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• Utah-based ARUP Laboratories to start coronavirus antibody testing

  12-04-2020 22:33
  
  Editor’s note: The Salt Lake Tribune is providing readers free access to critical local stories about the coronavirus during this time of heightened concern. See more coverage here. To support journalism like this, please consider donating or become a subscriber.ARUP Laboratories, a national reference laboratory located at the University of Utah’s Research Park, has announced that they have begun COVID-19 antibody testing in Utah.Utah Lieutenant Governor Spencer Cox hailed the news a
  
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• [Fansided: The J-Notes] - Utah Jazz: Donovan Mitchell vs. Rudy Gobert couldn’t have come at a better time

  12-04-2020 21:53 via sportspyder.com
  
  If you thought 2020 couldn’t get any worse, think again — apparently, there’s trouble in paradise between Rudy Gobert and Donovan Mitchell. For the U...
  
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• Utah Jazz: Donovan Mitchell vs. Rudy Gobert couldn’t have come at a better time

  12-04-2020 21:34
  
  If you thought 2020 couldn’t get any worse, think again — apparently, there’s trouble in paradise between Rudy Gobert and Donovan Mitchell. For the Utah Jazz, though, this kind of star-studded discord couldn’t have come at a better time. If you suffer from any kind of depression, anxiety or nervousness, now’s not the time to […]
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• [SB Nation: SLC Dunk] - Can the Donovan Mitchell and Rudy Gobert situation be fixed?

  12-04-2020 21:00 via sportspyder.com
  
  It can’t get any worse.
  
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• Fewer than 100 new coronavirus cases reported on Sunday in Utah, no new deaths

  12-04-2020 20:42
  
  Editor’s note: The Salt Lake Tribune is providing readers free access to critical local stories about the coronavirus during this time of heightened concern. See more coverage here. To support journalism like this, please consider donating or become a subscriber.On Sunday, Utah reported 97 new positive cases of COVID-19 and just five new hospitalizations, raising the total number of cases to 2,303 and hospitalizations to 195 so far.No new deaths were reported, leaving the state with a tota
  
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• Utah asking for feedback on emergency alert cellphone messages for those entering or exiting state

  12-04-2020 20:19
  
  Editor’s note: The Salt Lake Tribune is providing readers free access to critical local stories about the coronavirus during this time of heightened concern. See more coverage here. To support journalism like this, please consider donating or become a subscriber.This weekend, the Utah Division of Emergency Management went to Twitter to ask for citizen feedback on cellphone alerts sent to those driving across nine state border crossings.The alerts are intended to go to drivers who are enter
  
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• How Real Monarchs captain Jack Blake became a successful YouTuber

  12-04-2020 19:39
  
  Jack Blake of the Real Monarchs has always been something of a YouTube aficionado.Whether it was highlights of soccer players he liked or influencers who talked about health, fitness and nutrition when he was younger, much of Blake’s free time has been spent watching — and learning.So when Blake eventually became a professional soccer player and moved to the United States to continue his career, people in his native England would ask about his job and what it was like living and play
  
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• Millions of tax-paying immigrants won’t get stimulus checks

  12-04-2020 19:12
  
  Phoenix • The $2.2 trillion package that Congress approved to offer financial help during the coronavirus pandemic has one major exclusion: millions of immigrants who do not have legal status in the U.S. but work here and pay taxes.That includes Carmen Contreras Lopez, a 48-year-old housekeeper who, though she earns low wages, files a tax return each year. Since the virus took hold, she has lost most of her clients and is getting by with help from her oldest son. But she won't see a penny o
  
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• Bret Stephens: COVID-19 and the Big Government problem

  12-04-2020 19:00
  
  Katie Wilson, a deputy undersecretary at the Department of Agriculture in the Obama administration, is the executive director of the Urban School Food Alliance, a nonprofit that works with the country’s largest school districts to improve the quality of student nutrition. Her topmost concern is with the millions of poorer children and their families for whom school meals are essential to diets and budgets alike.In this pandemic, she has a message for government bureaucrats in Washington an
  
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• [Fansided: The J-Notes] - Utah Jazz: Time off will help, but the future remains murky

  12-04-2020 18:55 via sportspyder.com
  
  Time heals all wounds, and the Utah Jazz hope that's the case with Rudy Gobert and Donovan Mitchell's relationship. Several factors, though, show that the ...
  
