New Releases by Tom Smith

An inspirational recounting of a former skeptic''s personal encounters with Jesus. Tom didn''t consider himself special or deserving enough of a person for Jesus to single him out from a crowd, much less from a sea of humanity. There are plenty of skeptics, agnostics, and atheists out there for Jesus to choose from. In the end, Tom learned that this was the point. Jesus is a shepherd who is in the business of rescuing His lost sheep. Tom was lost, and through Jesus'' grace he was found. Join Tom as Jesus continually reveals Himself, leaving no doubt of His presence in Tom''s life, and see how Jesus can do the same for you.

Du bist ein wahrer Fußballfan und ein Anhänger von Harry Kane? Du kennst jedes Detail aus seiner Karriere, seinen Erfolgsgeschichten und vielleicht auch seine schwärzesten Momente? Dann ist dieses eBook genau das Richtige für dich! "Harry Kane – Das ultimative Quiz" bietet dir eine riesige Sammlung von unzähligen Fragen und Antworten, die sich rund um den England-Star und seine beeindruckende Karriere drehen. Ob als eingefleischter Tottenham-Fan oder als jemand, der mehr über die außergewöhnliche Reise dieses Weltklasse-Stürmers erfahren möchte – dieses Quiz stellt deine Kenntnisse auf die Probe und lässt dich noch tiefer in die faszinierende Welt des Fußballstars eintauchen. Unzählige Fragen, unzählige Antworten Mit hunderten von Fragen aus allen möglichen Bereichen – angefangen bei Kaines Anfängen im Jugendfußball, seinen Meilensteinen bei Tottenham Hotspur, bis hin zu seiner Leistung bei der englischen Nationalmannschaft – wirst du herausgefordert, dein Wissen auf die Probe zu stellen. Teste dein Gedächtnis und finde heraus, wie gut du dich in der Welt des englischen Fußballstars zurechtfindest! Karrierefragen: Weißt du, wie viele Tore Harry Kane in der Premier League erzielt hat? Oder wann er sein erstes Länderspieltor für England erzielte? Statistik-Herausforderungen: Kennst du die entscheidenden Momente in Kaines Karriere, die ihn zu einem der besten Stürmer der Welt gemacht haben? Privates und Persönliches: Bist du sicher, wie Harry Kanes Lebensweg abseits des Spielfelds aussieht? Welche Hobbys hat er und wie verbringt er seine Freizeit? Vergangenheit und Zukunft: Was sind seine größten Erfolge und was erwartet uns von ihm in der Zukunft? Das Quiz ist sowohl für Einsteiger als auch für eingefleischte Kane-Fans geeignet. Es bietet eine abwechslungsreiche Mischung aus einfachen und kniffligen Fragen, die dich in kürzester Zeit zum Experten rund um den Spieler Harry Kane machen! Mehr als nur ein Quiz Dieses eBook ist nicht nur eine Sammlung von Fragen – es ist ein Erlebnis! Mit jeder Frage kannst du in Erinnerungen schwelgen, in der Geschichte des englischen Fußballs stöbern und mehr über die spannende Karriere dieses außergewöhnlichen Talents erfahren. Es ist die perfekte Gelegenheit, sich mit Freunden oder der Familie zu messen oder deine eigenen Kenntnisse immer wieder zu testen. Außerdem enthält das eBook ausführliche und interessante Erläuterungen zu den Antworten, sodass du nicht nur dein Wissen überprüfst, sondern auch viele neue Fakten und Anekdoten über Harry Kane und den Fußball im Allgemeinen lernst. Warum du dieses Quiz haben musst: Unzählige Fragen: Hunderte von Fragen aus verschiedenen Kategorien. Für alle Fußballfans: Vom Einsteiger bis zum Experten – hier findet jeder seine Herausforderung. Unterhaltsam und lehrreich: Teste dein Wissen und lerne dabei Neues. Komplett digital: Jederzeit und überall verfügbar – ob auf dem Smartphone, Tablet oder Kindle. Einfache Bedienung: Keine komplizierten Quiz-Apps oder Webseiten – einfach in deinem eBook-Reader öffnen und loslegen! Lass dich von diesem Quiz fesseln und entdecke, wie gut du wirklich über den berühmtesten Stürmer Englands Bescheid weißt. Hol dir jetzt dein Exemplar und starte die Herausforderung! Jetzt kaufen – und mit jedem Klick mehr über Harry Kane erfahren!

