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We missed out

Canada Day. It means diff-
erent things to different people
in different parts of the country.
In tiny Taylor, B.C. it means get-
ting together to make the
world’s largest milkshake.

In nearby Charlie Lake it
meant a “Fat Cat Contest” with
prizes for the largest cat.

In Ottawa, things were more
formal as Gov. Gen. Jeanne

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While communities across the
country celebrated, Castlegar
slept — or so it seemed.

Instead, people headed
for the lake, played baseball and
did the things they could do on
any other weekend during ‘the
summer. It was nothing special;
nothing to remember.

And that's a shame, because
conens Day should be special.

LSAY, TT YOu
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Sauve inspected the cer
guard and Prime Minister Brian
Mulroney paraded with 15
Olympic athletes.

In| Vancouver, Commons
Speaker John Fraser welcomed
88 new Canadians from more
than 40 countries, a scene that
was replayed in cities large and
small across Canada on July 1.

And residents in the Koot-
enays caught the spirit of
Canada's 121st birthday as com-
munities like Salmo, Slocan, Kas-
lo, and Nelson celebrated
Canada Day with fireworks, or a
logger sports day or just plain
old-fashioned, small-town fun.

But what about Castlegar?
Canada Day here was marked
perhaps more than anything by
the lack of activities and events
marking the country’s birthday.

are not flag sat
ie best of times, but surely once
a year we can do something to
recognize the country which we
call home.

One of the problems in Cas
tlegar is that Canada Day falls so
soon after Sunfest. Before last
year, Sunfest was changed from
the third week in July to early
June, the problem was that
Canada Day fell just before Sun-
fest. It seems we can't win.

Still, in other years Canada
Day was celebrated by the
swearing in of new Canadians or
special festivities at the West.
Kootenay National Exhibition
Centre.

Certainly, a community of
this size should be able to put on
some kind of ceremony to mark
the country’s anniversary.

Norman

Surprise, surprise, the province's pulp unions have decided to
call a strike vote this week to back contract demands. In terms of
startling news, that’s about on a par with the revelation that the
Queen wears funny hats or that Ronald Reagan moves his lips when
he reads. In other words, no big deal.

And least surprised of all, I'm sure, are pulp industry leaders and
their negotiators (in spite of the comment by Eric Mitterndorfer,
president of the Pulp and Paper Industrial Relations Bureau, that he
is “deeply disappointed” by the breakdown in contract talks. I would
suggest that was posturing more than anything else).

Strike votes are a fact of life in labor negotiations. Unions
authorize them as a show of strength. If the vote is heavily weighted
in favor of a strike should talks fall apart, the unions can wield the
results like a club, showing management that workers are solidly
behind the union position.

Of course, there is a risk, though slim, that workers won't back
the strike vote. More probable — though highly unlikely in this
instance — is that the workers won't come out fully in favor of the
union position; instead of a 90-plus percentage in favor of a strike,
only 60 or 70 per cent may back a strike.

But that doesn’t seem likely to happen with the pulp unions, even
with the generous offer by management. And make no mistake, the
industry's proposal is generous.

It includes a wage hike of 70 cents an hour in the first year of the
contract, 4.5 per cent in the secnd year and five per cent in the third
year. For the average worker who now makes $17.17 an hour, it
would mean a 14.15 per cent increase — or $1.43 an hour — and raise
the average wage to $19.60 an hour in the third year.

But the union says it wants more. It wants $1.05 an hour in the
first year — or 35 cents more than the industry has offered. It also
wants 6.5 per cent in the second year and six per cent in the third.
The union proposal would mean a 19.74 per cent increase over the life
of the contract, bringing the average wage up $3.39 an hour to $20.56.

I wonder how Castlegar-area teachers are feeling around now,
given that the provincial government has indicated teachers will get
about a two-per-cent raise next year? I'm sure they wouldn't hesitate
to grab a three-year deal with an average five per cent increase in
each year — and that's just the pulp industry's offer. If the pulp
unions are successful and get everything they want, it will amount to
an average 6.5-per-cent hike a year.

