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By: jimmcbee on October 22, 2005 - 6:14pm - Add new comment
Hey, I just got through putting a story titled Elevators to the Stars on page 21. It's about a NASA-funded think tank that pays people to come up with sci-fi-type ideas that could change the world.
So, if you had $75,000 from NASA and six months, what nifty future-shock idea would you work on?
Jim McBee Design editor
By: jimmcbee on December 16, 2005 - 4:57pm - Add new comment
Erinn McGuire and Kim Rowland are working on a story about fox squirrels and I tagged along as they went to Spring Island. What a place.
Spring Island is a gated community north of the Colleton River. You have to go up S.C. 170 and turn right into Callawassie. They've done a really nice job of blending in the development with preserved areas. Though the land there is 'managed,' it's not manicured.
By: jimmcbee on January 6, 2006 - 11:04pm - Add new comment
I notice that Bluffton Today is on cyberjournalist.net's list of 65 citizen media initiatives: http://www.cyberjournalist.net/news/002226.php
Oops, looks like the list is already up to 67 as of this posting.
Just about every newspaper has a Web site; but not many of them are more about what you have to say rather than about what they have to say.
Anyway, if you're into it, check out that link and tool around the site a little. There's just tons of tips and links for the budding cyberjournalist/serious blogger/media watchdog.
By: jimmcbee on March 3, 2006 - 6:24pm - Add new comment
Looks like U.S. 278 is backed up both ways. Law officers had stopped traffic at Simmonsville, from what we could tell. Traffic appears to be moving again. Looks like slow-going for awhile, though.
By: jimmcbee on August 12, 2006 - 4:27pm - Add new comment
I was surprised to read on the wires this afternoon that South Carolina ranks high in the availability of biodiesel. Who knew we'd be so enlightened?
Here's a snippet: "COLUMBIA — South Carolina ranks at the top across the Southeast in gas stations offering drivers alternative fuels.
"About 35 Palmetto State stations offer E85, a blend of 15 percent gasoline and 85 percent ethanol, made from corn.
By: jimmcbee on August 25, 2006 - 7:38pm - Add new comment
Branford Marsalis, one of the great jazzmen of our time, is coming to Hilton Head over Labor Day.
Is he going to play jazz?
He's going to play golf. He's in the Hilton Head Island Celbrity Golf Tournament.
What's wrong with this picture?
Branford, we need your help. We have a steady diet of family- and/or senior-friendly live music here. We need your insanely hard bop to leaven the flat dough of our drab musical existence.
Please, pretty please, drop the nine-iron and pick up the tenor. Look at our music listings, Branford. We need this.
By: jimmcbee on September 15, 2006 - 9:00pm - Add new comment
The state's PACT scores are out. You can check em all out here: http://ed.sc.gov/topics/assessment/scores/pact/2006/default.cfm
They've got them broken down by district and school, too.
Beauford County School District: http://ed.sc.gov/topics/assessment/scores/pact/2006/show_district_pact.c...
Bluffton Elementary: http://ed.sc.gov/topics/assessment/scores/pact/2006/show_school_pact_sco...
Okatie Elementary: http://ed.sc.gov/topics/assessment/scores/pact/2006/show_school_pact_sco...
By: jimmcbee on October 17, 2006 - 4:42pm - Add new comment
We've got maps of the proposed alternate routes for Bluffton Parkway phases 5-A (Malphrus to U.S. 278) and 5-B (Simmonsville to Buckwalter -- straightening out the 'jog').
Check out the attachment sent to us by Beaufort County. It's a PDF, so you'll need Adobe Reader to look at it. It's a big file, it's not super clear, and I'm working on a cleaner version.
By: jimmcbee on January 9, 2007 - 8:36pm - Add new comment
Just thought I'd pass this along from the wires for our Pat Conroy fans and detractors ....
By SEANNA ADCOX The Associated Press
COLUMBIA -- Education Superintendent-elect Jim Rex used to assign "The Water is Wide" to his English students, a book Pat Conroy wrote based on the author's teaching experiences on an isolated island off South Carolina's coast.
As a young high school teacher in Ohio, Rex said the 1972 book and subsequent movie, "Conrak," made a big impression on him about the economic divides in education.
"I was taken by the story," he said.
More than 30 years later
By: jimmcbee on January 31, 2007 - 8:37pm - Add new comment
Her name might be a dirty word in this red state, but I always liked the way Molly Ivins wrote, even if it seemed she went off half-cocked sometimes: down home and whip-smart all at once.

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I cannot comment on the facilities as there was only an on site restaurant which we did not use.
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- I am a radiation oncologist whose clinical practice is dedicated to the treatment of patients with breast cancer. My colleagues and I offer breast cancer treatment using state of the art radiation treatment techniques, customized to each individual, focusing on optimizing treatment outcomes while minimizing any normal tissue toxicity. I am also the co-director of the Stereotactic Radiosurgery Program at Mount Sinai Hospital, which focuses on the non- invasive delivery of highly targeted radiation therapy for management of tumors of the brain and/or spine (both benign and malignant).
My clinical research is focused on optimizing the quality of life of patients undergoing breast cancer radiation therapy. Together with my psychologist colleagues, we have completed several studies evaluating factors which negatively impact quality of life (QOL) and have successfully developed and implemented specific interventions to minimize or prevent a decrease in QOL.
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The report, published by Reuters, said Elmer Castellano, 16, of Netcong, N.J. was caught in the machine while cleaning it in the back of Frank's Pizza shop. The owner and other employees ran to Castellano's aid when they heard his screams, but they arrived too late to help him.
"He was definitely pulled into the machine and crushed by the mechanism," said Capt. Christopher Linne, a spokesman for the Morris County Prosecutor's office. "It's a big giant bowl with arms that spin in the opposite direction and when he got caught, he was pinned inside."
The teenager was pronounced dead from traumatic asphyxiation less than two hours later.
