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Fighting for a theocracy? Fr Spadaro speaks
Vatican II called for a practical ecumenism. In Unitatis redintegratio 12, the Council Fathers proclaimed:
In these days when cooperation in social matters is so widespread, all men without exception are called to work together, with much greater reason all those who believe in God, but most of all, all Christians in that they bear the name of Christ. Cooperation among Christians vividly expresses the relationship which in fact already unites them, and it sets in clearer relief the features of Christ the Servant. This cooperation, which has already begun in many countries, should be developed more and more, particularly in regions where a social and technical evolution is taking place be it in a just evaluation of the dignity of the human person, the establishment of the blessings of peace, the application of Gospel principles to social life...
The official channels of ecumenism, such as the 'ARCIC' talks between Catholic and Anglican theologians, have been spectacular failures in practical, just as in theoretical terms, but this passage is not aimed primarily at such efforts, but at ordinary believers at the coalface, as it were, of social and political activism. Such collaborative efforts must, indeed, be seen in the context of the mission of the laity as expressed in another Vatican II document Apostolicam actuositatem, which also talks about cooperation with 'men of good will' (8, 10, 11), and proposes as a proper role of the laity the attempt (19):
to infuse a Christian spirit into the temporal order
When they see this in action, however, not all of the current generation of churchmen are entirely pleased.
Fr Antonio Spadaro, writing with a Presbyterian minister who, in another heart-warming act of ecumenical collaboration, has been appointed editor of the Argentinian edition of L'Ossovotore Romano (Marcelo Figueroa), finds collaboration between Catholics and Evangelical Christians in the United States extremely disturbing. His description of politically active Evangelical Christians as 'Manichaean' and 'Apocalyptic', and as connected with the 'Prosperity Gospel', must, I think, be set aside as a somewhat misguided hyperbole. So must the stuff about them seeing President Trump as a new Constantine, and their wallowing in racism (er, we're talking about American evangelicals?) and Islamophobia. All the same, he is surely serious when he lists the concrete political aims of this coalition: they have
shared objectives ... around such themes as abortion, same-sex marriage, religious education in schools and other matters generally considered moral or tied to values.
This does indeed have some connection with the real world, though the most politically charged issue of the last American election is missing from the list: that of the freedom to manifest one's religious beliefs.
Fr Spadaro thinks that this rather brief list of concrete political aims is part of:
an ecumenism of conflict that unites them in the nostalgic dream of a theocratic type of state.
What, exactly, constitutes a theocracy? I always thought 'theocracy' referred to 'rule by priests', or by some equivalent, specialised religious elite, and I suppose the role of the Shi'ite clergy in the constitution of Iran might be an example, though even Iran obviously isn't a pure theocracy. There are some historical cases of such things, though not terribly many. But Fr Spadaro seems to have something quite different in view: simply a country where the Natural Law is observed on such matters and abortion and same-sex marriage.
This raises the question of what a nation would be like whose 'temporal order' was 'infused' by 'the Gospel spirit'. Would it permit the killing of the unborn? The adoption of children without regard for their psychological need for a mother and father? Easy divorce and no-questions-asked remarriage? These are, after all, questions not of the Divine Law imposed upon and known to Christians through Revelation, but the Natural Law knowable by all.
It is not difficult to imagine what Fr Spadaro would say. He sees the 'spirit of the Gospel' through the lens of political liberalism, as do many mainstream Catholic and Protestant liberals. Ask any liberal Catholic whether Jesus Christ would have approved of legal restrictions on divorce and adultery, and they will insist that he would not. Ask them if they thought that Christ would have wanted abortion to be legal, and they generally become evasive. There is absolutely no historical or theological justification for such views, since Our Lord lived in a society shaped by the moral legislation of the Old Law and demanded stricter, not looser, standards for his own followers (Matthew 5:19 and following). But that is the liberal Christian mindset.
