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Vitor Belfort Keeps Karate Love Alive in UFC 103
"After UFC 103, Vitor Belfort gave credit to karate (and Jesus– a natural pairing) for his immaculate victory over former UFC champ, Rich Franklin. No surprise there, since "The Phenom" has been training in karate for years and has close ties with Lyoto Machida, the mixed martial arts Messiah of karate." – Dom Velando
A couple of months ago I wrote a post about Lyoto Machida, wherein I explained my fanhood for him, and how it wasn't just me – Machida's popularity has been consistently growing over the past 8-9 months. One of the main reasons why is Machida's karate-inspired fighting style. His traditional background (along with a black belt in BJJ) is making big waves throughout the MMA community. How could it not – the guy has yet to lose a round.
These days it seems that karate is branching out, and the latest person to do the branching is Vitor Belfort. Belfort is a recently returned UFC fighter who has been studying karate for years. Many analysts are remarking at Belfort's excellent control of distance and timing, and how he seems to have a natural sense of space. People are also commenting on the speed and directness of his counterattacks after making other fighters waffle and miss.
This may all sound familiar to UFC fans because those are the exact qualities that are granting Machida so much success.
To watch the Belfort fight (it only lasts one round), click here or below:
Due to his impressive win, Belfort is slated to fight Anderson Silva, aka, the guy so good that he makes champions look like raw beginners. Although UFC fans are pining for a Machida-v-Silva matchup, it looks like Belfort is going to have to do instead (both Machida and Silva have declared friendship with one another and a strong desire not to fight).
The most interesting thing to come out of these recent events is a raised eyebrow about karate from MMA fans and fighters. We've all been so overexposed by crappy, watered-down karate that seeing good karate in action is both intriguing and confusing. Fighters like Machida and Belfort are also doing karateka a service because they are showing the value of arts like BJJ, and how it isn't a sin to be well-rounded and open to outside concepts.
Very interesting developments! Pay attention everyone because these are the things that slowly shape the martial arts realm right underneath our noses.
UFC 101 – Anderson Silva Wins in Jaw Dropping Fashion
Please pardon my pun – but that's exactly how it went down. Anderson Silva tagged UFC Vet Forrest Griffin so hard and so consistently in the head and grillpiece that Griffin couldn't stand toe-to-toe with the Brazilian for much longer than 3 minutes.
If you'd like to check out the fight for yourself, click the picture above or this link. Also check out Noah's page for more fights and options.
For those long time readers out there, you'll know that I am a big fanboy for two UFC fighters – Lyoto Machida and Anderson Silva. This last fight, which took place at UFC 101 in Philadelphia, was another stunner that left me wondering how Anderson Silva performs at such a high level.
Silva's last two victories over Patrick Cote and Thales Leites were widely regarded as underwhelming. There was a lot of controversy as to whether or not Silva was losing his touch, or if he was just getting bored. It turns out he wasn't losing his touch.
Forrest Griffin, a UFC pro and highly regarded competitor, tried to stand up with Silva but had no success. In fact, Silva made Griffin look like a tentative rookie (which he is far from being). After a minute or so of gauging each other, Griffin tried to establish a rhythm on Silva by throwing out half-paced punches and kicks. Silva calmly slid away from those attacks, and carefully picked his opportunities to explode into Griffin.
Everytime Griffin attempted to push the pace, Silva slipped the attack and punished Griffin in return. The result was a fight so lopsided that some people are wondering if Griffin threw the fight, or if he was sick/drugged during the match.
One thing I can guarantee is that there was no throwing of the fight – Griffin is renounded for his big heart and taking a dive would never enter into is realm of possibility. Furthermore, there are no reports (as of yet) confirming illness or injury on the part of Griffin. What we are left to conclude is that Silva was simply operating at a level that nullified Griffin in every way.
Silva is a little guilty of antics during the fight – dropping his hands and urging Griffin to come and fight. That stemmed from the stream of bad press he had been getting from his last two fights, and the accusations that he was not putting out any energy or effort. It is also important to note that both fighters showed each other full respect throughout the match, which is a big differentiating factor when observing antics vs mockery.
I'd also like to point out that when Silva dropped his hands it was because he was in such dominant control of distancing and timing that that was the only way to get Griffin to come and fight. Silva saw the opportunity to use such a tactic to win, so he took it. He further demonstrated his command by knocking out Griffin in an almost casual fashion.
Call this match what you will – weird, unusual, astounding, intriguing…for me, I can confidently say that it was definitely worth watching.
What the Death of Vernon Forrest Can Teach Fighters
Former boxing champion Vernon Forrest was shot and killed in Atlanta, Georgia on Saturday July 25th. The incident occured at a local gas station where Forrest was robbed at gun point and killed a few minutes later when in pursuit of the robber.
This is an extremely unfortunate event; one that every martial artist and fighter should take note of.
The Details
Forrest, 38, is best known as the first man to defeat Shane Mosley (an extremely dominant force in the boxing world). Forrest was also a member of the 1992 Olympic boxing team alongside Oscar De La Hoya. Achieving a professional record of 41-3, Forrest was able to attain the ranks of welterweight and junior-middleweight champion.
On Saturday the 25th Forrest stopped at an Atlanta gas station to refill the air in his tires. His 11-year-old son was in tow, whom Forrest allowed to enter the gas station itself. While refilling, Forrest was approached by a gun-wielding assailant and was robbed of his Rolex and championship ring.
As the robber made his escape, Forrest retrieved a firearm from his vehicle and began pursuit. The chase went on for roughly 3 blocks where the assailant was able to slip away. Forrest, still in close pursuit, encountered another individual, according to police lieutenant Keith Meadows:
"Forrest comes around the corner and he encounters another individual who we believe has a gun in his hand," Meadows said, adding that Forrest and the second person "exchange words" before Forrest "realizes that this is not the individual who actually robbed him.
