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Lewis County, Tenn. -- Stephen Gaskin, founder of the largest hippie commune in America, had finished his tofu burger, eaten his stir-fried veggies and was digging into a bowl of soy milk ice cream.

The former San Francisco State lecturer and freelance philosopher then pushed back from the lunch table in his Tennessee home, glanced over at his wife, Ina May, and issued a bold prophecy:

Millions of '60s idealists who "sold out" in the 1980s and 1990s -- the ones who went out and got real jobs -- are poised to turn on, tune in and drop out once again.

And they're all going to need some place to live. Gaskin has a dream, and knows that if he builds it, they will come.

Get ready for Rosinante, a retirement village for aging hippies.

"When they write the '60s history centuries from now, the hippies will have a name like the Renaissance or the Reformation," said Gaskin, who named his latest dream after Don Quixote's horse. "We did change the world, and we're not finished changing the world."

To understand the dream, one must understand the quixotic journey.

Those of you who were hanging around in the late 1960s and early 1970s may recall Gaskin, who led hundreds of hippies on an infamous 1971 bus caravan across America.

Hippiedom had blossomed in the cool gray city of love, and Gaskin's eclectic lectures on mysticism, politics, alternative lifestyles and LSD took on a life of their own.

It was called the Monday Night Class, or "tripping instructions," and as many as 2,000 stoned seekers followed Gaskin as he took his show to the Straight Theater on Haight Street, the Oddfellows Hall and finally out to Playland by the Beach.

The tribe eventually landed in the green rolling hills of southern Tennessee, a magical place where the rednecks learned to love those shaggy survivors of the '60s.

Dubbed the tie-dyed Amish, Gaskin and flock wound up in one of the poorest counties in Tennessee, where it was easier to find cheap moonshine than Orange Sunshine, where hillbillies outnumbered hippies.

But the land was $70 an acre, and the locals didn't shoot them on sight. So they stayed and founded the Farm.

It didn't start out well. Gaskin and a couple cohorts got busted for growing pot and did a little time in the Tennessee state prison.

Meanwhile, back on the Farm, there were some very lean, very cold winters. But by 1977, the commune had grown in to a functioning experimental community of a thousand men, women and children.

They had their own school, flour mill, cannery, medical clinic, publishing business, and even their own telephone system -- "Beatnik Bell."

They all contributed to a communal treasury, giving them the same tax status as a Catholic monastery.

But the Farm was not just an economic and ecological experiment. It was a spiritual community, forged in many cases by the bond of shared psychedelic experiences.

"We were water brothers," Gaskin said. "We were collective in a spiritual sense."

He said the same connection inspired some of the "four-marriages" and other group living arrangements on the Farm.

"Some of the double couples were sort of a fallout from LSD. People who tripped together bonded. Then we'd say, 'Let's just get a house together.' "

Gaskin became a licensed Tennessee cleric, married many Farm couples and led Sunday morning services.

They'd meet in a meadow on the commune or inside the schoolhouse. Gaskin would draw from the mystical teachings of various world religions -- a synthesis he called "the psychedelic testimony of the saints" or the "totality of the manifestation."

The population peaked in the early 1980s with 1,500 commune members. And then it all collapsed.

Faced with too much debt, radical poverty and too many mouths to feed, the Farm stopped being a true commune where everything was jointly owned and all took from a common treasury.

It reorganized itself in 1983 into a collective, where members were forced to pay monthly dues and only the Farm's 1,700 acres were held in common.

Most people here call those bitter days "the changeover." Gaskin calls it "a coup d'etat followed by a downsizing."

Group homes and group marriages dissolved. Many members wandered off, unable to make it in a community where they suddenly needed real money to survive.

"As the kids got older, it was obvious that there wasn't the money living communally that we needed for braces or other things you need when kids got older," said Barbara Bloomfield, one of the surviving members. "We were so busy being in community -- but that wasn't generating any money, and we needed money to pay the bank for the land."

Those who remained paid off the debt. Today, there are only 80 to 90 voting members in this land-rich, cash-poor enterprise.

