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<p class="MsoNormal">Dear INC mailing list members,<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
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<span style="font-size:16.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif;color:white;font-weight:normal">Inaugural Conference of the Search Engines and Society Network (SEASON 2025)<o:p></o:p></span></h2>
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<span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:black">On behalf of the Search Engines and Society Network (SEASON), we invite you to attend the inaugural conference of the network, to be held at HAW <strong><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">Hamburg,
Germany, 24<sup>th</sup> – 25<sup>th</sup> September 2025.</span></strong></span><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif;color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:black">SEASON is an annual conference that explores the multifaceted role of search engines in today's culture and society. SEASON brings together researchers from different fields and fosters
interdisciplinary dialogue and collaboration to deepen our understanding of search engines as cultural, societal, and technical artefacts, as well as how they are used in various practices.</span><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif;color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:black">After successful workshops in Lund (2021), Vienna (2022), Hamburg (2023) and Birmingham (2024), we feel it is time to broaden the research engagement into a conference series. We are
pleased to announce the next edition of SEASON in Hamburg. This year, we aim to develop the conference to invite submissions for presentations, panels, posters, and experimental formats.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Official Conference Webpage: <a href="https://easychair.org/cfp/SEASON2025">
https://easychair.org/cfp/SEASON2025</a><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
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<strong><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:black">Conference theme </span></strong><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif;color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:black">We welcome submissions on topics such as: </span><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif;color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">Social and cultural aspects of relevance</span><span style="font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif"><o:p></o:p></span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="color:black;mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;mso-list:l3 level1 lfo1;background:white">
<span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">Epistemic implications of search-engine use</span><span style="font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif"><o:p></o:p></span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="color:black;mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;mso-list:l3 level1 lfo1;background:white">
<span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">Search engines and Retrieval Augmented Generation (RAG)</span><span style="font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif"><o:p></o:p></span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="color:black;mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;mso-list:l3 level1 lfo1;background:white">
<span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">Search engines and disinformation </span><span style="font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif"><o:p></o:p></span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="color:black;mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;mso-list:l3 level1 lfo1;background:white">
<span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">AI and changing patterns of search engine use</span><span style="font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif"><o:p></o:p></span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="color:black;mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;mso-list:l3 level1 lfo1;background:white">
<span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">Search engine providers’ responsibility and accountability</span><span style="font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif"><o:p></o:p></span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="color:black;mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;mso-list:l3 level1 lfo1;background:white">
<span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">Search engines as multi-sided platforms</span><span style="font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif"><o:p></o:p></span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="color:black;mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;mso-list:l3 level1 lfo1;background:white">
<span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">History of web search and web search engines</span><span style="font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif"><o:p></o:p></span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="color:black;mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;mso-list:l3 level1 lfo1;background:white">
<span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">Search engine bias and fair search </span><span style="font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif"><o:p></o:p></span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="color:black;mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;mso-list:l3 level1 lfo1;background:white">
<span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">Ethical considerations related to search engines</span><span style="font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif"><o:p></o:p></span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="color:black;mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;mso-list:l3 level1 lfo1;background:white">
<span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">Affect and emotional aspects of search engine use</span><span style="font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif"><o:p></o:p></span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="color:black;mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;mso-list:l3 level1 lfo1;background:white">
<span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">Information literacy related to search engines</span><span style="font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif"><o:p></o:p></span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="color:black;mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;mso-list:l3 level1 lfo1;background:white">
<span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">Search engines and specific groups (children, elderly,...)</span><span style="font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif"><o:p></o:p></span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="color:black;mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;mso-list:l3 level1 lfo1;background:white">
<span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">Search engines and studies of ignorance and information avoidance</span><span style="font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif"><o:p></o:p></span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="color:black;mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;mso-list:l3 level1 lfo1;background:white">
<span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">Search engines in everyday life and in social practices</span><span style="font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif"><o:p></o:p></span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="color:black;mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;mso-list:l3 level1 lfo1;background:white">