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• Utah Jazz: Time off will help, but the future remains murky

  12-04-2020 18:49
  
  Time heals all wounds, and the Utah Jazz hope that’s the case with Rudy Gobert and Donovan Mitchell’s relationship. Several factors, though, show that the duo’s future together is in doubt. Man, who would have though that in April we would be talking about the Utah Jazz potentially breaking up a duo that is just […]
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• Utah’s poet laureate mourns festival cancellation due to the coronavirus. But she’s got some poetic advice for those stuck in quarantine.

  12-04-2020 18:29
  
  If everything had gone according to plan, Saturday would have been a big day for Paisley Rekdal, Utah’s poet laureate. Hundreds of people — including a couple hundred teachers — would have gathered at the University of Utah for the April 18 Utah Poetry Festival, a day filled with readings and classes and panels.After uncounted hours spent envisioning and arranging the event, Rekdal and the other organizers were forced to cancel by the coronavirus pandemic. And, while she was qu
  
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• Nicholas Kristof: Life and death in New York’s coronavirus ‘Hot Zone’

  12-04-2020 17:59
  
  This is not a time to die.Terror, pain and loneliness mingle in the air with the coronavirus in the “hot zone” of the emergency department at Jack D. Weiler Hospital in the Bronx. The room is jammed with patients whose frightened eyes peer above their oxygen masks as they struggle to breathe, feel that they are drowning, wonder if they will ever again see loved ones.No family members are allowed here, yet the space is more than twice as crowded as normal. About 80 coronavirus patient
  
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• [Forbes] - How Mike Conley Can Win ESPN’s HORSE Tournament

  12-04-2020 17:16 via sportspyder.com
  
  Sunday night will mark the debut of ESPN’s NBA HORSE tournament, and Utah Jazz point guard Mike Conley will be among the eight participants. Here are the shots he should use to emerge victorious.
  
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• How the coronavirus has changed the way Utahns use the internet

  12-04-2020 16:20
  
  Editor’s note: The Salt Lake Tribune is providing readers free access to critical local stories about the coronavirus during this time of heightened concern. See more coverage here. To support journalism like this, please consider donating or become a subscriber.The pandemic has disrupted all of our lives, and one not-so-insignificant shift is how we use our computers and phones. Seriously, how many of you had heard of the video-conferencing site Zoom before we were told to work from home?
  
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• [Deseret News] - Utah Jazz mailbag: Fans share their favorite playoff moments

  12-04-2020 16:20 via sportspyder.com
  
  SALT LAKE CITY — Once again, when I put out the call, Utah Jazz fans answered in a big way. This time I asked for fans to send me their favorite playoff moments, from any era. Below are some of the...
  
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• Utah’s poet laureate mourns after the coronavirus cancels festival. And she’s got some poetic advice for those stuck in quarantine.

  12-04-2020 16:07
  
  If everything had gone according to plan, Saturday would have been a big day for Paisley Rekdal, Utah’s poet laureate. Hundreds of people — including a couple hundred teachers — would have gathered at the University of Utah for the April 18 Utah Poetry Festival, a day filled with readings and classes and panels.After uncounted hours spent envisioning and arranging the event, Rekdal and the other organizers were forced to cancel by the coronavirus pandemic. And, while she was qu
  
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• Utah Jazz mailbag: Fans share their favorite playoff moments

  12-04-2020 16:00
  
  John Stockton releases a game-winning three against the Houston Rockets in Game 6 of the playoffs on May 29, 1997. | Glenn James SALT LAKE CITY — Once again, when I put out the call, Utah Jazz fans answered in a big way.
  This time I asked for fans to send me their favorite playoff moments, from any era. Below are some of the most mentioned, which include iconic basketball moments and some others that stood out to me.
  Jazz fans, I want to know what your favorite Jazz playoff moments are. a
  
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• Utah teachers don’t have all the answers when it comes to home schooling during COVID-19, but they have some

