Tabla, 6 March 2009

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  • 21 1 tabla! THE HEARTBEAT UF THE INDIAN COMMUNITY MICA (P) 171/09/2008 SINGAPORE, WEEKEND OF FRIDAY, MARCH 6 2009 •T* SINGAPORE PRESS HOLDINGS
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  • INDIA
    • 1286 1  -  Rs1 lakh car to be launched on March 23 PATRICK JONAS patrickj@sph.com.sg. THE Nano is on a pilgrimage. Times are bad and like most of us, the car’s makers too are turning to the heavens. Tata Motors has already driven the Nano to the Golden
      riding on the Nano. PHOTO: REUTERS; PHOTO: TATA MOTORS  -  1,286 words
    • 536 3 Indian elections from April 16 to May 13, results on May 16 MANY waited for India’s ruling coalition to call for early elections. It didn’t. Instead, it opted to complete its term and on March 2 the nation’s election commission announced the polling dates for
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    • 1085 4/5  -  Is it time to get into the Indian art market? RENU N. In Chennai tabla@sph.com.sg FLIP the pages of recent issues of Artforum, the Western world’s bible of contemporary art, and you will notice the shows advertised contain names of artists such as T.V. Santhosh and N.S.
      Paar. PHOTOS: CHRISTIE'S  -  1,085 words
    • 249 4/5 ONE cannot ignore the masters such as the Picasso of India and self-taught painter in exile M.F. Hussain, whose unique style merges Cubism, Expressionism, Abstraction and traditional Indian forms (auction record US$1.6 million); or top-selling Tyeb Mehta who uses mythological imagery with a modern
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    • 637 6  -  Princeton University invention makes Internet access faster PATRICK JONAS patrickj@sph.com.sg EVERY year, the Massachusetts Institute of Technology’s (MIT) Technology Review magazine comes up with its annual list of 10 top emerging technologies. This year, there are Indian names in the list. One of the inventions that made
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    • regional roundup
      • 92 6 Schools dump painter Hussain THE Himachal Pradesh Board of School Education, on the recommendation of a committee, has decided to do away with a chapter on noted painter M.F. Hussain, reported DNA. Board chairman Chaman Lal Gupta said the chapter on Hussain “which has nothing to inspire students”
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      • 78 6 Reliance creates refinery giant IN THE largest ever merger of business units in India, Reliance Industries (RIL) on March 2 decided to merge its subsidiary Reliance Petroleum Ltd (RPL) with it, through a share swop of one RIL share for 16 RPL shares. RIL’s chief financial officer Alok Agarwal
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      • 77 6 GPS for Chennai buses THE Metropolitan Transport Corporation is fitting 600 buses with GPS (Global Positioning System). By the end of this month 300 of them will be fitted and the rest will get it by the end of April. The GPS will help passengers waiting at bus-stops
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    • 321 6 WE ASKED Prof Vivek Pai to explain it simple terms how HashCache works. This is his explanation: “Let’s say that you want to visit a Web page, like http://www.cs.princeton.edu/~vivek To your browser, that page actually looks like many different pieces, which have names like http://www.cs.princeton.edu/~vivek/index.html
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    • 299 3 THINK SUCCESS. THINK MDIS i’m ready to uncover the secret of life sciences i 0 CAREER 2009 EDUCATION 2009 Date 5 8 Mar 2009 (Thu Sun) Time 11am 8pm Venue: Suntec Singapore, Halls 601 603, Level 6 .i m afifS UNIVERSITY OF n“ BRADFORD L.J ure <i0.noee .nca. BACHELOR OF
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  • PERSONALITY
    • 905 7  -  tabla! talk with with Pradeep Paul pradeep@sph.com.sg ASPIRING chefs, take note: To be successful in that profession, one must have a 100 per cent love for cooking... and a 300 per cent love for eating. That nugget of culinary wisdom comes from master chef Milind Sovani,
      specialities. PHOTO: ARUN RAMU  -  905 words

  • SINGAPORE
    • 916 8  -  That is the question you should ask yourself once you have spent 10 years in your job DR PREM SHAMDASANI Dr Prem Shamdasani is professor of marketing, vice-dean, executive education and academic director, Asia-Pacific Executive MBA at the NUS Business School. The views and
