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CHENG Chen, ZENG Yong-jun, WANG Qi, TAN Xue-ming, SHANG Qing-yin, ZENG Yan-hua, SHI Qing-hua, JIN Xiao. Effects of nitrogen application regime on japonica rice yield and quality of the late rice in the double rice system in southern China [J]. Journal of Plant Nutrition and Fertilizers, 2018, 24(5): 1386-1395.
Abstract: 【Objectives】 " Indica to japonica" has been regarded as one of the effective measures to improve the rice yield and quality in the double-rice cropping systems in southern China. However, it is unclear how to achieve high yield and good quality of the late season indica-japonica hybrid rice simultaneously by nitrogen application regimes. 【Methods】 Field experiments were conducted in 2016–2017, theindica-japonica hybrid rice Yongyou 1538 was selected as the late season rice material. With the same total N application rate of 255 kg/hm2, nitrogen was applied in three regimes of basal, tiller and panicle fertilizer as 6∶2∶2 (A), 4∶2∶4 (B) and 2∶2∶6 (C). For A and C, the panicle-fertilizer was once applied at the final third leaf stage, whereas for B, panicle fertilizer was twice evenly applied at the final forth leaf stage (B1) and second leaf stage (B2). The dry matter accumulation, yield and quality of japonica rice were investigated and analyzed at harvest stage. 【Results】 Compared with the B treatments, the yield of the A and C treatments were decreased by 1.9%–4.8% and 4.9%–16.8%, respectively, while the yield of the B1 and B2 treatments were increased by 1.2%–3.2% and 3.8%–12.5%, respectively. The total dry matter accumulation of the B, B1 and B2 treatments was significantly higher than that of the A and C treatments (P < 0.05), especially in the heading-mature stage. The main reasons for the strong dry matter production capacity was the high LAI of high effective leaf and effective leaf for the B 1 plots and the high SPAD of flag leaf for the B2 plots during grain filling stage. With the decrease of the proportion of the base fertilizer, the qualities for industrial processing, tasting and cooking and nutrition were improved, but the appearance quality and RVA spectrum became worse. In addition, the qualities for industrial processing, tasting and cooking and nutrition under the same basal-tiller fertilization application ratio were shown as B2 < B 1 < B, while the appearance quality and RVA spectrum characteristic value showed the opposite trend, with the nutrition quality was B 2 > B > B 1. 【Conclusions】 The ratio of basal fertilizer: tiller fertilizer: panicle fertilizer: granular fertilizer as 4∶2∶2∶2 had the highest yields for the late japonica rice, and both the high yield and high quality can be achieved simultaneously with the ratio of basal fertilizer: tiller fertilizer: panicle fertilize of 4∶2∶4, and the split of panicle fertilizer was better than once application under the experimental conditions.
注(Note):4LFT—倒 4 叶The final fourth leaf;3LFT—倒 3 叶 The final third leaf;2LFT—倒 2 叶 The final second leaf.
注(Note):表中数据均采用平均值 ± 标准差 Data in the table were mean ± standard deviation;同列数据后不同小写字母表示同一年份不同处理间差异达 5% 显著水平 Values followed by different lowercase letters indicate significant difference among treatments of the same year at 5% level;*—P < 0.05;**— P < 0.01;ns—Not significant.
注(Note):同列数据后不同小写字母表示处理间差异达 5% 显著水平 Values followed by different lowercase letters indicate significant difference among treatments at 5% level.
注(Note):表中数据均采用平均值 ± 标准差 Data in the table were mean ± standard deviation;同列数据后不同小写字母表示同一季节不同处理差异达 5% 显著水平 Values followed by different lowercase letters indicate significant difference among treatments of the same year at 5% level;*—P < 0.05;**— P < 0.01;ns—Not significant.
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Preston wants a post-Brexit deal from the Government to tackle inevitable issues faced when the UK leaves the EU with the aim to rebalance economy.
Proposals includes imposing local tourist tax, boosting zero-carbon public transport and encouraging the growth of young people's mental health services up to the age of 25. powers to implement skills and employment schemes, tailored to local needs from 24 councils across England and Wales.
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Q: how to merge two images into one with asp.net I am working on an asp.net project. I am searching for a solution such that after a background image of a div is chosen. The user selects another image and coordinate. Then, this image will be merged on the background image with the defined coordinate.
Thanks in advance.

