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Tuesday, July 30, 2013
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Monday, July 29, 2013
Activision Blizzard CEO hears 'Call of Duty,' buys back control
Activision Blizzard CEO used $50 million of his own money in an $8.2 billion deal to take control of the world's biggest video game company from Vivendi, a French company. Activision Blizzard shares surged 15 percent.
CEO of Activision Blizzard Bobby Kotick in Sun Valley, Idaho July 9, 2013.
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Bobby Kotick, one of the highest-paid and longest-running corporate chief executives in an industry ravaged in recent years by the rise of mobile gaming, told investors on a Friday conference call he thinks the company will be stronger as a result of the deal.
Activision shares surged 15 percent to close at $17.46, the highest since September 2008, on the Nasdaq.
Activision will have "the focus and flexibility to drive long-term shareholder value," Kotick said. "The importance of this transaction is that it gives us the opportunity to really reward our public shareholders and you see that in the accretion."
Vivendi agreed on Friday to sell most of its stake in the publisher of the blockbuster "Call of Duty" franchise for $8.2 billion, paving the way for a broader split of the French conglomerate's media and telecoms assets.
The deal, which will reduce the French firm's stake to 12 percent from 61 percent, fulfills Kotick's longstanding wish to buy back the company he had built into a games powerhouse since 1991. Activision merged with Vivendi's games division in 2007.
But the industry is struggling with shrinking demand for videogames as gamers shift away from traditional console titles to mobile games and free-to-play offerings online.
Vivendi is selling the shares in Activision, also known for its "Skylanders" title, for $13.60 each, a 10 percent discount to Thursday's closing price. Analysts said, however, the deal was positive for the company because it removed longstanding uncertainty around how Vivendi would deal with its U.S. unit.
There's no longer "this overhang, that this struggling parent company is going to use Activision and its resources to its own benefit to the detriment of Activision's shareholders," R.W. Baird analyst Colin Sebastian said. "That makes the shares worth more."
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Activision did not reveal their future plans on Friday.
Kotick and Co-Chairman Brian Kelly are leading an investor group that will separately purchase about 172 million Activision shares, or a 24.9 percent stake, from Vivendi for $2.34 billion. The group includes Fidelity Investments and Chinese web portal Tencent, which will be a passive investor without a seat on the board, gaining Activision big-name backers.
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Thursday, July 25, 2013
How to Improve Your Workout Performance | Body Health ...
In order t? prepare themselves f?r a healthy ?n? successful life, millions ?f people around th? world workout regularly. H?w???r, w? still witness t?? many people struggling w?th weight issues ?n? suffering fr?m different diseases. One ?f th? major reasons behind th?? trauma ?? th? fact th?t m??t ?f th?m ?? n?t know h?w t? exercise ?n th? r??ht manner, although th?? ??t ?n th??r best efforts. If ??? ??n learn t? workout properly, ??? ??n surely enhance ???r performance ?n? achieve better results.
1 Hire a professional trainer
If ???r budget allows ???, ?? f?r a professional trainer, wh? ??n h??? ??? workout ?n? enhance ???r performance. Th?? ??n b? very ?m??rt?nt ?t ????t ?n th? first six months. Aft?r th?t, ?f ??? ?r? dedicated, ??? ??n take care ?f ???r ?wn self. Before ??? hire a trainer, m?k? sure th?t h?/?h? ?? ???? ?t th? job ?n? ?h???? h??? proper understanding ?b??t ???r body ?n? ???r goals.
2 Manage diet
Diet ?? ?m?n? th? m??t ?m??rt?nt factors wh??h affect ???r workout performance. Y?? ?h???? h??? a proper diet ???n set b? ???r trainer. At times, wh?n ??? h??? worked extremely hard, ??? want t? forget ?b??t th? diet ???n ?n? eat beyond limits. H?w???r, ??? ?h???? h??? enough self control t? know wh?t ?? going t? affect ???r performance. Therefore, ??? ?h???? h??? clear priorities.
