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Soon his tail was so far between his legs that it was up against his belly and he was slinking close to the ground. I'd never seen him do that before. In fact, it was his reaction that convinced me that the scary figure behind us really was a ghost. I mean, it was a rumored "haunted road" but the man looked completely solid--not even slightly transparent. The moment that the dog finally whirled and ran full tilt into the woods beside us was the exact moment that I realized that the man's heavy leather-soled boots were making no sound at all on the loose gravel of the road.
When I finally got back to our summer cottage a quarter of a mile or so away, the dog was there, still frightened, and my family was frantic. Since they knew how protective he was of me, they assumed I was dead or unconscious somewhere. He *definitely* saw the ghost and it scared him senseless. If you know what Border Collies are like, you know how highly intelligent they are and how loyal. As soon as I have time, I'm going to write up a full account of the encounter to post elsewhere, but wanted to put in my 2 cents on the "do animals perceive ghosts?" question. Years later, I also had a Lassie-type Collie who also responded quite strongly to a haunting inside our house, but that's a story for another day...
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In late January, we were honored to be last-minute invites to Autodesk's new IDEAS conference.
Part Foo, part mini-TED, part book-launch party, it was a really incredible experience. We got to meet lots of other amazing people and share all sorts of subjects. As part of a company that is strong on how and weak on why, it's always fun to bring our pragmatic and hands-on vision to the big ideas table!
There was a big focus on 'Design Thinking' and the value design has for business, our communities, and our world. Some talks from some amazing folks, then some creative break-out workshops, and of course, lots of conversations over lunch and dinner.
While we're huge fans of Autodesk's tools (especially Revit) the focus on the conference was less about Autodesk and more about just doing amazing things, no matter what tools were used.
One really cool feature of the conference was the visual documentation via photos and cartooning that was going on. Conversations were captured in a really compelling and concise way, while it was happening, by a team of amazing illustrators in the wings. Their handiwork can be seen in the great PDF summary of the conference you can see here. And cameras were everywhere, with the resulting Flickr stream here.
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John Honeywell kicks up red dust in a dry field as he pulls a forty foot grain drill to plant winter wheat near Orlando, Okla., on Sept. 12, 2012. Nearly 60 percent of the contiguous US was in at least "moderate" drought as of November 13, according to Thursday's Drought Monitor.
A storm system that brought cold, wet weather to much of the United States last week helped ease drought in many states, but some areas that were most in need of moisture were missed, according to a climatology report issued on Thursday.
The High Plains, which includes key farm states of Nebraska, South Dakota, and Kansas, saw slight improvement last week due to good precipitation. But three quarters of both Kansas and Nebraska continued to suffer from extreme or exceptional drought.
In South Dakota, extreme or worse drought still covers nearly 55 percent of the state.
Roughly 58.83 percent of the contiguous United States was in at least "moderate" drought as of November 13, down from 59.48 percent a week earlier, according to Thursday's Drought Monitor, a weekly compilation of data gathered by federal and academic scientists.
The portion of the contiguous United States under "extreme" or "exceptional" drought - the two most dire classifications - improved to 18.30 percent from 19.36 percent.
The persistent drought has hindered growth of the new winter wheat crop in many U.S. Plains states. The U.S. Department of Agriculture said this week that wheat in Nebraska, South Dakota, and Montana has shown very poor emergence and is well behind the average pace.
Texas and Oklahoma, also key wheat growing states, continued to struggle with drought.
Overall, the new winter wheat crop is rated 36 percent good to excellent, below last year's rating at this time of 50 percent. Kansas wheat is rated 21 percent poor to very poor.
Wheat in Nebraska, South Dakota, Colorado, and Oklahoma is struggling with more than 30 percent of it in each of those states rated poor to very poor, according to USDA.
In Texas, the drought deepened as the state was largely missed by the rain storms that swept through the Plains and Midwest. In contrast, most of Oklahoma, Arkansas, and western Tennessee measured widespread "decent" precipitation, according to the Drought Monitor.
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I really love quantum physics, but not necessarily the entanglement and computation that I write about here at Ars. Think of my interests like this: if two molecules come into proximity and react to form products, how do they do that? Usually there are many different possible reactions, so why do we end up with the products that we observe?
For many molecules and potential reaction products, the energy released or absorbed during the reaction is enough to tell you what you're going to end up with. But there are many, many cases where the energy differences between different products are small enough that more than one product is produced. Or sometimes a catalyst can intervene to allow reactions that, from an energetic perspective, should be very rare.
In any case, I'm not really interested in the bulk reactions and average products. I'm interested in the details: how do the starting quantum states and coherences between these states influence the final reaction product?
Expanding and generalizing on that: since the quantum states of molecules determine their properties, how much control can we exert over those characteristics through quantum manipulations?
I think there are very few physicists and chemists who would argue these are uninteresting questions. The physicists, however, might say, "This has all been done before." After all, electromagnetically induced transparency, self-induced transparency, frozen light experiments, and Bose Einstein condensation are all examples of manipulating quantum states to set the properties of a material. The chemists would point to molecular beam experiments on cold molecules as evidence that we are already studying how the initial quantum state of a molecule influences subsequent reactions.
These things are already being done, and I probably can't add much. But I don't want to add to those examples; I don't want to work on those sorts of materials. I have no interest in making cold dilute gasses of metallic atoms or molecules, or working with crystalline solids dropped to the temperature of liquid helium. And there is no way that I would willingly enter the seventh circle of the hell that is molecular beams.
No, I want to work with liquids and thin frozen layers—and layers that are not necessarily ordered crystals. (At this point, all the physicists and chemists reading this will be laughing, because liquids are absolutely the worst choice to work with.)
Why liquids?
Liquids are interesting, though. They lack the order that makes the behavior of a crystal relatively clean, yet they still retain near-solid densities, meaning that individual molecules interact with each other constantly. In a very real sense, liquids represent the messy middle ground between low-density cold gases and crystalline solids.
On Earth, liquids are also where all the most interesting stuff occurs. All the chemical reactions that occur in a cell? That's a liquid environment. Almost all pharmaceutical products are produced in wet-chemical reactions. In fact, many industrial processes are condensed phase reactions. If we can get control of and directly play with the states and coherences of molecules in a liquid phase, then we will have an important new tool. This wouldn't just be useful for studying why things are the way they are, but it would also provide us with new knobs to control the properties of materials. I think that is exciting and worthwhile stuff.
