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TravelPod Member ReviewsCasa El Carretero Cartagena
Amazing stay. Rooftop pool with Bose speakers. Very nice breakfast, fresh fruit and egg dishes.
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Historical Traveler Reviews Casa El Carretero Cartagena
Casa El Carretero a gem of a boutique hotel
Casa El Carretero a gem of a boutique hotel that captures the glorious
past of the great neighborhood of Getsemani Cartgena de Indias.
Nestled within the walled city of Cartagena lies a very quaint and
luxurious house, with all the great amenities of
modern dwelling e.g. AC, flat panel TV, sound system and wireless
Internet. The staff is amazingly warm and accommodating and will
strive to make you feel that you are indeed in your house any time day
or night.
I had a chance to spend ten fantastic days in this great city and I
would not have wanted to stay anywhere else.
From the marbled floors, wood pane windows and wonderfully tasteful
south East Asian decor coexists with traditional Spanish colonial
architecture. This house is a wonderful example of the great Spanish
colonial houses that can be found throughout the great cities in the
Caribbean. From the balcony in the Bali suite as well as the roof top
pool overlooking "EL CASTILLO DE San Felipe" one gets the sense of how
the common man lives and thrives in Cartagena. I highly recommend this
beautiful house to anyone who is tired of the highly commercial and
Impersonal chain hotels and cherishes personalized attention at a
very reasonable price. I give Casa El Carretero two thumbs up.
Honeymoon in Cartagena
As a Colombian American, I have had the opportunity to visit Cartagena on numerous occasions and have stayed at various hotels including the 5 star Santa Clara. This bed and breakfast vastly exceeded my expectations. My wife and I spent a honeymoon weekend and the hotel went out of the way to prepare a special weekend. When we arrived the staff was very friendly, the hotel manager personally greeted us and gave us a tour. When he showed us to our room, it was magnificent: Rose petals in the shape of a heart on the bed, candles lit, and a bottle of champagne waiting for us. The hotel is beautifully decorated. The service was excellent. The only negative experience is that the cab drivers in the city dont know of the place and one night a cabbie drove us for close to an hour looking for the hotel (it is not located in your traditional hotel sector). After we found the hotel, the cabbie wanted to charge us close to USD $50. I think this could be avoided in the future if the hotel does a more effective PR job with the cab companies or at least have business cards so their guests can tell the cabbies the address and location. Other than that, the weekend and the hotel was absolutely off the chart.s By the way, for those interested in staying, you definitley have to check out the roofdeck pool. The hotel allows you to use it all night, so if you are out dancing late in the evening, you can jump in the pool and refresh yourself. The view from the roofdeck is amazing.
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Antes de nuestra estancia en Casa El Carretero no pod�a imaginar que �sta pudiera llegar a ser tan maravillosa como todo el mundo dec�a. Agradable s�, pero, �tanto? Bien, despu�s de pasar all� 7 d�as entre junio y julio de 2006, s� que realmente es as�. Ocupamos la suite Sumatra y nos pareci� estupenda: c�moda y bien decorada, con camas grandes, buena iluminaci�n y la terraza que daba a la piscina era un placer despu�s de todo un d�a sin parar en una ciudad cuyo ritmo puede resultar fren�tico. Pero, como todo el mundo sabe, fue el personal el que hizo que nuestra estancia en Casa El Carretero fuera una delicia. Todos eran atentos y cordiales y realmente parec�an preocuparse de que disfrut�semos de la casa, de Cartagena y de Colombia. Probablemente habr� otros hoteles buenos en Cartagena, pero, si alguna vez regreso, me asegurar� de que sea cuando Casa El Carretero tenga una habitaci�n para m�.
Magnífico hotel colonial
Pas� 4 d�as muy agradables con mi mujer y mis hijos en Casa El Carretero. El personal era muy profesional y atento, y se ocup� de atender todas nuestras necesidades. Nuestros hijos disfrutaron de la piscina y de la ciudad antigua. Tambi�n agradecemos el esfuerzo que hizo gran parte de ese personal, teniendo en cuenta nuestros terribles intentos de hablar espa�ol. Otro gran acierto fueron las recomendaciones de restaurantes que nos hizo el hotel. No nos hab�an gustado demasiado los restaurantes que hab�amos visitado en Bogot� y en Santa Marta (yo tengo un restaurante, as� que quiz� soy un poco m�s exigente que otros). Un gran descubrimiento... y s�lo hay dos horas desde el Aeropuerto Internacional de Miami a Cartagena. Maravilloso, realmente maravilloso. Visite su p�gina web [---], bonitas fotos. Arthur Levinsone, NY
What a pleasure
Before our stay at Casa El Carretero I didn't think it could really be as good as everyone says. Good, yes, but THAT good? Well, after staying there 7 nights in June/July 2006 I now know that it really is that good. We had the Sumatra suite for all 7 nights and loved it. It was comfortable and very pleasantly decorated. The beds were great, the lighting was superb and the terrace with the pool was a joy after a busy day in what can be a very hectic city. But, as everyone says, it was the staff who really made our Casa El Carretero stay a pleasure. All were welcoming and helpful and really seemed to care that we were enjoying the property, Cartagena and Colombia. There are probably other good hotels in Cartagena, but if I every go there again I'll make my plans based on when Casa El Carretero has a room for me.
My summer vacation at El Carretero
I had the time of my life for two weeks at Casa El Carretero. This is the place to be. You defenetly will feel like a king/queen.The staff is very freindly and are always their for you to make you feel at home.I feel that this new hotel has lots of potential . If you ever think of going to Cartagena you have to stay here. The pool has a great view of the old city and the decorations in the house make you feel like you were in your own castle.
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Second time is a charm!
Our second stay at this hotel met our expectations (which were high). We stayed in the Bali Suite which was very large - large sitting area with surround sound flat screen TV. Great balcony with view to Plaza de La Trinidad. We have not stayed in a standard room so cannot comment on those - but this suite was very good.
We live close to San Francisco, so love Cities . Casa El Carretero is very trendy. The hotel is very ambient and artistic.