A: If you wish to combine two images,firstly you must upload them into server via ajax requests.
Read this article : combining images
After you combine them,let the user download the new one.
Also if you're looking for an editor to do so,I suggest to place them on html5 canvas.
Best Regards

A: Your post is quite general, but look in to System.Drawing and using an AJAX call to post both images (as well as the coordinates chosen) and then return the combined image which can then be displayed.
Without more specifics that's really all I can offer.

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Superman's origin is a story that's been told and retold multiple times, with different degrees of success, by multiple writers, and that's just counting the ones during my lifetime. This latest attempt is written by screenwriter and film director (and son of John Landis) Max Landis.
A common discussion among both creators and fans of Superman over the years has been been about the divide better the "super" and the "man." He is an alien, but he was raised on Earth, but humans, so which side of him does he self-identity with? How does he think of himself? Is he an alien, or a human? I've read (and participated in) many such arguments over the years, where people compare Superman to someone who was adopted, or to an immigrant raised in a foreign country, and make the case that he should naturally think of himself as human, because of his upbringing. John Byrne, in particular, really stressed the idea that Superman mostly dismissed his Kryptonian heritage, in his own retelling of Superman's origin. While others have made the case that his powers and abilities would naturally set Superman apart from humanity, including his own adoptive parents, the Kents.
As the title, American Alien, suggests, Max Landis appears to be wanting to tackle this issue head-on. Showing us, through young Superman's own eyes, how he deals with this question, what he feels as he comes of age, and it becomes clear that he's not like everyone else. In this first issue, Clark Kent is a young boy (his age is unspecified, but he appears to be around 12 years old, at most), and he is just beginning to display his power of flight. Of course he has no control over it a this point, he just randomly shoots up into the sky and floats, without any control. This is not only terrifying for him, but also for his parents, who try their best to keep him calm and help him adapt to these changes. Once Clark actually gets stuck in the air, and Jonathan Kent must borrow a friend's plane to fly up and try to bring him down.
There are brief appearances of Superman mainstays Lana Lang (once again, Clark's apparent childhood love interest) and Pete Ross (Clark's best friend, now sporting a blonde mullet). It's hinted that Lana might know something about Clark's abilities, but Pete appears to be clueless. But it is also intimated that Clark already has a bit of reputation in town for being "odd." Landis does a very effective job here of showing us Clark's feeling of alienation (no pun intended) both sometimes subtly (as when Clark sheds a tear when he realizes that his father slightly hurt himself when trying to protect him) and in more obvious ways (as when Clark looks in a mirror and imagines seeing his reflection as a green-skinned "alien"). But this story is equally about Jon and Martha Kent, and what they're going through, trying raise this child whom they feel like is their own son, but nevertheless don't understand what's happening to him.
Nick Dragotta's artwork nicely compliments this story, giving it an appropriately timeless feel. I hear that each issue of this 7-issue miniseries, while had a different artist. Well, the next six artists will have a tough act to follow. Story-wise, I'm very interested in seeing where Landis goes next.


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Q: How to send notifications in MEAN stack app using Socket.io from different modules? I have an app written using MEAN stack. I have different modules in the app, as 'Users', 'Messages', 'Sections' etc...
the client should not sent any notification to the server, only the server send messages to the clients in the rooms.
How can I configure the socket.io to be used in the different modules:

*

*so when the user do login in the Users module, to add it to a room

*when a user post a message, and after the messages inserted to the mongodb to emit the message (from the Messages module)

*when a user update a section, and after the section is updated in the mongodb, to emit the change to the users in the room.

