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Synopses & ReviewsPublisher Comments:An examination of the failure of the United States as a broker in the Palestinian-Israeli peace process, through three key historical moments
For more than seven decades the conflict between Israel and the Palestinian people has raged on with no end in sight, and for much of that time, the United States has been involved as a mediator in the conflict. In this book, acclaimed historian Rashid Khalidi zeroes in on the United States's role as the purported impartial broker in this failed peace process. Khalidi closely analyzes three historical moments that illuminate how the United States' involvement has, in fact, thwarted progress toward peace between Israel and Palestine. The first moment he investigates is the "Reagan Plan" of 1982, when Israeli prime minister Menachem Begin refused to accept the Reagan administration's proposal to reframe the Camp David Accords more impartially. The second moment covers the period after the Madrid Peace Conference, from 1991 to 1993, during which negotiations between Israel and Palestine were brokered by the United States until the signing of the secretly negotiated Oslo accords. Finally, Khalidi takes on President Barack Obama's retreat from plans to insist on halting the settlements in the West Bank. Through in-depth research into and keen analysis of these three moments, as well as his own firsthand experience as an advisor to the Palestinian delegation at the 1991 pre–Oslo negotiations in Washington, DC, Khalidi reveals how the United States and Israel have actively colluded to prevent a Palestinian state and resolve the situation in Israel's favor. Brokers of Deceit bares the truth about why peace in the Middle East has been impossible to achieve: for decades, US policymakers have masqueraded as unbiased agents working to bring the two sides together, when, in fact, they have been the agents of continuing injustice, effectively preventing the difficult but essential steps needed to achieve peace in the region. About the AuthorRashid Khalidi is the author of seven books about the Middle East, including Palestinian Identity, Brokers of Deceit, Resurrecting Empire, The Iron Cage, and Sowing Crisis. His writing on Middle Eastern history and politics has appeared in the New York Times, Boston Globe, Los Angeles Times, Chicago Tribune, and many journals. For his work on the Middle East, Professor Khalidi has received fellowships and grants from the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation, the Ford Foundation, the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars, the American Research Center in Egypt, and the Rockefeller Foundation, among others. He is the Edward Said Professor of Modern Arab Studies at Columbia University in New York and is editor of the Journal of Palestine Studies.
From the Hardcover edition. Table of ContentsIntroduction: Dishonest Brokers
Chapter 1: The First Moment: Begin and Palestinian Autonomy in 1982 Chapter 2: The Second Movement: The Madrid-Washington Negotiations, 1991-93 Chapter 3: The Third Movement: Barack Obama and Palestine, 2009-12 Conclusion: Israel's Lawyer Acknowledgments Notes Index From the Hardcover edition. What Our Readers Are SayingBe the first to add a comment for a chance to win!Product Details
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MRTG is an advanced tool written by Tobias Oetiker and Dave Rand to graphically represent the data SNMP agents brings to SNMP managers. It generates nice HTML pages with GIF graphics about inbound and outbound traffic in network interfaces in almost real time. This abstracts the idea of dealing directly with objects of an MIB with a command line tool like CMU-SNMP. This is the simplest and most powerful tool to monitor my routers I have found on the Internet.
MRTG uses an SNMP implementation coded entirely in Perl, so there is no need to install other packages. The main program is written in C to speed up the logging process and the generation of GIF images. The graphics are generated with the help of the GD library from Thomas Boutell, author of the WWW FAQ.
One of the highlights of MRTG is its expandability and powerful configuration. It's very easy to monitor any SNMP variables instead of traffic, like error packets, system load, modem availability and others. It's even possible to import data from an external program to feed the data, so you can use it to monitor login sessions and other information not available through SNMP.
It comes with some tools to watch your router for interfaces, extract their characteristics and generate a base configuration file you can easily tweak to accommodate your needs.
Another interesting feature of MRTG is the amount of information it generates. It permits four levels of detail for each interface: traffic in the last 24 hours, the last week, the last month and a yearly graphic. This allows you to gather information for statistical purposes. It maintains an accumulated database with all this information with the help of a consolidation algorithm that prevents the data in the logs from eating up your disk space.
It also generates a main page that contains the GIF images of the daily details of every interface of a router, which lets you have a complete idea of what's happening in your router with a simple look. You can see the main page and a detail page generated by MRTG in Figures 3 and 4.
Figure 4. Interface Detail Page
Let's see a basic installation procedure. First of all, you need the distribution of MRTG. At the time of this writing, the latest version was 2.1; check the URL in the references sidebar for the latest version.
A package you must install before compiling MRTG is the GD graphic library. The URL is in the references sidebar, too. The current version of GD is 1.2, and you shouldn't have any problems compiling and installing it. Simply run make in the directory you unpacked the distribution and a file called libgd.a will be generated. Copy this file to /usr/local/lib and all the .h files to the directory /usr/local/include/gd.
At this point you should have GD up and running. Now is the time to build the MRTG package. Unpack the distribution, and edit the Makefile, indicating where to find the GD libraries and header files, and the Perl 5.003 binary—usually /usr/bin/perl or /usr/local/bin/perl. This is done through the variables GD_LIB, GD_INCLUDE and PERL.
Build the main program by typing make rateup, and when the compilation finished, enter make substitute to include the correct PATH to the Perl interpreter within the set of Perl scripts that MRTG uses.
Copy the following files to the final destination of the binaries (for example, /usr/local/mrtg): BER.pm, SNMP_Session.pm, mrtg and rateup. You can also copy to this location the two configuration programs, indexmaker and cfgmaker.
Ensure that all the programs have the execution bit set. Now we're ready to build a simple configuration file. At this point you should have SNMP read access to your router. In a Cisco router, the configuration lines to allow this are the following:
access-list 99 permit 188.8.131.52 access-list 99 permit 188.8.131.52 access-list 99 permit 126.96.36.199 snmp-server community public RO 99
This allows read-only requests from the addresses specified in the access list 99 using "public" as a password (community). If you want to allow every node in the network Read Only (RO) access to the router, you can have a line like this one:
snmp-server community public ROIf you have another brand of router, check the manuals to determine how to allow SNMP access to them.
