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Born
Susan Alexandra Weaver
October 8, 1949 (age 63)
Manhattan, New York City
New York, U.S.
Alma mater
Stanford University (B.A., 1972)
Yale University (M.F.A., 1974)
Height
5 ft 11.5 in (1.82 m)
Spouse
Jim Simpson
(m. 1984present)
Children
Charlotte Simpson
Parents
Sylvester Weaver (deceased)
Elizabeth Inglis (deceased)
Relatives
Doodles Weaver
uncle, deceased)
Weaver was born Susan Alexandra Weaver in Manhattan, New York City, the daughter of Elizabeth Inglis (née Desiree Mary Lucy Hawkins; 19132007), an English actress, and the NBC television executive and television pioneer Sylvester "Pat" Weaver (19082002). Her uncle, Doodles Weaver (19111983), was a comedian and actor. She began using the name "Sigourney Weaver" in 1963 after a minor character (Sigourney Howard) in F. Scott Fitzgerald's novel The Great Gatsby.
Weaver attended the Ethel Walker School, a girls' preparatory school in Simsbury, Connecticut. She also attended The Chapin School. Sigourney was reportedly 5′ 10½″ (179 cm) tall by the age of 14, although she only grew another inch during her teens to her adult height of 5′ 11½″ (182 cm).
Weaver has been nominated three times for an Academy Award, three BAFTAs (one win) and seven Golden Globes (two wins). She has also earned Tony and Drama Desk nominations for her work on the stage.
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"Doodles Weaver"?
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Doodles Weaver Born in Los Angeles, Weaver was one of four children born to Sylvester Laflin, a wealthy roofing contractor, and Annabel (née Dixon) Weaver. His older brother was Sylvester "Pat" Weaver who served as the President of NBC in the 1950s. Weaver's niece was actress Sigourney Weaver. Weaver was given the nickname "Doodlebug" by his mother when he was a child because of his big ears and freckles
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A modified M141? Kinda gray market there, I'm surprised they are still around. Many of these pieces were illegally modified for automatic deep-fat-fry, which is kinda overboard if you ask me.
KISMAYO, Somalia - Sierra Leone troops under the mandate of AMISOM were targeted in a roadside bomb attack in the southern port city of Kismayo on Saturday, Garowe Online reports. It is unknown how many AMISOM casualties resulted in the blast, however one civilian was killed reportedly by an African Union forces stray bullet.
This is the fourth IED attack on AMISOM forces in Kismayo this month. Jubaland authorities stated that they are investigating the attack and would inform press on any leads.
A group opposed to Jubaland state allegedly receiving support from Mogadishu has allegedly been carrying out attacks in Kismayo.
It's either tribal or gang warfare, as if there is a difference...
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MOGADISHU, Somalia - Armed gunmen shot and killed a doctor as he left a mosque in Elesha Biyaha a suburb of Mogadishu Friday night, Garowe Online reports.
As people were leaving a mosque in Elesha Biyaha after Tarawih prayers masked gunmen shot and killed Dr. Osman Abdirahman Maalin Fiqi a doctor in Elesha Biyaha at the Fiqi hospital. The masked gunmen carrying pistols escaped from the scene.
The murder of Dr. Osman Fiqi who father is a prominent doctor in Mogadishu had been working the country after returning from studying abroad. Dr. Osmans uncle former National Security Agency Director Ahmed Maalin Fiqi stated his nephew had no affiliations to politics and that the act resembled Al Shabaab tactics.
He was related, however, and that seems to be enough to get whacked in Mog...
Dr. Osman had no ties to politics and we cant understand why he was killed; however the way he was killed is a style copied from how Al Shabaab kill those giving back to the community, said Fiqi.
The killing of the doctor follows the killing of Rahmo Dahir, Deputy Commissioner of Mogadishus Yaqshid district on Thursday. Also on Thursday, four other people were killed in Mogadishus Bakara market.
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medicine and healing is unIslamic. Allen is pleased
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Because he could identify them?
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[Ynet] Egyptian security forces raided the office of the Iranian Al Alam Arabic language satellite channel in Cairo and tossed in the clink Please don't kill me! its director, the outlet reported on Saturday.
"The security forces also seized equipment and devices from the channel without giving any explanation for these actions," Al Alam said on its website.
"Spies! Spies and saboteurs, everywhere you look! ARREST EVERYONE!!!!1!"
(Sorry. Sometimes the voices in my head make their escape. I'll try not to let it happen again.)
