The hallmark of advanced civilization is its full participation of women in the public sphere. You may find profoundly beautiful women in oppressed regimes. But if you can’t see them about, do they really exist?
Put another way, if a tree falls in the woods, does it make a sound? Is sound generated simply by the compression and expansion of air waves? Or is it sound only when one receives the noise signal?
Bounding women in headscarves or draping them in burqas obscures their beauty to be sure. What's worse, it blots them from public expanse like a swarm of blind spots. An invisible woman is a fallen tree that registers no noise in its ruin, so no one notes its demise.
Obliterating women from view has its place in the lowest levels of Maslow’s Hierarchy of Needs. It is the fight for survival. (Perhaps it occupies its own rung in Dante’s Inferno. This where liars are below thieves for stealing from people the truth.)
Women freed from the toil of securing food, shelter, and security can pursue higher levels of self-fulfillment. And maybe fulfill their purpose here on earth.
Tethered to the fear of daily life keeps women penned as unwanted pets, possessing ideas like animals do instincts.
Freedom = Beautiful. Opppression = Ugly.
Strong free market economies with little governmental corruption have the most beautiful women in the world. Oppressed countries have notoriously ugly women.
Russian women today are what Italian women were before. Beautiful, but only after freed from oppression. Imagine what stunning beauties Arab, Persian, and Afghan women will become once tyranny gives way to freedom.
Italian women emerged as renowned beauties after the fall of Fascism, Russians after the fall of Communism. Arabia must shed its shackles from fanatical Wahhibism and America from radical Feminism.
Russian women today are what Italian women were before. Beautiful, but only after freed from oppression. Imagine what stunning beauties Arab, Persian, and Afghan women will become once tyranny gives way to freedom.
Italian women emerged as renowned beauties after the fall of Fascism, Russians after the fall of Communism. Arabia must shed its shackles from fanatical Wahhibism and America from radical Feminism.
For Some Uglies, Beauty Is Do or Die
In Israel, a homely Palestinian girl experienced grave trauma. Jewish doctors saved her life.
A few months after a full recovery, this Palestinian girl intended to destroy the Israeli hospital in which she recovered. She wanted to kill all the Jewish doctors who helped her heal.
Unable to detonate herself in a botched suicide bombing, a reporter asked an important question:
Since Muslim men are rewarded for martyring themselves (as shahids) by having sex with seventy-two virgins in heaven, what reward is there for her as a woman to martyr herself?
She answered with certainty: I will be one of the seventy-two virgins! Because this girl was no beauty in this life, being beautiful is her gift in the afterlife.
All she wants is to be sexually attractive to men. To be lusted over and fought for by men. To create a legacy by having children with a man who desires her.
She can only fulfill this fantasy in a deal with death. Life dealt her cards with a losing hand.
A few months after a full recovery, this Palestinian girl intended to destroy the Israeli hospital in which she recovered. She wanted to kill all the Jewish doctors who helped her heal.
Unable to detonate herself in a botched suicide bombing, a reporter asked an important question:
Since Muslim men are rewarded for martyring themselves (as shahids) by having sex with seventy-two virgins in heaven, what reward is there for her as a woman to martyr herself?
She answered with certainty: I will be one of the seventy-two virgins! Because this girl was no beauty in this life, being beautiful is her gift in the afterlife.
All she wants is to be sexually attractive to men. To be lusted over and fought for by men. To create a legacy by having children with a man who desires her.
She can only fulfill this fantasy in a deal with death. Life dealt her cards with a losing hand.
Wealthy Whites: Dream. Poor Blacks: Nightmare.
The drive for beautiful wives is to have beautiful daughters who can marry up. She will elevate her whole family into higher status through marriage to a wealthy man. Entire families are supported this way.
That’s why when pretty little white girls from gated communities get abducted, it’s 24-7 international news. You’ve shattered the American dream not only for that bereaved family, but for an entire nation whose streets are paved with gold. (At the heels of an elegant woman goes the image.)
A poor black child lost in the abyss of welfare services makes a pitiful appearance at the tail end of a local news break. This is not because America doesn’t cherish its children. It definitely does. But because this juts forth the flip side of the American dream – the American nightmare.
