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Saturday, November 1, 2014
Listen to the Silence, too.
As part of our "how to understand the world" theme here; I'll point out that what the media is not saying is very often as significant as what they are.
I've been searching the web since last night; and cannot find any official news about the state of Dr. Craig Spencer, being treated for Ebola at Bellevue Hospital in NYC, that is more recent than 2 days ago. And only one other blogger who has also noticed. Not a peep from CNN or anyone else.
That's scaring me a bit. The entire world seems to be assuming that of course, he'll recover; since he's being treated in the USA, etc, etc. He did receive a blood transfusion from an Ebola survivor; several days back; and that was about the end of the updates; that he was "tolerating" the transfusion well.
This is a young man who deserves to get well, and to be appreciated for his warm humanity. If he made any mistakes, it was the grave sin of believing what he was told by his superiors. "This is safe." they said.
I fear the social consequences too; if he does not recover- dies- the impact on our fear and chaos levels will be very large; and very little of that would be beneficial.
Listen for when the crickets quit.
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Friday, October 31, 2014
Yes! No! Maybe....Not!
So; who to believe? About which?
I think I wouldn't worry about it, since between Governors declaring public health emergency quarantines, but not enforcing them, and nurses deciding to ignore Governors, and judges deciding their job is to judge science, not law.... you're not getting any of the choices in here, anyhow.
Crazy, yes? This is some of the damage caused by fear-panic in plagues.
Current results; the State Troopers in Maine are no longer sure if they should obey the Governor's orders; or wait for court clarification. Citizens - have no idea who to listen to.
There is a saying in all the armies I can check on; so old it defies attribution; "Order, counter-order, disorder." Chaos is just around the corner; when people do not know who to follow or who to trust.
The business world has a similar Law: "Even a bad decision is better than no decision." A little more subtle, but proven true repeatedly. Make a bad decision? You may find that out quickly, and change direction. No decision? The Universe will decide for you, and you probably won't like it.
So who's in charge here?
Yep, I don't know either.
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Sunday, October 26, 2014
School Shootings. (so you can avoid this if you wish.)
Old-timers here know my opinion. Which has just been clearly demonstrated, again.
This young man, almost certainly, would never have chosen this method of suicide, if it hadn't been pounded into him repeatedly that this is a great way to die.
I will not belabor it; I already have here. The reason for bringing it up at all is that the present instance is a change; a metastasis of the disease.
This is blindingly obvious to me; and I truthfully am unable to comprehend how it is NOT obvious to everyone.
These events are suicides; every one of them.
A certain type of potential suicide will choose this path- not because it hurts people; but because it makes the shooter an instant world-wide celebrity. Next week, everyone will still be discussing how your potty-training made you a killer, your face will be everywhere; they'll write books about you, and every time a similar suicide happens, they'll run all your stories again, with photographs. Immortality, really. By god, the world will never forget what a shitty deal you got.
We don't publish names and photos of rape victims; and no one suffers because of that horrifying restriction on our "right to know!" The fact is, the papers love these events now- because they make SO much money off them. Someone needs to document the money; imagine the headline then: "Numbers reveal CNN makes $130 Million for every school shooting." They do, you know.
This young man experienced something traumatic last week; probably with his cousins, and it was difficult to live with. In normal times, he might have hanged himself, alone. That would be horrible, and should be prevented if possible.
But it would not even have occurred to him to shoot his cousins also- except that at his age, they've been having "shooter lock-down" events at school since he was in kindergarten. Obviously, this is what's expected.
Never publish the names. Never publish the photos. Never discuss their "reasons" (which baffle the authorities always). If the shooters are "erased"; there will be no shooters.
Can anyone explain why (besides the money) this is not obvious?
Because I literally don't get it.
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Saturday, October 25, 2014
Ebola 12. The Mali Border.
I saw this photo first yesterday, on BBC. It has been haunting me; literally; ever since. I've been on and off about whether to share it here; it seems to have mostly vanished from the media feeds; I would guess because it is too disturbing; thought provoking, bottom of the pit sad, and frightening.
The file I uploaded is high enough resolution for full screen; get it big enough so you can really see it.
My narrative: This beautiful woman has dressed up, neat and lovely in her good clothes; for a day in town. A treat, pretty certainly. She has put worries aside, for just a little while.
Then she is abruptly confronted. Required to stand still and be monitored.
To see if she is going to be the next to die.
She knows she needs to stand, for the good of all. She stands. She wishes she could run away from the muzzle of the thermometer; which feels like a gun; though she knows perfectly well it isn't.
She can't run; there isn't anywhere to run. She has already seen death, or knows it is coming closer every day; and there is nothing to do; but stand. And wait.
I find the panic in our press and among our officials offensive beyond belief. These people on the Mali border are not panicked. They're doing all they can to cope; and live, while they can.
With nothing but words from the rest of the world, to help them. She knows.
I have a lot of contempt boiling inside these days, too.
She haunts me.
The file I uploaded is high enough resolution for full screen; get it big enough so you can really see it.
My narrative: This beautiful woman has dressed up, neat and lovely in her good clothes; for a day in town. A treat, pretty certainly. She has put worries aside, for just a little while.
Then she is abruptly confronted. Required to stand still and be monitored.
To see if she is going to be the next to die.
She knows she needs to stand, for the good of all. She stands. She wishes she could run away from the muzzle of the thermometer; which feels like a gun; though she knows perfectly well it isn't.
She can't run; there isn't anywhere to run. She has already seen death, or knows it is coming closer every day; and there is nothing to do; but stand. And wait.
I find the panic in our press and among our officials offensive beyond belief. These people on the Mali border are not panicked. They're doing all they can to cope; and live, while they can.
With nothing but words from the rest of the world, to help them. She knows.
I have a lot of contempt boiling inside these days, too.
She haunts me.
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Friday, October 24, 2014
Ebola 11 — New York City, and Mali.
And what can one say?
I hope Dr. Spencer pulls through. I really hope he was not shedding virus in the NYC subway system Wednesday evening. Or into the NYC sewer system, with the large resident rat population.
Will rats spread Ebola!?! Gasp! We just, plain, totally, absolutely DO NOT KNOW.