<span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">Search engines in educational settings</span><span style="font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif"><o:p></o:p></span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="color:black;mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;mso-list:l3 level1 lfo1;background:white">
<span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">Alternative approaches to concepts of indexing in search engines</span><span style="font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif"><o:p></o:p></span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="color:black;mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;mso-list:l3 level1 lfo1;background:white">
<span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">Search engines and the role of data voids</span><span style="font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif"><o:p></o:p></span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="color:black;mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;mso-list:l3 level1 lfo1;background:white">
<span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">Negotiations of search results (search engine optimization, paid search advertising)</span><span style="font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif"><o:p></o:p></span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="color:black;mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;mso-list:l3 level1 lfo1;background:white">
<span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">Search engine comparisons (e.g., comparing results tailored to different locations, comparing results from different search engines)</span><span style="font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif"><o:p></o:p></span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="color:black;mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;mso-list:l3 level1 lfo1;background:white">
<span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">Methods for search engine research</span><span style="font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif"><o:p></o:p></span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="color:black;mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;mso-list:l3 level1 lfo1;background:white">
<span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">Data collection for search engine studies</span><span style="font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif"><o:p></o:p></span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="color:black;mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;mso-list:l3 level1 lfo1;background:white">
<span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">Approaches to “opening the Black Box of search engine rankings”</span><span style="font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif"><o:p></o:p></span></li></ul>
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<span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:black">We welcome conceptual and empirical submissions from a broad range of disciplinary backgrounds, including the humanities, social sciences, and technical disciplines. We welcome approaches
transgressing disciplinary boundaries and submissions from individuals from outside academia. Submissions discussing work in progress are welcome. We also encourage students to submit contributions.</span><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif;color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<strong><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:black">Submission categories </span></strong><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif;color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:black">Authors can submit their work in the following categories: </span><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif;color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">Papers: Papers should be submitted in the form of an extended abstract. The maximum length of extended paper abstracts is 1000 words (excluding references).</span><span style="font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif"><o:p></o:p></span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="color:black;mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;mso-list:l1 level1 lfo2;background:white">
<span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">Interactive Sessions (for example, panels and workshops): should be designed for 60-90 minutes. The proposal should include the purpose, abstract and format and be a maximum of 1000 words (excluding references). </span><span style="font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif"><o:p></o:p></span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="color:black;mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;mso-list:l1 level1 lfo2;background:white">
<span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">Posters: Posters should be submitted in the form of an abstract with a maximum of 500 words (excluding references).</span><span style="font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif"><o:p></o:p></span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="color:black;mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;mso-list:l1 level1 lfo2;background:white">
<span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">Shorts: An opportunity to discuss ongoing research or present interventions (short informal presentations of less than 20 minutes): Proposals should be submitted in the form of abstracts (maximum 500 words, excluding
references) that describe the topic of your presentation and include some information about its structure.</span><span style="font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif"><o:p></o:p></span></li></ul>
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<strong><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:black">Submission Guidelines </span></strong><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif;color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#212121">Papers should be submitted as a .PDF file.</span><span style="font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif"><o:p></o:p></span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="color:black;mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo3;background:white">
<span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#212121">Place the title of the paper in bold at the top of the first page only. On the next line, include the names of the author(s), along with their email addresses and affiliations.</span><span style="font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif"><o:p></o:p></span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="color:black;mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo3;background:white">
<span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#212121">References should follow the Harvard referencing style.</span><span style="font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif"><o:p></o:p></span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="color:black;mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo3;background:white">
<span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#212121">Please ensure the paper has been carefully proofread.</span><span style="font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif"><o:p></o:p></span></li></ul>
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<span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:black">Please submit your contribution at </span><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif;color:black"><a href="https://easychair.org/my/conference?conf=season2025"><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1155CC">https://easychair.org/my/conference?conf=season2025</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:black">Accepted contributions will be available for downloading for conference participants in advance of the conference. All accepted abstracts will be freely accessible to everyone after
