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class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="padding-right:0.6em;">Legal status</th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/501(c)_organization" title="501(c) organization">501(c)3</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="padding-right:0.6em;">Purpose</th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/Reuse" title="Reuse">Reuse</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="padding-right:0.6em;"><div style="display: inline-block; line-height: 1.2em; padding: .1em 0;">Region served </div></th><td class="infobox-data">121 countries<sup id="cite_ref-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="padding-right:0.6em;"><div style="display: inline-block; line-height: 1.2em; padding: .1em 0;">Membership </div></th><td class="infobox-data">6,880,991<sup id="cite_ref-membership_3-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-membership-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="padding-right:0.6em;"><div style="display: inline-block; line-height: 1.2em; padding: .1em 0;">Founder, executive director</div></th><td class="infobox-data">Deron Beal<sup id="cite_ref-staff_4-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-staff-4"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>4<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="padding-right:0.6em;">Website</th><td class="infobox-data"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.freecycle.org/">www.freecycle.org</a></td></tr></tbody></table> <p><b>The Freecycle Network</b> (<b>TFN</b>) is a private, <a href="/wiki/Nonprofit_organization" title="Nonprofit organization">nonprofit organization</a><sup id="cite_ref-5" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-5"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>5<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> registered in <a href="/wiki/Arizona" title="Arizona">Arizona</a>, US and is a charity in the United Kingdom.<sup id="cite_ref-6" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-6"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>6<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> TFN coordinates a worldwide network of "gifting" groups to divert reusable goods from <a href="/wiki/Landfill" title="Landfill">landfills</a>. The network provides a worldwide online registry, organizing the creation of local groups and forums for individuals and nonprofits to offer (or request) free items for reuse or recycling and to promote a <a href="/wiki/Gift_economy" title="Gift economy">gift economy</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-Shah2007_7-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Shah2007-7"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>7<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> In contrast, although <a href="/wiki/Flea_market" title="Flea market">flea markets and swap meets</a> also contribute to <a href="/wiki/Waste_hierarchy" title="Waste hierarchy">the 3 Rs (reduce, reuse, recycle)</a>, they involve mainly buying and selling or <a href="/wiki/Barter" title="Barter">bartering</a> rather than gifting. </p> <meta property="mw:PageProp/toc" /> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="History">History</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=The_Freecycle_Network&action=edit&section=1" title="Edit section: History"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1251242444">.mw-parser-output .ambox{border:1px solid #a2a9b1;border-left:10px solid #36c;background-color:#fbfbfb;box-sizing:border-box}.mw-parser-output .ambox+link+.ambox,.mw-parser-output .ambox+link+style+.ambox,.mw-parser-output .ambox+link+link+.ambox,.mw-parser-output .ambox+.mw-empty-elt+link+.ambox,.mw-parser-output .ambox+.mw-empty-elt+link+style+.ambox,.mw-parser-output .ambox+.mw-empty-elt+link+link+.ambox{margin-top:-1px}html body.mediawiki .mw-parser-output .ambox.mbox-small-left{margin:4px 1em 4px 0;overflow:hidden;width:238px;border-collapse:collapse;font-size:88%;line-height:1.25em}.mw-parser-output .ambox-speedy{border-left:10px solid #b32424;background-color:#fee7e6}.mw-parser-output .ambox-delete{border-left:10px solid #b32424}.mw-parser-output .ambox-content{border-left:10px solid #f28500}.mw-parser-output .ambox-style{border-left:10px solid #fc3}.mw-parser-output .ambox-move{border-left:10px solid #9932cc}.mw-parser-output .ambox-protection{border-left:10px solid #a2a9b1}.mw-parser-output .ambox .mbox-text{border:none;padding:0.25em 0.5em;width:100%}.mw-parser-output .ambox .mbox-image{border:none;padding:2px 0 2px 0.5em;text-align:center}.mw-parser-output .ambox .mbox-imageright{border:none;padding:2px 0.5em 2px 0;text-align:center}.mw-parser-output .ambox .mbox-empty-cell{border:none;padding:0;width:1px}.mw-parser-output .ambox .mbox-image-div{width:52px}@media(min-width:720px){.mw-parser-output .ambox{margin:0 10%}}@media print{body.ns-0 .mw-parser-output .ambox{display:none!important}}</style><table class="box-More_citations_needed_section plainlinks metadata ambox ambox-content ambox-Refimprove" role="presentation"><tbody><tr><td class="mbox-image"><div class="mbox-image-div"><span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:Question_book-new.svg" class="mw-file-description"><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/9/99/Question_book-new.svg/50px-Question_book-new.svg.png" decoding="async" width="50" height="39" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/9/99/Question_book-new.svg/75px-Question_book-new.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/9/99/Question_book-new.svg/100px-Question_book-new.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="512" data-file-height="399" /></a></span></div></td><td class="mbox-text"><div class="mbox-text-span">This section <b>needs additional citations for <a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Verifiability" title="Wikipedia:Verifiability">verification</a></b>.