ConnectionsThe Voice of Concordia University’s Faculty of Arts and Science

Fall 2009

When I visited Concordia University’s two campuses lastspring after being away for 15 years, I was immediately struckby the realization that the university in which I had spentmany years teaching and conducting research was no more—at least physically.

The Loyola Campus had been completely revitalized. Gone wasmy parking space on the west side of the Central Building. In itsplace? The innovative Richard J. Renaud Science Complex. TheDrummond Science Building had been completely transformedinto the Communication Studies and Journalism Building and isnow home to state-of-the-art sound and recording studios,computer labs and equipment. The Sir George Williams Campusis projecting an extraordinary, expanding footprint in centralMontreal and is still undergoing a major transformation with theopening this September of the new John Molson School ofBusiness building.

While the physical changes were immediately apparent to me,at the same time, I was pleased to find that the university’stradition of individual empowerment, discovery and leadershipbuilding, and its strong commitment and ties to scholarly andcivic communities—both locally and abroad—held strong. Thesewere the values that had originally drawn me to Concordia.

Our students continue to excel and win prestigious awards inthe sciences, social sciences and humanities. For instance, LilianeChamas, a recent Biology and Science College graduate, wasselected as one of two Rhodes Scholars from Quebec in 2009.William Tayeebwa, a Communication Studies PhD student,recently received a Trudeau Foundation Scholarship to explore

the role radio broadcastprograms play in conflictresolution in the AfricanGreat Lakes region.These are remarkableaccomplishments.

The Faculty of Artsand Science continues toevolve to meet the needsof our students. As you will read in this issue, the Facultyrecently unveiled the School of Canadian Irish Studies andwelcomed 13 new faculty members. We also play leading roles inresearch and human rights. Professors in our Department ofBiology, Adrian Tsang and Vincent Martin, also of the Centre forStructural and Functional Genomics, were awarded more than$22 million through a competition launched by the GenomeCanada Applied Genomics Research in Bioproducts or Crops.This year, Tsang and Martin will use the funds to advanceinnovative genome research at Concordia. Associate professorViviane Namaste received the 2009 Canadian Award for Actionon HIV/AIDS and Human Rights for her research intocommunities invisible in HIV/AIDS prevention and services.

It is an exciting time for the University and the Faculty ofArts and Science. I am delighted and proud to be returningas dean to this fine institution. I look forward to getting toknow many of you and working together in the best interestof our university, students and communities of knowledgeand practice.

By Brian Lewis, Dean, Faculty of Arts and Science

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Andreas BergdahlExercise ScienceAndreas Bergdahl is an assistant pro-fessor in the Department of ExerciseScience. Bergdahl holds a master’sdegree in Chemical Engineering witha specialization in Molecular Biologyand Protein Chemistry and a PhD inMedical Physiology from LundUniversity in Lund, Sweden. He pur-

sued a postdoctoral fellowship and taught in theDepartment of Cell Biology at the August Krogh Institute ofthe University of Copenhagen in Denmark. He receivedmajor funding from the Swedish Heart-Lung Foundationand the Swedish Research Council to pursue a post-doctor-ate in the Department of Anatomy and Cell Biology atMcGill University. Bergdahl’s research focuses on theinvolvement of the smooth muscle cell in atherosclerosisthat is key in preventing the morbidity and mortality thatare related to cardiovascular disease.

Natasha Blanchet-CohenApplied Human SciencesNatasha Blanchet-Cohen is an assis-tant professor in CommunityDevelopment for the Department ofApplied Human Sciences. Blanchet-Cohen holds an MA in Public Policyand Public Administration fromConcordia, an MA in International

Development from Carleton University in Ottawa and aPhD in Curriculum and Instruction from the University ofVictoria in British Columbia. Before joining Concordia,Blanchet-Cohen served as research director at theInternational Institute for Child Rights and Developmentin Victoria, where she led national applied research initia-tives on building resilient communities through youthengagement. She also taught Child and Youth Care andEducation at the University of Victoria. Her research spansa wide range of Canadian and international communityand social topics, including children’s rights and sustain-ability, child agency, the creation of child- and youth-friendly cities, engagement of indigenous youth in health,opportunities for social inclusion, the practice and pro-motion of environmental education, bridge-buildingacross cultures and practices, and developmentalapproaches to monitoring and evaluation.

