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When Maricopa County, Arizona, Sheriff Joe Arpaio began his investigation of President Barack Obama’s background at the request of numerous complainants, little did he realize he would widen his probe of the President’s birth records as a result of the discovery of a 1991 document regarding the 44th President’s unpublished book, “Journeys in Black and White,“ as reported on the late Andrew Breitbart’s Big Government news web site.

Arpaio stated during a recent press conference that his special investigative unit known as “The Cold Case Posse”  already established probable cause that Barack Obama’s Hawaii birth certificate is a forgery. He also stated that the President’s Social Security and Selective Service (draft) cards are highly suspicious.

With the discovery of the 1991 promotional brochure listing Obama’s birthplace as Kenya, Arpaio is expected to widen his investigation especially in the aftermath of Breitbart.com publishing the image of a 20-year-old promotional brochure that states in a “thumbnail biography” that Obama was “born in Kenya and raised in Indonesia and Hawaii.”

The report said the brochure was created by the firm of Acton & Dystel, which was promoting Obama as the author of the never-produced “Journeys in Black and White.”

The Obama thumbnail biography states:

“Barack Obama, the first African-American president of the Harvard Law Review, was born in Kenya and raised in Indonesia and Hawaii. The son of an American anthropologist and a Kenyan finance minister, he attended Columbia University and worked as a financial journalist and editor for Business International Corporation. He served as project coordinator in Harlem for the New York Public Interest Research Group, and was Executive Director of the Developing Communities Project in Chicago’s South Side. His commitment to social and racial issues will be evident in his first book, Journeys in Black and White.”

A search of the Dystel client list reveals she continues to represent the community-activist-turned-politician, who eventually did publish an autobiography titled “Dreams from My Father,” in which Obama admits befriending Marxists and socialists, taking illegal drugs such as cocaine, and even eating dog meat while living in Indonesia.

In his book, there is also Obama’s admission that as a child – during his formative years — he attended a madrassa (an Islamic school) and that his father was a devout socialist.

Breitbart News describes the entire Acton booklet as being 36 pages long, printed in blue ink using offset lithography.

The Breitbart.com reporters claim that Dystel continues to list Obama as one of her celebrity clients and that the literary agent’s new partner was the original editor of the Obama promotional pamphlet in 1991. An examinition of the firm’s web site by the Law Enforcement Examiner confirms this.

“Regardless of the reason for Obama’s odd biography, the Acton & Dystel booklet raises new questions as part of ongoing efforts to understand Barack Obama – who, despite four years in office remains a mystery to many Americans, thanks to the mainstream media,” the report says.

In addition, according to a recent Law Enforcement Examiner report, based on released, declassified intelligence documents by the British government, there is a question as to which location the Obama family visited first — Indonesia or Hawaii.

Of interest to Sheriff Arpaio and Arizona’s Governor Jan Brewer is the fact that in June the U.S Supreme Court will rule on the decision of the Obama Administration’s to sue Arizona over its immigration law and its enforcement policy that includes sheriffs such as Arpaio enforcing the laws the Obama administration refuses to enforce.

An alleged intelligence leak regarding a covert operation that thwarted an “underwear bomb” plot last week is now creating distrust and ill feelings within the U.S. intelligence community and has led to increased talk about intelligence leaks at the highest levels of government, according to terrorism experts on Friday.

Terrorism expert Mike Scheur, the former chief of the Bush Administration's Bin Laden Unit, claims Obama and his minions leaked classified information for political gain. Photo credit: Police One Magazine

Former Central Intelligence Agency officers are openly blaming President Barack Obama, his administration, and possibly his campaign committee for undermining national security and compromising the British domestic and foreign intelligence agencies, MI5 and MI6, for political reasons,  according to a U.S. counterterrorism source who contacted the Law Enforcement Examiner on Friday and requested anonymity.

“When presidents are in trouble because of their failing domestic agenda, they attempt to look presidential by getting involved in military or intelligence operations. And Obama has taken that to a whole new level,” said the source.

MI5  is Britain’s domestic security agency Military Intelligence Section 5, while MI6  is their foreign intelligence agency known as Military Intelligence Section 6.

