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      • Nothing ruins a good surf like a couple of blokes with automatic assault rifles…
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      • Who was Europe’s first surfing woman? Introducing the wonderful Witch of Newbury.
      • A bad day at Palmy – surfies and clubbies at war!
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      • The highs and lows of surfing Sunset Beach while competing at the Duke Kahanamoku Invitational
      • An American midnight surf – that goes very wrong!
  • What does it mean?
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    • What does “hook and ladder” mean?
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  • Philosophers Sport Bar
    • Socrates and Aristotle debate football defence
    • Michel de Montaigne on coaching sports
    • Ancient philosophers discuss what makes the beautiful game beautiful! Laozi and Socrates get technical.

Contributors

MYSTERY DAD

Mystery Dad lives in Sydney, Australia with his emotionally intelligent wife, his two emotionally intelligent kids and the head of the household, his neurotic dog. MD and his wife grew up in England but immigrated to Sydney's golden beaches five years ago. Despite his protestation to the contrary, most people who know him vouch for his talent as a soccer player and he really does still play today. MD is the perfect contributor to Sportsocratic because, unlike many other supposed sports-lovers and experts, he can discuss most sports thoughtfully and intelligently. MD works in his own creative business.

  • A Dad’s story (the trials of Spike) – part 2… the perils of parenting a gifted footballer - October 23, 2016
  • A Dad’s story (or the trials of Spike) – Part 1… parenting a gifted footballer - March 13, 2016

Mystery Dad lives in Sydney, Australia with his emotionally intelligent wife, his two emotionally intelligent kids and the head of the household, his neurotic dog. MD and his wife grew up in England but immigrated to Sydney's golden beaches five years ago. Despite his protestation to the contrary, most people who know him vouch for his talent as a soccer player and he really does still play today. MD is the perfect contributor to Sportsocratic because, unlike many other supposed sports-lovers and experts, he can discuss most sports thoughtfully and intelligently. MD works in his own creative business.

ANNA SEYMOUR

Anna Seymour is a Melbourne-based deaf dance artist who graduated with a Bachelor of Creative Arts (Dance) from Deakin University in 2012. Anna was born and raised in the beautiful Northern New South Wales town of Byron Bay. No doubt Byron Bay's deep connection to nature, the arts and surfing provided many opportunities for Anna as she grew. Her deep connection to the ocean and nature influence her work in most of the dance and human movement projects she works on today.

  • To dance and to surf… and to harness the rhythms of nature! - March 12, 2016

TIMOTHY EDWARDS

Tim Edwards has had a completely rubbish sporting career so it is odd that he seems so obsessed with sport and adventuring. As a basketball shooting guard he had an okay jump shot but couldn't do anything else. As a rugby hooker he spent more time puking then actually playing. As a runner he won an awful lot of consolation prize chocolates for coming fourth but almost never won a ribbon. Despite his inadequacies he still loves sport and has opinions on almost any sporting subject. Tim has spent large parts of his working life in publishing and writing roles and has even done his share of teaching sport management to Uni students. He has coached more sports teams than he cares to remember. Tim is an awful surfer and skier but his lack of competence does not bother him one little bit!

  • Socrates and the cranky coach… - August 17, 2022
  • Sport made fun for all – Urban Rec - June 2, 2022
  • How working with horses changes young lives - March 29, 2022
  • Surfer philosophy – Let no wave be unridden, no flip-flop unworn! - October 8, 2021
  • Exercise is always good – but especially during Covid! - August 30, 2021

Tim Edwards has had a completely rubbish sporting career so it is odd that he seems so obsessed with sport and adventuring. As a basketball shooting guard he had an okay jump shot but couldn't do anything else. As a rugby hooker he spent more time puking then actually playing. As a runner he won an awful lot of consolation prize chocolates for coming fourth but almost never won a ribbon. Despite his inadequacies he still loves sport and has opinions on almost any sporting subject. Tim has spent large parts of his working life in publishing and writing roles and has even done his share of teaching sport management to Uni students. He has coached more sports teams than he cares to remember. Tim is an awful surfer and skier but his lack of competence does not bother him one little bit!