Gaskin, 67, is still here, but he's no longer seen as the leader of the tribe. But he's still got one vote, lots of energy and even more ideas -- including Rosinante, a kind of Sun City for the '60s set.

Yet even that master stroke had some quixotic detours. In 1996, he published a book titled "Cannabis Spirituality," an ode to wonders of getting high on pot. He said he hasn't taken LSD since before the caravan left San Francisco.

"We don't do acid on the Farm," he said. "Peyote and mushrooms are a matter of personal conscience."

A few years ago, Gaskin took the politics of pot national. He tried to become president of the United States, running against Ralph Nader in an unsuccessful bid for the Green Party nomination.

That didn't work, so it's back to Rosinante.

"When we first started talking about Rosinante, collectivity was not interesting to people. They were in their peak earning years," Gaskin said. "When they get a little older, collectivity will get interesting again."

Donnie Rainboat, an aging hippie, is building one of Rosinante's first homes.

"It ain't gonna just be a bunch of people just comin' 'round here to hang out and smoke dope," said Rainboat, who is 58 and recovering from a recent stay in the hospital. "If you want to come in here, start building a house and show us you have some incentive to stay."

For his retirement village, Gaskin bought 100 acres of land adjacent to the Farm. He has plans (but no money) to build an octagonal community center with a clinic, kitchen, Laundromat and media room with computers and Internet access.

Community residents -- like Rainboat -- build their own cabins on the property, and agree to turn them over to the community when they die.

Other longtime Farmies don't put much stock in Gaskin's latest project.

"Stephen likes to dream," said Joel Kachinsky, smiling. At the same time, Kachinsky turned 60 last year, and suddenly, retirement and its mixed blessings don't seem so far away.

Three decades have gone by since Kachinsky, a former Vista volunteer, came to San Francisco and stumbled on Gaskin and the Monday Night Class.

"There were a lot of gurus around, and he billed himself as the American guru," Kachinsky said. "He was saying heavy stuff that needed to be said.

"When we were communal, our level of trust put us in an extraordinary level of consciousness," he said. "There are about 4,000 members of our tribe, folks who took the vow of poverty and were seriously doing this thing. That body is our church, or group soul.

"Since the changeover, we've been in a dysfunctional state and back in ordinary consciousness. We originally came here to decondition ourselves from our capitalist conditioning and recondition ourselves for a better society."

Now that the Farm is no longer a commune, all kinds of questions arise about why it exists, who really "owns" it, and who can come back or join up.

"We have to deal with that before we hand this over to the next generation, " Kachinsky said. "If we don't, it could be a real mess here in another 30 years."

Of the thousands of communes that formed in the 1960s and 1970s, the Farm is one of the relatively few that survived -- albeit in an altered economic arrangement.

And Rosinante, which may never be more than a collection of cabins built by a spaced-out band of aging, unrepentant hippies, is something of an inside joke to those who've watched the rise and fall of a quixotic rebel.

Webster's defines quixotic as "foolishly impractical, especially in the pursuit of ideals marked by rash lofty romantic ideas or extravagantly chivalrous action."

That's Stephen Gaskin.

While he no longer calls the shots on the Farm, he's taking one more shot at the dream.

His eyes twinkling behind his spectacles, Gaskin tells it like it is.

"I guess I wasn't quite done running something," he said.

Twilight of Hippiedom <a href="http://www.cannabisnews.com/news/thread15622.shtml" target="_blank">Mirr or</a>
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Source: San Francisco Chronicle (CA) - Page A - 27
Author: Don Lattin, Chronicle Religion Writer
Published: Sunday, March 2, 2003
Contact: letters@sfchronicle. com
Website: <a href="http://www.sfgate.com/chronicle" target="_blank">http ://www.sfgate.com/chronicle</A>

Farm commune's founder envisions return to the fold as ex-dropouts age.


The Farm
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Twilight of Hippiedom - Pictures
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Gore's Hay Day - Salon Magazine
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Come Hear Uncle Sam’s Band
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Welcome Home!