<span class="hide-when-compact"> Please help <a href="/wiki/Special:EditPage/The_Freecycle_Network" title="Special:EditPage/The Freecycle Network">improve this article</a> by <a href="/wiki/Help:Referencing_for_beginners" title="Help:Referencing for beginners">adding citations to reliable sources</a> in this section. Unsourced material may be challenged and removed.</span> <span class="date-container"><i>(<span class="date">March 2015</span>)</i></span><span class="hide-when-compact"><i> (<small><a href="/wiki/Help:Maintenance_template_removal" title="Help:Maintenance template removal">Learn how and when to remove this message</a></small>)</i></span></div></td></tr></tbody></table> <p>TFN first began when its founder, Deron Beal, collaborated with RISE, a small <a href="/wiki/Nonprofit_corporation" title="Nonprofit corporation">nonprofit corporation</a> that offers recycling services in the downtown area of <a href="/wiki/Tucson,_Arizona" title="Tucson, Arizona">Tucson, Arizona</a>, US.<sup id="cite_ref-8" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-8"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>8<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The team worked together to find local nonprofits that could potentially use their products, but it was not too successful. Hence, Beal created the first Freecycle email that enabled online users to interact with recycling. In February 2005, TFN accepted $130,000 from <a href="/wiki/Waste_Management_(company)" class="mw-redirect" title="Waste Management (company)">Waste Management</a> to help build out the website and the network.<sup id="cite_ref-9" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-9"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>9<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Over time, the concept has spread to over 110 countries,<sup id="cite_ref-The_Freecycle_Network_-_Note_of_total_number_of_countries_10-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-The_Freecycle_Network_-_Note_of_total_number_of_countries-10"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>10<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> with thousands of local groups and millions of members.<sup id="cite_ref-The_Freecycle_Network_-_History_and_Background_11-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-The_Freecycle_Network_-_History_and_Background-11"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>11<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>The organization began as a collection of <a href="/wiki/Yahoo!_Groups" class="mw-redirect" title="Yahoo! Groups">Yahoo! Groups</a> linked from freecycle.org. It has become a web-community platform on freecycle.org for all groups, which are run by local volunteers.<sup id="cite_ref-12" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-12"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>12<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> TFN encourages the formation of new groups, subject to approval by regional new-group approvers. Groups approved by TFN are listed on the website, can use the TFN name and logo, and are subject to rules which are enforced by a network of global and regional group outreach assistance.<sup id="cite_ref-The_Freecycle_Network_-_Required_Group_Guidelines_13-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-The_Freecycle_Network_-_Required_Group_Guidelines-13"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>13<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> As of March 2009, all new groups had to join freecycle.org's new-group system, which provides Freecycle-specific tools for local volunteer moderators and gives TFN oversight of individual groups. As of 2015, all local groups are listed on freecycle.org.<sup class="noprint Inline-Template Template-Fact" style="white-space:nowrap;">[<i><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Citation_needed" title="Wikipedia:Citation needed"><span title="This claim needs references to reliable sources. (January 2022)">citation needed</span></a></i>]</sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Membership">Membership</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=The_Freecycle_Network&action=edit&section=2" title="Edit section: Membership"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Membership is completely free to all members, and everything posted on the website must be completely free, legal, and appropriate for everyone regardless of their age.<sup id="cite_ref-14" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-14"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>14<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Today, TFN is a global organization with over 4,000 local chapters. They passed two-million-member in February 2006.<sup id="cite_ref-15" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-15"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>15<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-Jeffery2008_16-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Jeffery2008-16"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>16<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> By February 2014, TFN had 6,880,991 members across 5,120 groups worldwide.<sup id="cite_ref-17" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-17"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>17<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> In December 2023, TFN had 11,022,137 members across 5,355 groups worldwide.