A security source confirmed their account and said the raid was conducted because the channel lacked a license. The incident signaled a return to cooler relations between the two Middle Eastern powers after an attempt at rapprochement under deposed Egyptian President Mohamed Morsi.
[Ynet] Three Egyptians were killed during festivities between supporters and opponents of deposed President Mohamed Morsi late on Friday, after thousands rallied in Egyptian cities demanding the reinstatement of the Islamist leader.
Two women and a 13-year-old boy were killed and eight others were maimed, including one at death's door, in the festivities that erupted in the Nile Delta town of Mansoura, Health Ministry official Saed Zaghloul told Rooters.
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[AnNahar] Gunmen kidnapped five polling staff and a local official Saturday in the northern Malian town of Tessalit, a week before a presidential election meant to restore the country's unity, a local official said.
The poll workers and an elected Tessalit official, all of them Malian, were snatched by unidentified "gunnies", an official in the Kidal governor's office told Agence La Belle France Presse.
First reports had spoken of four electoral staff and an official, but an inquiry showed that five agents and the deputy mayor of Kidal had been seized.
The official said the six hostages had been at the town hall in Tessalit, a remote town some 200 kilometers (125 miles) north of the flashpoint northern city of Kidal, to plan the distribution of ID cards to registered voters when they were kidnapped.
"The governor is currently in an emergency meeting in Kidal to see what needs to be done. We have not yet had any news on the abductees," he said.
An African military source in Kidal, where four people were killed in pre-election violence Thursday, confirmed receiving information about a kidnapping involving polling staff and an elected official, but did not specify the number of victims.
A Malian security ministry official said the kidnapping appeared to be the work of the minority-Tuareg rebel group the National Movement for the Liberation of Azawad (MNLA).
"Everything indicates this is an attack by the MNLA, which doesn't want there to be an election," the official said.
The MNLA took control of Kidal in February after a French-led military intervention ousted al-Qaeda-linked Islamist fighters who had seized control of most of northern Mali.
The Malian authorities finally reclaimed the city after signing a deal with the MNLA and another Tuareg group on June 18 aimed at reuniting the country and clearing the way for elections to restore democratic rule.
Under the deal, MNLA forces moved into barracks as 150 regular Malian troops were deployed to secure Kidal ahead of the July 28 vote.
The kidnappings come after violence between Tuaregs and Mali's majority black population rocked Kidal on Thursday and Friday.
Officials said gunnies went on a rampage Thursday, looting and ransacking shops and businesses, killing four people and wounding many others.
On Friday, unidentified arsonists set fire to the city's central market.
Many Malians accuse the light-skinned Tuaregs of being responsible for the chaotic sequence that saw the country split in two for nine months -- with the northern half ruled by groups that imposed an extreme form of Islamic law -- and shattered what had been considered a democratic success story in the restive region.
When the MNLA launched their offensive in January 2012, they humiliated the Malian army by seizing a string of northern towns.
Mid-level army officers angry over the losses then overthrew president Amadou Toumani Toure in March 2012, blaming him for the army's weak response.
The coup unleashed a crisis that saw the Tuareg separatists seize Mali's vast desert north along with a trio of Islamist groups that then proceeded to chase out their former allies the MNLA and impose brutal sharia rule on their territory, until the French-led intervention forced them out.
Mali has since been battling to restore a measure of stability.
The decision to hold the first round of the presidential election on July 28, followed by a second round on August 11 if necessary, was taken by the Malian government under pressure from the international community.
But the presence of the Malian army has stoked tensions in the powder-keg town of Kidal, with pro- and anti-government protests a regular occurrence and several troops injured by demonstrators.
Many observers and some Malian officials have suggested the election is being held too soon and that the interim administration needs more time to organize a credible poll.
[AnNahar] Algerian soldiers rubbed out four Islamists during an overnight raid in the town of Sour El-Ghozlane southeast of the capital Algiers, security sources said on Saturday.
The army also seized weapons during the raid, the national news agency APS said quoting security sources.
In the 1990s Algeria witnessed a decade of fighting between troops and Islamist fighters in which some 200,000 people were killed, according to official estimates.
There has been a drop of violence in recent years although groups affiliated with Al-Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb (AQIM) are active in the northern Kabylie region, in the east and in areas near Algiers, usually targeting security forces.
On Tuesday four soldiers were killed when two bombs struck their patrol west of Algiers.
The deadliest attack took place in January when 37 foreign and Algerian hostages were killed in festivities with Islamist gunnies who had seized a gas complex.
