Reply-To: NLUO@msvax.mssm.edu Sender: China-Net From: NLUO@msvax.mssm.edu Subject: CCF: 9/15/93 (B): "IFCSS: Today and Tomorrow (I)" To: Multiple recipients of list CHINA-NT ===+==+=== C h i n e s e C o m m u n i t y F o r u m ===+==+=== Wednesday, September 15, 1993 (B) (Issue No. 93.03B) +=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+ Chinese Community Forum (CCF) is a journal published on China-Net. CCF is dedicated to the discussion and debate on the issues related to our community. The opinions expressed here do not necessarily represent the views of the Editorial Board of CCF. Contributions to the discussions and suggestions on new topics are very much appreciated. +=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+ Table of Contents # of Lines ========================================================================== 1. Theme of Issue: IFCSS: Today and Tomorrow (I) a. Faith on Tomorrow ........................................ Bai Yan 130 b. A Brief History of the IFCSS Newsletter that I Know of.. Lai Anzhi 95 c. Excerpts from Net on NL Proposals ........... (edited by Luo Ning) 244 2. IFCSS Communications: a. The Exchange Committee Calls for Participation ..... Luan Shusheng 17 ========================================================================== In This Issue ========================================================================== This second part of the issue continues the discussion on issues of IFCSS with an analysis by a community member on the changing environment of IFCSS after CSPA. Background history, several proposals, and some commentaries on the IFCSS Newsletters publication, one of the hotly debated subjects in IFCSS at this moment, are also presented. The Exchange Committee of IFCSS calls for public participation in its work, in response to the changing emphasis of the HQ this year toward more focus on promoting exchanges between China and CSS in US. ==========***==========***==========**==========***==========***========== 1a. Faith on Tomorrow ........................................ Bai Yan 130 -------------------------------------------------------------------------- Today's achievement is only tomorrow's confusion. - William Dean Howells - There will be no progress if you don't have faith on tomorrow. - J. F. Kennedy - The IFCSS's tomorrow can be foreseen as a projection of its today when it is living through a period of unique experiences. The uniqueness of this period of time is characterized by two distinct changes that are silently shaping the fate of the IFCSS. First, a big change happened in the development of the CSPA that directly affects the IFCSS's policy preference for the future. It is widely admitted that if it had not been for the IFCSS, the majority of the Chinese Students and Scholars could not have had the CSPA. The IFCSS's achievement in securing the enactment of the CSPA is unprecedented and prominent, so prominent that the IFCSS itself was seen to embody the great hope for the American dreams cherished by many still crowding at the entrance of the "green" passage. Many have seen that it is both the IFCSS's hard work and sound strategy that made the CSPA available, though some people tend to forget this when they come to the point of dividing the pie, as if everything should be like this in the first place. We need not retrieve our recollection of how the CSPA was enacted, except this part should be reminded. That is, the IFCSS's focus of lobbying was correctly shifted to the executive branch bureaucracy, once the CSPA walked out of the Congress. Constitutionally, the bureaucracy is supposed to "faithfully execute" the laws. But, owing to its possession of information and expertise, the INS is said to enjoy greater autonomy to the extent of actually making policies while in the process of implementing a particular policy. This, in fact, provided the opportunity for further bargaining on some potentials of the CSPA that could be exploited for optimum utilization. Sure enough, the follow-up efforts by the IFCSS and Zhao Haiqing did produce a series of positive results--the expanded eligibility for application to the late-arrival-dependents, and then to our uninspected country fellows. As a result, all this raised the CSS's expectations on the IFCSS. The IFCSS is not valued for its own sake, but it is valued for what it can facilitate and bring about. Most of the CSS expect the IFCSS to do more than offering medical insurance or long-distance phone plan; they hope that the IFCSS act continuously as a guardian, a guardian in terms of confronting any kind of external adversaries and negotiating with the American government for the collective benefits that the CSS would not get as the unorganized individuals. To the minimum, most of the CSS expect a sense of progress and action from the IFCSS. However, today's achievement is more than tomorrow's confusion. It is a disappointment at worst, and a turning point at best. While the IFCSS breathed out a sigh of relief for the mission completed, it could not help but also give a sigh of sorrow for its loss of attraction. This fares well with the question I asked before: Once the 6/4 becomes