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    • 239 8 SINGAPORE’S biggest private school, the Management Development Institute of Singapore (MDIS), will be investing $100 million to develop an integrated campus which will include a 15-storey hostel and teaching facilities as well as a new six-storey administrative wing in Stirling Road. The groundbreaking ceremony for the
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    • Article, Illustration
      167 9 Travel road show stirs interest TAKING India on the road is one of the latest measures taken by Indiatourism to let the rest of the world know that it is still a great holiday destination, despite the global economic downturn and the terrorist attacks on Mumbai in
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    • singapore news
      • 90 9 THE Nanyang Technological University associate professor who was stabbed by a final-year engineering student left the National University Hospital on March 4, three days after the attack. Prof Chan Kap Luk, 45, who suffered injuries to his back and right hand, supervised Indonesian David Hartanto Widjaja, 21,
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      • 119 9 MORE than 10,000 workers are likely to be laid off in the first three months of this year, said labour chief Lim Swee Say who gave an early estimate of retrenchment numbers on March 3. It is an increase from 7,000 layoffs in the
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      • 81 9 THE death toll from the spill at Chemic Industries makes it one of the worst industrial accidents in recent years. A fourth worker died of his injuries from a nitric acid spill which occurred on Feb 27 at the Tuas factory. Mr Arumugam Mahadevan, 20,
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      • 126 9 TWO Singapore residents are among the 50 shortlisted for the “best job in the world”. Mr Greg Reynen and Mr Jimmy Wong were picked from a staggering field of 34,684 applicants from over 22 countries vying for a chance to be caretaker of Hamilton
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    • Article, Illustration
      901 10  -  JADED?Indian movie fans say it’s time for cleaner halls, better seats and an upgraded sound system SHEELA NARAYANAN longer. sheela@sph.com.sg IT’S the weekend. You’ve got the samosas. You’re with the family. Everyone’s excited about watching the latest Bollywood hit... and then you sink into a broken seat with smelly
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    • 245 11 500 Bus shelters to be constructed in various parts of Chennai. Total cost: Rs65 crores Rs30 lakhs Amount spent on an indoor stadium by the Ulhasnagar Municipal Corporation in 1987. It has never hosted a sports event. 30New aircraft from Boeing and Airbus Industrie that will be delivered
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    • 318 11 “Modi is a bachcha (boy). Pawar has insulted Gandhiji by comparing me with him.” Gujarat chief minister Narendra Modi on being compared to Mahatma Gandhi by Nationalist Congress Party president Sharad Pawar “Now we have a story to tell people!” Swedish tourist Anton Johannson who was disappointed
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    • 431 13  -  Use natural colours to protect yourself and the environment BHAVANIPRAKASH Bhavani Prakash is an ardent green living advocate.She can be contacted at bhavani@ecowalkthetalk.com ON MARCH 11, the most vibrant of Indian festivals Holi will herald the arrival of summer. In India, people take
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  • EDUCATION
    • 477 12  -  There’s more to school than homework and exams. That’s why tabla! has this page for students of the three Indian schools here, to play reporter and photographer (This page is rotated among the schools. Next week, GIIS) RIMJHIM RELAN, Class 8B MENTION bowling
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    • SCHOOL SNAPSHOTS
      • 202 12  -  ASHISH ABRAHAM, Class 5B IT WAS an exciting day for the boys of Classes 4 and 5. The inter-house cricket competition was to be held among the four houses Lake, Oasis, Glacier and Spring. The afternoon was spent on the cricket field with the sun blazing
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      • Article, Illustration
        51 12  -  KOENA SAMADDAR, Class K2B I WENT to explore Underwater World in Sentosa. I was very excited to see the aquatic life so close to me. I learnt that the fishes breathe through their gills. I enjoyed this trip with my friends and teachers. I would like to go
