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February 08, 04:51 PM
Don’t Register Don’t Pay #ULA leaflet
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for more details of the United Left Alliance in Dublin North East email
ula@dublin5.com
ula@dublin13.com

February 05, 10:15 AM
Referendum Now – please RT
http://referendumnow.eu/petition/
February 03, 01:15 PM
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February 03, 05:10 AM
#sodshow this field – €1 – 3pm Dublin City FM
February 01, 04:58 PM
Clare Daly TD rebuts Pat Kenny’s rebuff re: septic tank #rtefl
February 01, 04:57 PM
sorry Scotland – you look like a badger in the snow
February 01, 04:26 PM
One month on: mass boycott of Household Tax on course [press statement]
One month on: mass boycott of Household Tax on course (PRESS STATEMENT 1 Feb 2012 CAHWT)

Mass boycott of registration for the Household Tax is on course, based on the government’s own figures of around 4% after the first month. 96% of householders have not signed up, with an actual slow-down in the rate since early January. If this rate was to continue, only 12% would have registered by March 31st. Even if the rate doubled, 76% would be boycotting the tax. Registration also includes people not liable for the charge at all, masking the real level of non-payment.

The figures bear out the overwhelming opposition to the Household Tax shown in attendances at CAHWT meetings. Thousands have attended public meetings in cities and towns, such as 500 Cork, 350 Limerick, 300 west Donegal, 400 Enniscorthy, 350 Clonmel, 250 Kilkenny and thousands at localised meetings in Dublin.

The message is that ordinary people are angry but determined to resist government attempts to force them once again to pay the gambling debts of bankers and developers. People are not fooled by government claims that this tax is to fund local services – meetings in Dublin expressed their anger at the sell-off of waste collection, a key local public service, to private operators.

The Campaign steps up a gear this week with meetings in Leitrim, Kildare, Mayo, Monaghan and Roscommon and more rolled out for next week. 250,000 newsletters are being distributed door-to-door and a protest is planned to coincide with a motion on Dublin City Council next Monday evening. CAHWT will respond to any escalation in government threats or propaganda in February.

We are confident that this tax can and will be beaten. People see this as their one real chance to send a message about the onging austerity. Non-payment and non-registration are the only effective means to beat the tax and we encourage people to hold firm, ignore the government propaganda that will come and see that, by St. Patrick’s Day, we can have hundreds of thousands refusing to register and make the tax unworkable.

http://www.nohouseholdtax.org/
http://www.facebook.com/NoHouseholdTax

January 27, 12:10 PM
Boycott the home tax – eirigi.org
January 27, 06:58 AM
household tax meeting Feb 6th Donaghmede Inn 8pm
January 25, 05:07 PM
Don’t lose Leap over it #rescuez @rescuez

This is a prototype sticker tag for rescuez.com a start-up providing critical information in an emergency, contacts for next of kin, and getting the things you most cherish back to you if you lose them. We’re Rebooting Emergency Identification.

January 21, 04:52 AM
students: contrast & compare these two articles in the Indo today.
Charlie Weston: ‘Poor rich’ earn over €100,000 but can’t meet home payments
http://www.independent.ie/opinion/analysis/charlie-weston-poor-rich-earn-over…

James Downey: House tax just one battle in fight to end our woes
http://www.independent.ie/opinion/analysis/james-downey-house-tax-just-one-ba…

Students please wear your News Filter Goggles (NFG) this is the Irish Independent with Charlie Weston, James Downey & a touch of Karl Deeter.

January 20, 02:44 PM
me on dublin city fm xmas 2011

breakfast show on 103.2 Dublin City FM 27-29 December 2011

January 20, 01:03 PM
me on #rtefl feb 2011

with name typo

January 19, 03:02 AM
Irish ‘poll tax’ battle has begun
http://www.socialistparty.org.uk/issue/701/13532/18-01-2012/irish-poll-tax-ba…
January 17, 11:47 AM
999 – fire service – there’s a fire in my house – please hold for credit card payment clearance
^1 ^2 Yesterday in Dublin the new stealth tax of charging people for a call out of the Fire Brigade began. House fire call out will cost home owners €500 per call.

But there is some irony about the Irish Insurance Federation taking a position on this. Stealing the words from Joe Higgins mouth ^3 the industry federation calls it a double tax. and I don’t argue that it isn’t a shame on the city council for forcing in this unjust tax. But the origins of a municipal public funded free at the point of use fire tender service was invented purely due to the greed of insurance companies.

from ^4 Irish Fires Services / History
“At this time with the expansion and increase of wealth in the city it was the insurance brigades which had become the main fire fighting force. Dressed in brightly coloured costumes with the badges of their company on their uniforms and supplied with engines by the companies these men attended fires only in building which displayed the mark of their own insurance company. Later on cooperation did develop between the companies. The crew of the engine which arrived first received the highest amount of pay.”

The competition and greed of the insurance companies helped force the city to set up a publicly funded service in 1862. 150 years later Ireland demonstrates how we are returning to these dark ages where the uninsured or the not so sure, will hesitate to call the fire brigade as Dublin burns and lives are lost. Dublin City Council say this charge “will not be an issue” ^5 can they measure this?

Story links
^1 http://www.rte.ie/news/2012/0116/firebrigade.html
^2 http://www.herald.ie/news/safety-fears-over-500-fire-service-callout-fee-2989…
^3 http://www.irishtimes.com/newspaper/ireland/2012/0117/1224310362756.html
^4 http://irishfireservices.ie/dublin-fire-brigade/history
^5 http://url.ie/dzyp

January 16, 01:43 PM
1890 98 98 00
January 13, 12:44 PM
Campaign Against Household & Water Tax Kinsealy

Public meeting Thursday 19th January 8pm

January 09, 08:10 PM
Calculate how many people will not register or pay the household charge

January 04, 10:23 AM
Household Tax site in breach of privacy law
Press Statement: Paul Murphy MEP (Socialist Party / United Left
Alliance) 4 January 2011

Household Tax site in breach of privacy law

Paul Murphy MEP lodges complaint with Data Commissioner

Socialist Party / United Left Alliance MEP for Dublin and
anti-household tax campaigner, Paul Murphy, has lodged a complaint
with the Data Commissioner about the Household Tax site,
www.householdcharge.ie.