James ConklinApplied HumanSciencesJames Conklin is anassistant professorin the Departmentof Applied HumanSciences. Hereceived his PhDfrom Concordia

University's Special Individualized Program in 2009. Forthe past two years, Conklin had a part-time professional

adjunct appointment in the Department of Applied HumanSciences’ MA Program in Human Systems Intervention. Hisresearch focused on planned change and knowledge transferin Canada’s health services sector. Conklin is now examiningthe role of communities of practice and knowledge brokersin facilitating change in frontline settings. Conklin adoptsqualitative approaches that allow research participants toconfront divergent conceptions of the same social reality.Since 2004, he has been an evaluator for Ontario’s SeniorsHealth Research Transfer Network. For several years, he hasfacilitated a collaborative, capacity-building process for ateam of aphasia (a disorder that results from damage to por-tions of the brain that are responsible for language)researchers from Canada, the United States, the UnitedKingdom, South Africa and Australia. Conklin has publishedseveral peer-reviewed articles in social science journals andparticipated in symposia in Canada, the United States andEurope. He is a fellow of the Society for TechnicalCommunication and an active member of the CanadianEvaluation Society and the Academy of Management.

Tagny DuffCommunication StudiesTagny Duff is an assistant professorin the Department of Communi-cation Studies. Duff holds a BFA inIntermedia Studies from the EmilyCarr Institute of Art and Design inVancouver, B.C., and an MFA inStudio Arts from ConcordiaUniversity. She is now pursuing a

PhD in Humanities—with a specialization in Interdiscipli-nary Studies in Society and Culture—at Concordia, and issupported by a Social Sciences and Humanities ResearchCouncil scholarship. Duff recently earned a doctoral fieldscholarship from Quebec’s Fonds de recherche sur la sociétéet la culture for her research at SymbioticA, the Centre forExcellence in Biological Arts, at the University of WesternAustralia in Perth. Her recent project called “CryobookArchives” was funded by the Canada Council for the Arts.Duff specializes in intermedia art production and research-creation practices with a focus on visual media and culture.

Gavin FosterSchool of Canadian Irish StudiesGavin Foster is an Irish historian inConcordia’s new School of CanadianIrish Studies. Foster holds a BA fromSan Francisco State University inCalifornia and an MA from theUniversity of Notre Dame in SouthBend, Ind. In June, he defended hisPhD thesis, entitled “The Social

Structures and Cultural Politics of the Irish Civil War,” at NotreDame. The thesis examines the overlooked, social and culturaldimensions of the bitter conflict waged by rival nationalists onthe eve of Irish independence. Last spring, Foster taught at theUniversity of Illinois at Chicago as part of a pre-doctoral fellow-ship from Notre Dame’s Kaneb Center for Teaching andLearning. He wrote articles that appeared in the journals HistoryIreland and Field Day Review and in the newest issue of Saothar,the annual journal of the Irish Labour History Society. Foster’sother research interests include nationalism, the history ofmemory, labour history and migration studies.

Dylan FraserBiologyDylan Fraser is anassistant professor ofConservation Biologyin the Department ofBiology. Fraser holds aBSc in FisheriesBiology from theUniversity of Guelph

in Ontario and a PhD in Evolutionary Biology from theUniversité Laval in Quebec City. He recently completed a NaturalSciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada Postdoc-toral Fellowship in Quantitative Genetics and Conservation atDalhousie University in Halifax, N.S. His research focuses onintegrating results from ecological, evolutionary and geneticstudies into more effective biodiversity conservation, fish andwildlife management and more environmentally sustainableaquaculture. Fraser taught Ecology and Conservation courses atDalhousie University. He is a member of the Freshwater FishesSpecialist Subcommittee of the Committee on the Status of

IntroducingThe Faculty of Arts and Science is pleased to introduce the 13 tenure-track professors who joinedConcordia this summer. These scholars, who boast a wealth of expertise and passion for teaching,met their fellow colleagues at an orientation session in August.

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Endangered Wildlife in Canada, an independent advisory organ-ization that evaluates the conservation status of species acrossCanada. Fraser says he’s excited about the prospect of introduc-ing Concordia students to vertebrate biology, a course that willbe introduced in 2010.