If ??? ?r? looking t? gain weight w?th exercise, th?n ??? ?h???? h??? additional intake ?f vitamins, carbohydrates ?n? minerals.
3 Intake ?f water
Proper intake ?f water ?? ???? ?f extreme importance, regardless ?f wh?t ??? wish t? achieve through workout. According t? m??t analysts, one ?h???? drink a lot ?f water before, during ?n? ?ft?r a physical activity.
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One ?f th? keys behind enhancing ???r workout performance ?? t? ?n??? ?t. S?m? ?f th? people take workout ?? a burden ?n? never achieve th??r targets. Y?? ?h???? ???? th? feeling ?f being fit ?n? healthy.
5 Stretch hard before ?n? ?ft?r workout
People, wh? ?? n?t know much ?b??t workout, ???t ?t?rt exercising without proper stretching ?f th? muscles. If ??? want t? gain m??t out ?f th? time ??? spend ?n workout ???r? day, learn latest stretching techniques. M?k? sure th?t ??? stretch each ?n? ???r? ??rt ?f ???r body, fr?m neck t? toe.
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Friday, July 12, 2013
Affinity China, American Express program to help Hawaii retailers lure Chinese customers
Christine Lu is CEO of Los Angeles-based Affinity China, which is partnering with American Express on a program that will help Hawaii retailers lure high-spending Chinese customers to their stores.
Los Angeles-based Affinity China and American Express are partnering to offer a program that will give Hawaii retailers and hoteliers an opportunity to lure independent, affluent Chinese visitors to spend money at their businesses.
The program will be announced at a ?China Ready? seminar hosted by the Hong Kong Business Association of Hawaii on July 24 at the Ala Moana Hotel.
Affinity China CEO Christine Lu said anyone who is trying to sell to the Chinese, and especially retailers and hoteliers, would benefit from attending the seminar. It is not necessary to attend the seminar in order to participate in the program, though.
Affinity China is partnering with American Express and its Global Travel Card program, which allows Chinese travelers to deposit up to $40,000 in U.S. currency onto a prepaid travel card that can be used anywhere in the world American Express is accepted.
The ?17 Hawaii? program, which sounds like ?I want to go to Hawaii? when spoken in Chinese, will help guide Chinese visitors to Hawaii businesses and hotels participating in it. It launches the first week in October during Chinese Golden Week, and will continue as a year-round program.
It will be marketed in China and amplified by Chinese celebrities traveling to Hawaii with Affinity China and by Chinese media partners helping to promote the 17 Hawaii program, Lu said.
?For the merchants, the benefit is knowing when that customer comes in, they either have an app or American Express card already loaded and they?re ready to spend. It?s really meant to drive [business] and engagement to the stores,? Lu said.
The 17 Hawaii program will launch in Hawaii first, followed by a rollout to key cities on the Mainland by Chinese New Year 2014.
Stephanie Silverstein covers tourism, retail and money for Pacific Business News.
Source: http://feeds.bizjournals.com/~r/bizj_pacific/~3/j5fI4AZVFLc/affinity-china-american-express.html
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Saturday, July 6, 2013
Sony ?my Xperia? service for locating lost Xperia devices launched worldwide
Sony is taking its mobile security-based service ?my Xperia? out of the beta phase and is rolling it out to its Xperia devices worldwide. The remote security app was launched earlier this year as a pilot project and was restricted to Nordic countries only. Sony will be rolling out the service on all Xperia device launched in 2012 and ahead.
Previously, Sony rolled the my Xperia app is for remotely locating the misplaced or lost Sony smartphone, while protecting important content on it from being misused. Using the app, Xperia owners will be able to locate their lost device on a map, and then lock the phone remotely. They can also extract the contact details in a message, as well as wipe out both internal and external SD card information. The service will work like Apple?s ?Find my iPhone? feature installed in its devices to find the lost iPhone.
One can activate the app in their phone?s settings and use ones Google ID to sign into myxperia.sonymobile.com to access the central interface.
