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Bond-a-Thond: The Great, Big Wrap-Up Post
Well, we did it. After 23 weeks of spies, gadgets, and alarmingly unhealthy sexual behavior, MTV Movies Blog crossed the finish-line of the first ever Bond-a-Thond. Along the way, we kept an eye on some totals, chronicled the most memorable moments, and simply basked in the glory of 007 and the world of Ian Flemming. [...]
Rare Apparition of Dwarf Planet Makemake Reveals a Largely Airless World
Makemake briefly eclipsed a run-of-the-mill star last year, allowing astronomers to measure the dwarf planet's physical properties
CLEAR SKIES: An artist's conception of the dwarf planet Makemake depicts the world without a significant atmosphere. Image: ESO/L. Calcada/Nick Risinger (skysurvey.org)
A new look at the dwarf planet Makemake, one of the more recent additions to the known solar system, has pinned down some of the object's most basic?and important?attributes.
Astronomers took to observatories across South America in April 2011 to catch a rare glimpse of the dwarf planet?or at least its shadow?as Makemake (pronounced "mah-kee mah-kee") crossed in front of a faint background star and dimmed the star for about a minute. The duration of the occultation, as such celestial conjunctions are called, allowed the astronomers to more precisely estimate Makemake's physical size. The researchers reported their findings in the November 22 issue of Nature. (Scientific American is part of Nature Publishing Group.)
Perhaps more important than the new size measurement are the implications for a Makemakean atmosphere. The astronomers detected a sudden drop in starlight when Makemake?s occultation began, as if someone had suddenly switched the star to a lower wattage rather than dialing down a stellar dimmer switch. The sharpness of the occultation suggested that the dwarf planet lacks a significant global atmosphere, which would lend a fuzzy edge to its shadow. "If the decrease is abrupt, you see that there is not an atmosphere," says study co-author Noemi Pinilla-Alonso, a postdoctoral planetary scientist at the University of Tennessee Knoxville. By contrast, when Pluto passes in front of a star, "the decrease is gradual, which shows that there is an atmosphere."
Makemake, discovered in 2005, is one of five recognized dwarf planets, along with Ceres, Eris, Haumea and Pluto. Currently Makemake is near aphelion, the point farthest from the sun along its 307-year orbit in the Kuiper belt, a ring of comets and other icy objects beyond Neptune. Makemake's distance from the sun is presently more than 50 times that of Earth, placing the dwarf planet in an intermediate regime between the locations of Pluto and the more distant Eris. Whereas Pluto hosts a significant atmosphere, Eris's atmosphere appears to have frozen out and collapsed into a reflective surface layer.
Makemake may exist in an intermediate state, with only localized clouds of methane vaporized from the dwarf planet's sunward-facing side. "It doesn't have a global atmosphere, but it could have some local atmosphere," Pinilla-Alonso says. The researchers suspect that Eris, Pluto and Makemake all cycle through stages?from localized clouds to full-fledged atmosphere to atmospheric collapse?as the worlds move closer to, and then farther from, the sun.
Makemake does have methane frost on its surface, which should provide a ready supply of gas at the dwarf planet's warmer locales. "It absolutely has an atmosphere," says astronomer Mike Brown of the California Institute of Technology, who discovered Makemake in 2005, along with Chad Trujillo of Gemini Observatory in Hawaii and David Rabinowitz of Yale University. "It?s just a question of how much."
Makemake is only the latest of the dwarf planets to be carefully measured during an occultation. When Eris eclipsed a background star in 2010, astronomers found it to be a near-twin to Pluto in size (both are somewhat larger than Makemake). But opportunities to make detailed observations of Makemake during an occultation are few and far between. The dwarf planet passes in front of three or so background stars per year, but often the shadow from the occultation falls on a sunlit or cloudy part of Earth, or on a remote region without telescopes. The April 2011 occultation, which had been predicted the year before, cut right across South America, exposing Makemake to view from some of the world's premier observatories, including two European Southern Observatory facilities in Chile: the Very Large Telescope atop Cerro Paranal and the New Technology Telescope at La Silla in the Atacama Desert. According to Jos? Luis Ortiz of the Institute of Astrophysics of Andalusia in Spain, lead author of the new study, such opportunities arise only about once a decade. In all, the astronomers witnessed Makemake's occultation from seven telescopes across South America, which allowed for an unprecedentedly precise estimate of the object's diameter.
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Obama visit a sign of Myanmar's transformation
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Supporters of President Barack Obama and Myanmar pro-democracy leader Aung San Suu Kyi line the road outside Yangon University and wave after a convoy carrying Obama and Suu Kyi pass on Monday.
By Ian Williams, NBC News
YANGON, Myanmar --? Allison Morris stood in front of a crowded conference room in a downtown Yangon hotel and introduced a pair of would-be entrepreneurs called Team Optimist on Sunday, the eve of President Barack Obama's visit to Myanmar.
The team -- which lived up to their name -- then explained how they wanted to set up a sort of employment agency to bring back to Myanmar the skilled people who have fled or been forced abroad over the last five decades of military rule and economic stagnation.
Another couple then made a pitch for a recycling business, followed by a commercial college to teach traditional dance.
'New chapter': Obama makes history in Myanmar
"There's so much enthusiasm here," Morris told NBC News. She's an American, raised mostly in Asia, who moved here in August to set up Project Hub Yangon, designed to identify, encourage and launch young entrepreneurs, and the pitches were part of a contest she'd organized.
Her venture is based on a business model that grew out of the United States, mostly in Silicon Valley.
"Where else," she asked, "would they sell copies of the new foreign investment laws at traffic junctions -- alongside newspapers and soft drinks?"
She was referring to the new rules governing business investment here, which rather than gathering dust in a government office have been so eagerly sought after that they're being stocked and sold by the Yangon's street hawkers.
Indeed, after years of isolation, change has come to Myanmar. Obama, an embodiment of that change, on Monday became the first U.S. president to visit the country.
Pablo Martinez Monsivais / AP
President Obama speaks at Yangon University on Monday.
He was greeted by enthusiastic crowds in the former capital Yangon, and met President Thein Sein, a former junta member who has spearheaded reforms since taking office in March 2011, and opposition leader and fellow Nobel Peace Prize laureate Aung San Suu Kyi.