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      • 192 12  -  ROSHAN ATREYA, Class 6B WE HAD a barter exercise in class during a recent geography lesson. Bartering is an ancient system in which people trade their objects with others. We were very excited about the activity we were going to do. In the beginning of
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    • 90 13 DPS INTERNATIONAL SCHOOL SINGAPORE *7<vic& (kaneti cn t&e fcelct education IGCSE and GCE-A level option alongwith Indian curriculum. New Kindergarten classrooms instituted to cater to new admissions. New classrooms and laboratory for IGCSE A level and senior students. f UNIVERSITY of CAMBRIDGE International Examinations CAMBRIDGE INTERNATIONAL CENTRE i 3 Admissions
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  • ENTERTAINMENT
    • 285 14 AKSHAY Kumar and Sanjay Dutt have apparently been falling over themselves to give Australian pop princess Kylie Minogue a good time in Mumbai. The Australian singer is in Mumbai to shoot a song and a few scenes for the movie Blue which co-stars Akshay,
      Twinkle; top, PHOTOS: IANS  -  285 words
    • 818 14 Petite Sourabhee Debbarma is the first female winner of the contest SHE was the darling of the judges. They even called her the Indian Shakira. In the end, she turned out to be the darling of the audience too. Petite Sourabhee Debbarma created his- history
      PHOTOS: IANS  -  818 words
    • 391 15  -  MAULI SINGH proud Bollywood News Service DIA Mirza, 27, has half-a-dozen films lined up this year Acid Factory, Alibaug, Kaun Bola, Johnny Mastana, Kissan and Familywala. The girl with the good-girl image says she thoroughly enjoyed being a bad girl in Acid Factory. Why did we
      proud Bollywood News Service; PHOTO: BNS  -  391 words
    • 629 16  -  ...like that of Amitabh and Abhishek Bachchan, but others fall flat TANVEER BOOKWALA saga. Bollywood News Service PITTING real-life fathers and sons against each other in the movies has yielded some mixed results in Bollywood. Be it Rakesh and Hrithik Roshan in Koi Mil Gaya, where
      saga. Bollywood News Service; PHOTOS: BNS  -  629 words
    • 295 16 SHILPA Shetty speaks a smattering of Chinese these days. Not surprising since she’s been spending time with Chinese actor Xia Yu (below, with Shilpa) while shooting Indo-Chinese co-production The Desire. A source close to Shilpa told the website StarBoxOffice.com that this interaction with Xia Yu has helped
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  • FOOD
    • 428 17  -  Chellas has done something unusual with the humble idli SHEELA NARAYANAN sheela@sph.com.sg WHENEVER I am in Serangoon Road, I get a chaat attack. Call it a Pavlovian thing, or whatever. But I reckon it is the smells of Little India that set it off or the Saturday
      PHOTOS: CHELLAS, TABLA  -  428 words
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  • RELAX
    • 68 18/19 KING LEAR IN KATHAKALI Bhaskar’s Arts Academy will transform William Shakespeare’s classic tragedy King Lear into a Kathakali dance drama. The this production The songs in this production are written by poet P. Narayana Kurup. They will be sung live by vocalists, traditional accompanied by
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    • 643 18/19 MUSIC FOR HEALING Featuring vocals by Dr M. Harre Harren, Music For Healing will comprise melodies, rhythmic tones and ragas in improvisation with the instrumental ensemble. Dr Harren will sing from a selection of classical Indian compositions from the 14th to 18th century. Prior to the performance there
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    • TV HIGHLIGHTS
      • friday
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          95 18/19 2pm VTV Shanmugham aka Thotta (Jeevan, above with Priyamani) suffers a blow early in life when his father abandons his mother. When she dies, a police officer adopts him but he grows up to be a hired gun, extortionist and errand boy for a gang. Hired to throw acid
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        • 42 18/19 9.30pm VASANTHAM (Kannada) Hoovaiah (Vishnuvardhan), a jasmine farmer, is against a political and multinational organisation buying 10 villages and a river for mining purposes. Things get complicated when a group of Naxalites join the fight against the big company.