Something as below:
users.js
exports.Users = function(io) {

  ...
  UsersCollection.save(...) {
    ...
    io.join('some room');
    ...
  }
}

messages.js
exports.Messages = function(io) {

  ...
  MessagesCollection.save(...) {
    ...
    io.to('some room').emit('new_message', msg):
    ...
  }
}

sections.js
exports.Sections = function(io) {

  ...
  SectionsCollection.update(...) {
    ...
    io.to('some room').emit('section_updated', msg):
    ...
  }
}

server.js
var app = require('express')();
var server = require('http').Server(app);
var io = require('socket.io')(server);
var users = require('users')(io);
var messages = require('messages')(io);
var sections = require('sections')(io);
...

io.on('connection', function (socket) {
  console.log('someone connected')
});

What is the best way to make such a thing?
Thanks.

A: I found the solution by using EventEmitter in the following way:
server.js
var app = require('express')();
var server = require('http').Server(app);
var io = require('socket.io')(server);
**var events = require('events');
var serverEmitter = new events.EventEmitter();
var users = require('users')(serverEmitter);
var messages = require('messages')(serverEmitter);
var sections = require('sections')(serverEmitter);**
...

io.on('connection', function (socket) {
  serverEmitter.on('new_message', function (data) {
        socket.to('some room').emit('new_message', msg):
    });
});

And later in the apis I used the emitter as:
serverEmitter.emit('new_message', msg);

Thanks.