So why haven't the unions jumped at the industry offer when
almost every other worker in the province would? Because the pulp
industry isn’t like every other industry in the province.

Demand for pulp is at an all-time high and mills are running flat
out trying to keep up with it. Prices are also at record levels. This
weekend, for example, the pulp and paper industry hiked their prices
for the eighth quarter in a row (timing is everything, they say). And
lastly, pulp companies are making unheard of profits. Celgar Pulp
Co. is making so much money, its new owners will have paid off the
mill in two years.

The point is, the pulp unions know all this and so — unlike
teachers — are dealing from a position of strength.

The pulp unions are also not taking any chances this time around.
In 1984 they got burned when they let their contract expire on June
30. In the meantime, pulp companies continued to build up their
inventories until in February, with still no settlement, they locked out
the workers. The lockout, which later turned into a strike, lasted 10
weeks.

The unions are determined not to let something similar happen
this time. That's why they were quick to take a strike vote so soon
after the contract expired and while market conditions are still in
their favor.

Still, while I can understand the union position, it is hard to
ignore the faet that this community could be severely affected by a
strike by workers who aren't satisfied making more than $19 an hour.

‘Remember

John J, Verigin, 32-year-old grand-
son of Peter (Chestikov) Verigin II
and secretary of the Christian Com-
munities of Christ (Orthodox Douk-
hobors) for many years,

Laura Relkoff, daughter of Mr. and
Mrs. Peter J. Relkoff of Brilliant in a
ceremony attended by throngs of
Orthodox Doukhobors and non-Douk-
hobors at Brilliant Saturday.

. * *

“On to Fernie!” will be a cry heard
more and more often in Castlegar as
July 24 approaches. That is the day
when it is planned, a cavalcade of
Castlegar automobiles will carry as
many Castlegar residents as possible
to Fernie for a weekend inspection of
that centre’s new sports arena.

. ._

Robert E. Sommers of Castlegar,
Minister of Lands and Forests and
Mines in the previous government of.
B.C., was re-elected the MLA for

Letters to the editor

Comparison ‘spurious

I am appalled that your paper saw
fit to reprint Trevor Lautens's Van.
couver Sun article, which was a
shallow apologia for the criminal
conduct of Monsignor John Mon
aghan. Lautens’s “aw-shucks” at-
titude towards the sexual moles.
tation of many children sadly begs
the question on two counts.

First, to compare the actions of a
Catholic priest, a strong authority
figure, to those of teenagers on the

playground is to deny the highly un-
equal power relationship which is the
primary and most sinister aspect of
child sexual abuse. The victims could
not defend themselves against this
abuse, and were further traumatized
by the inability of parents and others
in authority to believe that such

ignores the tommpiete trust vested in
the monsignor by his parishioners,
by his religious superiors, and, if you
will, by God Himself. This man's duty
was to uplift, protect and nurture his
flock. To imply that molesting these
vulnerable children instead was
merely a —_— outlet for the

crimes could be itted by a
person of Monsignor Monaghan's
perceived stature.

Second, this spurious comparison

City crime rate no
reason for headline

As my mathematics professor at
UBC many years ago said: “There
are liars, damned liars and statisti.
cians.”

The headline in last Sunday's
paper, “Castlegar Crime Rate Low,”
brought the quotation to mind and
with it the story of the man who
drowned when, while finding a river
of an average depth of one foot, had
gone in over his head.

Personally, I would hardly pro-
claim a crime rate of 136 per thou
sand and 32nd place out of 55
municipalities as a good reason for
banner headlines, particularly when
there are so many variables involved
as to make the entire exercise sus-
pect — a comparison between grapes
and grapefruit.

Then, there is the staff-sergeant’s
statements that Castlegar's crime
rate is not a matter for major con
cern, “not what you would call a
major crime area.” Compared to
what?

Headlines have their place in jour-
nalism, but I suggest that they be
used with discretion and moderation.

While travelling in a train along
‘the Scottish coast several years ago I
started talking with a Scot who was
en route to his job in London and we
discussed some of the provincialism
of small towns. He indicated one
coastal village and gave its name.

