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LAST WEEK, representatives of the many Californians that live and work along the coast met in the Monterey Bay area to discuss practical ways of protecting the health of the ocean while allowing for sustainable economic growth. This Mayors Ocean Summit, the first of its kind in California, included the mayors, city managers and councilmembers from 14 California cities including Santa Cruz, as well as Congressmember Sam Farr and Assemblymember Bill Monning. Many of these leaders have had success mitigating our impacts on the ocean, including ways to eliminate the use of polystyrene and single-use plastic bags. Such containers kill hundreds of thousands of seabirds, marine mammals and turtles a year through ingestion and entanglement. They are an eyesore and a detriment to human health. Plastic bag cleanup alone costs Californians some $25 million a year. As the executive director of the United Nations Environment Program Achim Steiner notes, single-use plastic bags should be banned or phased out rapidly everywhere. There is simply zero justification for manufacturing them anymore, anywhere.

The Mayors Summit was about more than just plastic litter. It was about recognizing that we all have a shared past and future dependent on healthy oceans, and that efforts to protect them are now paramount in the face of climate change and ocean acidification. The multiple threats of pollution, unsustainable fishing and habitat destruction reduce the natural resilience of ocean ecosystems, undermining their natural ability to buffer the effects of a warming, CO2-heavy atmosphere.

We do not yet fully understand the magnitude of change were likely to see with climate change and ocean acidification, though many effects are already on our doorstep. The Arctic Ocean is among the first to feel these effects, seen in a drastically reduced sea ice extent that threatens wildlife and the very livelihoods of indigenous communities. As the ice melts, more dark ocean is revealed. The darker surface absorbs more solar energy than the reflective ice, leading to an ever-increasing positive feedback loop that will likely impact a far greater area than the Arctic alone. In California, winter storm tracks and precipitation patterns may change, sea level could rise if the Greenland ice shelf melt accelerates, and wildlife migration patterns such as those of the California gray whale could alter.

In addition to regional efforts like those of our mayors and representatives in Congress and the Legislature, efforts must be taken by the Obama Administration to set this nation on a path of sustainable living through scientifically sound, responsible management of our ocean resources, and continuing a stewardship ethic based on reason and wisdom, with this and future generations in mind. The administration is currently gathering public comments on just such an Ocean Policy. The California hearing is on Sept. 17 in San Francisco. Oceana has recommended they implement a comprehensive ocean policy based on science that will protect, maintain and restore the health of our ocean, coastal and Great Lakes ecosystems. We urge all Californians to add your voices to the discussion. Time is running out for our oceans, but it is not too late. For the sake of the next generation, we all need to make waves now.

Jim Ayers is vice president of Oceana and was a presenter at the Mayors Ocean Summit. Based in Juneau, Alaska, he previously served as chief of staff to Gov. Tony Knowles and headed the Exxon Valdez cleanup.

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Bill Kocher, DirectorSanta Cruz Water Department

Laura Brown, General ManagerSoquel Creek Water District

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refrigeration, storage and temperature holding equipment, among other challenges.

They no longer have anywhere for the kids to sit down and eat, says Beth Collins, one of the food system consultants who conducted the assessment. The kitchens are in very poor condition, if you can even call them kitchens.

Pajaro Valley Unified School District faces similar obstacles, according to Sue Brooks, who held the position of food service director from 1994 until last year. In the process of building the central kitchen, other kitchens were transformed into satellites, primarily responsible for storing and reheating meals, she says. At some schools, dishwashers were ripped out and replaced with freezers. In others, freezers were converted to refrigerators. Newer schools were built without fully-equipped kitchens to save costs and square footage.

Unhappy Meals

After paying for labor, which often accounts for about 60 percent of a food service departments budget, districts are left with a little over $1 to prepare a nutritious meal of meat or protein, grains,

fruits and vegetables and milk.

Deciding what goes on the menu is often an act of juggling pennies, where spending 30 cents extra on an entree could wipe out the entire budget for fruits and vegetables.