PETER FITZSIMONS

Peter FitzSimons is a columnist for The Sydney Morning Herald and Sun-Herald, speaks four languages, has played rugby for Australia, co-hosted radio shows with Mike Carlton and Doug Mulray, interviewed famous people around the globe from George Bush to Diego Maradona and written 25 best-selling books.
Peter’s writing work is always enjoyable and uplifting to read in that his observations are intelligent, humane and perceptive. His relaxed and often humorous style appeals to everyone… perhaps with the exception of the rare anti-sport hard-bitten cynic.
He is the biographer not only of World Cup winning Wallaby captains, Nick Farr-Jones and John Eales, but also former Opposition Leader Kim Beazley, boxer Les Darcy, aviator Sir Charles Kingsford Smith, war heroine Nancy Wake and Antarctic explorer Sir Douglas Mawson. Darcy, aviator Sir Charles Kingsford Smith, war heroine Nancy Wake and Antarctic explorer Sir Douglas Mawson.

  • Some (unpleasant) truths about sport! - March 7, 2016

Mandy Nolan

Mandy Nolan is a true renaissance woman. Comedian, author, journalist, humour therapist and comedy coach. Nolan is as at home on the stage as she is on the page. Able to captivate audiences from a diverse socio economic, age and gender demographic: from the rough and tumble of a late night comedy clubs across the country to the considered and measured corporate performances for VIEW Club, or Sydney’s Parliament House or Olivia Newton John’s Invitation Only Private Party. A passionate champion for the underdog, Nolan is a first choice for charities needing a gun MC, auctioneer or feature act, she’s first choice for ladies’ luncheons and even the blokes are giving her a look in with as comedy headline for Alfie Langer’s 400 strong audience (including the State of Origin Team!)

  • Men behaving badly! - October 21, 2016

SOCRATES

Short, fat, slow, uncoordinated and clumsy, ancient Athenian Socrates had very few of the physical quality required of the elite athlete. He did have, on the other hand, a better than average brain between his ears and a mouth that could talk opposing players, referees and coaches half into their graves. Socrates, as a sport analyst, is what the world needs and misses. He is an opinionated so-and-so that actually thinks deeply about sport and adventuring and likes nothing better than provoking others into deep thought. Socrates is the antithesis of the sporting jock or the West Sydney soccer supporter.

  • Are surfers sheep? - January 26, 2023
  • RITUAL: BEING CHAIRED UP THE BEACH - September 13, 2022
  • Best Model of Sports Leadership? King Henry V - February 3, 2022
  • Wallaby v France test – the moment that soared above all the others - July 20, 2021
  • How to play great…. when you feel crap - July 7, 2021

J. F. Campbell

John Campbell grew up in Sydney and is a life-long Rabbitohs supporter. He has been movie reviewer and rugby league correspondent for the Byron Shire Echo since 2007. His short story ‘The New Boots’ won the Herald-Sun short story competition in 2002 and was made into a short film that screened at the Sydney Film Festival and others overseas. John has written and directed four short movies and his paintings have been hung in the Wynne and Sulman Prizes (Art Gallery of NSW) and are in the private collection of John Singleton and Peter FitzSimons. In 2001 he was Artist in Residence at the Griffis Art Institute (Connecticut). John continues to paint and is currently working on his first crime novel … and hoping for a resurgence in the Rabbitohs’ fortunes in the 2016 footy season.

  • Sumo - September 14, 2018
  • What great sports writing does. - July 24, 2018
  • Cheers for the English team at the World Cup – not! Well… not from this little black duck. - July 9, 2018
  • Playing the game in the right spirit (whatever that means) – the fine art of cheating at cricket - June 27, 2018
  • Confessions of an addicted mungo – my love for League (and the Rabbitohs) - June 20, 2018

Chris Waterman

It was tough choosing a career of insurance over one in sport however given that Chris lacks talent in any form of the latter it should not come as a surprise. An average footballer, acceptable tennis player and poor golfer his sporting moment of glory came in 1983 when scoring a maximum 180 for The Crown Public House, Elsenham against their arch nemeses The King's Head, Stansted in the quarter final of the Herts & Essex inter pub knock-out darts competition. However this lack of on-field, real life experience has not dampened his belief that he is better placed than most to offer opinion and criticism to any sporting event. Currently living in Japan after 47 years in the UK new avenue's for commentary have opened up including Sumo, Baseball and the much televised world of Mahjong.

