THE HERMISTON HERALD, HERMISTON, OREGON
Oboe, W ooden Instrum ent,
B u ilt in T h re e Sections
Often called the hautboy, the oboe
is a wooden instrument of conical
bore played with a double reed.
Built in three sections—“top joint,”
“lower joint” and “bell”—the in
strument contains many keys and
bores. Chief improvements are due
to research conducted by Barre and
Triebert. Like the bassoon, it
evolved from that group called pom-
mers, schalmeys and bombards.
The tone, peculiarly distinctive
without being powerful or obtrusive,
is very penetrating. Cambert first
used it in the score for his opera,
“Pomone,” produced in Paris in
1671, relates a writer in the Chicago
Daily News.
The cor anglais, not a horn, dif
fers in build from the oboe in that
the tube is longer and ends in a
globular or pear-shaped bell, and
the crook which holds the reed is
bent back at an angle. Its tone
quality is melancholy and good ex
amples may be heard in the shep
herd’s pipe melody in Act III of
“Tristan,” or in the slow movement
of Dvorak’s “From the New World.”
Gluck wrote for it in “Alceste” and
“Orfeo,” but these parts were
played by the clarinet because the
cor anglais was not yet a member
in good standing of the orchestra.
Although Mozart, Haydn and Bee
thoven composed for it occasionally,
. it did not become a part of the sym
phonic group until Wagner demand
ed it.
Consisting of 'a single beating
reed, the clarinet is constructed
with a tube pierced with many side
holes terminating in a bell. The
alto and bass clarinets, however,
have keys instead of holes.
Supposedly invented by Denner
(Nuremberg, 1690), the clarinet
traces its ancestry to the chalu-
meau. In 1843 Klose completely re
organized the fingering, basing it on
the Boehm system. Although Ra
meau had used clarinets in 1751 in
his opera “Acante et Daphise,”
their place in the orchestra really
dates to about 1770, when Mozart
employed several in his “Paris”
symphony.
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Various K inds o f Ships
A n d Styles o f R igging
A full-rigged ship is one with a
bowsprit and three masts, all masts
being square-rigged. Any vessel
square-rigged on all masts is
termed full-rigged.
A barken
tine is called such because it is
square-rigged on the fore and
schooner-rigged on the other masts.
Schooner-rigged means fore and aft
rigged. Any craft that has more
than two masts with the fore mast
square-rigged is in the barkentine
class. A bark generally refers to a
craft that is square-rigged on two
or more masts, with one or more
masts schooner-rigged. Thus a
four-masted bark, according to a
writer in the Philadelphia Inquirer,
would be square-rigged on fore,
main and mizzen masts and schoon
er-rigged on the jigger masts.
A brig is a ship of other days,
although some are found in foreign
waters. It is a two-masted vessel
square-rigged forward and square-
rigged aft; a ship square-rigged on
two masts. The hermaphrodite brig
is really a brigantine and is a two-
masted vessel, square-rigged for
ward and schooner-rigged behind.
Isle Noted for Loneliness
The loneliest place in the British
empire is Tristan da Cunha, the
largest and the only inhabited island
of a group of three situated in the
middle of the South Atlantic ocean
and named for a Portuguese ad
miral, Tristan da Cunha, who dis
covered these rocks in the sea in
1506. There is but the barest means
of sustenance on the island. Fertile
soil is scant, being continually
washed away by rains, and rodents
poach upon the carefully tended gar
dens. The fish supply is plentiful
except in stormy weather, when it
is dangerous to venture out on the
rolling sea. Tristan da Cunha is an
extinct volcano, the crater of which
is filled with fresh water. The near
est land is St. Helena, where Na
poleon died, 1,320 miles away to the
north, with Cape Town 1,400 miles
to the east.
Head-Hunters Hate White Men
The head-hunting Marindanim
tribesmen of Dutch New Guinea, na
tives of the island lying north of
Australia, practice head-hunting as
they have for hundreds of years.
The Marind-anim, inhabiting the Di-
goel river district, are the most sav
age and successful of the head-hunt
ing tribes on the island. They re
gard all other tribes as implacable
enemies and raid them continually
for their ghastly human trophies. So
intense is their hatred of the white
man that few whites ever venture
near them. The Dutch government
makes persistent but fruitless ef
forts to stamp out the habit of head
hunting.
