I don’t want to live in a color blind society …I want to live where people can see my color and see my humanity at the same damn time
— El Cosby Esq… (@TheCosby) August 11, 2014
#IfTheyGunnedMeDown what picture would they use pic.twitter.com/lJ3k3tT63n
— King Ghidorah (@__TrillClinton) August 11, 2014
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Eric Garner was killed a few weeks ago, & Renisha McBride’s killer was just sentenced.Now we have 2 cope w/ #MikeBrown‘s death.It’s too much
— Neale Clunie (@AbeFroman) August 11, 2014
Why is #MikeBrown not innocent until proven guilty in the media but the cop who shot him is? #furguson
— Political Nerd (@Sttbs73) August 11, 2014
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Y’all couldn’t use this pic of #MikeBrown @NBCNews ? pic.twitter.com/dV8aLJV0Im
— Rich Porter (@AC_Hussle) August 10, 2014
@AC_Hussle The reason for not showing this photo, is to avoid showing he was the victim. Instead they want to portray him as a threat.
— Ronin Warrior (@ignitemight313) August 10, 2014
Educated black man is too dangerous RT @AC_Hussle: Y’all couldn’t use this pic of #MikeBrown @NBCNews ? pic.twitter.com/184p9YdmHs
— Mr. You Got Swerved (@ZekeyUno) August 10, 2014
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Black & Unarmed: 20 Black Men Killed By Law Enforcement via @TheRoot http://t.co/6YKgr5bnNJ #BlackLivesMatter
— Renee Bracey Sherman (@RBraceySherman) August 11, 2014
America: Where an unarmed black teen gunned to death by the cops isn’t seen as a victim, but a white kid on a shooting spree is. #Ferguson
— Nerdy Wonka (@NerdyWonka) August 10, 2014
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Talking about the behavior of Black folks AFTER experiencing killing and racism is the epitome of derailment and victim-blaming. #Ferguson
— PrestonMitchum (@PrestonMitchum) August 11, 2014
Unarmed teen killed by cops isn’t the headline but calling black people “ANGRY MOB!” is, that tells you everything about the media #Ferguson
— Nerdy Wonka (@NerdyWonka) August 10, 2014
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I can’t with this crap today. I’m profoundly depressed. https://t.co/A5FNEwhdei
— Imani ABL (@AngryBlackLady) August 11, 2014
The racism in this country is soul-crushing. It really is. I hate it.
— Imani ABL (@AngryBlackLady) August 11, 2014
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Hey morons, please name a civil rights movement in history which entailed no riots/confrontation/force. I’ll wait. Oh. I see. #Ferguson
— Jenn M. Jackson (@JennMJack) August 11, 2014
White militia points guns at officials. Hailed as patriots. Unarmed black teen not seen as a human being. Shot 10 times by cops. America.
— Nerdy Wonka (@NerdyWonka) August 10, 2014
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People are all “black ppl are looting in their own community!” like white ppl don’t do that when their favorite sports team wins. Shut up.
— Imani ABL (@AngryBlackLady) August 11, 2014
Police can put on riot gear to deal w/ people but there’s another way to address the unrest: arrest the officer who killed #MikeBrown.
— MK Stallings (@mk_stallings) August 11, 2014
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Police in Ferguson running around in riot gear like they’re not the ones who are a threat. Please.
— Imani ABL (@AngryBlackLady) August 11, 2014
Of course. It fits the oppressor’s narrative. RT @AngryBlackLady: now the media is going to focus on looting rather than the shooting.
— BGD (@BlackGirlDanger) August 11, 2014
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[TW] After a lynching, the body left on tree for a while. 3 reasons. To make images of it. To entertain Whites. Psych warfare on Black ppl.
— Trudy (@thetrudz) August 11, 2014
And this reason, this context, this history, and this power, *directly* connects to Michael Brown’s execution and his body left in street.
— Trudy (@thetrudz) August 11, 2014
DIRECTLY. It is not a metaphor. It is not a trope. Not use of Black death for non-BP anti-Blackness. His execution = legacy of lynching.