“The government is starting to roll out a massive propaganda campaign
to get people to register for and pay the unjust household tax.
However, the site they are encouraging people to register on is in
breach of the 2011 regulations on “Privacy and Electronic
Communications” which implements EU directives on privacy.

“The website’s privacy statement declares that the site uses ‘session
cookies’ which are erased after use, whereas in fact it uses so-called
‘persistent cookies’ that remain on people’s computers after they
visit the website. This is a breach of the 2011 regulations and I have
made a complaint to the Data Commissioner about it.

“People should not register or pay on this site. Instead, they should
join the Campaign against Household and Water Taxes and work to
establish such mass non-registration and non-payment that this tax
will be uncollectable.”

ENDS

[PMPress]

Note for editor:

The www.householdcharge.ie site is in breach of the 2011 regulations
(EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES (ELECTRONIC COMMUNICATIONS NETWORKS AND
SERVICES) (PRIVACY AND ELECTRONIC COMMUNICATIONS) REGULATIONS 2011),
available here http://www.dataprotection.ie/documents/legal/SI336of2011.pdf
. In particular, it is in breach of section 5, part 3, which reads:

“(3) A person shall not use an electronic communications network to store

information, or to gain access to information already stored in the terminal

equipment of a subscriber or user, unless

(a) the subscriber or user has given his or her consent to that use, and

(b) the subscriber or user has been provided with clear and
comprehensive information in accordance with the Data Protection Acts
which—

(i) is both prominently displayed and easily accessible, and

(ii) includes, without limitation, the purposes of the processing of

the information.”
January 03, 12:10 PM
1930 companies close & 40,000 private sector jobs to go
Figures for company collapses in 2011 further testimony of the failure of austerity

Government's projected savings of €185 million from cut in employer redundancy rebate indicates FG/Labour expect over 40,000 further private sector job losses 

Effective state ownership via NAMA of companies like Vita Cortex should result in production being maintained and jobs saved or created

Responding to the research produced by Vision-net  which looked at the impact of the crisis on private companies last year Joe Higgins TD said

"The figures provided by Vision-net regarding the closure of 1,930 private companies in 2011 up to November amount to further testimony of the failure of austerity. That this figure was 20% up on 2010 and also given the fact that this government is persisting with a strategy of austerity it is blindingly obvious that this trend will continue.

"The most high risk sectors according to the research were hotels, bars, retail and wholesale, in other words those sectors most sensitive to the spending power of low and middle income workers. This backs up our contention that the cutback approach of successive governments and unfortunately advocated by the representatives of small employers is totally self defeating. "

Clare Daly TD said:

"The government themselves have indicated that they expect at least 40,000 job losses in the private sector over most of 2012 and the whole of 2013. We know this because they have projected €185 million in 'savings' over this period by cutting the employers rebate for statutory redundancy. 

"We can extrapolate from 2010 figures (figure for all of 2011 are not yet available) based on the average rebate per worker made redundant that almost 39,000 will receive statutory redundancy from the time the reduced rebate comes into effect until the end of 2013. If one takes into account those workers who won't have worked the necessary two years to avail of statutory redundancy you are looking easily over 40,000 job losses based on the government's own figures."

"This shows that in reality they don't even believe their own propaganda about creating the conditions for jobs!"

Joe Higgins added:

"The United Left Alliance proposed a range of job creation measures in the run up to the budget centered around an emergency programme of public works. The Socialist Party in addition to this calls for the nationalisation of firms threatened with closure or widespread job losses. 

"Take Vita Cortex in Cork for example which was a viable firm with a full order book but because of their employers entanglement with NAMA have been sacked in the most outrageous manner . The workers are demanding their statutory redundancy which is their right. However I ask the question, why must this firm which is already in effective state ownership close?

"Instead production could resume under public ownership but under the local control and management of those workers who want to hold on to their jobs and likewise employment opportunities could be created to fill the vacancies of those who want to take the redundancy. These proposals will meet with predictable scoffs from the government and their supporters in the media but I say to them that this is the only adequate response to the jobs catastrophe they preside over."
BrianGreene.com [blog]

Posts

February 08, 04:44 PM
Don't Register Don't Pay #ULA leaflet

Don’t_register_Don’t_Pay_final.pdf Download this file
for more details of the United Left Alliance in Dublin North East email
ula@dublin5.com
ula@dublin13.com

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February 05, 10:15 AM
Referendum Now - please RT
February 03, 05:09 AM
#sodshow this field - €1 - 3pm Dublin City FM
February 01, 04:29 PM
Clare Daly TD rebuts Pat Kenny's rebuff re: sceptic shanks
February 01, 04:29 PM
sorry Scotland - you look like a badger in the snow
February 01, 04:21 PM
Clare Daly TD rebuts Pat Kenny's rebuff re: septic tank #rtefl
February 01, 04:21 PM
One month on: mass boycott of Household Tax on course [press statement]

One month on: mass boycott of Household Tax on course (PRESS STATEMENT 1 Feb 2012 CAHWT)

Mass boycott of registration for the Household Tax is on course, based on the government's own figures of around 4% after the first month. 96% of householders have not signed up, with an actual slow-down in the rate since early January. If this rate was to continue, only 12% would have registered by March 31st. Even if the rate doubled, 76% would be boycotting the tax. Registration also includes people not liable for the charge at all, masking the real level of non-payment.

The figures bear out the overwhelming opposition to the Household Tax shown in attendances at CAHWT meetings. Thousands have attended public meetings in cities and towns, such as 500 Cork, 350 Limerick, 300 west Donegal, 400 Enniscorthy, 350 Clonmel, 250 Kilkenny and thousands at localised meetings in Dublin.