David FullerEconomicsDavid Fuller is an assistant professor inthe Department of Economics. Fullerholds a BS in Economics and a BS inMathematics from the University ofWisconsin–Eau Claire and a PhD inEconomics from the University of Iowain Ames. His research includes macro-economics, dynamic contract theory

and applications and labour economics. Before joiningConcordia, Fuller was a visiting assistant professor of Economicsat Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh, Penn.

Peter GossageHistoryPeter Gossage is a professor in theDepartment of History. Gossage, anative Montrealer, completed hisgraduate work in Quebec history atMcGill University and the Universitédu Québec à Montréal. Since 1993,he was a faculty member of theUniversité de Sherbrooke. Gossage is

a Quebec social historian who examines family, gender anddomestic life from the 1840s to the 1960s. His current projectsinclude a monograph on remarriages and stepfamilies and aSocial Sciences and Humanities Research Council-fundedexploration of Quebec fathers in the decades before Quebec’sQuiet Revolution in the early 1960s. Gossage, a past editor ofthe Canadian Historical Review, held visiting fellowships atthe University of Victoria in British Columbia and Universityof California, Berkeley. He also serves as co-director of theprize-winning, educational website called Great UnsolvedMysteries in Canadian History (canadianmysteries.ca).In 2007, he co-authored La Fécondité des Québécoises,

1870-1970: D’une exception à l’autre (Boréal) with DianeGervais and Danielle Gauvreau, a Concordia Sociologyand Anthropology professor.

Nadia HardyMathematics andStatisticsNadia Hardy is anassistant professor inthe Department ofMathematics andStatistics. Hardyearned a BSc in 2003from the University

of Buenos Aires in Argentina, an MSc in 2005 from McGillUniversity and a PhD in 2009 from Concordia. Since 1998, shehas taught Mathematics at the college level in Argentina andlater in Quebec.While at Concordia, she will teach Mathematicsand Mathematics Education courses in the Master in TeachingMathematics program. Hardy’s research deals with identifyingthe mechanisms—and their origins—that regulate teachingand learning practices within institutions and understandinghow they influence the development of students’ mathematicalthought processes. She also works to characterize the norms,rules and strategies that govern instructors’ and students’ math-ematical activities in classrooms, examinations, tutorial centresand other educational settings.

Sara KennedyEducationSara Kennedy is an assistant profes-sor in the Department ofEducation’s Applied Linguistics pro-gram. Kennedy holds a PhD inSecond Language Education fromMcGill University. Her researchfocuses on the intelligibility of sec-ond-language speaking abilities,

especially on how to teach and evaluate intelligibility.Kennedy also conducts research into the role of languageexperience in the development of second-language speakingabilities. She has taught several undergraduate and graduate

courses in Applied Linguistics at McGill University andConcordia and has extensive experience in teaching Englishas a second and foreign language in Quebec, Ontario, SouthKorea and Azerbaijan.

Josip NovakovichEnglishJosip Novakovich is a professor in theDepartment of English. WhenNovakovich was 20, he moved to theUnited States from his native Croatia.He holds a BA from Vassar College inBoston, Mass., a Master of Divinitydegree from Yale University in NewHaven, Conn., and an MA in English

and Creative Writing from the University of Texas at Austin.He has taught at the University of Cincinnati in Ohio, BardCollege in Annandale-on-Hudson, N.Y., and, most recently,Penn State University in Philadelphia. Novakovich’s areas ofexpertise include fiction and nonfiction writing, writing inEnglish as a second language and the recent history of the for-mer Yugoslavia. His novel, April Fool’s Day (HarperCollinsCanada), was published in 10 languages. Novakovich has alsopublished three story collections (Infidelities: Stories of War andLust, Yolk and Salvation and Other Disasters), two collections ofnarrative essays and two books of practical criticism. His bookentitled FictionWriter’s Workshop is a resource in several writ-ing programs. Novakovich’s work was anthologized in BestAmerican Poetry, the Pushcart Prize collection and O. HenryPrize Stories. He has earned the Whiting Writer’s Award, aGuggenheim fellowship, two National Endowment for the Artsfellowships, the Ingram Merrill Award and an American BookAward. Novakovich has also served as a writing fellow at theNew York Public Library, as well as at the Black MountainInstitute in Las Vegas, Nev.

