on Thursday. Gun battles erupted overnight and continued until late on Thursday after militants attacked security checkposts in four villages in the restive region, a security official said.
Support for forces: Bajaur Agency's Mamoond tribe formed a tribal lashker on Friday to support security forces against the Taliban. Hundreds of tribesmen attended a jirga in the Khar Civil Colony, organised by tribal elders and announced their support of the security forces in their bid to expel the Taliban from the area.
Meanwhile, a Peroz Khel tribal lashker arrested at least 18 Taliban, including four suspected would-be suicide bombers, and seized two explosive-laden vehicles and four suicide jackets in Orakzai Agency on Thursday, APP reported.
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The local administration has ordered Afghan refugees in Bajaur Agency to leave the area within three days. There are an estimated 70,000 Afghan refugees in the agency
I'll expect all progressive humanity to rise in outrage.
Pakistani forces have killed 25 militants and wounded several others in Bajaur Agency in operations aimed at curbing insurgency in the area.
"Clashes broke out when pro-Taliban militants attacked security checkposts in different villages of the agency including Rashakai, Khazana, Bai Cheena as well as Tangkhata," a military official told Press TV on condition of anonymity. He added that security forces, in retaliation, targeted militants with artillery fire and pounded suspected hideouts of the militants killing as many as 25 militants and injuring several others.
Pakistani army has killed some 1,000 pro-Taliban militants wounding 2,000 others in the Bajaur tribal agency since early August. The volatile Bajaur Agency borders the troubled Afghan province of Kunar, and has been the scene of fierce clashes between Pakistani forces and Taliban-linked militants in recent months.
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Pakistani army has killed some 1,000 pro-Taliban militants
Even applying the standard 90% PCF (Pakistani Correction Factor), 100 killed still sounds like a substantial improvement.
As many as 13 militants have been killed in the ongoing operation launched by security forces in a high-altitude region over the Harmukh range in north-east Kashmir, a senior Army officer said on Friday.
Thirteen militants have been killed in the operation launched on September 24 following information that militants are moving from Bandipora to Kangan valley of Ganderbal district through high altitude region, General Officer Commanding of Army's Kilo Force Major General V S S Goder told reporters at Sharifabad on the outskirts of the city on Friday.
He said troops of 10 Para and three units of Rashtriya Rifles were mobilised by air and on foot with a view to intercept the militants in the area of Chhamarsar Lake.
Contact was established with the militants on September 25 at the Harmukh ridge towards the Kangan valley in the higher reaches, Goder said, adding the operation is being conducted in inhospitable, harsh and treacherous terrain at altitudes ranging upto 15,000 feet where some of the ravines receive snowfall on a daily basis.
Taking advantage of rocks, folds in the ground and caves, militants took shelter while engaging the troops and in the ensuing firefight 13 militants have been killed, he said.
Gen Goder said the assault has been terminated on October one even though clearing operations for recovery of the bodies of the killed militants and those trapped in the caves was still on.
He said the identity of the slain militants can be ascertained only after the operation is completed. "The area has been cordoned off and clearing operations are continuing."
Gen Goder said 11 AK assault rifles, 27 magazines, 387 rounds and two satellite phones have been recovered so far.
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two satellite phones have been recovered
Could have been some useful intel from those, if anybody was interested. A lot less useful now that the recovery has been made public.
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Innocent peasants, one and all. Was singing "Nearer my God to Thee" while marching through the mountains.
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Richard,
That part of the world is so hostile to human habitation that the only Person that will actually CLAIM it is God. Saw some images of the area once, while we were still flying US reconnaissance flights out of Peshawar. It's the only place I've ever heard of where 70-degree slopes were considered for "beginners".
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United States air strikes on three villages in North Waziristan killed at least 20 people on Wednesday and Friday. All of them puppies, kittens, baby ducks, of course...
Intelligence officials said a pilotless drone aircraft launched an attack on the village of Mohammad Khel, 30 kilometres west of Miranshah, North Waziristan's main urban centre, at around 9:30pm on Friday. One intelligence official said at least 12 people had been killed in the attack, including some foreigners, although Taliban sources in the area later told Reuters eight were killed and seven were wounded.
Pakistani intelligence officials reported another US airstrike earlier on Friday, this time on the North Waziristan village of Datta Khel, situated closer to the border with Afghanistan, in which at least three were killed.
There was no immediate confirmation from either the Pakistani military or from the US-led coalition fighting in Afghanistan. Pakistan Army spokesman Major General Athar Abbas said officers were investigating the reported strikes, but could not confirm them.
The attacks come on the back of an earlier strike that occurred on Wednesday, eight kilometers south of the town of Mir Ali, in which at least five people were reported to have died. It has been reported that a US pilotless drone fired two missiles at a house in the area.
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I thought we said we weren't going to go attacking inside of Pakistan anymore, to this must have been Klingons or maybe yeti that bombed this village.
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Damn! It's come this? Third class idiots as trolls? We used to have high-class trolls, not 16-yr-old morons drooling on Mom's keyboard in the basement. How we've fallen.
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Give the kid a break. He had to post 3 inane comments here - he's working on his Junior Troll Badge for the O Scouts. He gets a shiny sticker for his mousepad when he finishes ....
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Budda-bomp-bomp-bomp
Another one bites the dust! Bomp-bomp-bomp
Another one bites the dust!
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I thought this guy was part of Ansar al-Islam which was formed in December 1991 in the Kurdish area and was funded and logistically supported by UBL?--contrary to what Barack Hussein Obama said in the debate about terrorists not being in iraq until we got there.