The dollar for an entree is usually the breaker, Meschi says. Once in a while, we might put on something thats a dollar, but we could not afford to do that every day.

Most of what the district can scrape together are processed items like chicken tenders, corn dogs and hamburgers that they can get for 50 to 60 cents from large distributors. However, there is a daily vegetarian option, and all entrees are served with a choice of fresh fruits, vegetables and milk.

While some would argue that the district is still serving what looks like fast food to the most needy students, kitchen manager Paula Barajas said

meals have to meet certain federal guidelines that regulate fats, carbohydrates, sodium and cholesterol. The state has gone even further by banning the sale of candy and soda and raising reimbursement rates for districts that eliminate transfat, the nonessential fat that has been linked with higher risk of heart disease, and fried food from their lunches.

When people see a corn dog on our menu, theyre thinking, Oh my God, thats terrible, Barajas says, but its not deep fat fried, it has some whole grain cornmeal in it. Were using a chicken or turkey dog, so were trying to be as healthy as we can in those areas.

Still others like Hawthorne maintain that schools can do better in addressing the countrys childhood obesity and Type-II diabetes epidemic by introducing kids to more nutritious foods at an earlier age.

Schools are absolutely key in changing our national health crisis and providing the educational tools for students, families and communities to pave the pathway to wellness, she says.

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James Smith to head the nutrition services department and help move the district away from the heat-and-serve food model in favor of a scratch-cooking system.

Although Smith has a background in culinary arts, he will have to wait some time before the infrastructure is in place to start sauting student lunches. In the meantime, the district has decided to outsource elementary and middle school meals to Revolution Foods, an Oakland-based vendor dedicated to offering fresh-cooked entrees comprised of organic and local ingredients whenever possible.

Revolution Foods 17,000-square-foot Oakland kitchen opens at 3am, but preparation like grating cheese and mixing vinaigrettes could begin as early as the day before delivery. Meals are cooked on-site then chilled for the daily ride over the hill to Santa Cruz before being reheated again upon serving.

Some critics worry about complications en route from Oakland or question whether the district could produce similar meals itself, but Hawthorne maintains that the contract is an interim step to ensure quality food while the district assesses how to improve its facilities.

We need someone to help us create options to provide healthier foods, she says. Right now we didnt have another option.

Founder and CEO of Revolution Foods Kristin Richmond said the companys mission is to transform school meals nationwide and raise expectations for how students are fed.

I think bringing real food back into schools is so important as we try to build life-long healthy eating habits among our

students, Richmond says. They can see the food theyre eating and identify it and recognize that it doesnt come from a package or the freezer at a convenience store.

While Stephanie Raugust, nutrition coordinator at Pacific Elementary School District in Davenport, agrees that scratch cooking is the best way to offer healthy meals, she thinks outsourcing ignores the real need to put kitchens back in schools. Raugust runs the food lab at Pacific Elementary, which uses the kitchen as an opportunity to teach kids nutrition education and life skills as they prepare daily meals for students and staff.

Students learn to apply skills they will use throughout their lives, Raugust says. They wont have to rely on processed food, or fast food to meet their needs. They learn to do it for themselves.

Parents, food service staff and educators alike are looking toward the reauthorization of the Child Nutrition Act Sept. 30, 2009, to provide needed support for struggling departments trying to include more scratch-cooked food, fruits, vegetables and local ingredients in their programs.

The Child Nutrition Act, which governs federal child feeding programs including the National School Lunch Program, is renewed every five years to address funding levels, health standards and ways to improve child nutrition.

For Meschi and others like her in the trenches, nothing will happen until the public funds its schools.

We all want to do whats right for kids, Meschi says, but it always comes down to: what is it going to cost?

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ITS HARD TO BELIEVE that Rwanda, a nation nearly destroyed by civil war 15 years ago, has it over Santa Cruz in the eco-conscious department, but there it is: it and 18 other developing nations have banned plastic bags. We havent.