Roisin O’ConnorPsychologyRoisin O’Connor is an assistant professor in the Departmentof Psychology. O’Connor holds a BSc from the University ofToronto, an MA in Experimental Psychology from WilfridLaurier University in Waterloo, Ont., and a PhD in ClinicalPsychology from the State University of New York (SUNY) at

Buffalo. Having beenawarded a CanadianInstitutes of HealthResearch PostdoctoralFellowship, O’Connorwas able to pursue herresearch both at theUniversity ofWashington in Seattleand Dalhousie

University in Halifax, N.S. She has taught undergraduateStatistics courses at SUNY at Buffalo and a graduate-levelcourse in addictions at Dalhousie. O’Connor’s overarchingresearch in substance-use etiology (the study of causation)examines the paths to alcohol abuse from adolescence to earlyadulthood. O’Connor’s work, which focuses on mechanisms, isrooted in cognitive and personality theories.

Geneviève RailSimone de Beauvoir InstituteGeneviève Rail is principal of and aprofessor at the Simone de BeauvoirInstitute. Rail trained as a sociologist.She earned her PhD in 1990 from theUniversity of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, where she was super-vised by critical and qualitativeresearch specialist Norman Denzin.

From 1991 to 2009, Rail taught courses in Women’s Healthand the Sociology of Physical Activity and Health at theUniversity of Ottawa’s Faculty of Health Sciences, where shealso served as vice-dean of research for three years. AtConcordia, she will carry out her administrative duties inaddition to teaching and conducting research into women’shealth issues. Rail is well known as a feminist critic of body-related institutions, such as health industries and systems,media and sports. She has adopted feminist poststructuralist,postcolonial and queer approaches. Rail has authored morethan 70 articles and book chapters and has been a keynotespeaker at more than 40 national and international confer-ences. She recently received major grants for projects onwomen from various socio-cultural backgrounds and theirhealth practices.

SnapshotsSnapshotsThe Centre for Structural and FunctionalGenomics’ Adrian Tsang, professor ofBiology, and Vincent Martin, CanadaResearch Chair and associate professor ofBiology, have been awarded more than$22 million to advance innovative genomeresearch at Concordia. This investment stemsfrom the Genome Canada Applied GenomicsResearch in Bioproducts or Crops competi-tion that was launched in 2008. The fundingwill include major contributions fromGenome Canada and Génome Québec.Tsang leads the project called “Genozymesfor Bioproducts and BioprocessesDevelopment.” Associate Professor ofChemistry and Biochemistry JustinPowlowski, Assistant Professor ofJournalism David Secko and Professor ofComputer Science and Software EngineeringGregory Butler are the project’s co-investi-gators. Martin co-leads the project called“Synthetic Biosystems for the Production ofHigh-Value Plant Metabolites.” Professor ofBiology Reginald Storms is a co-investigatoron the project.

Paloma Friedman, GrDip (journalism) 09,recently captured the 2009 EU-CanadaYoung Journalist Award. Friedman won as aresult of her article “The New Righteous,”which is about Austrian youth who serve in aHolocaust remembrance program. She andtwo other winners were invited to take partin a one-week, European study tour thatincludes a visit to the European Union insti-tutions in Brussels, Belgium.

Erin Despard, a PhD in CommunicationStudies candidate, recently won the presti-gious Van Horne Prize for her paper called“Crime Prevention and the UrbanLandscape: Questions for EnvironmentalCommunication” from the CanadianCommunication Association. Despardreceived the award in May at theAssociation’s national conference atCarleton University in Ottawa. She issupervised by Peter Van Wyck, an associateprofessor of Communication Studies.

Damon Matthews, an assistant professor inthe Department of Geography, Planning andEnvironment, has found a direct relationshipbetween carbon dioxide emissions and glob-al warming. Matthews, together with col-leagues from Victoria, B.C., and the UnitedKingdom, applied a combination of globalclimate models and historical climate data toshow that there is a simple, linear relation-ship between total cumulative emissions andglobal temperature change. These findingswere published in Nature magazine’s Juneedition.

