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Aug 10, 2011

RECREATION, Leisure News, Aug 10, 2011


Job of the Day: Recreation and Aquatics Supervisor
MyFox Tampa Bay
The equivalent of a bachelor's degree from an accredited college or university with a major inrecreation, physical education, leisure services or related field; two (2) years supervisory experience in aquatic recreation or equivalent combination of ...
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Discussion on Hall recreation program delayed
Gainesville Times
... and Leisure Services Department has centered on a possible privatization. In the last several days, however, commissioners and county staff have hinted at the assemblage of an alternative plan that would keep recreation services in county control. ...
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Vero Beach discusses updated proposals for recreational cuts, fees
TCPalm
For now, the fees are being recommended by the city's Recreation Commission to the City Council for consideration. Reductions in lifeguard coverage at the beaches and hours at the Leisure Square pool are staff proposals. An earlier budget proposal with ...
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Canlan Reports Second Quarter 2011 Financial Results
Canada NewsWire (press release)
10, 2011 /CNW/ - Canlan Ice Sports Corp., industry-leading providers of recreational and leisuremulti sport facilities across North America, today announced its financial results for the three - and six-month period ended June 30, 2011. ...
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Commissioners Vote to Abolish Recreation Board, Make Plans to Move Forward in ...
Patch.com
9, to abolish the leisure services board of directors in favor of a booster board. Commissioners approved leisure services director Kurt Cooper's request to abolish the department's board of directors in favor of a booster board. ...
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Dorel's bike business overtakes battered juvenile segment for the first time
Winnipeg Free Press
The Montreal-based company, which reports in US dollars, earned US$21.3 million on US$249.1 million of revenues from its recreation and leisure business in the second quarter — figures that were up 25 and 16 per cent respectively from the prior year ...
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Dorel Recreation & Leisure Segment Wheels to 25% Operating Profit Gain
Sporting Goods Intelligence (subscription)
The bicycle unit generated a 25% gain in operating income to $21274000 from $17009000 for the period ended June 30. Gross margins expanded 30 bp to 24.3%, fueled by gains in the independent bike dealer channel but hampered by higher input costs. ...
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A safe place where everybody can play
Tbo.com
But those issues are no longer a concern for children or their parents at the Lightfoot RecreationCenter's park. On July 28, Chambers, who today is the city's director of leisure services, was on hand for the dedication at the park's new playground ...
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KidSport sale this Sunday
Coquitlam Now
12 at the following locations: Port Coquitlam Recreation Complex, Port Moody RecreationComplex, Poirier Sport and Leisure Complex and Corner Sports (2276 Elgin Ave. in Port Coquitlam). Donations will also be accepted in the front offices of Centennial ...
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Parks may soon be smoke free
Danville Express
The town's Parks and Leisure Services Commission presented the Town Council with an ordinance that would ban smoking in all of Danville's recreational facilities by posting signs, providing education and fining offenders up to $100. ...
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Public Recreation Departments Announce Facility Updates
Club Industry
The facility features a 40-meter pool that will be used for leisure and competition swimming, bleachers for spectators and a locker room with showers. The pool will be heated in part by solar panels that the city's parks and recreation department ...
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140 participate in Lexington youth commission town-hall forum
Lexington Herald Leader
The commission, created in June, plans to address safety, health and crime prevention; leisure,recreation and quality of life; and personal development and economic stimulus as those topics relate to youth. About 50 people have joined the commission, ...
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Remember the Arena Grill?
Midnorth Monitor
By Rosalind Russell The Espanola Regional Recreation Complex staff and other town dignitaries will be on hand for a special unveiling next week, which honours a vital part of Espanola's history. Diane Polden, the Manager of Leisure Services, ...
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SUNY tuitions hikes coming this fall
Irondequoit Post
Scutt says she loves Brockport, and loves the professors in her recreation and leisure studies major. But what she doesn't love is the extra $300 a year she has to figure out how to pay for. “To get loans, you have to establish credit with a credit ...
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Autistic children learn valuable life skills at Camp Azure in San Francisco
San Francisco Examiner
Prutsman, who approached the San Francisco Recreation and Park Department with the idea, has seen his vision come to fruition at Camp Azure. This summer, the four-week-long Glen Canyon summer camp has accommodated 32 autistic children from ages 6 to 12 ...
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San Francisco Examiner
Olympic pool to miss target year
Oxford Mail
Earlier this week, city councillor Val Smith said she was “hopping” that plans for a skate park and new play equipment would have to be put on hold. Head of leisure and parks Ian Brooke said: “These plans would freeze the area as it is. ...
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Completion of new Tsawwassen gym expected in September
BCLocalNews
By Christine Lyon - South Delta Leader Construction workers this week were busy installing a new wood sports floor in the South Delta Recreation Centre gymnasium, which is on track to open next month. Municipal staff estimate the new community ...
