Author: Serkadis

A Hazel Crest man accused of biting off the right nipple of an off-duty Chicago Police officer outside a Gold Coast steakhouse was ordered held in lieu of $500,000 bail today.

Fernando Cooper (right), 31, of the 18100 block of South Kedzie Avenue, was charged with aggravated battery of a police officer, resisting arrest and attempted disarming of a police officer for the Sunday night incident outside Gibson’s Bar & Steakhouse.

Authorities said that about 9:30 p.m., the officer was working security for the restaurant when he was told that Cooper was outside grabbing at the feet of passersby in an attempt to shine their shoes.

Cooper became belligerent when the victim told him to leave the area and bumped his chest into the officer and shoved him with his hands. He left when the victim told him he was a police officer and displayed his badge but returned moments later and punched the officer in the face while the officer was calling for police on his cell phone.

When the officer tried to place Cooper under arrest, Cooper struggled with him, grabbing at the victim’s gun.

“He then raised his head and bit the victim in the chest, biting the right nipple off,” Assistant State’s Attorney Erin Antonietti said at Cooper’s bond hearing.

The officer was taken to Northwestern Memorial Hospital where doctors told him the nipple, which was recovered at the scene, could not be reattached and that the victim would require reconstructive surgery.

Outside court, Cooper’s wife — who did not want to be identified by name — said her husband spoke with her briefly from the police station and told her he did not know that the victim was a police officer. She said he had apparently been drinking at the time,but said it was unclear what exactly occurred.

“The alcohol is the main reason [for Cooper’s troubles],” she said, adding that her husband struggles with alcohol abuse. “When you’re intoxicated, the alcohol does the talking for you.”

– Matt Walberg

The Chicago Transit Authority is providing several avenues for customers to obtain information about the upcoming service changes beginning Feb. 7.

The service reductions are necessary as a result of lower than anticipated revenues due to the sluggish economy.

“While we continue to have talks with the union on finding a solution that would enable CTA to minimize the number of service reductions needed, we want customers to have information as early as possible so that they can start to plan their travel based upon the new schedules,” said CTA President Richard L. Rodriguez.

“Being able to plan ahead will help customers navigate the system better and ensure they allow enough travel time to reach their destinations.”

Two weeks ago, the CTA began posting customer alerts on buses, trains and at other CTA facilities. The alerts outlined the routes that will be affected by the service reductions next month.

Last week, information was posted on digital displays and other electronic signage at rail stations. Also, affected bus routes began to play announcements outlining specific changes in the hours of operation and a reminder if the route will run with less frequent service or if the route is being eliminated.

Detailed information also was posted on CTA’s Web site at transitchicago.com. Customers can access information regarding changes to service, including route-by-route changes.

General information on the service reductions has been sent to local elected officials, Chambers of Commerce, municipalities and other city agencies for them to have on hand for residents who may contact them for information. Additional detailed information will be delivered to these groups in the coming weeks.

Starting the week of January 25, CTA information specialists will be strategically deployed to key locations at bus stops and rail stations to distribute information prior to the service reductions.

Brochures with service information will be available to customers at rail stations and on buses across the system – in addition to being posted on CTA’s Web site.

The brochure will be available in English, Spanish, Polish and Chinese. If customers do not have Internet access and are unable to find the correct version, they can contact CTA Customer Service and one will be mailed to them.

Signs at all CTA bus stops notifying customers of the changes to service are scheduled to be in place by the end of the month.

To better serve customers, CTA’s Customer Service center will add weekend hours on February 6 and 7 to answer incoming calls regarding service changes.

During the week the Customer Service center is staffed from 7 a.m. to 8 p.m. to assist riders. Customers can contact the Customer Service Center via e-mail at [email protected] or by calling 1-888-YOUR CTA (1-888-968-7282); TTY 1-888-CTATTY-1 (1-888-282-8891).

RTA’s Travel Information line will also have details on CTA service following the service reductions. Customers can call 836-7000 from any local area code to speak to an RTA representative.

The service reductions are designed to retain as much service as possible while reducing costs and maximizing efficiency. All rail routes and all bus routes will be maintained except for nine express routes that have a matching local route.

