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Dr. Keith Buhler, Ph.D., headmaster of a California K-12 school in the Eastern Orthodox tradition, doesn’t even advertise for his school. They haven’t needed to. Their private school has grown by leaps and bounds all by word of mouth.

Dr. Keith is the son of Southern California radio legend Rich Buhler. He earned his Ph.D. in Ancient Philosophy from the University of Kentucky and began his real estate journey while a student there. He now entirely or partially owns 22 doors (just the door, jk), having finished nearly a dozen deals, all on a very modest salary.

He walks us through the pitfalls and victories of this real estate journey, including mindset, discipline, having a mentor (and what do the mentors get out of it?), partnership with others, and the point of investing.

The Republican Professor is a pro-business, pro-marketplace, pro-figuring-it-out, pro-successful mentoring podcast.

Therefore, welcome Dr. Keith Buhler, Ph.D., real estate investor, mentor, and headmaster.

The Republican Professor is produced and hosted by Dr. Lucas J. Mather, Ph.D.

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The concept of a “Mama Bear” needs no explanation. It instantly calls to mind a completely competent defender of the little bear cubs against whatever threatens those little ones.

Meet the founder of Mama Bear Apologetics, and the editor of the book “Mama Bear Apologetics: Empowering Your Kids to Challenge Cultural Lies,” Hillary Ferrer. Like the branding, Hillary’s aim is to help parents come to terms with the fact they are the first line of apologetic defense for their kids hearts and minds, and frankly, not many people are squared away for the task.

Mama Bear Apologetics seeks to meet the need by providing resources for parents to become the competent defender that the idea “Mama Bear” brings to mind.

We have a wonderful discussion especially about how you can track and handle manipulation of language. Dr. Mather shares his anecdotes of handling the manipulation of the term “Marriage” on college campuses in LA as an example.

Check the organization out at at https://mamabearapologetics.com/ and on the various social media platforms.

The Republican Professor is a pro-Mama-Bear, pro-Apologetics-done-well, pro-you-are-your-own-first-responder, pro-pay-attention-to-manipulation-of-language podcast.

Therefore, welcome Mama Bear Apologetics and Hillary Ferrer !

The Republican Professor is produced and hosted by Dr. Lucas J. Mather, Ph.D.

TRP Podcast has been ranked #2 podcast that the devil hates (just behind EconTalk with Russ Roberts).

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Many say on 9/11 “never forget,” but days later, on Constitution Day (9/17), they forget the Constitution. But Constitution Day is a much much bigger deal, a much bigger day, and for a much, much longer period of time.

That needs to change.

Our 2022 Constitution Day special guest here on The Republican Professor podcast is Dr. Lucas Morel, Ph.D., the John K. Boardman, Jr., Professor of Politics at Washington & Lee University in the Shenandoah Valley, Virginia, right where the Civil War happened.

Dr. Morel is the author of “Lincoln and the American Founding” (Southern Methodist University Press, 2020), a very nice slim volume packed with history, law, and wisdom. It’s a book I myself am using this semester in my course on The American Founding at Azusa Pacific University in Lost Angeles County, a course originally designed by prof. Chris Flannery according to APU lore, and where our guest himself originally taught.

The volume can be found here : https://www.amazon.com/Lincoln-American-Founding-Concise-Library/dp/0809337851/ref=sr_1_1?crid=E4JEGHO29WSN&keywords=lincoln+and+the+founding+morel&qid=1663195560&s=instant-video&sprefix=lincoln+and+the+founding+morel%2Cinstant-video%2C135&sr=1-1

Dr. Morel is originally from LA County and has black Hispanic heritage. Now he teaches at Washington & Lee University in the Shenandoah Valley, Virginia. So we have a black guest , Lincoln scholar, who teaches at a university named after 2 slave holders, including one who was, in our guests’ words, “a traitor,” Robert E. Lee. (Lee was not a Republican).

How to make sense of all this ?

Well, Dr. Morel is an open book. He walks us through this fact pattern as well as through some of his book, whetting our appetite for more on Lincoln and the Founding while at the same time quenching our curiosity today.