Cock o’ the Walk
The cocker spaniel does not get
his name from his confident manner
. .
although that might furnish
reason enough for so designating
him .
he is called the cocker
because he was primarily used for
hunting woodcock . . . incidentally,
the springer spaniel comes by his
name in much the same manner,
says the American Wildlife insti
tute. His antecedents were original
ly known as “springing spaniels”
because of their habit of springing
towards game to flush it.
Strength o f L e ft H an d
A ffe cted by In te lle c t
The relative strength of the left
hand increases with decreasing in
tellect, Paul Popenoe, Ph. D., de
clares in an article on "Left-Hand
edness,” in Hygeia, the health mag
azine.
Of course, this correlation be
tween handedness and degree of
mental superiority or deficiency is
subject to conspicuous exceptions.
But as one goes downward in the
scale of intelligence, the superiority
of right over the left hand, as shown
by gripping tests, decreases or is
even upset by a stronger left hand.
The pure right-hander is found by
most tests to have the advantage;
the pure left-hander comes next; the
various intergrades are at the bot
tom of the list.
Hand and foot tend to go together,
so that the hand used on the spade
is an almost infallible determiner
of the foot which will be used on the
same implement. Hand and eye
likewise tend to go together, the
right-handed person usually being
right-eyed as well.
It has sometimes been supposed
that a bodily balance is the highest
state, in which the individual uses
the right hand singly but the left
hand in batting or sweeping, this
being supposed to produce or to be
the result of, a more symmetric
bodily development.
Such a situation is found most fre
quently among superior males—
those of the highest intelligence—
while the commoner situation, in
which the individual bats right-
handedly but sweeps left handedly,
is more usual among other males
and among all normal females re
gardless of their level of intelli
gence.
Handedness is inborn and inher
ent, though there is still some ques
tion as to its inheritability. Hand
edness is correlated with other fun
damental, biologic differences, such
as those of sex and of intellect.
Handedness is also associated
with the hair whorl on the crown of
the head, an inherited characteristic
which is little affected by training,
as many persons can testify who
happen to have one of these whorls
on some other part of the scalp,
which has stubbornly resisted the
hairbrush during an entire lifetime.
The righthander most frequently
shows a clockwise whorl, while that
of the lefthander is more likely to
turn in a counter clockwise direc
tion.
Tan n in g o f L ea th e r W a s
K n ow n to the A ncients
Primitive man was content to
wear fur skins. Early experiment
ers, however, discovered that the
hair of animal hides could be re
moved and the skin made into
smooth leather. The skin was
soaked in bark juice for a week or
more, then dried. Oil was rubbed
into it to make it soft and pliable.
The resulting material was more
useful and less clumsy than a hairy
skin.
Formulas for tanning were known
to the ancient Arabs and Hebrews,
states a writer in the Chicago Trib
une. Leather was used for apparel,
shoes, leggings, wine casks, money
bags, and thongs. In some lands,
says th,e historian, leather disks
were used as money.
Beautifully worked leather was
placed in the same category with
ivory, silver or gold. In Egyptian
tombs, leather has been found well
preserved although more than 3,000
years old.
Warring nations covered their
ships with tough leather. Soldiers
carried hide protected shields or
wore thick leather armor.
Expansion of Water
Water, like other substances, fol
lows the general law by expanding
when heated, but below the temper
ature of 4 deg. C. (or 32.9 deg. F.)
it forms an exception to this rule.
It is at its greatest density at that
temperature; when cooled below
that point it expands. This expan
sion with freezing is of great im
portance, for it keeps the ice on
top of the heavier masses of water,
thus preventing the solid freezing of
lakes and ponds, which would cause
the death of animal life in their wa
ters. It also causes the bursting of
water pipes in cold weather.
The Equestrian Statue
Although the belief that the posi
tion of the horse’s feet in an eques
trian statue signifies the fate of its
rider in battle has been widely ac
cepted, officials of the Pennsylvania
Academy of the Fine Arts assert
that it is without basis. This opinion
held that a military equestrian sta
tue with the horse's four feet resting
on the ground indicated that the rid
er came through the battle safely,
but that when the right foot was
raised the rider had been killed in
conflict and when both feet were
raised the rider had been wounded.
