{"id":8808,"date":"2014-08-15T16:54:49","date_gmt":"2014-08-15T21:54:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/manufacturedhomepronews.com\/masthead\/?p=8808"},"modified":"2014-08-16T10:15:54","modified_gmt":"2014-08-16T15:15:54","slug":"mh-death-and-disaster-its-the-other-image-campaign","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.manufacturedhomepronews.com\/masthead\/mh-death-and-disaster-its-the-other-image-campaign\/","title":{"rendered":"MH Death and Disaster, It&#8217;s The Other Image Campaign"},"content":{"rendered":"<p align=\"LEFT\"><span style=\"font-family: Tahoma, sans-serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: small;\">The following 7 bullets are all actual headlines, a small sampling of their kind from this week.<\/span><\/span><\/p><div id=\"manuf-2168736134\" class=\"manuf-content manuf-entity-placement\"><script async src=\"\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js?client=ca-pub-3870480136270376\" crossorigin=\"anonymous\"><\/script><ins class=\"adsbygoogle\" style=\"display:block;\" data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-3870480136270376\" \ndata-ad-slot=\"\" \ndata-ad-format=\"auto\"><\/ins>\n<script> \n(adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({}); \n<\/script>\n<\/div>\n<ol>\n<li>\n<p align=\"LEFT\"><span style=\"font-family: Tahoma, sans-serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: small;\">Suspected arsonist charged in car, mobile home fire<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p align=\"LEFT\"><span style=\"font-family: Tahoma, sans-serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: small;\">HEMET: Son charged in parents&#8217; deaths at mobile home park<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p align=\"LEFT\"><span style=\"font-family: Tahoma, sans-serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: small;\">Armed woman barricaded at Castaic mobile home park<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p align=\"LEFT\"><span style=\"font-family: Tahoma, sans-serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: small;\">Boy struck after trio flees mobile home park<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p align=\"LEFT\"><span style=\"font-family: Tahoma, sans-serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: small;\">Des Moines trailer fire causes at least $25000 in damage<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p align=\"LEFT\"><span style=\"font-family: Tahoma, sans-serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: small;\">10 years ago, Hurricane Charley turned away from Tampa Bay&#8230;\u201d<span style=\"color: #252525;\">Residents of Windmill Village\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"color: #222222;\"><b>mobile<\/b><\/span><span style=\"color: #252525;\"><b>\u00a0<\/b><\/span><span style=\"color: #222222;\"><b>home<\/b><\/span><span style=\"color: #252525;\"><b>\u00a0park<\/b><\/span><span style=\"color: #252525;\">\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"color: #252525;\">near Alligator Creek sit in the shade of what&#8217;s left of their damaged clubhouse&#8230;\u201d<\/span> <\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p align=\"LEFT\"><span style=\"font-family: Tahoma, sans-serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: small;\">3 bodies found in mobile home; gas leak suspected<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p align=\"LEFT\"><strong><span style=\"font-family: Tahoma, sans-serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: small;\">Murder! Mayhem! Fire! Death!<\/span><\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\" align=\"LEFT\"><a href=\"http:\/\/manufacturedhomepronews.com\/masthead\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/click2houstoncredit-posted-masthead-blogmhpronews-com-.png\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-8811\" src=\"http:\/\/manufacturedhomepronews.com\/masthead\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/click2houstoncredit-posted-masthead-blogmhpronews-com--575x322.png\" alt=\"click2houston=credit-posted-masthead-blogmhpronews-com-\" width=\"489\" height=\"274\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.manufacturedhomepronews.com\/masthead\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/click2houstoncredit-posted-masthead-blogmhpronews-com--575x322.png 575w, https:\/\/www.manufacturedhomepronews.com\/masthead\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/click2houstoncredit-posted-masthead-blogmhpronews-com--150x84.png 150w, https:\/\/www.manufacturedhomepronews.com\/masthead\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/click2houstoncredit-posted-masthead-blogmhpronews-com-.png 632w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 489px) 100vw, 489px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p align=\"LEFT\"><span style=\"font-family: Tahoma, sans-serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: small;\">Lets look a few moments longer at the story from bullet #7, <span style=\"color: #800000;\">quoting in brown below<\/span>, from click2houston, a story from Tomball, TX.