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July 31, 2019 at 10:41PM
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‘The Bachelorette’: Hannah Brown gets engaged, then ends engagement in bizarre finale - Global News
SPOILER ALERT: Do not read on unless you’ve watched the Season 15 finale of The Bachelorette.The Bachelorette promised a bizarre season finale that “nobody could have seen coming” ahead of Tuesday’s show.Host Chris Harrison posted a photo of himself and Hannah Brown taken the day she handed out her final rose in Greece for the finale.
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Organizers finally cancel troubled Woodstock 50 festival - CBC News
Woodstock 50 is officially cancelled.
Organizers announced Wednesday that the troubled music festival, which hit a series of setbacks in the past four months, won't take place next month.
The three-day festival was originally scheduled for Aug. 16-18 — fifty years after the original — but holdups included permit denials and the loss of a financial partner and a production company.
Last week, Jay-Z, Dead & Company and John Fogerty announced they wouldn't perform at the event after organizers said it was moving to Maryland from New York.
"We are saddened that a series of unforeseen setbacks has made it impossible to put on the festival we imagined with the great lineup we had booked and the social engagement we were anticipating," festival co-founder Michael Lang said in a statement Wednesday.
"We released all the talent so any involvement on their part would be voluntary. Due to conflicting radius issues in the DC area, many acts were unable to participate and others passed for their own reasons."
Organizers said they were planning to make Woodstock 50 a free benefit concert at the Merriweather Post Pavilion in Columbia, Md., before announcing they had cancelled the festival altogether.
Lang announced the event in March alongside Fogerty and rapper-actor Common, two acts that were to perform.
Other artists who were booked for the festival included the Killers, Miley Cyrus, Imagine Dragons, Chance the Rapper, Robert Plant and The Sensational Space Shifters, David Crosby, Janelle Monae, Brandi Carlile and Halsey.
Woodstock 50 was originally supposed to take place across three main stages at Watkins Glen International racetrack in Watkins Glen, N.Y. — about 185 kilometres northwest of Bethel, the site of the 1969 concert — but the venue pulled out. Tickets were supposed to go on sale on April 22, which was Earth Day, but that was postponed.
The anniversary will still be observed, however. Ringo Starr, Santana and Fogerty will perform at a smaller event, not connected to Woodstock 50, at the Bethel Woods Center for the Arts.
The original Woodstock, a festival pushing the message of peace, love and music, was a groundbreaking event that featured performances by Jimi Hendrix, the Grateful Dead, Joan Baez, the Who and other iconic acts.
Lang asked Woodstock 50 artists who were already paid to donate 10 per cent of their earnings to HeadCount, a non-profit group that registers voters at music events, or to another organization.
"Woodstock remains committed to social change and will continue to be active in support of HeadCount's critical mission to get out the vote before the next election," Lang said in his statement.
"We thank the artists, fans and partners who stood by us even in the face of adversity."
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TIFF unveils 2019 Canadian feature line-up, new female talent scheme - Screen International
Toronto International Film Festival (TIFF) brass announced on Wednesday (July 31) the launch of a talent incubator for female content creators and unveiled the line-up of Canadian features, nearly half of which are directed by women.
Five features from indigenous filmmakers are among the selection of 26 Canadian features. TIFF also announced four Canadian Rising Stars, the annual TIFF Filmmaker Lab participants, finallists for Telefilm Canada’s PITCH THIS! competition, and the roster of Canadian short films.
The Canadian feature selections include seven first features and 13 works by returning TIFF alumni, among them the North American premiere of Atom Egoyan Guest Of Honour (the world premiere is in Venice), as well as world premieres of Heather Young’s Murmur in Discovery about a middle-aged alcoholic cut off from her loved ones, and Joey Klein’s Contemporary World Cinema opioid crisis drama Castle In The Ground (pictured) starring Imogen Poots, Alex Wolff, and Neve Campbell. Also receiving its world premiere is TIFF Docs selection There’s Something In The Water from Ellen Page and her Gaycation co-host Ian Daniel.