depreciated and the pledged obligations are used up on the part of the American legislators, what other vital issues can the IFCSS pick up to mount another legislative battle? If not, can the IFCSS still attract as many people as before? Certainly, some lingering struggles are still waging on over the residual benefits of the CSPA, and they may as well last for a while because the CSPA takes time to absorb those waiting in line and those coming in wave. However, there is not much left that the IFCSS can do to exert any significant or even marginal influence on, except conducting periodic check-ups to see it that the implementation is in good shape. Even if there is, it will be much more harder to exercise influence in that as time goes by, the CSPA sinks into the institutionalized routine and the bureaucratic insularity. In face of this, the IFCSS is powerless. Given that the 6/4 ceased to be a hot topic and the return of the CSPA diminished marginally, the IFCSS survived in a state of disorientation and ended up bumbling along aimlessly in search for salient issues as alternatives on the course of action. These salient issues are the ones that the IFCSS can use to command the respect and compliance and aggregate the CSS community as a whole. Otherwise, the IFCSS cannot outstand or long last by attempting only mediocrely to provide "nonexclusive and nonrival" (emphasis added) public goods and services. Second, a lot of changes have taken place in the composition of the CSS recently. People now identify with the IFCSS not only by who they are but what they are, thus generating the diversified demands from a wider spectrum. Put it another way, the IFCSS is no longer structured merely on the homogeneous national identity--the Chinese Students and Scholars, but on such cleavages of whether the CSS came in before or after the cut-off line of 4/11/90, and whether they have graduated or not. To the extent that the IFCSS is able to live up with their high and diverse (sometimes unrealistic and contradictory) expectations, it has been becoming overbearing and overburdening in the process of aggregation of the widest possible variety of interests, thus unable to represent each interest effectively. This raises a serious question about the ability of the IFCSS to offer any meaningful alternatives of course of action and promptly deliver services. As a matter of fact, the IFCSS's inability of assimilating and accommodating the diversity has given rise to the incentives for minor groups to come into being, pursuing what they consider important for them. The quick emergence of such new interest groups within the CSS community as Olympic Campaign Committee and LADs Network indicates a tendency for self-perpetuation. Of course, it cannot be ruled out that the impetus for new interests has usually been a situation in which a particular personality was at odds with the major organization. No matter what, this kind of new groups' propensity to focus on single issues is not idiosyncratic, hence not short-lived, because this kind of groups have simple and straightforward goals that their members so intensely care about. This perceived trend implies that the direct dealing with the government is no longer the patent of the IFCSS or some other people's. It is safe to say that as the new competing forces tend to eclipse the IFCSS's predominant status, the IFCSS is likely to descend to partnership with these de facto groups on the equal footing. In other words, it is unlikely for the IFCSS to unvariably hold on the throne of the ultimate leadership in a top-down manner and in the era of plurality and inclination for self- and spontaneous expression.. No one wants to make explicit predictions on the IFCSS's tomorrow, as it is too risky to do so. That, however, should not prevent us from contributing suggestions for bettering the IFCSS's tomorrow in a broad and normative sense. If we label the IFCSS's yesterday as ideological (the 6/4), its today as material (the CSPA), then its tomorrow may be labeled as solidary (the ?). Solidarity means an orientation toward "internal improvement" and strengthening the unity, the achievement of which requires the IFCSS to be responsive and to be open. It is fair to state that it is not the comments and suggestions that are in lack for the IFCSS; it is the responses and feedbacks that are in want from the IFCSS. No commitment in response to the "people's letters" or diverting criticisms into the "private life" of the IFCSS is all ill-advised choice. In a democracy, the rule of the political game must be more important than the outcome. The public interest organization like the IFCSS cannot be private because it involves, visibly, all the CSS (Chinese Students and Scholars). The IFCSS ought to realize that there is an open public sphere where all kind of relevant information must be poured into, rather than withheld from or owned only by the "Chinese Washingtonians." Primo Levi said it right, "In countries and epochs in which communication is impeded, soon the other liberties wither." All in all, responsiveness and openness are not the end in itself, but the means toward a better tomorrow. After