  12-04-2020 15:00
  
  First grade teacher Jessica Higgs set up a video chat with her Lakeview Elementary students Thursday to start their afternoon lessons. When class time arrived, she was in the middle of a work call, so her students had to wait. But that just was the beginning of her problems.Once the class started, her 5-year old decided she wanted to be in on the action. So, she climbed onto Higgs’ lap, inadvertently logging Higgs out of the virtual classroom in the process. As Higgs tried to figure out th
  
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• Robert Kirby: How I would spend all that Mormon mad money

  12-04-2020 15:00
  
  Although the vast wealth of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (a reported $100 billion in a rainy day fund) is still a matter of great interest, there were no official comments about it during last week’s General Conference.OK, so that stash has probably taken a hit during this market-sapping pandemic. But the church still has a lot of money. And that money eventually will make money off interest.It’s none of my business how the church spends its cash, just as it is non
  
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• How coronavirus has changed the way Utahns use the internet

  12-04-2020 15:00
  
  Editor’s note: The Salt Lake Tribune is providing readers free access to critical local stories about the coronavirus during this time of heightened concern. See more coverage here. To support journalism like this, please consider donating or become a subscriber.The pandemic has disrupted all of our lives, and one not-so-insignificant shift is how we use our computers and phones. Seriously, how many of you had heard of the video-conferencing site Zoom before we were told to work from home?
  
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• Easter message brings a question: Will Utahns rise to a new, better life after the coronavirus?

  12-04-2020 15:00
  
  Editor’s note: The Salt Lake Tribune is providing readers free access to critical local stories about the coronavirus during this time of heightened concern. See more coverage here. To support journalism like this, please consider donating or become a subscriber.Easter, celebrated on this spring day by hundreds of millions of Christians around the world, tells of an empty tomb and a resurrected Jesus. It is a story of radical hope and redemption, overcoming death with the brightness of new
  
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• Are you experiencing coronavirus symptoms? Here’s the first thing Utahns should do.

  12-04-2020 15:00
  
  Editor’s note: The Salt Lake Tribune is providing readers free access to critical local stories about the coronavirus during this time of heightened concern. See more coverage here. To support journalism like this, please consider donating or become a subscriber.As the number of confirmed coronavirus cases in Utah continues to rise, health officials are now pleading that all residents with a fever, a cough or difficulty breathing get tested.Figuring out who is infected, they say, will be k
  
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• Utah’s poet laureate mourns after coronovirus cancels festival. And she’s got some poetic advice for those stuck in quarantine.

  12-04-2020 14:00
  
  If everything had gone according to plan, Saturday would have been a big day for Paisley Rekdal, Utah’s poet laureate. Hundreds of people — including a couple hundred teachers — would have gathered at the University of Utah for the April 18 Utah Poetry Festival, a day filled with readings and classes and panels.After uncounted hours spent envisioning and arranging the event, Rekdal and the other organizers were forced to cancel by the coronavirus pandemic. And, while she was qu
  
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• Scott D. Pierce: ‘The Baker and the Beauty’ is great fun while we’re stuck at home

  12-04-2020 14:00
  
  ABC’s “The Baker and the Beauty” wasn’t cooked up as something for viewers trapped in their homes by the coronavirus pandemic — it just turned out that way.This new series, which premieres Monday at 9 p.m. on Ch. 4, is fun. It’s light. It’s romantic. It doesn’t require a whole lot of brain power to watch.Not that there’s anything wrong with that. Particularly at a time when we could all use a bit of an escape, and to be able to get away right
  
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• NBA Daily: Ranking The Centers

  12-04-2020 14:00 via basketballinsiders.com
  
  David Yapkowitz finishes up Basketball Insiders' newest series by ranking the NBA's best centers.
  
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• Michael Patrick O’Brien: Hope grows with the roses

  12-04-2020 14:00
  
  Some unexpected graces have charmed my diligent efforts to comply with our governor’s stay-at-home and work-at-home coronavirus directives. They are the rose bushes growing just outside my makeshift office window.Our cozy home has two floors. For many years, I’ve had a study/office on the main floor, but it runneth over with the telltale signs of my book-writing and blog-composing hobbies. As a result, when I had to find a place where an attorney like me could practice law remotely f
  
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• Letter: Writing a letter is a great, lost art

  12-04-2020 14:00
  
  I am writing in regards to the reaction of the current White House occupant to the letter from Capt. Brett Crozier, former captain of the USS Theodore Roosevelt.In the letter, Crozier expressed concerns about ship safety in light of the COVID-19 pandemic.At an April 4 press conference, the occupant stated with incredulity that the letter asking for safety and help was “inappropriate; all over the place. Terrible. To write a letter? I mean, this isn’t a class on literature."A letter.
  
