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Monday, April 3, 2000 09:01 p.m. P.D.T. SkeptiNews 000403c - - - - - - - - - - - All The News That's Fit To
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* Yesterday's bulletins: http://web.pitas.com/skeptinews/02_04_2000.html * Passages starting with ':' are editorial comments to provoke discussion. * PLEASE do NOT include the ENTIRE bulletin when you reply; cut/paste, eh? * Site of latest notices, excuses, news/views: http://skeptilog.pitas.com * No cultists were dissected to make this bulletin. They're all the same. _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ @ LUSTFUL: www.carthage.edu/departments/english/dante/frames/BlakeImage.html _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # Debating Humanity's Demise. (Wired) The topic: how hi-tech may make humans obsolete. Silicon Valley-ites turned out in force to hear just how bad the news might be. Bye: http://www.wired.com/news/culture/0,1284,35106,00.html # Possible Vegetarian Dinosaur Nests Found in Argentina - devoured by carni- vores: http://news.excite.com/news/r/000403/15/science-science-dinosaur @ Monkeys can count to three. They seem able to recognize themselves in the mirror. But can monkeys empathize? www.linguafranca.com/0004/monkeys.html : Should/can/will you be replaced by silicon units; enhanced primates; toxic software; one or more electro-mechanical prosthetic devices; cockroaches? Do you have trouble counting past '3'?? Have you counted the circles of Hell?? @ Revelation66 - Welcome To Hell: http://members.theglobe.com/revelation66/ @ Lovely Christian Ladies: http://www.annieshomepage.com/moreladies.html @ Hot To Trot: http://www.penis-pillow.com/ and http://vulvacious.com/ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ @ Alien Origins. The big puzzle facing UFO investigators today is trying to piece all the accumulated evidence together into a single coherent picture of several distinct species, including but not limited to the so called grays, reptoids, human, and other humanoids such as mothmen, big foot, etc: http://www.geocities.com/Area51/Shadowlands/6583/et035.html @ Alien Encyclopedia - cataloguing all the various races: http://www.geocities.com/Area51/Shadowlands/6583/et054.html http://www.geocities.com/Area51/Shadowlands/6583/et055.html : Have you collected/catalogued/analyzed many alien races lately? Are they fun to euthenize/section/study? What's your favorite nonhuman species? Would you rather be nonhuman yourself? Are you already? Have you been studied? Eh? # Airline Attendant Reports UFO Sighting. The National UFO Reporting Center says a flight attendant for a major Northeastern airline claims to have seen a UFO while in flight from Memphis to St. Louis earlier this month. Were they the only one? http://www.cosmiverse.com/paranormal033102.html _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # Using "Pac Man" Enzymes, Researchers Explore Way To Turn Biomass Waste Into Replacement For Gasoline: http://newshub.com/cgibin/rd.cgi?9612586 # Anticancer Ingredient In Soy: http://www.newshub.com/cgibin/rd.cgi?9624066 @ "Much like the reading of tea leaves, Fecal Fortune Telling studies the size, arrangement, colour and interaction of bowel movements in the toilet bowl to predict the secrets of the future and give guidence to major life decisions." http://home.golden.net/~treleavn/toilet2.html And take a big, auspicious dump at http://www.memepool.com/Subject/Religion/ - ahhhh... : Would you rather use biomass for energy-generation, prognostication, agri- biz, fashion, politics, religion, art? Have you recycled/analyzed/digested any biomass lately? Should/will you be recycled soon? Will anyone miss you? Will petrochemical conglomerates control your personal recycling? D'ya care? # New Answers to Age-Old Question. Gene analysis provides new understanding of the human aging process. Cells don't stop dividing,they just start pas- sing on errors. http://www.wired.com/news/technology/0,1282,35337,00.html _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # Clarke's Odyssey to 2036. The author who