That’s why when pretty little white girls from gated communities get abducted, it’s 24-7 international news. You’ve shattered the American dream not only for that bereaved family, but for an entire nation whose streets are paved with gold. (At the heels of an elegant woman goes the image.)
A poor black child lost in the abyss of welfare services makes a pitiful appearance at the tail end of a local news break. This is not because America doesn’t cherish its children. It definitely does. But because this juts forth the flip side of the American dream – the American nightmare.
Freedom From Oppressive Poverty Is The American Dream
Individuals create more leisure time when freed from the shackles of poverty requiring endless endeavor to sustain a pitiful life.
Countries with individuals who have more leisure time are affluent and often indulgent.
That affluence and indulgence is expressed as hope, creativity and generosity. All truly American traits and attributes of womanly beauty.
A man’s hope is to be with a beautiful woman for whom he’ll create a family and bestow on them all he has to offer.
Fulfilling that is the American Dream.
Countries with individuals who have more leisure time are affluent and often indulgent.
That affluence and indulgence is expressed as hope, creativity and generosity. All truly American traits and attributes of womanly beauty.
A man’s hope is to be with a beautiful woman for whom he’ll create a family and bestow on them all he has to offer.
Fulfilling that is the American Dream.
Win For Losing And Trying Again
Looking your best makes you feel good. Feeling good makes you confident. Confidence makes you win for the challenges you take on.
You win no matter the loss. Loss is nothing but ridding excess. That excess is often fear itself.
Experience gives us gains. Losing is gaining wisdom along the way. You lose nothing that can't be regained. What can't be regained is probably worth losing.
Iron is made strong through being forged with fire. Its ore is merely dust. Challenge is the crucible that forges us into formidable strength.
The fire from the forge that breaks you and makes you is a light that guides others along the path for finding their own strength. You illuminate the challenges on your path that offers others a way to overcome them.
When you lead by example the world follows. Our eyes follow light. Our hearts follow leaders.
All are inspired and the world is made better. The power of personal beauty is its influence in inspiring others.
You win no matter the loss. Loss is nothing but ridding excess. That excess is often fear itself.
Experience gives us gains. Losing is gaining wisdom along the way. You lose nothing that can't be regained. What can't be regained is probably worth losing.
Iron is made strong through being forged with fire. Its ore is merely dust. Challenge is the crucible that forges us into formidable strength.
The fire from the forge that breaks you and makes you is a light that guides others along the path for finding their own strength. You illuminate the challenges on your path that offers others a way to overcome them.
When you lead by example the world follows. Our eyes follow light. Our hearts follow leaders.
All are inspired and the world is made better. The power of personal beauty is its influence in inspiring others.
So Proud of My Shipmates!
As a viral email "Attaboy!" this is suppossedly the Navy's new recruitment poster. Hilarious. And a huge hurrah for our sailors (and soldiers and airmen and marines) supporting our American way of life.As a Navy Reservist and career Navy Brat, I salute you. My shipmates and especially the SEALs, you are the best and brightest in the world. As a proud and patriotic single woman, call me....
Men Choose Sides With The Siren's Call
In men's minds, women are either Scylla or Charybdis, The Sirens luring Homer's Odysseus and his ship to a watery grave.
The Strait of Messina is the narrow waterway between the island of Sicily and mainland Italy. Odysseus had to sail through the Straits in order to return home to Greece after an endless war in The Odyssey.
On one side sat Scylla on a rock with her six heads that greedily devoured men in her grasp. Meet Gold Digger.
On the other side sat Charybdis with her gaping mouth that sucked in huge amounts of water, creating whirlpools. Meet Super Size Me.
Crossing through the Strait of Messina with Sirens on either side, Odysseus knew getting too close to one while avoiding the other is certain death.
Scylla we know as the quintessential Mean Girl. The stunning beauty that spurs global conquest made ugly by her wake of wrecked lives.
Charybdis is the Fat Chick whose warm bath of amniotic comfort has you swim into blissful abundance. Until the water gets cold.
Odysseus chose to get closer to Scylla and lose a few sailors than Charybdis and lose the whole ship.
When you wonder how that rotten temptress gets so many smitten men, now you know: he chose Scylla. Excitement with fewer losses is greater than comfort with fewer gains.