"So he turns to walk away and it was at that point the subject shot Mr. Forrest a number of times in the back," Meadows said. – Yahoo Sports
The Takeaway
Here we have a sports fighting phenom – strong, fast, confident, and effective. On top of that, he was reportedly a great father and humanitarian outside the ring. Yet despite all that he still fell victim to a classic case of street violence.
No matter how much ground-n-pound, kyusho, or sparring we do, we can never be sure how things will unfold on the street. Furthermore, if we let our anger and self-confidence take ahold of us, we might exacerbate an escapable situation.
No one can be blamed for Forrest's death besides the assailants. However, it is becoming more evident that Forrest made questionable decisions in dealing with his situation. The first of which was making the choice to stop. Trainer Emanuel Steward had this to say:
"I always preach to my boxers to never stop for gas late at night when you don't know your surroundings," Steward said. "Vernon did, and his natural instinct as an athlete was to go after his assailant. He's going to fight back. The problem is everyone, it seems, has a gun." – Freep.com
Awareness and proper planning are very underrated tools for self defense. No matter how skilled or well armed you are, Steward is right – it seems like everyone has a gun.
The second issue was Forrest's decision to chase after his possessions. I can only imagine what kind of sentimental value the championship ring must have had, but it was replaceable. As that robber ran off so did the immediate danger to Forrest and his son. Unfortunately, street justice wouldn't have been served, and Forrest seemed like the kind of man who wanted to punish wrong doing.
Who can say they haven't felt the same way at some point?
We need to take stock in our training and realize the importance of the mental side of body, mind, spirit. We need to be able to quickly choose when fighting is necessary and utterly required to protect ourselves and others. This is extremely difficult, especially when combined with the quick chaotic nature of true violence.
The third issue was Forrest's disengagement from his eventual killer. When Forrest lost site of his robber, he encountered another individual who was allegedly wielding a firearm. The two exchanged words, and Forrest realized that this wasn't the guy who robbed him. After that, he turned his back to walk away, and was shot repeatedly.
I don't know what was said, but there is absolutely no reason to trust this random, armed individual enough to turn your back or drop your guard even for a moment.
When it comes to violent events, hindsight is easy. We can do shoulda-woulda all day, but the fact is those split second decisions determine the final outcome of the event. Perhaps we can store Forrest's untimely death in the back our minds so that we might learn from it.


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Would you sleep with this man? George Rekers, anti-gay zealot, apparently has to pay little boys to massage his….I am just grossed out. – GAWKER So, Lady Gaga wrote Telephone for Britney Spears originally. Now, she is wearing royal underwear and dogging of everyone. – DAILY MAIL The NY Times asks if Michelle Obama can make a designer a star. I say not because the only star in that scenario…is her. – NY TIMES STYLE The New York Times referred to Mick Jagger as a wizened man. Ouch. – NY TIMES STYLE Michael Jackson…gay…not gay…rest in peace and done. –… Read More »
It has been a while since I have commented on The New York Times Style Section. Seemed like someone was listening and there were actual fashion related stories running in the bi-weekly Style Section…ya'd think. But today, the lead story in the Sunday Style is all about Jenny Sanford. Now, she is a lovely woman and I thoroughly sympathize with this woman. No one should be publicly scrutinized for being cheated on by their spouse. It is a shame that the public is so consumed with human foibles. Alas, we are. But of all the humans to be focused on…especially… Read More »
Wonders will never cease and change is not likely at The New York Times Sunday Styles. On several occasions I have been astonished at the out of touchness, the irrelevance, and some of the people they take to A Night Out With. It's shoc…king! Yesterday we have three ditties that I found dubious at best. First off, there was a piece on the new Harvard Yard men's collection. Excuse me, I reported on that over three weeks ago. Now granted, the Times Style is not a fashion rag and need not be as topical as would a fashion trade publication.… Read More »
Of all the people on Earth, The New York Times Style section felt the need to ask an uninteresting person to share their Woodstock (or lack thereof) experience on this, the 40th anniversary of the pivotal, generation-changing event. Elsewhere in The Times, Gail Collins did a fantastic Op-Ed piece on Woodstock. Then again, I'd read her grocery to-do list. But, The Sunday Style section would not live up to the oxymoron title I have bestowed upon it without at least one article worthy of a mention in I Mean…What?!? Today we have a writer, a proud Baby Boomer (zzz), who… Read More »
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Feature: How Hearts coach Duncan's Fantabulous bravery denied Kotoko
You could call it any name, but the amount of bravery displayed by Coach David Duncan in that test case of taking over from his colleague C.K. Akonnor within a period of one week to the day the century-old Accra Hearts of Oak were to face their bitterest rivals, fabulous Kumasi Asante Kotoko, in Kumasi for the first round of this year's Glo Premier League could only be described as "mission impossible".
Many a light-hearted coach might have turned down the appointment, looking at the present poor performance of the team he was going to handle and the immediate dangerous rivals the team was going to fight against.
Of course, as he later said, that was not the first time the Phobians were going to invade Kumasi with a team that was in virtual disarray, a team that was losing matches as if it was nobody's business.
Reports that the Phobian followers were responsible for the firing of Coach Akonnor in lieu of the fear for the impending assignment made the task extremely dicey.
In other words, as has happened on several occasions between the two sides, failure to succeed amounted to imminent parking of the coach's bag and baggage from the camp.
A man with fantastic experience like Duncan was not scared by such funny pranks.
Yes, he accepted the task, went out there to train his team, selected his men, briefed and motivated them and threw them onto the field in Kumasi against a team that could boast of seasoned stars who could easily turn defeat into victory.
Kotoko had a recent track record of invading Tarkwa to discipline the unbeatable Medeama SC at a time they were coasting for the league title, and staying firmly on top.
Fans predicted a total massacre of Hearts in Kumasi last Sunday, others did not see why Kotoko could not seek revenge for the domineering 4-0 whacking they received in Accra a decade ago at the hands of Hearts.
