AgentAxeman

Black hole sun by Soundgarden = fucking class song!!

cant believe no one has mentioned 4-1-3-2. 2 FB getting forward to provide width, 2 CB big stopper types, 1 DM again big stopper, 3 CM/AM (1 sitting, 2 getting forward), 2 strikers GK RB LB CB CB DM AM CM AM ST ST

Fucking hell, i knew the stats were bad for his West Ham career but i never knew they were this bad........... Dyer straits! Five starts, no goals...and Kieron Dyer will cost West Ham 30million quid! Kieron Dyer's West Ham nightmare will cost the club close to a staggering £30million over the course of his four-year contract at Upton Park. Dyer has started only five Barclays Premier League games for the Hammers in two-and-a-half years and has yet to score a goal for the club. Kieron Dyer The former England midfielder is fast becoming an emblem of the reckless financial regime of Icelandic owner Bjorgolfur Gudmundsson and his sidekick Eggert Magnusson. West Ham’s medical team raised doubts about Dyer’s signing when he arrived from Newcastle in August 2007 but the transfer was rushed through before the deadline because the owners were keen to showcase top-class players. Dyer, who has managed just 558 minutes of League action for the club, signed a four-year deal reported to be worth £70,000 a week but broke his right leg soon after his debut and missed more than a year as he suffered complications in his recovery. West Ham's poor return His transfer fee was £7m - £1m more than the figure publicised at the time - and the agents’ fees on the deal cost the Hammers another £1m. Together with bonuses and National Insurance contributions, the club can expect to have paid out the thick end of £30m for him by the time his contract has expired at the end of next season. Dyer has struggled through this campaign with hamstring problems and the 31-year-old has not played since limping off at Bolton in December. Dyer He is closing in on another first-team return but if his fitness fails and he breaks down again, West Ham could seek to negotiate a deal to pay up his contract and bring to a premature end his disastrous spell at the club. Such lavish rewards and lengthy contracts are not likely to be encouraged by new owners David Sullivan and David Gold, who signed Mido on loan from Middlesbrough last month for a basic wage of just £1,000 a week.