During an appearance on Fox New Channel, FNC’s regular intelligence analyst Mike Scheur, a former head of the CIA’s Bin Laden unit under George W. Bush, said the leaking of British involvement was “despicable and would make a repeat of the operation [that thwarted an attack] difficult.”

“MI6 should be as angry as hell. This is something that the prime minister should raise with the president, if he has the balls. This is really tragic,” said the refreshingly blunt terrorism expert. He added, “Any information disclosed is too much information. This does seem to be [a leak] for political reasons.”

There are some who believe this episode will reduce the trust factor between the U.S. and foreign intelligence agencies in Britain, Israel and other allies. Former military intelligence officer and NYPD detective Michael Snopes claims that intelligence agencies in Israel and Europe believe that the American intelligence and law enforcement communities are too leak-prone.

“There’s always been a problem with politicians and bureaucrats leaking classified information for political purposes, but now it appears to be standard operating procedure,” said Snopes. “In my opinion, that’s what you get when you have a community organizer as your Commander in Chief.”

White House officials originally stated  that Obama was made aware in April of an al-Qaeda affiliate’s foiled plot to blow up a U.S.-bound passenger airplane. It was later reported that the man with the improvised explosive device was an infiltrator of al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula (AQAP) who was actually a CIA asset (informant).

However, according to several confidential sources contacted by the Law Enforcement Examiner, it was discovered that the informant was a British MI6 intelligence asset and not an informant for the U.S. Central Intelligence Agency.

This thwarted terrorist plot revealed a modernized version of the “underwear bomb” that failed to detonate aboard a plane arriving at Detroit International Airport on Christmas Day 2009. This upgraded bomb was designed to be used in a passenger’s underwear, but contained a more a refined detonation system, U.S. police bomb technicians told the Law Enforcement Examiner.

“The 2009 IED [improvised explosive device] was amateurishcompared to this upgraded device. It was also designed to pass through airport security screening equipment and metal detectors,” said a veteran bomb tech.

A Democrat member of Arizona’s House of Representatives who fights for illegal aliens’ rights, Paul Ben Arredondo, was charged on Wednesday by a federal grand jury with bribery, fraud, attempted extortion and false statements he made to the FBI in connection with receiving more than $6,000 in tickets to sporting and special events while he was a Tempe, Arizona, council member and a member-elect of the Arizona House, according to a federal law enforcement official.

According to the indictment, Arredondo was a council member in Tempe for 16 years, until July 2010. He was elected to the Arizona House of Representatives in November 2010.

The indictment alleges that from February 2009 to November 2010, Arredondo accepted, agreed to accept and solicited things of value from representatives of a company whose purported business objective was to acquire city-owned property in Tempe for real estate development purposes. The representatives were, in fact, undercover agents with the FBI.

“While many Tempe residents were aware of allegations made against Arredondo, he was strongly supported because of his advocacy for illegal aliens and his opposition to fellow Arizona officials like Rep. Russell Pearce and Sheriff Joe Arpaio, who believe in tough immigration enforcement,” a former prosecutor who requested anonymity told the Law Enforcement Examiner Wednesday evening.

In August 2011, there were many who wished Rep. Arredondo to be “recalled” for alleged misconduct in his attempt to bring the Fiesta Bowl from Phoenix to Tempe.

According to the indictment, Arredondo received more than $6,000 worth of tickets to sporting and other special events from FBI from the undercover agents. The tickets included 18 tickets for Arizona Diamondbacks baseball games valued at a total of approximately $2,400, and four tickets to an American League Championship Series baseball game valued at a total of approximately $1,225.

In return for those tickets, Arredondo took and agreed to take action in his capacity as a Tempe city council member and as a member of the Arizona House of Representatives to facilitate the undercover agents’ purchase of city-owned property and development project, the indictment alleges.

The indictment alleges that Arredondo brokered meetings between the undercover agents and other public officials, divulged information regarding the city of Tempe’s bidding process, and attempted to persuade other city officials to approve the purported development project.

The indictment further alleges that Arredondo lied to the FBI about his conduct during an interview in January 2012.

The federal programs bribery charge carries a maximum penalty of 10 years in prison and a $250,000 fine. Each count of honest services mail fraud and attempted extortion carries a maximum penalty of 20 years in prison and a $250,000 fine. The false statement charge carries a maximum penalty of 5 years in prison and a $250,000 fine.