The airwaves were full of Kotoko's victory over Hearts.
Indeed, it reminded me of the days Hearts returned from an African championship assignment in Angola in the 80s with stories of missing hotel blankets and towels and their immediate assignment on arrival was a match against Kotoko in Kumasi.
I was in Kumasi that day to witness how Kotoko fans entered the stadium in big blankets and towels to taunt and tease Hearts into defeat. But a brave team like Hearts couldn't be intimidated. They beat Kotoko 1-0 that day, and the scorer of that goal was Ezekiel Alamu.
Last Sunday, the ball started flowing for Hearts but their inspirer, Laryea Kingston, had a nasty high boot that crashed his face on the quarter-hour mark, but surprisingly referee John Atikese did not see that as a bookable offence to caution the player and the team against such dangerous tackles. It was followed by a deliberate elbowing and the rest.
Coach Duncan saw it all and urged his men on till the 74th minute mark when one of his midfielders, Alhassan Ali, was shown a red card for a second bookable offence.
But that was Hearts whose track record showed that at one stage they beat Kotoko in Kumasi with nine men! This time, Kotoko took full advantage of Hearts' numerical weakness to press for goals that just couldn't come, with Tetteh Luggard in the posts. That young goalkeeper was later declared the "player of the day".
I must have cause to to say kudos to Coach David Duncan for his boldness and tenacity of purpose. Coaches have their occupational hazzards, but in crisis like this it needed a man lilke Duncan to give it an academic touch as he is an academia himself.
Hearts are still in danger zone on the league table, and that requires a better drill to face the challenges. Their defeats and draws are simply becoming too much for a team of their calibre, but it shows how remarkable the Glo Premier League is progressing.
Duncan has had a bright start, but that must not go into his head to think that the smaller teams will give his side a respite. Last Sunday's draw only saved his image. But Hearts are far from the championship stuff they were some 12 years ago, and one wonders whether the problem is with only the technical staff, management or the fans.
The "El-classico was a fantastic success, but let me quickly say that the riots that erupted in the stands spoilt the day!
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Week 8: How not to be a financial disaster in 12 weeks
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- April 03, 2014
JENNI Ryall is on a journey from financial hell to financial freedom in 12 weeks. She shares her honest account of turning her ridiculous situation around.
I threw out my television one year ago. I also disconnected my internet. My mattress was made circa 1981. My couch came as a mega bonus with my apartment. My washing machine was free from my old flatmate, and I forgot to buy a dryer. My fridge doesn't have a light, freezes everything and is second hand. My outdoor table broke in half and I didn't replace it. Oh, and my doona is still the size of a single bed.
I have spat out numerous reasons for the lack of large ticket items in my apartment. "I like my display home!" "I want to be disconnected." "It makes me read books." "My bed is comfortable and can you believe, it flips into the wall?!" "I can breeze-dry my sheets by hanging them on my bathroom and shower door — it's good for the environment."
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Fred of St Kilda Posted at 1:45 PM April 02, 2014
Don't keep old fridges. New fridges use a lot less power and you'll save many dollar
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devil's advocate Posted at 1:49 PM April 02, 2014
there are two sides of the savings ledger - this and previous blogs only focus on reducing spending. What about raising income? What are you doing to further your earning potential? The first article/post stated you worked hard - but was it 'hard work' in a field that you find enjoyable like hospitality or the arts? Working in a job one enjoys is a privilege to be enjoyed by the independently wealthy. So, I would look forward to an indication of what went wrong career wise and what is being done to put it back on track.
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Adam Posted at 1:50 PM April 02, 2014
"cutting up" the credit card is great as a symbolic gesture. unfortunately it doesn't mean much when so many of todays creditors force you into direct debit agreements. the card can be lost or destroyed but it's still there in cyberspace. i remember when my "wealth package" (lol) annual fee was due but didn't have the funds available in my delegated bank account. I asked the bank to defer the transaction by a week or so. Instead of complying they simply charged my Master Card (with no authority from myself) The system has a myriad of ways to keeping you in the debt trap.
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fix up look sharp of sydders Posted at 1:57 PM April 02, 2014
they're not 'savings' if you have a debt.
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Cymek Posted at 2:39 PM April 02, 2014
I received some money in an inheritance and the first thing I did was pay off all outstanding debts including a credit card and then cancelled it. I'd never get another one and no personal loans either, my mortage is the only debt I have left and thats a necessary evil. Personal debt is a good means of social control, your aren't going to upset the status quo too much if it means you could lose your means of generating an income.
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Alicia Posted at 2:59 PM April 02, 2014
Instead of moving your credit card around to get a better deal, if you really want to pay it off, you should be converting it to a personal loan. You might not get the 0% balance transfer but you do get the benefit of having set repayments and a light at the end of the tunnel. Get one that doesn't have a redraw facility. You'll get nowhere with your credit card if you get spending money you don't have.
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PoP of SA Posted at 3:08 PM April 02, 2014
Spend up and die happy ... or die in misery .
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Kevin of Double Bay Posted at 4:01 PM April 02, 2014
I cannot believe people still use credit cards. I only use American Express Platinum and have an add on card for both my wife and my son Winston who is privately educated. We have never paid a cent in interest and simply have the full amount paid each month via our private banker. Anyone who actually uses a credit card and then fails to pay the full amount owing immediately the statement arrives deserves to be penalised by high interest charges.
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Joanne Posted at 4:05 PM April 02, 2014
And here we go again with another piece of frugal life. Ebenizer Scrooge, we come. Yes, certain things can be cut back. I don't need make-up, have a very good cheap hair dresser, yet we run two fridges, don't have an aircon, which we don't like anyway. We love good quality food, which makes you eat less because you're fuller quicker (reminds me of one of her first stories clearly showing she's no idea about anything, especially quality and value for money), and can afford wine. We've decent furniture, no credit cards and don't owe money. That woman will end not in financial freedom but hell, because she doesn't know how to live properly without robbing a bank. She actually mixes up frugal with being money conscious, two very different things, because the first one means you have no lifestyle, the second one means you simply don't buy what you can't afford, but still live well enough.