— Trudy (@thetrudz) August 11, 2014
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Police didn’t shoot this guy who shot up the movie theatre, but #MikeBrown had to die? pic.twitter.com/s9GkhV2FuT
— fee (@menifee901) August 11, 2014
#iftheygunnedmedown which picture would they use? pic.twitter.com/YgSAUC1R8u
— Name Ring BELLS (@Heartbreak_Rell) August 10, 2014
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#IfTheyGunnedMeDown which image would the Media Use??? pic.twitter.com/kmgwITFdky
— #INDISSTREE (@BuddhaLeeRaye) August 10, 2014
If you died, which picture would the media use? #IfTheyGunnedMeDown #MikeBrown http://t.co/lJMM9a0owk pic.twitter.com/YYxIbPB0xA
— The Root (@TheRoot) August 11, 2014
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The pain on the face of #MikeBrown‘s mother Lesley McSpadden should haunt us forever. pic.twitter.com/p4sugDaIYQ
— TheObamaDiary.com (@TheObamaDiary) August 10, 2014
The Obama Diary 
Good morning all.
Missed rise and shine but have a well deserved break Chips and thanks nerdy for the great tweets. Getting the message out is important.
You’re welcome, Vetivera24.
furst.
Almurst
Oh, the chubby little cuuuuuuutie!!!
Powerful tweets Nerdy, the #IfTheyGunnedMeDown series are just brilliant.
Thanks a million, Legend.
Congrats vetivera and AMK. Thank goodness vc didn’t squeeze in ahead of you. She would have been unbearable.
She must have run out of molasses, Japa.
uh, oh.
I have to go to work today…omg, my summer is OFFICIALLY OVER:( I miss the kiddos, but I love my quiet time more:)
Ugh, poor DF – we had the same break, I’m back to work today too. Although my boss hasn’t noticed.
Last night on c-span
Q&A with Edmund Morris
http://www.c-span.org/video/?320054-1/qa-edmund-morris
Gushing with praise for PBO . He is a biographer and meets with PBO and others like Douglas Brinkley….
He also wrote the book ” Dutch ” about Reagan and revealed how phoney Reagan was.
Michael Brown’s family has hired Benjamin Crump, the Trayvon Martin family attorney. A news conference will be around 4 PM
Congrats on 1st vetivera 🙂
Excellent selection, NW!
Happy Birthday Donna!!
NW, thanks for showing the raw pain via these tweets. It’s important for all of us to know and to act on. Hope all the bad news in this country and the world doesn’t keep Donna Dem from having a very HAPPY BIRTHDAY!
Thanks, Judith.
excellent tweets, ut.
Tweets are on point…..they strike right to the heart of the matter….esp this one
As I first stated on Early Bird this morning. The first story that my local news station reported on the black kid being killed was…wait for it…when the riot and looting broke out. All weekend long, this story was not reported on any of the local news stations here in Los Angeles…until there was a negative angle.
Someone here pointed out – riots are like the last pressure point of anger and frustration – it’s true. People are still angry about Trayvon, the black guy being choked to death in NY, the black girl getting shot through the front door in Michigan and now this kid. That simmer is being brought to a boil.
NW, thanks for this Post!
Very well stated, GGail. You can always trust some in the news media to portray Black people as less than human without revealing how we are terrorized in our own country.
and how we continue to be marginalized……
http://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow-show/north-carolinas-voting-restrictions-cleared-federal-court
Thanks NW.
And sadly, they think we don’t hear the subtle negative slants to the reporting of the story. From the picture, to the report and even to the tone of the reporters voice and body language. We read and hear all of it!
I get so mad when I’m listening to the newscaster reading a report on PBO and my anger becomes directed at the Producer who wrote the script for the report. You can almost tell which Producer is pro-Pres.Obama and which one is anti-Pres.Obama, then I get mad at the newscaster who read the crap. But I guess the newscaster doesn’t get an advance copy of what will appear on the teleprompter for them to read.
