Monday Madness…”Stick ‘em where it hurts”
Posted by Michelle Moquin on October 17th, 2011
October is Breast Cancer Awareness Month
Good morning!
After 25 years with Wells Fargo, and other “big banks’, two years ago I left and took my business to smaller community banks. Perhaps now is the time to do the same same if you haven’t already.
Community Bank To Pay Customers To Open Accounts In Response To BofA’s Fees
While many banking giants are starting to charge fees for debit card use and other once-free services on checking accounts, one regional bank is doing exactly the opposite.
Southwest, Florida-based Community Bank is offering customers $5 per month to open a checking account, Bradenton.com reports. The payment is a direct response to big banks that have recently announced a slew of fees that they’ll be charging their customers.
“We needed to do something to help consumers who are under attack from behemoth national banks charging fees that just don’t make sense,” Katie Pembles, Community Bank president told Bradenton.com in an interview. “People have a choice of where to bank, and at Community Bank, we thought paying people $5 per month rather than charging them $5 per month was a good way to set us apart.”
Bank of America announced last month that it would charge customers a $5 fee to use their debit cards starting in 2012. Wells Fargo said in August that it would start testing a $3 debit card fee this fall and Citibank announced that they would start charging certain mid-level customers up to $20 per month for low account balances.
Bank of America CEO Brian Moynihan and other banking officials have said that the new fees are necessary for the banks to recoup revenue that they’ll lose as a result of the new Dodd-Frank regulations that cap the fees banks can charge merchants for debit card swipes, among other things.
President Barack Obama slammed the big banks for charging the fees, saying that customers are being “mistreated.”
If the outrage on Twitter following Bank of America’s announcement is any indication, Community Bank’s offer may convince consumers to open and account with them. Credit unions have already gotten a boost from the big bank fees; Navy Federal Credit Union said new account openings were more than 20 percent higher than normal the weekend after Bank of America announced the fees.
Readers: Aren’t you just sick of the big banks? Now is the time to do something. Stick ‘em where it hurts before they stick you. Make the switch.
AH: How fun. Your adventures always seem so exciting.
ZL: Sounds like you had a wonderful and special birthday with your fave peeps! I’m craving those cookies myself.
PS: My blog was down last night, so I am assuming it was down for most of you too. Obviously I am able to post this morning…Let’s HOPE you can read this….and blog me. :)
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October 17th, 2011 at 11:13 am
Hi Misch, well I’ll have to call ‘Sauce’ and see if they have them all the time…Bret, when you’re there check it out, it’s off the beach on 2nd street, try the quinoa with seasonal veggies and the kale with carmelized onion, mix the 2 together and you’ll be in heaven, either that or any of their brekkie dishes are excellent. I’m up there most weekends Sat/Sun, sometimes both : ) doing beach yoga, you can’t miss this group at lifeguard station #29, if you see me feel free to say hi.
I love this banks attitude, might need to notify my small community bank and see if they’ll pay me to bank with them, but I already do and I’m happy with them.
Luv, Zen Lill
October 17th, 2011 at 11:58 am
New York’s planned eviction of thousands of “Occupy Wall Street” protesters from Zuccotti Park by Mayor Michael Bloomberg — effectively evicting the “Occupy Wall Street” demonstrators this morning, was cancelled. After massive public pressure Protestors can stay!
Mayor Bloomberg was aiming for a “temporary cleaning” of the park which would have evicted thousands and slowed the momentum gained by the “Occupy Wall Street” protesters.
Over 300,000 people showed solidarity by signing the MoveOn’s internet petition — telling Mayor Bloomberg not to go forward with his planned 7am eviction from Zuccotti Park. This petition was delivered last night and the New York Mayor allowed the protesters to stay.
Public pressure did the trick. We are the 99% Majority in this country. If together, we stand our ground, we will always win against the minority.
This is how we can win back our Country so that everyone is treated fairly — Rich, Middle Class, and poor alike.
HOWIE
October 17th, 2011 at 1:09 pm
DRY, WRINKLED FRUIT… STRONG BONES
Prunes… it’s not a particularly pleasant word nor a particularly pretty food, but I think these dark, wrinkly dried fruits are in the process of getting a facelift.