Bright, persistent ringing ripped Tom from sleep. He rolled over, fumbled for the reading light beside his bed, and reached for his phone. As he answered the call, he saw the time: 3:00 a.m. Nothing good comes from a three o’clock call.

Bright, persistent ringing ripped Tom from sleep. He rolled over, fumbled for the reading light beside his bed, and reached for his phone. As he answered the call, he saw the time: 3:00 a.m. Nothing good comes from a three o''clock call.

In Word Across the Water, Tom Smith brings the histories of Hawai''i and the Philippines together to argue that US imperial ambitions towards these Pacific archipelagos were deeply intertwined with the work of American Protestant missionaries. As self-styled interpreters of history, missionaries produced narratives to stoke interest in their cause, locating US imperial interventions and their own evangelistic projects within divinely ordained historical trajectories. As missionaries worked in the shadow of their nation''s empire, however, their religiously inflected historical narratives came to serve an alternative purpose. They emerged as a way for missionaries to negotiate their own status between the imperial and the local and to come to terms with the diverse spaces, peoples, and traditions of historical narration that they encountered across different island groups. Word Across the Water encourages scholars of empire and religion alike to acknowledge both the pernicious nature of imperial claims over oceanic space underpinned by religious and historical arguments, and the fragility of those claims on the ground.

Jižní Afrika, 1820. Ralph Courtney uprchl z trestaneckého zařízení na Robben Island. Je odhodlán hledat štěstí ve skrytém přístavu, o němž mu vyprávěl jeho otec. Brzy ale zjistí, že vysněné místo leží na hranicích mocného království, kde vládne obávaný král Šaka. Ralph je nucen uzavřít s ním dohodu a utkat se s minulostí, před níž dlouho utíkal.

This book provides a holistic overview of the English and Welsh system of criminal justice, from the earliest stages of investigation and arrest through to the punishment and release of offenders. Aimed at students, it examines not only the law and procedure of criminal justice and punishment, but underpinning theories and surrounding issues.

When Boss Bandit, a Shih Tzu puppy, takes a nice stroll into the woods, he gets trapped inside a cage! Can he convince Mr. Owl, Mr. Fox, or Mr. Bear to help him escape? Will he ever see his human parents again?

Paříž 1794: Paul Courtney přihlíží v davu popravě své matky, které slíbil, že přežije, ať se děje cokoliv. Šťastně se mu podaří zachránit dívku, jíž přísahá věrnost. Svět je ale ve válce a zrádci číhají na každém rohu. Kapské Město 1806: Když se Adam Courtney vrací ze služby u námořnictva zpátky domů, najde svou usedlost zničenou a členy rodiny povražděné. Adamovi nezbývá než přijmout osud a vydat se přes několik kontinentů za pomstou.

Tom Smith believes that in the 2020s, jazz has sacrificed its principles to embrace social conformity. In six volumes of criticism, he explained those concerns with hundreds of essays. But still the lost cried out: "Please don''t chase so many tangents. Let us have your rants and nothing more. Explain simply (but intelligently) what is wrong, so jazz may ascend beyond niches that imprison it." And, so it is done... a stubby red volume of digestible shards... so you may never again be led astray. "The man who wrote this book needs a hug." -American Institute of Psychiatry "Tom''s last book was so popular we made a second copy." -The Publishers "I love little red books." -Mao Tse Tung "The Hunter S. Thompson of jazz criticism." -Nat Hentoff (actual quote... really)

This is story of the life of our wonderful life as a counting couple and 69 married years, spoiled only by the NHS including rape of my wife by a female nurse, but included threats and total lack of real nursing. Withholding medication and equipment. Thousands of pounds wasted on her just because they would not listen or respect the elderly. confined to a hospital bed when she could have been allowed to sleep in a normal bed and walk to and from the toilet .Complaints got nowhere. Documents enclosed prove this.

