Roland Klose
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Videos contradict Trump administration account of ICE shooting in Minneapolis
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Video: Videos Contradict Trump Administration Account of ICE Shooting in Minneapolis
An analysis of footage from three camera angles shows that the motorist was driving away from â not toward â a federal officer when he opened fire.
https://www.nytimes.com/video/us/100000010631041/minneapolis-ice-shooting-video.html?smid=url-share
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The Trace
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Update: As of January 7, The Trace has identified 28 incidents, including 14 shootings, in which federal agents shot someone or held them at gunpoint during an immigration enforcement action under Trumpâs crackdown. At least four people have been killed and five others have been injured.
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How Many People Have Been Shot in ICE Raids?
The Trace is tracking gun incidents connected to Trumpâs immigration crackdown. Know of one? Please be in touch.
https://www.thetrace.org/2025/12/immigration-ice-shootings-guns-tracker/?utm_medium=social&utm_source=bluesky&utm_campaign=trace-branded&utm_content=edit-promo
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Rarely do the wealthy have a sense of community anymore
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St. Louisâ American treasure
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An âAmericanâ treasure
If pictures tell a thousand words, then about three volumes of encyclopedias surrounded Wiley Price as he packed up his office at The St. Louis American on Friday. His retirement on Dec. 31 after more...
https://www.stlamerican.com/news/local-news/an-american-treasure/
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âIf the United States were to choose to attack another NATO country, then everything would come to an end. The international community as we know it ⊠would collapse if one NATO country chose to attack another.â
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U.S. Attack to Seize Greenland Would End NATO, Danish Prime Minister Says
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/01/05/world/europe/trump-greenland-denmark.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share
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I was in a play in 4th grade and my mother saved the local newspaper story about the performance. Therefore, if I got control of a big newspaper chain, Iâd definitely boost coverage of grade school theater!
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Hoffmannâs takeover of Post-Dispatch parent co. means changeâbut how much?
David Hoffmann got what he wanted. The Missouri-born billionaire spent the better part of 2025 pursuing the newspaper publisher Lee Enterprises, and on December 30, he closed the deal. The companyâs I...
https://www.stlmag.com/news/hoffmann-takeover-lee-enterprises/
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The New York Times and The Washington Post learned in advance about the planned U.S. military action in Venezuela but held off reporting on it.
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A rare 'thank you' to the media from the Trump administration
News organizations got a rare âthank youâ from the Trump administration for not putting its military action in Venezuela in jeopardy by reporting on it before it happened.
https://apnews.com/article/venezuela-maduro-trump-rubio-media-a56813f2f4fe75cb0f21e382909e1334
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The ouster of NicolĂĄs Maduro is a financial windfall for a prominent Trump-supporting billionaire, investor Paul Singer.
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Venezuela raid enriches MAGA billionaire
The ouster of Maduro is a financial windfall for a prominent Trump-supporting billionaire, investor Paul Singer.
https://popular.info/p/venezuela-raid-enriches-maga-billionaire
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âThere is no linear Trump foreign policy, just a catherine wheel of disconnected explosions thrown out across the night sky.â
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Into the void: how Trump killed international law
The rules-based global order, its institutions and value system face a crisis of legitimacy and credibility as the US turns away
https://www.theguardian.com/law/ng-interactive/2025/dec/25/how-donald-trump-killed-international-law?CMP=share_btn_url
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This notorious St. Louis high school gradâs appearance at a journalism conference in 1926 did not go unnoticed.
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Trump shared multiple videos he falsely claimed showed Venezuelans celebrating the U.S. kidnapping of NicolĂĄs Maduro. One actually shows UCLA students participating in the âUndie Run,â a quarterly tradition during which students run in their underwear during finals week.
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FACT FOCUS: Fabricated and misrepresented images shared widely online after US removal of Maduro
Misrepresented and fabricated images of deposed Venezuelan leader NicolĂĄs Maduro have spread widely on social media since his capture over the weekend.
https://apnews.com/article/fact-check-us-venezuela-maduro-photos-videos-c6201e6f6b01872a43c36d344a118d28
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âThe entire exercise has less to do with actual resource imperialism than Trumpâs feckless reality TV cosplay resource imperialism. He likes demonstrative acts of violence. He likes to claim immediate economic paybacks.â
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Chartbook 423 Some topical material on Venezuela. Hopefully useful.