The Strait of Messina is the narrow waterway between the island of Sicily and mainland Italy. Odysseus had to sail through the Straits in order to return home to Greece after an endless war in The Odyssey.
On one side sat Scylla on a rock with her six heads that greedily devoured men in her grasp. Meet Gold Digger.
On the other side sat Charybdis with her gaping mouth that sucked in huge amounts of water, creating whirlpools. Meet Super Size Me.
Crossing through the Strait of Messina with Sirens on either side, Odysseus knew getting too close to one while avoiding the other is certain death.
Scylla we know as the quintessential Mean Girl. The stunning beauty that spurs global conquest made ugly by her wake of wrecked lives.
Charybdis is the Fat Chick whose warm bath of amniotic comfort has you swim into blissful abundance. Until the water gets cold.
Odysseus chose to get closer to Scylla and lose a few sailors than Charybdis and lose the whole ship.
When you wonder how that rotten temptress gets so many smitten men, now you know: he chose Scylla. Excitement with fewer losses is greater than comfort with fewer gains.
Beauty Traded As Goods In Our Market Economy
A woman’s fortune is her looks because beauty is a commodity, trading on markets of opportunity. To deny that betrays bitter stupidity.
Being beautiful requires a wealth of time, money, effort, and luck. Obvious expenses support a whole host of economies that are overlooked but immensely important to individual lifestyles as they are to global trade.
This is an economy where goods are traded by the invisible hand of consumers. When supply is hope, demand is desire.
Being beautiful requires a wealth of time, money, effort, and luck. Obvious expenses support a whole host of economies that are overlooked but immensely important to individual lifestyles as they are to global trade.
This is an economy where goods are traded by the invisible hand of consumers. When supply is hope, demand is desire.
Big Boobs. Big Brains. Supersize Me!
It is possible to have boobs and brains. Both big. Very big.
There’s a vile myth that women can be either smart or beautiful, but not both. As though God isn’t beneficent enough to offer both attributes in abundance. Or even that being beautiful and smart wasn’t God’s plan when casting us mounds of clay in His image.
In the North, men assume women are smart until a bit of beauty emerges. Then she’s a Bimbo who has to marry for money.
In the South, most men think women are pretty – and most are, unless they are really smart. Then they’re Brainiacs who have to marry for sex.
To exercise their brilliance, the Brains move north to meet up with brainy birds who flock together. And crap on shiny nice cars as petty vengeance for not winning any beauty pageants as chicks.
There’s a vile myth that women can be either smart or beautiful, but not both. As though God isn’t beneficent enough to offer both attributes in abundance. Or even that being beautiful and smart wasn’t God’s plan when casting us mounds of clay in His image.
In the North, men assume women are smart until a bit of beauty emerges. Then she’s a Bimbo who has to marry for money.
In the South, most men think women are pretty – and most are, unless they are really smart. Then they’re Brainiacs who have to marry for sex.
To exercise their brilliance, the Brains move north to meet up with brainy birds who flock together. And crap on shiny nice cars as petty vengeance for not winning any beauty pageants as chicks.
Bare Naked Beauty in Broad Daylight
Honesty is a beauty all its own. With honesty comes a host of other virtues: integrity, character, confidence, love, faith, worth.
In terms of physical beauty, what exactly makes a woman physically beautiful? It comes down to one trait most honest of all: symmetry.
There's no faking the expression of genetic perfection, despite all its pitiful attempts forcing an admission of fraud.
Being born with nearly perfectly symmetrical features is a triumph over nature. The jackpot in a genetic lottery.
Even people not considered classically beautiful are irresistibly attractive when their facial features are symmetrical. This is why we are drawn to people who may not fit into our ideal, be they physically or culturally or even emotionally different from us.
Opposites may attract, but all are attracted to the most attractive. We look. We must look. We cannot turn away.
Not without feeling the loss of a connection that can only be understood as chemistry. This, even when they don't look back. Or know that we exist.
Seeing them forms a connection, us to them, however unilateral the interaction.
This spark of attraction is the stuff of life. It's the source of inspiration for all human achievement.
When we see the embodiment of perfection in a person, we aspire to behold it and make it our own. It inspires action for we must possess this power.
Because we place a premium on female beauty, this is also why so many women resort to artifice. Artful application of make-up, skillful styling of hair, careful arrangement of jewelry, hell - even low lighting.