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[AnNahar] Al-Qaeda suspects rubbed out a member of a Yemeni pro-army militia that had backed a military offensive against the network last year, a police official said on Saturday.
"Suspected Al-Qaeda gunnies riding in a vehicle rubbed out Mohammed Abbad, a member of the Popular Resistance Committees in the town of Mudia" in the southern Abyan ...a governorate of Yemen. The region was a base to the Aden-Abyan Islamic Army terrorist group until it dropped the name and joined al-Qaeda. Its capital is Zinjibar. In March 2011, al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula declared the governate an Islamic Emirate after seizing control of the region. The New York Times fastidiously reported that those in control, while Islamic hard boyz, are not in fact al-Qaeda, but something else that looks, tastes, smells, and acts the same. Yemeni government forces launched an effort to re-establish control of the region when President-for-Life Saleh was tossed and the carnage continues... province, the official said.
The attack took place late on Friday near and the assailants "fled to an unknown location," the official added.
The Yemeni army launched a month-long offensive in May last year against Al-Qaeda hard boyz in the southern Abyan province with the help of local rustics and residents.
The army, backed by U.S. drone attacks, managed to retake control of the country's south, of which large swathes of land had been seized by Al-Qaeda bully boys.
The network has been weakened but still carries out hit-and-run attacks against army and police targets and occasionally assassinates members and leaders of the Popular Resistance Committees.
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Khagrachhari - Two activists of United Peoples Democratic Front (UPDF) were killed in a gunfight between the armed cadres of UPDF and Parbatya Chattagram Janasanghati Samity (PCJSS) at Barmachhari union in Lakkhichhari upazila on Tuesday.
Red on red in B-desh...
The identities of the deceased could not be known immediately.
Sources said armed cadres of UPDF and PCJSS fought intermittent gunfights at Barmachhari union for an hour from 2am, killing two UPDF activists on the spot.
"Which spot?"
"THAT spot. A far away spot."
Contacted, M Hamidul Hoque, acting officer-in-charge of Lakkhichhari Police Station, confirmed UNB about the deaths. He, however, said the recovery of the bodies was being delayed as the spot is far away from the police station.
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Dhaka -- An alleged terrorist was killed in a 'shootout' with police in Beribadh (Embankment) area under Rupnagar police station in the city on Friday night.
The deceased was identified as Mahdi, 38.
No alias. Obviously a small fish...
Sub--inspector of the police station Aminul Islam said terrorist Mahdi
So a small fish but nevertheless a terrorist...
Ponder the piranha. A very small fish, but oh God, the teeth are terrifying. Still, a mere one-namer isn't likely to have fins, scales, and terrifying teeth.
received bullet in the forehead
Ruined his day, it did...
during a 'shootout' with police in the Beribadh area at night.
But no other details. Sloppy, sloppy, boys: where's the banana grove? The spider-sense of the police closing in? The pointless, aimless shootout? The dumping of Mahdi's body on the spot?
Aminul took Mahdi to Dhaka Medical College Hospital
Not a level I trauma center but Mahdi was beyond that...
where doctor declared him dead at about 11:35.
"He's dead, Jim!"
However, doctor found a handcuff attached to the deceased's left hand.
"Dr. Quincy, look at this. It's a hand-cuff!"
"Ah Sam, but where is its partner?"
"We don't ask, right Dr. Quincy?"
"Right Sam, don't ask."
The sub-inspector declined to give any detail of the identity of Mahdi and the gunfight.
Obviously the sub-inspector is inexperienced and hasn't read the RAB handbook for handling the press.
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But no other details. Sloppy, sloppy, boys: where's the banana grove? The spider-sense of the police closing in? The pointless, aimless shootout? The dumping of Mahdi's body on the spot?
Don't forget the escape of Mahdi's cohorts -- as if they has never been.
[Ynet] A Ukrainian man, locked away You have the right to remain silent... this week over the bombing of mosques in central England, has also been accused of the murder of an elderly Mohammedan man stabbed to death on his way home from evening prayers three months ago, police said on Saturday.
The 25-year-old was placed in durance vile You have the right to remain silent... along with another Ukrainian man, 22, on Thursday on terrorism charges after kabooms at two mosques near the city of Birmingham, one in June and the other last week.
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I suppose we don't see this sort of thing in the US papers because it would call attention to the simmering conflict, when the media would rather focus on Al Sharpton's call for "Justice" for Trayvon. Racism and gun control - two for the price of one! The distraction from Obumble makes it a Threefer!
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The Eastern Europeans I know reckon us Western Europeans are too soft re muslims.
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The Eastern Europeans you know are correct, Paul D.