Itâs been a busy weekend which put me in mind of a classic quip:
https://adamtooze.substack.com/p/chartbook-423-some-topical-material
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âWe write for our lives. We write for our loved onesâ lives. We write for our fellow human beingsâ lives. We are drowning in a cacophony of words and images, and still somehow we write.â
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Twenty-five years after it was published, the journal Regulatory Toxicology and Pharmacology retracted a sweeping scientific paper ghost-written by Monsanto scientists assessing the safety of Monsantoâs Roundup herbicide and its active ingredient glyphosate.
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Monsanto ghost-written research is retracted
But Bayer gets good news
https://open.substack.com/pub/careygillam/p/monsanto-ghost-written-research-is?utm_campaign=post-expanded-share&utm_medium=web
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What did political polarization look like before the Civil War? Consider the fate of a Missouri newspaper whose courageous owners condemned the invasion of Kansas by pro-slavery Missourians.
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Mr. Trumpâs warmongering violates the law.
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Opinion | Trumpâs Attack on Venezuela Is Illegal and Unwise
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/01/03/opinion/venezuela-attack-trump-us.html?unlocked_article_code=1.BlA.nFGo.U8eKQXRGH10K&smid=url-share
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âThis Boeing contract sends a clear message that U.S. defense contractors and foreign governments can profit from Israelâs crimes against humanity without consequence. It is a reward for genocide, paid for by American taxpayers.â
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Boeing to make 25 new fighter jets for Israel, raising concerns
Boeing will produce 25 new fighter jets for the Israeli Air Force, reigniting concern about the aerospace manufacturerâs connection to the ongoing violence in Gaza.
https://www.seattletimes.com/business/boeing-aerospace/pentagon-to-pay-boeing-8-6b-to-make-fighters-for-israel-raising-concerns/
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âPresident Trump was by a large measure the most culpable and most responsible person in this conspiracy.... Our case was built on, frankly, Republicans who put their allegiance to the country before the party.â Transcript:
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Capitol riot 'does not happen' without Trump, Jack Smith told Congress
Former special counsel Jack Smith told lawmakers that the Jan. 6, 2021, riot at the U.S. Capitol âdoes not happenâ without President Donald Trump.
https://apnews.com/article/trump-jack-smith-jan-6-congress-537fcb8673e385202c354a3e83897194
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Lowering expectations.
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75 years ago, Collierâs publishes a two-part feature on the St. Louis Post-Dispatch, emphasizing the daily newspaperâs independence and integrity. âAn editor must have no friendsâ is the headline of the second installment.
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A former close aide to Benjamin Netanyahu says that immediately following the October 2023 Hamas attack that triggered Israelâs two-year war in Gaza, the Israeli leader instructed him to figure out how the premier could evade responsibility for the security breach.
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Ex-aide says Netanyahu tasked him with making a plan to evade responsibility for Oct. 7 attack
A former close aide to Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu says that immediately following the Hamas attack on Oct. 7, 2023, he was ordered to figure out how the premier could evade responsibili...
https://apnews.com/article/israel-hamas-qatargate-netanyahu-feldstein-settler-attack-e3efa52d8106cb4defebe4c9a6735405
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Mueller, She Wrote
19 days ago
BREAKING: WATCH the full 60 Minutes CECOT segment here. This was sent to me anonymously. It appears to be the segment CBS' Bari Weiss killed.
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WATCH: The 60 Minutes CECOT Segment
I was sent the CECOT segment anonymously in a group chat.
https://www.muellershewrote.com/p/watch-the-60-minutes-cecot-segment
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Per NY Timesâs Michael Grynbaum on X, this is Sharyn Alfonsiâs email to her â60 Minutesâ colleagues in full:
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JD Vance channels the Klan at Turning Point rally: âIn the United States of America you donât have to apologize for being white anymore.â
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Israel pushes ahead with a construction binge in the West Bank, further threatening the possibility of a Palestinian state. In Gaza City, a baby is baptized.