Not only are marketers trying to make prunes more appealing by rebranding them as “dried plums” (which is what they are, of course),
but the US Department of Agriculture (USDA) has funded some impressive research that puts muscle behind the makeover, cataloging a long enough list of nutritional benefits that prunes now can be considered a real “superfood.”
The newest study, from Florida State University, finds that including prunes in your daily diet offers powerful protection against both osteoporosis and bone fracture.
SWEET PROTECTION FOR YOUR BONES
Prunes are amazingly good at strengthening bones, said the study’s lead author, Bahram H. Arjmandi, PhD, RD, chairman of Florida State’s department of nutrition, food and exercise sciences in its College of Human Sciences.
Having studied how various fruits, including figs, raisins and strawberries, affect bone health, Dr. Arjmandi said that prunes are uniquely helpful in preventing and/or reversing osteoporosis.
That’s because they contain compounds that help suppress the natural process of bone breakdown more technically known as resorption — which is a big issue for older people since bone breakdown tends to exceed the rate of new bone growth as people age.
“Yes, you can take medication to make your bones stronger,” Dr. Arjmandi said, “but I don’t think you can compete with nature in producing anything that is as effective in promoting bone health, while also being healthy in other ways, as prunes are.”
This is some pretty dramatic talk — so let’s look closely at the study.
It spanned one year and involved 236 women who were one to 10 years postmenopausal, either nonsmokers or who smoked 20 cigarettes per day or less, did not have any metabolic diseases and were not taking hormone replacement medication or any other medication that could influence bone health.
For the study, half of the women ate 100 grams of prunes (about 10 prunes) each day, while the control group ate 75 grams of dried apple (equal to about two fresh apples, and comparable to the amount of calories, carbohydrates, fat and fiber in 100 grams of prunes). Participants’ diets remained the same as normal otherwise.
Additionally, everyone in the study took daily doses of calcium (500 milligrams) and vitamin D (400 international units), as do many women.
After a year, a standard bone density x-ray of the ulna (one of two long bones in the forearm) and spine showed that, on average, the women who had been eating the prunes… er, dried plums… had significantly increased bone mineral density compared with their measured levels before eating prunes.
The women who had been eating dried apples, on the other hand, did not lose any bone density during the year of the study, as would have been expected, and their bones showed a slight increase in bone density —
indicating that apples are also slightly bone protective, but not to the extent that prunes are. Other bones were measured, but the most dramatic changes were in the ulna and spine –
which is gratifying because the ulna and spine are the two major fracture sites linked to osteoporosis.
LEARN TO LOVE PRUNES
So, what is it about prunes that helps bones? First, they are unusually high in several types of phytonutrients including the antioxidants neochlorogenic acid and chlorogenic acid, which have been shown to prevent bone loss.
Prunes contain larger amounts of boron than most other fruits, and boron helps preserve bone mineral density by modulating bone and calcium metabolism.
Prunes also contain iron and potassium, important for blood and heart health.
The women in the study were asked to eat 10 prunes a day, which may be difficult for someone unaccustomed to eating prunes.
But Dr. Arjmandi reckons that eating as few as three prunes a day will have important health benefits. I wondered whether all the sugar in prunes caused any problems –
he told me that the glycemic index of prunes is about 27, among the lowest of all fruits, and that none of the women gained any weight during the study (which, he said, could be because prunes contain so much fiber).
He added that prunes (unlike other dried fruits) don’t contain sulfites — good news for the many folks who are allergic to this common preservative.
To prevent mold and yeast spoilage, the preservative potassium sorbate, which is generally regarded as safe and is unlikely to cause allergic reactions, is used.
But anyone who wants to avoid it can find prunes that are preservative-free in health-food stores and online.
And what about the laxative effect so often attributed to prunes? They have lots of fiber, including insoluble fiber, which Dr. Arjmandi said makes them exceptionally good at helping to keep the gastrointestinal (GI) system healthy.
“Forgetting about the bones for a minute,” he said, “prunes are really great for digestive health. It’s something people may not want to hear about so much, but the truth is, the health of the entire body depends on the health of the GI system.”
While drinking prune juice certainly can make the bowels move — quickly — Dr. Arjmandi said that eating dried prunes doesn’t have the same effect.