“That village,” he said, “has a com-
munity newspaper, a weekly. Many
years ago one of the local citizens
went for a swim in the sea. A breaker
knocked him off his feet and he had a
bit of trouble getting back to the
beach. The weekly came out with
banner headlines: ‘(name of village)
resident in near-death escape. Local
citizen in narrow brush with séa.’ It
was followed by several detailed
paragraphs — all on the front page.”

“On the back page was one small
head and one short paragraph
‘Titanic sinks.’ ”

John A. Charters
Castlegar

Brisco born-again
Canadian nationalist

With the heady scent of an election
in the air, Kootenay West MP Bob
Brisco appears to be experimenting
with a new image — that of a “born-
again Canadian nationalist.” At his
June 26 renomination in Castlegar he
complained of the bad deal Canada
got from the Columbia River Treaty
and stressed that we have to cut a
better deal when parts of that sad
sellout of Canadian interests come up
for renegotation in the next decade.

People in the Kootenays want
Canada to cut a better deal, all right,
but it strains credulity that Mr.
Brisco should present himself as a
champion for our interests in those
negotiations. Where was he when
Brian Mulroney treated West Koot
enay Power, shake and shingle
manufacturers and the softwood
lumber industry as expendable bar-

Please address all Letters to
the Editor to: The Castlegar
News, P.O. Box 3007, Castlegar,
B.C. VIN 3H4, or deliver them to
our office at 197 Columbia Ave-
nue, Castlegar.

Letters must be signed and include
the writer's full name and address. Only
in very exceptional cases will letters be
published without the writer's name.
Nevertheless, the name and address of
the writer must be disclosed to the
editor

The Castlegor News reserves the
right to edit letters for brevity, clarity.
legality and grommo:

gaining chips in his U.S. trade deal-
ings?
Despite the express opposition of
of his Mr.

is s both Mageccee and absurd.

Mr. Lautens downplays the long-
term effects of sexual abuse on the
victims: shame, guilt, fear, and loss
of self-esteem. By pooh-poohing this
very real trauma, Lautens places
himself in the very questionable
company of the enormous pedophile
lobby, whose interests he serves,
perhaps unwittingly, with state-
ments of this kind.

Undoubtedly Monsignor Mona-
ghan is himself “a victim of victims,”
and as such deserves a measure of
compassion. However, his actions
remain inexcusable. The Crown de-
serves commendation for imposing a
prison sentence which may deter
others from such criminal behavior.

Caring adults have a clear res-
ponsibility to protect children
against abuse of all kinds. Articles

or
have no place in a family newspaper.
y Lafortune
Castlegar

Modern
tan craze
has risks

Re: Ultraviolet Tanning Facilities

Recently, the United States De-
partment of Health and and Human
Services, together with the Ameri-
can Academy of Dermatology, the
United States Food and Drug Ad-
ministration, Health and Welfare
Canada, the B.C. Medical Association

land-Trail by a commanding
margin in the election of June 9. It
was revealed Tuesday at Rossland
where the second and third counts
were held on Tuesday.

The number of telephones in ser-
vice in Castlegar has increased more
than 45 per cent during a period of
less than six months, according to
figures just released by the B.C.
Telephone Company.

Last January there were 396 tele-
phones in service here and now there
are 576, the company statement says.

25 YEARS AGO
From the July 11, 1963
Castlegar News

Work is progressing rapidly on the
new highway bridge to be built
across the Columbia River at Kin-
naird. About 50 men are presently
employed on the $2 million project
which was awarded to Northern
Construction and J.W. Stewart Co. in
a joint bid. The new bridge is ex-
pected to be the second largest pre-
stressed concrete bridge in the world
and was designed for B.C.’s depart-
ment of highways by Prof. R. Mor-
nadi of Rome, Italy.

A suggestion that in future, side-
walks be built in Castlegar under a
local improvement basis which would
see property owners pay for side-
walks in front of their home, was
suggested by Comm. R.C. Maddocks
at council's meeting last week.