The message is that ordinary people are angry but determined to resist government attempts to force them once again to pay the gambling debts of bankers and developers. People are not fooled by government claims that this tax is to fund local services - meetings in Dublin expressed their anger at the sell-off of waste collection, a key local public service, to private operators.

The Campaign steps up a gear this week with meetings in Leitrim, Kildare, Mayo, Monaghan and Roscommon and more rolled out for next week. 250,000 newsletters are being distributed door-to-door and a protest is planned to coincide with a motion on Dublin City Council next Monday evening. CAHWT will respond to any escalation in government threats or propaganda in February.

We are confident that this tax can and will be beaten. People see this as their one real chance to send a message about the onging austerity. Non-payment and non-registration are the only effective means to beat the tax and we encourage people to hold firm, ignore the government propaganda that will come and see that, by St. Patrick's Day, we can have hundreds of thousands refusing to register and make the tax unworkable.

http://www.nohouseholdtax.org/
http://www.facebook.com/NoHouseholdTax

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January 27, 12:10 PM
Boycott the home tax - eirigi.org
January 27, 06:55 AM
household tax meeting Feb 6th Donaghmede Inn 8pm
January 25, 11:26 AM
Don't lose Leap over it #rescuez @rescuez
January 21, 04:48 AM
students: contrast & compare these two articles in the Indo today.

Charlie Weston: 'Poor rich' earn over €100,000 but can't meet home payments
http://www.independent.ie/opinion/analysis/charlie-weston-poor-rich-earn-over...

James Downey: House tax just one battle in fight to end our woes
http://www.independent.ie/opinion/analysis/james-downey-house-tax-just-one-ba...

Students please wear your News Filter Goggles (NFG) this is the Irish Independent with Charlie Weston, James Downey & a touch of Karl Deeter.

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January 20, 02:39 PM
me on dublin city fm xmas 2011

breakfast show on 103.2 Dublin City FM 27-29 December 2011

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January 20, 01:01 PM
me on #rtefl feb 2011

with name typo

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January 19, 03:02 AM
Irish 'poll tax' battle has begun
January 17, 10:07 AM
999 - fire service - there's a fire in my house - please hold for credit card payment clearance

^1 ^2 Yesterday in Dublin the new stealth tax of charging people for a call out of the Fire Brigade began. House fire call out will cost home owners €500 per call.

But there is some irony about the Irish Insurance Federation taking a position on this. Stealing the words from Joe Higgins mouth ^3 the industry federation calls it a double tax. and I don't argue that it isn't a shame on the city council for forcing in this unjust tax. But the origins of a municipal public funded free at the point of use fire tender service was invented purely due to the greed of insurance companies.

from ^4 Irish Fires Services / History
"At this time with the expansion and increase of wealth in the city it was the insurance brigades which had become the main fire fighting force. Dressed in brightly coloured costumes with the badges of their company on their uniforms and supplied with engines by the companies these men attended fires only in building which displayed the mark of their own insurance company. Later on cooperation did develop between the companies. The crew of the engine which arrived first received the highest amount of pay."

The competition and greed of the insurance companies helped force the city to set up a publicly funded service in 1862. 150 years later Ireland demonstrates how we are returning to these dark ages where the uninsured or the not so sure, will hesitate to call the fire brigade as Dublin burns and lives are lost. Dublin City Council say this charge "will not be an issue" ^5 can they measure this?

Story links
^1 http://www.rte.ie/news/2012/0116/firebrigade.html
^2 http://www.herald.ie/news/safety-fears-over-500-fire-service-callout-fee-2989...
^3 http://www.irishtimes.com/newspaper/ireland/2012/0117/1224310362756.html
^4 http://irishfireservices.ie/dublin-fire-brigade/history
^5 http://url.ie/dzyp

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January 16, 01:43 PM
1890 98 98 00
January 13, 12:44 PM
Campaign Against Household & Water Tax Kinsealy

Public meeting Thursday 19th January 8pm

Permalink | Leave a comment  »

January 09, 07:09 PM
Calculate how many people will not register or pay the household charge
January 04, 10:23 AM
Household Tax site in breach of privacy law

Press Statement: Paul Murphy MEP (Socialist Party / United Left
Alliance) 4 January 2011


Household Tax site in breach of privacy law

Paul Murphy MEP lodges complaint with Data Commissioner


Socialist Party / United Left Alliance MEP for Dublin and
anti-household tax campaigner, Paul Murphy, has lodged a complaint
with the Data Commissioner about the Household Tax site,
www.householdcharge.ie.


“The government is starting to roll out a massive propaganda campaign
to get people to register for and pay the unjust household tax.
However, the site they are encouraging people to register on is in
breach of the 2011 regulations on “Privacy and Electronic
Communications” which implements EU directives on privacy.


“The website's privacy statement declares that the site uses 'session
cookies' which are erased after use, whereas in fact it uses so-called
'persistent cookies' that remain on people's computers after they
visit the website. This is a breach of the 2011 regulations and I have
made a complaint to the Data Commissioner about it.


“People should not register or pay on this site. Instead, they should
join the Campaign against Household and Water Taxes and work to
establish such mass non-registration and non-payment that this tax
will be uncollectable.”


ENDS


[PMPress]


Note for editor:


The www.householdcharge.ie site is in breach of the 2011 regulations
(EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES (ELECTRONIC COMMUNICATIONS NETWORKS AND
SERVICES) (PRIVACY AND ELECTRONIC COMMUNICATIONS) REGULATIONS 2011),
available here http://www.dataprotection.ie/documents/legal/SI336of2011.pdf
. In particular, it is in breach of section 5, part 3, which reads:


“(3) A person shall not use an electronic communications network to store

information, or to gain access to information already stored in the terminal

equipment of a subscriber or user, unless

(a) the subscriber or user has given his or her consent to that use, and

(b) the subscriber or user has been provided with clear and
comprehensive information in accordance with the Data Protection Acts
which—

(i) is both prominently displayed and easily accessible, and

(ii) includes, without limitation, the purposes of the processing of

the information.”