While not widely known by Americans, there are millions of Arabs and Muslims living in Latin America, the majority of them Sunnis — with a Lebanese Shi’ite minority – who are the principle objective of Iran’s propaganda activities, according to a report by an Israeli terrorism think-tank.

According to the Israeli-based Meir Amit Information Center, there are two main communities in Latin American countries: one group’s roots are in India, Indonesia and Pakistan, while the other is mainly Arabs from Syria and Lebanon, descendents of immigrants who moved to Latin America in the 19th and 20th centuries. It’s these groups that are “targeted” for recruitment by Iranian intelligence officers and their partners in the terrorist organization Hezbollah.

The spread of Muslims throughout Latin America, especially Shi’ite Muslims originating in Lebanon, are a convenient environment for Iran and Hezbollah to establish subversive, terrorist and occasionally criminal networks. Iran also conducts extensive ideological, religious, cultural and social activities within the Muslim communities to disseminate Khomeini’s radical Shi’ite Islam.

Iran’s intensive efforts to export the Islamic Revolution to Latin America take many forms: financing the construction of mosques and cultural and religious centers; translating books and ideological and religious material into Spanish and distributing them throughout Latin America; providing local residents with religious-political training in Iran, who then return to their own countries imbued with radical Islam and anti-American, anti-Israeli ideology; sending Iranian clerics to preach and spread Khomeini’s ideology in Latin America; and establishing a Spanish TV station, HispanTV, that broadcasts 24/7. The sophisticated TV station began broadcasting on February 1, 2012.

In addition, the Iranian activists provide assistance in establishing Spanish-language Internet sites similar to those utilized by Middle Eastern terrorists.

In the overall Iranian view, Latin America is a secondary arena. Its principle venues for widespread subversion and terrorism remain Iraq, Syria, Lebanon, the Palestinian territories, Central and Southeast Asia, the Persian Gulf and Sudan.

Nevertheless, Iran and Hezbollah find Latin America attractive for purposes of terrorism, subversion and crime. As elsewhere, in Latin America their activities are led by the Quds Force in collaboration with various other bodies and entities within the Iranian regime.

Iranian activity in Latin America, as in other arenas, combines exporting the Islamic Revolution with terrorism and crime, worries Washington and is often represented as a threat – or at least a potential threat – to American interests.

The discovery on Monday that an illegal alien — Nigerian national Bimbo Olumuyiwa Oyewole –held the position of security supervisor at an airport from which United Flight 93 (“Let’s Roll!”) departed on September 11, 2001 and crashed in a Pennsylvania field when terrorists commandeered the plane, has created a firestorm throughout the nation.

Illegal Alien Bimbo Olumuyia Oyewole's case has created a firestorm and not one word from President Obama as of yet. Photo credit: PA of NY & NJ

One fact that needs to be addressed immediately is that background checks on airport workers and other employees assigned to sensitive areas are not as indepth as originally believed, according to several security experts who spoke with the Law Enforcement Examiner.

Sadly, since the creation of the Department of Homeland Security, the Government Accountability Office has analyzed airport security deficiencies in a number of reports. The results of these studies, which are routinely distributed to the executive and legislative branches of government, were given scant attention by the Obama White House, the U.S. Congress, and the news media, said the Law Enforcement Examiner sources.

Within the Department of Homeland Security, the Transportation Security Administration manages several credentialing programs, which include background checking (known as Security Threat Assessments) and issuing credentials to transportation workers requiring unescorted access to the nation’s transportation facilities.

The number of TSA programs and their potential for redundancy with state and local government programs has raised questions about these credentialing programs. GAO examined TSA credentialing programs to identify the roles and responsibilities of federal and nonfederal government entities related to TSA’s transportation worker credentialing programs and how they compare; and any key challenges TSA faced in ensuring the effectiveness of its credentialing programs.

Besides the background investigation process for airport security personnel, nonfederal government entities have varying roles and responsibilities under three TSA transportation worker credentialing programs that were reviewed — the Transportation Worker Identification Credential program (TWIC) for maritime workers; the Hazardous Materials Endorsement program (HME) for truckers seeking a commercial drivers license endorsement to carry hazardous materials; and the Aviation Workers program for airport workers.