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Spike Lee boycotts 'Django Unchained' to avoid being 'disrespectful'
Director Spike Lee
"It'd be disrespectful to my ancestors to see that film. That's the only thing I'm going to say. I can't disrespect my ancestors," Lee told VibeTV in a recent interview.
The director, known for films that examine race relations including "Do The Right Thing" and "Red Hook Summer," took to Twitter to further explain his position on "Django," writing, "American Slavery Was Not A Sergio Leone Spaghetti Western.It Was A Holocaust.My Ancestors Are Slaves.Stolen From Africa.I Will Honor Them." [sic].
Some have dubbed the film Tarantino's "Southern" -- a play on the fact the film's title borrows from 1966 Italian spaghetti Western "Django," includes Western film elements, but is set in the South. And as Tarantino does, he creates hyper-real comedic moments during scenes depicting grotesque violence. One is to assume Lee is not laughing when it comes to Tarantino's stylized take on slavery.
The film depicts several torture scenarios slaves endured -- and no, Tarantino doesn't make a joke out of those horrors. The slaves, including his leading man Django (Jamie Foxx), are the protagonists of the film for the most part -- with the exception of Stephen (Samuel L. Jackson). But Tarantino has admitted he took some artistic license. "When slave narratives are done on film, they tend to be historical with a capital H, with an arms-length quality to them. I wanted to break that history-under-glass aspect, I wanted to throw a rock through that glass and shatter it for all times, and take you into it," the director said recently in an interview.
Indeed, historians are saying that slaves fighting to the death -- a key subplot in the film that now appears to be simply Tarantino's fictional brainchild -- has never been proven to have happened.
[Related: Leonardo DiCaprio's real blood is in 'Django Unchained' scene]
A fan tweeted back at Spike Lee, saying he was taking the film too seriously. Lee replied, "Wrong.Birth Of A Nation Got Black Folks Lynced [sic]. Media Is Powerful. DON'T SLEEP. WAKE UP YO."
Lee has criticized Tarantino before over his 1997 film "Jackie Brown," which starred '70s blaxploitation film actress Pam Grier and frequently featured the n-word. "I'm not against the word... and I use it, but Quentin is infatuated with the word. What does he want? To be made an honorary black man?" Lee said in a past interview with Variety.
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"W. G. Sebald exemplified the best kind of cosmopolitan literary intelligence-humane, digressive, deeply erudite, unassuming and tinged with melancholy. . . . In [Campo Santo] Sebald reveals his distinctive tone, as his winding sentences gradually mingle together curiosity and plangency, learning and self-revelation. . . . [Readers will] be rewarded with unexpected illuminations."
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This final collection of essays by W. G. Sebald offers profound ruminations on many themes common to his work-the power of memory and personal history, the connections between images in the arts and life, the presence of ghosts in places and artifacts. Some of these pieces pay tribute to the Mediterranean island of Corsica, weaving elegiacally between past and present, examining, among other things, the islands formative effect on its most famous citizen, Napoleon. In others, Sebald examines how the works of Günter Grass and Heinrich Böll reveal "the grave and lasting deformities in the emotional lives" of postwar Germans; how Kafka echoes Sebalds own interest in spirit presences among mortal beings; and how literature can be an attempt at restitution for the injustices of the real world.
Dazzling in its erudition, accessible in its deep emotion, Campo Santo confirms Sebalds status as one of the great modern writers who divined and expressed the invisible connections that determine our lives.
In this final collection of sixteen essays by W. G. Sebald, one of the most elegant and incisive authors of our time, all of his trademark themes are contained-the power of memory and personal history, the connections between images in the arts and life, the presence of ghosts in places and artifacts.
Four pieces pay tribute to the Mediterranean island of Corsica, weaving elegiacally between past and present. In "A Little Excursion to Ajaccio," Sebald visits the birthplace of Napoleon and muses on the hints in his childhood home of a great man's future. Inspired by an Italian cemetery, "Campo Santo" is a reverie on death, ranging from the ambiguity of inscriptions to the size of and adornment of gravestones to the blood-soaked legend of Saint Julien.
 Sebald also examines how the works of Gunter Grass and Heinrich Boll reveal "the grave and lasting deformities in the emotional lives" of postwar Germans, how Kafka echoes Sebald's own interest in spirit presences among mortal beings, and how literature can be an attempt at restitution for the injustices of the real world.
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and I needed to make a business card for them, so i just asked
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**EDIT** the one you're seeing is designed by the OP. Front and back. The one designed by the local printer has been removed because posting another designer's work for critique is not allowed **EDIT**
I showed both works to the owners of the hotel and
they all liked the 1st one ( from the local printer ) better!!
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I was going to print the card (2nd one) on silk 16pt with rounded corners.Last edited by Yossarian; 04-27-2011, 08:39 PM. Reason: remove other designer's workTags: None
That logo is probably the thing that's blowing their skirts up.
Looking at the two together makes me think I'm looking at a front and back. And that may be what they are picking up on; that your design feels like the back of the card.
Yours is a great design; clean, simple, modern. But it's missing that focal point that a logo can provide, as in the 1st design. Maybe yours could include that logo, or a variation of it (enlarged and bleeding off the sides, possibly).
I think I would choose that 1st design also, and simply for that fact alone. Yours is not a bad design, however.
Bowie. Sorry for the confusion. One of our mods removed the other design since it violated forum rules, which don't allow for the critique of a design not done by the person posting it.
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Personally, I like the grey, simple one.
I'm not a fan the scrolly, poofy, luxury look that hotels always seem to embrace, but hey, I'm not a hotel owner. Also, if that's their logo, I can understand why they want to use it — despite it's scrolly, poofyness.