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• Letter: Watch out for the ‘what abouts’

  12-04-2020 14:00
  
  In a recent Letter to the editor, George E. Ekdahl complained about a March 29 George Pyle column about President Trump.In his letter, Ekdahl cited two good things that he believes the president has done in the fight against COVID-19 and compared them to one bad thing that he believes New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo has done. But, in his attack on Cuomo, Ekdahl goes on to add several “what abouts” that he believes are mistakes that Cuomo has made that have nothing to do with the fight aga
  
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• Letter: Trump’s place in the Bible

  12-04-2020 14:00
  
  Guess what, folks? Did you know that Donald Trump and his sycophants have a place in the Bible?“Their end is destruction, their god is their belly, and they glory in their shame, with minds set on earthly things.” — St. Paul’s Letter to the Philippians (3:19).Surely St. Paul is demonstrating prophesy and precognition. St. Paul sees Trump gorging himself with cheeseburgers. St. Paul sees Trump's bragging about his lust for prostitutes.Alan F. Heap, Salt Lake CitySubmit a l
  
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• Letter: Trump told us to protect our borders

  12-04-2020 14:00
  
  Trump told us to protect our borders. He told us to bring manufacturing back home. He warned us about China. He told us to take care of America first.All of this well before this horrific pandemic.I will never forget how Democrats fought him every step of the way.To the Democrats I say, hatred is not a virtue.David W. Haughey, MurraySubmit a letter to the editor
  
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• Letter: Better than a Hosanna Shout

  12-04-2020 14:00
  
  I’m sure some were inspired by LDS Church President Russell M. Nelson waiving his hankie, while leading the “Hosanna Shout” Sunday.I would rather have heard a new proclamation outlining how the church planned to use its $100 billion (at least) rainy day fund to help those who have lost or will lose their jobs during these very rainy times.Jeff Heyn, Salt Lake CitySubmit a letter to the editor
  
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• Letter: Again, Republicans put party before country

  12-04-2020 14:00
  
  When I saw that Republicans in the Congress are opposed to vote-by-mail, as has been proposed due to COVID-19, I wondered why anyone would not want to support it, as it obviously furthers voting rights.Then I saw a study that said 80% of Democrats were afraid of the virus and 58% of Republicans were afraid of the virus.Then I realized, more Republicans will supposedly go to a voting place than Democrats. Another example of party before country.Errol Remington, Salt Lake CitySubmit a letter to th
  
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• Brodi Ashton: Here’s the 10 things I’m doing to stay sane as I shelter in place

  12-04-2020 14:00
  
  I remember the day the streets went dark. Well, not dark, because we still had electricity, but they went empty. Not completely empty, because some people were ignoring the dire instructions from the governor. But still, the virus had come across our borders, with only months’ warning. Nobody saw it coming. But it changed our lives overweek. Or maybe it should be overmonth.“Shelter at home,” they all said. It was a term I had to look up, but then I realized I didn’t, beca
  
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• Ask Ann Cannon: How can I politely remind folks to keep their distance?

  12-04-2020 14:00
  
  Dear Ann Cannon • Can you suggest ways to remind people of proper social distancing in the new age of COVID-19? We are really, really trying to follow the prescribed safety measures, including very few shopping trips. At my weekly trip for a few fresh groceries yesterday, people were cruising through the aisles, leaving maybe 2 feet of space, reaching over each other for the best bunch of broccoli, even the produce man started unloading a box of apples a foot away from me. Trying to keep di
  
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• Leonard Pitts: Sometimes, the faithful make faith a gantlet

  12-04-2020 13:00
  
  “For God so loved the world that he gave his one and only Son, that whoever believes in him shall not perish but have eternal life” — John 3:16So one day, the skies crack open and a deluge falls upon this small town. Soon, the waters rise, and the streets become impassable. And this preacher kneels on the front steps of his church and prays for deliverance. A man in a canoe happens by."Jump in, preacher! The waters are rising fast.""No," calls the preacher. "I have faith in the
  