writing this much, I ask myself why all this. Perhaps, the answer is I, all of us, "we the people" have faith on tomorrow. [UOYAN@ttacs1.ttu.edu, 9/12/93] -------------------------------------------------------------------------- 1b. A Brief History of the IFCSS Newsletter that I Know of... Lai Anzhi 95 -------------------------------------------------------------------------- The IFCSS Newsletter (the NL hereafter) was initiated in the 2nd term of the IFCSS. It was designed to be an internal "magazine" of the IFCSS to report the activities of/associated with the IFCSS, to bridge the IFCSS leadership to its member organizations, and to provide a forum for the members to comment/debate on the operation of the IFCSS and other issues of interest. From its birth, the NL has been circulating free of charge mainly among the IFCSS activists and the leaders of its local organizations because of the constraint of the tight IFCSS' budget. In the 2nd term, the NL was under the charge of Chen Ying of Cornell University with Hu Sen and Huang He as the editors. There were about 6 or 7 issues published. These issues discussed various topics concerning the IFCSS as well ad reported the main activities of the IFCSS. At the end of this term, the circulation reached about 400. I have no data on how many schools/states the NL had reached in this term; however, the circulation of the NL was regarded one of the most important operations of the IFCSS. I believe that the general IFCSS public considered the NL a necessary publication, and its quality and quantity should be increased and improved. This desire was reflected in a proposal by Chen Xingyu, the 2nd term President, to the National Endowment for Democracy (NED), an organization closely associated with the US Congress. This proposal listed the NL as a separate project of the IFCSS to be financially sponsored by the NED. The proposal was approved a strict item-by-item budget of $12,600 independent of that for the general IFCSS operation. The original agreement requires a publication of 24 issues, but was revised to 10 to 12 issues after the NED was informed about the manpower difficulties. It should be mentioned that the budget did not allow any payment for the NL workers. When the 3rd term came to the office, it called for bidding for the NL. Three groups of CSS at Virginia Tech, University of Minnesota and University of Wisconsin Madison submitted their bids. The IFCSS HQ accepted the one from Virginia Tech for it asked no payment for the editors. With substantially larger budget than that of the 2nd term, the editorial board of the NL put the highest priority as the increase of the quantity and improvement of the quality of the NL. Again, the circulation was still mainly among the IFCSS activists and local school leaders, with the style of the NL being basically the same as that of the 2nd term except that various columns were created. The printed NL reached a circulation nearly 1,000 covering all major universities in 48 or 49 states. Besides the printed NL, the editorial board, with the help from Li Gang, Zhang Yunfei and Pi Xiaoqing, also sent out electronic version. The e-version had a readership about 800 - 900. There were total of 10 issues (plus 4 issues of 4Da reports) circulated. The public responses about the NL was encouraging in general, and the NED, to whom quarterly reports had to be submitted with the original NL's, was satisfied and decided to continue its support to the NL. It should be pointed out that the budget was under close monitor from the NED. No money under a particular item could be used for another. At the end of this term, the NED hired an independent accountant auditing the whole transaction of the NL account. It was found that all the money had been properly used and all the records had been clearly documented. As a result of strictly following the financial regulations, the award of $200 from the HQ to the NL editorial board was not (and will not be) deposited to the NL account and thus still outstanding (which one could consider as saved for the IFCSS). The persons who volunteered for the NL were Wang Jianan, Hwang Kai, Hou Ruan, Shi Heping, He Baoping, Huang Shaoli and Zhu Junlin at Virginia Tech, and Tao Ye and Liu Daosheng (for the 4Da reports) at the University of Minnesota. It should be pointed out that, with the quality and contents of the NL as it is now, the cost of each copy without counting the volunteered labor can hardly be reduced to below $1.00/copy. This imposes a challenge to the IFCSS whether the NL should be kept a free circulation in the future; however, if it is to charge a minimum subscription fee, then the readability of the NL must be substantially increased, which will require more effort and possibly higher budget. The 4th term NL was charged to a single person, Wang Jianan, who was paid half time. This change was mainly because of the almost unbearable work load of the NL for full time students as experienced by the Virginia Tech group. Once again, the style, the quantity and the quality of the NL continued with more effort in providing service information to the IFCSS public. There were ten issues published