<sup id="cite_ref-18" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-18"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>18<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Controversies">Controversies</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=The_Freecycle_Network&action=edit&section=3" title="Edit section: Controversies"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Trademark_issues">Trademark issues</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=The_Freecycle_Network&action=edit&section=4" title="Edit section: Trademark issues"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>A notice of opposition<sup id="cite_ref-19" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-19"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>19<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> was filed in federal court by FreecycleSunnyvale against the Freecycle Network<sup id="cite_ref-20" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-20"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>20<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> in January 2006. An injunction was granted against Tim Oey in May 2006 for allegedly disparaging the TFN trademark.<sup id="cite_ref-21" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-21"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>21<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The injunction was stayed in July 2006 and dissolved by the <a href="/wiki/United_States_Court_of_Appeals_for_the_Ninth_Circuit" title="United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit">United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit</a> in September 2007.<sup id="cite_ref-22" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-22"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>22<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> To defend its trademark in 2006, TFN pursued other <a href="/w/index.php?title=Free_recycling&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Free recycling (page does not exist)">free recycling</a> groups who used the word "freecycle" or allegedly had "confusingly similar derivations thereof".<sup id="cite_ref-23" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-23"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>23<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Free-speech advocates, including the <a href="/wiki/Electronic_Frontier_Foundation" title="Electronic Frontier Foundation">Electronic Frontier Foundation</a> and 38 law professors, filed an <a href="/wiki/Amicus_curiae" title="Amicus curiae"><i>amicus</i> brief</a><sup id="cite_ref-24" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-24"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>24<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> opposing a trademark-infringement lawsuit filed by TFN against Tim Oey. The opposition was based on the position that the lawsuit violated Oey's <a href="/wiki/First_Amendment_to_the_United_States_Constitution" title="First Amendment to the United States Constitution">First Amendment</a> rights. Other law professors, including <a href="/wiki/Lawrence_Lessig" title="Lawrence Lessig">Lawrence Lessig</a>, and <a href="/wiki/Jimmy_Wales" title="Jimmy Wales">Jimmy Wales</a> filed a second <i>amicus</i> brief<sup id="cite_ref-25" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-25"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>25<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> in support of Oey. In 2007, the US 9th Circuit Court affirmed that freecycle may be used as a word.<sup id="cite_ref-26" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-26"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>26<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>On November 24, 2010, TFN lost its trademark claim to "Freecycle" and its logo in the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals.<sup id="cite_ref-27" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-27"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>27<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Justice <a href="/wiki/Consuelo_Callahan" title="Consuelo Callahan">Consuelo María Callahan</a> wrote in her opinion, "Beal did not coin the word 'freecycle' and TFN is not the first organization to promote freecycling ... even ... viewing the evidence in the light most favorable to TFN ... [they] engaged in naked licensing and consequently abandoned the trademarks."<sup id="cite_ref-28" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-28"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>28<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>On September 25, 2012, TFN gained a registered trademark in the United States for Freecycle.org (registration number 4215094) from the <a href="/wiki/United_States_Patent_and_Trademark_Office" title="United States Patent and Trademark Office">United States Patent and Trademark Office</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-29" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-29"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>29<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> TFN also received a registered-collective-membership trademark on that date (registration number 4215095).<sup id="cite_ref-30" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-30"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>30<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> TFN maintains additional registered trademarks in the European Union, New Zealand, Australia and Canada.<sup class="noprint Inline-Template Template-Fact" style="white-space:nowrap;">[<i><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Citation_needed" title="Wikipedia:Citation needed"><span title="This claim needs references to reliable sources. (April 2016)">citation needed</span></a></i>]</sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="UK_breakaway">UK breakaway</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=The_Freecycle_Network&action=edit&section=5" title="Edit section: UK breakaway"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>During 2009, there were conflicts between the UK's independent association of TFN moderators and the organization's founders<sup id="cite_ref-Freecycle_nonprofit_registration_31-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Freecycle_nonprofit_registration-31"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>31<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> over the UK-based TFN groups' lack of freedom to develop local initiatives and features and their treatment of volunteer group owners and moderators.