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• Alberta budget 2018: Read the NDP's entire fiscal plan here

  22-03-2018 23:43 via edmontonjournal.com
  Read the NDP’s 2018 budget. Full coverage here.View this document on Scribd
  
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• Hepatitis A alert issued after Grey Nuns hospital cafeteria worker tests positive

  22-03-2018 23:39 via edmontonjournal.com
  Health officials warned Thursday that people who ate food at the Grey Nuns Community Hospital during the last two months could have been exposed to hepatitis A.
  The caution came after a food worker at the hospital cafeteria was confirmed to have the liver disease, spread primarily by direct contact with someone who’s infected or by consuming contaminated products.
  “Hepatitis A is rare. It’s not common in Alberta, but we do see cases now and again, often travel acquired,”
  
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• Editorial: Budget a leap of faith

  22-03-2018 23:12 via edmontonjournal.com
  Remember when the Alberta government planned its yearly budgets based entirely on the projected price of a barrel of oil, a forecast considered to be dubious at best?
  Who could have known we might look back on those budgets as the good, old days of grounded fiscal planning, now that the province is banking its record $56.2-billion blueprint on a sweeping set of even shakier assumptions.
  To start, Finance Minister Joe Ceci is relying heavily on the Trans Mountain pipeline to bring Alberta’s
  
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• Man shot by Edmonton police handed 4-1/2-year sentence

  22-03-2018 23:08 via edmontonjournal.com
  A man who attempted “suicide by cop” while brandishing a rifle in a busy intersection was handed a 4-1/2 year sentence in provincial court Thursday.
  Glenn Justin Ironchild, 37, had earlier pleaded guilty to five charges related to the events on March 14, 2017, that led to him being shot by an Edmonton police officer.
  Ironchild admitted to possession of a firearm without a licence, using a rifle in a careless manner, pointing a firearm, possession of a firearm while being prohibited f
  
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• Lord Strathcona’s Horse (Royal Canadians) celebrate centennial of Battle of Moreuil Wood

  22-03-2018 23:06 via edmontonjournal.com
  A contingent of 75 soldiers from Lord Strathcona’s Horse (Royal Canadians) will travel to France next week to help commemorate the Battle of Moreuil Wood, Canada’s last cavalry charge during the First World War. 
  Ceremonial mounted soldiers will re-enact the charge on horseback at the wood line itself and will take part in a parade and commemoration ceremony March 30 marking the 100th anniversary of the battle that helped turned the tide against the Germans.
  Lt.-Col. Mark L
  
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• Alberta Budget 2018: NDP aims to erase deficit by 2023 as debt climbs to $96 billion

  22-03-2018 23:06 via edmontonjournal.com
  A balanced budget in Alberta is still five years away, the provincial government said Thursday as it unveiled a spending plan that forecasts debt ballooning to $96 billion by 2023.
  The 2018 provincial budget, unveiled in the legislature Thursday afternoon by Finance Minister Joe Ceci, points to an oil price shock that continues to linger.
  Alberta’s deficit is expected to be $8.8 billion in the coming year, though the province’s economy is set to grow by around 2.7 per cent in that sa
  
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• Graham Thomson: NDP's $96 billion long-term debt stings

  22-03-2018 22:29 via edmontonjournal.com
  Here is the Alberta government’s new budget boiled down to one four-letter word: Ouch.
  Or expressed as a number: $96 billion.
  You won’t actually find that number in the budget documents released Thursday but that’s the number everybody was talking about.
  It is the amount of debt the province will have accumulated by 2023, the year the government expects to finally balance the budget.
  Think of it this way: the good news is the NDP government has finally unveiled its plan to grad
  
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• Cappies reviews: She Loves Me

  22-03-2018 21:02 via edmontonjournal.com
  By Mark Jones
  Jasper Place High School
  “They like each other very much? Don’t you think we should tell them?”
  Georg Nowack and Amalia Balash are constantly at one another’s throats while at work at a parfumerie, but they have more in common than they realize. Both Georg and Amalia are in love with someone they’ve never met, exchanging romantic letters and continually fretting that their real selves won’t match the expectation their words have created. When the
  
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• Hepatitis A alert after Grey Nuns Hospital cafeteria worker tests positive