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well after reading a topic on here about hi-points,and seeing several people as fans,i decided to look em up.I went to their site n looked up the 9mm,etc...and while i have no ill feelings twords the functionality of them(i've never shot one so cant judge) or anything like that. That being said,i personally my like guns to be a lil ascetically appealing and after looking over the 380,9mil,40,45acp...i must say they are some ugly ass guns ..i mean,they look like the toy guns i used to get as a kid that were made unrealistic looking so as to not be mistaken for real firearm..Ik my S&W SW9VE isnt a beauty or anything but damn,its better looking than a hi-point.(hi-point fans may now begin thinking of your your flaming attacks and rebuttals) Now yes im fully aware that a weapon isnt about looks, its about funtionality ..basically pointing it at a target,pulling the trigger and it going bang and i get thier affordable to those who want a gun but dont have alot of cash..as well im aware im not carrying a $500+ gun either,but you'd think the people who design these things wouldn't let their 5 yr old kids draw the shape/design of thier handguns with crayon on the back of a denny's menu lol just felt like sharing..let the scathing comments begin
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I have a Hi-Point. I really like it...that being said I still think it is one of the ugliest guns ever made. I don't think anyone is a fan of Hi-Point for thier looks. I think that they will all tell you that it is a very unattractive gun...
Everybody needs a little Devastation!
Yep, their ugly as hell. Look at the bright side though, if you run out of ammo, you could always throw it at the BG.


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A journey down Route 66 is like cutting yourself a slice of All-American Pie. You'll discover people and places you didn't know existed – like the murals that line the walls of Pontiac, IL and Cuba, MO; Ted Drewes Frozen Custard in St. Louis and the magnificent new Lincoln Presidential Library & Museum in Springfield, IL. Meet published Route 66 authors and experts, roadies and characters like the "Four Ladies on the Road" in Galena, KS. If you love "off-the-beaten-track," you've found your trip!
•2-night stays in Springfield, IL, and Miami, OK; and for the first time staying in the old highway towns of Pontiac, MI, and Miami (pronounced mi-am-ah)
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•Including airfare and door-to-door pick-up if departing from Sacramento
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Day 1
Fri., Oct. 11 – Chicago: Depart from your home airport this morning, arriving in Chicago in early afternoon. Your first "roadie" experience is a stop for a meal at Del Rhea's Chicken Basket on the edge of town.
- Doubletree Oakbrook
- Dinner is included this day.
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Day 2
Sat., Oct. 12 – Chicago to Springfield: Once in town, we'll stop at the official beginning of the old highway at Adams and Michigan streets for photos. Then our adventure begins in earnest with breakfast at a Chicago landmark: Lou Mitchell's funky breakfast counter (serving for nearly 80 years).
Outside of Chicago, we get off the interstate and follow the old road, joined by Route 66 author John Weiss. Wind through Joliet to the small community of Odell (where we photograph a beautifully restored old service station), on to Dwight for lunch. View the memorabilia in the Route 66 Museum and the "walldogs" murals in Pontiac. See the traveling "homes" of Route 66 legend Bob Waldmire. Tonight you are special guests in Pontiac, with an evening reception and Route 66-style entertainment.
- Best Western Pontiac
- Full breakfast, lunch, and dinner are included this day.
Day 3
Sun., Oct. 13 – John Weiss has made restoring Route 66 sites his life's work. Today, John will show us an old jail, a giant robot and other unique attractions. Lincoln is the only city named for the future president before he held office. Learn the story. Stop in Broadwell to salute a 66 legend, Ernie Edwards of the Pig Hip Restaurant.
- Hilton Springfield – 2 nights
- Breakfast and lunch are included this day.
Day 4
Mon., Oct. 14 – In the footsteps of Abraham Lincoln: The only home Lincoln ever owned is in a restored 19th century neighborhood of Springfield and you'll tour it today. See the critically-acclaimed Lincoln Presidential Museum, then visit his grave site and other Lincoln landmarks in town.
- Full breakfast and dinner are included this day.
Day 5
Tues., Oct. 15 – Springfield to St. Louis: Our rural Illinois travels roll on after a tour of the original capitol building this morning. We stop to spruce up an old roadside statue before dining at the Litchfield Café, another highway landmark. In Mount Olive, hear the story and see the grave of Mother Jones and stop at one of the first Shell gas stations for a photo. At Cahokia Mounds, learn about a civilization in the Missouri River Valley from long ago; then walk over the Mississippi on the Chain of Rocks Bridge, once the route of old 66. Stay in downtown St. Louis, near the famous Gateway Arch.
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- Full breakfast and lunch are included this day.
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Day 6
Wed., Oct. 16 – St. Louis to Springfield, MO: The Meramec Caverns were opened to tourists in the 1930's, just about the time Route 66 made traveling to them easier. In the late 1860's, Jesse James used them as a natural hideout. The smooth path allows nearly all to explore. Then a must stop at a classic-example-of-an-era-gone-by-attraction, the Jesse James Museum.
What follows is a marvelous stretch of The Mother Road, through Cuba (what beautiful murals) to Devil's Elbow into Ozark Country. Lunch is at one of our favorite roadside retreats, the Missouri Hick BBQ in Cuba. Finish the day in Springfield, MO, where Route 66 was "born." We'll celebrate The Main Street of America tonight.
- Doubletree Hotel
- Breakfast, lunch, and dinner are included this day.
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Day 7
Thurs., Oct. 17 – Springfield to Miami: On the way to Carthage is a most interesting spot, Red Oak. This collection of buildings is practically a town… isn't it? Who did this and why? The nearby town square in Carthage is a true jewel, sporting a majestic courthouse, an interesting Civil War Museum (one of the first battles was right in this area) and a wonderful old-time soda fountain that affords us time for lunch.
Roll on through Joplin and into Kansas. The state is home to the shortest stretch of the old highway, just over 13 miles. In Galena, meet "Tow-Tator," who bears an incredible likeness to a tow truck in the Disney movie Cars named "Tow-Mater." In fact, this is the old truck that inspired the character! The "Four Ladies on the Road" stop is one to remember. You'll want a photo at the state line (remember Kansas was a dry state for a looonnngg time). After a stop at the Galena Museum, we'll leave the old highway and head to Miami.