When the earth is ravaged and the animals are dying, a new tribe of people shall come unto the earth from many colors, classes, creeds, and who by their actions and deeds shall make the earth green again. They will be known as the warriors of the Rainbow.
-- Old Native American Prophecy

Rainbow Family of Living Light
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<a href="http://pub3.ezboard.com/fendingcannabisprohi bitionstuff.showMess age?topicID=3.topic" target="_blank">Than k God for Hippies</a>
<a href="http://pub3.ezboard.com/fendingcannabisprohi bitionstuff.showMess age?topicID=39.topic " target="_blank">Voic es of our Ancestors</a>
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<a href="http://www.hempusflag.com/Memorials/NoWar/nowar.html" target="_blank">JUST SAY NO TO WAR by Dr. Michael Bradburn-Ruster</a>
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I came upon a child of God He was walking along the road And I asked him, "where are you going?" And this he told me I'm going on down to Yazgur's farm I'm gonna join in a rock 'n' roll band I'm gonna camp on the land And try and get my soul free ... WOODSTOCK by Joni Mitchell

Folk, Rock, 60/70's,oldies,showtune s...
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Grateful Dead
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Bob Marley
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Beatles
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!"There is absolutely no greater high than challenging the power stucture as a nobody, giving it your all, and winning." --Abbie Hoffman

ABBIE LIVES! By: Randy Lee Payton
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"I'm totally corrupted. I mean, really. My whole act, my whole economic success, whatever that is, is based solely on the existence of segregation, violence, despair, disease and injustice. And if by some miracle, the whole world would suddenly tranquilize, be pured, I would be standing in an unemployment line somewhere. So you see, I'm not a moralist." (Dustin Hoffman in Lenny)
Lenny Bruce (1925-1966)
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I want it long, straight, curly, fuzzy Snaggy, shaggy, ratty, matty Oily, greasy, fleecy Shining, gleaming, streaming Flaxen, waxen Knotted, polka-dotted Twisted, beaded, braided Powdered, flowered, and confettied Bangled, tangled, spangled, and spaghettied ...

HIPPIES
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SOCIAL PROTEST
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POSTERS
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Hippyland
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Woodstock Nation
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"Arbitrary and capricious" is legal language that was used by DEA Administrative Law Judge Francis Young in 1988 to conclude that DEA was obligated under the Controlled Substances Act to reschedule marijuana as a prescription medicine. DEA Chief Administrator Robert Bonner proceeded to arbitrarily and capriciously disregard Judge Young's well researched and reasoned decision, which the Act allowed him to do.

Jack Herer
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Cannabis Culture
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Cannabis News
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Media Awareness Project
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A Big Victory for Medical Marijuana: <a href="http://pub3.ezboard.com/fendingcannabisprohi bitionantiwodwarrior s.showMessage?topicI D=39.topic" target="_blank">Sist er Somayah Trial in Los Angeles</a>
A Report by Mikki Norris

The secret to happiness is freedom, the secret to freedom is courage...

We are not afraid to entrust the American people with unpleasant facts, foreign ideas, alien philosophies and competitive values. For a nation that is afraid to let its people judge the truth and falsehood in an open market is a nation that is afraid of its people.
-- President John F. Kennedy

Safe Sacramental Cannabis, Food, Fuel, Fiber, FARM-aceuticals
Hardrug, Booze & Petro-Chem Alternative
Eliminated by Legislation and Administrated Education Depravation!
Welcome to Reality
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Sacramental Cannabis
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"It is my job to currupt young people, with the contagious, infectios idea of individual freedom"
-Dr. Leary



Here and Now

What is the use of planning to be able to eat next week unless I can really enjoy the meals when they come ? If I am so busy planning how to eat next week that I cannot fully enjoy what I am eating now, I will be in the same predicament when next week's meals become "now."

