Plant Cold Hardiness & Freezing Stress Vol. 2: Mechanisms & Crop Implications

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Plant Cold Hardiness & Freezing Stress Vol. 2: Mechanisms & Crop Implications

Manufacturer: Academic Press
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Plant Cold Hardiness and Freezing Stress. Mechanisms and Crop Implications, Volume 1
P. H. : Sakai, A.[eds] Li
Manufacturer: Academic Press
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ASIN: B000J3A562

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Plant Cold Hardiness & Freezing Stress Vol. 2: Mechanisms & Crop Implications
A. Sakai Paul H. Li
Manufacturer: Academic Press
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Binding: Paperback
ASIN: B000OH2ANE

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Armed with a pile of tantalizing guidebooks and a Londometer (to identify those perfect "London moments"), in this book journalist Derek Hammond goes in search of the city's "Londonest" scenes. At the same time, he sets the modern city against the fantasy London created by cinema, television, and too much swinging spy fiction. Each chapter takes us to a different section of London, which is defined by its own unique atmosphere and history. Visit Soho discos and East End strippers, trail the Ripper, meet Holmes, go shopping, miss the Changing of the Guard. Most of the trips include a visit to one major tourist destination or pop-cultural hot spot, plus a sampling of events, trivia, memories, characters, and obsessions. It is a wacky guide to England's capital city.

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Flippant, silly, but still delightful light reading.......2000-02-25

Hammond's book falls within that subgenre that might be labeled 'silly travel writing,' a niche also occupied by such writers as Nick Middleton, Peter Biddlecombe, and Bill Bryson. For all of these authors, the reader doesn't learn anything useful about the destination, but the author's wit and command of the language make for an enjoyable read. Hammond's all-too-flimsy premise for his book is that he, a London resident, will play the role of tourist in his city, while referring to various existing travel books. But really, what makes the book so much fun is the author's witty stream-of-consciousness style of writing. It was fun to read, but is no replacement for a real guidebook to London. Also, not incidentally, Hammond's book presupposes a thorough familiarity with London; otherwise, it will all go over the reader's head. It might be the last guidebook to London you read, but it shouldn't be the first.

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Believing that Americans should understand their leadership, Harry Truman was the first American president to authorize an oral history of his life and times. In that vein, almost forty years ago, the Truman Library in the president’s native Independence, Missouri, began the daunting task of compiling the words of Truman’s contemporaries, including his senior aides, foreign policy and military advisors, political strategists, and close friends. Longtime Chicago journalist Steve Neal has edited twenty of these remarkable interviews for HST: Memories of the Truman Years.

Candid and insightful, the recollections include those of statesmen Dean Acheson and Averell Harriman; soldiers Omar Bradley and Lucius Clay; Truman’s best friend Thomas Evans; associates Clark Clifford and Matt Connelly; 1948 Republican vice-presidential nominee Earl Warren; artist Thomas Hart Benton; West German leader Konrad Adnauer; former New Dealers Sam Rosenman and James Rowe; journalist Richard L. Strout; and many others.

An honest portrait of Truman emerges from the twenty firsthand accounts of those who knew him best. HST: Memories of the Truman Years spans Truman’s rise to the presidency and his responses to the challenges of World War II, the Soviet blockade of Berlin, the rebuilding of postwar Europe, the 1948 campaign, his controversial firing of General Douglas MacArthur, and his courageous leadership on civil rights.

“The goal of these histories,” explains Truman’s grandson, Clifton Truman Daniel, in the foreword, “in keeping with Grandpa’s stated desire that the [Truman Library] be about his presidency, not a monument to him, was to preserve forever the perspective of those who had shared his life and times and, in many cases, helped him shape the world.”

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Uncle Mame?

Bravo!

Gets to the heart

A backseat rider's view of Edmund White

Wonderful!

The Boy with the Thorn in His Side: A Memoir
Keith Fleming
Manufacturer: Perennial
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ASIN: 0060959304
Release Date: 2001-04-10

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At sixteen, Keith Fleming is so miserably defiant that he is locked in an adolescent mental hospital. Filled with despair, Keith's life is literally saved by his uncle, the writer Edmund White. Keith soon finds himself transformed as Uncle Ed arranges treatment for Keith's disfiguring acne, enrolls him in prep school, and instructs his nephew in a worldly view of life and love. Meanwhile, Uncle Ed is both strapped for cash and completely caught up in the beehive of social and sexual activity of 1970s gay Manhattan.

