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RAWALPINDI: A man on Sunday morning surrendered himself to Waris Khan Police after killing his newlywed daughter and son-in-law in the name of honour. Police arrested him and began investigation into the killing. In May this year, Shabana, 20, had eloped with Abdul Khursheed, 40, who was already married and had three children. The act enraged girl’s father, Abdul Rasheed of Dhoke Farman Elahi, who shot dead the couple late on Saturday night after inviting them to a tea party at home. The killer later showed up at Waris Khan Police Station and confessed to killing the couple. Police took...

FORWARD OPERATING BASE FALCON, Iraq, Aug. 22, 2008 – Two Multinational Division Baghdad soldiers are the logistics staff officers for their respective brigade combat teams. While they serve their country in different locations, they have worked together as a team during the last 10 years. Army Majs. Dennis and Lesley Ortiz are reunited at Victory Base Complex in Baghdad on April 30, 2008. The Ortizes were married May 29, 1999, and have a 14-month old son, Dennis Jr., who stays with Lesley's mother while the military couple is deployed. Photo courtesy of Army Maj. Dennis Ortiz, Multinational Division Baghdad  (Click...

ROSEVILLE, Minn. - Paul and Sue Rosenau say they already have everything they need, so their lives won't change that much after winning a $180.1 million Powerball jackpot. "We realize that money is probably not as important as friendship and helping others. And that's what we hope to do with it," Paul Rosenau said at a news conference Tuesday when they accepted a ceremonial check. Rosenau, 54, is a heavy equipment operator and his wife, Sue, works at an agricultural research institute. The couple from Waseca will take the prize from last Saturday's drawing in a lump-sum of $59.6 million...

FORT WORTH -- The routine was familiar to the family and friends of J.C. and Josie Cox.When the couple visited, they'd sit a spell and talk, perhaps for an hour, maybe two. Then, without saying a word, Mr. Cox would stand up, grab his hat and coat, and silently walk to the front door. It was his way of saying he was ready to go, and Mrs. Cox, his wife of 75 years, always followed.Last week, at an Arlington nursing home, Mr. Cox, 100, clutching his wife's hand, died of complications from pneumonia. Five hours later, Mrs. Cox, 96, followed...

CAMP STRIKER, Iraq, Nov. 27, 2007 – Army Pvt. Imani Tumbling and Pfc. Angelo Tumbling will celebrate their first major holiday as a married couple and their first anniversary here in a combat zone. Army Pvt. Imani Tumbling and Pfc. Angelo Tumbling, Headquarters and Headquarters Company, 3rd Brigade Combat Team, 101st Airborne Division (Air Assault), share a laugh. The Tumblings are spending their first holiday season as husband and wife at Camp Striker, Iraq. After a whirlwind courtship that lasted four months, the two were married the month before they deployed. Photo by Sgt. 1st Class Kerensa Hardy, USA  (Click...

Police in New Baltimore (Michigan) have taken the unusual step of releasing photos of a bloody message left at the scene of a double murder.. in the hope someone can decipher what it says. .

A retired couple in the American state of New Hampshire have become national causes célèbres after barricading themselves in their fortified home for six months and refusing to go to jail for not paying their tax. Toting guns, quoting the Bible and pledging to fight for freedom, Ed and Elaine Brown are waiting in their remote hilltop home in Plainfield and daring the FBI to come in and get them. Officials, who are seeking to enforce a five-year prison sentence on the Browns for tax evasion, say they are trying to avoid a Waco-style shootout. The authorities have cut off...

Toddler Was Denied Shower Access as Well: A couple says their vacation was ruined when an RV park owner told them they weren't welcome after discovering their 2-year-old foster son had the HIV virus. Last week, Dick and Silvia Glover went to the Wales West RV Park in Silver Hill, Ala., with their foster son Caleb. When the boy was banned from using the pool and showers, the Glovers said they were offered an uncomfortable and painful choice: They could either keep Caleb out of the water or leave.

Pak lesbian couple want to be put in same jail: Lawyer May 25, 2007 16:00 IST The lawyer for a Pakistani lesbian couple, who have been put in separate jails recently for marrying, has petitioned the court that they should be put in the same prison. Rana Sajjad Hussain, lawyer for the lesbian couple Shumail Raj, 31, who underwent a sex change operation 16 years ago, and 26-year-old Shahzina Tariq, filed a petition in the Lahore high court asking for an order to put them in the same jail and to seek permission to meet them for legal consultation. The...

