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City ofﬁcials consider ways to direct ‘fast and furious’ growth BY ANN MARIE QUILL

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As the Great Recession ends, growth is “coming at us fast and furious,” Sandy Springs’ community development director says. “We’re seeing lots of growth, and, really, what’s key is, how do we meet this in a way that’s consistent with what the council wants to see?” Community Development Director Angela Parker told members of Sandy Springs City Council during the group’s annual retreat on Jan. 27. “The bricks and mortar follow the dollars, and that’s not the way to grow a community.” Parker and City Manager John McDonough told the council that staﬀ was looking to make changes to the city’s Comprehensive Plan, adopted in 2007, to deal with a “post-recession inundation of growth.” The plan is required to be updated in 2017. McDonough said more than 1,600 building permits were issued in 2014, with 1,600

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Left, Jordan Renfro, a member of the Riverwood International Charter School boys’ varsity basketball team, makes a lay up against the North Springs Charter High School “Spartans” on Feb. 3.

Above, enjoying the action together off the court, North Springs student Julia Rosenthal, second from left, joins Riverwood students, from left, Megan Nohstadt, Carly Clayman and Mary Kate Swanson in celebrating Senior Night during the game held in the Riverwood gym. The “Raiders” beat the “Spartans” 72 to 51.

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White gloves no longer part of police gear BY ELLEN ELDRIDGE

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Google Fiber coming to city Google’s high-speed Internet service, known as Google Fiber, oﬃcially is coming to Sandy Springs and eight other metro communities. Google plans to build a fiber-optic network capable of delivering gigabit speeds. The process will take months. A date for when consumers can sign up for the service was not announced. “The next chapter of the Internet will be written at gigabit speeds,” said Kevin Lo, director of business operations for Google Fiber. “These new networks will lay the foundation for a wave of innovation and economic growth.” Other cities scheduled for Google Fiber are Brookhaven, Atlanta, Avondale Estates, College Park, Decatur, East Point, Hapeville and Smyrna. AT&T earlier this year announced plans for its own high-speed fiber Internet service in Sandy Springs and Atlanta.

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Sometimes, public protest pays off. cluding Buckhead and Sandy Springs, Last year, Fulton County’s commisreopened on Fridays, according to the lisioners cut $5 million from the county’s brary system. The Northside Branch relibrary budget to save money. The move mained closed on Fridays. forced the library system to lay off staff Now, with the new county funds, the members and cut back on the hours of system plans to return to pre-2013 levoperation of the library’s branches. Liels of operation, Vann said. Library offibrary fans publicly objected. cials are scheduled by Feb. 15 to reopen “The voters told us this was a high branches still closed on Fridays, she said. priority,” said new District 3 CommisThe library system last year eliminatsioner Lee May, who represents Bucked about 100 jobs, most of them held head and south Sandy Springs. “Everyby part-time employees, she said. Liwhere I went, people asked about the brary officials now plan this year to hire libraries.” about 100 people, On Jan. 21, the most of them in partcommissioners aptime jobs, to staff the proved a $629 mil- Commission chairman libraries. lion budget that reBut some quesdiscusses the library stores money the tion whether the new decision on page 6. library system needed hires won’t be enough to return the existing to restore service levbranches to 2014 preels offered in the past. reduction hours of operation and to staff “Restoring hours is wonderful for the new branches. County officials compatrons, but is it wonderful for the libined the library, arts and cultural and braries?” asked Katharine Suttell, presicooperative extension budgets and indent of the Northside Library Associacreased the total budgeted by more than tion. $3.6 million over the final 2014 budget. Suttell, who said she managed the With the influx of cash, library offiBuckhead Library from 2000 to 2004, cials are working to re-hire employees worried that even with the restoration of in order to restore services and hours of hours, other library needs would not be operation by April 1, said Kelly Robinmet. “Every branch is short-staffed ...,” son Vann, public relations and marketshe said. “Yes, there will be more staff, ing director for the Atlanta-Fulton Pubbut when you consider the difference lic Library System. between the staff now and when I was Originally, after the cuts, all but two there, that’s a huge difference.” of the library system’s 33 branches were Still, she welcomed the news of the closed on Fridays as the system reduced restoration of hours at all branches. the number of hours the libraries were “It’s a first step,” she said. “I just want open to 996 hours a week from 1,562. to point out it’s not that easy. You just Some of those hours or operations don’t restore the hours and then everywere restored and some branches, inthing is fine. It’s a complicated process.”