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Eagle Mountain survey shows ho-hum feelings toward city
Daily Herald
The issue with the highest dissatisfaction ranking was leisure and recreation opportunities, with 12 percent saying they are poor, 32 percent saying they are fair, 39 percent saying they are good, and 17 percent saying they are excellent. ...
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Councillor: Park vandalism 'fault' of parents
Essex Echo
Kevin Blake, Basildon Council's cabinet member for leisure, called on parents and their out-of-control children to take responsibility for their own actions. This followed a spate of vandalism at the borough's children's playgrounds, including play ...
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Council approves LED lights
Little Elm Journal
Funding for this project comes from the previously approved 2009-2014 Recreation and LeisureBonds. The council also accepted Oak Point's request to adjust the boundaries of its extraterritorial jurisdiction to be included in Little Elm's jurisdiction ...
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Lake Conroe the perfect place to play and stay
Your Houston News
Everyone knows Lake Conroe is the ideal destination for boating, fishing and aquatic recreation, but the party doesn't stop just because the sun goes down. Local clubs and restaurants are finding live music and special entertainment keeps patrons ...
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Opinion: Commissioner refutes 'myths' about proposed Vikings stadium
Shoreview Press
Once the stadium is completed in 2015, it will support 3400 ongoing full- and part-time jobs with more than $100 million in personal earnings, according to Conventions, Sports & Leisure International. •Private development of nearby properties, ...
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Upper Darby's Summer Stage production of “Dinosaur the Musical” roars into the ...
phillyBurbs.com (blog)
The Upper Darby Performing Arts Center and Upper Darby Summer Stage are jointly sponsored by Upper Darby Township Mayor and Council and the Upper Darby School District Board of School Directors through the Department of Recreation and Leisure Services. ...
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Benefits of Rio 2016 already being felt as city celebrates five years to go
WebWire (press release)
Located just 300 metres from the Olympic Village, the park will provide a leisure and rest area for athletes during the Games. It will also host major events both before and after the Games, while also providing the city with a new public recreation ...
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New Taylor Wimpey homes for sale in Eastbourne
Easier (press release)
Convenience stores, two major supermarkets, pubs and restaurants are all within easy reach of the development, while a host of leisure, shopping and entertainment amenities can be found in Eastbourne. For stunning coastal paths and a multitude of ...
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Dorel profits fall 30%, warns of difficult second-half
National Post (registration)
Dorel earned an operating profit during the period of US$21.3-million on revenue of US$249.1-million for its recreation and leisure business, driven by strong sales in its independent bicycle dealer group. That outpaced the operating profit of ...
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Leisure and Recreation News - BingoBabe Ltd Partner With Top ...
BingoBabe.co.uk partner with top online bingo companies in order to bring consumers the best free bingo bonuses and deals.
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Recreation and Leisure | News Archive | UGA Today
News Service: University of Georgia Office of Public Affairs. All Releases, In The News ...Recreation and Leisure. August 10, 2007 | General News ...
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Leisure and Recreation News - Back to School... Time to Grab a ...
With the summer holidays in full swing and kids' pester power visible at every turn, it is no surprise that some people have decided to keep their feet ...
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Cerebral Palsy Alliance | News - Sport, Recreation and Leisure ...
Information, services and research for people with cerebral palsy.
www.cerebralpalsy.org.au/.../sport,-recreation-and-leisure-carn...

INVENTIONS News, Aug 10, 2011


Albay, CIRCA encourage inventions to lessen impacts of climate change
Philippine Information Agency
by Marlon A. Loterte LEGAZPI CITY, August 10 (PIA) -- The Center for Initiatives and Research on Climate Adaptation (CIRCA) is anticipating invention entries that could help adapt to or lessen the possible impacts and find practical solutions to the ...
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Anchor Bay Acquires Kevin Spacey Comedy 'Father Of Invention'
Deadline.com
BEVERLY HILLS, CA -- Anchor Bay Films announced today the pick up of the comedy Father ofInvention starring Academy Award™ winning actor Kevin Spacey (Horrible Bosses, American Beauty), Camilla Belle (10000 BC, When a Stranger Calls), Heather Graham ...
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Peripheral Disclosure
Patently-O
The requirement that inventors disclose their inventions in return for a patent is one of the primary justifications for the patent system. Yet that justification has been subject to substantial criticism, and with good reason. ...
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'Father Of Invention' Is A Thing Starring Kevin Spacey & Camilla Belle
Ology
The Father Of Invention is a terrrrrible pun. It follows "Kevin Spacey [as] Robert Axle, an eccentric inventor turned ego maniacal infomercial guru, who loses it all when one of his inventions maims thousands of customers. ...
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Doctors and med device companies: Are your medical invention consulting ...