All serve to create an image of symmetry however fleeting it may be. Men know of this subterfuge, having x-ray vision to the truth built by their testosterone.
The crucial test, the gut check, is seeing his woman first thing in the morning. It's why men fall in love with the Natural Beauty at first glance. And why swimsuit issues are best sellers of the subscription.
Being drop dead gorgeous in broad daylight with surf and sand exposing all artifice to a woman's beauty is the embodiment of truth. For honesty is a beauty all its own.
In terms of physical beauty, what exactly makes a woman physically beautiful? It comes down to one trait most honest of all: symmetry.
There's no faking the expression of genetic perfection, despite all its pitiful attempts forcing an admission of fraud.
Being born with nearly perfectly symmetrical features is a triumph over nature. The jackpot in a genetic lottery.
Even people not considered classically beautiful are irresistibly attractive when their facial features are symmetrical. This is why we are drawn to people who may not fit into our ideal, be they physically or culturally or even emotionally different from us.
Opposites may attract, but all are attracted to the most attractive. We look. We must look. We cannot turn away.
Not without feeling the loss of a connection that can only be understood as chemistry. This, even when they don't look back. Or know that we exist.
Seeing them forms a connection, us to them, however unilateral the interaction.
This spark of attraction is the stuff of life. It's the source of inspiration for all human achievement.
When we see the embodiment of perfection in a person, we aspire to behold it and make it our own. It inspires action for we must possess this power.
Because we place a premium on female beauty, this is also why so many women resort to artifice. Artful application of make-up, skillful styling of hair, careful arrangement of jewelry, hell - even low lighting.
All serve to create an image of symmetry however fleeting it may be. Men know of this subterfuge, having x-ray vision to the truth built by their testosterone.
The crucial test, the gut check, is seeing his woman first thing in the morning. It's why men fall in love with the Natural Beauty at first glance. And why swimsuit issues are best sellers of the subscription.
Being drop dead gorgeous in broad daylight with surf and sand exposing all artifice to a woman's beauty is the embodiment of truth. For honesty is a beauty all its own.
America - Land of the Brave, the Free, the Lonely
We Americans have the greatest military men in the world. A man in uniform is the most magnificent sight to a red-blooded, libidinous woman like me.
Yet our beautiful men are reduced to oppressors for those whom they spill their blood to protect and leave their families to liberate. A role signifying strength and honor and valor, our servicemen are vilified as rapists and torturers instead of the noble man that he is.
We live in the land of the free and home of the brave. Not true, for we are secretive and cowardly.
We worry about what the neighbors will say to the knocking of headboards and boots until the wee hours. Or what our mothers would say if we take a strapping young lad as our lover to satisfy us in the most intimate way.
The place of epidemic sexual dissatisfaction despite the demands of free love. Boomers ushered in the era of indiscriminate sex, a legacy passed on to disenchanted Gen Xers and confused Millennials who are having more sex with less satisfaction.
The center of loneliness and isolation is the also center of the world influencing billions of people.
Sex sells, we know from the success of advertising. But it has also sold us out as we struggle to make meaningful relationships and the meaning of sex.
Where a man in any skin can become President, we can't live with the skin we're in.
Yet our beautiful men are reduced to oppressors for those whom they spill their blood to protect and leave their families to liberate. A role signifying strength and honor and valor, our servicemen are vilified as rapists and torturers instead of the noble man that he is.
We live in the land of the free and home of the brave. Not true, for we are secretive and cowardly.
We worry about what the neighbors will say to the knocking of headboards and boots until the wee hours. Or what our mothers would say if we take a strapping young lad as our lover to satisfy us in the most intimate way.
The place of epidemic sexual dissatisfaction despite the demands of free love. Boomers ushered in the era of indiscriminate sex, a legacy passed on to disenchanted Gen Xers and confused Millennials who are having more sex with less satisfaction.
The center of loneliness and isolation is the also center of the world influencing billions of people.
Sex sells, we know from the success of advertising. But it has also sold us out as we struggle to make meaningful relationships and the meaning of sex.
Where a man in any skin can become President, we can't live with the skin we're in.
Distinguishing Between the Quality of Data and Its Quantity With Stoichiometry
Let me jump right into this discussion without a prelude explaining any of it. The explanations would take too long. And no one who's interested in this wants to read too much. Everyone else who doesn't get it at first glance will just skip it.
