Britney Gives Thanks
Mrs. Feredline's latest letter to her fanclub. Be nice, k?
Britney’s Letters: A letter to mom for Thanksgiving
11.22.2004
This week is Thanksgiving, a time of year to reflect on all of our blessings and everything we are most thankful for. In that respect, I want to dedicate this letter to my mom.
It's 10pm and Kori is sound asleep. Today, for the first time I made a roast with carrots, potatoes, corn and my favorite garlic bread. It was amazing, if I do say so myself! I used my own recipe too. My feet are really starting to sink into my new home, especially the kitchen. When I was younger, the kitchen was always the room in the house where we would all end up hanging out. Cooking is kind of like motherhood. To be really good at it, you don't need instructions. You kind of just go on instinct and what feels right.
My mom was the best at everything but she wasn't a Stepford wife at all. She had her own way of doing things. Some of the women where we are from went to church every week, but also gossiped the entire time they were there. These women also worshiped their husbands in a weird way and talked to their kids as if they were a principal lecturing a student instead of a mother to her child. Living in a small town can make it so easy to just follow the mold and go along with how everyone else does things. But my mom managed to set her own course and not get corrupted into doing things like all the other women. She would go to church every week like everyone else, but she always looked sexy in her black dress and she was the one all the other women would gossip about. She would come home and put on her size 2 shorts and a bikini top to wash the car & get a tan at the same time, then come inside and manage to make the best chicken dumplings before going on a two mile run and then end the night by making the best chocolate shakes for us before we went to bed.
My mom was and still is a Supermom. She is just so much fun and I think the reason why I relate to her so well is because she's a young mom. A lot of people think you should wait till you're older to have kids. I've had a career since I was 16, have traveled around the world & back and even kissed Madonna! The only thing I haven't done so far is experience the closest thing to God and that's having a baby. I can't wait! I thought I would never say this, but I love not working so much! To be a really good mom, I feel your child needs to be your full time job. I want to raise my kids and share all of those precious moments with them and not rely on nannies. Spending time at home over the past few months, I have felt richer than I ever did working all the time. My soul feels rich and that doesn't have anything to do with money or material things. To feel content, I just need a roof over my head and to be surrounded by the people I love. That's why I'm dedicating this letter to my mom and all of the mom's out there. What would the world do without you?
Mom, thanks for being the best role model ~ you rock!
Love,
B
Posted at 7:40 PM
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Cooking is kind of like motherhood. To be really good at it, you don't need instructions. You kind of just go on instinct and what feels right.
does child services know that b is planning on reproducing?
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i'm a social worker, i have child protective services on my speed dial and i'm not afraid to use it.
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"But my mom managed to set her own course and not get corrupted into doing things like all the other women."
Like exploiting your kids or becoming a stage mom, please!
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"My feet are really starting to sink into my new home, especially the kitchen."
Oh god, only up to the second paragraph and already I feel the need to bite my tongue. Off.
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oh.my.god. i didn't think it could get any worse (better?) than the last few letters. the mockery is almost too easy, if i didn't know better i'd say brit brit has a wicked sense of humor. unfortunately (fortunately?) i think she has no idea how ridiculous she is.
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So basically, Britney's mom was trash too?
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"To be a really good mom, I feel your child needs to be your full time job."
...and your child to have a full time job.
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Wait. Her mother was a good mother? The woman who ran over a photographer?
The woman who whored her oldest daughter out for fame? That's you Titney. "She wore a size 2". Not in the pix I've seen of your mother she didn't and hasn't.
Your mother whored you out and you hated it, admit it, because you shacked up with the most low class guy you could think of.
A guy who has 2 other children with a woman he didn't care enough to marry.
You really are missing some brain cells. Yeah, he probably loves you, and you want a man in your life because your father was always relegated to 2nd class citizenship due to your idiotic stage mother who wanted to make money off of...YOU.
I would feel sorry for you Brit, but you have too much money for me to feel sorry for you. You can sort your own life out.
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Eek. Um, so does kori's mom know that her daughter is about to be poisoned with titney's home cookin'?