The five films by Indigenous filmmakers and film teams are: Abenaki director Alanis Obomsawin’s documentary Jordan River Anderson, The Messenger in Masters; Jeff Barnaby’s Midnight Madness entry Blood Quantum; Myriam Verreault’s Kuessipan in Discover, about life among the Innu people in northeastern Quebec; Elle-Máijá Tailfeathers and Kathleen Hepburn’s domestic violence drama The Body Remembers When the World Broke Open in Contemporary World Cinema; and Zacharias Kunuk’s One Day In The Life Of Noah Piugattuk in Special Events, about a life-changing encounter on Baffin Island in 1961.
All Canadian feature films are eligible for the Canada Goose Award for Best Canadian Feature Film. The seven Canadian feature directorial debuts are eligible for the City of Toronto Award for Best Canadian First Feature Film.
Previously announced Canadian titles include festival opener Once Were Brothers: Robbie Robertson And The Band by Daniel Roher, François Girard’s The Song Of Names, Semi Chellas’s American Woman, and Barry Avrich’s David Foster: Off the Record.
GALAS
American Woman – Canadian Premiere
Dir: Semi Chellas
Once Were Brothers: Robbie Robertson And The Band – world premiere
Dir: Daniel Roher
The Song Of Names – world premiere
Dir: François Girard
SPECIAL PRESENTATIONS
Clifton Hill – world premiere
Dir: Albert Shin
Guest Of Honour – North American premiere
Dir: Atom Egoyan
SPECIAL EVENTS
David Foster: Off the Record – world premiere
Dir: Barry Avrich
One Day in the Life of Noah Piugattuk – North American premiere
Dir: Zacharias Kunuk
MASTERS
Jordan River Anderson, The Messenger – world premiere
Dir: Alanis Obomsawin
TIFF DOCS
Coppers – world premiere
Dir: Alan Zweig
This Is Not a Movie – world premiere
Dir: Yung Chang
There’s Something In The Water – world premiere
Dirs: Ellen Page, Ian Daniel
DISCOVERY
Black Conflux – world premiere
Dir: Nicole Dorsey
Easy Land – world premiere
Dir: Sanja Zivkovic
Kuessipan – world premiere
Dir: Myriam Verreault
Murmur – world premiere
Dir: Heather Young
Raf – world premiere
Dir: Harry Cepka
The Rest Of Us – world premiere
Dir: Aisling Chin-Yee
CONTEMPORARY WORLD CINEMA
And The Birds Rained Down (Il Pleuvait Des Oiseaux) – world premiere
Dir: Louise Archambault
Antigone – world premiere
Dir: Sophie Deraspe
The Body Remembers When The World Broke Open – North American premiere
Dirs: Elle-Máijá Tailfeathers, Kathleen Hepburn
Castle In The Ground – world premiere
Dir: Joey Klein
The Last Porno Show – world premiere
Dir: Kire Paputts
Tammy’s Always Dying – world premiere
Dir: Amy Jo Johnson
White Lie – world premiere
Dirs: Calvin Thomas, Yonah Lewis
MIDNIGHT MADNESS
Blood Quantum – world premiere
Dir: Jeff Barnaby
The Twentieth Century – world premiere
Dir: Matthew Rankin
TIFF Rising Stars
The TIFF Rising Stars programme returns for its ninth year. Kacey Rohl, Mikhaïl Ahooja, Nahéma Ricci, and Shamier Anderson will get access to professional development sessions, industry events, red carpets, mentorship, and networking opportunities.
Each is featured in this year’s Official Selection. Rohl stars in Contemporary World Cinema selection White Lie; Ahooja is featured in the Midnight Madness entry The Twentieth Century; Ricci will appear in Sophie Deraspe’s Contemporary World Cinema selection Antigone; and Anderson will be featured alongside Shailene Woodley, Sebastian Stan, and Jamie Dornan in Drake Doremus’s Special Presentations entry Endings, Beginnings. TIFF will announce its four international Rising Stars on August 15.
“With such a wealth of homegrown talent, selecting the Canadian Rising Stars is never an easy task,” said Cameron Bailey, TIFF artistic director and co-head. “We were blown away by this group and deeply impressed by these young, up-and-coming voices. I have no doubt they’ll go on to do big things, just like the Rising Stars who came before them.”