Under the Aviation Workers program, TSA and airports share responsibility for the vetting process for airport workers, with airports responsible for enrolling applicants, adjudicating criminal history results provided by the TSA, and issuing and revoking airport badges.

During its most recent analysis in December 2011, GAO analysts discovered limitations in the vetting process and criminal background checks:

First, in general, the level of access that TSA credentialing programs receive to Department of Justice (DOJ) Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) criminal history records is the level of access accorded for noncriminal justice purposes (e.g., equal to that of a private company doing an employment check on a new applicant, according to TSA) which limits TSA in accessing certain criminal history data related to charges and convictions. While TSA is seeking criminal justice type access to FBI systems, the FBI reports that it is legally unable to provide this access. The FBI and TSA are collaborating on options, but have not identified the extent to which a potential security risk may exist under the current process, and the costs and benefits of pursuing alternatives to provide additional access, according to the analysts.

U.S. House Democrats are ignoring calls by Republican lawmakers for them to offer an apology to the New York City Police Department for backing an amendment that effectively rebuked the NYPD over its counterterrorism surveillance and investigative techniques.

GOP lawmakers believe the House Democrats should apologize to the New York Police Department's commissioner, Ray Kelly, and to the officers involved in counterterrorism and intelligence gathering. Photo credit: NYPD Press Office

The formal rebuke of the NYPD, which failed to pass this week on a mostly party-line vote, would have punished the 40,000-member law enforcement department by prohibiting funding for police and security organizations engaged in alleged unconstitutional or unlawful discrimination.

GOP Rep, Peter King (R-NY) — chairman of the House Homeland Security Committee – and Rep. Bob Turner (R-PA) called the vote shameful, while several police officials told the Law Enforcement Examiner that the Democrats “stayed true to form.”

“The Democrats obtain campaign contributions from groups like CAIR and other Islamic organizations and they in turn protect them from the ‘big bad cops,’” said one anonymous police officer who works in the NYPD’s Arson & Explosion Unit.

While the amendment would apply to any jurisdiction in the nation, Rep. Rush Holt (D-NJ) who sponsored the legislation made it clear that he was targeting the NYPD, especially those divisions and units tasked with combating terrorism.

“Holt did not even have official information on the allegations made against the New York cops. He was using stories gleaned from news organizations, such as the Associated Press, and complaints made by groups like the Council on American-Islamic Relations — a group that always complains whenever cops attempt to protect Americans from radical Islamic terrorists,” said former New York police detective and military intelligence officer Mike Snopes.

“Holt practically scolded the NYPD saying they infiltrated neighborhoods because they were Muslim,” Snopes said. “That congressman sitting safely in his heavily guarded workplace should be praising the NYPD.”

In an official statement promulgated on Saturday by Reps. King and Turner, the congressmen rebuked Holt for his “politically-motivated” statements and condemned Democrat congressmen for supporting the amendment — the measure failed on a 232-193 vote, with only Democrats supporting it.

“We are utterly dumbfounded and shocked that after such a slanderous attack, the overwhelming majority of congressional Democrats and the entire Democratic leadership voted for the Holt amendment and against the NYPD,” Rep. King said. “The Democrats owe New York and the NYPD an explanation for their shameful surrender to political correctness.”

Police Commissioner Ray Kelly and city officials, as well as King and Turner, have defended the department’s tactics as effective and perfectly legal. Their tactics also have not been found to be unconstitutional, meaning Holt’s amendment might not have had much practical effect on the NYPD’s funding.

Holder and Democrats screaming for blood?

New York’s Police Commissioner Ray Kelly — arguably the best police commander in that city’s history — continues to defend the tactics, calling them legal and necessary. But groups such as the Council on American Islamic Relations (CAIR) and the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) are practically screaming for blood, said former NYPD police detective Sid Franes.

“What the NYPD officials did in New York and New Jersey, they’ve also done overseas in countries such as the United Kingdom, India, Indonesia, and others,” said Franes. “They are collecting intelligence not investigating and arresting suspects. And they’re not using drones to spy on American citizens the way the feds do,” he added.

The security breach at Newark Liberty International Airport reported on Tuesday, although troubling to many, was not the first serious lapse in aviation security and it probably won’t be the last to occur in a multi-billion dollar government enterprise, according to security experts. They point to a government report that documents upwards of 25,000 breaches of airport security checkpoints since November 2001.