By turns lyrical, funny, and poignant, The Boy with the Thorn in His Side is full of fascinating characters and unexpected twists -- at once an odyssey into the extremes of the American 1970s, a universal tale of star-crossed teenage love, and an account of a deeply sensitive young person's struggle to find his place in the world.

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Uncle Mame?.......2003-12-03

Keith Fleming is a pretty good storyteller. He really makes you picture the times, places and characters in his life. Especially strong is the evil Doctor at the hospital and his wonderful uncle in New York City. (Edmund White) These characters and moments really stand out.

However most of this book just rambles about and then ends with no purpose whatsoever. At the end I wondered "why did he write it" and "why did I read it?". I would not recommend this book because it just meanders and ends with no explanation. I need more of a story arc even from a biography.

The other thing that puzzled me was why he would paint such a wonderful loving tribute to his uncle and then ruin it by mentioning an offhand sexual advance by his uncle. It seemed out of place never explored his feelings behind it or why it was even mentioned. It was kind of unsavory without a reason for it.

Keith needed a good editor on this book and some guidance.

Bravo!.......2001-08-09

This is one of the many memoirs / autobiographies, relating to the ubiquitous stories of 'troubled youth'. Flemmings emotional maturity and consistently strong writing has aloud him to tell the story of a turbulent adolescence akin to "Girl Interrupted", "Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius", etc. I was not drawn to this novel for Ed White, but rather found it in the bookstore Biography section by chance. I have seen criticisms of Flemming's dupe on the public as advertising this to be a memoir of Ed White, but it this really the case? At face value, this is a remarkable memoir of a troubled journey through adolescence devoid of all "poor me" sentiments that the other above-mentioned memoirs seem to convey. I highly recommend this book to anyone and everyone - it is a gem!

Gets to the heart.......2001-04-08

I was going to buy this book as an anniversary present, but caught myself reading bits and pieces, until I had finished the whole thing. This is a well-written book that is very engaging. You laugh, cry, and wince as Fleming tells his story, and you close the book absolutely exhausted thinking about everything that happened within a relatively short time span. I recommend it for years to come.

A backseat rider's view of Edmund White.......2001-01-12

"Just who is Keith Fleming and why is he tryng to slay me" might be a good subtitle for this short memoir. Frankly I bought the book because of my great admiration for Edmund White (the Uncle Ed of Keith's minor autobiography) and in the end all reasons for liking the book reflect back to that initial response. Yes, this is the life of an unfortunate, acneiform teenage product of yet another dysfunctional family unit whose saving grace is his finding solace with his brilliant writer uncle in New York. Keith Fleming writes well, has some pages when his prose actually begins to sing, but aside from his "growing up" experience with Edmund White, his story - full of despair and cruel circumstances -hardly registers as a precis for a book. But all criticism aside, Fleming does give us more insights into the person of Edmund White and it is refreshing to read passages that demonstrate White's warmth and humanity and caring that often his books fail to suggest. Far from being just a flamboyant social surface person, White, as drawn by his nephew, has more than a modicum of compassion for family, for adolescence, for the sticks and stones that make us falter as we mature. So, I think this young writer bears watching. Maybe next time his misery will not be too much with us.......

Wonderful!.......2001-01-07

I found this memoir of Mr. Fleming's youth fascinating. It was extremely well written, vividly descriptive of his family and experiences with mother, father, psychiatrist, fellow patients, and finally, his loving uncle who rescued him from an ununderstanding world. I do not regard it as a "gay" book, but a moving description of a young man's journey through his youth, schooling, family, hospitalizations, love relationships. Anyone interested in young people especially, should find this as interesting as I did. I do recommend it.

The Boy with the Thorn in His Side: A Memoir

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The Boy with the Thorn in His Side: A Memoir
Keith Fleming
Manufacturer: Perennial
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ASIN: B000OEQ5KG

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Its A Dog-Gone Good Life is a delightful collection of poems. In it author Judy Slater professes her love for all animals, but dog-gone it, if she had to choose she would become the loyal and loving canine. It hasnt always been the good life for Judy, but the love from her many pooches throughout the years has given her much joy. As a girl, the sadness over her fathers death was eased by a surprise gift from her mother, a little toy poodle named Coco. Coco helped her through many years of suffering from Dystonia, a neuro-muscular disorder. She learned that although the world perceived her as different, her dogs only saw her as an object of love--without flaws, disabilities or drawbacksa thing of perfection! Judy has assembled a wonderful tribute to the four-legged objects of her affections. Artist Florie Freshman depicts each poem in beautiful illustration.