We know this is important—experimental results tell us that coherence is a vital aspect of photosynthesis. But there is a rumbling controversy over speculation that enzymes make use of coherence to help catalyze reactions.
On the applications side, we know that coherence between vibrational states—these are the quantum states that describe the spring-like vibrations of atoms within a molecule—is the source of a lot of interesting optical phenomena, and that controlling their coherence would allow for new imaging techniques. All of this paints a picture of something that is of broad interest. Yet no one has been able to put together the important experiments to do any of it. That is what I want to do.
In which I literally have a vision
The thing is, as nice as this idea is, it doesn't matter at all unless I can come up with a reasonable scheme to make the measurements involved. Sometimes, experiments are blindingly obvious, but on other occasions no one knows how to do them.
I often daydream about what atoms and molecules get up to when no one is looking. Lately, I have been getting flashes of images of the coherence involved as molecules approach each other: I dream of sitting on an atom in a molecule and seeing the electron clouds moving around in response to an approaching molecule. At some point, I snap out of it (the hot water has run out, most likely), thinking, "I would love to see that for real."
These sorts of dreams seem to prime my brain. I'll more likely end up dreaming about the same molecule and the same coherence, but this time there will be a laser, or an electrode, or something else involved that interferes with what is going on. I even end up dreaming about what that instrument could record. I'll end up having the same dream with variations to the external interference over and over again. At some point, the dreams converge into one "ideal" experiment.
The kernel for this particular idea came from a dream about how coherence can appear to have vanished yet may, in fact, still be around. Imagine a liquid with a single molecule that is different from the rest. We hit that molecule with a laser pulse designed to excite a specific vibrational mode—for example, a pulse that sets two carbon atoms in motion so that the bond between them stretches and compresses. Now, because the molecule is in a liquid, it is continuously brushing up against other molecules. Every time it does, that vibrational mode is disturbed: its phase might change, or it might give up some energy to another molecule. This process occurs on time scales that are typically faster than a couple of picoseconds (it depends on a lot of factors).
But there's another process going on. The very motion of those two carbon atoms will set other atoms within the same molecule into motion. So exciting one vibrational mode leads to other vibrational modes being excited in a kind of cascade. This process, called delocalization, is a bit like one oscillator (think a ball on a spring) driving another spring linked to it. All kinds of crazy things can eventually happen, but at least initially, the two oscillators are in phase and coherent with each other.
In my dream, I see this molecule's atoms sequentially begin to vibrate until the vibrations get smaller and finally stop. In the absence of collisions, the phase relationship between these different vibrational modes is not simple, or even predictable. It's deterministic. Now, if I were to shine another laser pulse on it, it could take away some vibrational energy from the molecule in a process called Raman scattering. This slows the vibrations but also extracts information about how the original vibrational wave packet spread out through the molecule—information that can be gathered by measuring the frequency, phase, and amplitude of the scattered light.
Imagine that I can do these measurements. What do I learn? I learn some very specific information about that particular molecule and its environment. For example:
- The balance between the importance of collisional effects and internal delocalization
- The time scale of delocalization
- How much collisions randomize the phase of vibrations
Those are interesting things to know. But we're already aware of a fair bit about this, especially for electronically excited atoms and molecules. What does this "ideal" experiment add, and how does it become a research program?
The first step is to realize that the questions this one experiment can answer change based on the context—the molecules and conditions involved. This is actually a very useful thing: the same basic experiment, conducted under different conditions, will tell us very different things, with different implications and relevance. We can take advantage of this to create a research program that easily generates tasty, PhD-sized chunks of science without needing much in the way of new equipment and development time—they are all based on similar measurements from a similar apparatus. Once you have those measurements working, the projects flow.
This is actually the secret to a lot of research labs: a technique is mastered, and then you make hay for as long as you possibly can with it. In the next installment, we'll go through a few of these specific projects to see what sort of hay I want to make.


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Hip-hop has been making enemies for as long as it has been winning fans. It has been dismissed as noise, blamed for concert riots, accused of glorifying crime and sexism and greed and Ebonics. From Run-D.M.C. to Sister Souljah to Tupac Shakur to Young Jeezy, the story of hip-hop is partly the story of those who have been irritated, even horrified, by it.
Even so, the anti-hip-hop fervor of the last few weeks has been extraordinary, if not quite unprecedented. Somehow Don Imus's ill-considered characterization of the Rutgers women's basketball team — "some nappy-headed hos" — led not only to his firing but also to a discussion of the crude language some rappers use. Mr. Imus and the Rev. Al Sharpton traded words on Mr. Sharpton's radio show and on "Today," and soon the hip-hop industry had been pulled into the fray.
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OTTAWA — The federal government is considering yielding to pressure from the beer industry to scale back new food labelling rules designed to protect people with food allergies, Health Canada has confirmed.
After working on the plan for more than a decade, Health Canada announced the labelling proposal in 2008 to make it easier for people with allergies to identify ingredients and alert consumers if a food or beverage contains a known allergen, such as nuts, milk and sulphites.
The final regulations were set to be published in the next few weeks following lengthy consultations with health and industry groups. But this timeline — and the products covered by the new regulations — are now up in the air after a last-ditch lobbying campaign by the beer industry over the objections of allergy associations.
The Brewers Association of Canada is pushing hard behind the scenes for an exemption to the labelling rules requiring enhanced labelling for gluten sources and added sulphites — and Health Canada is now mulling over the beer industry's request.
Under the proposed regulations, alcoholic beverages would still retain their exemption from complete ingredient listing, but would be required to declare any food allergens, gluten sources or added sulphites on labels for beer, wine and spirits. The plan also includes a phase-in period to bring in the new labels — aimed at people with celiac disease, which is characterized by an intolerance to gluten, a protein found in grains such as wheat, oats and barley.
The proposal now under review mirrors labelling rules already in effect in the United States. There, U.S. beer companies and Canadian brewers selling their products in the U.S. must cite any major food allergen on the bottle, such as wheat and barley.
