(Chipley, Florida) A 36-year-old local woman, Lisa Junod Smith, has been accused of drug and child abuse offenses.Police received information of possible drug activity being conducted in a home with a minor child present. Officers with the Chipley Police Department accompanied the Department of Children and Families to the residence at 844 8th Street.Smith was booked into custody at the Washington County Jail.
Once they entered the home, police say the saw drug paraphernalia near the front door. The officer contacted members of the Washington County Drug Task Force, which consist of the Chipley Police and Washington County Sheriff's Office, and notified them of the discovery.
Thirty-five women in Aceh’s city of Lhokseumawe have been let off with a warning after the Shariah police caught them straddling a motorcycle and not wearing appropriate Islamic dress.If a delicate creature is banned from straddling a motorcycle, she obviously can't drive one. Nor is it legal for a woman to ride a bicycle, I assume.
The Shariah police were conducting a raid on the main roads of Lhokseumawe on Friday, to monitor the administration’s bylaw that prohibits female passengers from straddling motorcycles.[…]
Lhokseumawe mayor Suadi Yahya explained that the bylaw was expected to discourage women from wearing pants in public. He said that the bylaw was needed because he had seen people’s behavior and morals straying too far from Aceh’s Islamic cultural values.
“We want to save women from things that will cause them to violate Shariah law,” he said. “We wish to honor women with this ban, because they are delicate creatures.”
A nine-year-old Australian boy felt so bad about pinching his little brother's testicles he felt compelled to write him a letter.Heh.
The sweet note, which has since gone viral upon being posted to Facebook, expresses the boy's sincere regret at causing his brother pain.
Felix, 46, was born a girl called Katy. And Helen, 56, was born a boy called Leslie.Imagine explaining the situation to the grandchildren. Yes, my child, your grandfather is a woman.
At 5ft 8in, Helen towers over 5ft 1in Felix and the couple admit that people sometimes stare at them in the street.
But they have never been happier and will elope to Gretna Green in September to get married.
Between them they have 10 children and have already racked up four marriages.
But this will be the first time either of them gets hitched after changing gender.
"Cognitive restructuring program," eh? When I was a youngster, it meant corporal punishment, basically an ass-whipping. I don't know what it entails in today's world.Jamie Jo Waite, 37, was sentenced by 2nd District Judge Scott Hadley to four concurrent prison sentences of one to 15 years for four separate charges of forcible sex abuse, a second-degree felony, but the prison time was suspended.
Instead, the judge ordered Waite to spend 210 days in jail and complete three years' probation.
He also ordered 60 hours of community service or a $603 fine, $500 in fees, completion of a "cognitive restructuring program" and any restitution to be determined within a year. The woman is also prohibited from having any contact with the victim or any other children under the age of 18.
Waite will be sentenced on four counts of forcible sexual abuse, a second-degree felony, for illicit contact with the young swimmer from November 2010 through January 2011. She was the assistant swim coach at Ben Lomond at the time, a volunteer position. Each count carries a possible prison term of one to 15 years.Sentencing is scheduled for April 2.
The forcible sexual abuse statute doesn’t have language explicitly covering intercourse. It does include wording regarding “taking indecent liberties” which can include statutory rape, officials explained, wherein a minor victim, although a willing participant, legally cannot give consent to sexual relations.
The victim had tried out for the swimming team as a sophomore, where he met Waite, whose assignment was working with beginning swimmers. The affair came his senior year.
The alleged victim was a 17-year-old male swimmer, a high school senior, who investigators believe had a relationship with Waite from November until late February when he called it off, reportedly saying he did not feel good about the activities taking place, said Ogden Police Lt. Scott Conley.Waite was booked into custody at the Weber County Jail.
Over 100 German food retailers have been buying horsemeat falsely labelled as beef from a Dutch abattoir before selling it on to the public, Germany's Consumer Ministry confirmed on Thursday.At least 124 meat sellers are implicated.
State authorities are trying to get all of the products off the shelves while carrying out a full investigation.
The Netherlands-based slaughter house has sold 50,000 tonnes of horse labelled as beef for at least two years, Dutch food standards officials said on Wednesday.