brought us HAL the computer mulls the future, where a former Spice Girl heads the UN. Arthur C. Clarke's new tome is peppered with pop culture and Internet references, making for an interesting read. http://www.wired.com/news/culture/0,1284,35101,00.html @ Portrait of the Alien as a Young Man: http://www.space.com/spaceimagined/ziggy_stardust_000331.html @ Yanks & Brits are free to read Mein Kampf. But can Swedes, Turks, Croats, or Czechs be trusted with it? NO! http://ce-review.org/00/12/culik12.html : Have you been reprogrammed by literature/cinema/music/TV/marketing lately? Do you reprogram others? Is reprogramming better than working for a living? Can anyone be trusted with your programs? Are your programs obsolete yet?? _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # New Web security system unveiled. SAN JOSE, Calif. (AP) An all-new type of Internet burglar alarm system just might raise the bar in the burgeoning and vital field of computer security. Or crackers might beat it in a week or two: http://www.infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2565380343-421 @ Echelon & Related Data Interception Capabilities 2000: 1. Organisations and methods. 2. Intercepting international communications. 3. ECHELON and Comint production. 4. Comint and Law Enforcement. 5. Comint and economic intelligence. 6. Comint capabilities after 2000. Glossary and definitions. Footnotes. Summary. http://www.geocities.com/Area51/Shuttle/5604/data.html : Have you intercepted any data lately? Have you intercepted any attempts to intercept data? Have you intercepted any intercepts of intercepted data, or whatever? Are you too devious to intercept? Are you sure? Are you evil? Why? # BERT IS EVIL: Documents and images that show that Bert is Evil. Many of these documents were submitted by anonymous sources who choose not to be revealed. All the files have been verified and cross-referenced with the FBI and other Intelligence Agencies. http://plaza.v-wave.com/bert/bert.htm _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # Mass. bans computer dumping. BOSTON (AP) - With electro equipment becoming obsolete at an increasingly rapid rate, Massachusetts has posted the US's first ban on the disposal of computer screens, TV sets and other glass picture tubes in landfills and incinerators. No provision for trashy warez: http://www.infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2565346077-f11 # WORRIED ABOUT GETTING STUCK WITH ANOTHER 8-TRACK? The new choices in what kinds of equipment you can buy to listen to music on are confusing. But waiting until the industry winnows out some of the choices probably isn't a good solution. http://www.wired.com/news/technology/0,1282,34854,00.html : Have you been stuck with any old technology lately? Is old technology good because it's thoroughly debugged, amortized, broken-in? Are noncloned humans too old-technology? Will they be obsoleted soon? Are they illegal to dump? @ BEANSTALKS - elevators to space: http://www.memepool.com/Subject/Science/ @ MONORAIL SOCIETY - single-track to the future: http://www.monorails.org/ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ EXTRA! BILL GATES IS SATAN! READ ALL ABOUT IT! # Microsoft guilty. (BBC) The world's biggest software manufacturer is found guilty of breaking US competition law. Gates vows "revenge beyond grave" - http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/business/newsid_700000/700084.stm # Ruling a distraction: http://www.newshub.com/cgibin/rd.cgi?9624712 # Text of MS ruling: http://www.newshub.com/cgibin/rd.cgi?9624713 # Microsoft to appeal: http://www.newshub.com/cgibin/rd.cgi?9623932 _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ "All but the hard hearted man must be torn with pity for this pathetic dilemma of the rich man, who has to keep the poor man just stout enough to do the work and just thin enough to have to do it." --GK Chesterton * Rev.R.Carter, ULC * http://skepticon.pitas.com * FAX: 603-415-3736 * SkeptiNews bulletins now *ONLINE* at: http://skeptinews.pitas.com/ * Fringes of Thought, Experience, Behavior, Knowledge, Foreboding...
