Organic food no more nutritious than non-organic: study

(Reuters) - Organic produce and meat typically isn't any better for you than conventional food when it comes to vitamin and nutrient content, although it does generally reduce exposure to pesticides and antibiotic-resistant bacteria, according to a U.S. study.

"People choose to buy organic foods for many different reasons. One of them is perceived health benefits," said Crystal Smith-Spangler, who led a team of researchers from Stanford University and the Veterans Affairs Palo Alto Health Care.

"Our patients, our families ask about, 'Well, are there health reasons to choose organic food in terms of nutritional content or human health outcomes?'"

She and her colleagues reviewed more than 200 studies that compared either the health of people who ate organic or conventional foods or, more commonly, nutrient and contaminant levels in the foods themselves.

The foods included organic and non-organic fruits, vegetables, grains, meat, poultry eggs and milk.

According to U.S. Department of Agriculture standards, organic farms have to avoid the use of synthetic pesticides and fertilizers, hormones and antibiotics. Organic livestock must also have access to pastures during grazing season.

Many of the studies used, though, didn't specify their standards for what constituted "organic" food, which can cost as much as twice what conventional food costs, the researchers wrote in the Annals of Internal Medicine.

Smith-Spangler and her colleagues found there was no difference in the amount of vitamins in plant or animal products produced organically and conventionally - and the only nutrient difference was slightly more phosphorous in the organic products.

Organic milk and chicken may also contain more omega-3 fatty acids, but that was based on only a few studies.

More than one third of conventional produce had detectable pesticide residues, compared with 7 percent of organic produce samples. Organic pork and chicken were 33 percent less likely to carry bacteria resistant to three or more antibiotics than conventionally produced meat.

Smith-Spangler told Reuters Health it was uncommon for either organic or conventional foods to exceed the allowable limits for pesticides, so it was not clear whether a difference in residues would have an effect on health.

But others said more research is needed to fully explore the potential health and safety differences between organic and conventional foods, and it was premature to say organic foods aren't any healthier than non-organic versions.

"Right now I think it's all based on anecdotal evidence," said Chensheng Lu, who studies environmental health and exposure at the Harvard School of Public Health. http://bit.ly/PShmuj

(Reporting from New York by Genevra Pittman at Reuters Health; Editing by Elaine Lies and Robert Birsel)

Source: http://news.yahoo.com/organic-food-no-more-nutritious-non-organic-study-054220776.html

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No Home for Squatters' Rights: Limitations and Legitimated Violence ...

?If you see a house, take it and let the law do its damned?est? ?(Dwor?kin, 1988:?13)

?Remem?ber???try?ing to stop squat?ting is like stamp?ing on a greasy golf?ball??(All Lam?beth Squat?ters,?1974)

As of 1 Septem?ber 2012, under Sec?tion 144 of the Legal Aid, Sen?ten?cing and Pun?ish?ment of Offend?ers Act 2012 (?LASPOA?), it became illegal in Eng?land and Wales to squat a res?id?en?tial build?ing. ?Accord?ing to the?Act:

?(1) A per?son com?mits an offence if?
(a) the per?son is in a res?id?en?tial build?ing as a tres?passer hav?ing entered it as a tres?passer,
(b) the per?son knows or ought to know that he or she is a tres?passer, and
(c) the per?son is liv?ing in the build?ing or intends to live there for any period.

(2) The offence is not com?mit?ted by a per?son hold?ing over after the end of a lease or licence (even if the per?son leaves and re-??enters the building).?

Des?pite the fact that dis?pla?cing someone from a build?ing that had obvi?ous signs of being their home without the per?mis?sion of the legal owner has been illegal since the Crim?inal Law Act 1977, the neces?sity for a duplic?ate law just goes to demon?strate the accel?er?ated dei?fic?a?tion and reific?a?tion of indi?vidual prop?erty rights, over the social util?ity and shar?ing of resources held within the philo?sophy and prac?tice of squat?ting. This recent shift in media-??aggravated legis?lat?ive change is a defin?it?ive move fur?ther in favour of the landowner as opposed to those who have no land, and those who sup?port the redis?tri?bu?tion of?land.