  • Introducing the Sunwolves! The case for Japanese Rugby. - May 20, 2016

Damon Young

Damon Young is a philosopher and writer. He is the author and editor of nine books, most published internationally in English and translation. He's written hundreds of articles for newspapers and magazines, including The Age, The Australian, The Guardian, the ABC and BBC. He speaks regularly on ABC radio.
In 2013 he was awarded the AAP's Media Prize for my work in public philosophy.
He's an Associate in Philosophy at the University of Melbourne, and Founding Faculty at the School of Life, Melbourne.
He lives in Melbourne's eastern suburbs with his wife, sociologist and writer Ruth Quibell, and their son and daughter.

  • Charles Darwin and walking – the unique value of exercise-induced reverie in the life of a scholar and thinker - September 20, 2016

"Guru Jack" Marshall

"Guru Jack" Marshall of Zen Renaissance Healing developed Ki Yoga from the Oki-do Foundation.

  • Yoga for colds, coughs, sore throats and snuffles – Guru Jack talks Ki therapy for snuffling sports stars. - February 9, 2017
  • Yoga for sport… and spirit! - October 22, 2016

"Guru Jack" Marshall of Zen Renaissance Healing developed Ki Yoga from the Oki-do Foundation.

Tim Willcox

Tim Willcox is not a freelance writer and will never be one. Prior to not being a freelance writer he has held senior management positions in small business ventures, global corporates both privately and publicly owned, as well as government instrumentalities. He never played with Socrates but did play with his brother who usually was out bludging on the blind. Never interested in the normal pathways he found out why the less travelled road is less travelled for a reason, and has continued to have passion for all things that equate to part time work and has leveraged off an Asian Expat bar fly existence to great effect.

  • High Performance Teams versus Winning Culture versus What’s Next? - July 1, 2017
  • The Utzon files – finally revealed. The secret to how Sydney got its opera house and the Dutch got their sporting colours. - October 1, 2016

Tim Willcox is not a freelance writer and will never be one. Prior to not being a freelance writer he has held senior management positions in small business ventures, global corporates both privately and publicly owned, as well as government instrumentalities. He never played with Socrates but did play with his brother who usually was out bludging on the blind. Never interested in the normal pathways he found out why the less travelled road is less travelled for a reason, and has continued to have passion for all things that equate to part time work and has leveraged off an Asian Expat bar fly existence to great effect.

Michelle Connellan

Michelle is currently slave to an online university degree in sports management. Driven down the business path from a love for surfing, skating and yoga when all sporting skills seemed to peak at 15 years old with an award for the biggest wipe-out in the local board rider’s competition on the south coast of NSW. Surfing inspired Michelle to travel, which resulted in marriage to a French ski/snowboard instructor where she is making the most of a good situation and perfecting her wipe-out skills in the snow.

  • Learning to Surf: A woman’s guide to surfing with confidence – by Jaymie Faber - February 8, 2017

Steve Georgakis

Steve was appointed to the Faculty of Education and Social Work in 2002 and has a long standing interest and passsion in physical education and school sport, teacher education, history and sociology of sport and pedagogy for learning. He served as program director of the Human Movement and Health Education Program 2006-2008 and has taught in all undergraduate teaching programs in the Faculty including primary undergraduate, primary and secondary M-teach, double degree, general education and study abroad.
The author of more than 50 academic publications, he has published on wide and varied aspects of physical education and sports studies including archaeology, history, sociology, pedagogy, comparative and international. His latest publication is the co-authored edited book Youth Sport in Australia

  • How professional sport handicaps youth sport culture - February 9, 2017

Lollie Barr

Lollie Barr is an international freelance journalist contributing to both the UK & Australian markets, as well as being syndicated in Germany, India, Poland, Italy, US and Brazil. In her career, she has contributed to Marie Claire UK & Australia, Cosmopolitan UK & Australia, Virgin Voyeur, Cleo, Red, Elle, Eve, She, New Woman, More, Top Sante, Women's Health, Zest, The Sunday Telegraph & The Mirror UK.
Lollie's first novel The Mag Hags was shortlisted for the New South Wales Premier's Award for Young Adult Fiction in 2009. She lives between Mullumbimby, Australia and Berlin, Germany.