AN elderly Indian husband and wife were burnt to death after villagers accused them of practising black magic, tied them together on a pyre and set them on fire. “The aged couple died screaming for help,” police superintendent P V KuMarch said. Sayanna, 70, and his 61-year-old wife, Pochamma, were set ablaze after being doused with kerosene. Both were farm labourers near the southern city of Hyderabad who also practised traditional medicine. Police have arrested six villagers for the incident.

CAMP TAJI, Iraq, March 14, 2007 — More and more soldiers spend their deployments in Iraq serving alongside their spouses. Sgt. Erick McCormick, the warehouse non-commissioned officer in charge for Headquarters Company, 15th Brigade Troops Battalion, 15th Sustainment Brigade from Ketchikan, Alaska and Spc. t Michelle McCormick, a supply specialist also with the Sustainment Brigade, from Houston, Texas, are on their second deployment together, but first deployment as a married couple. Michelle joined the Army in 2004. Right after graduation from high school she packed her bags and headed to Fort Jackson, S.C. "My dad is a military policeman and...

With Valentine’s Day approaching, a Black River Falls, Wis., couple apparently decided to show their affection a little too publicly while shopping at a La Crosse store Saturday evening, La Crosse police said. Security cameras at ShopKo on the South Side caught the couple strolling through the store with a cart — and the woman holding her companion’s exposed penis, according to police reports. . . .

U.S. Army Staff Sgt. Joshua Thomsen & U.S. Army Sgt. Karla Thomsen Couple Shares Re-enlistment 'Vows' at Taji By Sgt. Jon Cupp 1st Brigade Combat Team 1st Cavalry Division Public Affairs CAMP TAJI, Iraq, Feb. 6, 2007 — Justin and Karla Thomsen do just about everything together - even go to war. So, it was no surprise that the two 1st Cavalry Division noncommissioned officers re-enlisted together here Jan. 25. Staff Sgt. Joshua Thomsen is a chemical operations specialist with Company D, 2nd Battalion, 8th Cavalry Regiment from Oxnard, Calif. His wife, Sgt. Karla Thomsen, is a joint network node...

FORT HUACHUCA — A hiker on Friday found the bodies of an elderly couple on Fort Huachuca, according to the post's Public Affairs Office. The couple were not associated with the military. The bodies were located in a remote area of Huachuca Canyon near a vehicle at approximately 1 p.m., post officials said Friday evening. There is no appearance of foul play, and the incident is under investigation by the FBI and CID.

If the mud slinging in a city council race this fall seems right out of divorce court it could be because two of the candidates are a former husband and wife. Leah Berlanga, one of seven people running for three open seats, said Monday that her former husband, Frank Berlanga, entered the race to harass her. "I'm not going to let somebody intimidate me," she said during a news conference in front of City Hall. Frank Berlanga, 53, was arrested Friday, the day after he filed his papers to run, and placed in San Mateo County jail without bail for...

PIMA — The Church of Cognizance, which has quietly operated here since 1991, has an unusual tenet — its worshippers deify and use marijuana as part of their faith. Until federal authorities charged them with possessing 172 pounds of their leafy green sacrament earlier this year, church founders Dan and Mary Quaintance say they smoked, ate or drank marijuana daily as a way of becoming more spiritually enlightened. But now, with added conspiracy charges, the Quaintances face up to 40 years each in prison in a case they call religious persecution. Federal prosecutors say religious freedom does not exempt the...

BALTIMORE - The Virginia couple arrested Saturday for trespassing after getting lost trying to find Interstate 95 have retained an attorney and plan to sue the city. “In view of what’s happened, it’s a given,” said Dale Anstine, an attorney in York, Pa., who is representing the family. “I personally know these people; they are good kids. I think the conduct of this police officer is beyond outrageous.” Llara Brook, 20, and her boyfriend, Josh Kelly, 22, traveled from Chantilly, Va., to Baltimore to see an Orioles game Saturday. The couple stopped in the 800 block of Bridgeview Drive in...

