Midnight cowboys

June 15, 2011 a world of progress, progressive living Comments Off on Midnight cowboys

The NC House met just after midnight to override Gov. Bev Perdue's budget; apparently, leaders were concerned the teachers coming to Raleigh today might be able to sway some votes.

The NC House met under cover of darkness in the wee hours of this morning to override Gov. Bev Perdue’s veto of their disastrous, immoral budget.

It’s likely they didn’t want to wait for the light of day because today is a teacher lobbying day in Raleigh, and they didn’t have to courage to talk to these dedicated educators and then go slash their budgets. They wanted the deed to be done already. I’m sure Republican leaders wanted to be certain no one was swayed by pleas and real stories of need from teachers.

So, with the Senate poised to override the veto, it looks like this immoral budget will be what we have to live with for the next two years.

Republicans are saying their budget is the same as the one Gov. Perdue proposed, but it’s far worse, with deeper cuts to early childhood education, our about-to-be-devastated  university and community college systems and to the social network. They’re cutting $60 million from the state’s mental health system, which is so bad already it’s under investigation by the US Justice Department.

There is no rationale for these kinds of cuts. We are not broke. The only thing I can think of is that our state legislators who voted for this thing have no compassion for their fellow human beings.

I mean, if we’re so broke, why does House Majority Leader Thom Tillis have the money to offer huge raises to his staff members? Tillis gave his legal counsel, Jason Kay, a $30,000 a year salary increase to $140,000, and a 25 percent raise of $30,000, to $150,000, to his chief of staff, Charles Thomas. Half the speaker’s staff got raises.

Tillis spoke in January of “shared sacrifice,” but I guess you only have to share in the sacrifice if you’re not Thom Tillis or one of his staff.

I’ve already e-mailed my state representative, Tim Moffitt, and told him I will remember his vote come Election Day. He has reponded with this:

“I’m sorry that you feel that way.  The cuts to education amount to .05% difference compared to the Governor’s budget.  That’s after an explosive growth of over 250% in the last 14 years with barely a move in the overall achievement levels of our children.  Sadly, money is not the issue as it is in most things, it’s policy.”

He is wrong, of course. Early childhood education programs were starting to make a difference; they are the only way children in poverty can catch up to their wealthier peers.

And education is not the only part of this budget that is immoral. The budget shreds what was left of the social safety net, especially for people who have mental illnesses and others who depend on Medicaid.  It cuts $60 million out of the budget for our state’s mental health system, which already is in such bad shape it’s being investigated by the US Justice Department. Please, if your representative voted for this budget, let him or her know how you feel, and let them know we’re coming for them in 2012.

Thank you Bev Perdue

June 14, 2011 a world of progress, progressive living Comments Off on Thank you Bev Perdue

For the first time in North Carolina history, a governor has vetoed a budget. That’s good news for the people of this state.

Republicans are screaming that this was her budget to begin with, but then she backed down.

The governor’s budget did have some deep cuts, but nothing as severe as what the Republican majority — along with five conservative Democrats — plan to put into place this week.

Those five Dems, all from the eastern part of the state, traded favors for deep cuts to education and a further shredding of the social safety net that civilized people recognize as humane and necessary.

The legislature has refused to maintain a one-cent sales tax that could prevent such deep cuts to education, and the majority of people in the state want the penny tax kept so children here can have a decent education. The legislature is refusing to listen, and I believe it’s at their own peril.

The fallacy they’re perpetuating is that we’re broke. We are not broke. Tax rates in this country are lower than they’ve been in decades; corporate tax loopholes are letting huge corporations like GE escape paying any taxes at all.

Republicans say if we tax corporations, they’ll move offshore.

I say, fine. Let them move and then tax the hell out of any business they do here. It’s time we stood up the the extortion of the corporations in America.  They’re not creating the jobs they could be creating — they’re sitting on nearly $2 trillion in revenues that they’re not re-investing in American jobs.

Meanwhile, our nation’s infrastructure is crumbling, while people who could be working to fix it sit idle, their unemployment benefits dwindling. They’re accused by the wealthy of being lazy because they’re not looking hard enough for work. People who lost $20-an-hour jobs with benefits are being forced to take $8-an-hour jobs with no benefits. This has been happening for 30 years as the right has attacked working people.