I guarantee you will hear a pundit from NYC today scoffing at the idea of rats becoming infected, probably citing the CDC, and, dripping scorn, "Oh, this has just never been known to happen!" And that's totally true. "We" haven't seen it. You need to learn to recognize that language as intentionally misleading, however. This is what the CDC has to say, buried in the technical bits:
"...these viruses naturally reside in an animal reservoir host or arthropod vector. They are totally dependent on their hosts for replication and overall survival. For the most part, rodents and arthropods are the main reservoirs for viruses causing VHFs. The multimammate rat, cotton rat, deer mouse, house mouse, and other field rodents are examples of reservoir hosts. "
Generally, for the entire class of viral hemorrhagic fevers. Spencer had diarrhea before he went in to the hospital. Ebola is known to be able to survive for 1-2 days outside the body.
And what can you do about it? Not a darned thing. What can the Mayor of NYC, and the Governor of NY do about it? Not a thing; we'll just have to wait and see.
Amid all the utter nonsense still being broadcast by the major media; I found the video below yesterday. I recommend it highly; and I'll say that scientifically, I'm in 100% agreement with this man's views. But so far, he's the only one from the inside of the Epidemiology world who is pushing these points. Keep in mind this is a talk to an audience primarily of his peers; highly educated public health workers. Sometimes he talks very fast, and in jargon; but most of it is quite easily understood.
I admire Dr. Osterholm greatly- he has huge courage; and stamina, to speak out in this fashion. It will make him no friends, and change few minds, and no one will ever thank him. And he knows it; and keeps at it. Someone made the mistake of placing him as Director of The Director of the Center for Infectious Disease Research and Policy. How a diligent, intelligent, articulate, and fully competent scientist wound up in that seat, I do not know.
I won't try to imbed the video here, that seems to go goofy; so just go right to YouTube.
Incidentally, I am not at all a fan of the person who posted the video; I'd have chosen differently, but this was the only version I could find.
And in Mali. That story is a complete heartbreaker. The stories haven't settled yet, but it's clear it was a small child- whose mother/ or father/ or grandmother (I've seen all 3) died of Ebola in Guinea; and relatives took the the child into Mali to place it with a relative who could care for it. Ebola rode along; on "public transport"; the child has Ebola.
As Osterholm states, repeatedly; we don't know anything about the virus in this outbreak. And the very most dangerous thing you can do; regarding controlling panic in the population - is lie to them, Us. When all the people in NYC do not believe what the "authorities" tell them- then we'll have chaos.
So; gloomy. One weird cheerful aspect; a pessimist blogger is already on record as betting that now, no more doctors will travel to West Africa to help; because they are not truly protected.
I know a bunch of doctors. I'm going to bet the opposite. I will bet you there is a substantial uptick in US doctors volunteering to go. You have to be crazy to want to be a doctor in the first place, right? There you go. Doctors want to be needed; it's a basic motivator. Nobody needs them more than West Africa.
And hopefully, next time- returning doctors will go to a lovely lodge on an island off Maine; and stay there relaxing for a month. No, not 21 days. We utterly do not know that's a real limit; it's just the one we've seen so far.
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Tuesday, October 21, 2014
Ebola 10 - Today's Mystery.
The US seems to have escaped having Ebola get loose in the general population. A very good thing, and very lucky thing, considering the number of bloopers from the various agencies involved.
Like Sherlock Holmes (and Broadway, presently), we are still presented with a mystery of absence; the "Curious Incident of the Dog in the Nighttime." The dog that did not bark.
How did Duncan's fiancée escape infection?
I'm totally delighted for her that she did, and the 3 other people who shared the apartment; but according to what we think we know about how the virus is transmitted- she should be infected; and apparently, is not. I would not be surprised if she came down with it yet; somewhere out past the theoretical 21 day limit Evolving to work more slowly is a good tactic for most pathogens, and is on the route to becoming non-lethal some day. But at this point in the epidemic, emerging more slowly, with fewer symptoms, is an excellent way to escape control methods; and keep spreading.
But it's looking good at the moment. Keep your fingers crossed.
The news from Africa is not any better, however. And a factor to keep in mind; the headlines on Ebola today, there on Page 2, are first; "Nigeria Free Of Ebola!" - which of course, is simply not true- the virus is pretty certainly still there in its animal hosts; what they mean is, no humans in Nigeria now have active Ebola. That's good; but not in the least unexpected, since the infection there was always very limited, and rapidly addressed. Second headline, much smaller font, is the information that cases in the core epidemic are still accelerating, and ability to cope with it there is still totally inadequate. But, hey- no new cases in Dallas.
Ok, two useful points, I hope; both to do with panic.
Firstly, we just had a wonderful, terrific, demonstration of PANIC!!! in the USA.
Not- among the populace. Sure, 3 hypochondriacs called 911 reporting they thought they had it; but everybody else in the USA was pretty calm about it all.
The world of "Officialdom", though- was something else. Officials everywhere were, truly, panicking. Making announcements, pontifications, taking "actions" to ensure your safety, blithering and blathering nonstop. And the Press provides them with an echo chamber, to keep the PANIC! reverberating. Sells papers, you know.
Expect that. It will continue. Most officials are terrified that someone will now hold them immediately responsible- for something. And it scares the bejeepers out of them. Particularly when some nitwit is shoving a microphone in their face and demanding what they're going to do.
Secondly - if/when you find yourself starting to panic; someday somewhere; literally— stop it.
You can stop it. As in; find yourself panicking; and regain your self control. I know you can; because I've done it.
I loved "caving" when I was in college; otherwise known as "spelunking." Wonderful, top to bottom. Good companions, good tests of yourself, fascinating biology and geology. Great.
So, like ya do, I kept pushing myself further and further, attempting harder and harder caves.
Until; one day; I found myself under about 300 feet of solid limestone; about 1,000 feet into a crack so tiny you had to take your helmet off, push it in front of you, and turn your head sidewise; with at least another 1,000 feet yet to go; all of it that tight...
All of a sudden- I did not want to be there.
