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In The New, New Thing , Michael Lewis refers to the phrase business model as a term of art." And like art itself, it is 1 of these items numerous folks feel they can recognize when they see it (specifically a particularly clever or terrible one particular) but can not very define. The 1st symptom, Rita McGrath says in When Your Enterprise Model is In Difficulty ," is when innovations to your present offerings create smaller sized and smaller improvements (and Christensen would agree). Instead of creating plans, the organization analyst produces 'requirements' which clearly state the organization demands and align with enterprise processes.
His nine-portion company model canvas " is basically an organized way to lay out your assumptions about not only the important resources and crucial activities of your worth chain, but also your value proposition, customer relationships, channels, consumer segments, expense structures, and income streams — to see if you've missed anything important and to examine your model to other folks.
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When you run a company, the bottom line is forefront in everything you do, and part of that is to know and understand your customers and clients. What they like and what they don't like, why they do or don't do business with you, and what the decision making process is, not to mention demographics, buying trends, etc. For years, marketing managers have chased down figuring out what makes customers tick, ways to improve products and services, and how to stay cost efficient based on those results.
As a CEO, you care about the bottom line, market trends, your employees, and how to stay ahead in a crowded marketplace. From surveys to social media, companies have sought ways to understand their customer's buying habits and satisfaction level. Surveys can be useful, but people get fatigued seeing them over and over again, plus they're driven by the company, not the customer, and are often overlooked. Social media has certainly and profoundly changed the landscape of customer feedback, but it's just that, social, and typically for the world to see rather than kept private. The difference with using real-time engagement to attain this information is evident in the name. The engagement happens in real time, as in the customer is engaging directly with the company. When this occurs via social media, it's typically visible to the public, but when companies utilize this process via real-time engagement technology, it's private, anonymous for the user, and the data that matters gets funneled directly to the company. It's this data that is highly valuable to brands because of the cumulative and customer driven nature of the process.
All of the above feeds right into the well-known principle of "know, like, and trust", which leads to loyalty, growth, and revenue. This is key. People may buy with emotion and logic, but WHO they buy from is associated with who they know, like, and trust, with trust being the predominant winner of the three in many cases. So how does a company earn trust? The obvious answers are quality products and services, going the extra mile, consistency, etc. But the added factor is transparency. Consumers are savvy and they don't have time for smoke and mirrors. They'll be on to the next thing before the ink is dry if they're not treated right. Companies need to be mindful of their believability factor, as it's widely known that consumers don't always believe what a company says about itself. The more consumers are being treated honestly and openly by a company, the more apt they are to trust them. Going back to real-time engagement, this matters at the exact point of purchase. Whether a loyal customer already, a new purchaser, or someone who is skeptical about the product or company, capturing customer's emotions at the moment of interaction with a brand is the quintessential moment of VALUE that can benefit a company. That's the secret sauce for companies, something so organic, immediate, and direct, it trumps surveys and social media. Information and data are moving faster as we move forward in time. It's inevitable that businesses will need to operate in real time to compete.
Being smart about data collection is a big differentiator. "Smart data" is just that; it's the smart way of collecting data and reliably interpreting the results of that collected data. Today's smart data can be found at the intersection of mobile, real-time engagement and capturing emotion in the moment of engagement with brands. The predictive analytics resulting from this data is truly unique, with potentially immense results. Mobile technology is innately personal, leading to high confidence of the feedback, as emotional feedback is visceral and directly correlated to the brand. A customer-centric engagement platform enables people to engage with brands at will, based on their own personal experience. Garnering emotion from willing participants as they engage with brands provides organizations with the elusive "WHY" people behave the way they do with your brand. This prized data is the fuel for providing organizations with effective forward-looking customer insights. Interpreting smart data correctly takes the mystery out of knowing and understanding customer behavior. When companies listen to this high confidence feedback from engaged customers and use the smart data to implement improvements, changes, and other forms of positive customer service throughout the company, it creates a win-win result, positioning companies to grow their brand in sync with their customer's experience.
Let's talk about another principle of marketing. There's an old adage that you can't have all three when it comes to "fast, good, and cheap". If it's fast and good, it's not cheap, and so on. So let's break it down. These days, when it comes to our smart devices, that old rule is being challenged. Apps had better be fast, or users will be on to the next big thing, right? Typically, apps are also cheap, or free, for the most part, and with standards being high among the millennial crowd, they had also better be good if they want to have happy customers. So does that leave "fast, good, and cheap" in the dust? Not exactly. In fact, utilizing real-time engagement in an app format may not be cheap for a company to put in place, but it is definitely cost-effective, as the value of the information outweighs the cost to implement.
Instead of the question, "Why WOULD you want to utilize real-time engagement for your company?", when you realize the power it has, it's more like, "Why WOULDN'T you want real-time engagement for your company?" Yes, social media provides information back to companies. Yes, good old-fashioned surveys still work in certain situations. But none of that has the same impact as real-time engagement. One of the best features about real-time engagement technology is that it can be as custom as any company wants. From basic to advanced, information is collected anonymously by the user who voices their experience, which is then transferred to the company. The value is most apparent when the data adds up collectively. Real-time engagement can be customized to work with everyone from new customers to loyal followers, brand ambassadors, and influencers, where trust is already established. Incentives can be put in place within the technology, and companies can establish their own proprietary packages of specific information they are seeking, plus the range of emotions associated with customer buying habits. When done right, the goal and outcome of a real-time engagement campaign can be music to a CEO's ears.
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Southern University of Science and Technology (SUSTech) is a public university founded in the Shenzhen Special Economic Zone of China.
SUSTech offers an unparalleled learning and research experience at the scientific and technological frontiers.
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The main duties of SUSTCEF is to accept the donations from the domestic and foreign associations, enterprises, trading companies and individuals, and establish the funding projects depending on the demands of the university and the wishes of the donors.
In March 2018, Class of 2018 undergraduate student Ouyang Wenkai received Ph.D. offers from University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA), University of California, Santa Barbara (UCSB), University of Southern California (USC), and Technical University of Denmark (DTU). Having considered the strength of each university, Ouyang chose to pursue his studies at the Department of Materials at UCSB, ranked the fourth best materials graduate program in the world and the best in the U.S. by the National Research Council.