Your mother wore cocktail dresses to church? I mean, ten out of ten points for pure balls, but negative several hundred for good taste and common decency, mother-of brit. I thought that cocktail dresses were reserved for drinking time. Silly me!
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i cant believe how many angry, elitist, hating people there are here. let the poor girl live her life. get over yourselves and her people.
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So that's why she's so into eating junk food -- she associates it with the comfort of a mother's love. I feel so sorry for her -- she doesn't realize what she's missed out on. No wonder she's with such a loser like Kevin -- she doesn't think she deserves better.
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I can't believe I'm saying this, but these letters are kinda making me root for the girl. Dammit.
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Wat a smart PR ploy this is. With this ode to her mom and moms in general, she is setting us up for the next big announcement. Her PREGNANCY. It is pretty obvious now.
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I only hope she wiped the 7 eleven restroom grime off her feet before sinking them into her new home.
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I think it's come to the point where it's just too easy. I would pay some serious money to see B's first draft of this letter.
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Titney's first video was the wetdream of pervo porn men everywhere. Cheerleader outfit, underwear showing. Check out the usenet articles from porny place RAME on her back then. They called it.
Unbelievably she got worse from there. And, her mom approved!
Titney as a child pornstar was "size 2 cocktail dress wearing to church" mother's approval and very possibly HER IDEA!
Titney needs a shrink.
Wait.
It's too late. She's pregnant I'm sure.
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so in other words, her mother was the brazen hussy at church that everyone laughed at. good times all around, man.
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Recipe. Uh huh. Regular Martha Stewart, this one.
Ugh. Why are we still reading her stupid letters to no one?
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Quoting eek a popstar:
"I thought that cocktail dresses were reserved for drinking time. Silly me!"
Maybe Ma Spears wore the cocktail dress to slam down some communion wine?
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Give Britney a break. I'm not much of a fan of her music, but since she's started this supposed "downhill slide", I've started to like her a bit more as a person. She's a regular girl (with a disfunctional upbringing, with flaws like anyone), but she's living everything in the public eye. This is probably the way she's been able to deal with everything. God knows I'd kill myself if I had to live under such constant scrutiny! I never thought I'D be defending her, but the fact is that - to some people . she can do no right, and that's a little unfair. But whatever...People are going to think what they think, no matter what.
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I like these letters. real or not - they are making me kind of like her too... so i guess they are working....i mean, the girl likes her mom - so let her like her mom. right?
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well good news and bad news though... she'll stop her career for a while when she is pregnant..great! mtv willl never be the same. But the bad news is that when the child will be around 10 years old we'll get a duet with her and britney.. and the other bad news is offcourse that britney thinks pregnancy is a gods gift..yech! im pretty sure that if there's a god he didn't want ppl like britney to multiply themself.
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oh and britney....your mummy does NOT rock....i really hate it when ppl who r somewhat responsible for ruining the Rock n Roll scene use the word rock!
fuck off and die just for that..please?
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that letter was actually kind of sweet...
but ew! don't call your mom sexy in reference to church, and don't remind everyone that your mom is a size two, and therefore approximately the same size as one of your ginormous thighs.
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I think her mother wrote this one. Didn't she write the last one? Compare this to the first one. Wow.
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she's not the brightest bulb, but i thought this letter was sweet. it's nice that she's happy, and finally realizing (unlike so many other celebrities) that fame and money can't necessarily buy that. i think she's being honest, and it's refreshing, at least a little.
(but yeah, i could have done without the lame sexy-dress and size-2 shorts references, too. oh and the 'a good mom is a full-time mom' thing. not always true, duh.)
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It's easy for someone to say all they need to be happy is a house and their family around them when they have a 6 million dollar house big enough to hold all their family. She says she doesn't care about material things, well then what was the point of her whole career? to amass a fortune so she doesn't have to work at the age of 22 (we should be so lucky, by the way). That's not materialistic? She's a hypocrit. It's easy to say money doesn't matter when you have tons of it, you dont have to work and you get to hang out with your friends and family whenever you want to. Please. How does she think she's able to pull that off? M-O-N-E-Y
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aw britney. i dont know. as ridiculous as she is i sorta am developing a soft spot for her. sure kevin is trashy and i harbored illusions that she would reunite with justin. even if she likes shabby chic---some people just want to be young mothers. there are worse people that could be breeding.
go brit.