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Friday, July 5, 2013
Micah D. Halpern: Young Revolt in the Land of Pharaohs
Egypt. Make no mistake about it: The revolt that took place as we witnessed it in real time was all about youth and hope for the future. That's the reason for the successful revolution in Egypt. That explains the millions of Egyptians massing together, chanting and protesting, in Tahrir Square.
Yes, the unrest is about a failed leader and his failed economy, but the revolt is a young peoples' absolute rejection of a leadership that has done nothing to advance young peoples' futures or improve their lives.
Calling it a religious conflict is easy -- and it is wrong. Worse, it shows just how little we in the Western world understand the Middle East. For the West, it is easy to demonize the democratically elected Mohammed Morsi. True, he is the first democratically elected president of Egypt, but that was overridden by the fact that Morsi represented the Muslim Brotherhood and came to office as the result of a union between the Brotherhood and an even more Islamist party, the Nouri party.
Ousting the Islamists seems like the right thing for Egypt to do. And while from the outside looking in, it looked as though, for the four days of protest, the only rhetoric to be heard was related to religious issues, every Egyptian knows that not to be the truth. Every Egyptian knows that if there were tourism in Egypt and natural gas and oil were being exported, there would be some discontent in the land of the pharaohs, but nothing like this. There would be stragglers protesting in the street, not millions massing in Tahrir Square.
In Egypt right now, it is all about the economy. And right now, Egyptian youth have no future, thanks to their failed economy. We are talking about a country with almost no economy, and growing debt, a country that is heavily dependent on the handouts of foreign aid. But aid can no longer save the Egyptians. They need to produce. They need to export. They need to do it on their own.
Some would argue that the problems in Egypt exist because Morsi was an Islamist leader. They say that the Muslim Brotherhood and Islam were his primary priorities. And that may have been true for some things. But I would argue that the crisis in Egypt was due to the fact that Mohammed Morsi was a bad and inexperienced leader.
There were high hopes at first. Morsi could have been forward-thinking and more inclusive. He could have been a president who embraced public safety. Instead he became a president who polarized, and that was probably the greatest error Morsi made. There is no doubt that in the eyes of the world, polarization in Egypt was interpreted as danger, and danger means no tourism. In what we can now call "the good old days," the days before Morsi came to power, Egypt thrived on tourism. Today, there is none.
The leaders of the protest movement in Tahrir Square were young people in their 20s. They were not professional leaders or party people. And a major part of the success of the rallies that brought so many people together was the fact that they were not party-affiliated. The organizers refused to put any political agenda forward except the ousting of President Mohammed Morsi. That non-party, non-political bent enabled and empowered the movement to oust Morsi.
The movement was called "Tamarod," or "Rebel." Mahmoud Badr was one of its creators, central organizers and chosen spokesman. He insisted, over and over and over again, that there was no political agenda and no party affiliation. Tamarod was for everyone who opposed Morsi.
Badr and his colleagues began by collecting signatures on a petition. It was a pipe dream, but it took on great momentum and culminated in rallies that drew millions of Egyptians to Tahrir Square on the one-year anniversary of Morsi's inauguration, June 30. And then it went on for three more days.
The petition has more than 22 million signatures on it. There are only 80 million people in Egypt. That means that one in four people signed the petition. They succeeded beyond even their own wildest dreams.
Badr was smart and organized. He insisted that the army protect them from Morsi supporters, and in that way he prevented Egypt from erupting into civil war. He and his colleagues empowered thousands of people to maintain peace during the protests. The army agreed to protect them, and General al-Sisi announced that the army would not permit a civil war. And that is what ultimately sealed the success of the rallies.
Morsi once again proved his ineptitude as president of Egypt. Rather than realizing the depth of pain and emotion and will to survive that Tamarod embodies, Morsi thought that he was dealing with a disorganized political opposition composed of a group of disgruntled students. In truth, Badr and his team were bridge builders, not playing petty political games.
There is a long way to go before the Egyptian economy is strong and it is safe for tourism to return to the Nile Delta. But the first crucial steps are being taken. With no bloodshed. With no beheadings. With future leaders speaking their minds and setting the agenda. Democracy may yet come to Egypt after all.