At least not yet. Last Friday mayors and councilmembers from 13 coastal California cities gathered at West Marine in Watsonville for a closed-door session on how to eradicate polystyrene containers and single-use plastic bags. A half-dozen marine protection NGOs and prominent business leadersincluding Walter Rob, co-president of the Whole Foods chainchimed in. U.S. Rep. Sam Farr, Assemblyman Bill Monning and former Assemblyman John Laird lent their clout to the proceedings.

After polystyrene, plastic bags are the next target for many coastal communities. The flimsy sacks we take groceries home in552 of them each year if youre a Californiandont degrade, they just break up into tiny pieces. They get in the waterways and choke marine life. They may be changing the oceans chemistry. All good reasons, one might think, to ban them outright.

The resulting resolution from the summit, though, is mildly worded, pledging the signatories to work together and in our communities reduce and eliminate polystyrene and single-use plastic bags. Pacific Grove Mayor and summit organizer Dan Cort, who sits on a key council of the nonprofit Oceana, explained why the cities are moving cautiously (for one thing, the event was closed to reporters).

The industry is so rough, he said, referring to the plastic bag manufacturers. Theyre suing Palo Alto, Manhattan Beach. Im not afraid of a battle, he added. Im afraid of 10 million plastic bags in the ocean.

Monning says the industry senses a threat and is gearing up for a battle royal. The American Chemistry Council has a $10 million campaignPlastics Are Cooltargeting kids, he says. Because today its plastic bags and Styrofoam. Tomorrow its all the plastic packaging.

The war is already on. Last year the

Save the Plastic Bag Coalitionnot a jokesued Manhattan Beach over its implementation of a plastic bag ban on grounds that the city hadnt done an Environmental Impact Report on the increased use of paper bags (again, not a joke). The news hit the Santa Monica City Council just as it was readying a draft ban of its own, says Santa Monica Mayor Ken Genser. Our attorney said, Lets just do [the EIR], and we decided to work with a consortium of cities creating a Master Environmental Assessment, says Genser.

That process, which involved eight citiesPalo Alto, San Clemente, Richmond, Manhattan Beach, Pasadena, San Francisco, Los Angeles and Santa Monicacame temporarily to a halt when the state governmental body preparing the assessment lost its funding in the California budget bloodbath. Some of the mayors at Fridays summit are planning to join the coalition in the hopes that having a master report available to all California cities will forestall CEQA-related lawsuits by the industry.

A number of lively discussions reportedly peppered the daywhether biodegradable plastic is acceptable, what to do with dog poopbut one thing attendees seemed to agree on is that the environmental effects of plastic pollution are far-reaching. We need to link the environmental debate to the health care debate, said Monning. We can have a public option, but if asthma rates are spiking because of all the stuff in the air.

Jim Ayers, vice-president of Oceana, put the debate in a larger context. Switching to paper isnt enough, he said. Recycling isnt enough. Even carrying a canvas bag isnt enough.

We need to change as people. And this is the debate, he says. We want people to tell us that we can keep doing what were doing and have it be OK. Thats a lie. We cant keep consuming the way were consuming and leave behind a world thats habitable.

Recycling is a good idea, but the answer is to consume less and reuse. People have to change more rapidly than they want to.

Read more news, opinion and features at www.santacruz.com/news.

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I DROVE to San Juan Bautista for the final Cabrillo Music Festival concert on a Sunday night several weeks ago. It was a rousing, loud, stimulating performance of four modern pieces. But the real charge for me was the gathering of so many people, many of whom I know, in and around the mission church.

We began watching for familiar faces at Los Jardines, the restaurant started

by music festival supporter and artist Manny Santana decades ago, where weve often eaten. Walking from there to the huge 19th-century village square in front of the mission, the twilight cooled by fog and tinged by the slight scent of smoke from the Lockheed fire, we returned to a friendly place where our young children once romped around on the grass.

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THEYVE come from around the country and the world to gather on the bare concrete floor of an empty office

building and talk shop. A sea of laptop-clutching writers, photographers, graphic designers, IT specialists, engineers, public relations officials and advertisement representatives with one thing in common: they never want to work for another boss again.