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Thank goodness my parents never pushed religion on me; especially considering we're from a very religious European country. If I saw my mom pray and give herself to God in church and then come home and wash her car in a size 2 shorts and bikini top, I'd seriously dislike God.
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That wasn't religion her mother was pushing on her, unless they attended the church of the highly slutty.
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That description of her mother- very Desperate Housewife sounding.
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Oh I just had this flash of Lynn Spears circa 1988 with bad 80's permed hair the bangs sprayed up in the front in church wearing a black Rainbow stores brought cocktail dress with flesh colored pantyhose and black pumps, then coming home and changing into her bandu bikni top and "size 2" cutoffs washing Papa Spear's 87 vet and blasting Lynyrd Skynyrd and all the while a very young Britney looking on in awe.
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of course she's kissing her mom's ass in this letter: she's about to drop the bomb of "you're gonna be a grandma mom!" on her poor size 2. oh dear!
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"It's easy for someone to say all they need to be happy is a house and their family around them when they have a 6 million dollar house big enough to hold all their family. "
true. but most of us wouldn't necessarily be pushing away that opportunity, either -- to be loaded, do whatever we wanted and own a huge house big enough to hold and support all of our loved ones. she made that money; what else is she going to do with it? and in some ways i think she really deserves that money. so what if she's not the smartest, classiest girl on the planet? she's been working pretty much nonstop since she was 15, and i do think she sacrificed some 'normal' youth stuff to get where she is now. i dunno. i think she's earned the right to sit around in her house for a while. yeah, she hasn't been saving lives or performing brain surgery, but it's nice to *not* hear yet another celebrity bitching about their empty lives and the price of fame.
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I wonder if its true that if Brit is pregers and she has the baby will she be another Kathee Lee and tell also all about the baby 24/7? And will baby Spears-Federline have a cutesy spelled K name to honor dad like her/his half brother and sister Kori and Kaleb? If its a girl will the baby's name be Karaoline Lynn?
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I got the baby's name!
Kaballah Kevin Federline if its a boy
Kaballah Lynn Madonna Federline if its a girl
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the picture of brit brit in US weekly with kevin in blockbuster kind of made me happy, and not in the usual catty way i like to be happy. the more she lets herself go, the farther she gets from the whole celebrity thing. she just turns into liza faster and faster!
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God 22 year olds are stupid. Brit is, I was too when I was that age... At least she has the money as a cushion.
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I love the "I've had a career since I was 16" Isn't that only like 5 years of working? I've been working since I was 16 too, and it's gone on a lot longer than that! Damn, why didn't someone think to whore me out this way? Moooom!
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brit needs to put the pencil down and get real. what the hell kind of mindset is she imposing to the 'youth'?
this letter (like seeing pics of britney) makes me want to gouge my eyeballs out!
blech!
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Hey Janine, I'll agree that there are a lot of stupid people out there my age (21), but I really don't think that Britney should be looked at as a true sample of the early 20's population. Plus there are a lot of us that, although young, have a fairly good head on our shoulders. Anywho, on to Britty: most of the Britney stuff stereogum posts on here makes me giggle in a perverse way, and this really didn't at first... I was disappointed that Britney's writing skills seemed to have improved (albeit slightly) since her first, painful to read letter.
However, I think that Britney is in serious need of some real world experience. That girl is naive beyond belief. Also, the "your child needs to be your full time job" shit actually really annoyed me. A young feminist she clearly is not. When an event like kissing Madonna figures so highly into your life that you have to mention it in a brief recap of everything you've ever done, something's got to be a little bit off. Seriously Britney, if you've got so much free time go enroll at your local university and take some women's studies courses... and a composition class while you're at it.