Dr. Morel helps us understand so many things about America, the Constitution, and the Declaration of Independence.

This is an interesting episode and volume for many reasons, all having to do with how properly to contemplate the American Founding and later, the birth of the current Republican Party, which was founded in 1854, which led to the end of slavery in the United States.

Dr. Morel is a wealth of valuable information, insight, and wisdom about how to make sense of the Founding, race and slavery. He has studied and taught this stuff for decades and his material is worth consuming.

The Republican Professor podcast is a pro-correctly-contemplating the American Founding, pro-grasping-the-birth-of-the-Republican-Party, pro-abolishing-slavery, pro-best-of-American-statesmanship, pro-Abraham-Lincoln, pro-fundamentally-grasping-the-Constitution, pro-celebrating-Constitution-Day podcast.

Therefore, welcome Dr. Lucas Morel, Ph.D., author of “Lincoln & the American Founding”, John K. Boardman, Jr., Professor of Politics at Washington & Lee University, Shenandoah Valley, Virginia, for TRP’s 2022 Constitution Day episode.

The Republican Professor is produced and hosted by Dr. Lucas J. Mather, Ph.D.

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On this anniversary of a somber national trauma on September 11th, what better way to spend the day than with someone who understands how trauma can be stored in the body.

Our guest today is someone I’ve known for a long time: The Woman Behind Sarah Jackson Coaching has been through it.

Sarah learned the hard way, from the cumulative wisdom from long years of suffering how to resource the nervous system by releasing stored energy , allowing the body to return to a state of regulation, or rest and digest, which is the baseline God designed for us.

The woman behind Sarah Jackson Coaching on Instagram and Facebook is someone who is taking the heart of Jesus to the ministry of healing trauma and releasing it so that the nervous system can return to a baseline of “rest and digest.” That’s where we belong. It’s what we were designed for by our Creator.

I personally think that the message here has some cultural ramifications. Much of politics involves trying to motivate people to do something by getting folks into a nervous system state of fight or flight.

That’s not good for the nervous system. It may temporarily increase attention span to a narrow focus, but a perpetual cycle of this can wreck one’s health, ultimately leading to brain fog and lower attention span. Many people become so overloaded that they go into dorsal vagal shutdown–they can’t take it–or worse, freeze, which is a combination of fight or flight and shutdown.

Sarah spent 6 years in the prime of her young adult life in bed with chronic, invisible illness. I was writing colleagues with her at a non-profit at the time. During writer’s meetings, I glimpsed first-hand what she was going through. She often did her writing from bed.

It seemed hopeless. She saw countless doctors. Sadly, there were multiple layers to this challenge, emotional, financial, social–she was deserted by friends and by the church when she was most vulnerable. She was gaslighted, because the medical people couldn’t see anything wrong with her.

It was only when she began learning to release stored trauma with somatic, bottom up practices, that she began healing her system more holistically. Once that resourcing was in place, she began to heal in a more complete way than ever before.

Now she helps others to do the same.

I saw this transformation with my own eyes over the years. And I can speak from personal experience that her techniques work. She’s not paying me to say any of this. I’m introducing you to her because I really believe in her.

It might seem like an odd topic for The Republican Professor, especially given the last 2 years. It’s actually one of the most relevant topics we’ve ever covered on the podcast, because it gets to the heart of so many issues in our national, regional, and local culture that have relevance to education and learning. I think God designed us to be in a state of rest and digest for optimal learning. I think our politics work best if we develop a culture where people have an attention span, feel resourced and are indeed healthy. I know of no other way to do deep work necessary for long-term, healthy solutions for all problems, big and small.

You’ll notice that Sarah is a lovely young woman and a joy to be around. Most impressive, though, from my perspective is the depth of her wisdom and life experience she has with suffering well. One of the spiritual forms she uses is lament. This is a deep teaching and will serve many millions well.

It’s a strange topic, suffering well. Turns out, it’s actually a thing. But she helps people move through the suffering to the other side.

The Republican Professor is a pro-resourcing-the-nervous-system, pro-rest-and-digest-baseline, pro-attention-span, pro-releasing-stored-trauma, pro-pursuing-health-by-suffering-well podcast.