Really really did not. Hated it. Wanted out. NOW. And as my anxiety came up; I very, very seriously considered panicking; and making somebody else responsible for getting me the hell out of there.
What stopped me was the forceful realization that in all probability; if I panicked in that tiny impossible crack- no one would ever be ABLE to get me out. And the realization grew, that panic was a very poor option; with bad probabilities for survival. Screw the self esteem and public opinion; panic was likely going to kill me.
So, I didn't. The only way out of here was forward. So I went. Then I had to go back through that crawlway again; but now, of course, I knew I could do it. And of course ego balloons, when you emerge from the cave altogether. Whoa, cool; when can we do that again?
But I've never forgotten the "almost". I just about lost it. Within millimeters.
But I didn't.
So; when you see your mayor and the sheriff panicking- remember. You don't have to.
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Wednesday, October 15, 2014
Ebola 9. Not yet, probably.
So here we are at Ebola Does Dallas 2. Although now it turns out it may also be Ebola Does Frontier Airlines, Cleveland, and Akron- and maybe Fort Lauderdale and Atlanta.
The second nurse from Dallas- was in Akron, Ohio for several days, visiting family... before she went to the Cleveland airport, flew back to Dallas, and was placed in isolation the next day. And- some sources are reporting she 'had a slight fever' before she got on the airplane. In other words, she was "symptomatic" in Cleveland.
But hey, Frontier assures us they "cleaned the aircraft thoroughly, according to CDC guidelines" before putting it back into service. "Flight 1143, on which the woman flew from Cleveland to Dallas/Fort Worth, was the last trip of the day Monday for the Airbus A320. But Tuesday morning the plane was flown back to Cleveland and then to Fort Lauderdale, Fla., back to Cleveland and then to Atlanta and finally back to Cleveland again...:
Then they took it out of service when notified about the ebola on board. In other words, their cleaning was not for ebola; but just their standard.
Remember my points about wandering about in airports? Here we are. This is a huge vulnerability.
This is a deeply systemic weakness; quite apart from our astonishing stupidities. Whose idea was it to ok travel to Ohio for a nurse who'd just been working closely with ebola???
Would I run from Dallas now? Not yet.
At the moment, all the cases are associated with the hospital there. They might be able to contain that, yet. If we get to the point where there are a couple of new ebola cases a day in Dallas- which are not instantly relatable to the hospital; I think that would do it. Even the very slow responses of officialdom might, at that point, be willing to roadblock Dallas; and only allow people in and out who have official reasons. You and your family, don't qualify.
I was delighted to see the NYT actually cite "evolutionary biologists" - who study viruses - on their opinions about ebola. I was not delighted with the messages transmitted from these scientists however- there are glaring errors - of "belief" not science. One of the most bizarre, to me, is the repetition of "oh, we've never seen that happen." followed by the statement that therefore, obviously, it never will.
Stunning to me; this kind of thinking is now possibly the prevailing habit in both science and medicine. And I promise you, 40 years ago, that opinion would have been laughed out of any seminar; it's not only asinine; it's been proven wrong repeatedly, definitively.
Our science; our medicine, have been becoming stilted and untested, and un-culled by reality. The truth of the value of your science it not its reproducibility; its only the repeatability of your grants. A huge amount of science now being published is NOT reproducible; possibly as little at 10-30%; a few are starting to worry about that. One major driving force- try getting a grant to reproduce someone else's work. Instant shredder.
It may be too late to worry; our world depends our out technical knowledge- and it's been compromised.
This is from an old post here; but is precisely illustrative of the current state of our scientists; and their supposed "oversight". This guy is staggeringly out to lunch.
Used to be only ninnys didn't think problems all the way through- but it seems to be a pathway now being taught to PhDs.
The next example, which pushed me over the edge, is from BBC Science.
This professor guy (and not a minor one, but "the director of the scientific aquaculture programme at the Marine Biological Laboratory (MBL) in Woods Hole, Massachusetts") is spending huge amount of money working on training aquaculture fish to come back when called, in the ocean; by a specific sound.
Then, see, they could go find some of their own food, and wouldn't always be pooping in the same toilet, but would come back when you wanted to feed- or kill them.
First try didn't work. Predators ate them, as soon as they were allowed to escape from the cage. I'll be darned.
Besides which- gosh, if you've got your fish trained to come and be fed, and the signal is a sound... exactly how long do you think it will take the predators to learn that the sound means- time to come and get fed? Right here?
I think any signal, in any medium, you can use to train your fish will emphatically be intercepted by the predators, immediately.
At first, the fish began to forage outside of the aquadome, moving in and out at the prompt of the sound, just as the researchers had hoped."But then we start seeing these bluefish circling our cage. And these are notorious for being ravenous and ruthless hunters," he says."Very frustratingly, we went back day after day to find these fish still showing up at the cage, and we couldn't for the life of us call the black sea bass back.
The tags helped the researchers to identify their bass"They were scared to death - we went diving, and we could see them amongst the rocks, but nothing was going to make them run that gauntlet between the rocks and the cage when it would put their lives at risk."And the fish had good reason to be scared.When the team caught one of the bluefish and slit open its belly, they discovered 12 tiny tags - the fish that they had been attached to had already been digested.
But. Big, hopeful, news coverage on the BBC!! Hey, the funders will love it.
And his answer? Gonna build robotic sheep-dog sharks to keep the little predators away.
What a good idea.
Ok, so the hammer is not working on this machine screw. Maybe if I hit it from the side, with more money...
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Introduction: critical phenomena
The main method of discovering the various phases in which a quantum system may exist is the study of the system's behavior under scale transformations, which are described by the renormalization group equations. In particular, the fixed points of the scale transformation correspond to the critical points where, since the correlation length becomes infinite, the system enjoys invariance under dilatations.
The renormalization group approach to critical phenomena allows for the explicit computation of critical exponents. These were originally introduced as empirical fitting parameters to describe the scaling behavior of physical magnitudes in the neighborhood of the critical point. Universality means that the critical exponents depend only on the dimensionality and the symmetries of the system. From the point of view of the renormalization group, the critical exponents are just the weights of representations of the dilatation group. Associated with each universality class, characterized by a set of critical exponents, is a set of representations of the dilatation group, whose weights are precisely the above critical exponents. Two systems are in the same universality class if they are related by a renormalization group transformation.
