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Honda signs with Melbourne VictoryBy Ian Ransom MELBOURNE
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Good player. Still has something to offer.
Too early to retire. Good luck to him and his new team!
Honda's the type of player who'll put bums on seats especially among Asian-Australian soccer fans (which is atill
Sorry ...still very much an untapped market). Shinji Ono had a very good stint at wsw a few years back, let's hope Honda does the same.
Honda's the type of player who'll put bums on seats especially among Asian-Australian soccer fans (which is atill
A good football player attracts all football fans and the r factor is for the account of the...
@netgrump, nothing racist about that. The Australian sporting landscape is quite unique and soccer's only the 3Rd or 4th football code in the country.
I actually know quite a few Asian-Australians (from all backgrounds not only J) who attended their first football game (all codes) after Ono joined the wanderers. I asked them why and they said they never felt 'at home' in 'your' stadiums (all communities bar Asians).
Asian fans have always been under-represented in Oz stadiums.
@ goldorak
Thx for the explanation and not accusing anything [saw too much crap lately] so I left it open with ......... :)
Asian fans have always been under-represented in Oz stadiums.
@goldorak - I agree. And not only as spectators but also on the field. There's been a substantial Asian-Australian presence in the country for many decades now, it's an interesting question as to why we haven't seen more professional sportspeople emerging among them, especially in soccer. I don't know the answer to that one.
Maybe Honda will help popularise the game here among Asian-Australian kids. I hope so.


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Long track speed skater Denny Morrison (Fort St-John, B.C.), won his second event, the 1500m, Monday at Richmond, British Columbia's Olympic Oval, where the Canadian Selections are taking place for the Fall World Cups. In women's racing, Kristina Groves (Ottawa, ON) and Clara Hughes (Glen Sutton, QC) grabbed top honours in the 1000m and 3000m events, respectively.
After having mastered the 1000m event on Sunday, Morrison earned more acclaim with a win in the 1500m event. His time of 1:46.39 came close to the fastest 1500m on record at the Richmond Olympic Oval – 1:46.17 set by American Shani Davis. "I'm really happy with my time. I've been concentrating a lot of my technique this year, in contrast to last year when I was focusing my physical fitness. Now if I can combine the two, then great things are to come!" enthused Morrison, who has prequalified for the event, in addition to Steven Elm (Red Deer, AB) and Lucas Makowsky (Regina, SK).
Makowsky covered the 1000m distance in 1:47.42, earning himself second place on the podium, while Mathieu Giroux (Pointe-aux-Trembles, QC), skated to a third place finish with a time of 1:48.70.
In the women's 1000m event, Kristina Groves proved fastest, stopping the clock at 1:17.23, just ahead of Britanny Schussler (Winnipeg, MB) and Cindy Klassen (Winnipeg, MB) whose times were 1:17.74 and 1:18.86, respectively. "It wasn't the best 1000m race of my life, but regardless, it was a great opportunity to skate at the Richmond Olympic Oval before the Olympic Winter Games begin." explained the Ontarian. "There are still a lot of things I'd like to improve upon; I need to have a better first half of the race, for example."
As prequalified skaters, Groves, Christine Nesbitt (London, ON), and Shannon Rempel (Winnipeg, MB) are already scheduled to take to the ice in the event this Fall.
In the 3000m event, Clara Hughes (4:12.16) ruled the race, beating out Christine Nesbitt (4 :15.65) and Cindy Klassen (4 :15.90). "I set out with a faster pace as if it was the 1500m," confided a contented Hughes. "It was a solid race and I'm in good shape. I'm looking forward to the 5000m event tomorrow."
This is good news for the Quebec skater, whose summertime difficulties with technique are now officially behind her. "Over the summer I was able to take a step back from what I was doing, and any problems have been resolved. It's a step in the right direction." affirmed Hughes.
Groves, Shussler, and Hughes are the three prequalified skaters for the 3000m event.
The Canadian Selections will come to a close Tuesday; the final events scheduled are the men's 10 000m and the women's 5000m races.

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Bare as a flower
She holds in her right hand
The flame of power,
Behind her the curved land:
And as she gazes,
Watching her soul aspire,
Lightly she raises
Her left hand, for the fire
Ruth Pitter, from 'A Fair Image on a Gold Medal'
It is April 1955, a bright day in London populated by daffodils in those early days of Eden. A man in a dark suit, perhaps a bank clerk, stands at a bus stop. After a few short minutes a woman approaches and stands beside him in the line. Neither seems remarkable. She is perhaps a housewife; elegant, though slightly plump, but ordinary nonetheless, and though she recognises the man beside her, she does not speak. She takes him in through those bright black eyes in her heavyset face. She is excited, as well she might be, but the man next to her is none other than T.S. Eliot, and so she checks herself, is not sure whether to say her piece or not. At the end of the street the bus, red and glorious in the heat of the Spring morning, appears; crawls beetle-like towards them. Looking straight ahead now, not at him, not at anything in particular at all, unable to contain her excitement any longer, the woman speaks:
'Mr Eliot, I've just got the Queen's Medal for Poetry.'
A woman with a shopping basket further up the line eyes her with contempt. Has she indeed? — Well, that could have been me. The dark suit between them does not alter, picks out its change, then merely, cheerfully replies:
'And you thoroughly deserve it, Miss Pitter,'
and gets aboard the bus.
That's more or less what happened, anyway. So what became of this woman, this distinct voice of the twentieth century who not only received the Queen's Medal from a panel consisting of Nevill Coghill, Walter de la Mare, John Masefield, Charles Morgan, Gilbert Murray, Vita Sackville-West and Osbert Sitwell; but had also picked up the Hawthornden Prize in 1937, and a CBE in 1979?
She ended up a regular panellist on a television show and wrote a column on gardening for Woman magazine. Oh let's not belittle her achievements; The Brains Trust was hardly Blankety Blank, but at the same time it's hard to imagine Philip Larkin appearing on Through the Keyhole, or W.H. Auden on Celebrity Squares.
The problem is it is hard for us to imagine Ruth Pitter at all. Of the list of winners of the Queen's Gold Medal for Poetry, (and with the exception of Arthur Waley, whose reputation one imagines is kept alive by Sinologists) her name seems to be the one that has dropped furthest from our spectrum of reference. She has become a footnote to the life of her friend C.S. Lewis; and this is a shame, a real shame, for Pitter's work remains vivid, deserves to be read, has something still to tell us:
Poetry, like all passion, seeks for peace.
Wild creature, look into the pool and learn.
There in the level water shines the face,
The summer eyes that can both weep and burn,
Mirrored so calmly in the quiet place;
Fire in sweet water lulled, questions that turn
At long last to the simple need for rest.
from 'Passion and Peace'
Wishing things were not so. There is a recurrence of that in her work, perhaps because of that idea that poetry 'seeks for peace'; her writing sets out to tame the wild creature that looks into it, and she's frank in this point, simplicity and peace are out there to be had but for a baseness in our being. She evokes Caliban in her writing, and this is the important point, she does not condemn us for our baseness, quite the opposite, for it is only through our current wild state that we are able to see that 'simple need for rest':
But for lust we could be friends,
On each other's necks could weep:
In each other's arms could sleep
In the calm the cradle lends:
Lends awhile, and takes away.
But for hunger, but for fear,
Calm could be our day and year
From the yellow to the grey:
From the gold to the grey hair,
But for passion we could rest,
But for passion we could feast
On compassion everywhere.
Even in this night I know
By the awful living dead,
By this craving tear I shed,
Somewhere, somewhere it is so.
'But For Lust'
In a way obscurity now suits Ruth Pitter. She was never given to the high literary life, Vita Sackville West may have thought her worthy of the Queen's medal, but Pitter in return thought her 'not a very good poet, no', and deftly she dealt with many of the writers of her day, her wryness one of her most enduring qualities. That only one of those people at the bus stop should be remembered is a pity for us, but Pitter knew that was always the way:
There is always a way for those who must go over:
Always a bridge from the known to the unknown.
from 'The Bridge'
Enitharmon brought out a Collected Poems in 1996. There are worse things you could do than read it.


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An illegal treaty with Iraq seals our fate
By Justin Raimondo
"Is the U.S. going to occupy Iraq indefinitely, or will we withdraw our troops within the next year or so, as the majority of Americans would have it? President Bush and Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki don't care what Americans – or Iraqis – think or want: they've already settled the question by signing a "Declaration of Principles for a Long-Term Relationship of Cooperation and Friendship Between the Republic of Iraq and the United States of America" that commits American soldiers to the task of defending the present Iraqi government against internal enemies, as well as foreign-based threats to its sovereignty, either real or imagined. As the Declaration declares, the U.S. is tasked with:
"Supporting the Republic of Iraq in its efforts to combat all terrorist groups, at the forefront of which is al-Qaeda, Saddamists, and all other outlaw groups regardless of affiliation, and destroy their logistical networks and their sources of finance, and defeat and uproot them from Iraq. This support will be provided consistent with mechanisms and arrangements to be established in the bilateral cooperation agreements mentioned herein."
It's in this context that the Kyl-Lieberman resolution, enthusiastically supported by Hillary Clinton as well as the Bush administration, takes on special importance: having targeted the Iranian security force known as al-Quds, or the Revolutionary Guards, as an officially designated "terrorist" group, the American garrison is already authorized to take on Tehran. The road to war with Iran is paved, and we're ready to roll no matter who sits in the driver's seat......."