(Utica, New York) Special education teacher at Columbus Elementary School, Crystal DeRosa, 33, has pleaded guilty to charges of petit larceny and endangering the welfare of a child.She [was] arrested Thursday, after what the Utica City School District called "a lengthy investigation" involving the school district, Utica Police and the Oneida County District Attorney's Office.Details on booking and bond are unavailable. In any event, I suspect there is more to this story. What could possibly motivate someone to jeopardize her good-paying job for a piece of jewelry worn by a child? Makes no sense.
The school district said that DeRosa will face suspension when she is arraigned.
A presentation at the Hack In The Box security summit in Amsterdam has demonstrated that it's possible to take control of aircraft flight systems and communications using an Android smartphone and some specialized attack code.Industry insiders dispute the dangers but allow that hackers may be able to cause cockpit lights to blink and pressurized air masks to drop.
Hugo Teso, a security researcher at N.Runs and a commercial airline pilot, spent three years developing the code, buying second-hand commercial flight system software and hardware online and finding vulnerabilities within it. His presentation will cause a few sleepless nights among those with an interest in aircraft security.
(Madera County, California) A 30-year-old local bookkeeper, Melissa Judy Ann Pedersen, has been accused of embezzling almost $30,000 from two companies.Detective Adam McEwen launched an investigation dating back to November 15, 2012 when the Sheriff’s Office was first tipped off about an alleged case of embezzlement.Pedersen was arrested on suspicion of forgery, embezzlement and grand theft and booked into custody at the Madera County Department of Corrections.
The victim at that time, Valley Fixtures Installers, had hired Pedersen as a Book Keeper from October 2011 to October 2012.
During the course of that investigation, another complaint of embezzlement was filed with the Sheriff’s Office… Same MO, same suspect, new victim – Madera Tractor & Implement.
It will be mostly dispatched to tourist areas to show - in the words of deputy police director, Gen Khamis Matter al-Muzaina - "how classy Dubai is."Reportedly, the Dubai Police has also added some American muscle cars to its fleet.
Ozarowski, 21, claimed to have ovarian, stomach, bone and brain cancer and solicited tens of thousands of dollars from people for more than a year to help pay for medical expenses, Suffolk County District Attorney Thomas Spota said.Ozarowski was booked into custody with bail set at $5,000.
But Spota said it was nothing more than just “a despicable scam.”
“There was no cancer, no chemotherapy, no radiation and no medical bills,” Spota said. “There was just heroin.”
Under the heading “Help Save My Life,” prosecutors said she posted pictures of herself sitting in a wheelchair on a website saying she had “few options left.”[…]
The 24-count grand jury indictment was unsealed Wednesday evening. Ozarowski is scheduled to be arraigned on grand larceny, forgery and scheme to defraud charges Thursday morning.
The results of a mammoth 15-year study led by professor Jean-Denis Rouillon, from the University of Besançon in eastern France, are finally in and it looks like conventional wisdom about bras and back pain has been way off the mark.Frankly, I suggest the study produced an unremarkable result after 15 years of female breast measurements. Of course, that doesn't mean it shouldn't be done.
According to Rouillon, a sports science expert, the lesson to be learned from the preliminary results of his marathon experiment is that “bras are a false necessity”.
“Medically, physiologically, anatomically – breasts gain no benefit from being denied gravity. On the contrary, they get saggier with a bra,” Professor Rouillon told France Info radio on Wednesday.
Using a slide rule and caliper, Rouillon spent years carefully measuring changes in the orientation of breasts belonging to 130 women, at the Centre Hospitalier Universitaire (University Hospital) in Besançon.
According to the incident report, the 14-year-old girl threatened to kill herself during a fight with her mother over a hickey that was found on the girl's neck.Linder was booked into custody with bond set at $100,000.
The victim said in the report that Linder had put the bruise on her neck with her mouth and that the two "had been engaged in a sexual nature."
(Bartlesville, Oklahoma) A 33-year-old local woman, Stacy Ann Thompson, has been accused of stabbing her husband, Bobby Thompson, to death outside their home."They were fighting all night long," said the neighbor living directly across the street from the Thompson's rented home at 11th and South Maple.Details on booking are unavailable.
"I watched him slap her across the face and she forced him to leave and he came back several times and then she kept him outside and that's when the stabbing started," said the neighbor.
Chinese families are scouring the globe for powdered baby milk, creating shortages as far afield as the U.K. after a series of food scares damaged confidence in local supplies.Reportedly, Chinese agents are working all corners of the globe to meet home-country demand.