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Here are some nice Kaballah inspired blankets and crib sets that I'm planning on sending Brit, KFed and little Kaballah Federline as a shower present.
http://secure1.kabbalah.com/kci/English/index.asp?CartId={3685BC3A-54D7-4CD3-B64C-C0642C2BB082EVEREST}&FSCat=121&url=IND&iFromFeatured=1
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well come on guys... she really means it well...bwaaahahahahaha...
quote "I feel your child needs to be your fulltime job"
ooh god, i allready feel sorry for the kid. i won't be surprised if her child will be a drugaddict at age 7, "just to make life bearable mommy"
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Ugh ... I think I'm going to vomit. Does this girl actually expect people to take her seriously? Obviously all that traveling eclipsed some of her classroom time. This "letter" reads like an 8th grade love note ... check yes or no.
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"I love the "I've had a career since I was 16" Isn't that only like 5 years of working? I've been working since I was 16 too, and it's gone on a lot longer than that! Damn, why didn't someone think to whore me out this way? Moooom!"
Bwhahhahahaha! Right? I for one am not feeling sorry or soft for this cow but seriously, I have been working since I was 13, I am 30 now and there is no way in hell that 5 years of dressing like a slut, shaking your ass and protesting your virginity while probably shagging the entire run ='s a career...possibly a godawful one but I still think not.
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it's completely obvious that B is preggers. her hormones are really kicking in. i wonder if she's barefoot all the time in that new house of hers. she chose the right baby-making-man/machine didn't she?
what a doofball.
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"obession..you're my obsession..."
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So bizarre. Why does she keep wishing for children when, by marrying Kevin Federwhoever, she has two already?
Don't feel sorry for any Britney offspring. Feel sorry for the less-favored Kevin kids.
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WHEN I SAY "TRAILER PARK", YOU SAY "TRASH"!
TRAAAAAAAAAAIIIIIIILLLLLLLLLER PARK!
I hate you, Titney!!!!!
Your mom's a dirty whore just like you.
She never mentions a single good thing her mom did besides dressing slutty.
Hey, if mom's down with it and can ignore the snickers of the community, we all should! Equality for sluts!
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I would just like to point out how obnoxious this letter is. I love it when people who don't have children have opinions on how to raise them! Does she even realize that she is wealthier than 99% of the world and most of that 99% has to work to be able to support the children they love? Most families don't have a choice, so fuck her. I hate her more with each letter I read. I used to think they were funny because she was so stupid, but now I find it offensive that her ignorance is so mightly rewarded with wealth and attention. That people could be forming a positive opinion of her after all this drivel is disgusting. She has blamed people for exploiting her into astronomical wealth, never takes responsability for her image and now the uneducated hussy has to gall to comedown on working mothers. I'm done paying any kind of attention to her. Like her if you must, but you are grasping at straws at best.
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Now I know why her handlers would not let her talk to the press early on in her "career"...and why the need to point out mom washing the car in a bikni top? huh?
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Like they say...the apple doesn't fall far from the tree.I guess this explains why Britney and her mother din't see anything wrong with prancing around half naked while grabbing herself and singing about masturbation.Get a clue.
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I imagine there are all kinds of reasons why people like Brit. Despite this I refuse to believe, even in the most helpless cases of denial, that anyone has ever really given much thought to anything she has to say beyond "my jaw hurts", "but I'm not 18" and "hit me baby one more time". I wonder if Kevin has tapped that size 2? If he hasn't, I bet he's at least given it some thought. I bet he will now! All that talk of chocolate snakes is enough to get anyone going. Give thanks for Brit, she rocks!
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How do you use your own recipe for something you've never made before??!! Derrr
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The more she writes, the more I want to chew my own flesh. This bitch is totally pregnant. I fear for our nation.
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Who said Britney should enroll in some classes? She did - at Pepperdine. Probably not women's studies, though
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awesome post..thanks
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b i t c h i s p r e g n a n t
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There's shit about Britney all the time but the problem here is having a huge American (and international) fan base support her throughout the years. Through her music sales & other Britney consumption. Where is this nation headed when a celebrity like Britney receives so much attention and is rewarded with a plethora of cash to see her half nude body? I think Americans need to grow up, this is a state with a still "juvenile" attitude and mind set. Enough with sex! Let's focus on important issues our country is facing and in living our lives!