As a star of SUSTech, Ouyang Wenkai's college experience reflects his unique character and extraordinary qualities. On the one hand, he is the recipient of the National Scholarship and Outstanding International Volunteer; on the other hand, he has traveled to countries including India, Bangladesh, Palestine, Israel, France and Spain without any electronic equipment.
Ouyang first met us for the interview at Zhiren Residential College. Tanned, very polite and in great spirits, there seemed to be an adventurous and ambitious soul underneath, which may have helped pave the way for his somewhat "legendary" college life.
From the Underdog to the Top of Class within a Year
Ouyang recalled: "Among the newly accepted students in 2014 from Hunan Province, my college entrance examination score was almost the lowest." On top of that, the whole transition process from Hunan Zhounan Middle School to SUSTech was not easy for him. Ouyang realized that he had to work extremely hard to catch up with others.
Fortunately, the 2+2 education model at SUSTech, where your major remains undeclared until your junior year, allowed Ouyang enough time to work on basic science courses while finding his interests and strengths. Apart from working out, he spent most of the time in the classroom, library, and dormitory. He studied his textbooks and PowerPoint slides carefully and reorganized them into hand-written English notes, often working late into the night. His pile of English notes helped him earn the top spot in his class during his first year at SUSTech.
Ouyang had always wanted to join the Department of Electrical & Electronic Engineering out of his love for studying transistors. However, after much consideration and many in-depth talks with the professor, he entered the Department of Materials Science and Engineering and continued to be a top student there.
Research advisor Cheng Chun said: "Wenkai is a very well-rounded student. He is not only good at academic studies and research but also has an international view and strong sense of responsibility. He took up a leadership role at Zhiren Residential College, helped out his fellow students and joined multiple extracurricular volunteer programs."
Wang Siting, the recipient of the 2017 National Scholarship, told us that Ouyang Wenkai is a "workaholic with lots of patience, endurance, and perseverance."
Doing Ph.D. work as an Undergraduate at UCLA
In the first semester of his sophomore year, Ouyang Kaiwen joined Associate Professor Cheng Chun's laboratory to study two-dimensional materials. The following semester, he became the first SUSTech Materials Science student to apply for the National Students' Platform for Innovation and Entrepreneurship Training Program.
In his junior year, he sought and earned admission into the UCLA-CSST Summer Research Program. Even as a junior, professors and researchers treated him like the other Ph.D. students there: requiring him to attend laboratory group meetings every week and report progress of his experiments to advisor Xie Ya-hong.
Understandably, he faced harsh criticism from the advisor when failing to make any progress on his experiment for weeks. Although Ouyang could barely stand the criticism, he was not willing to give up. He kept trying and communicating with the advisor and finally succeeded. When reflecting upon the experience, Ouyang expressed his gratitude: "The advisor has made a positive impact on me. It is from him that I have learned the correct research method: raising a hypothesis based on theoretical background, follow through the experiment based on the hypothesis, and verify the hypothesis based on experimental findings. I didn't stick to this method at first and messed up the procedure a little bit, which was a waste of two weeks of work in the laboratory."
After four months of hard work, he completed the research program and earned the recognition from his advisor, who wrote a reference letter for every university Ouyang applied for during his senior year. Moreover, the advisor himself offered him a full scholarship for his graduate studies at UCLA.
Backpacking across South Asia in Style
Many teenagers and young adults have dreamed of wanderlust on the other side of the world, but the overwhelming majority of them choose to let their dreams remain dreams. Different from the rest, Ouyang stepped out of his comfort zone and embarked on many wild backpacking trips.
"I was eighteen when I finished my freshman year, and I wanted something different for myself." Ouyang blinked with happiness when recalling this experience. "My parents are supportive of my decision and encouraged me to travel to Europe or Singapore on a budget. I appreciate them for being so understanding, but that's not my style."
Ouyang planned on doing something a little "crazier" and went to India and Bangladesh alone without electronic communication devices. "When you don't have anything that lets you rely on the people you know, you will be forced to talk to others in a brand-new environment." Ouyang was very excited when talking about his travel experiences across the Indian subcontinent. "One time, I met a local who just graduated from a university in Bangalore, and he invited to a traditional Indian wedding. It was beautiful. I also made friends with a Spanish university student on the train. We both wanted to see some unique temples that are off the tourist radar, so we ventured into the little villages in northern India where no travel information existed at all. We just wanted the coolest experience!" In a way, Ouyang Wenkai's "crazy experience" is an unusual but extraordinary coming-of-age ceremony.
More Global Experience Leads to a Bigger Heart
Ouyang Wenkai seemed to have it all – stellar academic performance, rich extracurricular activities and supportive family members. However, he was feeling lost and stressed for quite some time. After receiving the National Scholarship in his junior year, he was no longer the underachiever about which nobody knew. Being a campus celebrity came with a lot of stress. "I was always worried about what others thought of me and whether they believed I was worthy of my academic title." The overthinking soon turned into an overwhelming burden, and Ouyang knew he had to get out of the vicious circle to gain a peaceful mind and the strength for further achievements.
Again, he chose traveling to clear his mind. "I went to Israel and made a couple of European friends during the journey. My experience with them reminded me that focusing on your psychological well-being is far more important than caring about comments or rumors about you." Having regained a calm peace of mind to pursue his dream, Ouyang Wenkai became a happier person.
"I remember watching a movie about Mother Teresa, and it inspired me to do volunteer work. Later I went to Bangladesh and did volunteer work for two weeks. I was responsible for taking care of the disabled children, and what happened on the first day already made me want to cry. I tried to feed a girl who couldn't do so herself, but every time she would bring it all back up again. She was so malnourished that her digestive system had completely broken down and later covered with her waste. I did not mind her being 'dirty,' but it upset me immensely that there are many people like her whose sufferings are beyond our wildest imagination." This experience prompted him to fully devote himself to the volunteering cause, leading him to earn an Outstanding International Volunteer Award. He was not only acknowledged for his selfless love but was also officially recognized as the only volunteer in his group to be allowed to perform physiotherapy on disabled children.