- Hampton Inn – 2 nights
- Full breakfast, lunch, and dinner are included this day.
Day 8
Fri., Oct. 18 – Mickey Mantle & The Coleman Theater: Back to the highway this morning… Tiny Riverton is along the 13-mile stretch of Route 66 which cuts through the corner of Kansas. Scott Nelson's small store is a perfect place to stop and build our picnic lunches for later in the day, or find that special Mother Road souvenir.
Passing into Oklahoma, we come to Commerce, the hometown of Mickey Mantle and we've arranged a tour of his boyhood home. Lunch is picnic-style at the ball field. Miami is the home of the Coleman Theatre, a small town's successful attempt to save a 1929 landmark. Tonight, you'll dine and enjoy a special show at the Coleman.
- Breakfast, lunch, and dinner are included this day.
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Day 9
Sat., Oct. 19 – Will Rogers Country to Tulsa: In Foyil, find some most interesting cement totem poles. Visit the Will Rogers Memorial, a tribute to America's famous humorist. Lunch is special, a treat not afforded just any traveler, as you'll see. There's even a picture stop at the legendary Blue Whale on the way to Tulsa.
- Renaissance Hotel
- Breakfast and lunch are included this day.
Day 10
Sun., Oct. 20 – Tulsa to Oklahoma City: Passing Tulsa, we come to Stroud and stop for lunch at the Rock Café. There's a great story here! Just up the road in Arcadia is the Round Barn. Built in 1898, the barn is being restored to its original grandeur. The small town of Chandler has built a one-of-a-kind visitor center to honor the old road and we'll stop. At "Pops," you can choose your own afternoon refreshment!
- Embassy Suites
- Full breakfast, lunch, and dinner are included this day.
Day 11
Mon., Oct. 21 – Oklahoma City and Home: Plan to depart for home on a flight after 3pm today. One more wonderful stretch of Route 66 first however. Carol Jordan, our expert Oklahoma guide, tells the story of the Dust Bowl, how it changed the lives of those in its path and sent tens of thousands to the "promised land" in California. Laugh and learn a little before we return to Oklahoma City to depart.
- Full breakfast and lunch are included this day.
22nd Annual Spring Training in Arizona
Join us as we head once again to Arizona for baseball in the springtime. Cactus League games every day (generally sitting in the shade – which is surprisingly important), some great grub and the chance to talk baseball with former players. Our annual baseball banquet always features engaging conversation from a former major league broadcaster, player or umpire (Al Cark, former umpire, spoke last year). It promises to be a great evening of baseball stories and memories. Our old buddy, former ML ballplayer Lou Klimchok, will also be on hand for a second baseball talk.
Centrally located rooms at a Marriott Hotel (with a great full buffet breakfast daily) and a tour of the unique Magic Castle (a one-of-a-kind attraction) are featured in the package. The schedule of games is not announced until November. We strongly encourage you to register now and take advantage of the lower price, which helps us in purchasing tickets. Additional Early Payment $avings are available.
A Window in Time : An Overnight Mystery
It's only a two-day trip, but you will travel a world away. Peek through a window in time and see things the way they were and how they might have been. Awaken your senses with tastings, mysterious sights, and sensational scents of nature. Encounter something not just old but ancient, pockets and points, and something smaller than usual. On this trip walkers will find many paths to take. We may not be dining in/on China, but the food will be excellent!
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Somaxon Pharmaceuticals, Inc. (Nasdaq: SOMX), a specialty pharmaceutical company, today announced financial results for the first quarter ended March 31, 2011.
"During the first quarter of 2011, we continued to lay the foundation for Silenor's® long-term commercial success by growing Silenor net product sales 73% and the number of new Silenor patients by approximately 50% over the previous quarter," said Richard W. Pascoe, Somaxon's President and Chief Executive Officer. "In addition, we decreased patient co-pays through managed care contracting so that over 110 million lives are now covered in contracted formularies, expanded our consumer marketing programs so that to date over 1.5 million advertising impressions have been made and over 230,000 insomniacs have been reached, increased our specialty sales force by over 30% and received an additional method of use patent relating to Silenor having an expiration date no earlier than August 2027."
"For the remainder of 2011, we expect to continue to increase the growth of Silenor through the combined efforts of the Somaxon and Procter & Gamble sales forces, advancing our efforts to make Silenor available and affordable to any patient who may benefit from its unique product profile for sleep maintenance insomnia, and driving greater brand awareness through targeted consumer advertising," continued Pascoe. "In addition, we intend to leverage our commercial infrastructure to broaden our business, to extend the Silenor franchise and to effectively manage our financial and other corporate resources, with the goal of building a sustainable specialty pharmaceutical business dedicated to delivering long-term stockholder value."
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- Somaxon has continued to make significant progress in expanding access to Silenor at affordable co-pays. Recently, RxSolutions, Inc., Express Scripts, Inc. and Medco Health, national pharmacy benefit managers that manage commercial healthcare plans covering a total of approximately 50 million lives, agreed to add Silenor to their commercial formularies. Silenor will be covered in a Tier 2 unrestricted position at Medco Health, which is a preferred position relative to the other branded insomnia products on this formulary. Silenor will be covered in a Tier 3 unrestricted position at RxSolutions and Express Scripts. Including these agreements, Silenor is currently contracted for reimbursement on commercial plans covering over 110 million lives, most frequently in an unrestricted position, and Silenor is currently reimbursed on other commercial plans representing approximately an additional 90 million lives, with final formulary positioning subject to final negotiation with such plans.
- Somaxon has come to agreement with Medicare Part D health insurance plans covering a total of over 3 million lives. The company has also reached agreement with the U.S. Department of Veteran's Affairs to make Silenor eligible for formulary inclusion by the regional Veterans Integrated Services Network plans.