For quantum systems that are invariant under translations and rotations (i.e. homogeneous and isotropic), and with short-range interactions, dilatation invariance implies, in general, invariance under the bigger group of conformal transformations. Therefore, its critical behavior will be described by a quantum field theory invariant under the whole conformal group. This observation, originally due to Polyakov, has dramatic consequences if the dimensionality of the system is two: in this case, the conformal group is infinite dimensional.
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MAIN CHALLENGE: For the main challenge this week, take some time for yourself! Do something special, just for you, that you've been thinking about but haven't followed through on. I know we all have so many responsibilities, but sometimes taking time for ourselves is the best way to ensure we can get through all of that without pulling our hair out!!
Yesterday, after a long day at work (don�t you love Mondays?) I got picked up by my husband as my brakes were being worked on. Our two girls were in the car (where else would they be haha) and something happens in my household around 5 PM. Like werewolves after midnight, my girls go CRAZY. (For some reason my dogs do, too, and have even before we had kids.) They all go gaga for me. They freak out, act up, and do anything and everything in their power to get my 100%, COMPLETE ATTENTION. This may sound flattering, but it truly is not. It�s like having raw meat strapped to your body and being in a field of rapid dogs.
Joking aside, it really drains a person. And being in a hot car, in traffic that doesn�t seem to move, for 48 minutes (yes I counted) is just brutal. Two time outs on the side of the road later and one meltdown, and we are finally back home.
I had plans to go walking with my oldest daughter�plans to even bring the little one along and walk to the library, get them signed up for the summer reading program, get a workout in, get some girl bonding time.
But after that car ride I walked in the door, took a look around, and announced that I was NOT taking either of them in public � anywhere � and I sent them outside to play while I made dinner and my hubby worked on the car.
I had plans, great big Mommy plans�the walk, the library, coming home and doing nice baths, a story or two. No plans for ME, but plans for them. And yes, I do like spending time with them, but last night was a different story.
A quick dinner later, a few more time outs and refereeing fights, and I was DONE. Up to bed and a few stories later and that was it. I looked around. It was barely past 7 p.m. I had all of this�TIME. I thought about all of the story drafts sitting on my office desk�.I decided I would go to the library after all�just by myself.
I grabbed my writing bag, kissed hubby goodbye (and sort of felt like I was escaping, but pushing that feeling aside)...I even stopped at Dunkin� Donuts for my favorite French Vanilla coffee. Oh, this was going to be GOOD. The smell of the coffee in the car hit my senses and I was already daydreaming about the writing I would do. The writing I had missed for the past months�.it is just so hard to make time for yourself when you work full time, am a Mom, a wife, the bill keeper, organizer, party and play date planner�.where did I fit in with all of that? I�ve been great about making time for working out (usually before the girls are awake or after they are asleep). But where was my creativity going to bloom if I didn�t give it a place to grow?
I got to the library and first signed the kids up for the summer reading program, like a good Mommy, and THEN. THEN it was all about ME. I got a quiet cubicle away from the children�s library. I opened the lid of my coffee. And I WROTE. I wrote for about 45 minutes. It felt amazing.
And after I wrote I took a minute to read a chapter from one of my summer reading books, a guilty pleasure.
And I didn�t even bring my cell phone into the library. I left it in the car.
Things could wait. People could wait. Me? I�ve been waiting long enough. It was time for me.
I�ve decided that I�m going to write 5 days out of the week, and 8 or 9 p.m. seems to be a good time, after the girls are sleeping.
And I even got more miles in after I got home.
It was just amazing. I felt like my old self again, the self before I had kids�.and I�m honoring the writer within me.
�Planning to write is not writing. Outlining, researching, talking to people about what you're doing, none of that is writing. Writing is writing.�
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"Empowerment is what the emerging artist needs to win for herself. And the initial sense of urgency to create can easily be dissipated because it entails making the one choice many people, especially women, in our society with its emphasis on the 'acceptable' priorities, feel selfish about making: taking the time to create, stealing it from yourself if it's the only way."
-- "5:00 A.M.: Writing as Ritual" in The Latin Deli by Judith Ortiz Cofer, p. 168 (reprinted in Sleeping With One Eye Open)
A good friend of mine got married this past weekend. Months ago I found a dress I loved and it fit me in a size large, but it was a little too loose, and so I did something drastic. I bought it in a size Medium, having faith that I would get into it by her wedding. Well, I am proud to say that I did! Here are some photos taken w/ my cell phone (not the best quality).
I got to see good friends at the wedding I haven't seen in so long and they were so kind about my weight loss and didn't come right out and say "Woah!" but kind of took me aside and asked me about it. Two of my really good friends admitted that they had been talking amongst themselves about how I look half the size I used to be. It was just a dreamy night. I kept looking down at my ring finger at my wedding set that didn't fit me for so long. It felt surreal. And on top of that I got to see a wonderful woman get married to her soul mate. A happy day all around.
Full length after the wedding - I had already taken my heels off :)
Can you tell how happy I am?
My friend Karoline with her three nieces
The happy couple!
I didn't work out much this past week at all, my tail bone has been hurting me ever since my daughter hopped into bed with me and I slept strangely all night. Now this pain has GOT to go away because it's been keeping me from doing things that I want and need to do. Running? Nope. Volunteering with my church at a local nursing home? Nope. Dancing at my friend's wedding? Nope, nope and nope. I don't have $$ to see a chiropractor again, I've used up all my health benefit for a chiropractor.