"People can't just only care about themselves. On top of being responsible for yourself and your family, we also need to foster social responsibility. That's why I want to make contributions to our society as much as possible." Ouyang Wenkai did not just make that statement, but he followed through with what he believed in, and it has not stopped at a single volunteering experience. He and his family have participated in poverty relief work in Bangladesh for four consecutive years.
Choosing UCSB and Pursuing His Dream
Having written five academic papers (one resubmitted as first author and the other four with co-author status) and with one patent in the process of substantial examination, Ouyang Wenkai is commonly referred to as the "King of Materials Science." With extraordinary research experience and innovation ability, he received a full scholarship offer from UCSB, as well as Honor Program offers UCLA, USC, and DTU.
When asked about why he chose UCSB over other top universities, he replied with one simple word: "Dream." Ouyang then explained: "I've always wanted to get into UCSB. Moreover, Mechanical Engineering Professor Liao Baolin is one of the top young scholars in the world. A full scholarship also means a high level of recognition from UCSB." As one of University of California's ten campuses, UCSB is a leading, science research-based public university in the U.S. During a seven-year period, five professors from UCSB received the Nobel Prize in Physics, Chemistry, and Economics. With world-leading academic achievements, beautiful campus environment, and favorable Southern Californian climate, UCSB keeps attracting numerous top researchers from around the globe and thus has become one of the world's major base for academic development.
The UCSB offer is a brand-new start for Ouyang Wenkai, but it also means his days at SUSTech are coming to an end. Reflecting on the past four years here, Ouyang is reluctant to say goodbye. "I was so lucky to spend these years at SUSTech. It's a wonderful place. The professors here are all excellent and super helpful. For example, my research advisor Cheng Chun taught me how to search for academic literature and conduct scientific research systematically. Because of him, I have mastered the skills that will be vital to my future career. I will always remember the good old days here, and I promise I will come back to witness SUSTech's better future."
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Many wonder about the story of Paul Simon & Art Garfunkel, from the counterculture icons of the 60s to the tumultuous breakup right at the beginning of the 70s to their hugely-attended comeback concert in New York City's Central Park. The duo have many stories wrapped in their careers both as individuals and as a duo together.
Performing this story in a theatre setting can prove slightly challenging as well, as both musicians have nuanced qualities to their voices and compliment each other harmoniously too. The Simon & Garfunkel story takes a biographical look into how they met as young boys from Queens to become one of the most successful musicians of the 60s and of modern music.
Joe Sterling who plays Art Garfunkel in the production happily chatted to us from the UK ahead of the show's tour around Australia.
Are you currently based in the UK at the moment?
Yes, that's right. Yes, absolutely. We've just got back from Ireland and having a few days off before we head back on the road in the United Kingdom yeah.
You've previously played a musician in the past, recently Buddy Holly. Can you tell me how much prep you had to do to portray musos like Art Garfunkel and Buddy Holly?
It's a similar set of process. I just watched a quite lot of clips and I just watched and did a lot of research, who they are as people because obviously when you are performing as a real person, you wanna get it right. You wanna do your own interpretation of them really. Rather than an impression, you kind of wanna do your own interpretation of it, put your own spin on it but also with a lot of respect for the person that you are portraying.
So yeah, a lot of video clips, and a lot of research books and that kind of thing, getting to know them as people and performers as well. This means watching a lot of things like the Central Park concert for the start of the Garfunkel story, lots of watching Art Garfunkel in general and seeing how he does things.
How do you try to negotiate that line between presenting an impression and performing as Art Garfunkel?
You do the sorts of vocal idiosyncrasies I suppose. There are certain things with Art Garfunkel, you know there are certain things he does, certain things he will put in but then also not sort of crossing that line to just doing a straight up impression. You wanna sort of do your own interpretation of the role.
In your opinion Joe, why do you think the story of Simon & Garfunkel needs to be told on stage?
I think it's a really a great tale. It's wonderful to hear how they really were best friends at school. Growing up they met in a school play of Alice in Wonderland when they were children. They were teenagers and they got to know each other so well and are such good friends. They rose to being at that point where they were the biggest musicians and artists in the world at that point in time.
When they split, Bridge Over Trouble Water was actually the biggest selling album of all time. It outsold The Beatles, Elvis Presley and all those guys so they were so huge and people sort of refused to forget that because they stopped right at the heart of that success. So they really were the biggest in the world at that point. It's a great story.
I suppose trying to portray that story on stage is also more about acting the role rather than just performing the songs as well. Do you have to go through the emotion of being Art Garfunkel?
Well sort of, within the songs we do because we actually show the concert shows, so we narrate through that story. We're not in character as we narrate the story. We just tell it as narrators speaking about them. And then through the songs I suppose and then through the recreation of Central Park at the end of the show which starts an army piece, we then very much get into the roles and certainly through that music yeah.
And from what I understand, you also have like visuals behind you to too.
Yeah that's right yeah. We have a big screen that plays various pictures and video footage and things all from that time and period.
How does that coordinate with you performing? When you watch those pictures before performing as well, do you have to get a sense of what the time was like? It's more of obviously simply just about Art Garfunkel and Paul Simon, but you have to express the time as well which was this revolutionary time in music.
Yeah certainly and people say that when we speak to the audience after. They really enjoyed the videos because it really evoked memories with this music…it really makes people think about a time gone by. Certainly people of that era that come and see the show go down memory lane and all that kind of thing.
Can you tell me about the relationship that you and Dean (Elliot – producer of The Simon & Garfunkel Story) had with performing this material? I'm assuming you guys have to have a bit of a close relationship considering that you have to perform together quite a bit.
We get on very well. Dean produced the show originally and the show has been running for a year and a half and I just came and auditioned and luckily got offered the part. I joined a year ago and we get on very very well. We did a lot of rehearsals beforehand and just Dean and myself getting to know each other's voices and blending. It was all about the harmony work. So we worked a lot to get the vocal harmonies just right and then with Gregory Clark who took over the role in January, we've always worked really closely together to get our harmonies just right.