We were quite surprised to see that some houses in Cartagena have still not been restored since it is a colonial city, but the work done on this hotel was superb.
Staff was very attentive at all time.
Room Service breakfast on 2 mornings was great - excellent food and good service.
During the day we found the main pool to be quiet, the music ambient and the service tentative.
We always had cocktails in the pool before going to dinner in the city.
I am a light sleeper - I slept well in this hotel - beds are comfy with mattress toppers, bed linen is luxurious, no late night maids being noisy in corridors and solid walls between the rooms.
In summary we will stay there again and it more than met our expectations (but it is pricey)
Wonderful Colonial Hotel
My wife and two teenaged kids spent a very satisfying 4 days at Casa El Carretero. The professional staff was very attentive and did a great job of seeing to our needs. Our two teenaged boys especially enjoyed the pool and the old city too. We were also pleasantly surprised and pleased that so many of the staff was so great given our terrible attempts at Spanish.
Another great treat was the restaurant recommendations from the hotel. We hadn't been very impressed with several other restaurants we had visited in Bogota and Santa Marta (I am a restaurant owner so am perhaps a bit more particular than others).
A great find... and only a couple of hours from Miami international airport to Cartagena. Wonderful, wonderful. Check out their website at [---] Nice photos.
Arthur Levinsone, NY
You have to try this place
I have to say, that out of the 10+ boutique hotels I have tried around Latin America and Europe, Casa El Carretero has to rank in the top 5. The hotel only has 3 rooms, but it is very exclusive. It tailors to the people who want to get away from the crowds and simply enjoy superb service.
Next time I go back, I am staying in the Syuite Bali, the one with a Balcony. What a view.
TripAdvisor Reviews Casa El Carretero Cartagena
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Whether you explore the town by foot, on bicycle, Segway, or horse-drawn carriage, you're bound to marvel at the flower-filled balconies of Cartagena, whose sunsets illuminate the silhouettes of watchtowers and ...
Cartagena, Colombia
... America. Many people do it to end their travels or to continue from one continent to another, as was our case. It is the one thing we knew we wanted to do, despite the cost! There are actually 2 options for this trip, you can either go on a sailing boat⛵ and spend more time on the ocean or go on a speed boat and spend more time on the islands. I wanted to try the motor boat option, but I knew ...
Cartagena, fortress city
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On Friday 12th, we did the rounds of a few places selling sailboat trips to Panama, via the San Blas islands. This was much more expensive than we had planned for ($550 each), with remarkably consistent pricing by ...
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... zoo area with flamingoes, monkeys, iguanas, parrots and all sorts of tropical birds we couldn't identify as well as a cafe with WiFi I!! Once past all these delights there are lots of taxis offering set tours 4 hours for $20 dollars in a minivan, $20 each way into town in a taxi or $25 per hour. We agree on $50 for a two hour trip for just the two of us into the old town and a walking tour with Frankie a very pleasant young man with an air conditioned mini ...
A Wonderful walk through Old Town Cartegena
We flew in to Cartagena yesterday afternoon from Medellin with our friends Bob & Suly. Took a wonderful walk through the old walled city last night. Kissed a palenquera (google it).
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King has no disclosures. Co-author Anita Courcoulas, MD, MPH, of the University of Pittsburgh, reports receiving research grants from Allergen, Pfizer, Covidien, and EndoGastric Solutions. She is a consultant for, and serves on the scientific advisory board of, Johnson & Johnson's Ethicon Healthcare System.
Another co-author, Walter J. Pories, MD, of East Carolina University, is a consultant to Johnson & Johnson Ethicon Endo-Surgery Inc. and receives grants from them and GlaxoSmithKline.


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The group of people that run PirateBay.org have announced plans to purchase the man-made island called
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"The New Afghanistan !" Velayat-e Nangarhar by Pakistaniguy
Velayat-e Nangarhar Travel Guide: 19 reviews and 60 photos
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Also on the travel list for next year... depending on the political situation... great insight and pictures!! Thank you!
Excellent page mate. I'll remember to take a brolly!
Great page Umer. I like to know about these countries and their people. Ciao.
Way cool of you Umer! You really are THE ambassador of Peace - we should all learn to be so adventurous!
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Great apartment in Hamburg (nk_15)
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The apartment has two big double rooms, both with TV and one with a balcony towards the quiet courtyard, a fully fitted kitchen and a bathroom. Two more people can sleep on a convenient design couch, and an extra bed would also fit for a 7th person. The kitchen is equipped with a fridge, a coffee machine, a toaster, a stove and an oven.
Attention: the apartment building is under construction, therefore might be some noise disturbance.
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Hola Carmen, era una maravilla contigo!
die Unterkunft war sauber geräumig und hat genau das gehalten was versprochen war! Wir haben uns sehr wohl gefühlt, alles hat perfekt funktioniert jederzeit wieder gute Anbindung an die Straßenbahn U-Bahn!
Vielen Dank Carmen...... Hasta pronto
Eccezionale, molto bello, curato e pulito, accessiorato e molto vicino alla fermata della metrò. Consigliatissimo
Wszystko zgodne z opisem, apartament ok, co prawda położony przy dość ruchliwej ulicy, ale można się tego spodziewać w centrum miasta.
Die Wohnung war wie auf den Bildern zu sehen - also gut ausgestattet und sauber. Die Matrazen sind nicht besonders gut, aber für 2-3 Tage geht das schon. Die Lage ist o.k. - ca. 5min Fußweg zur S-Bahn Berliner Tor. Abzüge gibts da die Nachbarschaft ab 07:00 Uhr morgens sehr laut Musik gemacht hat. Hare Krishna Gesänge oder ähnliches. Das nervt dann schonmal wenn man lange feiern war und gerne noch bis 10:00 Uhr schlafen würde. Aber dafür kann der Vermieter nix.
The apartment was in a great location very close to the metro and the centre of the city. Everything in the apartment worked well and we had a pleasant stay.
The only issue we had was with the wifi which is intermittent due to the flat being in the basement.
