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I was pleased to find my computer is perfectly calibrated to my footage, but not so pleased to find other comps and tvs aren't!:) on other systems, the footage is way darker, and on tvs way grainier and uglier. I know tvs are always some loss,but hoping to recoupe some.
I'm a zero on color correcting, but I tried it a bit and all I could do was make it whiter.
Anyone have any suggestions? I know I've seen picture software that makes invisible detail reappear, and read about a day for night process, but couldn't find it. The biggest problems are a lot more black, and loss of color definition and detail. Also my bright footage has the same problem with too bright.
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I was pleased to find my computer is perfectly calibrated to my footage...
What method of monitor calibration did you use to make this determination?
Anyone have any suggestions?
A bit of information regarding how you are sending your video to the tv would help.
I had this problem once back then when I was using CS4, turned out to be my TV settings where quite unadjusted.
More information needed for someone to help... click these links and provided the requested information
Anyone have any suggestions?
The standard isn't to adjust the content to fit other TVs. You'll drive yourself crazy with that. Rather you adjust (calibrate) the TVs to the same standard.
Ok, maybe its partly my tv. But it seems like desktop moniters are turned onto settings that make it dark. I just used my eyes to see that it was well calibrated on my screen, and I burned dvds from converted h264 and Encore'd mpeg2dvd formats, both were dark. Not sure how all of the questions you posted are pertinant john, but i'll answer the ones I can that are with the short time I have atm. The only info i can find about the graphics card is it says "desktop performance for windows aero-and rates as a 5" and 3d gaming and graphics performance rated at 6.2.I have a quad core 1.8 ghz with 8 gigs ram. Windows 7 professional.
Hope that helps. Any way to reduce black or make the picture more defined would be great.
I just used my eyes to see that it was well calibrated on my screen
You really can't do that. You need test patterns. And computer monitors often don't calibrate all that well, especially when software, drivers and even Windows itself can alter the signal, so you really also need an external TV for proper quality monitoring.
Yes well,
Use the bars and tones in CS5.5.2 PP to calibrate on a high definiution monitor and also calibrate your HD TV (set it to vivid if in doubt, do not use a cinema setting) correctly if your output is 1920 x 1080 p. I have had no issues in 5 years with Premiere Pro getting it right nor Sony Vegas.
Good luck
(set it to vivid if in doubt, do not use a cinema setting
Man, that's just really bad advice. Typically, the Vivid setting will be way off, and the Cinema setting closer to proper calibration.
Hi Jim,
i come from a cinema background, the cinema setting on say a Sony Bravia degrades the image and colours, but, it is only my preference. I go way back to the start of cinemascope and technicolor, about 1956 ,my son like you ,reckons I am wrong, I can live with that.....at least johnrh76 could experiment ?
My contact from the largest digital cinema complex over here says the latest digital screening are not as good as 35mm film, I agree but, very few know any better anymore , unless you have been in the industry.?
it is only my preference.
I'm not talking about preference. I'm talking about proper calibration for accurate display of images. For that, the Vivid setting is usually waaaaay off the mark, and the Cinema setting is usually closer to what it should be. And "what it should be" is what you want when you're trying to grade or color correct some footage.
Ok thanks, will try. Not sure if black and bad definition are impossible to take out, but looks great on my moniter!:)


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The SEC boasts a nation-leading six ranked teams on the men's side, including the top-three teams. The 2013 SEC Champion Arkansas Razorbacks are the nation's top-ranked team this week, while three-time defending NCAA Indoor Champion Florida is ranked second and Texas A&M is third. Other SEC men's teams in the top-25 include No. 13 LSU, No. 23 Ole Miss and No. 25 Auburn.
Five SEC women's teams are ranked among the top-10 nationally to highlight a nation-leading seven teams in the top-25. LSU is the No. 1 team, while 2013 SEC Champion Arkansas checks in at No. 4. Texas A&M is No. 6, Georgia is No. 7 and Florida is No. 10. Other SEC women's teams in the top-25 include No. 15 South Carolina and No. 25 Mississippi State.
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The 10th Annual Jim Calhoun Charity All-Star Basketball Game was held in the Mohegan Sun Arena on Saturday, August 9. Former and current UConn players such as Travis Knight, Ray Allen, Emeka Okafor, Ben Gordon, Rip Hamilton, Caron Butler, Kevin Ollie, Donyell Marshall, Khalid El-Amin, Doron Sheffer, Ricky Moore, Charlie Villanueva, and Rudy Gay took part in the game. Basketball Hall of Famer, Jim Calhoun began this fundraiser to benefit the UConn Foundation, Inc.'s Jim and Pat Calhoun Cardiology Research Endowment Fund for the UConn Health Center.
Both teams were made up of former alumi: the white team, with older players, and the blue team, with more current players.
From the second the tip off began, the game was full of fun and amazing plays that the audience of over 8,000 people enjoyed. The game was played with much heart, enjoyment and fun. During one play, NBA champion Ray Allen blocked a shot, got the steal, and did a backwards pass to his teammate who later responded with a slam-dunk.
The blue team won 119-117. "This is a great cause, and I enjoy coming every year to visit with fans, coaches, friends, and fellow players," said UConn legend Travis Knight.
UConn legend and current star for the Milwaukee Bucks Charlie Villanueva added, "We are all bound together here as players because of what Coach taught us, I have been in the league for three years and I miss UConn. Coach taught me everything I needed to know as a man and a player."
The game was dedicated to Robert "Spider" Ursery, who recently passed away from a six-year battle with Hodgkin's Disease. Rudy Gay was the games MVP with 38 points, and after the game the fans were able to meet and greet their heroes for a two-hour autograph session. Mohegan Sun, Gold Orluk and Partners, Nike and other organizations helped sponsor the event.


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In this week's Martha Jefferson Healthwise, CBS19's Cheryn Stone highlights a high-tech cancer treatment that's improving outcomes for some patients.
