hello all , i know praj and kazz are struggling for power supply for phone and laptop so they dont get the oppertunity to come on here and blog as often as they would like at the moment .

this is a big shout to any supporters be it local or visiting , if you have any un treated un painted timber available praj and kazz would be greatfull as its getting extremly cold there  now winter is starting to bite .

spent a few hours on saturday at camp and its been a somewhat eventfull weekend , its fantastic news that a company who im not sure of name of has donated some materials to construct an experimental generator , ill leave praj to give details when he gets the opertunity to come on here , just a shame a LOCAL solar pannel supplier has not loaned a solar pannel to show all our followers what green energy is out there , also in the early hours of saturday morning some drunk decided they would like to offer  the hight of abuse and threaten violence toward praj and kazz and the police had to be called , one thing amongst many i have learned over past few weeks especialy off prajna is that alcohol lowers your state of awareness and inhabbitions , its such a shame that someone would think it a good idea to turn up around 2 am ish trash camp and threaten kazz and praj , it just doesent sit well with everything we are about ..

anyway it looks like camp will be there for the forseable future so we would be glad for any support offered even if its company and a chat , cant go into details here as dont want to jepordise anything , anyway just thought ide try keep you all up to date a bit and please accept my appologies for any spelling mistakes , its all the flouride in the water they  told my parents was good for my teeth , despite fact it causes multitude of issues including strokes scenility and many many other things , tc all and hope you have a good monday .

Morning all,

This is just a short one, due to little battery time atm, to let you all know we’re still here. There’s been no sign of any enforcement action on the part of the council or autolift so far so we’ve decided to continue with construction as before. The winter is coming and we need to be properly sheltered before it hits.

We’ve had a very nice few days off – much needed as we’re both recovering from flu and general fatigue – but as soon as the rain lets up we’ll be getting on with building our shelter.

Much love and thanks to you all for your support. Keep it coming!!
Kazz and Prajna. xxxx

P.S. We’ll get back to blogging as much as we can as soon as we find a new means of charging our batteries. x

Sorry for the brevity of this post friends, but the lawless corrupt state is engaging in yet more lawlessness and corruption!

The court has ordered us off here ‘FORTHWITH’! We’ve no idea when the bailiffs might show up but need peeps to collect any of their stuff that is here that they don’t want to loose/be damaged.

Prajna’s not a bit well today (down with the flue!) and we have no idea what to expect next. Could really use your help and support.

Thanks good people.

Peace, love and abundance,

Kazz and Prajna. xxxx

Hi family, friends and fans, here we are blogging again, for your edification and delight, practically within seconds of the previous post. The reason for this uncharacteristic flurry of verbiage is that yesterday was 11 Sept – otherwise egregiously celebrated as ‘911’, the american emergency phone number, and also commemorating the notorious neoconservative and zionist false-flag operation that killed 3,000 non-jewish New Yorkers and turned the cold war fiction into the terrorist war fiction, up-shifting the New World Order agenda – and coincidentally (?) coinciding with another escalation by Cheshire West and Chester Borough Council and Autolift 24hr Recovery Ltd’s battle against the harmless hippies who are peacefully and productively possessing the verge on Liverpool Road.

Yesterday we received a visit from Dave Walton, our laconic liaison officer, accompanied by a colleague (always a sign of trouble ahead), claiming he had just dropped in for a social visit, that he had received a call from Autolift and was on his way over to see what was irking them (it has got to be something to do with those damned hippies, don’t you think?) Anyway, it turns out (and you would have thought someone would have briefed him on this) that Autolift and the Council haven’t spent enough on defending this little patch of grass against the hideous hippies and are jointly and severally ‘starting proceedings’!

They – that is Kyler Ashcroft, the cuddly council Gypsy and Traveller Liaison Officer, and Heather Lewis, one of Autolift’s long-suffering directors (looking like she had a hard night on the pop) – turned up with Dear Dave and his colleague and Carl Harrison (an Autolift employee otherwise known here as ‘Shades’) to serve N5 claim forms and their accompanying documents; to begin the process of a claim for possession of property in the county court.

This despite our courteous caution against further escalation and harassment.