I'm pleased this fucka got nicked. A criminal in uniform: Teflon Commander Ali Dizaei used race card to dodge jail for years. Now he's got four-year term for framing an innocent man PLUS: How his bosses limply played along Commander Ali Dizaei bullied, intimidated and threatened anyone who crossed his path. If that didn't work, the Iranian-born officer accused them of being racist. But yesterday his reign of corruption came to a dramatic end when he was condemned as a 'criminal in uniform' and given four years in jail for trying to frame an innocent man. Following a bust-up in a restaurant, Dizaei, 47, told colleagues that an Iraqi website designer had assaulted him. It was a pack of lies and yesterday, after a four-week trial, a jury took just two-and-a-half hours to convict Dizaei of misconduct in a public office and perverting the course of justice. They found he attacked Waad al-Baghdadi before arresting and attempting to frame him for assault. Dizaei, who had been the subject of dozens of corruption allegations during his time in the Met, is the most senior Scotland Yard officer to be jailed since the 1970s. Although he seems certain to appeal against conviction, he faces the sack after more than a decade of running rings around some of the country's most senior officers and politicians. As the crooked former president of the National Black Police Association starts his sentence at Wandsworth Prison in South London, on the vulnerable prisoners' wing alongside sex offenders, the Mail can reveal that: * Dizaei is sitting on a £1million pension pot which last night prompted calls for him to be stripped of his entitlement. * He was promoted to commander, equivalent in rank to a provincial assistant chief constable, despite performing poorly in interview and Yard chiefs being warned by the Serious Organised Crime Agency of concerns about his conduct. *Police authority officials had wanted to sack him in a fast-track process last spring but backed down amid fears he would sue for racism - allowing the £90,000-a-year officer to stay suspended on full pay for a further nine months. After the verdicts, the chairman of the Independent Police Complaints Commission, Nick Hardwick, said: 'Dizaei behaved like a bully and the only way to deal with bullies is to stand up to them.' Mr Hardwick, whose organisation was widely praised for pursuing Dizaei, made a thinly-veiled attack on previous Met chiefs who had appeased the corrupt officer over the last decade. He said: 'The greatest threat to the reputation of the police service is criminals in uniform like Dizaei. Corruption comes in many forms and remains a threat to the police service. It requires constant vigilance to fight it.' David Michael, a founder and past chairman of the Metropolitan Black Police Association, said Dizaei had damaged race relations in the force. 'I'm concerned that Commander Dizaei has used the National Black Police Association as a fig leaf to cover his own questionable behaviour.' The former chairman of the Metropolitan Police Superintendents' Assocation, Simon Humphrey, called for Dizaei to be stripped of his £1million-plus pension pot. He told the Mail: 'As a matter of course, he should lose his entire pension. The police should no longer take a cowardly stance towards this crook.' Having served 24 years in the police, Dizaei is currently entitled to a lump sum payout of about £200,000 and an index-linked pension of about £30,000 a year when he reaches the age of 60. A jury at Southwark Crown Court heard that Dizaei and Mr al-Baghdadi met by chance on July 18, 2008 in the Yas restaurant, run by a friend of the policeman in Hammersmith, west London. Mr al-Baghdadi, 24, approached Dizaei and asked for £600 he was owed for building a website showcasing the officer's career, press interviews and speeches. This angered Dizaei, who had just eaten a meal with his wife but was still in uniform after attending a ceremony at New Scotland Yard for new recruits. The officer confronted the younger man in a nearby sidestreet where a scuffle took place. By then Mr al-Baghdadi had called 999 on his mobile phone but Dizaei took the phone from him and complained that he was being attacked. When police arrived it was Mr al-Baghdadi who was arrested and handcuffed. Dizaei claimed he had been assaulted with the metal mouthpiece of a traditional pipe held on Mr al-Baghdadi's key ring. But a doctor concluded that two red marks on the officer's torso were probably self-inflicted and did not match the pipe. When Mr al-Baghdadi was told weeks later he would not face any charge, he complained about his treatment and Dizaei's web of deceit slowly unravelled. Giving evidence, Mr al-Baghdadi compared Dizaei to the bloodthirsty movie gangster Tony Montana, played by Al Pacino in the 1983 film Scarface. He said many people were scared of the Metropolitan Police officer because of his status in the Iranian community. Yesterday Dizaei, his hair newly dyed black, swaggered into court with his third wife Shy fully expecting to be acquitted. But he showed no emotion as the verdicts were given or as sentence was passed. He was sentenced to four years on each of the two charges, with the sentences to run concurrently. Mr Justice Simon said he must serve the first half of his term in custody and the rest on licence. He told Dizaei his conduct had been a 'grave breach of public trust'. How his bosses limply played along as he shamelessly played the race card . . . For almost a decade, the figure of Commander Dr Ali Dizaei dominated and poisoned race relations within the Metropolitan Police. His public face was that of human rights champion and defender of fellow ethnic-minority officers against prejudiced white colleagues. Dizaei felt their pain. After all, wasn't he the most unfairly persecuted 'black' policeman of them all? In fact, he was simply a self-serving