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

[Larry Lampert <l_lampert@yahoo.com>]

I am all for it. The NEC has done so much for us it would be really nice to 
reciprocate. 

Do we need to vote on this? If anyone thinks we should not spend our money on 
this please speak up now.

Thanks,

Larry


--- On Tue, 1/20/09, Karen Randall <karenran@verizon.net> wrote:

> From: Karen Randall <karenran@verizon.net>
> Subject: Re: [AGA-sc] Ghazanfar's talk in Seattle - report and video
> To: "'Aquatic Gardeners Association Board'" <aga-sc@thekrib.com>
> Date: Tuesday, January 20, 2009, 6:43 AM
> 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
> 
> -- 
> Erik Olson
> erik at thekrib dot com
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