It was recommended by Fire chief
Rene Archambault that extra control
be exerted on parking at the Im-
provement Society Hall. He said, “On
several occasions when large gather-
ings are going on at the hall, it would
be very difficult if an alarm comes in
and we had to proceed along Mile-
stone Road with cars parked on both
sides of the street.

. .

The Kinnaird Park road had re-
ceived 370 gallons of oil from Black-
line Paving at no cost to the village,
but the raod is still in need of grading
for the traffic anticipated during the
summer months.

15 YEARS AGO
From the July 5, 1973
Castlegar News

Castlegar librarian Mrs. A. Moore
recently returned from Las Vegas
where she received the John Cotton
Dana Award in public relations.

. * 8

Councils of the twin towns of
Castlegar and Kinnaird are to meet
tonight on the subject of amal-

and other health care or
have all emphasized that cosmetic
tanning with sunlamps such as in
indoor tanning studios, is not a
benign process,

Tanning is an adaptive response by
the skin to protect the body from

r lation. Conti

Brisco supported the takeover of
West Kootenay Power by Missouri-
based UtiliCorp. He condoned the
arbitrary exclusion of a number of
Canadian businesses and organiza-
tions which had the money and
wanted to bid on the utility. Now
UtiliCorp is already under fire for
planning to build a noisy and
polluting oil and gas fired generator
in ‘Kelowna. The scheme enables
UtiliCorp to extract more profit by
buying surplus capacity from B.C.
Hydro, and it proves that the people
were right to distrust foreigners to
protect their interests. Eastern
Canadians doubtless feel the same
way about acid rain, another issue
unlikely to be resolved while our
government

use
of indoor tanning facilities has been
identified to increase the risks of skin
cancer, eye damage, skin aging, and
allergic reactions.

It is recommended that, if indi-
viduals choose to tan in spite of the
associated risks, they take the
following precautions:

e@ Always wear goggles;

e Know if any medicing taken
makes them extra sensitive to
sunlight;

e@ Know their skin type;

© Don't: overexpose themselves.

Excessive exposure to sunlight,
even of the natural variety, can also
be a harmful process. Residents of
the sunny Kootenays should be
aware that excessive exposure to

No doubt any MP wanting to get
off the back bench in Ottawa feels
pressure to conform to the “party
line,” even when it conflicts with the
interests of his constituents. Mr.
Brisco presided over unprecedented
attacks on British Columbians’ ability
to control and benefit from their own
water and timber resources during
the past four years. Now he'll try to
make amends as the election draws
near, but I hope he won't subject us
to any more of his “born-again
nationalism.”

Donald Scarlett
Kaslo

light, either in suntanning
studios or natural sunlight, can be
dangerous and has been associated
with increased skin cancer and aging.
Precautions should always be taken
when enjoying the outdoors.

While many of us appreciate the
lithe, hast gp body, there are
serious h risks associated with
this modern craze of the golden glow
of a —

Dr. Norman M. Arnott,
M.Se., pac P.(C}

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More letters AS

but indicati at Castle
gar’s council meeting Tuesday night
were the concrete financial infor-
mation is still unavailable.
*

No action on Castlegar’s curb and
gutter program has resulted from a
wire sent to Premier Barrett two
weeks ago by town council.

. *

Regi R ion C. is
No. 1 has been charged with reneg-
ing on a verbal financing agreement
regarding the Castlegar Arena and
as a result the opening of the arena is
in jeopardy.

5 YEARS AGO
From the July 3, 1983

Castlegar News
Selkirk College plans to introduce
as many as 25 new programs and
construct more than $14.6 million in
new facilities over the next five
years, according to the college's new
five-year plan.
. *
Theatre Energy is to receive
$25,000 from the Canada Council for
operating funds for its 1983-84 sea-
son.

. *
Oglow Holdings Ltd. is seeking
approval to expand ground-floor of-
fice space and add a third story to the
Oglow block on Columbia Ave., the
Castlegar News has learned.
. *

Hi Arrow Arms’ pitcher Lawrence
Halisheff threw a 5-0 shutout against
Thrums Indians in Crstlegar Com-
mercial Fastball League action Wed-
nesday night.
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TO WEAPONS

By STEVE SHOUP
Reuter

LOS ALAMOS,

Weapons

. — Hidden among pine
trees on the slopes of a long-dead volcano is the
once-secret city of Los Alamos, where the first
atomic bombs were designed and constructed.