Another one of those in the audience of Morris? event was Naureen Nayyar, a?Burmese-American blogger who covers the tech scene. "I can't believe they're pitching real ideas," she said. "In Silicon Valley, it?s all apps."
In the gloom of dusk, at a nearby traffic circle workmen raised the U.S. and Myanmar flags alternately on flagpoles.?From a distance it looked like that historic photograph, "Raising the Flag on Iwo Jima." In its own way this too was historic, something that simply couldn't have been imagined just two years back.
Myanmar opposition leader and Nobel Peace Prize laureate Aung San Suu Kyi has been presented with Congress' highest award, the Congressional Gold Medal in honor of her leadership and commitment to human rights in Burma.
PhotoBlog: In reforming Myanmar, junta mouthpiece gets makeover
Also almost unbelievable was the scene a little further down the road -- a fashion show, complete with thumping music and flashing lights. It was grandly titled "The Myanmar Internal Fashion Week" and claimed to be the first and biggest show of its kind in the country.
It took place outside a shiny new shopping mall.
The show was packed. Crowds of people -- curious, bewildered even -- carried children on their shoulders, and strained for a glimpse of a show that ranged from scantily-clad young women in tight shorts to lavish wedding dresses.??
PhotoBlog: Models prepare for a fashion show in Myanmar
Myanmar is changing fast, from the crowded roads to the buzz of new business activity.?
Critics of the Obama?s visit say it is premature when so much remains to be done.
But if you look at where it stood just two years ago, the change after decades of isolation is still astounding --? from the release of political prisoners (with more just ahead of Obama's visit) to greater press freedom.?And of course the release of Aung San Suu Kyi along with her election as a member of parliament and partner in the reform process.
Suu Kyi's journey to global icon: A heartbreaking tale of personal sacrifice
It was appropriate that Obama chose Yangon University for a speech Tuesday. You could smell the fresh paint and lacquer after the authorities gave the dilapidated main hall a face lift for the occasion.
The university, long a center of protest and consequent repression, has seen it all -- hope, despair, and neglect. It played a key role in the independence movement and uprising against the generals, for which the students paid dearly.
More recently what was once one of the most famous and best regarded educational institutions in Asia was virtually closed by the military. Now there are hopes that it can restore its former glory.?
America's 'Pacific president'? Obama opens first post-election trip with visit to Thailand
Myanmar's renaissance will depend on rebuilding a shattered education system.
At the entrance of the university, where the military once hoisted Orwellian slogans, there are huge billboards advertising shoes, perfume and a line of fashion called Step.?"Step into the future," reads the slogan.
PhotoBlog: Obama's trip to Myanmar
Nearby, a group of policemen and security officials stood around chatting. One of their cellphones rang. The ringtone was "Gangnam Style," the South Korean pop song that became an international sensation earlier this year.
They didn't dance, but if they had it wouldn't have been surprising -- such is the almost surreal pace of change in Myanmar.
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Transit Of Venus
This image provided by NASA shows the Solar Dynamic Observatory's ultra-high-definition view of Venus, black dot at top center, passing in front of the sun on Tuesday, June 5, 2012. The next transit of Venus won't be for another 105 years. (NASA/Solar Dynamic Observatory/AP)
Transit of Venus
This image provided by NASA shows the image captured by Hinode on June 5, 2012 of the transit of Venus -- the last instance of this rare phenomenon until 2117. Hinode is a joint JAXA/NASA mission to study the connections of the sun's surface magnetism, primarily in and around sunspots. NASA's Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, Ala., manages Hinode. The Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory in Cambridge, Mass., is the lead U.S. investigator for the X-ray Telescope. (JAXA NASA/AP)
Stars Brewing in Cygnus X
A bubbling cauldron of star birth is highlighted in this image from NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope. Infrared light that we can't see with our eyes has been color-coded, such that the shortest wavelengths are shown in blue and the longest in red. The middle wavelength range is green. Massive stars have blown bubbles, or cavities, in the dust and gas--a violent process that triggers both the death and birth of stars. The brightest, yellow-white regions are warm centers of star formation. The green shows tendrils of dust, and red indicates other types of dust that may be cooler, in addition to ionized gas from nearby massive stars.
Dusty Space Cloud
This image shows the Large Magellanic Cloud galaxy in infrared light as seen by the Herschel Space Observatory, a European Space Agency-led mission with important NASA contributions, and NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope. In the instruments' combined data, this nearby dwarf galaxy looks like a fiery, circular explosion. Rather than fire, however, those ribbons are actually giant ripples of dust spanning tens or hundreds of light-years. Significant fields of star formation are noticeable in the center, just left of center and at right. The brightest center-left region is called 30 Doradus, or the Tarantula Nebula, for its appearance in visible light.
Dunes in Noachis Terra Region of Mars
This enhanced-color image shows sand dunes trapped in an impact crater in Noachis Terra, Mars. Dunes and sand ripples of various shapes and sizes display the natural beauty created by physical processes. The area covered in the image is about six-tenths of a mile (1 kilometer) across. Sand dunes are among the most widespread wind-formed features on Mars. Their distribution and shapes are affected by changes in wind direction and wind strength. Patterns of dune erosion and deposition provide insight into the sedimentary history of the surrounding terrain.
Viewing the South Pole of Vesta
This image obtained by the framing camera on NASA's Dawn spacecraft shows the south pole of the giant asteroid Vesta. Scientists are discussing whether the circular structure that covers most of this image originated by a collision with another asteroid, or by internal processes early in the asteroid's history. Images in higher resolution from Dawn's lowered orbit might help answer that question. The image was recorded with the framing camera aboard NASA's Dawn spacecraft from a distance of about 1,700 miles (2,700 kilometers). The image resolution is about 260 meters per pixel.