- Beginning in early April 2011, Somaxon implemented the eVoucher co-pay assistance program under which co-pay amounts of $85 or below for patients having access to commercial health insurance will be automatically reduced to $15 at the time of payment at approximately 33,000 participating pharmacies. This program is intended to support Somaxon's goal of making Silenor available and affordable to anyone whose physician determines they may benefit from Silenor's unique safety and efficacy profile. The company's existing Sleep Saver program will continue to be available to patients that are unable to take advantage of the eVoucher program.
- On March 29, 2011, Somaxon announced that it had received from the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office U.S. patent no. 7,915,307, entitled "Methods of Improving the Pharmacokinetics of Doxepin." This patent generally relates to dosing Silenor at least three hours after a meal to promote faster onset of action and reduce the potential for next-day residual sedation. This patent will expire no earlier than August 2027 and has been listed in the Orange Book.
- As of early April 2011, Somaxon, through its contract sales force partner Publicis Touchpoint Solutions, Inc., had fully deployed an additional 35 sales representatives that are exclusively promoting Silenor. As a result of this expansion, Silenor is now promoted by 250 sales representatives between Somaxon's sales force and that of its co-promotion partner Procter & Gamble.
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Glowing Mount Nyiragongo provides Goma residents a trekking business even as it threatens city.
GOMA, Democratic Republic of Congo — It's just past dusk at the summit of Mount Nyiragongo, and though a pool of molten lava churns 2,600 feet below, Emmanuel Munganga shivers in the evening chill as he recounts the tragic story of eastern Congo.
A land of precious minerals and rich volcanic soil, this should be one of Africa's most prosperous regions. Instead, as a theater for conflicts involving eight African nations and dozens of rebel armies, it's been home, over the last 15 years, to the greatest concentration of human suffering since World War II.
According to a 2008 study by the International Rescue Committee, 5.4 million people died between 1998 and 2008 as a result of the Congo crisis — the majority victims of disease, lack of medicine and malnutrition.
To most, the "world capital of rape, torture, and mutilation," — as New York Times columnist Nick Kristof recently referred to Congo — would not seem a likely holiday destination. Yet now that there is relative calm in Goma, the capital of the DRC's North Kivu province and transit point for much of eastern Congo, tour operators like Munganga have begun to reel in a steady flow of visitors who want to trek up to the volcano.
Topping the list of attractions is a night on the rim of the 11,385-foot Nyiragongo, one of two active volcanoes in the Virunga mountain chain that straddles the border of Congo, Rwanda, and Uganda. Until March, Mount Nyiragongo had been closed to visitors for more than a year, as members of the extremist FDLR militia, founded by perpetrators of the Rwandan genocide, lurked in the volcano's forested lower slopes and pillaged nearby villages.
Now, after a joint offensive by the armies of Congo and Rwanda — symbolized by a bullet-hole-riddled sign marking the entrance to Virunga National Park and the start of the five-hour hike to the summit — Nyiragongo is safe and drawing visitors in increasing numbers.
By Easter weekend more than 90 tourists had made the overnight journey to the crater rim, each paying about $300, divided between park fees, equipment rental, armed rangers, guides and porters. Even this modest windfall, said Munganga, who struggled to make ends meet as a teacher before becoming a tour operator, has given the local economy a needed boost.
"In Congo, if you wait for the government to pay you, you will be poor," he said, noting a porter can earn as much for one trip up Nyiragongo ($20) as a government soldier does in a month. "This is why we see the value in tourism."
Yet while Munganga sees his future in Nyiragongo's lake of fire, the 800,000 residents of Goma — situated just 11 miles south of the summit — fear eventual destruction. In 2002, an eruption from the side of Nyiragongo leveled a fifth of the city in a matter of hours, killing dozens and sending hundreds of thousands in flight across the nearby Rwandan border.


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Full-body scanners and pat downs are new because of new types of terrorist threats. Most flyers want security in the air. Congress should back TSA while also pushing for better technology that addresses privacy concerns.
As more US airports use full-body image scans on boarding passengers – and for those who refuse, an intimate pat down by a security agent – the more Americans might ask:
How much additional sacrifice must I endure to help prevent a terrorist from boarding an airplane?
Even the Transportation Security Administration (TSA) admits it has a limit on how far government should go to find concealed weapons: The TSA is reluctant to start searching body cavities of suspicious fliers, despite concerns that terrorists might use such a method to smuggle explosives onboard; and children under 12 are exempt from pat downs.
Ever since the 9/11 attacks, the United States has struggled to find a balance between beefing up security against terrorism and upholding the rights of individuals – whether it be a right to privacy, a fair trial in court, or freedom from racial profiling. This dynamic tension between rights and security must evolve with each novel attempt by Al Qaeda and its affiliates to thwart preventive measures.
For flight security, a string of unexpected threats – nonmetallic bombs in shoes, water bottles, and underwear – has pushed the TSA to adopt more intrusive methods, such as body scans, behavioral detection, and pat downs. And each time, Congress – whose leaders see the intelligence reports on threats – has weighed the public outcry and stood behind the TSA.
Lawmakers must back the agency in the face of organized pushback by private groups opposing the body scans and pat downs.
One group, We Won't Fly, has even asked fliers to use the busiest travel day of the year, the Wednesday before this Thanksgiving, to "raise holy hell" about the TSA methods. For this designated "National Opt Out Day," it has asked passengers to request not being scanned and if the resulting pat down is too "inappropriate," to "call for a law enforcement officer."


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Priest in Rome. Ordered to offer sacrifice to the pagan gods, he refused and prayed instead; the idols shattered. Arrested, tortured, and martyred.
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Unsettled weather continues in the southern plains to start the week.
Expect cloud cover, wind and rain for MLB Spring Training in the Southwest.
Bernie Rayno has the update on the snow and ice storm impacting the Northeast and mid-Atlantic.