The CTA worked to minimize the impact to rush hour service and Night Owl service on both bus and rail remain unchanged, preserving service for those third-shift workers who have few options other than public transit.

Service will run less frequently on 119 routes and service spans will be adjusted for 41 bus routes. These routes will either start service later, end service earlier, or both.

CTA’s Bus Tracker is a good way for bus customers to manage their wait time.

Riders can access estimated arrival times for buses and can be accessed in three different ways:

• Online: Go to ctabustracker.com via a computer or Web-enabled mobile device to get estimated bus arrival times
• Subscription E-mail Alerts: Go to ctabustracker.com and sign up to receive customized e-mail alerts for specific day(s), time(s), route(s) or stop(s).
• Text Message: Send a text message to 41411 with “CTABUS” and your designated bus stop identification number; or simply send “CTABUS” and follow the instructions. Bus stop ID numbers all are available at ctabustracker.com

We knew this day was coming, but it may be sooner than we realized. The LA Times is reporting that Hulu is looking to introduce a pricing model within the next six months.

One plan being considered by Hulu would allow you to watch the five most recent episodes of a TV show for free, while the back catalog beyond that would require a $5/month subscription to access. They’re looking to include at least 20 shows in the package to make it appealing to users, but of course the issue won’t be how many. It’ll be which ones.

This all comes on the heels of Boxee’s announcement yesterday of plans to charge for premium content, and Pandora’s pay service announced in May. Five bucks doesn’t seem like much, but it does all start to add up. [LA Times via Business Insider]

Mania has dutifully compiled a list of seven sci-fi movie technologies that have come to fruition. All I can say is well done, humanity! And don’t worry, Sleeper fans: we’ll get those Orgasmatron booths before you know it.

The usual suspects like Minority Report and Total Recall make the cut, along with a much-deserved nod to the Star Trek franchise. The list strays a little off target when it comes to non-gadget predictions like “geopolitical milieu,” but it’s otherwise a sobering reminder that with multitouch displays, private spaceflight, and even clamshell cell phones, we’re all incredibly lucky to be living what other previous generations only dreamed. Or, in the case of Draconian, full-body x-ray scanning, feared.

Also: if you’re going to have that much Arnold Schwarzenegger on that list, you really shouldn’t forget Junior. [Mania via The Daily What]

RBS analyst Bob Janjuah says we may have already seen the highs for the year as a result of the fact that everyone in the world is now tightening:

After putting my 1st piece out since Nov just this week, I have been sitting here and thinking…Forgive me for indulging myself in a stream of my own consciousness, but here goes:

The NAHB Index was ugly, as was the UK Inflation data, the ZEW survey, AND the ABC Consumer Confidence release….we also saw CITI BoA as well as MS all ‘miss’….

And yet stocks were at/close to post March 09 highs and up over 1% on Tues in the US ….Very strange!! Whilst I have only a very small degree of doubt that the Fed/US Treasury PPT is and has been actively goosing the US equity mrkt since Obama said Stocks Were Cheap in March 09 (funny that!!), I was beginning to think that we were/are close to peak levels because at peak bubble levels the price action is most ‘irrational’.

AND THEN 3 things hit me – Bang, Bang and Bang…..3 VERY SIGNIFICANT things:

1 – The Chinese are tightening policy more aggressively then even I thgt they would, and the core of the EUROZONE are playing uber Hard Money with Greece

2 – The Obama defeat in Mass is HUGE…….even a freshman can figure out that ‘Obama’s’ defeat in Mass is a move towards a lame duck president AND, most seriously, is a move that will directly and indirectly cause de facto FISCAL TIGHTENING – the Republicans have seen some serious and seriously UNEXPECTED gains in Washington since Obama’s inauguration and are now at the point where they COULD block Obama’s fiscal recklessness….most seriously, the message out of Virginia, New Jersey and now Mass is that the Republicans will do really well in the mid-terms…they will do ‘really well’ because they are going on the tkt of anti-big govt, anti-bailouts to all, & anti-big deficits, all of which is clearly hitting the sweet spot with the US electorate….furthermore, Obama has become a guy who folks either perceive or believe (I’m in this latter camp) has merely bailed out Big Wall St & Big Corporate America, all at the expense of the lower strata of the US economy (the youth, Black and Hispanic people, the SME sector, regional banks) – Yes, that’s right, the very folks who voted Obama in……all he has offered these folks is healthcare, which is now in serious risk, and benefits, where his temptation will be to DO MORE HANDOUTS (including making up more airy-fairy ‘fake job creation schemes’ just to keep folks, technically, off of the unemployment data) but which the Republicans can now much more effectively challenge/block, and which they certainly WILL (IMHO) block post mid-term victories. Key however is that the Mass defeat means Obama and Summers MUST now have serious doubts abt their reckless policies.