Personally, I like prunes — they’re chewy and sweet but not overwhelmingly sweet like dates, and they have an earthy tartness that I enjoy.
I snack on them straight from the box, and I also like them chopped up and mixed with nuts or chopped into salads.
There are also some really tasty main courses, such as chicken Marbella, that are made with prunes… you can get some unique and delicious recipes by looking online at http://www.CaliforniaDriedPlums.org/recipes.
Source(s):
Bahram H. Arjmandi, PhD, RD, Margaret A. Sitton Professor and chair, Nutrition, Food, and Exercise Sciences, College of Human Sciences, The Florida State University, Tallahassee, Florida.
October 17th, 2011 at 1:26 pm
this is a test to see if I can post to this blog
October 17th, 2011 at 1:29 pm
I see you got on Ira. My time.
October 17th, 2011 at 5:55 pm
The author of this story is a precocious young incendiary named Mickey. That is not his real name; his father threatened to sue me if I used any real names.
I am not one to be intimidated so let’s call the lad Mickey and say that he attends Lake Academy, a private school in New York. The name of the school will remain unnamed.
Mickey is 10 years old, a superior scholar and well behaved except for a tendency to set things on fire. His parents are unable to keep matches out of his hands.
He has set his own house afire three times, burned down his father’s tool shed, and started a grass fire that spread over several hundred acres before it could be stopped.
After a series of consultations the parents and the head master of Lake Academy decided to try a psychological approach to the problem. The headmaster set the plan in motion. One day the pupils in Mickey’s class were told to write compositions on the subject “The Boy Who Started Fires.”
As soon as all the papers had been turned in they were quietly shunted over to the headmaster’s office. All of them, except Mickey’s condemned the practice of arson by the young lad.
One even went so far as o conclude: “Any boy that starts a fire ought to be burned up there self.”
Mickey’s composition was different. He wrote:
THE BOY WHO STARTED FIRES
Once there was a boy who started fires. People put them out so he started some more. People put them out.
One day he said he was sick because he had some matchs and couldent go to school. So he crep over to Lake Academy and put some careseen on some rags and burnd the whole school up.
Mr. Carrol was burnd up & Mr willims was burn up also all the teachers but not Mr Peck the ainter all though he was badley scortched. It was very sad for some people.
October 17th, 2011 at 6:09 pm
Michelle, this is creepy. Sometimes I can access you blog, others it says Safari can’t locate the server. What’s up?
The odd thing is if I shut down(not restart) my computer it will then locate your site.
I’m perplexed.
Henry
October 17th, 2011 at 6:11 pm
She was a model student and a star athlete – an honest young woman in her final year at a private Christian high school, The Master’s School, in Connecticut.
But when school administrators asked her about her sexual orientation, she answered courageously and honestly that she is a lesbian.
And then those same administrators told her to withdraw or she would be kicked out.
Lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT) students across the country are back in school, many facing bullying from peers.
The last thing these students need is a school administration that refuses to protect them from unfair treatment.
Thousands of equality supporters like you have already sent letters to officials at The Master’s School calling on them to make it right and protect all of their students. Will you send a letter now, too?
October 17th, 2011 at 6:12 pm
Mitt Romney’s campaign may have to make two decisions in the coming months that could decide the fate of his campaign.
First, Romney, who is trailing the “Main Street” businessman Herman Cain in some national and state polls in Iowa, South Carolina and Florida, must decide if Cain is his biggest foe or greatest ally.
Romney’s decision may be dependent on how well Texas Gov. Rick Perry does in the next month.
If Perry fades, Cain may emerge as Romney’s chief rival.
On the other hand, if Perry regains his footing as the chief anti-Romney alternative, Cain may help Romney split the anti-Romney vote to ensure that Romney gets a plurality of the votes needed in various states to lock up the nomination.
In Iowa, Romney will also have to decide if it would be worth actively campaigning there as his poll numbers show him either in the lead or within striking distance.
If Romney were to openly campaign, he could open himself up to being wounded if the gamble fails and thereby lose Iowa.
On the other hand, if Romney continues to not openly contest Iowa, a second place finish or even a “miraculous” win (keep in mind that Romney came in second in Iowa in 2008 and the 30,000 people who caucused for him then may well do so again this time around) will be that much more impressive in the conventional and mainstream narrative.