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It is essential to know both the quality and quantity of a given set of data. Any measure of unit counts as data for this conversation. Know only the quantity or amount of data and not its essential quality is foolish, as only the wise know.
Many folks I work with in Quality Assurance care only about the amount of defects they have in pre-production. As if a body count alone can tell you if you're winning or losing the war. Vietnam should have taught us that much!
I tell them that the number of defects matters nothing. The requirements that the defects impact is all that matters. No more, and no less.
If it is required that a software application work in such a way, it should matter that it doesn't work in that way. Not working as required is a defect. Therefore, the best way to present defects is to tie them to their associated requirements. Surprisingly, this is a tough sell.
So let me put my argument another way. Let's use something as objective and impersonal as anything: chemistry's simple equation for stoicheometry. The most basic equation is that an acid combined with a base will form water and salt.
acid + base = water + salt
I had my "Aha!" moment in Qualitative Chemistry with this realization. Whenever we got bitten by a mosquito, my mother would tell us to apply ammonia on it because it takes away the itch. Windex window cleaner works as well as straight ammonia because it is made up of ammonia - so it has the same active ingredient.
The night before this enlightening lecture, I watched a documentary (while studying chemistry of all things) on why bug bites sting. It also explained why some stings hurt more than others. It turns out that bug bites are acidic and the acid burns our skin as it dissolves it.
The molarity or concentration of the acid is what makes more acidic bug bites sting worse than less acidic bug bites. Gnats sting the least, mosquitoes more, wasps a hell of a lot, and scorpions the worst of all. Increasing acidity hurts more like more concentrated vinegar (acetic acid) tastes more bitter and sour lemons (ascorbic acid) make you pucker.
A mosquito bite has the same acidity as vinegar. In terms of molarity, the concentration of the solution, vinegar has an equivalent molarity as ammonia. The base and acid combines to form water and salt.
That's why dabbing ammonia on a mosquito bite takes away the sting. And why after you dab the ammonia on the bite, you get a droplet of water forming over the spot. When the water evaporates, you flake off the salt. After all of this, the sting is gone!
Qualitative Chemistry:
acid (mosquito bite) + base (ammonia application) = water (droplet bubble) + salt (resulting crust)
What I described above can be understood as Requirements. According to the laws of chemistry, mixing an acid and base yields water and salt. When that doesn't happen, it is a defect.
You must understand stoicheometry in order to detect a defect in the equation. Only then can you qualify the defect. But understanding only the defect without knowing the requirements is stupid.
Quantitative Chemistry:
HCl (hydrochloric acid) + NaOH (sodium hydroxide - base) = H2O (water) + NaCl (sodium chloride - salt)
People who focus solely on the defects and not on the total equation with requirements itself focus on the horse's ass and not on the horse itself. Defects are the horse's ass and
Requirements are the horse. Recognizing something does not mean you see everything.
It's like seeing a confusing equation above and thinking that just because you recognize the elements on the Periodic Table means you understand chemistry itself. As if that makes you an expert at Stoichiometry when it doesn't because you fail to grasp the significance of its elegant equation.
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It is essential to know both the quality and quantity of a given set of data. Any measure of unit counts as data for this conversation. Know only the quantity or amount of data and not its essential quality is foolish, as only the wise know.
Many folks I work with in Quality Assurance care only about the amount of defects they have in pre-production. As if a body count alone can tell you if you're winning or losing the war. Vietnam should have taught us that much!
I tell them that the number of defects matters nothing. The requirements that the defects impact is all that matters. No more, and no less.
If it is required that a software application work in such a way, it should matter that it doesn't work in that way. Not working as required is a defect. Therefore, the best way to present defects is to tie them to their associated requirements. Surprisingly, this is a tough sell.
So let me put my argument another way. Let's use something as objective and impersonal as anything: chemistry's simple equation for stoicheometry. The most basic equation is that an acid combined with a base will form water and salt.
acid + base = water + salt
I had my "Aha!" moment in Qualitative Chemistry with this realization. Whenever we got bitten by a mosquito, my mother would tell us to apply ammonia on it because it takes away the itch. Windex window cleaner works as well as straight ammonia because it is made up of ammonia - so it has the same active ingredient.