crook; clever conman, bully, playboy, womanising misogynist, serial litigant and liar, who hijacked the issue of race and used it for his own ends. Under his presidency the National Black Police Association became a useful tool against those who dared cross him. Dizaei's jailing for corruption yesterday, seven years after being cleared of similar charges, closes one of the most troubling episodes in modern police history. Many viewed the Iranian-born officer as 'untouchable'. Certainly Dizaei himself thought so. One of the most telling moments in his trial was a witness's account of how the 'Teflon Commander' had shouted at him: 'Do you know who I am? I'm Ali Dizaei. Back off!' And back off they did, shamefully. Successive Met commissioners, home secretaries and independent police watchdogs were too nervous to take him on because of the race storm he would invoke. Dizaei grew up in Tehran, where his father and grandfather were both senior police commanders. At ten he was sent to boarding school in England, later studied law and in 1986 joined Thames Valley Police. He was fast-tracked through the junior ranks but his abrasive personality, self-promotion and readiness to find offence were already an issue with colleagues and public alike. In 1999 he applied to become a superintendent in the neighbouring Metropolitan Police. Britain's biggest force was in turmoil, damned as 'institutionally racist' by the Macpherson Report into the bungled investigation of the murder of black teenager Stephen Lawrence by a gang of white thugs. The Met needed more senior black officers. Dizaei was accepted even though Deputy Assistant Commissioner Barbara Wilding described him after his interview as the most rude and arrogant man she had ever met. Alas, Commissioner Sir Paul Condon was in no position to be choosy. Dizaei, with a PhD newly awarded for a thesis 'The Thin Black Line' on - yes - police racism, was in. Once, when he was questioned by a senior white colleague, he replied: 'You can't tell me what to do.' 'But I'm your boss,' said the startled superior. 'I have only one boss and that is Allah,' snapped Dizaei, piously. In fact his probity rather than his piety was already a matter of great concern. In 1997, while he was still at Thames Valley, a Scotland Yard informant had alleged that Dizaei was involved in drugs, interfering in court cases for money and consorting with prostitutes. 'From now on you are dead' The allegations were never substantiated and no disciplinary action was taken. But shortly after he transferred to New Scotland Yard his old force received new allegations about him which were passed on to the Met. In September 1999 Operation Helios, a multi-million-pound investigation into his life and integrity, was launched. Ian Blair was charged with oversight of the inquiry on his appointment as deputy commissioner in 2000. Dizaei was suspended in January 2001. Some 1,000 wiretaps had demonstrated that he was no ordinary police officer. He was monitored associating with a conman and four major criminals suspected of money laundering. Surveillance also suggested that he took £800 from a man on bail, in apparent exchange for help with a drink-driving charge. Other wiretaps revealed unauthorised links with a number of foreign embassies. Dizaei apparently stood to gain £2million by brokering the £24million sale of the Ethiopian Embassy in London. The sums staggered listening detectives, who wondered how a middle-ranking police officer came to be involved. Further diplomatic concerns touched directly on national security. Dizaei had contacts with senior staff in the Iranian Embassy and sometimes drove a Liberian Embassy car with diplomatic plates. On a more mundane level, he allegedly bullied a junior colleague into dropping an investigation of a friend. Unsavoury character traits were also exposed, in particular an appetite for philandering. Here was a man of powerful appetites. And dangerous if denied them. Most damning of all, perhaps, were the transcripts of telephone messages Dizaei left to an Iranian ex-lover, Mandy Darougheh. She had dumped him having discovered he was married, to his second wife Natalie. His reaction, left on her voicemail, was recorded by Helios. 'I will take such revenge from you, that like a dog, you will be sorry that you will never treat me like this again,' he declared. 'Mandy, I am going to declare war on you and I have declared it as of now. See what I will do to you. From now on you are dead. I will start with your mum first. I am so emotionally disturbed now that anything is possible from me. 'I give you an hour and see what I will do to you. If you think I am worried about my career, to get back at you, you must be joking. 'Just remember what I did to ******'s (name unknown) husband. You are not safe. I am going to come and catch you, on my mother's life. If you are at home, get out because if I see you, I am going to lose it right now. 'You want war, bitch, you're going to get some war. You will see now what I can do so you will cry for years. First I will start with your family, then I come to you and your reputation. I will spread all over London that you are a prostitute.' Even his barrister, Michael Mansfield QC, had to admit during arguments not heard by the jury: 'No police officer, no human being, should be talking like that. We all make mistakes, but it's unacceptable.' Luckily for Dizaei, the jury did not see these transcripts. And for all its wide-ranging allegations Helios resulted in him facing only two sets of criminal charges. The first concerned attempting to pervert the course of justice by falsely accusing colleagues of vandalising his car. During the Old Bailey trial Dizaei had to admit lying to investigators about the vehicle's whereabouts on the day in question. But the unexpected appearance as a defence witness of Assistant Commissioner