Research indicates, however, that
sculptors are guided by artistic con
siderations rather than historical
significance in this matter.
Hospitals Called ‘Pest Houses’
Back in early medieval history
when hospitals were first getting
their start they were commonly
known as "pest houses " And pest
houses they remained for many
years, until modern science and
equipment put an end to the name.
Or almost, for th.oughout the coun
try that term is ap; hed to the na
tion's isolation hospitals by a sur
prising number of people.
OREGON AR M Y DAY
OBSERVANCE APRIL 6
Army Day will be celebrated April
6th throughout Oregon under the
sponsorship of the Military Order of
the World War, according to Hon.
Joseph K. Carson, Jr., mayor of
Portland, recently appointed com
mander of the Ninth Corps Area of
the Military Order, and who is also
a member of their general staff.
Mayor Carson also announces the
appointment of Major H. D. Bagnall,
U. S. Army Recruiting Officer, Port
land, as his corps area chief of staff,
with Hon. James A. Fee as Judge
Advocate and Dr. Ralph A. Fenton
as surgeon.
According to President Roosevelt:
“In these troublesome and disturbed
times, it is fortunate that one day a
year can be designated as belonging
particularly to our army, on which
day public attention is focussed on
the military establishment— its rea
diness to assume its emergency re
sponsibilities— and its requirements;
if we are to afford our defenders
means adequate for the successful
accomplishment of the missions as
signed them by the people of the
United States”.
The membership of the Military
Order of the World War consists of
those who served as officers in the
World War. The order has spon
sored Army Day for the past several
years.
A troupe of wandering minstrels
will play and sing for visitors to
Treasure Island during the Califor
nia World’s Fair Premiere, Febru
ary 18 and 19.
CLAIMS ALLOWED BY THE COUN
TY COURT AT THE FEBRUARY.
1939. TERM. EXCEPT CERTAIN
CLAIMS ALLOWED BY STA
TUTE.
A. B. Doyle & Associate
Emerg.................................133,300.00
Guy Cook, Cir. Court ........
32.00
M. W. Deardorff, Library..
12.15
Chipman
Chemical
Co.,
Randall & Perry, Emerg...
Earl Shortridge, Poor ........
Raley Kilkenny & Raley
Emerg.................................
Walter Picard, Poor ..........
Pacific Tel. & Tel. Co.,
Poor Farm .......................
Thos. A. Hodgson, Court
House ...............................
Mrs. E. B. Casteel, Sheriff
W. R. Smythe, Poor ..........
Mrs. E. B. Casteel (post
age) offices .....................
Clare Gianelli, Recorder....
Nina Sloan, County Court..
Pendleton Water Commis
sion, Court House ..........
Mayme Robinson, Clerk ...
Association of O r e g o n
Counties, County Court..
Hermiston Herald, County
Court ...............................
Funk ft McLean, Co. Court
L. G. Frazier, offices ........
Biggs Printing Co., County
Court ...............................
Wm. Switzler, Co. Court. ..
Carl W. Chambers, County
Court ..................................
Wm. Meiners, Co. Court ....
Busby's Cafeteria, Circuit
Court ................. - ...........
Chas. A. Peterson, Circuit
Court .........
LaFontaine's, Cir. Court
Troy Laundry, Cir. Court ...
Jack Allen Supply Co.,
Sheriff ............................
R. E. Goad, Sheriff ft Jail
West Coast Printing & Bd.
Co., Sheriff, Clerk & Re
corder ...............................
Dunlap Stationery, offices
Western Union, Sheriff . ..
Domestic Laundry, Sheriff
Biggs Printing Co., Sheriff
Vina Hoskins. Sheriff
Leona G. Swan. Sheriff —
Lillian Nooy, Sheriff
Funk & McLean. Sheriff....
Columbia Investment Co..
Clerk ......
George D. Barnard Station
ery Co.. Recorder
......
Sprague H. Carter, Treas.
ft Recorder
W. H. Crary, Assessor ----
J. A. Yeager. School Supt.
II. ft M. Ribbon Co.. School
Supt.
Ind City Scavenger, Court
House ...............................
Farmer’s
Elevator
Co.,
Poor Farm. Court House
and Library ....................
J. p . Penney Co., Court
House
........................