Therefore, welcome dearest Sarah Jackson of Sarah Jackson Coaching on Instagram and Facebook.

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Dr. Kerry Chavez, Ph.D. is a research fellow at the Modern War Institute, United States Military Academy at West Point* (https://mwi.usma.edu/research-fellows/kerry-chavez/) but her day job is teaching quantitative methods, International Politics, Foreign Policy, and Politics of Military Force at Texas Tech University, where she is the Projects Administrator of the Peace, War, and Social Conflict Laboratory.

Dr. Chavez is a quantitative methods scholar of International Security and Conflict, so she brings a her own collected data to the study of drones and violent non-state actors. She defines these terms for us, and we talk a little bit about how she collected those data.

Kerry is a co-author of a recent War on the Rocks article (with Ori Swed, former Israeli SF) called “Weak States and Loose Arms: Lessons and Warnings from Afghanistan to Ukraine” published July 12, 2022, which is the subject of much or our discussion here.

Here’s a link to that article, here : https://warontherocks.com/2022/07/weak-states-and-loose-arms-lessons-and-warnings-from-libya-to-ukraine/

Dr. Chavez did some of her graduate work at St. Andrews University in Scotland, which I learned during this interview is not called “Street Andrews”, like on a mailing address. And actually, I guess that makes sense.

Kerry has a rigorous, broad, classical education in her undergrad, as a graduate of the Torrey Honors Institute at Biola University, and I think we talked about that enough to where Torrey now owes me 10% of any future revenue from their program, and Kerry should get 10%, too.

Dr. Kerry Chavez, Ph.D., is a delightful person, has a charming and ironically disarming sense of humor, and our fun conversation (strange that this topic could be fun–I guess it was the person, not the topic per se), is wide-ranging and timely.

The Republican Professor is a pro-remembering-never-to-forget, pro-delightful-professors, pro-International-security-study-done-right, pro-having-fun-while-doing-serious-things, pro-someones-got-to-do-the-quant-stuff, pro-catching-up-with-old-friends podcast.

Therefore, welcome my good friend Dr. Kerry Chavez, Ph.D., of Texas Tech and West Point.

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*A prep school for the Naval Academy.

It’s my personal pet peeve that we say Never Forget for 9/11, and yet days later, we forget Constitution Day, which is a bigger deal for a much longer time. That won’t happen on The Republican Professor Podcast, at least not while I’m running it. Constitution Day should be as great, if not greater a day than July 4th, for without Separation of Powers, the Declaration would just be a piece of paper.

This year’s TRP 9/11 memorial episode guest is a very special man, Senior Chief Gabe Morris, USN (retired). Senior Chief Morris spent over 22 years in the United States Navy working as a Linguist and Intelligence Analyst with the Tagalog and Arabic languages. (Why would we need Arabic linguists ? Hmmm).

His experience is as varied as very intense immersion-style academic training in the languages mentioned above, shore-based intelligence support, deployed special operations in the Middle East and elsewhere, but also includes time in Navy law enforcement, LEO special criminal investigations, and time as an instructor in support of Navy training, culminating in a highly specialized personnel billeting position for Navy linguists/intelligence orders which was a job for a Master Chief, which Gabe performed as a Senior Chief.

As impressive as his unique Navy career is and was, from my perspective, most impressive is that he stayed happily married for over 20 years of his active service, while in at times quite stressful operating conditions. I was at his wedding at Lover’s Point, Pacific Grove , California in the early 90s, when California had a Republican governor (remember those times?). He’s a humble servant of Christ, and he has been that way the entire time I’ve known him.

He’s what we call in the business a true believer, and it was a pleasure catching back up with him.

The Republican Professor is a pro-true-believer, pro-Navy-linguist, pro-special-operations, pro-intel-analyst, pro-good-LEO, pro-staying-married-for-a-long-time-through-thick-and-thin, pro-awesome-example-for-the-kids podcast.

Therefore, welcome Senior Chief Gabe Morris, United States Navy, retired, for TRP 2022 9/11 Never Forget podcast episode.