Filmmaker Lab Participants and Inaugural Talent Accelerator
The 20 directors selected for the 16th annual TIFF Filmmaker Lab mentorship initiative are:
Canada – Joseph Amenta (Ontario); Sofia Bohdanowicz (Ontario); Karen Chapman (Ontario); Aisling Chin-Yee (Quebec); Nicole Dorsey (Ontario); Martin Edralin (Ontario); Drew Lint (Ontario); Samantha Pineda Sierra (British Columbia); Geoff Redknap (British Columbia); and Charlie Tyrell (Ontario).
International – Abbesi Akhamie (USA); Cyril Aris (Lebanon); Andreas Bøggild Monies (Denmark); Chema García Ibarra (Spain); Beza Hailu Lemma (Ethiopia); Jennifer Peedom (Australia); Johanna Pyykkö (Norway); Silvina Schnicer (Argentina); Maya Vitkova-Kosev (Bulgaria); and Charles Williams (Australia).
Four Governors — producer Cassian Elwes, writer-director Patricia Rozema, acting coach Miranda Harcourt, and director Lulu Wang – will serve as guides throughout the four days.
New this year is the TIFF Talent Accelerator, a year-long development programme for promising Canadian female creators. Two Filmmaker Lab directors are part of the inaugural class of six, with two producers and two writers benefitting from other Industry support programmes.
The 2019 TIFF Talent Accelerator participants are:
Directing – Sofia Bohdanowicz, Karen Chapman;
Producing – Melissa Coghlan, Shasha Nakhai; and
Writing – Lisa Jackson, Jasmin Mozaffari.
TIFF Talent Accelerator is made possible by Share Her Journey, TIFF’s fundraising initiative to support female talent in front of and behind the camera. The Lab will run from September 4–7. Filmmaker Lab and Talent Accelerator are programmed by TIFF Industry Programming producer Jane Kim.
PITCH THIS!
Six teams of finallists for Telefilm Canada’s 20th annual PITCH THIS! competition will spend six minutes each pitching their feature-film idea to a live audience and a jury of film professionals. The winning team will receive $15,000 for project development. The competition will take place at the Glenn Gould Studio on September 8 and is open to all press and industry delegates.
The 2019 finallists are:
La Cercanía
Jorge Thielen Armand, Rodrigo Michelangeli
When Oana’s father falls gravely ill in Venezuela, she breaks a 15-year exile in Canada to return home and visit her family one last time. But when she reconnects with Sofia, her estranged half-sister, Oana must commit to helping Sofia transition into adulthood amid the devastation caused by the economic crisis.
What Night Taught Her (documentary)
Lauren Grant, Lisa Rideout, Ashley Cooper
An intimate look inside Canada’s first sex workers’ rights organization and the people who run it. Delving into the ups and downs of three outreach workers’ lives, the film reveals the harsh realities of a job that can mean the difference between life or death.
Blue Flower (Fleur Bleue)
Geneviève Dulude-De Celles, Sarah Mannering, Fanny Drew
When a video of a six-year-old Romanian art prodigy goes viral on the internet, Mihai is sent to evaluate the girl’s production – meaning he has to return to his home country for the first time in 30 years.
Paying For It
Kristy Neville, Natalie Urquhart
After his long-time girlfriend begins sleeping with another man, a painfully introverted cartoonist begins sleeping with prostitutes, to the disapproval of his friends and former lover. An unconventional rom-com comedy about a modern man’s search for love and connection.
Worst Team Ever
Kathleen Jayme, Michael Grand, James Brown (Documentary)
This 80- to 90-minute documentary tells the unfortunate story of what happened to the Vancouver Grizzlies, Canada’s other NBA team – gone, but far from forgotten – who just might have been the worst professional sports franchise in history.
Epochal
Rodrigo Barriuso, Kyah Green
When dementia begins to progress, a transgender woman living with Alzheimer’s at a transphobic nursing home finds herself mentally regressing to a time before her transition. As the complexities of gender identity resurface, her sense of self becomes an emotional battlefield that she will have to defend and uphold.
