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<span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#222222;background:white">Greeting all. As the COVID-19 outbreak has affected all of our lives in dramatically different ways, we wanted to assure you that we are monitoring the situation and
will continue to do so. At the moment, our plan is to continue with the conference as scheduled on September 10th & 11th in Portland, Oregon, although we are exploring options in the case that we are unable to continue with our plans.</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#222222;background:white">We are also aware that the past few weeks ha</span><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#1F497D;background:white">ve</span><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#222222;background:white">
been hectic as preparations for closures and telecommuting have been put into place and we have all adjusted to new working conditions. To that end, we would like to extend our deadline for proposals in order to accommodate anyone who was unable to submit</span><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#1F497D;background:white">.</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#1F497D;background:white">To read more about the NWILL proposal format, see our website</span><a href="https://nwill.org/call-for-proposals"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#1F497D;background:white">
</span><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#1155CC">https://nwill.org/call-for-proposals</span></a><o:p></o:p></p>
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<span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">Our new deadline is May 15th (the form will change slightly after March 20th)</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#1F497D;background:white">T</span><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black;background:white">hose who have submitted by March 20</span><sup><span style="font-size:6.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black;background:white">th</span></sup><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black;background:white">
will be notified in early April.</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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