If my happiness at this moment consists largely in reviewing happy memories and expectations, I am but dimly aware of this present. I shall still be dimly aware of the present when the good things that I have been expecting come to pass. For I shall have formed a habit of looking behind and ahead, making it difficult for me to attend to the here and now. If, then, my awareness of the past and future makes me less aware of the present, I must begin to wonder whether I am actually living in the real world.-- Alan W. Watts, The Wisdom Of Insecurity

Alan Watts
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Remember Be Here Now
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They've outlawed the number one vegetable on the planet.
TIMOTHY LEARY
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Merry Pranksters
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Carlos Castaneda's Don Juan's Teachings
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TOTAL POLICE STATE TAKEOVER
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The American people were shocked by the despotic nature of the first Patriot Act. The second Patriot Act dwarfs all police state legislation in modern world history.

A Brief Analysis of the Domestic Security Enhancement Act 2003
Also Known as Patriot Act II By Alex Jones
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`Fools', said I `you do not know Silence like a cancer grows Hear my word that I might teach you Take my arms that I might reach you' But my words like silent raindrops fell And echoed in the well of silence And people bowed and prayed To the neon God they'd made And the sand flashed it's warning In the words that it was forming And the sign said, `the words of the prophets Are written on the subway walls, and tenement halls And whisper in the sounds of silence'

U.S. District Judge Charles Breyers Kangeroo Krunch
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"Jurors should acquit, even against the judge's instruction ... if exercising their judgment with discretion and honesty they have a clear conviction the charge of the court is wrong." Alexander Hamilton in 1804

The Great Marijuana Hoax
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Jack Herer
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Schaffer Library
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The Vaults of Erowid
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The Lycæum
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"We shall by and by want a world of hemp more for our own consumption."
—John Adams as Humphrey Ploughjogger, 1763 <a href="http://www.masscann.org" target="_blank">http ://www.masscann.org</A>

"You waste my coin Sam, all you can To jail my fellow man For smoking all the noble weed You need much more than him You've been telling lies so long Some believe they're true So they close their eyes to things You have no right to do" Steppenwolf, "Don't Step on the Grass, Sam"

ibogaine's/Addiction Treatment Strives for Legitimacy
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The Staten Island Project: The Ibogaine Story
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Scientists Test Hallucinogens for Mental Ills
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Tabernanthe iboga
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You poisoned my sweet water, you cut down my green trees, the food you fed my children, was the cause of their disease, My world is slowly falling down, and the airs not good to breath, and those of us who care enough, we have to do something...
What About Me? Quicksilver Messenger Service

<a href="http://pub3.ezboard.com/fendingcannabisprohi bitionfrm13.showMess age?topicID=26.topic " target="_blank">MY COUNTRY 'TIS OF THY PEOPLE YOU'RE DYING</a>
<a href="http://www.cannabisnews.com/thcgi/search.pl?K=Pine+Rid ge&H=40&SM=on&T=B" target="_blank">Pine Ridge 8</a>
<a href="http://www.cannabisnews.com/news/10/thread10616.shtml" target="_blank">Whit e Plumes Relinquish Hemp Crop</a>
<a href="http://www.cannabisnews.com/news/10/thread10757.shtml" target="_blank">Siou x vs. DEA, Round Two</a>
<a href="http://www.cannabisnews.com/news/12/thread12440.shtml" target="_blank">The War Against Hemp</a>
<a href="http://www.cannabisnews.com/news/8/thread8646.shtml" target="_blank">The Drug War Comes To The Rez</a>

Hemp grain is the most nutritionally complete seed on the planet for human consumption. Each hemp seed contains 25% protein. This protein is more easily digestible than the protein in soybeans because it contains a perfect ratio of essential fatty acids (EFA's). EFA's are important for strengthening your immune system and protecting you from disease. Fish oil and flax oil are also high in EFA's, but hemp contains the most perfect ratio of EFA's for human consumption. Hemp grain is also high in iron and calcium and is an excellent source of dietary fiber <a href="http://www.hempfood.com" target="_blank">http ://www.hempfood.com</A>

Resisting the war on Ganja/Hemp
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"The National Security State uses fascism to protect capitalism while they say they're protecting democracy from communism." Michael Parenti