Major supermarkets in the U.K. including market leaders Tesco (TESO)and Sainsbury's have begun restricting the purchase of baby milk in an effort to prevent private exports to China.[…]
China's demand for foreign-produced formula has been growing ever since 2008 when melamine-tainted baby milk led to the death of six children and caused hundreds of thousands of other children to fall ill.
(Andrews, Texas) A math teacher at Andrews High School, Debra Sutphen, was arrested last weekend for allegedly making alcohol available to minors in her home.Police Chief Bud Jones tells NewsWest 9 they went to Sutphen's house around 2:30 a.m. Sunday morning after being tipped off about a party where minors were possibly drinking.Details on booking are unavailable.
When they got there, officers found over a dozen minors, along with Sutphen's kids, all who were in possession of alcohol.
Officers eventually made contact with Sutphen. Chief Jones said she was reluctant to open the door.
Iranian officials say 30 people were killed and at least 800 injured by a powerful earthquake that struck a sparsely populated area in southern Iran Tuesday, close to the country's only nuclear power station.Concerns regarding the location of the nuke plant adjacent to a high seismic area have been repeatedly brushed aside by Iranian geniuses.
(Tucson, Arizona) In February 2013, former Ironwood Ridge High School art teacher Melissa Ann Dalton, 34, pleaded guilty to one count of sexual conduct with a minor and two counts of attempted sexual conduct with a minor.Deputy Pima County Attorney Victoria Otto asked Judge Christopher Browning for the maximum prison sentence possible because of the impact Dalton's actions had on the victims.During the proceeding, Dalton sobbed out apologies.
Defense attorney Michael Piccarreta asked the judge to sentence Dalton to the minimum of two years in prison because she took responsibility for her actions, is remorseful, has sought therapy and has support from family and friends, several of whom were present at the sentencing hearing.
School resource officers were notified of allegations against Dalton and the case was handed over to the police department's Criminal Investigations Unit.Dalton was booked into custody at the Pima County Jail.
Police say the students and Dalton were interviewed and it was determined that probable cause existed to charge the teacher.
The gender of the two students involved hasn't been disclosed.
We landed home in Queenstown to a cold but sunny day with Daylight Saving on its last day. Having Hannah in our arms always gets us through customs quickly as security sends us through the express line and we were greeted by customs with a smile, after reading our arrival card she said "welcome home".
(Englewood, Colorado) Former Englewood High School teacher Alexandra Elizabeth McLean, 28, has pleaded guilty to reduced charges and was sentenced to no jail.According to the letter, McLean is charged with two counts of sexual assault by a person in a position of trust. She last worked at Englewood High on Nov. 18 and resigned in December.McLean was booked into custody and released on $25,000 bond. A court appearance is scheduled for March 6.
Court records indicate McLean was arrested on Thursday.
“The complainant was instead driven to a parking lot in the area of Queen Street West and Spadina Avenue where he was sexually assaulted by all four suspects,” said the statement.Eight hundred pounds of intimacy in short black dresses! It conjures up images of pounding and sweaty beef flabberonies, compacted like fire hydrants.
After the suspects let go of the man, they were seen leaving the area in a vehicle that resembled a silver Honda SUV.
Police say the four female suspects are all white, in their thirties, and approximately 5’4” and 200 pounds. The women were wearing short black dresses with high heels and no nylons. The SUV driver had a British accent with short blond hair and a tattoo of wings on the back of her neck. Another woman had longer, dark hair with red dye at the bottom.
(Sherman, Texas) A 23-year-old local woman, Jessica Crosby, has been accused of sexually assaulting a teen.Sgt. D.M. Hampton with Sherman police says 23-year-old Jessica Crosby was arrested just after 11 a.m. Thursday for allegedly sexually assaulting a teenager.Crosby was booked into custody at the Grayson County Jail with bond set at $25,000.
(Fayetteville, Arkansas) A 40-year-old Springdale woman, Adrienne Wright, has been accused of sexually abusing a 16-year-old male patient at a health care facility.The police had interviewed a 16-year-old boy, identified as “JK” at the Children Safety Center on Feb. 15 during which the boy alleged that an employee at a health facility had sexually assaulted him, the affidavit said.Wright was booked into custody at the Washington County Detention Center with bond set at $15,000.