MedCity News
Invention consulting contracts must be carefully crafted agreements under which physician-consultants will only receive reasonable compensation for the use of their inventions. If, on the other hand, physician-consultant contracts reward the physician ...
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Apple granted patents for visual voicemail, touch screen technologies
Apple Insider
By AppleInsider Staff The US Patent & Trademark Office issued a batch of 21 patents to Apple for a range of inventions, including technologies related to the iPhone's visual voicemail feature and an integrated touch screen. US Patent No. ...
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Nashua inventor sees big bucks in 'EZ-OUT' credit card remover for wallets
Nashua Telegraph
Once he receives the patent, the EZ-OUT will add to Higgins' growing inventory of wallet inventions, which already includes the Re-Pillable Card, a wallet pill box used to store emergency aspirins and other medications. Higgins has sold more than a ...
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Taiwan lauds patent industrialization plan
Taiwan Today
Many inventions such as the entertainment and exercise bike have been commercialized with a five-year patent invention industrialization program launched by the Cabinet last August. (Courtesy of IDB) By Aaron Hsu A five-year plan to promote the ...
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Taiwan Today
Boot up: Apple blocks Samsung Galaxy Tab, Nokia pulls Symbian from US, and more
The Guardian (blog)
There were three notable inventions presented today. The first relates to Apple's "Integrated Touch Screen". The invention allows the touch display to be manufactured with fewer parts and/or processing steps as well as ensuring that the display itself ...
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The Guardian (blog)
Early Edition: 'World War Z,' 'Lone Ranger' Face Off; Sony Sets Up 'Terrorist ...
Moviefone (blog)
The film stars Kevin Spacey, Camilla Belle, Heather Graham and Virginia Madsen, and tells the story of Robert Axle, an eccentric inventor turned ego maniacal infomercial guru who loses it all when one of his inventions maims thousands of customers. ...
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Fall Picasso Exhibition Opens At The Frick 10/4-1/8/2012
Broadway World
Drawing was his primary medium for thinking, problem solving, invention, and personal expression. It was the link that connected his work in a variety of media, including painting, sculpture, printmaking, theater design, and ceramics, and was a direct ...
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Edison's Anti-Gravity Underwear and Other Wonders
Discovery News
Some of them spent decades laboring over prototype inventions that never quite seemed to work. Whether they were crackpots or visionaries depends on who you ask, but here are five of the best known proponents of antigravity. 1. Roger Babson. ...
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Business Spotlight: City Center Gallery and Books
Fayetteville Observer
"When you think about it, what are two of man's greatest inventions? Art and books. We thought they made for a nice combination," said NC Rep. Diane Parfitt, an owner of City Center Gallery and Books in downtown Fayetteville. What is it? ...
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Regeneca, Inc. Announces Dr. Shirish Phulgaonkar as Chief Scientific Officer
MarketWatch (press release)
His vision helped McDonnell Douglas develop Oil Substitute fuel from coal seams in the US After an early retirement at the age of 30, he founded several of his own invention profit units. Some of hisinventions and formulations include well-known odor ...
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Les Paul Tribute Concert To Take Place At Iridium
Sonic State
The man responsible for not only some of the greatest musicial inventions, but also responsible for some brilliant music. Les Paul pioneered his sound by playing his songs at half-tempo, and then speeding up his guitar parts to raise the pitch of his ...
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Culpepper & Merriweather Circus attracts young and old
Cresco Times Plain Dealer
By Kim Soukup CRESCO – Shortly after America was founded the first American circuses began, providing for many people, their first view of new inventions, exotic animals and popular entertainment. The modern circus began in late eighteenth century ...
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Labun Jordan: Innovation Cultivation
Vermont Public Radio
Tracing the inventions around us back to some sort of familiar origin isn't easy. Out of my childhood mixture of industry and magic, I might as well have kept believing in the magic for all I know about how smart phones or iPads came to be. ...
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Vermont Public Radio
Tullamore Show ready to go
Offaly Express
These will provide very keen competition in all areas, whether it be in livestock, home industries, dogs, inventions, poultry, best dressed lady, glamorous granny etc etc. The Show, which is hugely innovative, introduces another milestone this year, ...
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Students soak up ideas for contest to make water safe
Cherry Hill Courier Post
Previous winning inventions have included a robotic coconut tree climbing device and a tactile graphing calculator for the blind. The exceptional minds at Eastern Regional High School hope to add their filtration system to that list. ...
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The beautiful mind of the Aussie who beat Microsoft
Sydney Morning Herald
He already had two inventions under his belt: the Shadesavers sunglasses cord, dreamed up and sold by him and his brother, and an extendable pole for washing apartment-block windows. The new project was obviously more complicated but he threw himself ...