Can you tell me about the process of getting those harmonies right especially with Dean?
So we obviously learnt all my harmonies and independently beforehand and via Dean I had lots of material to listen to and go away and do my homework and learn all the harmony lines and then we'd just get together and then we of course start rehearsing together and it's all about the ends of words and cutting of your T's and S's at the same time and lots of little things like that to make it just sound just like Simon & Garfunkel did which was so they were so perfectly well together. So we worked quite hard to try and get that sound just right with all the close harmony work so it took a lot of homework. But you really learn how each other sing and you learn each other's ways of doing things. You get so used to singing together.
The show also portrays a little bit of both artists' solo careers as well and thinking of both of their solo careers, they actually went off in kind of interesting directions as well. Is there kind of an interesting exploration outside of what they're well known for in the 60s and 70s? Does the show delve into even present day?
Yeah we do a little. We don't talk too much about what they did after they were together. We'd love to do more of their solo work as well but there's so much work, the show would last about three days if we did all their solo records as well. So we don't do all that much of their solo work but we certainly give a nod to what they went off and did.
Art did a film called Catch-22 and he became an actor and that's when they split really. One of their songs is actually about Art leaving to go off to Mexico and work on a film and The Only Living Boy in New York which is one of our final numbers of the show that Paul wrote for Art. There's a video montage of their solo careers and our fantastic band, play an instrumental medley of that solo hit actually. So that sort of nods to that solo career.
What is your favourite Simon & Garfunkel song or which song do you love performing the most?
Oh gosh, I love so many of them but one of my favourites is a song called Richard Cory which we do in Act 1 and it's one of their very early works and it's not that well known and it's based on a poem actually. But Richard Cory is a very cool song
Have you met either Paul Simon or Art Garfunkel or have they seen the production?
We wish. No they haven't. They're aware of the production I believe but no we haven't met them or seen them. We'd very much like that. It'd be a real a very fantastic thing to do. But no we haven't. I'd very much like to meet them certainly. That'd be amazing.
The Simon & Garfunkel Story is touring Australia between 6–22 July. They'll be performing major venues in Melbourne, Perth, Adelaide, Brisbane, Sydney, Canberra, Wollongong, Newcastle and the Gold Coast. For more info and to buy tickets head here or check out their Facebook page.


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Autumn Series – God has visited his people! Taking another look at Luke with Fr. Kieran O'Mahony OSA
Date(s) - 23 Oct 2018
The series of 6 talks will begin on Tuesday 16th October and continue on the 23rd and 30th October and the 6th, 13th and 20th November 2018.
As Luke is the Gospel which will mostly be read on Sundays during the liturgical year starting in Advent 2018, it is particularly appropriate to have this series just before Advent begins. Fr. Kieran's themes for each evening are as follows:
16 Oct. Luke: a (re-)introduction
23 Oct. Setting the scene: Luke 4:14-30
30 Oct. Teaching in parables: Luke 18:1-8
6 Nov. Prayer in Luke's Gospel
13 Nov. The death of the Prophet Messiah: Luke 23:1-56
20 Nov. On the road to Emmaus: Luke 24:13-35
The talks will take place in Our Lady's Hall at 7.30 pm each evening. All are invited to attend.


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Ergativity, Valency and Voice
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Series:Empirical Approaches to Language Typology [EALT] 48
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This volume is a collection of articles concerned with the typology of valency and valence change in a large and diversified sample of languages that display ergative alignment in their grammar. The sample of languages represented in these descriptive contributions covers most of the geographical areas and linguistic families in which ergativity has been known to exist jointly with well-developed morphological voice, and some languages belonging to families in which ergativity or voice were not previously recognized or adequately described up to now.
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I know it's a big thing to ask, so at the very least, I would love to see at least some of these kitties go together, please help however you can! All four, or in pairs! Or Nisha could go alone if it has to be that way. But my wish is for each of them to have family with them in their new, forever homes!
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This book was found on the shelves in the office of a Buffy-loving coworker. I really loved it! I don't know how exactly to explain it. A series of essays about fandom? Or internet fandom? Or, communities that spring up around TV shows. It wasn't exactly about the Buffy fans in particular, but of course, prominent Buffy characters featured prominently. It seemed to be more about the internet, and community. Something that is near and dear to my heart, because of my involvement in NerdNYC.
My favorite sections of the book talked about how riled up and angry the author gets with interlopers and trolls in her community and the frustration she feels when the community gets all hugs and ponies about it, instead of the "Cut a Bitch" style that she (and I) favor.
I loved her story of the internet as a family. As a girl whose closest friends all now live within blocks and were met on the "interwebs" – I can relate.
In terms of Buffy – it was a little sad to hear that while she is in close touch with some of the writers, Joss really has no idea who she really is. But I loved how much credit she gives to the writers, and not the actors. And that she goes into fanfic, and who stories really belong to.
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MANITOBA – Manitoba's child welfare system is rooted in provincial child welfare legislation. Almost every single child who is in care of the child and family services system, is a subject of legal proceedings – with all children under temporary or permanent orders, being so ordered by provincial courts. Regardless of Manitoba's attempts to "devolve" the child welfare system through the creation of culturally appropriate aboriginal child welfare authorities and agencies, one of the criticisms that many indigenous people have leveled against the child welfare system, is that it is premised within the very same legal and court system that has facilitated colonization and assimilationist laws and practices, including the laws that facilitated and enforced the residential school system, the 60s scoop, and contemporary child welfare trends that include gross overrepresentation of indigenous children in care.
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Canada (Minister of Citizenship and Immigration) v. Ahmad
The Minister of Citizenship and Immigration, Applicant, and
Yousef Mustafa Bani Ahmad, Respondent
The Minister of Citizenship and Immigration, Applicant, and
Yousef Mustafa Bani Ahmad, Respondent
[2014] F.C.J. No. 1095
Docket: T-2019-13
Federal Court
Toronto, Ontario
LeBlanc J.
Heard: August 25, 2014.