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The Three-War Doctrine
May 18, 2014 Guest Contributor 2 Comments
by John Feffer*
U.S. troops have left Iraq and are leaving Afghanistan. The "war on terrorism" now seems so last decade. U.S. military spending has leveled off, and the Pentagon is looking at some fairly serious reductions after 2015. Last month, President Obama finally pulled the various threads of his foreign policy approach into a "doctrine" that emphasizes incremental diplomacy and leaves military intervention as a last resort.
We are, it would seem, at an epochal moment in U.S. history. The Reagan and Bush Jr. administrations attempted to deepsix the Vietnam syndrome and resurrect the U.S. military as the principle tool of U.S. foreign policy. But after the failures of Iraq and Afghanistan, the syndrome has returned in an industrial-strength version. Finally, it seems as if the United States is willing to take the cop out of cooperation.
But before we stick flowers into the barrels of the Special Forces' combat assault rifles and celebrate the transformation of the CIA's drones into Amazon delivery vehicles, let's evaluate what will likely be a very substantial backlash to the Obama doctrine. Depending on what happens in the mid-terms and more importantly the next presidential elections in 2016, we might be looking at yet another effort to drive a stake through the heart of the Vietnam-Afghanistan-Iraq syndrome and reassert, once again, American military power.
In the last presidential election, we narrowly escaped a return to the foreign policy of the 1980s with Mitt Romney. Next time around, the hawks from both major parties minus the libertarians — the War Party — may well offer something considerably more retrograde: perhaps a return to the 1890s and a celebration of American empire under Teddy Roosevelt.
But it won't be just one war — Remember the Maine, to hell with Spain! — that the War Party will want the Pentagon to prepare to fight. Nor will it be the two or two-and-a-half wars of the Cold War heyday. Instead, the next generation of U.S. militarists — the Project for the NewNew American Century — will be talking about girding our loins for three wars. Before detailing this three-front global conflict, let me explain how we've been at this point already twice in the recent past.
Long before Obama unveiled his doctrine, the last two Democrats in the White House also tried, in their half-hearted ways, to restrain the Pentagon and elevate the State Department. For Jimmy Carter, his first two years in office marked the high point of détente and the military drawdown from the Vietnam years. Even though he turned considerably more hawkish in the second half of his term, Carter became a symbol of everything weak about the Democratic Party and its foreign policy. The events of 1979 — the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan, the Iranian revolution — also conspired against President Malaise. Carter's opponent in the 1980 election, Ronald Reagan, promised to stand up to the Russians, the Iranians, and anyone else who dared challenge Old Glory.
Bill Clinton, too, presided over a reduction of the U.S. military leviathan in the wake of the end of the Cold War. Clinton was by no means a pacifist. The United States was involved in the wars in former Yugoslavia and several attacks on al-Qaeda and its ilk during the 1990s. But the great sin of the Clinton administration, to its critics on the right, was its commitment to multilateralism. The Clinton administration actually seemed to believe in the United Nations and such associated efforts as the International Criminal Court. Beginning in 1997, the Project for the New American Century (PNAC) pushed a program that would eerily resemble the eventual foreign policy of the George W. Bush presidency, including a major uptick in military spending and regime change in Iraq. As in 1979, the events of September 11 helped to propel U.S. foreign policy in a different direction.
PNAC is dead and gone, and the Bush doctrine is buried in the sands of the Middle East. Obama has reached back to the earlier traditions of his Democratic predecessors for inspiration, borrowing a measure of modesty from Carter and a measure of multilateralism from Clinton. And Obama has encountered the same congressional resistance to his de factotempering of American exceptionalism. Behind the Obama doctrine lurks a certain implicit assumption: that a safety net of international norms can both cushion the relative decline of the United States and contain the rise of other powers like China. Of course, Washington would like to game the system as much as possible to prolong the U.S. unipolar moment and ensure a comfortable imperial retirement. If all goes according to plan, the only conflicts that will take place will be over the terms of America's golden parachute and our 401(k) plan (to be negotiated at trade talks, with Chinese investors, and with European banks).
But nothing ever goes according to plan. And here are three reasons why, drawn entirely from recent headlines.
On May 1, China set up an oilrig in the South China Sea in waters that Vietnam also claims. Vietnam has used YouTube to show China ramming its ships. Both sides have fired water cannons at each other. Chinese fighter jets patrol the sky above the disputed territory. Vietnam and U.S. allies Japan, South Korea, and the Philippines have all pressed Washingtonto check China's more assertive claims to territory in the East and South China Seas. They want a more vigorous Pacific pivot to Asia.
On May 11, voters in two regions in eastern Ukraine supported greater autonomy in a referendum rejected by the central government in Kiev. Russian President Vladimir Putin has vowed to intervene if the interests of ethnic Russians in Ukraine are threatened. Although he has promised to withdraw the 40,000 troops currently near the border, no such troop movements have been detected. Clashes between Ukrainian government forces and separatists in eastern Ukraine threaten to spiral into a civil war. New NATO members in East-Central Europe are wary of Russia's more assertive claims to territory near their eastern borders. Polish Defense Minister Tomasz Siemoniak, for instance, has called on the United States to "re-pivot" to Europe.