We've had an excellent stay in Hamburg at this accomodation. The beautiful staircase and historic outlook make this place a treat for the eye. An adequate offer of two bathrooms and one separate toilet is more than suited to make your stay pleasant. Our hosts were very professional, and in my opinion worked quite well with havings guests in their home. Although you are all in the same (huge!) apartment, you're not at all bothered in any way by each others presence.
The apartment was located very conveniently, only a stone's throw away from Hamburg Hauptbahnhof and nice shops and restaurants. A quick stroll to the center took no less than 10 minutes, with lovely sights and shops on the way. We've had a great stay here and would stay here again the next time we visit Hamburg!
thank you Fritz, the appart was very clean and calm. We enjoyed our stay in Hambourg. We will come again with pleasure.
We had a very nice stay in Hansaplatz 2, 4th floor.
Very nice apartment with all equipment, nice bed, fully equiped kitchen and nice clean bathrooms (3 of them!!).
And very kind owners. We had a lovely weekend:-)
I loved this apartment, it is spacious, comfortable, clean, and it is blissfully quiet! It is also in a great location on historic Deichstrasse which was a real surprise with its restaurants and a great Irish pub with lovely friendly staff. You can walk almost everywhere from here as it sits about half way between the Town Hall and Alster Lake and St Pauli and the Reeperbahn. It is also very close to the new Hafen City area and the many attractions there. If you want to use the U-bahn it is only a couple of hundred yards away. The booking, communication and check-in were very easy, and the Agent's office is just a few feet away so there is always someone if you need help. I liked Hamburg a lot, and found everyone very friendly. It is a very easy and rewarding city to visit and spend time in. I would love to return and will return to and recommend this apartment!
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When the topic of conversation is great American inventors, most folks think: Edison and the light bulb; Bell and the telephone; Wright, his brother, and their airplane; or, if they're really stretching, maybe even Clarence Birdseye and frozen food. Chances are they will not throw out the name Alan Anger. Not yet, anyway.
But Anger has made a contribution to American ingenuity arguably on a par with Birdseye's subzero inventions. A decade ago the 52-year-old entrepreneur from Osseo created a freeze-dryer at a quarter of the cost and about one-third the size of existing machines. Since 1993, through his company Freezedry Specialties, Anger has sold about 750 of the devices, to everyone from the Smithsonian Institution in Washington, D.C., to Memories Forever flower shop in Rolesville, North Carolina. "I'm not comparing myself to Henry Ford, but Henry Ford made the automobile affordable to everyone," gushes Anger. "I think we've done the same thing for freeze-drying."
The associations that pop up in most people's minds when they contemplate freeze-drying are flowers, ground coffee, flavorless backpacking grub, and childhood visits to the Smithsonian's Air and Space Museum, where people can consume freeze-dried ice cream, just like the astronauts. But Anger's machines will forever be linked with revolutionizing the taxidermy business. Or, to be more specific, making the world safe for freeze-dried pets.
"I just can't see taking an animal that somebody loves and throwing it in the ground and burying it, or burning it," explains Anger. "There's people that can enjoy those animals if they're freeze-dried."
Prior to the introduction of Anger's machines, which start at $8,500, the preservation of animals for posterity had largely been left to outdoorsmen. Taxidermists would skin an animal, discard the carcass, and stretch the hide over a polyurethane form. Freeze-drying had long been taboo because of the difficulties it engendered. The machines were unwieldy, expensive, and inefficient, and it was difficult to determine when an animal had been in the freeze-dryer long enough. If animals are not sufficiently dried out, they eventually "go back to their natural state," as Arthur Sturm, a taxidermist in Ojai, California, tastefully puts it. And if they decompose they lose their hair, begin to smell, and ooze fat.
Anger's machine, basically a bastardized Frigidaire freezer, was designed to eliminate the mess. Before Frisky the cat is placed in the machine, he must be prepped and posed. "I just cut from the bellybutton down to the bunghole and pull out all the insides," tutors Sturm, who owns two of Anger's machines and estimates that 75 percent of his taxidermy business is freeze-drying. Frisky's eyes must also be removed (otherwise they would shrivel up because of their high water content), and the inside of the animal is washed to eliminate blood. The cat is then placed inside a quarter-inch-thick glass chamber inside the freezer. For most household pets the process can take anywhere from three weeks to three months.
Anger has largely eliminated the guesswork in determining when an animal has been sufficiently freeze-dried by using a "thermocouple probe." This device is injected into a meaty part of Frisky, such as his thigh, and allows the cat's internal body temperature to be monitored. When Frisky's carcass returns to room temperature, he's ready for the Barcalounger.
Anger is a large man with a small, kind face. His thinning black hair is graying at the edges. Seated in the warehouse offices of Freezedry Specialties, he speaks of freeze-drying with the enthusiasm that most people reserve for sports cars or caviar. Anger retrieves a plump brown freeze-dried rabbit and sets it down on his desk. "It feels like something that's alive," he marvels, stroking the animal's fur.
Rabbits, along with cats, dogs, turkey heads, and squirrels, are among the most commonly freeze-dried animals. But Rusty Reising, an Evansville, Indiana, taxidermist who owns two of Anger's machines, says that he has also prepared crayfish, mink, weasels, snakes, chameleons, even marmosets, the Gremlin-like monkeys.
Anger keeps some of the more renowned freeze-dried animals at the Osseo offices: a kitty that did (post-freezer) time hawking Anderson windows, a tufted-ear squirrel who won "Best in World Freezedry" at the World Taxidermy Show in the early Nineties, and a rare luminous green Parson's chameleon, native to Madagascar (it no longer changes colors).
Despite Anger's fervor for all things freeze-dried, he is uncomfortable in the role of chief proselytizer for pet preservation. Anger would much rather discuss his invention's various other, more savory functions. "The real story is not the pets," he insists. "The real story is what freeze-drying can do overall." In the past year Freezedry Specialties' machines have been used to dry out and preserve wallets and other personal belongings from airplane crashes. When the Mayo Clinic in Eau Claire, Wisconsin, flooded in October, one of Anger's freeze-dryers was employed to preserve x-rays. At the University of Nevada's medical school the equipment is being used to preserve human brains without the carcinogenic addition of formaldehyde.