Click here for the list of Canadian short films. The 44th annual TIFF runs from Sept 5-15.
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'Bachelorette' finale shocker was definitely a game of love - CNN
Almost immediately, the episode started with something that was sure to launch some Twitter debates. Contrary to the wishes of her parents and much of the show's fanbase, "Bachelorette" star/grand prize Hannah Brown interrupted Tyler Cameron's heartfelt proposal on a Grecian mountaintop. Instead of saying yes, she sent the general contractor and his abs back to Jupiter, Florida by telling him that "I love someone else."
This person was, presumably, his fellow "Bachelorette" contestant, Jed Wyatt. The Nashville musician brought out his guitar and strummed a tune during his proposal. While the gesture caused Brown to cry as she accepted, it made naysayers more suspicious that Wyatt was only on the show to promote his career.
These opinions were soon validated.
Although Brown and Wyatt did get engaged, the excitement only lasted for a couple of days. Soon after "The Bachelorette" fans were shown selfie videos of the duo celebrating their romance, Brown confirmed to the cameras that she'd learned of the bombshell People magazine story that claimed he'd left a girlfriend at home to be on the show. He confirmed this news and that short-lived engagement went kaput. (Truthfully, it only took a few gazes at Wyatt's deer-in-headlights eyes and seemingly forced happiness at their engagement to know that this wasn't a "Bachelor" or "Bachelorette" relationship meant to last).
After a tearful confrontation that was perfectly punctuated with reaction shots from the in-studio audience who were watching the finale live, Brown and Wyatt parted. In an interview with "Bachelorette" host Chris Harrison, she admitted that it's been a difficult few weeks and "that's not what I said yes to." She also refused to take Wyatt back when he was brought out to grovel.
So is Brown still looking for love? The "Bachelorette" producers found out when Cameron came onto the stage and she reminded him that "you're an incredible guy and I'm a single girl." Brown asked Cameron out on a date and he agreed -- as long as they'd take things "one step at a time."
As for the future of Wyatt's music career or whether "Bachelor" and "Bachelorette" producers will step up their vetting efforts? Both are to be determined.
https://www.cnn.com/2019/07/31/entertainment/bachelorette-finale-jed-tyler-hannah/index.html
2019-07-31 15:06:00Z
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Watch the first trailer for Martin Scorsese’s Netflix film The Irishman - The Verge
Netflix has released the first look at one of its biggest original films to date: Martin Scorsese’s The Irishman. The film stars Robert De Niro as mob hitman Frank Sheeran and Al Pacino as Jimmy Hoffa.
De Niro has been attached to the project for more than a decade, and Netflix picked up the film in 2017 as part of a larger strategy to buy up prestige-style dramas for its platform. Netflix wants to show that it’s a legitimate player in Hollywood, which has looked at the company warily as it’s worked to upend the film and theater industry.
The adaptation has been a passion project for Scorsese. It’s an adaptation of Charles Brandt’s 2004 book I Heard You Paint Houses, which is about the life of Sheeran, a World War II veteran who becomes a mob hitman for the Bufalino crime family. The trailer introduces Sheeran as he meets Jimmy Hoffa, the president of the Teamsters, and as he goes about on his work.
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The trailer also shows off a bit of the work that was done to de-age the film’s stars, as it’s set across several decades. Scorsese spoke about the process earlier this year, explaining the effort that went into the visual effects, noting that it was a big concern for the production. He explained that because the film will be told out of order, it’ll give audiences a chance to scrutinize the results side by side. We’re seeing more of this in film: Rogue One: A Star Wars Story utilized CGI to re-create Peter Cushing’s likeness and depict a younger Carrie Fisher; Captain Marvel featured extensive work to show off a younger Samuel L. Jackson and Clark Gregg; and Ang Lee’s upcoming film Gemini Man will feature two versions of Will Smith: an older assassin and a younger clone.
