Failure to Supervise at WELS Headquarters. Failure of Counselor To Report Felonies

Joel Hochmuth was arrested on Tuesday and confessed.
He was fired on Friday.
WELS DPs are known for walking into a pastor's office and firing him on the spot.

SuzieQ has left a new comment on your post "Warning to the WELS - From Head Elder and SusieQ":

I would suggest you read the criminal complaint and you will have a better understanding why I find the Synod President's  slow actions in firing Hochmuth puzzling. The complaint is extremely graphic and describes in detail what was depicted in the videos. I would have fired him in 30 seconds after reading it. The more important thing right now is looking for victims.

The only purpose to carry a flash drive with graphic man/boy child pornographic video and photos would be to view the information you have stored on that. It's not used to prop to open the door or to clean your fingernails.

It would certainly deter anyone from looking at children performing sex acts on grown men if they knew their employer could access their their computer at anytime. This is the case in most large corporations and educational institutions.

It is not an invasion of privacy. When you are at work you have no expectation of privacy, concerning anything you bring into the work place. This includes CDs, flash drives, emails. IM and web browsing.

As I covered previously in this response. There would be no reason to bring child sexual pornography to work unless you were going to access it using your employers computer. He wouldn't have been holding it up to the light to look at it.

And in hind sight it would be advisable for WELS Synod to monitor their employees more closely, thus lowering the level of temptation. And to quote a famous person, "What have you got to hide?"

It is obvious to me that Hochmuth had this child pornography at his Synod Office out of fear his wife or son may find it. So it does look like WELS Synod was the weak link.

WELS has the obligation to be swift and firm. For your information his office at WELS is not in his home, so all your rigamarole and misquoting of the law is useless babble. If the FBI finds reason to search other offices and computers at Synod I am confident they will.

The FBI knows exactly who Joel was sharing the child pornography with. And they don't even need his cooperation or anyone elses to prove him guilty.

They have his confession and evidence, he's going away.

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GJ - Some basic questions are:

• How did the local area network administrator at 2929 Mayfair Road manage to overlook the use of images and videos that are a federal crime to view, let alone share?
• When did this counseling take place? Before or during Hochmuth's tenure at 2929 as director of communications?
• Why did the counselor, who worked with Mr. and Mrs. Hochmuth, fail to report the crime, as required by law? 
• Was it through WLCFS?
• Pastors Glende, Ski, Patterson, and Gurgel have recently excommunicated members for questioning them. Is child pornography also an excommunication offense, or is that a trivial matter in comparison?
• Hochmuth lawyered up fast, with the best criminal defense attorney in the state. Who is paying those enormous fees?

Martin Spriggs

Martin Spriggs's Summary

I am a general technologist with a public ministerial background. Together the two form a mix that supports ministry efforts within WELS that involve the use of technology. My primary goal is to share the love of Christ with as many people as possible through whatever means are available.

Specialties
Graphic design, web design, programming, project management, management, leadership

Martin Spriggs's Experience
Chief Technology Officer Wisconsin Evangelical Lutheran Synod October 2004 – Present (7 years 2 months)

Provide vision for and management of technology within WELS. This includes infrastructure and applications development, communication tools, and general web presence.

Consultant Unisys Public Company; 10,001+ employees; UIS; Information Technology and Services industry 2004 – 2004 (less than a year)

Director of Operations Qwest Communications Public Company; 10,001+ employees; Q; Telecommunications industry 1999 – 2004 (5 years)

Manage the consulting practice and general operations for Midwest Office

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GJ - Spriggs gave sermons in Summerville that were verbatim copies of Hybels, Willow Creek. Even the inflections were copied. He promised to stop, but started again. He was not removed for false doctrine but for being dishonest.

WELS fed me a story through a friend that Spriggs was getting another pastoral call. I checked out the story and found it false. The idea was to plant a fake story so WELS could call me a liar. They tried it again, with a story of a prominent pastor being an adulterer. WELS is allergic to the truth - typical of an abusive sect.