U.S.-led forces said they shot dead a leader of al Qaeda in Iraq on Friday who was the mastermind behind a series of deadly recent bombings in Baghdad.
A spokesman for coalition forces said Mahir Ahmad Mahmud Judu' al-Zubaydi, also known as Abu Assad or Abu Rami, had been al Qaeda in Iraq's "emir" of the Rusafa neighborhood of the capital.
Killed an Assad, did they? Sure would like to see that become a habit ...
Troops surrounded a building in the Adhamiya area of Baghdad after intelligence reports that Abu Rami was inside, and called on the occupants to surrender, the spokesman said. Coalition forces were shot at from the building and returned fire, killing Abu Rami and a female, spokesman Rear Admiral Patrick Driscoll said in a statement.
A cell in Abu Rami's network was believed to be responsible for attacks on Thursday which killed eight people and wounded more than 30, the statement said. Suicide bombers struck Shi'ite worshippers as they gathered for prayers at two mosques in Baghdad to celebrate the Muslim Eid al-Fitr feast on Thursday, killing a total of 16 people and wounding nearly 60, officials said.
Abu Rami was also suspected of car bombings and mortar attacks in 2006 and 2007, one of which killed more than 200 people, the coalition forces statement said. He was believed to be a planner of kidnappings and executions and a 2006 video recording showed him shooting a Russian diplomat, it added.
Abu Rami joined al Qaeda in Iraq from the Ansar al-Islam group in 2004, the statement said.
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Wow, this guy operated for a while. AQI's emir in Baghdad, he's been through a lot to survive this long. However, it just takes one person to inform on him and do him in.
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had been al Qaeda in Iraq's "emir" of the Rusafa neighborhood of the capital.
Isn't it wonderful that even the big turbans are only neighborhood captains! And that in the old days the gentleman in question would no doubt have been a specialist, leaving actual management to those more qualified for the job. I think Al Qaeda in Iraq has completely given up trying to keep that #3 spot filled. When even trainee managers are disappearing faster than they can be hired, there's no point in thinking about promotability.
Thailand's southern jihad insurgency registered two more victims early Saturday as two Thai Army soldiers on motorcycle patrol were ambushed by suspected terrorists insurgents, dying in a hail of automatic weapons fire in the southernmost province of Pattani, police said.
An unknown number gunmen from an unidentified group of presumed terrorists insurgents opened fire from the back of a pickup truck with assault rifles, killing the two privates who were members of a six-man patrol mounted on three motorcycles, patrolling the Panarae-Ban Palas road. The victims were on one motorcycle. The other members of the patrol escaped the attack but exchanged fire with the assailants. The suspected terrorists insurgents seized the victims' M-16 rifles and M-203 grenade launcher before fleeing. Responding authorities surrounded the area and were using sniffer dogs to hunt the presumed terrorists insurgents who were expected to hide among the local villagers.
(PTI) At least 59 Tamil Tigers and two soldiers were killed in fierce clashes in Sri Lanka's embattled north, where the Air Force fighters jets targeted key LTTE bases, including a building once used by the outfit's political head B Nadesan as his office, officials said today.
The building in the rebel stronghold of Kilinochchi, which was among those bombed by the Sri Lankan security forces this morning, used to be occupied by Nadesan when he was the police head of the outfit. Nadesan succeeded S P Tamilchelvan as the LTTE's political wing chief after the latter was killed in a raid by the Air Force in November last year.
"The main office complex of LTTE leader Nadesan was located at 500m West of Driyarukulam and it was engaged around 9.20 am today," Air Force spokesperson, Wing Commander Janaka Nanayakkara, said.
At the same time, he said, the fighter jets pounded an LTTE military base located one kilometre north of Triarukulam in the general area of Pravipanjan in Kilinochchi. The Air Force launched the strikes on real-time information acquired through continuous ground and air surveillances, the Defence Ministry said.
In ground clashes, security forces killed three LTTE cadres in Kottukulam, north of Morawewa in Trincomalee today, the ministry said. Continuing with their march towards Kilinochchi, the troops moved further north across the east of Akkarayankulam yesterday, it said. At least four LTTE cadres and two soldiers were killed in the region during clashes yesterday, the ministry said.
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A multi-volume chronology and reference guide set detailing three years of the Mexican Drug War between 2010 and 2012.
Rantburg.com and borderlandbeat.com correspondent and author Chris Covert presents his first non-fiction work detailing
the drug and gang related violence in Mexico.
Chris gives us Mexican press dispatches of drug and gang war violence
over three years, presented in a multi volume set intended to chronicle the death, violence and mayhem which has
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Rantburg was assembled from recycled algorithms in the United States of America. No
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Islamists in a town in southern Somalia have imposed Sharia law in line with their vow to bring back Islamic theocracy to areas where they were ousted two years ago, a spokesman said Friday. The 
A car exploded outside Russia's military headquarters in South Ossetia on Friday, killing seven soldiers in what leaders of the Moscow-backed separatist region immediately described as a terrorist attack launched from Georgia. 
The Defense Department announced today that charges against Ahmed Khalfan Ghailani have been referred to trial by military commission. Ghailani is alleged to have been involved in the planning and preparation of the attack on the U.S. Embassy in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania, on Aug 7, 1998. 
As many as 13 militants have been killed in the ongoing operation launched by security forces in a high-altitude region over the Harmukh range in north-east Kashmir, a senior Army officer said on Friday. 
United States air strikes on three villages in North Waziristan killed at least 20 people on Wednesday and Friday.
U.S.-led forces said they shot dead a leader of al Qaeda in Iraq on Friday who was the mastermind behind a series of deadly recent bombings in Baghdad.
Thailand's southern 
