From: "Evan Custer" <evancuster@home.com> Date: Fri, 20 Aug 1999 14:39:31 -0700 Subject: US Champs Event Center and Model Event Message-ID: <002401beeb54$7c90d7c0$94190118@wntck1.sfba.home.com>
There have been a number of questions regarding packet pickup and the model event for the US Champs at Lake Tahoe-Nevada State Park at Spooner Lake on Friday afternoon, Sept. 24. Since this information was not included in our flyer, I am posting it here. Also, please remember, the deadline for entry without late fee is September 1. You may get more complete information and download an entry form from our web site, http://www.baoc.org/sched/s990925.html Event Center Registration packets which will contain the model map, bib number, safety pins, punch card, control description sheets, event director's notes, course setter's notes, old map, dinner tickets, area information, T-shirts and other information about the event will be available at the Event Center at the following times and places. The Event Center will be open on Friday, September 24th from 12:00 noon to 4:00 p.m. at the Model Event site. The Event Center will re-open on Friday from 7:00 p.m. to 10:00 p.m. at the headquarters hotel, The Forest Inn, in South Lake Tahoe. On Saturday and Sunday, the Event Center will be at the group pavilion at Spooner Lake. It will be open from 8:30 a.m. to 3:00 p.m. Saturday and 8:00 a.m. to 2:00 p.m. on Sunday. Model Event The Model Event will take place on the southeast corner of the map just north of US Route 50. The Event Center for the Model Event will be at the Forest Service Spooner Picnic and Rest Area on the south side of US Route 50 at Spooner Summit, which is about 1 kilometer east of the US 50-Nevada Route 28 intersection. It is just east of the Tahoe Rim Trail trailhead. If you are coming from Reno and Carson City, it is just past the end of the concrete wall median near the summit and will be on the left hand side of the road. If you are coming from South Lake Tahoe, be sure and turn into the Spooner Picnic area, just past the brake check area, or if you miss it, make a left or U turn before the start of the cement wall median. Otherwise, you have to go 4 miles and 1200 feet down the mountain before you can cross over to the westbound lanes and climb back up the mountain to return to the Spooner Picnic Area. Parking, picnic tables, and toilets will be available at the Event Center. If the parking area is full, directions for overflow parking will be given. The model event map will be included in the packet. The start for the event will be on the north side of U.S. 50 at Spooner Summit at the Tahoe Rim Trail trailhead. Be very careful when you cross the four lane highway. The best place to cross is at the summit, as there is good visibility in both directions and vehicles will be coming uphill in both directions. The model event will have a model start area, a course with the stands and control markers that will be used in the competition, and a finish area. However, there will be no officials at the start and finish, and participants may start on their own any time between noon and 4:00 p.m. No times will be taken. The area of the park that is not included on model map is out of bounds and competitors who enter this area may be disqualified from competing. Evan Custer evancuster@home.com Voice: 1-925-254-5628 Fax: 1-925-254-5961 18 Bobolink Road, Orinda, CA 94563-1706 Bay Area Orienteering Club http://www.baoc.org baoc@baoc.org or baoc@lists.stanford.edu Information hot line: 408-255-8018
From: "Dicky" <corbettr@dircon.co.uk> Date: Fri, 20 Aug 1999 18:12:41 +0100 Subject: Re: Re WOC 99 and media interest within the UK Message-Id: <37bd8d1c_1@newsread3.dircon.co.uk>
Andy Jensen <andy@jensens.freeserve.co.uk> wrote in message news:7pfegq$b6m$1@news7.svr.pol.co.uk... > When I look around now, the same people > are running as were doing so when I first joined in 83. It is a sign of the > times that I was not alone at a recent champs in choosing to compete as M21 > instead of M35 - as there was less competition in the "Elite" class..... I > was joined by some M40 and M45 runners and we enjoyed the open competition, > but where is the youth? What you should be asking is - what was BOF doing, or better still not doing, 20 years ago that has brought about a situation where the previous generation are not being superseded by the present. It is quite usual for those at the helm of any institution to claim excessive credit when things are going well but to throw up their hands and blame the fates when misfortune strikes. In truth, and since about 1979 untill 1996, we had an excessivly socially astrigent government controlling the purse strings in this country. Among their many acomplishments was a strange reluctance to do anything with taxpayers money except give it back to them in a rather discriminitory manner. In addition they created a climate of social tension such as to suggest to most parents that little Johhny or Joan had better get their head down on the academic front