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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body lang=EN-US link="#0563C1" vlink="#954F72"><div class=WordSection1><div align=center><table class=MsoNormalTable border=0 cellspacing=0 cellpadding=0 width="100%" style='width:100.0%;border-collapse:collapse'><tr><td width="100%" valign=top style='width:100.0%;background:#E4E3E8;padding:0in 0in 0in 0in'><table class=MsoNormalTable border=0 cellspacing=0 cellpadding=0 width="100%" style='width:100.0%;border-collapse:collapse'><tr><td valign=top style='padding:7.5pt 15.0pt 7.5pt 15.0pt'><p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><b><span style='font-size:18.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#4580AD'>Book Your TradeWinds Hotel Reservations at the Special VSS Discounted Rate</span></b><b><span style='font-size:18.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#4C4C4C'><o:p></o:p></span></b></p></td></tr></table></td></tr></table></div><p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><o:p> </o:p></p><div align=center><table class=MsoNormalTable border=0 cellspacing=0 cellpadding=0 width="100%" style='width:100.0%;border-collapse:collapse;min-width: 100%'><tr><td width="100%" valign=top style='width:100.0%;background:#E4E3E8;padding:0in 0in 0in 0in;word-wrap: break-word'><table class=MsoNormalTable border=0 cellspacing=0 cellpadding=0 width="100%" style='width:100.0%;border-collapse:collapse;word-wrap: break-word'><tr><td valign=top style='padding:7.5pt 15.0pt 7.5pt 15.0pt'><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#403F42'>The 19th Annual Meeting of the Vision Sciences Society will be held at the TradeWinds Island Resorts in St. Pete Beach, Florida. VSS has negotiated special room rates for the TradeWinds Island Grand and Guy Harvey Outpost hotels. Discount rates are available from May 13 – 24, 2019. </span><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#403F42'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#403F42'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#403F42'>The deadline to reserve a hotel room is April 13, 2019 or until the VSS room block is sold out. </span></b><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#403F42'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#403F42'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#403F42'>In addition, VSS is pleased to offer a limited number of Government Rate rooms at the Guy Harvey. </span><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#403F42'><a 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style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#403F42'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#403F42'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#403F42'>For detailed room information and a reservations link, go to </span><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#403F42'><a href="http://r20.rs6.net/tn.jsp?f=0017miNLTAaLPrR_l14cWCNJSh5Eif-21o3O34YPCofEM0TppIuyXVM6p_OM5TJ8R2EGdsNneriTf5Ff4LALzFS0PtXEWF68Pq-_tVe9WRK9IHMmwRcC4tCfFmYzfX5yKyLLHBkR_ZbDbVAIEyaEjVBrTCU52f7bo1a1sCS9AK8NP_BPrew6Z53ZQ==&c=5kZxIUrb_XFlTheoRDGy3ePtDmZLQUR7TNRp6eKjdxvFr079A_JQmw==&ch=dT-1ND97ylFFKhwM8sA5ukfaqekFMiXAU4OLilZ42TqEjLT5Oo9xCQ==" target="_blank"><span style='font-size:10.5pt;color:#366A91'>Accommodations</span></a></span><span style='font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#403F42'>.</span><span 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style='font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#403F42'>November 1 </span></b><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#403F42'><a href="http://r20.rs6.net/tn.jsp?f=0017miNLTAaLPrR_l14cWCNJSh5Eif-21o3O34YPCofEM0TppIuyXVM6tT-VuGSZhRgUlYMWiSjI6vCmohfQ5dN3OphMPBo8omLBEIlaOYKkNOgXB3s-m9fXUtt0fCC7yZSrqkZI0yKD1Y0w4VaAQP_9hdW5vo_XwqMyw2JZqbQNyeta78DN8blbg==&c=5kZxIUrb_XFlTheoRDGy3ePtDmZLQUR7TNRp6eKjdxvFr079A_JQmw==&ch=dT-1ND97ylFFKhwM8sA5ukfaqekFMiXAU4OLilZ42TqEjLT5Oo9xCQ==" target="_blank"><span style='font-size:10.5pt;color:#366A91'>Nakayama</span></a></span><span style='font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#366A91'> and </span><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#403F42'><a 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