The name of the health facility was redacted, but the affidavit said the boy was a live-in patient at the facility between Sept. 7 and Dec. 20 of last year. The affidavit said the boy was being treated for “anger issues.”
The boy told officers a female employee he knew as “Ms. A” had a sexual relationship with him that started a couple weeks after he entered the facility, the report said. The boy later identified Wright in a photo line-up, the report said.
The incidents happened at night and out of sight of security cameras, the boy told officers, and consisted of “hand jobs” and at least one instance of her performing oral sex on him, the report said.
Since her arrest in December 2011, Shocik has served 15 months in prison.A former music teacher at Vermont’s Danville High School has pleaded guilty to having a sexual relationship with a 14-year-old student.
In a plea agreement, 25 -year-old Abby Shocik pleaded guilty in Caledonia Superior Court Friday to one count of sexual assault.
In exchange, she was sentenced to 3 to 8 years in prison, with all but 12 months suspended.
Police say Shocik was involved with the student for about a month. She is due to be arraigned next week.Details on booking are unavailable.
The school superintendent sent a letter to parents Friday to inform them of the situation and to offer support for students, employees and families.
Bryant reportedly told agents that she allowed her boyfriend, identified as Jon Adleta, to molest the girl, while she recorded it. And on another occasion, the report shows Bryant admitted to molesting her daughter at Adleta's request, while he took photographs.Details on booking are unavailable.
The FBI asked Glenpool police to assist in serving the federal search warrant at the home in the 13600 block of South Owasso Place, Friday morning.
A woman who read on the Internet that she had the right to move into a home that is under foreclosure learned the Sheriff's Office disagrees.It's called "adverse possession" and Fuchs saw it on the Internet, so in her mind it must be true. The authorities did not concur.
Stacey Ann Fuchs was arrested Tuesday and charged with grand theft of the house.
Deputies arrested Fuchs, 31, of Lakeland, after she changed the locks and moved into a South Lakeland home worth about $150,000 without the knowledge or permission from the woman who had surrendered it or the lender.
"You just can't move into someone else's legally owned property. That's trespassing, burglary, and theft," Sheriff Grady Judd said in a news release. "There is no such thing as a free lunch, and we are going to arrest people who try this scam to steal homes in Polk County."
If Buchanan completes a 120-day drug treatment program while in prison, she will be placed on probation.A 22-year-old woman from Arizona pleaded guilty to second-degree statutory rape after she was accused of having sex with a 15-year-old boy.
A statutory sodomy charge against the woman, Brittany Blair Buchanan, was dropped as part of a plea agreement, said the county prosecutor's office.
Circuit Judge Jon Cunningham on Monday sentenced Buchanan to seven years in prison with the possibility of probation.
Buchanan moved in around Thanksgiving, when she became homeless, and the sex acts happened after that, police said.Buchanan was booked into custody with bond set at $35,000.
(Hemet, California) The 45-year-old assistant principal at Tahquitz High School, Erin Henton, has been accused of engaging in sexual jiggy-jiggy with three male students.Henton was placed on administrative leave in March. She was arrested at her home Wednesday.Henton was booked into custody at the Hemet Jail with bail set at $1 million.
Police said Henton carried on a sexual relationship with as many as three male students over the course of several months. Investigators said they believe the acts did not take place on the school campus.
(Delaware County, Pennsylvania) A 33-year-old teacher at Ridley High School, Katherine Leigh Preusser, has been accused of providing alcohol to two of her students after her car was pulled over with a student driving and police found open beer cans.The young driver said they had just seen "The Last Oz" at the nearby Granite Run Mall theater and he pulled over so Preusser could drive. The film's actual name is "Oz the Great and Powerful."Details on booking are unavailable.
When Preusser got out of the car, police saw two open cans of beer next to her seat. She couldn't remember the name of the movie. She admitted the car was hers and she had been drinking the beer - both in the car and movie.
Police said a 17-year-old female student in the backseat had alcohol on her breath but claimed she had not been drinking. She said the movie was the "Last AW," according to police. She later told police she had been drinking.