The cfgmaker script greatly simplifies the task of building the configuration file. All you have to do is run it with the following arguments:
cfgmaker <community>@<router-host-name or IP>
For example:
cfgmaker email@example.com > mrtg.cfgIt will discover every interface in your router and write a section in the file with its specifications of numbers of interfaces, maximum speed, description, etc, with some HTML tags to include them in the detail page. It's possible to edit this HTML layout to suit your language, preferences, etc. You can see in Figure 5 the output for one of the interfaces of my router.
I am monitoring my AIX PPC machines through MRTG, but standard AIX SNMP does not provide any information CPU/Paging/Disk ..etc.
You need to install a different SNMP agent, or collect the data via a different method, I use the NRPE agent and plugins, with the mrtg-nrpe.pl
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Easy to understand and great article.
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i,Hrisikesh want to know how to compile the new MIB which is specific to my company product and in which path i will put the new MIB in linux 2.4.18-14.
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This is very impressive document, sir plz i need to add one more ip in my mrtg becuase we added one more ip on our ethernet and we need to know its usage as well and i am trying to find out where we add the new ip but i am not able to find it out.
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It may not look like it after seeing a final score of 75-41, but Carroll County (15-11) matched South Oldham (19-6) stride for stride in the opening part of the game, Feb. 12.
Brandon Stewart hit a 3-pointer with 6:07 to go in the second quarter to pull the Panthers within two points, 23-21.
But then the wheels came off the Panther Express.
Friday night proved to be a fairy tale ending for the Fab Five seniors.
Tied up at 66 points apiece, the Panthers took a timeout with 6.1 seconds to go. The visiting Walton-Verona Bearcats had just erased a 10-point fourth-quarter deficit with a 3-pointer by Tanner Moeves off a screen on the right side of the floor.
The Lady Panthers struggled mightily on offense Friday, posting their lowest output of the season with a 47-13 loss to Walton-Verona.
However, head coach Paul Stone said he was proud of his team's defense, especially in the third quarter, in which his team outscored the Lady Bearcats 6-3. "I was proud of the way we came out and played in the third quarter," he said. "They didn't give up and came out ready to play."
The Carroll County varsity track team competed in the Mason County Indoor Meet Saturday, Feb. 9. Head coach Joe Creager said the team had some good results and was able to compare times with the University of Kentucky meet two weeks ago.
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The Panthers hit 54 percent from the field, including 42 percent from long range, in their 57-45 win over Bellevue Saturday, Feb. 9.
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In the huddle before breaking for the start of the fourth quarter against North Oldham, Carroll head coach Paul Stone told his team, "Defense wins this game."
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The Lady Panthers' defense shutdown the Lady Mustangs late, allowing just six points in the fourth quarter, to win 54-40, on Tuesday, Feb. 5. This was the girls' fourth win in five games.
The Warriors outscored the Panthers 29-7 in the third quarter to win, 72-66, on their home floor Feb. 4.
Before the game began, the district rivals demonstrated their sportsmanship and goodwill toward one another. When the captains met at midcourt, Carroll junior Dakota Corbin and Eminence senior Daishon Moore came forward as well. The two student-athletes had been involved in a fight when Eminence visited Carroll on Jan. 26. Corbin and Moore met with the officials and coaches, apologized to one another and shook hands.
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The Lady Panthers cut an eight-point halftime deficit to one point with 1:37 to go in the third quarter. Unfortunately for the home team, that was as close as they would get, as the Lady Demons outscored them 22-2 the rest of the way to win, 60-39, Feb. 8.
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The device goes unnamed, but widely rumoured speculations hint at a mobile device with 3D and holographic display.
It has been reported that the phone can create 3D images without the need for 3D glasses, as it can track the user's eyes and project a stereo image accordingly.
The product would be Amazon's first step into the smartphone market, after rolling out a successful tablet line over recent years.
Roberta Cozza, an analyst with research firm Gartner, told CBR: "I think the form would be like [Amazon's] tablet line was - the device will be like a vending machine for everything else Amazon offers, where its revenue stream is.
"In today's market, we are seeing that the players that are winning are the ones with very strong ecosystems, beyond just traditional handset manufacturers which actually are struggling more. We've also seen, in the UK for example, Tesco as another ecosystem owner with a strong user base also that's also going to announce a phone.
"I think it is an expected step. Amazon already disrupted the tablet market with the lower price on the Fire line, it will depend on what it will bundle with it."
No pricing details were released about the device. Amazon has a history of competitive pricing, but a 3D-enabled device may push the price up which could betray some of Amazon's existing user base.
But by offering a free mobile service, like it did to its Kindle owners, or by subsidising the devices with advertising, Amazon could still keep the phone viably priced.
It could also subsidise the phone itself and re-sell mobile service at low prices, or perhaps link some of the phone's features to an Amazon Prime subscription.
Cozza said: "[Amazon] will go with some incentives, because the main target for this is obviously its existing user base. The device stands a chance if it is bundled the right way with services."
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Let's say you pick the model with a god. Now you have one more claim in your model that you need to show is true for your model to be valid. Until that happens, the most reasonable thing to do is suspend judgement on the truth of your model.
So what you are saying is that from the point of view of cosmology we have no way of assessing which model is more likely (at least for now). Then still the question is why believe in the model with a god in it?
They are not mutually exclusive.
(A)gnosticism refers to what you know, and (a)theism refers what you believe in terms of gods. They are two independent dimensions. Think cartesian plane with one axis for theism and the other for gnosticism. You can be an agnostic atheist, a gnostic theist or everything in between. Gnostic atheists are hard to come by, but many gnostic theists are pretty loud about it.
WPA with TKIP is compatible with a number of
If that doesn't work, then recycle them.
Precisely the reason why I think the government of Palistan is doing a disservice to its people by censoring information that even if shocking to them, will make them think.