Paul Storch, senior objects conservator at the Minnesota Historical Society, has worked with one of Anger's freeze-drying machines for the past two years. In 1997 the land where the Science Museum of Minnesota now sits was excavated. The area had been an infamous St. Paul red-light district during the late 19th and early 20th centuries, home to numerous brothels and bars. When the Bucket of Blood saloon, at the corner of Eagle and Washington streets, was unearthed, archaeologists discovered a dump behind the premises. It contained nails, glass, and other detritus, but also two hats, one of which was made from muskrat fur. Using his freeze-dryer, Storch was able to preserve them for posterity.
"It documents a part of St. Paul history that doesn't have a lot of material remains, because it was more working-class," says Storch. The machine has also proved useful for situations of less historical import. "Last spring I dropped my checkbook in a puddle and I ended up using it for that," Storch laughs.
At the University of Nevada, Robert Hammond, coordinator of the anatomy laboratory, has used Anger's machines to preserve human brains, as well as hands, kidneys, and livers. By eliminating the need for formaldehyde, Hammond notes, he can now transport the brains via airplane. "By freeze-drying you have the opportunity to actually just put them in your suitcase and put a plastic bag over it," he marvels.
Freeze-dried pets also travel well. In fact, in most cases, because of the dearth of taxidermists who practice freeze-drying, the animals are shipped via UPS. Anger can recall only one incident where an animal did not end its trip in fighting shape.
The worlds of taxidermists and pet lovers can sometimes make for strange bedfellows, however. Reising, the Evansville, Indiana, taxidermist, says he used to cater to both the pet trade and outdoorsmen, but he eventually decided that the social interplay between the two groups was too bizarre. "If it was a pet, they'd walk in and you had to be the mortician who was gonna be in tune with their emotions," Reising recalls. "If it was a hunter, they'd want to tell you how they killed it. You had to put on a different hat, and sometimes when you had both of them in the shop at the same time you really tried to get 'em apart." Reising now focuses exclusively on hunters.
Sturm, the taxidermist from Ojai, California, has taken the opposite tack. Much of his business is now generated by household pets--sometimes with peculiar results. Sturm recalls getting a phone call last year from a San Diego woman who wanted her pet turtle freeze-dried. The order was not unusual, and Sturm told her that he would do it for $50. But then, he says laughing, the woman had an odd request: "I want you to castrate this turtle before you mount it."
Apparently the turtle had died in a state of arousal, and its manhood was quite obviously protruding from near its "bunghole," as Sturm puts it. Armed with Anger's invention, he was not deterred. "I clipped the nails and I castrated this turtle and then I got him ready for the freeze-dryer."
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Released: Nov 01st, 1998
Running Time: 108
Director: Patrick Collins
Company: Elegant Angel Productions
Cast: Vanda (I), Cindy (I), Rachel Teez, Rebecca Blonde, Leslie Taylor, Nick Lang, Katee, Barbara (I), Greta (I), Frank Gun, Emanuel
Critical Rating: AAAA
Genre: All-Sex
Heads (or should we say tails?) above the competition.
After a slow beginning, the trim and lovely Vanda makes her appearance. Seizing a unique opportunity. Frank Gun pours a cup of yogurt in her ass-crack, licking Vanda into a hot 'n' bothered lather. The tease session turns kinkier as he pinches her nipples with his toes, applies hot candle wax to her abdomen and finally breaks out the clothespins. We rarely see "mainstream" sex get this wild (retailers, take precautions) but it's a welcome sight, and hardly the climax. Being that the series is called Sodomania, Gun promptly loads his Magnum up her backdoor barrel and squeezes off a cum shot heard 'round the world.
Now, director Collins knows sodomy the way Clinton knows a good cigar, but we sure wish he'd put some effort into the scenarios instead of importing the usual American clichés such as the pool guy, the oil-rub-down, the fix-it man, etc. If the cast weren't so into thrashing each other's bones, this tape would be a creative write-off. Fortunately, the hot, natural girls, well-hung studs and fine videography go a long way.
Speaking of going long (do not read "tedious"), we can't leave without mentioning the "champagne brunch" scene, in which a half dozen performers go for a balls-out orgy. Plenty of pussy-to-mouth action serves as an appetizer for the main anal course. The gathering tops off with one guy dropping his load in his partner's asshole, and then the steamy load is mixed with champagne. Finally, the creamy cum-coction is hungrily eaten by another gal... a jizz Mimosa, if you will. Definitely put this one up for a "most outrageous" nomination.


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The snow that fell Thursday night into Friday morning forced the postponement of some area prep basketball games, including Franklin at East Henderson, Smoky Mountain at Brevard Pisgah at North Henderson and West Henderson at Tuscola.
Franklin at East will be played Saturday, with the varsity girls at 2:30 p.m., while Smoky at Brevard's varsity girls will begin at 5 p.m. The Pisgah at North games are set to be made up on Jan. 19.
North is traveling to Tuscola on Saturday in another make-up game, with the varsity girls beginning at approximately 4 p.m., and the Tuscola at West Henderson games, also scheduled for Friday, will now be made up on Monday, with varsity girls starting at 6 p.m.
Owen at Hendersonville and Thomas Jefferson at Polk County are both still on for tonight, as is the high school swim meet at the YMCA, which is set to begin at 5:30 p.m.
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In case you thought it was only comics that unnecessarily sexed up female characters, fear not: It happens in all media — and the newest guilty party is Disney.
On Saturday, the studio inducted Merida of the Pixar film Brave as the 11th Disney Princess. More accurately, it inducted some alternate-reality Merida who's thinner, wears her dress off her shoulder and exposes more cleavage. A redesign of the character appeared on the corporation's website in advance of the induction at Disney World, and faster than you can say "Wonder Woman's pants," someone launched a Change.org petition, which is now approaching 200,000 signatures. Disney removed the images of the redesigned Merida, not that it matters; the Internet never forgets.