Spriggs was in charge of the LAN at The Love Shack when Church and Change was registering WELS members and pastors from the WELS.net website for their next conference. One pastor said, "But SP Gurgel told me that Church and Change does not exist anymore."

I said, "Here is the link. Try it for yourself." I believe that clever addition to the WELS.net website was taken down by Mark Schroeder. I would have enjoyed the Come-to-Jesus meeting about that link. I heard Church and Change was furious that they had to report their activities to the Synod President. The idea!

Since Spriggs teaches for The Sausage Factory, he should add this to his bio: "Asleep at the switch when  the local area network I manage was being used for child porn."


That would be the best he could do, because if he knew and did nothing...

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From 29A: My wife said ... [comment deleted by request]. Women do not like that kind of stuff and when he goes up the river, neither will the other cons. Cons usually get these or give these kind of guys the justice system did not do, if you know what I mean.

The question now becomes how many others at the Love Shack knew about this and also in the synod schools and even throughout the local congregations?

Also is the Appleton and Texas gangs going to call you a liar about this when it is all over the media? Does that mean the FBI agents are liars too? The WELS may want to be very careful on this issue because they could end up on the wrong side of the law themselves.

Luther Rocks: People in Bondage

Luther Rocks: People in Bondage:

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Assault victim sues school, synod - JSOnline

Assault victim sues school, synod - JSOnline:


A civil lawsuit was filed Wednesday on behalf of a girl who was sexually abused by a religion teacher at Wisconsin Lutheran High School beginning when she was a freshman there in 2001.

The lawsuit accuses the school and church officials of negligence and of covering up the episode. It seeks unspecified damages.

The teacher, Brent Biesterfeld, now 35, was sentenced in July 2002 to 18 months in prison on two counts of second-degree sexual assault of a child for assaulting two female students both on and off school grounds.

The lawsuit seeks damages from Biesterfeld, the school, the Wisconsin Evangelical Lutheran Synod and the school principal, as well as four insurance companies.

Robert L. Habush, a lawyer representing the girl, who was identified under the alias of Jane Doe, has asked that the lawsuit not reveal the girl's name because of the humiliation, distress and other injuries she has suffered.

According to the lawsuit:

School and church officials should have been aware of a 1999 criminal report on file with the Milwaukee Police Department that accused Biesterfeld of engaging in illicit sexual activities with a minor. No charges were brought as a result of that report.

School and church officials had a duty to disclose the past allegations against Biesterfeld, who was hired by the school in November 1998, the lawsuit states. He was also the basketball and soccer coach for the school, 330 N. Glenview Ave.

The assaults that led to charges against Biesterfeld began in the spring of 2001 when the girl was 15 and in the second semester of her freshman year at the school, according to court records. She was a student in Biesterfeld's religion class and was a member of the teams he coached. According to the lawsuit, Biesterfeld had ongoing sexual contact with the girl between April 2001 and March 2002, when Biesterfeld was arrested.


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GJ - I published information about this, here -

http://ichabodthegloryhasdeparted.blogspot.com/2008/05/wisconsin-synod-facing-another-lawsuit.html

Lutheran official charged with three counts of child porn possession - TODAY'S TMJ4 - Police Looking for Victims. Video Report Linked

Lutheran official charged with three counts of child porn possession - TODAY'S TMJ4:


By The WTMJ News Team

CREATED NOV. 16, 2011 - UPDATED: NOV. 17, 2011



WAUKESHA - 52-year-old Joel Hochmuth, the Director of Communications for the Wisconsin Evangelical Lutheran Synod, has been charged with three counts of possessing child porn.

According to a criminal complaint, FBI agents found at least 310 pictures and at least 38 videos of child pornography located on Hochmuth's computer and thumb drives.

Also, authorities report at one point, the Hochmuth's wife caught him viewing these images, and they had gone to counseling as a result.

The Waukesha County District Attorney's office was working Thursday to draft a criminal complaint with child pornography charges against a high-ranking official with the Wisconsin Evangelical Lutheran Synod.

Waukesha Police detectives report they found several images of child pornography inside Joel Hochmuth's home. Authorities say he may have been distributing child pornography as well.