2 charged with filing fake obituary Pair submited obituary for son to newspaper Published: 04/10/2006 12:53 PM Updated: 04/10/2006 2:47 PM WATERLOO, IA - Two people who police say conspired to get off of work for a few days by filing a fake obituary with a newspaper have been arrested. James Ralph Snyder, 36, and Mary Jo Elizabeth Jensen, 33, both of Waterloo, participated in the scam by filing an obituary saying Jensen's 17-year-old son had died, police said. Snyder was charged with tampering with records. Jensen was charged with being an accessory after the fact. Snyder, claiming he was...

Choeng Wa Dae Official Confesses to Killing Wife A public service officer working at Cheong Wa Dae has strangled his wife, a public information officer for the Uri Party, to death, Seoul Dongdaemun police said Friday. Police said the suspect confessed to the crime and will be indicted for murder once his motive has been established. According to the police, the woman was found dead in a car parked in a neighborhood in Jeonnong-dong, Seoul on Friday morning. Police suspected murder because there were signs of strangulation around her neck. The body was found by a traffic warden. Police quoted...

Forget about opposites attracting. We like people who look like us, because they tend to have personalities similar to our own. And, a new study suggests, the longer we are with someone, the more similarities in appearance grow. Researchers set out to investigate why couples often tend to resemble one another. They asked 11 male and 11 female participants to judge the age, attractiveness and personality traits of 160 real-life married couples. Photographs of husbands and wives were viewed separately, so the participants didn't know who was married to whom. The test participants rated men and woman who were actual...

SAN FRANCISCO (AP) - Prosecutors are asking a judge to impose maximum prison sentences for the couple who masterminded the plot to plant a human fingertip in a bowl of Wendy's chili, calling the pair "grifters" who demonstrated "a total selfishness and perceived entitlement to other people's money." Jaime Plascencia, 44, and Anna Ayala, 40, pleaded guilty on Sept. 9 to two felony charges arising from the chili-finger scam: conspiracy to file a false insurance claim and attempted grand theft with damages exceeding $2.5 million. At most, Ayala faces nine years, eight months in prison for her part in the...

Suburban Bird-Feeding Couple Assaulted WEST CHICAGO - West Chicago police said they arrested a local man suspected of running over a 71-year-old woman with her own pickup and battered her husband during a carjacking attempt. Officers said David Martinez-Villareal, 21, was arrested Sunday morning near his home and charged with vehicular invasion, aggravated vehicular hijacking, six counts of aggravated battery and two counts of aggravated battery to a senior citizen. NBC5's Mary Ann Ahern reported that the couple routinely fed birds each morning, and were feeding birds at 8 a.m. For some unexplained reason, Martinez-Villareal began yelling at the couple,...

SACRAMENTO, United States (AFP) - Complete with proud smiles and self-conscious glances, Vladimir and Zynaida Chernenko's seventeen children were introduced to the world. Cradled delicately in Vladimir Chernenko's thick arms was his baby, David, whose birth on December 7 gave the Ukrainian-American family the largest brood in the United States, according to the Russian language newspaper The Speaker. "When we got married back in the Ukraine, for six month we had no children and thought we wouldn't have any kids at all," Vladimir told reporters at a celebration in Bethany Slavic Missionary Church in Sacramento. "I never thought I would...

FORT SILL, Okla. (Army News Service, Dec 6. 2005) – Marriage has been called a battleground by some, but one Oklahoma couple who deployed to a war zone together returned to Fort Sill Nov. 19 with the bonds of matrimony fully intact. Sgt. Sam Sanders and Spc. Tammy Sanders of Skiatook, Okla., both serve in Headquarters and Headquarters Company, 245th Aviation Battalion. The Tulsa-based Oklahoma Army National Guard unit was responsible for air traffic control at eight Army airfields in Iraq during its 11-month deployment, according to Capt. Keith Varner, battalion adjutant. 245th Aviation’s Lexington, Okla., based E Company, which...

TIKRIT, Iraq (Army News Service, Nov. 28, 2005) -- Sixteen suspected terrorists, including one female, were captured by Iraqi and U.S. forces during operations in north-central Iraq Nov. 26. In an early morning cordon and search mission near Baqubah, Soldiers detained nine suspected terrorists and seized fuses used for detonating explosives along with several anti-aircraft artillery rounds. To finish off the day, U.S. troops conducted a clearing operation in Baqubah Saturday night. The Soldiers detained a man and a woman after discovering them with eight blocks of C-4 plastic explosive, an AK-47 with several hundred rounds, blasting caps and various...