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It's a Dog-Gone Good Book!.......2005-11-05

This book is great for kids and adults of all ages...as long as you love animals! Young ones can enjoy the playful illustrations and rhyming of the poems and can even enter information about their own dog in the interactive sections; and as they get older, they'll appreciate some of the humor and meaning of the words. Adults who have adored their canine companions will relate to the sentiments and be touched and amused by the poetry. There is a hint of Shel silverstein here, too. It would make a wonderful holiday gift. If I was a dog, I'd give it "Two Paws Up!"

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Some interesting ideas

Such a Creative Resource

One homemade gift basket pays for this book!

NOT about statring a business!! For personal use only.

Expand Your Gift Ideas with The Perfect Basket

The Perfect Basket: How to Make a Fabulous Gift Basket for Any Occasion
Diane Phillips
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The Perfect Basket by Diane Phillips

HARVARD COMMON PRESS

ASIN: 1558322949
Release Date: 2005-09-05

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Everyone appreciates a one-of-a-kind gift, and gift baskets are a fun and creative way to present a personalized gift to that special someone or turn a token gift into something treasured. The Perfect Basket features over 60 new gift basket ideas, plus gorgeous full-color photos to give you visual inspiration. Choose from themed special occasion baskets to be filled with items that are purchased, with suggestions for creating most baskets at budget levels of $25, $50, and $100 or more. In addition to all these basket ideas, you'll find plenty of useful tips on how to choose the proper basket or other creative container for your special gift, how to select properly sized items and assemble them attractively in the basket, and how to wrap and decorate the basket.

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Some interesting ideas.......2007-08-31

If you are a cook (or an aspiring cook) who wants to do some gift baskets for friends and family, this is a good book for you. There are a lot of recipes and ways to include them in the back of this book. I'm not a cook, but I do like to look at pictures of gift baskets. I was disappointed because there are only 26 pictures in the book, with about 100 different gift basket ideas in the form of lists of things to include. The pictures that were there didn't quite match the author's descriptions, either. If you are looking for a list of things to include in a basket, along with recipes, this is a good book for you. If you want visuals to stimulate your creativity, I would suggest Bountiful Baskets by Sara Toliver, or A Gift for Giving by Donna Lang.

Such a Creative Resource.......2007-01-04

I really like this book, with all the wonderful ideas for gift baskets. Even thought her basket ideas are adorable, I actually like the mix recipes best. She has an older book, The Perfect Mix, that is also a keeper, with great recipes for easy gifts.

One homemade gift basket pays for this book!.......2006-06-02

The ideas, recipes, and photos in this book are inspiring. If you make just one pretty basket to give as a gift, the book pays for itself. I also like the idea of baskets with bathroom goodies in them. If I have company, I set one of these out in the bathroom for our house guests.

NOT about statring a business!! For personal use only........2006-02-26

Maybe I didn't read the editorial comments correctly before I ordered this book, but it is not what I wanted.

I was looking for information about starting a gift basket *business*. This book does not cover that topic.

It is a very nice book about making baskets as gifts for friends, neighbors, teachers, service people, etc.

There are some full-color pictures, though not of every basket idea. The resource list is strictly retail. Recipes are included for basket items, a no-no when you're selling baskets unless you have a licensed commercial kitchen.

So, while the book might jump-start your brain for basket ideas as gifts, it is not a business book.

My problem, not the book's.

Expand Your Gift Ideas with The Perfect Basket.......2005-12-03

I discovered this from a glowing review in the Orlando Sentinel. The ideas for baskets seem easy to assemble with the contents listed. Expand your thinking beyond the simple basket to filling other containers (soup tureens, salad bowls, ice buckets, colanders, etc.).
Think of all the occasions you can use these ideas; house warmings, holidays, birthdays, etc.

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"Easy Flowers" will bring a touch of elegance to any room in your home. Whether you favour classic white blooms or shocking pink petals, you'll find inspiration here. The pleasure of fresh flowers needn't be restricted to special occasions--they are something to be enjoyed every day. "Easy Flowers" are affordable, stylish and quick to put together. The emphasis is on striking use of form and colour, rather than expensive blooms or time-consuming arragements. In this book, popular florist Jane Durbridge, with the help of style writer Antonia Swinson, brings you her elegantly modern touch with unfussy arrangements for every corner of the home. Her ideas range from the simplest touch of colour to brighten up a desk to suggestions for stylish entertaining, and even imaginative floral gifts.

