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Mr E Man Neo Noir Reviews Bruce Willis, film noir, John Travolta, neo noir, Pulp Fiction, Quentin Tarantino, Samuel L. Jackson, Uma Thurman
Pulp Fiction/1994/Miramax Films/154 min.
My upcoming trip to Paris (I leave tomorrow) triggered the memory of that great scene in "Pulp Fiction" where two hit men chat about a quarter-pounder with cheese (Royale with cheese) in Paris so I decided to run this review in honor of my trip. For the next two weeks, my posts will slow down a bit as I spend time with a lovely friend and soak in the atmosphere of this ravishingly beautiful city.
Quentin Tarantino at the Cannes film fest in 2008.
Several years ago, at the Cannes Film Fest, I saw Quentin Tarantino rushing down the Croisette but I froze and didn't approach him to say how much I liked his work. (He was helming the jury that year.) As I stood there, regretting that I'd missed the chance, two English guys walked up and asked me if I was lost. I filled them in; they said I was quite right to have refrained.
But then two Italian men joined us and told me I was crazy not to have said hello. "Maybe he'll show up at the Ritz," one of them said, gesturing toward the hotel. "Why don't we have a glass of champagne there and see if perhaps he arrives?"
As tempting as that sounded, I'd already agreed to meet people at the cheap and cheerful Le Petite Carlton, where the casual, sometimes-raucous crowd spreads out into the street, people bum Marlboros and Gitanes, beer is served in tacky plastic cups and a little kitchen churns out thin-crust pizza well into the early morning hours. Another missed opportunity! 😉
So if by some odd chance, on this trip, I happen to see Tarantino on the Champs Elysee or some charming Italian men invite me to cocktails at the Ritz, I'll know what to do!
John Travolta and Samuel L. Jackson in "Pulp Fiction."
"Pulp Fiction" is a neo noir of audacious originality, comic brilliance and exquisite craftsmanship. It was one of the most important films of the 1990s. Like his previous film, 1992's "Reservoir Dogs," it's a crime movie that deals with bad guys doing bad stuff – in "Dogs" it's a robbery gone wrong. In "Pulp Fiction" we're immersed in three separate but interwoven stories about two chatty hit men, a corrupt boxer who defies a mob boss, and a grunge version of Bonnie and Clyde.
Tarantino tells us the stories out of order, bookended by the scruffy lover bandits (Tim Roth as Pumpkin and Amanda Plummer as Honey Bunny) who hold up an LA coffee shop. Bruce Willis plays Butch the boxer who pulls a double-cross. John Travolta made a stunning comeback as sexy smart-ass Vincent Vega and Samuel L. Jackson dazzles as Jules Winnfield, an armchair philosopher packing heat.
As Vincent and Jules discuss fast food, foot massages and Fate, Vincent is assigned an extra job from brawny bossman Marsellus Wallace (Ving Rhames): to take Mrs. Wallace (Uma Thurman) aka Mia out on the town. A headturner with jet-black hair, Louise Brooks bangs, wide blue eyes and long legs, Mia gets what Mia wants. Topping the list are milkshakes, drugs and dancing. Make that dancing with Travolta, mmm.
There is much to love about this film, particularly the highly original characters and crackling dialogue, which includes one-liners, retro slang, debates over points of logic and lengthy tangents of trivia. The dialogue seems to emerge organically from the characters and random chitchat punctuates major dramatic moments.
Actors talk with their back to the camera and sometimes put the imminent action on hold so they can wind up their conversation. Even though Pumpkin and Honey Bunny probably get the least amount of screen time, through their dialogue, we see several layers of their partnership, both tough and tender. More
Brian De Palma's 'Blow Out' sometimes makes us roll our eyes and sometimes holds us spellbound
Mr E Man Neo Noir Reviews Blow Out, Brian De Palma, Dario Argento, David Lynch, David Mamet, David Rabe, Dennis Franz, Garrett Brown, John Hoffmeister, John Lithgow, John Travolta, Louis Goldman, Mario Bava, Marlon Brando, Michael Sragow, Michelangelo Antonioni, Nancy Allen, neo noir, Noah Baumbach, Oliver Stone, Paul Newman, Pauline Kael, Warren Beatty
Having received good feedback from the winner of April's giveaway – the prize was Criterion's rerelease of "Blow Out" – I realized it was high time to run the review. 😉
Brian De Palma/1981/ Filmways Pictures/107 min.
By Michael Wilmington
"Blow Out," Brian De Palma's 1981 neo noir about a movie sound man (played by John Travolta), who stumbles into a political conspiracy and a string of murders, is a movie for connoisseurs of trash and movie art. One of this movie's strongest critical admirers (and one of De Palma's) was Pauline Kael, and one of Kael's most famous critical essays is called "Trash, Art and the Movies." We get all three of them here, in a film that sometimes makes us roll our eyes and sometimes holds us spellbound.
"Blow Out" probably took its title partly from Michelangelo Antonioni's "Blowup," which is about a swinging '60s London photographer who stumbles on what may be murder. And it centers around one of Travolta's sexiest performances, as Jack Terry the lone-wolf Philadelphia sound-effects man, who is working on a sleazy slasher horror movie.
The director is dissatisfied with the scream Jack has supplied for one of the victims. The movie within the movie is a terrible, inept picture, which De Palma stages as a send-up of "Halloween" and other teen slasher pics. But Jack is a pro. He takes his equipment out that night to get more ambient night-sound on a suburban bridge.
Nancy Allen
That bridge is an unusually well-populated one, considering the lateness of the hour. There are crickets and an owl, who stares at us disturbingly, and there's another filmmaker named Manny Karp (Dennis Franz), who's got his camera set up somewhere near Jack (but whom Jack doesn't know and doesn't see), and finally there's a speeding car, carrying, amazingly, the current front-running candidate for president of the United States, Governor McRyan, (John Hoffmeister) together with a hot blonde named Sally (Nancy Allen).
Jack hears a couple of bangs (and catches them on his recorder) and the governor's car plunges through a fence and into the river where it quickly sinks. Jack dives in and is able to rescue Sally, but not the possible next president.
Soon we're at the hospital, where Sally is groggily coming to. The police, reporters and some political people, visions of Chappaquiddick perhaps dancing in their heads, seem to want Jack and Nancy to just clam up and go away. He won't. She wants to, at first, but decides she likes Jack.
