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Thank you very much, <span style="background-color:rgb(255,255,255)"><font face="arial, helvetica">Ian, Martha, David and Christian! In my opinion, this looks very good and covers the essential points in a concise manner.
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<span style="background-color:rgb(255,255,255)"><font face="arial, helvetica">A minor point that I have is about item 10, the "75% majority vote." I understand the rationale behind this but, at the present stage, such a rule may be perceived as quite bold
by the other group. Maybe there is a "safe" way to water this down a bit.? But take a final decision on this as you see fit.<br>
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<font face="arial, helvetica">Most likely I won't join tomorrow, but I have full confidence that the document will be finalized in the best way possible.<br>
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Thank you again for your tremendous and very important work! <br>
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<font face="arial, helvetica">Best wishes,</font></div>
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<font face="arial, helvetica">Andreas</font><br>
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<div id="divRplyFwdMsg" dir="ltr"><font style="font-size:11pt" face="Calibri, sans-serif" color="#000000"><b>From:</b> Gpdtc <gpdtc-bounces@jlab.org> on behalf of David Richards <dgr@jlab.org><br>
<b>Sent:</b> Saturday, January 22, 2022 5:19 PM<br>
<b>To:</b> gpdtc@jlab.org <gpdtc@jlab.org><br>
<b>Subject:</b> [External] [Gpdtc] Draft merger agreement</font>
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<div class="" style="word-wrap:break-word; line-break:after-white-space">Dear All,
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<div class="">We have just had a long discussion to reach a consensus on the bullet points to present to Feng, Ismail, Phiala and Xiangdong in advance of a meeting we have arranged with them for 4pm on Monday. We are currently refining the document, and expect
to have that completed by 930am tomorrow morning. Please take a look at that document, though please add comments below rather than altering the bullets as written.</div>
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<div class="">We aim to reach an agreement on this document tomorrow afternoon, and then present it as our collective bullet points to the other team to implement the merger.</div>
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<div class="">Please complete the “when2meet” for tomorrow afternoon at <span class="" style="background-color:rgb(255,255,255)">
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If you are unable to attend the meeting in person, and have comments, please place them at the end of the document, after the bullets.</font></span></div>
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<div class=""><span class="" style="background-color:rgb(255,255,255)"><font class="" face="arial, helvetica">Regards,</font></span></div>
<div class=""><span class="" style="background-color:rgb(255,255,255)"><font class="" face="arial, helvetica">Ian, Martha, David and Christian</font></span></div>
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