Any?one catch?ing the Lon?don Under?ground home after work in the past two or three years will have been sub?ject to a neg?at?ive media cam?paign that affected put?ting squat?ting in a bad light.? The num?ber of ?I just went to the shop to buy some milk and came back and my house was squat?ted? is near non-??existent, and yet read?ing cer?tain news?pa?pers, it seemed as though a national epi?demic was tak?ing place, put?ting unne?ces?sary fear in the minds of unas?sum?ing homeown?ers and loyal read?ers.? This toxic media infu?sion has been stated as unfairly mis?rep?res?ent?at?ive of squat?ting prac?tices in Eng?land and Wales, sup?port?ing a polit?ical brief that seeks to cas?tig?ate the age old phe?nom?ena of usu?ca?pio, an inher?ited phe?nom?ena that speaks of the very basics of law itself.? Accord?ing to the media, there has been an?alleged?increase in instances of fam?il?ies return?ing home to their homes only to find unwanted res?id?ents inside, and given the extant eco?nomic cir?cum?stances, the num?bers of those los?ing their homes and squat?ting for hous?ing reas?ons has increased its pre?val?ence and vis?ib?il?ity, fuel?ling fear levels and polit?ical will to change the law.? Accord?ing to the Hous?ing Min?is?ter?Grant Shapps on Friday:

?No longer will there be so-??called ?squat?ters rights?. Instead, from next week, we?re tip?ping the scales of justice back in favour of the homeowner and mak?ing the law crys?tal clear: enter?ing a prop?erty with the inten?tion of squat?ting will be a crim?inal offence.?

Back in Septem?ber 2011, legal aca?dem?ics, soli?cit?ors and bar?ris?ters in the prac?tice of hous?ing law, wrote a joint let?ter stat?ing how they were con?cerned how a sig?ni?fic?ant num?ber of recent media reports had been exag?ger?at?ing and mis?rep?res?ent?ing the incid?ence of squat?ting in the UK, stating:

?[These state?ments are] leg?ally incor?rect, as the guid?ance pub?lished by the Depart?ment for?Com?munit?ies and Local Gov?ern?ment in March [2012] makes clear. We are con?cerned that such repeated inac?cur?ate report?ing of this issue has cre?ated fear for homeown?ers, con?fu?sion for the police and ill-??informed debate among both the pub?lic and politi?cians on reform?ing the?law.?

Des?pite the fact that the change in law affects only res?id?en?tial prop?er?ties, this tri?umph of mis-??information will lead to the assump?tion of all squat?ting to be a crim?inal and not civil offence.? Accord?ing to the Advis?ory Ser?vice for Squat?ters (ASS), it will be dif?fi?cult for those squat?ters who are using com?mer?cial prop?er?ties to remain where they are des?pite the fact that they are still per?fectly in their rights to do so, as the pub?lic will assume that squat?ters? rights have been out?lawed entirely.? And yet the social util?ity of squat?ting will con?tinue to be over?looked, and at a time when 720,000 homes are unaf?ford?able to those on low incomes in Eng?land, 60,000 in Scot?land, and 30,000 in Wales due to caps on local hous?ing allow?ance (Evic?tion Res?ist?ance, 2012), the con?quest of private landown?ers over the vul?ner?able becomes ever more tangible.

Squat?ting as a legal right has not always been a con?tro?ver?sial area of law, its brack?et?ing under the remit of adverse pos?ses?sion saw the syn?chron?ous emer?gence of prop?erty rights over?all.? Were it not for the stop valve of adverse pos?ses?sion and the tak?ing of land by seizure, it would have been dif?fi?cult to bal?ance com?pet?ing claims to land over?all.? Time lim?its on claims to land date back to as early as the Lim?it?a?tion Act 1623, intro?du?cing arbit?rary time lim?its on the asser?tion of claims.? As a res?ult, there developed the novel area of pos?ses?sion by suc?cess?ful tak?ing.? The bring?ing in of Lim?it?a?tions Acts saw pos?ses?sion based on the efflux?ion of time as one of the found?a?tional con?cepts of Eng?lish land law, at once enclos?ing one?s right to land and at the same time open?ing out the begin?ning of another?s based on a sys?tem of relativ?ity of?title.