Cascade Chemical Co. Court
House ...............................
McKee Furniture Co., Court
H ouse
278.75
36.90
265.25
132.00
33.75
15.00
26.16
75.00
8.00
24.75
23.85
28.15
12.60
113.76
16.80
5.00
16.80
4-90
20.00
16.55
12.00
1.75
15.00
5.35
2.20
-96
335.29
319.85
112.70
8.41
.70
18.75
2.96
53.21.
93.60
350.00
5000
9.27
260.00
15.00
5.50
73.00
3.00
309.75
2.40
15.92
11.75
38.95
THURSDAY. MARCH 2, I M »
master ................................
26.82
W. L. Hamm, Ind. Soldier..
97.20
Van Waters & Rogers, Inc.
Morning Glory ................. 1,276.00
Oregon State Agr. College
Co. Agt. & Home Dem... 3,100.00
State Dept. of Agriculture
Sealer of W’ts....................
30.58
Hartman
Abstract
Co.,
Emerg..................................
20.00
j. A. Yeager, Emerg...........
100.00
Underwood Elliott Fisher
Co., Dist. Att’y..................
95.05
J. L. Murray, Clerk ............
1-00
Chamber
of
Commerce,
Adv.......................................
250.00
Clare Glanelli, Clerk .......
11.93
Raley, Kilkenny & Raley
Emerg......................................
13.75
A H. MacLaren, Health
Unit ..................................
519
Dr. A. H. MacLaren, Health
Unit ..................................
45.35
Aileen E. Moreland, Health
Unit ..................................
26.50
E lm a Whipple, Health
Unit ..................................
62.65
Marjory Bohart, Health
•
WE ARE FULLY EQUIPPED TO
Unit ....................................
68.70
M. W. Deardorff,
Poor
HANDLE YOUR MOST EXACTING JOB.
Farm & Court House ...
39.25
WE OFFER, TOO, A FULL ART SERVICE
D. W. Davis, Assessor ......
8.22
A. C. McIntyre, Just. Ct....
19.20
AND THUS GIVE YOU MATERIAL SUIT-
Penland Bros., Poor Farm
& Court House
316.71
ED TO YOUR NEEDS . . . FOR LESS
Larson Ptg. Co., Sheriff &
Treas....................
78.85
MONEY. LET US QUOTE ON YOUR
Mrs. E. B. Catseel (Post
NEXT PRINTING JOB..................................
age) Sheriff & Recorder
16.00
State Ind. Acc. Comm.,
Sheriff ..............................
15.23
G. A. Hartman, Postmaster,
Sheriff .............................. 320.00
Pac. Tel. & Tel. Co., Offices
95.82
East Oregonian, Offices .... 263.08
Kee Lox Mfg.. Clerk ........
11.50
W. J. Clarke, Rec. & Court
House ................................
6.35
Dorothy W. Bell, Treas......
18.00
Road ..................................
3-20 A. L. Warnock, General
Road Payroll ...................
Gillanders & Burroughs,
The Swender Blue Print
L. Wolf, General Road Pay-
Court House .....................
3.70 Co., General Road ............
roll ....................................
Dr. J. P. Brennan, Insane
5.00 Shell Oil Co., General Road
7.
Thos. Cooney, General Road
Dr. L. C. Richey. Ind. Sold. 103.80 Taylor Hardware Co., Gen
Payroll ..............................
14.10
T. M. Birkbeck, Ind. Sold.
52.01
eral Road .........................
F. B. Hayes, General Road
Clifford’s
Serv.
Station
The Texas Co., General
Payroll .............................
4.06
General Road ................
21.57
Road ................................
Lester Bolin, General Road
Earl Snell, Secretary, Gen
Thews & Ryder, General
Payroll ..............................
eral Road .........................
6.00
.75
Road ..................................
Frank Caverhill, General
E. W. Barnum, General
Tum-A-Lum Lumber Co.,
Road Payroll ...................
5.80
Hermiston, General Road
Road ............ .....................
5.00
Bud
Wagoner,
General
Earl Snell, Secretary, Gen
Teague Motor Co., General
Road Payroll ...................
eral Road .........................
2.00
Road ..................................
E. C. Myrick, General Road
R. E. Goad, Sheriff, Gen
Tum-A-Lum Lumber Co.,
Payroll ..............................