Simone de Beauvoir Institute associate pro-fessor Viviane Namaste received the 2009Canadian Award for Action on HIV/AIDSand Human Rights. The annual awards,which have been handed out since 2002 bythe Canadian HIV/AIDS Legal Network andHuman Rights Watch, recognize outstandingindividuals and organizations that protectthe rights and dignity of people living withor affected by HIV/AIDS.

Andrea Gondos, a PhD in Religion candi-date, was accepted into the prestigiousHarvard Early Modern Workshop in August.Gondos received a graduate-student fellow-ship from Harvard to attend the workshopcalled “Reading across Cultures: The JewishBook and Its Readers in the Early ModernPeriod,” which was held at Harvard’sRadcliffe Institute for Advanced Studies inBoston, Mass.

Sima Aprahamian, a part-time instructorin the Department of Sociology andAnthropology, was honoured in April atInternational Women’s Day celebrationsorganized by the Montreal and Lavalchapters of the Armenian Relief Society.Aprahamian was recognized for heracademic achievements, which includemore than 20 years of teaching and serviceat Concordia, gender-related and innovativeresearch and publications, and tireless effortson behalf of Montreal’s Armenian community.

Why might someone be interested in Irish Studies otherthan the obvious motive of having a general curiosity

about Ireland?One reason might be that Ireland’s unique past makes it a

rich, interdisciplinary area of study for numerous, overlappingacademic subjects. These include colonialism, cultural nation-alism and linguistic preservation, women’s studies, dual reli-gious and linguistic traditions, famine and emigration, violentrebellion and the struggle for national independence, and sec-tarian violence and reconciliation.

Another reason might be Ireland’s lively culture. The countryhas vibrant, creative traditions in music, dance, song, folklore,literature, film, art and popular culture. It’s hardly surprisingthat names that include Bono, Enya, Michael Flatley, MaeveBinchy, Colin Farrell, Seamus Heaney, Sinéad O’Connor, JamesJoyce, Edna O’Brien, Samuel Beckett, Frank McCourt and EavanBoland, among many others, are recognized around the world.

And Canadians would certainly be interested in learning thatIrish immigrants and people of Irish heritage have played—and continue to play—a central role in Canada’s political, busi-ness and cultural life. A list of notable Irish Canadians includesD’Arcy McGee, Timothy Eaton, Émile Nelligan, Louis St.Laurent, Georges Vanier, Paul Martin, Brian Mulroney, JaneUrquhart, Bob Gainey, Jean Charest and Brendan Shanahan.

That’s why I’m proud to be interim principal ofConcordia’s new School of Canadian Irish Studies. TheSchool is the only academic department at a Canadian uni-versity that focuses exclusively on the study of Ireland andthe Irish experience in Canada. During the academic year,the School of Canadian Irish Studies offers 18 courses insubjects such as Literature, History, Music, Film, Theatre,Language, Popular Culture, Women’s Studies, Religion,Anthropology, Economics and Political Science.

Students can take Canadian Irish Studies as a minor or

stand-alone certificate and there are more than 20 scholarshipsavailable annually. Among last year’s scholarship recipientswere undergraduate students Cameron Fenton and NatashaForgues. Cameron is in Anthropology and Canadian IrishStudies and hopes to pursue postgraduate studies inEnvironmental and Social Justice Law. Natasha is studyingLinguistics with a Minor in Canadian Irish Studies. Last sum-mer, she worked in Ireland and developed an interest in learn-ing more about its history and culture. She would now like toreturn to Ireland for field study.

In keeping with its interdisciplinary focus and internationaloutreach, the School of Canadian Irish Studies organizes liter-ary readings by well-known Irish writers and lectures by dis-tinguished academics from Ireland and elsewhere. This year,the school will welcome two permanent faculty members:Gavin Foster, who will teach Irish History; and GearoidÓ hAllmhuráin, the Johnson Chair in Quebec and CanadianIrish Studies, who will teach courses on Irish and Quebec eth-nomusicology. This fall, the school will also welcome three vis-iting scholars who will teach special courses in their areas ofexpertise: Maurice Bric will offer a course on 19th century IrishHistory; Feargal Ó Béarra, an Irish language specialist, willteach a course on Ireland’s differing linguistic identities; and acourse by Clíona De Brí, a specialist in Irish language theatre,will focus on Ireland’s Gaelic language and traditions of poet-ry, song, theatre, folklore and music.

