ExCom Members, About a week from now, you will pack your bags and head to Lexington for IEEE SoutheastCon 2014. Most of you have registered. Most of you have reserved your hotel room. I have 9 rooms left at the Clarion Hotel (two parking lots from your meetings). Remember if you plan to arrive by 1pm Thursday, we will be taking a tour of the Toyota Plant. Nominal cost is $20 to cover our transportation costs for you. We must have you return to the registration web site and add this tour. We must have names to submit to Toyota in advance of the visit. We have 656 folks start registration, of which 584 have started invoices but not completed them, and 493 have completed all registration, except for any tutorials or tours that were just posted today. Late registrations could push us over 700 total attendees. We have invoiced $106,000 for registration and have received $91,000 of those monies. We have 123 papers approved and posted to our site. Over 150 papers were started; due to rejection and/or withdrawals, the final papers should be near 123. Of course we had the largest snow of the winter this morning. We plan to burn that off before you arrive. Come, enjoy, learn, meet, and greet. Thanks in advance, Don Hill, Gen Chair, IEEE SoutheastCon 2014