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><object id=\"kaltura_player_1408043937\" width=\"500\" height=\"290\" name=\"kaltura_player_1408043937\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" allowscriptaccess=\"always\" allownetworking=\"all\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\" data=\"http:\/\/www.kaltura.com\/index.php\/kwidget\/wid\/0_ozj7646m\/uiconf_id\/12411302\"><param name=\"allowScriptAccess\" value=\"always\" \/><param name=\"allowNetworking\" value=\"all\" \/><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\" \/><param name=\"bgcolor\" value=\"#000000\" \/><param name=\"movie\" value=\"http:\/\/www.kaltura.com\/index.php\/kwidget\/wid\/0_ozj7646m\/uiconf_id\/12411302\"\/><param name=\"flashVars\" value=\"\"\/><a href=\"http:\/\/corp.kaltura.com\">video platform<\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/corp.kaltura.com\/video_platform\/video_management\">video management<\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/corp.kaltura.com\/solutions\/video_solution\">video solutions<\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/corp.kaltura.com\/video_platform\/video_publishing\">video player<\/a><\/object><\/p>\n<p align=\"LEFT\"><span style=\"color: #993300;\">\u201c<span style=\"font-family: Tahoma, sans-serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: small;\"><b>SPRING, Texas &#8211;<\/b><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #993300;\"><span style=\"font-family: Tahoma, sans-serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: small;\">Police say three people were found dead Wednesday night at a north Harris County trailer.\u00a0 One other victim was transported to a nearby hospital.\u00a0 According to authorities all the victims were children.\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #993300;\"><span style=\"font-family: Tahoma, sans-serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: small;\">When firefighters responded to 8500 Scotch Pines Place, they found a smoldering fire inside the trailer home.\u00a0 According to Klein Fire Chief David Bessolo, carbon monoxide levels in the home were seven times higher than what firefighters consider a &#8220;danger level&#8221;.\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #993300;\"><span style=\"font-family: Tahoma, sans-serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: small;\">The Harris County Sheriff&#8217;s Office says the Klein Fire Department and Harris County Fire Marshall&#8217;s Office will be handling the investigation.\u00a0\u201c<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p align=\"LEFT\"><span style=\"font-family: Tahoma, sans-serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: small;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/manufacturedhomepronews.com\/masthead\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/black-eye-credit-wikicommons-posted-masthead-blog-mhmsm-com-.png\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-8812\" src=\"http:\/\/manufacturedhomepronews.com\/masthead\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/black-eye-credit-wikicommons-posted-masthead-blog-mhmsm-com-.png\" alt=\"black-eye-credit-wikicommons-posted-masthead-blog-mhmsm-com-\" width=\"96\" height=\"99\" \/><\/a>Anyone who has used Google Alerts for MH sees lots of news items like these, day after day. These are the local news stories that create the impressions which gives us an avoidable black eye, costing our industry billions of dollars a year in lost sales.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p align=\"LEFT\"><span style=\"font-family: Tahoma, sans-serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: small;\"><b>The Other Side of such News \u201cStories\u201d<\/b><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p align=\"LEFT\"><span style=\"font-family: Tahoma, sans-serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: small;\">In the Houston area story, what is utterly unclear from the \u201cnews\u201d accounts given is \u2013 what caused the &#8216;smoldering fire&#8217; that lead to the apparent deaths from carbon monoxide? <\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>\n<p align=\"LEFT\"><span style=\"font-family: Tahoma, sans-serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: small;\">Where kids burning something they shouldn&#8217;t have? <\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p align=\"LEFT\"><span style=\"font-family: Tahoma, sans-serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: small;\">Would the same problematic activity that killed those youth have just as tragically occurred in a site built house or apartment complex?<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p align=\"LEFT\"><span style=\"font-family: Tahoma, sans-serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: small;\"><b>Far More Murder and Mayhem&#8230;<\/b><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p align=\"LEFT\"><span style=\"font-family: Tahoma, sans-serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: small;\">The reality is there are far more crimes and tragedies taking place in conventional housing, but that&#8217;s not how the media typically opts to tell the tale. We don&#8217;t hear or read <i>&#8216;3 youth tragically died in a site built house when the fire they set in the kitchen reached critical carbon monoxide levels.&#8217; <\/i><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p align=\"LEFT\"><span style=\"font-family: Tahoma, sans-serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: small;\"><b>Windstorms!<\/b><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p align=\"LEFT\"><span style=\"font-family: Tahoma, sans-serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: small;\">Often in the mainstream media, the unspoken rule is,\u00a0<i><b>&#8216;if it bleeds, it leads.&#8217; \u00a0<\/b><\/i>The story noted in the bullets above, from TampaBay, stated in part:<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p align=\"LEFT\"><span style=\"color: #800000;\">\u201c<span style=\"font-family: Tahoma, sans-serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: small;\">By the time it was done, Charley had killed 10 people and caused more than $14 billion in damage, making it the third costliest hurricane in U.S. history. It was the first of four hurricanes to clobber Florida that year, a nightmarish run of bad luck.\u201d <\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p align=\"LEFT\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><span style=\"font-family: Tahoma, sans-serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: small;\">What their report didn&#8217;t state was that after $50 billion in damage from windstorms that year in FL, the Bush Administration was exploring how modern manufactured homes built and installed to the new wind standards did so well. 1600 modern manufactured homes, properly installed, where hit that year in FL; <em>none were lost.