So, while I want to kick butt and really push it this week, I am also going to be aware of my body and treating it well. I'm going to try to recover from this pain that's been keeping me from the things I love, and also do things that will help my body heal. My original title for this blog was going to be "Smackdown Weekly Plan", but then that didn't sound very gentle to me. So I changed it to "Move it, Move it" because the goal this week is just to MOVE. If I feel OK enough to push it further, great, but my body needs movement now. The longer I'm sitting on the couch hoping my back feels better the longer it will take to heal.
a.m. Wake up and walk 2 miles with Leslie
mid-day - stretches at work to stretch back out. Use resistance bands if possible.
p.m. Evening yoga
Apply heat/ice as needed, off and on every 20 minutes.
a.m. Start with stretching and ease into strength training
lunch: walk on treadmill at work. If back feels OK run a litle.
p.m. Try to make it to Zumba.
a.m. Start with stretching and then a run
lunch: walk at lunch
p.m. Yoga
a.m. Walk 3 miles with Leslie
lunch: get up and move
p.m. try to make it to Zumba
a.m. sleep in
lunch: bike
p.m. strength training then relax
start of 10k training with running group
stretch after
p.m. evening yoga
rest day
Here's the challenge for this week:
MAIN CHALLENGE: Most of us probably have a number of non scale victories, even if we aren�t to our goals yet. This week, reflect on those gains. Have you had health gains so far in your journey as a result of the changes you�ve made? Is your blood pressure down, or maybe your off some medications, or your asthma has improved? Maybe you�ve moved from obese to overweight? Share a health gain that you have made so far in your journey with your team for the main challenge this week. Also share a health goal that you have, that you have yet to achieve, and some things you will do to make it an accomplishment in the future.
Now I am a BIG advocate of Non Scale Victories, or NSVs as we call them here at Spark. In fact, that is the only thing that gets me through the month sometimes, especially when my loss is slow. So for this week�s challenge it was fun to see just how far I�ve come in my journey at Spark.
Here are my major NSVs:
When I first started out on this journey 3 years ago when I did the online �Real Age� test, it said that my Real Age was 44 years old. I remember thinking�my gosh�.and then I actually felt relief that it didn�t say I was 50 � imagine that! Relief that it was saying I was over 10 years older than what I was�.
I retested myself the other day and my "Real Age" is now 33 years old and I am 36 years old. (Soon to be 37, but shh�). I'm actually getting younger!
I went from being above a 45 (over VERY obese) to being under 35, which is only obese, to 32.4, which is ALMOST just overweight. It is my goal to be under 30, and then finally under 25, which is my ideal weight.
VO2 is a measure of how much oxygen your body can consume during maximum intensity exercise. I started off two years ago and my score was so bad it literally was not on the chart. It was 21.1. My boot camp instructor had to draw a line way below the worst on the chart and say �you are here.�
Since then I went up to 24.7, which was still Very Poor, but at least on the chart. From there I went to a 31, which is �Fair�, and I�m happy to report that NOW I am at a 34, which is actually deemed "GOOD"!!!
Now I am working toward "Excellent", which is a score of 35.7 and up.
I gained much of my weight the first year of being married. Maybe it was the stress, maybe it was that I was too happy, content, whatever it was, my wedding ring, the antique set that I loved - didn't fit me after a year of being married. It was so unfair. My understanding hubby said I should just take it in and get it resized (I just love that man). My stubborn nature said, no. If I couldn't get back down to the size that I was when I was married, then ppfft. Forget it. Well I am happy to say that not only does my wedding set fit me now, BUT....dare I say it is a tiny bit LOOSE.
Other major NSVs include:
Pants � went from a size 26 to a size 14/16, or from a size 3XL to a L.
Jeans � went from a size 28 to a size 16. I would like to be a 10/12 eventually.
Shirts � went from a size 24 to a size 14, or from a size 3XL to a size M.
Bra � went from a size F to a triple D and finally down to a respectable C cup, lol.
Running � went from being a non-runner to running 5 5ks last year and 1 8k this year with plans to run 2 10ks this year and a 15k as well. I eventually plan to run a half marathon.
Smile factor - in every picture I am now smiling - in the past I was not. 100% improvement!
Spiritually - I have found myself and don't feel lost anymore. I feel I have a purpose.
Happiness - Oh my, I went from being depressed and not ever wanting to get off the couch to being a happy, vibrant person. I am now fun to be around, and not only when I was drunk, like before.
Energy - I now have loads of it! And I need it with 2 young kids!
Start weight: 209.5
End weight: 207
Weight lost: 2.5 lbs.
Total weight lost this year: 18.5 lbs.
Goal weight progress: 29 more lbs. to go to goal weight!
Onederland progress: 8 more lbs. to reach ONEderland!
Total weight lost: 91 lbs.
Total fitness minutes: 1,374
My goal this month was to lose 4.5lbs, bringing me to 205. I lost half of that, losing 2.5 lbs. this month. I�m happy with that, I went through a plateau this month where I kept gaining and losing the same 3 lbs. I learned a lot about myself during this process. I am a strong woman and I don�t give up. I am persistent and I will reach my goals.
Oh, and did I mention? I reached OVER 90 lbs. lost � 30% of my weight!! And the size of a newborn calf.
Reached 1,374 fitness minutes! Woo hoo!
Worked out for 10 days in a row for 20 minutes or more. Streaker!
Started the swimsuit boot camp � I stress started�but I am going to re-do it in June, every day. Going for another streak.
Started to train for a 10k.
Set a new PR for a 5k time - 34:08 and that was with 5 minutes of warming up by walking.
New Goal: To run a sub 30 minute 5k! (OK, I may not reach this in June, but sometime this summer would be nice. It�s fun to have something to reach for).
New Fitness Goal: To run, walk, bike 60 miles in June.
Weight goal: To lose 4-6 lbs.
I reached for carrots instead of chips with dip.
We had family over and I made a healthy salad for myself, but enough for others so that I wouldn�t be eating ribs.
My old swimming teacher did NOT recognize me at the gym � and I was in a swimming suit. She was in shock when she learned it was me, and turns out word has spread in my old gym about my success since my Mommy Boot Camp. Woo hoo! She said my face especially looks different.
I felt sexy dressing up as a pin-up for my husband�s 40th birthday surprise party.
At a company meeting a guy I hadn�t seen in 6 months freaked out about my weight loss, he said, and I quote �You are a shadow of your former self.� � it was quite a compliment, but it reminded me of what Jenn KITCHKINCAID said about people�s comments about weight loss, I didn�t like the term that much after thinking about it�but I�ll take it. I like how Jenn said that we are not shadows, or ghosts of our former selves, but that �In fact, YOU are probably feeling fuller and more sure of who you are now than ever before.� � if you haven�t read Jenn�s blog already entitled �The Language of Losing Weight�, it�s a must read, the link is below.