Perhaps our caution was too late because they have obviously been cooking this up for weeks or someone has very fraternal friends at court who can ensure prompt action. They have certainly been a little hurried on the paperwork, indicated by the careless errors and omissions contained therein, for instance: Apparently there is no issue of human rights involved in the claim; at least according to Simon Goacher, Cheshire West and Chester Borough Council’s Head of Legal and Democratic Services and (one assumes) a fully qualified solicitor, who should know better (and who is soooo important he even has a stamp for his signature).

There are two maps accompanying the council’s claim – Kyler’s, attached to her witness statement, and Area Highways Engineer, Ian McNiell’s, ‘exhibit ML.1’ – that both purport to ‘possess’ different strips of the verge (i.e. they are outlined and shaded in different places). Can you say ‘arbitrary’? I wonder if Kyler and Ian are on speaking terms. Maybe they were deprived of practise at colouring-in as children.

In the particulars of claim they have been very laconic with the details: “The occupants moved onto the land several weeks ago without licence or consent and despite requests have refused to move.” That rather omits to mention that our home was taken and destroyed, necessitating our establishment of another. Also, calling threats ‘requests’ is stretching it a bit, don’t you think?

Most offensively of all, Simon’s paperwork asserts we are ‘defendants’! Defendants defend in criminal cases and last time we checked the County Court entertains civil claims. Actually, that is not necessarily the most offensive thing: Kazz was disturbed to see herself identified as ‘Kazz Pranab’. Where do they get off with all their presumptions and assumptions?; ‘Up the Rebellion’, eh Rusty?

What are they after with all this?

(a) give the claimant possession of the land;

(b) pay the claimant’s costs of making this claim.

Haha, they’ll be lucky! How are they going to get any costs from us, given that we don’t do anything for money? Payment in kind? A pound of flesh (actually, I wouldn’t put it past these vampires), hard labour down at the mayor’s office?

For all those programmed peons who pay their council tax: this is what it is spent on. They know we have nothing and therefore would receive 100% non-repayable legal aid and no court would be able to issue fines against us because we have no means. So this is what your council tax really funds: lost causes. Well, actually, I tell a lie: at least 25% of your council tax goes on pensions for council staff. Reassuring, isn’t it, that even though the banks have been placing bets (and losing) with your pension funds, the council staff have a ready income stream to top theirs up.

There is a heap more to say about all this paperwork they kindly and enthusiastically (excuse the irony) delivered yesterday, their hopes and dreams that we might be scared of any of it, pack up and go somewhere else, etc. but Mally and Mike turned up earlier with some lovely double-glazed window units (including one with a gorgeous stained-glass, bevelled flower on it), half a shed and heaps of building materials, including more 1 by 1 hardwood sticks than you could shake a stick at, so to speak, and I’m itching to get doing some more building. Happy days!

Meanwhile, if anyone would be interested in haunting the public gallery of Chester County Court, Chester Civil (if only they were!) Justice (if only it was!) Centre, Trident House, Little St. John Street, Chester CH1 1SN at 10am on Friday the 14th, to witness and document ‘justice being done’ (if only!) we would be pleased of any reports. We would go ourselves, just for the sheer entertainment value, but we’re not the types to get caught up in fantasy and legal fictions; besides which, we’re likely to be busy building on Friday.

Hopefully Kazz will get the chance to blog some more later, so long as the batteries hold out or we get some fuel for the genny.

Love, peace, happiness and grace,
Prajna n Kazz

Hi friends, family and fans,

we’re sorry if you have all been on tenter-hooks since the eviction post. We didn’t realise how long it had been since that post until my brother Ken sent me a text this morning to check we are ok. Time sure swings by quickly here.

Certainly we are ok. In fact, more than ok. A very dear friend of ours has been spending some time down at the Land Registry in Birkenhead and has made some interesting discoveries about the land we are on. It turns out that – according to the Land Registry, which is supposed to be the definitive authority on such things – this is common land onto which Autolift have been encroaching and the council’s spurious claim to own 1.2 meters measured from the rear edge of the footpath (what surveyor ever measures from the back edge of a footpath? Surveyors choose a definite reference, like a kerb.) is not supported by the plans and deeds in the Land Registry.

So today we will present Autolift with the following notice:

Autolift 24 hr Recovery Ltd
A41 Liverpool Road
Backford
Chester
CH1 6PE

Signed
Prajna Kazz

So let’s see what they do with that. We have copies of the pertinent deeds and plans somewhere very safe, notarized for court, in case they are daft enough to do anything other than back off and leave us in peace.