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Chris ended up joining the society as a techie for Princess Ida. The major impression he made in his first year was throwing a rugby ball back on to stage after he was supposed to remove it,[citation needed] much to the consternation of some of the cast (it ended up in the orchestra pit). By his second year we'd discovered his talent at painting bricks, a talent utilised in every set since. The Patience set indeed started another tradition which has continued to this day, that of the last coat of paint on the set still drying as the cast go on for the opening night. Not that this has anything to do with Chris's presence, of course (cough).
Chris was technical director for The Pirates of Penzance and Ruddigore. Despite the non-appearance of the long-promised pirate ship, both sets managed to solve the problem of needing two very different sets for acts 1 and 2, as well as specific challenges such as the sarcophagus which the Pirate King and Ruth burst their way through; or the need for the portraits of the Murgatroyd ancestors to come to life. For The Gondoliers, Chris was allowed to run as "Production Designer" and has made no secret of the fact that he just made the role up as an excuse to get back in the driving seat without having to do any real work. He first realised this hadn't gone quite to plan some time between 3:30 am and 4:00 am on the morning before opening night, while stuck on top of a ladder still painting the highly ambitious set.
Somewhat to his surprise, Chris was elected as chair for 2008-09. Contrary to urban legend, the acceptance speech was NOT "I was always running for comedy value, people have been wondering if I'll take the job if elected. And the answer is YES, and I'll be doing the best damn job I can!"1 Some say that this is a bid by the techies to take over the society, but others are doubtful - would techies really be capable of organising anything that complex? After his chairmanship Chris was elected Secretary for the 2009-10 committee. A scientist as society secretary? But that hasn't happened since… Wait, have you ever seen Chris and Alex Gurney in the same room together?
Member: 2004-2013
Committee Positions:
2005-06: Press & Publicity
2008-09: Chair
2009-10: Secretary
2010-11: Press & Publicity
2011-12: Press & Publicity
Directorial Positions:
2007: TD, The Pirates of Penzance
2008: TD, Ruddigore
2010: Assistant TD, The Sorcerer
2005: Stage Crew, Another Openin' Another Show
2006: Stage Manager, Patience
2006: Stage Manager, Guys & Dolls
2008: Stage Manager, Kaleidoshow
2009: Stage Manager, The Mikado
2010: Stage Manager, The Sorcerer
2010: Techie, Be Our Guest
2011: Production Designer, The Gondoliers
2011: Guitar, Panorama: The Musical
2012: Production Consultant, The Yeomen of the Guard
2013: Techie, The Pirates of Penzance
The Sorcerer (2010): Best Techie, Best Bodger
Panorama, The Musical (2011): Loudest Female Orchestra Member
The Amazing Minutes of Christopher Armstrong
As Secretary, Chris wrote probably the best minutes the society has ever had, ensuring that committee members who couldn't be bothered to turn up to meetings still tuned in to read the minutes. They are reproduced here (although minus the special fonts and images of many of the files) for the whole world to enjoy. There is at least one other that was set to be "the most concise minutes possible", this was an entire set of minutes stuffed into the subject bar of the committee email. The xkcd theme covering the AGM was only ever 25-30% completed, and was to feature Thomas Newby on a jet pack.
04/06/2009: Top Gear
After some deliberation, the minutes this week will be in the style of a Top Gear episode…This should really be read with the voice.
Tonight in the G&S Minutes…
Jenny apologises for a lack of bacon!
James finds the budget to go driving around America… in a tank!
Jackie tries her hand at some reasonably priced sponsorship!
And Morven drives incredibly slowly…
<10 futile minutes pass trying to find a trick to embed YouTube into MS Word without installing downloading software onto a supported campus computer. Instead, click here: http://www.youtube.com/v/4tvB18gLO8U >
Clarkson: Now, Jenny, you said you were bringing bacon jokes.
Jenny: Yes, but…
Clarkson: ah, ah, ah… you said…
Jenny: Cock.
Hamster: That's what she said…
Jenny: Oh, bog off.
James: I've asked for £1600 in grant money… to buy a rocket car.
Clarkson: But not just any old rocket car.
Houston: No. It's going to be a rocket car… made of wood.
Clarkson: And we're going to find out if it works. What's the worst that can happen?
Distinguished Visitors Fund
Jenny: We asked for a distinguished visitors fund to fund some singing teaching. But it's been rejected.
James: And unfortunately, the producers won't give us the money to do it.
Clarkson: So we're going to foot a £6 of our own money to buy three cars and turn them into a singing teacher.
Houston: We're then going to be set a series of challenges…
Clarkson: And now it's time to put our sponsorship rep in a reasonably priced car! Jackie!
Jackie: Hello!
Clarkson: Roll the tape!
Hammond: And now with the er… news. Well, Bugatti are…
Clarkson: Wait.
Hammond: But…
Clarkson: Shut up. Morven has joined a group called York Rising Stars, who have 72 members and do shows fairly often. And some of them are, wait for it… men! We can invite them over to do Sorcerer.
And the minutes went round the track in… 6… minutes… thirty…
Point… 5 seconds!
And on that bombshell ladies and gentlemen. The minutes are concluded. Goodnight!
11/06/2009: 4chan
The style of the minutes this week is…4Chan. I've put a lot of effort in removing all the sensible punctuation that I can find. Readable version available on request as per accessibility laws, please allow 30 days for delivery. LOL wut?
**1: Backdrop; **
[image of a theatrical backdrop of a blue sky and a tree, with the words MSPainted: "PENIS-SHAPED TREE!!!"]
Society: We have a backdrop Possibly sell it to Pantsoc???
Anonymous: Holy fuck!!1 How much you selling 4?
Anonymous: No fuckin clue m8 LoL
Mik3y1983: Pics, or it doesn't exist!!!1 lol
2: Studio;
[image of an expensive-looking sound suite]
actual size lol
SexyJenZOMG; We have recording time
Anonymous; U have neked piccs?
LOLPim; Is it big enough? To fit everyone in?
Anonymous: Big enough. Hur hur
LOLPim: Go fuck your palm, cockfag
Mik3y1983: lol wut? Time? Portering?
Anonymous: Portering is a non-issue as it's open at that time
Anonymous: Separate thread for this shit
Mik3y1983: We could make CDs ourselves or possibly put them up on the internet
Anonymous: RIP PIRATE BAY!!!!
Anonymous: Pirate Bay wuz LAAME!!!!!
Anonymous: ROFLMAO
3a:Recording the show + Mics
Anonymous: Pete is coming! Pass the kleeenex!!!!!11
Anonymous: LOL FTW!
PeTeZ: £150 for the decent PA and mixing desk for all three nights
J1mmyO-M-G: I'll pay you £125 now and the remaining £25 for the Sunday night later i claim from the society at a later date after revenue comes in. Cockfag
PeTeZ: Lol wut?
3b: Venue for the show;
[image of a stained glass window apparently showing a boy giving a bishop a blow-job, with the words "Stained Glass FAIL"]
Anonymous: St Lawrence's (spl?) Free to host it there. Thursday to minmise conflicts with Carmelites and because people can make it etc.
Anonymous: FaGs. sundy's BEETTTER!!!!
Anonymous: hes church is booked we've got 5pm to 11pm and the meeting room, church and kitchen.
Anonymous: Also asking for one or two stewards per night and front-of-house.
Anonymous: er new topic! Noobfag!
4: Off Topic;
[image of one of the You Can't Stop The Beat posters]
P&P&P&P: Will make short style programs. Have a budget of £50.
Anonymous: lol wut?
5: Apologies;
[image of the Large Hadron Collider with the words "IZ IN YOUR PARTICLE COLLIDER SMASHIN UR ATOMS!!!!!"
JEBSTER: Will be at CERN next week.
Anonymous: lol wut?
Anonymous: Fuck will you be cockfag?
Anonymous: lol cool!!111
Anonymous: u going to blow up the world?
Anonymous: it won't blow the up world mutherfucker
Anonymous: blow the World. HURRR!!!
Anonymous: fuck you.
Anonymous: fuck your mom!
Anonymous: fuck YOUR MOM N00BFAG!
Anonymous: lol wut?
Anonymous: lol wut?
Anonymous: DOUBLE POST FUCKER!
Anonymous: pics or it didn't happen?
Anonymous: Naked pics?
Anonymous: of a particle collider?
Anonymous: fuck you sciencefag
18/06/2009 Concise minutes (recovered draft)
See prev. disclaimers
1)Pirates: 11 replies (x2 JimK). Date selected: 18-08-09.
2)Crash: Frances St.
3)Letters for JamesG: Bills etc. From YUSU mailbox
1.Jen + Raph did MC script
2.Stewards x2 per Night. Thurs: Spud+ Daisy, Fri: Kathy + ?, Sat: ? + ?
5)Cast calls: 5pm
6)AOB: Refreshments; tea + coffee, maybe sell cake, hope Jen's Lv2 FH cert. is in date, use stewards
Asides: Jen lacks interest in NASA merchandise, should check mailbox more often, "Crash Bang Wallop"
12/11/2009: Communist Propaganda2
1: Socialist Events Form; **
The Party requires that the People to complete the Socialst Events Format least 21 days in advance of our Activity. The Glorious Leader has requested that this happens before Winter.
2: Merchendise;**
The People's Department of Clothing Issue and Redistribution have suggested two separate orders for their items (which shall be procured from the bourgeoisie pigs). They have also suggested that we have Production themeed merchandise and Party themed items to distribute to the People.
The "treasurer" (Who shall be put on trial before the People for blatant capitalism *spits*) has noted that this practice does not generate any money. Therefore the People are asked to donate their money to the Party upfront.
As the technology of the Capitalist Americans has advanced, our "director" has suggested further improved methods of merchandise production, such as embroidary for the Party emblem on a hoodie. We cannot allow there to be a Logo Gap!
Comrade Jackie will send a message to our comrades-in-arms (FOGS) with regards to raising more capital for the Party.
3:Christmas Party;
The Party suggests having a Party in the People's Palace of V/045 to watch Glorious films of past achievements of the Glorious Regime in fighting off the Fascist warmongerers!
To futher aid in the Party's redistribution of its resources, People's Store Cupboard shall be reorganised on Friday from 1800 hours. Indentured Volunteers will be required by the will of the Glorious Leader to assist in this endeavour.
The People's Room-That's-Too-Small-For-Anything-Else-Remotely-Useful of L/049 has been booked to facilitate this.
The Party requires Indentured Volunteers for service to the Motherland at the People's SHOF.
Meetings of the Party shall still be held at 9.15 on Thursdays. As all Members of the Motherland are equal, all are welcome to attend. As some Members are more equal than others, only the Inner Party shall actually be welcome to attend.
7:Socs Forum;
Thus is the minutes of the Societies Forum, attended by the Glorious Leader hisherself.
7a: YUSU Fair II
The People's Democratic Republic of YUSU have invited the Party to advertise itself. The relevance of this to the Party is disputed and shall be discussed at the next meeting of the Inner Party
7b: Large Rooms
The People's Democratic Republic of YUSU have petitioned the Capitalist Tyranny of the University of York to release sanctions held against the People's Palaces of Vanbrugh Dining Hall. (In English, they want to make Vanbrugh Dining Hall bookable, like that's going to happen)
7c: Grants
The redistribution of the wealth of the The People's Democratic Republic of YUSU must happen by the end of this Term. If there are not enough Party Members, this may have to be revised.
7d: 2nd Round of Grant Applications
Self descriptive. Beg for cash next term.
7e: Portering
The Union of Socialist Republics of Vanbrugh and the Democratic People's Communists Regime of Unified Socialist Constitutional Republic of Derwent no longer have 24 hour portering. Everywhere else does.
Mostly irrelevant banter about putting Onity cards on Grimstone House. Only really affects the propaganda machines3 of Nouse and Vision.
7g:Knowledge Base
It's like the Internet for stupid people.
LINKS must be booked 2 weeks in advance for any "high risk"4 events or anything with over 400 people. Hence, can the Party do without this bourgeoisie strain on its resources?)
7i: OUTGOING
Would you like to go get pissed in Paris or stoned in Amsterdam?
8:You Can't Stop The Beat
The Glorious Leader has announced that the CD for this has been done. It is lying around in Comrade Mike's bedroom waiting to be liberated!
9:RP Training
Clarified at the Societies Forum meeting. There are "responsable persons" and there are "Responsible Persons". The Party need only concern itself with the former as the second only applies to snobby aristocrats who drink fancy wine on the back of the blood and sweat of the worker.
28/05/2010: Conservapedia
We note some bizarre political ramblings on a flip chart in L/002. This inspires the society (well, some of the society) to add some subtle satire to the committee meeting and minutes. The minutes are hereby written in the style of a Conservapedia article. Complaints to the usual address.
The minutes of the liberal Gilbert and Sullivan Society, known for its extreme liberal leadings and pushing of the homosexual agenda, were recording on the 28th May 2009 AD5. The agenda is set out below. How this relates to Obama being a Muslim is also discussed. The society's attitudes to the capitalisation of Hell and school prayer are also discussed.
1. Liberalism – and how we can prevent it.
2. Recording – people's actions for our database
3. Budget – and how it is spent on people who should get a job
4. Venue – and how to put it down as a "second home"
5. Vocal Training – how to better praise our glorious leader
6. AOB – Action of Bureaucracy
7. BAR – legal kind where our daddies worked
Liberalism – and how we can prevent it.
The society first notes a need for more guns and less gun control.
Recording – people's actions for our database
Jenny, who we can be 86.76% sure is against School Prayer, asks about how we are going to film the concert. Fellow scycophantic liberal Mark says we can do it ourselves with our own cameras (thus depriving hardworking Americans of good business from renting their cameras from Mexico). Mike suggests an issue of editing, most notably the difficulty in editing out Truth and keeping in the pro-Darwinist message.
Budget – and how it is spent on people who should get a job6
James, showing the benefits and wonders of Supply Side Economics will duplicate the budget from previous years. However, this time he will leave out the merchandise and DVDs as they essentially pay for themselves and break even. The society will email in ideas to stick on the budget to claim for or otherwise as a form of Liberal Deciet. James could continue with more specifics but we do not let Facts get in the way of Truth here!
<jokes off>
If we cannot claim cash for a new keyboard we desperately need cash for keyboard maintenance as the constant use and transport of the current one is taking its toll. This has been an issue for at least two years now.
<jokes back on>
Membership is set at £5, noting that at least 90% of it will be claimed in tax by Obama and spent funding abortions.7
Venue – and how to put it down as a "second home"
JEB has the booking form for Heslington Church. We note that Heslington Church is not a real Church as it doesn't embrace Conservative values and promotes the gay agenda. Lucy has had no responses so far but will keep looking, James points out that it would be worth doing as many shows as possible as they are essentially free to put on (see also: Liberal Creep).
Vocal Training – how to better praise our glorious leader
Jenny, in a display of Professor Values, indicates that the fund for claiming this money may have passed its deadline but there is a small chance of it returning or us still being able to apply. As deceitful libruls, the G&S Society can attempt to claim this on the YUSU budget.
AOB – Action of Bureaucracy
Pirates trip: A doodle poll is to be set up to see when the society would prefer to go and see Pirates in Scarborough with a potential for group discount. Initial results of the doodle poll indicate that an overwhelming majority of the respondents reject Evolution.8
See also
*Liberal Bias
*Social Effects of the THEORY of Evolution
*Gay Bowel Syndrome
*Homosexuality and The University of York
14/01/2010: Starfleet Commander
Context warning: At the time, many members of the society and committee were stuck playing a Facebook based game called "Starfleet Commander". For an idea of what this game involved, see this article.
Getting Started
To play the game, you need to accumulate Credits, Tiberium and Room Space. You can Credits and Tiberium by completing missions for your own Society, selling stuff (such as useful technical equipment) or by raiding other Societies. Room Space, however, you can only steal from other players as the Galactic YUSU Empire possesses most of it – although there's next to none of it anyway. You can then use these items to unlock more missions, build new things and generally click buttons to avoid the tedium of life as you know it.
Mission Outlines
1) More Money – Requires nothing
2) Social Events Form – requires 20 Credits and is unlocked when you build the Competent Secretary Droid
3) Merchandise – Costs 200 Credits per unit (you can sell them to Members for 250 Credits) and 40 Tiberium. Requires Level 4 P&P Rep Droid.
4) DVDs – Requries 150 Credits and 250 Tiberium per unit. Unlocked after researching DVD Authoring and after buying a Computer. 4+ Speed Bonus if you have After Effects (which is available after researching Bittorrent)
5) Raid Goole and Pocklington – Requires 500 Tiberium. Unlocked after researching Bus Trip Prices and building Level 2 Chorus.
6) Ruddigore – Bonus mission, requires 340 Credits.
7) AOB – Bonus mission. Can be carried out at any time at the expense of Beer Time Points.
More Money
Congratulations on finishing your first mission. Here is £400 for buying or hiring useful equipment. For additional credits, visit the following links:
Social Events Form
The "Events Management Form" can be completed in 2 Weeks.
Complete now for 4500 Credits and loss of Beer Time Points?
You have made forms for mechandise! This will bring in 20 Credits per week.
Unlock the next Merchandise mission by researching Level 2 Sweatshop and Printer Technology! Please visit our sponsors for extra credits (credits received on confirmation of having bought the most sick t-shirt in the room)
Congratulations on researching Level 1 DVD Tech! To complete the mission build a Mike Droid. +5 Speed Bonus if you equip the Mike Droid with a Large Boot To Kick Mark Up The Arse With.
Raid on Goole and Pocklington
Oh Noes! U has failed to unlock this mision becos of HAXOR ATTAX!!! 4CHAN URLES!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! TYPE OFFENDED INTO ENCYLOPEDIA DRAMATICA AND YOU WISH WILL CUM TRU THIS IS REAL!
Build a JEB-Bot to end hacker attack and email Goole and Pocklington for more details.
This mission is locked until Competent Secretary Droid has finished researching Level 1 Society Pigeon Hole Contents.
Bonus: Job Dump
Lucy is to book LINKS. This will earn the Society Level 3 First-Aid Coverage for the Show.
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You've been attacked by Stupid YUSU Policy!! You will now be charged +50% on all your research and technology!!
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My Father's Girl
Maureen Hirthler
I'm walking very slowly with my dad down the produce aisle at the local supermarket, past the colorful waxed apples, Mexican mangoes and Rainier cherries, and imagining my life's blood trickling onto the floor from an invisible wound.
As I pass by the misting system spraying the bins of green, red, yellow and orange peppers, past the lady reaching for carrots, past the stock guy balancing the heirloom tomatoes into a precarious stack, I want to scream. The sense of loss is overpowering.
But no one notices as I inwardly watch my life's blood--my father, age eighty-six--flow away, here in the grocery store.
I feel as if we've walked these aisles together forever. When I was a child, my father worked in a supermarket. He taught me how to bag groceries, cut meat, fill displays and manage people. One of my earliest memories is of riding on the checkout conveyor belt; I couldn't have been more than three. Now, decades later, we shop together again. Here in this store, I feel the passage of time, and the forces of change, most acutely.
This is what I'm thinking as I watch Dad struggle to find the items that he needs. He always brings a half-finished list scrawled on a gray scrap of paper torn from one of his crossword-puzzle books, and he reads it over and over again. He insists on pushing his own cart, although today he's so short of breath that I wonder if we'll make it to the checkout counter.
I make a mental note to start him on an antibiotic; he frequently gets lung infections brought on by food fragments going down his windpipe. Because he cannot swallow properly, he has a gastrostomy tube in his stomach. Despite the risks, he insists on eating.
Radiation therapy cured his head and neck cancer fifteen years ago, but it left him with many other problems, all getting worse with age and requiring multiple medications. A large squamous-cell cancer eats at his face near his left eye; we fight wet macular degeneration in his right eye with monthly injections. His blood pressure is difficult to control. He has a stent in his left carotid artery, which narrowed after the radiation; he takes one blood thinner for that, and another for his atrial fibrillation. He bleeds a lot. Nerve damage from diabetes makes him unsteady on his feet, and he requires insulin six times a day.
Last week he felt too weak to go to the store, so I went alone.
"Where's your father?" asked the checkout clerk.
"Not a good day," I said.
"Tell him we miss him."
Over the last three years, they've gotten to know him well--shared in the news of his illnesses, his gradual loss of independence, the death of his dog. He has charmed them all.
But I hate taking him shopping or for a haircut or even to a ballgame.
There, I said it.
He looks so diminished--unsteady, unsure, his pride dented like a kicked pail. Not like my father at all.
I'm a coward, I think. I wish I were dead and didn't have to do this. I can't stand it.
I want to scream and run away. But there's nowhere to go.
I've always been my father's girl. Growing up as an only child, I had a contentious relationship with my mother, but that's another story. Dad was the one who drove me to school, listened to my woes and waited up nights until I came home from a date or a party, just in case I needed him. Being here for him now feels only right.
Dad has lived with my husband and me for the last seven years. He's gone from being completely independent--living alone after my mother died, working at a golf course, walking the beach--to this: housebound and in chronic pain, trying not to be a burden on me. He still manages his money and medicines (correctly most of the time), works crossword puzzles and talks to his favorite brother every night promptly at six, but some days he gets forgetful and confused.
When my husband took a job in Missouri five years ago and we left our previous home in Florida, I decided to retire from medicine and become a writer. I needed more control over my schedule, and I was tired of the battle that it had become to provide good care to my patients.
Switching from being a doctor to being an MFA degree candidate made it easier for me to get Dad to his appointments and to help him fill his days. He enjoys watching me struggle through my classes and is proud of my perfect GPA, although I don't always let him read my writing.
The only important thing is that we are together. We watch baseball most nights; Dad still calls strikes and balls better than the home-plate umpire. He enjoys taking the helm of our pontoon boat out on the lake; my husband sits beside him to prevent close encounters with swimmers or other boats. We tell one another "I love you" every day.
Last night, at Dad's request, we played pinochle with my husband and stepson. Dad has played the game his entire adult life; he's a formidable opponent. Or was. Now I bite my cheek and force back tears when he misdeals or makes an error.
My husband catches my eye and smiles gently. I'm bleeding even at home.
I want to hide--not from Dad, never from him--but from it: old age. I despise the losses it is inflicting on us all. How much longer can my husband and I leave him at home alone when we travel? I can't bear the thought of having to administer his insulin and dozen other meds, of handling his tube feedings and taking care of his hygiene.
Although I hate the idea of doing these things, I hate the thought of not doing them even more, because that will mean that Dad is gone. What will I do then?
As painful as it may be, I prefer to keep our current situation in place as long as possible--even if it means imagining myself slowly bleeding to death, day by day, while I make our last memories from the time remaining to us.
Yesterday he called me downstairs to the deck outside his living room to show me, in the garden, a huge hibiscus bloom the color of sunset.
"I don't know how you grow such beautiful flowers," he said.
With love and tears and time, I think. The same way you raised me...the same way I'm caring for you.
About the author:
Maureen Hirthler is a retired physician who in May will receive an MFA in creative nonfiction from the University of Missouri-Kansas City. "I began writing as a way to understand my experiences in emergency medicine and subsequently became interested in the role of narrative in medicine. I hope to teach creative writing as part of a medical-humanities curriculum." She lives with her husband, who is a hand surgeon, and with a wonderful rescue dog named Riversong, and, of course, her dad.
Story editor:
Diane Guernsey
I too am losing my father and as an only child it
Is so very difficult to watch it happen. Unfortunately for me, it's not due to old age but to alcoholism. I relocated my family with his only grandchild in hopes of helping him. No matter the cause, as an only child and daughter, losing your father is never easy. Prayers for you and yours. Sherri Lynn
How many more good doctors will have to quit medicine (or retiring early) before the battles that defeat them are meaningfully addressed and won?
At least Maureen will still be contributing to her profession by teaching creative writing to doctors and/or future doctors. I'm convinced that practicing clinicians who write are able to practice longer because they're able to keep the big picture in their peripheral vision and address the needs of their souls.
My dad had been diagnosed with airway cancer. He agreed to head and neck surgery, because I endorsed it. I wanted my father to live. I didn't have the courage to allow my dad a choice based on knowledge of his diagnosis, treatment options, and outcomes.
Early congratulations too on receiving your MFA from the University of Missouri, and every good wish and hope for your subsequent happiness in teaching creative writing to those working in medicine.
When the author says, "I want to hide--not from Dad, never from him--but from it: old age. I despise the losses it is inflicting on us all," let's remember that it is not aging per se that is causing his infirmities, but multiple illnesses and the sequelae of his cancer treatments.
Though illnesses are more common as we age, aging itself is not an illness.
This piece sent chills down my entire body thinking of my own mother and others I have care for and lost. You piece is indelibly written on my thoughts and will not be forgotten.
Thank you for sharing it.
and capturing all the trials and tribulations of
watching a parent growing old.
The last line about the flower is the best...
a wonderful close!
"Although I hate the idea of doing these things, I hate the thought of not doing them even more, because that will mean that Dad is gone. What will I do then?"
Thank you for giving my feelings (and many peoples) words.
Thank you Maureen.
C. Edgar RN
What a beautiful, poignant story of caring for a parent, as someone who's "been there and done that" you're oh so right about missing the pain after they depart. Thanks!


