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Nonton Bigo Donald Trump 'Will Not Accept' If Ted Cruz Endorses Him Bigo Hot
Thanking his volunteers in Cleveland a day after the Republican National Convention wrapped, GOP presidential nominee Donald Trump today slammed Ted Cruz's Wednesday night speech and said he �will not accept� if the Texas senator ever decides to endorse him.
"Honestly, he may have ruined his political career. I feel so badly," Trump said this morning of Cruz, his former primary rival.
Cruz was booed off the stage on the third day of the convention for suggesting that people should �vote their conscience� in November. The Texas senator defended his speech the next morning at a Texas delegate breakfast, arguing he�s �not in the habit of supporting someone who attacks my wife and attacks my father.�
Bur Trump said this morning that Cruz will �come and endorse over the next little while. It's because he has no choice. But I don't want his endorsement. What difference does it make?"
"Ted, just stay home, relax, enjoy yourself," Trump said to laughter from the crowd of supporters and convention volunteers.
Trump said he reviewed a version of Cruz's speech, which included no endorsement, but allowed him to take the stage anyway Wednesday night.
�He got up and he added a sentence, which could have been viewed as a nasty thing in terms of what he said because he was implying something which is wrong. But that's OK,� Trump said, referring to Cruz�s �vote your conscience" line.
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Trump also called Cruz �dishonorable� for not supporting him and thereby rejecting the pledge each GOP candidate signed during the primaries indicating they would support the eventual party nominee.
"I like Ted, he's fine. Again, don't want his endorsement," Trump said. "If he gives it, I will not accept it, just so you understand."
Although they started the primaries cordially, Trump and Cruz were engaged in some heavy mudslinging at the end. Cruz called Trump a �pathological liar� and �utterly amoral.�
Trump got into the habit of calling Cruz �Lyin� Ted� and insinuated that Cruz�s father, Rafael, was a conspirator in President John Kennedy�s assassination. Trump even went as far as to share a tweet with an unflattering photo of Cruz�s wife, Heidi, alongside a photo of his ex-model wife Melania.
Trump defended himself today in circulating the tabloid story about Cruz�s father.
�All I did is point out the fact that on the cover of the National Enquirer there was a picture of [Rafael Cruz] and crazy Lee Harvey Oswald having breakfast,� Trump said of the unsubstantiated allegations, adding that Cruz�s father is a �lovely guy.�
On Heidi, Trump insisted, "I didn't do anything."
�I think Heidi Cruz is a great person. I think it's the best thing he's got going, and his kids, if you want to know the truth,� Trump said.
Today, alongside running mate Mike Pence, Trump spent equally as much time celebrating the four-day convention as he did attacking his former opponents.
�It was amazing. There was great love in that room,� Trump said.
He also thanked his team, called RNC Chairman Reince Priebus a "superstar," and congratulated his family on their speeches.
Trump also took the time to give himself a pat on the back for his speech on the final night of the convention. Trump said he didn't mean to make his speech long, but "what happened is the applause was so long and so crazy."
Trump also argued the TV ratings for the convention "were through the roof."
"We created one of the most successful conventions in the history of conventions," Trump boasted.
But Trump's message today was one directed at those who still are not aboard the "Trump train."
�No matter how much you like, or dislike, no matter what your feelings, whether you're the governor of Ohio, whether you're a senator from Texas,� Trump said, referring to Ohio Gov. John Kasich, who also hasn't endorsed Trump and skipped the convention.
�Or any of the other people that I beat so easily and so badly, you have no choice, you got to go for Trump.�
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Nonton Bigo Vietnam foreign ministry releases multilingual clip to promote tourism Bigo Hot
The Vietnamese Ministry of Foreign Affairs has unveiled a video clip entitled �Welcome to Viet Nam� to promote tourism in multiple languages.
The 7-minute footage, which has been on YouTube and Vimeo since early September, introduces many highlights of Vietnam�s landscape, history, culture, cuisine, and people.
With the aim of promoting tourism to international friends, the clip has the same content presented in different languages, including English, French, Russian, Spanish, German, Japanese, and Chinese.