GM and good night everyone. Just wanted to thank japa for his post on the last thread. I think the people of #ferguson were amazing in their restraint, were willing to wait for the details of what happened – until that police media disaster when it was claimed that Mike Brown had attempted to take the policeman’s gun.
I heard that – I heard the blinding hate in the voice that spoke those words. I heard a white man say for everyone to hear – that young man asked to be shot – my officer fired in self defense. If I had not heard it – I could never have believed it was said.
So glad about this. No way the local authorities can be trusted.
This is the reason why i and so many other black folks cannot get on the State’s Rights bandwagon…it is the Federal Government on so many occasions that have acted to ensure the rights of Black People..
POLL: Would you vote Hillary Clinton for President in 2016 – http://www.isidewith.com/poll/403337781
JER…..
i was cautioned by a TODer…not to be drawn into this debate…..
it was good advice
i am willing to wait to see what other candidates appear on the horizon after November 2014…it was good advice…
#MovingForwardTogether
not only no but HELL NO!
Yes they do Chips.
Once the reaction of the citizens turned negative – BOOM! the story travels from Coast to Coast. Before that – I only heard about the “fatal shooting” from here on TOD.
If the FBI are handling this investigation, isn’t this now being investigated as civil rights hate crime?
I don’t think it necessarily means that. The chief in the presser yesterday said that the FBI does routinely become involved in these type of cases and by that I think he meant officer involved shootings that result in death.
can’t see who the sponsoring organizations are…
Did my prediction come true?
Morning all.
They’re something else, LL.
Good morning to ya, and thank you again enooooooormously for yesterday’s posts.
You’re welcome, Countess.
This is superb: a thoughtful, illustrated essay on the American history we miss in our educational system and in popular culture. From “The Weekly Sift”, a blog I’ve been following for a few months. Bet I came across it here on TOD. An excerpt:
“…That sounded crazy until I read about Reconstruction. In my high school history class, Reconstruction was a mysterious blank period between Lincoln’s assassination and Edison’s light bulb. Congress impeached Andrew Johnson for some reason, the transcontinental railroad got built, corruption scandals engulfed the Grant administration, and Custer lost at Little Big Horn. But none of it seemed to have much to do with present-day events.
And oh, those blacks Lincoln emancipated? Except for Booker T. Washington and George Washington Carver, they vanished like the Lost Tribes of Israel. They wouldn’t re-enter history until the 1950s, when for some reason they still weren’t free.
Here’s what my teachers’ should have told me: “Reconstruction was the second phase of the Civil War. It lasted until 1877, when the Confederates won.” I think that would have gotten my attention.
It wasn’t just that Confederates wanted to continue the war. They did continue it, and they ultimately prevailed. They weren’t crazy, they were just stubborn….”
http://weeklysift.com/2014/08/11/not-a-tea-party-a-confederate-party/
This was absolutely superb! I highly recommend that everyone read this excellent piece.
Thanks, Nancie, for putting the Weekly Sift on my radar. I look forward to his thoughtful posts.
Thanks for the link, Nancie. Great article. A must read.
Contrary to speculation, I haven’t run out of molasses. I’m just getting my hair done, so it’s not easy following the conversation while keeping my head in the correct position AND positioning my laptop. Some things are more challenging than can be cured by molasses. 😀
“Contrary to speculation, I haven’t run out of molasses. I’m just getting my hair done”
😆 Oh, you crack me up.
😀 😀
I’m confused. Does that mean that instead of using molasses to garb the #1 spot, that she is using molasses on her hair?
😀 You are too confused for me to try and sort you out, Japa.
True, that tends to be my natural condition.
😉 😉
Hmm……..
Oh look!!
http://coilybynature.com/benefits-of-using-molasses-in-your-hair-care-routine/
I’m weeping, we’ve just been spammed by “vitamins for hair” – they’re obviously VC fans!
smh – SOMEtimes I wonder why I hang out with all you crazy people who go off the rails with the least little opening.!!!! smh
Okay, in the scheme of things, I know, this is petty, but I saw @MichaelSkolnik getting huge pushback on Twitter today for copying tweets from people on the ground in Ferguson and giving the impression that he was/is there too.
eg
This one annoys me too.