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You Americans are so fuc.... stupid!! You bitch and complain about what Britney Spears writes in her not so important letters.. Don't you people have more important things to worry about?
You have the most scary president in modern time.
I'll bet 95% of you never been outside USA. So my tip is: open your mind, travel the world, and focus on the good in people.
Cec, Norway. (no, it's not the capital of Sweden..)
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Um, Britney's travelled the world, AND she's a big W supporter. So I think your argument is just the tiniest bit... fucking stupid. From Seattle Washington (and no, that's not the capitol of the country)
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Um, Britney's travelled the world, AND she's a big W supporter. So I think your argument is just the tiniest bit... fucking stupid. From Seattle Washington (and no, that's not the capitol of the country)
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Maybe Britney, her little sister, and Britney's baby can form a band, and when Britney is going through her middle age crisis, they can go punk! I mean, you've heard the punk version of Hit Me One More Time, what about Britney doing I Fought The Law, eh?
As for *Khia*, are you jealous that Norway can't produce anyone famous and whory enough to talk about? You're obviously interested enough to not only read Britney's post, but the response posts as well.
Don't rag on Americans for electing a shitty President - we're the ones who have to deal with him, not you! And don't make stupid generalizations about something you don't know about. Using stereotypes to describe people doesn't make you look very good!
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After reading the following I HAD to respond:
"Don't rag on Americans for electing a shitty President - we're the ones who have to deal with him, not you!"
Unfortunately, that's not the truth. We ALL have to deal with his shittieness, worst part is we can't do a damn thing about it.
The reason Norway doesn't have anyone famous or whoreish is because all the music coming out of there is made by people who are known more for their talent than their sluttieness. I think something to be proud of rather than jealous of.
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And that definitive list of Norwegian talent would comprise...?
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I think I confused a few ppl when I posted my message. I'm actually living in the United States and not in Norway. So I know what's it's like to be an American. I, for one am dissatisfied with our current President in office. In order to get some reaction from the American ppl over the disappointing elections, I think a manifestation needs to occur. This is in protest against the war by an entire nation...(corporate interests..hmmm??!!)
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Khia: If you want to discuss politics, go to a political blog. The topic on hand is Britney's letter to her fans. 'K?
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Carlie, tsk tsk tsk.. What's wrong with discussing politics here? Do you think politics is a "bad" or "awful" word?? Well, just to let you know, we are all affected by politics in some form and I had to bring it up in this blog b/c I had to comment on (messages above) Cec's, Stardust's and SH's messages. But don't get angry or anything of that sort, I have a right to make a few political comments even if this blog isn't a "political blog." Don't worry, there will always be tabloid news about Britney as long as she still has a "career." ( I didn't think a topic like Britney's letter was so important to you, honestly, why are you so interested??..):/
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So Britney, because I work a full-time job and go to Graduate School full-time in order to give my two boys the best of everything in this world, does this makes me a bad mom? It's rather easy to make statements of that nature when you have a few million sitting around in your bank account!
The more I hear this idiot talk, the more I want to kick her ass....
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Well Khia, if you'd like to discuss politics, perhaps we could start with Norway refusing to put enough pressure on the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) to stop kidnapping and executing political opponents.
But somehow, I think that would be above your head, which is probably why you're on an entertainment blog, and not on a political blog.
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Carlie, with all due respect, do your research before posting the following: "perhaps we could start with Norway refusing to put enough pressure on the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam..."
That's like telling ETA to stop killing their own innocent people among politicians by having Spain and France put "pressure" on them. Get a clue!
More severe then ETA, the LTTE abuse their own people. They are dictators, extorting their people to acquire money for weapons among other things. Anyone who refuses to do as said, is killed. Norway alone will not retract the LTTE.
Furthermore, since when has Norway NOT pressured LTTE officials? How about inserting India and Great Britain to the equation?
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Carla, if Norway is so ineffective, why have they been appointed as mediators of Sri Lanka's peace process?
And, do you really want to start discussing politics on a Britney thread??
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The question I pursued was; since when has Norway NOT pressured LTTE officials?