The machine, which sports a glorified digital camera and an image panel for x-rays, offers a different way of thinking about radiation treatment. The procedure, Stereotactic Body Radiation Therapy, accurately delivers a high dose of radiation to a very small target.
"With the new technology, we now have the confidence to know we are treating that area precisely," said Chief Medical Physicist, David Waid.
The patient lies is what is essentially a form-fitting cast, which works to keep them still for the entire procedure.
"There is very little movement so we can get down to the millimeter level with precision and immobilization," said Dr. Cynthia Spaulding, a Radiation Oncologist.
The new machine and high-tech tool marks a shift the way cancer patients are treated by potentially shortening the length of treatment and avoiding a trip to the operating room.
"We can offer potentially curative therapy with patients with Metastasis because you're giving a high dose to a very small volume, and it's not requiring invasive surgery," said Dr. Spaulding.
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"In patients with spinal tumors, often they have had previous radiation in the past to treat these areas at conventional doses, and there was really nothing more to do if the cancer came back. Now, we are able to go in with this extremely precise, focused radiation and treat very effectively, so they don't have a problem there any more," said Dr. Spaulding.
This effective new treatment means problems are eliminated with less invasive procedures. And if you think of this machine as a glorified digital camera, the results make for a very pretty picture.
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Governor Quinn signed a bill into law Thursday that directly impacts children. The new law will educate kids about sexual abuse, with an age-appropriate curriculum in schools.
Erin's Law is named after Illinois-native Erin Merryn, who was sexually abused when she was a child. But the Schuamburg native said she didn't know to tell anyone - because she didn't know how.
Merryn, 27, has been pushing for more education about it in schools. She told Good Day Chicago about her initiative early Thursday morning, saying has gotten the law passed in five states, and won't stop until it's passed nationwide.
The measure known builds on the requirement for middle and high schools to provide sexual assault and abuse education. Under the law, schools must instruct pre-kindergarten through fifth grade students in an age-appropriate manner.
Quinn signed the legislation Thursday at the Northwest Cook County Children's Advocacy Center in Hoffman Estates. The governor invited her to a February national meeting of governors to talk about the issue.
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What a Find!! – Wandered into So. Philly looking for something different and boy did I find it! My girlfriend and I ate at Criniti's Restaurant on So. Broad Street for the first time and it was wonderful. I can't believe I've driven by it a million times going to a game and never stopped. We were seated right away and before we could finish looking at the menu, we were given fresh bread and some sort of marinated mushrooms that were the best I've ever had. We ordered brick oven pizza as an appetizer and I wasn't allowed to eat more that 2 slices. My girlfriend actually threatened me!! Then came our dinners (Flounder for me and Veal for her). We didn't have room for dessert, but we took home 2 cannoli's and had them the next morning. Everything was top notch. We go out to eat a lot and we came away from Criniti's 110% satisfied. It doesn't get any better than this.
Nightmare on Broad Street – Chicken Perugina was so dry as to be inedible. Chicken Marsala (chunks of chicken) was strictly average. Calamari probably frozen with canned diced tomatoes(unspiced) as the dipping sauce. My advice, if you decide to give the place a try, is to stick with the pasta dishes, and good luck.
Best in Philly – Had dinner at Criniti's for the millionth time...great as always. The old place was nice, but the new place is COOL! The people that work there really know what they're doing. My family and I have been going for over 12 years and it's one of the only places that's always consistent. I just brought some out of town clients to Criniti's and I got them hooked too. Thanks for the great everything!
Best place to go home disappointed. – I really wouldn't recommend this restaurant. The Salmon special was spectacularly bland and underwhelming.....definitely not worth the money. I almost would have preferred Olive Garden. The wait was too long for both the food and seating. At least our server was nice.
GREAT food...however.... – My boyfriend took me there for Valentine's Day. I gotta admit, the food there was AMAZING. The menu though is very limited. And the seating...NOT good at all. We were so close to the people next to us, we could hear their whole conversation. Again, great food....tight seating.
South Philly Italian that's as anti-scene as it gets. – In Short
Dinner begins with doughy homemade Italian bread and complimentary mushrooms bathed in olive oil, then onto simple appetizers--great broccoli rabe-and then homecooked classics like chicken marsala or mussels red, served with minestrone soup or basic salad. Don't fill up: Entrees are generously portioned and very filling. Go for classics like hefty veal Saltimbocca, simple, satisfying lasagna, or a big plate of tortellini in a super-creamy alfredo sauce.
Get your money's worth – Full menu, plenty of specials, generous portions, great service....and the food is excellent! South Philly has quite a few great little spots and this is one of them. It may be a tight fit here, but that's part of it's charm.
AWESOME FOOD! GREAT PEOPLE! – Just like going home to mamma's for dinner, you'ff feel comfortable from the moment you walk through the door. The entire staff is freindly and out going, especially the owner, who is determined to ensure that everything is cared for perfectly. The food is cooked to perfection and the prices are ALWAYS reasonable. It is my favorite place, and worth the drive from Delaware any time!
10 – In my opinion, Criniti's is without question, Philly's best Italian Restaurant. It has the best food, just like mama used to make, you never have to worry about leaving hungry, inexpensive, not to mention the wonderful staff and owner... I wound't eat anywhere else...
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It's a parent's worst nightmare: planning and attending the funeral of their child. That's what Brad and Heather Bigler of Marshall are facing after the death of their five-month old son, Drake, who was killed in a car crash Saturday night near Starbuck that left Brad Bigler and his wife's grandmother in critical condition.
The Minnesota State Patrol said Heather Bigler tried to swerve out of the way of an oncoming car that had swerved into her lane. It's a tragic incident, to say the least, and even Heather Bigler's best efforts to get out of the way and avoid the crash, sadly, were to no avail.
A day later, there was another head-on collision in Pipestone County that took the life of a Pipestone woman.
Another tragedy.
These two crashes quickly became chapters in a sad summer story.