He was to face a judge in a Waukesha County courtroom on Thursday afternoon.

Police took Hochmuth, 52, into custody at the Waukesha County Jail.  He is the Director of Communications for WELS.

Hochmuth was arrested at his home in Waukesha on Wednesday evening.

According to a Waukesha Police Sergeant, the FBI cyber crime task force discovered someone at Hochmuth's home downloading child porn.

That sergeant told TODAY'S TMJ4 a significant number of child porn images were found in Hochmuth's home and investigators are discovering more Wednesday night, as they go through additional hard drives.

TODAY'S TMJ4's Steve Chamraz also spoke with the president of the WELS church.

He told TODAY'S TMJ4 on the phone, that "this is not in keeping with the Joel Hochmuth he knows. And he is praying it is all some kind of misunderstanding."


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Warning to the WELS - From Head Elder and SusieQ

Head Elder has left a new comment on your post "Wisconsin Synod President Claims Uncertainty 48 Ho...":

WARNING to the WELS:

It's time for us all to revisit the slippery slope. Notice - you are all on it.

Criminal facts are not gossip and attempts to call them gossip are only meant to deflect from the truth.

Continually stating the obvious that we are all sinful is an attempt to deflect sin itself. Also statements of "who are we to judge and don't judge until you walk in other people's shoes," are contemptuous to God's Words and warnings.

• If you see a crime being committed and you do nothing and use the excuse "who are you to judge, you are as guilty as the person committing crime.
• If you really believe in the "who are you to judge" philosophy - 
• then hire a pedophile as a babysitter. 
• Since  - who are you to judge.

If you are a member of the WELS for the warm fuzzy of the Gospel and you ignore the law, you might think about changing churches. Since there are many church denominations that run solely on "Who am I to Judge" and "you can't walk in their shoes" and "everyone should love and forgive everyone regardless", even the unrepentant. You should have no problem finding that kind of church.

God's Word is absolute and clear.

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GJ - Two teens in my Michigan congregation died, struck down by drunk drivers. One was just recovering from his personal problems. The young woman was becoming a champion swimmer, the pride of her family.

A local WELS pastor was so drunk that he piled his car into a utility pole, injuring himself and the pole. I asked who it was. That was a secret, the circuit pastor said. Nothing was done. I had already asked the responsible people to help an obvious out-of-control situation. The lack of concern for this person's family was quite disturbing. I did what I could, and that was used against me.

Covering up for the guilty is doubly wrong when fake severity is used to get rid of laity and pastors.

The message of WELS has been - "The bigger the crime, the more we will cover for you, if you remain faithful to Holy Mother Synod."

 No wonder Wisconsin Lutheran College invited Roman Catholic archbishop Weakland to lecture to them. He was a deviant who blamed child molestation on the children, had an affair with a young man, and embezzled church funds to pay blackmail to his lover.

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Synod President the Rev. Mark Schroeder issued a brief statement "praying for all who have been affected by the events"

Why not say who those souls are? Children forced into sexual bondage to be sexually abused and used in terrible ways. Souls he should care about and want to help, not sweep under a rug.

Why was it allowed into the Synod offices? They are all very learned men - they often say so. They know the Devil exists. So why not stop the temptation as other schools and businesses do?

Every Sunday I listen to how I was born sinful and need to examine myself daily. Do you think they might apply this to the Synod Headquarters?

I hope Joel Hochmuth the ex-communications director has opened wide the door for the FBI to come in and do a clean sweep of the whole Synod.

Begin honoring your positions and stop allowing students to post videos feigning homosexuality online. It's not funny. It's disrespectful and harmful to other people. It's not acceptable behavior for our future Pastors and teachers.

Quit talking out of both sides of your mouths and act accordingly. If you can't do it with Jesus sitting in front of you DON'T DO IT!