MAYWOOD, Ill. -- An elderly Illinois couple is hospitalized after being rescued from their burning car by a man who used his Thanksgiving turkey to break the windows. Mark Copsy said he rushed to help John and Juliana Brani, of Northlake, Ill., when he saw their car filling with smoke after it crashed into a curb Sunday afternoon. Copsy couldn't open the door and couldn't break the windows with his hands or feet, so the 20-pound frozen turkey had to do. Police and others who arrived helped pull the elderly couple from the car. They're reported in critical condition.

AMMAN, Jordan (AP) - Al-Qaida in Iraq claimed Friday that four Iraqis, including a husband and wife, carried out the suicide bombings against three Amman hotels, and police arrested 120 Jordanians and Iraqis in the hunt for anyone who might have aided them. If their involvement is confirmed, the husband and wife would be the first married couple yet known to take part in a suicide bombing, a top Israeli counterterrorism expert said. Thousands of Jordanians protested in Amman for a second straight day, condemning the attacks that killed 57 people, excluding the bombers, and denouncing al-Qaida in Iraq's leader,...

11/2/2005 - MCCONNELL AIR FORCE BASE, Kan. (AFPN) -- They enjoyed long walks on the beach, romantic dinners and winds of 159 miles per hour? Master Sgt. Leon Palmer and his new bride, Staff Sgt. Rena Palmer, both members of 22nd Security Forces Squadron, had an unexpected visitor during their honeymoon earlier this month in Cancun, Mexico. “We were in Cancun for four beautiful days when another hotel guest approached us on the beach and told us we might be evacuating to a shelter because of a hurricane,” said Master Sgt. Palmer. “We hadn’t been keeping up with the news...

NEW YORK (Oct. 20, 2005) -- Two Marines will consecrate their love for one another by taking the vows of marriage in front of the Soldiers’, Sailors’, Marines’, and Airmen’s Club (SSMAC) here, October 27. Cpl. Kelly Orman and his future wife, former PFC. Rachel Cole, will join as one at the very spot they were engaged earlier this summer. Following the service, the newlyweds will have a champagne toast and bouquet toss inside the club. The USO Troupe of Metropolitan New York will also perform a musical tribute to the couple following the ceremony, honoring the young couple as...

MACDILL AIR FORCE BASE, Fla., Oct. 18, 2005 – Albert Davis of Largo, Fla., may have retired from the U.S. Navy in 1973, but he's still serving his country and doing all that he can for the military. For the last 15 years, he and his wife Barbara have been diligently baking loaves of banana bread for American troops serving around the world. How many? Seven an hour, 94 per day, every day --- so many that on Oct. 14 the couple presented Army Gen. John Abizaid, commander of U.S. Central Command, with their 75,000th loaf during a ceremony here....

KEESLER AIR FORCE BASE, Miss. (AFPN) -- Five days after Hurricane Katrina dramatically changed many lives in the Gulf Coast region, a couple here began a new chapter in their own lives. Tech. Sgt. Daniel McMullen of the 335th Training Squadron and his girlfriend of three years, LaVerne, exchanged wedding vows Sept. 3 outside one of the base's seven shelters used to house people here since the hurricane struck. Guests of the bride and groom, all who shared a shelter with the couple, dressed for the occasion in the most fashionable way. The groomsmen wore reflective safety belts while the...

Couple Arrested, Children Remain Alone 11:11 Aug 10, '05 / 5 Av 5765 By Hillel Fendel Defense Minister Sha’ul Mofaz has issued a military restraining order against a couple from the slated-for-destruction community of Sa-Nur – leaving the family’s children alone in their house. It occurred in the late hours of Tuesday night. Policemen attempted to serve Miriam and Yaron Adler with papers forbidding them from entering their home in Sa-Nur, in the northern Shomron. The couple, which was staying at Miriam's parents’ home in N’vei Daniel in Gush Etzion, refused to accept the papers. The policemen then brutally arrested...