In many ways, Romney’s Iowa calculus mirrors his path to the nomination. He’s a weak front-runner—nearly 70% of the party seems to be against him. But so long as that 70% of the anti-Romney vote does not unite around a single anti-Romney alternative, Romney will remain in the catbird’s seat.
— Tony Lee
October 17th, 2011 at 6:25 pm
More than 70,000 people are said to have fled violence in Sudan’s South Kordofan state, where the government says it is disarming rebels.
The region borders South Sudan, a largely Christian and animist region, which is due to gain independence from the mostly Arabic-speaking, Muslim north on 9 July.
There is concern about the humanitarian crisis and the alleged atrocities being committed. The area has effectively been cut off by the military and not much has been heard from people in the area.
One aid worker who has just left the region told the BBC’s Will Ross about his experiences:
It is terrifying. The civilians try to hide but generally they run in panic and hence, sadly, there are many casualties who die because of shrapnel. There are bombings and shellings every day in different areas.
There is a plane called an Antonov which circles high in the sky and keeps coming over. Then there is the whistle of the bombs as they fall.
You have a few seconds to run but you do not know if it is going to fall on you or not. The sounds of the explosions are huge and sometimes the craters they leave are five or six metres across.
The fighting comes ahead of South Sudan’s independence on 9 July Burning hot pieces of jagged metal, the shrapnel, go flying across the air and if you are not below the surface in a hole or a dug-out you are at huge risk.
‘Blood and flies’
Then there are the MiGs [planes] which come in very, very fast and low. These fire rockets and they are terrifying because they are on top of you before you know it. You have no warning.
They are very loud and so the terror that this incites in people, even if you survive these attacks, is enormous.
And when they sense that this is not an enemy from outside that is attacking, this is their own government, they just do not understand why this is happening”
They can continue for hours on end. You can imagine how awful that is for women and children and men, rural farmers who have no military background whatsoever. And when they sense that this is not an enemy from outside that is attacking, this is their own government, they just do not understand why this is happening.
There are so many poignant, heartbreaking stories.
A local farmer was lying on the floor of a hospital in enormous pain, with a large piece of shrapnel that had gone through his leg, with blood and flies over him. Again and again he was asking the same desperate questions: “Why is our president doing this to us? Why is he bombing us?”
He kept saying: “This is wrong”.
Then there was a young man who had fled a village that was attacked and when the SAF [northern] troops withdrew, he found to his horror that his wife and children had been abducted by the army.
With anguish in his voice he said he would rather have been killed than his wife and child taken.
“I don’t know what they will do to them, I don’t think I will see them again,” he said.
No less than 75,000 people have been displaced, and because the bombing and shelling is continuing, that number is probably going up every day.
This is not a war of north versus south – this is about a people within north Sudan who want a peaceful existence in the north just with social and economic opportunities and access to justice.
The Nuba, a large percentage of whom are Muslims, feel their future is with north Sudan.
The people of South Kordofan, both the Nuba and people from the nomadic Arab tribes, feel marginalised by Khartoum. They feel they are not granted basic human rights.
‘House-to-house executions’
The area offers a remarkable alternative vision of how Christian and Muslims and animists can live together. I have witnessed after Eid, the Christians bringing breakfast for their Muslim brothers and sisters, and at Christmas and Easter all the people from the mosque coming to say “congratulations”.
The African Union has called for an end to the fighting
But people there feel the government in the last few weeks has revealed it has no interest in allowing a political solution that gives rights to an alternative voice in the north, where there is religious tolerance and Christians and Muslims living together.
There is so much anguish. People say they don’t want war but they say until the policies of Khartoum change, they see no alternative.
They are asking for help from all northern Sudanese to come back from this madness and have a look at how to build a peaceful, tolerant society in the north.
We are getting very strong reports that house-to-house executions are going on by internal security forces where summary executions are taking place based on ethnicity, political affiliation and even how black you are.
These are civilians, intellectuals, teachers, community leaders, Muslims and Christians, and often they are killed by their throats being slit.
This may be only the beginning and it could well continue for many months and intensify. There is a complete lack of access –
we learnt that the only airstrip that was left had been bombed and we have heard the government of Sudan will shoot down UN flights operating in South Kordofan so humanitarian flights are no longer an option.