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January 03, 12:10 PM
1930 companies close & 40,000 private sector jobs to go

Figures for company collapses in 2011 further testimony of the failure of austerity

Government's projected savings of €185 million from cut in employer redundancy rebate indicates FG/Labour expect over 40,000 further private sector job losses 

Effective state ownership via NAMA of companies like Vita Cortex should result in production being maintained and jobs saved or created

Responding to the research produced by Vision-net  which looked at the impact of the crisis on private companies last year Joe Higgins TD said

"The figures provided by Vision-net regarding the closure of 1,930 private companies in 2011 up to November amount to further testimony of the failure of austerity. That this figure was 20% up on 2010 and also given the fact that this government is persisting with a strategy of austerity it is blindingly obvious that this trend will continue.

"The most high risk sectors according to the research were hotels, bars, retail and wholesale, in other words those sectors most sensitive to the spending power of low and middle income workers. This backs up our contention that the cutback approach of successive governments and unfortunately advocated by the representatives of small employers is totally self defeating. "

Clare Daly TD said:

"The government themselves have indicated that they expect at least 40,000 job losses in the private sector over most of 2012 and the whole of 2013. We know this because they have projected €185 million in 'savings' over this period by cutting the employers rebate for statutory redundancy. 

"We can extrapolate from 2010 figures (figure for all of 2011 are not yet available) based on the average rebate per worker made redundant that almost 39,000 will receive statutory redundancy from the time the reduced rebate comes into effect until the end of 2013. If one takes into account those workers who won't have worked the necessary two years to avail of statutory redundancy you are looking easily over 40,000 job losses based on the government's own figures."

"This shows that in reality they don't even believe their own propaganda about creating the conditions for jobs!"

Joe Higgins added:

"The United Left Alliance proposed a range of job creation measures in the run up to the budget centered around an emergency programme of public works. The Socialist Party in addition to this calls for the nationalisation of firms threatened with closure or widespread job losses. 

"Take Vita Cortex in Cork for example which was a viable firm with a full order book but because of their employers entanglement with NAMA have been sacked in the most outrageous manner . The workers are demanding their statutory redundancy which is their right. However I ask the question, why must this firm which is already in effective state ownership close?

"Instead production could resume under public ownership but under the local control and management of those workers who want to hold on to their jobs and likewise employment opportunities could be created to fill the vacancies of those who want to take the redundancy. These proposals will meet with predictable scoffs from the government and their supporters in the media but I say to them that this is the only adequate response to the jobs catastrophe they preside over."

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February 07, 09:14 PM
Eartha Kitt - hurdy gurdy man
February 07, 09:01 PM
Reflex-Politics Of Dancing
February 05, 09:48 PM
Foster The People / Pumped Up Kicks

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February 05, 09:43 PM
The Magic Numbers - Forever Lost
February 05, 09:40 PM
The Decemberists- Rox in the Box - Newport Folk Festival 2009
February 05, 09:32 PM
Bob Seger- Night Moves
February 05, 09:30 PM
All through the night - Cyndi Lauper
February 05, 09:26 PM
Commodores - Night Shift (lyrics)

Commodores – Nightshift

February 05, 09:13 PM
Circe (Jazzanova Mix) - Ursula Rucker
February 05, 09:08 PM
Minnie Riperton - Light My Fire (Digitally Remastered 93)

Minnie Riperton – Light My Fire

February 05, 09:04 PM
Wings - Band On The Run (Original Video)
February 05, 09:03 PM
Goose Creek Symphony - (Oh Lord Won't You Buy Me A) Mercedes Benz (Original Hit Version)
February 05, 09:02 PM
John Miles - Music (1976)
February 05, 09:00 PM
Helen Reddy - I Am Woman
February 05, 08:57 PM
Les Baxter / Jungle Flower (1951)
February 05, 08:56 PM
Billy Idol - Eyes Without A Face
February 05, 08:50 PM
Grace Jones - La Vie En Rose
February 05, 08:48 PM
Juice Newton - Angel Of The Morning
February 05, 08:41 PM
Juliet Turner- Still Haven't Found What Im Looking For
February 05, 06:02 PM
THE TROJANS "Gaelic ska"

gaelic ska @SkaRadio

February 05, 05:56 PM
Quarantine - Lie Down Forever - Godstar (music)

Godstar – Lie Down Forever

February 05, 05:45 PM
Black 47 - James Connolly

4 @Sheffo who was marching down O'Connell Street earlier.

February 05, 05:41 PM
Grant Lee Buffalo - Lady Godiva And Me

for naked in Coventry - Grant Lee Buffalo – Lady Godiva And Me

February 05, 05:25 PM
Feeling Groovy by Paul Simon and Art Garfunkel

catching up on my stream. you all write too much. slow down. you move to fast.

February 04, 08:29 PM
Ben Folds - In Between Days

nn. Ben Folds – In Between Days

February 04, 08:28 PM
KOKKAMANGO- Telegraph (OMD cover)
February 04, 08:20 PM
CAMERA OBSCURA - Eighties fan
February 04, 08:13 PM
Kim Carnes - Bette Davis Eyes (Acoustic)

PRECOCIOUS AND SHE KNOWS JUST WHAT IT TAKES TO MAKE A PRO BLUSH

February 04, 08:01 PM
Kate Walsh - A Little Respect
February 04, 07:57 PM
Cathy Davey - Reuben
February 04, 07:54 PM
Stiff Little Fingers - Each Dollar A Bullet With Lyrics

Stiff Little Fingers – Each Dollar A Bullet

February 04, 07:51 PM
Jackson Browne Lives In the Balance

"And theres a shadow on the faces, Of the men who send the guns, To the wars that are fought in places, Where their business interest runs"

February 04, 07:34 PM
Frankie Goes To Hollywood - Welcome to the pleasuredome (1985 Real altered)

[777] I am no longer an artist I have become a work of art Welcome to the pleasure dome…

February 04, 07:19 PM
The Beautiful South You keep it all in (radio)
February 04, 07:15 PM
Canned Heat - Going Up The Country

rb@djwashingtonson: "Canned Heat – Going Up The Country" cc@donegangardens@peterd

