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Wednesday, November 23, 2016
Election is over but the Clinton emails keep coming
Hillary Clinton didn't shy away from expressing her feelings in her first public appearance since conceding to the president-elect a week ago. “I will admit coming here tonight wasn’t the easiest thing for me. There have been a few times this past week where all I wanted to do was curl up with a good book or our dogs and never leave the house again,” she said in her speech at the Children’s Defense Fund’s Beat the Odds celebration in Washington, D.C. Clinton urged the crowd to keep America's children in mind and fight for them in this "new and uncertain future.” CSPAN
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You thought just because Hillary Clinton lost that the email releases would stop?
Wrong.
Judicial Watch recently received 508 pages of documents, including emails, that the conservative group says shows possible conflicts of interest between Hillary Clinton’s State Department and her husband, former President Bill Clinton.
Expect periodic releases of records to continue through 2018, even though many Clinton critics have moved on following Donald Trump’s victory.
Judicial Watch – as well as other groups, including Citizens United – and news organizations had filed numerous lawsuits seeking the emails of Clinton and her top aides while she was the nation’s top diplomat after their public records requests went unanswered.
The just released Judicial Watch documents stem from a 2013 lawsuit against the State Department.
“It is a scandal that the Obama administration stalled the release of these smoking gun documents for over five years,” Judicial Watch President Tom Fitton said. “These documents show that Hillary and Bill Clinton’s machine sought to shake down almost every country in the world, from Saudi Arabia to desperately poor Haiti.”
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Beltway’s outer loop begins to reopen near American Legion Bridge after crash
All lanes on the outer loop of the Beltway at the American Legion Bridge are closed after a major crash involving trucks. (Courtesy of Montgomery County Fire)
Some lanes are now getting by on the outer loop of the Beltway near the American Legion Bridge in Maryland after a major crash involving vehicles and at least one truck, authorities said. But there are major backups on both sides of the Beltway that are said to be at least seven miles.
HANNITY: Ignore Media, Haters and Listen to Backers
Ever since the election night, the press has been looking for excuses and explanations as to how they got the outcome so wrong and why their anointed candidate, Hillary Clinton, lost.
The latest pathetic attempt from the blatantly biased media is to blame President-elect Donald Trump's victory on fake news stories. CNN, MSNBC and NBC all suggested in recent days that Trump won and Clinton lost because voters were tricked by phony online stories.
“Did the spread of fake news on the Web help elect Donald Trump?” CNN’s Brian Stelter mused Saturday. “We may never know for sure. But researchers are asking the question because made-up false stories are polluting people's Facebook timelines and Twitter streams.”
Nasty attacks from the alt-radical left are, unfortunately, just beginning. Let's face it, there's going to be a continuous onslaught of vile, divisive rhetoric coming from the left.
So with that in mind, here's my advice unsolicited for Trump and Pence: Ignore it. Keep focusing on the promises you made to what I call the forgotten men and women in this election.
Ignore the haters and remember the forgotten men and women. They're the ones who voted..
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The latest pathetic attempt from the blatantly biased media is to blame President-elect Donald Trump's victory on fake news stories. CNN, MSNBC and NBC all suggested in recent days that Trump won and Clinton lost because voters were tricked by phony online stories.
“Did the spread of fake news on the Web help elect Donald Trump?” CNN’s Brian Stelter mused Saturday. “We may never know for sure. But researchers are asking the question because made-up false stories are polluting people's Facebook timelines and Twitter streams.”
Nasty attacks from the alt-radical left are, unfortunately, just beginning. Let's face it, there's going to be a continuous onslaught of vile, divisive rhetoric coming from the left.
So with that in mind, here's my advice unsolicited for Trump and Pence: Ignore it. Keep focusing on the promises you made to what I call the forgotten men and women in this election.
Ignore the haters and remember the forgotten men and women. They're the ones who voted..