“You can tailor the particle so you can do the
most damage inside, say, in a tumor, to do less
damage to the rest of the body,”
neutral particle beam could also penetrate a missile,
damage its internal electronics, and distinguish a
real warhead from a decoy.

A neutral particle beam accelerator is scheduled
to be launched next year in a test of the proposed
space-based system.

DI

ME

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Weapons are designed, but no longer built, at
Los Alamos, but the region still has a major role in fax.
the arms cern bh ae pp weapons are assembled

Sermon
manifesto
for groups

VANCOUVER (CP) — The Ser-
mon on the Mount is a manifesto for
the peace movempent, says Hans-Mar-
tin Rumscheidt, a professor at the
Atlantic School of Theology in Hali-

Sander said. A

It's the reason peace activists who

at the pri \\

to be Texas.

of the Los Alamos National Laboratory, taking up
about three-quarters of its nearly $1 dillion US

annual budget.

During the Second World War, the secluded site
50 kilometres northwest of Santa Fe was the ideal
setting for the secret Manhattan Project that

invented the, bomb.

Now, Los Alamos scientists are developing
several important components of the SDI — the U.S.
ive known as “Star Wars” —
designed to track and destroy nuclear missiles before

strategic defense initi:

they reach their targets.

One of those components is the free-electron
laser, which is far more efficient than conventional
lasers and might some day be used to shoot down
missiles in an SDI program, said Roger Warren, a
physicist with the project. It also might eventually
be used to kill viruses in donated blood.

But not all the implications of the
technology are yet understood, he added.

WORK IN BUNKER

“I want to know how they work and why they
don't do what we want them to do,” said Warren,
who is a member of a scientific team working in a
concrete-and-steel-walled bunker with a
$5-million laser to probe the laws of free-electron

physics.

The other SDI component, the neutral particle
beam, may also prove to have medical applications,
said Oscar Sander, a physicist on that project.

area.

ly built streets.

laser

huge,

, gover
tex plant 400 Loomotres to the east in Amarillo,

The U.S. nuclear warheads withdrawn from
Europe under the Intermediate Nuclear Forces
Treaty, pending Senate ratification, will be dis-
mantled at Pantex too, said Ben McCarty, spokes-
man for the U.S, Department of Energy which over-
sees Pantex, Los Alamos and other facilities, in the

Work on SDI and other projects is nowhere near
as urgent or as secretive as the nearly frantic pace
during the Second World War.

Before the war, the only settlement on the
Pajarito Plateur was the Los Alamos Ranch School.

When war broke out, the school was converted
within weeks into a laboratory. New housing and
laboratories were hastily constructed on haphazard-

Officially, Los Alamos vanished. Mail, cargo,
even families in transit were assigned toa single post
office box in Santa Fe.

Santa Fe residents learned not to ask questions
about the lights sometimes visible on the distant hills
or the explosions that occasionally rocked the area.

At 6:29:45 a.m., Mountain War Time, July 16,
1945, the first atomic bomb was detonated 320
kilometres to the south on a
known as the White Sands Missile Range.

Baffled residents of the sparsely populated area.
were told that an iti

d Pan- are by religion don't “burn
out” when their immediate political
goals are not achieved, he said at a
recent peace démonstration.

In his course ‘on the church and
society, Rumscheidt teaches that the
Sermon on the Mount — chapters 5,
6 and 7 in the book of Matthew — is a
survival manual for a minority group
struggling to cope with

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LARGE SELECTION
OF REMNANTS:

“The early church community in
which the Sermon on the Mount was
first repeated has already a group of
registers,” said the 53-year-old
United Church minister.

“The group of people to whom
Matthew writes, in about the eighth
decade of the first century, are under
pressure both from the military gov-
ernment of Rome and certain groups
of Jewish people who had turned
against them.”