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Secrets St. James in Montego Bay, Jamaica is the Greatest Place on EarthOctober 30, 2014 at 6:41 pm | Posted in Uncategorized | Leave a comment
My wife and I visited Secrets St. James in Montego Bay, Jamaica in August for our first year anniversary. We had been to the Secrets Resorts and Spas in the Dominican Republic for our honeymoon but the resort in Montego Bay was a dream come true.
This resort, Secrets St. James in Montego Bay, not only met but exceeded our expectations and impressed my wife and me so much that we ended up convincing my mother in law to cancel her vacation to the Bahamas in order to visit Secret St. James in Montego Bay Jamaica.
The resort was beyond paradise. The water was so clear, and the beaches were literally raked, by hand, every morning. The best part of the resort is the staff. Can I just say that they have the most kind, excited, and caring staff in the world. From check in to check out, everyone bent over backwards to make sure that we had an amazing time. The greatest thing was the fact that they were treating all of their guests like royalty.
From the managers, to the Butlers, especially Travis, and even the gardeners maintaining the property couldn't have been more amazing. One of the maintenance guys who was cutting the grass stopped to ask me how my visit was going. Once I told him how amazing it was he asked if I got a fresh coconut yet. When I told him no, he immediately climbed up a tree, cut down a coconut and prepared it for me to drink. THAT IS AMAZING SERVICE.
Barrels of ice cold bottles of water to grab, on the go, all over the resort to the delicious drinks; nothing could ever make this place any better.
Okay, okay. The food was to die for. We never felt rushed and the flavors were out of this world. Snacks, drinks, and room service around the clock was great too.
Please don't let me forget the amazingly talented entertainment team; especially entertainers like Hennessy, Alex…….. I mean EVERYONE.
Don't listen to the lies either. The resort is as safe as can be and going down town to the "strip", I heard, is a fun and exciting family or couples party and tourist place to go to gamble, shop, or just walk around.
NO ONE is treated different in Jamaica. It was so relaxing to be amongst such a laid back culture who truly care about each other as well as their guests.
I will be sending a letter to the CEO, COO, and every manager of a Secrets resort in the world to make sure that they model there locations from St. James in Montego Bay.
Did I mention the Butler service? Our Butler Travis was funny, and yet still very professional. He made our experience a dream come true. St. James was superfluous.
If you want to be pampered in paradise, don't think twice. My wife and I travel a lot and I am saying, GO GO GO GO.
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I've had several guests this year who have been walking the Ayrshire Coastal Path and I've always offered pick-up and collection as Balkissock Lodge B&B is three miles from the route.
Following a discussion with our latest walkers I thought that I'd write this post with a few helpful tips for anyone following in their footsteps!
After a good night's sleep and a hearty breakfast, I dropped the guests off at the start of the route at Glenapp Kirk with full flasks, bottled water, fresh fruit and my copy of The Ayrshire Coastal Path Official Guide Book.
The first part of the route to Ballantrae is relatively short in distance but challenging due to the terrain and there's currently a diversion due to some engineering works. There are no shops on this part of the walk so be prepared to carry lunch/refreshments with you.
I collected the guys later in the day and they stayed here for a second night before continuing their walk the following morning, leaving their car here at the Lodge. I do a selection of platters or the pub in the village serve meals until about 8pm.
The father and son were having a wonderful time together and even made time to write a beautiful comment in the guest book:
Not knowing the area prior to their visit they pre-booked another B&B to the south of Girvan but found that this made day two of their journey too short and wished that they'd booked somewhere in Girvan which would have also given them a good choice of places to eat in the evening. It's worth remembering to pop into Scotmid in Ballantrae to stock up on any supplies as there are no shops between Ballantrae and Girvan. The guests also called in at Craigiemains Garden Centre to buy their own copy of the Guide Book.
Being several miles south of Girvan made the following day quite a long trek as they'd booked a B&B in Dunure, a beautiful little fishing village on the coast overlooking Aisle Craig, Arran and the Mull of Kintyre.
Again, please call in at the many shops in Girvan as the only shop between Girvan and Dunure on the Path is a small one at Maidens. They enjoyed their meal at the Dunure Inn.
This left a relatively short walk the following day to Ayr to catch a bus back to Ballantrae where I picked them up so that they could collect their car and after more coffee and biscuits headed off for a quick break in Edinburgh before returning home.
Cordelia @ Balkissock Lodge (c) 2015