The wealthy have done fine through this recession — in fact, they have prospered beyond their wildest dreams — and they want more at the expense of the rest of us.

Wealthy individuals aren’t creating jobs with their tax breaks either; they’re spending all of it on their own selfish desires.

We are not broke. We do not need to deny children, people in poverty, who are ill or who have disabilities their very right to life so that some wealthy jerk can have another yacht or diamond-studded dog collar.

There’s plenty to go around; we just have to make the selfish bastards share a little more.

They don’t care who they take down

June 6, 2011 a world of progress, progressive living Comments Off on They don’t care who they take down

I can’t remember ever seeing things this bad. The people in power are making grabs I’d never have imagined, even during the turbulent 60s. Their corporate favoritism and their aversion to human rights is unprecedented in American history, and they are remaking our country into a mid-20th century banana republic — much like the ones we supported in the best interests of corporate sugar and fruit companies.

They duped the Christian Right into thinking they would take giant steps backward in women’s reproductive and other rights when the real issues were hiding behind the sparkle of gay marraige and abortion.

Gay rights have advanced despite their shrill attempts to re-criminalize gay people. Perhaps all the noise has helped the cause.

But while all the screaming has been going on, the rich are getting more and more tax breaks — and amassing even more wealth — while working Americans have fallen farther and farther behind.

The lack of media coverage of these issues has allowed the lies and propaganda to permeate our culture with catch phrases like “death panels” and “government takeover” of health care.

The people running things now would have us believe that no government is good government. The truth is that WE are supposed to be the government, not the corporate fat cats.

The goal all along has been to break the Treasury so corporations really will be in charge, and that goal is about to be reached.

Ignoring the constituency

June 1, 2011 a world of progress, progressive living Comments Off on Ignoring the constituency

Again and again, Republicans are ignoring what the voters sent them to do: create jobs, help people who’ve been harmed by the Great Recession, fix public infrastructure, strengthen the public safety net …

Instead, at state and federal levels, they do just the opposite, catering to the big corporate money that got them there. They seem intent on creating a permanent underclass to serve the super-wealthy, who keep getting wealthier under these policies. Even worse, they’re blackmailing the president and governors to accept their draconioan budgets or they’ll drive the country off a cliff.

In North Carolina, more than 46,000 people have had their unemployment benefits cut off. Most of them don’t have enough savings to tide them over for long. The Republican majority won’t reinstate the benefits unless Gov. Bev Perdue agrees to drastic and disastrous cuts to education, human services, mental health care and more. Now, the unemployment benefits don’t even come from state money — it’s all federal, so it really has nothing to do with the state budget.

The Republican majority proposes tax cuts to the wealthy while slashing the most basic human services. Already, children are losing health care benefits because of cuts to Healthy Choice, the state’s health insurance plan for low-income children.

Most North Carolinians will tell you they don’t want these cuts. They also would tell you they don’t want payday loan companies to be able to charge up to 90 percent interest per year, but the state legislature is about to pass a law that will allow them to do just that.

Nationally, the GOP insists we have to gut Medicare or they won’t raise the debt ceiling. Medicare is one of the most popular programs the government has ever run. It is not about to go broke, and the majority of Americans don’t want to see it gutted.

The Republicans are holding the whole world economy hostage over raising the debt ceiling, which used to be a routine vote.

But the Right doesn’t care. They want their money, no matter who has to go without, and their lies, spread by the so-called mainstream media, cause people to vote against their own best interests.

Even people who have been devastated by the worst spate of tornadoes in history can’t get help from the Republicans; the’re saying the Democrats have to cut something out of the budget before these poor people get aid.

This is the same party that refused to put George Bush’s wars into the budget so people wouldn’t know just how much they were spending. But then, their corporate friends are getting fatter and fatter off of those dollars.

 On the bright side, the recall elections are going nicely. Let’s hope we see more of that.

The immorality of ‘optional’ care

May 30, 2011 a world of progress, progressive living Comments Off on The immorality of ‘optional’ care

I read in the newspaper this morning that the NC Senate is considering cutting “optional” Medicaid services as the costs rise.

Sounds reasonable, right? That’s until you hear what’s optional. The place where my friend Stacie and her best friend, Ashley, live is optional.

