James B. Shearer wrote:

I listened to this tape.


Lucky you... I have yet to succeed in that task. I have finally
downloaded Dssplayer lite but one must first download the file and save
it for it to play it. When I click on the hyperlink it just throws a
million characters on the page and when I try to save it it offers
toonly save it as text. Is there a trick here?! Anyone?

Maybe in the future it can be offered as a Windows Media compatible
file. Most people would have it and it can be played directly instead of
having to be saved.

Aviv

It appears to be incomplete as it ends
abruptly in the middle of a discussion of the Chess Life printing
contract. Some points of interest.
The USCF lost another $300k in the first quarter (June, July and
August) of the new year. The staff cuts (which had not taken effect
yet) should save about $360k annually. Another $150k in annual
savings (such as not printing thousands of unnneeded copies of Chess
Life every month) have been made.
Nothing was decided about B&E. B&E sales were down in the first
quarter. Currently over half the calls to the 800 number are being
abandoned (ie the caller hangs up after an average of 5 minutes on
hold), some 800 calls a week. The web store has been brought back in
house, it had not been updated since last Christmas. It seems likely
B&E is continuing to lose large amounts of money but the board is
hoping for a miracle and unwilling to close B&E down.
Someone wanted to ask the Chess Trust to pay the difference
between the blind and prision membership rates and the full adult
rate. Schutt (I believe) objected (corrrectly in my opinion) on the
grounds that it was unreasonable to ask for more than the USCF's
actual costs for these members.
The board was bad about identifying who voted yes and who voted no
on motions for the tape. The previous board did a better job in this
respect. There also was extreme background noise in spots.
James B. Shearer