At 105, Herbert Brown is impeccably dressed in a crisp blue shirt that brings out the color of his eyes but belies the strain of time on his frail frame. Given his time spent in a Nazi concentration camp and his run-in with the notorious Adolf Eichmann, it's a wonder Brown has survived. But here he is, in the one-bedroom apartment he shares with his wife of 74 years, the former Magda Fritz, who is 100. Together, on July 15, their ages totaled 205 years and 293 days, making them — according to the Guinness Book of World Records —...

World's longest-married couple clock up 80 years By Nick Britten (Filed: 01/06/2005) When Percy and Florence Arrowsmith walked down the aisle as husband and wife, the Queen had yet to be born and an obscure former German soldier called Hitler had set out his thoughts in Mein Kampf. Percy and Florence Arrowsmith at home in Hereford yesterday Today, as they celebrate their 80th wedding anniversary, they will write their own little piece of history by becoming the world's longest-married couple. The obvious question - how on earth they do it - is one Mr Arrowsmith, 105, and his 100-year-old wife...

by Jacqueline Rapp, JD, JCL Other Articles by Jacqueline Rapp, JD, JCL Why Marry in the Church? 2/19/05 As the number of traditional Church weddings decline, more Catholics are opting for unusual weddings. These often take place outside of the Church. Some wish to marry on the beach, at their favorite ski resort, or some other exotic location. In This Article...Why Not Just Do What You Want?Do It for YourselfDo It for Your Children Why Not Just Do What You Want? Then there are those Catholics who attempt marriage outside of the Church because they are divorced and have not received...

Fla. Couple Sought on Child Abuse Charges In these undated photos provided by the Citrus County (Fla.) Sheriff's Department, Linda and John Dollar are shown. Children who had been living with the couple being sought on child abuse charges told police they were tortured by the pair, including having toenails pulled out by pliers, Citrus County sheriff's officials said Thursday, Feb. February 03, 2005 10:12 PM EST TAMPA, Fla. - A couple is being sought on child abuse charges for allegedly torturing seven children who lived with them - pulling out their toenails with pliers, delivering electric shocks and striking...

A young San Bernardino couple is going public with questions about supermodel Gisele Bundchen's "no questions asked" $5000.00 reward offer, which remains unpaid more than two weeks after the couple returned Bundchen's dog only to be arrested at gunpoint, handcuffed and held in custody. Although cleared by the police, the couple has no explanation from Bundchen of why they were treated like criminals and denied the reward. Hollywood, CA (PRWEB) December 10, 2004 -- Supermodel Gisele Bundchen’s “no questions asked” $5000.00 reward offer for her lost dog just before Thanksgiving, may have gotten her dog back, but, according to the...

A Russian couple admitted trying to avoid buying a train ticket for their 3-year-old daughter by putting her in a suitcase. Before boarding, the parents stopped off for a few drinks at a Moscow train station and took their eyes off the suitcase, which was stolen by thieves. They panicked, called cops and admitted their nefarious deed.

NewsFlash Home | More Washington State News   Couple requests prepaid calling cards — for soldiers in Iraq 11/7/2004, 3:28 p.m. PT The Associated Press     PORT ANGELES, Wash. (AP) — Local newlyweds made an unusual wedding-gift request: They wanted prepaid international telephone calling cards.Tony Clayton and Jeana Johnson-Clayton are sending the nearly 60 cards they received to U.S. military personnel in Iraq, so the troops can call home during the holidays.The bride's son, Chris Johnson, is serving in the Marine Corps and will be deployed early next year, she said."We thought about our friends who have sons...

  EXCLUSIVE We fooled everyone Charade ... Lucy and Susan, with moustache, wearing lad's jeans       By JOHN COLES TWO lesbians lived as a married couple for 13 years — by convincing the world one of them was a MAN. Lucy Kong and Susan Abberstein fooled everyone by acting as husband and wife after Susan transformed herself into a “fella”. She wore men’s clothes, took male hormones that boosted her muscles, grew a moustache and changed her name by deed poll to Samuel. No one noticed anything odd as the pair “married” in an official register office ceremony...

TORONTO (CP) - Barely a year after an Ontario court gave its blessing to same-sex marriage, a lesbian couple is trying to untie the knot in what critics dismissed Wednesday as little more than a judicial stunt to test the limits of Canada's divorce laws. The pair, identified in court documents only as J.H. and M.M., were together for five years prior to their decision to get married last June, but were separated just five days later - two weeks after the Ontario Court of Appeal legalized same-sex marriages. "It's clearly a set-up case after five days where they are...