Adverse pos?ses?sion remains a cent?ral para?dox within Eng?lish land law, stat?utory lim?it?a?tion as that which presses the relativ?ity of title to its extremity (Gray and Gray, 2011: 1159).? Seizure of land is there?fore the basis of indi?vidual prop?erty rights, and the claim to an under?stand?ing of own?er?ship.? The mix?ing of labour with the land and the cur?tail?ment of the true owner?s rights through aban?don?ment and mis?use is a very Lock?ean pro?viso, and given the fun?da?mental role of adverse pos?ses?sion and squat?ting (as the con?trol of land) as shap?ing prop?erty rights over?all, legis?lat?ors will do well to con?sider what the removal of this doc?trine means to the strength of rights to prop?erty in sum.? At the same time, the social util?ity to squat?ting is lost with these swift, undemo?cratic changes to the law and mis?rep?res?ent?a?tions of squat?ting on the ground.

Since the 1970s and 1980, and in the lead up to 2011, there has been an encroach?ing shift towards the removal of squat?ters? rights from UK law.? The Crim?inal Justice Act 1994 made some sub?stan?tial changes to the law relat?ing to squat?ting, bring?ing in ?interim pos?ses?sion orders? on behalf of the owner and giv?ing squat?ters a con?sid?er?ably reduced amount of time to remain and thus a reduced ver?sion of squat?ters? rights. The then Home Sec?ret?ary and mind behind the Act, Michael Howard, said: ?There can be no excuse for seiz?ing someone else?s prop?erty for how?ever short a time? ?, and thus meas?ures in the Crim?inal Justice Bill were then designed to deal a great deterrence to squatters.

The Land Regis?tra?tion Act 2002 fun?da?ment?ally altered the law of adverse pos?ses?sion, whereby after ten years of phys?ical pos?ses?sion, a squat?ter has to apply to the Land Registry to have their title recog?nised as owner, ren?der?ing a sys?tem of title by regis?tra?tion (and in the case of the squat?ter, title by applic?a?tion) as opposed to one of regis?tra?tion by title.? Sec?tions?96 to 98 and Sched?ule 6 give the ?paper owner? the right to be noti?fied that of an instance of adverse pos?ses?sion and as a res?ult, recover possession.??This ulti?mately means that the occur?rence of a squat?ter adversely pos?sess?ing title to land they have been occupy?ing for years will become a thing of the?past.

It seems as though the law does not learn from the squat?ters and the causes they rep?res?ent, the author?it?ies embed?ded in a global sys?tem of prop?erty trans?fer and appro?pri?ation that beclouds both polit?ics of the right, and so too of the left. The drive to curb any altern?at?ive and self-??managed use of space, through the death of squat?ting laws, is just another tech?no?logy of enclos?ure, a mani?fest?a?tion of market-??driven eco?nom?ies of prop?erty and the prop?erty of the economy.

As in any other legis?lat?ive shift, there is always the under?ly?ing force of state viol?ence. Any squat?ter will under?stand the viol?ent force of prop?erty rights, either by being sub?ject to the pain and wrench?ing of evic?tion, or just by enter?ing an empty space and sur?vey?ing the destruc?tion of the intern?als of a build?ing.? Part of the deterrent that coun?cils use to stop squat?ters enter?ing is to des?troy any means of basic amen?it?ies that those look?ing for an emp?tied space may wish to use.? This includes ?gut?ting?, the smash?ing up of all the plumb?ing, the destruc?tion of stair cases ren?der?ing floors other than the ground floor inaccessible.

Accord?ing to Andrew Corr, as he sum?mar?ises the anarchist-??tinged lit?er?at?ure on prop?erty, land own?er?ship ?? exists when an indi?vidual has the viol?ent forces neces?sary to evict or sub?due the inhab?it?ants of a given piece of land and claims ?own?er?ship?? (Corr, 1999: 12???15). ?This is a pro?cess that has taken place again and again, along dif?fer?ent stratas, within dif?fer?ent jur?is?dic?tions, at altern?ate times and spaces, whereby such a rep?lic?a?tion,??? will remain that way inas?much as the sys?tem and ideo?logy of spa?tial prop?erty is the sali?ent inter-??human rela?tion to land? (Corr, 1999: 12???15).? What took effect from the start of Septem?ber 1st is merely another example of this age old pro?cess of law and res?ist?ance that reoc?curs and imit?ates itself across the globe.? Nich?olas Blom?ley propounds:

?Space gets pro?duced, invoked, pul?ver?ized, marked, and dif?fer?en?ti?ated through prac?tical and dis?curs?ive forms of legal viol?ence. And property?s viol?ence is itself instan?ti?ated and legit?im?ized, yet also com?plic?ated and con?tra?dicted in and through such spaces? (Blom?ley, 2003:?135).