In, Around, Beyond Rings
A quartet of Saturn's moons, from tiny to huge, surround and are embedded within the planet's rings in this Cassini composition. Saturn's largest moon, Titan, is in the background of the image, and the moon's north polar hood is clearly visible. See PIA08137 to learn more about that feature on Titan (3,200 miles, or 5,150 kilometers across). Next, the wispy terrain on the trailing hemisphere of Dione (698 miles, or 1,123 kilometers across) can be seen on that moon which appears just above the rings at the center of the image. See PIA10560 and PIA06163 to learn more about Dione's wisps. Saturn's small moon Pandora (50 miles, or 81 kilometers across) orbits beyond the rings on the right of the image. Finally, Pan (17 miles, or 28 kilometers across) can be seen in the Encke Gap of the A ring on the left of the image. The image was taken in visible blue light with the Cassini spacecraft narrow-angle camera on Sept. 17, 2011. The view was obtained at a distance of approximately 1.3 million miles (2.1 million kilometers) from Dione and at a Sun-Dione-spacecraft, or phase, angle of 27 degrees. Image scale is 8 miles (13 kilometers) per pixel on Dione.
X-Ray image of Young Stars
Combining almost opposite ends of the electromagnetic spectrum, this composite image of the Herschel in far-infrared and XMM-Newton's X-ray images obtained January 20, 2012, shows how the hot young stars detected by the X-ray observations are sculpting and interacting with the surrounding ultra-cool gas and dust, which, at only a few degrees above absolute zero, is the critical material for star formation itself. Both wavelengths would be blocked by Earth's atmosphere, so are critical to our understanding of the lifecycle of stars . (AFP / Getty Images)
Active Galaxy Centaurus A
Resembling looming rain clouds on a stormy day, dark lanes of dust crisscross the giant elliptical galaxy Centaurus A. Hubble's panchromatic vision, stretching from ultraviolet through near-infrared wavelengths, reveals the vibrant glow of young, blue star clusters and a glimpse into regions normally obscured by the dust. (NASA / ESA / Hubble Heritage)
Ring of Fire
This composite image shows the central region of the spiral galaxy NGC 4151. X-rays (blue) from the Chandra X-ray Observatory are combined with optical data (yellow) showing positively charged hydrogen (H II) from observations with the 1-meter Jacobus Kapteyn Telescope on La Palma. The red ring shows neutral hydrogen detected by radio observations with the NSF's Very Large Array. This neutral hydrogen is part of a structure near the center of NGC 4151 that has been distorted by gravitational interactions with the rest of the galaxy, and includes material falling towards the center of the galaxy. The yellow blobs around the red ellipse are regions where star formation has recently occurred. (NASA / CXC / CfA / J. Wang)
Festival of Lights
WISE, NASA's Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer, has a new view of Barnard 3, or IRAS Ring G159.6-18.5, that is awash in bright green and red dust clouds. Interstellar clouds like these are stellar nurseries, where baby stars are being born. (UCLA / JPL-Caltech / NASA)
Pacman Nebula
In visible light, the star-forming cloud known as NGC 281 in the constellation of Cassiopeia appears to be chomping through the cosmos, earning it the nickname the "Pacman" nebula after the famous Pac-Man video game of the 1980s.
Remains of a Supernova.
This undated handout image provide by NASA combines data from four different space telescopes to create a multi-wavelength view of all that remains of the oldest documented example of a supernova, called RCW 86. NASA announced the findings Monday, Oct. 24, 2011, and said the exploded star was observed by the ancient Chinese in the year 185, and visible for eight months.
View from above
This image provided by NASA shows a night time image photographed by the Expedition 29 crew from the International Space Station on Oct. 16, 2011. It features airglow, Earth's terminator, Rocky Mountains, Denver-Colorado Springs (center-right), Santa Fe-Albuquerque (low-center-right), US Great Plains cities: Dallas-Oklahoma City, Kansas City and Chicago.
Messier 78
Messier 78 Nebula brings into focus a murky region of star formation. NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope exposes the depths of this dusty nebula with its infrared vision, showing stellar infants that are lost behind dark clouds when viewed in visible light. Messier 78 is easily seen in small telescopes in the constellation of Orion
An image released on October 3, 2011 show the Antennae Galaxies (also known as NGC 4038 and 4039) are a pair of distorted colliding spiral galaxies about 70 million light-years away, in the constellation of Corvus (The Crow). This view combines Atacama large milllimetre/submillimetre array (ALMA) observations, made in three different wavelength ranges during the observatory's early testing phase, with visible-light observations from the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope. Most of the ALMA test observations used to create this image were made using only twelve antennas working together -- far fewer than will be used for the first science observations. The first phase of operations at the ALMA complex in Chile's Atacama desert are underway on October 3, 2011 following ten years of construction. Alma's purpose is to study processes occurring a few hundred million years after the formation of the Universe when the first stars began to shine. Alma consists of an array of linked giant antennas on top of the highest plateau in the Atacama desert. AFP PHOTO/ALMA (ESO/NAOJ/NRAO) (Photo credit should read -/AFP/Getty Images)
1a Supernova Remnant
This undated photo shows a classic type 1a supernova remnant. Researchers Saul Perlmutter and Adam Riess of the United States and US-Australian Brian Schmidt won the 2011 Nobel Physics Prize on October 4, 2011 for their research on supernovae.
North America Nebula
A swirling a landscape of stars known as the North America Nebula. In visible light, the region resembles North America, but in this image infrared view from NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope, the continent disappears.
WISE Telescope
In this undated image taken by the WISE telescope a massive star is shown plowing through space dust. The result is a brilliant bow shock, seen here as a yellow arc.