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Williams: Trump and College Chaos
The University of Michigan's distressed students were provided with Play-Doh and coloring books, as they sought comfort and distraction. A University of Michigan professor postponed an exam after many students complained about their "serious stress" over the election results. Cornell University held a campus-wide "cry-in," with officials handing out tissues and hot chocolate.
One Cornell student said, "I'm looking into flights back to Bangladesh right now so I can remove myself before Trump repatriates me."
The College Fix reported that "a dorm at the University of Pennsylvania ... hosted a post-election 'Breathing Space' for students stressed out by election results that included cuddling with cats and a puppy, coloring and crafting, and snacks such as tea and chocolate."
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Md. Democrats look for ways to influence GOP-run Congress
WASHINGTON (AP) — Despite the return of Republican majorities in both houses of Congress in January, Maryland’s Democrats still plan to find ways of influencing policy debates and legislation.
In fact, even with some new faces in the Maryland congressional delegation, it is in roughly the same position it was in before the Nov. 8 election, with one major difference: Republican Donald Trump will replace Democrat Barack Obama in the White House.
Senator-elect Chris Van Hollen and Sen. Ben Cardin will be among the 48 Democratic senators tasked with trying to defend Obama’s health care legacy as well as other domestic and foreign policy achievements and entitlement programs. The Marylanders say they also will oppose any Republican effort to restrict women’s rights and will seek to keep the issue of economic inequality in the forefront.
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In fact, even with some new faces in the Maryland congressional delegation, it is in roughly the same position it was in before the Nov. 8 election, with one major difference: Republican Donald Trump will replace Democrat Barack Obama in the White House.
Senator-elect Chris Van Hollen and Sen. Ben Cardin will be among the 48 Democratic senators tasked with trying to defend Obama’s health care legacy as well as other domestic and foreign policy achievements and entitlement programs. The Marylanders say they also will oppose any Republican effort to restrict women’s rights and will seek to keep the issue of economic inequality in the forefront.
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Trump Could Slash $500 Million from Public Broadcasting
With President-elect Trump promising to pay for his infrastructure and defense spending by defunding non-essential federal spending, one of the first programs on the block could be the almost $500 million spent on public broadcasting.
Despite repeated efforts to kill federal funding of public broadcasting since Republicans won the House in 2010 and Presidential-nominee Mitt Romney made it a campaign promise in 2012, the U.S. Departments of Labor, Health and Human Services, and Education are spending $470.7 million in U.S. taxpayer cash to fund the Corporation for Public Broadcasting (CPB) this year, which provides 15 percent of PBS television and 10 percent of NPR radio broadcasting funding.
Although their charter requires strict non-partisan programing, the public broadcasters are accused of leaning left. An NPR article described the 2016 election results as “nostalgia for a whiter America.”
After Joel Pollak, who serves as Breitbart’s Senior Editor-at-Large and In-house Counsel, defended its Executive Chairman Stephen K. Bannon from false and defamatory claims of antisemitism and “white nationalism” in a Nov. 16 interview, NPR’s ombudsman/public editor Elizabeth Jensen recommended that the taxpayer-funded radio news service bar future live interviews of conservatives, who may be “normalizing hate speech.” Instead, guests with presumably controversial views should be pre-taped, she said, so that their opinions might be “contextualized.”
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Despite repeated efforts to kill federal funding of public broadcasting since Republicans won the House in 2010 and Presidential-nominee Mitt Romney made it a campaign promise in 2012, the U.S. Departments of Labor, Health and Human Services, and Education are spending $470.7 million in U.S. taxpayer cash to fund the Corporation for Public Broadcasting (CPB) this year, which provides 15 percent of PBS television and 10 percent of NPR radio broadcasting funding.
Although their charter requires strict non-partisan programing, the public broadcasters are accused of leaning left. An NPR article described the 2016 election results as “nostalgia for a whiter America.”