How is a ground blizzard different than a regular blizzard?
A photographer was driving in Texas when he encountered a mix of sleet, snow and lightning.
The caves are usually spotted once a decade but with the recent arctic winters this is the second year in a row the caves have formed here.
As we kick off March, the cold, snow continue for the Midwest and Northeast.
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Pranksters at a Texas high school are taking credit for a hilarious Christmas tree video that has gone viral.
The video, posted to YouTube Wednesday, shows what happens when a high school student dresses as a Christmas tree. In summary, hilarity ensues.
Family's Epic Christmas Light Display Sets World Record
The "Christmas tree," played by a student, stands still at different spots on the Kilgore High School campus in Kilgore, Texas, while faculty members posed in front of what they thought was just a festive backdrop.
As the teachers and staff recount their favorite Christmas memories or say a holiday greeting, the tree comes alive, much to their shock.
Man Stuffs House With 86 Christmas Trees
Some of the prankees were genuinely surprised while others, obviously used to the antics of high school students, reacted with just a gentle laugh or a roll of the eyes.
The nearly five-minute video full of Christmas surprises was produced by students in the school's Advanced Media course.
"One of the students had used the Christmas tree costume for a Sunday school party so asked to use it at school and I said, 'Yeah, let's run with it,'" media teacher Michelle Gilgan said.
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Five students filmed the video on two separate days at both the high school and the local middle school, where teachers were dressed up for "Tacky Sweater Day."
"They don't normally dress like that," Gilgan said.
Gilgan says it took her five students all of "about 30 minutes" to produce the video, and that the faculty and staff have gotten "the biggest ball" out of all the attention it has received.
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Hunter, Cabrera challenged to replicate 2012
November, 17, 2012
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Getty ImagesTorii Hunter and Melky Cabrera are headed to new teams in 2013.
Throughout the offseason, we'll feature regular in-depth reviews of MLB moves. Our first look focuses on a pair of outfielders who share the common bond of trying to duplicate a season that was unusually good in one respect
Tigers sign Torii Hunter
The Tigers will be very excited to have Torii Hunter in their lineup next season, as he fills two very specific needs.
Hunter's late surge with the Los Angeles Angels pushed his OPS to .817 by season's end.
Last season, Tigers rightfielders combined to compile a .641 OPS, lowest of any team in the majors and 58 points lower than any other AL team.
Hunter will also make a huge impact for the Tigers on defense. Tigers rightfielders cost the team 17 runs in the field last season, the second-worst total in the MLB.
Hunter finished third among major league rightfielders with 15 Defensive Runs Saved last season.
Hunter produced a career-high 5.5 Wins Above Replacement last season in his age 36 season, as he finished with a .313/.365/.451 batting average/on-base-percentage/slugging percentage slashline. It was the first time in his career he batted over .300 in a season.
However, this acquisition comes with a few caveats.
* Hunter struck out at a career-high rate last year (23 percent of his plate appearances).
* After walking at an above-average rate for three straight seasons, Hunter drew walks at his lowest rate in five years with the Angels (seven percent of plate appearances).
* Hunter also posted his lowest Isolated Power (extra bases per at-bat) since 2000 (.139).
Hunter finished 2012 with an AL-best .389 batting average on balls in play, including .449 over his last 63 games.
Hunter does not typically post this sort of BABIP. His career BABIP entering last season was .307. His previous career high BABIP for a single season was .336 in just 99 games in 2000.
Next season, if Hunter were to maintain last season's strikeout, walk and home run rates while reverting to his previous career .307 BABIP, in the same number of plate appearances, he'd have 34 fewer hits, resulting in a .249 batting average.
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Blue Jays sign Melky Cabrera
What is a stat to keep an eye on for Melky Cabrera from a pitch-performance perspective as he transitions to the Toronto Blue Jays in 2013?
The number that differed most significantly for Cabrera in 2012 from his past performance was how he fared when a left-handed pitcher threw him a pitch to the lower-half of the strike zone or below.
Last season with the Giants, Cabrera saw 335 pitches to that area from lefties. He turned those into 42 hits but made only 48 outs, and missed on only 10 percent of his swings.
Of those 42 hits, eight were home runs. Only three players had more home runs against lower-half pitches from lefties last season- Ryan Braun (12), Mark Trumbo (10), and Edwin Encarnacion (9).
This is part of a two-year run for Cabrera in which he transformed himself into an elite low-ball hitter, as noted in the chart above. Had Cabrera hit like he had hit against lower-half pitches from all pitchers in 2009 and 2010, he'd have batted .283, instead of .346.
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All NFL teams will get prime-time slot
INDIANAPOLIS -- The NFL is increasing the number of Thursday night games so more of its teams can play in prime time.
Commissioner Roger Goodell said that there will be Thursday night games on the NFL Network from the second to the 15th week of the season, giving all of the league's teams a chance to appear in prime time on some outlet.
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Indianapolis provided a stark contrast Friday to last year's Dallas setting, reflecting a shining state of the NFL for Roger Goodell's annual address, writes ESPN.com's John Clayton. Story
Those games will be in addition to the usual Sunday night and Monday night games, which tend to feature teams coming off good seasons.
"We think it's great for the fans, for the teams -- and great for the network," Goodell said.
Goodell revealed the television scheduling change at his state of the NFL news conference Friday.
He sidestepped a question about expanding the regular season schedule, saying it's something that would have to be evaluated along with the players.
Goodell also said the NFL will continue its work toward preventing concussions and other injuries and that what's been done so far is only a starting point.
Goodell said the league has done "a great deal" to make the game safer for players, and that will remain a priority. He said the league is "not done yet" and will not quit trying to make the game less dangerous for those who play it. The league is expanding its use of sideline TV replays to help doctors.
His comment came in response to an Associated Press story quoting a dozen former players who believe there was a culture of indifference toward concussions and other injuries in the NFL.
Goodell noted that the league has set aside a lot of money to help retired players.