Maybe you can combine them somehow. Center the text on the grey one and drop in the logo above the type — maybe. Make an executive version of the card (just for the hotel management to use) where the logo is foil embossed, and they'll love it.
Edit: Okay, based on what Craig B said, never mind. I might suggest that the mods write an explanation for these things when they change something. I know they usually do, but in cases like this, it seems necessary.Last edited by B; 04-27-2011, 08:37 PM.
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Originally posted by wonsong82 View PostI am web/graphic manager...and I needed to make a business card for them, so i just asked
the local printer to design the bcard with 'Cinematic Verite and Modern' theme...And I thought it sucked so i redesigned...I showed both works to the owners of the hotel and they all liked the 1st one ( from the local printer ) better!!
If I were the hotel owners, I'd hire the printers and say goodbye to you. Harsh, but true right?
I know the other design has been removed, but why did you post it anyway? Were you hoping for confirmation that one of them sucked more than the other? Does it matter what we think as long as the client is happy? No.It is more fun to talk with someone who doesn't use long, difficult words but rather short, easy words like "What about lunch?" Winnie the Pooh
I'd consider using the same serif font for the hotel name on the gray side of the card as you've used in combination with the logo. The sans text, minus the space in between, plus half the name bolded makes it look like 2 different cards.
Also, and you may have already planned on this, use a gray pantone color around the reversed out text. A screen of black will make it difficult to read. And like someone else mentioned a hint of the logo on the gray side, like enlarged and a slightly different shade might be nice.
Never show a deciding party a design you are not personally a fan of. That way there is never a chance of them picking it.
Just to comment on your design. It reminds me of hotel key cards. That may be exactly what you were going for, but that is just what it looks like to me. Especially the white side.
Like others have said, unify the typeface of the name and I think it will bring the sides together a little more.Some people don't know that they don't know...and they don't know how to find out.
Originally posted by kennsington View PostNever show a deciding party a design you are not personally a fan of. That way there is never a chance of them picking it.
Along similar lines, always leave something trivial on the best one not quite finished or with an obvious decision to be made. That way, you can ask the client something like, "Let's see, I couldn't decide whether to put hyphens or periods in your phone number. What do you think?" This gets them sidetracked onto an inconsequential bit of trivia while quenching their need to meddle with what you've done. Then, of course, whether they choose the hyphen or the period, always say, "Yes, that's perfect now. Great idea. Thanks!"


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The choreographer Merce Cunningham died on July 26, 2009. He was 90. Almost 10 years before, on the stage of the New York State Theater, he was awarded the city's highest cultural award, the Handel Medallion. To that audience he recalled, as he has on other occasions, how he arrived in New York for the first time in September 1939, by train, ready to join Martha Graham's company as its second male dancer: "I stepped onto the sidewalk, took one look at the skyline and thought, 'This is home.' "
Earlier in 1999, two weeks after his 80th birthday, he presented the premiere of a magnum opus, "Biped," in Berkeley, Calif. It seemed -- if any Merce Cunningham piece may be said to have any subject beyond itself -- to be full of images of transcendence, of life beyond death. Its many exits and entrances, astonishingly lighted by Aaron Copp, were magical.
Above all, and most surprising from a man of 80, "Biped" looked fecund, abundant, a cornucopia of poetic invention. That Berkeley audience greeted it with a mighty ovation (as audiences the world over have ever since). At a reception afterward Mr. Cunningham recalled how he had recently visited his brother in his hometown, Centralia, Wash. After they had talked of various old acquaintances, his brother asked, "Merce, when are you going to make something the public likes?"
Mr. Cunningham was for many years a phenomenal dancer and has committed his whole career to virtuoso technical accomplishment. Like Nijinsky -- but without the madness -- he had an astounding jump, an extraordinary neck, an animal intensity, an actor's changefulness. Like Nijinsky he did not mind offending his audience.
He enjoyed applause, but he had been used to -- and seemed amused by -- boos, bad reviews, near-empty theaters and people walking out of performances. His work did not ingratiate; his dancers ded not address the audience in a "Let me entertain you" manner. That his company did far better business and generated far more excitement in Paris and London never changed his love of living in New York.
He loved paradox, awkwardness, imperfection. In 1992 he gave the premiere of another magnum opus, "Enter," at the Paris Opera. Cunningham, still dancing at 73, had two solos, one of which made references to his companion of 50 years and closest artistic associate, the composer John Cage, who had just died. As happened with almost every work of Cunningham dance theater, neither Mr. Cunningham nor his dancers had heard the music in rehearsal. So they did not know in advance that the score by David Tudor (a longtime friend and colleague of Cage and Mr. Cunningham) would include duck quackings and goose honkings that sounded automatically ridiculous.
The independence of music and choreography was just one of the ways -- though surely the most profound -- in which Mr. Cunningham, as Mikhail Baryshnikov said, "reinvented the dance." Since the early 1950s the central, only occasionally broken, law of Cunningham dance theater is that the music, designs and choreography are made separately and not assembled until dress rehearsal or the first night.
There are further methods whereby Mr. Cunningham changed dance and dance making. On March 31 at the Guggenheim Museum (he was a central figure in its current exhibition "The Third Mind: American Artists Contemplate Asia, 1860-1969"), he demonstrated two of them. One was his use of chance as a method of composition, which he began experimenting with in the 1950s, in particular after discovering the I Ching. The other was his use of a Life Forms (now DanceForms) system of dance composition on the computer, which, from 1989 on, he not only used but also helped to develop.
Recently he shocked not only his company but also the dance world by firing his three senior full-time dancers, Holley Farmer, Daniel Squire and Koji Mizuta, officially for "artistic reasons." It is widely assumed that this is a legal euphemism and that the reasons were economic; every American dance company is suffering, and the three fired dancers, being senior, had been earning the most.