Then Manny and his Zapruderish film turns up, and ex-Philadelphian De Palma turns the city into a house of horrors more violent than anything in ex-Philadephian David Lynch's neighborhood, craning and swooping and whirling his camera all around a world gone seemingly mad. There's a deadly plot of some kind afoot, and its bloodiest agent is a phony telephone company worker named Burke (played with a truly evil stare and icily smug expression by John Lithgow), a cold-blooded killer who seems willing to depopulate half the town to keep all the guilty secrets safe.
If that sounds like a pretty absurd plot, it often plays pretty silly too, though just as often it's imaginatively over-the-top and hellishly exciting. I've always thought De Palma should avoid solo-writing jobs on his own movie scripts. And "Blow Out" as well as "Raising Cain" and "Femme Fatale" (and 1968's "Murder a la Mod," which is included in this Criterion package) are good demonstrations why. "Blow Out" is never boring. But a lot of the time it doesn't make any bloody sense.
So why did Kael call it a great movie? Mostly, maybe, because she very much liked De Palma's work, because this movie is made with such great feverish style, and also maybe because she had a crush of sorts on Travolta, as she had on Marlon Brando, Paul Newman and Warren Beatty.
The style is what we remember about "Blow Out" – not the ideas, which are mostly shallow or obvious, or the story, which is both predictable and illogical, or the characters who are mostly overdrawn and somewhat stereotypical (or archetypal, if you prefer), or the movie itself, which is basically a set of ingeniously orchestrated suspense set-pieces, strung together in clever, artful ways that defy plausibility with an almost cheerful impudence.More
Quick hit: 'The Man Who Wasn't There'
Mr E Man Neo Noir Reviews Billy Bob Thornton, Ethan Coen, Frances McDormand, James Gandolfini, Joel Coen, neo noir, Roger Deakins, The Man Who Wasn't There
he Man Who Wasn't There/2001/Good Machine, et al/116 min.
Starring: Billy Bob Thornton, Frances McDormand and James Gandolfini, and a peerless supporting cast.
Free stuff from FNB: Win 'The Film That Changed My Life'
Mr E Man Noir Stuff, Noir Style Atom Egoyan, Blow Out, Brian DePalma, Danny Boyle, Guy Maddin, Henry Jaglom, It Was Over When: Tales of Romantic Dead Ends, John Dahl, John Landis, John Travolta, John Waters, John Woo, Neil LaBute, neo noir, Peter Bogdanovich, Richard Linklater, Rob Elder, Robert K. Elder, Sharrie Williams, The Film That Changed My Life, The Maybelline Story
Winners of the April giveaway have been selected and contacted. One will receive "Blow Out," Brian DePalma's 1981 neo-noir thriller starring John Travolta. The movie was recently rereleased by Criterion. The other winner will receive a copy of "The Maybelline Story and the Spirited Family Dynasty Behind It," a book by Sharrie Williams.
For the May giveaway, I am giving away a copy of my friend and former colleague Robert K. Elder's book: "The Film That Changed My Life: 30 Directors on Their Epiphanies in the Dark." Directors include: Danny Boyle, Peter Bogdanovich, John Dahl, Henry Jaglom, Guy Maddin, Atom Egoyan, Richard Linklater, John Woo, John Landis, Neil LaBute and John Waters.
(Meanwhile, Rob has a new book out called, "It Was Over When: Tales of Romantic Dead Ends," based on stories compiled via his web site of the same name.)
To enter the May giveaway, just leave a comment on any FNB post through May 31. The winner will be randomly selected at the end of the month and announced in early June. Include your email address in your comment so that I can notify you if you win. Your email will not be shared.
'Taxi Driver,' the ultimate big-city bad dream, screens Sunday at TCM Classic Film Festival
Mr E Man Neo Noir Reviews Albert Brooks, Alfred Hitchcock, Bernard Herrmann, Cybill Shepherd, Harvey Keitel, Jodie Foster, John Ford, John Schlesinger, Martin Scorsese, Midnight Cowboy, neo noir, Paul Schrader, Ruth Morley, Stanley Kubrick, Taxi Driver, TCM Classic Film Festival, The French Connection, The Killing, The Searchers, William Friedkin
Taxi Driver/1976/Columbia Pictures/113 min.
One of the many highlights of the TCM Classic Film Festival is Sunday's showing of "Taxi Driver" by Martin Scorsese, which this year turns 35. One of the most sordid urban nightmares ever, "Taxi Driver" stands as the ultimate big-city bad dream.
And where else could it be set but New York City? In the mid-1970s, the mighty metropolis seemed to be falling apart: the economy had stalled, people were deserting the troubled island in droves, and crime was rampant. (Other cinematic portraits of the dismal period are "The French Connection" 1971 by William Friedkin and John Schlesinger's "Midnight Cowboy" 1969.)
Jodie Foster in "Taxi Driver"
In the middle of this urban mess is anti-hero Travis Bickle (Robert DeNiro) – a Vietnam vet and taxi driver, whose desperate loneliness and disgust with NYC's squalor and decay slowly pushes him over the edge of sanity. Long hours of driving jerks and freaks around isn't good for anyone's mental health, let alone an introverted downer like Travis.
Early on, there seems to be a shimmer of hope when Travis encounters a woman named Betsy (Cybill Shepherd), lovely and stylish, ambitious and free-spirited (kudos to costume designer Ruth Morley). Betsy is a campaign worker for Senator Charles Palantine (Leonard Harris), who is making a bid for the presidential nomination. Rather surprisingly, Betsy agrees to meet Travis for coffee. Rather astonishingly, Betsy agrees to go on a date with him, which thoroughly annoys her co-worker Tom (Albert Brooks).
Instead of candlelight and roses, or even strip lighting and sandwiches, Travis takes Betsy to a porn movie. She storms out, quashing any hope of romance, though Travis keeps angling for another chance by sending her flowers and showing up at Palantine's campaign HQ.
After that, Travis tries to keep busy – you know, the usual breakup stuff – writing in his journal, shaving his head, talking to himself in the mirror, buying guns and pointing them at Palatine. When Travis spies a child prostitute as she walks the streets (Jodie Foster), he makes it his mission to rescue her from the degradation of working for sicko pimp 'Sport' Harvey Keitel. His quest, fueled by his worsening mental illness, culminates in out-of-control violence.