Judgment: September 18, 2014.
Docket: T-2019-13
Federal Court
Toronto, Ontario
LeBlanc J.
Heard: August 25, 2014.
Judgment: September 18, 2014.
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1 LeBLANC J.:-- This case is an appeal by the Minister of Citizenship and Immigration (the Minister) under subsection 14(5) of the Citizenship Act, RSC, 1985, c C-29 (the Act) and section 21 of the Federal Courts Act, RSC 1985, c C-7, of a decision of a Citizenship judge approving the respondent's application for Canadian citizenship.
I. Background
2 Mr. Bani-Ahmad is a national of Jordan. He arrived in Canada in 1999 and became a permanent resident in October, 2006, following a positive inland application for Humanitarian and Compassionate grounds under the Immigration and Refugee Protection Act (SC 2001, c 27).
3 On July 11, 2009, he submitted an application for Canadian citizenship. Therefore, the relevant four year period for the purposes of the residency requirement Mr. Bani-Ahmad had to meet as a condition for being granted Canadian citizenship was July 11, 2005 to July 11, 2009.
4 In the citizenship application and subsequent Citizenship Questionnaire he was asked to complete, Mr. Bani-Ahmad declared three absences from Canada during that four year period. In the course of processing of his citizenship application, Mr. Bani-Ahmad was asked to provide documents to demonstrate that he met the residency requirement but he failed to do so.
5 His citizenship application was eventually referred to a Citizenship judge for a hearing that was held on September 30, 2013. After reviewing the record before him, the Citizenship judge requested translation of a foreign language stamp in Mr. Bani-Ahmad's passport and reserved his final decision for the outcome of the translation.
6 On October 15, 2013, the Citizenship judge approved Mr. Bani-Ahmad's application. In a rather short decision, the Citizenship judge listed factors which appear to have been considered in reaching his decision. The Citizenship judge first stated that Mr. Bani-Ahmad had less than 1095 days of physical presence in Canada as required by paragraph 5(1)(c) of the Act "because he applied too soon for Citizenship". He then indicated that Mr. Bani-Ahmad was in Canada since 1999, that his passport corroborated his testimony, that three of his children were born in Canada, that he owned a restaurant and a house in Toronto, that the restaurant was the only source of income for he and his family and that some members of his family (brothers, sister and mother) were in Canada.
7 Under the heading "Decision", the Citizenship judge wrote the following:
· Considering all of the above, and based on my careful assessment of the applicant's testimony, as well as my consideration of the information and evidence before me, I am satisfied that the applicant was actually living and was physically present in Canada on the number of days sufficient to comply with the Citizenship Act.
8 The Minister claims that this decision must be quashed for two reasons. First, the Minister contends that the Citizenship judge failed to identify which of the three residency tests was used, resulting in his decision not meeting the test of clarity, precision and intelligibility established in Dunsmuir v New Brunswick, 2008 SCC 9, [2008] 1 SCR 190. Second, the Minister submits, in the alternative, that the impugned decision is unreasonable as the Citizenship judge reached conclusions about Mr. Bani-Ahmad's ties to Canada that are not supported by the evidence.
II. Issue and Standard of Review
9 The sole issue to be resolved in this case is whether the impugned decision warrants intervention by this Court. In order to answer that question I have applied the standard of reasonableness which is the standard of review applicable in citizenship appeals dealing with the residency requirement.
10 It is indeed generally accepted in this Court's jurisprudence "that a citizenship judge's application of evidence to a specific test for residency under paragraph 5(1)(c) of the Act raises questions of mixed fact and law and is thus reviewable on a standard of reasonableness": Saad v Canada (Minister of Citizenship and Immigration), 2013 FC 570, 433 FTR 174, at para 18, and see also Canada (Minister of Citizenship and Immigration) v Rahman, 2013 FC 1274 at para 13; Balta v Canada (Minister of Citizenship and Immigration), 2011 FC 1509, 403 FTR 134 at para 5; Canada (Minister of Citizenship and Immigration) v Baron, 2011 FC 480, 388 FTR 261 at para 9; Canada (Minister of Citizenship and Immigration) v Diallo, 2012 FC 1537, 424 FTR 156 at para 13; Huang v Canada (Minister of Citizenship and Immigration) 2013 FC 576 at paras 24 to 26).
11 There is no dispute between the parties that the standard of review applicable to the present appeal is the standard of reasonableness.
III. Analysis
The Legal Principles Applicable to the Citizenship Residency Requirement
12 Paragraph 5(1)(c) of the Act provides for the residency requirements citizenship applicants need to meet in order to be successful with their application. It reads as follows:
· Citizenship Act, RSC 1985, c C-29
· Grant of citizenship
(1) The Minister shall grant citizenship to any person who
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is a permanent resident within the meaning of subsection 2(1) of the Immigration and Refugee Protection Act, and has, within the four years immediately preceding the date of his or her application, accumulated at least three years of residence in Canada calculated in the following manner:
for every day during which the person was resident in Canada before his lawful admission to Canada for permanent residence the person shall be deemed to have accumulated one-half of a day of residence, and
for every day during which the person was resident in Canada after his lawful admission to Canada for permanent residence the person shall be deemed to have accumulated one day of residence;
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· Loi sur la citoyenneté (LRC (1985), ch C-29)
· Attribution de la citoyenneté
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est un résident permanent au sens du paragraphe 2(1) de la Loi sur l'immigration et la protection des réfugiés et a, dans les quatre ans qui ont précédé la date de sa demande, résidé au Canada pendant au moins trois ans en tout, la durée de sa résidence étant calculée de la manière suivante :
un demi-jour pour chaque jour de résidence au Canada avant son admission à titre de résident permanent,
un jour pour chaque jour de résidence au Canada après son admission à titre de résident permanent;
13 There is an ongoing debate within this Court as to what paragraph 5(1)(c) of the Act means exactly. Competing views have emerged from that debate with the result that three different tests are available to Citizenship judges in assessing the residency requirement in any given case (Sinanan v Canada (Minister of Citizenship and Immigration) 2011 FC 1347 at paras 6 to 8; Huang v Canada (Minister of Citizenship and Immigration), 2013 FC 576, [2013] F.C.J. No. 629 (QL), at paras 17 and 18).