"We're urging Health Canada to go ahead with what we've all worked carefully on together for all these years. And when I say together, I mean the patient support groups and the industry. The people who distil spirits, the people who make wine — they have not caused any issue, it's just this beer thing," Janet Dalziel, president of the Canadian Celiac Association, said Wednesday.
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|Almost five centuries as a Portuguese colony came to a close with independence in 1975. Large-scale emigration, economic dependence on South Africa, a severe drought, and a prolonged civil war hindered the country's development until the mid-1990s. The ruling Front for the Liberation of Mozambique (FRELIMO) party formally abandoned Marxism in 1989, and a new constitution the following year provided for multiparty elections and a free market economy. A UN-negotiated peace agreement between FRELIMO and rebel Mozambique National Resistance (RENAMO) forces ended the fighting in 1992. In December 2004, Mozambique underwent a delicate transition as Joaquim CHISSANO stepped down after 18 years in office. His elected successor, Armando GUEBUZA, served two terms and then passed executive power to Filipe NYUSI in October 2014. RENAMO's residual armed forces engaged in a low-level insurgency from 2012 to 2014.
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| total: 799,380 sq km
land: 786,380 sq km
water: 13,000 sq km
Size comparison: slightly less than twice the size of California
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|total: 4,783 km border countries (6): Malawi 1,498 km, South Africa 496 km, Swaziland 108 km, Tanzania 840 km, Zambia 439 km, Zimbabwe 1,402 km
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exclusive economic zone: 200 nm
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other: 0% (2011 est.)
|Irrigated land:
|1,180 sq km (2012)
|Natural hazards:
|severe droughts; devastating cyclones and floods in central and southern provinces
|Current Environment Issues:
|increased migration of the population to urban and coastal areas with adverse environmental consequences; desertification; pollution of surface and coastal waters; elephant poaching for ivory is a problem
|International Environment Agreements:
| party to: Biodiversity, Climate Change, Climate Change-Kyoto Protocol, Desertification, Endangered Species, Hazardous Wastes, Law of the Sea, Ozone Layer Protection, Ship Pollution, Wetlands
signed, but not ratified: none of the selected agreements
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| noun: Mozambican(s)
adjective: Mozambican
|Ethnic groups:
|African 99.66% (Makhuwa, Tsonga, Lomwe, Sena, and others), Europeans 0.06%, Euro-Africans 0.2%, Indians 0.08%
|Emakhuwa 25.3%, Portuguese (official) 10.7%, Xichangana 10.3%, Cisena 7.5%, Elomwe 7%, Echuwabo 5.1%, other Mozambican languages 30.1%, other 4% (1997 census)
|Roman Catholic 28.4%, Muslim 17.9%, Zionist Christian 15.5%, Protestant 12.2% (includes Pentecostal 10.9% and Anglican 1.3%), other 6.7%, none 18.7%, unspecified 0.7% (2007 est.)
|25,930,150 note: estimates for this country explicitly take into account the effects of excess mortality due to AIDS; this can result in lower life expectancy, higher infant mortality, higher death rates, lower population growth rates, and changes in the distribution of population by age and sex than would otherwise be expected (July 2016 est.)
|Age structure:
| 0-14 years: 44.92% (male 5,856,623/female 5,791,519)
15-24 years: 21.51% (male 2,741,474/female 2,835,474)
25-54 years: 27.24% (male 3,301,883/female 3,762,626)
55-64 years: 3.42% (male 425,312/female 462,125)
65 years and over: 2.9% (male 345,408/female 407,706) (2016 est.)
|Dependency ratios:
| total dependency ratio: 94.8%
youth dependency ratio: 88.2%
elderly dependency ratio: 6.5%
potential support ratio: 15.3% (2015 est.)
|Median age:
| total: 17.1 years
male: 16.5 years
female: 17.7 years (2016 est.)
|Population growth rate:
|2.45% (2016 est.)
|Birth rate:
|38.3 births/1,000 population (2016 est.)
|Death rate:
|11.9 deaths/1,000 population (2016 est.)
|Net migration rate:
|-1.9 migrant(s)/1,000 population (2016 est.)
| urban population: 32.2% of total population (2015)
rate of urbanization: 3.27% annual rate of change (2010-15 est.)
|Major urban areas - population:
|MAPUTO (capital) 1.187 million; Matola 937,000 (2015)
|Sex ratio:
| at birth: 1.02 male(s)/female
0-14 years: 1.01 male(s)/female
15-24 years: 0.97 male(s)/female
25-54 years: 0.88 male(s)/female
55-64 years: 0.92 male(s)/female
65 years and over: 0.85 male(s)/female
total population: 0.96 male(s)/female (2016 est.)
|Mother's mean age at first birth:
|18.9 median age at first birth among women 25-29 (2011 est.)
|Maternal mortality rate:
|489 deaths/100,000 live births (2015 est.)
|Infant mortality rate:
| total: 67.9 deaths/1,000 live births male: 70 deaths/1,000 live births
female: 65.9 deaths/1,000 live births (2016 est.)
|Life expectancy at birth:
| total population: 53.3 years male: 52.6 years
female: 54.1 years (2016 est.)
|Total fertility rate:
|5.15 children born/woman (2016 est.)
|Contraceptive prevalence rate:
|11.6% (2011)
|Health expenditures:
|7% of GDP (2014)
|Physicians density:
|0.04 physicians/1,000 population (2012)
|Hospital bed density:
|0.7 beds/1,000 population (2011)
|Drinking water source:
| improved:
urban: 80.6% of population
rural: 37% of population
total: 51.1% of population
urban: 19.4% of population
rural: 63% of population
total: 48.9% of population (2015 est.)
|Sanitation facility access:
| improved:
urban: 42.4% of population
rural: 10.1% of population
total: 20.5% of population
urban: 57.6% of population
rural: 89.9% of population
total: 79.5% of population (2015 est.)
|HIV/AIDS - adult prevalence rate:
|10.55% (2015 est.)
|HIV/AIDS - people living with HIV/AIDS:
|1,505,900 (2015 est.)
|HIV/AIDS - deaths:
|39,000 (2015 est.)
|Obesity - adult prevalence rate:
|4.5% (2014)
|Children under the age of 5 years underweight:
|15.6% (2011)
|Education expenditures:
|6.5% of GDP (2013)
| definition: age 15 and over can read and write
total population: 58.8%
male: 73.3%
female: 45.4% (2015 est.)
|School life expectancy (primary to tertiary education):
| total: 9 years male: 10 years
female: 9 years (2014)
|Unemployment, youth ages 15-24:
| total: 39.4% male: 40.2%
female: 38.7% (2012 est.)