After Joel Pollak, who serves as Breitbart’s Senior Editor-at-Large and In-house Counsel, defended its Executive Chairman Stephen K. Bannon from false and defamatory claims of antisemitism and “white nationalism” in a Nov. 16 interview, NPR’s ombudsman/public editor Elizabeth Jensen recommended that the taxpayer-funded radio news service bar future live interviews of conservatives, who may be “normalizing hate speech.” Instead, guests with presumably controversial views should be pre-taped, she said, so that their opinions might be “contextualized.”
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Nick Cannon: Planned Parenthood is committing ‘real genocide’ against black people
In an interview with “The Breakfast Club,” a New York City-based radio show, the entertainer expressed dissatisfaction with both candidates for president this election cycle.
When asked President-elect Donald Trump’s plan to appoint pro-life justices to the Supreme Court, Mr. Cannon said the high rate of abortion in black communities is “real genocide.”
“Everybody — Hillary was sneaking and cheating,” Mr. Cannon said. “Think about all the stuff they did with Planned Parenthood and all of that type of stuff. That type of stuff is to take our community and — forget gentrification, it’s real genocide. And it’s been like that for years.”
Planned Parenthood was founded by Margaret Sanger, a eugenicist who sought to prevent “biologically unfit” people from having children through increased access to birth control.
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BET Founder: Trump is ‘Committed to Reaching Out’ to Black Americans
Bob Johnson, the founder of Black Entertainment Television (BET), says he is confident that President-elect Donald Trump will have a positive impact on the lives of African-Americans.
Johnson met with Trump in New Jersey on Sunday, and told CNN that he left the meeting “understanding that President Trump is committed to reaching out to African-Americans.”
A billionaire media magnate, Johnson supported Hillary Clinton’s failed White House run. During their meeting, Johnson offered Trump advice on how to connect with black voters.
Johnson shrugged off concerns about racist Trump supporters.
“I know that there are people like that in America,” he said. “It’s been that way ever since slavery existed in this country and they’re not going to go away tomorrow or the next day.”
Johnson also implored black Americans to “find common ground with President-elect Trump.”
“We ought to do it in the best interest of African-Americans and the best interest of the country,” he said.
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Johnson met with Trump in New Jersey on Sunday, and told CNN that he left the meeting “understanding that President Trump is committed to reaching out to African-Americans.”
A billionaire media magnate, Johnson supported Hillary Clinton’s failed White House run. During their meeting, Johnson offered Trump advice on how to connect with black voters.
Johnson shrugged off concerns about racist Trump supporters.
“I know that there are people like that in America,” he said. “It’s been that way ever since slavery existed in this country and they’re not going to go away tomorrow or the next day.”
Johnson also implored black Americans to “find common ground with President-elect Trump.”
“We ought to do it in the best interest of African-Americans and the best interest of the country,” he said.
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Judge blocks Obama overtime rule
A Texas judge on Tuesday blocked President Obama's new rule intended to force companies to pay workers more overtime, agreeing with businesses that the administration overstepped its authority and that only Congress could approve such an expansion of the federal overtime law.
Business groups cheered the emergency injunction for the expansion, which was scheduled to start Dec. 1. "This is a victory for small business owners and should give them some breathing room until the case can be properly adjudicated," said Juanita Duggan, president of the National Federation of Independent Business, a small-business trade group that opposed the rule.
Federal law says employees must be paid time-and-a-half once they work more than 40 hours in a week. However, businesses may exempt workers from the requirement if their duties are "managerial" in nature and they reach a certain salary threshold.
In May, the Labor Department announced that that threshold, previously $23,000 annually, would rise to more than $47,000 on Dec. 1, and would be updated every three years to reflect wage growth. The administration's rule change would have meant that 4 million more workers would be eligible for overtime. Because it was an administrative reinterpretation of the existing Fair Labor Standards Act, the White House said that the change did not require congressional approval.