I'm being somewhat flip about this but the whole thing is kind of amazing. I loved Brave, and thought it was the animated-princess story that was so overdue. It was so refreshing to watch an animated movie that stepped away from cliches to give us a female lead who isn't pining after a man, can skillfully defend herself, and looks and acts reasonably like a girl approximately her age. And it not once felt like an agenda movie. Really, it's pretty stupid that these kinds of characteristics feel like such a breath of fresh air.
A major entertainment company should have a sense of its own properties — Disney must know what Brave represented to segments of its audiences. Surely executives read reviews, or had assistants read to them if they are above such things. Maybe a quick summary in a PowerPoint presentation? I just don't understand how they could be so tone deaf when preparing Merida for the Disney Princess induction.
It's worth pointing out that the informal tradition of Disney princesses has now become a formal brand, which is why the character was redesigned. The Disney Princess brand has books, CDs, playsets and other merchandise that essentially mashes together these characters into the same world, or at least the same packaging. Putting together disparate characters from Pocahontas, Mulan and Cinderella might seem too jarring, so the distinctive styles are toned down to create a unified look that the redesigned Princesses all share. While I think they go a little too far with some of them, making some almost unrecognizable from their movie counterparts, it makes sense from a branding and marketing standpoint. However, redesigning Merida isn't the problem; it's the choices they made. Giving her a tiny waist, and exchanging her bow and arrows for excessive makeup and an alluring look that ages her a good 10 years is counter to so much of the character. It's almost as if Disney didn't watch its own movie. In the aftermath of the protests and condemnations, you'll notice that Merida's page now uses an image from the movie, while every other Princess has the more unified look. They also no longer show the group shot (another oddity is that Tiana from The Princess and the Frog is missing in the Visit the Princesses menu at the very bottom of the page).
So did Disney listen to the protests? Maybe. Such a response isn't without precedent. Earlier this month, Disney backed down from registering a trademark for the Mexican holiday Dia de los Muertos after a Change.org petition charged the corporation with trying to exploit Mexican religion and culture. Of course, Disney said it dropped the filing because it decided to go with a different name for its movie, making no explicit mention of public pressure. But it's not too hard to read between the lines and see the blowback at least partly influenced the decision.
Time will tell if Disney eventually releases a new redesign for Merida. About a week ago, a Disney spokesman told the Disney fan blog Inside the Magic that different style guides would be used for different products, "so some images of Merida may be in 2D and some may still be 3D – it all depends on the product and what type of art is most appropriate." The petition continued to gain signatures, and the film's co-director/screenwriter Brenda Chapman protested the changes, calling them "blatant sexist marketing." In the meantime, Disney downplayed the redesign by making changes to the Disney Princess website and using a pretty faithful real-life version of the character for the coronation.
I'm hoping this whole incident will inspire Disney to rethink the Disney Princess designs. Maybe instead the studio should go for something more inspired, such as Amy Mebberson's adorable yet feisty Pocket Princesses fan cartoons. That may not ever happen but it's encouraging to know Disney isn't completely tone deaf as to why Merida is important to young girls. Maybe I was just feeling sappy, but this "I am a Princess" video of a young archer explaining how she overcame the difficulties of being one of the only girls into archery kind of got me. It shows that while big entertainment companies can make some questionable choices, it's really encouraging when they get it right.
I just saw this article and wanted to let you know that Disney reached out again today offering a thorough response to the controversy: http://www.insidethemagic.net/2013/05/exclusive-disney-bravely-responds-to-merida-makeover-outrage-says-2d-new-look-was-for-limited-use-only/
She's not "sexed up" and she is not thinner than in the film. Her look has just been finessed to fit the merchandising portfolio of the Disney Princess brand.The other princesses have also been given a more "updated" look recently because recent focus group studies showed that young girls were finding some of the dresses and hairstyles "outdated". Giving a female character an innocent "Prom dress" treatment is not the same as sexing her up.
it looks to me like they just animated her in 2D, the dress is a little more off the shoulders. I attribute the makeup to be an attempt to recreate the more real skin tones of 3D models. 90% of her body is still covered by clothes, and she always had an anatomically impossible body. I am not insensitive to this kind of thing in the least, to me it seems like she got a slight makeover for her coronation, I would dress up a little to for such a thing too.
I have to be honest in saying that no one should really care that much about this. The Disney Princess Gallery is nothing more than a marketing staple for Disney to sell more toy dolls to little girls and give people in the Disney (and obviously comic realm) something to be upset about. Again, I throw out a notorious, "Who cares!"
If Disney wants to put her in a Princess Leia outfit and strap her to Jabba the Hut, they have the right to do so because it is their intellectual property. I welcome the change because to be quite honest, I thought the movie was a flop anyways.
And, a twisted hip is not sexy. Who comes up with this mess? AAHHH! Stop disappointing me world!
The whole outrage over Merida's redesign is upsetting. I mean, look at her 2D rendering, anyone who finds that "sexualized" is obviously sick. There's nothing sexy about the redesign. It's just the same old Merida with some glitter on.
Enough with these " It was so refreshing to watch an animated movie that stepped away from cliches to give us a female lead who isn't pining after a man, can skillfully defend herself" remarks. Are you all forgetting that Disney gave us Pocahontas and Mulan in the 90s? Those were brave women. Merida is just a spoiled brat compared to them.
Every princess in the line were redesigned this year. I don't see anyone complaining about them either.
"In the aftermath of the protests and condemnations, you'll notice that Merida's page now uses an image from the movie, while every other Princess has the more unified look."
This is false. Merida's Disney Princess page always featured her original design. The same thing happened to Rapunzel after her coronation. She was the only princess in the original design, but eventually they updated it with the unified look.
As for the controversy: People are complaining as if Merida is wearing some thong and exposing her ass and breats. Lol. She looks exactly the same, except in 2D form. Drama queens.
She looks exactly the same as before, but rendered with regular 2D art.