Mercury Messenger
At 5:20 a.m. EDT on March 29,2011, the Messenger probe captured this historic image of Mercury. The image is the first ever obtained from a spacecraft in orbit of the solar system's innermost planet. (NASA)
SuperMoon
The full moon rises near the Lincoln Memorial on March 19 in Washington. The full moon was called a "Super Perigee Moon" since it was at its closest to Earth in 2011. The last full moon so big and close to Earth occurred in March 1993. (Bill Ingalls, NASA / AFP / Getty Images)
Celestial Shamrock
This image from NASA's Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer, or WISE, features a region of star birth wrapped in a blanket of dust, colored green in this infrared view. Designated as LBN 149.02-00.13, this interstellar cloud is made up of a shell of ionized gas surrounding a void with an extremely hot, bright star in the middle. (UCLA / JPL-Caltech / NASA)
Martian Gullies
This image from NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter shows portions of the Martian surface in unprecedented detail. The photo shows many channels from 1 meter to 10 meters wide (approximately 3 feet to 33 feet wide) on a scarp in the Hellas impact basin. Some larger channels on Mars that are sometimes called gullies are big enough to be called ravines on Earth. (NASA / AFP / Getty Images)
Cassini of Saturn/Titan
Saturn's largest moon, Titan, center, is 3,200 miles in diameter. The smaller moon Enceladus, far right, just over 300 miles across, appears just below the rings. The image was taken with the Cassini spacecraft wide-angle camera at a distance of approximately 524,000 miles from Titan. (SSI / JPL / NASA)
Discovery from the ISS
The space shuttle Discovery is seen from the International Space Station as the two orbital spacecraft accomplish their relative separation. During a post undocking fly-around, the crew of each vessel photographed the opposing craft. (NASA)
NGC 2841
This NASA image shows what the Hubble Space Telescope revealed in a majestic disk of stars and dust lanes in the spiral galaxy NGC 2841. A bright cusp of starlight marks the galaxy's center. Spiraling outward are dust lanes that are silhouetted against the population of whitish middle-aged stars. Much younger blue stars trace the spiral arms. NGC 2841 lies 46 million light-years away in the constellation of Ursa Major (The Great Bear). (Hubble Heritage / ESA / NASA)
Tempel 1
This image obtained by NASA's Stardust spacecraft shows Comet Tempel 1 at 11:39 p.m. EST on Feb. 14, 2011. The NASA spacecraft's flyby of the comet showed erosion on Tempel 1's surface since it skimmed by the sun in 2005 and revealed the first clear pictures of the crater made by a Deep Impact probe. (Cornell / JPL-Caltech / NASA)
Sun and Flares
A pair of active regions on the sun were captured in extreme ultraviolet light from the Solar Dynamic Observatory spacecraft over a three-day period. The magnetic field lines above the regions produced fluttering arcs waving above them, as well as a couple of flares. Another pair of smaller active regions emerges and trails behind the larger ones. (Solar Dynamics Observatory / NASA)
North America Nebula -- Feb 16, 2011
This view of the North America nebula combines both visible and infrared light observations, taken by the Digitized Sky Survey and NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope, respectively, into a single vivid picture. The nebula is named after its resemblance to the North American continent in visible light, which in this image is represented in blue hues. Infrared light, displayed here in red and green, can penetrate deep into the dust, revealing multitudes of hidden stars and dusty clouds.
Arp 147 composite black holes -- obtained Feb 15, 2011
This composite image of Arp 147, a pair of interacting galaxies located about 430 million light-years from Earth, shows X-rays from the NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory (pink) and optical data from the Hubble Space Telescope (red, green, blue) produced by the Space Telescope Science Institute. Arp 147 contains the remnant of a spiral galaxy, right, that collided with the elliptical galaxy on the left. This collision has produced an expanding wave of star formation that shows up as a blue ring containing an abundance of massive young stars. These stars race through their evolution in a few million years or less and explode as supernovas, leaving behind neutron stars and black holes.
Sun Eruptions -- Jan. 28, 2011
This still caught the action in freeze-frame splendor when the sun popped off two events at once. A filament, left, became unstable and erupted, while an M-1 flare and a coronal mass ejection, right, blasted into space. Neither event was headed toward Earth.
M51 -- obtained Jan. 19, 2011
This image shows a dramatic view of the spiral galaxy M51, dubbed the Whirlpool Galaxy. Seen in near-infrared light, most of the starlight has been removed, revealing the Whirlpool's skeletal dust structure. This image is the sharpest view of the dense dust in M51. The narrow lanes of dust revealed by Hubble reflect the galaxy's moniker, the Whirlpool Galaxy, as if they were swirling toward the galaxy's core.
Giant Supernova -- released on Jan. 14, 2011
While searching the skies for black holes using NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope, astronomers discovered a giant supernova that was smothered in its own dust in this image released on Jan. 14. In this artist's rendering, an outer shell of gas and dust -- which erupted from the star hundreds of years ago -- obscures the supernova within. This event in a distant galaxy hints at one possible future for the brightest star system in our own Milky Way.
The silhouette of the space shuttle Endeavour, Feb 9, 2010
The silhouette of the space shuttle Endeavour appears over Earth's colorful horizon in this image photographed by an Expedition 22 crew member on Feb. 9, 2010.
Mars' moons Phobos (large moon) and Deimos, released Dec. 11
Mars' two moons have been photographed in the same frame for the first time. The European Space Agency's Mars Express orbiter snapped this image, which was released Dec. 11, 2009. The larger moon is Phobos. The much smaller one is Deimos.
Hubble photo of new galaxies (Tuesday=Dec. 8, 2009)
Scientists said Dec. 8, 2009, that the Hubble Space Telescope spotted several thousand never-before-seen galaxies that were formed 600 million years after the Big Bang. Here, a photo shows some of them. They appear in the image as the faintest and reddest objects.
Central Milky Way Galaxy; image released on Nov. 10, 2009
This is one of the most detailed images to date of the heart of the Milky Way. The galaxy's center is within the white spot near the right edge of the photo. NASA released the image Nov. 10 to mark the 400th anniversary of the telescope. It is a composite of images from three observatories: the Hubble and Spitzer space telescopes and the Chandra X-ray Observatory.
NGC 2623, the result of a galactic collision, added Oct. 13
This Hubble Space Telescope image shows an object known as both NGC 2623 and Arp 243, which was formed by a collision of two galaxies. The galaxies' cores have merged into one; the tails streaming from the object are full of young stars. NGC 2623 is about 250 million light-years away in the constellation of Cancer.
Barnard's Galaxy, added Oct. 15, 2009
This portrait of Barnard's Galaxy, one of the Milky Way's closest neighbors, was taken by a telescope at the European Southern Observatory in La Silla, Chile. The red features in the photo are nebulae where new stars are being born. The galaxy has about 10 million stars; the Milky Way has an estimated 400 billion.