Like we said in a previous post: they picked on the wrong hippies!

The day the council and a very sheepish looking Daryl came and served their begging letters (masquerading as eviction notices) we received a heap of lovely building materials from Mally and we now have a magnificent front door. (I’ll be going back through the posts on here and adding some photos just as soon as I have time and battery-power to do so and will do a decent job of the photo gallery too, so that you can all see how things are developing here rather than just read about it.)

When it rains in Chester it sure pours down. Last night we had a huge downpour but it seems our drainage engineering and water catchment is all working well enough. Being at the lowest corner of the yard means we are subject to the run-off from most of the huge yard here but a little digging, inspired by Victor Schauberger, has resulted in ‘Victor’s Rill’, a small channel that decorously diverts the flood that used to wash through the camp. We also have some guttering (thanks Danny and Mally) feeding our water butt (thanks Adam and Gen). Only one section has been rigged so far but even that is doing a great job.

The visits continue too. Apart from the regulars (family, we like to think) the newcomers continue to arrive. Jack looked in, had a chai and gave us lots of wonderful news regarding our position here; Mally dropped in because he had a job on locally; we hosted a group of teenagers from Ellesmere Port the night before last, thanks to Ben, who brought them along, and three of them, Liam, Nakita and Torrek, returned with Ben again last night; John and Wendy returned briefly, just to drop off two big boxes of wonderful fresh provisions on their way back from shopping; Aidee stayed for dinner on his way back from Blacon, telling us that the police said we were well studied in law, human rights and psychology; Norman was pushing his bike down the hill in the pouring rain, having suffered some punctures, and we called him in to the dry while Dave set about fixing his multiple punctures (they’ve just been cutting the hedges again and there are thorns all along the country lanes); Adam turned up on his way to work, had a cup of chai and gave Torrek a lift back to Ellesmere. All very typical of a day spent here at Camp Autolift.

I’m sure there is a ton of stuff I meant to include in this post but there is a danger of TLDR (too long, didn’t read), so I’ll leave you with what I’ve written so far, with some love and gratitude for all your support and with some sincere wishes that your life is as happy and lucky as ours.

Love, peace, happiness and grace,
Prajna and Kazz

Well, OK that’s not quite what they said but who are they but the props of the system of oppression. I think, though, that the headline matches the standards of accuracy portrayed in several local newspapers ‘quoting’ Prajna and me. Anyway, I digress. ^{[See previous blog post ‘Hold the Front Page’ for more on that little aside…]}

Right, so here’s what they really said in a document ‘they’ (what is a council anyway? Can a council be a ‘they’?) presented us with earlier today, following a ‘welfare’ visit from the local Gypsy Traveller Liaison ‘Officer’: 😀

…Oh how warmed by her warmth and compassion we were (sorry I’m breaking out into shoddy journalism again but I claim poetic licence. I’m also ever so slightly stoned and keep drifting off into streams of consciousness. Bare with me, this may take some time and may take some diligence on your part to decipherer. Hehe)…

Right, so Malinda, or what ever her name is, trots along with the (ah shit, I can’t call him ‘lovely’ any more cos his mates are taking the piss. It’s all just one great big school playground don’t ya think?) very professional PC Dave, to inquire into our welfare (if you’re familiar with the Code of Practice for dealing with ‘unlawful encampments’ you’ll know they are required to do such things before they can start any ‘enforcement’ action). How nice. She asked some routine and entirely pointless questions, failed to note our complete, considered and candid responses (most of which went right over her head) and buggered off. ‘That was very nice of them to inquire as to our welfare’, ooze myself and Prajna, suitably tickled by the humour of the situation.

A little while later, as we were enjoying a visit with Danny’s mum, back trot Malinda, a none-too-happy looking PC Dave and the rather tired looking Autolift Director, ‘Poor’ Darryl Davies, accompanied by Shades as a witness.

Upon arrival they presented us with two documents stating:

From Cheshire West and Chester Council;
Our ref: KJA/DT

If you wish to make representations as to why any extenuating circumstances should prevail over the councils intended cause of action, you should contact the [sic] Vanessa Whiting, Regulatory and Compliance, Legal and Democratic Services, HQ, 58 Nicholas Street, Chester, CH1 2NP: Tel 03001238123

You may care to take advice from a solicitor, Legal Advice Centre or the Citizens advice Bureau as soon as possible. [as if!!]