That’s Stacie in the photo, showing off her beautiful smile. I met her and Ashely five or so years ago when they went to their prom. Although both young women are non-verbal, they have effective ways of communicating with each other and their caregivers. When Stacie thought she was running late for her hair appointment the day of the prom, she tugged on my sleeve, pointed to her watch and touched her hair. I promised her the hairdresser would wait for her.

Stacie and Ashley have lived together since they were small children; they’re in their mid-20s now, living at one of three residences at the Irene Wortham Center. Their days are filled with activities and caring people, and they are as close as any two sisters — there’s even a little rivalry between them.

But the NC Senate believes these residences and the services they render are “optional.” Extra. Non-essential. If the funding is cut off, Stacie and Ashley don’t have family who can take them in and care for them. They likely will land in separate nursing homes where there is little emotional or physical stimulation.

Liz Huesemann, the executive director of the Irene Wortham Center, doesn’t think she will be able to get enough money to continue caring for these two young women — and 22 other people who are helpless to decide their own fate.

“I’ll tell you what will happen,” Huesemann said. “They’ll wither away and die. They’ll just die.”

Also optional will be eye care and dental care for adults, and God only knows what else. The story in the newspaper didn’t go into much detail. Maybe that’s because the people in the NC Senate know people would be upset to know what’s about to happen to people with serious disabilities.

Or maybe they figure most people really don’t care what happens to less-than-perfect human beings. Historically, their needs have been ignored. They were warehoused in places like Wrentham State School in Massachusetts and Letchworth Village in New York, and they died very young.

Then in the 1960s and 1970s, advocates demanded humane treatment, and things improved. Warehouses became homes, with people grouped in smaller numbers, and even the most profoundly disabled people receiving stimulation and therapy.

We’re about to take a huge step back in time. Don’t think for a moment people with disabilities don’t understand when no value is placed on their lives. Stacie and Ashley know people care about them. They know someone will help them when they need it.

I can’t imagine placing them in a nursing home that doesn’t have the facilities or the staff to care for them properly.

It matters very much to me. If it matters to you, call your state senator in Raleigh and tell him or her you’re watching.

Black tag of courage or a Liberal learns about war

May 30, 2011 a world of progress, progressive living Comments Off on Black tag of courage or a Liberal learns about war

I was a Paramedic in the Air Force in the early 90’s.  Joining the military was one of the better decisions I have made in my almost 50 years and even at the old age of 27, the training I went through gave me a wealth of discipline I previously did not have. There’s a plethora that I completely disagree with in how our military personal are utilized, but I was lucky to be at their disposal before the right wing, corporate quest for empire began to pick up speed in earnest.  Pretending to assist the wounded and pick up dead soldiers on the battlefield is all fun and games until it really happens.

The Air Force Medical Core / Paramedic training was (at that time) conducted at Shepard Air Force Base in Wichita Falls, Texas. I love Wichita Falls, but that’s another post. We slept in tents, ate MRE (Meals Ready to Eat) out of plastic pouches plucked out of 55 gal. drums of boiling water, rescued the pilots of a long forgotten war from their rusting C-2 Greyhound and learned about triage. The pic to the left was taken during my time at the Med Red (Medical Readiness) training grounds somewhere near or on Shepard Air force Base.

The one and only time I ever argued with a superior officer was in triage class over the black tag. In the military they call the black tag “expectant” and in the civilian world the term “morgue” is used.  The protocol for the black tag soldier was a simple one… pain meds until dead. How could anyone not do all that could be done to treat all the wounded, no matter how badly they were injured, I asked? To the instructor’s credit he was very kind to me as he explained that war is not about helping the few, it’s about helping the many. Maybe I was not the first bleeding heart liberal he ever had in his class. That was probably lesson one for me on my way to seeing what all soldiers probably know, even the person of peace is sometimes called upon to fight and die for it. A person who hates war must sometimes wage war to stop it. Until humans decide to deal with our differences differently, create a world where despots have no place and stop ignoring that our precious freedoms depend on all of us finding our common ground and contributing what we can to that common good… there will always be bloodshed.

I wrote the following letter to the editor of my conservative, East Tennessee town in early October, 2004. It was my first act of publicly putting my thoughts in front of the Republican faithful. I didn’t get lynched and a couple of people even told me, in confidence of course, that they felt the same way.