For over a hundred years, jazz embodied non-musical agendas. But recently, the social importance assigned to a jazz definition has been all encompassing. While postmodernists gaslight revision and skewer the market place, others like Tom Smith bemoan dilution of art for art''s sake and derailment of newer forms. Like Smith''s previous works, ''Critical Jazz Theory'' examines this and related topics with a headstrong approach. *** Tom Smith is a trombonist, conductor, Senior Fulbright Professor, Down Beat Jazz Education Hall of Fame inductee, and unrepentant skeptic. He is author of the ''Stealth Jazz'' Trilogy books that include ''Stealth Jazz: Behind the Curtain, '' ''Stealth Jazz Part II: Educational Dystopia, '' and ''The Stealth Jazz Abbreviated Guide to Media.

BethTommy Read-to-Read is a reading series to implement the learning to read process. It is based on the twenty-four most used phonic rules. The five books sequentially introduce the phonic rules with ample exposure to the rules to make them automatic. This reading program has been used in elementary education, deaf education, with students who are learning delayed or dyslexic, homeschool, and English as a second language. The requirement for success with this program is for the learner to have a fluid understanding of letter recognition and the sound each letter makes.

Step back in time to experience hardscrabble Schenectady, NY, in the years leading up, through, and just after World War II through the eyes of a young boy fascinated with wedding veils, blue satin dresses, big screen movies, diamonds and anything else that glitters. Gary Grady loves beauty and glitz as much as he loves his alcoholic grandfather, his sweet mother and distant father. Most of all, however, he loves Billy, his best friend, and the idea of escaping poverty and the mean taunts of school mates to live in glamour in Hollywood where his true talents would finally be appreciated. In today''s world, young Gary might define himself as "questioning," but for his father, teachers, the nuns at catechism class, and sometimes even Billy, his flamboyance and fascination with the theater and elegance, with sparkle and beauty, are traits to be squashed, ridden from his persona, denied even if doing so would destroy him.

Without question, the East German National People’s Army was a profoundly masculine institution that emphasized traditional ideals of stoicism, sacrifice, and physical courage. Nonetheless, as this innovative study demonstrates, depictions of the military in the film and literature of the GDR were far more nuanced and ambivalent. Departing from past studies that have found in such portrayals an unchanging, idealized masculinity, Comrades in Arms shows how cultural works both before and after reunification place violence, physical vulnerability, and military theatricality, as well as conscripts’ powerful emotions and desires, at the center of soldiers’ lives and the military institution itself.

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The newest addition to Partners In Leadership''s accountability series that began with the classic The Oz Principle. The Oz Principle has sold more than a million copies since it debuted in 1994, establishing it as the go-to reference on workplace accountability throughout the world. By embracing its practical and invaluable advice, tens of thousands of companies have improved their organizational accountability -- the key to achieving and sustaining exceptional results. Now, the team at Partners In Leadership is applying thirty years of proven success to a whole new concept: Propeller. This book presents a modern take on accountability, while remaining faithful to the elegantly simple premise: When people take personal ownership of their organization''s priorities and accept responsibility for their own performance, they become more engaged and perform at a higher level. With all new examples and stories, Propeller builds on the The Oz Principle''s legacy to inspire the next generation of readers to tap the incredible power of personal, team, and organizational accountability.

A autora best-seller e nutricionista Melissa Hartwig define a verdadeira liberdade alimentar como estar no controle dos alimentos que você come, em vez de os alimentos te controlar. Significa se satisfazer quando você decide que vale a pena, saborear a experiência sem culpa ou vergonha, e o retorno aos seus hábitos saudáveis. Os princípios mostram aos alunos como superar crenças autolimitadoras, barreiras mentais e outros obstáculos para assumir o controle de seus estudos. O livro orienta os alunos a identificar seus estilos particulares de aprendizagem, planejar suas agendas, definir metas realistas, organizar suas atividades, ler com eficácia, fazer anotações, gerenciar o tempo estrategicamente, absorver informações e reter o que aprenderam. Somos constantemente bombardeados pelo cumprimento das necessidades dos outros que nos esquecemos de reservar um tempo para criar o caminho que desejamos pavimentar para nós mesmos durante nosso curto período de tempo aqui em nosso belo planeta. O que deixamos de perceber é que o menor dos hábitos cotidianos pode estar nos impedindo de maneira dramática. Se chegarmos à conclusão de que nem todos os nossos hábitos não estão nos ajudando a conquistar o bem maior ou nos impedindo de alcançar o sucesso, então podemos começar a fazer as mudanças necessárias para tornar nossa vida melhor. Se você está pronto para agir e mudar sua vida para melhor, este livro definitivamente irá guiá-lo na direção certa!