the conference. </span><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif;color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">Submission for all categories via EasyChair: 30th of April 2025 </span><span style="font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif"><o:p></o:p></span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="color:black;mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;mso-list:l2 level1 lfo4;background:white">
<span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">Notification: 16th of June 2025</span><span style="font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif"><o:p></o:p></span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="color:black;mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;mso-list:l2 level1 lfo4;background:white">
<span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">Revised submissions: 15th of July 2025 </span><span style="font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif"><o:p></o:p></span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="color:black;mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;mso-list:l2 level1 lfo4;background:white">
<span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">Registration: from June 2025</span><span style="font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif"><o:p></o:p></span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="color:black;mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;mso-list:l2 level1 lfo4;background:white">
<span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">Conference dates: 24-25 September 2025 </span><span style="font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif"><o:p></o:p></span></li></ul>
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<strong><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:black">Conference fee</span></strong><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif;color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:black">There will be a modest conference fee that covers dinner and refreshments. </span><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif;color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<strong><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:black">Keynote speakers </span></strong><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif;color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:black">To be announced.<strong><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"> </span></strong></span><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif;color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<strong><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:black">Programme committee</span></strong><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif;color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">Rosie Graham, University of Birmingham, UK</span><span style="font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif"><o:p></o:p></span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="color:black;mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;mso-list:l4 level1 lfo5;background:white">
<span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">Jutta Haider, SSLIS, University of Borås, Sweden</span><span style="font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif"><o:p></o:p></span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="color:black;mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;mso-list:l4 level1 lfo5;background:white">
<span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">Dirk Lewandowski, Hamburg University of Applied Sciences, Germany</span><span style="font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif"><o:p></o:p></span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="color:black;mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;mso-list:l4 level1 lfo5;background:white">
<span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">Astrid Mager, Institute of Technology Assessment Vienna (ITA), Austria</span><span style="font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif"><o:p></o:p></span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="color:black;mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;mso-list:l4 level1 lfo5;background:white">
<span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">Renée Ridgway, Aarhus University, Denmark</span><span style="font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif"><o:p></o:p></span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="color:black;mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;mso-list:l4 level1 lfo5;background:white">
<span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">Sebastian Schultheiß, Hamburg University of Applied Sciences, Germany</span><span style="font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif"><o:p></o:p></span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="color:black;mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;mso-list:l4 level1 lfo5;background:white">
<span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">Olof Sundin, Lund University, Sweden</span><span style="font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif"><o:p></o:p></span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="color:black;mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;mso-list:l4 level1 lfo5;background:white">
<span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">Kristofer Söderström, Lund University, Sweden</span><span style="font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif"><o:p></o:p></span></li></ul>
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<strong><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:black">Travel information </span></strong><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif;color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:black">The organisers recommend that participants travel by train. The event will take place at the Faculty of Design, Media and Information at Finkenau 35 in Hamburg. </span><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif;color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<strong><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:black">Contact Information</span></strong><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif;color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:black">We look forward to welcoming you to Hamburg in September. If you have any queries or questions, please contact programme chair Olof Sundin (</span><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif;color:black"><a href="mailto:olof.sundin@kultur.lu.se"><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1155CC">olof.sundin@kultur.lu.se</span></a></span><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:black">),
or one of the local chairs, Dirk Lewandowski (</span><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif;color:black"><a href="mailto:dirk.lewandowski@haw-hamburg.de"><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1155CC">dirk.lewandowski@haw-hamburg.de</span></a></span><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:black">)
and Sebastian Schultheiß (</span><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif;color:black"><a href="mailto:sebastian.schultheiss@haw-hamburg.de"><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1155CC">sebastian.schultheiss@haw-hamburg.de</span></a></span><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:black">).</span><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif;color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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