Some have also assumed that the decision was not really or originally made by Mr. Cunningham, who at the times was approaching 90, confined to a wheelchair and increasingly limited in physical energy. And so -- this version goes -- he had been falling increasingly under the influence of those with whom he ran his operation. (They are: his executive director, Trevor Carlson; his assistant, Robert Swinston; and the head of the John Cage Trust, Laura Kuhn.) When Martha Graham was in her final years, she allowed those who ran her ship to make decisions that, had they truly come from her, would have been increasingly uncharacteristic. Mr. Cunningham danced with Graham from 1939 to 1945; is his history repeating hers?
It may be dismaying to observe how these people (or their successors) govern Mr. Cunningham's artistic estate. Who could keep his company going posthumously and successfully? About a month before he died, Mr. Cunningham decided that after his death the Merce Cunningham Dance Company would embark on a final two-year international tour and then shut down, the Cunningham Dance Foundation, which supports the company, announced on June 9.
At merce.org, the first Cunningham quotation you find in "About Merce" is: "You have to love dancing to stick to it. It gives you nothing back, no manuscripts to store away, no paintings to show on walls and maybe hang in museums, no poems to be printed and sold, nothing but that single fleeting moment when you feel alive. It is not for unsteady souls."
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June 23, 2015, Tuesday
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April 9, 2015, Thursday
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March 12, 2015, Thursday
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Now this one reminds me of the movie I Am Legend. I really like this story and can't wait to see what will happen. I surprisingly like the art on this series. Its simple yet complicated.
Now dont get me started on the mustache thing. We know that for some dumb reason RULK will be an Avenger…*Sigh…Well this is the end so lets see what happens….
Batman Beyond its fantastic! I am really enjoying it. Its like im watching the TV series or even better. I totally recommend you pick this series up!
Also the newest issue of Brightest Day is coming out! Sadly DC doesn't have a cover displayed in their website, but here is the synopsis and the Variant Cover of Issue #7:
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Al Ponti passed away peacefully March 2, 2012, at the age of 91. He was born May 11, 1920, in
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Al was self-employed as a farmer growing Walla Walla Sweet Onions as a member of Walla Walla Gardeners Association. On Sept. 18, 1949, Al married Betty Jean Gould. He loved traveling and he and Betty made several cross-country trips. Al enjoyed growing a garden and taking care of the lawn and trees. He loved animals, especially dogs. Bowling, hunting and fishing for Steelhead were things he also liked to do. Al loved music and in his younger years, he sang in operettas.
His parents preceded him in death; also a sister, Lena Ponti; a brother, Carl Ponti; and his only nephew, Dick Ponti. Al is survived by his wife, a son and daughter-in-law, Greg and Gloria Ponti, a daughter, Karlene Ponti and granddaughters Aubrey Ponti and Erin Ponti. He is also survived by his two dog friends, Katie and Skippy.
A private family graveside will be held at Mountain View Cemetery on Wednesday, March 7, 2012. Memorial contributions may be made to the Blue Mountain Humane Society through the Herring Groseclose Funeral Home, 315 W. Alder, Walla Walla, WA.
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The Top 10 Reasons Why Obamacare Will Always Be Controversial
October 16, 2013 - 9:22 am
Supposing that the federal government eventually gets Healthcare.gov to work, many Democrats believe that Obamacare will eventually become popular. While some Americans will come to depend on Obamacare and its subsidies, driving up dependence on government and solidifying more Democrat votes, their signature law will always be a divisive, controversial law.
1. No Republicans or independents voted for it or had any input into it. Obamacare is a Democrat law designed to impose Democrat goals. Republicans and independents have no stake in seeing it succeed, and Democrats respond to their objections with insults — you're racist for opposing it, or you love X more than you love America for opposing it. That won't win anyone over. Because Obamacare imposes offensive, wrongheaded and damaging policies, millions of Americans have a stake in seeing it fail. Democrats tend to respond by noting that the conservative Heritage Foundation once supported something similar to Obamacare, and Republican Gov. Mitt Romney enacted something similar to it in Massachusetts. Fair enough, but the Heritage Foundation is an idea factory and has since repudiated its support for Obamacare-style mandates. Romney governed a blue state and got the best deal he could get from its overwhelmingly Democratic legislature. What's enacted in Massachusetts is not necessarily right for Oklahoma or Florida or Texas. Democrats' response: It's the law now, so deal with it. They don't apply that logic to the Second Amendment, and no one is under any obligation to simply accept Obamacare just because it's currently the law. Laws are changed and repealed all the time. That's why we send representatives to Washington and to our state capitals.
2. Democrats crafted it in secret and bought the votes they needed to get it through Congress. Barack Obama promised to deliver the most transparent administration in American history, but on his signature law, he not only failed, he practically demanded that the law was built in secret. The "Louisiana Purchase" of Sen. Mary Landrieu's vote and the "Cornhusker Kickback" to buy Sen. Ben Nelson's vote will forever tarnish Obamacare as a corrupt bargain.
3. It doesn't actually help Americans buy insurance by making it more affordable. It just orders us to buy insurance or face the IRS. It orders employers to provide coverage for their employees or face the IRS. The IRS is the most feared, and one of the least trusted, government agencies, and Obamacare jams it into our most personal decisions. Obamacare's implementation has also been fundamentally unfair: Democrat allies got exemptions that the rest of us couldn't get. The math just doesn't work for Obamacare to make insurance cheaper. By forcing companies to take on new risk and not allowing them to charge more for assuming that risk, Obamacare forces them to charge more — a lot more — to everyone. Many individuals and families will find their work hours cut so their employer can avoid Obamacare's mandates, while their insurance prices will go up. Less income plus higher costs will condemn many Americans to a poorer standard of living. The government's answer is to subsidize some of them, but that money has to come from somewhere. Some Americans' taxes will increase to pay for other Americans' subsidies. This will drag and distort the economy in ways not even fully understood yet.
