I am sure they had only the best of attentions and just sincerely felt they 
were not able to "properly support my needs"<G>

Gilliam would not surprise me a bit.

I have started organizing a show for next year and we will be doing an ever 
increasing number of mini shows so that we can get out and meet people on a 
more personal basis.

JJ

At 11:16 AM 6/30/2000 -0400, Trey wrote:
>Jarrod, why did they kick you out of the Australian "tec" show, and do you
>think it was Mouth and Gilliam who had anything to do with it?
>
>I guess they can see the handwriting on the wall, so to speak.
>
>We need to run our own mini tec shows and DIR demonstrations everywhere to
>offset this stupidity. Let's start scheduling a few more of these and really
>get these morons panicked.
>
>-----Original Message-----
>From: Jarrod Jablonski <JJ@gu*.co*>
>To: Gawain.Lynch@fe*.co*.au*
><Gawain.Lynch@fe*.co*.au*>; quest@gu*.co* <quest@gu*.co*>
>Date: Friday, June 30, 2000 10:47 AM
>Subject: Re: OzTek 2000
>
>
> >This one is classic.
> >
> >They ask me six or more months ago to present and I committed to the date.
> >Leaving the country during prime exploration is not something I take
> >lightly and I pushed several other obligations away, kept the spot open
> >despite several good opportunities, and promised my girlfriend a trip to
> >Australia.
> >
> >They had agreed to pay my way over or to have the company sponsor the event
> >and get a free booth. We agreed to the latter.
> >Then two weeks before departure they send me a mail that says we have
> >pulled your speaking spot because we no longer feel we can properly support
> >your presence. In essence the show is not doing well enough to let you have
> >a booth but we are too crowded to make a free space for you. Rather
> >oxymoronic. Of course none of this applied to any speakers other than
>myslef.
> >
> >Feeling pretty certain what games where being played I then volunteered to
> >pay my own way, and asked about buying a booth. Their response. No
>thanks<G>
> >
> >Personally the whole thing leaves a bad taste in my mouth but I am sure
> >that I can find a way to occupy the time with diving and now I have  a
> >better feel for the political games being played by people seemingly afraid
> >of information. However, I missed the opportunity to meet people interested
> >in diving outside of politics and I have an angry girlfriend. We plan to
> >come over on our own in the near future for some DIR demonstrations.
> >
> >Politics at its best.
> >
> >Best,
> >JJ
> >
> >
> >
> >At 07:47 AM 6/26/2000 +1100, Gawain.Lynch@fe*.co*.au* wrote:
> >>Does any one have any idea why JJ and Robert are no longer coming to OzTek
> >>2000 in Melbourne next month.
> >>
> >>We were all looking forward to seeing and hearing from them both and now
> >>nothing...
> >>
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Extreme Exposure and Halcyon manufacturing produce some of the scuba 
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