Nerdy posted this incredibly powerful tweet from a young black man:
And Steve Marmel, who I like and follow, steals his ‘voice’, with no credit, like this:
Sometimes it just seems folks are more interested in their Twitter count, profile and ego, than being honest.
Is it so hard to type “h/t @original_poster”?
Even that would piss me off, LL. I see on @Heartbreak_Rell’s TL that his tweet is being picked up by some media, CNN for one I think, it’s an incredibly powerful message and you just want to see it spread everywhere. Someone copying it, especially someone who couldn’t possibly understand the experience, is just diluting the impact.
Someone copying it, especially someone who couldn’t possibly understand the experience, is just diluting the impact.
Bless you Chips for UNDERSTANDING!!!
Tweet-copying is schoolyard stuff most of the time GGail, pathetic, but not important. But it was Twitter that broke the Mike Brown story as soon as it happened, old time media ignored it and are only catching up now – in its usual grim way. So voices like this are so, so important, they tell a story and experience that is rarely if ever told by the media. So, it’s infuriating to see those voices stolen. That’s why I’m especially pissed off! (Danny: “Chill, would ya?”)
Chips – I admire your integrity.
Danny – you let her get her anger out…if you know what’s good for ya 😀
ya butt shees reel mad an haz putt letus in mi dinar ogm
Lettuce! O.M.Goodness – she IS mad and quite distracted. Well, you just pick up the lettuce and place it on her forehead like a cold compress – that might
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Well..it won’t get any better….but it surely will get worse..
Yes indeed! “Meet the Toad’….
Ha!
Good one LL 😀
The definition of insanity……..
Give it to Ari Melber…..put Chuckie on the Cycle..
Linda, you mean “put Chuckie on the recycle?”
they think this will be an improvement?
BWA HA HA HA HA HA
😆 🙄 😆 If not all MTP past hosts have had at least a college education.
NBC and MTP is saying that of the many employees in their midst, a college rightie drop-out Charles Todd is what the audience is clamoring for? I think Not. DG is bad. But he had at least a college education and he cared more about the GOPers, Wealthy and the DC Elites. Todd is all about promoting, spreading and investing the air-waves with RWNJ buffoonery.
Chuck Todd will do worse than DGregory ever did. These people NEVER Learn.
In “I get followed by strange people” news: I was followed by an “erotic poetess”.
ut oh
Again I ask: what do you get up to on the Twitter machine when I’m not looking?
Scandalousness and lechery.
That’s what I was telling you all… The young kids have no idea his domestic policy means no education funding, no EPA or Energy dept, no USDA, no Interior Dept.
They sure love his foreign policy though… Isolationism like this president. Only difference is he wants to have states not federal govt, in charge of own security matters.
If kids of today follow him, then we truly are a far right wing country and begging for the return of the confederacy.
Jovie. Surely you jest.
The youth vote will NOT go to Rand Paul.
Wolf just got slapped by the Kurdistan spokesman for asking him … What ” EXCUSE” did the Obama Admin. tell you for not sending arms directly to you before now.
Spokesman says…..Before they had to go through Baghdad .
Does Wolf know that Kurdistan is part of Iraq and not a sovereign country ????? Geesh.
And finally:
Aw,poor Stewie. Been through that……..
What kind of dog is Stewie?
Pit / pointer mix. Full blooded goofball.
Ain’t they all?
won’t happen.
Midterms Give Parties Chance for Sweeping Control of States
By ADAM NAGOURNEY
AUG. 10, 2014
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It is not only Nevada. Republicans, who had appeared to hit a high-water mark in control of statehouses in recent years, are seeking to pick off another half-dozen chambers this year, taking advantage of President Obama’s persistent unpopularity, anxiety about the economy, and a history of anemic turnout among Democrats in nonpresidential election years. In addition, the party that controls the White House almost always loses seats in statehouses in those years.