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|Country name:
| conventional long form: Republic of Mozambique
conventional short form: Mozambique
local long form: Republica de Mocambique
local short form: Mocambique
former: Portuguese East Africa
etymology: named for the offshore island of Mozambique; the island was apparently named after Mussa al-BIK, an influential Arab slave trader who set himself up as sultan on the island in the 15th century
|Government type:
|presidential republic
| name: Maputo
geographic coordinates: 25 57 S, 32 35 E
time difference: UTC+2 (7 hours ahead of Washington, DC, during Standard Time)
|Administrative divisions:
|10 provinces (provincias, singular - provincia), 1 city (cidade)*; Cabo Delgado, Gaza, Inhambane, Manica, Maputo, Cidade de Maputo*, Nampula, Niassa, Sofala, Tete, Zambezia
|25 June 1975 (from Portugal)
|National holiday:
|Independence Day, 25 June (1975)
|previous 1975, 1990; latest adopted 16 November 2004, effective 21 December 2004; amended 2007; note - amendments drafted in late 2013 were rejected by parliament in late 2015 (2016)
|Legal system:
|mixed legal system of Portuguese civil law, and customary law; note - in rural, predominately Muslim villages with no formal legal system, Islamic law may be applied
|18 years of age; universal
|Executive branch:
| chief of state: President Filipe Jacinto NYUSI (since 15 January 2015)
head of government: Prime Minister Carlos Agostinho DO ROSARIO (since 17 January 2015); Alberto Clementino Antonio VAQUINA removed from office 9 January 2015
cabinet: Cabinet appointed by the president elections/appointments: president elected directly elected by absolute majority popular vote in 2 rounds if needed for a 5-year term (eligible for 2 consecutive terms); election last held on 15 October 2014 (next to be held in October 2019); prime minister appointed by the president
election results: Filipe NYUSI elected president; percent of vote - Filipe NYUSI (FRELIMO) 57.0%, Afonso DHLAKAMA (RENAMO) 36.6%, Daviz SIMANGO (MDM) 6.4%
|Legislative branch:
| description: unicameral Assembly of the Republic or Assembleia da Republica (250 seats; members - including 2 representing Mozambicans abroad - directly elected in single- and multi-seat constituencies by proportional representation vote; members serve 5-year terms)
elections: last held on 15 October 2014 (next to be held in October 2019)
election results: percent of vote by party - FRELIMO 55.9%, RENAMO 32.5%, MDM 8.4%, other 3.3%; seats by party - FRELIMO 144, RENAMO 89, MDM 17
|Judicial branch:
| highest court(s): Supreme Court (consists of the court president, vice president, and 5 judges); Constitutional Council (consists of 7 judges); note - the Higher Council of the Judiciary is responsible for judiciary management and discipline judge selection and term of office: Supreme Court president and vice president appointed by Mozambique president in consultation with the Higher Council of the Judiciary (CSMJ) and with ratification by the legislature; other judges elected by the legislature; judges serve 5-year renewable terms; Constitutional Council judges appointed - 1 by the president, 5 by the legislature, and 1 by the CSMJ; judges serve 5-year nonrenewable terms
subordinate courts: Administrative Court (capital city only); provincial courts or Tribunais Judicias de Provincia; District Courts or Tribunais Judicias de Districto; customs courts; maritime courts; courts marshal; labor courts; community courts
|Political parties and leaders:
|Democratic Movement of Mozambique (Movimento Democratico de Mocambique) or MDM [Daviz SIMANGO] Front for the Liberation of Mozambique (Frente de Liberatacao de Mocambique) or FRELIMO [Filipe NYOSOI] Mozambique National Resistance (Resistencia Nacional Mocambicana) or RENAMO [Afonso DHLAKAMA]
|Political pressure groups and leaders:
|Mozambican League of Human Rights (Liga Mocambicana dos Direitos Humanos) or LDH [Alice MABOTE, president]
|International organization participation:
|ACP, AfDB, AU, C, CD, CPLP, EITI (compliant country), FAO, G-77, IAEA, IBRD, ICAO, ICC (NGOs), ICRM, IDA, IDB, IFAD, IFC, IFRCS, IHO, ILO, IMF, IMO, IMSO, Interpol, IOC, IOM, IPU, ISO (correspondent), ITSO, ITU, ITUC (NGOs), MIGA, NAM, OIC, OIF (observer), OPCW, SADC, UN, UNCTAD, UNESCO, UNHCR, UNIDO, Union Latina, UNISFA, UNWTO, UPU, WCO, WFTU (NGOs), WHO, WIPO, WMO, WTO
|National symbol(s):
|national colors: green, black, yellow, white, red
|National anthem:
| name: "Patria Amada" (Lovely Fatherland)
lyrics/music: Salomao J. MANHICA/unknown
note: adopted 2002
|Diplomatic representation in the US:
| chief of mission: Ambassador Carlos dos SANTOS (since 28 January 2016)
chancery: 1525 New Hampshire Avenue NW, Washington, DC 20036
telephone: [1] (202) 293-7146
|Diplomatic representation from the US:
| chief of mission: Ambassador H. Dean PITTMAN (since 18 February 2016)
embassy: Avenida Kenneth Kuanda 193, Maputo
mailing address: P.O. Box 783, Maputo
telephone: [258] (21) 49 2797
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At independence in 1975, Mozambique was one of the world's poorest countries. Socialist policies, economic mismanagement, and a brutal civil war from 1977 to 1992 further impoverished the country. In 1987, the government embarked on a series of macroeconomic reforms designed to stabilize the economy. These steps, combined with donor assistance and with political stability since the multi-party elections in 1994, propelled the country's GDP from $4 billion in 1993, following the war, to about $34 billion in 2015. Fiscal reforms, including the introduction of a value-added tax and reform of the customs service, have improved the government's revenue collection abilities. In spite of these gains, more than half the population remains below the poverty line. Subsistence agriculture continues to employ the vast majority of the country's work force. Citizens rioted in September 2010 after fuel, water, electricity, and bread price increases were announced. In an attempt to lessen the negative impact on the population, the government implemented subsidies, decreased taxes and tariffs, and instituted other fiscal measures. A substantial trade imbalance persists, although aluminum production from the Mozal Aluminum Smelter has significantly boosted export earnings in recent years. In 2012, The Mozambican Government took over Portugal's last remaining share in the Cahora Bassa Hydroelectricity Company, a significant contributor to the Southern African Power Pool. The government has plans to expand the Cahora Bassa Dam and build additional dams to increase its electricity exports and fulfill the needs of its burgeoning domestic industries. Mozambique's once substantial foreign debt was reduced through forgiveness and rescheduling under the IMF's Heavily Indebted Poor Countries (HIPC) and Enhanced HIPC initiatives. However, in 2013, the Mozambique Tuna Company (EMATUM) issued an $850 million bond fully guaranteed by the Mozambican government primarily for the purpose of purchasing tuna boats. The government is attempting to reschedule this debt, in the expectation that a pending deal with a consortium led by a US company will provide enough revenue to pay off this debt. The pending deal has the potential to transform Mozambique's economy and dramatically increase GDP. Mozambique grew at an average annual rate of 6%-8% in the decade up to 2015, one of Africa's strongest performances. Mozambique's ability to attract large investment projects in natural resources is expected to sustain high growth rates in coming years although weaker global demand for commodities is likely to weaken expected revenues from these vast resources, including natural gas, coal, titanium, and hydroelectric capacity.
