Participants: Brenda Walsh
Series Code: KT
Program Code: KT000009
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00:25 Hi boys and girls.
00:27 How would you like to take a ride on this ship? 00:29 This is a very old ship. 00:31 Look at all the sails on it. 00:34 Quite a few sails on this ship, isn't there? 00:37 That makes the ship go very fast. 00:39 And what do you think this is? 00:41 You're right, it's and anchor. 00:43 Long ago sailing ships were the only kind of ships around 00:47 in which people could take long journeys. 00:49 There were no steam ships, 00:51 or motors or fancy cruise ships. 00:52 Our Bible story today will tell you about a man 00:56 who had the adventure of a lifetime 00:58 when he boarded a sailing ship. 00:59 When you listen to our Bible story see if you can tell 01:03 what if you think this man liked sailing or not. 01:05 I do know of some creatures who love boats and ships. 01:09 They are not human beings. 01:10 They are not plants. 01:12 They are little sea animals called Barnacles. 01:15 Sailors and ship owners don't like Barnacles. 01:17 You see Barnacles are little shell fish that float around 01:21 in the water until they bump into something solid, 01:24 like a ship. 01:25 And then they attach themselves right here. 01:29 All over the bottom and right below the water line. 01:32 They attach themselves to whatever they've stuck. 01:35 And they just stay there. 01:36 In a short time a huge ship can be covered with Barnacles 01:40 below this water line. 01:41 And then the owners have to pull the ships out of 01:43 water and clean off the Barnacles and make any repairs 01:47 that they need to. 01:48 Sometimes the owners don't realize how covered with 01:51 Barnacles their ship may be. 01:52 And that can be dangerous. 01:54 If the Barnacles grow thicker on the ship 01:56 they can actually slow it down or affect the way it 01:59 handles in the water. 02:00 And they have been known 02:02 to grow so thick, they have actually sunk a vessel. 02:06 Can you imagine that? 02:07 All those Barnacles. 02:09 Well these Barnacles remind me of some people. 02:13 Jesus has been called the Ship of Zion. 02:15 And sometimes people are attracted to 02:17 Jesus and His church. 02:18 And they want to be a part of it. 02:20 But they don't exactly want to be in it. 02:23 Like Barnacles they attach themselves to the outside, 02:26 and they just go along for the ride. 02:28 Boys and girls, Jesus is coming soon. 02:31 Don't be a Barnacle, but rather be a passenger on God's ship. 02:35 Letting Jesus steer your life. 02:37 Won't you give Him your heart today? 02:39 Now Ranger Jim is going to show us another creature 02:43 that lives in the water. 02:52 Hi boys and girls, Ranger Jim here again today. 02:53 We have something special for you to see. 02:55 The beautiful Bull Frog. 02:57 Okay, doesn't he have beautiful eyes? 03:00 And he sings and tells all the ladies, in his pond, that he 03:03 is the most beautiful, wonderful frog in all the world. 03:07 Of course these large creatures are amphibians. 03:10 They live in the water or on land. 03:12 And in fact, have you collected tad-poles? 03:14 They're fun aren't they? 03:15 Pollywogs, when they start to develop. 03:17 In the Northern part of the United States, 03:19 the bull frog takes two years to develop. 03:22 If you have found tad-poles in a pond near your house 03:25 and kept them in a jar. 03:26 They were most likely toads, but if you did find a 03:29 bull frog you may have been disappointed, 03:31 he didn't develop very quickly. 03:33 And you thought something was wrong. 03:34 No, they are a large creature and it normally will take two 03:38 years for them to develop from the tad-pole stage 03:40 through the Pollywog developing feet and to 03:43 eventually lose their tail and become what they are. 03:46 Now this creature, though he may look very easy going 03:51 in nature, he doesn't seem to cause any problems for anyone. 03:54 And if you think that, it is because your not a dragon fly. 03:58 Or a damsel fly, or you are not a small frog that comes by 04:02 or a fish, or anything else might come his way. 04:05 Because Mr. bull frog, it is said of him and accurately so, 04:09 a frog will eat anything he is big enough to eat. Okay? 04:12 Now most people don't realize that bull frogs have teeth. 