The 99 traffic deaths in Minnesota as of May were a 6 percent decrease from 2011 at the same time, according to the Minnesota Department of Public Safety Office of Traffic Safety, but the summer months have told a different story.
In this area alone, there have been five fatal crashes in the last four months - Sunday's crash near Holland, one on U.S. Highway 59 south of Marshall in April, two on Minnesota Highway 23 near Cottonwood in June and one in Redwood County on July 24.
There was another crash in Murray County in May that left five people injured.
People often associate traffic deaths with bad weather, icy road conditions, but the truth of the matter is during the spring and summer months there are simply more people out on the road, which means more traffic and an increased likelihood that something tragic will happen.
No matter the season, crashes on the highway are inevitable, but let these incidents serve as a reminder to always be careful on the road, no matter how good of a driver you think you are. You might just be the most careful driver in the world, but when it comes to others on the road, you have no control.
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Salary Packaging Policy
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|Date Last Amended
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1. Introduction
1.1. This policy supports the University's commitment to offering staff supportive and flexible work arrangements in achieving its mission.
1.2. The policy accords with the Fringe Benefits Taxation (FBT) Assessment Act.
1.3. This policy should be read in conjunction with the Salary Packaging Forms and User Guides.
2. Policy Intent
To provide enhanced salary packaging arrangements in support of the University's mission. This is a benefit and retention strategy for existing staff, and an important element in developing the University's reputation as an employer of choice in a competitive market place.
3. Relevant Definitions
Salary Packaging: an arrangement between a staff member and the University where the staff member agrees to forgo part of their salary on a pre-tax basis in return for benefits of a similar value provided by the University (or someone associated with the University). Salary packaging is also commonly referred to as salary sacrificing
4. Policy Principles
4.1. All continuing and fixed term staff members may participate in the flexible salary packaging scheme. Due to the nature of their employment, fixed term staff members may not have access to the full range of benefits and would be limited by the term of their employment. The scheme is not available to casual staff members.
4.2. Eligible staff are able to sacrifice up to 100% of their gross salary after authorised deductions in certain circumstances.
4.3. The arrangement is entirely voluntary, and must be entered into prospectively. All available salary packaging benefits will comply with Australian Taxation Office (ATO) requirements and will fall within three FBT categories :
i. Exempt Benefits
ii. Otherwise Deductible Benefits
iii. Concessionally Taxed Benefits.
Fully taxable benefits are not available under the University's salary packaging policy.
4.5. The University will monitor any changes to the range of available benefits as defined by the ATO. These changes will be reviewed and the list of available benefits will be subject to approval by the Vice-Chancellor.
4.6. Staff members are responsible for seeking independent financial advice, particularly in relation to FBT and income tax issues prior to entering into a salary packaging arrangement.
4.7. The administration of salary packaging may be undertaken either through in-house arrangements for selected benefits or by utilising the services of an external provider. Please refer to the Salary Packaging Forms and User Guides for benefits that are available to be packaged, and for details of the external provider.
4.8. Salary packaging arrangements are to be provided at no cost to the University. Staff electing to enter into salary packaging arrangements will be responsible for all applicable administration fees, charges and taxes. Any outstanding costs associated with salary packaging owed by staff members to the University, including Fringe Benefits Taxation liability will be collected within the following timeframe:
0 to $500 over one pay period
$500 to $1,000 over two pay periods
$1,000 to $2,000 over three pay periods
$2,000 to $3,500 over four pay periods
Above $3,500 by negotiation, but not to exceed six pay periods
5. Essential Supporting Documents
Salary Packaging Forms and User Guides
6. Relevant Links
|Approval Authority
|Date Approved
|28 July 2006
|Date Last Amended
|14 June 2011
|Policy Sponsor
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BACKGROUND: Inhibitors of the influenza virus neuraminidase have been shown to be effective antiviral agents in humans. Several studies have reported the selection of novel influenza strains when the virus is cultured with neuraminidase inhibitors in vitro. These resistant viruses have mutations either in the neuraminidase or in the viral haemagglutinin. Inhibitors in which the glycerol sidechain at position 6 of 2-deoxy-2,3-dehydro-N-acetylneuraminic acid (Neu5Ac2en) has been replaced by carboxamide-linked hydrophobic substituents have recently been reported and shown to select neuraminidase variants. This study seeks to clarify the structural and functional consequences of replacing the glycerol sidechain of the inhibitor with other chemical constituents. RESULTS: The neuraminidase variant Arg292-->Lys is modified in one of three arginine residues that encircle the carboxylate group of the substrate. The structure of this variant in complex with the carboxamide inhibitor used for its selection, and with other Neu5Ac2en analogues, is reported here at high resolution. The structural consequences of the mutation correlate with altered inhibitory activity of the compounds compared with wild-type neuraminidase. CONCLUSIONS: The Arg292-->Lys variant of influenza neuraminidase affects the binding of substrate by modification of the interaction with the substrate carboxylate. This may be one of the structural correlates of the reduced enzyme activity of the variant. Inhibitors that have replacements for the glycerol at position 6 are further affected in the Arg292-->Lys variant because of structural changes in the binding site that apparently raise the energy barrier for the conformational change in the enzyme required to accommodate such inhibitors. These results provide evidence that a general strategy for drug design when the target has a high mutation frequency is to design the inhibitor to be as closely related as possible to the natural ligands of the target.
Drug design against a shifting target: a structural basis for resistance to inhibitors in a variant of influenza virus neuraminidase., Varghese JN, Smith PW, Sollis SL, Blick TJ, Sahasrabudhe A, McKimm-Breschkin JL, Colman PM, Structure. 1998 Jun 15;6(6):735-46. PMID:9655825
From MEDLINE®/PubMed®, a database of the U.S. National Library of Medicine.
About this Structure
2qwa is a 1 chain structure with sequence from Influenza a virus. Full crystallographic information is available from OCA.