Goodell further said he would like to see the NFL playing another regular season game in Mexico and that the league has a strategy to make the game "more successful on a global basis." The Rams and Patriots will play in London next season as part of that approach.
Asked about playing games in Latin America, Goodell said there's a great deal of interest there and he would like to get back to playing a regular season game in Mexico. He said it's "something we'd like to get done sooner than later."
Goodell said there are current discussions about setting up another game in Mexico.
The NFL Players Association has concerns about playing games in London and how the travel will affect players.
Information from The Associated Press was used in this report.
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No , without Tashkent she will be #119 with 564 pts. The 100th player has 679 pts so she will be there soon without Tashkent.
But it is hard to hold it against her as she is not allowed to play a full schedule.
I am not holding it against her I am just saying that it would be a good achievement to have gained about 200 Points when she is playing WTA events since Australian Open and it would be great to see that she can have a Top 100 ranking without whoring points.
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text: [[quoteright:251:http://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/quincy_me_3141.jpg]][[caption-width-right:251:A coroner-slash-[[TheyFightCrime crimefighter]]!]]A popular late '70s-early '80s ForensicDrama about the eponymous Quincy, ME (Jack Klugman) and his work handling cases in an LA coroner's office. Arguably created the Forensic Drama genre that became so popular many years later. The show began as an entry on ''TheNBCMysteryMovie'' before being shifted into a full-fledged series in its own right, and enjoyed a lengthy run (1976-1983). The basic formula had Quincy working on a corpse whose death had been ruled an accident or suicide. In each episode he would find something strange in the autopsy which would lead him to suspect murder. Quincy would then start sleuthing, inevitably picking up on clues the police missed. He'd eventually find enough evidence to force the always-clueless cops to re-classify the death as a homicide, at which point Quincy would expose the identity of the killer. During his time solving suspicious suicides and uncovering evildoers, Quincy was assisted by loyal LabRat Sam Fujiyama (Robert Ito) and was constantly at odds with both Lt. Monahan (Gary Walberg), who resented Quincy's meddling, and Dr. Asten (John S. Ragin), who resented all the overtime hours Quincy and Sam racked up. ----!!This series provides examples of:* AbsenteeActor: Jack Klugman himself in "Has Anybody Here Seen Quincy?" because he hated Michael Sloan and Glen A. Larson's script for the episode (in which a body brought into the morgue turns out to be alive, so you can see his point). [[CreativeDifferences Klugman eventually had Larson removed from the show, which is why the showrunner credits vary so much.]]* AlwaysMurder: Usually true, but averted in "Semper Fidelis" about a young soldier who dies on night manoeuvres. -->'''Quincy''': [[spoiler: Your son didn't fall, and he wasn't thrown. He jumped.]]** Also averted in "Murder By S.O.P." with the town doctor who knows the true identity of this week's murderer. [[spoiler: He's killed in a car accident which is a ''genuine'' car accident.]]** Averted again in "The Hope Of Elkwood," where a cross-country running coach was accused of working his star pupil to death. The judge threw out the involuntary manslaughter charge on grounds of the specifics of the crime not matching the definition of the charge, only to have the guy sued for wrongful death. [[spoiler:It finally turned out that the BodyOfTheWeek had a small tumor on his adrenal gland, making his C.O.D. natural causes exacerbated by training for his next race.]]* AuthorFilibuster: Some episodes should obviously just be called "Jack Klugman's Soapbox".** "A Good Smack In The Mouth," about child abuse, gives co-teleplay and story credit to guess which cast member.** An episode where a college student dies in a hazing incident ends with a scene where, out of nowhere and with no prior setup, Quincy is suddenly giving a graduation speech at an unnamed college. His entire speech is about how terrible fraternity hazing is: which is all well and good, but would probably be more useful if he were giving it to a bunch of people who were NOT about to graduate.** Lampshaded in the late season episode that introduced his new love interest, later to become his wife. She recognized him as the hot dogging coroner who was always incensed about some issue, only to have forgotten about it a week later, when there was some new issue that he was incensed about.* TheBadGuysWin: "Scream To The Skies" [[spoiler: - following a hearing convened in the wake of an air crash into the sea in which many people die due to the airline not having life rafts (because they weren't legally required to carry them), the airline in question brings a defamation suit against Quincy - "You've just been gagged" - which stops him from continuing his safety crusade]].* TheButlerDidIt: [[JustForPun Used for a pun]], when the [[MonsterOfTheWeek Villains of the Week]] had the surname "Butler".* BeleagueredBureaucrat: Dr. Asten and Lt. Monahan.* CharacterFilibuster: Quincy does a lot of this.* CelebrityParadox: Quincy is friends with Rosie Grier, so this trope may apply.* ChuckCunninghamSyndrome: Lee Porter, Quincy's love interest in the initial movie-length episodes, disappeared without a trace when the show switched to an hour-long format.* CoolCar: Well, ''unique'' at any rate. It's a hearse that says "CORONER" across the back. Danny hated it when Quincy parked it outside the bar.* CorruptCorporateExecutive: While Quincy runs into quite a few of these, one of the later seasons had a memorable aversion. When a executive learned that his company's poor waste disposal practices had caused a fatal accident, told Quincy that, while his lawyers had informed him he held no legal responsibility, he still felt a moral responsibility to assist in solving the crisis.* TheCoroner: Quincy. Duh.* DependingOnTheWriter: Quincy's relationship with his superiors and their enthusiasm for his stubbornness varies between episodes.* DoppelgangerReplacementLoveInterest: Quincy's first wife died before the series started, and then in the final season he marries a woman played by the same actress.* DownerEnding: Several, but "Guns Don't Die" is the champion.