Liberal Christianity has no discernible political influence, except in fostering the political ambivalence of nominally Christian voters. The Evangelical / conservative Catholic collaboration may, perhaps, be of some political weight, on the other hand. I am reminded of C.S. Lewis remarking (in his essay on 'Chrisian Reunion'):
I have, however, a strong premonition as to the way in which reunion will not come. It will not come at the edges. 'Liberal' Romans and 'high' Anglicans will not be the ones who meet first. For the odd thing is that the nearer you get to the heart of each communion, the less you notice its difference from the other.
It's not just that liberal Romans and High Anglicans did and still do cordially dislike each other. Lewis' point is that it is when Catholics and Evangelicals come to appreciate the depth and strength of each others' Christian Faith that reunion becomes conceivable, not when they are united in leaving their own traditions behind, because that doesn't actually give them anything in common. Again, liberals of different ecclesial groups who have no theological objections to each other equally have no interest or incentive in seeking a visible unity.
But Fr Spadaro might care to consider another aspect of the practical ecumenism of US politics: that Evangelicals and conservative Catholics alike saw Hillary Clinton as a threat to their very existence. As Lewis Carroll wrote ('The Hunting of the Snark'):
But the valley grew narrow and narrower still,
And the evening got darker and colder,
Till (merely from nervousness, not from good will)
They marched along shoulder to shoulder.
Update: this post by Tim Stanley on the Spadaro article is worth reading.
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Catholics needs to work for the separation of State and secularism and the non separation of Church and State even if opposed by Fr.Spadero s.j and the Vatican
Fr.Antonio Spadero in La Civilita Cattolica does not support the Social Reign of Jesus Christ the King over all political legislation.Catholic laity need to do the opposite.Even if they are opposed by the Vatican.Support the Social Reign of Christ the King leading to a theocracy hated and feared by the leftsists, socialists, communists, liberals, satanists and Satan himself.
Catholics need to work for a separation of secularism and state.There should be a separation of leftist ideology and the State.It is clear that the Left is of Satan and is being supported by La Civita Cattolica and the present magisterium of Pope Franics.Perhaps they are being threathen and lied to by the enemies of the Church.
The leftist ideology seeks freedom only for the things of Satan or what Satan would approve directly or indirectly.Fr.Spadero has to obey to stay at La Civilita Cattolica.He supports the non separation of the State and the leftist ' religion'.Instead he should oppose their immorality, support for abortion, contraception, restrictions on Judeo Christian values etc.Immorality must be separated from the Government.
Why vote for the leftists or the right wing when both are the creation of secularism.Secularism is sectarian and discriminatory.It represents one particular lobby.
Instead with Feeneyite Vatican Council II the Catholic Church affirms the Social Reign of Christ the King.
Feeneyite extra ecclesiam nulla salus (EENS) is a foundational dogma. Upon it is also based the traditional teaching on the Social Reign of Christ the King over all political legislation and the non separation of Church and state.
Since there is no known salvation outside the Church, all political and social legislation must be focused on Jesus as he is known in the Catholic Church.This is a priority for salvation.
When Catholics accept the dogma extra ecclesiam nulla salus as it was interpreted by Fr. Leonard Feeney then Vatican Council II would pastorally be in harmony with Tradition.This was observed by a Polish Catholic, on Gloria TV.He made the connection between Vatican Council II(Feeneyite) and the Fr. Leonard Feeney case.Catholics do not know about it.Since Fr.Antonio Spadero and the leftist media will not tell them about it.
For Fr. Leonard Feeney there were no exceptions to the dogma EENS. The baptism of desire etc were not relevant or exceptions.This is the reasoning we need to adopt with Vatican Council II.It is a fact of life. There are no known exceptins.There cannot be any exception in 2017.
With the Feeneyite approach, the centuries-old approach, Vatican Council II has a continuity with the dogma EENS, the Syllabus of Errors, the Catechism of Pope Pius X (Feeneyite),the Catechism of the Catholic Church(Feeneyite) and the rest of Tradition.All these magisterial documents are interpreted with hypothetical cases not being explicit in the present times.So we are back to the old ecclesiology which supported a Catholic theocracy.