February 04, 06:54 PM
Xiu Xiu - Ceremony (Joy Division)
February 04, 06:43 PM
Sarah McQuaid - Only An Emotion - Mayo Clinic, Rochester, MN, 26 September 2011
February 04, 06:37 PM
Neil Young - Harvest Moon Video
#sodshow song for week #48 Neil Young – Harvest Moon Video http://qued.tv/24653 [MP3 link to SodShow]
February 04, 06:31 PM
Will You Love Me Tomorrow (1993 Promo Video)
#Bryan #Anna Will You Love Me Tomorrow
February 04, 06:29 PM
Made in USA (Jean-Luc Godard) - Marianne Faithful
February 04, 03:01 PM
Eleanor McEvoy - Stray Thoughts (remix)

[new] @EleanorMcEvoy – Stray Thoughts (remix)

February 03, 08:41 PM
The Doors - Touch Me

4. The Doors – Touch Me / Poke Me

February 03, 08:33 PM
Joni Mitchell-A Case of You

nn.3 Joni Mitchell - A Case of You

February 03, 08:31 PM
Hard-Fi - Living For The Weekend [Official Video]

its friday (over there) NN.2 Hard-Fi – Living For The Weekend

February 03, 08:29 PM
Martha And The Muffins - Echo Beach

its friday (over there) NN.1 9-5Club Martha And The Muffins – Echo Beach

February 03, 08:21 PM
The Human League - Open Your Heart (2002 Digital Remaster)

[777] The Human League – Open Your Heart

February 03, 08:20 PM
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February 03, 08:17 PM
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February 03, 08:14 PM
The 99%

The 99% - Paul O'Toole

February 03, 08:00 PM
Fever Ray - When I Grow Up (We Grow Apart Vocal Version By Par Grindvik)
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November 25, 02:32 PM
the jam song
November 24, 05:34 AM
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November 21, 05:15 PM
Radio for the masses

 

I volunteered to find some suitable radios for the local roman catholic church that are keying up for jesus and broadcasting services on 27mhz (11 meters) in the Citizen Band. While I don't receive the holy spirit myself i do get radio signals and their outreach potential. The churches receiver sets that they have been using have heard better days. The radio sets are given to parishioners that are unable to attend church on a regular basis. 

So far I could source the following for sub €50 from China (if customs doesn't slap a big chunk of duty on it) 

I like the sound of the ATS feature the radio has. Think of it as a blind scan of the whole SW band. In about 2.5 minutes! it scans 2-30Mhz and stores the signals in a memory bank other than the 500 presets the radio boasts. It stores 1200 scanned stations in 12 pages of 100.

The name Tecsun (like Texan) PL 210 (like polonium 210) is from a family of radio sets that have been getting good reviews for the sensitivity of the FM & SW tuners and its 10Kc down to 1Kc tuning bandwidths. Power is via a mini USB accepting 5v and will charge provided 3xAA rechargeables.  

I might just have to test drive one before I bulk order. Anyone importing these into Ireland? get in touch. 

 

 

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October 08, 09:23 AM
Belfast's Blaw-Knox Radiator

photo via http://radiomap.eu

If you have ever driven into Befast from the South you may have seen this antenna at Sprucefield and wondered what is that for? Well I did, all too often. I knew it was for radio transmitting, but I never knew what kind. Was it broadcast radio? was it for utilities such as army? That's what I used to think when I was younger and there was more army about. But its design was a clue to its use. The diamond shaped antenna that is fatter at the middle is an antenna design classic that adorns QSL cards & Radio Billboards (of yesteryear) the world over. The answer to my question was that it is in use for regional broadcast radio.

Analogue radio

FrequencykW[1]Service
720 kHz 10 BBC Radio 4
909 kHz 10 BBC Radio 5 Live
1089 kHz 12.5 Talksport
1215 kHz 16 Absolute Radio
1341 kHz 100 BBC Radio Ulster

Built in 1936 this radio relic is still of great use today. via bbceng.info The 'Blaw-Knox’ mast and the 'anti-fading' characteristic! From an engineering point of view, the ‘big fat middle’ of the Blaw-Knox mast, just near the ‘point of maximum aerial current’, seems just ideal, as any radio engineer will confirm! Its original frequency was 977 ‘Kc/s’ (kHz) and the overall length of the mast at commissioning was just a little over 500 feet in height. It was commissioned as ‘the BBC’s first anti-fading aerial’ (Pawley p94). The ‘Anti-fading’ characteristic is often associated with the strong visual impression that these ‘Blaw-Knox shaped’ radiators impose upon one's psyche. Ostensibly, it seems completely logical that the radiator's complex and unique mechanical shape would be the reason for such desirable anti-fading properties. Incredibly, this is not the case! In fact, no aspect is more misunderstood about the whole Lisnagarvey site than this very point! Any ‘anti-fading’ characteristics that the tower may have had nothing in the least to do with its cigar shape! In fact, the ‘unique shape’ of such radiators was proven to actually degrade their performance instead of enhancing their characteristics!

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October 04, 04:06 PM
The Twilight Zone - Static
September 04, 03:35 AM
Radio Prague at 75

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July 11, 05:43 AM
Remembering Philip Greene

Legendary Irish sports commentator Philip Greene (90) passed away in May 2011.

RTÉ reported Sunday, 15 May 2011

The death has taken place of Philip Greene, who was best known as a soccer commentator on RTÉ Radio, as well as being as Head of Sport with the station. Greene began his RTE Radio career in the 1940's. He was editor, producer and presenter of the popular Sports Stadium programme. His first commentary on a soccer international was the game against Argentina at Dalymount Park in 1951. A life-long Shamrock Rovers and Manchester United supporter, he also wrote a column in the Evening Press newspaper. Although best known as a soccer commentator, Philip Greene also commentated on athletics and cricket. He covered his last soccer international for radio in 1985, the year of his official retirement.

hear Philip Greene in action in this 1957 recording. Ireland v England World Cup qualifier in Dalymount Park. An injury time (90th minute) England equaliser puts Ireland out of qualification for the 1958 world cup finals.

from the Irish Times May 19th 2011

Eoin Greene ... recalled the time his father had done a broadcast for the BBC on the Belgium-Ireland European Championships qualifier in 1986 when he and his brother, who were with their father for the commentary, were told to keep quiet until after the match. When the match ended 2-2, his father put down the microphone and told his children to “turn up the volume on the television”. He had covered the match from home.