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Israel's Cabinet approves 19 new Jewish settlements in the occupied West Bank
Israelâs far-right finance minister says the Cabinet has approved 19 new Jewish settlements in the occupied West Bank.
https://apnews.com/article/israel-palestinians-settlements-west-bank-6923448a5956ff4d90b240d871db33e6
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In 1950, around the time radioactive waste was moved to north St. Louis County, the Post-Dispatch republished a National Security Resources Board booklet on surviving an A-bomb blast. It minimized radiationâs long-term effects.
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A timeline:
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Mark Jacob
27 days ago
If youâre frustrated by a lack of details about the Reiner murders or the Brown U. shooting, realize that responsible media would rather be right than first. They donât want to be like the Washington Post, which ID'd a âperson of interestâ by name in the Brown case shortly before his release. 1/2 đ§”
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âGood luck finding a news article on this merger that is objective, not mostly propaganda.â Ouch.
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How Much Does A St. Louis City Alder Seat Cost?
I have no idea how much candidates for St. Louis City Alder and Board President raised and spent in 2023 or 2025. I could go thru campaign finance reports filed at Missouri Ethics Commission. But tâŠ
https://greatstateofstlouis.com/2025/12/14/how-much-does-a-st-louis-city-alder-seat-cost/
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German immigrant Otto Brandenburger sold âtoys, fancy goods & notions,â as well as cigars and tobacco, from this business and residence at 515 S. Broadway. His sister, Wilhemina, was a âsales ladyâ there; she could be the woman in the second-story window. They left for Los Angeles around 1902-1903.
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Why Israelâs state institutions have become increasingly aligned with â and at times directly complicit in â violent settler actions against Palestinians.
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West Bank violence is soaring, fueled by a capitulation of Israeli institutions to settlersâ interests
Reluctance to address settler violence is the outcome of deep social, political and cultural changes, a scholar of Israeli extremist groups argues.
https://theconversation.com/west-bank-violence-is-soaring-fueled-by-a-capitulation-of-israeli-institutions-to-settlers-interests-269162
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âHoosiers donât cheat.â đ
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Indiana Republicans block Trumpâs redistricting push in a rare break with the president
In a resounding rejection of a pressure campaign from the White House itself, Indiana Republican Senators voted down a new congressional map created to give the GOP an advantage in the upcoming 2026 e...
https://apnews.com/article/indiana-lawmakers-redistricting-final-vote-80e3e546fc7acec4a7bd7cd110787375
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St. Louis in 1950 was gearing up for a potential A-bomb attack. As a major railroad center, the city was seen as a prime target and Union Station was likely ground zero. A study conservatively estimated 50,000 would die. A link to the full story ->
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#atomic
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A politically connected company that runs illegal gambling machines is a top sponsor of a fundraiser for St. Louis police and firefighters. Because Missouri ...
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75 years ago, President Harry S Truman responded to a music criticâs review of his daughterâs recital by threatening to beat him up: âSome day I hope to meet you. When that happens youâll need a new nose, a lot of beefsteak for black eyes, and perhaps a supporter below!â
#missouri
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75 years ago, President Harry S Truman responded to a music criticâs review of his daughterâs recital by threatening to beat him up: âSome day I hope to meet you. When that happens youâll need a new nose, a lot of beefsteak for black eyes, and perhaps a supporter below!â
#missouri
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A politically connected company that runs illegal gambling machines is a top sponsor of a fundraiser for St. Louis police and firefighters. Because Missouri ...
www.stltoday.com/news/local/c...
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âIf you believe a Palestinian child is equal in dignity and worth to an Israeli or American child, it is no longer possible to support this Israeli government while hiding behind platitudes about peace.â
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/01/o...
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Opinion | This Is the Story of How the Democrats Blew It on Gaza
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/12/01/opinion/democrats-israel.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share
about 1 month ago
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about 1 month ago
STEPHANOPOULOS: Do you support the pardon of the former Honduran president? SCHMITT: I'm not familiar w/ the facts or circumstances S: What do you mean you're not familiar? It's been front page news SCHMITT: You spew Democrat talking points every single week, which is why your ratings are so bad
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John Roberts âhas shunned the role of neutral umpire and instead spearheaded a rightwing judicial revolution that took a wrecking ball to many precedents, laws and institutions. Some have called him the worst chief justice since Roger Taney.â
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John Roberts has badly weakened our democracy. Will he ever stand up to Trump? | Steven Greenhouse
Under the chief justice, the US supreme court has bolstered authoritarian agendas while undercutting the voice of voters
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/dec/02/john-roberts-chief-justice-trump
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The military has not said what type of aircraft launched the first strike, and it is not known if the survivors could have identified it. But officials who have watched the video said it is also not clear if the survivors even knew the initial explosion was an attack.