La exitosa autora y nutricionista Melissa Hartwig define la verdadera libertad de los alimentos como el control de los alimentos que consume, en lugar de que los alimentos lo controlen a usted. Significa complacerse cuando decides que vale la pena, saborear la experiencia sin sentir culpa o vergüenza y volver a tus hábitos saludables. Los principios muestran a los estudiantes cómo superar las creencias autolimitadas, las barreras mentales y otros obstáculos para tomar el control de sus estudios. El libro guía a los estudiantes para que identifiquen sus estilos de aprendizaje particulares, planifiquen sus horarios, establezcan objetivos realistas, organicen sus actividades, lean con eficacia, tomen notas, administren el tiempo de manera estratégica, absorban información y retengan lo que han aprendido. Nos bombardean constantemente al cumplir con las necesidades de los demás, y nos olvidamos de tomarnos el tiempo para crear el camino que deseamos preparar para nosotros mismos durante nuestro corto tiempo aquí en nuestro hermoso planeta. Lo que dejamos de darnos cuenta es que los hábitos cotidianos más pequeños en realidad podrían estar frenándonos de manera dramática. Si podemos llegar a la conclusión de que no todos nuestros hábitos no nos ayudan a conquistar el bien mayor o nos impiden alcanzar el éxito, entonces podemos comenzar a realizar los cambios necesarios para que nuestra vida sea mucho mejor para vivir. Si está listo para actuar y cambiar su vida para mejor, ¡este libro definitivamente lo guiará en la dirección correcta!

This second edition of Romanian professor Johnny Bota''s (2012) ''Blues and Jazz in Banat'' is unique for its light-hearted style and bilingual presentation. As Western Romania''s busiest jazz and blues musician, Bota is uniquely qualified to write the history of one of Europe''s most fascinating regions. English edits and perspectives are furnished by ''Down Beat'' Jazz Education Hall of Fame recipient Tom Smith. "Banat county''s jazz tradition is complex. It goes far into the past and is closely linked to the area''s multicultural- cosmopolitan identity. Knowing better the protagonists and their achievements, we understand both the development of this phenomenon and the importance Banat provides towards aesthetic perspectives where jazz plays an important role. This book reveals, not only why jazz inspires us, but how we can better know all music of the region. For this, Johnny Bota is thanked for his musical dedication, talent and intelligence." Tinu Pârvulescu, Blues Coordinator: Timişoara (2010), Gărâna Jazz (2012).

Taking off from actual headlines from a variety of scandal sheets, tabloids, and even the New York Times, Tom Smith has created original poems with humor, irony, satire, whimsy, fantasy, and even some sensuality, featuring such characters (or creatures) as Steven Spielberg, Liberace, a talking fish in the Bronx, and an escaped ape in Boston.

a series of short prose poems regarding relationships with life, and people. These are extrapolated from years of travel and interaction. They do reflect specific moments in real life.

透過領導流程激發員工熱情、建立當責文化， 改變文化，就能改變成果， 啟動變革，強化競爭力！ 無論是公司老闆還是企業領導者，都希望激勵員工積極投入工作、交出成果、提高業績。其實，成果的根源就在於文化。 文化，就是「我們這裡（公司、企業或組織）是怎麼做事情的。」想提升成果、提高業績，實際而且長久的方法，就是從建立當責文化開始。透過成果金字塔（result pyramid），幫助公司加速轉型成為具備當責文化的組織。 經驗培養信念、信念影響行動、行動帶來成果。改變文化，就能改變成果。 本書的作者羅傑‧康納斯（Roger Connors）和湯姆‧史密斯（Tom Smith），是當責觀念的奠基者和長期推動者，著有暢銷書《當責，從停止抱怨開始》（The Oz Principle）和《從負責到當責》（How Did that Happen?）。他們從協助客戶建立當責文化的經驗出發，提出簡單明瞭的「成果金字塔」，以高效率、高效能的方法，改變組織上下的思考與行動，確保能達成大家期待的成果。在每一章中，他們分享動人的故事，敘述最成功的組織如何應用這些最佳實務操作，成功建立當責文化。 精通加速文化變革的能力，對於每一位期待自家組織保有競爭力並維持聚焦的領導者而言，都是重要的核心職能。《建立當責文化》依循著一套世界上某些最成功且最受尊崇的公司都運用過的方法，提出明確的指引以培養建立當責文化的領導力。 如果繼續做原來的事，就會繼續得到如同過去的結果。然而，倘若想要改寫遊戲規則，就必須力求改變。本書《建立當責文化》鋪陳一套可據以為行動的方法，每一位領導者都應精通。因此，如果你已經倦於嘗試無效的領導技巧與無用的新方案，請閱讀本書，進而改變員工的經驗、信念和行動，讓每個人願意從主動思考、改變行動進而交出符合期待的成果。 這本書告訴領導者如何發揮影響力，建立當責文化，激發員工和團隊主動思考、參與變革，讓組織轉型成功，永保競爭力！