Saturn during equinox in August 2009
The Cassini spacecraft became the first to photograph an equinox on Saturn, a 15-year event that took place Aug. 11. This photo is a composite of images that Cassini shot over eight hours. New equinox images of the planet show strange formations in its rings and suggest that in some places, the rings are much thicker than expected.
Shadows in Saturn's A ring, August 2009
Clumps of debris cast shadows that are visible in the middle of this image of Saturn's A ring. The shadows suggest that the clumps are about 2,000 feet tall. Scientists have believed for years that the rings were about 30 feet thick, but based on the new images, scientists now think that they're more than 2 miles deep in some spots. "Isn't that the most outrageous thing you could imagine? It truly is like something out of science fiction," said Carolyn Porco, leader of the Cassini imaging team.
Jupiter's Scar, July 25, 2009
A new photo released in July from the Hubble Space Telescope is the clearest yet of what astronomers are calling a scar on the surface of Jupiter. An object, possibly a comet, struck the planet recently, creating the strange dark patch. It happened on the 15th anniversary of another comet strike.
Kohoutek 4-55 nebula, photographed May 4, 2009
This planetary nebula, named Kohoutek 4-55, was photographed May 4 by the Hubble Space Telescope's Wide Field Planetary Camera 2. The nebula, dubbed a "giant eye," contains the outer layers of a red giant star that died. The camera, which is the size of a baby grand piano, has captured several memorable images since it was installed in 1993.
Black hole light show, added April 14
In this sequence of photos released in April, a jet of gas spews from a massive black hole in the center of the M87 galaxy. The gas fades and brightens, with a peak that even outshines the galaxy's core. The outburst is coming from a blob of matter, dubbed HST-1, and scientists are so far at a loss to explain its weird behavior.
Galaxy Triplet ARP 274, Added April 6
This photo was snapped by the Hubble Space Telescope after winning a public competition to determine what the next space portrait should be. It shows Arp 274, a system of three galaxies -- two larger ones on the right, and a smaller and less intact one on the far left.
Hubble pic of galaxy tug of war, story reported on March 3, 2009
NASA's Hubble Space Telescope captured an image of three galaxies playing a game of gravitational tug-of-war that could destroy one of them. The galaxies -- NGC 7173, middle left, NGC 7174, middle right, and NGC 7176, lower right -- are about 100 million light-years away. The photo was released March 3.
Red Rectangle nebula added Feb. 10, 2009
Our solar system is in the middle of a cosmic dust storm, and some astronomers said they've zeroed in on the possible source: the Red Rectangle nebula, which is 2,300 light-years away in the constellation Monoceros. A double star system there is spewing the dust, according to findings announced in February.
Galactic collision, Oct. 30, 2008
After transmission problems on the Hubble Telescope weren fixed, NASA in October 2008 provided this undated photograph showing the aftermath of galaxies colliding. In the pair known as Arp 147, a reddish-colored galaxy has passed through an O-shaped galaxy glowing blue.
Mercury Volcanoes
Photographs taken of Mercury by the spacecraft Messenger in January 2008 were analyzed in the journal Science seven months later. Images like the one above show that volcanic activity played a part in forming plains on the planet.
The Helix nebula
Feel like you are being watched? This infrared image from NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope shows the Helix nebula, a cosmic starlet notable for its vivid colors and eerie resemblance to a giant eye.
A death star galaxy
Even galaxies get bullied. Here, a so-called "death star galaxy" blasts a nearby galaxy with a jet of energy. Scientists said that if this happened in the Milky Way, it would likely destroy all life on Earth.
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Christmas-themed Events will Celebrate the Season in Nearby London
Visitors to nearby London, Ontario, can celebrate the holiday season with two great traditions taking place in early December.
Fanshawe Pioneer Village will host ?A Visit with St. Nicholas? on Dec. 1-2, 8-9 and 15-16. Families are invited to enjoy an all-you-can-eat hot pancake breakfast, followed by a baked gingerbread man to decorate for dessert. Guests will then hop aboard a horse-drawn wagon for a beautiful winter ride around the Village and visit a selection of buildings preparing for Christmas. Of course the day wouldn?t be complete without a visit from St. Nicholas himself, who drops by to see each and every child! For more information about this fun family event, please call (519) 457-1296 or visit www.fanshawepioneervillage.ca.
Visitors can also get a little holiday shopping done at the 33rd annual Christmas Craft Festival Dec. 6-9 at the Western Fairgrounds. The show will feature a wide variety of unique arts and crafts items, and admission is just $6. For details, please call (519) 679-1810 or visit www.londoncraftshows.com.
For helpful information on planning a quick getaway to beautiful London during the holidays or anytime, please visit www.londontourism.ca.
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Existing home sales climb, housing recovery gains traction
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Home resales unexpectedly rose in October, a sign that slow improvements in the country's labor market are helping the housing sector recovery gain traction.
The National Association of Realtors said on Monday that existing home sales climbed 2.1 percent last month to a seasonally adjusted annual rate of 4.79 million units.
That was above the median forecast of a 4.75 million-unit rate in a Reuters poll.
NAR economist Lawrence Yun said superstorm Sandy, which slammed in the U.S. East Coast on October 29, had only a slight impact on home resales. The only region where the pace of sales slipped was the Northeast. But Yun said the storm could temporarily hold back the pace of sales in November and December.
Nationwide, the median price for a home resale was $178,600 in October, up 11.1 percent from a year earlier as fewer people sold their homes under distressed conditions compared to the same period in 2011. Distressed sales include foreclosures.
The nation's inventory of existing homes for sale fell 1.4 percent during the month to 2.14 million, the lowest level since December 2002.
At the current pace of sales, inventories would be exhausted in 5.4 months, the lowest rate since February 2006.
The price increase last month was measured against October 2011, and since then distressed sales have fallen to 24 percent of total sales from 28 percent.
The share of distressed sales, which also include those where the sales price was below the amount owed on the home, was flat from September.
