<HTML><BODY style="word-wrap: break-word; -khtml-nbsp-mode: space; -khtml-line-break: after-white-space; "><DIV><DIV><DIV>On Oct 4, 2006, at 7:06 PM, Elwood Doss wrote:</DIV><BLOCKQUOTE type="cite"><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">Wim, you are so sharp, dude! I'll see if my chair will let me off to go</DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">to the conference in Atlanta next year!</DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">Joy!</DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">Elwood</DIV></BLOCKQUOTE><BR></DIV></DIV><BR>Elwood,<DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>Maintaining contact with the latest industry processes and techniques and the PTG is a part of my job description. I can't always afford to go, and the SE Conference and the National Convention tend to conflict with other events on my calendar, but when I do, I'm considered at work (i.e., "on the clock") and improving what I can do for the school. I even include time for chapter meetings. Other faculty are considered "at work" any time they represent the university anywhere, in any manner, and we should be also.</DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>Jeff</DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"><DIV><DIV></DIV></DIV></DIV><BR><DIV> <SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; border-spacing: 0px 0px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; text-align: auto; -khtml-text-decorations-in-effect: none; text-indent: 0px; -apple-text-size-adjust: auto; text-transform: none; orphans: 2; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; "><DIV>Jeff Tanner, RPT</DIV><DIV>University of South Carolina</DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><BR class="Apple-interchange-newline"></SPAN> </DIV><BR></BODY></HTML>