As a matter of fact I believe in no god, so none of those rules apply to me. I can mock anything I wish (including you and me) as it is my right as a human being. I will exercise my right when I need to remind those who will have peace by running a sword through the dissidents.
they CAN detonate nuclear bombs, and they're more likely to do so the more you exercise your rights to provoke them.
Your masochism is noted. All those people need to put the finger on the Doomsday Switch (TM) is for you to write a work of fiction, and for them not to read it. Enjoy your defeat, but I ask you to not do so in my name.
I am not disallowing them from using those processes. I simply assert their religious process is inferior because it is irrational, and brings them to the wrong conclusions.
I am also saying that if the two sides are to understand each other, they should use the better of the two processes. If the west is in the wrong, so be it, but the way to reach that conclusion if it is true is not through religious means.
Except for one thing: religion is not someone's identity. It is a set of ideas you can be persuaded of or reject, as shown by the capability of conversion from one to another. Disagreeing or mocking such a set is not hate, because it is not directed at the humans, nor are those humans forbidden to practice their faith if they so choose.
Unfortunately it seems you have fallen for the argument that religion deserves extra respect from criticism or mockery. There is no reason why we should mock it any less than anything we already do.
But by claiming that W fails to understand M, you imply that there exist a set of values that both will recognize. If that is true, then the best way to find out what those values are is through reasoned argument, not through the application of a recooked version of a medieval plagiarism of bronze-age myths. Religion should not be allowed to be a player in this game.
You miss the point of this entirely. Prohibition of blasphemy is a rule you set up for the members of *your* faith only, not for others. Trying to impose your rules over people who have not signed up for your religion has to be called on.
Well, boo-hoo. Nobody forced newspapers to put their content online. It sure is convenient for us readers, but if they were not prepared to deal with what is happening now, then they should just pull out and go to just print or subscription only. Let's see how well that will fare. Will they want people writing about their stories banned?
The Internet's whole point is copying and sharing information, and if you don't want to share your content or cannot afford to, then don't freaking put it there.
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Why some S. Korea radicals prefer blue-collar work. STUDENTS UNDER COVER
For nearly two years, Chang Kwan Shik (not his real name) worked quietly among 170 other hard-working Koreans in an auto parts factory in the industrial city of Inchon. Last August, along with hundreds of thousands of other South Korean workers, the men at Mr. Chang's plant went on strike demanding a fairer share of what is called the Korean economic miracle. For five days, Chang led the strike for higher wages and the right to form a trade union. Only during the strike did he reveal to his fellow workers the truth he had so carefully concealed.
He was a former university activist, sent in as a underground organizer.
The government refers to activists like Chang as ``disguised workers,'' accusing them of spreading ``leftist'' and ``subversive'' ideas in the factories.
Unquestionably, Chang appears to belong in the book stacks of a library, not alongside a metal press. The soft spoken, bespectacled young man entered a Seoul university in 1980, where he became involved in the student movement. In 1983 he was jailed for organizing antigovernment demonstrations on campus. He was released the following year.
Chang was barred from completing school but was determined to continue in the cause of what he calls ``social change'' and ``economic self-determination.'' Because of his appearance he was advised to play a role as a teacher in the widespread network of campus study circles which recruit students by teaching from banned neo-Marxist and Western radical books.
Chang instead chose to be a labor organizer. ``In order to change society, you have to work with the masses,'' he says.
The Korean government forbids such ``outside'' organizers and any open activity along these lines brings immediate arrest. There are a number of loosely linked underground groups - many affiliated with Christian churches, others with Marxist sects.


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I have some Cor-Bon DPX in .45 ACP and I have noticed that some of the bullets are loose in the casing. Even some them that have been untocuhed and still it the box. How loose is too loose and should I refrain from shooting them? It's not like they just fall out of the casing. Some just spin but will not move in and out, and others move in and out, maybe 1-2mm as well as spin.
I may just go buy another box. I'd hate to have to check every single bullet to see if it's loose before I purchase them, haha.
I've heard of bullet set-back, but the bullets aren't being pushed into the casing. They're more or less starting to fall out. Like I said, they don't just fall out, but if you grab the bullet with a pair of needle nose, it will wiggle around a little.


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Vegetarian-friendly lunch spot near Mart Plaza?
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Hi, I'm hoping Chicago Chowhounders can help!
I'm going to a conference and will be staying at the Holiday Inn Mart Plaza (Riverview).
I've been asked to find a lunch spot where I can take a client who is vegetarian but adventurous! I'm a bit of a foodie myself and chain-averse....
Can you recommend a place that's nice enough to take a client to (doesn't have to be fancy but a nice sit-down place) and that's in close walking distance of the Mart Plaza? And it can't be a multi-course place that takes 3 hours for lunch because we'd be going in between sessions at the conference.
Coco Pazzo has some vegetarian options and is just a couple of blocks away.
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Having worked in that area many of the restaurants around there will have vegetarian options - places I would recommend -
Mambo Grill - http://mambogrill.com/
Frontera Grill - http://www.rickbayless.com/restaurant... - get there when they open ro else you might have a wait for a seat0


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Toyota calls the subcompact 2015 Yaris hatchback "redesigned," but it's really just a refresh of the current generation, which dates back to the 2012 model year. The 2015 model gets a lot of visual updates; chief among the updates are a reworked nose with a deeper, Darth Vader-like maw that stretches from the grille to the lower bumper.
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There are a lot of problems with the TV shows I watch, in particular Pretty Little Liars. They include but are not limited to: materialism, glorification of dramatics, misrepresentation of mental illness, lying to friends, lying to parents, lying the cops, the list goes on... for the most part, I can chalk these things up to "making for a good TV drama." But there is one storyline on PLL that just doesn't, and will never, sit right with me: Ezra and Aria's relationship. A lot of TV shows over-sexualize high schoolers (anyone remember Gossip Girl?), and PLL does its fair share with each of the main ladies on the show, from their costumes to their relationships. But I think the student-teacher romance between Aria and Ezra (A.K.A. "Mr. Fitz") takes it way too far.