  22-03-2018 20:39 via edmontonjournal.com
  A cafeteria worker at the Grey Nuns Hospital with a confirmed case of hepatitis A is prompting a public alert by Alberta Health Services.
  Patients, visitors and staff who consumed food from the cafeteria between Feb. 26 and March 10, and March 13 to 18,  or in-patients who ate food delivered to their rooms on Feb. 26 and 27, or March 1, 3, 4, 7 and 15 may have been exposed to hepatitis A, warns a news release on Thursday.
  “While we believe the risk to the public is low, hepatitis A is
  
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• Oilers insider with stern message about Jesse Puljujarvi: "Keep the chain pretty tight around the neck"

  22-03-2018 19:07 via edmontonjournal.com
  Game Day 74 Oilers vs Senators
  This in from former Edmonton Oilers ace scorer, asst. coach and Hockey Night in Canada broadcaster Craig Simpson some critical words about young Oilers forward Jesse Puljujarvi.
  Speaking on the Oil’s handling of Puljujarvi on Oilers Now — which sees Puljujarvi getting third line minutes and no first team power play time — Simpson supported the current approach: “I’m not worried about the way he’s being handled… Not to
  
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• Oilers insider with stern message for Jesse Puljujarvi: "Be a man to look at your opportunity you have to really set your career on fire"

  22-03-2018 18:23 via edmontonjournal.com
  Game Day 74 Oilers vs Senators
  This in from former Edmonton Oilers ace scorer, asst. coach and Hockey Night in Canada broadcaster Craig Simpson some critical words about young Oilers forward Jesse Puljujarvi.
  Speaking on the Oil’s handling of Puljujarvi on Oilers Now — which sees Puljujarvi getting third line minutes and no first team power play time — Simpson supported the current approach: “I’m not worried about the way he’s being handled… Not to
  
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• Edmonton police seek Atlanta man who may have witnessed city's latest homicide

  22-03-2018 18:20 via edmontonjournal.com
  Homicide detectives are trying to locate an American man who they believe may have witnessed a killing at an Edmonton apartment earlier this month. 
  Investigators are hoping to speak with 19-year-old Andrew Nicolous Barnett, 19, of Atlanta, Ga. 
  Police said in a news release that Barnett was visiting Edmonton and may have been in the suite before or during the killing of 39-year-old Marlon Jair Nunez. 
  Southwest division patrol officers were called by concerned family members to a
  
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• Cappies reviews: The Addams Family Musical

  22-03-2018 18:15 via edmontonjournal.com
  By Nancy Skorobohach
  Strathcona Christian Academy
  The birth of a new relationship between humour and horror was witnessed at Blessed Oscar Romero’s production of The Addams Family Musical. Previously only acquaintances, the two became almost indistinguishable through various aspects of the darkly comedic musical.
  Written by Marshall Brickman and Rick Elice, and featuring music and lyrics by Andrew Lippa, the musical premiered on Broadway in 2010 and is directly based on the comics by Charl
  
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• Fort McMurray man charged after 31 kilos of cocaine seized at border

  22-03-2018 17:58 via edmontonjournal.com
  A Fort McMurray man has been charged after the Canadian Border Services Agency seized 31 kilograms of cocaine at the Carway border crossing.
  The man, who was returning from the United States, was arrested after his car was searched on March 17. He was then turned over to the RCMP.
  “The CBSA in southern Alberta remains vigilant in intercepting illicit drugs and working with partners to fight organized crime; we have now seized more than 150 kg of suspected cocaine over the past four months.
  
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• Edmonton's first supervised drug consumption site unveiled

  22-03-2018 17:26 via edmontonjournal.com
  Edmonton’s first supervised consumption site will be open for use on Friday at 8:30 am.
  On Thursday, media were given a tour of the Boyle Street community services consumption site, which will have space for intake for five people at a time.
  These are desperately needed health services that will ensure that drug users battling serious mental and substance use issues have access to sterile and supervised consumption facilities, said a news release.
  