The video features famous destinations across Vietnam like Hanoi, Ho Chi Minh City, Quang Ninh, Ha Giang, Lao Cai, Ninh Binh, Thua Thien � Hue, Da Nang, and Quang Nam.
Many scenes were shot with drones, which helps the landscapes become more breathtaking and alluring.
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Nonton Bigo 25 American Hot Spots Bigo Hot
In the college-town surroundings of Chapel Hill�s Franklin Street, between souvenir shops decorated with sky blue North Carolina T-shirts and bars advertising $1 beer specials, I recently stumbled across some of the most creative�yet authentic�Chinese food I�ve found in America: pan-seared squid with house-made XO sauce, local asparagus with poached duck eggs, even hand-rolled rice noodles that cast me back to a meal on a mountaintop above Taipei. I�ve eaten on Franklin Street dozens of times over the years, including several dinners at Crook�s Corner, which helped pioneer New Southern cuisine in the 1980�s. But never have I felt transported like I did eating tea-smoked duck at Lantern, where the unlikely chef-owner is a former New York political operative named Andrea Reusing.
When we talked between courses, I learned that Reusing had emigrated to the South to join her musician boyfriend in the mid-1990�s, pined for the Chinatown noodle houses that had sustained her in Manhattan, and�with no evidence that the area would support genuine Chinese food and no experience running a kitchen�figured she�d push the envelope and open her own. It all seemed so improbable, yet I shouldn�t have been surprised. For some time now, I�ve been reveling in similarly unexpected achievements by visionaries, entrepreneurs, and assorted talents in towns and cities across America. Taken together, they�ve helped to validate my conviction that this is by far the most rewarding time in memory to travel around our country.
I should point out that I don�t live in New York City or Los Angeles but in Boulder, Colorado, which sits three fat states from the nearest ocean. I report and write for a living, so I often need to travel. Between the occasional journeys to Buenos Aires, Barcelona, and other far-flung destinations, I spend an awful lot of time on domestic regional jets hopping from one midsize city to another. So I feel I can say this with authority: There�s something afoot in America today, a creative burgeoning from one side of the country on through to the other. Manifestations of this phenomenon include (but are hardly limited to) new and innovative restaurants, hotels, museums, boutiques, and spas, all of which are making my trips to those places where I have to go�but didn�t ever particularly want to�a whole lot better.
Just a few years ago, my primary objective when visiting smaller American cities was to emerge unscathed. That meant a good steak, a predictable hotel room, maybe a movie. Now I look to Salt Lake City for sushi; shop for my wife in Charlotte, North Carolina; gape at architecture in Milwaukee, Fort Worth, Texas, and Cincinnati; and sip remarkable wines in rural Tennessee. I still love my trips to the coasts�Manhattan and Manhattan Beach, Back Bay and Half Moon Bay. But I no longer need them the way I once did.
Don�t misunderstand: I continue to appreciate those aspects of American culture that remain regional and local, the thrillingly diverse heritage of our 50 multifarious states. The last thing I desire is sameness, coast to coast. But as a traveler, I also want the comforts�and the occasional vanguardist, mind-expanding experiences�that I�ve come to expect around the world. These days, even despite our current darkened economy, I�m getting them nearly everywhere I go right here at home. An awakening that began with enlightened college towns, such as Boulder and Chapel Hill, has spread to Middle America, a non-geographic designation that also includes long swaths of coastline as well as the Rust Belt, the Corn Belt, the Bible Belt, and the rest of what friends of mine (and probably some of yours) like to label the Flyover States. �To assume that because we�re in the middle of the country we just don�t get it is not right anymore,� says Jackie Bolin, one of the owners of V.O.D., a Dallas clothing boutique that has opened eyes in what was already a sophisticated fashion scene. �The world is much smaller than even ten years ago. Our customers travel. They know the difference. They do get it.�
How has this happened? the simplified version is: two waves, one in and one out. into the heart of the country came Iron Chef and Andrea Immer, TripAdvisor and Twitter, trendsetters and bright lights who packed up their ideas and laptops and moved to where they really wanted to live. And out into the world went the native sons and daughters of all those cities formerly known as second-tier, using frequent-flier miles and cheap fares to get almost anywhere they wanted to go (we take that for granted, but we�re the first generation to do it), then returning with the sensibilities, tastes, and standards they�d discovered along the way. After that, it was hard to go back to egg foo yong.