And best of all, this month I got to meet and hold my twin nieces!
This journey is not a quick-fix solution. I am worth the time invested in myself and not one minute is wasted on my health.
Don't be so serious. Have fun with it. This is your life, the journey is EVERYTHING.
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When Will IBM Accept That Women Are Equal to Men?
Let's build a smarter planet is IBM's mission statement, but does that include a planet where women are considered equal to men?
It may seem that IBM do believe in promoting women to senior positions - earlier this year Ginni Rometty rose up to become the President and CEO of the company, but events at this years Masters golf tournament at the Augusta National Golf Club must be upsetting the tens of thousands of female employees at Big Blue.
Augusta traditionally awards an honorary membership of the club to the leaders of the main corporate sponsors of the Masters competition. IBM has been a sponsor for the past decade and so Rometty might have expected to be receiving her membership this Easter weekend.
Except Augusta doesn't allow women to be members.
Golf clubs are well known for their archaic rules and self-righteous exclusion of minorities, but if a woman can lead one of the largest corporations in the US, serve as Secretary of State, and serve as Commander of the Space Shuttle then why can a woman not be a member of the Augusta National Golf Club? Rometty is running IBM because she was the best person for the job at the time it became available, not because of her gender.
The blame here lies more with IBM that with the lunatics at the golf club. Augusta only agreed to allow non-white members from 1990. It's a good thing President Obama wasn't in power back in the eighties.
IBM is a company that does so much for the world. They invest billions of dollars into research programmes each year. They run grant programmes and support the local communities where the company operates. Yet when it comes to their marketing, here they are supporting an institution that does not value half of humanity.
IBM is under pressure to make a statement on the situation, but as of this morning (April 9) there is still no announcement on their website. It's time for IBM to bid their support of the Masters tournament farewell. If the other major sponsors Exxon Mobil and AT&T follow suit then it could be an albatross on behalf of women the world over.
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If you think that much about the answer, then the polygraph will assume you are lying.
If you think that much about the answer, then the polygraph will assume you are lying.
False positives create selection bias. A polygraph detects people that are *nervous about there lies*. It won't detect the unaware and clueless, because they do not know they did anything wrong. Most people download songs to their iPhone, and assume it is legal. The polygraph not detect people that assume they are innocent. On the other hand, some people lie all of the time. A sociopath will pass the lie-detector test because they don't believe they are lying, and one person in 25 is a sociopath.
These problems have already been encountered in the preemployment screening industry. This is one of the less biased artlicles. To quote:
One recent study found faked answers for one quarter to one half of the applicants.[44] So how can employers who want to use personality or EQ tests in their selection process mitigate against the risk of applicant faking? Counter-measures to faking include the test and retest approach to see if an individual is consistent in their answers, or asking questions that require quick responses.[45] But counter-measures to faking may result in less reliable and valid results since some tools used to detect faking do not work well.[46]
Bluntly, if your goal is to hire people that have done no wrong, then chances are that your hires have either lied to you, or are too clueless to realize their mistakes. Either way, it is really bad for the employer, especially if the employer is the FBI.
I recall working with numerical methods from about 40 years ago, and all of the calculations that required a call to sin were range reduced to the region of +/- pi/4 anyway. The reason is that the taylor series expansions for sine and cos are most accurate in the region of zero, and for values in excess of pi/4, it is more accurate to do a transformation and implement a different call.
It is likely that the serious numerical code already handle this condition inside the internal algorithms.
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No. The CRTC does not have the power to block credit card transactions.
The CRTC has the authority to pull the TV station licenses, pull cable TV licenses, and in general, block or prevent any over-the-air broadcast activity. They also have the authority over any telecommunications providers in canada (over-the-wire or over-the-air.)
Netflix does not fall within any of the CRTC's typical mandates, other than the one that encourages Canadian content. However, the CRTC can only influence Canadian content via its other powers over broadcasters and cable companies.
A full list of the relevant statutes and regulations is at: http://www.crtc.gc.ca/eng/statutes-lois.htm.
This DRM technology is fascinating. The player automatically senses if any listening devices are present, and adjust's the output volume such that the listening devices are unable to record the music. In effect, it will play music so quietly that no one will be able to hear it or record it!
This is the latest in DRM technology, and people are going to pay million's of dollars to have it. Only Apple and U2 could pull this technology off. It is so new, it won't work with Linux, BSD, Zune, Windows, Android, and old versions of OS/X and iOS. Anyone using those older technologies will have to make do with cheap MP3 recordings of music.
DRM will work this time.
Management 101: If you don't trust your employees - you are screwed. You need committed and motivated employees, and you must take actions to keep the employees committed and motivated.
CEO 101: Employee problems are management problems.
Financial Investor 101: A bad CEO can wreck the company.
The USPTO has experienced all three problems, and financial investors in lots of different tech companies have paid dearly.
A paper tape reader / punnch. It is used to program an ancient CNC machine with SmartCAM running on Windows 95.
What kind of intelligence agency traps an agent in Moscow?
It is possible Snowden is working for the CIA. Either the American's are really dumb, trapping him in Moscow, or they are smart and deliberate.
Isn't it impossible for solar cells to melt significant snow?
The black road surface will effectively capture almost all of the sun's energy. In the northern U.S. and Canada, roads routinely get covered in snow.
The solar cell can capture a portion of the sun's incoming energy, and potentially use it to power heaters to melt the snow. This approach has several problems. Firstly, the solar cells / heater mechanism is less energy efficient than a black road surface. Secondly, if the snow falls when it is dark, the solar cell will stop working (unless it has some big batteries are present, and even they won't last long in a heavy snow fall.) Lastly, the best sun occurs in the summer, and the snow hits in the winter, when less solar energy is available.