Once you see "Taxi Driver," you'll never forget it. Coming on the heels of Vietnam and Watergate, the film tapped the overall dark mood of the nation and did well at the box-office. Additionally, it catapulted Scorsese and writer Paul Schrader into the big league, making its mark with the Hollywood tastemakers and earning four Oscar noms: best picture (it lost to "Rocky"); best actor (De Niro); best supporting actress (Foster); best original score (Herrmann). It also won the Palme d'Or at Cannes.
Though he didn't win the Oscar, DeNiro turned in one of the best and most iconic performances of his career, spanning the emotional gamut from hardened cynicism to earnest and utter sadness. The most moving scene for me is when he sends a corny anniversary card to his parents and jots down some details of a life he pretends to live. Foster's performance is raw and gutsy. Keitel's brief but searing scenes are repulsive, disturbing, stomach churning; even for crime-movie aficionados, they are hard to watch.
Scorsese's virtuoso filmmaking taps the sensibilities of the finest American and European filmmakers. He draws thematic inspiration from classic Western director John Ford (specifically 1956's "The Searchers") and from his beloved '30s and '40s crime movies as well as the visual aesthetic of French New Wave auteurs. More
Quick hit: 'Taxi Driver'
Mr E Man Neo Noir Reviews Albert Brooks, Cybill Shepherd, Harvey Keitel, Jodie Foster, Martin Scorsese, neo noir, Robert DeNiro, Taxi Driver
Taxi Driver/1976/Columbia Pictures/ 113 min.
In this Martin Scorsese neo-noir, Robert DeNiro won an Oscar nomination for his portrayal of angry loner Travis Bickle, who's on the brink of insanity in sad and seedy '70s New York. Says Travis: "Someday a real rain will come and wash this scum off the streets." While waiting for the rain, he makes it his mission to save a child prostitute. Co-star Jodie Foster, then 12, earned an Oscar nom of her own. Harvey Keitel, Cybill Shepherd and Albert Brooks round out the cast.
'Long Falling' a strangely intense neo noir with superb acting
Mr E Man Neo Noir Reviews Agnes Godard, Hugues Tabar-Nouval, Keith Ridgway, Martin Provost, neo noir, Pierre Moure, Yolande Moreau
Friday night was the noir series at the 15th annual City of Lights, City of Angels (COL•COA) film festival in Los Angeles. My favorite: director Martin Provost's "The Long Falling," based on a Keith Ridgway novel, which follows a guilty woman in her fleeting days of freedom.
Actress Yolande Moreau had her work cut out for her in playing the woman, Rose, who has murdered her alcoholic and abusive husband of 30 years. That's because what's left of Rose is just a shell of a person.
"The Long Falling" poster
Nonetheless, Moreau deftly inhabits Rose. Her worn-down, resigned expression when she runs him over with her car is not much different than when she takes her nightly bath, immersing her perpetually bruised skin in the hot water and glancing warily over her shoulder, listening for his footsteps.
It is Moreau's authenticity as an actress and Provost's skillful direction that make this movie so compelling. The somber story starts with a mighty jolt, then takes its time unfolding. Agnes Godard's atmospheric cinematography and Hugues Tabar-Nouval's original score also draw you into this strangely intense neo noir.
After Rose commits the crime, she leaves her isolated farm town, telling no one, and heads to Brussels to be with her son (Pierre Moure). But their relationship is strained — he has also been abused by the same monstrous man and feels an undercurrent of resentment toward his mother for her inability to protect him as a child. Meanwhile, the police are investigating and there's little chance that they won't apprehend her.
Eventually, she leaves her son's place, rents a room and then attempts to flee the country with the help of a woman who is essentially a stranger (a bit too wildly implausible). Once more, Rose does not or cannot challenge her fate.
We have sympathy and feel sadness for Rose, yet Provost (who also directed Moreau in 2008's "Séraphine," a winner of many prestigious awards) does not whitewash the moral choices Rose has made in her life. The film also reminds us that we never exist alone in the world, no matter how desperate or dire our circumstances.
"The Long Falling" image from uniFrance
A literate, exciting action movie that's drop-dead gorgeous
Mr E Man Neo Noir Reviews Alfred Hitchcock, Alwin Kuchler, Atonement, Cate Blanchett, David Farr, Dr. Strangelove, Eric Bana, Ian McEwan, Jane Austen, Jason Flemyng, Jessica Barden, Joe Wright, Keira Knightley, Ken Adam, neo noir, Olivia Williams, Pride and Prejudice, Saoirse Ronan, Sarah Greenwood, Seth Lochhead, Tom Hollander
Hanna/2011/Focus Features/111 min.
"Hanna" is "Kick-Ass" and "The Bourne Identity" filtered through "Pride and Prejudice" and "Atonement." And I don't mean that as a knock.
Director Joe Wright, who made the 2005 Keira Knightley version of Jane Austen's best-loved novel and the lauded film of Ian McEwan's grim tale "Atonement," is a director with a style both flashy and sumptuous.
And in "Hanna," he's demonstrating something we might not have expected from him: burn-down-the-house action-movie skills. The movie — starring Saoirse Ronan (the jealous little girl from "Atonement") as the kick-ass title heroine Hanna, Eric Bana as her action-mentor dad Erik, and Cate Blanchett as Marissa, the vicious C.I.A. agent villainess — is such a departure from what Wright has done before that it's hard not to be impressed.
Wright starts the film with a snowy deer hunt and kill in the wilds of Finland, where the gifted 16-year-old Hanna, trained in all manner of martial arts and assassin skills, brings down a stag and muses philosophically. The story moves with dizzying speed to the Moroccan desert, Hamburg and Berlin, escalating into spectacular brawls, subway battles and bloody showdowns.
It's quite a ride. The whole movie is a long three-sided chase: Hanna is captured early on by Marissa when Erik leaves her on her own, after arranging to rendezvous with her later in Berlin. Then Hanna escapes and Marissa pursues both her and Erik. The fights are all set-pieces and Wright shoots one of them in a virtuosic unbroken Steadicam take, which reminds you of the spectacular tracking shot on Dunkirk Beach in "Atonement."