Then there's Africa, where the United States created a new Africa Command shortly before Obama took office and where the Pentagon has recently ramped up its operations to more than a mission a day. Boko Haram, a radical Islamist group that seeks to turn Nigeria into an Islamic state, kidnapped more than 200 girls from their school last month. It's only the latest act of extremism from a group that Washington put on the foreign terrorism list last year. It's not clear whether the Nigerian radicals have any ties to al-Qaeda. But the war on terrorism has entered a new phase in which smaller U.S. forces partner with governments on the ground in Africa to battle non-state actors. Although some in the United States have called for an "African pivot," no one in the region has issued such an invitation. They don't really have to. We're already there.
So far, the Obama administration has been rather cautious in addressing all three of these challenges. The U.S. Navy maintains more than half of its fleet in the Pacific, the Army still has bases in Europe, and Special Forces are deployed throughout Africa. But the administration has not advised military intervention in any of the three cases (though the use of drones and some "boots on the ground" in Africa certainly go beyond mere non-military strategies).
It's also not likely that a Republican president would do anything appreciably different, although the party has practically Photoshopped Neville Chamberlain into the Oval Office. Marco Rubio (R-FL), who is likely to throw his hat in the ring for 2016, has called for perhaps the strongest responses to Russia and China. But even he has stopped short of calling for actual U.S. military intervention. After all, Americans are now thoroughly cynical about sending U.S. troops to fight overseas.
But remember: the United States maintained its two-war doctrine more as a yardstick for measuring how much money to allocate to the Pentagon. In the 1980s, hawks were not pushing the United States to start a war with the Soviet Union or Iran. Rather, they wanted to maintain the capabilities to fight both wars simultaneously if need be.
Here's the nightmare scenario for 2016. The War Party will fight against any cuts in Pentagon spending and argue for upping the allocation in order to fight three wars simultaneously: against Russia, against China, and against non-state actors wherever they threaten U.S. interests. Sound unlikely? The Bush administration was able to transform a ragtag group of crazies — which, admittedly, had directly attacked the United States and killed nearly 3,000 people — into the "heirs of all the murderous ideologies of the twentieth century." Imagine what the War Party, if it controlled the White House and Congress, could do with the likes of Russia, China, and the heirs of the heirs of all those murderous ideologies? If we're lucky, we'll avoid any outright conflict. But the price will nevertheless be bankruptcy. Forget about that imperial 401(k) plan.
It's often pointed out that the British Empire finally collapsed because of the debts incurred by England during World War II. Washington extended London a mountain of loans to fight the war, and when the loans came due, the United States effectively replaced England as the hegemon of the "free world."
But the process was not so cut and dried. "In July 1950, on the eve of the Korean War," writes Tony Judt in Postwar, "Britain had a full naval fleet in the Atlantic, another in the Mediterranean and a third in the Indian Ocean, as well as a permanent 'China station.' The country maintained 120 Royal Air Force squadrons worldwide and had armies or parts of armies permanently based in Hong Kong, Malaya, the Persian Gulf and North Africa, Trieste and Austria, West Germany and the United Kingdom itself." Five years after the end of World War II, someone forgot to give the British the news that their term was over.
The United States that Barack Obama inherited in 2008 was similarly a "dead empire walking," and China now serves as the bankroller that the United States was in the 1940s. A prudent president, Obama has attempted to maintain U.S. position in the world at a lower cost and with less blowback. His critics on the left, myself included, want less empire and more prudence. But we must also acknowledge the deluge that might come après Obama and make the last few years seem like halcyon days.
If the War Party wins in 2016, all bets are off. We will prepare to fight in the Eurasian heartland, the South China Sea, and the resource-rich lands of Africa — because if we don't fight them there, we'll have to fight them here. Just when it seemed like we were about to give peace a chance, the United States will suddenly revert to a three-war doctrine. 2016 will be 1979 and 2001 all over again. And, as we all know, bad luck always comes in threes.
*John Feffer is the co-director of Foreign Policy In Focus (FPIF). This article was first published by FPIF and was reprinted here with permission.
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The Apocalypse Factory
Nonfiction: History
Plutonium and the Making of the Atomic Age
by Steve Olson; read by Jonathan Yen
A thrilling narrative of scientific triumph, decades of secrecy, and the unimaginable destruction wrought by the creation of the atomic bomb.
It began with plutonium, the first element ever manufactured in quantity by humans. Fearing that the Germans would be the first to weaponize the atom, the United States marshaled brilliant minds and seemingly inexhaustible bodies to find a way to create a nuclear chain reaction of inconceivable explosive power. In a matter of months, the Hanford nuclear facility was built to produce and weaponize the enigmatic and deadly new material that would fuel atomic bombs. In the desert of eastern Washington State, far from prying eyes, scientists Glenn Seaborg, Enrico Fermi, and many thousands of others manufactured plutonium for the bomb dropped on Nagasaki, and for the bombs in the current American nuclear arsenal, enabling the construction of weapons with the potential to end human civilization.
With his characteristic blend of scientific clarity and storytelling, Steve Olson asks why Hanford has been largely overlooked in histories of the Manhattan Project and the Cold War. Olson recounts how a small Washington town played host to some of the most influential scientists and engineers in American history as they sought to create the substance at the core of the most destructive weapons ever created. The Apocalypse Factory offers a new generation this dramatic story of human achievement and, ultimately, of lethal hubris.
"A captivating, unnerving history...A riveting history of a lesser-known Manhattan Project triumph that, like so many wartime triumphs, has lost its luster."- Kirkus Starred Review
Steve Olson is the author of Eruption: The Untold Story of Mount St. Helens (winner of a Washington State Book Award), Mapping Human History (a finalist for the National Book Award), and other books. He has written for the Atlantic, Science, Smithsonian, and more. He lives in Seattle, Washington.


