<HTML><FONT FACE=arial,helvetica><FONT SIZE=2 FAMILY="SERIF" FACE="Times New Roman" LANG="0"><I>In a message dated 7/18/2002 2:24:04 PM Pacific Daylight Time, avery@ev1.net writes:<BR>
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<BLOCKQUOTE TYPE=CITE style="BORDER-LEFT: #0000ff 2px solid; MARGIN-LEFT: 5px; MARGIN-RIGHT: 0px; PADDING-LEFT: 5px">Subj:<B>RE: "PTG Convention is focused on teaching...." </B><BR>
Date:7/18/2002 2:24:04 PM Pacific Daylight Time<BR>
From:<A HREF="mailto:avery@ev1.net">avery@ev1.net</A><BR>
Reply-to:<A HREF="mailto:pianotech@ptg.org">pianotech@ptg.org</A><BR>
To:<A HREF="mailto:pianotech@ptg.org">pianotech@ptg.org</A><BR>
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Avery-- just to be clear the words you quote in this post below weren't mine but you point well taken all the same.</BLOCKQUOTE><BR>
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Dale,<BR>
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>I would disagree that reimbursing an instructor for a room or even<BR>
>travel is compensation. It is not fiscally possible for PTG to<BR>
>compensate our fine volunteer instructors for the untold hours they put<BR>
>into their presentations.<BR>
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I can understand this.<BR>
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>At least it is possible to reimburse some of<BR>
>them for some of their expenses though not all.<BR>
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But this I can't understand! Why some but not all. Sounds like political<BR>
BS to me! I know someone who taught at an Annual and couldn't even stand<BR>
in the back of the room to watch a class because they hadn't "registered"<BR>
for that class. Actually, two someones! And of course, they hadn't even<BR>
come close to being reimbursed for what it had cost them to prepare for<BR>
the class and even to get there! To me, that's the height of political BS!<BR>
BTW, one of these two is always politically correct; the other one isn't!<BR>
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Avery<BR>
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