The three lead actors — along with Tom Hollander as the perverse villain Isaacs, Olivia Williams, Jason Flemyng and Jessica Barden as the British family Hanna meets in the desert — have the kind of acting chops you don't usually see in movies like this, and they display them as much as Seth Lochhead and David Farr's script lets them.
All the characters, in fact, have more fullness and surprises than the action-movie norm. They're reminiscent at times of the psychologically detailed or richly eccentric characters in an old-style British thriller by Alfred Hitchcock.
We haven't had many really literate thrillers lately (The "Bourne" movies excepted), and it's a pleasure to see one here, to see filmmakers who are trying to please us on a multitude of levels and not just trying to blow us out of our seats.
The results are drop-dead gorgeous and exciting, but not completely satisfying. What we'd expect from Wright — memorable characters and high-style high drama — are here, but not emphasized as much as the story sometimes needs in order to make total sense.
The action scenes are scorchers, and they're shot beautifully by cinematographer Alwin Kuchler on stunning sites and sets by designer Sarah Greenwood. (Her interrogation chamber below the Moroccan desert is an homage to Ken Adam's great War Room set in "Dr. Strangelove.") But I thought they became a little too set-piecey at times, took over the show a little too much.
Ronan has a talent for bewitching the camera and for suggesting levels of thought, memory and passion beneath the surface. Ronan is kind of strong and silent here, which deepens the film's mysteries, including any nagging questions we might have about the relationship among Hanna, Marissa and Erik. More
Free stuff from FNB: Win 'Blow Out' or 'The Maybelline Story'
Mr E Man Noir Stuff, Noir Style Bettie Youngs, Blow Out, Brian DePalma, John Lithgow, John Travolta, Nancy Allen, neo noir, Sharrie Williams, The Maybelline Story, Tom Lyle Williams
Gerald C. has won March's giveaway and will receive a copy of "Sweet Smell of Success," recently rereleased by Criterion. For the April giveaway, I have two nice prizes and will pick two winners.
John Travolta in "Blow Out"
First, the lovely people at Criterion will provide a copy of Brian DePalma's 1981 neo-noir thriller, "Blow Out," starring John Travolta, Nancy Allen and John Lithgow. Extras include new interviews with DePalma and Allen.
Second, eyeing up a family drama: In 1915, when Tom Lyle Williams watched his sister Mabel fix her fire-singed lashes and brows with petroleum jelly, coal dust and ash, little did he know he was making a date with destiny. Read about the building of an iconic brand in "The Maybelline Story and the Spirited Family Dynasty Behind It," a book by Sharrie Williams with Bettie Youngs.
To enter, just leave a comment on any FNB post from April 1-30. The winners will be randomly selected at the end of the month and announced in early May. Include your email address in your comment so that I can notify you if you win. Your email will not be shared.
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06:00 Rude(ish) Tube Shorts Cheeky original clips featuring ducks going up an escalator, animal impressions, a few narrow escapes on a snowboard and rally driving. Plus some interesting food clips.
06:20 Rules of Engagement Family Style Russell starts dating a psychiatrist and Jeff gets annoyed when his dinner companion helps himself to a taste of his meal without asking first.
06:40 Rules of Engagement May Divorce Be with You Audrey and Jeff let their friend Steve stay with them after hearing about his marital problems, but they come to regret the decision.
07:05 Rules of Engagement House Money Audrey convinces Jeff that they should do something fun with the money he made from selling his car, but her idea soon leads to trouble.
07:35 Rules of Engagement Flirting Jeff takes Russell's advice and flirts with a female colleague but is horrified to discover she is keen on having an affair with him. Russell sends Timmy to find his lost phone.
08:00 A Monster in Paris Film (2012) Family animation. An experiment accidentally creates a man-sized flea. But while the rest of Paris hunts the 'monster', a singer discovers the gentle creature has a talent for music.
09:45 Ice Age: The Great Egg-Scapade Manny, Diego and the gang from the animated Ice Age films return for a holiday adventure in which harried mother Ethel entrusts her precious, soon-to-hatch egg to Sid's egg-sitting service.
10:05 Come Dine with Me - Made in... ...Chelsea Special: Four stars of Made in Chelsea - Mark-Francis Vandelli, Spencer Matthews, Binky Felstead and Caggie Dunlop - battle for a £1000 charity prize in the dinner party contest.
04:45 Rules of Engagement Snoozin' for a Bruisin': When Jeff and Audrey switch sides of the bed, Jeff accidentally rolls over and knocks Audrey in the face, landing her in hospital.
05:05 Rules of Engagement Atlantic City Audrey tries to make Jeff feel guilty for not telling her that his friend's stag party in Atlantic City was cancelled at the last moment.
05:30 Rules of Engagement Ghost Story Audrey is upset when Jeff says that he doesn't believe she saw her dead grandmother's ghost. Russell tries to persuade Timmy not to go through with his marriage.
06:00 Hollyoaks Omnibus Before Juliet can tell Darren how she truly feels about him, his girlfriend Mandy goes into labour. Sylver tries to distract Prince from his heartbreak, while Darren orders a DNA kit.


Among the most modern, the first built, among those become the symbol and the most elegant are five most beautiful bridges of Rome that tell the stories of the different periods of the city.
It is the bridge of Rome became a symbol for all lovers of Rome and Italy, and was built to keep Via Flaminia. Called by the Romans "Ponte Mollo", because during the floods of the Tiber was the first to be submerged by the waters, was originally built in wood in 110 BC, and in 1805 Valadier took care of its restoration, building two arches at the end of the bridge . Ponte Milvio is remembered mainly the battleground between Constantine and Maxentius, an ancient legend has it that Constantine had a vision of the Cross led him to embark on this historic battle.
Is one of the most beautiful spots in Rome, built in 134 by Hadrian to access his Mausoleum: Castel Sant'Angelo. Used in the past to expose the bodies of executed prisoners, in 1535 Pope Clement VII he carved statues of St. Peter and Paul to be placed at the beginning of the bridge, after a short time were included the statues of the four evangelists and patriarchs.
It was not until 1669 to see the result of the work of Bernini, who thought to sculpt statues of angels and who elected the most beautiful bridge in Rome.