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• [Fadeaway World] - The Perfect Blockbuster Trade: Rudy Gobert For Draymond Green And A Top Draft Pick

  12-04-2020 08:24 via sportspyder.com
  
  Rudy Gobert might be heading out of Vivint Smart Home Arena when this season is finished due to concerns on his relationship
  
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• Utahns can now sew masks for doctors and nurses, through Intermountain Healthcare, U. Health program

  12-04-2020 05:05
  
  Editor’s note: The Salt Lake Tribune is providing readers free access to critical local stories about the coronavirus during this time of heightened concern. See more coverage here. To support journalism like this, please consider donating or become a subscriber.Kathy Tidwell has been sewing for more than 50 years, and she said she can basically do it all: repairs, alterations, kids’ clothes, quilts.But more recently, Tidwell, 62, has focused on face masks. She’s made about 100
  
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• Salt Lake County Democrats nominate candidates — including Doug Owens in Millcreek/Holladay area House seat

  12-04-2020 04:07
  
  Salt Lake County Democrats on Saturday picked Doug Owens as their nominee in state House District 36 in the Millcreek/Holladay area to replace outgoing veteran Rep. Patrice Arent.Owens, well known to Democrats after twice running unsuccessfully for Congress against former Rep. Mia Love in the 4th Congressional District, battled off three other candidates: Derek Dyer, Sherri Wittwer and Brandy Farmer.He will face Republican Lisa Bagley and Constitution Party candidate Nishan Beglarian in the Nov.
  
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• [NBC Sports] - Rumor: Former Pelicans GM Dell Demps being considered as Bulls new GM

  12-04-2020 03:47 via sportspyder.com
  
  Dell Demps, who served for years as the New Orleans Pelicans GM, is now being considered for the Chicago Bulls GM job, joining a long list of candidates.
  
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• New Utah project gives people the ability to sew clinical face masks for medical workers

  12-04-2020 03:09
  
  Editor’s note: The Salt Lake Tribune is providing readers free access to critical local stories about the coronavirus during this time of heightened concern. See more coverage here. To support journalism like this, please consider donating or become a subscriber.Kathy Tidwell has been sewing for more than 50 years, and she said she can basically do it all: repairs, alterations, kids’ clothes, quilts.But more recently, Tidwell, 62, has focused on face masks. She’s made about 100
  
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• Four-star QB from California is Utah’s first commit from Class of 2021

  12-04-2020 03:05
  
  The University of Utah football team has its first commit from the Class of 2021, and it’s a significant recruiting win.Peter Costelli, a four-star quarterback from Mission Viejo (Calif.) High School, offered a verbal commitment to the Utes on Saturday evening. Costelli had 19 scholarship offers according to 247sports.com, including seven from Pac-12 schools.Costelli’s commitment comes in the middle of an NCAA-mandated dead period, which is in place through at least May 31. A dead pe
  
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• Project Protect has Utahns sewing clinical face masks for hospitals

  12-04-2020 02:24
  
  Editor’s note: The Salt Lake Tribune is providing readers free access to critical local stories about the coronavirus during this time of heightened concern. See more coverage here. To support journalism like this, please consider donating or become a subscriber.Kathy Tidwell has been sewing for more than 50 years, and she said she can basically do it all: repairs, alterations, kids’ clothes, quilts.But more recently, Tidwell, 62, has reset her focus on face masks. She’s made a
  
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• [NBC Sports] - The time Shaq offered Isaiah Rider $10,000 to fight Laker teammate Kobe Bryant

  12-04-2020 01:51 via sportspyder.com
  
  This is just crazy enough to be true. former Laker Isaiah Rider says Shaq offered him $10,000 to pick a fight with Kobe Bryant.
  
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• George Pyle: The best election is conducted entirely by post

  12-04-2020 01:00
  
  “The perfect love affair is one which is conducted entirely by post.” — George Bernard ShawIt should surprise no one that the Current Occupant of the Oval Office stands ready to twist the nation’s unprecedented suffering to his own advantage.As demonstrated by the way Republicans at the state and federal level turned Tuesday’s primary election in Wisconsin into a trial-by-virus for anyone who was bold or foolish enough to go to the polls.It was a primary election. T
  
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