We know that there is no access from the north by road so we are looking at a population that is now effectively besieged – without access to services or humanitarian aid and who are under fire.
I fear the government has started these military operations to try to ensure that opposition voice is completely squashed before the 9 July, so that no thought of help of any sort could come from the south, knowing that the emerging republic of South Sudan would be very unwilling to get involved as it would endanger their independence.
The great majority of Nuba people that I have spoken to are very worried the Egyptian forces that make up a large percentage of the UN peacekeepers are not seen as sufficiently neutral.
Their cultural and religious background and their behaviour and attitude towards black Nuba people are unhelpful.
October 17th, 2011 at 6:25 pm
Emily, it sounds like young Mickey and his parents (who probably feel shame and embarrassment as well as denial, dad is clearly protecting his own name and not his son and other people’s children) need a major intervention soon, that’s a scary scenario waiting to be played out ala Columbine, perhaps you should arrange that with proper authorities?
Howie, I agree wholeheartedly, in theory, though now that the attention is there, some ‘leaders’ of the OWS need to meet with the T Club asap with directives on how to get it done, reform and change all clear cut for presenting, it’s ripe for the conversation now, people have taken it to the streets – done, now for the after-protest: the meeting with an agenda/timelines. I know I often am misunderstood here or use abbreviations/language no one gets, ‘cept me : ) so that’s the ‘Thursday out, Tuesday in’ club better known as our US congress…yep…so maybe this Wednesday would be a good day.
Ira, next time you try to get in, why not add in a comment/paragraph about what’s on your mind, just in case you do get in…like today…just a thought/suggestion.
Luv, Zen Lill
October 17th, 2011 at 8:48 pm
WASHINGTON — Presidential candidate Herman Cain swears he didn’t get the idea for his 999 tax plan from SimCity, but the makers of that video game are still having fun with the connection.
On Monday afternoon, Electronic Arts will be lowering the price of SimCity games on its website to $9.99 — a $10 discount — for a limited time.
It has also put out a video about the similarities between Cain’s plan and the default tax rates in the game SimCity 4, which were first noted by The Huffington Post.
“The team behind the famous city management game are having fun with this possible connection and have created this video in good natured fun,” said EA in a statement.
The video ponders the origins of Cain’s plan, with cameos by video game versions of President Barack Obama, Texas Gov. Rick Perry and former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney. Its final conclusion: “No, Mr. Cain. The 999 is a video game plan.”
In a video aired Friday night on “The Rachel Maddow Show,” a reporter asked Cain about the relationship between 999 and SimCity. “You said you had original ideas, successful people around you thinking ideas up,” the reporter said while questioning Cain about the plan. “Is it an original idea or modeled after a game?”
“It’s an original idea, and to people who say it’s modeled after a game — it’s a lie,” Cain said during a campaign stop in Tennessee. “That’s all I’m going to say. It is a lie. You see, that’s the difference when you become one or two in the polls. People make up stuff. That is a lie. I’m not going to take it back and not going to politically say, but unfortunately, that is not totally true. It’s a lie.”
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d58srfL7Ka8&feature=youtube_gdata_player
October 17th, 2011 at 10:15 pm
There are rumors that aliens are stealing manhole covers in Guam. They weight 125 pounds and they have no real commercial value.
Some citizens have testified that they saw a bunch of them rise up and disappear.
Howie, why would aliens need a thousand pounds of scrap iron?
Ohiru
October 17th, 2011 at 10:23 pm
My husband is such a hypocrite. He and his friends never miss one of those speedway races. They talk about the possibility of crashes in a wishful way before the races.
It is obvious that they go for the crashes. But when one happens they pretend to be so broken up about it.
Reading you blog Michelle made me realize that I live in a swamp. Here in Mississippi I live among the lowest from of white male specie.
My husband is a pig. A rich pig, but a pig none the less. The children I have born him are but sick racist beast. My son brags about raping a “gook.” His father laughs and ask if he used a condom?
It is just so sick! My daughters (2) want rich husbands so they cater to the mores of out class status. That makes them look the other way when the men abuse women of other races.