Is one of the last bridges of Rome, built during the fascist period and thought by Brasini, the sculptor thought initially triumphal arches, but Mussolini who served as supervisor modified the initial project. The bridge Flaminio is distributed on 5 arches occupying a length of nearly 260 meters, made of concrete with a coating of travertine that characterizes a snow-white color. The sidewalk that arises on both sides of the bridge has the cylindrical columns on which are placed the statues with eagles and streetlights.
It is the oldest bridge of the city and connects the Tiberina's island in Trastevere and is characterized by many incisions on his path. The flooring of the bridge is of travertine, while the tuff and bricks are the materials chosen for the foundations of the bridge.
The bridge is called the Bridge of 4 leaders to remember an old story diatribes born during the restoration work of the architects who participated and who were beheaded by order of the Pope. To commemorate this episode it was built a monument don four heads and a single body embedded in a block of marble.
To cross the bridge of music you have to arrive in the heart of Flaminio and is different from all the other bridges in Rome because of its shape and the materials used: reinforced concrete and steel. Opened only in 2011, after two years, he was dedicated to the maestro Armando Trovajoli, pianist and conductor symbol of Italian music. After a competition at the international level the bridge project was entrusted to a firm of architects in London that he thought with a bridge exclusively for pedestrians and cyclists and only after a few years he was granted access to the bridge also to put public transport.


6 PAX came out on an early cloudy morning for a Tabata beatdown.
We started with some solo stretches while I explained the beatdown. I barrowed this beatdown from Jitter is Aiken, SC. Thanks for the great beatdown girl!
Tabata Circuits: 20sec exercise 10sec rest with a minute rest after each circuit.
We finished up with COT, parayer, and name-o-rama.


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GHF welcomes new Story Collection Coordinator
GHF is excited to welcome Lois Hairston as the organization's new Story Collection Coordinator. In this role, Lois will work to collect, develop, and share the stories of Georgia individuals and families as part of GHF's Close the Gap initiative.
Lois is a graduate of Old Dominion in Virginia, where this past year, she served as the Communication and Membership Chair for the University's Black Alumni Chapter. Her professional background includes experience with marketing agencies in Virginia and the District of Columbia, where she managed direct marketing campaigns for clients such as the Democratic Governors Association and the HealthWell Foundation. Recently, in her role as Communications Manager for Youth Entrepreneurs, Lois managed the creation of branded content and acted as the public relations liaison for the national nonprofit.
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GHF welcomes new staff member
GHF is pleased to welcome Jamila Young to our staff. Jamila will serve as GHF's Outreach and Communications Coordinator. In her role she is responsible for crafting GHF's external communications, creating public education materials, and building and strengthening GHF's connections to consumers and community groups across Georgia.
Jamila comes to GHF after practicing law at the Wright Legal Group in Columbus, GA and working as an enrollment assisster during the inaugural open enrollment periods of the Affordable Care Act . She has also worked as a diversity fellow for the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services. Jamila is a native of Albany, Georgia. She has a B.A. in English from Kennesaw State University, a J.D. from Florida Agricultural and Mechanical University, a licensed attorney and currently working on her LLM in Health Law and Policy at Hofstra University. She is also a proud mother to her only child, Tre.
Please welcome Jamila!
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Ice Cream Girls by Dorothy Koomson – A brilliant contemporary read which has been adapted for television as a 3 part drama… The story follows two teenage girls who are accused of murdering their schoolteacher in the summer of 1995. For the next seventeen years the two girls go their separate ways when Poppy is charged with the murder. Then in 2013 they are forced to meet again and share their secret past.
Starts tonight at 9.00pm on ITV. – Watch the programme and then read the book from Leeds Libraries. We have her other titles in stock too.


The Kings announced a new partnership with Build. Black. Coalition and Black Lives Matter Sacramento in the wake of the Stephon Clark protests.
The partnership aligns with what Kings owner Vivek Ranadive outlined in an impromptu, heartfelt speech last Thursday after a Kings game was interrupted by protesters in the wake of the shooting death of Stephon Clark. Demonstrators delayed the start of a second game Tuesday night.
The Kings are also creating an education fund for Clark's two kids.
The Build. Black. Initiative consists of a group of activists fighting for social and racial justice.
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"TO A MAN LIKE TUCKER, THERE'S NOTHING WRONG WITH TEARING DOWN A BUILDING OF HISTORICAL IMPORTANCE OR A BEAUTIFUL PIECE OF ARCHITECTURE BUILT HUNDREDS OF YEARS AGO IN ORDER TO ERECT A STRIP MALL, AND A MCDONALD'S, SO LONG AS IT'S DONE WITH IN THE PARAMETERS OF THE FREE MARKET..."
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ON ALT-RIGHT IDEOLOGY: A RESPONSE TO JEFFREY TUCKER
PUBLISHED: 21st August, 2018 | By Richard Heathen
Jeffrey Tucker, establishment libertarian writer and political gadfly recently penned a piece about the ideology of the Alt-Right. Tucker's diagnosis is that the ideas of the dissident right are rightwing Hegelian and cites a list of prolific thinkers:
"The right Hegelian rogues gallery is huge. It involves protectionist Friedrich List, great-man theorist Thomas Carlyle, the luddite John Ruskin, the reactionary faux-aristocrat Houston Stewart Chamberlain, the race theorist Frederick Hoffman, the Darwin preservationist Madison Grant, the eugenicist Charles Davenport, the IQ theorist Henry Goddard, the communist turned Nazi philosopher Werner Sombart, the officious puritan misogynist Edward A. Ross, the brooding historicist Oswald Spengler, the anti-Semitic poet Ezra Pound, the Nazi jurist Carl Schmitt, the radio populist priest Charles Edward Coughlin, the pretend-baron and violence lover Julius Caesar Evola, the jailed whacko Francis Parker Yockey who influence postwar rightists, and so many more."
I'd be lying if I said I was familiar with the work of everyone of these writers, but Tucker does list two of my favourites, Julius Evola, and Oswald Spengler. (I co-host a podcast with Augustus Invictus named in honour of Spengler, and themed after his work titled The Spengler Chronicles) I'm also familiar with Francis Parker Yockey, who Tucker for some reason can't resist slandering. Yockey is a fascinating character who's later life and death are surrounded in mystery. Francis Parker Yockey was a lawyer on the Nuremberg trials and unceremoniously quit when he realized that Nuremberg had nothing to do with actual law, but was simply a show trial put on by the allies to justify themselves. Yockey reportedly had an abnormally high IQ of 170.