(Philadelphia, Pennsylvania) A 24-year-old local woman, Ashley Delvalle, has been accused of posing as a nurse at Saint Christopher’s Hospital for Children and then assaulting a child.Police say they responded to St. Christopher’s and were told that Delvalle went into several patients’ rooms telling the parents that she was a nurse, and she would be performing physical examinations.Details on booking are unavailable.
According to authorities, Delvalle allegedly proceeded to physically touch one child inappropriately and took the weight of another child.
The local council of Coburg, where the NPD had booked a venue, started construction work there early this week, covering the road leading to it with tonnes of soil.It's logical to surmise that the NPD is not very popular in Coburg.
An attempt by the NPD to force the work to stop and access to be afforded was rejected by an administrative court on Thursday.
The party was furious, with a spokesman saying the refusal was "absurd official caprice" and said the meeting would be postponed.
Former Budget Minister Jérôme Cahuzac's political life continued to crumble around him on Wednesday. A day after he was charged with with tax fraud the Socialist Party expelled him from their ranks and he was given a pasting by politicians and the press.Interestingly, Cahuzac's actions have produced a curious outcome. Cahuzac was expelled from the Socialist Party for being a liar and money launderer, arguably desirable leadership attributes unheralded but often tied to socialist funtionaries (i.e. people on top get theirs while the citizenry sinks toward police-state poverty).
France's disgraced former Budget Minister Jérôme Cahuzac was expelled from the Socialist Party on Wednesday a day after he admitted lying about hiding away money from the tax man in a Swiss bank account.
It was the latest stage in the downfall of a man once tasked with cracking down on tax evasion, who now faces charges himself of "laundering the proceeds of tax fraud".
Socialist Party chief Harlem Desir announced on Wednesday morning that Cahuzac had been expelled.
It was another nail in the coffin of the political career of a man, who was considered a government heavyweight and key ally of François Hollande. It could get worse still for Cahuzac, who now faces a jail sentence and hefty fine if found guilty.
(Clarksville, Texas) A 41-year-old teacher at Avery High School, Suzanne Davis Burkett, was arrested this week for improper relationship between educator and student.According to the indictment, the Grand Jury found that Burkett, “on or about the 1st day of January, 2012, did commit the offense of Improper Relationship Between Educator and Student…while the defendant was an employee of a public secondary school, to wit: Avery High School, intentionally or knowingly engage in sexual intercourse with…a person who was enrolled in the said Avery High School.”Burkett was booked into custody and released on $10,000 bond.
Envy, politics, and age
By Christine R. Harris and Nicole E. Henniger
In the last 5 years, the phrase “politics of envy” has appeared more than 621 times in English-language newspapers, generally in opinion essays contending that political liberalism reflects and exploits feelings of envy. Oddly, this assertion has not been tested empirically. We did so with a large adult sample (n = 357). Participants completed a Dispositional Envy Scale and questions about political ideology, socioeconomic status, and age. Envy and age were moderately correlated; younger people reported greater envy. Political ideology and envy were weakly correlated; however, this relationship was not significant when controlling for age.
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(Columbia County, Georgia) A 23-year-old local woman, Kelsey Alane Long, has been arrested for falsely accusing a deputy of raping her.Investigators say that over the weekend, Long fled from deputies after they pulled her over for a traffic stop. The deputies say they tackled Long.Long was booked into custody at the Columbia County Detention Center without bond.
Long was brought to the hospital, where she claimed she had been raped by one of the deputies.
After investigating the incident...authorities found that Long's story didn't add up.
(Tampa, Florida) A 26-year-old local woman, Alysia Nicole Algere, was arrested this week for allegedly procuring a minor for prostitution.Police initially responded late Sunday night to a report of an attempted robbery at the Ramada Inn, 11714 Morris Bridge Road.Details on booking are not available.
No robbery had occurred, but police said they discovered information that led them to believe prostitution was taking place.
After further investigation, police said they found a girl younger than 18 who was procured for prostitution.
Algere had fled the scene, a warrant was issued and she was later arrested, police said.
Nine bodies, the majority of them dismembered, were found inside an SUV with Texas tags in Ciudad Victoria, the capital of the northeastern Mexican state of Tamaulipas, state officials said.Note that 1,025 people died from drug-related violence in March 2013 and nearly 4,000 deaths have been recorded since the beginning of last December.
The grisly discovery was made Sunday night in the community of Santa Clara, the Tamaulipas Attorney General’s Office and the Public Safety Secretariat said in a joint statement.