Freewater, General Road
11.41
eral Road .........................
44.00
Chas. Reimann, General
W. M. Moore P.W.A. Proj.
Union Oil Co., General
Road Payroll ...................
Road .................................. 106.27
No. 1276-F .......................
101.61
L. G. Fullerton, General
Earl Snell, Sec., General
Van Petten Lumber Co.,
Road Payroll ...................
General Road ................
10.14
Road ..................................
2.00
C. Hutson. General Road
C. A. Michael,- General
L. E. Williams, General
Payroll ..............................
Road ..................................
80.00
Road ..................................
3.00
Walt Picard, General Road
Nirschl Brothers, General
Akers Serv. Station, Gen
Payroll ..............................
Road ..................................
257.33
eral Road .........................
5.35
A1 Moody, General Road
Pendleton Water Comm.,
Central Welding Works,
Payroll ..............................
General Road ................
3.85
General Road ................
2.73
E. L. Stephens, General
Associated Oil Co., General
Connor's Repair Shop, Gen
Road Payroll ...................
Road .................................. 1,413.43
eral Road .........................
3.20
Akers Serv. Station, Gen
Pac. Tel. Co., General Road
31.53 John Henry, General Road
Payroll .............................
4.55 Tommy
eral Road .........................
Bond,
General
E. W. Barnum, General
Road Payroll ................... 149.69 F. M. Henson, General
Road Payroll ...................
Road ..................................
20.00 Chas. Williams, General
General
Braden-Bell Tractor Co..
Road Payroll ................... 105.06 John Eichner,
Road Payroll ...................
General Road ...................
6.67 R. R. Bond, General Road
Brinker Brothers, General
Payroll .............................
71.43 E. H. Hargett, General
Road ..................................
1.49 S. Fullerton, General Road
Bauer ft. Franz, Ins., Gen
Payroll .............................
113.62 Dick Bush, General Road
eral Road .........................
605.91 Lyle Potter, General Road
Payroll .............................
Collier Motor Co., General
Payroll .............................
111.17 Percy Sweet, General Road
Road ................................
20.26 C. H. Wheeler, General
Payroll .... .......................
Road Payroll ...................
86.81 John Barnes, General Road
W. J. Clarke, General Road
8.54
Dode Farrell, General Road
Payroll .............................
Consolidated Freight Lines,
89.56 C. O. Pederson, General
General Road ........................
1.24 Payroll .......- ....................
W. J. Helmick, General
Road Payroll ...................
Columbia Equipment Co.,
Road Payroll ...................
16.20 Joe Picard, General Road
E. Blanchett, General Road
Co-operative Hdwe. Service,
Payroll .............................
Payroll .............................
36.95 Herb Cal/lwell,
General Road ...................
2.65
General
Steve Borlch, General Road
Carl W. Chambers, General
Road Payroll ...................
Payroll
.............................
32.40
Road ..................................
4.20
L. Mclntyi9>. General Road
John Toomay, G e n e r a l
Funk & McLean, General
Payroll .............................
Road Payroll ...................
48.20 Neil Devore, General Road
Road ..................................
75.00
L. G. Frazier, General Road
4.70 Ralph Moody, General Road
Payroll .............................
Payroll .............................
56.16 R. J. Wheeler, General
Feenaughty
Mach.
Co.,
General Road ................
82.76 Pete Shaver, General Road
Road Payroll ...................
Payroll .............................
99.69 W. F. Brown, General Road
Funk ft McLean, General
Dickenson,
General
Road ..................................
25.00 K.
Payroll .............................
Ro-'d Payroll ................
14.59 E. S. Fox, General Road
Gifford Serv. Station, Gen
eral Road .........................
45.28 H. M. Bennett, General
....................
Road Payroll ..................
74.19 D. Payroll
General Petroleum Corp.,
Fullerton, General Road
Cliff McDonald. General
..... ................
Road Payroll ...................
97.17 F. Payroll
The Green Grocery, Gener
T. Burke. General Road
al Road .............................
2.50 Roy Brown, General Road
.............................
Payroll .............................
43.15 H. Payroll
The George Lawrence Co.,
Schuening,
General
Alspach,
General
General Road ................
41.28 Gail
Road Pavroll ..................