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- Varghese JN, Smith PW, Sollis SL, Blick TJ, Sahasrabudhe A, McKimm-Breschkin JL, Colman PM. Drug design against a shifting target: a structural basis for resistance to inhibitors in a variant of influenza virus neuraminidase. Structure. 1998 Jun 15;6(6):735-46. PMID:9655825


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Thanks, Vredina! Those are amazing. The last one was definitely taken in Brazil, I'd say Porto Alegre? Do you know which city those pics were taken at? Thank you in advance.
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Y-chromosome DNA Haplogroups are based on SNPs, Single Nucleotide Polymorphisms, that occur in the non recombining region of the Y-chromosome. Haplogroup Q is one of two clades within the mega-Haplogroup P. It is defined by the SNP M242. This mutation is believed to have occurred 15,000 - 25,000 years ago. Q is found in Asia, the Americas, Europe, and the Middle East.
Unraveling the mystery of Q's original migration paths is obstructed by early assumptions about its distribution. It is only in the last year or so that academic literature has begun to reflect truths that early became apparent in this project. Q-M242, like its P lineage parent, was almost surely born in South Asia. Some lineages spread to East Asia from there. It is not clear though if they traveled directly north, through the Himalaya mountains, or along the southern coastline. It is entirely possible that all paths were taken at different points in Q's history. We also know that many branches repeatedly turned west to what are now considered Europe and the Middle East.
Some of the lines that traveled to East Asia crossed over the temporary land bridge into the Americas. From recent publications, we know that this too may have been a process of multiple migrations.
Our Q ancestors took many migrations and faced life changing challenges. Similarly, we as leaders and members of this project seek together to take a journey of discovery that will change our thinking about who we are and what we understand of our past.
On May 5, 2008 Karafet 2008 was published in Genome Research. This rolled out the Y-Chromosome Consortium 2008 Tree, YCC2008. This is the scientific standard and the tree used by Family Tree DNA.
In the time since the publication of Karafet 2008 many new SNPs have been discovered and the phylogenetics have changed. Below is a draft version of the tree.
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Wayne Herschel - Ancient Star Maps - Freemasonry Secrets
Now, I know it's REAL EASY to find patterns in random dots in the sky (hell, it's what the human brain does, as a survival mechanism, find patterns) but South African paleo-forensic researcher Wayne Herschel has taken this pattern-finding to a totally cosmic level.
"What's that Masonic key symbol imagery all about, Mike?"
Well, Wayne Herschel claims to have 'decoded' much of the research of Dan Brown's DaVinci Code and Lost Symbol novels etc. and it's not what you think. And he's now going on the record stating that the Scott/Lindelof Prometheus script is accurately describing/plagiarising his findings over the last few decades looking into the ancient (omnipotent) starmap representations.
Dogon starmap being one of the really interesting items.
Stonehenge starmap is also intriguing.
Egyptian starmap being another.
But this goes all over the world, all through time, as explained in Prometheus - and (in Wayne Herschel's universe) they're all pointing to THE ORIGIN OF MANKIND being somewhere off the 'as above so below' position of the Pleiades.
Freemasonry, Herschel suggests, has been protecting its Orion 33 degree Ra truths since ancient Egytian times, and maybe BEFORE. Sure, I'll admit, Herschel could be 'just another one of these snake-oily self-publishing authors who're infesting the internet' and I'm sure this guy was 'inspired himself' by Roland Emmerich's 1994 film Stargate but over the past few years, Freemasons have come from all over the world, quite conspicuously one might add, to attend Wayne's pyramid star map talks.
There are more movies on Wayne's Youtube page.
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I have been contemplating this Horus-Ra mythology, so prevalent in our entertainment (as Vigilant Citizen constantly points out as the one-eye-covered symbolism), and on countless Websites. I recently found this gem on the Web: "the Ra entity operates in a transdimensional body that looks like a very tall birdlike body, similar to the Egyptian god Horus. This bird-like body is not a cyborg, but it seems to be the body of a decayed humanoid race from Orion. So, the transdimensional form is Horus, the dark entity within is Ra." Horus-Ra entity.
As I mentioned before, I had an awaken dream where I was spoken to by an owl-like creature who looked a lot like Soros with wings and talons, the beak being already present. I am currently rereading Planet of the Owls, and looking for parallels to this Archontic mythos. Part of that mythos is that our thoughts are often not our own, but rather are planted by these entities to control us, by shaping our perception of reality. The Owls as Horus entities may be the manifestation of the Angels, the the Ra entities, on this dimensional plane), but we normally cannot see them.
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Locker beat out veteran Matt Hasselbeck, despite his struggles in the preseason. Locker was just 4 of 11 for 21 yards in his first NFL start Friday night, a 30-7 win at Tampa Bay.
Titans coach Mike Munchak opened the competition in January between Locker, the eighth overall pick in the 2011 draft out of Washington, and veteran Hasselbeck, who led Tennessee to an unexpected 9-7 record last season.
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Watch List: Serena Williams, Victoria Azarenka still competing for No. 1
The Watch List spotlights the must-know storylines for the upcoming week in tennis. With the top men taking a breather, the focus is on Dubai, where the WTA No. 1 ranking is on the line once again.
Dubai Duty Free Tennis Championships
Eight of the top 10 women move on to Dubai in a packed draw that once again features the top two players, Serena Williams and Victoria Azarenka (Maria Sharapova and Li Na are the two top five players absent). Williams, 31, will take over the No. 1 ranking on Monday, becoming the oldest WTA No. 1 in history. Her tearful reaction to winning her quarterfinal match against Petra Kvitova in Doha clearly undermined her claims that she hadn't been thinking about getting the top spot back. So the question now is how long she can hold on to it with Azarenka still right on her heels. Azarenka can reclaim the No. 1 ranking by making the final here, though if she meets Williams she'll have to beat her — something she just accomplished in Qatar.