(The kids never knew in the first place, never forget that you can’t forget what you never knew). (That’s why we need to tell them about it).

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Happy Labor Day weekend 2022: TRP Episode 85

TRP’s Labor Day guest today is once again Dr. Arik Greenberg, Ph.D. He’s writing a book. We talk at length about Dr. Greenberg’s memoir that he’s writing that gets into some detail of his family of origin. It mixes with Theology, which is his academic specialty.

Then we continue talking about Academic Labor issues, Unions, etc. from our earlier episode 23, published March 11, 2022: available here on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZmdTh2QiS9o and Episode 24 on Apple Podcasts available here : https://www.therepublicanprofessor.com/2022/03/12/episode-24-faculty-part-time-tenure-labor-issues-special-guest-dr-arik-greenberg-ph-d-of-loyola-marymount-university-la/

This is the second part of a multi-episode extended set of conversations on Faculty Labor Issues in Higher Education with our special guest today, Dr. Arik Greenberg, Clinical Professor of Theology at Loyola Marymount University, Lost Angeles.

Dr. Greenberg is a distinguished, seasoned faculty member on Lost Angeles college campuses and brings a wealth of experience not only in teaching and administration but also in union organizing and peace march demonstrations.

This topic of academic labor can get very complicated very quickly, but there is no other dialogue partner I can think of that can rise to that challenge with as much grace and humility as can Professor Greenberg. We are truly delighted that he stopped by to say a hi and stay awhile to continue into the weeds a bit on this topic.

And we do continue in some details, some specific numbers, so you can get a feel for what “part-time” professors get paid to teach college in Lost Angeles Ventura, and Orange County, California in recent decades.

The Republican Professor is a pro-improving-Faculty-Labor-Issues-on-Campus, pro-making-college-great-again podcast.

To move forward we have to listen carefully to each other and learn from each other, to forge relationships that are resilient enough to perdure through time.

The Republican Professor welcomes Dr. Arik Greenberg !

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Happy Labor Day weekend from TRP

Here are links to the documents referenced by Dr. Greenberg at almost the 2 hour mark:

https://edlabor.house.gov/imo/media/doc/1.24.14-AdjunctEforumReport.pdf
and
https://pullias.usc.edu/download/imperative-change-fostering-understanding-necessity-changing-non-tenure-track-faculty-policies-practices/?wpdmdl=13873&refresh=62bd03d0771fc1656554448

TRP Episode 82 on YouTube: Civil Rights attorney John Dillon, a prevailing attorney against California’s so-called “assault weapon” definition and ban, reacts to the US Supreme Court’s decision in NY Rifle & Pistol Assn v. Bruen (issued Thursday 23 June 2022).

His victory in federal trial court against the so-called California Department of Justice came last summer, June of 2021, in Miller v. Bonta decided 4 June 2021. Interesting for our purposes here, the Judge Benitez’s (Cuban ancestry) reasoning in striking down the ban as a violation of the Second Amendment was essentially the same reasoning used by the high Court in Bruen. Benitez used the Heller test, as he called it, before, and in addition to the flawed reasoning that the 9th Circuit had developed to counteract Heller, because they don’t like Heller.

You can and should read that very readable, well-argued Miller decision for yourself here : https://scholar.google.com/scholar_case?case=5854039725887452071&q=miller+v.+bonta&hl=en&as_sdt=2003

Feel free to tell me if I’m wrong in the comments. But make sure you base your argument in the text of Miller and in the text of Bruen. Cite those sources. (Good luck in that).

You can read the Bruen decision here : https://www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/21pdf/20-843_7j80.pdf

John goes into a little of his backstory, as well, of how he personally got into this topic. He did not grow up as a “gun guy.” He was a normal undegrad a UCLA. It’s possible he partied a little too much. But he majored in History. He did well in school.