Tarique Ghaffur - the Yard's highest-ranking Asian officer - probably proved crucial. Ghaffur claimed that Dizaei was targeted because of his colour. To the consternation of the Helios team, Dizaei was found not guilty. Other fraud charges were formally dropped by the prosecution in September 2003. Still, he was by no means out of the woods. Helios had exposed appalling errors of judgment if not gross misconduct. Nine serious disciplinary matters were still outstanding. With stupendous cynicism, Dizaei went on the attack. Helios, he said, had been a 'racist witch hunt'. He launched a claim for discrimination. The NBPA, of which he was then 'legal adviser', called for an ethnic minority recruitment boycott. Home Secretary David Blunkett panicked. The Met leadership was supine. Nearing retirement, Commissioner Sir John Stevens did not want his 'legacy' tainted by a race war. His ambitious and politically correct deputy Ian Blair was tasked to reach a compromise, personally brokered by Blunkett. The result? A shameful backroom deal which was to have disastrous long-term consequences. All disciplinary matters were dropped. Dizaei was returned to duty, given £80,000 compensation and a place on the Senior Command Course at Bramshill police college. Sir John announced: 'The investigation of Superintendent Dizaei highlighted some areas where his conduct fell far below the standards expected of a police officer. He has already publicly expressed his regret for these and acknowledged the lessons he has learned.' Stevens added, to the amazement and disgust of the anti-corruption unit: 'Superintendent Dizaei is returning to the Met with his integrity demonstrably intact.' This man of integrity then took his not-so-subtle revenge on Chief Superintendent Barry Norman, who had headed Helios. Some 120 complaints against Norman were made to the IPCC by Dizaei's family and friends. They all had to be investigated by Essex Police which, after three years and £1million in costs, found Norman's conduct was beyond reproach. After Helios, Dizaei became a favourite of the liberal media, putting himself forward for comment whenever the issue of race arose. Police Commisioner Sir Ian Blair A particularly devoted Guardian journalist attended his third wedding. The credulous BBC even decided that his autobiography Not One of Us was worthy of being Radio 4's Book of the Week. Dizaei himself read the daily extracts of a memoir which the Met was too nervous to veto. In the event, the book had to be withdrawn with substantial damages and legal costs paid out because Dizaei had libelled two former colleagues with inaccurate accounts of the Helios trial. There were still battles to be fought on his own behalf. In March 2007 Dizaei's application to be promoted to commander was turned down. Predictably the puppet NBPA, of which he was about to be made president, declared the decision 'biased and unfair'. After similar public agitation, he appeared before a second promotion board in early 2008. Once again he performed poorly compared with other candidates. But by then it had become simply too much trouble for the Met to turn him down. The Mail can reveal that between his first and second commander promotion boards, Scotland Yard's anti-corruption unit was warned by the Serious Organised Crime Agency that Dizaei was linked with someone 'of great concern' to it. SOCA's remit is to target the UK's biggest organised criminals, many of whom are under constant surveillance. No matter. Dizaei got his commander's badge of rank, a £90,000 salary and chauffeur. Almost immediately he steered the NBPA into a head-on collision with the Met and, in particular, the hapless Commissioner Blair, now Sir Ian, whose position was precarious following the shooting of innocent Brazilian Jean Charles de Menezes. First a senior Asian officer, Commander Shabir Hussain, launched an NBPA-backed claim for racial discrimination against the Met. The same week it was leaked that Assistant Commissioner Ghaffur, Dizaei's saviour in the Helios trial, was about to follow suit with a litany of allegations against the 'racist' force. Cold revenge for Sir Ian's overseeing of Helios? Many feel that Ghaffur was encouraged against his better judgment to pursue the race claim by his subordinate Dizaei and the NBPA's 'legal adviser' Shahrokh Mireskandari, another Iranian expat. But Dizaei's offensive began to unravel. In July 2008 he made his false allegation of assault against Waad al-Baghdadi. A few weeks later, in September, the Mail revealed that his close friend Mireskandari was a convicted conman with bogus legal qualifications. We also told how Mireskandari, since suspended and his firm closed, had persuaded Dizaei to advise him on how to undermine a death-bydangerousdriving case against a client. This was a breach of the police code of conduct. Within days Dizaei, then in overall control of policing in ten West London boroughs, was suspended from duty for the second time. With wearying inevitability, he launched another NBPA-backed race discrimination claim. Given his conviction, that is now academic. Dizaei's power and influence within the Iranian expat community was a key feature of the trial. 'Ali was a senior London policeman behaving like he was a police chief in Tehran,' one Iranian acquaintance of the commander told the Mail. 'He had huge respect but people were afraid of him because of his power.' Dizaei undoubtedly tried to make this count. In court Iranian witnesses reversed their original stories to match Dizaei's own. To no avail. Nor could Ghaffur ride to Dizaei's rescue again. And given that Dizaei's accuser, Mr al-Baghdadi, was Middle Eastern, that well-worn race card was no longer a trump. In the end Dizaei's inconsistencies, evasions and omissions led the jury to believe that before them stood not a martyr but nothing more than a bent copper.