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multifamily units under construction or recently completed. The city heard 30 rezoning cases in 2014, compared to 19 in 2013. He said that constantly handling rezoning requests on a case-by-case basis is not a good way to develop a city, nor are the moratoriums the city put in place in 2014, including stops on apartment and convenience store permits. “We’ve been in a reactive mode for a little while,” McDonough said. “If we’ve got the right comprehensive plan and the right instruments to support that, we should not have to put in place a moratorium, so that’s our goal going forward,” McDonough said, adding that the Perimeter Community Improvement District has very few undeveloped parcels, and that the right plan should ensure good growth and development in that area. Parker said the city’s current comprehensive plan was developed when the economy was vastly different than today, and lacks sufficient detail regarding density and the Roswell Road and PCID areas. She recommended using consultants and a market analysis to update the plan, and including plans for smaller areas in an effort to build communities. She said the city’s efforts to develop a new “downtown” around its planned City Hall and Performing Arts Center could transform the area around it. “The

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A decade ago, officers had to remember people’s phone numbers; now, nearly everyone has a smartphone with a digital address book. Access to information makes police work much easier, but can make it more dangerous. Sandy Springs Police Sgt. Scott Levy said multi-tasking is definitely a challenge brought on by new technology. “Just because we’re cops doesn’t mean we don’t get distracted,” he said. He added that gaps exist in attention when a person tries to do any two or more things at the same time. “The totality of circumstance is what we consider,” he said. Sandy Springs Capt. Steve Rose said that when he started his law enforcement career, in 1976, officers had little gear at all. “I came on shortly after the earth cooled,” he joked. He said he worked with Emory University for about eight months as he applied for work in a police department. He then joined Chamblee’s police force for three years before transferring to Fulton County police in 1979. In 1982, officers didn’t have much more than a car, a radio and a pair of white gloves to direct traffic. “We didn’t even have the reflective vests for safety,” he said, adding that police used rotary phones on the 911 system until the early 1990s. Fecht said supervisors can now track patrol cars in Dunwoody, Sandy Springs and Johns Creek with ChatComm, the emergency dispatch system. Dispatchers can send a Dunwoody patrol car to a location that is technically in Sandy Springs, but closer to the Dunwoody car. “Supervisors can track where each Dunwoody PD car is,” Fecht said. “It’s run through our reporting software and you can pull up on a map where you are

and where other units are.” Rose said he worked in the ‘70s with the Motorola radios that only had one to three channels, and officers from Chamblee shared a channel with Doraville. When cellular technology started to become available, he watched the “cool guy” detectives flaunt “bag phones” issued to those on-call. “I called it the ‘Don Johnson-Miami Vice phone’ that cost 35 or 40 cents a minute, but didn’t work most of the time,” Rose said. Fecht said all Dunwoody patrol vehicles have laptops, and the new Chevrolet Tahoes have a “mobile jetpack” that gives officers access to 4G Internet. “As a detective, I had a Rolodex instead of a computer,” Rose said. He said he had one Rolodex for support numbers and another Rolodex for “frequent flyers.” The first computers that came into Fulton County police were donated, Rose said. “They were the 286 models with 40-megabyte hard drives,” he said. Even Fecht, who started his law enforcement career just nine years ago, laughed thinking back on how he had to use stencils to draw accident scenes and he struggled to read handwritten reports. “So we don’t have the phrase ‘five copies, press hard,’ because gone are the days of paper ticket books,” Fecht said. Rose said he remembers having to make as many as seven copies of a burglary report. Now, an officer only needs to print two copies of a traffic ticket, one for himself and one for the driver. And Dunwoody police use thermal printers, which use heat instead of ink, are more legible and efficient, Fecht said. “Cars aren’t built for speed anymore, they’re rolling information centers,” Rose said.