The night before this enlightening lecture, I watched a documentary (while studying chemistry of all things) on why bug bites sting. It also explained why some stings hurt more than others. It turns out that bug bites are acidic and the acid burns our skin as it dissolves it.
The molarity or concentration of the acid is what makes more acidic bug bites sting worse than less acidic bug bites. Gnats sting the least, mosquitoes more, wasps a hell of a lot, and scorpions the worst of all. Increasing acidity hurts more like more concentrated vinegar (acetic acid) tastes more bitter and sour lemons (ascorbic acid) make you pucker.
A mosquito bite has the same acidity as vinegar. In terms of molarity, the concentration of the solution, vinegar has an equivalent molarity as ammonia. The base and acid combines to form water and salt.
That's why dabbing ammonia on a mosquito bite takes away the sting. And why after you dab the ammonia on the bite, you get a droplet of water forming over the spot. When the water evaporates, you flake off the salt. After all of this, the sting is gone!
Qualitative Chemistry:
acid (mosquito bite) + base (ammonia application) = water (droplet bubble) + salt (resulting crust)
What I described above can be understood as Requirements. According to the laws of chemistry, mixing an acid and base yields water and salt. When that doesn't happen, it is a defect.
You must understand stoicheometry in order to detect a defect in the equation. Only then can you qualify the defect. But understanding only the defect without knowing the requirements is stupid.
Quantitative Chemistry:
HCl (hydrochloric acid) + NaOH (sodium hydroxide - base) = H2O (water) + NaCl (sodium chloride - salt)
People who focus solely on the defects and not on the total equation with requirements itself focus on the horse's ass and not on the horse itself. Defects are the horse's ass and
Requirements are the horse. Recognizing something does not mean you see everything.
It's like seeing a confusing equation above and thinking that just because you recognize the elements on the Periodic Table means you understand chemistry itself. As if that makes you an expert at Stoichiometry when it doesn't because you fail to grasp the significance of its elegant equation.
Titan Track vs. Daddy Track - Appreciating Men's Ambitions
Men are either on Titan Track or Daddy Track. When selecting a husband for marriage, realize which path he's on and whether you will support him on it.
Men on Titan Track pursue greatness, expressed through corporate dominance and its attendant financial prowess. These men are hard to please with their high expectations, imposing their standards on themselves and on others.
Their women must reflect his greatness, contributing to his image of invincibility. These are the CEOs with serial wives, all trophies but the first one who was his stepping stone, looking like a boulder at the end of her run.
Men on Daddy Track are equal opposites. They are born family men whose success is measured by happy children and one marriage. These are the Disney Dads with either a very contented bovine wife or a skinny shrew resentful that he hasn't achieved more in creating a castle of her own imagination.
The mistake women make is forcing a Daddy Track man to be more ambitious that serves solely to fulfill her Lady Macbeth ambitions. Whereas women who marry men on Titan Track mistakenly force him to be home early every night for dinner and babysit the kids in full view of her scathing eye when he would rather continue plotting his world domination.
Homely women are best for Daddy Tracks for there is harmony. Stunning beauties belong to men on Titan Track, one marriage after the next and mistresses along the way. Choose wisely.
Men on Titan Track pursue greatness, expressed through corporate dominance and its attendant financial prowess. These men are hard to please with their high expectations, imposing their standards on themselves and on others.
Their women must reflect his greatness, contributing to his image of invincibility. These are the CEOs with serial wives, all trophies but the first one who was his stepping stone, looking like a boulder at the end of her run.
Men on Daddy Track are equal opposites. They are born family men whose success is measured by happy children and one marriage. These are the Disney Dads with either a very contented bovine wife or a skinny shrew resentful that he hasn't achieved more in creating a castle of her own imagination.
The mistake women make is forcing a Daddy Track man to be more ambitious that serves solely to fulfill her Lady Macbeth ambitions. Whereas women who marry men on Titan Track mistakenly force him to be home early every night for dinner and babysit the kids in full view of her scathing eye when he would rather continue plotting his world domination.
Homely women are best for Daddy Tracks for there is harmony. Stunning beauties belong to men on Titan Track, one marriage after the next and mistresses along the way. Choose wisely.
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