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• Wildlife: Ex-pat singer Kapri adds even more Edmonton flavour to Juno Awards

  22-03-2018 17:00 via edmontonjournal.com
  Edmonton is represented by a number of faces at Sunday night’s Juno Awards in Vancouver. For example, soul singer Ruth B — who won Breakthrough Artist of the Year in 2017 — is up for an impressive nomination hat trick of best artist, best album and best pop album. The dependably awesome Nuela Charles, meanwhile, is up for adult contemporary album for The Grand Hustle. And Europe-touring metalheads Striker are in the race for the metal/hard album award, as they should be.
  But a
  
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• Alberta band High Valley's barn-dance sound nominated for Juno and country music awards

  22-03-2018 17:00 via edmontonjournal.com
  Brad Rempel of High Valley is checking in from England.
  His group is overseas playing Northern Europe and the U.K., then flying over to Australia before making its way back to North America, and the singer-songwriter is just grappling with the news that the La Crete, Alberta, duo are in the running for New Vocal Duo or Group of the Year at the Academy of Country Music Awards, and Country Album of the Year (Dear Life) at this year’s Junos, which take place on March 24.
  The Academy of C
  
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• 10 things to do in Edmonton this week: Charley Pride, Jeff Dunham and Our Lady Peace

  22-03-2018 17:00 via edmontonjournal.com
  Charley Pride
  The indefatigable Charley Pride is back for his yearly visit, bringing us such classic easy listening country songs as Kiss An Angel Good Mornin’, Hope You’re Feelin’ Me, and Is Anybody Goin’ to San Antone. The 83-year-old legend is still in good voice and diligently releases albums, his most recent being last year’s Music in My Heart. He’s one of the last of the ’60s crew, so don’t make the mistake of thinking you’ll catch him
  
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• Emergency training exercise at Edmonton International Airport

  22-03-2018 15:27 via edmontonjournal.com
  The Edmonton International Airport, RCMP, Leduc County, the City of Leduc and Alberta Health Services are conducting emergency training this morning. 
  Running from 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. the training will simulate an aircraft emergency with loud noises and smoke as well as heavy emergency services activity. 
  EIA is that this training will not affect airport operations.
  
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• Tennis a direct route to well-being on the cusp of 60

  22-03-2018 15:14 via edmontonjournal.com
  I am here to tell you a tiny, triumphant tale. At the age of 58, with painful arthritis in my feet and an insulting variety of aches and injuries elsewhere, I have taken up the startlingly difficult game of tennis.
  It’s going very well. And not because I have turned into an athlete soon to be sweeping my age group at a master’s tournament somewhere, the subject of awe, having trimmed and toned and developed a six-pack even as I approach 60. 
  No. It’s going well because pla
  
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• Edmonton weather: Winter not done with us yet

  22-03-2018 15:08 via edmontonjournal.com
  With a high of 1 C today and the winds coming at us at 30km/h, Environment Canada is predicting more snow. 
  As of now, there is a snowfall warning in effect for Edmonton, St. Albert and Sherwood Park with winds reaching 50km/h.
  Winter’s dandruff is predicted to start falling in the afternoon and carry on into the night with predictions of anywhere between 10-15 cm of heavy snow coming down. 
  Over eastern and central areas of the province, strong winds with gusts to
  
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• Get Ready to Dig In! 2018

  22-03-2018 14:53
  Horticulinary festival celebrates the benefits of locally grown food    The City of St. Albert, in partnership with Hole’s Greenhouses, will... Read Post
  
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• Alberta Budget 2018 expected to reveal road map to balanced books

  22-03-2018 14:30 via edmontonjournal.com
  Albertans will know exactly how much of a deficit the province is facing and what the path to balanced books look like when Budget 2018 is unveiled Thursday afternoon in Edmonton. 
  Finance Minister Joe Ceci’s last few fiscal updates have been growing steadily more optimistic as Alberta leaves the recession behind. 
  The third-quarter finances presented in February saw the projected deficit shrink by $1.4 billion and jobs continue to grow. 
  But the province remains awash in re
  
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• Thursday's letters: Bridge's upper deck is best for streetcars

  22-03-2018 13:00 via edmontonjournal.com
  Enough imagining what a view people could get from strolling on top of the High Level bridge.
  I cannot believe how many of these imaginative people have so much tunnel vision when it comes to plans for the top of the High Level. Less than 10 feet below the top of the High Level is the top of a multi-million dollar fence barricade to deter people from jumping off the bridge.
  Are these visionaries oblivious to the fence barricades? Do they think that it’s too pretty or too high to jump from
  
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• Opinion: Alberta needs to face the new reality of 'lower-forever' oil prices