He decided to go to Law School also in LA at Loyola. It was during law school there in LA that he went shooting at a club in LA and decided to buy his own firearm. There began his journey through the Alice in Wonderland type of web of irrational bureaucratic criminalization scheme that California and LA have enacted in the name of “public safety” and “police power.” Police power, in these jurisdictions (like New York), could be symbolized with a fist in the air, power to the police, the police state. Innocence as a definition be damned. The once clear line between guilt and innocence in the California criminal law is now blurred, constantly moving, and sometimes not in line with anything approaching rationality or commonsense.

John Dillon began to take it as his mission in life to expose that to the world for what it is.

Referenced in this episode is also Justice Thomas’s dissent from denial of cert in Sylvester v. Harris, here : https://www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/17pdf/17-342_4hd5.pdf

^ It’s short, read it . Get informed. It’s also a delight to read because it’s so well-written.

The Republican Professor is a pro-effective-legit-advocacy, pro-Second-Amendment-rightly-understood, pro-Cuban-federal-judges-who-get-that-government-can’t-just-make-stuff-up-to-increase-power-at-the-expense-of-innocent-people, pro-Black-justices-who-were-raised-under-Democratic-segregation-(where-there-was-a-real-Klan)-who-get-the-Second-Amendment podcast .

Therefore, welcome John Dillon, the prevailing attorney in Miller against Bonta (the Calif DOJ) on 4 June 2021.

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The latest issue of Police State Magazine (Berkeley, Ca) has recently voted TRP #6th scariest publication for Statists who want to grow their Police State, behind the Bible, the Declaration of Independence, the US Constitution, the corpus of Alexander Solzhenitzen, and Mila 18 by Leon Uris. We’re honored. Thank you. Very humbling. #grateful

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For a time in his Ethiopian youth, Dr. Tedla G. Woldeyohannes, Ph.D., of Huntington University in Indiana, was a Marxist.

But gradually he was called out of that materialistic metaphysics , and out of scientism, into Biblical, historic orthodox Christian belief, and into classically rigorous Philosophy, the search for truth and love of wisdom.

Dr. Woldeyohannes has written a fascinating book in English (one of his 3 languages) just published called “A Philosopher’s Testimony About the God Who Calls,” which is worth every dollar and available for purchase here: https://www.amazon.com/Philosophers-Testimony-About-God-Calls/dp/B0B5KVD4K5/ref=sr_1_1?keywords=a+philosophers+testimony&qid=1661750890&sr=8-1

The book is clearly and beautifully (and at times humorously) written. It describes that inner journey that led him into contact with the rock stars (for lack of a better term) of Anglo/American analytic Philosophy. If Alvin Plantinga, William P. Alston, & William Hasker were Bruce Springsteen, Bono, and Cher, Tedla was receiving signed copies of Born in the USA, Under A Blood Red Sky, and that one song from Groundhog Day, plus money, from these stars *while he lived in Ethiopia !*

Why did he receive these items ? Because he asked. He found their addresses, wrote letters, and asked for copies of books and articles unavailable to him otherwise.

It seems God was and is at work in Tedla’s life.

Tedla joins us from Bill Hasker’s old office there at Huntington University, which illustrates, perhaps even proves, the point.

Through dire poverty, through traumatic family challenges, including the death of his brother (his roommate at the time), through tumultuous economies and politics, through international visa bureaucratic BS challenges and hangups, through enrollments and missed assignments because he had , as Aristophanes said of Socrates, he had his head in the clouds, through failure, delay, and even family death, God called Tedla to study Philosophy, no matter what. God called Tedla, (Dr. Tedla, now) to a life of singular focus on a Christian search for truth.

This is a radical story. It’s gripping.

HIs outer journey accompanies and is as dramatic as his inner journey, taking him from Africa to Lost Angeles County, California to study Anglo-American Analytic Philosophy from a Christian perspective at Biola University, then to Colorado to teach Philosophy for a time (where, as it turns out, the same school that my own parents met, in my hometown), then to Western Michigan to continue his skills in a purely secular Philosophy graduate program, and finally to a Ph.D. in Anglo/American Analytic Philosophy at a Jesuit school under the famous Medieval Scholar and Philosopher of Religion Eleanore Stump and the famous Epistemologist John Greco at Saint Louis University.