You're going for a pizza????

Found this elsewhere. Great poem imo. "Goodbye to my England, So long my old friend Your days are numbered, being brought to an end To be Scottish, Irish or Welsh that's fine ... See more But don't say you're English, that's way out of line. The French and the Germans may call themselves such, So may Norwegians, the Swedes and the Dutch You can say you are Russian or maybe a Dane But don't say you're English ever again. At Broadcasting House the word is taboo In Brussels it's scrapped, in Parliament too Even schools are affected. Staff do as they're told . They must not teach children about England of old. Writers like Shakespeare, Milton and Shaw The pupils don't learn about those anymore How about Agincourt, Hastings , Arnhem or Mons ? When England lost hosts of her very brave sons. We are not Europeans, how can we be? Europe is miles away and over the sea We're the English from England , let's all be proud. Stand up and be counted - Shout it out loud! Let's tell our Government and Brussels too We're proud of our heritage and the Red, White and Blue Fly the flag of Saint George or the Union Jack Let the world know - We want our England back!"

this except i would have Enrique instead of Bernard

what kind of phone is it Stevie? my nokia came with software and a cable so i could attach it to the computer and read and transfer everything onto the hard drive.

Hmmmmm, not gonna suggest anything but the timing is perfect for the french gov. "Armed robbers disguised in burkhas carry out £4,000 raid Armed robbers disguised in burkhas escaped with thousands in cash after carrying out a post office raid in Paris. The crime – which took place yesterday in the suburb of Athis Mons – comes as the French government faces growing calls for the controversial garments to be banned. President Nicolas Sarkozy has described burkhas as a 'security risk' saying they provide the perfect cover for criminals and terrorists Now those fighting for the ban claim the robbery – which is the first of its kind in France – shows how useful the burkha is as a disguise. It took place at around 10.30am, when two robbers carrying pistols entered the main post office bank building in Athis Mons, which has a large immigrant Muslim community, mainly from North Africa. Once inside they ordered a bank clerk to take out the equivalent of £4,000 in cash by pointing a pistol at him. After ten minutes they fled to a nearby car park and escaped. Police fear that they will not be able to identify the robbers on CCTV cameras. ‘It was a perfect disguise,’ said one detective. ‘Their faces and bodies were completely covered.’ The robbery led to Le Parisien, the main daily paper in the French capital, to ask: ‘Will this first robbery using a burkha re-launch the debate about the Islamic veil being worn in public places?’ A government committee has already recommended that burkhas should not be allowed in civil buildings and on public transport, and a full ban could follow. In August in the UK a robber dressed from head to toe in a traditional Muslim woman's burkha raided a travel agent, and also made off with thousands in cash. There were similar raids in other parts of the country, with one burkha-clad robber getting away with £150,000 from a jewellers in Banbury, Oxfordshire."

fuckin hell, for a moment i thought you were going to say he had died.....................

just make sure you dont carry your 'homework' around with you...

"French Clamp down on the Burqa French officials have denied citizenship to a man who forced his French wife to wear the Islamic full-face veil known as the burqa. The authorities cited the rejection of national values such as secularism and gender equality, as reasons for the move. In 2008, the French rejected the application of a fully veiled Moroccan woman on the grounds that she was not sufficiently assimilated into French society. French law allows for the rejection of applicants if they fail to respect national values. No equivalent legislation is available to the British Border Agency. This move follows tough words from the French government over potentially banning the full head-to-foot veils, with French ministers concerned about the corrosion of national identity in a country with a 5 million strong Muslim population and ever-growing areas of inner cities becoming Dar al-Islam – literally Islamic ghettos where the French police fear to tread. During the application procedure, the Moroccan man had alarmed officials by claiming that his ‘wife will never be able to go out without the full veil.” He added: “I don’t believe in gender equality; women have inferior status; I will not respect the principles of the secular society.” The applicant is believed to be a member of the fundamentalist Tablighi Jamaat, 100,000 of whom reside in France. Tablighi Jamaat has recently focussed its resources on the United Kingdom. The organisation has embedded itself into at least 600 of Britain’s 1350 mosques. President Nicholas Sarkozy has been cornered into defending French national identity having won his election by usurping the Front National’s defensive stance on French culture and simultaneously shoring up the ruling party’s right-flank. The proposal was finally put into action last week, when French Prime Minister François Fillon asked the Council of State to help draft a law banning the Islamic veil. British ministers were said to be contemplating a ban on the burqa, however, this remains unlikely given the extent of the Islamic influence within some of their constituencies and Labour’s dependence upon the Muslim bloc vote, particularly Justice Secretary Jack Straw’s Blackburn seat."