Monday, April 3, 2000 03:27 p.m. P.D.T. SkeptiNews 000403b - - - - - - - - - - - All The News That's Fit To
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* Yesterday's bulletins: http://web.pitas.com/skeptinews/02_04_2000.html * Passages starting with ':' are editorial comments to provoke discussion. * PLEASE do NOT include the ENTIRE bulletin when you reply; cut/paste, eh? * Site of latest notices, excuses, news/views: http://skeptilog.pitas.com * No cultists achieved salvation during production of this bulletin. Ratz. _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ @ DOTS: http://www.angelfire.com/de/pdemps/dots.jpg _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ : CORRECTION re: the frontline in today's previous bulletin: [ @ Multiple Religion Abuse: http://www.dci.dk/grafik/DCcollage77.jpg ] "Dci.dk is the most extreme Fundy-org. in Denmark, run by the infamous theologian Johannes Aagaard." [ via ocean@get2net.dk -- Thanks, o.c. ] _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # The cult watchdog. Mike Garde is employed by Ireland's major churches to monitor the country's 100-plus alternative religions. He explains why we're now more susceptible to the `unsettling presence' of cults: http://www.ireland.com/newspaper/features/2000/0322/fea1.htm # 'Trust in God and everything will be alright,' they said, but it wasn't. Fear cult: http://www.ireland.com/newspaper/features/2000/0322/fea2.htm @ Father Ted of Craggy Is. http://www.geocities.com/Paris/2694/craggy.html # Pope John Paul II says: INDULGENCES ARE AN AID TO CONVERSION. More should be marketed and sold: http://www.ewtn.com/vnews/getstory.asp?number=48618 : Have you monitored any cults lately? Have any cults monitored you? Is your cult monitoring other cults? Do you engage in cross-cult-ural warfare? D'ya work for deities/demons, angels/aliens, robots/revisionists, financiers, me? # Robertson Admits Satanic Connection. Williamsburg, VA. (IndNews) To a shocked audience in his '700 CLUB' television studio, televangelist and CBN head the Rev. Pat Robertson admitted that he is a "tool of Satan." I *knew* it! [via http://web.pitas.com/revelation66/ March 30, 2000] _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # EXHIBITION ON HOLY SHROUD OPENS IN ROME. Rome: As from last week, pilgrims visiting the Basilica of the Holy Cross of Jerusalem in Rome -where relics that according to an ancient tradition belong to the cross of the Lord Jesus are kept- may also deepen in another popular devotion rooted in the life of the Church and related to the crucifixion, death and rising of the Lord: the Holy Shroud. http://www.ewtn.com/vnews/getstory.asp?number=48627 @ Apollonius of Tyana by Solarion. SEE! That Christianity borrowed from the pagans and not the other way around is also described in this exerpt from the channeled book 'Oahspe': http://homepages.go.com/~newviews/joshu.html : Have'ya visited/created/exploited any holy relics lately? Do vast energies invest those relics? Have you stolen icons of power from opposing religions? Are stolen/borrowed/abstracted icons the most powerful? Do they glow? Much? # Headless chicken sculpture made. FRUITA, Colo. (AP) - For 18 months in the 1940s, it seemed as if Mike the headless chicken may be immortal. Now he's immortalized in a 4-foot [1.3M] metal sculpture in his hometown. An artist made the 300-pound replica using ax heads and hay-rake teeth, along with sickle blades and other cutting objects. Headless but hopping, like a Holy Roller: http://www.infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2565336365-913 _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # CIA discloses Korean spy records. WASHINGTON (AP) - The CIA lost so many Korean agents in futile attempts to operate behind enemy lines during the Korean War that the agency later privately judged its use of US-trained loyalists as "morally reprehensible." Thousands of agents wasted: http://www.infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2565395918-fc4 # Thief Grabs Nazi ENIGMA Code Machine. LONDON (Reuters) A thief out-foxed a former British spy centre by walking off with a rare ENIGMA machine: http://dailynews.yahoo.com/h/nm/20000402/ts/britain_enigma_1.html # U.S. to Denmark: We're not spies. Canadian spy: Oh yes they are. http://www.infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2565391846-4c4 @ CIA's covert backing of Encounter shows no one is safe. Intellectuals think they are free, but they are pawns in an insidious game. Or not?? http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/WPcap/2000-04/02/044r-040200-idx.html : Is your security service competent? Have you been penetrated? Are you run by enemies/aliens/Illuminati/morons? Do security agents just pretend to be morons so their opponents won't take them seriously? Are they hypnotized?? # Police Face Questions. WARSAW, Poland (AP) - Panicky police open fire on an escaped tiger and end up killing a veterinarian. Mayhem erupts in a courtroom after gang members smuggle grenades past cops into their own extortion trial. Officers blow up half an apartment building trying to flush out a pair of murder suspects. And that's just this month. http://www.infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2565348440-af0 _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # Sound Waves May Be Used To Generate Energy, Produce Weapons, More. Sound, as any deafened rocker will tell you, can be surprisingly powerful. Huh? So powerful, in fact, that scientists are discovering just what a little bit of pumped-up volume is capable of - from levitating objects in space to rearranging our guts. http://www.sightings.com/general/soundwaves.htm # Shedding light on dark matter. (AP) The invisible and so far unidentified dark matter that accounts for 90% of the universe could soon be brought to light as scientists develop sensitive detectors capable of sniffing out tiny particles predicted by theory but not yet proven to exist. If weakly interacting massive particles - WIMPs - are detected, the finding could solve fundamental mysteries of the universe: how it formed after the Big Bang, the nature of its structure and whether it will all end in a Big Crunch. http://www.infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2565372731-309 : Have you discovered any matter/energy/time/space lately? Have'ya developed new applications for any of the above? D'ya prefer WIMPs or MACHOs? Are you pumped up? Have you pumped-up any matter/energy/time/space lately? Sweating? # Chandra Penetrates Mystery: http://www.newshub.com/cgibin/rd.cgi?9621601 # Students Develop Mini Satellites: www.newshub.com/cgibin/rd.cgi?9622898 @ The Tao of Physics: http://www.blather.net/bookstore/capra_tao.html _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # UK to Back Human Embryo Cloning for Research. LONDON (Reuters) - Britain is expected to approve the cloning of human embryos for medical research, which could allow scientists to create spare parts for the body. I need'em NOW! http://news.excite.com/news/r/000402/20/science-britain-cloning2 And http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/sci/tech/newsid_699000/699627.stm # Pope slams artificial insemination, procreation methods, wasted embryos, teledildonics, Pokemon: http://www.newshub.com/cgibin/rd.cgi?9622053 # POPE AFFIRMS DIGNITY OF FETUS, A PERSON WITH RIGHTS - but should pregnant women all vote twice? http://www.ewtn.com/vnews/getstory.asp?number=48617 : What do you do with spare parts, extra fetuses, surplus blood, redundant tissues, extraneous people, unused brains? Is there a good market for human bits'n'pieces? Should this muck be bought, sold, rented, given away, tossed? # Mummies yield medical secrets. (BBC) Egyptologists say mummies are now being used as a test bed in experiments involving some of the very latest medical equipment, including DNA checks, hi-tech scanning & insemination. http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/world/middle_east/newsid_698000/698022.stm _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ "There is no sin except stupidity." --Oscar Wilde * Rev.R.Carter, ULC * http://skepticon.pitas.com * FAX: 603-415-3736 * SkeptiNews bulletins now *ONLINE* at: http://skeptinews.pitas.com/ * Fringes of Thought, Experience, Behavior, Knowledge, Foreboding...