The Vatican, which is continously threathened by the Left
does not support in any way the few Catholic political organisations which affirm the Social Reign of Christ the King over all political legislation.In Italy they are Militia Christi and Forza Nuova.Instead the Vatican supports the ideology of the leftist Partito Democratico, whose leaders are reportedly Masons and Communists.They interpret Vatican Council II with an irrational premise to create a non traditional conclusion which is a rupture with Tradition.1
Vatican Council II actually says all need faith and baptism for salvation(AG 7).All. So it is a priority that all people enter the Catholic Church, to avoid the fires of Hell.This aspect of Vatican Council II would be scary for Fr.Spadero.Extra ecclesiam nulla salus is the foundation for a theocracy. The Masons know it.
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Paganism has broadly connoted the "religion of the peasantry". During and after the Middle Ages, the term paganism was applied to any unfamiliar religion, and the term presumed a belief in false god(s).
What is eclectic paganism and is it right for You?
Eclectic Paganism is the epitome of "no dogma." This Pagan tradition is most commonly practiced by Solitary Pagans or Pagans who do not belong to a coven or grove which are two sorts of Pagan "congregations." Eclectic Paganism is exactly what it sounds like.
What is Asatru paganism?
Asatru is unusual among Pagan religions in how much it focuses on history. Druidry and pantheon based Pagan paths have roots in ancient traditions, but most scholars agree that modern Paganism rarely has much in common with its ancient roots.
Why don't Pagans believe in religion?
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Q: What is the difference - const int x = 5000; and const int x = 50'00; in C++? What is the difference in following c++ codes -
const int x = 5000;
const int x = 50'00;

A: Since C++14 you are allowed to put a digit separator ' anywhere within an integer literal (apart from the beginning or the end or just after the base indicator not including the octal leading zero - otherwise you'd clash with muticharacter literals.)
The intention is to make code more readable: e.g.
const int x = 5'000;

or, using Indian notation (which explains the anywhere rationale)
const auto x = 12'34'567;

or, in hexadecimal
const auto x = 0xee'ef;

Note that the type of something like 1e3 is a double, which can bite you hard, especially when used in a for loop as a counter.
Reference: https://en.cppreference.com/w/cpp/language/integer_literal

A: 50'00 uses digit separator that was added in C++14. The number will resolve to 5000, only difference is that it might be easier to read. Usually you would use digit separator to separate thousands, like 1'000'000, but you are allowed to use it at any point in the number.

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A brave Iraqi woman epitomizes power and resilience in the face of immense hardship
It's been five years since the conflict with the ISIS group was officially declared over in Iraq. But that doesn't mean people automatically went back to the lives they had before. An estimated 1.2 million people remain internally displaced and nearly 5 million people in the country lack livelihood opportunities, proper shelter, or access to basic services.
The International Rescue Committee wants to take a moment to honor all of the displaced Iraqi women who have been disproportionately affected by war and have shown incredible courage in the face of immense hardships.
Women like Sarah.*
Sarah was uprooted not once, but three times during the conflict. Her world was turned upside down when ISIS captured her husband in 2017.
"I felt like this is the end of life, there was no hope," Sarah says.
Losing her husband also meant losing the ability to support her four children. With their home no longer a safe place, Sarah and her family were forced to a displacement camp.
It was there, in the camp, where Sarah first learned about the IRC's women's protection and empowerment program.
Sarah (left), her identity obscured for privacy, has built up her sewing and upholstery business in Iraq with support from the IRC.
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Before the conflict, Sarah worked as a seamstress. Through the program, she learned how to turn her sewing skills into a viable business. Within three months, she was producing enough upholstery and linens to earn a living income.
In addition, Sarah benefited from the emotional support that came from participating in communal and recreational activities with women like herself. She began training other women in sewing and handicrafts so that they could support themselves and their families as well.
Unfortunately, the camp where Sarah lived closed seven months after they arrived. She moved her family to another camp close to the market where she sold her wares, but she was now unable to access the materials she needed to keep her business going.
But she knew exactly where to turn when she discovered another IRC women's protection and empowerment program at the new camp. Sarah rebuilt her business and supported her family for the next year until that camp also closed.