3 – The FHA is TIGHTENING policy too (!!!) re its lending in response to its SHOCKING delinquency data and its now invisible capital base – by law FHA will require a BAILOUT!!!!!! This is DIRECT MONETISATION and mrkts won’t like it

SO, back to what I wrote earlier this week. It COULD be that the Austerity is coming ANYWAY & EVEN SOONER than I had originally thght thru a combo:
– of Euro uber-discipline (VA),
– pro-active China (tightening) policy shifts (VA),
– the commercial realisation that the US/UK consumer and housing mrkts are still in a deep deep hole where the fundamentals are getting worse and where lenders (are forced to) pull back even more/tighten money a LOT in order to stop the rot on THEIR OWN balance sheets (part VA, part IA), and, lastly & most importantly,
– maybe, JUST MAYBE, the People have spoken and the message is clear (clearly IA as far as policymakers are concerned). They DON’T want BIG GOVERNMENT. They DON’T want our currencies debased anymore. They DON’T want to bail-out everyone. They don’t want to pay even more taxes to fund bloated government and to fund entitlement pay-outs ad infinitum. Maybe the People GET IT. They may get the fact that the West, esp. the US/UK, CANNOT PRINT/BORROW/SPEND its way out of our hole. Indeed, they may get the fact that we in the West need a deep-rooted and painful restructuring of our economies away from consumption and dissaving, towards savings and investment. If you think abt it for just one minute, it ain’t that complicated. Yes it means less holidays and less consumption of rubbish we dont need. It means a painful period of higher unemployment whilst the Austrian cleansing is allowed to play out. But all of which will then create the platform for the next 20yr period of REAL growth, REAL wealth gains, REAL productivity gains & REAL innovation.

The US electorate, so far, is clearly shouting this message and Obama must be nervous. Clearly in the UK all will be clear in a few mths time. But the sense I have right now is that the political classes may be forced into austerity because its is what voters want. Wow! Lets See.

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Filed under: Motorsports, Hirings/Firings/Layoffs, BMW

With the countdown winding down until the 2010 Formula One season’s opening round in Bahrain, the roster of drivers competing for top honors is drawing near completion with the announcement that the Sauber team has signed Pedro de la Rosa as its second race driver.

The Spanish driver started in F1 as a test driver for Jordan in 1998, driving for Arrows and Jaguar before going to McLaren, with whom he stayed as a test driver from 2003 through 2009, filling in for Juan Pablo Montoya in 2005 and 2006. With McLaren now divorced from Mercedes and Sauber from arch-rival BMW, de la Rosa will return to the grid alongside Japanese hot shoe Kamui Kobayashi for the upcoming season.

Following the Sauber announcement, only four seats remain unconfirmed: two at USF1, one at Campos (alongside Bruno Senna) and one at Renault (alongside Robert Kubica). Follow the jump for the press release from Sauber and a standing roster of who’ll be driving for which teams this season.

[Source: Sauber]

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Gillian Cooke Moments Before Her Wardrobe Malfunction

The Winter Olympics are only weeks away, and Gillian Cooke has already provided our first athlete gaffe for the first events, splitting her skintight warmup suit while warming up for an Olympic qualifying run at the World Bobsled Championships in Switzerland.

Gillian’s team still managed to finish seventh despite completing the run with her backside exposed, and they will be competing at the Vancouver Olympics next month.

Hit the jump for a picture and video of Gillian Cooke’s wardrobe malfunction.