The Policy is not the Soldier

A Memorial Day flashback to October 2004

The Republican party would have you believe that their policy is the Soldier. They would prefer that no one make the distinction between their personal agenda and the Soldier that dies in Iraq.  As Mr. Bush’s comments clearly stated: that would simply send the wrong message, “mixed messages” to our brave troops.  How indeed could they follow a leader of questionable intent, morals and leadership?

How indeed? The Republican Party’s story is that this is all about freedom, bringing democracy to the middle east and fighting terrorists wherever they may be.  Those of us who don’t believe that story is entirely true are considered by many as un-patriotic and un-supportive of our sons and daughters fighting and dying in Mr. Bush’s war.

Every person that I meet who cannot allow my right to that opinion has cited the same sentiment, that it disrespected the soldier. No! The Soldier and the policy are not the same thing.

As a Gulf war veteran, I respect those who have chosen to protect our country. I do not respect a commander and chief that would spill their blood for profit, power and a personal vendetta while lying about it.

This president seriously underestimated the consequences of his actions; he will not admit his error in judgement and he hoping that Americans will not be able to separate his failed policy and premature actions from the brave men and women he put in harm’s way.

The spin is relentless in keeping the idea going that one cannot disagree with poor decision-making without disrespecting the troops, and sadly, it seems to be working.  I imagine Mr. Bush and his cronies having a good laugh at just how much the American people are willing to swallow.  And after numbing us out with the unprecedented fear this administration generated in the wake of 9/11, the religious right was waiting to take us all in and show us the error of our ways and their path to salvation.  The path of writing discrimination into the constitution, the path of altering the idea of separation of church and state, the path of intolerance and judgement.

The right to disagree, the right to speak out belong to us all for the moment. Even Mr. Bush and his ilk have the right to express themselves under the same principles, but they do not have the right to legislate for their own purposes and enrichment. It is our duty as informed citizens to keep them in check for the day they overtake us the “other” terrorists will be the least of our worries.  that will be the day none of us are free any longer, not even the right-wing, Republican, Moral majority, Christian Coalition, NRA life member.

Happy Memorial Day and Peace Y’all

 

 

At least the left apologizes

May 26, 2011 a world of progress, progressive living Comments Off on At least the left apologizes

Me and and my good friend Ed Shultz (OK, so I'm more of a fan than a friend).

I’m a big Ed Schultz fan; I have been ever since he kept health reform alive and on the radar after most everyone else had given up. Ed just kept talking about it and talking about it.

Ed came to an informal Congressional hearing on the day after a huge health care rally in Washington, and he wept as he listened to the stories. These were not crocodile tears; Ed Schultz is a real mush, and injustice and lies fire him up — sometimes a little too much.

I heard him call Laura Ingraham a “right-wing slut” on his show and I knew this would be trouble. It was a case of open-mouth-insert-foot. This time, though, he seemed to have gotten both feet in there.

See, Limbaugh, Beck and Hannity can call people any names they want and there’s no blowback. Laura Ingraham can use the “n” word and then wonder why people don’t respect her freedom of speech, and the right will stand behind her and call the left overly sensitive.

I’m not saying what Ed did was right. I shook my head in disappointment when I heard it. But what happened next is something the right never does: Ed Schultz went to his bosses and voluntarily took a week’s suspension from  his MSNBC TV show without pay. Keith Olbasmann and Joe Scarborough both recveived  suspensions from the network for violating campaign contribution policy, but this is for something said outside of MSNBC’s employ. Unlike Olbermann, Schultz won’t complain about the suspension.

He apologized on his show before taking leave and called his own comment “vile and inappropriate.” He apologized to Ingraham, to his family and to his listeners.

As for Ingraham, according to Huffington Post: “Ingraham did respond on Facebook and Twitter, where she wrote, “MSNBC suspends Schultz. Oh great, now his ratings will go up.”

Ed Schultz is loud and he can be abrasive, but he is sincere. He speaks his mind, and even when I disagree with him, I respect him. He’s there for all of us not-wealthy who are being screwed by big corporations and their influence on government, and he’s telling the truth. When Big Media choose to ignore stories like the demonstrations in Wisconsin, Ed’s there with his big mouth, making noise and keeping the story alive.

Yes, he slipped. But he’s humble enough — and decent enough — to admit it, apologize and accept the consequences.

Well, I’m a sucker for a sincere apology and for a man big enough to make it.