I did not state that Norway is ineffective in its entirety. Like you said, they mediate peace talks; that's all that they do. Before you can even suggest that what Norway is attempting to do (as in the peace talks), you have to look at what the LTTE demand; the basis of their terrorism. Tamil racist parties have non-negotiable issues that I don't think Norway nor India and Britain will accept.
It's sad to say, but I doubt peace talks, or a conclusive agreement will ever happen. The only thing that could possibly halt the violence is, for example, United Nations or other means of peace keeping. Aside from so, considering LTTE constantly breach cease fire agreements, Norway can't precisely do anything about the ordeal.
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Carla, Norway has been accused by Buddhist monks in Sri Lanka of FAVOURING the LTTE:
http://www.aftenposten.no/english/world/article867540.ece
So before someone comes here and starts bashing ALL Americans, regardless of their affiliations, maybe he ought to start looking at the problems in his own backyard.
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Ok, so what I see on this page are a bunch of people who talk shit about Britney and make fun of her, but yet, you STILL take the time to log on and read the damn letters.. If you don't like her, that's fine, I'm sure she'll lose some sleep tonight, but don't be stupid about it. If you hate her so much, DON'T READ THE FUCKING LETTERS! Just stop logging on and reading them... It's not that hard..
She's trying to be normal, and damn it, it's working if assholes like y'all would leave her alone. She loves Kevin, Kevin loves Britney, and who cares if she's pregnant?! Tons of stars get pregnant, you you people don't spend your pathetic little lives analyzing their every move, now do you??? She's made mistakes, who hasn't? She's trying to live life, and be somewhat normal... But what normal life can she have when she has been SO famous since she was 16?! She has NO clue what normal is, and people like you all make it 100 times worse for her than it needs to be. She's taking a break (semi-retiring), let her take it, come back, and she'll prove to all of you, that all you are doing is proving just how pathetic your little lives are in your tin can trailers.
I like Britney (and Kevin, and Lynne for that matter) and can't wait to see and hear the comebacks.. And when she gets pregnant, can't wait to see the kid!!
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kevin's staging a comeback, too? as the greasiest shoelaceless backup dancer in california, or what?
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"I like Britney (and Kevin, and Lynne for that matter) and can't wait to see and hear the comebacks.. And when she gets pregnant, can't wait to see the kid!!"
yech cole you ruined my appetite :-S
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Yeesh - Carlie Carla and Khia (perfect name for a stripclub/lawfirm)! Take it outside! No disrespect to your dialogues, free speech and all, but the reason the rest of us are on here is to take a little break from all the reality out there and have a bit of fun laughing at the banality that is Britney. Let off the steam somewhere else, where it might be a little more effective. And btw I would think your approach turns people off more than it educates them and inspires them to learn more. Now everyone - back to Shitney!
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Anon: Excellent point. Now onto this -- the plot -- or Britney's waist -- thickens:
http://www.nationalenquirer.com/stories/feature.cfm?instanceid=62830
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you guys are all so mean! britney's done nothing wrong! in fact, i thought the letter was really sweet. I dont get why everyones bashing on her.
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ahhahahah oh man i love love love britney. we all do, come the fuck on. she's amazing. i mean, just wow. come on. amazing.
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I can't wait in ten years time for the Britney/ Kathee Leesque christmas special with Brit, Kevin, Little Kabbalah, Little Kayla Lynn and Little Krystal Madonna and Little Kassidy Jamie. I can just see it, Kev, Brit, the kids, Jamie Lynn, Lynn, Kori and Kaleb all dressed in argyle sweaters on some sound stage made to look like a living room singing christmas carols.
And I can see Kathee Lee as one of the special guest, along with Kenny Rogers, Paris Hilton I see her and Brit having a really intense and intelligent conversation about the history and the benefits of the kaballah,Wade Robinson, The rest of N' Synch sans Justin. Its going to be so great so kitch!
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I'm no Brit apologist, but I think this is a sweet, honest and articulate letter.
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Well, apparently Britney uses her amazing "instincts" in the areas of grammar and punctuation, as well as for cooking. Norwegian politics aside, this is one stupid idiot. Seriously. Or she has the worst "handlers" ever employed.
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