Gillian Cooke Stretching A Little Too Far, Causing A Wardrobe Malfunction

Video of Gillian Cooke’s suit splitting

Dear Members of the BMCC Community,

On behalf of the entire college, I would like to extend our deepest sympathy to all of those affected by the devastating earthquake in Haiti.  Our profound concern and compassion go out to the people in Haiti, those living outside of Haiti and members of the BMCC family personally impacted by this tragedy.

As we have seen over the past week, the disaster in Haiti has caused unfathomable loss of life and threatens the lives of countless others, with near total destruction of that country’s critically needed infrastructure.  As the world mobilizes to provide assistance to the people of Haiti, we are reminded of how interconnected we are as members of a global community and that the tragedy in Haiti impacts us all.

To do our part, BMCC has already started to organize services and outreach efforts to help those affected by this grave human disaster.  Please visit our Haitian Earthquake relief page,  http://www.bmcc.cuny.edu/haiti/, for continued updates and information on ways you can join the compassionate spirit of the BMCC family and contribute to the assistance of the people of Haiti in their time of need.

Sincerely,

Antonio Pérez

President

Additional security has been hired for Justin Bieber’s Valentine’s Day concert in Los Angeles next month.

The cute-as-a-button Canadian’s over-enthusiastic young fans caused a near riot last November when a Justin Bieber CD signing in suburban New York was cancelled due to lack of security. The so-called “Roosevelt Field Fiasco” has prompted promoters of the 15-year-old’s sold-out gig at the Hollywood Palladium next month to bring out extra guards to ensure the performance runs smoothly and to keep the screaming teen girls under control, says TMZ.com.

The venue’s manager has hired a larger security team to keep the event as safe as possible for Usher’s protege.

NEW YORK (AP) — NBC said Thursday it has reached a $45 million deal with Conan O’Brien for his exit from the “Tonight” show, allowing Jay Leno to return to the late-night program he hosted for 17 years.

Under the deal, which came seven months after O’Brien took the reins from Leno, O’Brien will get more than $33 million, NBC said.

The rest will go to his staff in severance, the network said in an announcement on the “Today” show.

His final show will be Friday, and Leno will return to “Tonight” on March 1.

O’Brien will be free to begin another TV job as soon as September, NBC said.

O’Brien landed the “Tonight” show after successfully hosting “Late Night,” which airs an hour later, since 1993. But he quickly stumbled in the ratings race against his CBS rival, David Letterman.

Under Leno, the “Tonight” show was the ratings champ at 11:35 p.m. Eastern, but he proved an instant flop with his experiment in prime time.

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Carl Icahn has scooped up the distressed Fontainebleau Las Vegas for just $157 million, after making the only qualified bid at the auction.

That's over 90% below what it cost to build the casino so far, but of course it could end up as a huge liability for Mr. Icahn as well. The Fontainebleau also needs another $1.5 billion of potential work before it can be completed.

Still, this could be an early sign of renewed interest in Vegas (especially combined with other news, such as a rebound in gaming revenue).

According to the Miami Herald, Icahn was the only qualified investor with the stones to show up for the auction.

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The CTA today announced that 2009 combined bus and rail ridership totaled 521.2 million rides, a decrease of 1 percent (5.1 million rides) over 2008 ridership.

Even so, totals were stronger than the agency expected considering the dramatic impact the recession has had throughout the year.

CTA ridership in 2009 still surpassed 2007 figures, when the agency recorded 439.5 rides.

“The fact that CTA has lost very little ground from a ridership standpoint under the most difficult financial circumstances this country has seen in decades is something I feel is encouraging,” said CTA President Richard L. Rodriguez.

“It would be unreasonable to expect that the growth in ridership CTA has experienced in recent years would sustain itself with so many people unemployed and businesses struggling.

The fact that it is only a 1 percent drop demonstrates the value of public transit as a convenient, cost-effective travel option.”

CTA projected 2009 ridership at 517.4 rides.

“We are committed to providing as much service as we can within our limited resources and ask that our riders stick with CTA while the economic recovery moves forward,” said Chicago Transit Board Chairman Terry Peterson.

“Although the upcoming service reductions will inconvenience everyone who relies on CTA, we will continue to work to manage riders’ expectations and restore whatever levels we can when our financial outlook improves.”