Williams has the tougher draw to the final, with her potential path including Marion Bartoli, Caroline Wozniacki and Kvitova, who pushed her to three sets last week. Azarenka could face a tricky second-round match against Dominika Cibulkova, who returns after withdrawing from Doha with a calf injury. Cibulkova played Azarenka tough last year, beating her at the French Open and almost knocking her out of Miami. Otherwise it's a fairly straightforward half, with potential matches against Sara Errani, Sam Stosur or Angelique Kerber.
One potential clash to keep an eye on is Sloane Stephens vs. Azarenka. Stephens, the last main-draw acceptance, could face Azarenka in the third round in their first matchup since their controversy-drenched semifinal at the Australian Open.
Notable matchups
First Round: Sloane Stephens vs. Sorana Cirstea; Ana Ivanovic vs. Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova; Laura Robson vs. Yulia Putintseva; Lucie Safarova vs. Caroline Wozniacki.
Potential Second Round: Serena Williams vs. Marion Bartoli; Petra Kvitova vs. Ana Ivanovic/Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova.
Potential Third Round: Angelique Kerber vs. Sam Stosur; Petra Kvitova vs. Agnieszka Radwanska; Serena Williams vs. Caroline Wozniacki.
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U.S. National Tennis Indoor Championships
This lower-level ATP/WTA joint event features all the top American men sans Mardy Fish, who is still dealing with complications from his heart issue, and a number of must-see American women, including Madison Keys, Jamie Hampton and Lauren Davis. Keep an eye on Keys' first-round match against Sabine Lisicki. It's a shame there won't be a stream for that must-watch match.
The men undoubtedly have the stronger field. Top 20 players Marin Cilic, Milos Raonic, John Isner and Sam Querrey are the top four seeds. (No. 34 Kirsten Flipkens is the top seed on the women's side.) Cilic won Zagreb two weeks ago and Raonic, Isner and Querrey all made the San Jose semifinals (as did Tommy Haas, who is seeded No. 6 here). In fact, the draw features possible early rematches of both the Zagreb and San Jose finals, with Cilic potentially meeting Jurgen Melzer in the second round and Raonic slated to play Haas in the third round.
Notable matchups
Men First Round: Jack Sock vs. Milos Raonic; John Isner vs. Denis Istomin; Sam Querrey vs. Alejandro Falla; Ryan Harrison vs. Lukasz Kubot; Lleyton Hewitt vs. Lu Yen-Hsun; James Blake vs. Florian Mayer.
Men Potential Second Round: Milos Raonic vs. James Blake; Tommy Haas vs. Feliciano Lopez; John Isner vs. Lleyton Hewitt; Ryan Harrison vs. Fernando Verdasco; Marin Cilic vs. Jurgen Melzer.
Men Potential Third Round: Milos Raonic vs. Tommy Haas.
Women First Round: Madison Keys vs. Sabine Lisicki; Jamie Hampton vs. Garbine Muguruza; Lauren Davis vs. Ksenia Pervak.
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Open 13
Fresh off winning his first title of the year in Rotterdam, Juan Martin del Potro is in Marseille to defend his title as the No. 2 seed behind Tomas Berdych. In fact, it's a strong field for an ATP 250, as Jo-Wilfried Tsonga, Janko Tipsarevic and Richard Gasquet bring the number of top 10 players to five.
Three players to keep an eye on here are Tsonga, Bernard Tomic and Jerzy Janowicz. Tsonga took a bad first-round loss to Igor Sisjling last week, and Tomic and Janowicz fell in the first round of Rotterdam. I'm still not sold on Janowicz's bona fides. He hasn't made it past the first round of an ATP tournament since making the finals of Paris last year, losing to Brian Baker in Auckland and now Victor Hanescu in Rotterdam. Meanwhile, Tomic said all through Australia that he needed to learn to summon his best when not playing on home soil to raise his ranking. He has eighth-seeded Martin Klizan in the first round here.
Notable matchups
First Round: Ernests Gulbis vs. Jarkko Nieminen; Jerzy Janowicz vs. Lukas Rosol; Bernard Tomic vs. Martin Klizan.
Potential Second Round: Tomas Berdych vs. Ernests Gulbis; Richard Gasquet vs. Gael Monfils; Benoit Paire vs. Bernard Tomic; Jo-Wilfried Tsonga vs. Nikolay Davydenko.
Potential Third Round: Richard Gasquet vs. Janko Tipsarevic; Tomas Berdych vs. Jerzy Janowicz.
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Copa Claro
Rafael Nadal is taking the week off, so it's the usual clay-court suspects this week as David Ferrer returns to competition to defend his title in Buenos Aires. He's the top seed, followed by Nicolas Almagro, Stanislas Wawrinka and Thomaz Bellucci. Ferrer could could face Sao Paulo finalist David Nalbandian in the second round.
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XXI Copa Claro Colsanitas
Consider me shocked to see Jelena Jankovic on the top line of the Bogota draw. Jankovic, who lost in the first round of Doha, presumably didn't want to play qualies in Dubai and has flown all the way to South America instead. That's some questionable scheduling considering she's set to play Kuala Lumpur next week before flying back to North America, but I suppose it's expected for a player who's dropped out of the top 30 and is trying to boost her ranking. In addition to Jankovic, who hasn't won a title in almost three years (Indian Wells 2010), another player to keep an eye on is Flavia Pennetta, who returns after a six-month absence with a wrist injury.


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Abnormal Pap Test Result
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LSIL (low-grade squamous intraepithelial lesion)
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Abnormal Colposcopy Result
If you have one of the results below, it is very important that you get the necessary tests and treatments.
HSIL (high-grade squamous intraepithelial lesion)
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Abnormal Colposcopy Result
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We are in the earliest stages of learning how what we do for a living both threatens nature and fails to meet our deepest human needs. The impoverishment of our world and the devaluing of the priceless undermine our physical and economic well-being.