  • Introducing Ferris Gump… the ultra marathon man! - May 1, 2017

Eric Brymer

Eric specialises in outdoor and adventure sports with a particular focus on the health benefits of being in nature and the psychology of extreme sports. He is a reader in outdoor and adventure studies and currently holds an Adjunct position at Queensland University of Technology, Australia. Eric’s research focuses on the two major interrelated issues confronting societies today: concern for the health and wellbeing of populations and the state of the natural environment. He specialises in researching the reciprocal wellbeing benefits of the human-nature relationship. Projects include investigating the psychological health benefits of nature-based experiences, understanding how the relationship between human beings and nature benefits wellbeing and learning for pro-conservation and pro-sustainability behaviours.

  • Extreme sports are for normal people! - May 1, 2017

Tim Baker

Tim Baker is the best-selling author of numerous books on surfing, including “Bustin’ Down The Door,” (Harper Collins, 1996, now in its eighth print run), “High Surf” (Harper Collins, 2007) and “Occy” (Random House, 2008). He is a former editor of Tracks and Surfing Life magazines, and former editorial director of Morrison Media Services. He has won the Surfing Australia Hall of Fame Culture Award three times and been nominated for the CUB Australian Sports Writing Awards.
At 47, he has worked in the media and surfing magazines for 25 years and has surfed and travelled throughout Australia, Indonesia, Hawaii, Central and South America, North America, Europe, South Africa, Fiji, Tahiti, and Sri Lanka. He lives in Currumbin, Queensland, with his wife and two children.

  • Everyone’s favourite surf journalist, Tim Baker, takes a walk! – but not just any walk. Tim discovers the song line of the sea eagle! - April 30, 2017

Karen Rinaldi

Karen Rinaldi is the publisher of Harper Wave, an imprint she founded in 2012, and a senior vice president at HarperCollins Publishers. Rinaldi wrote the story for Maggie’s Plan, the 2015 feature film inspired by her novel, The End of Men. Her non-fiction work has appeared in The New York Times, Time.com, Oprah.com, Prevention, The Inertia among others. She is currently working on a book based on her article, (It’s Great to) Suck at Something: What Surfing Taught Me About Humility, Patience and Taking it on the Head. She and her family split their time between New York, New Jersey, and (whenever possible) Costa Rica. You can follow her at https://www.facebook.com/karerinaldiwriter
Image - Rocco Rinaldi-Rose

  • (It’s Great To) Suck at Something – Karen Rinaldi reveals why being a surfing kook is better than just okay. - July 8, 2017

Max Sherry

  • The A-League – a football feast that fails to fill - July 14, 2017

Guru Jack Marshall and Elena Razorenova

Guru Jack Marshall is a master in Oriental Medicine developed the school of Ki Yoga, a diagnostic and remedial yoga, to find meaning and direction in daily practice.
Elena Razorenova is a dedicated and remarkable Hatha and Ki yoga teacher from Russia.

  • Of course, you can cure the common cold! – with Ki Yoga - July 15, 2017

Georgina Mudge

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Geoff Ebbs

A bookish lad, Geoff Ebbs rarely engaged with spectator sports while growing up in Melbourne but discovered a post-partum longing while in Alice Springs that fed a nostalgia for South Melbourne while living in Sydney and for Fitzroy now that he lives in Brisbane. He lived in both those Melbourne suburbs as a young man.

  • Encountering tribalism… head on! Ebbsy discovers the meaning of ouch. - February 22, 2018

Holly Isemonger

Holly writes & reads & studies & surfs & I is the assistant editor at The Bohemyth. She has been published in Cordite, Shabby Doll House, and Voiceworks. She is the author of the chapbook Hip Shifts (If A Leaf Falls Press), Deluxe Paperweight (Stale Objects dePress), and is a contributor to Balancing Acts (Brow Books).