04:16 And their teeth are located in an unusual place. 04:19 Their teeth are located in the back of their mouth, 04:21 up near their eyes. 04:23 And there are no muscles or no supporting tissue between 04:28 the frog's eyes and inside of his mouth. 04:30 I can press like this, and his eyes will go closed 04:33 just like that. 04:34 When a frog swallows something, 04:36 he reaches out with his tongue grabs it and pulls it 04:39 back to his mouth. 04:40 Quite often grasping it with his big front feet. 04:42 And pulls it into his mouth. 04:43 And begins to spread his mouth as wide as he can get it. 04:46 And as he swallows it, his eyes bulge out and you 04:50 would think they were going to pop out like cherry pits. 04:52 For all the world you wouldn't think they would 04:54 stay in his head, but when he forces it into the back 04:57 of his throat, then he swallows his food whole. 04:59 Okay, and as you can see by feet, very large web hind feet, 05:04 for swimming, he is an excellent swimmer. 05:06 When you frighten him, he dives into the water and swims 05:09 onto the bottom and there he stays until it is safe to stick 05:12 his head up and come looking all around. 05:14 Okay, now in the spring of the years, when they are mating, 05:17 all of the males sit around and call back and forth. 05:21 I don't know if you have heard them in the spring of the year. 05:23 Sometimes I imitate them, but now I won't because it is on 05:26 television, but when you go out to a large pond, if you can 05:30 make the jurung sound, quite often they will answer you. 05:32 They are trying to attract a females, and then the females 05:36 lay the eggs. 05:37 Now a female bull frog can easily lay 25 thousand eggs. 05:42 They are contained in a jelly-like substance 05:45 and on a little string like thing. 05:46 So those strings of that and then the male comes along 05:49 and he takes a part from his body that we call a 05:52 fertilization that goes on their serve, a milky substance 05:55 and that mixes with the water. 05:57 And that causes the eggs to hatch. 06:00 So these creatures have been known to jump vertically into 06:04 the air 3 and 1/2 feet. 06:05 As the dragon fly, goes flying by thinking he's perfectly safe. 06:08 Mr. bull frog is watching, He leaps in the air, flips 06:12 out his tongue and grabs him and falls back. 06:14 These creatures have been know to even 06:16 eat very small snakes. 06:18 So, the bull frog is a very, very interesting creature. 06:22 Many people hunt these and consider them to be a delicacy. 06:25 Once again Ranger Jim can tell you that as a small boy 06:28 I have done that. 06:30 Okay, but today it sounds rather yucky to me, okay? 06:34 So I am think I'm thankful that Jesus in my life has 06:37 changed not only the way I think about these creatures, 06:40 but He changed my appetite. 06:42 We have another creature that we are going to share 06:46 with you here. 06:47 And we will place this one in the bucket and then we will 06:49 take this creature, I hope that wasn't too much 06:52 of a disturbance. 06:53 This is the beautiful Box turtle. 06:54 The Eastern Box Turtle and once again we can identify this 06:59 creature by looking at her eyes. 07:02 Now we talked about the Eastern Painted turtle, you could tell 07:06 by their claws, but with this one we look at them, and 07:08 every one of the Eastern Box turtle, that's a lady 07:11 has beautiful brown eyes. 07:13 If it's a boy box turtle, it has red eyes. 07:18 So if you find a box turtle, and be sure boys and girls, 07:21 it's a box turtle. 07:22 I, would once again, encourage you do not pick up turtles 07:25 unless you have an adult with you that you can be ascertain 07:28 what the turtle is because if you pick up the wrong turtle, 07:30 they can injure you. 07:32 But if there is an adult and they say yes, that's the 07:34 Eastern Box turtle, then you can pick the turtle up gently. 07:38 And look at it's eyes. 07:39 If it has brown eyes, it's a girl, if it has red eyes, 07:43 it's a boy. 07:44 These box turtles have been kept in captivity for more 07:48 than seventy-five years. 07:50 So this turtle we can ascertain the age, to a certain extent, 07:56 by feeling of the bottom of his plastron, 07:58 as it goes along on the gritty surface of gravel, 08:03 sand and what have you, it wears this sharp 08:06 and it's very smooth for an older turtle. 