  22-03-2018 13:00 via edmontonjournal.com
  The problem with luck is that after 40 years, it stops feeling like luck and starts feeling like the norm.
  Such is the case with Alberta.
  For most of the past four decades, conservative governments have gambled on the price of oil, relying heavily on non-renewable resource revenue to fund our provincial operating budget. We’ve maintained pan-Canadian standards on public services while conservative governments recklessly slashed taxes on wealthy people and corporations, betting on the unpre
  
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• Editorial: Attack the plan, not the man

  22-03-2018 13:00 via edmontonjournal.com
  Give credit — but not full marks — to Advanced Education Minister Marlin Schmidt for thrusting the issue of post-secondary finances onto the front page. The affordability of a post-secondary education should be on any government’s agenda, especially one that harps as much as the NDP on the importance of a smart and skilled workforce in diversifying the economy.
  On Monday, Schmidt slammed the University of Alberta board of governors’ decision Friday to trim four per cent o
  
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• First woman to become an Edmonton firefighter celebrates 30 years on the job

  22-03-2018 10:00 via edmontonjournal.com
  Shirley Benson, Edmonton Fire Rescue Services District Chief, will be celebrating 30 years with EFRS in July.
  When Benson began her career in 1988, she was the first female firefighter in Western Canada, and just the second in the country. Last month, Benson became the first woman in department history to be promoted to district chief. 
  Today, she is officially the longest serving woman on a professional fire service in the country.
  As much as Benson is proud of her pioneer status, par
  
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• Animal welfare group petitions Edmonton International Airport to stop flying horses to slaughter

  22-03-2018 10:00 via edmontonjournal.com
  An animal welfare group is asking the Edmonton International Airport to stop sending live horses to Japan for slaughter.
  An airport spokeswoman said all guidelines are being adhered to, but passengers and cargo are not within the airport’s jurisdiction.
  “We don’t have jurisdiction over who or what gets on the airplane,” Traci Bednard said Wednesday.
  An online petition from Voice for Animals that has amassed close to 80,000 signatures is trying to shut down the airpor
  
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• Philadelphia Flyers won Cooper Marody deal with Edmonton Oilers, Philly writer says

  22-03-2018 07:27 via edmontonjournal.com
  This in from Tim Dougherty of NBC Sports Philadelphia, his take that the Philadelphia Flyers won today’s trade that saw the Edmonton Oilers acquire NCAA hockey player Cooper Marody for a third round pick in the 2019 draft.
  His argument?
  “One, he was a 2015 sixth-round draft pick with little NHL upside. Essentially, this boils down to a sixth-round pick netting you a third-rounder, which has a higher probability of hitting. Two, the Flyers’ pipeline is loaded with forwards, and
  
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• Homicide detectives called to investigate northeast scene

  22-03-2018 05:10 via edmontonjournal.com
  Homicide detectives were called to investigate a scene in northeast Edmonton on Wednesday night. 
  “This is an ongoing missing persons investigation and investigators were examining a scene at that location earlier today,” Edmonton police spokeswoman Patrycja Mokrzan said in an emailed statement.
  A large white tent covered the ground behind a car wash, a real-estate agent’s office and an office space for lease at 162 Avenue and 51 Street. A generator hummed and propane tank
  
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• Paula Simons: Cabinet minister's attack raises fear University of Alberta 'going to be punished'

  22-03-2018 04:06 via edmontonjournal.com
  What on Earth was he thinking? 
  On Monday, Advanced Education Minister Marlin Schmidt engaged in a nasty drive-by smear of University of Alberta president David Turpin, all but publicly accusing him of unethical behaviour.
  “It’s concerning to me to see the president lining his own pockets while he’s cutting money being spent on classrooms and students,” Schmidt told my colleague Emma Graney.
  It was an extraordinary personal attack on the integrity of a public servan
  
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• Company at centre of Domtar contamination controversy fights back

  22-03-2018 02:50 via edmontonjournal.com
  The company leading the redevelopment of a former wood treatment site in northeast Edmonton is fighting back against Alberta government actions that has led some area residents to worry about their health and plunging property values.
  Cherokee Canada Inc. delivered letters Wednesday to more than 100 properties in a yet-to-be-finished subdivision constructed on a portion of the old Domtar industrial lands just north of Yellowhead Trail near 44 Street. 
  “We are confident your community
  
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• West LRT will take out businesses, heritage homes, trees and clog roads, residents say