|GDP (purchasing power parity):
| GDP (purchasing power parity): $35.31 billion (2016 est.) $33.79 billion (2015 est.) $31.7 billion (2014 est.)
note: data are in 2016 dollars
|GDP (official exchange rate):
|GDP (official exchange rate): $12.05 billion (2015 est.)
|GDP - real growth rate:
|4.5% (2016 est.) 6.6% (2015 est.) 7.4% (2014 est.)
|GDP - per capita (PPP):
| GDP - per capita (PPP): $1,200 (2016 est.) $1,200 (2015 est.) $1,200 (2014 est.)
note: data are in 2016 dollars
|Gross national saving:
|5% of GDP (2016 est.) 14.7% of GDP (2015 est.) 29.5% of GDP (2014 est.)
|GDP - composition, by end use:
| household consumption: 67.1%
government consumption: 23.2%
investment in fixed capital: 37.4%
investment in inventories: 4.3%
exports of goods and services: 31.3%
imports of goods and services: -63.3% (2016 est.)
|GDP - composition, by sector of origin:
| household consumption: 67.1%
government consumption: 23.2%
investment in fixed capital: 37.4%
investment in inventories: 4.3%
exports of goods and services: 31.3%
imports of goods and services: -63.3% (2016 est.)
|Agriculture - products:
|cotton, cashew nuts, sugarcane, tea, cassava (manioc, tapioca), corn, coconuts, sisal, citrus and tropical fruits, potatoes, sunflowers; beef, poultry
|aluminum, petroleum products, chemicals (fertilizer, soap, paints), textiles, cement, glass, asbestos, tobacco, food, beverages
|Industrial production growth rate:
|2.1% (2016 est.)
|Labor force:
|13.31 million (2016 est.)
|Labor force - by occupation:
| agriculture: 81%
industry: 6%
services: 13% (1997 est.)
|Unemployment rate:
|17% (2007 est.) 21% (1997 est.)
|Population below poverty line:
|52% (2009 est.)
|Household income or consumption by percentage share:
| lowest 10%: 1.9%
highest 10%: 36.7% (2008)
|Distribution of family income - Gini index:
|45.6 (2008) 47.3 (2002)
| revenues: $2.554 billion
expenditures: $3.609 billion (2016 est.)
|Taxes and other revenues:
|21.2% of GDP (2016 est.)
|Public debt:
|100.3% of GDP (2016 est.) 75.8% of GDP (2015 est.)
|Fiscal year:
|calendar year
|Inflation rate (consumer prices):
|Inflation rate (consumer prices): 17.1% (2016 est.) 3.6% (2015 est.)
|Current account balance:
|-$4.035 billion (2016 est.) -$5.776 billion (2015 est.)
|$3.132 billion (2016 est.) $3.413 billion (2015 est.)
|Exports - commodities:
|aluminum, prawns, cashews, cotton, sugar, citrus, timber; bulk electricity
|Exports - partners:
|South Africa 24.9%, China 10.2%, Italy 8.9%, India 8.9%, Belgium 7.9%, Spain 4.4% (2015)
|$5.151 billion (2016 est.) $7.577 billion (2015 est.)
|Imports - commodities:
|machinery and equipment, vehicles, fuel, chemicals, metal products, foodstuffs, textiles
|Imports - partners:
|South Africa 26.8%, China 19.3%, India 13.9% (2015)
|Reserves of foreign exchange and gold:
|$1.541 billion (31 December 2016 est.) $2.582 billion (31 December 2015 est.)
|Debt - external:
|$9.554 billion (31 December 2016 est.) $9.743 billion (31 December 2015 est.)
|Market value of publicly traded shares:
|Exchange rates:
|meticais (MZM) per US dollar - 62.07 (2016 est.) 39.983 (2015 est.) 39.983 (2014 est.) 31.367 (2013 est.) 28.38 (2012 est.)
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|Electricity - production:
|17 billion kWh (2014 est.)
|Electricity - consumption:
|12 billion kWh (2014 est.)
|Electricity - exports:
|10 billion kWh (2014 est.)
|Electricity - imports:
|7.7 billion kWh (2014 est.)
|Electricity - installed generating capacity:
|2.6 million kW (2014 est.)
|Electricity - from fossil fuels:
|10.2% of total installed capacity (2012 est.)
|Electricity - from nuclear fuels:
|0% of total installed capacity (2012 est.)
|Electricity - from hydroelectric plants:
|89.8% of total installed capacity (2012 est.)
|Electricity - from other renewable sources:
|0% of total installed capacity (2012 est.)
|Crude oil - production:
|0 bbl/day (2015 est.)
|Crude oil - exports:
|0 bbl/day (2013 est.)
|Crude oil - imports:
|0 bbl/day (2013 est.)
|Crude oil - proved reserves:
|0 bbl (1 January 2016 es)
|Refined petroleum products - production:
|0 bbl/day (2013 est.)
|Refined petroleum products - consumption:
|19,000 bbl/day (2014 est.)
|Refined petroleum products - exports:
|0 bbl/day (2013 est.)
|Refined petroleum products - imports:
|19,920 bbl/day (2013 est.)
|Natural gas - production:
|5.6 billion cu m (2014 est.)
|Natural gas - consumption:
|1.8 billion cu m (2014 est.)
|Natural gas - exports:
|3.8 billion cu m (2014 est.)
|Natural gas - imports:
|0 cu m (2013 est.)
|Natural gas - proved reserves:
|2.832 trillion cu m (1 January 2016 es)
|Carbon dioxide emissions from consumption of energy:
|3.9 million Mt (2013 est.)