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Business groups cheered the emergency injunction for the expansion, which was scheduled to start Dec. 1. "This is a victory for small business owners and should give them some breathing room until the case can be properly adjudicated," said Juanita Duggan, president of the National Federation of Independent Business, a small-business trade group that opposed the rule.
Federal law says employees must be paid time-and-a-half once they work more than 40 hours in a week. However, businesses may exempt workers from the requirement if their duties are "managerial" in nature and they reach a certain salary threshold.
In May, the Labor Department announced that that threshold, previously $23,000 annually, would rise to more than $47,000 on Dec. 1, and would be updated every three years to reflect wage growth. The administration's rule change would have meant that 4 million more workers would be eligible for overtime. Because it was an administrative reinterpretation of the existing Fair Labor Standards Act, the White House said that the change did not require congressional approval.
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The Left on Trump
For members of this list serve to debate Trump's place in the right wing continuum, whether it is far to the right, even approaching Fascism, or whether Trump is merely a loudmouth, in my opinion, is conceding to the left that Trump might be a threat to American life.
An inquiry into Fascist elements in American life should look at the left.
Consider the following:
1. The radicals who caused disturbances at Trump's rallies echoed Mussolini's blackshirts who disrupted the peaceful political gatherings of their opponents.
2. The mass demonstrations rejecting the Trump election hark back to the Fascists who refused to accept their minority status and resorted to violence to overturn the results of free elections. Republicans did not demonstrate in 2008 and 2012 when Obama won and they would have been similarly resigned, if Hillary had won.
3. Most distressing of all is the left's demonization of the opposition -- another tactic from the Fascist playbook. Mussolini defined his opponents as unpatriotic Communists, even when their only fault was dissent, and he jailed them. Demonization reached its apogee with Hitler who, as we all know, lied and lied about the Jews. Hate was a Nazi specialty.
Let's look at demonization -- American style. Trump's supporters are accused of being racist, xenophobic, anti-Semitic, stupid, and full of hatred. What evidence do leftists give for this demonization. Instead of evidence, leftists present lies. They accuse Republicans of hating immigrants. The fact is that Trump and his supporters are not opposed to immigration; they are opposed to illegal immigration. The whole leftist indictment of Trump on this issue is a colossal misstatement and a hateful lie.
Then there is Trump's alleged hatred of Muslims. Trump has said that Muslims refugees from the Middle East should be carefully vetted to weed out terrorists. Is this not common sense? But the left prefers to lie about Trump and Muslims. As for African Americans, Jews, and gays, Trump said nothing about them in the campaign.
Vicious lying about a targeted group is hate, and a mainspring of Fascism.
There is hate in today's America -- lots of it -- and it comes from those who proclaim love and tolerance while they demonize Trump's supporters.
4. Finally, the left has gone beyond lying and hating. It has been punishing dissenters. The IRS has given a rough time to right-wing organizations and when Congress asked questions, the IRS claimed its computers had crashed. The leftist media and Democratic politicians ignored this obvious fiction because they approved of the persecution. We can only imagine how a President Hillary Clinton would have intensified this persecution -- while the lapdog, liberal media, with The New York Times in the vanguard, would see little, if anything.
Lawrence Squeri
An inquiry into Fascist elements in American life should look at the left.
Consider the following:
1. The radicals who caused disturbances at Trump's rallies echoed Mussolini's blackshirts who disrupted the peaceful political gatherings of their opponents.
2. The mass demonstrations rejecting the Trump election hark back to the Fascists who refused to accept their minority status and resorted to violence to overturn the results of free elections. Republicans did not demonstrate in 2008 and 2012 when Obama won and they would have been similarly resigned, if Hillary had won.
3. Most distressing of all is the left's demonization of the opposition -- another tactic from the Fascist playbook. Mussolini defined his opponents as unpatriotic Communists, even when their only fault was dissent, and he jailed them. Demonization reached its apogee with Hitler who, as we all know, lied and lied about the Jews. Hate was a Nazi specialty.