Rail ridership was 202.6 million for 2009, an increase of 2.2 percent or 4.4 million rides, compared to 2008.  The largest ridership increases were recorded outside of the morning and evening rush periods.

Bus ridership in 2009 wad 318.7 million, a 2.9 percent decrease from 2008, or 9.5 million fewer rides.

Over the past decade, CTA has seen overall ridership grow by 54.6 million rides—11.7 percent.

Rail ridership has lead the surge with a 21.7 percent increase (35 million rides) compared to 1999, and bus ridership increased by 6.6 percent (20 million rides) over the same period.

The White Sox added another pricing category for the 2010 season – Cubs.

Tickets to the three Cubs’ games at U.S. Cellular Field on June 25-27 will cost as much as $100 – a $32 increase from premier games in the premium LG skyline club box and premium lower box sections.

But Brooks Boyer, the Sox’s vice president/chief marketing officer, said the reality is that the prices for those games are similar to what the Cubs charge for their ”Platinum” games at Wrigley Field.

Club box and mezzanine suites seats for Cubs-White Sox games at Wrigley cost $100. The dugout box seats, located directly behind the backstop, cost $350 for Platinum games, according to the Cubs’ Web site.

By Mark Gonzales

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RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) — Former Democratic presidential candidate John Edwards has finally come forward to admit that he fathered a child with a videographer he hired before his second White House bid. “It was wrong for me to ever deny she was my daughter,” he said Thursday.

Edwards confirmed this in a statement released to The Associated Press, after initially denying that he’d fathered a child during an affair with campaign aide Rielle Hunter.

“I am Quinn’s father,” the former senator declared in his statement, as the second birthday of Frances Quinn Hunter approaches.

A former Edwards aide, Andrew Young, initially claimed paternity of the child shortly before the 2008 presidential primary contests began. Young is scheduled to release a book on Feb. 2 that details the scandal

Frances was born Feb. 27, 2008, indicating that the child was conceived in the middle of 2007, several months after Hunter stopped working for Edwards. John and Elizabeth Edwards renewed their wedding vows in July of 2007 to celebrate their 30th wedding anniversary.

Elizabeth Edwards, whose cancer returned in an incurable form in March 2007, has stood by her husband despite the affair. She has said that it does not matter to her whether her husband fathered a child with Hunter, saying, “that would be a part of John’s life, but not a part of mine.”

Since admitting the affair in August 2008, John Edwards has largely gone into seclusion. He has acknowledged a federal investigation into his campaign finances while both Young and Hunter — with her child — have made appearances at a federal courthouse in Raleigh.

In the statement Edwards released Thursday, he said, “I will do everything in my power to provide her (Frances) with the love and support she deserves. I have been able to spend time with her during the past year and trust that future efforts to show her the love and affection she deserves can be done privately and in peace.”

Edwards also said, “It was wrong for me ever to deny she was my daughter and hopefully one day, when she understands, she will forgive me.”

“I have been providing financial support for Quinn and have reached an agreement with her mother to continue providing support in the future,” the statement said. “To all those I have disappointed and hurt, these words will never be enough, but I am truly sorry.”

Harrison Hickman, Edwards’ longtime political adviser, called the situation “a lot more complicated than people think.”

“There are a lot of adults involved,” Hickman said in an interview broadcast on NBC’s “Today” show. “I think they wanted to handle this in the right way.”

“Elizabeth thinks that he should acknowledge this,” Hickman said. He said it “has been a very difficult time for everyone … but especially for Elizabeth.”

Edwards, a U.S. senator representing North Carolina from 1998 until his vice presidential bid in 2004, acknowledged in May that federal investigators were looking into how he used campaign funds. Grand jury proceedings are secret, and the U.S. attorney’s office in Raleigh has declined to confirm or deny an investigation.

Edwards adamantly denied during an interview with ABC News last summer that he had fathered a child with Rielle Hunter, and he welcomed a paternity test.

Edwards has said the affair ended in 2006. That year, Edwards’ political action committee paid Hunter’s video production firm $100,000 for work. Then the committee paid another $14,086 on April 1, 2007. The Edwards camp has said the latter payment from the PAC was exchanged for 100 hours of unused videotape that Rielle Hunter shot.