"If strong intellectual opponents like Ralph Ellison and Amiri Baraka were peppering me with questions about the state of jazz music, these would be some of my answers." According to Fulbright Professor and Jazz Education Hall of Famer Tom Smith, jazz music''s intellectual properties are the sole reason it''s unpopular. When art (especially music) requires people to think, it''s denied a place within constructs where orthodoxy is a mechanism for control. The great falsehood about jazz is that it''s direction is natural, while arguing that all music is susceptible to corporate manipulation and any number of underlying factors, linked to present societal concerns we all face. This Second Edition is comprised of over fifty essays, and written in an opinionated tone that is self-deprecating, poignant, auto-biographical, and occasionally funny, Smith eviscerates traditional cathedrals of jazz, from know-it-all sociologists to overreaching critics, righteous aficionados, crooked bookers/ performers, dishonest historians, myopic educators, the community of wayward musicians he calls ''jazz sheeple, '' UNESCO''s International Jazz Day, and his favored nemesis, Jazz at Lincoln Center, whose contributions (in his estimation) have hurt more than helped. Drawing from a career spanning nearly four decades as a world-class trombonist, bandleader, researcher/ educator, and builder of jazz programs in several countries, Smith offers insights from places few have traveled, nor would ever want to go, while serving as enthusiastic cheerleader for a new jazz he insists will be created by subsequent generations of young people." ''Stealth Jazz, Behind the Curtain'' is likely to draw an equal amount of praise and repudiation, which according to Miles Davis, is exactly where one wishes to be. * * *Tom Smith is a Downbeat Jazz Education Hall of Fame inductee, an IAJE Ambassador recipient, a six-time Senior Fulbright Professor (Romania), and a Fulbright Specialist (South Africa, Serbia). In 2003, he was awarded the Romanian Radio Prize, co-founded Romania''s first music camp/school for jazz, and performed on three of that country''s officially designated One Hundred Essential Recordings. In 2010, Tom relocated to China, where he developed a music strategy for teaching English to Mandarin speakers, and in 2011 was hired as Professor of Jazz/American Music Studies at Ningbo University, the first American music professor in Mainland China. He then subsequently wrote that country''s curriculum for jazz/popular music education, and in 2013, was awarded the Camellia Prize for significant cultural/entreprenurial contributions. Tom has founded over fifty jazz ensembles on four continents, and is an active performer worldwide, having played trombone, conducted/recorded for scores of iconic musicians. A Brubeck Grant recipient, Tom''s publications have been featured on National Public Radio (US), Discovery Channel, and Rutgers Roundtable. He has also contributed to American National Biography, Teaching Music Through Performance in Jazz, Bakers Dictionary, and Oxford Encyclopedia of European Jazz.

The Sisters of Perpetual Sewing miss the excitement of the old days when they were saving convents and reuniting long-lost families. So when they learn that the orphanage where Paul and Kate grew up is in peril, they can''t wait to come to the rescue. Everyone pitches in to mount a play to raise money, but it''s no easy feat when Kate''s expecting any day, Sally''s hiding from stage-fright-stricken Paul after another flight from the altar, Mother Superior''s acting is unexpectedly narcoleptic, and the sisters'' award-winning wine keeps getting switched with the grape juice. The merry mix-ups multiply in this warm and winsome sequel to Drinking Habits.