14 The first test involves the strict counting of days of physical presence in Canada which must total 1095 days in the four years preceding the application. It is often referred to as the quantitative test or the Pourghasemi test (Pourghasemi (Re) (FCTD) [1993] 62 FTR 122, [1993] F.C.J. No. 232 (QL)).
15 The second test is less stringent. It recognizes that a person can be resident in Canada, even while temporarily absent, if there remains a strong attachment to Canada. This test is generally known as the Re Papadogiorgakis test (Re Papadogiorgakis, [1978] 2 FC 208, [1978] F.C.J. No. 31 (QL)).
16 The third test builds on the second one by defining residence as the place where one has centralized his or her mode of living. It is described in the jurisprudence as the Koo test (Re Koo, 59 FTR 27, [1992] F.C.J. No. 1107 (QL); see also Paez v Canada (Minister of Citizenship and Immigration) 2008 FC 204 at para 13, Sinanan, above at paras 6 to 8; Huang, above at paras 37 to 40).
17 The last two tests are often referred to as qualitative tests (Huang, above at para 17).
18 The dominant view in the case law is that Citizenship judges are entitled to choose which test they desire to use among these three tests and that they cannot be faulted for choosing one over the other (Pourzand v Canada (Minister of Citizenship and Immigration) 2008 FC 395 at para 16; Xu v Canada (Minister of Citizenship and Immigration) 2005 FC 700 at paras 15 and 16; Rizvi v Canada (Minister of Citizenship and Immigration) 2005 FC 1641 at para 12).
19 However, they can be faulted if they fail to articulate which residency test was applied in a given case (Dina v Canada (Minister of Citizenship and Immigration) 2013 FC 712, 435 FTR 184, at para 8).
20 This is, in my view, what happened in this case. For the reasons that follow, this is fatal to the Citizenship judge's decision.
The Citizenship Judge's Failure to Articulate Expressly or Impliedly the Residency Test
21 It is undisputed that the Citizenship judge did not expressly state or articulate which of the three residency tests was used in his assessment of Mr. Bani-Ahmad's citizenship application.
22 Mr. Bani-Ahmad asserts that since the Supreme Court of Canada's judgment in Newfoundland and Labrador Nurses' Union v Newfoundland and Labrador (Treasury Board), 2011 SCC 62, [2011] 3 SCR 708, deference is owed to administrative decision makers, even if the reasons given in support of findings are not entirely adequate. As a result, he says the Citizenship judge was under no obligation to expressly identify the test applied.
23 Mr. Bani-Ahmad further submits that it appears clear from the impugned decision, when read as a whole, that the test applied was the one set out in Koo, above, and that, as a result, the decision possesses the qualities of clarity, transparency and intelligibility required by the case law.
24 It is true that administrative decision makers are owed deference even where the reasons supporting a finding are not entirely adequate. However, Newfoundland Nurses, above, still requires reasons for decisions to be intelligible enough to allow the reviewing court to understand why and how the decision maker reached his or her conclusion and to permit it to determine whether the conclusion reached by the decision-maker falls within the range of possible outcomes (Newfoundland Nurses, at para 16).
25 As I have indicated previously, the case law, as it stands now, allows Citizenship judges to choose which of the three residency tests they will apply in any given case. In such singular circumstances, which are less than optimal from the standpoint of ensuring consistency and certainty of the law, the least that can be expected from Citizenship judges is that they articulate as clearly as possible, in each and every case, which test was chosen to assess the Act's residency requirement. In this context, this requirement, in my view, is vital in order to allow this Court to understand why a Citizenship judge made his or her finding on the residency requirement.
26 As the Minister points out in his written submissions, the dominant view within this Court is that in order to be clear, precise and intelligible, reasons for decisions in the citizenship context must, at the very least, indicate which residency test was used and why that test was met or not (Canada v Jeizan 2010 FC 323, 386 FTR 1, at para 17-18; Dina v Canada (Minister of Citizenship and Immigration) 2013 FC 712, 435 FTR 184 at para 8; Canada (Minister of Citizenship and Immigration) v Al-Showaiter, 2012 FC 12, at para 21, Canada (Minister of Citizenship and Immigration) v Baron, 2011 FC 480, 388 FTR 261, at para 13-18, Canada (Minister of Citizenship and Immigration) v Saad, 2011 FC 1508, 404 FTR 9, at paras 18-24).
27 This view has prevailed in the post-Newfoundland Nurses jurisprudence of this Court (Canada (Minister of Citizenship and Immigration) v Abdallah, 2012 FC 985, 417 FTR 13 and Canada (Minister of Citizenship and Immigration) v Raphaël, 2012 FC 1039, 417 FTR 177).
28 Here, the Citizenship judge did not refer to any of the three tests in his reasons for decision. It is not possible either to infer from his reasons which test he may have applied. In fact, the Citizenship judge made a number of findings that are impossible to comprehensively and reasonably associate with one of the three tests. These findings read as it follows:
The applicant as less day of physical presence in Canada (1088) only because he applied too soon for Citizenship after being landed. However, he is in Canada since 1999.
A throughout examination of the relevant passport confirms what stated by the applicant about his physical presence but I asked for a professional translation because there is one foreign language stamp. (I personally photocopied all and only the stamped pages of the relevant passport -- see attached)
The applicant is married with four children (three of them born in Canada).
The applicant is the owner of a restaurant in downtown Toronto.
He is married and they own the house where they live.
He has the profit from the restaurant as the only source of income for the family.
His five brothers, the sister and his mother are all established in Canada.
29 It follows that it is not possible to determine with any degree of precision the residency test in relation to which these findings were applied. In particular, when it comes to the findings related to Mr. Bani-Ahmad's ties to Canada, it is not possible to discern in relation to which of the two qualitative tests, that is the Papadogiorgakis test or the Koo test, these findings would have been made.
