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<p style="margin:0;padding:0;font-family: arial; font-size: 10pt; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-align: center;"><strong><span style="color: #000000; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: small; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; white-space: normal; background-color: #ffffff; text-decoration-thickness: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial; float: none; display: inline !important;">in Room B1 of the Okinawa Convention Centre, Okinawa, Japan, at 09.00 JST (UTC+9). </span></strong></p>
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<p style="margin:0;padding:0;font-family: arial; font-size: 10pt; overflow-wrap: break-word;"><span style="color: #000000; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: small; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; white-space: normal; background-color: #ffffff; text-decoration-thickness: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial; display: inline !important; float: none;">The Agenda is in the ABM packet available at <a href="https://spnhc.org/resources/39th-annual-meeting-and-spnhc-tdwg-joint-conference/">https://spnhc.org/resources/39th-annual-meeting-and-spnhc-tdwg-joint-conference/</a></span></p>
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<p style="margin:0;padding:0;margin: 0; padding: 0; font-family: arial; font-size: 10pt; overflow-wrap: break-word;">SPNHC Members - look out for an email with instructions for participating virtually.</p>
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<p style="margin:0;padding:0;margin: 0; padding: 0; font-family: arial; font-size: 10pt; overflow-wrap: break-word;"><span style="color: #000000; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: small; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; white-space: normal; background-color: #ffffff; text-decoration-thickness: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial; display: inline !important; float: none;"><a href="https://www.tdwg.org/conferences/2024/">Virtual registration</a> will remain open through September 5th.</span></p>
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