4. Abortion is controversial. Obamacare makes Americans who oppose abortion pay for abortions. Millions of abortions. Obamacare sidesteps the Hyde Amendment and subsidizes about 115,000 abortions per year according to some estimates. Forcing Americans who object to abortion to pay for abortion will never stop being controversial. Ever. It just won't. As a pro-life American myself, I hate Obamacare as much for its social policy as for its economic policy and for its robbing us of our rights. It's the trifecta of awful policy.
5. The majority of Americans objected to Obamacare when the Democrats passed it, but they passed it anyway. Democrats' response: Call people names and pass the bill to spite them. They now defend the law partly out of spite, using lines like "if you don't like Obamacare you must want people to die!" The law is now a talisman on the left and a grave offense in the center and on the right.


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In order to gain a deeper understanding of how living organisms function, it is important to discern the spatio-temporal organization of these biological networks and to understand the evolutionary forces that shape them. Our research investigates the properties and the evolution of biological networks and has the ultimate objective of gaining a genome-level understanding of regulation in living systems. In particular, we investigate how chemical molecules affect signalling, and how this influences transcriptional and posttranscriptional regulation.
To achieve this objective, we use traditional computational approaches, such as sequence analysis, structure analysis and evolutionary analysis, and develop novel integrative approaches, that use expression data, chromosomal location data, comparative genomics analysis, chemical genomics data, network analysis, genomic variation and phenotype data.
Currently, we are investigating cell-to-cell communication, signalling pathways and transcriptional regulation at a systems level. Using the datasets and methods described above, we approach these problems in a wide variety of model organisms that include bacteria, yeasts, worms, flies, mice and humans.
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Tight regulation of unstructured proteins: from transcript synthesis to protein.
Science 322: 1365-8
- Janga, S.C., Collado-Vides, J. and Madan Babu, M. (2008)
Transcriptional regulation constrains the organization of genes on eukaryotic chromosomes.
Proc Natl Acad Sci U.S.A. 105: 15761-6
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Eukaryotic gene regulation in three dimensions and its impact on genome evolution.
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Scott confirms standing at Crowne Plaza
BY Bruce Young | US PGA Tour | 2014 Crowne Plaza Invitational at Colonial | Wrap | 26 May 2014
Adam Scott has birdied the third extra hole of a playoff with Jason Dufner to win the Crowne Plaza Invitational at Colonial and cement his position atop the world ranking.
Scott began the final round two shots behind the leaders, David Toms and Hideki Matsuyama, and with four birdies in his first six holes appeared to be on track for victory before a double bogey at the 9th hole, where he found the trees from the tee and then three putted, threatened to cost him not only a victory but possibly his newly earned world number one title.
With Henrik Stenson having finished tied for 7th in England a few hours earlier Scott needed a top 13 to retain his standing atop the world ranking and he responded to the near disaster gamely with three birdies in the opening five holes of the back nine and eventually recorded a round of 66.
He had a share of the lead with Dufner who had also recorded a final round of 66 and although the pair were forced to wait nearly an hour until the final pairing had finished, their 72 hole totals stood up.
Both halved the first two extra holes in pars and then birdies before Scott hit a superb tee shot and an approach to 7 feet and the 3rd and claimed the title.
Nicholas Thompson and Freddie Jacobsen finished in a tie for third.
In winning Scott became the first man to have all four titles in Texas to his name and also completed a great season in Texas for the Australians generally with Steve Bowditch and Matt Jones winning in San Antonio and Houston respectively.
Scott will draw more than one point clear of Stenson who takes over as the world number two from Tiger Woods.
For the record Scott earned US$1,152,000.
John Senden continued his very good season when he finished in a share of 5th position, his third top five of the season and added another US$216,000 to his coffers.
Marc Leishman shared 21st position with eight others, a bogey at the last potentially costing him an automatic spot in the US Open. That won't be confirmed until the revised rankings are finalised in the next few hours but had he parred the last then he would have been assured of being inside the top 60 by today and guaranteed of exemption into the US Open at Pinehurst.
He still has another opportunity next week and in Sectional Qualifying if he does not make it today which now appears unlikely.
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SHEBOYGAN, WI- A warning for pet owners across northeast Wisconsin. Vets in Sheboygan reporting a dog ate meat laced with needles and fishhooks. The incident happened Wednesday evening between the 22 and 24 hundred block of Erie Avenue. The animal was rushed to the local animal hospital, luckily surviving. Pet owners say they're taking steps to make sure their animals are safe.
"Something like this happens because they're sniffing around in a bush and somebody has possibly left something there for them to eat that can harm them," says Rochelle Drews with the Animal Resource Center.
Dog trainers say owners should always have their animal on a leash and pay attention to what they may eat.
"Make sure that you provide training and obedience so that the dog knows what to leave, what is theirs, what's not," says Dog Trainer Rebekah Hintzman.
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My daughter has been a bedwetter most her life. I was too so I didn't worry overmuch. When she hit 7, we attempted the alarm method. She slept through it. So we revisited it again when she said she was ready, at 10. Problem was the alarm went off if she sweat too, and she's a night-sweater. Tried a different alarm - the urine crystallizes on the sensor & goes off without warning.
Fast forward to 12 - she started her period, quit bedwetting.
Until she gets a cold or virus. If she's super tired...she wets.
Well, she had a bladder infection so she was urinating a lot...then she got a head cold the following week. So she did wet somewhat regularly.
It's a week later, infection & virus is gone - she's still wetting. It's like she fell into old habits or something. She was dry for TWO yrs!
So this issue is bigger than what we thought & I don't know what to do. Is there an alarm out there that works better than others? Should I consider a sleep study?
She's 14 and angry and embarassed. I feel very bad for her - I thought she'd grown out of it.