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Eaves: ‘We learned very quickly our libraries were a priority’ Last year, the Fulton County Commission needed the help of the residents of Fulton County, who stepped up in a big way. They let us know what priorities they wanted us to focus on and which priorities they wanted to back up with resources and dollars. We learned very quickly that our libraries were such a priority. However, it was around this time last year that the Board of Commissioners had to handle budgetary issues. The Great Recession took its toll on local governments and we were no exception. We made every effort for years to avoid raising property taxes to pay for the programs and services our constituents demanded. By the time we had to put together a budget for 2014, our reserves dwindled, declining property values left us with less money coming in, and we faced a series of tough calls to make. As a result, we proposed raising our millage rate and we made cuts to county departments and services. The library budget was one of them. As a member of the library board, this was an especially bitter pill to swallow. At the same ceremonies where we broke ground on new branches in Alpharetta, Roswell, Palmetto, Capitol View and Wolf Creek, I was also answering reporters’ questions about why we were cutting back library operations and building new facilities at the same time. My office received calls and emails from so many library users, in north Fulton, south Fulton, and the city of Atlanta, talking about not having this valuable resource every day of the week. Parents told me about the time they spent working with their children on school projects, using library reference materials on Friday afternoons. Unemployed residents told me how desperately they needed to use the computer terminals in our branches as they scoured the web looking for their next opportunity. The impact of this decision began to emerge and I quickly realized the cuts, especially the loss of Friday hours and reductions on other days, needed to be reversed. Later in 2014, library board members agreed to shift resources around to minimize the impact of cuts to our patrons. Staff was moved, schedules were adjusted to provide for some badly needed coverage on Fridays. The total weekly hours among 34 branches were reduced from 1,562 in 2013 to 996 in 2014. That still meant we were open longer hours than our counterparts in Gwinnett, DeKalb and Cobb Counties. Still more needed to be done, and my fellow commission-

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ers, many of whom heard the same complaints from our constituents, made funding the library to the fullest a top priority. It became obvious as we consulted with staff on a countywide budget for 2015, that moving staff and adjusting hours wasn’t enough. We needed to add hours to the schedule. I am especially proud of JOHN H. three elements of the budget EAVES passed in January: unanimous support that bridged district GUEST COLUMN and party lines, no tax increase to our citizens, and a restoration of library hours to their 2013 levels. By Feb. 15, Friday hours will be added to the branches that were cut last year. By April 1, the hours will be restored to their 2013 levels. The library system’s mission statement says, “the Atlanta-Fulton Public Library System serves as a cultural and intellectual center that enriches the community and empowers all residents with essential tools for lifelong learning.” That quest for lifelong learning should never take a day off. It is of so much importance to our community that residents voted to fund our ambitious capital overhaul and building program of the entire library system. As the newest branches at Wolf Creek and Palmetto demonstrate, Fulton County is remaking the traditional library and building new branches with the 21st Century library patron in mind. That will help users better interact with technology, and integrate technology into every aspect of the library experience, from searching for materials to digitally checking out. This would not have been possible without the support of voters at the polls. This past year, you voted once more for the libraries, with calls and emails. As we prepare for the grand opening of our newest branch in East Roswell, we are striving to prove that your efforts have paid off with a system that is the envy of every other county in this state. The biggest message I want you to take away from this is that Fulton County listens and our citizens’ needs do matter. John H. Eaves is the chairman of the Fulton County Commission. SS

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Ash Wednesday mark reminds us ‘we are made of dust’ BY ELLEN ELDRIDGE

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Once a year, some Christians start preparing for Easter by having priests mark their foreheads with ashes. The ashes physically remind them of their mortality. The holy day of Ash Wednesday, which arrives Feb. 18 this year, begins the annual 40-day period called Lent, which leads to and ends with Easter. In some churches, Ash Wednesday services include having ashes placed on worshippers’ foreheads in the sign of the cross. The Rev. Michael Sullivan of Holy Innocents’ Episcopal Church in Sandy Springs described Lent is a spiritual journey. “By adding a daily practice of denying myself something, I bring greater intentionality to my life with God,” Sullivan said. “For me, Lent is not so much a time to beat myself up and feel bad about myself as it is a time to go within; to take God more deeply into my spiritual journey.” Sullivan said the ashes used to mark parishioner’s foreheads on Ash Wednesday are prepared from the palm fronds of the previous year’s Palm Sunday or Passion Sunday, which is the Sunday before Easter. “Ashes remind us that we are made of dust, and that one day, our bodies will return to the earth,” Sullivan said. “Yet at the same time, our dust awaits resurrection at Easter, God’s promise of new life in all things.” Rev. Samuel Candler of the Cathedral of St. Philip said making the congregation stop and take note of the reason for Ash Wednesday can be tough. Episcopalians should celebrate the holy day purposefully, not out of habit, he said. “It is a totally voluntary, devotional act, and one should take part only if he or she wants to,” he said. Sullivan said that in today’s world, marked by instantaneous everything, it is more important than ever to take the Lenten journey. “We don’t naturally practice patience and presence in our daily lives so much anymore,” he said. “Attention, real attention, to others and to our own lives is, well, strained at best.” Craig Wilson attends a variety of services at Holy Innocents’ Episcopal Church in Sandy Springs. He admits he has fallen into the “rut” of making Lent the “season of ‘shoulds,” but this year he said he looks forward to welcoming God into everything he does. “Held in this light, I am anticipating Ash Wednesday as the ‘beginning of the beginning,’ with Lent being a season of ‘doing with’ instead of ‘doing without’; a season of ‘cans’ instead of a season of ‘shoulds,’” Wilson said. “I can be more intentional and more prayerful in all of my activities, and I can be more aware of