  22-03-2018 02:48 via edmontonjournal.com
  The west LRT plan will hurt communities and businesses far more than it helps, said most of the 46 speakers Wednesday protesting what was promised as a low-impact line integrated with the neighbourhood.
  The line as proposed could shutter more than 35 businesses and a dozen private homes along the tracks. That’s in addition to roughly 20 businesses and a three-storey apartment building threatened by a proposed underpass at 149 Street.
  “I believe in progress, but not at this
  
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• Edmonton Galleria Foundation suspends $850-million project

  22-03-2018 02:05 via edmontonjournal.com
  The Edmonton Galleria Foundation board is suspending development of the downtown project.
  The $850-million Galleria — a performing arts facility earmarked for the Quarters – didn’t reach its milestones, despite support from the city, board vice-president Jim Brown said in a news release Wednesday evening.
  The project was supposed to be funded through the development of income-producing real estate.
  More to come
  
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• Paula Simons: Pride or Prejudice?: The Vriend Decision at 20

  22-03-2018 02:00 via edmontonjournal.com
  This spring marks the 20th anniversary of the Vriend decision, the Supreme Court of Canada ruling which held that no government had the right to discriminate against someone on the basis of sexual orientation.
  Delwin Vriend was a lab instructor at an Edmonton Christian college, fired for being gay. The Alberta Human Rights Commission refused to hear his case. But on April 2, 1998, the Supreme Court ruled unanimously that it was unconstitutional for the province to refuse to protect the rights o
  
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• Cop who shot him was just doing his job, says man who threatened motorists with rifle

  22-03-2018 01:07 via edmontonjournal.com
  A man who attempted “suicide by cop” while brandishing a rifle in a busy intersection told court Wednesday the police officer who shot him was just doing his job to protect the public.
  During a sentencing hearing in provincial court, Glenn Ironchild apologized for pointing a gun at motorists and police in the intersection of 137 Avenue and 50 Street on March 14, 2017. 
  Court heard he’d gone to the intersection with the intent of provoking police to kill him. According to a
  
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• Graham Thomson: Of provincial budgets, shadow budgets and shadows of shadow budgets

  22-03-2018 00:53 via edmontonjournal.com
  Snap quiz:
  Let’s say you earn $45 billion a year, but you spend $55 billion a year, how do you make up the $10-billion shortfall?Borrow.
  Raise taxes.
  Cut spending.
  Pray for the price of oil to rise.
  Pray for construction of an oil pipeline to tidewater.
  Do all of the above plus slam your opponents as climate change deniers who would lay off nurses and slash government services by 20 per cent.Welcome to budget day in Alberta.
  On Thursday afternoon, Finance Minister Joe Ceci will release the
  
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• Edmonton weather: Snowfall warning issued for Edmonton

  22-03-2018 00:39 via edmontonjournal.com
  Spring will have to wait.
  Environment Canada issued a snowfall warning for Edmonton and area on Wednesday.
  Snowfall amounts of 10 to 15 centimetres are expected to reach west central regions of Alberta, tracking northeastward across Edmonton through the evening and into Friday. 
  Wet, heavy snow is projected to make the Friday morning commute difficult, Environment Canada warned, while also adding it was still uncertain as to how much snow would fall over the region.
  Forecast
  Tonight: Cloudy
  
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• Accused planned to kill girlfriend, but shot her friend instead, prosecutors allege

  22-03-2018 00:24 via edmontonjournal.com
  Prosecutors argued a man on trial for first-degree murder meant to shoot his girlfriend, but instead killed her friend, during closing arguments Wednesday.
  Lenny Lavallee, 34, is charged in the 2016 shooting death of Nicole Leanne Cooney, 30.
  While making closing submissions for the Crown in a trial that began March 5, prosecutor Aleisha Bartier outlined the Crown’s theory: that Lavallee’s real target was his girlfriend, Cooney’s friend Theresa Butler.
  Bartier said during Laval
  
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• Opposition parties weigh in ahead of Budget 2018

  22-03-2018 00:14 via edmontonjournal.com
  Opposition lawmakers aren’t holding their breath for Thursday’s provincial budget, which the NDP promised will include a path to balance in 2023. 
  “I’m hoping the government finally wakes up and smells the coffee and has a credible plan to eliminate the deficit, balance the budget and begin repaying the debt,” said United Conservative Party Leader Jason Kenney, adding he doubts that will be the case.
  Finance Minister Joe Ceci said Tuesday the government is rely
  
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