Let's look at demonization -- American style. Trump's supporters are accused of being racist, xenophobic, anti-Semitic, stupid, and full of hatred. What evidence do leftists give for this demonization. Instead of evidence, leftists present lies. They accuse Republicans of hating immigrants. The fact is that Trump and his supporters are not opposed to immigration; they are opposed to illegal immigration. The whole leftist indictment of Trump on this issue is a colossal misstatement and a hateful lie.
Then there is Trump's alleged hatred of Muslims. Trump has said that Muslims refugees from the Middle East should be carefully vetted to weed out terrorists. Is this not common sense? But the left prefers to lie about Trump and Muslims. As for African Americans, Jews, and gays, Trump said nothing about them in the campaign.
Vicious lying about a targeted group is hate, and a mainspring of Fascism.
There is hate in today's America -- lots of it -- and it comes from those who proclaim love and tolerance while they demonize Trump's supporters.
4. Finally, the left has gone beyond lying and hating. It has been punishing dissenters. The IRS has given a rough time to right-wing organizations and when Congress asked questions, the IRS claimed its computers had crashed. The leftist media and Democratic politicians ignored this obvious fiction because they approved of the persecution. We can only imagine how a President Hillary Clinton would have intensified this persecution -- while the lapdog, liberal media, with The New York Times in the vanguard, would see little, if anything.
Lawrence Squeri
Trump, Pence address potential of Romney, Mattis in Cabinet
President-elect Donald Trump says he’s made “a couple of deals” after spending the weekend meeting with a long list of potential administration appointees.
BEDMINSTER, N.J. (AP) — President-elect Donald Trump said Sunday that he had “made a couple of deals” after spending the weekend meeting with a long list of potential administration appointees, but he did not reveal any more picks.
Trump and the vice president-elect, Mike Pence, did drop some hints. Pence said that Mitt Romney was “under active and serious consideration” to become the nation’s next secretary of state. Trump said retired Marine Corps Gen. James Mattis was an “impressive” prospect for defense secretary.
“I think we have some really incredible people going to be working for the country,” Trump said Sunday evening. “We really had some incredible meetings. You’ll be hearing about them soon.”
Among the visitors to the white-pillared clubhouse Sunday were Kansas Secretary of State Kris Kobach, billionaire investor Wilbur Ross and retired Marine Gen. John Kelly, the former commander of U.S. Southern Command.
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BEDMINSTER, N.J. (AP) — President-elect Donald Trump said Sunday that he had “made a couple of deals” after spending the weekend meeting with a long list of potential administration appointees, but he did not reveal any more picks.
Trump and the vice president-elect, Mike Pence, did drop some hints. Pence said that Mitt Romney was “under active and serious consideration” to become the nation’s next secretary of state. Trump said retired Marine Corps Gen. James Mattis was an “impressive” prospect for defense secretary.
“I think we have some really incredible people going to be working for the country,” Trump said Sunday evening. “We really had some incredible meetings. You’ll be hearing about them soon.”
Among the visitors to the white-pillared clubhouse Sunday were Kansas Secretary of State Kris Kobach, billionaire investor Wilbur Ross and retired Marine Gen. John Kelly, the former commander of U.S. Southern Command.
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Want to Stop Fake News Websites? Go Where The Money Is: Google AdSense & Content Recommendation Widgets
Since the Presidential election two weeks ago, there has been an enormous amount of consternation and hand-wringing over highly-profitable websites that make up completely fake political news stories that spread like wildfire on the Internet.
Buzzfeed, Daily Dot, The New York Times and The Washington Post have recently done feature stories on fake news sites like WorldPoliticus.com, BVANews.com,LibertyWritersNews.com, ABCNews.com.co and 70News.Wordpress.com (a Wordpress.com domain name apparently isn't enough of a tip-off that this isn't a legitimate news source) that are making tens of thousands of dollars per month by focusing on fake stories that accomplish two things:
#1: Make potential readers mad enough to click the headline
and
#2: Share said fake news with their friends
So far, the focus has been on stopping fake news stories from going viral via crackdowns by Facebook's news algorithm and Google search, and also taking more individual responsibility for what you read and share, which CNN's Brian Stelter dubbed, "Refuse to be confused."