(Reporting by Jason Lange; Editing by Andrea Ricci)
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Verizon confirms Droid DNA on its Droid Does portal, promises 'unboxing' on November 19th
Last we checked, there are about six days between Verizon / HTC's press event in New York City and November 19th. Which, by most counts, should be just enough time for the two companies to properly announce a phone, get it out to sales channels, and start moving 'em into the hands of consumers. HTC's Droid DNA has been leaked to death at this point, but a new mention of the product on VZW's 'Droid Does' portal all but confirms the true nature of Tuesday's event. For those willing to wait until November 19th, the carrier's promising an internet unboxing through its Google+ page -- for those who tune into our site, we'll get you one much sooner. Hit up the source if you're intrigued by intrigue, but don't go poking around for pricing or confirmed specifications.
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UK court says Apple notice was 'false and misleading,' orders full repayment of Samsung's legal costs
Nothing truly says "I'm sorry" like a large sum of cash, and Apple will have to open up its wallet to Samsung thanks to "false and misleading" information it published in a court-ordered statement. The decision stems from an earlier UK high court ruling ordering Cupertino to post an apology on its British website stating that the Galaxy Tab didn't copy the iPad. However, according to a new judgement by the the Court of Appeal of England and Wales, the apology it issued contained statements "calculated to produce confusion," like references to unrelated, favorable judgements. Though Apple issued a second apology, the court is taking the unusual step of forcing it to pay all of Samsung's legal fees for the entire case on an "indemnity basis" -- in other words, to compensate the Korean maker for losses suffered due to the original statement. If you'd like to parse the legalese for yourself, hit the source.
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Windows Phone 8X, Galaxy S III Mini and Xperia J available on Three UK today
Three customers in the UK have three new options when deciding how to spend their smartphone dollar (or pound, as it were). Starting today the carrier will now be be home to HTC's Windows Phone 8X, the Galaxy S III Mini and the Xperia J. Prices for the devices are all over the map, with the 8X starting at £350 with a pay-as-you-go plan, while the GS III and Xperia J are £270 and £150 respectively with the same deal. If you're looking to save a bit up front, the 8X can be had for just £29, so long as you're willing to commit to a £30 a month plan. The Sony and Samsung handsets are both available without any upfront costs, with the Xperia starting at as little as £13 a month and the four-inch Galaxy offshoot weighing in at £28 per month. For more details, check out the PR after the break.
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Jones and teammate Jazmine Fenlator took home the silver medal in the event held in Lake Placid. The pair finished .47 seconds behind eventual winners, Canada's Kaillie Humphries and Chelsea Valois.
It seemed laughable at first that Jones would be try to tackle a new Olympic sport, let alone bobsledding, but it's clear that her speed is cherished.
The story is becoming more and more intriguing. After two depressing Olympic showings where Jones (the favorite) failed to medal, it's beginning to look like her first medal may come in a much different sport than the one she's trained for her entire life.
The 2014 Winter Olympics are a long way off though.
Here's a photo when the race was about to start and a humorous piece of commentary from Jones. She has terrified eyes under that helmet:
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James Bond has a fondness for space
James Bond, the fictional British spy who celebrates the 50th anniversary of his film franchise this year, has done quite a lot of sleuthing in space as well as on Earth.
The latest Bond movie, "Skyfall," opens Friday. From the first film featuring the debonair MI6 agent, to the newest, the 50-year arc of James Bond has paralleled, in many ways, the progression of the U.S. human spaceflight program.
Mercury program astronaut Alan Shepard made the first U.S. manned spaceflight on May 5, 1961, just one year before the Bond franchise began.
In fact, the stakes of the first 007 movie itself ? "Dr. No," which was released in 1962 ? were no less than the U.S. space program. In that film, evil genius Dr. No aims to disrupt a NASA Mercury space launch using an atomic-powered radio beam, and it's up to Bond to stop him. [Gallery: James Bond in Space]
"James Bond was the first hero of the space age," said Bond expert John Cork, author of the book "James Bond: The Legacy." "The Mercury 7 astronauts were being trained right as 'Dr. No' is coming out."
Another Bond movie, the 1967 flick "You Only Live Twice," opens with a scene where an astronaut is killed in space. That movie was filmed two weeks before three NASA astronauts died in a ground fire during a dress rehearsal for the Apollo 1 mission on Jan. 27, 1967, Cork said. "There's a real dovetailing there."
In "You Only Live Twice," the villain kidnaps U.S. and Soviet astronauts in the hopes of seeding tension to start World War III. Later, in the 1971 "Diamonds Are Forever," Bond's antagonist develops a satellite to be used as a space-based weapon, and 007 himself escapes danger at one point by stealing a moon buggy from a research laboratory.
One of the most overt, and memorable, references to space in a Bond film was in 1979's "Moonraker," which saw James Bond himself travel to space.
By the late 1970s, the space program had moved on from the moon-based Mercury, Gemini and Apollo programs and into the space shuttle era; Bond had moved on, too.
This time, Bond must find out why a space shuttle was hijacked during a space mission. To save the day, 007 works with brilliant and beautiful NASA scientist Dr. Holly Goodhead, and ultimately, he launches into orbit to visit a space station that sets the scene for the movie's climactic end battle.
That film was even originally planned to coincide with the first space shuttle launch, according to IMDB, but the debut of the real-life shuttle was delayed until 1981.
The James Bond film producers "were always smart enough to look at the latest advancements in technology and take advantage of them," said film critic Bill Desowitz, author of the book "James Bond Unmasked." "The hardest thing is finding greater and more interesting threats. After introducing all this globetrotting around the world, it made sense to delve into outer space."
In later James Bond films, the franchise's relationship with space shifted from human space travel to dealings with robotic spacecraft, much as the country delved further into unmanned solar system exploration along with its manned space program.
"GoldenEye" (1995), "Tomorrow Never Dies" (1997), and "Die Another Day" (2002) each dealt with satellites or space weapons. And scenes for 2008's "Quantum of Solace" were shot at one of the world's premier telescope sites, the European Southern Observatory's Very Large Telescope in Chile.
"Three of the four Pierce Brosnan films have strong space elements," said Cork, who recently worked on the special features for the 50th Anniversary James Bond Blu-ray set. "They deal with the idea of manipulation of satellites. They really are dealing with the way the space program works now: We're sending up incredibly sophisticated satellites."
Cork traced some of Bond's affinity with space back to the film's origin, which is the series of books by former British naval intelligence officer Ian Fleming.