Then something wonderful happened: Sarah's husband returned.
Reunited with her husband
"[It felt like] life started again," Sarah says, recalling how they planned to return home together. Unfortunately, when they arrived home, they found someone affiliated with an armed group occupying it, forcing them to rent accommodations that strained their budget. It took the entire family working together to earn enough to regain their home—with the help of a lawyer—but Sarah's business income was not enough to cover the cost of her children's schooling.
Sarah's business supports not just her own family but the families of the five women employed in her workshop.
If there's anything we've learned from Sarah, it's the power of perseverance. For the third time, Sarah found a women's protection and empowerment program through an IRC partner that helped her build her most successful business yet.
Sarah's thriving business
At the beginning of 2022, Sarah visited the IRC women's protection and empowerment center seeking financial support and hoping to meet women with similar experiences. She joined in sewing activities and emotional support groups and was referred to an IRC economic recovery and development team that provided her with a small-business grant.
Pillows created by Sarah and her team at their workshop, which she calls the "hope workshop."
With this grant, she purchased new equipment, materials, and opened a shop inside her home. Her work became so well known, people traveled from nearby towns to purchase her crafts. Business boomed—Sarah had to move to a bigger workshop and hire five women to help fill client orders.
Today, Sarah's business supports not just her own family but the families of the five women employed in her workshop, which she lovingly named her "hope workshop." Now Sarah boasts of a three-month long waitlist for orders.
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Sarah works with IRC local partner Iraqi Al Amal to support women going through the same training she did during those years of recovery. She dreams of opening a factory where "hundreds of women can work and support each other," and says she wants to "make it a safe space like the center I used to attend." She told the IRC that her personal experiences with support networks continues to inspire her.
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That said, let's discuss the pieces. At first I was hesitant to purchase a cold shoulder sweater simply because I remember this style from the early 1990s. However, there's a good reason this trend was reintroduced- it's a flattering way to show a little skin. The pink jeans are my shopping triumph-I've been looking for just-the-right pair for years and was excited to find the ideal cut, color, amount of distressing and size. Finally, pony hair leopard print pumps add a bit of glamour and make it a perfect "night out" oufit.
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Iterative Solution of Large Sparse Systems of Equations
C. F. GauS in a letter from Dec. 26, 1823 to Gerling: 3c~ empfe~le 3~nen biegen IDlobu9 aur 9tac~a~mung. ec~werlic~ werben eie ie wieber bi reet eliminiren, wenigftens nic~t, wenn eie me~r als 2 Unbefannte ~aben. :Da9 inbirecte 93erfa~ren 109st sic~ ~alb im ec~lafe ausfii~ren, ober man fann wo~renb be9gelben an anbere :Dinge benfen. [CO F. GauS: Werke vol. 9, Gottingen, p. 280, 1903] What difference exists between solving large and small systems of equations? The standard methods well-known to any student oflinear algebra are appli cable to all systems, whether large or small. The necessary amount of work, however, increases dramatically with the size, so one has to search for algo rithms that most efficiently and accurately solve systems of 1000, 10,000, or even one million equations. The choice of algorithms depends on the special properties the matrices in practice have. An important class of large systems arises from the discretisation of partial differential equations. In this case, the matrices are sparse (i. e. , they contain mostly zeros) and well-suited to iterative algorithms. Because of the background in partial differential equa tions, this book is closely connected with the author's Theory and Numerical Treatment of Elliptic Differential Equations, whose English translation has also been published by Springer-Verlag. This book grew out of a series of lectures given by the author at the Christian-Albrecht University of Kiel to students of mathematics.
In the second edition of this classic monograph, complete with four new chapters and updated references, readers will now have access to content describing and analysing classical and modern methods with emphasis on the algebraic structure of linear iteration, which is usually ignored in other literature. The necessary amount of work increases dramatically with the size of systems, so one has to search for algorithms that most efficiently and accurately solve systems of, e.g., several million equations. The choice of algorithms depends on the special properties the matrices in practice have. An important class of large systems arises from the discretization of partial differential equations. In this case, the matrices are sparse (i.e., they contain mostly zeroes) and well-suited to iterative algorithms. The first edition of this book grew out of a series of lectures given by the author at the Christian-Albrecht University of Kiel to students of mathematics. The second edition includes quite novel approaches.