or run the risk of failing to secure a reasonable lifestyle in the new great society. If you add to that the tendency to discourage sporting activities in schools, you have a most effective scenario for ensuring a serious reduction in sporting and recreational intrest among the teenage fraternity. As Orienteering must surely be getting it's majority intake from the same source as our universities it is to be expected that a fall-off of intrest would have occured among the middle classes. It is also worth pointing out that there was somewhere in the region of between 3 and 5 million unemployed during most of the 80's and early 90's (depending on whether you include the over 50's or not) and that must have had some impact on levels of participation in all forms of recreation. The solution to orienteerings problems must lie in the hands of the pre secondary school population where young minds can be more easily influenced by both parents and schools towards a better balanced view of lifes oportunities and especially towards those which could directly influence the noble ideals of individual self fulfillment. I reckon that BOF should put all it's eggs into one basket and promote Orienteering as a familly sport and forget all about small scale elitest recognition, Olympic self delusion and all that jazz and focus down on the rather unspectacular subject of membership growth and representational oportunities for all. Richard Corbett esq
From: "Rand J" <RandJ@dsotm20.freeserve.co.uk> Date: Fri, 20 Aug 1999 17:18:43 +0100 Subject: Re: declination: beginner's question Message-Id: <7pjuu1$4cp$1@news4.svr.pol.co.uk>
<yinonw@hotmail.com> wrote in message news:7o58b5$ct5$1@nnrp1.deja.com... > OK, this may sound stupid to some of you, but please bear with me... > > I always mix up and forget when to add and when to subtract the magnetic > north to the grid lines for an azimuth, and when to subtract. I also > forget when to do that depending on whether or not the magnetic north is > to the left or the right of the grid lines. Please don't forget to > mention if this is for converting magnetic to grid azimuth, or vice > versa! I'm trying to get a solid answer so I can tattoo it on my arm, or > more likely engrave it on my compass. > > Can somebody please help? Thanks! > > > Sent via Deja.com http://www.deja.com/ > Share what you know. Learn what you don't. Try this little rhyme: Grid to mag - add Mag to grid - get rid This works in the UK where magnetic north is west of grid north
From: "Dicky" <corbettr@dircon.co.uk> Date: Fri, 20 Aug 1999 17:00:45 +0100 Subject: Re: Sunday Times Sportswomen of the Year Message-Id: <37bd7c40_2@newsread3.dircon.co.uk>
Andrew Kelly <andrewk@dial.pipex.com> wrote in message news:000301bee809$bad937a0$6187bc3e@default... > Nomination forms for this award are available in the Sunday Times, > nominations by 22nd October. Having studied the latest edition of Sport England, which includes an entry form for the Sunday Times awards, I have a mind to continue this thread. Looking at this award from a morally neutral position I believe one would be forced to conclude that it is discriminatory. While all around us the last bastions of male exclusiveness are being removed, giving women the chance for nomination into the various sporting and other halls of fame, there is a sub-plot agenda which seems hell bent on creating the same level of exclusivity but this time for women only. The first effects of this highly immoral philosophy became apparent when the Labour Party allowed onto it's agenda the proposition that women only short lists were somehow not discriminating against the interests of would-be male MP's. The next step along this road to sexual tyranny can be observed within the fitness industry where it is becoming increasingly common for sports clubs and health centres to provide women only gymnasia while not offering the same single sex facilities to men. All Single sex awards are absolutely following this same highly biased routine. If any women who are nominated, and have any sense of the meaning of the term "equality", they would quite correctly ask that their name be removed from the nominations until such time as the Sunday Times levelled up the playing field and practiced genuine equality of opportunity. Of course being a "quality?" newspaper the Sunday Times could not possibly be attempting to increase it's volume of female readership by pulling out from the pack, and playing, the great "women's rights" joker by any chance, oh no! not the Times, not the great "Top People's" newspaper.....really now what is the world coming to. If that great Australian newspaper really wishes to contribute to a better and more fair society then let it study the concept of equality for all, and in equal measure at that and leave the "flavour of the month" social issues to other less worthy members of the city of Hacksville, you know like, The Mirror or The Sunday Sport. Richard Corbett - A good newspaper man is hard to find, you always get the other kind.