Welcome to Freelance Camp, says Shane Pearlman as the folks file

in to the second annual seminar at the vacant Rittenhouse Building in downtown Santa Cruz.

Pearlman, along with business partner Peter Chester, are freelance problem solverstechnology experts and contractors for hire who work with companies to streamline their communications and web services. And as evangelists for the freelance way, they are practicing what they preach.

Their company, austerely dubbed Shane & Peter, is a kind of freelance

co-op in which they recruit teams of self-employed professionals to tackle whatever problem a company might throw at them. By keeping a thick Rolodex of vetted specialists, Chester and Pearlman are able to tailor a staff to the needs of a particular project. And since the workers arent full-time employees, the duo can avoid paying health insurance, 401ks and other costly employee benefits for a savings, they say, thats passed on to their clients.

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Chester says his company only hires reputable full-time freelancers, not people looking to do something since they got fired.

Id say out of 10 people we interview for a gig, one or two are serious freelancers, says Chester. The co-op thing is kind of like communismit can work great under the right circumstances, but you either need someone to keep everyone in line, or only use people that are good at keeping themselves in line. I sometimes think of us as more of a dictatorship, because Shane is always there to make sure things are on track.

Whether part of a co-op or not, the 200 or so freelancers at the Aug. 15 Freelance Camp are part of a growing sector of the workforce. Thanks to technology like laptops and wireless Internet, individual workers are trading cubicles, copy machines and suits and ties for coffeehouses, Blackberries and sweat pants as more people find theyre able to package, market and deliver

products all on their ownor find themselves downsized out of traditional employment (see sidebar, page 26).

In Santa Cruz, the move toward freelancing is especially striking. Shared office spaces like NextSpace in Santa Cruz and the Satellite in Felton provide Internet, shipping reception and meeting spaces on a part-time schedule, and for a fraction of the cost of traditional office space rentals.Teresa Thomae, director of the Central Coast Small Business Development Center, says shes seen a huge increase in self-starters over the last year. The boom, she says, stems from the slumping economy and unstable corporations that offer little in the way of job security.

In every economic downturn we see an increase in people looking to become freelancers, says Thomae. Instead of being an employee, they want to be their own boss. Not necessarily to hire a bunch of employees and grow a real business, but to create a job for

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rejected as too Nazi, but when Phillips went back through his scrap pile and found an issue of Time magazine with Pope John Paul II wearing the iron cross on his vestments, the bosses gave it the thumbs up.

And then, in 1985, Phillips drew the Screaming Hand. An intense turquoise, except for dark ruby where severed cartoon arteries dangle and a tongue protrudes from a gaping mouth in the palm, the hand became his signature image.

The screaming hand is debatably one of the most famous skateboard images, I would say, says Matt Bass, a Venice Beachbased filmmaker working on a documentary about skateboard art

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drew his first Santa Cruz Skateboards logo for a new wheel called the Road Rider. It was an innocent-looking image: a wheel with wings on either side. Skaters would f ly, that image said, but there was more to it. It was iconic and it was humoroustwo things that marked Phillips work. Soon after came the distinctive slanted Santa Cruz logo that eventually wound up inside the red dot (Phillips gives credit for the dot to Jay Shuirman, the S in NHS, now the parent company of Santa Cruz Skateboards. My most famous logo, Phillips says in mock despair, and I cant even take credit for it!). In 1979, asked to come up with an image for the companys new groundbreaking Independent trucks, Phillips suggested the iron cross. It was

gory character or other hardcore design, he looks more Jedi knight than Pied Piper to a generation of skate rats obsessed with grinding any and all unattended curbs. But though Phillips, whos literally a grandpa, jokes about being old, those long years have served him well. By the time he left the industry in 1990, he was a legend, and he remains so today. This Friday, when a new exhibit of skateboard art and design opens at the Museum of Art and History, Phillips work will be honored alongside the contributions of engineers at NHS and skaters like Keith Meek, Judi Oyama and Don Bostick, not to mention other artists including his son Jimbo.