About the only way a solar cell can keep up with incoming snow is if the solar array is much larger than the area of snow being melted. However, even then, you still have the problem of the solar array getting covered in snow
They also have custom's warehouses for out-going goods. On the U.S.-Canada border, there are warehouses for goods going in both directions. US bound goods get Canadian warehouses, and Canadian bound goods get Canadian warehouses. Both are easily accessed by persons with the right American security credentials. Treaties, special agreements, and informal arrangements are all up-and-working.
Times have changed. Canada is closely aligned with U.S. security policy. During the Vietnam war, draft-dodgers claimed refugee status in Canada. Starting with the new conflicts, fleeing soldiers are sent back as deserters.
Many (all?) custom's warehouses are operated by third-party companies. This will be a little bit more complicated than inspecting luggage. However, the companies (subsidiaries) that operate those warehouses get their entire revenue from allowing people to transport goods across borders. I suspect the NSA can get away with almost anything in that environment.
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Set just 110 yards from Tossa de Mar's Platja Gran Beach, Fonda Lluna has a sun terrace with views of Tossa Castle. Each room includes a private bathroom and free Wi-Fi.
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TV and airco didnt work all the time. Stairs. Very small shower.
price value is good. The staff is amazing and really friendly to us.
my room is triple room without balcony and the natural light is not enough.
Clean, simple room with good bathroom for price
Stairs may be difficult for some
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no soap, or gel or shampoo in the bathroom
good location, very nice staff, clean place
Everything! Breakfast is also very good!
People were helpful, friendly and accommodating. Location was excellent; rooms were well insulated for noise.
Room was VERY small for 3 people. No elevator
Good location near Bus station, few minutes walking distance from beach, supermarket and restaurants. Stuff was very friendly and helpful. Room cleaning was every day before midday. Wifi connection worked well also. We had everyting we were need.
nothing really, it's 2 star hotel, so we didn't expected full 5* service :-) maybe door to bathroom is not very comfortable
Hands down best customer service I've had in a long time! Its a family owned place. My mom had trouble getting around they put us on the 1st floor. She even told us the best flat way to get around to the beach also well as other places around. We really felt at home with this family. The beds were nice too!!!
Most friendly and helpful hosts ever! :) Nice breakfast, all in all value for money. Clean and practical rooms. Quiet at night.
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Never mind that I am saving up all my real praise for Spice World next week... I'll try to lay it on again for Wag the Dog. It's a great little premise: what would happen if you tried to produce a phony war as a diversion away from a lecherous President's leisure time? A lot of wacky hijinks, from the looks of it! With everything from a "We Are the World" parody to a memorial for a P.O.W., Wag the Dog is really just a send-up of America's fascination with war from WWII through the Gulf War, where combat truly became a ridiculous exercise in soundbites and TV footage.
The story is good, the comedy is goofy but still solid, but it's Dustin Hoffman that is the crown jewel of the film, hamming it up as a kind of C.C. De Mille-meets-Liberace egomaniac/movie producer. De Niro's understated cover-up man is also good, and Anne Heche's Prince Valiant haircut is interesting, at the very least.
Finally, the commentary on our society is pretty rich, and I can't help but think that a lot of people are going to be subtly offended by this movie. I think that pleases me most of all. You see, as Wag the Dog states, modern war really is a "pageant." It's more dangerous to drive to work than hit the front lines... if there are any lines, that is. Is it live, or is it Memorex? What's the difference?
Marvin Zindler, am I right? (I only expect Houston, TX residents to get this...)
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The Capitals lost their second straight game to the Bruins last night, and many, including Washington's players, cited the stellar play of Boston goalie Tim Thomas as the primary factor.
"His lateral movement was just phenomenal," Caps winger Mike Knuble said of Thomas, who stopped 73 of 75 shots in two games against Washington. "He was a huge part of this game."
Added rookie Marcus Johansson: "I think we did a lot of stuff right to get goals but he was always there to stop them. That's the way it is sometimes; he had a great day."
But according to Capitals owner Ted Leonsis, that's just an excuse for a good team's poor play.
"I don't like to read about hot goaltenders being the reason for our loss," Leonsis wrote this morning on his personal blog, Ted's Take. "If you are a good team, it is more about you than them. ...
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#1 Posted by Jon_Rivera (53 posts) -
I love this game. It's relentless, fun to play, and has a fantastic soundtrack. I have it on my MP3 player.
#2 Posted by Jon_Rivera (53 posts) -
Quick look Throwback: Jackie Chan's Action Kung Fu by Hudson Soft for NES!
#3 Posted by Jon_Rivera (53 posts) -
It does happen to me from time to time. I think the first time I ended up prefering a game's sequel over was with Double Dragon [NES] and Double Dragon 2: The Revenge [NES]. The second game is clearly the better game because the graphics, music, and game play are better. Also, the biggest thing that makes it better is that it actually has simultaneous cooperative play, unlike the first game for the NES (which had that crap trap Mode B arena duel feature). Now, the Sega Master System version of the first game did have simultaneous cooperative play . However, that's another matter all together...
#4 Posted by Jon_Rivera (53 posts) -
Tekken 2 is an incredible game graphically as well as technically.
#5 Posted by Jon_Rivera (53 posts) -
It's been a long while since I've been on here, so I apologize if I am late on this. But I do want to weigh in on this. This pack sounds pretty good. Phanatsy Star II, Gunstar Heroes, Sonic 3, Shinobi, Comix Zone, Altered Beast are all fine games. Especially Gunstar Heroes. However, I already own all these games on the Genesis (and I am one of those crazy retro gamers who's willing to hook up his older systems just to play one game). I don't think I'm willing to lay down the money the them on XBLA; even for points.
And about Sonic 3, I do not think that it was the beginning of the end for the franchise; I personally think that the Sonic 3D Blast title is truly to blame for the weird spot that the franchise is in now. Regardless I would rather rebuy Sonic 2 than the third game.
#6 Posted by Jon_Rivera (53 posts) -
"@Lind_L_Taylor said:
48? I bought it for 20 dollars new Canadian "
" I haven't seen much traffic on it anymore & I'm starting to see the price drop unfold (around $48.00 used). I'm wondering if anyone is still playing this game or if it has already been consumed & everyone that was even remotely interested in it has moved on to greener pastures.? "
Sweet deal for sure.