And that is just the beginning of the story. In fact, the relationship between 16-year old Aria and her high school teacher becomes the main romance of the series. It's "Aria and Ezra against the world," hiding their relationship from her friends, parents and school administrators. Even once the other adult figures do discover the relationship, they are cast as villains who simply "don't understand" Aria and Ezra's special connection -- and they grow to accept the relationship over time.
Of all the things that a show geared at high school-aged girls could glorify, a teacher-student relationship seems to me one of the most dangerous... These kinds of relationships happen way more than they should, and they have very real-life repercussions. Why would we want to encourage young women to accept a relationship like this one, letalone aspire to it? Shows get flack all the time for promoting drinking and drug usage to teenagers, even though those things have become rather commonplace on the TV. I've been surprised from the start that this relationship hasn't caused more of a stir or stopped more parents from letting their kids watch. I know I'm starting to sound like a Granny here, but bear with me.
Since when is a relationship between a high schooler and their teacher not news, and since when is it something parents can "get used to"? When teachers are accused of having relationships with their students in real life, these teachers go to court and usually to jail, they're splayed over the news and rejected by their communities. What about Aria and Ezra's relationship is different from those creepy stories? Nothing, actually. They're the same thing, folks, just with prettier TV actors... we don't know what happens behind closed doors in most of the real-life relationships -- for all we know, they feel a lot like Aria and Ezra's; intimate, unique, confusing, full of blurred lines and grey areas.
I sort of can't believe that this even needs saying -- but there is just no world in which a relationship between a teenager and an adult is okay, letalone a teacher and their student. For much better-argued thoughts on the subject, check out this article by Jessie-Lane Metz. The internet seems to have lots of excuses, or to think it's a special case in some way... but, just, no.
This is personal to me -- the story hits too close to home. A friend of mine had a not-too-different experience with her high school teacher, and the repercussions were awful and long-lasting. Not just for the two people in the relationship, either, but for a lot of people on the periphery as well.
Do others watch the show -- and what do you think? Has this relationship given you the creeps too, or do you think I'm overreacting?


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We must be getting closer to elections if presidential hopefuls are beating the drum about game retailers and stricter laws again. This time it's Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney who's struggling to take the family-friendly line. While his rhetoric on games is empty and uninformed, it will probably strike a chord with parents, as it makes for a tasty soundbite: "It's time to clean up the water in which our kids are swimming," he said. "I've proposed that we enforce our obscenity laws again and that we get serious against those retailers that sell adult video games that are filled with violence, that we go after those retailers," he said.
It's unfortunate that the truth doesn't get more votes, because we'd love to see another candidate (any one will do) fire back with some of the statistics on exactly who's buying all these video games. Here's a hint: it's usually not the kids who are wielding the credit cards during game purchases. There are protections in place for children -- parental controls on consoles, rating systems, current laws -- and considering that only 17% of game purchases are performed by children, it seems that more laws, stricter punishments, and whatever else Romney could come up with would be a waste of resources. Until we can convince parents to take a more active role in monitoring the activities of their children, the current system is just fine.
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Played him last night and while he could survive a few more hits than other equal level heroes, his abilities and damage output well too low. His bandage toss ability is also not working right, in that it is prone to missing if the target moves. This should be fixed by making it so that if the ability hits noone, then the mana should be returned and the cooldown ethier waived or severly cutdown. But the cooldown should be full if a foe is hit.
bandage toss, like ashe's arrow has no impact radius. it either hits dead on or it misses. he's fine and can do some massive damage with sunfire caps and his aura
why the **** should cooldown be cutdown/removed when u juz cant aim? your fault lol
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I was playing him a couple times today and noticed that Dispair wasn't doing any damage to nearby enemies - even enemies standing right next to me! It was burning my mana though... =P Overall, a fun hero to play (the bandage toss takes a little practice, but is not hard - if you've played DOTA, it's just like pudge's hook). I'd just like to see his Dispair ability working.
I agree. Everytime I fire a skillshot that doesn't hit, it feels wasted. If my ability misses, they should keep letting me use it instantly for no mana cost until I hit someone. Also, its really lame when i hit a creep. Please make all skillshots go through creeps. I mean, how are you supposed to hit morgana's dark binding. On topic: Amumu doesn't need any buffs at all and his damage is extremely high in lanes and late game with sunfire capes/despair.
I could see mana cost refunded on skillshots, but not cooldown or it's just pointless having it be a skillshot. However, on the whole, I wouldn't like that for skillshots in general, but maybe just a special rule for one or two in particular. I could see a hard-to-land but powerful skillshot being expensive but only costing mana on successful land. It would encourage aggressive us of it, and would make enemies spend a lot of time dodging, even if it doesn't connect. It could be an interesting mechanic. However, Amumu's bandage is clearly not such an ability. Morgana's Dark Binding could be, if it moved slower. Anyways, Amumu is awesome. He's like a suicide bomber that explodes multiple times.
Mana refunds and cooldown costs are just lame. Skill abilities are powerful only because THEY REQUIRE SKILL. However, I feel that his bandage toss should be given a lot more range, sort of like clockwerk's ult in DotA, or at least like pudge's hook.


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My labradoodle had a bad stomoch for a long time, in and out of the vets, steroids and presciption diets, the usual story! I finally got fed up with it and changed his food, i went around several "natural" branded products (none of which helped), until i discovered The Natural Dog Food Company. He's finally settled and a happy dog! Can't overstress the difference its made to all of us!
12 months ago i rescued my beautiful rottweiler, tess - the nicest, softest dog in the world but boy was she ill! for months she had really bad stomach upsets and she was losing a lot of weight. Her coat was also coming out leaving sore bald patches and she was biting at her feet until they bled. the vet did some allergy tests and gave us a special food but if anything it made her even worse. steroids and antibiotics helped with her coat but the runs just kept on coming and her low weight was becoming a real worry.
i started looking for advice online and saw this food recommended on a couple of forums. we gave the salmon sensitive diet a go and it was the best thing we ever did! her tummy settled down after just a few days and even though her meals were small she started gaining weight. her skin took a bit longer to get back to full health but it wasn't long before people were commenting on her beautiful shiny coat and to top it all off, last weekend she won 'prettiest bitch' at my village dog show!