Phillips work goes back to skateboardings early days. In 1975, he

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IN A GARAGE in a middle-class neighborhood at the edge of Santa Cruz, the improbable is happening. Decades after he created some of the most enduring images in the genre, the artist whose name is virtually synonymous with Santa Cruz Skateboards is once again drawing pop-eyed monsters, warhorses and nubile mermaids for skateboard decks so the youth of today can thrash in style. Jim Phillips is back.

Even next to his old work, the new designs are intense and appropriately over the top. Theyre also recognizable even to nonskaters, as in the case of the bloodshot-eyed, razor-fanged cartoon monster Slasher. Its like months have elapsed since Phillips last skateboard design, not years. Santa Cruz Skateboards upcoming fall catalog shows four of his models; they want him to do two sets of designs a year, presumably for as long as the wave of vintage cool keeps on peeling.

Its just crazy, says Phillips, shaking his head. Hes tall, with iron-gray hair combed back from his forehead and a gentle demeanor. Im really excited to be able to relate as an old guy to these kids in their teens.

Its hard to square the man with his artistic output. Standing in his garage studio with dozens of decks on the walls, each festooned with a comically

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PRAISE THE BOARD: 35 YEARS OF SKATEBOARD DESIGN & INNOVATION opens Friday, Sept. 4, with a free 6:308:30pm reception at the Museum of Art and History, 705 Front St., Santa Cruz. 831.429.1964. Exhibit ends Sept. 27.

called Sk8face (the trailer will run at as part of this months MAH exhibit).I would say that thing is eternal. Theyll be selling that thing forever.

Today a small empire has sprung up of plastic Screaming Hand figurines, stickers, posters and, most recently, oven mitts and barbecue aprons. To be able to market this stuff makes a big difference, says Phillips.

Asked how he came up with the image, Phillips flips to a page in one of his three published books and points to a drawing done when he was just a kid. Its a sketch of a busy surf town scene. There, in the back, a lone hand rises from behind a wall, threatening or begging for help, its hard to know. Its somebody back there yelling or drowning, you know, AAAH! Phillips says. Your hands are the things you see the most in your life. Michaelangelo used themGod and Adam. Its just the angst of everything. It expresses the unexpressible.

The hand is also kind of funny. A lot of Phillips work has a streak of dark or insane humor, which makes for a form of irreverence thats more mischievous than malevolent. Its part of the reason he was drawn to fleshy monsters while his Southern California counterparts, like VC Johnson of Powell Peralta, were drawing skulls and bones. They have more personality, Phillips says of his bug-eyed, big-toothed gory creations. He adds, I like to have fun with it. I think humor is uplifting.

In the 80s, when the rivalry between Southern California and Northern California skateboard companies was at its height, Johnson and Phillips collaborated on a design called MC Who. Modeled after an Escher painting, it featured a

skeletal hand and a blue screamy hand drawing each other. They were our biggest competition, says Phillips, so for us to come together as artists was really something. And we really got along. I went down there and painted it with him.

That was a time when images stayed around, says filmmaker Bass. When Santa Cruz and Jim Phillips were really on top of their game, their graphics would be on the shelves for a year or two, he says. They were really iconic. Whereas board graphics made today dont stay on the shelf or your psyche long enough to sink in.

Phillips is still making his designs the old-fashioned way, at least partly: drawing on paper, then making his way through a system of tracing and enlargements until finally its time to lay down the colors. For that he goes to the computer. But the result is still careful, rich and originalrare quality in a clip-art world. Phillips is carrying the torch for quality, lasting design.

Santa Cruz is one of the oldest living, breathing skateboard companies, says Bass. They have true authentic roots. You can still look at it as a hardcore skater and say, Thats mom and pop skateboard art. Thats a lineage. I look at Santa Cruz more as a lineage and a heritage than a skateboard company.