  • Surfing is my feminist origin story – (in that I left for the arts swiftly, and remained angry) - July 19, 2018

Jade Court-Gold

Jade Court-Gold is a prize-winning and award-winning artist (ceramics) currently working towards her Master of Fine Arts degree at the National Art School. Before commencing her artistic training, Jade worked in the film and television industry for six years, performing in several camera crew roles. In her teen years, Jade played representative basketball in Northern N.S.W. and still likes to shoot around a bit when she gets the opportunity. Jade lives in the inner-Sydney suburb of Glebe with her boyfriend, Kiran and catfriend, Frank.

  • Sydney Convicts – Rugby with heart! - August 17, 2018

 

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Their sporting life – A journalist’s story

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“Bill” could have been a great rugby player… but he was more interested in other things. Do people display characteristics of their personal and working lives through their performances on the sporting field? Socrates describes the sporting life of one of his favorite people, and shows how the skill and character of one of Australia’s best journalists was always on show, even as a young man, whether on the rugby field, the basketball court or even on a quiet country headland when threatened with fisticuff by a big bloke wearing a blue uniform. Get “Bill’s” story here. Click the pic!

Olympics Rugby Teams – Who are the greatest?

April 23, 2020 By SOCRATES Leave a Comment

The rugby trivia question for the century! Which national rugby union team holds the record for the most Olympic gold medals in Rugby Union (the full-team fifteen a side game)?

Ethics and fairplay

Wallaby v France test – the moment that soared above all the others

July 20, 2021 By SOCRATES Leave a Comment

There were many great moments in the final Wallabies versus France rugby test last week but according to Socrates, one stood our far above all the others. Was it a great try? A brilliant tackle? A perfect scrum or line-out? A fantastic bit of work at the break-down? According to the rotund Greek hooker it was none of those things. He reckons that the highlight of the game was a much quieter, simpler and more subdued moment. A moment that might have escaped the attention of millions of spectators. Find out about Socrates favorite moment of the test. Click the pic.

Never cheated in my life!

November 19, 2020 By SOCRATES Leave a Comment

What is cheating? Is cheating a black and white moral issue… or are there shades of gray. Socrates spent twenty years in the engine room of the beautiful game of rugby… the scrum. He loved being a rugby hooker. He reckons that being slap bang in the middle of sixteen enormous, sweating blokes desperate to secure possession of the ball for their team taught him quite a bit about the fine art of cheating… what it is… and what it isn’t…. and how it can be done. Here Socrates lifts the veil on aspects of the workings of the 1970’s and 80’s amateur rugby scrum revealing some of its secrets. In so doing he shows that cheating is not a simple moral issue. he also claims to haver never deliberately cheated. Do you believe him?

matildas

Just six words…

May 20, 2021 By TIMOTHY EDWARDS 1 Comment

Have you ever wished that you could meet and have a conversation with someone you idolize? What would you say to your idol to convince them to want to stay in the conversation? What would they say in response to your brilliant social skills? How would the conversation go? How would it leave you feeling? An Australian ex-professional athlete who had played with and against some of the greatest basketball talent that this country has ever seen (Andrew Gaze, Ricky Grace, Shane Heal, Phil Smythe) once, by chance, had a meeting with possibly the greatest and most famous professional sports person that has ever lived. The superstar he bumped into, in a New York elevator, just happened to be the Aussie basketballer’s idol. How did the meeting turn out? Click the pic and discover the six most memorable words in this Australian point guard’s life.

Outstanding achievement

RITUAL: BEING CHAIRED UP THE BEACH

September 13, 2022 By SOCRATES Leave a Comment

Why do we subject professional athletes to embarrassing and cumbersome rituals at times when they should be celebrating. Why do athletes agree to participate in rituals that make them look like nongs? Chas Smith makes the argument for banning the post-contest victory chair-up-the-beach. Click the pic to get Chas’ important advice to the world of contest surfing.

New surfing podcast

One of Australia’s greatest ever surfers – one of surfing’s greatest story tellers – “Rabbit” Bartholomew – talks to award winning journalist Tim Baker about life, surfing and stuff. Perfect listening for lockdown entertainment.

professionalism

To smash or be skillful? Can good defense be coached or are accidents like the Latrell Mitchell and Joey Manu incident inevitable?