At a time when Democrats and Republicans in control of statehouses are using their authority to push through ambitious policies that by contrast highlight the paralysis in Washington, the potential for further Republican gains has raised the possibility of deepening the policy divide between red and blue states. Republicans now control 59 of the 99 partisan legislative chambers, and have complete political control — both legislative houses and the governor’s mansion — in 23 states, while Democrats control 13. The total number of states ruled by a single political party, 36, is the highest in six decades.
Officials from both parties say there are two states that the Republicans might be able to add to the list of places where they enjoy complete control — Iowa and Arkansas. (There are no similar opportunities for Democrats.) Given that, Republicans this year are also looking to pick off individual chambers as a way of increasing their negotiating ability with Democratic governors and statehouses, or to block Democrats from passing legislation.
http://www.nytimes.com/2014/08/11/us/politics/midterms-give-parties-chance-for-sweeping-control-of-states.html?_r=1
Well that doesn’t sound good!
Just more doom and gloom!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
“taking advantage of President Obama’s persistent unpopularity, anxiety about the economy, and a history of anemic turnout among Democrats in nonpresidential election year”
None of this this is true with respect to this year’s election. So, Rikyrah if I may ask: WHY are you posting this garbage here?
Exactly! I am sooo tired of the negativity..
Chuck Todd will probably do a poll on it.
Like ans respect Ethel Kennedy…..but her request is disrespectful.
I can understand had she called on Ms Jarrett, any Cabinet level official or even FLOTUS or SLOTUS. Enough of asking this president to do things that were Never asked of the previous 43rd men who held that office, by merit or through appoint or by installation as the Rehnquist Court did GW Bush.
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Monday, Aug 11, 2014 10:56 AM CDT
Hillary’s overlooked ’16 worry: Will she write off the anti-interventionist left again?
For all the talk about her positioning around inequality, her foreign policy may alienate voters she needs in ’16
Joan Walsh
Political mischief-makers are having a lot of fun with Jeffrey Goldberg’s Hillary Clinton interview, published Saturday night for maximum Monday morning OMG predictability. I admit: that makes me instinctively inclined to minimize the fissures between Clinton and President Obama that Goldberg widened into chasms to conform with his own political worldview.
Except I can’t entirely. Because Clinton and her team are smart enough to know that’s exactly what Goldberg would do. Which means that’s what they wanted him to do.
It’s important to note that there’s almost nothing new in the Goldberg interview. We already knew that Clinton is somewhat more hawkish than Obama. Specifically, we knew that as Secretary of State she backed arming “moderate Syrian rebels,” took a maximalist approach to Iran sanctions, and was sometimes uncomfortable leaning on Benjamin Netanyahu the way Obama wanted, because she’s already told us. Here’s the best take on the way Goldberg, and more important lots of pundits, have exaggerated those differences.
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What’s most disturbing about the conversation is not its timing in relation to Iraq, but to the Israel-Gaza debacle. The person most furious about Clinton’s remarks should not be Obama, but Secretary of State John Kerry, who has been barbecued by Israeli officials and hawkish American critics for daring to pressure Benjamin Netanyahu to be a tiny bit more careful not to kill children while obliterating Hamas.
Clinton apparently felt it important to avoid every opportunity Goldberg gave her to criticize Netanyahu, occasionally sounding more hawkish than Goldberg himself, at a time when her successor was under very unfriendly political fire. Even assuming that everything she said about Palestinian leaders blowing chances at peace is true, I see no reason for such unyielding support for Netanyahu — not to mention so little compassion for Palestinian victims — except to court favor with hardline supporters of Israel. That’s disturbing.
http://www.salon.com/2014/08/11/hillarys_overlooked_16_worry_will_she_write_off_the_anti_interventionist_left_again/?utm_source=facebook&utm_medium=socialflow
I don’t care about Hillary Clinton! ‘2014’!
I don’t care about Hillary Clinton! ‘2014’
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DITTO
I don’t care about Hillary Clinton!