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wiches, chicken and rice, and black bean soup, to name a few, as well as weekday specials and specialties of the house. There’s also an extensive cocktail menu in case you’d like to get your Mojito on. We ordered a sampling of appetizers including the empanadas platter, the Papa Rellena and a Cuban version of the Puerto Rican favorite, Mofongo. The empanadas were large with a flaky crust and fillings of ground beef, shredded chicken, ham and cheese, and cream cheese with guava. The shredded chicken was particularly flavorful and the cheese with guava had a nice sweet note. The Papa Rellena, a stuffed potato ball or croquette, was good but a little salty, and needed more of the ground beef and onion filling. The Cuban style Mofongo, sometimes called Fufu, was a creamy mash of plantains, garlic, onion and bits of pork, but also on the salty side. Papi’s large entrees will satisfy the hungriest of diners. The Vaca Frita and the Pollo Vaca Frita, were easily the hits of the meal. Vaca Frita in Spanish literally means, “fried cow.” Both dishes, the cow and the chicken version, were tender, shredded meat with garlic, onions and spices of cumin and oregano. The Pollo Vaca Frita also had green and red peppers in the dish giving it a bit more of a Spanish flare. The grilled fish had good flavor needing perhaps a hotter pan to crisp the skin and make the flesh just a little flakier. The New Year’s resolution dieter in our crowd pronounced the grilled chicken a winner as well. The only dish that slightly disappointed was the Masitas de Puerco. This is the dish that first won me over to Cuban food. It’s a simple preparation of fried pork chunks, and when done correctly, it’s crispy tender porcine goodness. Papi’s version came up a bit short with the pork cooked well past its tender moment. The entrees come with an assortment of sides from tasty black beans to flavorful yellow rice to plantains two ways; Tostone’s, unripe fried green plantains and Maduros, fried ripe plantains; the

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Until you can dust off your twotoned Ricky Riccardo jacket and fly off to Havana, Papi’s is a good local destination for Cuban cuisine. Papi’s Cuban and Caribbean Grill is located at 216 Ponce de Leon Ave., 404-607-1525 or papisgrill.com

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Turtle Tours Saturday, Feb. 14, 11 a.m.-12 p.m. – Heritage Sandy Springs’ “Turtle Tours,” an educational series appropriate for children ages 2-5, begins its new season. This month, children learn that “counting is fun.” Free; donations encouraged. No reservation required. 6075 Sandy Springs Circle, Sandy Springs, 30328. For more information, email: kbrigance@ heritagesandysprings.org, call 404-851-9111 or visit: www.heritagesandysprings.org.

Georgia Boy Choir Saturday, Feb. 21, 7 p.m. – Enjoy a performance by the Georgia Boy Choir and vis-

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structor Jewelry Market at the Spruill Education Center. Fundraiser showcases beginner to professional-level artists. Browse precious metals, glass, beads, gemstones and more. Free admission. Open to all. 5339 Chamblee Dunwoody Rd., Dunwoody, 30338. Call 770394-3447 or go to: www.spruillarts.org for details.

Lauda Musicam Sunday, Feb. 22, 3 p.m. – Lauda Musicam performs Renaissance and Baroque intradas, fanfares, and other celebratory music, part of the Concert with a Cause series at Church of the New Covenant. Free. Open to the community. 3330 Chestnut Dr., Doraville, 30340. Call 404-314-1891 or go to: www.laudamusicam.org for additional information.

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Love Stories Tuesday, Feb. 10, 6 p.m. – Celebrate Valen-

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12 p.m. Birdwatching both days. Open to all. Free, reservations recommended. Call 770-394-3322 for details. Visit: www.dunwoodynature.org to sign up. 5343 Roberts Dr., Dunwoody, 30338.