with three 5Da reports. It is reported that the NED decided not to continue its commitment to the NL due to various reasons. This will impose further financial difficulties to the IFCSS should the NL be continued. I would like to give a few brief comments regarding the NL. 1) The NL needs further improvement as most people see. 2) It takes commitment and possibly personal sacrifices for editing and circulating the NL. 3) There are a lot of good suggestions about the NL. I hope that the HQ and the Council of the IFCSS will carefully examine all these suggestions, and find the best and yet feasible approach to produce a better newsletter. Postscripts: 1) cost $1.00/copy was based on the 3rd term situation, which may not apply to the later terms, since the 3rd term spent a lot of money on hardware (PC, Laser Printer, Fax Machine etc). 2) the amount of the NED budget for the 4th term NL was $10,000. [LAI@CEBAF.GOV, 9/14/93] -------------------------------------------------------------------------- 1c. Excerpts from Net on NL Proposals ........... (edited by Luo Ning) 244 -------------------------------------------------------------------------- (The first session of the Council meeting was on 8/14) --- --- --- --- --- From: IN%"HWANGK%VTCC1.BITNET@VTVM1.CC.VT.EDU" 16-AUG-1993 15:58:16.99 Hwang Kai I prefer attaching the money to work, while the existing budget attachs money to persons. --- --- --- --- --- From: NLUO@MSVAX.MSSM.EDU 16-AUG-1993 16:14:31.48 Luo Ning Just as pointed by Kai: Attach budget to certain working project and post in the public, then pick up the best among the contenders. BTW, the Council should have the final say in any contract since they are the ones to go to court if any legal problems arise from the contracts. --- --- --- --- --- (The second session of the Council meeting was on 8/21) --- --- --- --- --- From: IN%"songlin@buphy.bu.edu" "Songlin Ren" 23-AUG-1993 12:55:26.92 Songlin Ren (An open letter to net) ... As a council member and chair of personnel committee of the council, I would say the meeting was not successful and damaged the working relation between the HQ and the council. Some results of the meeting will block the day work of IFCSS. More important things are some council member were not very conscientious for their vote, even use their personal emotion and interest to raise and vote resolutions. As a member of council elected by my local students, we have to point out my opponents. 1) The conference took 11 hours, most of members had not well prepared before the meeting. 2) The council disprove the arrangement of Zhang Qinsong (Executive Director of 4th IFCSS) for IFCSS Newsletter Editor in Chief . No body asking any question about Mr. ZhangUs abilities and experience. The only reason to discharge Mr. Zhang was that some of council member want cut IFCSS newsletter budget. We should know the personnel assignment is nothing to with financial problem in this case. The result is unfair treatment for Mr. Zhang. 3) In the meeting, the council increased their own budget and froze IFCSS newsletter and HQU traveling budgets. Raising the council own budget and freezing IFCSS newsletter and HQ travel budgets are not conscientious attitude. The only reason is financial committee want to exam the HQ accounts. Until now, the financial committee have no any evidence for HQ have unclear account and the exam work was not well prepared. The direct result is IFCSS have not money to do newsletter and no money to travel. ... --- --- --- --- --- From: IN%"bgqi@medinfo.rochester.edu" "Bing Qi" 24-AUG-1993 11:21:53.29 Qi Bing (An open letter to the 5th council of IFCSS) ... However, the situation in the media system of IFCSS is far from satisfaction. In the critical weeks of CSPA-LCD, I only received several pieces of IFCSS-newsrelease. Aside from that, I can not receive it sometimes for more than a week. I asked many of the local students and none of them has ever received any piece of it. How about the newsletter? Take an example of our school with roughly 400 CSS in the last year, I can't say there wasn't a single piece of it, but at least all the students I know and I haven't heard of anything named "IFCSS-newsletter" before my going to the 5th congress, which is supposed to be the major journal of IFCSS, an organization claiming to work for the whole CSS group as mentioned before. In the same time I consulted some students in other school and they told me the same story. Ordinary students have nearly no way to get any piece of it! I think that's enough for us to doubt the efficiency of distribution of IFCSS-newsletter, a journal which is edited and distributed by a half-time editor ($12,000 a year) with modern equipments and enough budget. In view of the problem, it is natural for the council members to pay great attention to the proposal by HQ on IFCSS-newsletter which carries a price tag of $18,000. I do not have any reason against Mr Zhang Qingsong (who was voted down as the new editor of Newsletter in the 1st teleconference by council members) personally. It is the principle of the fairness and openness that we have defended when the council voted down the proposal on the