August 31, 2021 By SOCRATES NEWS DESK Leave a Comment

In a tough body contact sport are occasional horrible accidents inevitable? Possibly. But probably not with the frequency that many former elite players and expert analysts argue. Socrates believes that good coaching and hard work from highly skilled players can prevent many potentially dangerous tackles and that accepting the horror accidents as inevitable and high level skills as “uncoachable” sells athletes, professional sports and coaches short. Get the story here. Click the pic.

wisdom

Its just a job. Grass grows. Birds fly. Waves pound the sand. I beat people up. – Muhammad Ali

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Athletes in the LGBTQI Mardi Gras

March 12, 2019 By SOCRATES 2 Comments

Twenty-one different sports teams marched in this years Sydney Mardi Gras. That’s twenty-one groups of out and proud queer athletes. The LGBTQI community need to be “fearless” and queer athletes are no exception. Check out these fearless sporting clubs living it up on their night of night!

A life with horses

A life with horses – or Lulu in wonderland

August 8, 2018 By TIMOTHY EDWARDS Leave a Comment

It’s well known that playing sport can be a life-changing experience. For one mum, adventurer and businessperson, having a sporty pastime was more than life-changing. Lulu’s friendship with her horses has touched her and her daughter’s lives in a million ways and created a whole new life in an ever-changing wonderland for them both. But don’t think for a moment that their horses are the purpose built catalysts for their ideal lives! Its way more complex than that… and more respectful. Read on! It’s worth it!

wisdom

“Pressure? Pressure is a Messerschmidt up your arse. Playing cricket is not!”

Keith Miller

One of the greatest cricket “all-rounders” of all time, Keith Miller was not only an exceptional performer in multiple elements of test cricketing (batting, bowling and fielding) but he was also gifted in numerous other aspects of his life. Witty, entertaining, handsome, a renowned war time pilot and gifted Australian Rules Footballer, Miller was famed for calling a spade a spade and acknowledging that there was much more to life than elite sports. Having flown fighter bombers in the Second World War under life threatening circumstances he was not one to take the “pressure” of high level sport too seriously!

trivia

Here is a cracker of a trivia question.

Who was the college recruiting scout talking about when he said the following to his head coach.

“I’ve just seen a fat guy… who can play like the wind!”

Yup. The same guy who told people that just because they had shoes like his, it didn’t make them like him in any other way. Charles Wade Barkley.

Etymology

Are surfers sheep?

January 26, 2023 By SOCRATES Leave a Comment

Where do you surf? What’s your primary source of information about where is the best place to choose to surf? Over several weeks I watched the surfing grape-vine drag punters from one surfing spot to the next according to what the latest “word” was telling them about where they needed to surf. It made me wonder whether many surfers were just happier being part of the mob than in actually surfing great waves. It wasn’t long before I discovered that more people suffer from the sheep syndrome than I originally imagined. It is a powerful disease.

What does it mean?

What is Elvis leg?

Admit it. You’ve never heard of “Elvis leg,” have you? What the blazes is “Elvis leg?” As is the case with every other “What does it mean…” story we have ever posted, the answer is not directly related to the name itself. It is indirectly related to Elvis, though. Have a guess what the relationship is… then click here and check out whether your were correct. Find out for certain which sport uses this term and what it means.

What is a liberator?

Of course most you aviation buffs will think that a liberator is an American WW2 heavy bomber. Fair enough. But in a sporting context does it have a completely different meaning? Indeed it does. You are going to have to click here to find out what a liberator is and does in the world of sport.

Aphorisms, insights and wisdom

“The thing that’s depressing about tennis is that no matter how good I get I will never be as good as a wall.”

More perceptive sporting analysis from Mitch Hedberg, comic genius.

 

ebook

Phillip has returned to the south of India after eighteen years. But who is the young girl staying in his hotel? And what will he learn about his estranged brother through Inez, the Spanish backpacker?

To buy The Bangalore Test, John Campbell’s new ebook novella, just click the link.

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