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Cohn & Wolfe has been appointed by Brown-Forman Hong Kong and Cyberport's Incubate Valoot Technologies Ltd.
Brown-Forman's Jack Daniel's has enlisted the agency with the role of leading earned and social media marketing for the 150th anniversary of Jack Daniel's Distillery global barrel hunt campaign.
Another company adding to Cohn & Wolfe's new clientele is Valoot, a startup company founded for credit card consumers worldwide. Valoot creates a win-win for both consumers and the merchants: cardholders are offered ultra-competitive FX rates sourced straight from the FX market, while merchants can attain an additional revenue stream from foreign credit card solutions. Cohn & Wolfe will step in to handle the company's solution launch this year.
CEO and founder of Valoot Technology Limited, Ovidiu Olea says, "We awarded the contract to Cohn & Wolfe as the result of a competitive pitch involving 12 other PR agencies, and we have made the right decision. The Cohn & Wolfe Hong Kong team has the connections and relationships that we need. In the short time since the launch of Valoot, we have been impressed by the media coverage and discussions that Cohn & Wolfe has generated."
Diana Pong, managing director for Cohn & Wolfe Hong Kong said, "We're so excited to partner with such incredible companies. Our team thrives on securing results for a variety of businesses, from groundbreaking start-up Valoot to the iconic Jack Daniel's brand."