08:09 Now many people in the past, it use to be quite a thing, 08:12 for people to take and carve. 08:14 This is much the same as your fingernail, 08:15 it doesn't injure the turtle at all. 08:16 People would carve a date, if they found the turtle today, 08:20 and it was the year 2000, they might carve the year 1902. 08:25 And then someone found it two years later they would be sure 08:29 to think that the turtle was at least a hundred years old. 08:31 Of course that wasn't true. 08:33 But this, once again, is another one of those wonderful 08:36 creatures that God hath made for us to see and enjoy. 08:38 So you remember that if you pick it up, it has brown eyes 08:42 it's a girl, if it has red eyes, it's a boy. 08:45 You can be assure of that as you can be assure as what 08:49 Ranger Jim always tells you. 08:51 Don't forget to tell Jesus that you love Him. 08:54 Because Jesus surely does love you. 09:04 Hello boys and girls. 09:05 Have you ever had a really bad day? 09:08 Isn't it good to know that when you close your eyes to sleep, 09:11 that you can wake up to a brand new day that Jesus gave you? 09:15 Christine would you read us our text please. 09:16 "Oh God thou art my God, early will I seek thee. " Psalms 63:1 09:21 Boys and girls join us in this song. 09:29 Look who's coming up the poke-a-dot hill. 09:32 Look who's shining on my window sill. 09:35 With the blue birds singing, and the blue bells ringing, 09:39 It's morning again. 09:41 When the sun comes out to stay, 09:45 I know it will be a lovely day, 09:48 For God sends sun shine every day, 09:51 and it's morning again. 09:55 There's a woody woodpecker and it's sitting and a pecking, 09:58 and a cock goes cock-a-doodle-do. 10:01 There's a cow in the pasture, 10:03 And sheep in the meadow, 10:05 and the wise old owl goes hoooooot. 10:10 Look who's coming up poke-a-dot hill, 10:13 Look who's shinning on my window sill. 10:16 with the blue birds singing, 10:18 and the blue bells ringing, 10:20 It's morning again. 10:23 It's morning again. 10:29 So remember boys and girls, when the sun sets 10:31 in a bad day, just say your prayers and go to sleep. 10:34 Because Jesus is going to bring you a brand new morning. 10:45 Hi Kids! Boy have I got a story to tell you. 10:47 I won't believe it myself if it hadn't actually happened to me. 10:51 It all happened like this. 10:52 Oh, by the way, my name is Jonah, and I am a prophet 10:55 of the Lord. 10:56 And it happened like this. 10:57 One day the word of the Lord came to me and commanded me 11:00 to go to that big city of Nineveh, 11:02 and tell them that God had seen how wicked and cruel 11:04 they were, and if they didn't repent of their sins, 11:06 God was going to destroy them with fire. 11:09 Nineveh, why if He had asked me to go to Jerusalem 11:12 or to Samaria, or even Damascus, I'd been glad to go. 11:16 But not Nineveh. 11:18 Nineveh was known for it's cruelty. 11:20 Nineveh was known for, for, for the meanness that they had. 11:24 Why they would torture people until they wished they were dead 11:27 No telling what they would have done to me. 11:29 I decided right then and there I wasn't going to Nineveh. 11:32 I was going to go as far away from God as I could get. 11:35 And from Nineveh. 11:36 And so I ran as fast as I could to that city by the sea. 11:41 And I went, I went, found a ship that was going in the 11:45 opposite direction of Nineveh. 11:46 And I bought a ticket, and I got on board, and I 11:50 went down below deck where I could be all by myself. 11:52 And I thought to myself, this is not so bad. 11:54 By the time I get to where this ship is going, 11:57 God will have forgotten all about me. 11:58 And then maybe He would send somebody else to Nineveh. 12:02 I was so exhausted from running so far, I fell sound asleep. 12:06 But I want to tell you, that when they pulled up 12:10 the anchor on that ship and they headed out to sea, 12:12 God was as close to me as ever. 12:16 Well, the wind picked up and waves picked up. 12:18 And before long there was such a storm as there's 12:22 never been before. 12:23 Even the Captain and the sailors realized that there was 12:26 something eerie about this storm. 12:28 And they believe that the God's had caused that. 12:31 And so they started to call out on all their Gods. 12:33 And they called out to Baal, and to Ashtaroth 12:36 And to Moloch. 