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Wednesday, July 3, 2013
Teens' self-consciousness linked with specific brain, physiological responses
July 2, 2013 ? Teenagers are famously self-conscious, acutely aware and concerned about what their peers think of them. A new study reveals that this self-consciousness is linked with specific physiological and brain responses that seem to emerge and peak in adolescence.
"Our study identifies adolescence as a unique period of the lifespan in which self-conscious emotion, physiological reactivity, and activity in specific brain areas converge and peak in response to being evaluated by others," says psychological scientist and lead researcher Leah Somerville of Harvard University.
The findings, published in Psychological Science, a journal of the Association for Psychological Science, suggest that teens' sensitivity to social evaluation might be explained by shifts in physiological and brain function during adolescence, in addition to the numerous sociocultural changes that take place during the teen years.
Somerville and colleagues wanted to investigate whether just being looked at -- a minimal social-evaluation situation -- might register with greater importance, arousal, and intensity for adolescents than for either children or adults. The researchers hypothesized that late-developing regions of the brain, such as the medial prefrontal cortex (MPFC), could play a unique role in the way teens monitor these types of social evaluative contexts.
The researchers had 69 participants, ranging in age from 8 to almost 23 years old, come to the lab and complete measures that gauged emotional, physiological, and neural responses to social evaluation.
They told the participants that they would be testing a new video camera embedded in the head coil of a functional MRI scanner. The participants watched a screen indicating whether the camera was "off," "warming up," or "on," and were told that a same-sex peer of about the same age would be watching the video feed and would be able to see them when the camera was on. In reality, there was no camera in the MRI machine.
The consistency and strength of the resulting data took the researchers by surprise: "We were concerned about whether simply being looked at was a strong enough 'social evaluation' to evoke emotional, physiological and neural responses," says Somerville. "Our findings suggest that being watched, and to some extent anticipating being watched, were sufficient to elicit self-conscious emotional responses at each level of measurement."
Specifically, participants' self-reported embarrassment, physiological arousal, and MPFC activation showed reactivity to social evaluation that seemed to converge and peak during adolescence.
Adolescent participants also showed increased functional connectivity between the MPFC and striatum, an area of the brain that mediates motivated behaviors and actions. Somerville and colleagues speculate that the MPFC-striatum pathway may be a route by which social evaluative contexts influence behavior. The link may provide an initial clue as to why teens often engage in riskier behaviors when they're with their peers.
Source: http://feeds.sciencedaily.com/~r/sciencedaily/top_news/~3/Gktsz7CfouA/130702100956.htm
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Tuesday, July 2, 2013
Egypt's military gives politicians a 48-hour ultimatum
The Egyptian military has given the country's first democratically elected president, Mohammed Morsi, an ultimatum to meet the people's demands or get out. NBC's Ayman Mohyeldin reports.
By Ayman Mohyeldin, Charlene Gubash and Ian Johnston, NBC News
CAIRO - In a long-awaited response, Egyptian President Mohammed Morsi early Tuesday rejected an order by the army to resolve a political crisis that has?drawn millions of people into the streets demanding his resignation, calling a deadline set confusing and saying he would instead pursue national?reconciliation on his own.
The presidency issued a statement at almost 2 a.m., nine hours after an ultimatum by Egypt?s military, which said the mass protests were an??unprecedented? expression of the will of the people and gave the government 48 hours to meet the opposition's demands.?
Morsi's response was much less direct than the army?s edict but seemed to indicate he had a different plan.
?"The president of the republic was not consulted about the statement issued by the armed forces," it said. "The presidency sees that some of the?statements in it carry meanings that could cause confusion in the complex national environment."
The statement from Morsi's office continued, "The presidency confirms that it is going forward on its previously plotted path to promote comprehensive?national reconciliation ... regardless of any statements that deepen divisions between citizens."?