<sup id="cite_ref-guardian1_32-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-guardian1-32"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>32<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> This resulted in the dismissal of at least 20 local group owners and moderators, who were replaced with new local TFN volunteers.<sup id="cite_ref-Mods_Must_Be_Local_33-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Mods_Must_Be_Local-33"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>33<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Many owners of UK-based TFN groups formed a new independent association, <a href="/wiki/Freegle" title="Freegle">Freegle</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-34" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-34"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>34<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-35" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-35"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>35<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-Jones2009_36-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Jones2009-36"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>36<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> TFN continued in the UK, with both groups present in many areas.<sup id="cite_ref-37" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-37"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>37<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> In February 2015, TFN UK claimed to have 592 groups with 4,345,095 members.<sup id="cite_ref-38" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-38"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>38<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Payment_to_Founder">Payment to Founder</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=The_Freecycle_Network&action=edit&section=6" title="Edit section: Payment to Founder"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>The Freecycle founder now receives an annual payment of over £120,000 per year while the other listed officers are not compensated. This is over 1/3 of the total Freecycle.org revenue.<sup id="cite_ref-39" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-39"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>39<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Freecycle.org has not listed any recent Form 990 with the latest from 2016<sup id="cite_ref-40" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-40"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>40<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="See_also">See also</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=The_Freecycle_Network&action=edit&section=7" title="Edit section: See also"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1184024115">.mw-parser-output .div-col{margin-top:0.3em;column-width:30em}.mw-parser-output .div-col-small{font-size:90%}.mw-parser-output .div-col-rules{column-rule:1px solid #aaa}.mw-parser-output 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Retrieved <span class="nowrap">2015-03-18</span></span>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=unknown&rft.btitle=The+Freecycle+Network&rft_id=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.freecycle.org%2Fabout%2Fbackground&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AThe+Freecycle+Network" class="Z3988"></span></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-6"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-6">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">"Freecycle UK" is registered under charity number <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.charity-commission.gov.uk/registeredcharities/showcharity.asp?remchar=&chyno=1118148">1118148</a><sup class="noprint Inline-Template"><span style="white-space: nowrap;">[<i><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Link_rot" title="Wikipedia:Link rot"><span title=" Dead link tagged February 2022">permanent dead link</span></a></i><span style="visibility:hidden; color:transparent; padding-left:2px">‍</span>]</span></sup> and its registration refers to <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://uk.freecycle.org">uk.freecycle.org</a> as its official website address.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-Shah2007-7"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-Shah2007_7-0">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREFShahNelsonFriedlandNelson2007" class="citation book cs1">Shah, Dhavan V; Nelson, Michelle R; Friedland, L.; Nelson, M. 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Retrieved <span class="nowrap">2015-03-18</span></span>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=unknown&rft.btitle=The+Freecycle+Network&rft_id=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.freecycle.org%2Fabout%2Fbackground&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AThe+Freecycle+Network" class="Z3988"></span></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-15"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-15">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://freecycle.org/pressreleases/06-02-21_2millionMembers.pdf">The Freecycle Network Tops Two Million Member Mark Today!</a>, Press release</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-Jeffery2008-16"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-Jeffery2008_16-0">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREFJefferyBarclayGrosvenor2008" class="citation book cs1">Jeffery, Yvonne; Barclay, Liz; Grosvenor, Michael (2008). <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://books.google.com/books?id=IAI2TeUCM4QC"><i>Green Living For Dummies</i></a>. 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