Yours faithfully,
P. Squiggle
Authorised signatory
Cheshire West and Chester Borough Council
4 Civic Way
Ellesmere Port
CH65 0EB”

This was followed ‘Poor’ Daryl serving us a document on behalf of Autolift Recovery Ltd which goes like this:

Tuesday 4th September 2012

Dated
4.9.12

Both documents came with diagrams outlining, in very sketchy detail, the parts of our land they think they own.

It is possible that if we are on council maintained, publicly owned land (which ‘the council’ claim ownership of – that’s right folks, your servants claim to ‘own’ your land) we may be asked to move that part of our dwelling which takes up that public space. It was, after all, Autolift, rather than the people of Cheshire West and Chester, who gifted us a parcel of land.

Far doos; especially as we might(?) be a couple of inches over your (the peoples) boundary with with our land. Naturally, should proof of claim be brought that we are inhabiting land jointly owned by the people (you and us), and should the people (all of you) require us to move our van over by 2 inches, we will be more than happy to do so.

Vanessa Whiting – the woman in charge of regulating you and coercing your compliance with the demands of your servants who claim the ‘authority’ of ‘council’ – seems to hold an ‘office’ (how does one ‘hold’ an office anyway?) claiming the ‘legal’ (is ‘legal’ not a fiction? I’m beginning to see a pattern here! Lol) and ‘democratic’ (and here, another reference to something fictional, invented and illusory) ‘authority’ to coerce you and us into compliance with this entire corporate/legal fiction.

Anyway, another aspect is that the land in question may not be any business of the ‘council’ since it appears to be, instead, within the remit of the Highways Agency.

I could go on and on about the huffing and puffing of these robotised drones who go about ‘enforcing’ oppression on you and me – they are also the authors of their own suffering, by the way – and the utterly witless contents of their bits of paper, but I have more to tell you about:

So, after they’d delivered their bits of paper to us and assured themselves that the correct tick boxes had been ticked (are we literate?), off they buggered to attempt to place copies of their documents onto our door-frame (onto which Prajna is, as I type, hanging the most beautiful wood-framed patio doors which came to us courtesy of Mally today). We intervened to suggest they desecrate their lamppost rather than our door with their threats and spurious claims, so they went over, suitably chastened, to attach the aforementioned dodgy documents onto the specified lamppost.

Soon after that, just as Prajna and I were preparing to blog the latest to you, we were visited by Paul and James who’d come to see us all the way from Bolton. They’ve both been following events here and wanted to pop down, say ‘hiya’ and offer their support. They even came equipped with a chainsaw, which came in handy after Mally and his friend arrived with a shed-load of wood, including a pair of patio doors, a load of tongue and groove, posts, and so much more, not to mention the guttering he brought us, and the pipes and tubing and the kitchen sink!!! [yes, really! We even have a kitchen sink!] 😀

And so, once again, the universe has worked its magic! As soon as they attempt to flex their stationary at us, so our position here grows stronger simply by the love and support of others. On the radio the other night I said I’d never been made more welcome anywhere and that continues to be the case.

It’s after midnight now and I’m trying to remember all the other things that happened today: gifts of tools from Ben (naturally, exactly the right tools at exactly the right time to coincide with Mally’s gifts to us). I think that’s about it of any significance today except for a visit from our barrister friend (and, more and more, brother in arms) Jack, who is also being blackmailed by the council because he is helping the people of Flint to retain their cottage hospital in the face of opposition from the public servants of the people of Flint.

Other recent happenings include the radio show the other night, which I’m sure will be podcast soon and the, still utterly overwhelming, support and absolutely amazing gifts and visits from all and sundry. That reminds me: a huge big thank you to Dave and Bernie who took me off for a trip out to the car booties on Sunday morning, showering me (us) with far too much generosity! 🙂

We’re a little concerned for Pete, who we’ve not seen for a few days now, but don’t have his or Faiths number to contact them so we can be sure all is well with them; so if you’re reading this Faith and Pete, giz a shout so we know you’re OK. Xxx

Oh yes, and before I sign off and go back to help Prajna hang the doors I’ll suggest it might be a good idea to have a few witnesses around tomorrow afternoon, just in case your servants try anything which might end up costing you good people dearly, and in case they attempt anything which may cause harm, loss or injury to myself or Prajna. We’re not really expecting anything to happen, as they haven’t begun any kind of legal process yet, but always best to be safe.

