Women's Worlds

The finer points of the rules is always an interesting question.
After looking in the sporting code and local procedures, still seems like a good call. It will be interesting how the fires affect the rest of the tasking.

In the FAI rules, there are words which permit using local procedures to augment the FAI rules. These are approved by FAI prior to the contest.

The local procedures for this contest appear to have anticipated this situation and given the CD the tools to deal with it.

On Saturday, January 4, 2020 at 7:55:40 AM UTC-5, Karl Striedieck wrote:
SHE SCOOOORRRRREES! Sarah Arnold clobbered the field on the first day at the Women's Worlds in Australia.

Sarah continues to lead. The TC reports by John Good are excellent reading, really painting a good picture of what's happening. The lack of supportive comments is, however, disappointing. I know from WGC and PAGC crewing that the team is always buoyed by hearing from others. If you have a chance, why not contribute? https://ussoaringteams.org/news/ . Reading a few of them to the team before briefing is a morale boost at 106F!

Go North America!

Some supporting info:
Pretty exhausting.
Each team pilot has flown 45 hours or more so far.
So far, every day has been over 100F, 40C.
The dust has been crazy.
Launches take longer than normal due to dust devils ripping across the runway.
I think there are facebook and instagram pages, and links have been posted.
Or look at SSA website for links.
Ritz' blog is good too.
Film at 11,
Jim

As I have never entered a contest. I find it interesting and educational just to watch the near real time tracking.

Lots of strategy can be seen just watching the gliders and what is happening after the gate opens.

Anyway, seems like something that might be entertaining to watch with knowledgable commentators on ESPN

On Thursday, January 9, 2020 at 1:03:33 PM UTC-8, JS wrote:
Some supporting info:
Pretty exhausting.
Each team pilot has flown 45 hours or more so far.
So far, every day has been over 100F, 40C.
The dust has been crazy.
Launches take longer than normal due to dust devils ripping across the runway.
I think there are facebook and instagram pages, and links have been posted.
Or look at SSA website for links.
Ritz' blog is good too.
Film at 11,
Jim

I've been watching live to one degree or another and checking the scores as soon as they are posted. Been loving every minute of it! Tell the ladies we are paying attention over here stateside.

Just backfrom a necessary run into Tamworth.
For these tracks go to
https://soarscore.com/
and choose your task.

Here's today's OGN tracking with task overlay.

Club
https://glideandseek.com/?taskOneUrl...45,150.17485,9

Standard (same task, different start point to lurk around)
https://glideandseek.com/?taskOneUrl...28,150.22083,8

18m
https://glideandseek.com/?taskOneUrl...28,150.22083,8

We have a landout in 18m.
Tomorrow we get a rest day. I'll take the Holden Commodore we borrowed from Tony Esler (was mine when I had the Nimbus 3 here) for annual inspection. How's that for excitement?
Jim

18m seems to have gotten a bit chatoic there. a few real landouts a few motor homes. a few 145 degree "deviations" that seem to be back on task now.

On Saturday, January 4, 2020 at 7:55:40 AM UTC-5, Karl Striedieck wrote:
SHE SCOOOORRRRREES! Sarah Arnold clobbered the field on the first day at the Women's Worlds in Australia.

Current female percentage of the world's population is 49.6%:

https://countrymeters.info/en/World

On Saturday, January 11, 2020 at 3:50:05 AM UTC-8, wrote:
On Saturday, January 4, 2020 at 7:55:40 AM UTC-5, Karl Striedieck wrote:
SHE SCOOOORRRRREES! Sarah Arnold clobbered the field on the first day at the Women's Worlds in Australia.

Current female percentage of the world's population is 49.6%:

https://countrymeters.info/en/World

That is amazing, considering how stupid men are. One would think there would be a higher loss rate of men.

On Sat, 11 Jan 2020 05:29:01 -0800, Jonathan St. Cloud wrote:

On Saturday, January 11, 2020 at 3:50:05 AM UTC-8,
wrote:
On Saturday, January 4, 2020 at 7:55:40 AM UTC-5, Karl Striedieck
wrote:
SHE SCOOOORRRRREES! Sarah Arnold clobbered the field on the first day
at the Women's Worlds in Australia.

Current female percentage of the world's population is 49.6%:

https://countrymeters.info/en/World

That is amazing, considering how stupid men are. One would think there
would be a higher loss rate of men.

There are a number of cultural groups which put immense value on having a
son and regard daughters as expenses due to dowries etc. In these
cultures using fetus sex determination to prefer sons to daughters seems
to be on the increase. If taken to an extreme, it could effect their
son's changes of marrying. This does already seem to show up in the
figures for different countries where prebirth sex selection is a well-
known practise among those who can afford it, e.g. India. From the looks
of the numbers, this could be a thing in China too.

Country male:female at birth male_female overall
======= ==================== ===================
India 55.5%:44.5% 54.0%:46.0%
China 56.5%:43.5% 53.0%:47.0%
UK,USA 52.5%:47.5% 49.5%:50.5%

Interesting that everywhere the numbers move in favour of women after
birth, and in progressively older age bands until, for the over 65 band
there are more women in most countries.

This data is from the CIA World Fact book:
https://www.cia.gov/library/publicat...ook/index.html


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