En la misma –innovadora– senda que El Principio de Oz y ¿Cómo sucedió eso?, ambos best sellers del New York Times, Roger Connors y Tom Smith, reconocidos expertos a nivel mundial en la creación de una cultura de accountability empresarial, aplican su práctica y poderosas estrategias para ayudar a los líderes a acelerar el cambio cultural, energizar sus organizaciones y crear una mayor accountability para obtener resultados. En esta emblemática guía para el cambio de la cultura organizacional, los autores introducen el modelo de la Pirámide de Resultados®, una metodología simple e irreemplazable para cambiar de forma efectiva y eficiente cómo las personas piensan y actúan en todos los estratos de una organización, para asegurar que logren alcanzar mejores resultados. Dominar la habilidad para acelerar el cambio cultural es una competencia esencial para todo líder que quiera mantener su organización siempre competitiva y enfocada. Cambie la cultura, cambie el juego ofrece la guía definitiva para desarrollar esta competencia de liderazgo, sobre la base de una metodología usada por algunas de las empresas más exitosas y reconocidas del mundo. Apoyándose en las más de dos décadas de expertise asesorando a clientes para crear una Cultura de Accountability®, Connors y Smith presentan en la presente obra una metodología clara y simple que llevará a cualquiera que la ponga en práctica a un rápido cambio de cultura orientada a resultados. Cambie la cultura, cambie el juego le mostrará cómo generar el potente impacto que una mayor accountability tiene sobre la velocidad de cambio en personas y equipos, y en transformar la vida interna, y el éxito, de organizaciones enteras.

Cuando las cosas salen mal y nos preguntamos “¿Cómo sucedió eso?”, la respuesta inmediata tiende a ser buscar algo o alguien a quien culpar, lo cual no soluciona nada y tampoco previene que el problema se vuelva a repetir en el futuro, con las mismas características. En este contexto, la presente obra –de absoluta referencia en el tema– presenta un método sencillo y eficaz para instalar en todos los niveles de una organización el sentido de accountability. Entendido como elección personal para lograr los resultados deseados a pesar de las dificultades, el concepto de accountability fue introducido como metodología de cambio y mejora en el libro anterior de los autores (en colaboración con Craig Hickman): El Principio de Oz. Ahora, ¿Cómo sucedió eso? recorre la misma senda para explicarnos en detalle cómo crear y cómo administrar accountability. Ofrece, además, herramientas para autodiagnosticar distintos tipos de situaciones potencialmente problemáticas y así saber los pasos específicos a seguir para administrar expectativas.¿Cómo sucedió eso? desarrolla novedosas estrategias para lograr que la gente se haga cargo de conseguir resultados mientras incrementa su motivación. Explica cómo implementar accountability en cualquier organización de una manera positiva y basada en principios que fomenten el compromiso de todos. ¿Cómo sucedió eso? está destinado a quienes busquen lograr una mayor productividad, rentabilidad y satisfacción laboral en su empresa.

The book introduces us to Sinatra''s life and art seen from an unconventional point of view: Ol'' Blue Eyes'' prodigious appetite for alcohol. Drinking was an integral part of his character, his lifestyle and (by extension) his creative output. This book also functions as a practical cocktail manual, containing more than 30 detailed recipes for preparing and presenting fancy drinks he was known to enjoy himself; as well as providing information on some of Sinatra''s own personal drinking lore and some of the traditions he followed or inspired. There are also accounts of some of his favorite watering holes (from legendary saloons such as Toots Shor''s and Jilly''s to Villa Capri or Monte''s Venetian Room), profiles of famous drinking buddies (such as Humphrey Bogart or Mike Romanoff) and a selection of drinking stories. The book begins with an essay looking at the role drink played throughout his life and ends with a consideration of his most enduring persona—The Last Saloon Singer. In between there are chapters on Classic Bourbon drinks, the Martini, Exotic Booze, Hangover Remedies and The Rat Pack.

This is the story of Frank Sinatra with a twist. An account of his life and art from an unconventional point of view, his prodigious appetite for alcohol. There are more than enough tales and anecdotes to make a compelling case that his fondness for booze was an integral element of his character, his lifestyle and his creative output. It also doubles as a practical cocktail manual, containing over fifty recipes for preparing the fancy drinks associated with the singer as well as providing information on some of his personal drinking lore and traditions he followed or inspired.

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