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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body lang=EN-CA link=blue vlink=purple><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoNormal>Hello! <o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>I am really pleased to be able to state that the on-line journal Pollination Ecology has indicated that a special issue can be assembled from quality presentations for the upcoming symposium. Thank you Carolin! All papers submitted for possible publication by authors from the symposium will be properly peer-reviewed because, as a newish Journal, Pollination Ecology is sensitive to the need for content of the highest quality.<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Please make your bookings and such to attend the Symposium as soon as you can. It promises to be very diverse in content, up-to-the-minute as informative in many aspects of pollination, and the business meeting has the exciting task of considering a change in the name and mandate of ICPBR to ICPPR so that Bee become substituted with the word Pollinator! <o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>The field trip to the Sierra Madre Oriental will be an extra special experience. I know, I have been to the sites we will visit.<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>The workshop on Canadian-Latin American practical pollination co-operation is open to all. It will be a brainstorming session on what can we do to co-operate and will be interesting to people from other countries as to the potential for international co-operations.<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>We received funding for participants from several sources, including the IUBS, CONABIO, NSERCanada, and some industry sources.<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Wonderful!<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Peter<o:p></o:p></p></div></body></html>