While that's certainly an admirable call to action, fake and salacious news will always be irresponsibly spread — just look at the tabloid industry. These fake news websites will just keep making shit up as long as there's money to be had. So I think infamous criminal Willie Sutton had a better idea: "Go where the money is."
If we want fake news to stop misinforming the public, the most efficient way to do that is stop them from making a small fortune off feeding us bullshit. And the best way to do that is to report every website you find that peddles fake news to the people paying them.
While Google and Facebook have both said they are banning fake news websites from their advertising platforms, both companies are famously opaque about how they plan to execute their plans and most publishers don't make any money off Facebook.
The two biggest sources of income for fake news websites are:
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Buzzfeed, Daily Dot, The New York Times and The Washington Post have recently done feature stories on fake news sites like WorldPoliticus.com, BVANews.com,LibertyWritersNews.com, ABCNews.com.co and 70News.Wordpress.com (a Wordpress.com domain name apparently isn't enough of a tip-off that this isn't a legitimate news source) that are making tens of thousands of dollars per month by focusing on fake stories that accomplish two things:
#1: Make potential readers mad enough to click the headline
and
#2: Share said fake news with their friends
So far, the focus has been on stopping fake news stories from going viral via crackdowns by Facebook's news algorithm and Google search, and also taking more individual responsibility for what you read and share, which CNN's Brian Stelter dubbed, "Refuse to be confused."
While that's certainly an admirable call to action, fake and salacious news will always be irresponsibly spread — just look at the tabloid industry. These fake news websites will just keep making shit up as long as there's money to be had. So I think infamous criminal Willie Sutton had a better idea: "Go where the money is."
If we want fake news to stop misinforming the public, the most efficient way to do that is stop them from making a small fortune off feeding us bullshit. And the best way to do that is to report every website you find that peddles fake news to the people paying them.
While Google and Facebook have both said they are banning fake news websites from their advertising platforms, both companies are famously opaque about how they plan to execute their plans and most publishers don't make any money off Facebook.
The two biggest sources of income for fake news websites are:
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Quote Of The Day 11-23-16
"Without deviation, without exception, without any ifs, buts, or whereases, freedom of speech means that you shall not do something to people either for the views they express, or the words they speak or write."
-- Justice Hugo L. Black
(1886-1971) US Supreme Court Justice
(1886-1971) US Supreme Court Justice
Indian River School District referendum fails in close vote
The district reports it's effort to raise an additional $7.4 million lost by a razor thin 30-vote margin – with 3,321 for and 3,351 against. The state Elections Department website reports an even closer unofficial vote of 3,321 for and 3,341 against - a mere 20 vote difference.
The plan sought to increase taxes 49 cents per $100 of assessed property value, which District officials said would have added $95 a year to the average taxpayer’s bill.
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Save the Date - Breakfast with Santa!
SAVE THE DATE!
BREAKFAST WITH SANTA
Sunday, December 11th
8 AM - 12 PM
Happy Jack Pancake House
26th Street Oceanside, Ocean City, MD 21842
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Come One ... Come All ... To Enjoy:
Breakfast & Photos with Santa & Mrs. Claus
(Attendees receive a complimentary framed photo)
Holiday Activities
Ornament Making, Coloring & More!
The only cost is one of the best Breakfast's in town from Happy Jack's extensive menu.
And ... Santa says if you bring in an unwrapped gift for a local child in need, you'll receive $1 off Breakfast!
~ Breakfast proceeds benefit United Way of the Lower Eastern Shore ~
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Be sure to visit the:
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"Has Some People Questioning The School's Stability"
I wonder, just who is/are "SOME PEOPLE"?
More fabricated news.
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