I’m proud to have him on my side.

Seasons

May 26, 2011 a world of progress, progressive living Comments Off on Seasons

So I was thinking about the rapture myth today and not just because of all the recent hoopla or non hoopla.  I’ve long been fascinated by this concept and people who really believe in its literal translation. I like a little give and take, but seriously, if there’s not some room in this story for the metaphorical then all I can say is “wow”.

I don’t mean to bash people who believe this is actually going to happen, literally, exactly like it says in the Bible. I really don’t (conservatives don’t wast your time on this point). I do however marvel at the lack of desire to just simply and naturally expand one’s consciousness a little, forget thinking completely outside the box. There was a study a week or two ago that said conservatives and liberals are just wired different. Sorry I don’t have the link to that story… feel free to Google it.  Is this divide between left and right all in the hardware? I don’t know about that, but I do know it’s definitely in the stuff we can’t measure. The consciousness, the Soul, the essence, the life force, the spirit… the whatever.  Not being able to grasp the symbolism and simply choose to learn from it right now, combined with the delusion that hard working patriots just naturally need larger sexual arenas, It all just screams second chakra to me. Look, we all have our baser natures, but the idea is not to use the fires of hell and the rapture story to keep other people in line while you party like it’s fucking 1999.  It’s mostly at the intersection where pious ass and stone cold hypocrite meet that the Holy head banger logic just doesn’t add up for me and I just don’t care to deal with them anymore. What if way back some plugged in peep got a glimpse of the world after we got done hating each other and the planet to death? What would you have called an offshore drilling rig if you didn’t have the damnedest idea what the hell it was?

There is definitely a shift in consciousness taking place, my conservative fellows, but it has nothing to do with being rewarded for allowing your fear to make you a tacit accomplice of legislative extortionists if not an outright one. If the rapture is about teaching us anything it’s about bringing the dream of cooperation and community to fruition. The model where individual liberty meets social responsibility. We can’t ever completely eject the Paul Ryans from the relative world, without the dark we can’t appreciate the light, but I sure as hell don’t want him and his ilk making that choice for me. Change the polls, my ass.

Hope y’all are off to a great summer, but please remember to keep those who are suffering in your thoughts and wallets when and where you can. Especially don’t forget the pets that have lost their people. I heard a story this afternoon on a 880 The Revolution news break about a white German Shepherd that was hurt and wandering around a parking lot in Joplin Mo. The story says the animal control people caught her when she couldn’t walk anymore and just laid down to die. You know that shit made me cry. Don’t know what happened to her next, but people are helping them right now and you can lend a hand Right now. Hell there’s pulverized swaths of towns all over the place. Must be because God hates the Gays.

In other news I have a new love in my life. His name is Angus. He’s a handsome, but mischievous devil that loves to snuggle. Brother Wolf was keeping him for me until I realized he was looking for me. My love of beefy dogs is a lifelong one, but he is the first Pit mix I’ve experienced. He is an amazing little spirit.  Say hi Angus : )

More exciting news on the horizon for AWOP. Stay tuned for details on our new internet radio show. I will be volunteering and hosting our new show from the fabulous West Asheville studios of Asheville FM. Grass Roots community radio. Perfect. If you are interested in being a part of our new media stream, let me know. I will be looking for guests and sponsors. Thanks so much to Lesley Groetsch of Local Edge Radio on 880 The Revolution, Asheville’s Progressive Talk for your solid advice and words of inspiration about the project and for the great work you do on your show. I shall not chicken out.

And lastly, I’m just damn glad it’s summer.

Peace Y’all.

Social justice isn’t news anymore

May 23, 2011 a world of progress, progressive living Comments Off on Social justice isn’t news anymore

During most of my nearly three decades as a newspaper reporter, I covered social justice issues, religion and nonprofits.

I wrote stories about domestic violence, living wage campaigns, poverty issues, disabilities, and state and federal programs that weren’t doing their jobs.

That social issues/nonprofits beat is going away at the Asheville Citizen-Times as of this week, when one-third of what’s left of the newsroom staff gets the ax.

No one knows how the 30-plus remaining people will put out a newspaper every day. Functions that once required 15 people are pared down to three people now.