I don't speak for the entire dissident right, but I would like to respond to Tucker's comments and perhaps correct some of the distortions he makes of the far right in his piece. Tucker claims that we seek conflict not harmony:
"The social order cannot be left to the devices of Individual choice; it must acquiesce to forces of history that are more powerful than the randomness of human volition. These historical forces are the major player in revealing intractable conflict alive in the world. What is this conflict? Over many decades and centuries, the narrative would change. The struggle could be between classes, nations, languages, religions, sexes, mental abilities – really you can take your pick depending on the time and place. The agent that would harness the conflict and make it right would be the state.."
Individual should absolutely have property rights and be free from having their substance eaten away by excessive taxation, but there needs to be a greater ideal to guide the morality of a civilization than the non-aggression principle (NAP). What libertarians such as Tucker don't take in to account is that often times there are opportunity costs associated with individual action, costs which are imposed upon a third party. The effects are disastrous to the cultural commons, especially when these costs are amplified through being imposed repeatedly by millions of people. Let's focus on one example of individual action becoming all too common in the modern world; licentiousness and irresponsibly bringing children into the world, then raising them as a single parent. For the purpose of this article we'll focus specifically on single mothers. Statistically children of single mothers do worse on every measurable factor: mental health, drug use, criminal behaviour, promiscuity etc. This imposes a cost on to the rest of society. In this case, a situation has been created where, statistically, one has drastically increased the likelihood that a suboptimal child with more problems will be produced for the rest of society to deal with, and that imposes a cost on the societal commons. What for? To satisfy lust? How exactly would this hypothetical female support their offspring? Likely by voting for politicians who will give financial benefits, which undoubtedly will come at the expense of the more responsible members of society.
Now, one person's licentiousness and irresponsible breeding is hardly going to bring down civilization, but when it escalates to millions, you're a fool if you don't think that it's going to create problems on a civilizational scale, and that requires a solution, whether through state power or other means.
The point is; one can impose costs, and parasitism on others without initiating force. Not only is the NAP insufficient to be the bedrock of a moral philosophy, it's detrimental. By taking initiatory force off the table, you're removing the disincentive of many individuals and groups to not impose costs and engage in parasitism. Negative externalities exist, at times, because of individual action. Most libertarians don't see that.
The Jeffrey Tuckers of the world opine about the fact that someone might get "steamrolled by the state", but sometimes certain individuals need to be steamrolled for the sake of a healthy and functioning polity. Unfortunately, violence is the only thing that will create a better world. It's the only way to stamp out the rampant parasitism of people that hate whites. They want to disenfranchise you, your kin, subjugate your children, and ultimately erase us all from history.
We all get to make choices, but at the end of the day our choices are limited by the existing circumstances we find ourselves in, whether that's in our families, economic status, or the political circumstance of our time and place in history, and we don't have the right to demand that our nation surrender it's sovereignty, it's identity it's traditions or demographic make up so we can indulge our every urge in the name of freedom. Liberty can't exist in a vacuum, it requires the right conditions, a high trust polity with a low demand for state power. The more civil unrest (which is created through multiculturalism) the higher the demand will be for state power. When cosmopolitan libertarians call for open borders, the destruction of tradition, feminism and multiculturalism, they are actually creating a demand for state power, thus undermining the very social order they wish to create, while robbing others of the benefits of a high trust cultural commons.
Tucker seems to scoff at the reality of human struggle, but humans have found themselves foisted into conflicts that they didn't start or want any part of all throughout history. That, however, isn't their choice, their only choice is what to do in the circumstances they find themselves. The entirety of human history is one group of people invading, conquering and subjugating another group. Most of the people in these circumstances didn't have the sovereign power to make these decisions themselves, but simply had to make a choice on their course of action based on their circumstances.
Even most of those on the invading army had little choice. Sometimes, they had a choice whether to voluntarily join, sometimes not. Regardless, if they voluntarily joined the force of the invading army (a choice not given to all), it's not as if the question of each individual's involvement in the military would determine whether the military conflict would happen or not. Many libertarians, especially those who identify as 'anarchists' or 'voluntarists', would state that if everyone refused to join the armed forces then these military campaigns just wouldn't happen. I would respond with the very libertarian argument that people respond to incentives. The incentives existed for them to join, so that's what they did. What we recognize is, that while of course individuals have choice, and agency, that their course of action is restricted by their time and place in history.
Human beings have an innate will to power. We instinctively dominate our environment to make it more advantageous for us so we can both live and thrive. That domination extends to other humans. Utopians of all stripes try to create havens where we can escape this fact, but if you don't believe me, just take a look at history. Throughout all human history, human beings have organized themselves into territorial monopolies, waged wars, and governed through some form of dominance hierarchy. The sad truth of human existence is that periods of peace and prosperity are relatively short in the history of the world. World history is of violent conflict, this is not a "narrative" as Tucker suggests, and the fact is the conflicts between different groups of people battling for power shifts and changes with the times.
Tucker then goes on to explain his interpretation of what 'right Hegelians' believe.
"First, they reject social harmony in favor of the friend/enemy distinction…"
For starters, the dissident right does not "reject social harmony", what we do understand however is that not all groups and people's are interchangeable automatons to be used by the global economy. Different people's have different interests, based on their beliefs, group evolutionary strategies, and cultural heritage. Culture matters, religion matters, ethnicity matters. We take these truths in to account when we theorize on how to construct a healthy social order. Unfortunately different groups have opposing interests, which is what leads to conflict. For example, the Jews and Muslims have a mutually exclusive claim to what they consider holy lands in the Middle East. There's no win-win solution in this situation, it's a zero-sum game. The only answer would be to try and convince the Jews and Muslims to abandon their religious faiths, which would be completely ridiculous for anyone to suggest, because their respective faiths and identities give their lives meaning and orientation in the world, one which many would die to defend.
"…Which they believe brings essential drama to the course of what would otherwise be a boring life. There must be struggles. There must be battles…"
It's not that we believe, "There must be battles. There must be struggles", it's simply the fact that, objectively, there are. Men like Tucker don't seem to understand that, because they don't seem to understand anything beyond an economic view of life. It baffles them that people might be willing to fight, and do die, for something higher then that.