It helps that today�s like-minded enthusiasts share affinities across time zones, for even virtual neighborhoods have neighborhood shops and restaurants. Planning a trip to Portland, Maine, earlier this year, I turned to the food fanatics atchowhound.com and came across Hugo�s, which has a menu that reads like a Top Chef episode. I already had dinner plans, so I stopped in for appetizers that were far more daring than anything I�d ever experienced in Portland, including panko-crusted lamb�s tongue cooked sous-vide and Asian tripe stew with sour cream.
Then I headed down the block to Bresca, where a former pastry chef named Krista Kern has created a storefront trattoria that feels like an Italian family�s living room. Kern came to Maine for the slower pace of life, but the food she sends out from her kitchen has a sense of aspiration and urgency�taste me now!�that makes it world-class. I thrilled to her linguine with sea urchin, a dish I�d longed for since I�d first experienced its pungent, unctuous texture on the Gulf of Palermo years ago.
It astonished me that two restaurants of such achievement and ambition sat just a block apart in a city of 64,000. Then I asked some questions and learned that a huge percentage of their business comes from out-of-staters who discovered them the way I did, trolling the Web, unwilling to waste a meal on something short of memorable. This isn�t quite e-commerce but something more subtle: e-inspiredcommerce. At V.O.D., in Dallas, for example, customers now walk in asking for pieces from the likes of French designer Isabel Marant. �We get shoppers from New York and San Francisco learning on the Internet that we carry her and calling us, which is amazing,� says Liz Thompson, one of Bolin�s business partners. �But local people also come in now and know exactly what they�re looking for. In a way, that�s even more amazing.�
During the past few years, my instinct that travels around Middle America were getting noticeably more compelling took on the complexion of a quest. I can�t pretend to be an expert on high fashion, but when I learned that designer Isaac Mizrahi thought the finest boutique in America was located in a shopping center in Charlotte, I had to see it for myself.
Capitol is the vision of Laura Vinroot Poole, who grew up with one foot in Charlotte (her father, Richard Vinroot, served as the city�s mayor from 1991 to 1995) and one foot beyond. She attended Andover in Massachusetts for high school and bristled at the ignorance that her classmates showed about the South. By the time she�d finished college, she wondered why so many of the smart, tasteful Charlotteans she knew regularly left town to shop. Her response was Capitol. It has one of only a handful of Patrick Blanc vertical gardens outside Paris, and stocks some of America�s most interesting fashion and accessories, including antique Chantilly lace lingerie and $200,000 Indian sapphires. �Capitol has things that literally no other shop in America has,� says Laura Mulleavy, half of the avant-garde design duo Rodarte, which is based in Pasadena, California.
Vinroot Poole and her staff go so far as to curate their customers� wardrobes. �I�m literally in their closets,� she says, �organizing their clothes for the week according to the weather. We type it up for them. We�ve Southernized the experience of shopping.� Clearly, she could have made it anywhere. �But I�m from Charlotte,� she says. �My doctor is the guy who delivered me. My house has a really big closet. I like it here. I feel like I can do something of value and importance.�
Talking with Vinroot Poole helped me understand how hometown boosterism, in the best possible sense, is altering our American landscape. So did Blake Richardson, who migrated to Japan, then returned to Minneapolis to open Moto-iin October 2008. A brewpub featuring sake as well as local beer, it has a pool-hall atmosphere and Nirvana blaring, but with long wooden tables and framed photos of sumo wrestlers above the sawdust shuffleboard. The novelty of hanging out in a sake brewpub�who ever heard of that?�was what drew me there, but the food and drink will bring me back. Richardson�s junmai-nama sake is extraordinary, and his Asian bar snacks (pork buns with sweet chilies and pickled carrots; ramen with silken tofu and egg) made me wonder why there isn�t a Moto-i in every city. �This town has been hungry for someone to stick a flag in and say, �We�re just as good as New York or L.A.,�� he says. �I wanted to be that guy. If sake brewpubs become a trend, it started here.�
Pride of place isn�t confined to entrepreneurs. In 1991, the City of San Antonio, Texas, reached across the border and hired the innovative architect Ricardo Legorreta to design a dramatic new library. Since then, municipalities around America have cast their nets ever wider in their quest for iconic landmarks that can alter outside perception of their cities. In rapid succession, Cincinnati chose the Pritzker Prize winner Zaha Hadid for its Contemporary Art Center, Fort Worth commissioned a light-filled Modern Art Museum from Japan�s Tadao Ando, and Milwaukee picked Spain�s Santiago Calatrava for its own art museum on the Lake Michigan waterfront. I flew to Milwaukee recently to watch the giant wings of Calatrava�s remarkable creation flap, as they�re meant to do three times daily, but excessive wind canceled the show. Still, even seeing it in such straitened circumstances, I can understand how that building is affecting Milwaukee the way Frank Gehry�s Guggenheim did Bilbao. �The committee said to put Milwaukee on the map for arts and culture,� says Elysia Borowy-Reeder, a curator and marketer for the museum. �Well, we did. The people who want to see this have to come here.� Last year, when Milwaukee�s symphony orchestra landed a top conductor (Edo de Waart, who has guided such ensembles in San Francisco and Hong Kong), the museum received much of the credit.
When I�m home in Boulder, i make weekly visits to Sushi Tora, which overnights fish from Tokyo�s Tsukiji market. They serve tuna and mackerel, but also rarities such as kochi (flathead), kinmedai (golden-eye snapper), and kamasu (barracuda), and the occasional cod milt, sea cucumber, and firefly squid. Friends who pass through are amazed at the range and freshness of the selection. �The miracle of FedEx,� I tell them.
So I should have been prepared for Salt Lake City�s Takashi when I visited earlier this year. I�d checked in to the Grand America Hotel, which looks like the parliament of a small European nation. Its unflappable employees, stationed at every corner, are outnumbered only by its chandeliers. I�d never had a memorable meal in the city, and probably held the same patronizing attitude that some friends and colleagues have about the entire time zone. But seated under a 30-foot steel fish that arcs over Takashi�s bar, I enjoyed some of the finest sushi of my life. Not extravagantly architected maki rolls leaking mayonnaise, but the real stuff, tai andkohada and mirugai, paired with seasonal namazake sakes that are usually found only in Japan. �Little by little, they understand,� said Takashi Gibo, the owner, who was sitting at a nearby table with his wife. �We teach, they learn.�
I�ve also come to appreciate food from over the next hill. An exceptional meal once meant caviar and truffles shipped in from distant lands. But now that every Safeway is crammed with foodstuffs from Chile to China, the new extravagance is produce that hasn�t ever felt the numbing chill of refrigeration, let alone traversed an ocean. That�s where American towns and cities of almost any size can really shine. �Twenty years ago, you couldn�t get anything from here except potatoes and cabbage,� says chef Lisa Carlson of Minneapolis�s Spoonriver, which relies almost entirely on a network of local growers. �Now we get almost everything.� Recently, I had an astonishing meal at Blu, outside Traverse City, Michigan. The feel was old-school: plates of food that resembled the Battle of the Marne, with the vegetables and potatoes entrenched on one side and a slab of meat holding down the other. But the ingredients were all gathered within 30 miles of where I sat, from the Norconk Farms asparagus in the soup to the Deer Tracks venison. I tasted terroiras surely as in any wine.
Carry this concept to the extreme and you�ve got Blackberry Farm, in remote Walland, Tennessee. This 63-room hideaway is not merely a working farm, but practically self-sufficient. Its meals are augmented by a 180,000-bottle wine cellar, the comfort of cottages costing as much as $4,800 nightly, and a stream of top chefs and vintners imported for weekend blowouts. The resort, which began as a farmstead in 1939, was transformed in incremental fashion to its current state by Sam Beall with family money earned from Ruby Tuesday eateries, which is a nice irony. It also speaks to Americans� increasing willingness to wander off the beaten path if the experience is rewarding enough. �Five years ago, I don�t think the market was ready for us at this scale, certainly not in this location,� Beall says. �Now it is.�
All of this came together for me not long ago at Louisville�s 21c Museum Hotel, a daring, evolving art collection with 90 postmodern guest rooms wrapped around it (first featured in Travel + Leisure in 2006). Heading to my room, I almost stumbled over a three-foot-high red plastic penguin, one of several dozen in the hotel. �They move around,� the bellhop told me. �You never know where they�ll turn up.� The penguins annoyed me at first, but as I spent time there I began to see them as witty, unexpected, memorable, and accessible.