#7 Posted by Jon_Rivera (53 posts) -
Sorry... this is the first time in months that I've had time to talk in subjective forums, and I remember liking this game a bit.
#8 Posted by Jon_Rivera (53 posts) -
"@Jon_Rivera: seriously ! this is getting really weird. i should stop doing this and get back to work "
It has been a long while since I have had a chance to converse with others in the community. What... Am
doing something wrong by talking with others about a game I enjoyed back when it came out??
#9 Posted by Jon_Rivera (53 posts) -
"@Jon_Rivera: did you just get mirrors edge? "
#10 Posted by Jon_Rivera (53 posts) -
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he grew a beard
Is Mike Martin O.K.
That was a cheap shot with potential to end a career.
toss up...which would you choose?
i admit that emotionally...i'm way too invested in michigan football. i was on the phone with my girlfriend after the game, and she asked me what was wrong as she could tell i was out of sorts. i explained to her that michigan lost, and she replied, "oh, is that all?!" a loss seems to linger until the next day when i become rational again.
similarly, when she called me late friday night, i was elated and she asked why. i told her that a stud recruit commited to michigan...and she replied, "oh, is that all?!"
so to put this weekend in perspective i'll ask you guys which you would have preferred friday morning:
dee hart commits to alabama and we beat sparty
dee hart commits to us and we lose to sparty?
Medical redshirt question
I understand that if a player only plays in the first 4 games, then is injured and doesn't play anymore they can receive a medical redshirt. My question is, does the injury and medical redshirt have to be declared after the 4th game? For instance, if Devin Gardner didn't play the rest of the season, but dressed and traveled with the team to all games but never played would he be eligible for the medical redshirt? Sorry if this has been disscused already but I coulnd't find it any where when I searched. I am also assuming despite the potential severity of Odoms injury he cannot receive a medical redshirt. Any insight is appreciated.
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Something to keep in mind going forward...
So I think just about everything relating to yesterday's game has been said - it was a tough loss against a strong, determined opponent, one in which UM left points on the field but also one that MSU deserved to win based on their play. Players will be analyzed and graded, playcalling reviewed and tweaked, and coaching questioned. There will be fears about another collapse, laments for lost opportunities, and concerns about the future.
But there is a silver lining in it all, and one that I hope the fans, coaches, and players realize - they are now the underdogs. Coming into this season, people questioned whether UM was ready to take the next step, and they responded by dominating UConn and defeating ND on the road. Against UMass, they let up on the gas a bit and it showed. With BGSU coming to town, UM went out to prove to the world that they were back, and they put up a record-breaking offensive performance. Traveling to IU, it was clear that Indiana was going to throw the kitchen sink at them, and they responded by pulling out a tough win.
While it may have just been me, this week's game had the feel of UMass week a bit - everyone was talking up UM and how they were the favorite, how it would be close but UM would pull out a win at home, Denard was the Heisman front-runner etc. And as we saw, UM was punched in the mouth by a good team and lost. But going forward, UM will be an underdog in every game save for Purdue, PSU, and (maybe) Illinois, and even those will be close. And I for one think that is the best position for this team - to hear how people discount their abilities and potential for greatness.
All week we'll hear about how Iowa is such a great defense and will throttle Denard and the passing game. Later, how Wiscy will simple overpower UM's defense and gash them like MSU. How OSU will simply outclass the short-handed Wolverines into oblivion. How Illinois will bring a dynamic offense to town and just run past the UM defense, Purdue will find a way to pull out the win like they have the past few years, and PSU is still PSU and look out for Joe Pa. And just like against UConn, ND, and IU before them, I expect UM to exceed expectations, to show the world that you can't count out these Wolverines. So while this game will sting for a couple more days, it won't define this season.
My bid for serious, non-emotional defense discussion.
One thing M fans of every stripe agree on is that talent and experience on defense is lacking. Very lacking. Another is that our expectations for our defense this year were low going in. Where opinions begin to diverge however, is what that should mean for our defensive performance. Many are in the "OMGFIREGERGUNACCEPTABLE" camp, many more are in the camp of "this is what we have to expect with so many young players, so much misfortune with departures/transfers/injuries in the secondary, and the lack of talent available at LB. Things will improve next year."
I would like this post to start a non-emotional discussion of our current defense. To do that perhaps impossible task, I would like to confine the discussion to having both camps answer a question. A question based upon what I think we all agree is a truth, which is that much of our defensive breakdowns (defined here as those things that cause our defense to, instead of being mediocre, be really awful) are due to fundamental failures. Poor angles, missed tackles, missed assignments. Poor tackling has been identified by RR as a prime culprit all year. Assignment and gap responsibility failure was identified by Ryan Van Bergen yesterday as the cause of the big plays State had. I think we can agree that these things are defensive fundamentals.
Here is my question, the answer to which I think will determine what camp, if you are undecided on this, you fall into:
Can marginally talented, very inexperienced football players be taught to play sound fundamental football, to be sound at tackling and disciplined at their assignments?
If your answer is "yes,"--then why haven't we done this? If your answer is "yes but there is more to it than that"--what more to it is there? If the answer is "no/only to a degree" - so talent is the only answer?
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After his "Platinum in a Week" campaign for sophomore album iSouljaBoyTellem fell short by 954,000 discs, many began to write obituaries for Soulja Boy's career. Then, all of a sudden, 2008 Best-of-the-Booth staff pick, Jim Jonsin (Lollipop, Whatever You Like), lent his boardwork to second single Kiss Me Thru the Phone, which went on to hit #3 on the Billboard Hot 100 (second only to Crank That… in Soulja Boy's chart history). Today, the Booth proudly presents a brand-new, unofficial remix. Though S. Beezy's verses, Sammie's hook, and Jim's beat are still in place, the highlight is Def Jam songbird and Grammy nominee Karina Paisan, who provides an early-teenage female perspective (so all SB's fans will have something here to relate to, know what I'm saying?) If you haven't already, it's never too late to go cop iSouljaBoyTellEm—also be on the lookout for Karina's upcoming sophomore album on Def Jam (the LP currently has no release date, but keep it locked to the Booth for all the latest).
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