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I firstly asked the company on their free phone number for some samples and received these within 4 days. They were quite generous, enough to properly try my Golden Retriever on a new food to her. She loved all the different flavours and we now use the Senior (she is old like me) and have had wonderful results with no more itchy skin and greater mobility. Keep up the good work Natural Dog Food Company
My dog tried the samples and they disagreed with him giving him an upset stomach. Arrogant man at the end of the phone at the company was unsympathetic. There's plenty of other good English dog foods around, so definitely not recommended, especially for customer service. I'll stay with Pero Organic.
After aquiring the latest addition to our family henry a 2 year old bull mastiff who had a very sensative stomach and suffered realy badly with dermatitus we decided to have a look at this food as recomended by our vet.
The natural dog food company has specially designed a food for dogs hat there stomachs can handle, it contains no wheat, soya, maize, derivatives, artificial vitamins or colourants.
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It is available in puppy, adult or senior, we opted for the adult with henry being 2 years old. It cost me £23.50 for a 8kg bag of food from there web site plus delivery as there are very few store stock this food.
The first night i fed it to henry he wouldnt eat it, he sniffed it, licked at it then walked away, me being as stubborn as henry is i thought oh well he will eat it when he is hungry enough, eventually late on the evening he did decide to eat it, i got up the next morning to find he had been sick, later that day he was sick again, this continued, i took him to the vets as i thought he was ill but it turned out it was the food being too rich for him and not agreeing with his stomach, this was designed for dogs with sensative stomachs but made henrys worse and is very expensive.
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Vulturine guineafowl are found throughout East Africa, and these birds are the largest and most colorful guineafowl species. Their unique plumage makes it easy to spot the birds in the dry grasslands and plains on your Kenya and Tanzania safari. The birds, which stand just over two feet tall, have large bodies similar to the shape of emus and quails, but their near-featherless heads, bold red eyes and long necks make it obvious they belong in the same class as vultures.
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I miss you Cake. It was only a few days ago I saw you at your most delicious. I was tempted- but I held back-in fear you'd notice the ice cream I had earlier that day. It was a mistake, I should have taken you then, but now it's too late. I was happy today Cake. Thinking I'd come home and have you will a tall glass of Milk, you and Milk got along so well. You sat as you usually did, on the table, beaming with chocolaty deliciousness, but as I came closer I realized some thing was wrong.
.. you'd come down with a terrible infection, and you were ultimately pronounced dead. Why didn't I notice sooner? Had it been there all along with out my notice? I cried. I had to call my mother and tell her I was taking you away-to where all infected cakes go. I somberly had to drink Milk with out you. Though Milk lifted my spirits it was never as great as it was with you. I should have finished you sooner Cake then none of this would have happened. I hope for your safe trip into the Sky of Cakes.
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The fourth annual "Petties Awards" is now accepting nominations from the pet blogging community and their readers to recognize the best pet-related blogs of 2013.
Hosted by DogTime Media, the "Petties" is expected to exceed 2012's record of more than 20,000 nominations, and will accept nominations in 10 categories: Best Dog Blog, Best Cat Blog, Best Cause-Related Blog, Best Designed Blog, Best Individual Blog Post, Best Active-Living Blog, Funniest Blog or Blogger, Best Video Post, Best Pet Mobile Application and Best Overall Pet Blog.
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We are developing a system using firefox which uses one big page with a LOT of DIV's. I won't go into the purpose of the application but I can say this about the speed. With FF2 it is amazingly quick. With FF3 we were shocked by the slowness of the rendering. We did a lot of head scratching until today when we set up our embedded via system with FF3 to see if we saw the same issues. Luckily, FF3 is blisteringly fast on our embedded system. It means we can now use FF3 :-)
My development system is a intel quad with 2 gig ram and the GeForce 8800GS running centos 5.2 with the latest nvidia drivers (173.14.09) . Our embedded system uses a 1.5Ghz processor, via graphics chipset and has 1 Gig of memory. I think we can say the problem in our case is not FF3 related as such. Maybe because of the method FF3 is using to draw the screen hits on the performance of the nvidia driver. A shame really because I do think nvidia's intentions are honourable.
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Tuesday, January 9 2007
The Knights of Prosperity / In Case of Emergency
So here's the pitches I imagine occurred for ABC's new sitcoms: What if Danny Ocean looked and acted like Homer Simpson and not George Clooney? Or, what if the high school valedictorian ended up a masseuse at Korean "massage" parlor?
Friday, September 2 2005
Underclassman (2005)
Before you can say, 'Drew Barrymore', Tre's got himself a spot just outside the cool-kids-on-campus clique.
Friday, February 28 2003
Cradle 2 the Grave (2003)
Deemed 'The Next Tom Cruise' by 'GQ' magazine, the prolific, asthmatic, and charismatic Dark Man X continues to power his way into the movies.
Thursday, October 3 2002
The Scorpion King (2002)
The Rock, director Russell says, has a 'deep commitment' to acting, bringing as much passion to the role as he does to his athletic endeavors -- good to know.


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Bought a used 2003 TRD as a project truck, but it came with the bed not bolted down to the frame. Anybody have any idea what size these might be?
It's going to be a pain to drive it to the machine shop and start putting bolts in to see what fits.


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We don't yet know whether there will actually turn out to be something nefarious in the emails that Hillary Clinton somewhat belatedly passed on to the State Department, but I feel confident in predicting that this Clinton scandal will likely play out just like every other Clinton scandal. For those of you who don't remember the 1990s, here's how it works:
1. Bill and/or Hillary Clinton does something that on first glance looks a little sketchy.
2. The news media explode with the story, usually including insinuations that something illegal or corrupt took place.
3. Republicans quiver with joy, believing that this scandal will finally be the one to reveal the true depths of the Clintons' villainy.