21c is a creation of Steve Wilson, a businessman, public servant, and philanthropist whose ideas�skyscrapers; land conservancy; bison farms�have often seemed outlandish to conservative Louisville. But his wife is an heiress to the Brown-Forman liquor fortune (Jack Daniels; Southern Comfort; Finlandia Vodka), and the two of them can mostly do what they like. �Art drives commerce� is their delightfully off-center motto. Wilson had long considered the city�s dilapidated Whisky Row an underutilized resource. He proposed that a branch of the local art museum should be built amid the blight to help bring life to the city�s core. When the museum didn�t oblige, he did it himself, adding a hotel and restaurant to pay the bills. Between the hotel, the restaurant and bar, and the art, 200,000 people passed through 21c in 2008. On a single weekend last April, WalMart�s Alice Walton, ex-Senator John Warner, actor Adrien Brody, and chef Bobby Flay were there. �People say we�ve redefined the city,� Wilson says. �Whenever some local corporation is trying to recruit someone, they bring them here.�
More than that, Wilson and others like him have helped to redefine American sophistication, at least for me. When I was in Louisville, I ate a dinner at 21c that included bison carpaccio, braised goat, and other evidence of a quirky but highly evolved food culture. I drank good wine and bourbon. I spotted celebrities at the bar and chatted deep into the night. And when I stepped in the elevator and found a red penguin waiting, I couldn�t have been anywhere else
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Nonton Bigo 20 Best High School Music Videos Bigo Hot
Britney Spears in the video for "...Baby One More Time" in 1998.
If high school had existed in Shakespeare�s day, he�d have set every battle on a football field, each stolen kiss under the bleachers. That�s because when it comes to drama, neither rotten Denmark nor fair Verona holds a candle to the modern American high school. While the Bard missed out on gymnasiums, cafeterias, and locker-lined hallways, his modern-day equivalents -- the fine poets behind our favorite pop songs -- have milked these settings for all they�re worth. This is especially true when it comes to videos. As young folks everywhere trudge back to class, we�re commiserating as best we can and celebrating the 20 best music videos set in schools. They�re loaded with sex, drugs, violence, and choreographed dancing -- just like third period.
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Nonton Bigo Our New Daily Email: Not Breaking News, Not News Clips, Just Food For Thought� Bigo Hot
At the beginning of the year, our firm launched a new daily email for clients and friends called Food For Thought.
As one might imagine, our team does a lot of reading and writing in service to our clients. We produce publications, white papers and briefs that offer analysis of different news developments and policy issues.
As one might imagine, our team does a lot of reading and writing in service to our clients. We produce publications, white papers and briefs that offer analysis of different news developments and policy issues.
Our goal with these, almost universally, is not about the WHAT (The news itself).
Our aim is to go deeper and examine the SO WHAT? (Why something is important or why it should matter to our clients) and the NOW WHAT? (An educated prediction about what will happen next).
That process means a constant sharing of different articles among our people, the exchange of content that sparks debate or compelling conversations around the office; or that just makes our people think.
So, the goal of Food For Thought is basically to pass along a handful of �think pieces� each day to clients and friends that might do the same for them.
Every day we�re now sending out a short, suggested reading list that covers a wide spectrum of issue areas; politics and government, culture, economics, and issues related to hourly employers (because that�s a large share of our client base).
One month into the life of Food For Thought, I am cautiously declaring the effort a success. We�ve had a great response from clients. And, the process of putting the email publication together is a good one in terms of making our group of �information junkies� that much better at their jobs.
So, if you�re interested in receiving a few articles each day that we think are particularly interesting, thought-provoking and worth a read, let us know. We�d be happy to put you on our distribution list.