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July 02, 08:17 AM
WCSC Tower Removal time lapse video
July 01, 11:04 AM
Irish Radio and all that Jazz

The Minster gets involved
The sponsorship of programmes on Radio Éireann, or 2RN as it was originally known, had long been a source of contention for some.  Irish companies paid £5 per five minutes of sponsorship while foreign companies were charged twice this amount.  In the first three months of 1927 advertising revenue amounted to £200 but the entire revenue for 1928 was just £28. By 1929 revenue had risen to £50 per annum.[22] The secretary of the Department of Posts and Telegraphs, P.S. O’Hegarty, thought that advertising on radio should be allowed to die a natural death while Seamús Clandillon, the station director, declared that, ‘from a programme point of view they are a nuisance and are regarded by the listeners as an impertinence.’[23]

The first sponsored programme, by Euthymol toothpaste, was broadcast on the 31st December 1927.  Frequently these programme would use popular or dancehall music to entice the audience and would intersperse advertisements for their clients throughout the show.  Radio Éireann could be received throughout Western Europe and the sponsored programmes picked up a significant following outside Ireland.

When faced with an attack on fellow minister MacEntee on Irish radio, Gerald Boland cancelled the broadcast.

Sean Óg Ó Ceallaigh was due to deliver a radio lecture on ‘Irish Culture: It’s Decline’ on the 11th of January 1934.  The Minster for Posts and Telegraphs, Gerald Boland, stepped in and had the broadcast cancelled.  Justifying the cancellation, Boland stated that, ‘Mr. Ó Ceallaigh had made a grossly unfair and unjustified personal attack on the Minister for Finance at Mohill on the 1st of January and must have known that Mr. MacEntee was not responsible for the conduct of the broadcasting service.  I was determined to ensure that he would not avail of the opportunity presented by his broadcast to renew his attack.’[24]

Ó Ceallaigh stated that he had submitted the text of his lecture to the station director a week in advance and no objection had been made but Boland questioned the capacity of Ó Ceallaigh to stick to his prepared script.  In an interview on the subject, Boland said, ‘that if he (Ó Ceallaigh) wants to make a personal attack on a Minister he can do it, but he will not do it over the radio if I can help it.’[25]

Boland also sought to reassure the public that he was taking steps to curtail the amount of jazz music broadcast on Radio Éireann and to replace it with classical music and military marches.  The Minister had already used his influence to have the words of ‘a foreign type of Good Night song,’ that one of the programmes concluded with, excised and he announced that he was prepared to forego the revenue derived from sponsored programmes rather than have them ‘serve to advance jazz.’ [26]

via theirishstory.com

via The Anti-Jazz Campaign ~ The Irish Story by Cathal Brennan
http://www.theirishstory.com/2011/07/01/the-anti-jazz-campaign/

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June 27, 01:21 AM
Lee de Forest 1873-1961

Lee de Forest, 1873-1961, was an inventor and scholar who made significant contributions to the science of electronic communications during the first three decades of the Twentieth Century. He held numerous patents on the technology of radio, television and film.
via leedeforest.org

Lee De Forest, father of radio died 50 years ago this week. De Forest test transmitted from the Martello Tower in Howth in Dublin to the British Navy in the Irish Sea in 1903.

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June 13, 10:23 PM
Vigra 630 kHz in Norway to close down on 30 June

Eivind Motland reports: Norwegian public broadcaster NRK will cease broadcasts on 630 kHz from the Vigra mediumwave transmitter on 30 June. The purpose of keeping it on the air simply isn’t there anymore, as it primarily is targeted towards the fishing fleet to let them get the weather reports. Today NRK broadcasts weather forecasts on dedicated channels on satellite and DAB.
via blogs.rnw.nl

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June 12, 12:58 PM
Nigerian state governor looks back on his clandestine radio days

The governor of Nigeria’s Ekiti State, Dr Kayode Fayemi, who was a June 12 activist, recalls the establishment and operation of the clandestine shortwave station Radio Kudirat in 1995. He writes in The Nation:

“We started the radio with a two half-hour broadcast but reports back from Nigeria indicated that the 7125 kHz, 41-meter was not clear and that the half-hour be converted to one single hour broadcast. The World Radio Network was able to assist us in obtaining 6205 kilohert on the 49-meter band. Time of broadcast was 8pm Nigerian time. I was responsible for driving the operations.

via blogs.rnw.nl

“We used a foundation as a front" so that's how you do it.

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June 07, 05:50 PM
Irish Radio 1926-2011

Irish Radio began broadcasting from a studio and office at 36 Little Denmark Street, now the site of the ILAC Centre in Dublin in January 1926. The transmitter was a 1.5 KW Marconi Q type, broadcasting on 390 meters from a hut in McKee Barracks beside the Phoenix Park. Irish Radio 1926-2011. 

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May 16, 03:23 AM
Radio Nord Revival soon on air on 603 kHz

Radio Nord Revival soon on air on 603 kHz

May 16th, 2011 - 15:07 UTC
by Andy Sennitt.

The Radio Nord revival weblog says: We have now received permission for 2.5 kW on MW 1512 kHz from Kvarnberget (Stockholm) and also on the original Radio Nord channel, 603 kHz, from Sala (the same location as the shortwave transmitter). As for short wave the frequencies have not yet been determined but we will most likely be in the 41 and 31 metre band.

SW frequencies will be announced as soon as they are cleared and power will be 10 kW. We will also be running a test towards North America in night time and hope you will be able to hear us over there. As usual you can also hear us on web radio, now with improved webstreams.