The army's earlier statement was read on state television just hours after the headquarters of Morsi?s Muslim Brotherhood movement were ransacked.?Gen. Abdel Fattah al-Sisi said if the crisis wasn?t resolved, the army would intervene.
The protesters' main demands are that Morsi announce early elections and step down, allowing a temporary government to take over.
"If the demands of the people are not realized within the defined period, it will be incumbent upon (the armed forces) ... to announce a road map for the?future,? the statement said. It was followed by patriotic music.
Protesters attacked and stormed the headquarters of the Muslim Brotherhood in Cairo, calling for Egypt's President Mohammed Morsi to step down. NBC's Ayman Mohyeldin reports.
The road map would be created by the army, which would also oversee the plan's implementation, the statement said.
It was unclear if the military was effectively demanding Morsi's resignation, but a Muslim Brotherhood politician insisted there would not be "a coup."
On his Facebook page Monday, Morsi said he was meeting with Gen. al-Sisi as well as Prime Minister Hisham Kandil. What they discussed was not disclosed.
Sixteen people were killed and more than 700 were wounded during the protests Sunday and early Monday.
The military statement stressed that the military would remain neutral in politics and maintain its role as protector of the people and the nation?s borders.
The statement said the military will "not be a party in politics or rule."
But it added the armed forces had a responsibility to act because Egypt's national security was facing a "grave danger."
A source at Egypt's presidential palace said Morsi's office was not told in advance that the 48-hour ultimatum would be issued.
In Cairo's Tahrir Square, the vast crowd began to chant that the army and the people were one after al-Sisi's address. Army helicopters circled over the city flying Egyptian flags.
However, Yasser Hamza, a leader of the Brotherhood's Freedom and Justice Party,?warned against misinterpreting the army statement.?
"For an institution of state to come and stage a coup against the president, this will not happen," he said. "Any force that goes against the constitution is a call for sabotage and anarchy."?
In a formal response to al-Sisi's statement, an alliance of Islamist groups that includes Morsi's Brotherhood was careful not to criticize the army itself, instead saying that their political opponents were trying to manipulate the army to "assault legitimacy" in a way that would lead to a coup.
In a statement read at a press conference attended by a Reuters reporter, the alliance also said it respected all initiatives to resolve the country's political crisis but that they had to respect constitutional principles.?
As the military statement was read, U.S. President Barack Obama urged all sides to refrain from violence shortly after he arrived in Tanzania.
"We're all concerned about what's happening in Egypt," Obama said. "There is more work to be done to create the conditions in which everybody feels that their voices are heard and that the government is responsive and truly representative."?
U.S. State Department spokesman Patrick Ventrell said the U.S. is closely watching the situation in Egypt and is in touch with all sides, and?encouraged groups to avoid violence.
"Our message publicly and privately has been very consistent, that we want to see Egyptians succeed, that we don't take sides, we don't have a?particular party or group or interest that we're backing.? Ventrell said. ?Indeed, the only thing that we're backing is the Egyptian people and the goal?of their success in their democratic transition, that they can get their economy back on track, that they can fully see their democratic transition?succeed."
In a statement, the United Nations also called for Egyptians to resolve differences through ?democratic means.?
In the latest resignation in Morsi's government, Egyptian Foreign Minister Mohammed Kamel Amr offered to step down, state news agency MENA reported early Tuesday, without giving a source. Since Sunday, at least five other non-Brotherhood government ministers have tendered their resignations from the Cabinet, apparently in sympathy with the protesters, underlining a sense of isolation for the party that won a series of elections last year but has failed to build out alliances to form a broader consensus.?
The attack on the Brotherhood building was the bloodiest incident of the weekend's huge and mostly peaceful protests against Morsi.
It began after dark Sunday and continued for hours, with guards inside the suburban Cairo building firing on youths hurling fire bombs and rocks. Reuters cited medical and security sources as saying that eight people were killed, but the figure could not be independently confirmed by NBC News.
Protesters breached ?the Cairo compound's defenses and stormed the building. Crowds later carried off furniture, files, rugs, air conditioning units and portraits of Morsi, according to an Associated Press journalist. One protester emerged with a pistol and handed it over to a policeman outside. ?