It isn’t the fault of anyone locally — Gannett, which owns what’s left of the paper, has made cut after cut after cut. In the last five years, half the newsroom staff has been laid off as some functions have been relegated to a central hub. The page design you see was done in Louisville, Ky., or Greenville, SC. The printing is done in Greenville. Ad design is done elsewhere; in all about one-third of the staff that was here 10 years ago remains to put out an ever-shrinking, ever more crappy excuse for a newspaper.

Craig Dubow, Gannett’s CEO makes more than $9 million in annual compensation; the corporation now is laying off fathers and mothers making under $50,000. A few months ago, they decided to lay off a non-citizen who is here legally, but who has two small children, a wife who can’t work because of visa restrictions and who was not eligible for unemployment compensation, even though he paid the same taxes as everyone else in the newsroom.

What happens now is that news just won’t get covered. What we used to call enterprise reporting — including investigative journalism — just won’t get done anymore. When Republicans in the state legislature cut $60 million from the state mental health system, which is already so bad the federal Department of Justice is investigating it, no one will know how harmful that will be to the population here in Western North Carolina because no one will be watching.

That was the function of newspapers when I got into the business: government watchdog.

But over the years, newspapers have been bought by a few huge — and conservative — coroprations. Staffs have been cut and news has become nothing more than the filler that goes between the ads. They’re not looking for an investigative piece about how the state is not caring for children with disabilities, or how people are dying because state psychiatric hospitals are releasing patients with no discharge plan. Readers won’t know if the state wants to close the places where people with disabilities work under close supervision, leaving both the people with disabilities and their caregivers in the lurch.

Newspapers don’t shame government anymore because they don’t cover government. Instead of the watchdogs of power, newspapers have become lapdogs.

Less than five years ago, I had an editor tell me public policy made his eyes glaze over. This was someone who supposedly was making editorial and coverage decisions.

This layoff is just another nail in the coffin of what used to be a good newspaper. There’s little reason to buy it anymore, yet the executives at Gannett corporate wonder why circulation keeps going down and fewer people want to buy ads. I can’t believe they’re really too stupid to figure it out; I believe it’s because they just don’t care about the people who work for them or the people who buy their papers.

A dozen capable news people will be out of work before the end of this week, and there’s no reason for it other than corporate greed.

Looks like we’re all still here

May 22, 2011 a world of progress, progressive living Comments Off on Looks like we’re all still here

It's probably best to not be out when the Rapture comes because of all the cars without drivers and whatnot.

OK, so I never took the whole Rapture thing seriously. I even made plans for after 6 p.m. yesterday: I went to a ballgame.

Unlike many of my more liberal friends, I know all about the fundamentalist theology, so I knew this Harold Camping character was wrong. For one thing, only God is supposed to know. Jesus is quoted as saying even he doesn’t know when the end will come.

The Rapture isn’t in the Bible, although you can probably twist Revelation to say it’s going to happen.

As a kid, I was told to be ready ALL the time because the Antichrist was probably already born and growing up in Europe somewhere because the Eurpoean Common Market (which became the European Union) would become the one world government and the Pope would bring about this watered-down one world church and we who believed the truth would be persecuted.

The bar code would become the Mark of the Beast, and without it we wouldn’t be able to buy food or anything.

It was never clear whether this would begin before or after the Rapture, but the Rapture would be followed by seven years of Tribulation, which we definitely didn’t want to be around for. Lots of death and misery, topped off by the Apocalypse, which is supposed to be really messy.

This theology kept me very scared for a very long time. But as I grew and learned, I figured it was kind of like the government telling me we’re doing the right thing in Vietnam.

My epiphany came when a guest preacher at my church said — from the pulpit — “We’re doing the Lord’s work in Vietman killing all those Godless gooks.”

I was 17, and I was opposed to the war. I also was opposed to hate language (I still oppose both).

My parents would wash my mouth out with soap for using racial epithets, and I believed the Greatest Commandment: Love God and love your neighbor as yourself.

I approached the minister after church and told him I didn’t think we were supposed to be killing God’s children at all, since there’s a period at the end of, “Thou shalt not kill.”

My pastor told me I should show respect, and I told him I was showing respect, but not for this advocate of war; I was showing respect for God’s children.

It didn’t surprise me when the Rapture didn’t happen any more than it didn’t surprise anyone else I know.

But when it does happen, I’m going straight to the Mini Cooper dealership and getting me a sweet little red one.

 

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