Yet the depth and breadth of technological innovation of the past few decades shows that we have not lost our most useful gifts; humans are ingenious, adaptive, clever. We also have moral capacity, compassion for life, and an appetite for justice. We now need to more fully engage these gifts to make economic life more socially just and environmentally responsible, and less destructive to nature and the commons that sustain us.
We can't pose Patagonia as the model of a responsible company. We don't do everything a responsible company can do, nor does anyone else we know. But we can tell you how we came to realize our environmental and social responsibilities, and then began to act on them. Like other things in human life, it began with one step that led to another.
In the spring of 1988, Patagonia opened a store in Boston on Newbury Street. Within days, the people who worked in the store were sick: mainly headaches. We hired an engineer who told us the problem was the ventilation system: it was recycling the same tired air. But what was in the air? Probably formaldehyde, she told us. From the finish on the cotton clothes stored in the basement. Formaldehyde? This led us to commission a study of conventional cotton, and the discovery that cotton grown with pesticides is one of the most destructive crops in the agricultural world. Knowing what we knew, we could not continue to use conventional cotton for our sportswear. We went organic in 1996.
Once you start, you can't stop. "Living the examined life," said our founder, Yvon Chouinard, "is a pain in the ass." From cotton, we moved to what happens in Patagonia's name in every step of the supply chain, from crop to fabric to finished garment. We measured the environmental impacts of selected articles of clothing and published them on The Footprint Chronicles®. We worked with an outside auditor and an in-house corporate responsibility specialist to establish the working conditions and pay for every person who sews a Patagonia garment. We learned how to make fleece jackets from recycled plastic bottles and then how to make fleece jackets from fleece jackets. We examined our use of paper in catalogs, the sources of our electricity, the amount of oil we consumed driving to work. We continued to support employees with medical insurance, maternity and paternity leave, subsidized child-care and paid internships with non profit environmental groups. As we have for many years, we gave one percent of sales to grassroots activists. This one percent commitment isn't typical philanthropy. Rather, it's part of the cost of doing business, part of our effort to balance (however imperfectly) the impact we have on natural systems – and to protect the world on which our business, employees, and customers rely. After many years of giving money to activists, we realized that if we could share profits, we could also supply time and muscle.
Underlying much of what challenges Patagonia is the modern commitment to growth and consumption. We've begun to look seriously at these twin conundrums and took out an ad on Black Friday in 2011 that read, "Don't Buy This Jacket."
In the end, Patagonia may never be completely responsible. We have a long way to go and we don't have a map – but we do have a way to read the terrain and to take the next step, and then the next.
Living with Limited Resources
We define the quality of our company, in part, by the degree to which we can reduce our impact on the environment. This means taking a holistic approach to all aspects of our business, including how we use resources at our buildings and facilities.
e-Fibers represents products made from environmentally conscious fabrics: organically grown cotton, Tencel® lyocell, hemp, chlorine-free wool, recycled polyester and recycled nylon. Read more about them here.
Employee Activism
Patagonia gives employees throughout our worldwide operations a number of interesting opportunities to support environmental work. Learn about some of them here.
The Responsible Company: What We've Learned from Patagonia's First 40 Years, by Yvon Chouinard and Vincent Stanley
The Responsible Company at Yale University, September 2012
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2014 Handbook News
The 2014 Handbook is rolling off the press! This means that anyone joining this week will not get their card until we have the Handbooks to distribute. Sorry for any inconvenience this may cause but we do this to make sure you get one, There is a bulk post exercise (that reduces the costs) that means we go into a membership limbo area. Anyone joining by what ever method will still be showing as a member it just means we have delay sending your card.
This year has been an exceptional one as far as the membership renewal is concerned. We are already over the 6,000 mark. Many of you enjoyed receiving their cards within a day or two of joining online. Some of the ones that have been posted have taken up to a week, this just down to the nature of how the PO Box works and then how we handle to work at this end.


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How big is the gap between the brick and sheathing? If it's 2" or more filling the gap would give you a reasonable R value even without filling the stud bays and would be relatively safe for the sheathing. If it's an inch or less, the insulating value is miniscule, and there is increased moisture risk to the sheathing.
The space between the masonry and the sheathing is necessary to protect the sheathing from moisture drives coming from the exterior. It works best if it's vented to the exterior at both top and bottom. The vents don't need to be huge to work, weep holes every 3- bricks or so at the bottom and corresponding slots cut into the vertical mortar between bricks every few bricks on the top layer allows enough convection to purge high moisture conditions. These conditions typically happen in summer. Brick is porous and will absorb & store a good amount of rain & dew. When dew or rain-wetted brick gets heated in the sun the moisture is driven off rapidly resulting in VERY high humidity levels for a few hours at a time. But as long as the sun-heated very humid air in the cavity space is allowed to convect to the outside pulling in drier outdoor air, very little of that moisture ends up in the sheathing.
When you fill the gap with non-expanding injection foam there is no convective purging taking place, but the foam itself is modestly vapor retardent (about 15 perms @ 1", about 8 perms @ 2"). The 15# felt commonly used on the sheathing in those cavities is more vapor retardent than the non-expanding injection foam, but at 2" or more the foam is at least helping, whereas at 1" or less it's permeance is too high to have any protective aspect at all.
In a Tulsa climate the resulting higher average moisture content in the poses absolutely no risk to the brick, but in much colder places such as Winnepeg or Fargo, closing up the gap with foam would risk freeze/thaw spalling on the exterior face of the brick.
The other significant question to answer before filling the gap with foam is how the flashing on the windows & doors are set up to drain. If (as is common) the flashing is using the felt on the exterior of the sheathing as the drain plane, filling the gap with foam could result in higher moisture content in the window & door framing with rot potential, since bulk-water incursions would take an order of magnitude longer to dry.
In general the safest thing to do is to insulate the stud-bays, and leave the masonry cavity alone. (If the cavity is not already vented, drilling in vents & weep holes on the top & bottom courses is worth it.)