Detailed instructions — do not
commit adultery share everything,
turn the other cheek —keep the
group together and enable it to stand
up to the hostile larger society.

“The commandment to love your
enemies is not just a matter of
turning on your good will, cranking it

retch of desert now

dump had

The truth was revealed three weeks later, after the
bomb was dropped on Hiroshima.

up to the highest degree,” said
Rumscheidt. “It's a matter of turning
around and subverting all enemy

MORE LETTERS

Churches trying

I believe C. Bowman's letter to the
editor merits a response. What I be-
lieve to be the basic gist of the letter
is in regards to the purpose and
function of the Church in our
community of Castlegar. Personally,
I must commend the writer on
raising this important issue.

According to the Bible, the pri-

mary function of the Church is not to
give handouts, but to share the
difference personal faith in Jesus can
make in a person's life. (Matthew
5:15, 14; 28:19-20; Acts 1:8; etc.).
" ‘We each need to have the burden
of guilt that our sin produces
removed. Jesus's death on the cross
and His subsequent physical resur-
rection from the dead accomplished
this. By placing our faith in Jesus,
and not in ourselves, a person is
totally transformed.

Yes, one tangible proof that a
person is a Christian is by doing acts
of charity, as well as looking after the
physical and spiritual needs of the
destitute. But when Christians are
such a distinct minority, how is it
possible for us to impact our com-
munity as the writer desires? If there
were more of us, the writer would
see Christians involved in a more
visible way in the charitable services
of this community. Suffice it to say,
the churches in Castlegar do the best
they can:

In closing, I would like to invite the
writer (and those of like mind) to
come to a Bible-believing church one
Sunday and see what is

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Auxiliary hears
about youth camp

The Ladies Auxiliary to the Royal
Canadian Legion No. 170 held its
June meeting in the Legion Hall.

Elizabeth Penman-Crowder, the
guest speaker, spoke on the new
summer youth program for problem
children. Camping, day trips and
workshops are planned. Sports
equipment is also needed. Auxiliary
members donated $50 towards coun-

selling and lunches for the children.

Weekly hospital visits were made
with goodies for the patients.

Kay Bate received her 40-year pin
and Fran Farkas was installed into
the executive. tJ

Coffee hostesses were Gladys
Leckie, Pauline Weinert and Alice
Lecouffe. The booster was won by
Lena Urbani.

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Some possible projects include construction, restoration and
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13 PER MONTH, PRICING DOES NOT INCLUDE DEALSN PREP, FREIGHT OR
DEALER INSTALLED ADD-ONS. SUPPLY LIMITED.

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COURTESY CREDIT CHECK HOT LINE

TOLL FREE
365-4271 | 590-332-7087

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Provements to tourist related activities, services and events.

ENVIRONMENT YOUTH PROGRAM
Hf you are an income assistance recipient between 17 and 24 years

NITY PROGRAM

FOR THE INCOME ASSISTANCE
RECIPIENT

The Employment Opportunity Program gives you the op-
portunity to develop or update your skills while training on
the job. Additional support benefits such as day care con-
tinue while you're gaining valuable job skills. This work ex-
perience is the first step to permanent employment!

To qualify, you must be:

* receiving income assistance from the Ministry of Social
Services and Housing; and

© at least 15 years of age.

If you find an employer who is willing to train you or to pro-
vide you with work experience, the Employment Opportuni-
ty Program will pay half of your wages, up to $3.50 per hour.
Think about it—this is your opportunity to build an indepen-
dent and secure future for yourself.

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of age, the Environment Youth Program can employ you on park
improvement projects. It will provide work experience and train-
ing to those not only in rural areas, but also in urban areas
throughout the province.

The Environment Youth program is made possible through the
co-operation of the Ministry of Environment and Parks, the Out-
door Recreation Foundation of British Columbia and the Ministry
of Social Services and Housing.

FOR PROGRAM DETAILS AND

(See the Bive Pages of your
under
of Social Services and Housing.)

THE JOB TRAINING PROGRAMS THAT WORK

ZA Province of
British Columbia
Ministry of
Social Services

FOR YOU

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