Moms the word - Lesbian couple first on birth certificate By Casey Ross Friday, July 16, 2004 In a milestone for same-sex parents, a married lesbian couple from Jamaica Plain is believed to be the first homosexual pair recognized as parents on their child's birth certificate. Cora Roelofs and Liz Steinhauser are named as mother and ``second parent'' on a certificate issued by the town of Wellesley and approved by the state Department of Public Health. ``We hope people realize this is both justice and a joy, and we hope they support our family,'' said Roelofs, who gave birth June...

RUSSELL HALLEY takes pride in being able to do the splits as well as any woman on the dance floor. His partner, Jorge Guzman, can spin faster than the female competition. So when the two men don their matching see-through chiffon shirts to dance together, they alternate the lead. “I can send Jorge into a triple spin and catch him, and vice versa — even in the course of one move,” Mr Halley boasts. “We can change place instantly. From an audience point of view it can be very exciting.” The duo are at the forefront of an upheaval in...

Dead Man's Dangling Legs Greet Couple Fri Jan 2,10:37 AM ET Add Oddly Enough - Reuters to My Yahoo! SANTA FE, N.M. (Reuters) - A New Mexico couple returned home from a week-long vacation to find the legs of a dead man dangling from their ceiling, police said. The man was identified as Carl Smith, 81, and he was the former husband of the woman who lived in the home, said Trish Ahrensfield, a spokeswoman for the Albuquerque police. "He was stuck in an air conditioner duct," Ahrensfield said, adding a cause of death has not yet been determined. Police...

The Homosexual Platform of 1972 Tuesday, September 23, 2003 By Sam Kastensmidt Documents released by the Federal Bureau of Investigation (under the Freedom of Information Act), contain the “1972 Gay Rights Platform in the United States.” This platform reveals some very disturbing facts about the homosexual movement. On February 13, 1972, the National Coalition of Gay Organizations met in Chicago, Illinois, to develop the official “gay rights platform.” To view the actual document, please visit the FBI’s public records by clicking here. Then enter into Part 01, and scroll down to page 49. 1972 GAY RIGHTS PLATFORM IN THE UNITED...

FORT WORTH - Donnie and Tara Reese celebrate their son Clarence's birthday every year at his small grave in vast Greenwood Cemetery. It's one way of dealing with the loss of their son, who died at a hospital before ever taking a breath. "I bring him presents, a balloon, a cake," Tara Reese said last week as she stood over Clarence's headstone. "Everybody sits down and eats some of the cake here." Besides drawing the Reeses to the cemetery each year, the love they feel for their stillborn son has put the shy River Oaks couple into the middle of...

Madonna and Britney Spears are so last week. The hot new celebrity kissing couple is Meredith Vieira and ... me? "The View" co-host laid one on me a la Madonna and Britney at the MTV Video Music Awards during my audition Thursday for the open spot on the ABC daytime talk show I had no idea it was coming (though my co-workers placing bets back in the newsroom insisted that I did). But it was good TV. At least I think it was the whole experience was such a blur. This much I remember: In the pre-show meeting, Vieira, Star...

<p>Sacramento federal prosecutors lied and misled three judges to conceal dealings between the U.S. attorney's office and a Placer County narcotics detective, a defense attorney alleges in a sealed court document. The charge arises in a marijuana case against a former Rio Linda couple and grew out of attorney William Panzer's four-year quest for information about a federal grand jury subpoena.</p>

URBANA, Ohio (AP) - A man accused of helping his wife fake leukemia in their 7-year-old daughter to obtain thousands of dollars in donations pleaded guilty Monday to a felony count of endangering children. Robert Milbrandt also acknowledged, without admitting guilt, that there is enough evidence to convict him of felony theft. He faces up to six years in prison and a $12,500 fine. His wife, Teresa Milbrandt, pleaded guilty to felony charges of endangering children, grand theft and eight counts of theft on Thursday, said prosecutor Nick Selvaggio. She faces up to 14 years in prison and a $35,000...

<p>When Ken and Donna Hampe sold their black 1999 Chevy Silverado truck they thought they had made a deal for $20,900.</p> <p>But the cashier's check they accepted in September turned out to be counterfeit and the man who bought the truck was long gone.</p>