[[spoiler:(Quincy and pals are having a great time at Danny's; cut to [[MoodWhiplash a little boy finding a gun hidden at home while he and his sister are playing... and shooting her.]] Roll credits.)]]** "Into The Murdering Mind" may well share the honours, with a touch of TheBadGuysWin thrown in for good measure [[spoiler: (it's implied that the guy who's murdered all but one member of his family will be going after his mother as well when - not IF - he gets out of the clinic he's sent to...)]].* EurekaMoment* EverybodyLives: Yes, incredibly a series about a coroner managed to have the odd example of this trope (such as "Has Anybody Here Seen Quincy?" and "Never A Child").* ExtremeDoormat: How many times has Sam stayed late to run tests, to the detriment of his love and social life?* GoodGuyBar: Danny's.* GoryDiscretionShot: Corpses generally aren't shown on-screen even during the autopsy scenes.** This is played for laughs during the opening. Quincy is performing an autopsy as some rookie police officers observe. They all pass out, but all we see are the tools used and the cops dropping. * HeroicBSOD: One episode dealt with child abuse as Quincy tried to determine which parent was beating the kid. When he found out it was the father, who had taken his son off to a fishing trip and intended to beat his son further, Quincy tracks them down and completely loses it, almost strangling the father as he ranted on about how horrid the act of child abuse was. Quincy only snapped back to sanity when the child begged Quincy not to hurt his father.* HouseboatHero: Quincy is that much cooler because he lives on a boat.* KavorkaMan: Two words that leap to mind to describe Quincy physically are "craggy" and "wizened", also, he cuts up dead people for a living. He's never lacking for skimpily-dressed 20-something female company, though. * TheLabRat: Sam and Mark.* Magazine/{{MAD}}: ''Queasy M.E.''* TheMafia[=/=]{{Yakuza}}: One BodyOfTheWeek, an LAPD organized crime detective, was the victim of a yakuza assassin. The ''oyabun'' was trying to work out a deal with TheMafia to buy black market guns for his operations in Japan.* TheMcCoy: This describes Quincy to a T. He's impulsive, emotional, very humanistic, and frequently argues with more logical characters.* MoodWhiplash: Used to excellent effect in "Guns Don't Die" (see DownerEnding above).* MysteryMagnet: Quincy and Danny can't even go on a simple fishing trip without getting dragged into a web of intrigue.* NoCelebritiesWereHarmed: Dr. Hiro from "Has Anybody Here Seen Quincy?" is pretty clearly based on [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Noguchi Dr. Thomas Noguchi]], LA's "coroner to the stars."** And Quincy was based on Noguchi.* NoNameGiven: Played utterly straight. It's never mentioned -- not even by his ''girlfriends'' -- though a business card gives his first initial as "R".* OfficerOHara: Lt. Monahan mentions his Irish grandmother from time to time.* PoorlyDisguisedPilot: "The Cutting Edge," the [[SeriesFinale final episode of the series]], barely features Quincy (the other regulars don't appear at all) and focuses instead on a surgeon who specializes in state of the art surgical techniques. No points for guessing it was meant as a spinoff.* TheQuincyPunk: The episode "Next Stop Nowhere" is the TropeNamer.* {{Qurac}}: In one episode Quincy gets involved with a hijacking by some radicals that are implied to be from one of these sorts of countries.* ReasonableAuthorityFigure: Dr. Asten and Lt. Monahan veer between this and BeleagueredBureaucrat.* ReplacedTheThemeTune: The ''Mystery Movie'' episodes had [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K_dgnqefcgg a more businesslike (though still optimistic) theme tune]]; the more familiar theme came along when the series debuted and was edited onto the shortened versions, but the original is still heard over their end credits (although the "guy on the landscape with the flashlight" background is replaced with the big Q, and the credits themselves are changed - they're white instead of yellow, and instead of "Mystery Movie Theme: HenryMancini" there's "Theme: Glen A. Larson and Stu Phillips").* TheSeventies: Some of Quincy's clothes are typical of seventies fashion in all its horrifying glory.* SharedUniverse: With ''BJ And The Bear'', believe it or not - the PoorlyDisguisedPilot "The Girls Of Hollywood High" has the [=PDP=]s' stars visiting his place of work. Asten and Sam appear but not the main man, understandably given the episode was scripted by both shows' co-creator Glen A. Larson (see AbsenteeActor above).* ShownTheirWork* StatusQuoIsGod: Because they're [[BeleagueredBureaucrat beleaguered bureaucrats]], Astin and Monahan tend to be leery at first about the case of the week, no matter how many previous times Quincy has been right. They also tend [[ReasonableAuthorityFigure to throw in with Quincy pretty quickly when he gives them proof]].* TechnicolorScience: Justified, since Quincy and his team work on lots of actual scientific tests, including chemical reaction tests that [[TruthInTelevision really do involve prettily colored liquids]].* TemporarySubstitute: Dr. Hiro from the Klugman-less episode "Has Anybody Here Seen Quincy?"* ThreeWaySex: The DoubleStandard attached to it is {{discussed}} in one episode as an analogy to alcoholism.* TourettesShitcockSyndrome: Though the portrayal was more tempered compared to most examples of this trope.* [[UglyGuyHotWife Ugly Guy, Hot Girlfriend]]: It has to be said, Quincy's girlfriend Lee in the ''Mystery Movie'' episodes is smokin'. * VerySpecialEpisode: Very common in later series (see "Whatever Happened To Morris Perlmutter?" for a particularly strong example).* WheelProgram: The first season.----


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WALNUT, Calif., June 6, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- VIASPACE Inc. (OTCQB: VSPC) today provided an update on the status of Giant King™ Grass growing in South Africa. Previously, the company announced that it had signed a project agreement and received funding from Selectra CC of Johannesburg, South Africa, and that Giant King Grass was delivered and planted in South Africa.
The first project for Selectra is to remediate and also produce energy on land that has been altered by gold mining in South Africa. Mining is a very large industry in Africa, and there are numerous large tracts of mine affected lands. For example, gold mining produces large amounts of ore from which the gold has been extracted. There are thousands of hectares of these "mine dumps" or more correctly stated, slimes dams and mine tailings (the footprint that remains after a slimes dam has been removed for further processing).