And yet, whether or not squat?ting is legal or illegal, space will still be pro?duced and re-??used by those who squat, whether illegal or oth?er?wise.? Given the use of private law in order to curb the stu?dent protests of 2010 and 2011 and the removal of the ?squat?ters out?side St Paul?s?, law will always attempt to cat?egor?ise, and res?ist?ance will con?tinue to reset the bound?ar?ies.? What will be of interest over the com?ing months is exactly what effect clause 144 of LASPOA?will have on squat?ting in Eng?land and Wales.??As the ?All Lam?beth Squat?ters? once said:???Remember???try?ing to stop squat?ting is like stamp?ing on a greasy golf?ball? (All Lam?beth Squat?ters,?1974).

Lucy Finchett-??Maddock is Lec?turer in Law at the Uni?ver?sity of Exeter

Ref?er?ences

Blom?ley, N. (2003), ?Law, Prop?erty, and the Spaces of Viol?ence: The Fron?tier, the Sur?vey, and the Grid?, 93,?Annals of the Asso?ci?ation of Amer?ican Geo?graph?ers, 121???141

Corr, A. (1999), ?No Tres?passing:? Squat?ting, Rent Strikes, and Land Struggles World?wide, Lon?don, Southend Press

Dwor?kin, G. (1988), ?The The?ory and Prac?tice of Autonomy?, Cam?bridge, Cam?bridge Uni?ver?sity?Press

Evic?tion Res?ist?ance, found at http://?evic?tion?res?ist?ance?.blog?spot?.co?.uk/.

Source: http://criticallegalthinking.com/2012/09/04/no-home-for-squatters-rights-limitations-and-legitimated-violence/

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Islamists attack Tunisia hotel bar: witnesses

Islamist activists raided the last working bar in the central Tunisian town of Sidi Bouzid on Monday, smashing bottles and chasing away customers, witnesses said.

Around 50 activists burst into the bar in the Hotel Horchani in the centre of town, customers and staff told AFP.

Bearded men then raided the reception and the upstairs rooms of the hotel, the last in Sidi Bouzid to serve alcohol, some of them shouting "Allahu Akbar" (God is greatest) and "Al-Saharab haram" (drinking is a sin).

A young man who tried to film the raid was beaten by members of the group and taken to an unknown location, as angry hotel guests gathered at the scene.

The sale and consumption of alcohol is regulated but legal in Tunisia, traditionally a popular destination for tourists, especially from France.

Sidi Bouzid, the birthplace of the uprising that toppled veteran strongman Zine El Abidine Ben Ali last year, is a stronghold of the Salafist movement, which has grown increasingly assertive in recent months.

The North African country has witnessed numerous violent incidents linked to the hardliners, prompting opposition activists to accuse the Islamist-led coalition government of not doing enough to rein them in.

Source: http://news.yahoo.com/islamists-attack-tunisia-hotel-bar-witnesses-190806179.html

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Now, small buildings can go for green stars - Real Estate India

??|?? September 3, 2012 ?? 12:50pm ??|Contributed by manoja

New Delhi: The focus of energy efficiency has usually been large buildings, whether residential or commercial. Now, there is a project that will help smaller buildings reduce their carbon footprint. An offshoot of GRIHA ? the green rating for integrated habitat assessment ?SVAGRIHA?has been conceptualised especially for buildings that are less than 2,500 sq m.

The project was launched earlier this year by The Energy and Resources Institute (TERI) and new and renewable energy ministry. According to Mili Majumdar, director of TERI?s sustainable habitat division, the cumulative contribution of energy guzzling small buildings to climate change is quite large which is why the need was felt to draw up a focused programme for this kind of architecture .

