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<DIV>I often wonder if the Contest board considers our efforts as threats to
their position?</DIV>
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<DIV>Clearly, it is their turf and their votes have priority over ours.
Cultivating an adversarial relationship is not productive. As I recall the NSRCA
Rules survey was developed to assist the Contest Board, not to threaten it.
</DIV>
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<DIV>I would like to know if the Contest Board would prefer we do things
differently or may be not at all. </DIV>
<DIV>How might I get an answer to that question without becoming a lightning
rod?</DIV>
<DIV> </DIV>
<DIV>If we are viewed as a problem rather than a piece of the solution, there
are several of us could better use our time. </DIV>
<DIV> </DIV>
<DIV>John Ferrell <BR><A
href="http://DixieNC.US">http://DixieNC.US</A><BR></DIV>
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<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial">----- Original Message ----- </DIV>
<DIV
style="BACKGROUND: #e4e4e4; FONT: 10pt arial; font-color: black"><B>From:</B>
<A title=pattern4u@comcast.net href="mailto:pattern4u@comcast.net">Grow
Pattern</A> </DIV>
<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>To:</B> <A title=discussion@nsrca.org
href="mailto:discussion@nsrca.org">discussion@nsrca.org</A> </DIV>
<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Sent:</B> Monday, May 16, 2005 10:07 AM</DIV>
<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Subject:</B> Re: calling complete for new
takeoff</DIV>
<DIV><BR></DIV>
<DIV>Keith,</DIV>
<DIV> I wish I had said this
the way you did. </DIV>
<DIV> </DIV>
<DIV>I am still astonished that the Chairman of the AMA contest board
submitted his own proposals to his own board. They all passed
BTW. I think that the AMA is remiss in not producing much better
guidelines for contest boards.</DIV>
<DIV> </DIV>
<DIV>As regards AMA contest board selection. It is done by the AMA district
VP. It might be more effective if we were administratively aligned with
the AMA districts, but in the case of John Fuqua, Tony is his AMA DVP. so
that's probably a lost cause.</DIV>
<DIV> </DIV>
<DIV>Lets just face the facts, if you don't live in Florida you don't
know diddly about pattern... Just move on ;-)</DIV>
<DIV> </DIV>
<DIV> </DIV>
<DIV>Eric. </DIV>
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