And being involved in the marketing campaign for Brave (and many other Disney and Pixar films) the only reason the character was made too be so "butch" was because Disney are constantly worried that no one will go watch a movie about a female character — that is why we had to dictate that she be surrounded by lots of men in the campaign, both trailering and print. This is an ugly truth found in the briefs for a lot of Pixar films and movie studios in general. So women need to be aware that although over-sexualising women is something that needs to be stopped, on the other hand, by encouraging more and more masculinity in the depiction of female characters, women are inadvertently subscribing to misogyny. If a lot of young girls naturally gravitate towards Disney Princess merchandise in a retail environment (which they do, like Tina Fey's daughter does, much to her comical dislike) then we should allow girls to feel comfortable and proud of being the way they are and liking the things they like. We far too often make fun of things for being "girly" and impose misogynistic values in Western society.
I'd kind of disagree with all you naysayers as to this, there is a definite trend when seeing the actual and revised versions side by side – full flowing hair instead of tangled thatch, waist is now thinner than head, more developed chest and loads of ornate glittery bits on a character whose defining traits included "only liked wearing practical clothes".
Which isn't to say I thought Brave was a particularly great film (indeed, Mulan certainly was better), but I approve of this as a stand amoungst what is a general trend towards every female character being thinner, bustier, prettier, wearing more pink etc, just because young girls need some variety in their role models beyond just ethnicity-swaps of women with the exact same physique and fashion tastes every single time.
Looks like Disney already caved in.
They also gave her Jennifer Lawrence's face, which is an improvement.
I don't think "sexed up" is the right phrase but you can see how they tried to make her look a little older and glam her up a bit
Her waist and rib cage are smaller in the revamp (with a bit more of a bustline) and her dress comes off the shoulder more and the eye-liner and lipstick is a bit much.
And she has a bit more submissive pose when crossing her arms with her head down on the sample that CBR has at the top of the page.
They could have at least kept her freckles. Miss Martian on young Justice had a few freckles
Fozzielovemarvel:"I welcome the change because to be quite honest, I thought the movie was a flop anyways."
And how did you think the movie was a "flop"? Is it just because you didn't care for it? It's domestic gross was $237,000,000 with an additional $300,000,000 overseas.
The full flowing hair was already implemented in the various dolls that were released in stores around the time of the film's release. You can't manufacture dolls with tangled bed hair and expect them to sell of the shelves. Her waist is as thin as it is in the film. It depends on which publicity still you look at. In some her waist is winder and in some her waist is thinner depending on whether it's frontal or side view. She isn't any bustier either. That's just creative liberty of the illustrator. And it is very common practice to produce more commercially appealing artwork of characters for merchandise. Look at the new Ultimate Spider-Man cartoon. In the cartoon, he looks older, and he has a washed out brownish orange colour with greyish blue. But in the official artwork poses for merchandise and adverts and dvd covers, he has bright red and blue with wider, whiter eyes and he's smaller, less muscly and younger in physique. OBVIOUSLY.
Yeah but that's just one shot. There are other ones where she looks prettier:
Yes they didn't turn into a centerfold, but they did increase her sex appeal. Her frick'n creator Chapman even says so, so I can't believe anyone would try to debate it.
If Jack Kirby was upset about how Marvel was marketing one of the characters he helped, everyone here wouldn't question it, they'd just want blood.
And here's the ULTIMATE SPIDER-MAN examples.
This is what he looks like in the show:
And THIS is what SPIDER-MAN looks like in the show's official portfolio/merchandise assets:
NOTICE how the colors are brighter, the eyes more defined and chiseled and his body is shaped more like a tween instead of a muscley college student (in the show he's neither – he's supposed to be a teenager)
I'll be honest. I didn't even notice any difference.
The 2-D version of Merida is a bit more "mature" but not exactly in a bad way. To me she looks a little bit older than her movie version and fits that look. If they are trying to say, "This is Merida exactly as she was in the movie"…then I cry foul.
Merida from the movie was brash and very much a tom boy with a bow. That Merida would not be looking this sweetly and wouldn't "pose" without her bow.
So…long post short…I can look at this Merida as what she would be in a few years after the events of the movie. It stands to reason she would girl up a little bit more as she reaches her late teens. It would be nice though if they would have kept her bow with her though. It was as much a part of her as her tangly red hair.
Even more shocking, in a large part of the movie Brave you could see a woman's bear breasts.
In a strange way, the battle for Merida's soul against the Disney brand parallels their own movie: a princess who battles against tradition, against being married off as simple property with a fear of losing her uniqueness, her "soul", if you will. I really feel that Disney didn't recognize the value of their own film and blew it with her Barbie redesign, but now, if they wake up and smell the pixels, they could have something far more valuable than a simple brand to market; they could have a character that even parents place on a pedestal.
"In case you thought it was only comics that unnecessarily sexed up female characters"
I don't think that, I actually think US comics are oddly skewed towards censoring sexuality and reveling in violence. Sexuality and attraction are normal things, oddly vilified, and the hilarious focus on this piece shows how odd your complaints are.
Ariel is in a bikini top and Jasmine is in practically the same thing. She shows off the top of her shoulders and it's suddenly offensive. This story is a waste of time.
I'm sorry, but……how exactly has she been "sexed up"??????? What you call cleavage is literally her clavicle. She's not any thinner than she was in the movie. If anything she's actually looking a little rounder. In the movie, she was stick thin. So they gave her an hourglass shape. So what?
Yeah, the internet doesn't forget. You know what else it does….overreacts and jumps to conclusions without a speck of evidence.
The only problem was that they took her bow and arrow away and that they made her slightly skinnier. Both moves were unnecessary. Everything else was done to make her fit in with the other princesses (as in actually look like she came from the same species.) I think the backlash was excessive but it also surprised me as I thought people DIDN'T like Brave. I keep reading pro and casual reviews saying it was boring and a step backwards for Pixar.
This article and most of the other's crying foul are overblown crap.
How about this? We put every female character in a Burkha – would that make everyone happy?