4. Clintonworld adopts a bunker mentality, insisting that they did nothing wrong yet trying to limit the amount of information that gets out, thereby antagonizing reporters.
5. As the eight zillion journalists assigned to the story learn more information, the story grows increasingly complex, yet no actual illegality or corruption is found.
6. The story drags on for months or even years, with Republicans never wavering in their certainty that the only reason we haven't learned the awful truth is the Clintons' stonewalling.
7. The more committed conservatives begin to lose their minds, eventually coming to believe spectacularly outlandish theories about what actually happened.
8. The whole thing peters out, and reasonable people conclude that while Bill and/or Hillary might have shown better judgment, they didn't actually break the law, violate their oaths, betray their country, or anything else their opponents imagined.
There are variations, of course, but that's pretty much how things go. And even though it's possible there's an email somewhere in which Clinton instructs her paramour Ayman al-Zawahiri to launch the attack on the American consulate in Benghazi, it's probably how things are going to go with this one, too.
After the debacle of 2012, in which conservatives at all levels were gobsmacked that Barack Obama beat Mitt Romney, some of them began to question the information bubble in which they had ensconced themselves. It's reassuring to think that everything is always going your way, but does it really serve you in the end? Then after a few minutes, they essentially said, "But we love our bubble!" and went right back into its warm embrace.
Which brings me to this tweet I saw this morning from Bill Kristol:
Stunning poll results on Iran: 65% willing to use force to stop Iran from nukes, 84% call Obama-type deal bad idea. — Bill Kristol (@BillKristol) March 5, 2015
Stunning poll results on Iran: 65% willing to use force to stop Iran from nukes, 84% call Obama-type deal bad idea.
— Bill Kristol (@BillKristol) March 5, 2015
Wow, I thought, those are incredible results. Fox News polls are always silly, but this may be worth checking out. So I went to the story, and from there to the actual results, and found the questions in question. Here's the first:
"Do you favor or oppose the United States taking military action against Iran if that were the only way to keep Iran from getting nuclear weapons?"
Interestingly, they've been asking this question for a while, but they used to ask it without the phrase "if that were the only way." But I suppose that phrasing didn't produce high enough numbers, so they changed it to this version. And, what do you know, 65 percent of people said yes. Perhaps in the next round, they can add "which would mean you and your children will die a fiery death."
And here's the second question:
"Do you think it's a good idea or a bad idea to allow Iran to get nuclear weapons 10 years from now in return for it agreeing that it won't obtain nuclear weapons before then?"
What? "...allow Iran to get nuclear weapons 10 years from now"? Seriously? That's how they describe the proposed deal between the U.S. and Iran. So naturally, 84 percent of people say no, we shouldn't let them have weapons in ten years. (If you're looking for a survey that described the deal in reality-based terms, you can see this one, which found that 61 percent of people supported it.)
What I wonder is, do the people at Fox think this kind of thing really serves their audience well? I guess they must, or they wouldn't be doing it. But to me, it shows that they look on that audience as a bunch of suckers. This isn't just about partisanship. The folks at MSNBC also deliver their audience a lot of material that they'll find congenial. But I have no sense that MSNBC believes there's any value in deliberately misinforming that audience. You don't actually do them any favors by telling them that everyone in the world (except for the traitorous liberals) agrees with them.
You do keep them watching, I guess; there's no arguing with Fox's financial success. But there's a real contempt for its viewers on display here.
3,500 couples marry in a Unification Church ceremony in South Korea, just as God always intended. No Adam and Steves here, you can bet on that.
It's been an entire 12 years since we started a war, and apparently the American people are getting a little antsy. A new Quinnipiac poll finds that 62 percent of Americans, including 72 percent of Republicans, favors the use of ground troops to fight ISIS in Iraq and Syria. We should be careful about over-interpreting that, because the question was preceded by another question talking about limited, but not long-term operations for ground troops. But there's no doubt that the public's interest in getting some boots back on the ground is gaining momentum; in Pew polls, support for ground troops went up from 39 percent in October to 47 percent in February; in the same poll, 67 percent of Republicans said they supported ground troops.
The reason I focus on the number of Republicans is that I suspect with this increase in support from their constituents, we're going to hear more and more Republican politicians coming out for what we might call a re-invasion of Iraq, and not just Iraq but Syria, as well. And as long as we're in the neighborhood, how about some military action against Iran?
Iran is, of course, a separate story. But it isn't unrelated; once people start advocating a third Iraq war with more vigor than they have been up until now, the idea of bombing Iran won't seem so outlandish. Back in 2002, when the Bush administration was in the midst of its campaign to convince the public that invading Iraq was necessary lest we all be obliterated by Saddam Hussein's fearsome arsenal of weapons of mass destruction, a British official described the sentiment among the Bush administration and its allies this way: "Everyone wants to go to Baghdad. Real men want to go to Tehran."
It wasn't long ago that the idea of sending ground troops back to the Middle East was widely considered just short of insane. After all, we'd finally gotten out of Iraq, after spending $2 trillion, losing 4,000 American lives, and sending the region into chaos. Why would we want to do it all over again? But now, the idea of doing it all over again seems to be gaining traction.
Just after the end of the first Iraq war, George H. W. Bush closed a celebratory speech by saying: "It's a proud day for America. And, by God, we've kicked the Vietnam syndrome once and for all." That syndrome was the reluctance of the public (and military leaders) to countenance enormous military adventures in far-off lands in service of vaguely defined goals. So it may now be time to say that the "Iraq syndrome" is dead, if ever it existed.
At the moment, when the Republicans running for president are asked about whether they'd like to send troops to any of these countries, they inevitably reply that "all options should be on the table." It's essentially a dodge, though not a completely unreasonable one. They want to signal to conservatives that they're ready to use force, but signal to everyone else that they're not eager to do so. But try to imagine what would happen if a Republican wins the presidency next year.