<\/em><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\" align=\"LEFT\"><a href=\"http:\/\/manufacturedhomepronews.com\/masthead\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/conventional-house-left-roof-flies-off-mh-right-hurricane-wind-test-manufactured-home-livingnews-creditnbcnews-today-show-.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-8813\" src=\"http:\/\/manufacturedhomepronews.com\/masthead\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/conventional-house-left-roof-flies-off-mh-right-hurricane-wind-test-manufactured-home-livingnews-creditnbcnews-today-show-.jpg\" alt=\"conventional-house-left-roof-flies-off-mh-right-hurricane-wind-test-manufactured-home-livingnews-creditnbcnews-today-show-\" width=\"478\" height=\"135\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.manufacturedhomepronews.com\/masthead\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/conventional-house-left-roof-flies-off-mh-right-hurricane-wind-test-manufactured-home-livingnews-creditnbcnews-today-show-.jpg 478w, https:\/\/www.manufacturedhomepronews.com\/masthead\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/conventional-house-left-roof-flies-off-mh-right-hurricane-wind-test-manufactured-home-livingnews-creditnbcnews-today-show--150x42.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 478px) 100vw, 478px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p align=\"LEFT\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><span style=\"font-family: Tahoma, sans-serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: small;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/manufacturedhomelivingnews.com\/nbc-news-today-show-manufactured-home-performs-better-than-conventional-housing-construction-in-ibhs-hurricane-wind-tests\/\" target=\"_blank\">The IBHS hurricane wind study we reported<\/a>\u00a0on demonstrated that 80% of the damage done to manufactured homes in wind storms was caused by improper add-ons. The side by side photos shown on that linked page demonstrated that the site built house didn&#8217;t do as well as the least expensive HUD Code manufactured home in that same market!<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p align=\"LEFT\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><span style=\"font-family: Tahoma, sans-serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: small;\"><b><a href=\"http:\/\/manufacturedhomepronews.com\/masthead\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/free-vector-clipart-credit-thinkstock-posted-masthead-mhmsm-com-.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft  wp-image-8814\" src=\"http:\/\/manufacturedhomepronews.com\/masthead\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/free-vector-clipart-credit-thinkstock-posted-masthead-mhmsm-com--358x430.jpg\" alt=\"free-vector-clipart-credit-thinkstock-posted-masthead-mhmsm-com-\" width=\"166\" height=\"199\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.manufacturedhomepronews.com\/masthead\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/free-vector-clipart-credit-thinkstock-posted-masthead-mhmsm-com--358x430.jpg 358w, https:\/\/www.manufacturedhomepronews.com\/masthead\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/free-vector-clipart-credit-thinkstock-posted-masthead-mhmsm-com--124x150.jpg 124w, https:\/\/www.manufacturedhomepronews.com\/masthead\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/free-vector-clipart-credit-thinkstock-posted-masthead-mhmsm-com-.jpg 378w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 166px) 100vw, 166px\" \/><\/a>We have the Answers to all these tragic tales of crime and woe! But will the MH Industry Robustly Share them?<\/b><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p align=\"LEFT\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><span style=\"font-family: Tahoma, sans-serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: small;\">At the pinnacle of the top stories viewed last month on <i><b>MHLivingNews<\/b><\/i>\u00a0 included the <a href=\"http:\/\/manufacturedhomelivingnews.com\/nbc-news-today-show-manufactured-home-performs-better-than-conventional-housing-construction-in-ibhs-hurricane-wind-tests\/\" target=\"_blank\">IBHS hurricane wind study<\/a>. Every one of the negative stories local media often pounds on have good, solid, fact based replies! <\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p align=\"LEFT\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><span style=\"font-family: Tahoma, sans-serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: small;\">Studies are available on fire safety being superior in a modern manufactured home than in conventional &#8216;site built&#8217; housing. <\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p align=\"LEFT\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><span style=\"font-family: Tahoma, sans-serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: small;\">In my experience in supervising the management of 7 to 17 MHCs, we learned about how effective resident screening was. We asked the local police for crime reports. \u00a0Our crime rate was lower than the surrounding neighborhoods, where most of the conventional houses sold for 3, 5 or as much as 10+ times as much money. \u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p align=\"LEFT\">Seasoned, level headed industry pros know such facts to be true. \u00a0So why are they still almost &#8220;a secret?