🙂 #nomoreclintons
NPR has been abysmal in their “reporting” of what happened to Mike Brown and the citizens of Fergusen and a lot of people get their news from NPR and think it is liberal. I think the only reason there is any narrative at all other than the one the police want is because of people on twitter getting the story out and engaging directly with the “news” sources who are so obviously biased.
The reporters that cover the Pentagon are just as bad as the ones at the WH.
CNN is covering it live
They are trying to get boots on the ground…….
I heard Jim Miklaszewski asking same question different ways.
Now Barbara Starr asking for a timeline and end date.
Covering what?
Iraq.
“The President of the USA expressed his support for the actions of the President of Ukraine, in particular, the initiative of Petro Poroshenko for an international humanitarian mission for Lugansk under the aegis of the International Committee of the Red Cross with the participation of the EU, Russia, Germany and other partners. Barack Obama confirmed the intention of the USA to take an active part in the international humanitarian mission.
Petro Poroshenko thanked the USA for the bi-party initiative in the US House of Representatives of the USA Congress to present the Ukrainian Assistance Act on issues of security which, in the opinion of the President of Ukraine, testifies to the real support of Ukraine on the part of the USA. President Poroshenko expressed hope that this Act will be supported by Congress people and senators, and also signed by the President of the USA in the near future.
Petro Poroshenko and Barack Obama discussed the issues of security in the ATO zone.
The presidents of the USA and Ukraine agreed to a bilateral meeting at the NATO summit which will take place in Newport, Wales, UK, on 4-5 September of this year.”
http://www.interpretermag.com/ukraine-liveblog-day-175-106-convicts-escape-donetsk-prison-during-shelling/#3735
With that as context, this tweet is either evidence of more bluffing by Putin or an escalation of Russian aggression …
Time will tell.
#TrustBarack
Rikyrah: Let me reiterate in case you missed my reply upthread. The article you posted from the NY Times is pure garbage and chock full of bullshit beltway MSM/GOP talking points about PBO’s “persistent unpopularity.” I’m seriously surprised that you chose to post that drivel here, so please explain to us your line of thinking when you posted it. Maybe there’s something I missed.
Jumping aboard with hopefruit:
Nothing amongst the MSM/GOP talking points about PBO are accurate or useful.
Their polls are bogus.
The endlessly appearing articles re: ex SOS have zero value. Mostly they are by paid press consultants.
Occasionally somethings the Clintons aren’t paying for Does slip thru. As in, that the $100,000 3 week rental in the hamptons they are currently enjoying is owned by a GOP donor.
And the nausea inducing set of photos of the two out-of-office obviously elderly Clintons in beach gear. Bill should keep his pants on. Varicose veins are not appealing.
Let me repeat the same thing I’ve been saying for the past year. No Clinton will be the democratic nominee for president.
Both Clintons will continue to sabotage PBO with everything (not much) they have.
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and the yada yada goes on…
i guess when folks post these things about doom and gloom…they want to help the MSM give more doom and gloom….usually i skip over these posts….because i will not succumb to the doom and gloom of the GOP and those whom they serve
Indeed pf! I CANNOT understand why people on this wonderful site would continue to post this garbage! Maybe it’s just me, but I am loosing patience…I do not come here for that..sorry for the rant, but I am sick of it!
Apples and Oranges.
Based on those data, pollsters changed their methodology …..No wonder, TBGOPers and Karl Rove lost their minds on the election day in Nov 2012.
But it was a presidential year.
This Mid-term elections. When Dems come out to vote, they win. 55M GOPers to 77M Dems are registered in US as of 2012 election season.
I’m rising from my funk to wish Donna Dem the most happiest of birthdays! Peace and Blessings!
Nerdy’s new post:
http://theobamadiary.com/2014/08/11/the-audience-speaks/
Happy Birthday Donna. many happy returns.
I hate the whole stupid notion of a color blind society. I appreciated all the different shades of human skin. It’s part of what makes life interesting and beautiful!