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Great Decorating Ideas.......2006-03-17

This book contains great decorating ideas for every room in your home. There are numerous combinations of vases and flowers to beautify even the plainest decor. This book will help you freshen up any boring or dated rooms.

Pretty.......2003-12-07

This book offers ideas for selecting flowers and containers that can look beautiful in your home. Starting with basic design principles and ending with notes on flower care and conditioning, most of the book is divided into chapters by colour. With any book of this type the illustrations are the focus, and there are page after page of truly beautiful colour photographs. They make you want to rush out to the florist and spend all the grocery money on tulips or alliums.

I spent a delightful half hour going through this book, but I wouldn't buy it - pretty pictures aside, there's just not enough substance to it.

Pretty.......2003-12-07

I spent a delightful half hour going through this book, but I wouldn't buy it - pretty pictures aside, there's just not enough substance to it.

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The most complete and up-to-date book on the epidemic affecting 80 million American men, women, and children.

How to recognize the symptoms, why many doctors do not diagnose yeast infections, and how to bring it to your doctor's attention.

Eleven questionnaires to determine your risk of a yeast-related disorder.

The many causes of the yeast syndrome -- and how to avoid them.

The most up-to-date laboratory diagnostic tests and anti-yeast therapies.

The yeast-control diet -- recommended foods, and a complete seven-day menu. Plus, how anti-yeast treatments help patients with multiple sclerosis, arthritis, lupus, hypoglycemia, and other "untreatable" illnesses.

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The Yeast Syndrome.......2007-04-24

I walked around with a bloated painful stomach for a year. The fatigue was debilitating, and and I was always in a fog. I did the phase one diet for five days and it was as if the fatigue and fog just washed out of my body. The greatest feeling was the clarity of thinking returning. Even if you don't read anything in the book, the diet is more than helpful; I think that understanding of this diet is essential if you have this problem. It will make a difference; for me the difference felt life-saving.

Excelent!.......2006-03-16

Exclent book on the subject. Very thorough, very objective with a lot if hints.
I recomend it.

Beware of pseudoscience.......2005-11-28

It is very convenient to come up with a vague diagnosis for vague symptoms. There is very little hard evidence to support this diagnsosis. I am sure that there are people who are sensitive or allergic to yeast who feel much better when they avoid it. I think the problem is that anyone who doesn't feel good has symptoms that fit into those attributed to this problem. Testimonial benefits are worthless. Watch late night TV for diet products, hair growth products, etc... if you doubt that. I do agree that if we all ate a natural preservative free diet, exercised, etc.. that we'd all feel better. I am just not ready to attribute that all to yeast hypersensitivity and the authors have very little real evidence that this condition exists or is the cause of problems for so many.

Life saving!! Give it 10 stars!!.......2004-05-24

I am a health professional and in 1995 at the age of 39 I found myself on 9 prescription medications and my health was quickly failing. I had a severe sleep disorder, tender spots, terrible arthralgia, reflux disease, colitis, neuropathy, dizziness, and fibromyalgia syndrome. My sister-in-law suggested that I had yeast syndrome. Of course being a by the book RN I blew her off. One day in a book store I happened to spot this book and leafed through it. I started crying right there because my doctors couldn't help me anymore but here was my help. This book saved my life. When I went to the health food store for help with the herbals the owner found it hard to believe that I could still work and raise a family in my condition. My husband, co-workers and doctor couldn't believe the difference in just a few weeks of starting the program. My doctor asked me what happened and recommended the book to other patients. It was not a fast process but I am fully recovered and sleep like a baby when the kids let me. I no longer feel like my body is 50 years older than I am. I have told countless people about this book and am very grateful it is being reprinted as I loaned mine out and it was never returned. This book is much more detailed than The Yeast Connection and was much more helpful to me. Thank you Dr. Trowbridge for saving my life.

This book 's info WORKS!.......2004-04-15

As a caregiver who had to educate herself about candida overgrowth in order to help her father with systemic candida, I can vouch for this particular reference above all the others out there. The diet works, the supplement info is accurate, specific products named (toothpaste, gargle, natural antifungals)-all truly are correct and do work. I have most of the other candida books and cookbooks, but many of them contain inaccurate material. This one volume is a treasure.
Yes, you have to study for yourself, and yes, you have to change shopping and food prep habits, but it is all worth it!
(I followed the diet myself while dealing with my father's, and I felt well-fed and full of energy ). Every internist out there needs to read and study this book.