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Life Coaching Tips for Better Decision Making SkillsIn the business, as well personal world, we are besieged with choices that demand clear and precise decisions. Some decisions are small while others are big, but in the end good and logical decision making skills are essential to a successful life. Life Coaching can help one develop these social skills at a more acute level.
According the Community Counseling Clinic at Youngstown State University, one needs to ask questions to oneself about their previous decision making history before they properly develop future decision making skills. Questions that delve into the recent history of decisions and their past outcomes to the process one has followed in the past. Does one ask for other opinions before acting? Has one in the past acted rash?
After this, it is encouraged to use the D-E-C-I-D-E approach. First, Descibe in writing the decision you need to make and identify the main issues. Second, Elicit the opinions of others that you respect. Third, Consider the circumstances and alternatives of any given situation. Fourth, Invest time in research and information gathering. Obviously the time spent will correlate with the magnitude and importance of the decision. Fifth, Decide what the consequences will be and all possible outcomes. Finally, Educate oneself with a log of the decision whether good or bad with explanations of the outcome.
As time proceeds, log your decisions and the outcome and see how you progress in your decision making process. In some cases, intituition will play a major role. I also recommend prayer for wisdom and understanding of the situation.
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5 education trends of 2016 that will continue to impact in 2017
Many technology trends, last year, made an impact in K-12 and higher education classrooms. Various types of blended learning created a fundamental shift in the learning model, data analytics helped educators learn how to better serve their students. 2016 was an eventful year for education sector; here are 5 trends of 2016, which will continue to impact in 2017:
- Theme-based learning – Integrated learning technology, brought together print and digital modes of learning. These solutions are teacher-friendly, assessment-enabled, and theme or activity-based as well. Theme-based learning modules clear the concepts of learners to a great extent.
- Assessments to measure performance – 2016 saw a massive focus on measurement of student outcomes and performance, in both online and offline mediums. 2017 would see more developed assessment solutions that provide detailed analytics on student performance.
- Teacher Training – There was lots of focus towards training and professional development of teachers in 2016. A continued focus on the teacher training programs will bring betterment to the sector.
- Bilingual learning medium for young adults – In order to expand the reach of education, it becomes imperative for learning organisations to develop content that is either in the native language of the learner or bilingual. It is seen that use of mother tongue to deliver learning instructions enables faster understanding of concepts.
- Digital proliferation in education – Digitisation has played a very important role in this sector. The Internet and its proliferation through affordable and accessible devices have redefined learning ability and pushed us closer towards universal education. The Digital Literacy Mission was announced as part of the Union Budget 2016 to cover 60 million rural households within the next three years. 'Digital Highways' that are being created as part of the Digital India Mission will play an important role in "connecting India and Bharat".
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Tuesday, January 8, 2008, 14:18 - Etymology and word roots, Ancient Greek Language, Latin Derivatives, Roots, Word OriginsSeriously, where do these people get there etymologies from?
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To make this quotation more understandable let me remind you that the word nostalgia is comprised of the Latin words "nostos (home) and "algia (fervent desire, longing).
Ok, they got the 'algeo' part somewhat right. The verb means 'feel pain, to be sick, to be sorrowful'. But it's Greek, not Latin!
'Nostos' means (in Greek, mind you) 'a return' or, sometimes, 'a journey'.
Apparently, as long as you get the meaning of the whole thing right it does not matter what meanings you ascribe to different parts of the word or what language you claim these parts to derive from.


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Foothills School Division has a continuum of supports and services that ensures the success of all learners. The Director of Inclusive Learning works with school administration, parents, teachers, learning coaches and other professionals to ensure that students have appropriate supports to meet their learning, behavioural and social emotional needs. The role involves supporting all schools in the division as part of an inclusive system that values, supports and celebrates the unique gifts and abilities of all students.