12:37 But nothing happened, the storm only got worse. 12:40 Well for some reason, the Captain, went down below deck. 12:44 And that's when he found me. 12:45 I was sound asleep and he grab me and he shook me 12:48 and he said, "Wake up you sleeper. " 12:50 "Don't you know that we are in a life and death situation?" 12:53 "Don't you know that the Gods are angry with us, why 12:55 don't you get up and pray to your God. 12:57 Maybe He can save us. " 12:58 Pray to my God? 13:00 I didn't want to do that, I was running away from Him. 13:02 I stumbled out on deck and when I got there all of the... 13:05 the Captain and the sailors they decided that they were 13:08 going to cast lots to figure out just who the God's 13:10 were angry with. 13:11 And they cast lots and when they did, the lot fell on me. 13:15 And that is when I realized right then and there 13:18 you can never run away from God, God knows where you are. 13:21 Before long, they gathered around me and they started to 13:25 fire questions at me, and they said, "Who are you?" 13:27 "What occupation do you have?" 13:29 "What nationality are you, and what are you doing on 13:32 this ship anyway?" 13:33 And that's when I told them I am a Hebrew. 13:36 And I worship the God Who made the heaven and the earth. 13:39 And the One who made the sea, and the dry land. 13:42 And Who was in charge of the wind and the waves. 13:44 And then I told them all about Nineveh. 13:47 I told them God told me to tell them He was going to 13:52 destroy them with fire because of their wickedness 13:54 if they didn't repent and I was afraid to go to Nineveh. 13:56 Why they knew how cruel those people were. 13:59 And the Captain said, "What can we do so your God 14:02 won't be angry with us?" 14:03 I told them the only thing you can do was throw me over board. 14:08 They didn't want to do it at first, but there was no other 14:10 way and so, they picked me up, and before they threw me 14:13 overboard, they called out to the God of Jonah, and they 14:16 said please don't be angry with us, this is what he 14:18 told us to do, and they gave me a fling over the ship. 14:21 I landed in the water, and when I landed on the water the wind 14:24 was suddenly quiet. 14:26 And the waves stopped, all except the one that was 14:29 right over my head. 14:30 It came down and hit me with such force that it drove me 14:32 right down into the ground. 14:34 Into the water. 14:36 I'll tell you I went down into that dark, green water of that 14:40 sea, I thought I was going to drown. 14:43 All I wanted was just one more breath of air. 14:46 But then I felt this, this horrible feeling of falling, 14:51 I was slipping and sliding down some, 14:53 Oh! some awful tube. 14:56 Now instead of wishing I could have one more breath of air, 15:00 Now I was wishing I never had to breath again for that 15:03 foul smell that was coming from where I was going. 15:05 Before long I landed in, I couldn't believe this, but I 15:09 landed in the stomach of a whale. 15:11 Oh it was horrible down there, I could see anything 15:14 but I could feel the dead fish, sea weed and I couldn't move 15:17 my arms, they were pinned around and I 15:19 couldn't move at all. 15:20 Now all of a sudden the whale just went down, 15:23 then he just took off and went up and I got so sick 15:26 I just passed right out. 15:27 When I came to I was trying to figure out where exactly I was. 15:31 Then I remembered, Oh No! 15:35 This is horrible, I going to tell you I prayed as I never, 15:38 You'd prayed too if you were in that dreadful place. 15:41 I prayed like I never prayed, and I asked the Lord to forgive 15:44 me for even thinking I could run away from Him. 15:46 And oh Lord if you just give me one more, one more 15:50 chance to go to Nineveh, I prayed, just one more chance. 15:52 I'll tell them just exactly what You told me to tell them. 15:55 Well I don't know how long I was in the ship, in the whale 15:59 stomach, exactly, but I was in there for something like 16:02 parts of three days. 16:03 In and out of consciousness. 16:06 But in some wonderful way. 16:08 God spoke to that fish and he spit me out on dry ground. 16:12 I'm going to tell you when I felt that sunshine and I 16:16 breathed in that pure air, oh it was so wonderful 16:20 and I grabbed my hands in the dirt. 16:21 It was so wonderful to be on dry ground. 