The slimes dams are composed primarily of crushed rock that has been processed to remove the gold. It is not suitable soil and has minimal organic matter. There are traces of chemicals and contaminants from the gold processing. The mining companies are responsible for ensuring that these contaminants do not enter into the groundwater or are transported outside the dam itself by wind or erosion. They must maintain these slimes dams indefinitely until they are no longer a hazard.
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Marsala stands on Capo Lilibeo, a headland which bears the name of the original settlement here; the name is thought to come from Lily, meaning water, and Beo, which refers to the Eubeans, the first inhabitants of the site. The port, which is renowned for its excellent wine and famous for the arrival of Garibaldi's troops in 1860, has a distinctly African atmosphere.
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Piazza della Repubblica I - 91025 Marsala
The centre of the town is Piazza della Republica which is dominated by the cathedral and the senatorial palace, completed in 18C. On Corso XI Maggio and Via Rapisardi there are some beautiful palaces. Via Garibaldi leads to the town hall, a former Sp..
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The cathedral was built on Norman foundations in 1628. Its imposing tufa façade decorated with statues was completed as late as 1956. The interior has many works by the Gagini including a lovely icon by Antonello Gagini and a delicate Virgin by Domen..
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Via Salinisti 19 I - 91025 Marsala
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Jonathan Siddharth and Vijay Krishnan, co-founders of Infoaxe, a personal Web history management service, talk to KARTHIK SUBRAMANIAN about their company and new 'discovery engine' Flipora
Great ideas are born when there's a pressing demand. The idea to create a more personalised and effective Web search occurred to Jonathan Siddharth and Vijay Krishnan in 2007, during their academic rigours of their Masters at the Stanford University in the United States. "We found it tough to keep going back and forth to the Web, trying to remember the one great article or web page we saw," recalls Siddharth. Their solution was Infoaxe (www.infoaxe.com), an add-on to web browsers such as the Internet Explorer and the Mozilla Firefox (an extension of Google Chrome is in the works). In simple terms, it plays the role of a 'memory' by keeping a record of a user's complete browsing history. So no need to bookmark, tag or try to think hard about that one great website you saw a week ago. Users can download the Infoaxe extension for their browsers and forget about having to remember urls and websites.
Re-finding queries
A 2007 study by a group of students from MIT (Massachusetts Institute of Technology) states that nearly 40 per cent of all search queries are re-finding queries. By banking on the entire web history to help one's search, the relevance of the results improves dramatically, the Silicon Valley entrepreneurs reason.
There is some credibility to their claim: Infoaxe already has more than seven million unique users. It is currently growing at the rate of a million users every two months.
User recommendations and glowing reviews by reputed technology blogs are helping. Added to that, the company has some of the biggest names in Silicon Valley on board as advisors. On completion of their recruitment drive in India, the duo took time off to talk to MetroPlus, Chennai. It was also a homecoming of sorts for the Chennai boys. Jonathan Siddharth is a graduate of Sri Venkateswara College of Engineering and belongs to Chennai. Vijay Krishnan, though an alumnus of IIT Bombay, has also stayed some years in the city and has roots here.
As luck would have it, the duo ended up as room-mates during their Stanford University Masters programme. Siddharth graduated with distinction in Masters in Research, bagging the Christopher Stephenson Memorial Award for graduate research for best master thesis at Stanford. His research areas included information retrieval, web search and search personalisation. Vijay received his Masters in Computer Science and his research focussed on data/text/web mining.
Though they passed out in 2007 and Infoaxe was incorporated as a company, it was officially launched in late 2008 at a time when they raised $9,00,000 as a seed fund. The environment at Stanford and later Silicon Valley was ideal for setting up a 15-people office at Sunnyvale, California. In August, last year, they raised an additional $3 million by way of venture capital and angel funding.
Goodbye, bookmarks
At the time of its launch, though drastically different in its approach, the closest similar service was offered by online bookmark management services such as Delicious. "The method had become tedious for most users," says Siddharth. "It is taxing to create tags and label everything one wants. Besides, search options in bookmarking services were minimal and ineffective."
Around the same period as their launch, social networks such as Facebook and Twitter were gaining popularity with users as tools to curate content. Recommendations through links on the newsfeed and re-tweets were becoming ways to discover new content. But in that too there was a hitch. "Only explicit web behaviour gets reflected in social networks. There might still be some interesting content people browse but won't want to show," points out Siddharth.
Twitter and Facebook are estimated to receive much less than 5 million distinct webpage hyperlinks in a day through tweets and the facebook sharing functionality (since a lot of the content sharing involves retweeting and multiple users re-sharing content posted by their friends, causing a relative lack of diversity in the nature of the content) and Infoaxe bookmarks and indexes about 20 million distinct webpage hyperlinks everyday.
But more is not necessarily good. The entrepreneurs say this is where their algorithms come in. Using more than 50 signals, Infoaxe curates content based on the data memory of the user. "It will know what sort of content the user will like," says Vijay.
Siddharth and Vijay are taking the service to the next level — a Web discovery engine called Flipora that will, in addition to tracking and storing one's web history, make recommendations based on the interests not just of the user but also a community of similar-minded users.
"All the search that happens through the search engine is based on the pull paradigm," explains Siddarth. "You know what you want and you keep pulling information from the Web by typing in the search words. But with Flipora, we apply the push paradigm. The algorithms know the user's browsing history and will keep pushing content taking into account his likes and dislikes."
A crude analogy for Flipora is the way television functions. The user will be able to flip through content without bothering much about typing into the address bar of the browser. Based on the Web history and preferences, the discovery engine will keep pushing out content tailored to the user. This way there is a considerable likelihood that one runs into some fantastic lesser-known content from areas of one's interest.
Infoaxe stores personal Web history on its servers. In the wake of the ongoing debate on privacy, it is important to be aware of this. Siddharth, while assuring that the private data of the users remains safe, also highlights the obvious gains. "Every service has a cost. It is up to the users to decide whether the gains exceed the costs."
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