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SolaSister has left a new comment on your post "Warning to the WELS - From Head Elder and SusieQ":

I couldn't say a louder AMEN to this post. As refugees from the WELS and LCMS both, we became sick to the teeth about hearing the "Good news of God's Luv" without a solitary word about hell, judgment and the wrath to come. (Why we need the Gospel in the first place.) Sermons were a joke. Literally. At St. John's Lutheran, Wauwatosa, home to numerous seminary faculty, our family of 7 were treated to a sermon still joked about today. It was centered around Green Eggs and Ham, written by the great theologian, Dr. Seuss. My children began laughing quietly until the whole pew was shaking. We never went back. The insult of climbing into that venerable old pulpit and giving us Dr. Seuss about says it all. Pale, ineffectual, passionless men in skirts--having a form of godliness, but with zero power.

We are familiar with the church that Mr. Hochmuth attends. It was the first church we visited when moving to Waukesha a few years ago. We were interested in their school also for our children. We walked in and were greeted with the sight of a drum set. Bad sign. We looked at the worship folder to learn that one of the hymns was Bette Midler's, You are the Wind Beneath My Wings. We got up and walked out. Trinity Lutheran is afflicted with the same disease as all the other Lutheran churches. It's all grace and not a word about the law. So parishioners in these churches are increasingly lawless. I could go on for hours. I weep over this. Our children have been harmed by this spiritually. Imagine laughing at the content of a sermon. Welcome to the WELS and the LCMS.

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GJ - Faithful pastors and laity in the Olde Synodical Conference have to listen to snide comments about the Means of Grace liturgy, the "boring and irrelevant" Book of Concord, and real sermons.

One WELS pastor said, "It is very difficult to be in ..." I could name the place, but fill in the blank. One pastor told me he is the only one who is NOT a Shrinker at his meetings.

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rlschultz has left a new comment on your post "Warning to the WELS - From Head Elder and SusieQ":

I am not convinced that this will be the straw that breaks the camel's back for the WELS. As those who have posted have said, there really is not any condemnation from the Law taking place from official synod mouthpieces. There seems to be this veiled denial as if to say, "there must be some sort of misunderstanding".

Law enforcement and prosecutors are certainly capable of making mistakes. However, there are also trained not to move forward unless they are fairly certain that an arrest will not end up in an easy acquittal. Most cases end with a plea bargain. Even if it is all just a big mistake, law enforcement will never admit to a mistake for fear of reprisal and loss of credibility.

The images and videos seized are enumerated. Whether you like sting operations or not, it has been developed into case law and it would be highly unlikely that the charges would be dropped on a technicality.

As has been pointed out here on Ichabod, there is this sentiment within the WELS that those who are on the payroll are above reproach.

Facts are stubborn things. It may also be that so many within the WELS want to be part of something bigger, that being the synod. Just look at how the synod minders get all worked up in a lather over the smallest of criticisms. This is how die-hard sports fans behave about their favorite team. An example would be how nutty Packer fans can act in public.

Moi?

Luther Rocks: Pure Gold

Luther Rocks: Pure Gold:

Pure Gold

Much ado about the WELS in the news and the blogosphere as of late. It reminded me of a blog post by my pastor last April. May those who struggle find some comfort...Read on...

A Primer on Anfechtung | St. Antony’s Cave: A Primer on Anfechtung Posted on April 18, 2011 by Rev. Paul R. Harris

As Jerry’s fellow comedian says, “That’s pure gold Jerry; pure gold I’m telling you” when Jerry tosses him a joke as a bone to his sycophantic friend. Well my friends I toss not a bone but the whole steak. First I whet your appetite with this appetizer from Johann Gerhard: “; [T]hus does God the Lord also often allows the members of Christ to experience such anguish, so that they think nothing other than that God has forsaken them and will no longer look upon them in grace. We find such examples of temptations especially in David and Job. And with such temptations God more often assails, not the ordinary Christian, but rather the greatest saints, who have increased more than others in the knowledge of God” (History of the Suffering, Gerhard, 275)...finish the article here.

Extra Nos: Why ex-Calvinists fall for Walther

Extra Nos: Why ex-Calvinists fall for Walther:

One will notice that ex-Calvinists becoming Lutheran get attracted to C. F. W. Walther.

