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> Send Orchids mailing list submissions to > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > To subscribe or unsubscribe via the World Wide Web, visit > http://lists.orchidguide.com/mailman/listinfo/orchids > or, via email, send a message with subject or body 'help' to > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > You can reach the person managing the list at > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > When replying, please edit your Subject line so it is more specific > than "Re: Contents of Orchids digest..." > > > Today's Topics: > > 1. Rudolf Jenny gongora book (K Barrett) (nancy) > 2. Re: Orchids Digest, Vol 6, Issue 219 > > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > > Date: Sat, 22 May 2004 08:54:32 -0700 (PDT) > From: nancy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: orchid list <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Subject: [OGD] Rudolf Jenny gongora book (K Barrett) > Message-ID: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii > MIME-Version: 1.0 > Precedence: list > Reply-To: "the OrchidGuide Digest \(OGD\)" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Message: 1 > > Hi Kathy - > I've done some searching, but cannot find this book > available online - can you give any details of where I > might search? Do you have any details of the ISBN, > etc.? > Thanks so much! This is becoming one of my favorite > genera. > Regards - Nancy > > > ===== > ~~~~~~ > '...idiots, imbeciles, aliens, the insane and women...' > - A law standing in Texas until 1918 regulating who could > not vote. > ~~~~~~ > ------------------------------ > > Date: Sat, 22 May 2004 13:31:47 EDT > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: [OGD] Re: Orchids Digest, Vol 6, Issue 219 > Message-ID: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" > MIME-Version: 1.0 > Precedence: list > Reply-To: "the OrchidGuide Digest \(OGD\)" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Message: 2 > > Andy Easton's reference to the AOS practice of having an alternate replace a > member of its Nominating Committee during that part of a session during which > a member is being considered for an elected post, or whenever there is any > other possible perceived self-interest, by no means removes the strong > possibility of such a perception. For example, remarks by the conflicted member that > prejudice some other members against a proposed nominee may open the way for the > nomination of that committee member even though he or she later leaves the > room. It is critically important that there be no possible perception of > conflict of interest whenever a nominating committee makes an unexpected and highly > divisive nomination. Yet that is precisely what happened at the meeting of the > AOS Nominating Committee. In that environment, another of its nominations that > might otherwise have created no criticism also was taken. With all the > public press and widespread attention that has been given to perceived conflicts of > interest in the business and financial world, and especially given the need > by the AOS to have all of its members rally around the organization during this > period of financial need for its very survival, the Committee showed an > appalling lack of sensitivity and awareness of the likely adverse consequences of > its behavior. It may or may not have been in the best interests of the > organization to advance Howard Bronstein, but a decision not to advance him, despite > the traditional order of succession, should not have been accompanied by > nominations that create such obvious suspicions of skullduggery and other base > motives. For that reason, the slate proposed by the Nominating Committee should be > rejected and a new slate selected that will not be inherently subject to > charges of the sort that are splitting the AOS apart at a time when it can ill > afford it. David Grove. [EMAIL PROTECTED] > . > ------------------------------ > > _______________________________________________ > the OrchidGuide Digest (OGD) > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > http://lists.orchidguide.com/mailman/listinfo/orchids > > > End of Orchids Digest, Vol 6, Issue 220 > *************************************** _______________________________________________ the OrchidGuide Digest (OGD) [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.orchidguide.com/mailman/listinfo/orchids