newsletter. The proposal of the HQ was too crude and there was no way to have anyone held accountable based on such an immature proposal. It is therefore reasonable for many of our council members to hesitate in their castings. We need kind of real proof of the accountability, instead of some emotional reasons, before we make our decisions to approve anything, because we don't want the media system of IFCSS running without accountability. We don't want the Newsletter and Newsrelease be published in the same way as before forever! It's nice that some of our council members offered their own suggestions such as public bidding to the job. Anyone, including Mr Zhang Qingsong, will have a chance to prove his or her qualification under this kind of open and equal procedures. ... Anyone could make mistakes. I don't mind to stand corrected for what I did in the council or anywhere else if the evidence convinces me. However, we as council representatives are not speaking for ourselves. We are elected by our constituents --- the grassroots CSS organizations. It is they who should be the final judge to what we do in the council. Therefore, I suggest that, before we charge on other council members for their actions, why don't we present the whole case to the entire IFCSS community? There are many established channels such as CND, china-net, etc., where a debate can be held and polls can be conducted. Each of our council members can also conduct polls in their regions. I am prepared to post this issue to the coordination net of the East Region where I was elected. Let's hear what our constituents have to say about the issue of IFCSS-newsletter and the handling by council. That some bills were not passed in the 1st teleconference is neither accidental nor targeted at any personnel as implied by some people. It reveals the unsatisfaction of the majority of the council members and it is not a trivial problem at all. In fact, the IFCSS-newsletter controversy is only a small reflection of a larger problem. I further suggest that we present the whole council debate on the various issues to the entire IFCSS community. Let each of us stand in front of the true judge of our action, instead of accusing each other of wrong doings and dark motivations. I think all of our council members keep the sincere wishes in our minds and we truly hope that the HQ will try their best to work out a satisfactory solution to reform the journals. The new journals are expected to be closer to the local CSS and to better serve IFCSS, and for IFCSS to better serve the whole CSS community. --- --- --- --- --- From: IN%"CLU@BIOMED.MED.YALE.EDU" 24-AUG-1993 01:39:58.06 Lu Chengdong Can IFCSS survive for long if it is always running on volunteer bases and providing free service? ... Considering reducing the financial burden, and as part of "professionalize of operation" of IFCSS, should we consider not giving out all the NLs for free. Do you thing it is realistic to propose that the free issues are only given to local school organizations (few copies per school and ask them to make xerox copies) ? Do you think it is realistic to offer discount (like 50%) only to current IFCSS officers, while other may pay some thing like $20.00 or more for 12 issues? It may be true that if we charge for subscribing NL, the number of subscriber may be less than 1000. I have no idea how many people will still stay on. Yet I know that it is hard to ask for money. --- --- --- --- --- From: NLUO@MSVAX.MSSM.EDU 26-AUG-1993 13:42:15.42 Luo Ning Each region take turns in soliciting contributions and editing the content for each issue. The Council members of that region, or the coordinator should have previously found a volunteer group from a school or CSS organization to do the work; The edited materials are sent to the technical editor for format and stylistic processing, then entry into computer with a certain labor compensation (so the TE could either key-in him/herself or ask someone else to do it). The final product is printed nicely on a laser printer and sent back to the region's volunteer group; The volunteer group will sent the original copy to a printing shop and mail out the printed copies. This model is based on the following considerations: There are many tasks in the production of NL, e.g. (1) soliciting contributions; (2) editing the contributed articles; (3) putting edited materials into a coherent format; (4) entering into computer with a Chinese word processor and printing out nicely; (5) copying and mailing out massively; Among these tasks, some requiring a lot of routine work but not much expertise, such as (5), is best done by local volunteers rather than paid expert; some other requiring technical expertise, such as (3), is better relied on some experienced staff to insure consistent and coherent quality and style; some task, such as (4), is routine, and could be done more efficiently by an expert, but could also be done by a novice given enough patience and time. The content of NL is mainly determined by (1) and (2), which are very time-consuming and costly. However, by distributing these tasks to the regional groups, more people will get involved, and