Through it all he was financially supported by Bill Alston and Bill Hasker, among some others, like for instance the philosophy celebrity equivalent of perhaps Johnny Cash, Dr. Peter van Inwagen, a famous Philosopher at the University of Notre Dame, who doesn’t even think that money is real (see the 1 hour mark for detail of the metaphysics of ordinary palpable objects).

There are so many moving parts to this story, to this intellectual development, but final detail: Recall, Tedla was not a native English speaker. He had to work for it, and work hard. His first purchases were: a radio, and a good English dictionary. Both for the purposes of mastering English. It has paid off.

The Republican Professor is a pro-mastering-English, pro-Philosophy-done-well, pro-compelling-life-story, pro-turning-from-Marxism, pro-Testimony-of-the-God-Who-Calls podcast.

Therefore, welcome Dr. Tedla G. Woldeyohannes, Ph.D., sitting in Bill Haskers’ office at Huntington (I can’t believe it)

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Ms. Dezarae Payne is the director of a monthly firearms training clinic at the Ben Clark Sheriff’s Training Center in Riverside County, California for Sheriff Chad Bianco (Riverside County Sheriff) to promote firearm safety and education for California citizens, typically women.

She is NRA, DOJ (California Department of Justice) and Riverside County Sheriff certified CCW (Conceal Carry Weapon) instructor.

In addition, she is the founder and CEO of FemaleFirearmsInstructor.com and develops curriculum for that company, Vanguard Training and Consulting, which teaches especially women how to safely handle and carry firearms.

You can check out her female-focused firearms training here : https://femalefirearmsinstructor.com/about/

Women don’t necessarily want to be trained by another woman, according to Dezarae. Frankly, it might just be that they don’t want to be trained by their husband or boyfriend.

Ms. Payne has a unique temperament perfectly suited to this kind of training.

Firearms education and training can be very intimidating to those who feel jolted by the loud noises, who are initially afraid of the weapon itself, who don’t understand how it works, why it does what it does, how to clear jams safely (finger off the trigger, always aware and in control of where the muzzle is, that it’s constantly at all times pointed in the best direction, a “safe” direction, etc), to load and unload and be aware of others (at all times), and to do so while having a great time, that all can be overwhelming to people new to firearms. If they feel shame or their nerves are in dorsal vagal shutdown, they won’t take the information in.

Culture was such in my childhood first experiences with firearms that I was afraid of being unsafe, and that fear was reinforced by my social community (by everyone), I would have been shamed into oblivion for violating any of these safety norms, it’s sometimes hard for me to remember that the newcomer to firearms safety and training doesn’t have those deeply ingrained habits and intuitions. Somehow, the safe and strict firearms culture in my family and friends also allowed for freedom, responsibility, and fun with firearms at a very early age there in the Colorado of my youth. But not everyone has that background, and many can’t even contemplate what that would be like for them.

That’s why I’m so impressed with Ms. Payne’s gentle, firm, disciplined, informed, safe approach to leveling women up (and some men, too).

She is the guardian of the best in American “gun culture,” including the politics side of this equation. This stuff doesn’t happen in a political vacuum.

Dezarae grew up in Montana and moved to California as an adult. She was carrying legally in her home state, having gone through the very simple process there of obtaining a carry permit. What she experienced when she got to California was a nightmare in terms of compliance. Innocent people can easily become accidental criminals in the intense matrix and web of irrationally complex, non-intuitive police state mentality of California law. Of course, as Dezarae notes, nothing changed as far as her safety and training with firearms when she moved from one part of America to another. Why the heavy-handed overreach in California ? It didn’t and still doesn’t make any sense, as it didn’t seem to have any even minimal rationality attached to California’s over-criminalization approach.

Most politicians start out local. That’s the time to train and educate them into protecting the right to self-defense and everything necessary to support that right, culturally and politically. So, start locally in politics.

The Republican Professor is a pro-female-firearms-training, pro-citizen-self-defense, pro-anti-Police-State, pro-healthy-gun-culture, pro-CCW, pro-American podcast

Therefore, welcome FemaleFirearmsInstructor.com’s Dezarae Payne, Vanguard Training

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