On May 27 official transmissions will start from the former ice-breaker and museum ship s/s S:t Erik and there will be a lot of live transmissions from the ship. We are also planning a small Radio Nord exhibition on board and the plan is to build a studio with vintage equipment of the same type that was used by Radio Nord. Everybody is welcome to join us the weekend of  May 27-29 on board the S.t Erik!

(Source: radionordrevival.blogspot.com)

via blogs.rnw.nl

there is something not right about 'We have now received permission' when referring to the return of a pirate. The bands (MW/SW) are being abandoned by state/private broadcasters and the ships have not being abandoned. If they can make a go of it for peace or love or music, let it be.

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May 06, 10:57 AM
73's Seán Óg Ó Ceallacháin

More about Seán Óg and the series.

Seán Óg in the studio.

From meeting Peig Sayers in her cottage to playing soccer under the pseudonym John Callaghan, Seán Óg describes the circumstances of his birth in Newcastlewest, Co Limerick in May 1923 right up to his still running radio programme Gaelic Sports Results.

Growing up in Fairview in Dublin, Seán Óg attended an all-Irish school, excelling at singing and twice winning Feis Ceoil medals as a boy soprano. It was as a child that his acting talents were recognised and he was offered a scholarship to study at the Abbey Theatre's school of acting giving this programme some memorable insights into the Abbey and its players.

Seán's love affair with sport began as a child, becoming a star hurler and winning club honours as well as playing for the Dublin All-Ireland hurling team.  Ignoring 'the ban', he also played soccer, cricket, golf and snooker and his broadcasting career was strongly tied to this passion.

Initially involved in retail, Seán was in his 20s before he became involved in the media, beginning a new career as a sports journalist with the Evening Press where he wrote his GAA page until the newspaper closed in 1995.  Seán also had a television career presenting The Sunday Game and interviewing sportsmen like Cassius Clay (Mohammed Ali) and Jack Dempsey.

In 1953, Seán took over the weekly sports programme his father had on 2RN and Gaelic Sports Results is still heard on Sunday nights.  This programme now has a world-wide audience amongst the Irish Diaspora through satellite and web broadcasting.

A re-edited version of these eight radio programmes will be available in CD format, published by RTÉ for the 2004 Christmas market.

via rte.ie

"Sin a bhfuil anocht a cairde, slan agaibh go leir."

Dust down domhnaill a bu, the presenter of the worlds longest running radio feature hangs up his headphones on Sunday night. Seán Óg turns 78 next week. Our airwaves will miss his Sunday night tones. That feeling that its back to school or work that you get when you hear his voice. Tingles.

see also
Declan Lynch: RTE drops the ball when it comes to sports coverage http://url.ie/b1v9

Eugene McGee: O Ceallachain voice of an era for GAA fans near and far http://url.ie/b1va

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May 06, 03:32 AM
Read live radio! Radio subtitles to be made available for the 1st time in Ireland

For the first time in Ireland, live radio will be captioned to allow access for the 17% of the Irish population with a hearing impairment. On Wednesday 11th May, 8-9am on RTE Radio 1 will be captioned and can be viewed on www.seewritenow.ie

This event is of particular interest to the 17% of the Irish population with a hidden hearing disability. The captions can also be viewed by those using English as their second language or for those working in a noisy environment, gym, factory etc

via dtn11.irishinternetassociation.com

via @topgold

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May 04, 04:32 PM
radio
May 04, 02:36 PM
RTÉ MW close down announcement
April 17, 05:40 AM
The Dread Broadcasting Corporation [a history]

The Dread Broadcasting Corporation was set up towards the end of 1979,
shortly after Margaret Thatcher came to power. While the population at large
seemed to embrace the new capitalist mood, I recall that things remained
pretty bleak for the average black Joe or Josephine. Their sense of
exclusion was reinforced by the lack of black music on the radio: we were
expected to make do with the prescribed "specialist" titbits (amounting to
between two and five hours a week), even in the most densely populated
ethnic areas.
via radiobanter.com

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January 11, 08:50 AM
#DAB new Mux label on RTE Radio 1 only
i like radio

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August 03, 06:37 PM
Sellafield Mox nuclear fuel plant to close
The Sellafield Mox plant will be closed as a consequence of the Fukushima incident in Japan. Photograph: PA

The Mox nuclear fuel plant at Sellafield was closed on Wednesday , with the loss of around 600 jobs.

The closure is a consequence of the Fukushima incident in Japan in March, which has closed down much of the nuclear industry there and led to a rethink of nuclear power around the world. But the government said the move had “no implications” for the UK’s plans for new nuclear reactors.

via guardian.co.uk

How much did that cost the taxpayers? What was the business model again? ship spent nuclear fuel around the world in rusty ships, sail it up the Irish sea, reprocess it, sell it, oops who wants to buy it? Nobody.

June 18, 10:31 PM
UK urges Ireland to build wind farms on west coast

UK urges Ireland to build wind farms on west coast

Plans to link electricity grids offer the UK a chance to meet its clean energy targets – but threaten to blight Irish beauty spots

via guardian.co.uk

Interesting, Ireland ask UK to list Sellafield on stress test list. They do. Irish Govt. are so happy they put out a press release. UK Govt. take Sellafield off the list and Irish Govt. say nothing… This game on polly put the kettle on continues. UK ask Ireland for a blow of its wind. We are being urged by a UK plan. I’m sure if we could we would sell the wind power, but respect first. SHUT SELLAFIELD. respect us, and we respect you.

May 27, 05:13 AM
Britain to exclude Sellafield from EU nuclear stress tests

THE BRITISH authorities have decided to exclude the Sellafield nuclear reprocessing plant in Cumbria from an imminent round of stress tests on European nuclear installations.

The move comes despite indications to Minister for the Environment Phil Hogan from British energy secretary Chris Huhne that the stress tests would include Sellafield.

Voluntary tests on Europe’s 143 nuclear reactors follow the Fukushima nuclear emergency in Japan, which raised questions as to whether previous safety audits were thorough enough.