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      • saturday
        • 58 18/19 3pm ZEE TV Newlyweds Raj and Priya (Salman Khan and Rani Mukherjee, below with Preity Zinta) are disappointed when they find out that she can’t have children. Raj is worried his family’s lineage might end with him. Enter bar dancer Madhu (Preity) who is persuaded by
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        • 58 18/19 2pm VTV Bothers Ram Mohan (Abbas)and Siva (Raja Sridhar) stage a robbery in Pondicherry. They are caught by the police but manage to escape. While fleeing, they kill a bank customer who happens to be Sundaram’s (Prasanna) sister. Ram heads for the US but Sundaram, seeking revenge, kidnaps
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        • 51 18/19 9pm VASANTHAM Blacksmith Kottai (Jeeva) goes to Chennai with his friend Vellaiyan (Kanja Karuppu). Kailasam (Ravi Kale), who is the local don, hires them to make tools for cutting timber. When Kottai falls for dance teacher Gayatri (Poonam Bajwa), he finds trouble... Kailasam’s son has his eyes on her
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      • sunday
        • 44 18/19 3pm ZEE TV Sandhya Rajan (Mamta Kulkarni), after witnessing the brutal murder of her forest officer father by dacoit Jagira (Mukesh Tiwari), asks Colonel Krishnakant Puri (Om Puri) and his band of disgraced soldiers to end the dacoit’s rule over the valley.
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        • 58 18/19 5.30pm VASANTHAM Balaiah (Surya) is a fun-loving tourist guide, a prankster who roams around with his friend Satyaraj (Sathyan) to earn extra cash through petty thieving. Their problems start when they graduate to house breaking. Their first attempt to break into Jyotika’s house (the actress plays herself) ends badly
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      • monday
        • 55 18/19 11.30am SONY ENT Kundan (Mithun Chakraborty) is a college student devoted to his father and sister. When it is time for his sister’s marriage, the groom’s family demands a hefty dowry. The family ends up penniless, his father dies of a heart attack and his sister kills herself. Kundan
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        • 59 18/19 9pm VTV Guru (Rajnikanth) and Babu (Prabhu) are two petty thieves who meet Pandiyan while serving time in jail. Pandiyan tells them he was unjustly thrown in jail because he tried to go against bigwig Muthuraj (Radha Ravi) who had killed his sister. The two promise to find
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      • tuesday
        • 76 18/19 11.30am SONY ENT A pair of twins (played by Ajay Devgan, above) are separated and end up on different sides of the Indo-Pakistan border. Tauheed grows up to be a devout Muslim while Ajay is a Hindu. With the ongoing rivalry between the two countries, they find
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        • 85 18/19 Mn VTV Vikram (Kunal) runs a modelling centre and loves playing practical jokes. He falls for Swetha (Monal) and wins her over after considerable wooing. Priya (Mamta) joins his agency as a model and Vikram asks her to pose as his lover to play a trick on
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      • wednesday
        • 44 18/19 11.30am SONY ENT This 1977 film is about two friends, Shiva (Amitabh Bachchan) and Aslam (Vinod Khanna), who are separated by religious riots during their youth. Having grown up thinking the other is dead, they meet again years later as mortal enemies.
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        • 45 18/19 5pm VTV A college student (Dhanush) is the son of a garbage lorry driver (Manivannan) and lives in a slum with his family. He picks a fight with a greedy moneylender and a don (Pasupathy), who in a fit of rage kills his father.
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        • Article, Illustration
          34 18/19 9pm VTV Saket Ram (Kamal Hassan, below with Shah Rukh Khan) is a South Indian Brahmin who journeys from religious hatred to love with the theme of India’s partition in the background.