"Ian Fleming was fascinated by rocketry and space," Cork told Space.com. "He even communicated with (sci-fi writer) Arthur C. Clarke."
Though the latest Bond entry, "Skyfall," doesn't overtly relate to space, it grapples with Bond's close relationship to technology, which is a constant theme throughout the films.
"Bond was a character who was a master of technology," Cork said.
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"This was something that was quite revolutionary for a film series. The notion of Bond being the first hero of the space age all goes back to technology."
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Pakistan's minority Hindus feel under attack
In this Oct. 4, 2012 photo, Hindu woman Pathani shows that attackers ripped her gold earrings at a local temple in Karachi, Pakistan. An attack on the Hindu temple on the outskirts of Pakistan?s largest city took place in late September on the Day of Love for the Prophet_and residents fear it will not be the last attack. It was the latest in a rising tide of violence and discrimination against Hindus in the 95 percent Muslim country, where Islamic extremism is growing. (AP Photo/Fareed Khan)
In this Oct. 4, 2012 photo, Hindu woman Pathani shows that attackers ripped her gold earrings at a local temple in Karachi, Pakistan. An attack on the Hindu temple on the outskirts of Pakistan?s largest city took place in late September on the Day of Love for the Prophet_and residents fear it will not be the last attack. It was the latest in a rising tide of violence and discrimination against Hindus in the 95 percent Muslim country, where Islamic extremism is growing. (AP Photo/Fareed Khan)
FILE- In this March 26, 2012, file photo, a Hindu mother Sulachhani Bai talks with reporters in Islamabad, Pakistan about her daughter who disappeared from her home in a small village in Pakistan. A few hours later the girl's father got a call telling him his daughter, a Hindu, had converted to Islam in order to marry a Muslim boy. It was the latest in a rising tide of violence and discrimination against Hindus in this 95 percent Muslim country, where Islamic extremism is growing. Pakistan?s Hindu community says it faces forced conversions of Hindu girls to Islam, a lack of legal recognition for their marriages, discrimination in services and physical abuse when they venture into the streets. (AP Photo/B.K. Bangash, File)
In this Oct. 4, 2012 photo, Ragu Lal, member of Pakistani Hindu community shows remains of a worship idol smashed by attackers, at a local temple in Karachi, Pakistan. An attack on the Hindu temple on the outskirts of Pakistan?s largest city took place in late September on the Day of Love for the Prophet_and residents fear it will not be the last attack. It was the latest in a rising tide of violence and discrimination against Hindus in the 95 percent Muslim country, where Islamic extremism is growing. (AP Photo/Fareed Khan)
In this Oct. 4, 2012 photo, Pakistani Hindus gather at Sri Krishna Ram temple in Karachi, Pakistan. They told The Associated Press that attackers came after dusk and chanted into the night sky ?Kill the Hindus, kill the children of the Hindus,? as they smashed religious icons, ripped golden bangles off women?s arms and flashed pistols during an attack on the Hindu temple on the outskirts of Pakistan?s largest city in late September_and residents fear it will not be the last attack. It was the latest in a rising tide of violence and discrimination against Hindus in the 95 percent Muslim country, where Islamic extremism is growing. (AP Photo/Fareed Khan)
KARACHI, Pakistan (AP) ? They came after dusk and chanted into the night sky "Kill the Hindus, kill the children of the Hindus," as they smashed religious icons, ripped golden bangles off women's arms and flashed pistols. It wasn't the first time that the Hindu temple on the outskirts of Pakistan's largest city was attacked, and residents here fear it will not be the last.
"People don't consider us as equal citizens. They beat us whenever they want," said Mol Chand, one of the teenage boys gathered at the temple. "We have no place to worship now."
It was the second time the Sri Krishna Ram temple has been attacked, and this time the mob didn't even bother to disguise their faces. The small temple, surrounded by a stone wall, is a tiny religious outpost in a dusty, hardscrabble neighborhood so far on the outskirts of the city that a sign on the main road wishes people leaving Karachi a good journey.
Local Muslim residents blamed people from a nearby ethnic Pashtun village for the attack, which took place in late September on the Day of Love for the Prophet, a national holiday declared by the government in response to an anti-Islam film made in the U.S. No one was seriously injured in the attack.
It was the latest in a rising tide of violence and discrimination against Hindus in this 95 percent Muslim country, where Islamic extremism is growing. Pakistan's Hindu community says it faces forced conversions of Hindu girls to Islam, a lack of legal recognition for their marriages, discrimination in services and physical abuse when they venture into the streets.
The story of the Hindu population in Pakistan is one of long decline. During partition in 1947, the violent separation of Pakistan and India into separate countries, hundreds of thousands of Hindus opted to migrate to India where Hinduism is the dominant religion. Those that remained and their descendants now make up a tiny fraction of Pakistan's estimated 190 million citizens, and are mostly concentrated in Sindh province in the southern part of the country.
Signs of their former stature abound in Karachi, the capital of Sindh. At the 150-year-old Swami Narayan Temple along one of the city's main roads, thousands of Hindus gather during the year to celebrate major religious holidays. Hindus at the 200-year-old Laxmi Narain Temple scatter the ashes of their cremated loved ones in the waters of an inlet from the Arabian Ocean.
But there are also signs of how far the community has fallen. Residents in a city hungry for land have begun to build over Hindu cemeteries, the community's leaders say. Hindus helped build Karachi's port decades ago, but none work there now.
Estimates of the size of the Hindu population in Pakistan are all over the map ? from 2.5 million or 10 million in Sindh province alone to 7 million across the country ? a reflection of the fact that the country hasn't had a census since 1998.
It isn't just Hindus who are facing problems. Other minorities like Christians, the mystical Muslim branch of Sufis and the Ahmadi sect have found themselves under attack in Pakistan, where the rise of Muslim fundamentalists has sometimes unleashed a violent opposition against those who don't follow their strict religious tenets.
The discrimination has prompted some Hindus to leave for India, activists warn, though the extent is not known. Around 3,000 Hindus left this year, part of a migration that began four years ago, sparked by discrimination and a general rise in crime in Sindh, said DM Maharaj, who heads an organization to help Hindus called Pakistan Hindu Sabha.