The tests, which begin next month, will examine the resilience of nuclear installations to earthquakes, tsunamis, air crashes and human error. A group will also be set up to deal with the risk of any terrorist attack on a nuclear plant.

“The answer is no,” said a British government spokeswoman in Brussels when asked whether Sellafield would be examined.

She explained the decision by saying the plant is now engaged in nuclear fuel reprocessing and no longer generates power. “It’s just for existing generation sites,” she said of the tests.

via irishtimes.com

previously the British told the Irish they would include it. See http://url.ie/bjdx

May 09, 01:45 PM
Closure of Japanese plant casts doubt on viability of Sellafield’s Mox operation

The future of a nuclear fuel plant at Sellafield in Cumbria hangs in the balance after the Japanese Prime Minister called for the closure of a nuclear power station near Tokyo, which was to be the UK plant’s most important customer.

The setback is the latest blow to Britain’s faltering strategy for dealing with its growing mountain of reprocessed nuclear waste, and further evidence of the extent to which the devastating Japanese earthquake of 11 March has changed the nuclear picture – in particular the international trade in reprocessed nuclear fuel.

If the power plant at Hamaoka, 200km from Tokyo, closes, shipments of nuclear fuel to Japan from the Sellafield Mox Plant would stop before they had even started. It is the latest in a long series of problems for the nuclear fuel plant at the Sellafield complex which had already cost taxpayers £1.34bn even before the impact of the earthquake and tsunami was felt.

via independent.co.uk
May 03, 06:32 PM
Arrests in Britain Linked to Terror Threat – NYTimes.com

LONDON — The police in Britain said that they had arrested five men under anti-terrorism laws near the Sellafield nuclear site in the north of England.

The men were stopped in a vehicle “close to the site” on the Irish Sea coast on Monday afternoon according to a statement from West Cumbria police. All are aged in their 20s, the statement said, and all are from London.

They were arrested under a provision of Britain’s terrorism laws that allows suspects to be questioned without charge, police said, and have now been handed over to the specialist North West Counter Terrorism Unit in Manchester.

A BBC report suggested the men were of Bangladeshi origin and that they were thought to have been filming near the site.

A spokeswoman for the unit, which works closely with Britain’s domestic intelligence service, MI5, declined to confirm the report or provide further details because “the investigation is at an early stage,” and questioning is under way.

But she did say that there is “no link at this stage” to the death of Osama bin Laden in Pakistan, an event which prompted Islamic extremists to warn that Britain will be a target for retaliatory attacks. British authorities have told the public to be alert on public transportation and in other venues.

via nytimes.com
April 21, 06:00 AM
Bloomberg article says nuked seas are ok.
Between 1952 and 2009, Sellafield discharged more than 47,855 terabecquerel of cesium-137 and strontium-90, two of the most dangerous radioactive elements to human health, according to calculations based on data from the U.K. Environment Agency and the Journal of Radiological Protection.
via bloomberg.com

not another glowing report?

April 21, 06:00 AM
Britain sees three radiation spills at nuclear plants | Metro.co.uk

Britain sees three radiation spills at nuclear plants

Health fears have been raised as three recent radiation spills at Britain’s nuclear power plants were revealed to ministers.

Sellafield Nuclear Power Station in Sellafield (Pic: AP)

Radioactive waste leaked from the Sellafield complex in Cumbria, said the nuclear watchdog.

via metro.co.uk
April 10, 09:10 PM
Government’s doomed £6bn plan to dispose of nuclear waste
One month after the Japanese tsunami, the world’s biggest reserve of plutonium waste is reaching crisis point. It was meant to be reprocessed and sold – but now no nation will take it. So where is this vast stockpile? Not Fukushima, but Sellafield, Cumbria
via independent.co.uk

it goes on to say

“The existing Sellafield Mox Plant, opened in 2002, has cost more than £1.3bn to date yet has produced just 13.8 tons of Mox fuel in nine years compared to an expected output of 120 tons per year. A leaked cable from the US embassy in London said Sellafield’s Mox plant was a white elephant costing about £90m a year and considered, privately, by the UK Government as “[one of] the most embarrassing failures in British industrial history”.

April 08, 04:15 AM
Norwegians visit British nuclear plant

A Norwegian delegation has visited the British nuclear processing station at Sellafield in north-west England – and criticized the plant operators for becoming “more reticent” in the face of Norwegian concerns.

The Norwegian government has pushed over the past 15 years to have the operation shut down. Radiation leaked from the site over a number of years has entered the North Sea and been transported along the Norwegian coast, threatening fishing stocks and the local population.

A delegation including environment minister Erik Solheim and Nils Bøhmer, a nuclear physicist with the environmental foundation Bellona, visited the site on Thursday April 7. Tensions between the visitors and their hosts heightened when a number of journalists, including one from Norwegian Broadcasting (NRK), were not allowed into a closed section of the facility with the delegation.

Bøhmer told newspaper Aftenposten that he “did not understand the reason for keeping the journalists outside.” The physicist was further frustrated when the Sellafield leadership did not answer questions on exactly how much atomic waste remains at the decommissioned plant, or how the operators planned to reduce waste to the so-called “buffer level” of 200 cubic meters, which they promise to do by 2014. This is a year quicker than demanded by the British government.

Speaking further to Aftenposten, Bøhmer felt that Sellafield’s new withholding of information “makes it even more important to gain support for a moratorium” in the processing operations. The mayor of the southern coastal city of Stavanger, Leif Johan Sevland, who joined the delegation, concluded that it is “essential” that Norwegians “keep up the pressure.”

via newsinenglish.no
March 29, 11:17 AM
Trace amounts of (Fukushima) radiation found in Ireland

The Radiological Protection Institute of Ireland has confirmed that it has detected the presence of trace amounts of radioactivity from the Fukushima accident in Ireland, but they are of no public health concern.

The amount of radio-iodine identified is extremely low, is consistent with levels found in other European countries and has no public health implications.

via rte.ie

http://www.rpii.ie/Monitoring-Stations/Clonskeagh.aspx

shut sellafield

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