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Please excuse the cross-postings...<br>
<div align="center"><img src="cid:.0" width=166 height=166 alt="IBPSAlogo.jpg"><font size=7 color="#FF0000"><b>IBPSA<br>
</font><font color="#000080">International Building Performance
Simulation Association<br>
USA Affiliate<br><br>
</b>IBPSA-USA wishes to invite you to join us in Atlantic City, New
Jersey for our first meeting of 2002!<br><br>
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<b>Meeting
Highlights:</b><x-tab>     </x-tab></font><font color="#FF0000"><b>Software
Demo<br>
<x-tab>        </x-tab><x-tab>        </x-tab><x-tab>        </x-tab>Social
Hour and Dinner<br>
<x-tab>        </x-tab><x-tab>        </x-tab><x-tab>        </x-tab>Business
Meeting and Officer Elections<br>
<x-tab>        </x-tab><x-tab>        </x-tab><x-tab>        </x-tab>Guest
Speaker: Les Norford, MIT<br><br>
<br>
</font><div align="center"><font color="#000080">IBPSA-USA MEETING
ANNOUNCEMENT<br>
</font><font color="#FF0000">Dinner RSVP requested</b></font> (see
below)<br>
<b>4 PM, Saturday, January 12, 2002<br>
Atlantic City, New Jersey<br><br>
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Location:         
<font color="#000080">Holiday Inn Boardwalk<br>
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Boardwalk & Chelsea Ave.<br>
                  
Atlantic City, NJ 08401<br>
                  
1-800-548-3030<br>
                  
<a href="http://www.holidayinnac.com/directions.html" eudora="autourl">http://www.holidayinnac.com/directions.html</a><br><br>
<b>4:00 PM - 5:30 PM  <font color="#000080">Software
Demo.</b></font> Simulation Software and Interfaces. 
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<dd>        Program developers should
contact Chip
Barnaby               
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<cbarnaby@wrightsoft.com> for more information. <br><br>

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</dl><b>5:30 PM - 6:30 PM  <font color="#000080">Social hour with
cash bar.<br><br>
</font>6:30
PM           
<font color="#000080">Dinner.</b></font> <br>
                  
$25/person for IBPSA members (membership applications and <br>
                  
renewals will be accepted on-site)<br>
                  
$35/person for non-members <br><br>
<b>7:30 PM </b>(approx)<b>   <font color="#000080">Business
Meeting.<br>
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Elections of officers for January 2002 - December 2003<br>
                  
Financial report<br>
                  
Short report on BS 2001<br>
                  
Announcements: BS 2003<br><br>
<b>7:45 PM </b>(approx)<b>   <font color="#000080">After-dinner
talk.</b></font> 
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<dd><x-tab>        </x-tab>   
Les Norford 
<dd><x-tab>        </x-tab>   
Massachusetts Institute of Technology <br><br>

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</dl><font color="#FF0000"><b><u>Reservations</u>:</font>     
</b>We will begin accepting reservations for dinner immediately and
encourage those who plan to attend to reserve their seat(s) early. 
<font color="#FF0000"><b>Reservations should be made with
</b></font><font color="#0000FF"><u>Rick Strand
<r-strand@uiuc.edu></u></font><font color="#FF0000"><b> via email
by January 4, 2002.</font>  </b>Confirmation of reservations will be
sent via email.  <i>Please make your reservation as soon as possible
so that we can adequately plan for all attendees.<br><br>
</i>For the latest information on the IBPSA-USA meeting in Atlantic City
or directions to the meeting site, please check out:
<a href="http://www.ibpsa.org/ibpsa_usa/atlanticcity.htm" eudora="autourl">http://www.ibpsa.org/ibpsa_usa/atlanticcity.htm</a><br><br>
We look forward to seeing you there!<br><br>
Chip
Barnaby<x-tab>    </x-tab><x-tab>        </x-tab><x-tab>        </x-tab>Rick
Strand<br>
President,
IBPSA-USA<x-tab>    </x-tab><x-tab>        </x-tab>Secretary,
IBPSA-USA<br><br>
RSVP/Reservations
to:<x-tab>   </x-tab><font color="#0000FF"><u>Rick Strand
<r-strand@uiuc.edu></font></u></html>