I'd venture that installing solar panels across the entire country and importing all our meat, fruit and veg would work out more cost-efficient than using the same land for agricultural purposes. Bit less pretty on the eye, admittedly. Of course, the present and next government would prefer us to accept the prospect of inhabiting high-rise matchboxes with a supposed market value of £150k+ and precisely no quality of life, which makes the issue of personal responsibility for efficient roof space usage somewhat less important, but there you go. these solar panel thingy's. if they are so good, why dont we just stick billions of them in the sahara desert (or any other desert for that matter)? admittedly the initial cost would be massive but i would imagine it'll pay for itself in a couple of years. obviously less energy production costs but also less money to spend on mending the sky etc....

.....the ones thats left you mean?

I think this pretty much backs LM assertion that the CND were (at least partly) communist controlled for a while State surveillance of CND The security service (MI5) has carried out surveillance of CND members it considered to be subversive. From the late 1960s until the mid-1970s, MI5 designated CND as subversive by virtue of its being "communist controlled". From the late 1970s, it was downgraded to "communist-penetrated". MI5 says it has no current investigations in this area.[24] In 1985, Cathy Massiter, an MI5 officer who had been responsible for the surveillance of CND from 1981 to 1983, resigned and made disclosures to a Channel 4 20/20 Vision programme, "MI5's Official Secrets".[25][26] She said that her work was determined more by the political importance of CND than by any security threat posed by subversive elements within it. In 1983, she analysed telephone intercepts on John Cox that gave her access to conversations with Joan Ruddock and Bruce Kent. MI5 also placed a spy, Harry Newton, in the CND office. On the basis of Ruddock's contacts, MI5 suspected her of being a communist sympathiser and it was suggested that Bruce Kent might be a crypto-communist. MI5 also suspected its treasurer, Cathy Ashton, of being a communist sympathiser.[21] When Michael Heseltine became Secretary of State for Defence, Massiter prepared a report on CND for him. She was asked to provide information for Defence Secretariat 19 about leading CND personnel but was instructed to include only information from published sources.

"Baroness Ashton, the new European Union foreign minister, is facing questions over her role in the Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament amid claims that it may have had financial links to the Soviet Union. Lady Ashton, who was last week appointed EU High Representative for Foreign Affairs, was treasurer of CND in the early 1980s. She has said she had no contacts with the Soviet Union and had never accepted money from Moscow. The UK Independence Party has written to Jose Manuel Barroso, the European Commission President, asking him to investigate whether Lady Ashton was party to payments allegedly made to CND from the Soviet regime in Moscow. The letter, based on allegations made by Vladimir Bukovsky, a former Soviet dissident, claimed that it is “very likely” that CND received “unidentified income” from Moscow in the 1980s. “CND was notoriously secretive about its sources of funding and did not submit its accounts to independent audit; however, after public pressure they were audited for the first time in 1982-1983,” Gerard Batten, a Ukip MEP, wrote. “It was found that 38 per cent of their annual income (£176,197) could not be traced back to the original donors. The person responsible for this part of CND fund-raising, from anonymous donors. . . was a member of the Communist Party of Great Britain.”

lot more loan deals tho..

he conned everyone pet...........

I can well believe it but i would need a source for this rumour to be certain.

as i've said earlier, i dont think CH see's the 2 CM as anything other than destroyers. our play is gonna revert to a more elemental form of play whereby we get the ball out to the wing early for our quick wingers (which we do have now) and crossed into the box early for the 2 big lads up front to challenge for, with maybe someone from midfield getting forward. basic but sometimes effective. this is just my opinion. i would like to hear what anyone else thinks our tactics will be up to the end of the season.

fantastic last pic. really shows the difference in head on profile. maybe Mclaren have stumbled onto something with the high intakes?

whatevers leftover from xmas in the utility room. earlier it was martini rosso and lemonade. now its vodka and coke.

+1 fuckin champion that like Ant. Well done that man!!