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Nonton Bigo The 20 Best Designed Tourism Websites in the World Bigo Hot
Websites created by destination marketing organizations are some of the more underused resources in travel today.
Our recent analysis of the 50 most visited U.S. tourism websites found that no site had more than 570,000 visitors in October. And the most time spent on a site was five minutes, which was far longer than the average.
However, these sites are packed with logistical information like how to use public transit to get from an airport to city center, tourism resources like the opening hours to a city�s most famous museum, and beautiful imagery.
Tourism sites have matured over the past few years to add social data and offer mobile tools. They�ve also become more beautiful. We searched through hundreds of tourism websites for countries, states, and cities to produce this list of the 20 best designed sites.
Common Content Formats
Two content formats are used on the majority of the tourism websites that we examined. One is very content heavy with boxed units or text that allow users to discover new activities serendipitously.
The other content format is more visual and has visitors pick or search for what types of activities they are interested in before bringing them to a new page with related content related to that interest.
Design Trends
Two design trends emerged from the list of 20 sites.
One is a highly visual story that�s told in segments as a visitor scrolls down on the home page. The bottom is always a call to action in form of packages or booking links. Tourism Malaysia and Visit Brasil excel at this style.
The other design trend we�ve seen is the placement of strong visuals on the first section of the first page seen by a visitor. Almost all websites employ this technique, but Go To Hungary is the most extreme example. The home page does not scroll and features one woman as the permanent background image.
With the rise of mobile usage, especially among travelers, It�s very important for the websites, or a complimentary app, to be accessible on mobile devices. Eleven of these 20 featured sites have responsive websites.
Click through the slideshow above to see the 20 most visually stunning sites in tourism worldwide. The 20 featured tourism organizations are also listed below. The websites are not listed in any particular order.
- Visit Finland
- Visit Greenland
- Tourism Ireland
- Travel Belize
- Massachusetts Tourism
- Discover Los Angeles
- Visit Stockholm
- Visit Brasil
- LoveWall section of VisitBritain.com
- Visit Florida
- Visit Skane
- Visit Norway
- Travel Oregon
- Tourism Malaysia
- Philippines Tourism
- Tourism New Zealand
- Tennesee Vacation
- VisitCopenhagen
- GoToHungary
- Visit DC
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Nonton Bigo Valentine's Day in the United States Bigo Hot
Valentine's Day is celebrated on February 14. It is a festival of romantic love and many people give cards, letters, flowers or presents to their spouse or partner. They may also arrange a romantic meal in a restaurant or night in a hotel. Common symbols of Valentine's Day are hearts, red roses and Cupid.
What Do People Do?
Many people celebrate their love for their partner by sending cards or letters, giving gifts or flowers and arranging meals in restaurants or romantic nights in hotels. People who would like to have a romantic relationship with somebody may use the occasion to make this known, often anonymously. Valentine's cards are often decorated with images of hearts, red roses or Cupid. Common Valentine's Day gifts are flowers chocolates, candy, lingerie and champagne or sparkling wine. However, some people use the occasion to present lavish gifts, such as jewelry. Many restaurants and hotels have special offers at this time. These can include romantic meals or weekend breaks.
Public Life
Valentine's Day is not a public holiday. Government offices, stores, schools and other organizations are open as usual. Public transit systems run on their regular schedule. Restaurants may be busier than usual as many people go out for an evening with their spouse or partner. Valentine's Day is also a very popular date for weddings.
Background
There are a number of Saints called Valentine who are honored on February 14. The day became associated with romantic love in the Middle Ages in England. This may have followed on from the Pagan fertility festivals that were held all over Europe as the winter came to an end. Traditionally, lovers exchanged hand written notes. Commercial cards became available in the mid nineteenth century.
Symbols
The most common Valentine's Day symbols are the heart, particularly in reds and pinks, and pictures or models of Cupid. Cupid is usually portrayed as a small winged figure with a bow and arrow. In mythology, he uses his arrow to strike the hearts of people. People who have fallen in love are sometimes said to be 'struck by Cupid's arrow. Other symbols of Valentine's Day are couples in loving embraces and the gifts of flowers, chocolate, red roses and lingerie that couples often give each other.
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