Right now I’m thinking of all the people I want to thank for their kindness, thoughtfulness, support and generosity but the fact is this blog would start to read like an Oscar acceptance speech. The thing is, you all know who you are, including all the tooters who pass by (and we delight to have that support too!)

Sorry to all for the delay in updating the blog; I’ve been dying to get to blogging for days but just haven’t had a chance (I’ve got a working title for the blog post I want to write and everything! Maybe one day there’ll be time to write it!) In the meantime we’ll keep you updated on all that’s happening here as best we can.

With much love, gratitude and peace,
Kazz and Prajna. xxxx

hello everybody , a good friend of ours is hosting a live radio show from camp autoift , the legenday pondman and fellow host mal will be broadcasting live from 9pm on http://www.awakeradio.co.uk/ , its going to be a most excelent show please join us if you can , thanks alan .

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So, we made the front page of the newspaper. Ok, it is only the Chester Leader and Chester Chronicle but they are the main local papers. The immediate result was a visit from two local couples, John and Wendy, and Pete and Faith, who had been following the saga in previous articles and who were prompted by this one to come and see us. They were most enthusiastic in their support; John and Wendy brought some provisions and Pete and Faith brought a boot-load of lovely Ash firewood (you should have seen my delight to have some ash, the champion of all firewood, to keep the dhuni fire going).

It is incredible to see the politics and plotting that is going on behind the scenes:

That seemingly-supportive article on the front page of the Leader, for example, is actually a finely-crafted strategy intended to support the local council scheme to evict us from the site. The headline itself (oddly, not repeated in the online version) said “WE’RE GOING TO STAY FOREVER”. Why would Robert Platt, the journalist who spoke to us, print such a thing if we didn’t say it (and I can assure you we didn’t)? It seems obvious to us that this is more scheming in the hope of causing us to leave; the intention was most likely to be that such a headline would stir up bigotry, in the hope that some local thugs would take on the job of discouraging us from staying.

Further down the article Robert has also stated, “The camp has grown to about six tents in addition to the caravan.” Hmmm… proof of claim? The camp has never had six tents in addition to the caravan and currently consists of the caravan, two tents, the shelter for the dhuni fire area and a half finished shower cubicle. So why does Robert publish that there are six tents? Innocent mistake? Lazy reporting? We suspect not: We have received word that the council will try to move us this week and we expect they will try to use Section 61 of the Criminal Justice Act, 1994, which says:

Two or more persons trespassing on land ( not including public highway land, eg verges & lay-bys) with the intention of living there may be directed to leave the land by the police if:
(a) there are 6 or more vehicles there; or
(b) if any damage has been caused to the land, eg crop damage ); or
(c) ‘threatening or abusive words or behaviour’ have been used against the occupier or their agents.

Knowing that, it seems obvious that this ‘mistake’ was no mistake at all but a coldly-calculated move to help the council and police to try to massage the facts so as to support the use of Section 61; caravan’s and tents are often ‘construed’ as vehicles when this power is relied on.

Nice try.

I have to say, the general standard of reporting in the Leader/Chronicle, with reference to our camp, has been lacking a great deal of diligence: Robert often misquotes us, paraphrasing our words to subtly change their meaning. I had assumed that when one quotes someone it is done verbatim. One expects words in quotation marks to be exactly what someone said rather than a reporter’s interpretation of them.

And as for the Leader/Chronicle’s photographer: Robert said he would come down and take some more photos of the camp and indeed he did, but he never spoke to us or visited the camp, preferring instead to take a long-shot, paparazzi-style, and run away.

When they say, “Don’t believe what you read in the newspaper.” they must have had disingenuous, lax and misleading reporting in mind; just as we are seeing from the Leader/Chronicle.

We will not be defeated or discouraged by lies, fictions and abuses of power. The Powers That (wanna) Be had better have all their ‘i’s dotted and ‘t’s crossed, be standing square in lawful precedent and demonstrate full respect for our human rights (including the United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples) before they come down to our camp with the intention to persuade us or compel us to do anything.

