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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>We can only hope you do get the 12 back. It wold be
a step in the right direction.</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial">----- Original Message ----- </DIV>
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style="BACKGROUND: #e4e4e4; FONT: 10pt arial; font-color: black"><B>From:</B>
<A title=pattern4u@comcast.net href="mailto:pattern4u@comcast.net">Grow
Pattern</A> </DIV>
<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>To:</B> <A title=discussion@nsrca.org
href="mailto:discussion@nsrca.org">discussion@nsrca.org</A> </DIV>
<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Sent:</B> Wednesday, February 09, 2005
12:19</DIV>
<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Subject:</B> Re: Rules don't grow
sports!</DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial>Ref. "some of the major publications - like Model
Aviation - pattern used to get more coverage - but it has dropped (probably
proportionate to the reduction in our numbers)". </FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial></FONT> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial> In actual fact what happened was that
about two years ago they took the demographics from the little "what are
you interested in" boxes that we fill in on the AMA membership application
forms and determined the popularity of all of the columns that way. Then they
reduced all of the columns to a maximum of 6 per year including a Nationals.
Some categories get less than six, BTW.</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial></FONT> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial> Since then Rob Kurek, the guy in
charge of Model Aviation, called me and also sent me a very exciting survey
results document. Model Aviation ran a professional reader survey and
guess what? the <FONT color=#0000ff><STRONG>Pattern column was number two
to Scale.</STRONG> </FONT><FONT color=#000000>Scale </FONT>was number
one. Even more encouraging was that in some categories the pattern
column took the lead.</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial></FONT> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial>I don't know if I will ever get my 12 columns a year
back, but it made me feel it was all worthwhile.</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial></FONT> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial> The modeling community still looks to
pattern as a technology leader and really enjoys what we <U>all</U> achieve.
Please forgive me for tooting my own horn but good news is hard to find
these days and this was<EM> good</EM>!</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial></FONT> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial>Regards,</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial><BR>Eric.</FONT></DIV>
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