Footage on local television showed broken windows, blackened walls and smoke coming out of the building. A fire was still raging on one floor hours after the building was invaded. One protester tore down the Muslim Brotherhood sign from the building's front wall, while another hoisted Egypt's red, black and white flag out an upper-story window and waved it in the air in triumph.
Lasers were used as part of a demonstration in Cairo against President Mohammed Morsi. Hundreds of thousands of Egyptians flooded into the streets on the first anniversary of Morsi's inauguration on Sunday to demand that he resign.
The images were reminiscent of the destruction of the state security headquarters when President Hosni Mubarak was toppled in 2011.
Organizers behind Sunday's protests -- who managed to get 22 million signatures calling on Morsi to step down -- ?said they would give him until Tuesday at 5 p.m. (11 a.m. ET) to meet their demands or they would call for nationwide strikes.?
Protesters also demanded?early elections, but late Sunday night word from the presidential palace was that Morsi had no intentions of calling them.?
Some anti-Morsi protesters spent Sunday night in dozens of tents pitched in the capital's central Tahrir Square and in front of the president's Ittihadiya Palace. They have vowed to stay there until Morsi resigns. Morsi supporters, meanwhile, went on with their sit-in in front of a major mosque in Cairo.?
Sunday's protests were the largest seen in Egypt in the 2? years of turmoil since the ouster of autocratic Mubarak in February 2011.?
NBC News' F. Brinley Bruton, Jeff Black, Reuters and The Associated Press contributed to this report.
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The headquarters of Egypt's Muslim Brotherhood was ransacked as widespread protests against President Mohammed Morsi turned violent.
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Monday, July 1, 2013
'Dexter' returns! 3 season premiere shockers
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The team at Miami Metro pay their respects to LaGuerta.
After the shocks handed out during the past two seasons of "Dexter," viewers likely expected a thrilling start to its final season, and the premiere did not disappoint!
(Except for totally glossing over LaGuerta's murder. The always-gullible detectives didn't question the Morgans' account, and fans witnessed only Miami Metro's grief/apathy/relief via a lousy park bench dedication.)
Here are the three biggest jaw-droppers from "A Beautiful Day":
1. Deb be cray-cray
We expected Deb to be a mess after shooting her boss in cold blood and quitting the force, but snorting coke, swigging booze and hooking up with a criminal in a cheap motel? That was a surprise -- and yet, when you think about it, entirely consistent with her character.
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Deb and new bad-boy love Andrew Briggs share some quality time in a cheap motel.
2. Dexter stabbed his sister's boyfriend
Given the short life spans of Deb's BFs, Briggs' death was inevitable -- but considering how much she obviously cared for him, we figured he'd warrant at least two episodes.
Moment of silence please for Andrew Briggs, Rudy Cooper, Sal Price and Frank Lundy -- and Anton Briggs' back. Wait a second, did Deb really have two boyfriends named Andrew Briggs and Anton Briggs? Are the writers even trying here? Or are we missing some kind of symbolism?
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Don't forget your blood-sample slide, Dex.
3. Dex met his maker
Sooo, someone outside the Morgan family has the 411 on The Code. Introducing Dr. Evelyn "Frankenstein" Vogel, a neuropsychiatrist known by the FBI as the Psychopath Whisperer!
After volunteering to help Miami Metro track their latest sicko serial killer, she shows Dexter some adorable pictures he drew as a kid -- you know, the usual: bloody butcher knives and murdered humans and dogs. (See, Deb, Dad really did you a favor by giving Banjo to another family.)
Vogel's motives for sharing this intel seem shady at this point, but we bet she wasn't just offering the drawings to decorate Dex's fridge.
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Dex seems none too pleased with Dr. Vogel
What did you think of the "Dexter" premiere? Where do you think season eight is headed?Click on "Talk about it" below and let us know!
Source: http://www.today.com/entertainment/dexter-returns-three-shockers-season-eight-premiere-6C10484228
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