It’s pretty clear that Netflix has its sights set on next year’s awards season with The Irishman. Not only does it have an impressive cast of actors who’ve carved out significant careers — in addition to De Niro and Pacino, it also stars Harvey Keitel as Angelo Bruno and Joe Pesci as Russell Bufalino — but it’s about one of the country’s most notorious mob stories: Hoffa’s assassination in 1975. Scorsese’s had good luck in this field; he’s picked up Best Director nominations for Goodfellas, Gangs of New York, and The Departed over the course of his career. This film looks as though it’ll fit nicely alongside those films, featuring sweeping visuals, men in smokey back rooms, and brutal assassinations.
The Irishman is slated to premiere at the New York Film Festival in September, with a streaming debut sometime thereafter.
https://www.theverge.com/2019/7/31/20748476/the-irishman-watch-first-trailer-netflix-martin-scorseses-robert-de-niro
2019-07-31 15:01:05Z
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Billie Eilish Reveals When Her Depression Started | Billie Eilish, Magazine - Just Jared
Billie Eilish is on the cover of Rolling Stone‘s brand new issue.
Here’s what the 17-year-old singer had to share with the mag…
On having to give up dancing due to a hip injury and the subsequent effect on her mental health: “I think that’s when the depression started. It sent me down a hole. I went through a whole self-harming phase — we don’t have to go into it. But the gist of it was, I felt like I deserved to be in pain.”
On an early foray into acting: “I went on, like, two auditions. So lame. This creepy, cold room. All these kids that looked exactly the same. Most actor kids are psychopaths.”
On her first tour when it was just six people and a hotel budget of $100 per night: “It was miserable. Horrible Motel 6’s. Tiny little green rooms. We took it slow on purpose, so it would be more impactful when we got here — but we took it way slower than we needed to.”
For more from Billie, visit RollingStone.com.
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2019-07-31 13:25:00Z
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Lizzo and the dichotomy of big girl praise - CNN
Right now there is probably no one who deserves the title more, given the singer's ability to turn out hits and performances that celebrate her curves and manage to help us celebrate our own bodies, too.
Hot-girl summer?
Hell, Lizzo is having a hot-girl year.
Her brazenly sexual lyrics and willingness to show off her zaftig figure, coupled with plenty of radio play and breathless media coverage about her breakthrough album, "Cuz I Love You," has placed Lizzo at the forefront of pop culture at this moment.
But too much focus on Lizzo as a body-positive warrior diminishes her talent as an artist.
Back in 2014 I wrote a first-person essay about my struggle with body image titled "A fat girl gets naked," which resulted in me being both hailed and roasted in comments online and on social media.
I remember one commenter, in particular, who complained that my words disrespected those who feel there is nothing wrong with their larger bodies. She suggested that I needed to seek therapy to determine what was really wrong with me, instead of blaming it on my weight.
Then there were the "compliments" from those who praised my willingness to go on television and be outgoing, "in spite" of my weight.
When Lizzo appeared on National Public Radio's "Fresh Air with Terry Gross" in May, they had an exchange that highlighted how curvacious women in the entertainment industry are seen by many as trailblazers.
Gross and Lizzo were discussing the cover of the singer's album in which she poses nude, and Gross noted that when she sees such imagery, "it sometimes bothers me 'cause I think like, oh, are you making yourself into a sex object for men?"
"When you're doing it on your album cover, I think it's a really bold statement, and it's a statement for women," Gross said. "Because you are trying to break the mold of what beautiful is."
Lizzo interrupted her, "Yeah, but are you only saying that because I'm fat?"
"Because I feel like if I were a thin woman, maybe that wouldn't be the case," Lizzo said. "I feel like women who are smaller aren't really given the opportunities to be body-positive or role models, because we've been conditioned to believe that women are using their bodies for the male gaze. And I think if I were slimmer, I don't think people would look to me with the same type of like, 'oh, wow; she's so brave; she's doing this and representing everyone' -- that they would. You know I'm saying? Because I'm big."
I slow clapped.
Don't get it twisted, Lizzo would still be a big star, even if she wasn't, well, a big star.
She's a beyond talented singer, rapper and songwriter. She may be the reason that you will likely see more little black girls picking up the flute to play. (Lizzo has been playing since she was 12 and it's a part of her live performances).