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|Cellular Phones in use:
|total: 20.135 million subscriptions per 100 inhabitants: 80 (July 2015 est.)
|Telephone system:
| general assessment: a fair telecommunications system that is shackled with a heavy state presence, lack of competition, and high operating costs and charges
domestic: extremely low fixed-line teledensity contrasts with rapid growth in the mobile-cellular network; mobile-cellular coverage now includes all the main cities and key roads; mobile-cellular teledensity now about 80 per 100 persons
international: country code - 258; landing point for the EASSy and SEACOM fiber-optic submarine cable systems; satellite earth stations - 5 Intelsat (2 Atlantic Ocean and 3 Indian Ocean) (2015)
|Broadcast media:
|1 state-run TV station supplemented by private TV station; Portuguese state TV's African service, RTP Africa, and Brazilian-owned TV Miramar are available; state-run radio provides nearly 100% territorial coverage and broadcasts in multiple languages; a n (2007)
|Internet country code:
|Internet users:
|total: 2.277 million percent of population: 9% (July 2015 est.)
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|98 (2013)
|Airports (paved runways):
| total 21
over 3,047 m: 1
2,438 to 3,047 m: 2
1,524 to 2,437 m: 9
914 to 1,523 m: 5
under 914 m: 4 (2013)
|Airports (unpaved runways):
| total 77
2,438 to 3,047 m: 1
1,524 to 2,437 m: 9
914 to 1,523 m: 29
under 914 m: 38 (2013)
|gas 972 km; refined products 278 km (2013)
| total 4,787 km
narrow gauge: 4,787 km 1.067-m gauge (2014)
| total 30,331 km
paved: 6,303 km
unpaved: 24,028 km (2009)
|460 km (Zambezi River navigable to Tete and along Cahora Bassa Lake) (2010)
|Merchant marine:
| total 2
by type: cargo 2
foreign-owned: 2 (Belgium 2) (2010)
|Ports and terminals:
|major seaport(s): Beira, Maputo, Nacala
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|Military branches:
|Mozambique Armed Defense Forces (Forcas Armadas de Defesa de Mocambique, FADM): Mozambique Army, Mozambique Navy (Marinha de Guerra de Mocambique, MGM), Mozambique Air Force (Forca Aerea de Mocambique, FAM) (2012)
|Military service age and obligation:
|registration for military service is mandatory for all males and females at 18 years of age; 18-35 years of age for selective compulsory military service; 18 years of age for voluntary service; 2-year service obligation; women may serve as officers or enlisted (2012)
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|Transnational Issues
|Disputes - International:
|South Africa has placed military units to assist police operations along the border of Lesotho, Zimbabwe, and Mozambique to control smuggling, poaching, and illegal migration
|Refugees and internally displaced persons:
|refugees (country of origin): 9,082 (Congo, Democratic Republic of the) (2015) IDPs: 61,102 (2015 floods) (2015)
|Illicit drugs:
|southern African transit point for South Asian hashish and heroin, and South American cocaine probably destined for the European and South African markets; producer of cannabis (for local consumption) and methaqualone (for export to South Africa); corruption and poor regulatory capability make the banking system vulnerable to money laundering, but the lack of a well-developed financial infrastructure limits the country's utility as a money-laundering center
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We had a crowd over on Firday night for a pizza party. Of the dozen balls of dough I prepared, we made 10 pizzas in my wfo with various toppings. I was the pizziaolo and with all of the activity there were no photos taken of any of the final products :(
The weather today is not great - rain showers througout the day. So I cranked up my kitchen oven with a baking steel and used the last two balls of dough. The first was lunch, with leftover toppings from Friday night, namely San Marzanos, fiore di latte and shredded mozzarella, crumbled sausage, sauteed wild mushrooms, basil, and a drizzle of Tuscan olive oil.
I made a Berry Cheesecake pizza with the other ball of dough. We're going to a freind's for dinner and this will be my contribution for dessert. I've never made this before and I know I probably shouldn't bring an experiment, but they're my oldest, closest friends so I can't do much damage. I would have preferred a darker bake but I didn't want to incinerate the berries.


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Lancashire BB11 1TS
01282 453 110
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CollegesIllinois arena name changed to State Farm Center
Illinois sold the naming rights for Assembly Hall to State Farm Insurance Co.
In a 30-year, $60 million agreement, the home of the university�s basketball teams will be known immediately as the State Farm Center. The change comes as the 50-year-old arena undergoes a renovation that is scheduled to be completed in the fall of 2016.
The insurance company is headquartered in Bloomington, Ill.
The State Farm Center is the second arena in the Big Ten with a corporate donor. In 2011, Pinnacle Bank purchased the naming rights to Nebraska�s arena for $11.2 million over 25 years.
� Louisiana State indefinitely suspended running back Jeremy Hill following his weekend arrest in connection with an alleged bar fight near the campus.
Hill already was on probation after he pleaded guilty in January 2012 to misdemeanor carnal knowledge of a juvenile. Following the early Saturday incident, he was charged with simple battery, also a misdemeanor.
LSU coach Les Miles said he would let the case �play out through the legal system� before commenting further.
As a freshman, Hill was LSU�s leading rusher with 755 yards and 12 touchdowns in 2012.
� A New Jersey lawmaker wants to dock Rutgers $2.1?million for the money it paid to a basketball coach who was fired and to two university administrators who resigned during a scandal earlier this month.