A GAO report revealed about 25,000 incidents of security breaches at U.S. airports. Photo credit: TSA/DHS

The Homeland Security Department had completed an initial study to validate the scientific basis of the Transportation Security Administration’s Screening of Passengers by Observation Techniques (SPOT) program; however, additional work remains to fully validate the program, according to a report released by the Government Accountability Office in July.

Department of Homeland Security officials are shocked to discover that an illegal alien held the position of security supervisor at an airport from which United Flight 93 departed on September 11, 2001 and crashed in a field in Pennsylvania when passengers rose up and attacked their terrorist captors.

Perp walk: Illegal alien Bimbo Olumuyiwa Oyewole lived a double life for 20 years thanks to poor immigration security. Photo credit: TSA/DHS

In a shocking revelation, a Post Authority of New York and New Jersey police source told the Law Enforcement Examiner that a veteran security supervisor at Newark Liberty International Airport in New Jersey — one of three major airports in the New York City metropolitan area — has been using the identity of a murder victim for about 20 years.

The police source stated that the illegal alien — whose real name is believed to be Bimbo Olumuyiwa Oyewole — was arrested Monday in his home in Elizabeth, New Jersey. The 54-year old Nigerian had assumed the identity of American citizen Jerry Thomas, who was a murder victim in 1992 in an unsolved homicide in New York City.

“Investigators have reopened the case in order to rule out Oyewole as a suspect in the 20-year old cold case,” the police informed the Law Enforcement Examiner.

Homeland Security and Port Authority Police are investigating  how Thomas’ personal information was allegedly stolen by the Nigerian illegal alien.

A Nigerian crime syndicate has been involved for a number of years in identity theft and creating fake identification documents including driver licenses, social security cards and other ID instruments.

According to the Law Enforcement Examiner source, “Oyewole apparently had all the documents he needed to successfully pass for Jerry Thomas, including a birth certificate and a social security card. He had worked under several contractors at the airport, most recently FJC Security Services.

Newark International is one of the nation’s airports that opted to hire a private security agency rather than use U.S. Transportation Security Agency personnel. By law, security personnel working for New York security firms must be registered by the state after completing all of the requirements including a background check, fingerprinting, training class completion and passing a written examination.

FJC Security, which received the Newark International Airport contract in 2003, claims it indeed did conduct a due diligence background check on the Nigerian suspect as did the New Jersey State Police and U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) component of the Department of Homeland Security.

DHS officials stated that Oyewole “had nothing in his background or his performance to that raised any red flags indicating a cause for concern or a reason to question the state police and federal government’s background checks.”

Newly released, declassified files from the United Kingdom reveal U.S.officials’ concerns that Kenyans studying in America, including President Obama’s father, may have had ties to Kenyan terrorist groups that were supported by communist nations in the 1950s and early 1960s.

The name of Barack Obama's father at the top of a list compiled by British colonial officials of Kenyans studying in the US. Photo credit: British National Archives

As yet the documents exist only in physical form at the National Archives in Kew, Southwest London – but they are open to the public, a British police source told the Law Enforcement Examiner on Sunday.

Documents released in April by the British government – but ignored until the left-leaning, London-based newspaper The Guardian printed a story –  reveal that the President’s father, Barack Hussein Obama, Senior, was the target of an international investigation due to his ties to Kenyan terrorist groups in the 1950s such as the group responsible for the so-called Mao-Mao Uprising in Kenya.

The declassified documents, which had been kept secret for decades, “were privately condemned by Obama administration officials,” a British source told the Law Enforcement Examiner.

Obama’s White House and re-election campaign teams feared the documents could hurt the struggling president, especially with independent voters, as polls showed Obama trailing Republican contender Mitt Romney in several key states by a few points, according to a Gallup Poll also released in April.

Sadly, except for the blogosphere and European news organizations, the story regarding the British intelligence documents is being conspicuously ignored, said political strategist Mile Baker.

The documents on Obama, Sr., were released as a result of a case in the British High Court brought by a team of professors from Oxford University. The documents describe events when Kenya was still a British colony and Obama Sr. was a Kenyan national who traveled to Hawaii for a college education, despite his political radicalism and poor academic record, according to Britain’s Daily Mail, hardly a right-wing publication.