they will become an interested readers, at least for a while. There will also be competitions among regions to see who can produce a better issue. A rising interest in the readership is the basis for further elevating the quality of the contributions from readers. --- --- --- --- --- From: IN%"mcheng@acsu.buffalo.edu" "Ming Cheng" 27-AUG-1993 17:32:30.49 Cheng Ming A New Proposal For NL 1. NL is not only a project on which we spend money, but also one we can make money upon. The quantity of NL should not be decreased but largely increased, then we can contract some pages of NL out to some advertising agency. Tour, life insurance, computer company et. all will be very interested in NL distributed to CSS nationwide. I expect that we can make $3000 -5000 from these advertisements. 2. Many people have pointed out that NL is a important channel connecting IFCSS and its grass root orgs.. I would like to go further to say that NL should also be a channel connect IFCSS with people in China. NL should also be distributed into China, first the Universities and Research institutes, and key enterprises, with reformed layout. We can ask the key enterprises not only to pay the cost , but to support NL financially. Recently, I faxed a simple small business news back to my friends in China, they easily sold it to a related factory for 200 Yuan = $25. NL definitely should open the "hot" Chinese market. Do I need to mention that what other kind role the NL can play in China? --- --- --- --- --- From: IN%"bing@hellspark.wharton.upenn.edu" 27-AUG-1993 17:51:23.03 Xu Bing ... So my idea is that we should consider the NL issue and the IFCSS membership issue together. More specifically, IFCSS should accept individual members as well as group members and ask for certain amount of membership fee. For example, $20 annual fee for individual members and $100 for group members. The editor of the NL can take full responsibility for the registration process and use part of the money for the NL program (assuming that we can collect more than enough money for NL). Each individual member should receive one free copy and every group member should receive 5 to 10 free copys for every NL issue. --- --- --- --- --- From: IN%"TWP66@ISUVAX.IASTATE.EDU" 10-SEP-1993 20:10:51.73 (A memo from the Council to the HQ on the IFCSS Newsletter Project and two more things) We have noticed the message sent to the Council by the IFCSS HQ which describes the IFCSS Newsletter (NL) budget, and nominations for NL editor in chief, New Comers Working Committee, and the assistant treasurer. To our understanding, the two major reasons that the NL budget and editor nomination were turned down by the Council are that the budget was too crude about the cost of the NL and that the CSS community is unsatisfied with the current NL publication, both its distribution and its quality. We are glad to see in the new proposal that the HQ has made effort to supply a better itemized budget, which will certainly make it easier for the Council members to examine the necessity of the items. However, we fail to see any effort taken by the HQ in the direction to improve the distribution mechanism and quality of the NL. The new proposal basically repeats the old one and has not addressed the concerns of the council members who voted "NAY" or "ABSTAIN" on both NL budget and nomination. Without any new light shed onto the issue, it might be hardly possible for the our colleagues in the Council to reconsider it. Before and after the Council's first Teleconference, we have seen a lot of discussions about the IFCSS NL in various nets in which many IFCSS activists have proposed many ideas. It is disappointing that the HQ has been ignorant to such constructive ideas. It is our belief that such tendency of deafness shown in the HQ's work could be very harmful to the health of IFCSS, especially in the days when everyone is crying about the lack of participation of CSS in IFCSS activities. ... [Edited by Luo Ning, nluo@msvax.mssm.edu, 9/15/93] ==========***==========***==========**==========***==========***========== 2a. The Exchange Committee Calls for Participation ..... Luan Shusheng 17 -------------------------------------------------------------------------- In response to the HQ's call for proposals, the IFCSS Committee for Science and Technology, Education and Culture Exchanges is welcoming new ideas, participation and general help from you, with the preparation/planning of the coming year's projects. Last year, the Exchange Committee successfully awarded 12 college students with Best Student Awards out of about 100 applicants from more than 20 schools. It also funded one student group's self-proposed campus social programs. The Committee is determined to extend and expand its programs to promote more interaction between CSS in the US and students in China. I warmly welcome more friends to join the Committee members with their ideas and enthusiasm and contribute more to China's progress through frequent and massive exchange programs. If you have ideas/suggestions and or interested in joining the Committee, please let me know. 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