16:24 Oh I thanked the Lord, and I told Him I am going to do 16:27 just exactly what you said. 16:28 I'm going to get to Nineveh as fast as I could. 16:30 I got up to run but my feet were like, my legs were like 16:33 jelly, I could hardly move. 16:34 I crawled, I didn't care if I had to crawl all the way to 16:36 Nineveh, I'd crawl, I'd get there and I tell them just 16:39 exactly what God told me to tell them. 16:41 But before long my legs got a little stronger and started to 16:43 run as fast as I could. 16:45 By the time I got to Nineveh, rumors had already reached 16:49 that city of what had happened to me. 16:51 When I told them that I was Jonah, and what had happened 16:54 to me, Oh I looked a mess, you can believe they believed me. 16:57 Why I looked a mess my clothes were half digested. 17:00 My hands and arms, my whole skin was yellow. 17:04 Oh you should have seen my hair, and the seaweed and the 17:07 Oh the smell was terrible, but I told them, this is terrible 17:10 what happened to me but it is going to be worse for you 17:12 if you don't repent from your wickedness. 17:13 God's going to destroy you in forty days. 17:16 Oh the people believed from the less all the way to the greatest 17:20 They believed. 17:21 Never had there been such a revival, 17:24 such a turning away from sin. 17:25 And to think I tried my best to run away from the job. 17:30 Oh, I learned a lesson. 17:32 I learned that you can never run and hide from God. 17:35 And then when God asks you to do something, the best thing to 17:38 do is do it right then, with all your might. 17:41 Oh, I hope you can learn a lesson from my story. 17:45 And remember kids, remember that wherever you go, 17:49 and whatever you do, God is with you and He loves you. 18:11 Jesus loves me, this I know. 18:19 For the Bible tells me so. 18:28 Little ones to Him belong, 18:37 They are weak, but He is strong. 18:47 Yes Jesus loves me. 18:57 Yes Jesus loves me, 19:05 Yes Jesus loves me. 19:13 The Bible tells me so. 19:24 Oh how He loves you and me. 19:32 Oh how He loves you and me, 19:41 He gave His life, Oh what more could He give? 19:51 Oh how He loves you. 19:55 Oh how He loves me, 20:00 Oh how He loves you and me. 20:09 Oh how He loves you and me, 20:16 Oh how He loves you and me. 20:25 He gave His life, Oh what more could He give? 20:35 Oh how He loves you. 20:41 Oh how He loves me. 20:45 Oh how He loves you and me. 21:11 Wasn't Jonah a funny little man? 21:13 Just think, preaching converted a whole city. 21:16 And then he went and pouted because God had forgiven 21:19 the people he warned. 21:20 You know Jonah had some lessons to learn. 21:22 And he learned them the hard way. 21:24 First to be swallowed by that great big fish, 21:27 how stinky that must have been inside. 21:29 And then to have God scold you for complaining. 21:32 But he did learn his lessons didn't he? 21:35 And he learned that God always gives us second chances. 21:37 A chance to start over again no matter what 21:40 mistakes we've made. 21:41 You know there is a Poet by the name of Louisa Fletcher, 21:45 and she wrote a poem about second chances. 21:47 It's called the Land of Beginning Again, 21:49 and I'd like to read it for you. 21:50 It says, I wish there was some wonderful place, 21:54 called the Land of Beginning again. 21:56 Were all our mistakes, and all our heartaches, 21:59 and all of our poor selfish grief's, 22:01 could be dropped like a shabby ole coat at the door, 22:04 and never be put on again. 22:06 You know that's a lovely idea, isn't it? 22:09 If all our mistakes could be undone. 22:11 If all our thoughtless words could be unsaid. 22:14 And if all the things we should of done, but didn't do, 22:17 were suddenly, just done. 22:19 Wouldn't that be wonderful? 22:21 The good news is that Jesus does give us second chances, 22:25 and third chances and fourth chances. 22:27 As many chances as we need. 22:29 Confess our sins and start over again. 22:31 You might say that He is the King of the Land 22:34 of Beginning again. 22:35 We're truly sorry for the wrong things we have done, 22:38 no matter how bad they are, 22:40 He will forgive us. 22:41 Not only will He forgive us, but He will blot out those sins, 22:45 and any memory of those sins, right out of the Universe. 22:48 Isn't that wonderful? 22:49 And it will be as if we never sinned. 