Resisting the war on Iraq
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"... the primary reason to outlaw marihuana is its effect on the degenerate races."
Harry J. Anslinger

Resisting the war on Free Speech/Civil Rights
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Enlighten the people generally, and tyranny and oppressions of body and mind will vanish like evil spirits at the dawn of day. - Thomas Jefferson

Resisting the war on the Environment
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Who so would be a man must be a nonconformist. - Ralph Waldo Emerson

Resisting the war on Colombia
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<a href="http://www.witnessforpeace. org" target="_blank">http ://www.witnessforpeace. org</A>

"To oppose the policies of a government does not mean you are against the country or the people that the government supposedly represents. Such opposition should be called what it really is: democracy, or democratic dissent, or having a critical perspective about what your leaders are doing. Either we have the right to democratic dissent and criticism of these policies or we all lie down and let the leader, the Fuhrer, do what is best, while we follow uncritically, and obey whatever he commands. That's just what the Germans did with Hitler, and look where it got them." Michael Parenti, author <a href="http://deoxy.org" target="_blank">http ://deoxy.org</A>

War Sale
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We Don't Want Your Wars
<a href="http://www.jynkz.com/yourwar.html" target="_blank">http ://www.jynkz.com/yourwar.html</A>
<a href="http://www.moveon.org" target="_blank">http ://www.moveon.org</A>
<a href="http://www.alternet.org" target="_blank">http ://www.alternet.org</A>
Opinion
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Jefferson V Waldo
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Come you masters of war You that build all the guns You that build the death planes You that build the big bombs You that hide behind walls You that hide behind desks I just want you to know I can see through your masks... Dylan

"Certain American industrialists had a great deal to do with bringing fascist regimes into being in both Germany and Italy. They extended aid to help Fascism occupy the seat of power, and they are helping to keep it there." - William E. Dodd, U.S. Ambassador to Germany, 1937. Continued... <a href="http://www.sumeria.net/politics/shadv3.html" target="_blank">The Invisible Prohibition</a>

U.S. law enforcement spends $7.5 to $10 billion annually enforcing marijuana laws. According to the FBI, 720,000 Americans were arrested on marijuana charges in 2001.
Keith Stroup, <a href="http://www.norml.org" target="_blank">(NOR ML)</a>

<a href="http://pub3.ezboard.com/fendingcannabisprohi bitionprohibitionist wodjunkies.showMessa ge?topicID=58.topic" target="_blank">The Ganjawar is a Product Sold by D.E.A.th to Profit Fascist ... DdC</a>

Yes, 'n' how many times must the cannon balls fly Before they're forever banned? The answer, my friend, is blowin' in the wind, The answer is blowin' in he wind... Dylan

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Protest Signs 1
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Protest Signs 2
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Protest Signs 3
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Hi Ho's
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Homeyland Security
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<a href="http://www.drugpolicy.org" target="_blank">Drug Policy Alliance Web site</a>
Three dangerous bills are the RAVE Act (H.R. 718), the CLEAN-UP Act (H.R. 834), and the Illicit Drugs Anti-Proliferation Act (S. 226). While aimed at the very real problem of substance abuse, the bills go too far by punishing business owners for the drug offenses of their customers and threatening to shut down concerts, circuit parties, dance clubs, and other forms of entertainment. Business owners could be jailed for enacting health measures that save lives - such as teaching their staff first-aid. You could even go to jail for 20 years for throwing a party in your own home.

Music and the War on Drugs
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The Alchemind Society
<a href="http://www.alchemind.org" target="_blank">http ://www.alchemind.org</A>
COGNITIVE LIBERTY LINKS
<a href="http://www.alchemind.org/DLL/links.htm" target="_blank">http ://www.alchemind.org/DLL/links.htm</A>

<a href="http://www.aclu.org/SafeandFree/SafeandFree.cfm?ID=1 1904&c=206" target="_blank">Stop the New Patriot Act</a>

Bushit II The Sequel
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