Monday, April 3, 2000 10:48 a.m. P.D.T. SkeptiNews 000403a - - - - - - - - - - - All The News That's Fit To
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* Yesterday's bulletins: http://web.pitas.com/skeptinews/02_04_2000.html * Passages starting with ':' are editorial comments to provoke discussion. * PLEASE do NOT include the ENTIRE bulletin when you reply; cut/paste, eh? * Site of latest notices, excuses, news/views: http://skeptilog.pitas.com * No cultists were incinerated to produce this bulletin. Matches all gone. _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ @ Multiple Religion Abuse: http://www.dci.dk/grafik/DCcollage77.jpg _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # Beer Brewer Tries To Become Exclusive Sponsor For Mystery Lights Of Marfa, Texas. MILWAUKEE and MARFA, Texas (BUSINESS WIRE) - Officials at Miller Brewing Co. verified that Miller Lite has been in negotiations to acquire an exclusive sponsorship for the Marfa Lights, also known as the Mystery Lights of Marfa, and if successful, the brewer plans to rename them the "Miller Lites." Area 51 next? http://sightings.com/general/beerlights.htm # Recent BC & Yukon UFO Sightings: http://www.ufobc.org/recent.htm # Windsor Incident - UFO/fireball: http://TheVanguard.tripod.com/windsor.htm @ UFO CoverUp: http://www.geocities.com/Area51/Shadowlands/6583/coverup.html @ When UFOs Controlled The Night Above Washington DC [now they work from the inside, controlling all] http://www.sightings.com/general/when.htm : Have you controlled/exploited/manipulated any paranormal phenomena lately? Can you make a good profit by sponsoring paranormal events? Have you etched your marketing slogans onto ghosts, ETs/UFOs, spontaneous human combustors?? # Mind Control Slavery and the New World Order. According to this extremely disturbing report, Monarch Program mind-control survivors claim to have been used as high-tech slaves by certain intelligence agencies and top- ranking politicians. http://www.altnews.com.au/nexus/MindControlNWO.html _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # New" Drugs, Old Uses; What Chemists Can Learn From The Past. Can modern medicine learn new tricks from ancient history?Conventional wisdom sez no, but some think otherwise -- with proof to back claims. A greater knowledge of, and critical appreciation for, ancient medicine could provide modern doctors with alternative ways of treating diseases, and help them identify and label potential dangers and side effects from "new" drugs and herbal supplements. http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2000/03/000331083206.htm # UNLOCKING SECRETS OF CREATINE: www.napa.ufl.edu/2000news/creatine.htm # New Study of Microbe-Killers May Lead to More Effective Antibiotics: http://www-news.uchicago.edu/releases/2000/000329.protegrins.shtml # New Horizons, New Treatments in Anticancer Chemistry: http://www.eurekalert.org/releases/acs-nhti032700.html : Have you rediscovered any ancient drugs lately? Were you aided by shamans, chemists, spirit guides, aliens, robots, me? Have you experimented with many ancient drugs? D'ya test them on yourself? Are you a much better person now? # Frequent Marijuana Use May Affect Brain Function But Not Structure. Recent studies indicate that some people who frequently use marijuana have substantially lower blood flow to certain parts of their brains; however, smoking the illicit drug does not affect brain size or structure. Toke up! http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2000/03/000331090541.htm _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # Hactivists to Attack Biotech Firms. MSNBC - Major biotechnology firms MON- SANTO and AVENTIS are in the digital crosshairs. ELECTROHIPPIES say the 2 companies will first be targeted with a straightforward e-mail write-in campaign. But by the end of the week, new denial-of-service software tools will be distributed and could be aimed at the Internet operations of both firms. Other big-name companies like PEPSI and MCDONALDS could also be targeted. Attacking capitalism: http://msnbc.com/news/389408.asp?cp1=1 # 1000 PROTESTERS CALL FOR CLOSING SCHOOL OF THE AMERICAS/ASSASSINS - White House target of vain ritual: http://CNN.com/2000/US/04/03/school.protest/ # INDYMEDIA MOBILIZES FOR DC PROTESTS - Expected Disruptions of World Bank, IMF meetings - more WTO riots?? http://www.ainfos.ca/ainfos04418.html # HUNDREDS MARCH TO PROTEST SOUTH CAROLINA'S CONFEDERATE FLAG - pro-slavery forces organize counterattack: http://CNN.com/2000/US/04/03/flag.march.ap/ : Have you protested/attacked/manipulated any major corporate/govt/military operations lately? D'ya most effect change via protest, prayer, subversion, sacrifice, purchase, bribery, physical/digital/mental attacks, sex, sleep?? # Philippine farmers resort to ancient ritual to stop pests. BUGUIAS, Phil- ippines (AP) Desperate farmers are offering pigs to the gods in hopes of stopping the spread of a pest that's wreaking havoc in one of the nation's top vegetable-producing towns http://www.newshub.com/cgibin/rd.cgi?9619198 _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # Revealed: CIA's bungled Iraqi coup. A plot backed by the Central Intelli- gence Agency to overthrow Saddam Hussein degenerated into a farce that ended with an Iraqi security officer using the agency's satellite tele- phone to tell American agents to "go back to Langley". Plotters executed: http://www.sunday-times.co.uk/news/pages/sti/2000/04/02/stifgnmid01001.html # Terror suspect may name Gadhafi - ordered 1975 attack on OPEC ministers' confab: http://www.infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2565352519-854 @ William F. Pepper, *Orders To Kill - the Truth Behind the Murder of Martin Luther King, Jr.* http://blather.net/bookstore/bookstore/pepper_mlk.html # JAPAN'S OBUCHI IN COMA, POLITICAL LEADERSHIP IN QUESTION - anti-Japan plot weakens nation: http://CNN.com/2000/ASIANOW/east/04/03/japan.obuchi.01/ # Chicago mayor remains hospitalized - conspirators haven't killed him yet: http://www.infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2565376508-720 : Has your conspiracy toppled any political structures lately? Did you try? Are you close? Are you competent? Is your plot just a diversion from really serious efforts, or are you just farcical? How are your resources expended? # Bin Laden funds Phil. kidnappers: www.timesofindia.com/today/03worl11.htm # THE EVENT. Material pertaining to the infamous Princess Diana death of August 1997 was recently found on a 'recovered' laptop - bisociative coincidence phenomena: http://www.blather.net/articles/the_event.html _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # Ugandans mourn 924 mass murder victims. KANUNGU, Uganda (AP) - Thousands gathered on a hilltop soccer field to mourn the mass murder of neighbors they barely knew. Dignitaries called the architects of the deadliest cult tragedy in modern history "diabolic, malevolent criminals masquerading as holy and religious people." No mention of criminals masquerading as poli- ticians: http://www.infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2565378777-f79 # Also: Descriptions of Uganda cult leaders - considered armed, dangerous and rich: http://www.infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2565355944-353 # Witches Take Pagan Message To School. The Pagan Federation has appointed a teacher as its 1st youth manager, to educate teens about witchcraft. Next: educating the profoundly ignorant press to distinguish between 'Wicca' and 'witchcraft" - as if they care: www.sightings.com/general/paganmessage.htm : Are you more endangered by Wiccans, Xians, Muslims, Jews, Hindus, Mormons, Buddhists, Jains, atheists, aliens, robots, reporters, germs, musicians, me? Has your belief system murdered many people? Are you proud of it? Feel good? # Vatican sets up metal detectors. VATICAN CITY (AP) Bracing for huge crowds of Christian pilgrims coming to Rome for Holy Week & Holy Year festivities ,the Vatican has set up metal detectors & X-ray machines in the colonnade around St. Peter's Square. Religion of death-worship has propensity for violence: http://www.infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2565353444-882 _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ "I will not teach others to fly." --Bart Simpson * Rev.R.Carter, ULC * http://skepticon.pitas.com * FAX: 603-415-3736 * SkeptiNews bulletins now *ONLINE* at: http://skeptinews.pitas.com/ * Fringes of Thought, Experience, Behavior, Knowledge, Foreboding...
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