?Unlike GRIHA where a building is evaluated on 34 criteria, SVAGRIHA will evaluate buildings on 14 parameters. Once a building has been planned, the SVAGRIHA team will step in to advice on energy efficiency measures that can be adopted . People can also put up information about their buildings online and will get a list of steps that they can adopt suiting their needs,? she said.

In India, about 30 per cent of the energy consumption is attributed to the buildings sector, out of which residential and commercial buildings contribute 24 per cent and 6 per cent respectively , says?TERI. While GRIHA with its complex system of analysis was created for large establishments, there was a need to simplify the process for smaller buildings and also bring builders of tier 2 and 3 towns under the green rating umbrella. The cost of registration and evaluation for the projects will be between Rs 60,000 and Rs 1,00,000.

The process for getting a SVAGRIHA rating includes registering with ADaRSH (Association for Development and Research of Sustainable Habitats), submission of calculations that determine possible energy efficient methods, drawings and other documents as required . The calculations, available on SVAGRIHA website , will use data like area under construction and quantity of material used. It will also provide recommendations to improve the environmental performance of the building.

The submissions will be reviewed under SVAGRIHA parameters and a site visit will be carried out post construction to determine how and what measures have been put in place. Finally, a GRIHA certified evaluator will assess the building and award the rating.

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Former North Miami Beach mayor investigated over cost of bus bench ads

Former North Miami Beach mayor investigated over cost of bus bench ads

Former North Miami Beach mayor investigated over cost of bus bench ads

Myron Rosner was accused of underreporting the value of bus bench ads in his campaign.

More than a year after losing his reelection bid, former North Miami Beach Mayor Myron Rosner finds himself under criminal investigation for allegedly underreporting the value of bus bench ads bought from a city vendor.

Rosner, 52, declined to comment on the possible campaign finance violations charges. His attorney, Ben Kuehne, said Rosner has been ?fending off? complaints arising from his handling of campaign finances and signage, including bus benches.

?He favorably resolved the matter with the Miami-Dade Commission On Ethics and it?s my understanding that the complaints have been shopped to other agencies, possibly even law enforcement,? Kuehne said. ?Mr. Rosner intends to fully address any complaints and put his past political life behind him.?

A spokeswoman for the Miami-Dade State Attorney?s Office said she could not comment on the ongoing investigation.

The case stems from complaints filed with the Florida Elections Commission last year by blogger, Stephanie Kienzle, who has filed other complaints against Rosner on separate issues with state and county ethics agencies.

In February 2011, Rosner reported a $500 in-kind contribution from Martin Outdoor Media Group, which has a contract with the city to sell ads on bus benches. He later amended the report to say he?d paid the company $4,500 in advertising expenses and provided The Miami Herald with the January contract showing he bought 30 ads for $150 each.

In an amended report, Rosner said he loaned himself $4,500 ?to cover the amount? and that the vendor didn?t cash the original check until April.

?Something didn?t smell right about that. You can?t write a check from a campaign account if you don?t have the funds to back it,? said Kienzle, who has filed at least two other complaints against Rosner on separate issues with state and county ethics agencies. ?Besides, that $4,500 wouldn?t have been enough to cover the true cost of those ads.?

According to its own listed prices, Martin Outdoor Media charges $135 for standard bus-bench ads and $300 for those in high-profile locations. In her complaint, Kienzle wrote that several of the ads were along busy corridors such as Biscayne Boulevard and Northeast 163rd Street.

She also included a photograph of an ad on a bus shelter, which according to Martin Outdoor Media?s website should cost between $200 and $400.

Company representatives did not return a phone message on Thursday.

Investigators are also examining political strategist Al Lorenzo, who helped with Rosner?s campaign but does not appear in campaign reports. Lorenzo was recently under fire for his role as a consultant in two high-profile political campaigns that were tainted by a recent absentee voter fraud scandal in Hialeah.

In late July, Miami-Dade police followed an alleged ballot-broker, Deisy Cabrera, as she collected absentee ballots and entered the Hialeah campaign office of county Mayor Carlos Gim?nez, who was reelected on Aug. 14. Cabrera was later charged with forging a signature on a ballot.

