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]]> Writing for Writers Works By Steff Green Many writers in the freelance industry struggle to find their writing niche, yet they overlook the most obvious niche - writing about writing. Any writer who has clocked their hours in front of a keyboard knows a few tricks, techniques, dos and do not's they could share with other writers. Why not write for other writers and earn money while you're at it? Should I Sell Foreign Rights to a Stranger? I've been contacted by a foreign-language publisher who's asking for foreign rights to my self-published book. What should I do? Cover Girl By Joei Carlton Hossack A year ago I purchased a new digital camera. I needed it - not because I'm a travel writer and travel writers need pictures to go along with the stories but because someone or something hacked into my website and destroyed it. I needed pictures of me so my computer guru could build another site. He did a fabulous job so I put the camera away to collect dust. Whispers And Warnings For December 3rd Prudence International Magazine / prudenceinternational.com - UPDATE: Writer receives check the day after publisher accuses WritersWeekly of libel.
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The weather patterns on the east coast for November were very cold and wet. We arrived at Gulgong on Sunday and were told that it had sleeted the day before. It was very cold and windy on Sunday and the day was canned.
Friday we had 35mm of rain in one downpour, with more overnight. The strip was too wet to use, so even though Saturday may have been able to have a task, we could not launch.
Patrick dicing with Huey (Ozzie god of the weather), there were lightning bolts belting the next paddock over while he was out on the strip. His wife was watching and was quite concerned for his safety.
I'm away in Tamworth for work this week, and it flooded here (and Manilla etc) last weekend, so there's rubbish all over beside the road.
I do not know the official status of the drought. Around Tamworth it has being raining for quite a while and the area is very green, the greenest I have seen it in over twenty years. The Hunter Valley is also green, but not much river flow. Keepit dam is still very low, but should be getting a bit in now, the Hunter dams are pretty full since we've had 2 years of rain.
Out West, even around Gulgong, it is still pretty dry. I think the farmers were happy with the rain there last week.
South Australia could well be still in drought, but I do not know
Parma did burn as well as the Monastery and a bunch of houses in the area. Many people had to get out quick and lost many years of memories including their house in the fire. The fire was started by ten city college students when they had a bonfire at the tea gardens which is a reservoir in the mountains. I guess the students left without totally putting the fire out and when the Sundowner winds came the next day it stoked the fire and embers ignited brush etc. Many people want to know the names of the students but they haven't been released.
Here's some shots Robb Sporrer took while flying to the Parma landing area.
Michael Williams has suggested dropping the competition points system, the National Team Selection System (NTSS) altogether, and just using the well regarded and well maintained WPRS system. You can find the latest version here. He suggests that we use it for determining the National Champion also. Here is the top end of the latest results.
Yesterday I provided alternative proposals to the USHPA Competition Workgroup proposal for a new USHPA Competition Rulebook with the addition of a manual. So far all the discussion (other than some that is found here in the Oz Report) has centered around the documents, but these documents will not actually do much to advance the goals (as vaguely defined as they are) of the Competition Workgroup or the USHPA 2005 Strategic plan.
The documents (mine included) are really weak reeds when it comes to the goals of increasing the numbers of competitions and the number of competitors. The Workgroup has no particular reason to think that the changes that they have made to the documents will produce the changes that they hope for.
It's going to take a much difference approach. I have provided suggestions here, here and here.
Discuss Adopting documents is not going to meet our goals at the Oz Report forumlink»
It seems that one of the cornerstones of the plan to
restructure our competition system is the notion that competition is
declining in the US and that our current system is largely to blame
(i.e., if it is not largely to blame then why change the system?).
Since this premise is the basis for such a radical change we should
explore this.
I think if you were to ask anyone who has been around a
while, they may tell you that there has been a decline in competition,
but that is subjective. Something a little more quantitative is
necessary. The chart showing the decline in the number of sanctioned
competitions, by itself, does not prove a decline in competition.
First, we should ask the question: has the overall amount of
competition declined disproportionately more than the overall decline of
the sport of HG? Second, this chart only proves that there has been
a decline in the number of sanctioned events not necessarily a decline
in number of pilots participating in competition. In order for that
chart to be meaningful we would need to know the number of participants
in each event.
Lets assume for a moment that when we look at the number
of participants in each event, that there was an overall decline in
participation at sanctioned events. This, in no way, tells us
if there has been a decline in participation in competition; it only
shows that there has been a decline in participation in sanctioned
events. This begs the question: How much competing is going on out
there in local, regional, club and league events? We may find that
there is no decline in participation at all.
But lets assume for a moment that there is a decline in
participation in competition. Before we attempt to fix the problem it
would seem to me we would first need to know the cause of the decline.
As it turns out, the factors for the decline may have nothing to do
with the current competition system and changing the system would have
no effect.
So going back to the chart, what possible reasons are
there for a decline in the number of sanctioned comps? Here is
are some possible factors.
Overall decline of membership
Consolidation (fewer meets but greater attendance at
individual events)
Proliferation of unsanctioned events
Lack of need for sanctioning
Sanctioning is to burdensome
Loss of competition sites
Increased liability concerns
Organizer burn out with no system to mentor replacements
Competing vehicles for competition (on-line contest)
Change of pilot demographic
Average age of pilots is going up (changing
priorities)
Pilots coming into the sport are less competitive by
nature
Pilots coming into the sport and
current membership are becoming more risk adverse
Clearly this is a partial list but it is essential that we
(1) determine if we, in fact, have a decline in competition
participation and (2) objectively quantify the causes before we
make wholesale changes to a system that may not be broken at all.
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