Road Payroll ..... .............
59.37 Frank
Hermiston
Motor
Shop,
Klebs, General Road
Hodgen, General Road
General Road ................
1.25 F. L.
Payroll .............................
Payroll .............................
60.00
Harvester Supply Co., Gen
Ben Wertz, General Road
Magruder, General Road
eral Road .........................
23.35 H. Payroll
Payroll .............................
.............................
63.54
Howard Cooper Corp., Gen
Frank
Taylor, General
P. Westervelt, General
eral Road .........................
85.49 S. Road
Road Payroll ..................
Payroll ..................
25.23
Hartung Auto Co.. Walla
E. L. Stephens, General
Alderman, General Road
Walla. General Road ......
1.00 H. Payroll
Road ..................................
.................... .
38.86
Jack Allen Supply, General
Foster Motor Co., General
Jamison, General Road
Road ..................................
123.48 N. Payroll
Road ..................................
.............................
19.63
Kilham
Stationery
Co.,
Pac. Tel. & Tel. Co., Gen-
Grove, General Road
General Road ...................
2.74 Fred
eral Road
............
Payroll ............................. ..........8.91
Glen Long. General Road ..
10.00
Larson Printing Co., Gen
eral Road .........................
4.50
Milton Hardware Co., Gen
eral Road
.....................
3.00
Oregon Motor Serv., Gen
eral Road .........................
76.63
Oregon Lumber Yard, Gen
eral Road .........................
21.35
Oregon State H i g h w a y
Comm.. P.W.A. Proj. No.
P R IN T IN G
OF THE
BETTER KIND
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PAGE SIX
HERALD OFFICE
1276-F ..........................
Oregon Hardware ft Impl.
Co., General Road ......
Grain Growers. Pendleton,
Genera, Road ..................
Pearson Service. General
Road ...............................
Pac. Mach, ft Too, Steel
Co.. General Road ..........
Pe-vinr Brothers. General
Oregon Lumber Yard. Court
Road
Jon<4s-Kay Co.. C o u r t
Co..
House
..........................
1.50 Peri-ins Petroleum
General Poqd
..............
Consolidated Freight Lines
Court House .....................
-65 Price Ransom Chev. Co.,
Genera1 Road
.......
Empire Chemical Pales Co.,
Court House ................
8.75 Penland Brothers. General
Road
.........................
Smvthe-Barthel Co., Court
House
......................*
7.20 Pac. Power ft Light Co.,
Genera, Road ..................
Pac. Power ft Light Co..
Court House
.............
127.79 Pendleton Drug Co., Gen
era, Road
................
Vaughan's Electric, Court
House
8 99 Portland - Pendleton Auto
Proi^ht. General Road
Pendleton Drug Co.. Poor
3.35
Railway Fxnress Agency,
J. L. Eldridge. Poor Farm
Supt......................-..............
253.05
General Road .
Tallman ft Co.. Poor Farm
10.80 Richfield Oil Co.. General
Road ..................................
Pac. Power ft Light. Poor
Farm
............................
34.53 State Ind. Acc. Comm.,
Folsom's Funeral Chapel,
General Road
Poor Farm
........
52.50 Signal Oil Co.. General
T. B. Bombov. Poor Farm
52.50
Road ..................................
T. B. Bomboy. Poor Farm
3.00 Simpsons Auto
Electric
Glenn’s Pharmacy, Poor
Serv., General Road
Farm ...............................
-85 L. A. Smith, Genera, Road
Dr. H. 8 McKenzie. Jail
Standard Oil Co., General
A. B. Adklsson. Insane ...
5.00 j Road
I Springer Ott Co., General
F. M. Caverhill. Water-
77.76
55.84
2.83
149.69
12.96
3.24
3.24
93.40
77.76
128.15
78.60
95.76
97.15
93.85
69.12
49.33
77.32
81.65
55.08
98.43
118.81
61.56
97.17
87.90
99.69
101.59
134.69
184.69
95.73
89.02
74.92
74.92
84.10
19.84
98.07
35.00
80.05
31.53
16.67
17.88
207.65
1.00
20.10
266.51
26.50
4.31
10.88
32.93
3.25
2.34
4.24
9.01
131.07
66.24
7.47
31.90
309.82
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