Sooner or later, companies are just going to start ignoring all of this constant outrage. She's a bit older and more mature than she was in the film, but that's just so she can be counted among the young adult princess set. She isn't 'sexed up'. It's just an opinion of mine, but I'm starting to get tired of all the ridiculous petitions over things that I can't imagine people really caring about. Disney doesn't need to design things by the committee of 10,000 anonymous people on the internet hunting around for the next big thing to get mad about.
I do think we've hit another low with all the outrage over this. I think it's just a case that it was a conversion of a CGI character into a 2D one that is consistent with the other Disney princesses. Merida has not been remotely "sexed up" and if you think she's showing any cleavage, you need to get your mind (not your eyes) checked.
I didn't even notice any difference.
Barely notice anything difference..
definetly not as controversial as yesterday MLP Equestria Girls
God forbid parents talk to their kids instead if expecting multi-billion-dollar corporations to raise them.
Don't you mean "backpedaling"?
I will agree that there are some serious image/portrayal issues with women in our popular media, but this? I thought this was overblown from minute one. She's drawn slightly different then her 3D rendering, but "blatantly sexist"? Her complexion isn't as ruddy, her shoulders are bared and…that's about it. I guess we can see that she has boobs, but I would hardly call those bra busters. I guess some people just like finding things to be upset about.
There's certainly a change you can't deny, but I couldn't think of less of an issue concerning a female character being "sexed up" Oh no, those shoulders are rated R!
Yup this issue is not worth 1/4 of the press it has received. Total non issue. Updated art to fall in place with the rest of Disney's characters, whoopie.
I wish they'd sexy up the fairies.
Mulan was a far better example for young females (and also had a tighter plot)
Are you serious? She looks exactly the same except her dress is sparkly….Grow the f*** up!
So is the predominant argument here "They totally could have sexed her up more. Her boobs aren't massive and her ass isn't hanging out, so it all looks the same to me. Bitches ruinin' my fun."
just the thought of the words 'sexed up' and 'disney' in the same sentence creeps me out. If your looking for sexy on a disney website you have serious problems.
To me she looks like she was given a ballgown, lotta people projecting
Before we get doe eyed and lovey about Disney Princess videos . . .
Kids should have choices . . . not types . . .
I…..really am not seeing the issue here. People are really calling this minor redesign "sexed up?" Oh no, she's bearing one inch of shoulder! The Victorians would be proud. Just not seeing the deal here at all.
I guess you could argue that she's been aged a tad, but even that is debatable and not by a large margin.
I didn't think Brave was that great a movie either. Definitely one of Pixar's weaker efforts. Probably my high expectations (which the trailers contributed to): I expected a rollicking fantasy epic adventure and got…..a very small scale story about a daughter and her mother's relationship.
For some people who are commenting. Did you even watch AND understand the movie? Because if you did then you would know why this is a bad move from Disney.
If the character was the typical cliche of a princess then no one would mind the redesign (because no one would really care), but she wasn't. Her look was part of who she was (just how comics mostly have women in bathing suits and few women in practical uniforms).
Some people are so against change (for better or worse), it's not surprising to see even some women who side with misogynist like a weird case of Stockholm syndrome. To the point we'd get a scenario like "Why is she dressed so slutty all the time?" "Because she isn't afraid to show her sexuality!".
If you think all these types of things are no big deal. Then you're blind (or ignorant) about the nature of messages and things we want our kids to learn as they grow up. All these minor things and subliminal messages add up through the years and make us who we are. We only wise up when we aren't in that comfort zone any more and seek greater knowledge.
Oh, and for all you naysayers who think "Look! Another radical feminist who just lost her boyfriend and is on her period!". I'm a single straight guy in his early 30's. Not that it matters.
Merida is the same kind of Disney Princess as most of the others. Strong willed, adventurous, in control of her own choices and destiny, and not interested in being betrothed to forced marriage. Same as Belle, Tiana, Rapunzel, Ariel, Mulan, Cinderella, Pocahonats, and although Sleepy Beauty did require saving, she didn't want to marry the Prince. The difference is that Merida doesn't end up finding her soul mate in the end because the story was about here rocky relationship with her mother. But they all end up with a gorge hunk du jour with slim fit bodies, gorgeous striking facial features and a cardboard personality – except for the Beast and the guy from Tangled. People need to stop reading into these things too much.
And having Disney as one of our clients, and knowing the company's current infrastructure of who's who, I know for A FACT that a woman was in charge of the decision for that redesign. These dolls are designed to be sold to females who DO want to feel like a princess and have a princess. Disney are not employed but the government and do not make it their mission to subliminally condition people to believe in anything. Such notions of Chomsky's theories are silly and are only ever promoted by people who have never been employed to be a part of any major industry such as entertainment, or media, or retail, or licensing.


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ASHEVILLE -- Woolworth Walk will host "Movement in Color," featuring three regional artists from Sunday, Jan. 18, through Feb. 14.
Madelyn Lantz's art not only conveys the flow of spontaneous movement, but a movement to specific music. Each work becomes a free form interpretation of the moment. The vision for each painting becoming a realization when the allusion to movement is captured within the hues and forms of composition.
O'clair Alexander is a woman of numerous talents. A few of her many life-roles include performing artist, creative expressive arts therapy specialist, exploration workshop facilitator and professional/personal growth instructor. She works in 3-D expressionistic clay.
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The week begins in the PI. An article off the AP Wire about a truck from Canada stopped for smuggling pot concludes with contact information for the US Customs officer on the case, including his cell-phone number. Wait, this isn't a news article by the AP, this is a press release from US Customs.
A man filed a complaint with the Advertising Standards Authority against Burger King for a coffee ad depicting a porcelain cup and saucer, but ol have it your way served the coffee in a horrible paper cup.
In other idiots, Felipe Francisco Garcia faces child abuse charges for allegedly making a toddler smoke a blunt. He made video of it, just like these assholes, so I cant imagine any convincing legal defense. He faces up to four well-deserved years in prison.
Also on the topic of drugs and kids, this guy says candy-flavored meth is actually safer than regular meth. But candy-flavored meth turns out to be a candy-flavored myth.