KARACHI: An explosion inside a house killed two alleged bombmakers and injured two others on Saturday.
Another story with a happy ending!
Explosives are a tool of the Darwin.
Two blasts occurred within an hour of each other in separate areas of the metropolis, killing three and wounding at least half a dozen people. The first explosion targeted Metropolitan Commissioner Matanat Ali Khan when he along with his security guards was on his way to his office. They were near Essa Nagri when a bomb went off, inuring Khan and four others. The rescue teams shifted the injured to the Abbasi Shaheed Hospital, where one police guard succumbed to his injures during medical treatment, while the rest were admitted with critical wounds. DSP Nasir Lohdi said the bomb was concealed in a motorcycle and weighed around five kilogrammes. It contained nuts, bolts and balls bearings.
The second explosion happened on the third floor of a residential apartment in Patel Para area. According to DIG Tahir Naveed the apartment is owned by a policeman where terrorists were assembling a explosive device when it accidentally exploded. Resultantly two bombmakers died on the spot while three others sustained wounds and were shifted to Civil Hospital Karachi. Initial investigation revealed that the bomb did not have pellets. Police believe terrorists used the house as a hideout.
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At least 15 militants and four soldiers were killed during clashes in a tribal district in northwest Pakistan, security officials said on Saturday. The confrontation started on Friday and continued until Saturday morning in Khyber, one of the seven tribal districts along the Afghan border, officials said.
"During exchange of fire, troops killed at least 15 militants and destroyed their two hideouts," a senior security official told AFP. "Four soldiers also embraced shahadat (martyrdom) in the operation," the official added.
It was not clear how the clashes began, but Pakistan troops have been targeting Taliban and Lashkar-e-Islam militia in a recent military push in the important Khyber tribal district. The key area straddles the Nato supply line into Afghanistan, used by US-led troops to evacuate military equipment ahead of their 2014 withdrawal.
[AnNahar] At least 32 people were killed in a string of car kabooms Saturday timed for nightfall when shoppers take to the streets during Ramadan, security sources and medics said.
They said around 100 people were maimed in nine blasts: two attacks in a shopping street in the central district of Karrada, four in southern Storied Baghdad ...located along the Tigris River, founded in the 8th century, home of the Abbasid Caliphate... , another two in a northern area and one in the east.
Almost 490 people have been killed in violence across Iraq so far this month, according to a toll compiled by Agence La Belle France Presse from medical and security sources.
DAMASCUS -- Syrian state media said Saturday that government troops had launched an operation in the country's northeast, amid reports that Kurdish fighters also seized an opposition checkpoint in the region.
Government troops carried out "a series of qualitative operations" in the northeastern province of Hasaka, killing and injuring a number of opposition fighters, state-run SANA news agency reported.
SANA quoted local sources as saying that the operation covered a wide range of locations including al-Siha, Twineh, al-Khamael, Qana and al-Karmeh and al-Saad al-Janoubi.
Meanwhile, the Britain-based activists' group, Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, said Kurdish fighters had clashed with al-Qaida-linked opposition groups and seized a checkpoint.
As the dominant power in the region, Kurds have been increasingly active in keeping out foreign fighters that fill the ranks of the opposition. Analysts believe that the Kurds might use this opportunity to seek independence from Syria.
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[Ynet] Activists say Syrian government forces are bombing a strategic rebel-held town in the country's north with heavy artillery and Arclight airstrikes for the third straight day, killing at least three people.
The Britannia-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights says Hereditary President-for-Life Bashir Pencilneck al-Assad Lord of the Baath... 's troops have besieged the town of Saraqeb in Idlib province, pounding it with rockets, tanks and air raids. The Observatory says at least three people, including two children, died in a single Arclight airstrike on Saturday.
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A multi-volume chronology and reference guide set detailing three years of the Mexican Drug War between 2010 and 2012.
Rantburg.com and borderlandbeat.com correspondent and author Chris Covert presents his first non-fiction work detailing
the drug and gang related violence in Mexico.
Chris gives us Mexican press dispatches of drug and gang war violence
over three years, presented in a multi volume set intended to chronicle the death, violence and mayhem which has
dominated Mexico for six years.
Rantburg was assembled from recycled algorithms in the United States of America. No
trees were destroyed in the production of this weblog. We did hurt some, though. Sorry.
Dhaka -- An alleged terrorist was killed in a 'shootout' with police in Beribadh (Embankment) area under Rupnagar police station in the city on Friday night.
Hereditary President-for-Life Bashir 
