<html><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; ">Hi Dale,<div><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>Thanks for publicly committing PTG to back this venture financially. It is truly inspiring to see the new, nimble PTG in action, able to turn on a dime (in contrast to the old, lumbering, ossified version).</div><div><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>In a slightly more serious vein, I presume that you are saying that you will use your authority and persuasive ability to move forward on this project, finding some degree of support from home office in a technical way (probably at the cost of some number of PTG dollars, whether directly or indirectly), providing there are enough people willing to stick their necks out and say publicly that they will work on the project on a volunteer basis. Is this about right?</div><div><div apple-content-edited="true"> <span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; 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; orphans: 2; text-align: auto; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0; "><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><div>Regards,</div><div>Fred Sturm</div><div>University of New Mexico</div><div><a href="mailto:fssturm@unm.edu">fssturm@unm.edu</a></div><div><br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></div></div></span><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"> </div><br><div><div>On Jul 16, 2008, at 4:05 PM, Ward & Probst, Inc wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; 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; orphans: 2; text-align: auto; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0; ">Fred,<br><br>Thanks for volunteering to help get this started. We've been talking about<br>this project for a while. Anybody else willing to help?<br><br>DP<br>Dale Probst, RPT<br><a href="mailto:pres@ptg.org">pres@ptg.org</a></span></blockquote></div><br></div></body></html>