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Chick-fil-A will be opening its first stand-alone restaurant in Connecticut in Brookfield on Thursday, Oct. 9 at 6:30 a.m.
However, dedicated customers can arrive at 6 a.m. on Wednesday Oct. 8 for a chance to will win a free meal every week for a year.
The giveaway is Chick-fil-A's "First 100" promotion and a spokesperson for the restaurant said the first 100 customers camp out overnight to get their hands on the chicken sandwich Consumer Reports readers dubbed "tastiest chicken sandwich" in 2014.
Those living in specific zip codes, roughly within a 25-mile radius of the 156 Federal Road location, are eligible for the "First 100" promotion.
The new restaurant will create 80 jobs and is the first of four to open in Connecticut within the next six months.
The Wallingford location will open on Nov. 6 at 1098 N. Colony Road. and will also offer the "First 100" promotion.
Locations are also planned for Danbury and Enfield.
The Brookfield Chick-fil-A will offer take-out, drive-thru, free Wi-Fi, an indoor play area and enough room inside to seat 109 people.
Devon Scalon, the owner of Brookfield location, said she thinks opening the restaurant will have a positive impact on her hometown.
"I couldn't be more excited to bring Chick-fil-A's freshly prepared food and signature customer service to Connecticut," she said.
On Wednesday, Oct. 8, the new restaurant will also host a new book drive to benefit the Brookfield Public Schools District between 11 a.m. and 6 p.m.
You can stay up to date on construction progress and grand opening festivities on the Brookfield Chick-fil-A's Facebook page.
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From the Hy-Vee (grocery store) in Iowa City:
This was basically my reaction:
[short break while I collect myself]
Perhaps I'm taking this all a little personally. You know I have feelings about Anthuriums. But even trying to look at this objectively, this is not a good idea.
Some people, I'm sure, will be able to grow Anthuriums this way. For months, even. Maybe years. This is because although outdoor climates are sort of generalizable (in terms of, for example, the USDA garden zone map: a plant that will grow in Illinois zone 5a will probably also grow in Iowa zone 5a), indoor climates are not. Everybody keeps their homes at different temperatures. Some homes are pretty air-tight, some homes are drafty. Some people are extremely conscientious about watering, other people forget about their plants for weeks at a time. Some people have thick hedges just outside their windows, other people's windows are unobstructed. Etc. So it's true that there will be somebody who buys a Just Add Ice Anthurium and sees it live, accidentally.
But for most people, in most homes, that tag is not giving good advice.
Let's leave aside that the instructions are self-contradictory. (Don't let the plant get below 55F / 13C, but water it with 32F / 0C water? How does that work?) My personal Anthuriums -- and there are, as regular readers know, many personal Anthuriums here, some of which are pictured below -- don't rebloom without pretty strong light. The ones upstairs get partial sun from an east window; the ones downstairs are situated just below fluorescent lights. So I'm not liking the instructions to keep the JAI Anthuriums out of direct sun. A big, unobstructed south-facing window might be too much, sure. But it's not true that they can't handle any sun.
I also can't get mine to bloom without some pretty heavy fertilizing, and I notice that the instructions from JAI don't mention fertilizer at all. Which is . . . alarming.
Back in the days when we were getting all riled up about dye-injected plants, and how misleading it was for companies to sell them without acknowledging somewhere on the tags that they wouldn't rebloom in the same color, one of the excuses provided by company spokespersons was that most of their customers throw the plants out after the blooms are done anyway. Therefore, there was no need to address what was going to happen when they rebloomed, because no customers ever bothered to try. With Phalaenopsis, I could sort of maybe almost see that being a valid argument, even.1 And there are probably people who would throw out an Anthurium after it's finished blooming, too, I suppose. (Savage, uncivilized, heathen-type people.) But it's a bit different with Anthuriums, in that they're capable of producing blooms continuously, for a very long time.2 There's really no excuse for giving people Anthurium-growing directions that will discourage repeat blooming.
One of the excuses from JAI is likely to be that their ice-cube watering suggestion takes some of the guesswork out of watering, saves time, will keep people from overwatering, and is more convenient than trying to judge how much water is coming out of a watering can. And that's true enough, as far as it goes, though I think the harm caused to a plant by repeated cold shocks negates whatever benefit you get from providing the correct amount of water.
As far as the convenience part goes, well look: if you have the time to refill the ice cube tray from the tap, and you have time to stop and crack the tray and bring an ice cube over to the plant, then you have enough time to skip the middleman and bring the plant to the tap. There are many tricky things about watering houseplants, but figuring out how to transport the water from the tap to the plant is a solved problem.3 The instructions JAI provides also make no allowances for the fact that plants use different amounts of water at different times. It may be that in your home, six ice cubes a week is just dandy in October, way too much in February, and not nearly enough in May.
I suppose ice cubes also protect a person from having to stick their fingers into potting soil, which is a problem for some people. More on that in a bit.
So if you have a Just Add Ice anthurium, here's what you do.
1. While chanting "No ice on tropical plants, no ice on tropical plants" aloud, take the tag off. Rip it up. Burn the pieces. Take the ashes outside and cast them to the four winds.That all probably looks pretty complicated (eight steps!), but it's really not that bad. Two of the steps are semi-jokes (1, 8), one will almost never apply (7), and two are decisions you'll only need to make once (2, 3). Anthuriums can be forgiving plants, and can be very rewarding if treated decently. Save your money for a business that respects you enough to give you good care instructions, though.
2. Pick up the plant. Does its container have drainage holes in the bottom for water to run out? If yes, set the plant down on a saucer. If no, transplant the plant into a pot the same size, that does have drainage holes, and then set it on a saucer.
3. Just Add Ice is basically correct about air temperature. Locate a spot that a) is large enough for the plant to sit in, b) gets bright light for most of the day -- brief morning or afternoon sun is okay -- c) is away from cold drafts and doesn't leave the plant touching cold windows, and d) isn't directly in the path of a heater or air conditioner. Then put the saucer and plant there. If you do not have such a spot, do the best you can, I guess, and don't get your hopes up.
4. A couple times a week, use your fingers and touch the soil. Does it feel moist, damp, spongy, or cold? Then it is wet, and you don't need to water it. Does it feel dry and crunchy? Even when you stick your fingers an inch or two deep? Then it is dry, and you should water it. You should be checking the soil on some kind of regular schedule, but don't water on a schedule. Water according to when the soil is dry.
I know it's icky and traumatizing to have to touch potting soil, but there really is no substitute for doing so when you're trying to determine how often to water.4 Maybe wash your hands / take a Xanax / see a therapist / call your sister afterward, if it's going to be that big of a problem for you. Or just don't try to grow live plants.
5. When you water, use water which is neither extremely cold nor extremely hot.5 Don't tease it with just a little water; run a lot of water through. You want the water to reach the whole rootball. Let the plant drain in a sink or bathtub or whatever for about ten minutes (longer than that is fine), then move the plant back to its saucer. Never make an Anthurium stand in its drainage water.
I wind up watering my Anthuriums every two weeks, on average. You may have to water yours more often or less often, depending on your home's conditions.
You're not watering often enough if: the plant wilts, developing leaves crack or have holes, or leaf edges develop dead patches.6
You're watering too much if: the lowest leaves are continually turning bright yellow and then falling off,7 or if you're seeing lots of fungus gnats around the plant. This doesn't mean you should stop watering entirely, just that you need to recalibrate your finger to let the plant get a little drier between waterings.
6. Buy a general-purpose houseplant fertilizer containing micronutrients,8 and use it according to the label directions. Doesn't matter if it's powder you have to mix up yourself, or sticks you push into the soil, a pre-mixed liquid, organic, whatever. Just do what the directions tell you to do and you'll be fine.9
7. It's usually best not to move Anthuriums to containers larger than 6 inches (15 cm) in diameter. Their root systems do require some air, and too much wet soil sitting around the roots cuts off this air and causes the roots to die and rot. If you feel you must use a large pot, at least try to go with one made of a porous material (like clay), and mix some unchopped sphagnum moss in with your regular potting soil. Larger pots will hold water in the center of the rootball a lot longer than smaller pots will, so you should wind up watering a lot less often.
8. Vow to yourself that you will never buy another "just add ice" anything, and that if you ever see another person considering purchasing one, you will (politely!) advise them not to.
Photo credits:
Actual Anthuriums, Just Add Ice tag -- me
"Do not want" macros -- the first page of the Google results for "do not want;" I'm hoping that the original photographers and macro creators are collectively okay with me reusing them like this.
To their (miniscule) credit, the dye-injected phal people did eventually acknowledge this, after an absurd amount of foot-dragging and excuse-making.
2 My personal record is two years, with a NOID pink variety, though this isn't something I keep track of ordinarily; it's quite possible that a different plant has since broken that record.
My 'Florida' Anthurium still has the two flowers I blogged about on 1 August 2013, though they've changed colors (from orange to red), and is in the process of producing a new bud as of last week. Two years isn't that impressive if a single flower can last seven months. The smaller-blooming cultivars have shorter-lived blooms, but are quicker to replace them, also, so it all kinda works out.
Phalaenopsis fans will be annoyed that I haven't mentioned yet that Phalaenopsis can also bloom for a long time, with new buds forming on the flower spikes as old flowers drop off. So I'm mentioning it. I do think it's a different thing, though, because once a Phalaenopsis is done, it's really done for a while, and even the best of care is not going to produce another bloom spike for a few months. Both Anthurium and Phalaenopsis have long-lasting flowers, but only Anthurium is really capable of blooming continuously. As long as I'm on a Phalaenopsis tangent, I might as well mention that phals can handle lower temperatures than Anthuriums too, and consequently might be less damaged by being watered with ice. Though I still wouldn't recommend it.
3 Another of the excuses is likely to be Why are you being such a snob about this??!? How do you know it doesn't work if you haven't tried it??!? My answer: pretty much the same way that I know not to water plants with boiling water, liquid nitrogen, Cherry Pepsi, or bleach. A plant might be resilient or lucky enough to survive those treatments, but that doesn't make them good ideas. Wild Anthuriums don't get their water from ice, so domesticated Anthuriums probably shouldn't either.
4 (You do not want to get me started on moisture meters.)
5 If it's too cold to hold a finger in comfortably for 30 seconds, don't use it on the plant. If it feels any hotter than lukewarm, don't use it on the plant. (I have accidentally watered my plants with hot water before. It takes a long time for adjustments to the water temperature at my watering station to result in adjustments to the water that's actually coming out, and sometimes I overcorrect. A few seconds of hot or cold water doesn't seem to do anything bad to them one way or the other, as long as I run a lot of water of the correct temperature through as soon as I notice.)
6 Mechanical damage -- like if something falls on the plant, or there are insects feeding on it, or if it's in a location where it gets bumped a lot by people or animals passing by -- can also cause new leaves to develop rips, holes, or distorted areas. Developing foliage is very sensitive and easy to damage, so if you see this sort of thing, rule out mechanical damage before deciding that your problem is underwatering.
7 Some dropping of the lowest leaves is normal, and will happen occasionally even if you're doing everything perfectly. Don't freak out over one or two yellow leaves. It's when you find yourself picking off yellow leaves constantly that you should start to wonder if maybe you're doing something wrong.
8 It's not a guarantee, but generally speaking, if the label says that it contains copper, then it's probably got the other micronutrients as well.
Ideally, you're going to buy from an independent local garden center, which has knowledgeable employees who can guide you to the fertilizer you need. (Big box store employees may also be knowledgeable, of course. It's just not as big of a part of their job to know stuff, so taking advice from them is more of a gamble.)
It is cheating to go to the independent store to ask for advice and then going to the big box store to buy the actual product. When I worked at the garden center, this was one of maybe three things that customers could do that got me really angry with them. Don't be one of those people.
9 With most houseplants, it's better to use less fertilizer than the package directions indicate, but more often. So if the directions tell you to add 1 tsp. to a gallon of water and feed once every three months, your plants are probably better off if you mix 1/4 tsp. in a gallon of water and use that at every watering. There are exceptions to this general rule, though, and Anthuriums are one of them.
If you are watering thoroughly and giving the soil a good flushing-out when you water, you can give Anthuriums a lot more fertilizer than package directions state. My Anthuriums get fertilizer that's about double strength, and they get it with every watering, but I also run a lot of plain water through before I pour the fertilizer in, so the old fertilizer doesn't build up in the soil, and the new fertilizer is somewhat diluted by the plain water that went in before it.
For your purposes, though, just do what the label tells you to do at first, and you can start experimenting with more fertilizer once you feel like you've gotten the hang of watering, temperature, light, etc.