On September 1, 1959, one British ambassador penned a highly classified communiqué that stated, “I have discussed with the State Department. They are as disturbed about these developments as we are. They point out that Kenya students have a bad reputation over here for falling into the wrong hands and for becoming both anti-American and anti-white,” according to the Daily Mail report.

The British documents revealed that Barack, Sr., and Ann Dunham, a 17-year-old white American from Kansas, traveled to Hawaii and to Indonesia where the President was allegedly raised with a traditional Muslim education, complete with Imans and Madrasas.

The Mau Mau Uprising was an insurgency by Kenyan rebels – who used terrorist tactics against the British citizens – that lasted from 1952 to 1960. The core of the resistance was formed by members of the Kikuyu ethnic group, along with smaller numbers of Embu and Meru, according to the New World Encyclopedia.

The uprising failed militarily, though it may have hastened Kenyan independence. It created a rift between the white colonial community in Kenya and the Home Office in London that set the stage for Kenyan independence in 1963.

The veterans of the independence movement referred to themselves as the “Land and Freedom Army” in English. Economic disparity between Africans and settlers in Kenya and aspiration for independence provoked the rebellion, which the British always represented as a series of lawless acts by dangerous criminal, anti-social elements, according to a Rutgers University African Studies report.

The Obama Justice Department awarded a group headed by a domestic terrorist, – and one-time FBI fugitive with close ties to President Barack Obama – hundreds of thousands of  taxpayer dollars “to reduce racial disparities in the juvenile justice system,” according to a leading Inside the Beltway watchdog group.

“This is a story you likely won’t see in the mainstream media, but a reputable political magazine exposed it this week,” according to officials at Judicial Watch, an organization that investigates and exposes government corruption and abuse.

According to Judicial Watch’s Corruption Chronicles, the Department of Justice has already given $400,000 in grants to an organization that blames disproportionately high criminal behavior among minority juvenile delinquents on discrimination. The San Francisco-based nonprofit describes itself as a leading organization in the field of juvenile justice and ethnic and racial disparities reduction.

Among the institute’s board of directors is Bernardine Dohrn, a longtime Obama supporter and fundraiser and proud member of the Weather Underground, a radical group that used explosives to attack the U.S. Capitol, the Pentagon and other government buildings to protest U.S. policy.  She and her group are believed responsible for the killing and wounding police officers, as well.

Dohrn’s violent actions earned her a slot on the FBI’s Ten Most Wanted Fugitives list during the 1970s. She eventually served probation and spent some time in jail for refusing to cooperate with an investigation, the Judicial Watch blog states.

Dohrn is married to William Ayers, the co-founder of the Weather Underground. Like his wife, Ayers was also an FBI fugitive who has proudly admitted planting bombs in government buildings during the Vietnam era. In fact, he has publicly said that he doesn’t regret his terrorist acts and that in fact his group “didn’t do enough.” 

More recently, the American contingent of the Free Gaza Movement was led by President Barack Obama’s friends and supporters Bill Ayers, Bernardine Dohrn and Jody Davis, who also heads Code Pink. The Free Gaza Movement boasts the names of Bill Ayers,Noam Chomsky, Adam Shapiro and other American radicals allegedly devoted to destroying the United States and Israel.

“The couple has long supported Obama’s political career by donating money to his campaigns and hosting fundraisers at their Chicago home. For years they all hung out in the same political and social circles, lived in the same Chicago neighborhood and Obama and Ayers served on the board of a leftwing Chicago nonprofit. However, during the 2008 presidential campaign Obama worked hard to distance himself from his terrorist pals,” according to Corruption Chronicles.

“Using the generous DOJ grant as a guide, it appears that Dohrn is still benefiting from the relationship with Obama. How else could one explain the DOJ grant?” the Judicial Watch blog asks. ”As the article that broke the story points out, Dohrn has a history with the Justice Department and it isn’t good. Why would the agency responsible for enforcing the law and defending the country against the attacks she once carried out give her taxpayer dollars?

Dohrn refused to comment about the Judicial Watch allegations.

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Special thanks to Jill Farrell, director of public affairs at Judicial Watch. for her valuable assistance.