Subject: Digest for the period 4/26/2004 - 4/27/2004 Date: Tue, 27 Apr 2004 01:01:26 -0400 Table of contents ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 1. election notification (Jeremy Bergsman) 2. Best of Philly 2004 results (Joe Uknalis) 3. Re: Announcement of Northeast rep election (Michael L. Hall) ---------------------------------------------------------------------- From: Jeremy Bergsman Date: Mon, 26 Apr 2004 07:43:24 -0400 Subject: election notification >>The communication about replacing Bill Slack as Northeast rep I think has >>been extremely poor. I never saw any announcements mentioning the >>election was coming up and asking for nominations of candidates. A number >>of people I have talked to have said the same thing. > > The information, including the exact information about which officers > were up for re-election, how to submit nominations, and all the > timetable and procedure information has been on our website for years. > If members are truly interested in these affairs, they have been able > to > take action. > > Personally, I believe that we all like to be treated as responsible > adults, and I don't see any need to spoon-feed people. I have never > received an official reminder to vote for any government official (a > far > more important task), yet somehow I have always managed to cast an > informed ballot. There is no difference here, at least in my mind. In California, every registered voter receives by mail a book for each election. The cover of the book gives the location of that person's polling place and the book contains the text of proposed laws, arguments for and against, etc. Political elections are widely covered in the media, helping to remind people when they are imminent. I don't think we should be satisfied with only having the most interested involved with the BJCP and I think an email reminder of upcomming open slots would be pretty reasonable in terms of BJCP effort and member intrusion. -- Jeremy Bergsman jeremy`at`bergsman.org http://www.bergsman.org/jeremy ********************************************************************** * JudgeNet - the beer judge digest * * Send plain text only, no HTML, MIME, encoded text or attachments * * Send subscription requests & changes to judge-request`at`synchro.com * ********************************************************************** ---------------------------------------------------------------------- From: Joe Uknalis Date: Mon, 26 Apr 2004 08:01:00 -0400 Subject: Best of Philly 2004 results Congrats to Brian Moore of Wilmington, DE on his Best of Show California Common! Full competition results are at: http://www.hopsclub.org/ thanks to all the entrants, judges, stewards, sponsors and especially our host http://www.noddinghead.com/ (thanks Gordon!) Joe Uknalis ********************************************************************** * JudgeNet - the beer judge digest * * Send plain text only, no HTML, MIME, encoded text or attachments * * Send subscription requests & changes to judge-request`at`synchro.com * ********************************************************************** ---------------------------------------------------------------------- From: Michael L. Hall Date: Mon, 26 Apr 2004 09:45:35 -0600 Subject: Re: Announcement of Northeast rep election Ed Westemeier writes: > On 4/24/04, Mark Irwin said: > >The communication about replacing Bill Slack as Northeast rep I > >think has been extremely poor. I never saw any announcements > >mentioning the election was coming up and asking for nominations of > >candidates. A number of people I have talked to have said the same > >thing. > > The information, including the exact information about which officers > were up for re-election, how to submit nominations, and all the > timetable and procedure information has been on our website for years. > If members are truly interested in these affairs, they have been able > to take action. Just wanted to clear this up. As Ed states, the information is on the website, and the timetables haven't been changed. In addition to this, I posted to JudgeNet the following email -- look in your Jan 24th edition. If anyone that can vote in the Northeast rep election hasn't voted, please do so at . And tell your friends. Cheers, Mike > From: Michael L. Hall Date: Fri, 23 Jan 2004 01:00:35 -0700 > Subject: BJCP Representative Elections > > Judging community: > > There are three BJCP Representative positions which are scheduled to > be elected this year: Northeast, Mountain/Northwest, and North. You > can see a map showing the regions on the officers page at: > > http://BJCP.org/officers.html > > The deadline for nominations is February 1, 2004. Information > on the nomination process is included in the BJCP bylaws > (http://BJCP.org/bylaws.html), sec. 5.2, which states in part: > > 5.2 Nominations > > A current Regular Member of the BJCP may be nominated to > represent the region in which he or she resides upon the receipt > by the Program Administrator of petition(s) bearing the signatures > of five or more current Regular Members of the BJCP residing in > the same region, in accordance with the by-laws. > > The board has recently voted to consider email endorsements to be > equivalent to the "petition(s) bearing the signature" mentioned in > the bylaws. > > I encourage you to consider serving the BJCP by becoming a > representative from your region. > > Cheers, > -Mike > > ============================================================================ > Michael L. Hall, Ph.D. > President, BJCP Board of Directors (Mtn/NW Rep) > President, Los Alamos Atom Mashers > Member, AHA Board of Advisors > ============================================================================ > I propose a toast to the four things in life: lying, cheating, > stealing, and drinking. If you lie, be it to save a friend. If you > cheat, cheat death. If you steal, be it to steal the heart of a loved > one. And if you drink, be it to toast long life, health, and > happiness. -- Jim Carrier, _The Ship and the Storm_ ********************************************************************** * JudgeNet - the beer judge digest * * Send plain text only, no HTML, MIME, encoded text or attachments * * Send subscription requests & changes to judge-request`at`synchro.com * ********************************************************************** Subject: Digest for the period 4/26/2004 - 4/27/2004 Date: Tue, 27 Apr 2004 01:01:26 -0400 Table of contents ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 1. election notification (Jeremy Bergsman) 2. Best of Philly 2004 results (Joe Uknalis) 3. Re: Announcement of Northeast rep election (Michael L. Hall) ---------------------------------------------------------------------- From: Jeremy Bergsman Date: Mon, 26 Apr 2004 07:43:24 -0400 Subject: election notification >>The communication about replacing Bill Slack as Northeast rep I think has >>been extremely poor. I never saw any announcements mentioning the >>election was coming up and asking for nominations of candidates. A number >>of people I have talked to have said the same thing. > > The information, including the exact information about which officers > were up for re-election, how to submit nominations, and all the > timetable and procedure information has been on our website for years. > If members are truly interested in these affairs, they have been able > to > take action. > > Personally, I believe that we all like to be treated as responsible > adults, and I don't see any need to spoon-feed people. I have never > received an official reminder to vote for any government official (a > far > more important task), yet somehow I have always managed to cast an > informed ballot. There is no difference here, at least in my mind. In California, every registered voter receives by mail a book for each election. The cover of the book gives the location of that person's polling place and the book contains the text of proposed laws, arguments for and against, etc. Political elections are widely covered in the media, helping to remind people when they are imminent. I don't think we should be satisfied with only having the most interested involved with the BJCP and I think an email reminder of upcomming open slots would be pretty reasonable in terms of BJCP effort and member intrusion. -- Jeremy Bergsman jeremy`at`bergsman.org http://www.bergsman.org/jeremy ********************************************************************** * JudgeNet - the beer judge digest * * Send plain text only, no HTML, MIME, encoded text or attachments * * Send subscription requests & changes to judge-request`at`synchro.com * ********************************************************************** ---------------------------------------------------------------------- From: Joe Uknalis Date: Mon, 26 Apr 2004 08:01:00 -0400 Subject: Best of Philly 2004 results Congrats to Brian Moore of Wilmington, DE on his Best of Show California Common! Full competition results are at: http://www.hopsclub.org/ thanks to all the entrants, judges, stewards, sponsors and especially our host http://www.noddinghead.com/ (thanks Gordon!) Joe Uknalis ********************************************************************** * JudgeNet - the beer judge digest * * Send plain text only, no HTML, MIME, encoded text or attachments * * Send subscription requests & changes to judge-request`at`synchro.com * ********************************************************************** ---------------------------------------------------------------------- From: Michael L. Hall Date: Mon, 26 Apr 2004 09:45:35 -0600 Subject: Re: Announcement of Northeast rep election Ed Westemeier writes: > On 4/24/04, Mark Irwin said: > >The communication about replacing Bill Slack as Northeast rep I > >think has been extremely poor. I never saw any announcements > >mentioning the election was coming up and asking for nominations of > >candidates. A number of people I have talked to have said the same > >thing. > > The information, including the exact information about which officers > were up for re-election, how to submit nominations, and all the > timetable and procedure information has been on our website for years. > If members are truly interested in these affairs, they have been able > to take action. Just wanted to clear this up. As Ed states, the information is on the website, and the timetables haven't been changed. In addition to this, I posted to JudgeNet the following email -- look in your Jan 24th edition. If anyone that can vote in the Northeast rep election hasn't voted, please do so at . And tell your friends. Cheers, Mike > From: Michael L. Hall Date: Fri, 23 Jan 2004 01:00:35 -0700 > Subject: BJCP Representative Elections > > Judging community: > > There are three BJCP Representative positions which are scheduled to > be elected this year: Northeast, Mountain/Northwest, and North. You > can see a map showing the regions on the officers page at: > > http://BJCP.org/officers.html > > The deadline for nominations is February 1, 2004. Information > on the nomination process is included in the BJCP bylaws > (http://BJCP.org/bylaws.html), sec. 5.2, which states in part: > > 5.2 Nominations > > A current Regular Member of the BJCP may be nominated to > represent the region in which he or she resides upon the receipt > by the Program Administrator of petition(s) bearing the signatures > of five or more current Regular Members of the BJCP residing in > the same region, in accordance with the by-laws. > > The board has recently voted to consider email endorsements to be > equivalent to the "petition(s) bearing the signature" mentioned in > the bylaws. > > I encourage you to consider serving the BJCP by becoming a > representative from your region. > > Cheers, > -Mike > > ============================================================================ > Michael L. Hall, Ph.D. > President, BJCP Board of Directors (Mtn/NW Rep) > President, Los Alamos Atom Mashers > Member, AHA Board of Advisors > ============================================================================ > I propose a toast to the four things in life: lying, cheating, > stealing, and drinking. If you lie, be it to save a friend. If you > cheat, cheat death. If you steal, be it to steal the heart of a loved > one. And if you drink, be it to toast long life, health, and > happiness. -- Jim Carrier, _The Ship and the Storm_ ********************************************************************** * JudgeNet - the beer judge digest * * Send plain text only, no HTML, MIME, encoded text or attachments * * Send subscription requests & changes to judge-request`at`synchro.com * **********************************************************************