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A View From Two Sides
"A View from Two Sides"
City of Ottawa Public Art Installation
Adàwe Crossing Bridge, Ottawa, Canada
February 15, 2016
photo by Angela Prokopiak
I am very happy to announce the installation of "A View from Two Sides", a public art commission for the City of Ottawa located on the Adàwe Crossing Pedestrian/Cycling Bridge spanning the Rideau River between Donald Street and Somerset Street East in Ottawa, Canada.
The artwork features two 1.5 m diameter reflective stainless steel spheres, each suspended at eye level on the extended observation areas of the bridge. Each sphere presents the observer with an ever-changing panoramic view that includes the sky, river, shores, bridge, pedestrians and cyclists.
The result is an unlimited variation of visual possibilities, providing residents and visitors with the perfect place to pause and take in the natural beauty of the area.
This artwork and other commissions are made possible by the City of Ottawa's Public Art Policy, which allows for one percent of funds from municipal projects to be set aside for public art to enhance the space and make art accessible to everyone.
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Just loved looking into the sphere.. may it stay polished forever.


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Getac Launches Its First Semi-Rugged Laptop
As IoT applications gradually penetrate the market, the need for different grades of rugged mobile computer equipment will gradually increase. Today, global professional rugged computer brand Getac released the S410. It uses 6th generation Intel Core processor to achieve a high computer performance and image processing capabilities.
The design of the next-generation S410 makes it 24% lighter and 33% slimmer than the previous model, and its ruggedness is superior. Rated MIL-STD 810G, the S410 offers 91cm drop prevention and IP51 dust and water protection.
It is suitable for those working in the defense, public security, field service, and automotive maintenance industries as well as professionals on the move.
"Rugged computers are designed to solve problems that users face, improve productivity, and lower the total cost of ownership. The brand new S410 combines the most advanced technologies to provide users with reliable ruggedness, mobility, as well as high-scalability options, making this model a very competitive semi-rugged laptop," said James Hwang, Chairman of Getac Technology Corporation.
Higher performance, greater productivity
The S410 works well with Windows 10. It offers low power consumption and faster boot speeds, and through Intel Turbo Boost Technology, the processor offers an automatic burst of speed when you need it, thereby boosting work efficiency.
Users can choose between different processors as needed. General users can choose between the Intel Core™ i3-6100U 2.3GHz and the Intel® Core i5-6200U 2.3GHz processors. Users with higher requirements for information security and processing can choose between the Intel®Core™ i5-6300U vPRO 2.4GHz and the Intel Core™ i7-6600U vPRO 2.6GHz processors, and add a second built-in hard drive (128GB/256GB SSD) for smoother multitasking.
For image processing, the S410 has a built-in Intel HD Graphics 520 card. Users who choose to upgrade to the NVIDIA® GeForce® GTX 950M dedicated graphics card will enjoy a smoother video experience and fast processing of complex image data.
Robust outdoor applications
The S410 has a 14-inch HD (1366x768) display or 14-inch FHD display (1920 x 1080). Professionals who work long hours outdoors under bright light can choose the optional 1000 nits high brightness HD multi-touch screen or 800 nits high brightness FHD multi-touch screen.
Using the Getac LumiBond 2.0 panel technology, the touch screen is visible even under bright light. Users can also switch between touch modes including rain touch, glove touch, and pen mode, which represents an achievement for capacitive touch design.
Moreover, to ensure uninterrupted power while working outdoors, a single battery in the S410 can last up to 11 hours; adding a second battery extends battery life to 22 hours. The S410's WLAN supports 802.11a/b/g/n/ac standards and Bluetooth® v4.2 technology, providing users with fast network speeds.
Rich connectivity, high scalability
To meet the needs of professional users, the S410 offers multiple ports and expansion capabilities including four USB ports (USB 3.0x3, USB 2.0x1), RJ45, HDMI and VGA (optional) ports for connecting projection equipment, as well as a serial port (optional) for professional industries that for special connectors, such as national defense or automotive maintenance.
The expansion bay can be used for a DVD drive, a 2nd battery, or a PCMCIA or Express card as needed. An exclusive custom I/O port is reserved for a 2nd LAN, PowerShare USB 2.0, Rugged USB 2.0, or Rugged LAN port as selected by the user.
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The S410 is equipped with a 500GB hard drive, which can be upgraded to 1TB or with an optional SSD (128GB/256/512GB) to protect data from being damaged on impact. For information security, the S410 also offers multiple identity protection measures including Touch Fingerprint, smart card reader, contactless smartcard (optional), and TPM2.0, making the computer more secure. Vehicle Dock, Office Dock, RF Tri-Passthrough, backlit keyboard, and FHD webcam options offer even more comprehensive applications.


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Ist U2 ConcertWas at this concert with my brothers , I was in my late teens. Have saw them 5 times since and will be seeing them in Dublin November 10th. My husband is a huge huge fan an will be turning 50 this December so seeing them so near to his birthday will be brilliant. X
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You had me at New Years Day 1983My first vision of U2 was the New Years Day video on Mtv, since that day in 1983 I have been hooked on U2. I was a highschool senior in 1987 and still look back at this concert at the Rosemont Horizon as my greatest moment with U2. The greatest album ever made, the biggest tour of the year, by the greatest musicians ever to grace a stage, I was truly blessed to see this concert. Not to mention I was interviewed by channel 2 news for the 10 o'clock news that evening. I do still have the video tape of my interview and pulled it out every once in a while to get a big laugh from the kids. I have seen U2 twice since here in Utah for the Pop Mart and Elevation tours and will be seeing the boys again June 3rd for the 360 degree tour. Can't wait!