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Arcade Heroes Deeproot Pinball Throws Their Hat Into The Ring With Retro Atomic Zombie Adventureland
Posted by Ongames247 on December - 12 - 2020
Also known as RAZA Pinball, newcomer deeproot Pinball (yes, they insist on having the first word done with no capitals) has begun taking orders for their first title, with two different options available: Arcade Edition and Xtra Edition. Orders opened up on Tuesday, although I only saw the announcement in one of my feeds this evening. Yes, I know about the other pinball announcement that was teased today, but since it was just a tease and everyone's seen it already, I'll just mention that on Newsbytes tomorrow so that deeproot can enjoy some limelight for their new games here.
Per the photos you see below, these will have a distinctive aesthetic design from their competitors, with a unique looking backbox as well as a fresh new design for the lockbar area, which uses a touchscreen display instead of just a piece of metal. They almost have a 1950s "retro-future" vibe to them. They are calling this the Pinbar, which is the first time (that I'm aware of) that a screen has been integrated into this part of a pinball machine; I also believe it's the first use of a touchscreen in pinball. The Pinbar display is 19″ wide on both models, while the "Backbar" in the backbox is 24″.
First, here's the Arcade Edition (AE):
And now the Xtra Edition (XE), which looks to be their version of a Limited Edition (also in that it is limited to only 300 units):
The sales page for the two lists out the various features, with the XE model enjoying additions such as: Custom laser etching, PinArmor™ Playfield Protection, special anti-reflective glass (that also is supposed to reduce fingerprint appearances), powder coating on all the metal bits, different artwork, a "full" toy package, a 4.1ch sound system and 160W amp (AE models only get 2.1ch and fewer amps), a "Ned" toy mechanism, a shaker motor, side blades, neon rings, custom mechanized topper, enhanced support and more. The price difference between the two: AE starts at $5899, XE starts at $9499. Both units can be customized for an extra cost, although the only extras from the Xtra model are the PinBar Screen Protector and the shipping container. Otherwise, if you only want some of the XE's features in your AE game, then you can pay what you want for that on each specific item.
From what I've seen of the PinBar, that is really intriguing and could be a game-changer; deeproot also employs some top-notch animation talent, so I look forward to seeing more of that, and other fresh ideas that this crew is bringing to the pinball mix. Hopefully, it won't be too long before I experience how this plays, but until then we'll settle for some video:
One thing that I am perplexed about is what they are calling a "limited order period" on the game. Where the pandemic hasn't disappeared yet, I'm not sure why anyone would want to limit how long they'll sell something for. I just don't know anyone buying new games right now, especially with the deluge of used equipment that's available out there, and manufacturers are seeing that too. Sure, pinball does tend to be a slightly different beast, giving that "buy new" the one exception out there, but I hope that this will be open for a while and not something like a month or two.
What do you think about this, from what has been seen on these games so far?
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Alexander Wang Collaborates With Samsung + {Watch This!!!}
Alexander Wang is teaming up with Samsung to design a limited edition bag. With all that Wang has going on {designing his debut collection for Balenciaga, his first Paris show, and his normal collection}, how could one of this season's most talked-about designers find any time to do anything else? According to WWD, this project probably won't be adding too much to his workload, seeing that the bag will be essentially created by other people.
{The bag will be} inspired by sketches and photos by a group of influencers selected by the designer. The group of stylists, photographers and friends will use the Samsung Galaxy Note II to produce the images, which will serve as a base for Wang to create a print that will be used on the bag. Explains WWD
This bag sounds like it will be a very interesting piece. The bag will be sold at select Alexander Wang boutiques and the brand's e-commerce site this summer. What's even better is that proceeds from the bag's sales will benefit ArtStart, a New York City charity that aims to nurture the creative talents of at-risk children and youths.
"I am most inspired from my everyday life and the people that surround me, so the idea of a co-creation with the people that I admire and respect the most is very exciting," said Wang. "This collaboration represents a new way that technology and style can come together. And, through a concerted effort, I am happy to be a part of supporting such a great charity as ArtStart that embraces creativity and art in a way that can change lives."
On an unrelated, funnier note, check out this spoof video set in Wang's store. It stars MADtv's Bon Qui Qui with cameos by Alessandra Ambrosio, Natasha Lyonne, A$AP Rocky and Simon Doonan.
Watch This!!!
Lol...we love it!!! It's nice that he shared a part of his sense of humor with us.
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