Sen. Joe Pennacchio, a Republican from Montville, said it was not fair to make taxpayers or students pick up the tab for what he called brazen payouts. He said the money would come out of the $480 million in state aid to the university.
Basketball coach Mike Rice was fired after a video of him shoving and shouting and using gay slurs in practice became public. Athletic director Tim Pernetti resigned, as did the school�s top in-house lawyer, John Wolf.
Settlements with the three were worth about $2.1?million.
SoccerRussian linesman banned for life for attacking player
A Russian soccer referee was banned for life after attacking a player during a youth game.
Linesman M usa Kadyrov rushed onto the field near the end of Friday�s game between Terek Grozny and visiting Amkar Perm and shoved and punched Amkar�s Ilya Krichmar. The official reportedly thought the player had been insulting him.
� Major League Soccer�s referees voted to unionize and certified the Professional Soccer Referees Association as their collective bargaining agent.
ElsewhereWexner horse wins show-jumping event
Simon, a horse ridden by former Olympic champion Beezie Madden and owned by Abigail Wexner of New Albany, won the Rolex FEI World Cup show-jumping event this past weekend in Gothenburg, Sweden.
Madden and Simon led after the first round of the event on Thursday, then slipped to second place on Friday. But in Sunday�s final round, Madden guided Simon, a 14-year-old gelding, to a steady, flawless performance, completing the course in 41.66 seconds with all fences intact.
� Rafael Nadal is scheduled to play at Roger Federer�s hometown tournament for the first time in nine years.
Organizers of the Swiss Indoors announced their star attractions for the Oct. 19-27 event in Basel. The field is headed by five-time champion Federer, Nadal and defending champion Juan Martin del Potro for the hard-court tournament.
Nadal last played in Basel in 2004, losing in the first round to Rainer Schuettler of Germany.
Nadal has a 19-10 career record against Federer, including a quarterfinal win last month at Indian Wells, Calif.
� From staff and wire reports


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James L. Findley, 107 W. 6th St., Peabody; failed to appear May 19 at bond appearance, bench warrant issued at $2,500 bond.
Anthony Aaron Magee, 115 N. West St., Wichita; pleaded not guilty April 21 to charges of felony theft and interference with law enforcement; jury trial set for July 10.
Candace Mae Ridge, 842 S. Fountain St., Wichita; failed to appear at status hearing May 19, bench warrant issued at $1,500 bond.
Blake M. Riggs, 2392 W. U.S. 50, Florence; pleaded guilty May 5 to charge of possession of drug paraphernalia, charge of possession of marijuana dismissed; sentencing set for June 2.


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Rupert Murdoch's newly streamlined 21st Century Fox media company missed Wall Street's profit expectations for the fiscal first quarter, despite raking in higher revenue from television programming fees and advertising sales.
The quarter ended Sept. 30 marked the first reporting period for the slimmed down and newly minted company, which spun off its publishing assets at the end of its last fiscal year in June, and changed its name to 21st Century Fox.
For the quarter, Fox reported net income of $1.26 billion, or 54 cents a share, compared to $2.23 billion, or 94 cents a share, a year earlier. On an adjusted earnings-per-share basis, to exclude the sale of an ownership interest in a pay TV encription business, the film and television company earned 33 cents a share, down from 38 cents a share a year earlier.
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That missed analysts' estimates of 34 cents a share.
Fox generated $7.06 billion in revenue for quarter. In the year-earlier period, the company -- then called News Corp. -- generated revenue of $8.14 billion.
However, on an adjusted basis, the television and film assets took in 18% higher revenue. In the year-earlier period, revenue was $6 billion. The $1-billion boost came from higher cable affiliate fees and higher ad revenue as well as the consolidation of several new businesses.
"We are on-plan building a foundation for sustainable long-term growth," Fox Chief Operating Officer Chase Carey told analysts Tuesday in a conference call. "We feel good about the momentum of our business although we have a few soft spots to address."
Financial analysts polled by FactSet had expected Fox to produce earnings of 34 cents per share on revenue of $6.8 billion during the July-September quarter.
Cable television continues to be the heart of the company, producing about three-quarters of the company's profits. Cable TV produced $2.8 billion in revenue, compared to $2.5 billion in the year-earlier period.
The cable TV segment's reported operating income before depreciation and amortization of $991 million was lower than the $1-billion-plus in the year-earlier period. Profits were dinged by startup costs for two new national networks, Fox Sports 1 and FXX, as well as an unfavorable exchange rate.
PHOTOS: Behind the scenes of movies and TV
Cable affiliate revenue was up 10% domestically, and 40% internationally. Advertising revenue at Fox's U.S. networks was up 6%, driven by double-digit ad growth at FX Networks, National Geographic channels and the regional sports networks.
Fox News Channel ad revenue was down because the year-earlier period was awash in the political dollars that accompanied the presidential election.
Broadcast television had a solid quarter. The segment generated more than $1 billion in revenue, compared to $972 million in the year-earlier period. Operating income was $231 million, an increase of 30%, compared to $178 million in the previous-year period.
The increase was fueled by a doubling of retransmission consent fees.
Film studio 20th Century Fox had tough comparisons because the year-earlier period enjoyed huge profits from the worldwide hit "Ice Age: Continental Drift." Films in theaters during the quarter were "The Wolverine" and "The Heat." The filmed entertainment unit generated $2.12 billion in revenue, up from $1.9 billion in the year-earlier period.
Studio operating income hit $328 million, down from $433 million in the year-earlier period.
"Our film studio has been a bit more up and down to start the year," Carey said, adding the studio is hopeful for its winter releases, including "The Secret Life of Walter Mitty," with Ben Stiller.
The television studio helped the film segment's performance with syndication sales of "Modern Family" and the sale of two seasons of "New Girl" episodes to online streaming service Netflix.
Rupert Murdoch files for divorce from his third wife
Discovery founder John Hendricks sells $12.7 million in stock
Rupert Murdoch survives challenge over control of 21st Century Fox
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Justice Steinmetz remembered for dedicated service
Madison, Wisconsin - September 4, 2013
Justice Donald W. Steinmetz, who retired from the Wisconsin Supreme Court in 1999 after 19 years of service, passed away on Saturday, Aug. 31 in Milwaukee. He was 88.