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M.Sc. Ishrat Badami
Hello, I am a Ph. D. student in Visual Computing Institute. My current research interests are scene understanding and segmentation using Monte Carlo sampling methods.
3D Semantic Segmentation of Modular Furniture using rjMCMC
In this paper we propose a novel approach to identify and label the structural elements of furniture e.g. wardrobes, cabinets etc. Given a furniture item, the subdivision into its structural components like doors, drawers and shelves is difficult as the number of components and their spatial arrangements varies severely. Furthermore, structural elements are primarily distinguished by their function rather than by unique color or texture based appearance features. It is therefore difficult to classify them, even if their correct spatial extent were known. In our approach we jointly estimate the number of functional units, their spatial structure, and their corresponding labels by using reversible jump MCMC (rjMCMC), a method well suited for optimization on spaces of varying dimensions (the number of structural elements). Optionally, our system permits to invoke depth information e.g. from RGB-D cameras, which are already frequently mounted on mobile robot platforms. We show a considerable improvement over a baseline method even without using depth data, and an additional performance gain when depth input is enabled.
title={3D Semantic Segmentation of Modular Furniture using rjMCMC
author={Badami, Ishrat and Tom, Manu and Mathias, Markus and Leibe, Bastian},
Semantic Segmentation of Modular Furniture
This paper proposes an approach for the semantic seg- mentation and structural parsing of modular furniture items, such as cabinets, wardrobes, and bookshelves, into so called interaction elements. Such a segmentation into functional units is challenging not only due to the visual similarity of the different elements but also because of their often uniformly colored and low-texture appearance. Our method addresses these challenges by merging structural and appearance likelihoods of each element and jointly op- timizing over shape, relative location, and class labels us- ing Markov Chain Monte Carlo (MCMC) sampling. We propose a novel concept called rectangle coverings which provides a tight bound on the number of structural elements and hence narrows down the search space. We evaluate our approach's performance on a novel dataset of furniture items and demonstrate its applicability in practice.
title={Semantic Segmentation of Modular Furniture},
author={Pohlen, Tobias and Badami, Ishrat and Mathias, Markus and Leibe, Bastian},
Multi-Scale, Categorical Object Detection and Pose Estimation using Hough Forest in RGB-D Images
Classification and localization of objects enables a robot to plan and execute tasks in unstructured environments. Much work on the detection and pose estimation of objects in the robotics context focused on object instances. We propose here a novel approach that detects object classes and finds the canonical pose of the detected objects in RGB-D images using Hough forests. In Hough forests each random decision tree maps local image patch to one of its leaves through a cascade of binary decisions over a patch appearance, where each leaf casts probabilistic Hough vote in Hough space encoded in object location, scale and orientation. We propose depth and surfel pair-feature as an additional appearance channels to introduce scale, shape and geometric information about the object. Moreover, we exploit depth at various stages of the processing pipeline to handle variable scale efficiently. Since obtaining large amounts of annotated training data is a cumbersome process, we use training data captured on a turn-table setup. Although the training examples from this domain do not include clutter, occlusions or varying background situations. Hence, we propose a simple but effective approach to render training images from turn-table dataset which shows the same statistical distribution in image properties as natural scenes. We evaluate our approach on publicly available RGB-D object recognition benchmark datasets and demonstrate good performance in varying background and view poses, clutter, and occlusions.
Depth-Enhanced Hough Forests for Object-Class Detection and Continuous Pose Estimation
Much work on the detection and pose estimation of objects in the robotics context focused on object instances. We propose a novel approach that detects object classes and finds the pose of the detected objects in RGB-D images. Our method is based on Hough forests, a variant of random decision and regression trees that categorize pixels and vote for 3D object position and orientation. It makes efficient use of dense depth for scale-invariant detection and pose estimation. We propose an effective way to train our method for arbitrary scenes that are rendered from training data in a turn-table setup. We evaluate our approach on publicly available RGB-D object recognition benchmark datasets and demonstrate stateof-the-art performance in varying background and view poses, clutter, and occlusions.
Material Recognition.
Material recognition is an important subtask in computer vision. In this paper, we aim for the identification of material categories from a single image captured under unknown illumination and view conditions. Therefore, we use several features which cover various aspects of material appearance and perform supervised classification using Support Vector Machines. We demonstrate the feasibility of our approach by testing on the challenging Flickr Material Database. Based on this dataset, we also carry out a comparison to a previously published work [Liu et al., "Exploring Features in a Bayesian Framework for Material Recognition", CVPR 2010] which uses Bayesian inference and reaches a recognition rate of 44.6% on this dataset and represents the current state-of the-art. With our SVM approach we obtain 53.1% and hence, significantly outperform this approach.


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In the past two drafts, the 49ers have taken defensive linemen Arik Armstead and DeForest Buckner with their top choices.
Could they pick another defensive lineman No. 1 in 2017?
It certainly appears possible, based on the assessments of several NFL draft analysts in recent days. The 49ers' target may be Stanford defensive end Solomon Thomas, whose stock has risen dramatically.
The 6-foot-3, 271-pound Thomas just completed his junior season for the Cardinal and set career highs in tackles (61) and sacks (8.5), up from his totals of 37 and 3.5 in his sophomore season. This past season he was selected the Pac-12 Defensive Player of the year, and he topped that off with a terrific bowl game against North Carolina in which he had seven tackles, including two for loss, and a sack.
He's now projected to be a top pick in the first round, and Daniel Mano of the Bay Area News Group wrote this week that nine of 17 recent mock drafts have Thomas going to the 49ers with the No. 2 overall choice. Thomas is an outstanding pass rusher, and his addition to the front seven – in a mix with Armstead and Buckner – would give San Francisco a trio of young, talented players up front to build around defensively, especially with the 49ers expected to run a 4-3 base defense in 2017.
Wrote Rob Rang of CBS Sports, in his mock draft: "Sandwiched between massive defensive ends DeForest Buckner and Arik Armstead and new defensive tackle Earl Mitchell, he could give the 49ers the dominant defensive line to compete in the NFC West."
Thomas was a standout at the NFL Combine in February, showing great athleticism. Matt Barrows of the Sacramento Bee wrote that Thomas finished among the top five defensive linemen in five of the seven drills performed at the combine.
Lance Zierlein of NFL.com wrote in his scouting report of Thomas that he's "an explosive defender who combines strength, quickness and a muscle-car motor to drive him around the field making play after play." Others, however, are concerned that Thomas may be a "tweener," too small for defensive tackle and not long enough to be an edge rusher.
Yet Thomas has faith in his abilities and is eager to show what he can do in the NFL.
"I can rush anywhere," he told Barrows. "I play every down. I'n great stopping the run, great rushing the quarterback. I'm very versatile. I have toughness. I try to get after every (offensive) lineman and put the fear of God in them and make a play. I'm just trying to get to the quarterback every play and be destructive and wreak havoc."


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"You wouldn't take a sixteen-year-old, give them the keys to a car, and let them loose on city streets to 'learn how to drive' - and we shouldn't do that with our young one's life, either." Today the world is changing dramatically, so should we. Young generation should adapt this new world's demands and challenge themselves to perform better and better. Unfortunately, our education system is too complex, emphasizing on theory, not skills and attitude of students. If we want to build our future citizens, strong and to be able to lead we need to work on their fundamental aspects of education.
"Providing training in leadership development to students through a ten session program, which will help them to identify their uniqueness and work on their hidden potentials by learning important skills and principles."
"On the journey to life's highway, keep your eyes upon the goal. Focus on the donut, not upon the hole"
First session helps participants develop a clear picture of where participants want to go with their life. It will also introduce a unique concept of 'Goal Book' to them. Participants make their goal books during the program.
"Whether I fail or succeed shall be no man's doing but my own. I am the force."
For participants, to complete all the assignments given in 'Future PaathShala', The Go-Getter Attitude plays a vital part. The Go-Getter Attitude is such a powerful principle; it helps participants learn to take control of their own life. Participants understand that, they are in the driver's seat of their destiny, not just a passenger.
"The most powerful tool in today's world is the ability to communicate effectively."
Participants of 'Future PaathShala' get a platform to speak in front of whole class in each and every session. They are trained to speak effectively and confidently by exhaustive exercises, such as role-plays, speeches and presentations. There are also exciting competitions for the same. Winners are honoured with medals. Ultimately all participants become fearless and confident speakers, with enhanced communication skills.
"The greatest wealth is health."
Imagine a journey, with a beautiful view but with a vehicle with a poor condition. In our journey of life the vehicle is our body. We must take care of it. Health session makes participants more aware of their health. In health session, participants get simple and effective information about exercising and diet.
"Life's most urgent question is: what are you doing for your loved ones?"
The most important aspect of our life is relationships. Yet it is the most ignored aspect. If we take cautious efforts to build relationships with people who really matter, results will be unbelievable! Interpersonal Relationships session helps participants to build great relationships with their parents, siblings, friends, teachers and etc. Eventually they land up having excellent interpersonal skills.
"Man is the product of his thoughts. What he thinks, he becomes"
No matter how talented the person is; if the person is not mentally strong, he will not be able to produce results consistently. Mental Diet session helps participants to handle their emotions effectively and stay in resourceful mental state all the time.
"The Human Brain: A springboard from which we can leap into the magical world of genius."
Brain is the greatest asset given to us by the God. If we exercise it regularly we can do wonders. In 'Future PaathShala' participants learn a brain stimulation exercise called 'pegging'. A simple technique to make optimum use of your brain.
"Confidence is Companion of Success!"
Fear is Person's Enemy No.1. Fear stops person to capitalizing on opportunity; fear wears down physical vitality; Fear closes person's mouth when he wants to speak. Fear-uncertainty, is nothing but lack of confidence. Be confident activity makes participants of Future PaathShala to explore their hidden potential by becoming fearlessly confident about their goals.
"Alone we can do so little; together we can do so much."
Teamwork is achieved when two or more people work together to create a better solution than either could alone. Team Building is an action packed session where participants are provided with exposure to work as a team on various assignments.
"Celebrate what you want to see more of."
Last day of the program is all about celebration. All the participants who successfully complete the program get 'Future PaathShala' diploma. Participants are awarded with prizes for their achievements during the program. All the participants present cultural programs for their parents and teachers.
It is a journey of ten sessions. Each session is of four hours duration. In each session, participants learn some powerful skills and principles with entertaining and thought-provoking elements. Assignments are given to participants to make that principle a part of their life. We have a very strong follow-up system that helps participants to learn and implement those principles and skills in their life. Each session has a small break during which we provide some refreshments. Attendance in each session is compulsory. Each session begins sharp on time. Late comers are not allowed to enter in the class.


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