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This time we went to the Annual Awards of International Cat Care.
The charity presented Easy to Give Awards, Cat Friendly Awards, Distance Education Awards, plus awards for the winners of 'The Beauty of Cats' Photography Competition.
Launched at the event was the charity's 2016 calendar, featuring the 12 stunning winners from the photography competition. Framed prints of the winning pictures were also on display and were sold in a silent auction which raised over £2,400 for the charity.
We really loved all of the winning calendar entries and it must have been very difficult to choose these! At the event we were able to place silent bids on large printed versions of these photos with proceeds helping the work of the charity.
Of course loads of awards were being handed out at the event and we were especially pleased to see that the SureFlap automatic microchip feeder that we previously reviewed won one of them!
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Important event, important organisation, important information to help and safe cats!
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Source: San Francisco Examiner (CA)
Copyright: 2002 San Francisco Examiner
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Author: Walter Berry, Associated Press
TRACKING NUKE WEAPONS
PHOENIX -- For three decades, the Shadow Wolves have helped stem the flow
of illegal drugs across the desert linking Mexico and the Tohono O'odham
Nation's sprawling reservation in southern Arizona.
Now the U.S. Customs Service's only American Indian tracking unit is taking
its skills to Europe in an attempt to curb the smuggling of nuclear,
chemical and biological weapons.
Three of the 21-member group are spending most of this month in Latvia,
Lithuania and Estonia. Others have already traveled to Kazakstan and
Uzbekistan to train customs officials, border guards and national police to
detect and follow the ground tracks of anyone suspected of carrying
components of mass-destruction weapons.
The goal is to improve those countries' tracking techniques so they can
better train their own people.
"Our environment is getting more and more dangerous every day. A lot of law
enforcement agencies are looking to beef up at their borders and the Shadow
Wolves can provide some of that training," said Kyle Barnett, associate
special agent in charge for Customs' Arizona district.
The overseas trips are being conducted under the auspices of the Export
Control and Border Security program, a joint effort of the State
Department, Customs Service and other agencies to assist more than two
dozen nations, most of them in the former Soviet bloc.
Customs officials said the one-week training sessions consist of classroom
lectures on tracking techniques and outdoor simulations.
"They basically teach them how to pick up foot signs," Barnett said. "The
terrain in the Baltics is very similar to the Arizona desert. There's a lot
of rocky terrain, so our trackers adapt well."
Only a few members of the Shadow Wolves make the overseas trip at one time
so it does not interfere with their Arizona jobs.
It was only after a few original members retired in recent years that the
Shadow Wolves' membership was opened up to other tribes and women.
"We're in the process now of asking (the federal government) to increase
the group's number by an additional 10 trackers plus one supervisor,"
Barnett said. "There's enough work out there where we could quadruple their
size and still keep them all busy."
The group comprises 19 men and two women, all Indians from nearly a dozen
different tribes around the country.
It began in 1972 with around 12 men from the Tohono O'odham Nation under a
program created by Congress to foster better relations with the tribe and
help it patrol its reservation, which shares 76 miles of border with Mexico.
"They have been a great asset," said Joseph Delgado, assistant tribal
police chief. "They've helped us numerous times in everything from tracking
down suspects in stolen vehicles to finding missing children. They assist
us a lot."
Headquartered in Sells, Ariz., the Shadow Wolves' size has steadily
increased over the years. But its main mission has remained constant: to
track down and stop smugglers hauling marijuana, cocaine or heroin on foot
or horseback across the Mexican border.
Customs officials say the armed Indian trackers seize more than 70 percent
of the drugs the agency finds on the 3 million-acre Tohono O'odham
reservation west of Tucson.