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After seeing a counselor for some anxiety, a counselor told me that she thinks my dd has some social anxiety with starting h.s., but feels as she gets older and gains more confidence, it will lessen. She doesn't feel she has to be seen, although the door is open if necessary. My dd is not an unhappy teen, but she is quite the loner. She is perfectly content spending almost every weekend and weeknight with hubby and I. Maybe 3 times a week, she will gt together with a friend, but it is almost always with our urging her to. Does anyone have issues like this? Any advice? I know she talks to friends in school, but not much out.View Thread
After seeing a counselor for some anxiety, a counselor told me that she thinks my dd has some social anxiety with starting h.s., but feels as she gets older and gains more confidence, it will lessen. She doesn't feel she has to be seen, although the door is open if necessary. My dd is not an unhappy teen, but she is quite the loner. She is perfectly content spending almost every weekend and weeknight with hubby and I. Maybe 3 times a week, she will gt together with a friend, but it is almost always with our urging her to. Does anyone have issues like this? Any advice? I know she talks to friends in school, but not much out.View Thread
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My 11 year old daughter has a really weak bladder, I have had her to a specialist etc to rule out any infections he thinks its just cause she is growing fast and close to puberty but wondering if anyone has any tips or a similar situation
It doesn't happen heaps that she will wet herself she is good at going to the toilet regularly to avoid this but she gets soooo embarrassed if it does happen.
Her main problem is once it starts she can't stop the flow, at the bladder specialist he made her do a test drink 1 drink bottle of water then wait till she needed to pee then she had to wait 10 more mins so she was a bit busting then she was allowed to pee into a 20ml cup then hold for 30 sec repeat again then empty her bladder, well the first pee into the cup she couldn't stop and pee'd all over the floor, she burst into tears and was so embarrassed. She has to also practice holding when she feels the urge for 10 minutes and stopping and starting the flow on the loo.
Things like laughing, cold water etc are the main things that cause an accident or being caught not near a loo.
I can see she is starting to not want to be in social situation etc incase this happens I have tried her using an absorbent pad but it doenst seem to hold enough
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I live in Florida, if the weather was nice we would eat holiday meals on the porch using paper tablecloths and napkins. My great aunt Dor would start tearing the tablecloth apart toward the end of the meal. This would erupt into a huge paper fight! Some family members would be appalled, the teens would love it and retaliate. It was interesting to see our friends and dates reaction to this fiasco.
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She has been punished for lying more times than I can count. She has been grounded, grounded to her room, grounded to her bed, lost all of her toys, lost her "treat", spanked, given more chores and countless other things. Nothing seems to work.
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I never did this with my mother and neither did my brother? Is this normal?View Thread
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A lot of people seem to be focused on the whole privacy issue and I believe this a choice each parent has to make on their own and come to an agreement with their children. For me personally I have a 17 year old, 2 12 year olds, an 8 year old, and a 5 year old. At 9 I feel some things are private like dressing and undressing or using the bathroom, but some things are not. I have no problem reading a journal or listening to a conversation or looking around in my children's room. I want to know what my children are doing, talking about, and thinking because I feel its my job as a mom to shape them, mold them, and teach them right from wrong. As my parents told me when I was growing up, you can have privacy when you are an adult and have your own house. Privacy comes with trust, and trust is earned. However, I can respect that some people may disagree strongly and raise their children in a different way. I believe it is just a difference in parenting styles so do whatever works for you, just make it clear on the front end.
To address your real concern here about your child's fantasy and thoughts I think it is right to be concerned but not alarmed. I have had a recent issue with my 8 year old daughter who I found out was searching for and looking at pornography on the internet. I can relate to your shock! You just want to compare what she is thinking and writing about with her developmental age. Children are maturing and learning about sex so much younger that we have to start talking to them at a very early age.
I would talk to her about it and if it were my daughter I would confess to reading the journal because I believe in being honest with children. It may be embarrassing to her, but will give you an opportunity to talk about so many things. I believe if you are open and honest with her she will be more open and honest with you. You should stay calm and talk to her in a nonthreatening way without making her feel she is being disciplined or without shaming her. Then you can also talk about the issue of privacy and agree to some terms for the future.View Thread
I am struggling with extreme sadness, self harm, and suicidal thoughts.
Since, I want to say, early June, I have been increasingly suicidal. Not actions, just thoughts. But I came to a realization two days ago that I really, desperately need help. What made me notice this? Well, I keep a journal, and in my journal I described my plan as to HOW to commit suicide. Now, I didn't think anything of it when it was just a train of thought. But as soon as I read it as written word, I realized--this is serious. I've just planned how I would kill myself. [br>[br>So what am I looking for help with?[br>[br>My family situation is not particularly great. My parents and siblings are all functioning fine, no divorces, no deaths, however, my personality and opinions conflict with those of my parents. For this reason, I rarely talk to either of my parents. ESPECIALLY about serious matters. It's just not something we do. There is no dispute between us, as there is no discussion in general. [br>[br>My parents are very, very judgmental individuals, therefore I am extremely uncomfortable discussing my current situation with them by word. In addition, my mom saw one of my scars, and asked if it was a scar. I replied saying yes, and she asked no further questions. The scar is in a shape of a triangle--there is no way I could have gotten it other than self harm, so it should be pretty obvious to her.
So, I want your help as parents. Should I work to talk to my parents about this, and if so, how?
OR, should I look for someone else to talk to, and if so, who?
Also, I am 16 and live with both of my parents. There are no others in my family who I am super close to, and I have one friend who I could probably talk to eventually, but he's only 17.
ANYTHING you can think to say, I really appreciate it. Thank you!!View Thread
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not if you're of the chinese or american gymnastics team ;D
Still funny though."
Nice to see that America isn't the ONLY place in the world with people so ignorant that it astounds you.
O.o No? What do you mean?
The fact that you'd have to be insane to do it... just guessing.
yeah whats so 'insane' about that jump?
i got over it a long time ago
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