If ISIS isn't completely defeated, he'll be under pressure from his supporters to go in there and get the job done, and not in a wimpy way like Obama. Then think about Iran. With Bibi Netanyahu writing their talking points, Republicans will now insist that any nuclear agreement negotiated by this president is by definition weak and dangerous. The very fact of an agreement limiting Iran's nuclear activities can be the justification for military action. If the talks break down, on the other hand, well that just makes starting a bombing campaign all the more urgent. And of course, they'll assure us that once we take out the Iranian nuclear program, the people will rise up and overthrow their oppressive government.
It's all going to sound quite familiar. War will once again be presented as the only way to prevent a bigger, worse war that they insist is coming no matter what. Don't forget that the Iraq War was offered up by the Bush administration as a pre-emptive strike to prevent the inevitable and not-too-distant moment when Saddam Hussein would launch his war against the United States. While they never said whether the Iraq invasion would come by land, sea, or air, the attack was coming one way or another. In Dick Cheney's immortal words: "Simply stated, there is no doubt that Saddam Hussein now has weapons of mass destruction. There is no doubt he is amassing them to use against our friends, against our allies, and against us."
Netanyahu says that the Iranian regime is just a bunch of homicidal lunatics who are determined to re-enact the Holocaust. There's no use negotiating with them, because they're mad. War is the only way to solve the problem. Anyone who saw the way Republicans were like tweens at a One Direction concert at Netanyahu's speech on Tuesday know that if he says it, they'll believe it.
So here's what I think is going to happen. First, the idea that we need to put troops in to fight ISIS—not on the table, but on the ground—is very quickly going to become something that all Republicans agree on (and if you're going to do it, do it big—no half-assed mobilization of a few thousand, but a massive deployment). Then they'll start talking seriously about military action against Iran, sooner rather than later, and that too is going to move rapidly from being a fringe idea, to something that many of them admit should be "on the table," to something they all agree ought to be done. And by God, we'll have kicked that Iraq syndrome once and for all.
There was a weird little sidelight to the just-concluded mini-crisis over funding for the Department of Homeland Security, which was that the American Action Network, a group allied with John Boehner, was running ads criticizing conservative Republicans for not supporting a clean DHS funding bill, even as Boehner was trying to win them over with a much softer approach. But what really struck me watching this was something about the message itself:
You may have noticed that when the ad says "put real teeth in immigration enforcement," the image is of a Predator drone, presumably because we'll be raining missiles down on people wading through the Rio Grande. Which is...interesting. But here's the text:
"While the threats grow, conservatives in Congress want to beef up our security, enhance cybersecurity, and put real teeth in immigration enforcement. It's the right message to send to our enemies. But some in Washington are willing to put out security at risk by jeopardizing critical security funding. That's the wrong message to send to our enemies. Tell Congressman Tim Huelskamp to fund homeland security. Our safety must come first."
This is a common argument, particularly when it comes to national security policy. "Sending messages" is supposed to be extremely important, and not just to friends and potential supporters, but to adversaries and enemies as well. Indeed, sometimes it seems that victory can be achieved if only we "send the right message."
George W. Bush was particularly fond of citing the importance of proper message-sending. For instance, here are some of the things he said in the first debate he did in 2004 with John Kerry:
"[Iraqi Prime Minister Allawi] doesn't want U.S. leadership, however, to send mixed signals, to not stand with the Iraqi people…I don't see how you can lead this country to succeed in Iraq if you say wrong war, wrong time, wrong place. What message does that send our troops? What message does that send to our allies? What message does that send the Iraqis?...I know we won't achieve if we send mixed signals. I know we're not going to achieve our objective if we send mixed signals to our troops, our friends, the Iraqi citizens...The way to make sure that we succeed is to send consistent, sound messages to the Iraqi people...I think that by speaking clearly and doing what we say and not sending mixed messages, it is less likely we'll ever have to use troops...But by speaking clearly and sending messages that we mean what we say, we've affected the world in a positive way…[Kim Jong-Il] wants to unravel the six- party talks, or the five-nation coalition that's sending him a clear message...You cannot lead if you send mixed messages. Mixed messages send the wrong signals to our troops. Mixed messages send the wrong signals to our allies. Mixed messages send the wrong signals to the Iraqi citizens."
Now I don't mean to say that message-sending is never important. Adversaries and allies alike notice both what we do and what we say. But the idea that what matters in defeating ISIS is the message we send them is kind of crazy. There are plenty of reasons why it would have been a bad idea to shut down DHS, but it's not like somewhere in Mosul a bunch of ISIS fighters would be watching CNN and say, "We were prepared to abandon this war, but this sends a message of weakness. The time to strike America is now!"
Nancy Pelosi and Steny Hoyer listening to Benjamin Netanyahu's speech today. They don't look particularly impressed.
While everyone was getting ready for Benjamin Netanyahu's speech (you can read my thoughts on that here), John Boehner took the opportunity to capitulate to Democrats:
It was all but inevitable, and Speaker John Boehner (R-OH) finally cut his losses on Tuesday, telling House Republicans he will allow a vote on legislation to fund the Department of Homeland Security without any immigration restrictions. The "clean" DHS funding bill could come up as early as Tuesday. It is expected to pass with overwhelming support from Democrats and enough House Republicans. Boehner laid out three paths to his members in a weekly meeting, according to a source in the room: shutting down DHS, another short-term stopgap bill, or the Senate-passed clean DHS bill. He said the first two weren't good options. "With more active threats coming into the homeland, I don't believe that's an option," Boehner said of a shutdown. "Imagine if, God forbid, another terrorist attack hits the United States." It effectively ends the Republican threat to use a potential shutdown of DHS to overturn President Barack Obama's executive actions on immigration, which Boehner promised to fight "tooth and nail" last year with the new GOP majorities in both chambers.
It was all but inevitable, and Speaker John Boehner (R-OH) finally cut his losses on Tuesday, telling House Republicans he will allow a vote on legislation to fund the Department of Homeland Security without any immigration restrictions.