30 Furthermore, the reasons for decision are irreconcilable with each other. On the one hand, the Citizenship judge noted that Mr. Bani-Ahmad was short of the 1095 days of physical presence required by paragraph 5(1)(c) of the Act. On the other hand, he approved Mr. Bani-Ahmad's citizenship application on the basis that he was satisfied that Mr. Bani-Ahmad "was actually living and was physically present in Canada on the number of days sufficient to comply with the Citizenship Act".
31 As the Minister points out, these statements, when read in isolation, might indicate that the Citizenship judge applied the physical presence test. However, the Citizenship judge could not possibly have applied that test given that Mr. Bani-Ahmad had not accumulated the threshold number of days of physical presence in Canada. If he did, then his decision falls squarely outside the range of possible outcomes, as required by Dunsmuir v New Brunswick, 2008 SCC 9, [2008] 1 SCR 190.
32 In sum, since it is impossible to identify which test was used, it is impossible for this Court to understand why and how the Citizenship judge reached his conclusion and to determine whether that conclusion falls within the range of possible outcomes.
33 This is a clear case of a decision lacking in clarity, transparency and intelligibility. For that reason alone, the impugned decision is unreasonable and must be set aside. It is therefore not necessary to examine the other ground of appeal raised by the Minister.
34 The Minister is seeking that the appeal be granted and that Mr. Bani-Ahmad's citizenship application be re-determined by a different Citizenship judge. This would presumably avoid Mr. Bani Ahmad to have to re-apply for Canadian citizenship, at least for the time being.
35 The appeal will be granted accordingly.
36 The Minister is not claiming his costs.
· THIS COURT'S JUDGMENT is that:
The appeal is granted;
The Respondent' citizenship application is remitted for re-determination by a different Citizenship judge; and
The whole without costs.
LeBLANC J.


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The KEK-SLAC ISG was formed in 1998, based on a Memorandum of Understanding between SLAC and KEK on development of Linear Colliders, which utilizes room-temperature RF technologies for the main linacs.
The text of the KEK-SLAC MOU is available here (A PDF file that should be downloaded in the binary transfer mode, and be viewed by using Acrobat Reader version 3.0 or higher)..
ISG1, January, 1998, SLAC.
ISG2, July, 1998, KEK.
ISG3, January, 1999, SLAC.
ISG4, July, 1999, KEK.
ISG5, February, 2000, SLAC.
ISG6, November, 2000, KEK.
ISG7, November, 2001, KEK.
ISG8, June, 2002, SLAC
ISG9, December, 2002, KEK.
ISG10, June, 2003, SLAC
ISG11, December, 2003, KEK.
ISG Progress Report (KEK Report 2000-7, SLAC-R-559) is a report on the activities of the ISG. It presents the progress that has been made over the past several years as of April, 2000. The report is electronically available as follows:
pdf (http)
|Cover page
|Table of contents
|Preface and Acknowledgement
|Chapter 1. Introduction and Summary
|Chapter 2. Accelerator Parameters
|Chapter 3. Injection Systems
|Chapter 4. Klystron Modulator
|Chapter 5. X-band RF Power Sources
|Chapter 6. RF Pulse Compression and Distribution Systems
|Chapter 7. Accelerating Structure
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Kish Island: Site of an undeveloped 40 Tcf Iranian gas field
A strange little report passed by my Google search yesterday - from IranOilGas news . But its subscription only.
Iran will develop its Kish gas field without Oman
IranOilGas.com (subscription), Iran - Jan 20, 2009
It is not clear against what collateral, and under what terms & conditions, Oman will be financing such a project. PEDEC is in charge of developing Kish gas ...
and on their website:
Managing director of Iranian Offshore Oil Company (IOOC) Mahmoud Zirakchian Zadeh disclosed that developing Iran's Kish gas field (initially planned to be undertaken jointly by Iran and Oman) ...
It might be that negotiations are getting a bit tense. (for those that don't know, Oman signed several MOUs with Iran to discuss a joint Iranian/Omani development of a part of the field last year. Negotiations have been on-going since). A previous 'indirect Google sample' of the report said the Iranians were proceeding with a Chinese company and without Oman. Hmmm.
Is this just negotiation tactics on the part of the Iranians? Maybe false? Or are the Chinese taking advantage of current low oil prices and diplomatic weight to snatch a deal by offering a better price and execution capability?
Loss of the Iranian gas would be a blow somewhat especially after around 2020 (depends on how screwed they were getting on cost and price though), but might redirect Oman's energies (and a lot less cash) to getting the gas through increased domestic commercial terms, because the Iranian gas was never going to be for less than a few dollars a MBTU. Or perhaps the Qatari's will help? Nope, they're frozen til 2010, and Bahrain is first in the queue. And don't even think of the Saudis, plus they need their gas themselves.
Question is - what would a Chinese company possibly do with a gas field in the Middle East? Either build an LNG plant, or, perhaps sell the gas to the Omani's via pipeline in exchange for liquified cargo ex-Sur(but obviously, for less gas once liquified, so the Omanis get a deal).. That way the Omanis are somewhat protected from dealing directly with the Iranians, and the Chinese pay all the upfront costs.
But, how can Oman sell Chinese/Iranian Gas back to the Chinese?
I'll speculate.
After around 2028 or so, the LNG plants will have lots of spare capacity as their Gas Sales agreements [GSA] expire, and 20% or so capacity is already currently available (as the LNG companies GSAs don't meet the newer and larger capacity at Sur). And the current capacity could be filled almost immediately with Omani gas (by borrowing gas already sold by the Omani Government to someone else in the far future). In that way, Oman could effectively sell the Chinese LNG right now from a gas field that hasn't been developed yet, if the Kish deal is solid enough to pay back the borrowed gas (at a steep premium, obviously).
Now that might be a winning deal...
Plus, because the sweetener would simply be the sale of borrowed gas and not cash, Oman would get cash now by accelerating production and some paper transactions. And the promise of a significant gas stream in the future, with someone else paying the bills.


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Martyr Susanna who suffered in Galatia
The Holy Martyrs Meletius the General, Stephen, John, Serapion the Egyptian, Callinicus the Sorcerer, Theodore and Faustus and with them 1218 Soldiers with Women and Children.