At the time, critics of Miami-Dade state attorney Katherine Fern?ndez Rundle questioned whether her office should handle the case because Lorenzo?s company, Quantum Results Inc., served as a consultant on both her and Gimenez?s reelection campaigns.

Eventually, the Gimenez campaign cut ties with Quantum after learning that its subcontractor, Gerardo Judas Ramos, has a felony record that includes federal fraud convictions. Fern?ndez Rundle later recused herself after receiving an allegation that Ramos had been seen with Cabrera.

Lorenzo did no return several calls from El Nuevo Herald this week.

On Thursday, Rosner confirmed that Lorenzo served as a consultant last year but said he was not paid directly by his campaign last year. Instead, he explained that Lorenzo had a financial arrangement with The Campaign Super Store Inc., which designed, printed and sent several thousand campaign mailers.

The North Miami Beach business received just over $12,000 for the work according to campaign reports.

Owner Charles Safdie told El Nuevo Herald he paid Lorenzo a percentage of his profits but declined to say how much.

?It?s customary for campaign consultants to receive a commission or nominal fee in exchange for referring a client,? he said.

Safdie said he?s been interviewed twice by Miami-Dade police about Rosner?s campaign.

?I was part of the fishing expedition,? he said. ?I didn?t see anything that Mayor Rosner did wrong.?

Source: http://www.miamiherald.com/2012/08/31/2979555/former-north-miami-beach-mayor.html

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67 Year Old Fitness Fan Comments on Senior Health and Fitness ...

AI write about many things on this blog, but I don't want people to think that just because I write about it I endorse it. I will usually pretty explicitly say so if I do.

A couple of days ago, I posted a comment about calorie restriction. I think I made it pretty plain in the body of the article that, based on my reading and research, I did not endorse the practice...I was just offering a little info and expressing an opinion. However, knowing people as I do, I know that some will believe that since I discussed it, and perhaps even made some positive comments about aspects of the practice, that I was saying that's what someone should do.

Actually, most health practices which stray pretty far from the mainstream are either not really as effective as claimed or work best in very specific circumstances.

I normally advise that seniors do pretty the basics to live longer, better, and stay healthier: exercise, eat properly, get a good night's sleep, etc.....

Sometimes, I feel that maybe some people might think, "Just some old guy who is afraid to try new techniques".

Maybe so, but most of what I write is either something with some pretty solid science behind it, including many of my own opinions.

Not everything works the same way for everyone, and despite the basics usually being pretty constant, most will have to find a balance that works for them. I often think of the time I very carefully researched a topic, going to several well-respected sources before I wrote an article on a particular aspect of weight loss. I posted the article on a forum run by a friend of mine at the time, a lady who had accepted every other article I had ever posted and who had even praised my work.

A few days after posting the article, I got an email from the woman saying that she had removed the article from her forum because her husband had done the exact opposite and lost weight. In her mind, that made me, and by extension, several major research facilities, wrong.

Well, I can be wrong. I'm not perfect. However, that happened several years ago. Research on the topic has moved on, but all significant studies still get the same results that I had used to write my article.

It goes to show how someone who already believes, or wants to believe, something is either not going to be able to accept information to the contrary, or will "understand" it in a way that fits in with their beliefs. I cannot overcome that with the best will, and the most undeniable information in the world.

I was reading an article on "Healthy Aging at the Mayo Clinic website this morning, and I saw this:

"Healthy aging is a hot topic for baby boomers everywhere. Whether you're concerned about weight gain, sex drive or chronic diseases, the key to healthy aging is a healthy lifestyle. Eating a variety of healthy foods, practicing portion control and including physical activity in your daily routine can go a long way toward promoting healthy aging. Better yet, it's never too late to make healthier lifestyle choices.

If an interest in healthy aging leads you to consider anti-aging therapies ? such as restrictive diets, supplements or expensive treatments claiming to postpone or even reverse the aging process ? be cautious. There's no quick fix for healthy aging. Know what you're buying, and know how to spot suspicious schemes. Often, anti-aging therapies don't live up to the claims."

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Source: http://fitness-after-40.blogspot.com/2012/09/old-age-is-time-for-innovation-but.html

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