"There must be war and violence. To take part is what gives life meaning…"
While economic security matters, it's not enough for a happy, meaningful life. Suicide rates are higher in many affluent and industrialized countries than in some of the poorest countries. If economic prosperity were the key to a fulfilled and happy life one would think the suicide rates would be lowest in the richest most developed countries. Instead there seems to be little to no correlation between the level of economic prosperity of a nation and it's rate of suicide, and that some economically prosperous nations seem to have a relatively high suicide rate. In America, more people die from suicide than by car accident. How can this be? This suggests that there needs to be more to ones life than the mechanical pursuit of wealth. There needs to be more, a higher purpose.
This doesn't mean that one needs to fight a great war to have meaning or a higher purpose in one's life. One could be an explorer, an inventor, or even an entrepreneur. These more bourgeois vocations certainly can provide meaning in one's life, so too can meaningful work, but existential struggle is a historical constant, and sitting out as a conscientious objector, won't change that, only ensure that you'll have no say in the outcome.
Despite more and more gadgets, trinkets, and distractions, more and more people are feeling unfulfilled, craving adventure, meaning and purpose. The recent event of Richard Russell aka The Sky King, shows as much. Mr. Russel was a baggage handler who was so fed up with the monotony of his day to day job, and meaningless materialist existence that he decided to steal an empty passenger plane and fly around, living as a free man for an hour, before intentionally crashing the plane in an unpopulated area, ending his life.
There comes a time when a system becomes unjust and needs to be overthrown. I'm curious at what point Jeffrey Tucker believes force and existential struggle is justified against the system? (We'll talk more about that later).
"Third, trade protectionism is central because the things we use and the services we consume need to reinforce our attachment to nationhood. Free trade is too random to tolerate. Plus free trade lessens our attachment to the leader."
Tucker is projecting his own mindset and prejudices on to his opponents here. Defining one's identity by what they consume is something that is unique to the soulless and materialist anti-culture of modernity, and is an example of the shallow and destructive mindset to which the dissident right is opposed.
Free trade between nations is all well and good so long as it's beneficial to the habitants of both nations, and not just to globalists and other rootless cosmopolitans who have ties to neither nation. This is another example where Tucker exposes his myopic worldview. To him there's no such thing as an organic nation with a rich heritage and high trust commons. No, to the Tuckers of the world there's only atomized individuals pursuing their own rational self interests through commerce and trade, who are only held back by such anachronistic ties to concepts such as family, tribe and nation. To a man like Tucker, there's nothing wrong with tearing down a building of historical importance or a beautiful piece of architecture built hundreds of years ago in order to erect a strip mall, and a McDonald's, so long as it's done with in the parameters of the free market.
Because of this incredibly materialistic point of view, it's unsurprising that he would project such a twisted and bizarre objection to free trade on to his political opponents. The fact is people on the dissident right don't object to so called free trade because of the basis of these objections, but because of effect. It's fairly uncontroversial to say that on a whole capitalism produces the most material wealth out of all economic systems, but at what cost? If the cost of opulent wealth is the erosion of a once high trust polity, and degradation of the culture, it shouldn't be surprising that many people might come to the conclusion that the squeeze isn't worth the juice.
Nor should we just automatically embrace all instances of so called free trade on some ideological principle, a nations people need to look at each instance of trade and ask if it's in the national interest. The purpose of trade is to make the economic lives of people better, but if trade deals are imposing costs on to the members of the nation, and weakening it from within, then that can't stand.
When it comes to campaigns that encourage consumers to buy products that are made domestically, this is just an attempt to support businesses that are part of the national tribe, and thus share an alignment of interests through being part of the same nation. After all, the state of the nation has a direct effect on the quality of life of all of us. While some within the nation will undoubtedly have conflicting interests, especially in the sphere of economics, all members of a nation are tied together in some way. If a recession hits in one nation, the majority of it's inhabitants will be in some way effected. That effect multiplies exponentially in the event of a war.
"Which leads to, fourth, the leadership principle. The leader must be strong and compel assent. He is the central organizer whether in peace or war. He embodies the nation, instantiating the will of the people and their national identity. He must have a great story of overcoming every obstacle to triumph over all."
Wrong. What we do advocate however, is rule by the competent instead of mob rule and placation of stupidity by pandering to the lowest common denominator, which is the outcome of majoritarian democracy. As we discussed earlier because of the innate drive for power within human beings, there's always going to be rulers. Taking that into account, it stands to reason that the most competent should rule, instead of the whims of the mob, and if the state is going to be occupied by the most competent men, then the best among them should occupy the top position.
I suppose this is probably Tucker's idea of anti-authoritarianism. I mean all the big bad guys in history were leaders who built a cult of personality around themselves from both right to left. Jeffrey Tucker's living in the past, however. The tyrants of today aren't outspoken glorious leaders who inspire revolutionary movements. No, the tyrants of today are faceless bureaucrats, politicians, police officers, and other agents of the system. This is the modern face of tyranny, faceless agents of the Cathedral, who use quiet technological means to shut out opinions they find distasteful, by terminating accounts guilty of so called 'hate speech'. This has been going on for awhile, but has accelerated in the wake of the Unite The Right rally last August.
First it was the organizers of Unite The Right like Chris Cantwell, and Augustus Invictus, who were de-personed. Cantwell was taken off all social media including Facebook, Twitter, had his PayPal account, AirBnB, and even his Ok Cupid account removed. They then came for the edgier members of the Alt-Right. GoDaddy removed the hosting for the Daily Stormer, which went through a dozen hosting platforms and was driven to the dark web before finally finding a domain and hosting service that would allow them to remain on the normal internet. Soon after that GoDaddy shutdown the much less controversial website AltRight.com. Then the Cathedral came for Alex Jones. Shutting down his accounts on Facebook, Apple, Google, and Spotify on the same day, in a blatant display of power, that can only be interpreted as a message. None of this concerns Tucker because he's too busy kvetching about Trump being "L I T E R A L L Y H I T L E R".
I find it rich to view Tucker's pearl clutching about the scary ideology of the Alt-Right. This is the same guy who said the 'Deep state is better than the Trump state'. What evil things has Trump done? He's lowered taxes, not pursued regime change in Syria, and said mean true things about the media and other deserving targets, and worked to secure the US border. To Tucker, apparently this is much worse than peddling false intel to justify invasions overseas, assassinations, drone strikes and effectively wiretapping the entire US. Tucker says all that's worse than Trump, because feelz, or something.