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fun-loving formula, plus six other like-minded rockers, that hell be have in tow when he shows up to rock Don Quixotes this weekend. Don Quixotes; $10; 8pm. (CC)

;716/3:0C@9AIt takes some serious chops to earn a nickname like Iron Man in the blues world. For Little Rock, Arkansas Michael Burks, it took eight years of nearly nonstop touring and a penchant for laying down epic, multihour sets for him to land the monolithic moniker. Now that hes got it, hes keeping it by delivering a brand of electric, amplifier-overloading blues and rock that would put an ear-to-ear grin on the faces of B.B. King and Jimi Hendrix alike. So if you like your guitar stings bent and your choruses howled, put a little iron in your diet at Moes this Friday. Moes Alley; $15 advance/$20 door; 9pm. (Curtis Cartier)

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Good Hair (Oct. 23), by ace comedian Chris Rock, takes its title from an African American expression: translated it means as nonkinky as possible. People of color still spend millions on gross chemicals and expensive procedure. The old-time corrosive methods of hair relaxationlye, gasoline or other causticshave changed but not the essential meaning of this war on nappiness. (Fun fact: Billie Holidays trademark gardenia is something she picked up to cover a hole burned in her hair.)

Capitalism: A Love Story (Oct. 2) is Michael Moores bouquet to the only system that could ever possibly work, world without end, amen. Twenty years after the fall of the Berlin Walland the capitulation of the much-feared competitionthe system is, well, just as you see it around you. Moores focus is more on this last year right after Wall Street got the U.S. government to find its checkbook for them. Get out your handkerchiefs: Moore tells a sad tale of poverty-stricken CEOs and bankers mewling for sustenance like abandoned kittens.

Speaking of our overlords, Crude (Sept. 25) is Joe Berlingers documentary concerning the $27 billion lawsuit that Ecuadorian natives brought against Chevron and Texaco (the company Chevron engulfed). And Earth Days (Sept. 11) charts the almost 40 years of Earth Day celebrations, with notes on the eco movement from astronauts to biologists. And the almost-documentary The Informant! (Sept. 18) presents Steven Soderberghs comedic version of a serious story about the unlikely whistleblower (played by Matt Damon) who helped nail Big Ags Archer Daniels Midland. Similarly, The Men Who Stare at Goats (Nov. 6) takes a true story and skews it a bit; its based on Guardian reporter Jon Ronsons book about the U.S. Armys attempts to create psychic assassins and soldiers who can walk through walls like Sprite from the X-Men.

In dutiful response to the calendar, Robert Zemeckis adaptation of A Christmas Carol (Nov. 6) pushes back the unavoidable holiday six weeks with a performance-captured animated version of Dickens, and Jim Carrey playing Scrooge and the three ghosts. The digitized Londonwith a Big Ben under construction scaffoldsis essential to this extravaganza.

And lastly, served up for Thanksgiving, The Princess and the Frog (Nov. 25)a New Orleansset version of The Frog Prince in traditional animation by Disneymay either be the continuation of a 75-year-old tradition of quality cartooning or the tombstone of it. And do we want to live in a world without f lat animation?

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27AB@71B'(R; 113 min.) Humans and alien refugees live in close and uncomfortable proximity in Johannesburg in dystopian sci-fi thriller by Neill Blomkamp. The story is told documentary style, as we follow the mysterious disappearance of Wikus (Sharito Copley), a human employee of Multi-National United. Included in this mix of images is also some kind of private footage, heavily digitally watermarked, that a secretive company like MNU wouldnt want aired. During a raid on the alien camp, Wikus is sprayed with some alien fluid. After this incident, we can cut and paste in much of David Cronenbergs version of The Fly, as the smarmy Wikus begins to mutate, losing his fingernails and teeth. The massive corporation he works for makes him a wanted man, and hes forced to get the help of one of the prawns. Producer Peter Jacksons hand is visible in the flawless animation of the bug creatures. All of the most interesting parts of this storyabout the otherness of the aliensare kept off-camera. (RvB)

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My pancakes brought me true restaurant breakfast joy. Full of f lavor and firm while still being moist, these pancakes were miles away from those airy balloons one gets at certain pancake chains. They were served, let me add, with a substantial scoop of butter. Enough butter, rather than the predictably too little butter.

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