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Sydney Morning Herald
Winners and Losers – August 2011
Call Centre Helper
The internet is often listed as one of the greatest inventions of all time and it is now twenty years since Tim Berners-Lee invented the website, changing the way we do business forever. Phil Stewart, customer service director at Virgin Media Business ...
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Butamax files second lawsuit against Gevo over patent infringement
Biofuels Digest
Butamax inventions include recombinant microorganisms that convert various feedstocks to biobutanol, process engineering for recovering biobutanol produced during fermentation, engineering design for optimized energy integrations, and various renewable ...
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Phineas and Ferb: Across the 2nd Dimension does it right – CartoonClack
CliqueClack TV
On the other side of the coin, normal Candace has a pretty damn funny storyline involving what she calls the “mystical force” (in my own head, I've always called it “the Murphy's Law effect” of the show) that always causes her brothers' inventions to ...
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Professional Detailing Provider Celebrates Inventors Month with an Open Doors ...
Benzinga
The change stems from wanting the holiday to be more in sync with academic and other happenings in the world of inventions. May better aligns with the academic school year which means students can take part in National Inventors Month and learn of our ...
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UC San Diego and The Atlantic Announce The Atlantic Meets the Pacific — A ...
eReleases (press release)
“The Atlantic Meets the Pacific aims to be the ideal forum in which the imagination, inventions and innovations shaping the future will be engaged by thoughtful, influential voices from around the country and the world,” said Mary Walshok, ...
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The rich are different — and not in a good way, studies suggest
msnbc.com
... year but few could put a dollar amount on how they benefited from government by, say, driving on interstate highways, taking drugs gleaned from federally funded medical research, or usinginventions created by people educated in public schools. ...
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Calling all would-be editors
Spectator.co.uk (blog)
I doubt that facilitating mass disorder was quite how Steve Jobs et al envisaged their genius being used, but perhaps they will be better pleased by how their inventionshave revived the worlds of literature and academia. So far this summer, ...
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Spectator.co.uk (blog)
GraphOn Appoints Two New Board Members and CTO
MarketWatch (press release)
Prior to founding ipCapital, he was a distinguished inventor at IBM for 17 years, patenting 100inventions, publishing over 150 technical papers, receiving IBM's "Most Distinguished Inventor Award," and recognized as IBM's "Top Inventor. ...
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Bevy Of Apple Patents Granted, From Visual Voicemail To PCI Card Brackets
TechCrunch
While the visual playback and selection of voice messages certainly predates the iPhone, this patent is much more closely allied to the rest of Apple's multi-touch and initial iPhone patents, the conceptual legitimacy of which as unique inventions may ...
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Federal Circuit refines standard for analogous art
IAM (registration) (blog)
For now, patent applicants should take care in defining and framing the goals of their inventions in applications and during prosecution, as well as the manner in which they distinguish prior art in their applications, as they may be inadvertently ...
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Genesis Biopharma Signs Cooperative Research and Development Agreement With ...
PR Newswire (press release)
Genesis Biopharma will have an exclusive option to negotiate an exclusive license to any newinventions developed jointly or solely by NCI scientists as a result of the research activities under the CRADA. "The medical oncology community is very aware ...
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American Wilbert Vault closes
Forest Park Review
Inventions and new patents flowed from his mind, as he continually improved the company's products. Leo Haase retired in 1913 and the firm was taken over by his 21-year-old nephew, Wilbert, who eventually bought the business from them for $19000. ...
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Hot Wheels co-creator, 80, dies in Huntsville
Huntsville Item
Calling his brother, “a good soul,” David said Fred always wanted his inventions to have meaning. Fred spent his adult life in California, much of it working for Mattel. “He was an inventor at heart — he truly was,” David said. ...
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Every Picture Has a Story
The Jewish Journal of Greater L.A.
Dali consented, and Schwartz proposed that Dali do an edition of works based on the many inventions that Dali had conceived, including a reclining massage chair that replicated the feeling of being a baby in the womb. Dali told Schwartz that the idea ...
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The Jewish Journal of Greater L.A.
Can people management skills be taught?
HRmagazine.co.uk
After all, it has been highly effective teamwork, rather than an individual moment of genius, that has led us in recent years to enjoy breakthrough inventions such as Google and the Apple range of iMacs, iPods and iPhones. Awareness must begin with a ...
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HRmagazine.co.uk
Talking, and LISTENING, to Your Customers: The New York Times Takes a Big Step
Business Insider
Yet it's often difficult to try out new inventions on the world's largest newspaper Web site. That's why we created beta620, a new home for experimental projects from Times developers — and a place for anyone to suggest and collaborate on new ideas ...
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Good News! The Bubble that Never Inflated Has Popped
TechCrunch
The Internet was something that captured everyone's imagination– it was one of those once-a-centuryinventions and because it coincided with a time of huge democratization of the stock market everyone could grab a piece of it, even more easily than you ...
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