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For nearly fifty years, A. Aubrey Bodine was a Maryland institution, the photographer for the Baltimore Sunday Sun. Surveying the entire range of his work (there are ten thousand Bodine negatives in Baltimore's Peale Museum alone) Kathleen Ewing has selected sixty-eight photographs to show the photographer at his representative--and sometimes surprising--best. In her accompanying text, Ewing places Bodine's work in the romantic pictorial tradition, alongside the early work of Alfred Stieglitz, Edward Westen, Laura Gilpin, and others.

Bodine is perhaps best remembered for his photographs of the Chesapeake Bay and its watermen, but he was also a portrait photographer of consummate skill, capturing subjects as diverse as a group of Amish children and H. L. Mencken by his woodpile on his seventy-fifth birthday. His images of blazing Bessemer steel furnaces and shining barn roofs are equally striking. While Bodine's camera focused mainly on Maryland, he occasionally ventured beyond to show misty rooftops in Nuremberg or championship boxers. A. Aubrey Bodine, Baltimore Pictorialist is a book to be treasured by Marylanders rediscovering an old friend as well as by admirers of photography seeing for the first time the work of a fine American artist.

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IMPRESSIVE.......2001-02-26

One Saturday afternoon about five years ago in Washington, DC, I wandered into the gallery of Kathleen Ewing and spent hours looking at the pictures of the photographers she represents. Prominent among them was A. Aubrey Bodine and his magnificent images of the people of the Chesapeake Bay. I'd never heard of Bodine but was completely captured by his pictures of the water and the people who live and work on it. Many of his pictures intrigued me because they look so much like stage settings with actors posed for the pleasure of the camera. But Bodine was also a portrait photographer, and one of great skill. This book, with beautifully reproduced photographs, an appreciation & biography by Ewing and a remembrance by Harold A. Williams who worked with Bodine on the "Baltimore Sun," will surely bring a new and appreciative audience for Bodine. One cannot help but be impressed with the fog rolling in on a Baltimore dock over two sleeping dogs in 1947, naked boys diving into the Patapsco River in a 1933 photograph which pays obvious homage to Thomas Eakins, or with the 1955 portrait of H.L. Mencken, among many, many others. Highly Recommended.

Pictures Beyond Words.......1998-08-06

I first saw the A. Aubrey Bodine book at the headquarters of the National Press Photographers Association in Durham, NC. Ken Cooke, director of photography for the Fayetteville Observer, and I were visiting with Charlie Cooper, the NPPA director. We decided to visit Charlie on our way back from Washington where we were coordinating a photo exhibit on Desert Storm at the Smithsonian. During our talk, Charlie picked up on a comment I made about timing, feeling, and heart coinciding with release of the shutter--classic Cartier Bresson "decisive moment" I guess. Anyway, Charlie then took me into the NPPA library where he showed me a book of someone's work he knew defined our discussion. It was the book "A. Aubrey Bodine : Baltimore Pictorialist, 1906-1970."

As NPPA director, Charlie has known and worked with many great photographers and Bodine was one of them. Ken also became very excited having known Bodine from years of working in photojourn! alism and having a sincere appreciation for Bodine's work. I, as the younger man, had never heard of Bodine until that day, but I will always be grateful to Charlie Cooper for introducing me to this book. To me, Bodine defines seeing the day-to-day world with heart and moment as I believe very few photographers today achieve. He is not well known, but his work is something to cherish. I feel very fortunate to have a copy (Charlie was kind enough to send me one). It is a book that every student of photography and community photojournalism should see, feel, and own.

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Premier Beckett Scholar Shares Insights.......2007-04-10

This text, written by perhaps the premier Samuel Beckett and premier Arthur Miller scholar in the world, is readable, insightful, compelling. A MUST for anyone interested in the work of one of the most intriguing playwrights of the 20th century.

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Why Beckett?
Enoch Brater
Manufacturer: Thames & Hudson
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Binding: Hardcover
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God, man & sex.(book reviews)(Book review): An article from: National Review

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God, man & sex.(book reviews)(Book review): An article from: National Review
Michael Potemra
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This digital document is an article from National Review, published by Thomson Gale on March 5, 2007. The length of the article is 1458 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.

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Title: God, man & sex.(book reviews)(Book review)
Author: Michael Potemra
Publication: National Review (Magazine/Journal)
Date: March 5, 2007
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