If I were not too old, I would beg you to make me a Girlz. I’m not sure that I believe in aliens, but your blog has saved my sanity and given me an awareness I would not have had otherwise.
Unfortunately, I can’t be happy here any longer knowing what I know.
Lois
October 18th, 2011 at 12:29 am
We are in 1887.
Poor Appalachian mountaineers are the last exponents of southern family feuding. And the 15 year war between the Hatfields and the McCoys makes the Montagues and the Capulets look like good neighbors.
The families took opposite sides during the Civil War (Hatfields, Confederates; McCloys, Unionist). In 1873 Randolph McCoy took Floyd Hatfield to trial for hog-stealing.
The jury half Hatfields, half McCoys deadlocked, until a McCoy married to a Hatfield voted with his in-laws.
From then on McCoys would not let their boys court Hatfield girls. Hatfields threatened to kill McCoys, and, at last a McCoy killed a Hatfield supporter who had made particularly vehement threats.
And with that war broke out. Anderson “Devil Anse” Hatfield is the most prominent general, commanding his troops from a mountain hide-out, with a deep-dug underground shelter below his shack.
Nobody knows how many people have been killedin the feud. The McCoys shoot hatfield Romeos from a distance if they meet with McCoy Juliets.
The Hatfields go in for large-scale reprislas, killing three McCoy hostages by rustic firing squad after an election-day dispute in 1882 led to the death of Devil Anse’s brother.
The wild, ragged, bearded mountain-men are expert with the long barreled rifle, and deadly but silent assassins with the long-bladed knife.
Since the Hatfields largely live in West Virginia and the McCoys are in a Kentucky family, the two states become embroiled whenever the McCoys appeal to their legislature to extradite Hatfields for murder.
The Hatfields resent the out-of-state law officers, who are more effective than native-both mountaineers in capturing feuders.
This year Anse hatfield mounted a massive raid on Randolph McCoys’ home to wipe out his enemies once and for all.
The gallant warriors succeeded in killing one McCoy man, and two women – Randolph’s wife and daughter. They also burned the house down.
This atrocity has brought Kentucky law enforcement officers in West Virginia for a determined drive against the Hatfields.
Those Appalachian residents who are not committed to one side or the other desperately hope that decimation of the Hatfields (who had substantially reduced the McCoy fighting forces) may cause the vendetta to wear itself out.
It’s no fun having your neighbors shootin’ each other up all the time!
AH
October 18th, 2011 at 12:34 am
My mistake, Bita reminded me that we had made love into 1888.
AH
October 18th, 2011 at 12:45 am
Lois:
Your husband belongs to a huge crowd of bigots and hypocrites. The white news media has been on a mission to sink Obama however they can.
They don’t care about the country as long as they can remove the constant image of a black man before white women like you wake up and see the pathetic white boy for what he is.
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Some of the GOP candidates for president are not getting the best press, but a recent Pew study shows that President Obama is getting worse coverage than anyone else.
The study, which looked at stories from 1,500 news outlets from the past 23 weeks, found that negative assessments of President Obama outweighed positive assessments by almost 4:1.
The stories, which largely focused on the economic crisis, brought him the second-highest level of negative press, as well as the lowest amount of positive press.
This means that, overall, his net coverage is the most negative of any candidate.
That’s a very steep drop from the early days of Obama’s presidency, when Pew found him receiving 42 percent positive coverage.
Among the GOP contenders, Rick Perry has received the most positive coverage over the study period. But the tone of media assessments seems to be fluctuating with public opinion:
Perry’s positive coverage is dipping, while Herman Cain’s is now on the surge. Mitt Romney’s coverage remains mixed.
Michele Bachmann and Sarah Palin also enjoyed more positive reports, with good assessments of Palin outweighing poor assessments 3:2.
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I hope those that read me understand that I said white “boy.” White men are not intimidated by OTW men. They may differ with our politics but it is one of political differences not race.
But that still leaves 2/3 of the white race full of white boys full of hate, penis envy, and fear.
Don’t be fooled by the house nigger Herman Cain’s coverage. Every republican knows that he hasn’t a snow ball chance in hell of winning the nomination.
The house nigger knows too, he’s just playing the Sarah Palin role of cleaning up at the donations trough.
Robert
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