"Fifth, an essential part of the right Hegelian vision is rooted in demographic panic and opposition to the randomness of human reproduction. For them, there is always some crisis going on beyond our immediate control. The white race is disappearing. Christianity is dying. English is no longer normative. Manhood is disappearing. Nothing is made in America anymore. The wrong people are getting rich. The Jews are taking over."
Notice Tucker doesn't take the time to debate any of these points. You're just automatically EVIL if you notice any of this, and happen to have a problem with it. The fact is, whites are becoming minorities in their own countries. This isn't some arcane conspiracy theory it's happening now. London is a minority majority city, meaning that less than half of the population are ethnic (white Anglo-Saxon) Britons, with Birmingham set to follow suit in 2021, and the rest of the UK soon after that!
The fact is demographic replacement isn't some natural and spontaneous development of the free market, it's a government program. Immigration policies in Western countries changed in the 1960's and 1970's (depending on the country) to start accepting and recruiting immigrants from the third world. The policy to allow millions of migrants from the poorest most destitute war torn parts of the world, countries with the lowest IQ, and with zero comprehension of Western values, a free pass to enter Europe was a government program. The Universities that indoctrinate students with the poisonous ideology of neo-Marxism are funded in part, by governments. The full court press of this ideology into the public school system is completely government funded. Yet, Tucker seems to think he's Paul Revere warning his fellow Americans that "the fascists are coming, the fascists are coming!", yeah, these same "fascists" who are universally reviled and have zero political power.
Nobody wants to be displaced in their own nations. If this state sponsored soft genocide, (it fits one of the UN definitions of genocide) was geared toward any other group in their ethnic homeland the mainstream media, and their pets - the Jeffrey Tuckers of the world - would be outraged. What is the goal of genes? To reproduce themselves. Therefore it's not surprising that genetic similarity would translate to an alignment of interests. Members of a family are genetically similar which makes sticking together with your family a good evolutionary strategy for the survival of your genes, and genes very similar. This can be expanded to geographical areas, and historically, has been how tribe has formed, people similar in proximity and genetics. This constitutes an ingrained genetic interest. People from town A are different genetically from people in town B, but are part of X province, who are more alike to each other genetically then they are to people from Y province, who all in turn share more in common genetically with each other than they do with people from nation Z.
Before the days of the automobile people didn't get around as much as they do today, and genetic markers can be used to determine where someone's ancestry is from.
Christianity IS dying, society IS becoming more feminized, and well the Jews… I'll just quote this article published shortly after Charlottesville, written by a Jewish leftist:
"What did you feel when you heard the neo-Nazis in Charlottesville, Virginia, chant, "Jews will not replace us?" Fear, of course. Bewilderment, perhaps anger. But I bet a lot of Jews felt another emotion, which they're less likely to articulate in public: snobbery. "Replace you? Where, behind the counter at Wendy's? We're successful, industrious, upper-middle class. You're the dregs of society. Replace you? Don't kid yourselves. When it comes to America's class hierarchy, we replaced you and your kind long ago."
Today's anti-Semitism isn't like the anti-Semitism of 100 or even 50 years ago. Overwhelmingly, it comes not from society's winners but from its losers. Jews no longer press their noses against the gates of restrictive country clubs, Ivy League universities or white shoe law firms. Jews no longer yearn to be accepted by America's elite WASP families. We already are."
So yeah…
One wonders what happened to Jeffrey Tucker, he didn't always run cover for leftists, giving them both a platform and gainful employment. He once had a fiery rightwing streak. Here are some sample from Tuckers writings from earlier in his career:
"Everyone who lives in border areas of the country knows that illegal immigration is a major source of crime and assorted social mayhem."
"It is the gay lobby that is attempting to impose its will on bourgeois America by robbing them of their schools, their taxes, and their rights in order to subsidize a sexual preference. And they wonder why they are disliked by ordinary Americans!"
"The leftist producer may have intended young viewers to prefer the sweaty ethnics on the lower parts of the ship. But the kids evidently did not get the message."
"In the dynamic of today's campus life, anti-racist codes are not really about enforcing a kind of social etiquette, universally applied. They are about power exercised by some over others."
"If you are deemed a racist, you must have been one forever; your racism has been unearthed and revealed, not merely spotted in a single incident. Neither is there any hope of rehabilitating you. Your whole life, your whole existence, is stained. It is a Maoist tactic to dehumanize and destroy your opponents."
"And then a feminist rose to complain about the marginalization of women in liturgy and leadership in the Catholic church today. The speaker collapsed in fear, and answered her by mouthing a litany of cliches about sexual equality and decrying past Church practices for being insufficiently open to the contributions of women to the faith. His cowering was embarrassing."
"Mises believed that feminism was an assertion of equality, a revolt against nature, and therefore akin to socialism; that the family and marital fidelity were essential to civilization; that it was possible to make broad generalizations and perhaps scientific statements about races and ethnic groups; that apparent racial inequalities ought to be studied, although not used to influence state policy; that "Eurocentrism" was the proper outlook; and that one need not be sympathetic to mass culture or the counterculture, as Mises emphatically was not, to support the free market."
Was he lying then? Is he lying now? Did he just sell his soul? Is being an occasional guest on Fox Business really worth the loss of your dignity and integrity? The fact is Jeffrey Tucker has long known about the problems the Alt-Right, who he so demonizes, are trying to address. He's either a coward or an opportunist, and either way I won't be lectured on morality by someone who's principles and sense of moral outrage shifts so conveniently with the times. Stay in your lane Jeffrey.
Tucker gets absolutely one thing right though, the rumours regarding the demise of the Alt-Right, (along with other factions of the dissident right) have been greatly exaggerated, and for disbelievers, I'll tell you why:
Quite simple. The problems that gave rise to the Alt-Right, the rampant neo-Marxist take over of social institutions, mass immigration/demographic replacement, and a social acceptance, nay, encouragement of the escalating hatred towards whites, particularly white men, and Western Civilization as a whole by the dominant culture aren't going away.


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When an author, a filmmaker, or some other creative person takes on the challenge of extending a beloved, established franchise, is canon important to you?
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