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/05/u...
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Video of Boat Strike Shows Survivors Waving Before Fatal Follow-Up Attack
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/12/05/us/politics/boat-strike-shows-survivors.html?smid=bs-share
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A reminder: More than 150,000 Missourians are at risk of losing some amount of food aid because of the new federal work requirement approved this year by the Republican-led Congress and signed into law by President Trump.
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by Samantha Liss of
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More than a year after Missouri voters approved enshrining abortion rights into the state constitution, the vast majority of Missourians seeking the procedure are still traveling out of state.
@michelemunz.bsky.social
explains why.
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Missouri legalized abortion, but most residents can't get appointments and go elsewhere
State figures show 80 abortions took place in Missouri clinics through October. Most Missourians seeking abortions are still traveling to other states.
https://www.stltoday.com/news/local/metro/article_1f113904-6484-4690-9c2a-e832a1ca8960.html
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Residents of eastern Congo said fighting has intensified despite a peace agreement that was signed by the Congolese and Rwandan presidents in Washington, D.C., with President Donald Trump in attendance.
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Renewed fighting in eastern Congo threatens 'historic' peace deal brokered by Trump
Residents of eastern Congo say fighting has intensified despite a peace agreement signed by the Congolese and Rwandan presidents in Washington, D.C., with U.S.
https://apnews.com/article/congo-rwanda-army-m23-fighting-trump-3b0570bf2445c31376fdc09175f7dd6f
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State of St. Louis
about 1 month ago
St Louis Mayor Spencer FR- at a venue paid for by public school children via tax abatement- makes me so angry. And I have called out electeds that I like for using such venues, not just picking on her. Incestuous relationships between electeds & corporate welfare queens is an awful way to run govt.
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âThe rightful owners will ultimately prevail and will restore the U.S. Institute of Peace and the building to their statutory purposes.â
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/03/u...
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Trump Renames Institute of Peace for Himself
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/12/03/us/politics/trump-us-institute-peace-name.html
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Just weeks after a Waymo vehicle killed a Mission District bodega cat, KitKat, another Waymo hit a small unleashed dog elsewhere in San Francisco.
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Waymo hits dog in S.F. weeks after killing Mission bodega cat
After a Waymo killed legendary Mission District bodega cat, KitKat, its vehicle hit a dog in San Francisco. Its condition was unknown.
https://missionlocal.org/2025/12/waymo-confirms-its-car-hit-dog-in-western-addition/
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True then, true now.
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Presidential historian: Trump joins Andrew Johnson 'as the most racist president in American history'
The latest Speed Read,/speed-reads,,speed-reads, breaking news, comment, reviews and features from the experts at The Week
https://theweek.com/speedreads/852905/presidential-historian-trump-joins-andrew-johnson-most-racist-president-american-history
about 1 month ago
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about 1 month ago
Trump: "I think affordability is the greatest con job."
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Many European leaders worry that if Putin gets what he wants in Ukraine, he will have free rein to threaten their countries, which already have faced incursions from Russian drones and fighter jets, and an alleged widespread sabotage campaign.
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Europeans accuse Putin of feigning interest in peace after talks with US envoys
Ukraine and its European allies have accused Russian President Vladimir Putin of feigning interest in peace efforts after five hours of talks with U.S. envoys at the Kremlin produced no breakthrough.
https://apnews.com/article/russia-ukraine-war-peace-talks-putin-witkoff-aa639c6ba85c4fc6d5a07c65e72e96d8
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âThe State of Israel will prove itself not by material wealth, not by military might or technical achievement, but by its moral character and human values.â
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Settler outposts spread among West Bank villages and fuel fear of more attacks
Palestinians in the West Bank are living in fear of more attacks by armed Israeli settlers. In recent months, villagers say, the town of Turmus Ayya has weathered near-daily assaults by settlers.
https://apnews.com/article/settler-violence-netanyahu-palestinians-israel-502ad2d020a6ff0a1b525c52bd72c8ed
about 1 month ago
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