He said he recently talked to a group of Hindus preparing to move to India from rural Sindh, complaining that they can't eat in Muslim restaurants or that Muslim officials turned them down for farming loans. Even during recent floods, they said Muslims did not want them staying in the same refugee camps.
Other Hindu figures such as provincial assembly member Pitamber Sewami deny there's a migration at all, in a reflection of how sensitive the issue is. Earlier this year, there were a string of reports in Pakistani media about Hindus leaving the country, sparking a flurry of promises by Pakistani officials to investigate.
In India, a Home office official said the Indian government noticed an upward trend of people coming from Pakistan but called reports of Pakistanis fleeing to India "exaggerated." He said he does not have exact figures on how many Pakistani Hindus have stayed in India after entering the country on tourist visas. The official spoke on condition of anonymity due to the sensitivity of the topic.
There's more of a consensus of the seriousness of the problem of forced conversion of Hindus.
Zohra Yusuf, the president of the Human Rights Commission of Pakistan says the pattern goes like this: A Hindu girl goes missing and then resurfaces days or weeks later married to a Muslim boy. During court hearings to determine whether the conversion was voluntary, students from nearby Islamic schools called madrassas often flood the room, trying to intimidate the judges by chanting demands that the conversion be confirmed.
Maharaj says he's tried to intervene in roughly 100 cases of forced conversions but has only succeeded in returning a girl safely back to her family once. If a girl decides to renounce Islam and return to Hinduism, she could be signing a death warrant for herself and her family even if her conversion was forced.
The Hindu community has also been hurt by a lack of unity within its ranks. Hindu society within Pakistan and elsewhere has historically been divided by caste, a system of social stratification in which the lower castes are often seen as inferior. Members of the lower castes in Pakistan say it wasn't until two girls from a high-caste family were forcibly converted this year that high-caste Hindus took the issue seriously, although it's been happening for years.
"We always fight our war ourselves," said Bholoo Devjee, a Hindu activist from Karachi, speaking about the lower castes.
In recent months the government has begun to take the concerns of the Hindu community more seriously. In Sindh province, legislators proposed a law to prevent forced conversions in part by implementing a waiting period before a marriage between a Hindu and a Muslim can go forward, and there's discussion about proposing such a law on the national level as well.
In the case of the Sri Krishna Ram temple, law enforcement authorities opened a blasphemy case against the people who rampaged through the building. But residents here are skeptical that these developments signify any long-term improvement in their plight. Weeks after the incident no arrests have been made, and the Hindus complain that no high-ranking Hindu officials have come to visit them or help them get compensation.
Sunda Maharaj, the spiritual leader at the temple, which was first attacked in January 2011, said he and the other residents do not want to move to India. "We are Pakistani," he said.
But he would like more help from the government, specifically a checkpoint to stop people from getting close to the temple and money for the Hindus to buy weapons.
"Next time anyone comes we can kill them or die defending our temple," he said.
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Everything in Moderation ? Even Junk Food and TV ? Simple ...
Everything in moderation.
I?ve both heard and said this phrase many, many times ? I?m guessing you have too 
It is true, you know.
Well, OK? maybe not EVERYTHING. But I think this phrase definitely applies to things like eating junk food and watching TV.
For example, we had friends growing up who were never allowed to watch TV at home ? and I?m sure you can guess what they wanted to do every time they came over to our house. Even if we had a new game or if it was a beautiful day outside, all they wanted to do was watch TV.
We had other friends who were not allowed to eat ?junk food?? ever! So of course, whenever they came to our house, all they could think about was?eating sweets ? and they went crazy. My sisters and I would have one or two cookies, they would just keep eating cookies. It?s all they could think about.
No, I?m not saying we should all sit around watching TV and eating junk food all day ??I?m simply trying to make the point that everything in moderation can be OK.
Obviously, my parents were not perfect ? Dave and I won?t be either ? however, we?re not planning to make any extreme rules for our children like ?no TV? or ?no junk food?. We will most certainly have times when the TV is turned off and times when we say no to cookies and candy, but we won?t completely ban them all together.
Why?
Because we both enjoy watching a little TV and eating our favorite fast food? and we both feel?that everything in moderation is probably OK.?
Are you sensing the theme of this post yet?
We know lots of parents who vow to never let their children watch TV or movies, never eat at McDonald?s, never eat anything with high fructose corn syrup, never eat anything other than organic produce, etc. etc.
Obviously, I don?t know everything about parenting, but whenever the word ?never? is used, I pretty much disregard anything that comes after it. So while I smile and nod, realizing that these parents are just trying to protect their children, I also know that it will be nearly impossible for them to follow through on any of their statements.
Will their kids actually be harmed by eating a handful of McDonald?s french fries or watching one TV program?
Nope.
Will their kids grow into horrible people if they take one bite of ?non-organic? produce or eat a few chocolate chip cookies?
Not a chance.?
We?ve already let Nora chew on a few French fries and she?s swallowed more than a few bites of ice-cream ? and her doctor continues to rave about how healthy she is at every single check up.
And I?ll be honest, we watch a fair amount of TV.
Since she rarely ever takes naps, TV is one of the only ways she will sit quietly for even a few minutes.?She absolutely loves almost any show on PBS and she dances non-stop to the Baby?Einstein?DVDs.
I used to feel bad about letting her watch TV ? I felt like I should be able to keep her entertained on my own. But after days and days of no naps, there isn?t much you can do with infants to keep them occupied all day long. We go outside as much as we can, but when it?s raining or freezing cold, my options are definitely limited.
So I?ve cut myself some slack and realize that watching a couple Baby Einstein DVD?s each day is not going to kill her ? and if that?s what it takes to save my sanity, that?s what we?re going to do!
I suppose some of the biggest lessons I?ve learned in my first year of parenting are?
- there?s a pretty good chance nothing will happen like I thought it would
- I have to be OK with this and willing to change/alter my plans {still SO hard for me}
- stop stressing, everything in moderation is just fine
Nora will not grow up to be a horrible person because we let her watch TV and she will not be unhealthy because we let her eat junk food.
Period!
What are your thoughts on this topic?
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