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Dave Solomon has been a reporter or editor for New England news organizations since 1977. He has served as executive editor of both the Portsmouth Herald and the Nashua Telegraph. He joined the reporting staff of the New Hampshire Union Leader in 2012.
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Dave Solomon's Granite Status: Pro-pot activists post fake photo on governor's website
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John DiStaso's Granite Status: Dan Innis gets the Scammans' endorsements for Congress
John DiStaso's Granite Status: NHGOP, Shaheen camp trade more charges on Obamacare
John DiStaso's Granite Status: Potential '16 presidential hopeful Marco Rubio to return to NH
John DiStaso's Granite Status: Ayotte among GOP senators invited to dine with Obama Wednesday evening
We've confirmed that Ayotte received a telephone call personally from the President on Tuesday afternoon and has been invited to be among about a dozen GOP senators to have dinner with Obama on Wednesday night.
(For earlier Granite Status reports, click on "Granite Status" above)
The Washington Post reported the dinner is scheduled to take place at The Jefferson Hotel, weather permitting.
The Post has described the series of calls being made by Obama to Republicans as a new "charm offensive" to bypass leadership and go to the rank-and-file. In the calls, the Post reported, the President has expressed a willingness to reform health and retirement programs if they agree to raise taxes to address the national debt.
White House press secretary Jay Carney has reportedly said the conversations have focused mostly on the budget but also on other issues.
The Post said other GOP senators invited to dinner and who plan to attend include John McCain of Arizona, Tom Coburn of Oklahoma, Lindsey Graham of South Carolina, Dan Coats of Indiana and Ron Johnson of Wisconsin.
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The first half of President Obama's term has served to define the relationship between partisanship and patriotism as performed on Capitol Hill in our legislative version of the Roman circus. Combat is the order of the day, and the teams of gladiators line up to salute their patrons and the emperor. Republicans have declared that their goal is to deny the president re-election two years hence by denying him any success on his agenda of reform and recovery. Blood sport politics is high entertainment for the plebeian spectators, and the past 20 months have seen only the preliminary bouts. Comes the spring, the main event is on and it promises to be a melee of grand proportions.
The whining liberal left, who are always ready to cheer on someone else in a fight, have been sniveling and whining of late over the compromises mongered by the Obama White House and Republican leaders. Extending the Bush tax cuts of 2003, settling for a health care plan that gives the insurance gangsters first bite of the health care pie and selling out to the drug industry to allow them to charge Americans more for their product than overseas customers are frequent themes for the Obama bashing by the disappointed progressives. They demand that the president stand tall on the millionaire tax issue despite the reality that such a battle in the last days of the 111th Congress would block passage of any other legislation before the new Congress takes office in January. And when that new Congress, with a Republican majority in the House, takes over it will have passed the tax cuts as permanent after huge fights in the Senate and veto threats from Obama.
Instead, the president made a deal on taxes and got agreement on passage of dozens of lesser bills that the GOP had stalled all year with filibuster threats: extended unemployment benefits, student loan reform, Wall Street reforms and regulation, health care for 9/11 responders, repeal of the "Don't ask, don't tell" ban on gay military service ad infinitum, or close to it.
Now that the time challenge is removed, most of the battles over those same policies will be fought in committee and on the floor of both houses, and this time the democrats will be fighting hard to preserve their gains of the lame-duck engagement. And make no mistake, the Republicans are going to come out scratching and biting, knowing that they got taken down in the end game of this congress. As Sen. Graham of South Carolina explained it: "Harry Reid ate our lunch."
Obama, whose early training included dealing with bare-knuckle Chicago politics, cannot continue to compromise on his major issues. He must create a presidential power strategy and take it to the whatever champions the GOP muster.
Boxing is the metaphor for the next two years, and every round counts.
"Travus T. Hipp" is a 40-year veteran radio commentator with six stations in California carrying his daily version of the news and opinions. "The Poor Hippy's Paul Harvey," Travus is a member of the Nevada Broadcasters Hall of Fame, but unemployable in the Silver State due to his eclectic political views.


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The walk to and from school and church wasn't always pretty---or perfect. Liquor bottles, garbage and cigarette butts line Deonte Tanner's route and a boarded up house is the first thing Deonte sees when he leaves home every day. It makes him want more for himself and others.
"I'm definitely not a product of my environment," Tanner says. "Everybody looks at Englewood as its disgusting---a savage neighborhood--and for the most part it's true."
"If I'm able to run a health center or hope center then that's more kids that I can possibly impact and possibly change," he tells FOX 32. "You don't have to be an athlete or a drug dealer to make it out of this neighborhood. Long as you got the will and the hope and the belief in yourself then you can do it."
Hopes and dreams have turned into nightmares for many 18 and 19 year old black men, growing up in Englewood. Gang and gun violence have turned this area into one of the toughest neighborhoods on Chicago's South Side.
Over the past year, more than two dozen current and former students from Harper High School were killed. First Lady Michelle Obama came to Chicago to discuss the violence and give Deonte and his classmates hope.
Instead of being tough on the streets, Deonte took that energy to the classroom. He graduated as valedictorian of his class in June from Harper High School and earned a four year academic scholarship to Marquette University in Wisconsin. Recently, Deonte got a call from the Bill Gates Foundation to congratulate him.
"Gates met my financial needs for school. Paid for me to get my doctorate degree for free, so I'm definitely blessed," Tanner believes.
Deonte Tanner considers himself just another boy in the 'hood. The big difference, he says, is that he turned everything around into something to motivate him.
"Not everybody in Englewood are disgusting and savages with no life and no hope," says Tanner. "And I'm showing people that there's a difference."
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As one of Europe's most prestigious apparel manufacturers since 1946, Calida receives its acclaim by exceeding standards for quality, social ethics, and environmental impact. In fact, most of Calida's fabrics are certified by Oeko–Tex®, a worldwide standard ensuring they are free of harmful chemicals, and their organic Supima® cotton meets the even more stringent Global Organic Textile Standard (GOTS).