Why is that the case?

Because most ex-Calvinists becoming Lutherans had the sad experience of being burnt by Calvinists teachings. You can read about their testimonies in the Internet. However, in their excitement to hurriedly know Lutheranism, rather than scrutinising the Book of Concord and going through the Scriptures evaluating if the Confession complies with Scripture, they are coached instead to read C F Dubya's works. The light starts to burn specially bright when they get to read how C F Dubya hated Calvinism.

Calvinism is not just confined to TULIP, but it is a whole world view, a paradigm, a spirit of doing theology. It is no mystery but it is well documented in history books that Lutherans have had issues with Calvinists as well as Zwinglians alike.

Where I came from, we have a funny saying, it is not the cops who hate thieves, but fellow thieves themselves.

Of course, when Lutherans read of Walther's critique of Calvinism, the Lutheran hears him singing their refrain. Walther did not like Calvinism, but his paradigm in collapsing atonement with justification and in his belief in unconditional election, makes him a psychological Calvinist himself. What is a psychological Calvinist? It is someone who operates in Calvinistic paradigm without realising or being conscious of it.

Unfortunately, only a few well educated and astute American Lutherans can see and recognise this in Walther. Those that protests and who point this out are ganged up, bullied and hurriedly shut up.

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Joel Hochmuth Update - Disavowed by Former Employer

Joel Hochmuth taught at Kennesaw State University
and gave a presentation at the WELS Youth Rally, 2009.

The Preliminary Hearing is at 10:00 AM December 16, 2011.

These are terms of his bond:

Not to use or possess any computer or any instrumentality that can access the internet. Not to use or possess any pornography. Defendant to have no unsupervised contact with any minors under the age of 18 (except his own children).


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http://web.kennesaw.edu/news/stories/kennesaw-state-university-statement-joel-hochmuth

Kennesaw State University Statement on Joel Hochmuth

KENNESAW, Ga. (Nov. 18, 2011) ­­– Kennesaw State University Provost W. Ken Harmon issued the following statement today to the campus community:

“News reports from Wisconsin media outlets have come to the attention of Kennesaw State University officials regarding a former instructor employed at the university from 2003-06, who has been charged with child pornography.

Joel W. Hochmuth, 52, presently resides in Waukesha, Wisconsin.The former employee has not been affiliated with the university since 2006.

KSU officials have not been contacted by law enforcement officials or by the media in connection with this case.  However, we thought it appropriate to alert the campus community to these media reports.

During 2003 and 2004, Hochmuth worked at KSU as a part-time instructor in the Communications Department.  He was appointed and served as a full-time temporary instructor in the same department for the 2005-2006 academic year.  He was reappointed to that position for the 2006-2007 academic year, but resigned voluntarily from the university, effective December 31, 2006.

As with all KSU employees, Hochmuth underwent a background check prior to his initial 2003 employment.  That background check indicated no criminal record.

No personnel issues were identified during Hochmuth’s association with the university.  He resigned and departed in good standing.”

The New Rome - How Denominations Destroy Themselves Today - Their Revolt against the Word

A WELS member sent me the link to the Joel Hochmuth arrest, which was already in a newspaper. Today a search on the story, via Google News, yields 37 or more media listings. The brain-washed do not realize that most of my information comes from within. The rest is on the Net, especially since the worst characters cannot help bragging about themselves.

When District President Ed Werner was arrested and sent to state prison for molesting girls in his own congregation, WELS only admitted to it in that region, because it was in the newspapers. However, the vast majority knew nothing about it. DP Free's son (now at The Love Shack) offered the WELS cover story as soon as Werner was arrested.

But no news is local now. I can look up the smallest local paper and find out who died and what is being offered in the school lunch program. The Survivors' Network for those Abused by Priests (SNAP) had their first successes by combining information across the country, tracing where abusive priests were moved. Many of those scandals in the Roman Catholic Church were erupting in the 1980s. The same pattern continues, but reporting is putting a crimp in the plans. One prelate is in trouble because he is remembered for praising a bishop who covered up gross child abuse by one priest. "He supported this priest, a son of the Church."