The "clean" DHS funding bill could come up as early as Tuesday. It is expected to pass with overwhelming support from Democrats and enough House Republicans.
Boehner laid out three paths to his members in a weekly meeting, according to a source in the room: shutting down DHS, another short-term stopgap bill, or the Senate-passed clean DHS bill. He said the first two weren't good options.
"With more active threats coming into the homeland, I don't believe that's an option," Boehner said of a shutdown. "Imagine if, God forbid, another terrorist attack hits the United States."
It effectively ends the Republican threat to use a potential shutdown of DHS to overturn President Barack Obama's executive actions on immigration, which Boehner promised to fight "tooth and nail" last year with the new GOP majorities in both chambers.
I am so surprised that it ended this way. Who could have predicted? Well, I and a dozen other people predicted exactly this, but anyway, I'm sure the House conservatives feel terribly betrayed.
Some time ago, I heard someone on the radio say that every time she sees "Romeo and Juliet," even though she knows how it ends, she finds herself hoping that Juliet will wake up in time to stop Romeo from drinking the poison, and they'll all live happily ever after. Which is understandable—despite what you know to be true, it's easy to get caught up in the drama. And today, conservatives in the House are kind of like that play-goer, except that they're leaving the theater all angry about how things ended, despite the fact that they've seen the play multiple times already.
There are a couple of ways to look at this. One is that, as I've argued before, Boehner has taken a nearly impossible task and made it even harder through incompetence. Another is that, as Jonathan Bernstein argues today, Boehner is actually being quite clever; these mini-crises pass without much public notice, he gives the crazies a chance to vent with a vote or two, and everything works out fine in the end. Maybe. But I still don't think history will be very kind to this speakership.
Before we get into the details of the Hillary Clinton email story, note that I'm writing this on Tuesday morning, and with each passing hour the story seems to be getting a little clearer. It may turn out to be significant, or it may turn out to be a big nothing; at the moment things seem to be moving in the latter direction, but that could change. Last night, when The New York Times published this story revealing that when she was secretary of state, Hillary Clinton did not have an official email address but instead used her personal email account for official business, people were reacting as though it was a blockbuster, a new scandal in the making. As everyone noted, it plays right into concerns about the Clintons' penchant for secrecy, and the poor staff work that so plagued her 2008 campaign (the assumption being that if her staff were more on the ball, they wouldn't have allowed her to use a private email for official correspondence).
But what a story "plays into" tells us nothing about what's there and what isn't. So was there any actual wrongdoing? According to Anne Gearan of The Washington Post, John Kerry was the first secretary of state to use a .gov email address. That wasn't made clear in the Times story, and it would certainly seem like a mitigating factor; if Clinton wasn't doing anything different from her predecessors, then this looks less like a conspiracy to conceal something.
The State Department says that last year they requested that former secretaries of state give them any work-related emails from their private accounts for preservation; in response, Clinton turned over 55,000 pages of emails. Three hundred of those pages were relevant to requests that the special congressional committee on Benghazi had made, so they were passed along to the committee. This morning, Elijah Cummings, the ranking minority member on that committee, issued a statement saying the committee should release those emails to the public. Of course, if they do release them and they don't contain anything incriminating, some people will say that proves that the real emails detailing nefarious behavior are being hidden.
There's no question that government officials, especially those at the highest levels, should have a .gov email address through which all official business is conducted. Since she used a personal account, we have to rely on Clinton's word that what she passed along to the State Department is complete. While I'm not an expert on these regulations, according to Josh Gerstein of Politico, it wasn't until last year, after Clinton had left the government, that a law was passed requiring officials to forward any official business conducted on personal email accounts. If she wasn't breaking any laws or even breaking with previous practice, it still might not have been the right thing to do, but it wouldn't be scandalous either.
Now let me be clear about one thing, because we have a long campaign ahead of us. My personal feelings about Clinton are complicated, to say the least. Defending her from legitimate criticism is about the last thing I have any enthusiasm for, and there are plenty of people who actually get paid to do that.
If Clinton ends up being the Democratic nominee, there will be about a hundred short-term controversies over things she did or said, whether allegedly or actually. Many of these will be ridiculous. There will be faux outrage over statements on the campaign trail, and enthusiastic conspiracy theorizing over Benghazi and who knows what else. She'll also get some criticism she deserves, whether it's about her tenure at the State Department, her activities outside government, or her policy positions.
This will not be the last time that a story breaks, and in the first few hours people start shouting "Major Clinton scandal!" Then it will turn out that when all the facts are in, it's something else: maybe nothing, or maybe something questionable or even problematic in some way, but not really scandalous. Whether you're disappointed or relieved with the way this story is turning out, don't worry. There will be plenty more.
Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu speaking before the Likud lobby, aka AIPAC. Unfortunately, he didn't bring his cartoon bomb.
Senator Barbara Mikulski announced today that she will not be running for re-election next year, bringing her 30-year tenure in the Senate to an end. This sets up what could be an interesting race to succeed her. The natural candidate might be Chris Van Hollen, the most high-profile of the state's House members. But keep your eye on Donna Edwards, who represents a district centered in Prince George's County (inevitably described as "vote-rich").
The latest Voteview rankings put Edwards as the 11th-most liberal member of the House, but unlike your average passionate liberal, she's also an extremely shrewd politician. In 2006, having spent her career in nonprofit advocacy, she challenged Al Wynn, the Democrat who had been cruising to easy re-elections for years, but had become increasingly conservative. Wynn won by a hair, but two years later Edwards ran again and obliterated him in the primary.
I have no idea if Edwards is interested in running, but she's always had big fans in the progressive community nationwide. If she ran, she'd be able to raise a lot of money from the netroots, and the fact that she'd be only the second black woman ever elected to the Senate means her election would be a pretty big deal.
There's no shortage of ambitious Democrats in Maryland, and I'm sure that at least a half-dozen are gazing out the windows of their offices today, contemplating what it would be like to be a United States senator. Could be a very interesting primary.
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