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What You Need to Know About Machu PicchuJune 8th, 2010 by Smithsonian Journeys
Nobody wants to stand at a nice reception when an acquaintance announces she just got back from the absolutely fabulous Machu Picchu and have no idea what the fuss is all about. To make sure that never happens to you, here are the basics about Peru's Machu Picchu so you can be as smart and cultured as the next guy.
- Machu Picchu is Quechua for "Big Mountain." The Quechua are the indigenous people of Peru, and the archaoelogical site of Machu Picchu is located south of the equator in the Andes Mountains and outside the city of Cuzco. But the location of the ruins is truly amazing as it sits in between the Machu Picchu and Huayna Picchu mountains, making it difficult to approach and easily defensible in an attack.
- The city was built in 1450 at the height of the Incan Empire. By 1572, the city was abandoned, but there is some confusion as to why. It doesn't appear that the Spanish conquistadors defaced or damaged any part of Machu Picchu, so it is thought that smallpox, which the Spanish brought from Europe, may have been a major factor in the fall of the city.
- The buildings located at the site were very well built using a technique called ashlar. This involved cutting blocks of stone and stacking them without the use of mortar. The result is a long-lasting, earthquake-proof structure.
- Popular culture has cited Hiram Bingham as the person who "discovered" Machu Picchu in 1911. However, there is some evidence that he wasn't the first non-Native to stumble upon the site. Simone Waisbard, a longtime researcher in Cuzco, believes three men named Enrique Palma, Gabino Sánchez, and Agustín Lizárragal left their identities inscribed on a rock at the site on July 14, 1901. Others believe a German businessman named Augusto Berns looted the site – a common practice at the time—in 1867. Physical evidence has shown Machu Picchu to be listed on maps as early as 1874. While Bingham gets the most credit today, there may have been other visitors prior to his notable arrival in 1911.
- In 1983, Machu Picchu was designated an UNESCO World Heritage Site and was described as "an absolute masterpiece of architecture and a unique testimony to the Inca civilization."
With these little tidbits in your back pocket, you can be the hit at the party too—or at least answer that Final Jeopardy question and impress your friends.
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Why, of course! A concave decagon.
What is the answer anyway?
Yet the stars cannot have all their internal angles equal to θ or to 360-θ...
There are stars
This was also my solution but it seems there is a polygon with fewer sides that meets the criteria.
I think its a concave dodecagon
I said concave, not convex. By "regular concave", I mean a concave polygon of which all the sides are equal and all its internal or external angles equal (that is, all the angles must be either θ or 360-θ).
I am sorry, I didnt notice 'Regular'.
Can you design it?
A concave quadrilateral.
What is the regular concave polygon with the smallest number of sides?


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AVOID THIS MERCHANT AT ALL COSTS! – I planned a surprise birthday party for my wife on 6/19/10. I gave instructions NOT to call our home phone # because it was a surprise. The driver got lost on the way to my house & called my house for directions, which ended up ruining the surprise. If that was the only issue that evening I would not be writing this negative review but that was just the start.
The Limo picked us up and we were headed to Baltimore for dinner & bowling at Mustang Alley's. Our contract was for 4 hours for $480 with any OT being charged at 30 minute increments of $41.25. This was in writing & I am not disputing it.
We were on our way to dinner when a few of our guests had mentioned how they had been in an accident on this street for a special occasion a few months ago. A few minutes later we were stopped at a stop sign just across from Mustang Alleys. Our driver did not know where it was even though it was across the street so she was looking around for a sign instead of paying attention to the traffic. She pulled out and everyone in our limo yelled, "STOP!" Luckily, we stopped in time as a car zoomed by us nearly causing a major accident. It missed us by a few inches. If not for my guests, that could have ended in disaster.
The other driver had the right of way and our limo driver wasn't paying attention. I don't know how long she had been driving but she clearly didn't drive like someone with any experience. We were all shook up but the accident was averted. We went inside, had dinner and played a few rounds of bowling. When we were finished we called the driver who picked us up and we went home.
We dropped off our guests about 2 blocks from our house and then my wife and I were dropped off at our home at 10:15. This was 45 minutes over our paid time of 4 hours. It wasn't a full hour but apparently they round up when doing their overtime charges.
The driver came over to talk to me as we got out of the limo. She said that she was very sorry for the near accident earlier. She then said she was going to call her boss at the limo company to see if she could get our 45 minute overtime charge taken off for us because of her near accident that night. About 10 minutes later she came back from the car where she was on the phone and said everything was taken care of and we would not be charged. I thanked her and she left.
About a week later, as I was looking at my charge card I noticed a bill from A Platinum Plus Limousines for $82.50. I was very upset since I was promised by the driver (who is an agent for their company) that it would be taken care of and we would not be charged due to her negligent driving & near accident.
I immediately called up the limo company and asked them what had happened and why I received this charge. I spoke with Michael E Green about the extra charge and he told me that the driver did not have the authority to remove that charge for us & that I would have to pay it. I told him how she had obviously made a phone call with someone for 10 minutes and it wasn't just her decision on the issue. He refused to credit us the for the extra charge & was very dismissive about our situation.
Since he wouldn't do the right thing & remove the extra charge I had to call my credit card company to get the charge removed. Shortly after I did that I received a call from Michael E Green again. He asked me why I was disputing the charge. I told him that he knew why I disputed the charge and that's all I said. He was very angry & told me that he was going to be appealing this with the credit card company. Then he went on even further & told me that if he lost the arbitration decision with them that he would get an attorney and sue me for the money and even stated that he would make me pay for the charge along with his lawyer fees. He was being very condescending and not very professional as he tried to bully me into dropping my claim with the credit card company.
0/5 Rating! Horrible Service! AVOID THEM LIKE THE PLAGUE!!!!!!!!!
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