This is a woman who walked into this year's Met Gala in a floor length, feathery Marc Jacobs coat and later wore it while sashaying through the airport.
With her authenticity, confidence and candor, Lizzo would probably become famous if she was a cashier at the Dollar Store.
Instead, she is one of the few celebs whose weight, at times, attracts more attention than her artistry.
I thought about this in July when Mindy Kaling posted swimsuit photos of herself in a two piece.
"IDK who needs to hear this but...WEAR A BIKINI IF YOU WANT TO WEAR A BIKINI," Kaling wrote in the caption on her Instagram photo. "You don't have to be a size 0."
Suddenly the "Late Night" star was being praised for being daring and all I could focus on was -- spoiler alert -- Kaling is far from "fat."
Why are we still seemingly blown away by stars wearing what they want, regardless of their weight?
More people look like Lizzo and Kaling than Kendall Jenner or Gigi Hadid, so why do we still act as if they are leading some type of revolution?
Sure, Lizzo's body positivity has become part of her narrative, because it's part of who she is.
But she's talked as much about how her blackness and nerdiness has contributed to her feeling as "other" as her body size.
In an interview with fellow singer Sam Smith for V magazine, Lizzo said she has "felt excluded my entire life, from so many things."
"I have felt excluded from [my] blackness because I wasn't [culturally] well-read on certain things. I feel like, because of that, I never want anyone [else] to ever feel excluded," she said. "So my movement is for everyone. It's about inclusion. And if I am going to fight what I have been marginalized for, I am going to fight for all marginalized people."
By hailing Lizzo as a body trailblazer, we are giving more weight to who she represents than how she represents.
It's ok for us to love Lizzo for being a visibly larger woman dancing, singing and rapping on stage, as long as we recognize that it's her talent that got her there.
https://www.cnn.com/2019/07/31/entertainment/lizzo-plus-size-analysis/index.html
2019-07-31 12:36:00Z
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Spotify’s big bet on podcasts is starting to pay off - The Verge
Spotify’s podcast audience is experiencing huge growth, the company revealed in its earnings report today. The company reports that its podcast audience has grown by over 50 percent since the last quarter, and that it has almost doubled since the start of the year. The company also saw subscriber numbers grow overall, with its total number of premium subscribers growing by 9 percent to 108 million compared to the last quarter, and monthly active users growing to 232 million, an increase of 7 percent that The Wall Street Journal notes exceeded expectations.
The growth in its podcasting business suggests that Spotify’s investment is starting to pay off. Earlier this year the company acquired the podcasting network Gimlet Media as well as Anchor, which produces tools to let creators build, publish, and monetize podcasts. The following month, it acquired Parcast, another podcast network. At the time of the Gimlet acquisition the company said it expected to invest as much as $500 million in its podcasting business, with the company’s CEO Daniel Ek predicting that 20 percent of all listening on the platform will eventually come from podcasts.
Last month Spotify announced a multiyear podcasting deal with Higher Ground Productions, Barack and Michelle Obama’s media company. It will result in podcasts that are exclusive to the streaming service. The deal is similar to the one Higher Ground made with Netflix, which will see its first release with American Factory later this year. Exclusive podcasts will be an important element in getting people to try Spotify rather than sticking with their existing podcasting apps.
Despite a 31 percent year-over-year rise in subscriber revenue to €1.5 billion (around $1.7 billion) and a 34 percent rise in ad-supported revenue to €165 million (around $184 million), Spotify is continuing to lose money with an operating loss of €3 million (around $3.3 million). Its investment in podcasting may be starting to pay off, but sustained profitability remains elusive.
https://www.theverge.com/2019/7/31/20748337/spotify-earnings-q2-2019-podcasting-growth-users-subscribers
2019-07-31 10:47:17Z
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'The Bachelorette': Hannah Gives It Another Go With Runner-Up - Entertainment Tonight
https://www.etonline.com/the-bachelorette-season-15-episode-13-finale-night-two-hannah-brown-live-updates-today-2019-07-30
2019-07-31 10:42:12Z
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