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      • thursday
        • 85 18/19 11.30am SONY ENT Ramji (Madhavan, above) a talented cook from Bihar heads for London to take up a job to pay for his sister’s dowry. When he gets there, his employer has disappeared. Without shelter and money, he manages to lose his passport and visa too. Eventually an
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        • 61 18/19  -  2pm VTV Compiled by Surendar Kaur Compiled by Surendar Kaur Azhagar (Jai), Paraman (Sasikumar) and Kasi (Ganja Karuppu) are three friends who become henchmen to ex-councillor Somu, who dreams of making it big in politics. Somu always helps them out when they get into trouble. When his political plans
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    • Article, Illustration
      189 18/19  -  DEREK O’BRIEN 1) Which city saw a Great Plague from 1664 to 1666 and a Great Fire in 1666? a) London b) Paris c) Berlin 2) What is the main ingredient of the food “petha”? a) Aurum b) White pumpkin c) Potato 3) Which of these vehicles can travel
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    • 65 18/19 Listings on this page are free. Write to: tabla!, 1000 Toa Payoh North, Tower Block, Level 5, Singapore *****4; fax: 6319-8311 or e-mail: tabla@sph.com.sg at least two weeks ahead. Include the name of the event, organiser, venue, date and time, ticket prices and your name, address and contact number. Send
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  • Page 18/19 Miscellaneous
    • 290 18/19 CROSSWORD ACROSS 1 Son of Henry I 6 It may be found under a top 9 Main points 14 Stale French bread? 15 Lithium-___ battery 16 Waterlocked land 17 February 14 devotees 19 Like hot fudge 20 King’s superior 21 Bit of dust 22 Barker who offered prizes 23 Lemonlike
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    • 104 18/19 SUDOKU 3 2 1 7 7 5 3 6 2 9 1 6 7 2 4 1 5 P lb bdk 4 7 5 1 6 7 8 5 3 8 5 6 9 The objective is to place the digits 1 to 9 only, once in each of the
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  • Page 20 Miscellaneous
    • 441 20 FUTURE SPEAKS Aries You could acquire fame and ornaments. Expect love towards the family and enmity towards friends. Healthwise, gas and acidity could strike. Land may be lost and there could be opposition from domestic help, spouse, children and siblings. Taurus Mental agony and anger may increase. There may be
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    • 112 20 SOLUTIONS crossword quiz 1) London 2) White pumpkin 3) Hovercraft 4) Jerry Lewis 5) Batik 6) Ostrich 7) Robin 8) Watches 9) Germany 10) Brussels sudoku what am i? 4 3 9 2 5 1 7 6 8 7 5 1 6 3 8 9 4 2 6 8 2
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  • TECH
    • 605 21  -  High resolution of Sony’s new digital camera cuts the need for zoom lenses GEOFFREY PEREIRA ACCORDING to estimates on the Internet, you’d need a digital camera with resolving power of between 8 and 12 megapixels to match the resolution of 35mm film. This means that, at
      using Sony’s Alpha 900 (left). PHOTOS: GEOFFREY PEREIRA  -  605 words
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  • SPORTS
    • 525 22  -  Local Cricket Weekend Report HEMANT KENKRE RAIN played spoilsport once again as most of last weekend’s Singapore Cricket Association league fixtures were washed out. The only premier league game played, between Singapore Recreation Club Kings (SRC) and Ceylon Sports Club 1 (CSC) at the SCA Kallang
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    • 141 22 that,” Indo-Asian News Service AFTER winning the first one-day international in New Zealand, Indian skipper Mahendra Singh Dhoni (below) says the team needs a third seamer. “We need to figure out the third-seamer department,” he said. “The ball stops doing much to assist the seamers, and
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    • Article, Illustration
      769 23 Vroom oomph New McLarenMercedes engine gives Force India the vroom, while Deepika Padukone provides the oomph DON’T be surprised if Force India makes a podium finish this year. Equipped with a McLaren-Mer-cedes engine, liquor baron Vijay Mallya’s cars are burning up the test track in Jerez, Spain. They are not
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    • 1041 24  -  The wounds will heal, but the scars of the brutal attack on the Sri Lankan cricket team in Lahore will remain forever star column Harsha Bhogle Harsha Bhogle tabla@sph.com.sg LIKE on far too many days in this part of the world, a bullet left on March
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