Meanwhile, in the world of “Live the truth and then write about it”, things continue much as they have, with continuing support from local and not so local people; we have more regular visitors too, who seem grateful for our presence, are very supportive with practical things, and who say they welcome our knowledge and insights.

Love, peace, happiness and grace,
Prajna and Kazz

Namaste friends,

So sorry it’s taken so long for me to update you all about happenings here at Camp Autolift. There’s been so much going on elsewhere that’s needed my attention I just haven’t had the time or resources to write anything of any value.

But thing are more settled now and so here we go…

It seems the continued will of those local folks who stop by here that we stick around. We continue to be inundated with both practical and moral support it’s quite overwhelming, not to mention humbling.

For my part, and with Prajna’s full agreement, if we stick around (and it seems we are, at least for the foreseeable future) we need to be as self sufficient as possible. In practical terms, that means water catchment and filtration, composting waste, developing food gardens and generating our own power supply. It also means working with, and for the benefit of, the local community insofar as skill and resource sharing, which benefits all who partake. Aside from that we would also like to develop a community recycling centre though I’m not 100% sure how we might do that at this stage… Time and innovation will show the way. 🙂

Water catchment is both the easiest and most immediate thing to be done. We already have, thanks to friends Adam and Jen, a large water-butt, complete with tap. We also, thanks to Alan, have a large tarpaulin roof from which to catch the plentiful supply of rainwater which falls here. It’s only a question now of putting up some guttering and, from there, developing some kind of filtration system. The guttering is promised and should be here before too long. We have no doubt that once that is in place all else will follow… That’s the way it seems to work around here… as soon as one need is met (and invariably all needs are met just in the nick of time!) then the next need is met in turn.

It’ll take time to develop the kind of eco-village-type set up we desire, yet slowly but surely all of the pieces will fall into place. Of that we have no doubt. We would greatly appreciate your help and support in that; should you have any practical advice or support to offer we’d be most grateful. We’re big on ideas, strong on will and ambition, have some notions of how we might develop the systems we need, but we’re no experts… yet! 😉

In the meantime we’ve been given a load of very beautiful fabric by our good friend, Heather, and so I’m going to set to work using that making curtains/partitions for around our shelter and banners for our entrance.

Prajna and I decided last night to create a sheltered, partitioned area so we have somewhere a little quieter and more intimate to chat with friends away from the, often crowded, dhuni fire area. The new room will be raised off the ground and will include, we hope, a small oil-burner for warmth. (We’re sure there must be plenty of small local business around and about that have to pay to dispose of waste oil.)

All in all we’re delighted with the way things are developing here, delighted that folks are responding to our presence and our convictions so positively and delighted by the outpouring of support we’re receiving from right across the board. And we thank each and every one of you for it!

As far as Autolift Ltd is concerned, things have been pretty quiet since my ‘Don’t Mess with the Hippies’ blog post. Whether that’s due to the blog or simply because things are quiet we don’t know. We’re just happy to be left in peace to get on with creating a home and community centre here.

The Autolift guys have been out this morning extending the fence they put around us several weeks ago, one end of which was left open but is now closed, affording us (and them) a little more certainty as to where the boundary between our land and Autolift land actually lies.

Needless to say, Two-fingers and the one I’ve come to call ‘The Big Red Angry One’ were less than friendly when talking to Prajna in relation to erecting the fence, but by now we don’t really expect much better from either of them. As for the rest of the Autolift staff, I think most of them are basically decent folk who just want to get on with their jobs in peace. Mostly they ignore us though one or two occasionally smile and wave as they pass in and out of the yard.

In my last blog I extended an invitation to Autolift staff to visit any time, as long as they leave hostility at the door. That invitation is open and will remain open. We have an open house here, quite literally, and welcome any and all visitors whether they support us or not. – We may become frustrated at the ignorance of a few, but try to use that to inform them of where they might research matters of concern.

Finally, on a more personal note, communication with family and loved ones is difficult here. I’m doing my best to stay in contact via email and facebook. You all know I’m here for you as much as I possibly can be. I love and miss you so much and I only hope you find time to stay in touch with me.

Much love and many thanks to you all,

Kazz and Prajna. xxxx