The Gulf and Los Zetas drug cartels have been fighting for control of Tamaulipas and smuggling routes into the United States.
Police received a tip from a caller that the bodies were inside a GMC Yukon SUV, the state agencies said.
“The remains of nine unidentified males, the majority of them dismembered, were found inside the vehicle,” the AG’s office and the secretariat said.
The bodies were taken to the morgue, where specialists will try to identify them.
(Phoenix, Arizona) A 34-year-old local woman, Kimberly Anne Upshaw, has been arrested for allegedly protecting her boyfriend after he raped her daughter.According to court documents, the 13-year-old victim told 34-year-old Kimberly Anne Upshaw she was sexually assaulted by Upshaw's boyfriend while asleep.Details on booking not reported.
Upshaw took the victim to the hospital and a rape kit tested positive. However, while talking with detectives, Upshaw and the victim claimed an "unknown suspect" was the assailant.
During follow-up questioning, Upshaw continued to say it was an unknown male, documents allege. But finally the victim admitted it was Upshaw's boyfriend who sexually assaulted her.
A former Bedford High School teacher was sentenced to four years community control for tampering with evidence relating to a large-scale psychedelic mushroom-growing operation.A tampering with evidence conviction tied to an illegal mushroom operation may negate future teaching opportunities for Mrs. Thierry.
Sara Thierry, 38, a former Spanish teacher at the school, pled guilty March 28 to tampering with evidence.
Jerome Phillips, a Toledo attorney with Wittenberg Phillips & Levy, said his client was sentences in front of Lucas County Commons Pleas Court Judge Dean Mandros, who ordered Mrs. Thierry to serve 150 hours of community service as part of her probation.
Matthew Thierry, 41, was sentenced to five years in prison.
Police allege that Mrs. Thierry had a role in the massive mushroom-growing operation that Toledo police busted while responding to a reported burglary in East Toledo on Sept. 16.Mr. and Mrs. Thierry were booked into custody at the Lucas County Jail. Mrs. Thierry was released on $2,500 bond. Mr. Thierry is being held on $50,000 bond.
Police found the grow operation, though no one was in the house, and searched several other properties, all owned, in some part, by Mrs. Thierry's husband, Matthew Thierry, 41.[…]
Police have said they seized 137 pounds of mushrooms and valued the drugs at $3.1 million, but said the valuation could change once purity tests have been completed. Police believe that the mushroom seizure is the largest ever in the state.
In court documents, police allege that Mrs. Thierry had the drugs which were "prepared for shipment," assisted in the cultivation, and "did contact another by phone and ask that person to dispose of a thumb drive that was inserted into her husband Matthew Thierry's work laptop," the various charging documents state.
(Terre Haute, Indiana) Former social studies teacher at Chauncey Rose Middle School, Erin Baynard Stewart, has admitted to engaging in Police arrested Erin Baynard Stewart in 2010 on allegations she had sexual encounters with the 14-year-old twice.Stewart's conviction on a felony charge of sexual misconduct with a minor awaits sentencing in June.
Stewart had been one of the teen’s teachers at Chauncey Rose Middle School in Terre Haute.
Police say Stewart had sexual contact with the student four times dating back to last December, including one time in a classroom.Booking information is not available.
The boy's mother was the one who first contacted police.
"He started talking to his friends about it, and one friend told another friend, told another friend, told another friend. And he said since so many people knew about it that he decide to tell his mother," said Rick Decker with the Terre Haute Police Department.
Weighing in at just 400kg, the Yúrén Wind, built by the Shanghai-based Yúrén Automobile Co – and poised for British launch this summer – is built from ultra-tough resin-impregnated recycled paper and cardboard on a lightweight aluminium chassis and powered by a compressed air motor.Heh.
(Mission, Texas) In April 2012 local woman Melissa Ann Hinojosa was convicted of playing hide-the-kielbasa with a 15-year-old boy.A state district judge sentenced Hinojosa to five years probation and required her to register as a convicted sex offender.Hinjosa, 33, was booked into custody at the Mission City Jail. She awaits a court date.
Deputy marshals reported that Hinojosa was unemployed and arrested for theft prompting the judge to revoke her probation.
Authorities searched her home and found her hiding in a bedroom.