Becoming involved in Canadian Irish Studies might changeyour understanding of yourself; it certainly will transform yourview of the world.

For more information about the School of Canadian Irish Studiesor the wider, dynamic cultural events organized by Montreal’svibrant Irish community, contact Kester Dyer at 514-848-2424,ext. 8711, or cdnirish@alcor.concordia.ca.

CANADIANIRISH STUDIES

AT CONCORDIAthrivingBY MICHAEL KENNEALLY, INTERIM PRINCIPAL, SCHOOL OF CANADIAN IRISH STUDIES, RESEARCH CHAIR IN CANADIAN IRISH STUDIES

Above: Michael Kenneally (right)with recent graduate Kristin Tedd, MA (English lit.) 09.

Right: Various images depicting Ireland and its cultural landscape.

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Simon Bacon, assistant professor of ExerciseScience and Jennifer McGrath and AndrewRyder, assistant professors of Psychology,recently earned Canadian Institutes of HealthResearch New Investigator Awards. Baconreceived his award for his research into theeffects of aerobic exercise on asthma morbidity.McGrath won for her project called “Sleepand Obesity in Children and Adolescents:Identifying Pathogenic Pathways,” andRyder for his project titled “Somatic andPsychological Symptom Focus in Asian-Canadians: The Role of Cultural and IndividualDifferences in the Psychopathology,Assessment, and Treatment of Depression.”

Three graduates from the MA in CreativeWriting program were nominated for this year’sGerald Lampert Memorial Award for the best,first book of poetry published in the previousyear: Katia Grubisic, MA 06, forWhat if red ranout (Goose Lane Editions); Sachiko Murakami,MA 06, for The Invisibility Exhibit (Talonbooks);and Johanna Skibsrud, MA 05, for Late NightWithWild Cowboys (Gaspereau Press).

Leslie Regan Shade, associate professor ofCommunication Studies, edited the third edi-tion of Mediascapes: New Patterns in CanadianCommunication (Nelson Canada), which wasdesigned as an undergraduate textbook. Itincludes contributions by associateprofessors Yasmin Jiwani, Lorna Roth andKim Sawchuk, all with the Departmentof Communications Studies, as well asAmin Alhassan, PhD (comm. studies) 03,Sheryl Hamilton, PhD (comm. studies) 00,Judith Nicholson, BA (comm. studies &journ.) 94, MA (media studies) 00, PhD(comm. studies) 08, Michael Lithgow, MA(media studies) 07, and Ezra Winton, BA(comm. studies & poli. sci.) 05, MA (media

studies) 07. Communication Studies PhD can-didate Mél Hogan, GrDip 05, MA (mediastudies) 07, designed the book’s cover.

Shaman Hatley, assistant professor of Religion,earned a 2009-2010 research grant for his proj-ect called “Goddesses, Women, and Ritual: theCult of Yoginis in Early Medieval India” fromthe Québec Fonds de recherche sur la société etla culture nouveaux professeurs-chercheursprogram.

Ross Perigoe, associate professor of Journal-ism, won the 2009 Michael Monty MemorialAward from the Radio Television NewsDirectors Foundation (Canada), which is pre-sented to a broadcast educator nominated bystudents for special recognition. Journalismlecturer Peter Downie won the award in 2007.

Norma Joseph, associate professor of Religion,presented “From Baghdad to Montreal: Food,Gender and Ethnic Identity” in June at the BetDebora Conference in Sofia, Bulgaria. Josephwill also present at the American Academy ofReligion Conference in November in Montreal.

Panagiotis Vasilopoulos, professor of Physics,recently published two articles in the PhysicalReview journal. The articles are entitled“Tunneling, conductance, and wavevector fil-tering through magnetic barriers in bilayergrapheme,” which was co-authored by M.Ramezani Masir and F. M. Peeters; and“Landau levels in graphene bilayer quantumdots,” which was co-authored by J. M. PereiraJr., F. M. Peeters, R. N. Costa Filho and G. A.Farias. Vasilopoulos also served as a programcommittee member for the prestigious interna-tional conference on Electronic Properties ofTwo-dimensional Systems that was held in Julyin Kobe, Japan.

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