Re: [AGA-sc] Ghazanfar's talk in Seattle - report and video

["Karen Randall" <karenran@verizon.net>]

I heard from Janine, and she says NEC can help with expenses for another
speaker only to the extent of registration an banquet.  Better than nothing,
I guess!  She also offered to pick up more if the speaker we chose could
also speak on a fish subject. (especially a live bearer speaker, but she was
flexible on that part)  But I don't know anyone who can do both of those
things.  DO any of you?


Can I go ahead and ask Ghazanfar to speak at the AGA meeting?  I suspect we
would have to cover both his plane ticket and his room. Rooms run about $90
per night as of last year... haven't seen it for this year yet, and I just
checked Expedia.  Flights from DC are running about $236. (well, we could
get it $30 cheaper if we wanted to make him stop in Philly, but...)

Can I go ahead and ask him?

Karen

-----Original Message-----
From: aga-sc-bounces@thekrib.com [mailto:aga-sc-bounces@thekrib.com] On
Behalf Of Erik Olson
Sent: Tuesday, January 20, 2009 12:31 AM
To: aga-sc@thekrib.com
Subject: [AGA-sc] Ghazanfar's talk in Seattle - report and video

Hi folks,

Ghazanfar's talk in Seattle rocked last Tuesday.  Very easy to follow, 
humourous at times, and chock-full of good information.  The audience, our 
local club, has a few hard-core plant folks, but mostly a wide range of 
interests and abilities.  Afterwards, we auctioned off all the rare crypts 
he brought and donated -- typically fetching $10-12 per lot. Everyone I 
spoke to and heard from in e-mail thanked "me" for my suggestion (though 
it was really Luis who recommended him).  And for myself, next week I am 
going hunting for a good fertilizer to use for a foliar spray.

He would not be out of place as a headlining speaker at an AGA.

If you want to download the talk and take a look for yourself, he was kind 
enough to let me distribute a 50-meg low-resolution mpeg-4 video via 
bittorrent here: http://www.gsas.org/torrents/ghazanfar.torrent

Please don't post the link on APC or anything -- it's a GSAS club 
resource.

   - Erik

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