Denominations are the New Rome. They are obsessed with themselves and hate their own doctrine, whatever it might be. Institutional secrecy, felonious cover-ups, shunning, and excommunication mark their Gospel work. They all gather at Fuller Seminary, which is only good at one thing - flattering idiots into thinking that business methods do the work of the Holy Spirit. Priests train there too.

The Book of Concord shows no interest in denominations and the visible church of its time. However, Church Growth is based on business management theories and marketing, so it is obsessed with institutions. Any large congregation is good simply because it is large. Faithful members and pastors are wolves, according to a founder of Jeske's Church and Change lobby, an employee at Parlow's plagiarizing church.

The Roman Catholic Church is very good at what they do - not that we should emulate them. They allow any teaching, any deviancy, but no criticism. The Church of Rome is indefectible, they claim. A priest can be a New Ager like Jeske, but he will not be touched, no matter what absurdity he teaches, as long as he remains loyal to Rome. A priest can get himself into any kind of trouble, but he is still a priest and likely to pop up again, like Fred Adrian or Floyd Luther Stolzenburg. Money talks, doctrine walks.

The Roman Catholic leaders live like royalty and court the wealthy. The Lutheran leaders also have their trotters in the trough, with first dibs on the offering money, the Thrivent and foundation grants. A Lutheran who is faithful to Holy Mother Synod can expect to travel around the world on offering money. He can almost destroy his sect - like Pope John the Malefactor - and still travel like the Secretary of State. But if he criticizes the New Rome, he will be pushed out of his parish, treated as a leper by all, and see his family trashed at every opportunity.

The synods need a Book of Concord approach if they are going to last a few years more. The clergy and laity will need to tremble at the Word, not at the voice of the DP.

How many Lutheran leaders know who Chytraeus is -
or care who he is?

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I believe it is the fulfillment of prophecy...from Revelation 17: " 1 One of the seven angels who had the seven bowls came and said to me, “Come, I will show you the punishment of the great prostitute, who sits on many waters. 2 With her the kings of the earth committed adultery and the inhabitants of the earth were intoxicated with the wine of her adulteries.”

3 Then the angel carried me away in the Spirit into a desert. There I saw a woman sitting on a scarlet beast that was covered with blasphemous names and had seven heads and ten horns. 4 The woman was dressed in purple and scarlet, and was glittering with gold, precious stones and pearls. She held a golden cup in her hand, filled with abominable things and the filth of her adulteries. 5 This title was written on her forehead:

MYSTERY

BABYLON THE GREAT

THE MOTHER OF PROSTITUTES

AND OF THE ABOMINATIONS OF THE EARTH.

6 I saw that the woman was drunk with the blood of the saints, the blood of those who bore testimony to Jesus. "

Dr. Lito Cruz on Walther, Zwingli, and Calvin

LPC has left a new comment on your post "Intrepid Lutherans: Some musings on the article of...":

Listen to what Walther said... C.F.W. Walther wrote in 1868: "…you often hear pastors preach, 'You are saved if you believe.' What they should be saying is, 'You are saved so that you might believe."

Now compare this with what Zwingli said...
"Faith itself does not save, speaking accurately, but it is a sign of salvation and election. The Father's drawing saves and justifies, and the operation of the Holy Spirit: faith, however, is the sign of all the Elect".

Can you see the difference? I don't. Of course, Walther was a sub-conscious Calvinist (and Calvin never broke free from Zwingli). He spoke like a true Zwinglian also.

In Calvinism as in UOJ, you are justified first then you have faith. This is all the result of unconditional election. Your faith is just the manifestation of justification which in eternity you already have even before you were born.

Walther said, you are saved so you might believe.

Now excuse me, where did Jesus say that?

LPC

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"The doctrine that teaches such a particularism[absolute election] according to which God elected unto eternal life only certain particular persons directly without regarding faith, merely because it so pleased Him, --- this we consider Calvinistic and unchristian"--

Polycarp Leyser
(emphasis mine)

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