Coyotes! Saturday, Feb. 14, 10-11:30 a.m. – Citizen scientists needed! Biologist Chris Mowry tells you how to help his team research metro Atlanta coyote populations. $10 per person. RSVP to 678315-0836. Blue Heron Nature Preserve, 4055 Roswell Rd., Atlanta, 30342. Find out more by visiting: www.bhnp.org.

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Saturday, Feb. 21, 1-3 p.m. – Curious about Feng Shui? Participants learn what it is and how it works. Free and open to the public. Appropriate for adult, college, high school and middle school audiences. Sandy Springs Branch Library, 395 Mount Vernon Highway, Sandy Springs, 30328. Email: comments@co.fulton.ga.us or call 404-303-6130 to learn more.

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Bird Count Saturday, Feb. 14, 9:30 a.m. – The Dunwoody Nature Center holds classes for adults and children to participate in the Great Backyard Bird Count. Learn species identification, the importance of the bird count, basic observation, and how to correctly enter the tally. Computers onsite. Additional classes: Feb. 14, 11 a.m., and Feb. 16, 10 a.m. and

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 Ean Huang  Holy Spirit Preparatory School, senior While some of his peers spent the summer vacationing at the beach or tanning seaside, Ean Huang was helping the Szechwan province of China recover from a massive earthquake that claimed almost 200 lives and left 12,000-15,000 injured. The Holy Spirit Preparatory School senior has spent the past two summers in the village of Ya’an, aiding in earthquake relief endeavors in a multitude of ways, from teaching elementary school to making site visits to organizing a benefit concert. After viewing news reports on the April 2013 disaster, Ean was struck by the massive destruction and was immediately driven to act. After being turned down by several earthquake relief agencies, Ean was placed with a non-governmental organization, Ingenious Love, which assigned him to volunteer in Ya’an. Ean’s volunteer duties included teaching English and history to elementary school classes as large as 50 students each as well as making home visits to victims to determine the level of aid they would receive. Now emotionally invested in the fate of the villagers, Ean returned the next summer and found his work was far from finished. Struck by the poverty the earthquake had left in its wake, Ean organized a concert to raise funds for relief efforts; his work included recruiting musicians, finding sponsors, advertising the event, announcing the acts, and playing the introductory piano piece. The hard work paid off: The concert raised around $54,866 American dollars for relief efforts. Ean finds volunteering to be an essential duty for teenagers. “Personally, I think, as teenagers, we definitely have some responsibility for society, and we are gradually learning to take on more as we become young

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What’s Next: Ean has applied to a dozen colleges and will make his decision this spring. He plans to major in engineering and continue volunteering in college. Additionally, he is going to Szechwan again this summer to further aid the earthquake victims. This article was written by Catherine Benedict, a student at The Westminster Schools.

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Police Blotter

It looks like they entered from a garage window.  5700

block of Roswell Road—On Jan. 23, a man with a small, semi-automatic weapon robbed a gas station at around 5 a.m. An undisclosed amount of cash was taken.

Sandy Springs Jan. 16-30 The following incidents and arrests are some but not all, of the reports ﬁled with Sandy Springs police from Jan. 16 through Jan. 30.

following information was provided by the Sandy Springs Police Department from its records and is presumed to be accurate. Snarky comments courtesy of Capt. Steve Rose.

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 The

ROBBERY  7900

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friend coming over. (At 2:30 a.m.?) Two men who came in confronted him, and one pointed a rifle at him. His roommate, in his room, came down. They were looking for money, but the residents did not have it. The men with the rifle took some other personal items and then fled.

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block of Roswell Road—on Jan. 28, two men robbed a cellphone store around 3 p.m. One pulled a gun, robbed the three victims, and the pair then fled with an undisclosed amount of cash. The oﬃcers arrived and locked the store down and began speaking with the three victims. While doing so, the victims looked outside the store at a man trying to enter the store. They told the oﬃcer the man was one of the two who robbed them. The man was standing at the door. The cops asked the victims if they were sure, and

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201500013

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Location:

6430 Roswell Rd (SR-9)

Request:

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Petitioner:

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201404018

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201500020

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201500025

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Request:

A primary variance from Section 109.225 (a) (1) & (2) of the Stream Buffer Protection Ordinance for relief from the 25 undisturbed buffer to enclose a carport

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SANDY SPRINGS NOTICE OF VARIANCE PETITION

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2015 State of the City Breakfast

Mayor Rusty Paul Tuesday, February 24

Westin Atlanta Perimeter North 7:30 AM -9:00 AM Tickets @ sspchamber.com

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