The same day, the Edwards presidential campaign had injected $14,034.61 into the PAC for a “furniture purchase,” according to federal election records.

Fred Baron, who was Edwards’ national finance chairman and a wealthy Dallas-based trial attorney, said last year he quietly sent money to Hunter and to resettle Young’s family.

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Continuing with its A1 teasing, Audi today released information about the “uncompromising quality ” of the new subcompact.

“The A1 will be the first fully-fledged premium automobile in its segment,” says Werner Zimmermann, Head of Quality Assurance at AUDI AG. “Our brand is venturing into what for us is a new class with the A1, but the smaller size of the vehicle does not mean that the customers expect anything less than they always do from an Audi.”

He went on to say: “The body is precision-built; the quality of the paint finish is top-rate,” says Zimmermann. “We even live quality in those areas that are not directly visible to the customer. Only in this way is it possible to achieve that incomparable Audi feeling.”

Click here for more news on the Audi A1.

You can hear Zimmermann talk more in the video after the jump.

2011 Audi A1 (Teasers):

– By: Kap Shah

More than a few months after Oracle made its intentions to buy Sun Microsystems known, with a $7.4 bid for the tech company, the deal has cleared all major hurdles and seems set to go though in the short term. EU regulators have given their go-ahead and said they were satisfied that the database market was healthy enough not to be affected … (read more)

Filed under: Car Buying, Coupe, Performance, Lexus, Luxury

When will the stateside ignominy end when it comes to the Lexus LFA? Japanese buyers have already spoken for that country’s entire allotment. Even though Continental European buyers must travel to England to procure the car, the details are all in place. Notice that in the previous two sentences we used the word “buyers.” Cutthroat American capitalists will only be able to lease the creased-like-origami coupe, and they’ll need to be hand-picked by Lexus for the honor.

According to the Wall Street Journal, “People selected to purchase the car will be based on factors such as the other cars they own, where they live, and how often and where they drive.” This is Lexus’ halo car, and they want that halo to shine so bright you’re blinded by the light. Said the manager of Lexus college, “We want it to be seen on the right roads, in front of the right restaurants and not just being enjoyed by one individual in their private garage.”

When Ferrari launched the Enzo, it chose who could buy the car. But that was Ferrari, and these were buyers, and they knew that if they wanted a crack at the Enzo’s successor they’d better not throw their Enzo on eBay Motors that night. On the one hand we feel the aforementioned ignominy at the way Americans are being treated in the LF-A procurement process, but that’s outdone by our interest in and respect for the experiment: Lexus says this car is a special instrument created for driving and are looking for those who will treat it as such. We can’t wait to see how it turns out.

[Source: Wall Street Journal]

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Music icons Quincy Jones and Lionel Richie are planning a 25th anniversary re-recording of their charity classic, “We Are the World,” with proceeds benefitting survivors of the Jan. 12 earthquake in Haiti. The critically-acclaimed 1985 original was written by Richie and the late Michael Jackson and raised money for relief in Africa. “We Are The World” — which featured Diana Ross, Bruce Springsteen, and a host of other artists — went on to win three Grammy Awards, one American Music Award, and a People’s Choice Award.

Usher, John Legend are expected to be joined by other singing stars including Wyclef Jean, Sting, Fergie, Stevie Wonder, Alicia Keys, and Justin Timberlake. The single and accompanying video will be recorded at the Nokia Theater in Los Angeles on February 1, the day after the annual Grammy Awards.

“We expect that, as with the original, everyone will leave their egos at the door. Most of the Grammy nominees are expected to stay for an extra day after the show to record the single, and some are expected to fly in especially for it.”

FROM CBS:

Philadelphia police are responding to Philadelphia International Airport where an emergency has been declared for a bomb threat aboard an incoming flight.

Sources tell CBS 3 US Air flight 3079 from LaGuardia to Louisville has been diverted to Philly after a male strapped a wire device from his fingers to his head after takeoff.

Update: According to Twitterer, investor and Pennsylvania resident Jim Gobetz, local media is now reporting that the situation is under control and that the wires were related to a “religious device.”

More to come as warranted…

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