Meanwhile, Romney and Huckabee are facing off over who supported the more draconian meth policy and who will keep those policies good and draconian if they become president. Hmm 5 years or 10 years for consensual crimes? They both sound so reasonable, considering candy-flavored meth is being marketed to children…
Around the World: In Denver, a former Marine wants his pot plants back. In New York, a couple cops are arraigned for fingering 11 bags of cocaine. In the UK, theres a performance-enhancement drug scandal, but the drugs are enhancing the brain muscle. I continue to omit the sports juicing news because sports arent news. In Kansas, a doc is charged with running a pill mill that allegedly contributed to 56 deaths. In Massachusetts, a statewide pot decriminalization measure made the ballot. Cradle of the revolution? And in Holland, cops are miffed because, for the first time ever, theyre banned from using drugs while off duty.


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Russia's RTS stock-index futures were little changed as a report that U.S. manufacturing almost stalled in July offset expectations that the U.S. House of Representatives may agree to raise the country's debt ceiling.
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"Nothing I could do at this point would help my image."
In an e-mail sent to CNBC, Bernie Madoff claimed the feds "eagerly accepted" the information he offered on his former (and currently embattled) bank, JP Morgan Chase, which is reportedly close to an agreement to pay $2 billion to resolve investigations into why it didn't alert the government to Madoff's infamous Ponzi scheme. Sources confirmed that a middleman contacted the Treasury Department Inspector General's office on Madoff's behalf, though they "couldn't" say whether the information had been useful. "I am not looking for any type of credit for my assistance, just their honesty," he wrote from prison on Friday. "Nothing I could do at this point would help my image." At least one of those things is true.


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Michael Sipusic, 86, of Chestnut Street, Tryon, died Thursday, Feb. 17, 2005, in St. Luke's Hospital.
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Walt Disney is arguably the most influential artist of the 20th century. All animated movies made in Hollywood since his career began owe some debt to his pioneering spirit. Very little of what has been attributed to him was actually created by him. It is his iconic status that has become more important than any concrete achievements. Not only does he stand as an influential animator, his influence in the creation of the theme park mentality of vacation ideas is undeniable. There are some facts about Walt Disney, however, that remain little known even among people who regularly visit his parks and watch his movies.
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The Carolwood Pacific is the name that Walt gave to a miniature railroad that he built in the backyard of his California home. Such was the affection that Walt Disney felt for this little train that a railroad can be found in every single Disney park throughout the world.
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The overwhelming success of Disneyland prompted Walt Disney to open a second park. He wanted the park to be located near a place with a large population that enjoyed good weather, no threats of earthquakes and had cheap land for purchase. Not wanting to draw attention to his famous name, thereby driving up the price of the land near Orlando that would become Disney World, Walt secretly bought parcels of land under the names Latin-American Development and Managers Corp., Bay Lake Properties and Creek Ranch Corp. The large companies that locals speculated were grabbing up all the land included Ford, Chrysler, Volkswagen, Lockheed and McDonnell-Douglas.
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During the height of the atrocious Hollywood blacklist that ruined the careers of many writers, actors and directors despite the fact that they had committed no crime, Walt Disney worked as an informant for the FBI. Although this story has taken on a life of its own to create the image of Disney working as some kind of actual spy, the truth is far more mundane. Walt Disney was the owner of a hugely successful company and he desperately feared that communist influence would lead to his workers organizing a union that would lead to higher pay. Disney became an informant for the FBI to weed out communist influence because he saw it as an attempt to cut into his company's profits.


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- 2 cloves garlic
- 6 cups bouillon
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- 1⁄2 teaspoon grated orange rind
- orange slice
- Chop the broccoli, potatoes and garlic.
- Simmer in the bouillon until the vegetables are soft, about 20 minutes.
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I really hate seeing great players retire. We all do, no matter the sport. But the NHL has lost some of the all-time best this season. Mark Messier, Ron Francis, Al MacInnis, Scott Stevens, to name a few. Now, Mario Lemieux.
There was so much optimism for the Pittsburgh Penguins before the start of the season. The team drafted Sidney Crosby and signed veteran free agents such as Sergei Gonchar and John LeClair. The new rules, something Lemieux fought long and hard for, would benefit his game. The fact that Mario was even coming back was the icing on the cake. Everyone thought the Pens would be a playoff team.
Unfortunately, outside of Crosby's performance, nothing has worked out right in Pittsburgh. But don't read too much into that regarding Lemieux's second stint in the NHL. Overall, his return was definitely a success. I was in Pittsburgh the night he came back in December 2000, and when you watched him then, he was as good as ever.
So many of us thought his first retirement at age 34 was too soon. He was in the prime of his life. If he wasn't healthy back then, he would not have come back. Now that he's 40, and the game is much faster under the new rules, it was the right time for Mario to retire, but I certainly wish it weren't. I love watching him play. But given his health issues and the state of the franchise, would his playing at this point help the team? No.
Now, the argument will resurface: Is Super Mario the best ever? It's a great argument, but overall, I still believe Wayne Gretzky was the best player to ever play in the NHL. You can't argue against Wayne's numbers and his longevity. Longevity is part of what makes a player great, and it's an unfair argument to say "what if Lemieux was healthy?"
But I will say this: Mario Lemieux was the most physically gifted person to play in the league. His size (6-foot-4, 230 pounds), his speed, his hands, the way he saw the ice -- that physical combination will be very difficult to match. No big man has been able to do the things Mario could do.
As for the future, Lemieux will still be a part of the franchise, doing everything he can to keep the team in Pittsburgh. Bottom line: He's the only reason there is still a team in Pittsburgh. No one has given more to Pittsburgh. They owe him.
So, when you think of Lemieux, think of him as that big physical, presence, think of him as Pittsburgh's savior. Think of the Canadian, skating up the ice with Wayne Gretzky in the 1987 Canada Cup, Lemieux driving up the middle, taking a perfect pass from Gretzky on a two-on-one and scoring the winner against Russia.
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