The holy martyr Meletius was a military commander of the Galatia district of Asia Minor during the reign of the Roman emperor Antoninus Pius (138-161). He was a Christian and he prayed fervently that the Lord would put an end to the pagan error. Terrified by his prayer, the devils inhabiting the pagan temples entered into dogs, which frightened the inhabitants of the district with their howling.
Saint Meletius and his soldiers dispatched the mad dogs, destroyed the temples and was then arrested and brought to trial before the governor Maximian. For refusing to offer sacrifice to idols Saint Meletius was tortured, and he died confessing his faith in Christ. The tribunes of his regiment, the holy martyrs Stephen and John, were beheaded for their confession of Christ as true God.
The remaining soldiers of the regiment, also declaring themselves Christians, were beheaded by the sword, together with their wives and children. 1218 men perished, although some historians put the number at 11,000 .
The holy martyrs Theodore and Faustus were burned along with many others. Among the women and children who suffered are the holy martyrs Marciana, Susanna, Palladia, and the infants Cyriacus and Christian. The names of some of the soldiers, and of the twelve tribunes are known: the holy martyrs Faustus, Festus, Marcellus, Theodore, Meletius, Sergius, Marcellinus, Felix, Photinus, Theodoriscus, Mercurius and Didymus.
The holy martyr Serapion was born in Egypt. He had come to the Galatia district and witnessed the martyrdom of Saint Meletius and his comrades. Seeing the bravery with which those believing in Christ died for Him, Saint Serapion himself believed, for which he was imprisoned. In prison, an angel of God came down to him and made Saint Serapion a bishop.


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Strategic planning for health: a case study from Turkey
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AbstractThis report explores the role of strategic planning in Turkey's successful transformation of its health sector since 2002. It analyses the evolution of strategic planning for health from an informal tool to an official and highly structured process that closely follows the steps identified in accepted models of strategic planning. The report also analyses the process employed to prepare Turkey's strategic plans for health, as well as their contents, including the vision for Turkey's health system, the Ministry of Health's mission, strategic goals, objectives and the monitoring and evaluation framework with its indicators and targets. In addition, the report documents that Turkey's most recent strategic plan, Strategic Plan 2013–2017, is an example of the new European policy framework – Health 2020 – put into practice at the country level. It therefore serves as an role model for other countries wishing to develop their strategic planning capacity
Johansen, Anne S. (2015). Strategic planning for health: a case study from Turkey. WHO Regional Office for Europe. http://www.who.int/iris/handle/10665/154199
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What are the pros? High yeilds
What are the cons? Blossom end rot
We grow many different varieties of tomotoes...2 years in a row we developed issues with blossom end rot only with this variety....
Finally tested our soil pH which was under 6, and added gypsum (mineral version of calcium sulfate) to the soil which corrected/resolved our issue quickly.
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So I tried making steamed eggs today.
That's it. Going to call daddy now. Goodnight.
Edit// I told dad about my failed attempt at steaming eggs and he started laughing at me so hard when I told him how I tried to steam them. Apparently, steamed eggs are cooked by steam. It was so obvious I totally missed it ahahaha. You have to cover the pan/wok/pot filled with water and not the one filled with eggs. HAH. Ok, so take it from me? I'm pretty sure there must be someone out there with cooking capabilities akin to mine. Good luck to you. :)


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Carpet cushion, more so than your carpet selection, determines how your carpet feels when you walk on it and helps maintain your carpet's original appearance. Cushion absorbs foot traffic, makes carpet feel better and last longer. Better quality cushion blocks moisture, fights stains and odors, minimizes sound transfer between rooms, provides thermal insulation and increases air flow between the floor and your carpet for better, more efficient vacuuming. The pad allows the carpet to maintain its pile height and stay looking new for much longer. Industry studies have shown that quality cushion can actually increase the useful life of carpet as much as 50%. When in our showroom, ask to step on a sample of carpet placed over different styles of padding and feel the difference for yourself!


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Hugh Paxton's Blog got this loveable big-eyed very cute dog thing from Leonie.
Her appalled very cute hounds are bemused and confused by her decision to abandon wine (a highly unlikely proposition in my opinion when it comes to Leonie, they need not worry on that account).
My idea is that anything can be 'given up' to give these dogs cause for surprise and concern.
Chaps! Why not use the image, make it personal and add alternative "give ups" and then send it to somebody.
The world, or more accurately, your friends, family and co-workers are your oyster … turning up late for work, sneaking money from Dad's wallet, wolfing down huge slabs of steak at Joe's Beerhouse while overlooking the salad, forgetting to replace the defunct toilet roll because a wife will do it, ignoring accumulated piles of smelly socks because sooner or later something will happen, stopping smoking and wow! Back to twenty a day but doing it in a shed at the back of the garden, breaking the law, dressing up as Elvis, launching rockets into Israel, feeding your dogs, being a Jihadist with no sense of humour who hates dogs because they are religiously deemed unclean, failing to return library books, pinching all the red and purple wine gums leaving everybody else with the green and orange ones, stealing milk from a communal student lodging fridge, growing an offensive beard, that sort of thing.
Have some fun with this one. Properly adjusted I think these mournfully astounded dogs could be gainfully employed in any house that has untidy children who like dogs and believe in photos and are suckers. Or anywhere else, actually. I'd like these dogs to go global. And the giving up thing, too.
Could be just for fun, could be political. I'd like these dogs to enhance environmental and wildlife conservation messages. But that's because I'm a fanatic! You know all about fanatics, I'm sure. No sense of humour. These dogs could correct all that!
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NEW CASTLE -- Beaver County Christian School is holding its first Listen Up speaker series with Jase Robertson of A&E�s "Duck Dynasty" at 5:30 p.m. Feb. 22 at the Scottish Rite Cathedral in New Castle.
An evening of silent auctions, music and a family-friendly comedy show will precede Robertson�s speech, in which he will share a behind-the-scenes look at his life and family. Tickets for general admission are on sale now for $31 to $51.
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