&#8221;<\/p>\n<p align=\"LEFT\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><span style=\"font-family: Tahoma, sans-serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: small;\">The solution to the Death and Disaster, \u201cnegative MH image campaign\u201d is amazingly simple. We have to tell our side of the story \u2013 plus share the good news about manufactured housing \u2013 when negative stories are told. <\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p align=\"LEFT\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><span style=\"font-family: Tahoma, sans-serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: small;\">We also have to tell our story<strong><em>\u00a0effectively.<\/em><\/strong><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p align=\"LEFT\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><span style=\"font-family: Tahoma, sans-serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: small;\">We should also shine the spotlight on any slip-shod media coverage, while praising the media when they do a good job telling the facts.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p align=\"LEFT\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><span style=\"font-family: Tahoma, sans-serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: small;\"><b>Related Segue <\/b><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p align=\"LEFT\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><span style=\"font-family: Tahoma, sans-serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: small;\">On a related note, Marty Lavin tell&#8217;s me he&#8217;s getting a steady stream of comments (we are too&#8230;) about his <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mhmarketingsalesmanagement.com\/blogs\/industryvoices\/?p=2108\" target=\"_blank\"><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><i><b>Exhaustion Sets In<\/b><\/i><\/span><\/a>\u00a0 guest column. It&#8217;s been a hot read! \u00a0Our midweek reply&#8230;<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p align=\"CENTER\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.mhmarketingsalesmanagement.com\/blogs\/tonykovach\/?p=8792\" target=\"_blank\"><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><span style=\"font-family: Tahoma, sans-serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: small;\"><b>Is Marty Lavin stirring the MH pot again?<\/b><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<p align=\"LEFT\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><span style=\"font-family: Tahoma, sans-serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: small;\">&#8230;is running at a similar pace for readership and is driving even more readers to his witty and candid comments.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p align=\"LEFT\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><span style=\"font-family: Tahoma, sans-serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: small;\">We collectively have the solutions. The reward is an ever growing part of the trillion dollar annual U.S. housing market. <\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p align=\"LEFT\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><span style=\"font-family: Tahoma, sans-serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: small;\">We either define ourselves, or others will \u2013 tragically \u2013 define us to our detriment, which costs us billions of dollars annually. Have you done the math on how much that de facto negative image campaign cost you? ##<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p align=\"LEFT\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><span style=\"font-family: Tahoma, sans-serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: small;\">(Image credits: click2houston, WikiCommons, NBC News Today Show and thinkstock vector clip art)<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p align=\"LEFT\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><span style=\"font-family: Tahoma, sans-serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: small;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/manufacturedhomepronews.com\/masthead\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/la-tony-kovach.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-8779\" src=\"http:\/\/manufacturedhomepronews.com\/masthead\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/la-tony-kovach.jpg\" alt=\"la-tony-kovach\" width=\"126\" height=\"127\" \/><\/a>By <a href=\"http:\/\/latonykovach.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">L. A. \u201cTony\u201d Kovach<\/a>.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The following 7 bullets are all actual headlines, a small sampling of their kind from this week. Suspected arsonist charged in car, mobile home fire HEMET: Son charged in parents&#8217; deaths at mobile home park Armed woman barricaded at Castaic mobile home park Boy struck after trio flees mobile home park Des Moines trailer fire &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"ast-button\" href=\"https:\/\/www.manufacturedhomepronews.com\/masthead\/mh-death-and-disaster-its-the-other-image-campaign\/\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">MH Death and Disaster, It&#8217;s The Other Image Campaign<\/span> Read More \u00bb<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[5073],"tags":[1083,2606,162,3654,3062,2251,1836,3,973,865,1994,3649,477,174,1611,754,320,1278,3656,3634,800,1531,1098,601,3068],"class_list":["post-8808","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news-analysis","tag-florida","tag-housing-market","tag-hud","tag-ibhs-hurricane","tag-image-campaign","tag-lavin","tag-mainstream-media","tag-manufactured-housing","tag-marty-lavin","tag-media-coverage","tag-mh","tag-mh-image","tag-mhc","tag-mhcs","tag-mhm","tag-mhpronews","tag-mobile-home","tag-mobile-home-park","tag-modern-manufactured-homes","tag-nbc","tag-network","tag-news-items","tag-texas","tag-wha","tag-windstorm"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v25.6 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>MH Death and Disaster, It&#039;s The Other Image Campaign - Masthead L. 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