Steinmetz was elected to the Court in 1980, edging out an opponent who would later become a good friend – and a Supreme Court justice in his own right – Louis J. Ceci. In 1990, Steinmetz was reelected to the seat over challenger Richard S. Brown, who is now chief judge of the Wisconsin Court of Appeals.
Steinmetz once was described by veteran newspaper reporter Cliff Miller as looking "so much like a judge, he could play one in the movies." But, Miller added, "He probably couldn't win the part. He's too gregarious to fit the stuffy Hollywood stereotype."
Steinmetz said that his only hobby was the fine art of conversation. Both he and his wife, Marjorie, who survives him, were active in a variety of civic and social organizations and in the activities of their three daughters and two sons.
As a young man, Steinmetz dreamed of becoming a political science professor. He was determined that this course of action would be preferable to following his father and two brothers into the practice of law. But then reality set in. In 1949, with one child and another on the way, he calculated that a law degree would cost a lot less and pay off sooner than a Ph.D.
After graduating from the UW Law School in just two years, Steinmetz took a job at an insurance company and then worked in the Milwaukee City Attorney's Office and the Milwaukee County District Attorney's Office. In 1966, he was elected to the bench in Milwaukee County by a small margin that was upheld in a recount. His campaign, he recalled, consisted largely of door-to-door visits, handing out matchbooks and, once, funding an ad on the side of a Milwaukee bus after his opponent "bought up all the billboards."
Steinmetz served on the bench in Milwaukee until his 1980 election to the Supreme Court.
In a 2001 interview for the Wisconsin court system's Oral History Project, Steinmetz recalled handling 200 small claims cases and performing six weddings on his first day on the bench in Milwaukee County.
"I think there were only six county judges at the time in Milwaukee County, and I think the five of them got together and gave me the small claims calendar," he said.
Steinmetz' former colleagues on the Supreme Court praised his work on opinions and his contribution to the many court system committees on which he served.
"Justice Steinmetz … dedicated much of his professional life as a lawyer to public service," said Chief Justice Shirley S. Abrahamson. "He served well, not just as a Supreme Court justice, but also as a Milwaukee county judge, circuit court judge, assistant state attorney general, assistant district attorney and assistant city attorney in Milwaukee. Our condolences go to his family."
Justice David T. Prosser Jr., who joined the Supreme Court just one year before Steinmetz' retirement, called Steinmetz "A great justice and a wonderful human being." Prosser went on to say that, "Although he was an expert in insurance law, he also wrote memorable opinions on many subjects, including the rights of protectively placed individuals, criminal law including juror bias, and the constitutionality of school choice. He will be greatly missed."
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Georgia soldier accused in militia case, now charged with killing pregnant wife
SAVANNAH, Ga. A Georgia soldier accused of plotting attacks as the leader of an anti-government militia group was charged by the Army on Wednesday with murder in the 2011 death of his pregnant wife.
Pvt. Isaac Aguigui of Cashmere, Wash., will face a military hearing to determine if he should be tried by court-martial for the deaths of his wife, Army Sgt. Deirdre Aguigui, and the child they lost in July 2011, Fort Stewart officials in southeast Georgia said.
"Every victim deserves to have their case prosecuted. In this case it took some time," said Fort Stewart spokesman Kevin Larson.
Months after his wife's death, Aguigui and three fellow Fort Stewart soldiers were charged by civilian authorities in the December 2011 shooting deaths of Michael Roark, a former member of their Army unit, and Roark's teenage girlfriend.
Civilian prosecutors have called Aguigui the leader of a militia group of malcontented Army soldiers who plotted attacks ranging from bombing a park fountain in Savannah to poisoning apple crops in Washington state. They say Aguigui used a $500,000 life insurance payout from his wife's death to buy guns and bomb components and ordered his followers to kill Roark and his girlfriend, Tiffany York, fearing they would expose the group.
Roark's father, Brett Roark, said the slayings of his son and York could have been prevented had the Army charged Aguigui sooner.
"The original command structure didn't do their job," Roark said. "This should have stopped at her murder."
Deirdre Aguigui, an Army linguist, became pregnant after returning home to Fort Stewart from a deployment to Iraq. A few months later, on July 17, 2011, she was found dead at the couple's home on the Army post.
Fort Stewart officials and the woman's family have declined to discuss her death because of the ongoing investigation. The Army has refused to release records pertaining to her death when The Associated Press requested them last year.
- Death penalty sought in Army militia murder case
- Police: Relative reported worries about soldier
- Prosecutors: Army militia members killed couple
Regina Ross-Schmid, an Army spouse at Fort Stewart and friend of Deidre Aguigui, told the AP last year that soldiers who served with her friend were never given an explanation.
"When we first were told she had died, what was said was she laid down to take a nap and when Isaac went to wake her up, he couldn't wake her up," Ross-Schmid said in an interview last August.
According to her obituary, Deirdre Aguigui met her husband at the U.S. Military Academy Prep School, which prepares cadets for admission to West Point, but he never became an officer. Instead, Isaac Aguigui's service record shows he followed his wife in November 2010 to Fort Stewart, where the young private served as an intelligence analyst in the Army's 3rd Infantry Division.
Civilian prosecutors in Long County, where Roark and his girlfriend were found shot on Dec. 4, 2011, said Aguigui targeted troubled soldiers for the militia group that he called F.E.A.R. Forever Enduring Always Ready. They said 19-year-old Roark wasn't a member of the group. The slain ex-soldier's father said Aguigui would give his son money to buy weapons for the group.
Prosecutors said Aguigui used the insurance payments from his wife's death to buy $87,000 worth of semi-automatic assault rifles, other guns and bomb-making materials recovered by investigators.
One of the four soldiers arrested in Roark's death, Pfc. Michael Burnett, pleaded guilty to reduced charges last year. He told a judge that he was with Aguigui and two other soldiers when they led Roark and York out to the woods and killed them. Burnett said Sgt. Anthony Peden, a veteran of two tours in Afghanistan, shot the teenage girl twice at Aguigui's command. He also testified that Pvt. Christopher Salmon, who had served one tour in Iraq, put Roark on his knees and shot him in the head.
Civilian prosecutors are seeking the death penalty for Aguigui, Peden and Salmon in those killings.