Instead of relying on new high-tech equipment, the Shadow Wolves track the
old-fashioned way -- by looking for footprints, broken branches, disturbed
rocks or fibers left behind by a burlap bag. And they do it at all hours of
the day or night.
"It's their heritage. Those tracking skills have been passed on from
generation to generation," Barnett said. "They're a tremendous group of
folks and they work harder than anyone I know. They have success, and
success breeds success."
So far in the fiscal year that began last Oct. 1, the Shadow Wolves have
arrested 400 smugglers and seized 96,000 pounds of marijuana, said John
Martelli, one of the group's supervisors.
"Marijuana is the drug of choice coming out of the Sells area," Barnett
said. "But these people are successful at whatever they trail. They're the
best I've ever seen."
On the Net:
Customs Service: http://www.customs.ustreas.gov/
Tohono O'odham information: http://www.itcaonline.com/Tribes%5Ctohono.htm
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Roberto Pisano obtained a law degree, summa cum laude, from the State University of Milan in 1992, and a Ph.D. from the University of Genoa in 1999. Between 1993 and 1997, he was a research associate at Bocconi University of Milan where, since then, he has worked for many years as a contract professor on business and tax crimes. Mr. Pisano was co-chair of the business crime committee of the IBA in 2007 and 2008, and vice-chair of the ECBA in 2008 and 2009. He is the author of several publications on the subject of business crime and mutual legal assistance, including: Tax Crimes (Cedam, 2002, co-author); Criminal Responsibility from Asbestos (Giuffré, 2003, contributor); The Relations Between Domestic Law, Treaty Law and EC Law (Egea, 1995); 'EU arrest warrant in action' (in European Lawyer, 2005, co-author); and The Illegal Performance of Financial Intermediation (Cedam, 2007).
In the course of his practice, Mr. Pisano has successfully represented prominent individuals and entities in high-profile Italian criminal proceedings, including: various cases of corruption involving international corporations and their top officials (including multiple investigations in the US, UK, France, etc.); various cases of extradition, including the recent FIFA investigation by the US authorities and representation of foreign States; three cases of alleged international tax fraud involving the former Italian Prime Minister; a case involving a major US bank in the bankruptcy of the Parmalat group; a case involving a claim by the Italian Ministry of Culture for restitution of antiquities against a US museum; a case alleging the multiple homicide of employees of a multinational company manufacturing hazardous products; various appeals in foreign jurisdictions (e.g. the US, Hong Kong, Switzerland, Monaco, etc.) against search and seizure and freezing of assets; and internal investigations for foreign multinationals and Italian corporations. Mr. Pisano also advises and represents relevant foreign governments, on issues of international criminal law and in the frame of extradition proceedings.
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One Jewish Family's Harrowing Escape From Hurricane Harvey
A boat passes through a flooded street during the aftermath of Hurricane Harvey in Houston, Texas. Image by Getty Images
By Aiden Pink August 29, 2017
A Jewish family in the Meyerland neighborhood of Houston was only able to escape from the flooding caused by Hurricane Harvey after the water outside their home was already above their heads.
Ramit Plushnick-Masti shared her story with the Associated Press. She recounted how the water continued to rise from just six inches to reach their ankles, knees and eventually waists.
"My two older boys went to lie down: one on the dining room table and the other on his now-floating bed," she wrote. "The higher the water got, the more polluted the water looked. There were huge cockroaches crawling from the muck. At 11:30 a.m. there was a loud splash. The TV in the living room had tumbled into the water. The fire department had answered our call but could not say when they would arrive. My boys were getting nervous."
Some family made their way to the roof to try to flag down boats, while Plushnick-Masti posted for help on Facebook.
Eventually, a boat arrived that ferried them and others, including "two elderly people, a 6-month old baby and two dogs," to safety in a local church.
"They had no power. There were at least 100 people there and no cots," Plushnick-Masti wrote. "But it was dry, and we made it our home for the night."
Contact Aiden Pink at [email protected] or on Twitter, @aidenpink.
Aiden Pink is the Deputy News Editor for the Forward. Contact him at [email protected] or on Twitter, @aidenpink.
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