22:52 You know Jesus said that He would remove our sins from us. 22:55 As far as the east is from the west. 22:57 And how far is that? 22:59 No one can measure it, it goes on forever. 23:02 And that is what Jesus meant, there is just no 23:05 end to His love and His forgiveness. 23:08 I'm so glad that Jesus give us second chances. 23:11 Aren't you? 23:12 Now it's mailbox time. 23:14 Let's take a look and see what is in our mailbox. 23:18 You can write to me, boys and girls, wherever you are. 23:20 That might be in Russia, or Japan, or China, South America, 23:24 wherever you are the letters will reach me. 23:27 Let's see what we have today. 23:28 Yes I have mail. 23:31 Got lots of it too. 23:32 Oh! so many letters. 23:35 I'd like to share them with you. 23:37 Oh! this one here is from Daniel Juarez. 23:40 And I've got one from Freeport, Maine 23:43 One from a Jessica Smith. 23:46 And one from California. 23:47 Let's see what Daniel has to say today. 23:50 I wonder how he has shared Jesus? 23:54 Let's look and see. 23:57 You know what? 23:59 Yes I am right. 24:01 Daniel sent a picture of himself today, 24:03 This, show you at home what Daniel looks like. 24:06 Thank you Daniel for sending a picture. 24:09 Daniel also drew me a little picture on his paper. 24:13 He said, Dear Brenda, I am six years old 24:16 and I like to play on the computer. 24:18 Especially a Jesus game. 24:20 I also like to sing. 24:22 And I share Jesus, I went to a nursing home, 24:25 and we drew pictures of the six days of creation, 24:27 and the Sabbath on big pieces of poster board. 24:30 And we showed our pictures and took turns telling 24:32 about God's work of creation. 24:34 Then we visited with the people there and it was fun. 24:37 They liked it and gave us some cookies. 24:39 Daniel Juarez. 24:41 Thank you Daniel for sharing that experience with us. 24:45 That was a wonderful way to witness, wasn't it? 24:47 And I bet that they liked the pictures of creation too 24:51 that you drew. 24:52 I think we might have time for one more here. 24:56 Let's see, this letter is from Robert. 25:00 Let's see what Robert has to say. 25:02 Dear Brenda, I am twelve years old and I share 25:05 Jesus to my friend. 25:07 He was going to steal some gum at the grocery store, 25:10 and I didn't. 25:11 I told him not to because it is a sin. 25:13 I don't want to go to jail. 25:14 My friend, Jimmy, put the gum back. 25:17 He got mad for awhile, but now he's my friend. 25:19 I want to go to heaven, I don't want to steal 25:22 because I know it is wrong. 25:23 I love Jesus, your friend, Robert. 25:25 You know Robert, you are right. 25:27 It is very wrong to steal. 25:28 You did witness by doing the right thing. 25:31 Even when you were tempted to do wrong, 25:33 but, you know it is not always easy to standing up 25:35 for the right thing when we are with our friends, is it? 25:37 But you did the right thing. 25:39 That did make Jesus very happy. 25:41 I'll try to see if I can get one more letter. 25:45 I love sharing the letters with you. 25:47 It gives us idea's, doesn't it, on how to share Jesus? 25:49 This one says, Dear Brenda, I 25:51 I am eleven years old, and I like to sing, and I would 25:55 like to sing on Kids Time. 25:56 I love Jesus and I like to share Jesus. 25:58 I found a purse in a shopping cart, at the store, 26:01 and it had a lot of money in it. 26:03 I gave it to the store manager and he was really surprised 26:06 that I didn't keep the money. 26:08 But I told him that Jesus didn't want me to. 26:10 My dad said he was proud of me. 26:12 Love Jessica, P.S. I don't know if they found the lady 26:16 who lost her purse. 26:17 Well you know what, Jessica? 26:19 That was really a very special way to share Jesus. 26:22 Doesn't matter if we know if the lady found her purse or not. 26:25 What matters to Jesus is that you did the 26:27 right thing isn't it? 26:28 You stood up, you could of kept the money, but you didn't. 26:31 Did you? 26:32 You did the right thing and the store manager saw Jesus in you. 26:36 Well that's all the time we have today boys and girls. 26:39 But before I go I would like to leave you with this one thought. 26:42 No matter what you do every single day, 26:45 make Jesus first in your life. 26:47 Remember, it's Kids Time to share Jesus. |
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