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Friday, February 09, 2007 - Your Mailbox
The January-February White Tops is in the mail and several have reported getting it. It is 80 page, 40 color and more typical of the White Tops of days future.
Some
notes:
1 - The regular deadline for White
Tops will now be the first Monday of January, March, May, July, September, and
November. But there will be adjustments for special things, like conventions.
Late breaking news (including Tanbark) will be the following
Thursday.
2 - First adjustment in deadlines:
The normal White Tops deadline will remain May 7 for articles, etc. But the
convention this year falls May 21-25. Waiting until the issue of July/August
seems a long time to see reports on the convention. It is wiser to delay the
magazine a couple of weeks and make a timely summary of convention items in the
May/June issue.
3 - So we are asking all of you who
have reports for the convention to please get copies to us by May 7 so we can
prepare them for White Tops printing before we go to the convention. At the
convention we will get the photos and news reports. We are asking Cheryl to get
her official minutes out as quickly as possible for inclusion. Then when we
return home we will add the convention coverage and go to
press.
4 - We have started the circus
preview with the current issue. If a circus visits your area this month, plan to
see the show, get a lot of pictures and then write a story of what you saw. We
want to get coverage of the many shows not yet covered so readers can get an
idea of what is coming their way. We want members to see in White Tops what they
can see at a show, not what they missed. The emphasis will be on PREview, not
REview.
ASIDE: We want to especially thank
Pete Adams and Maxine House for their yeoman's efforts to get so many preview
stories for the current issue. They rose to the challenge and we appreciate the
quality and quantity.
5 - We would like more reporting and
photographs of tent and top events and meetings. A photograph and a caption are
a good way to start. Let the whole CFA membership know what you are
doing.
ASIDE: We really enjoy the many
newsletters we are getting. But the photographs in them are not good enough
quality to reprint in White Tops. An inkjet or laser printed picture just won't
do it. So if you have a good photo, please send the picture to us via email, the
submission website or as a real photograph we can
scan.
ASIDE: If you have a digital
picture, please don't send us an inkjet or store purchased print. Send us the
real digital file. Digital prints contain dots (like magazine or newspaper
photos) that cause an ugly pattern in the photo when scanned. The original file
will result in a MUCH better picture in our magazine.
ASIDE: Don't assume a dark or
technically bad picture is all bad. Many can be cleaned-up in Photoshop and used
quite successfully. Send in the bad ones, too, Many can be
saved.
6 - If you submit an obituary,
please also send a picture or a place we can get a picture... especially of a
CFA member. We try to get something on everyone but obits that come in just
before deadline pose a problem. Help us out here.
7 - We are always looking for
interesting content for White Tops. You will note a really wonderful poem on
page 71 of the January/February issue. Really tugs at the heartstrings. We would
like some more articles/stories/poems like this to
run.
ASIDE: A special thanks to Sara
Gordon who stopped by when she was in Columbus with "Annie". She gave us a CD
with many wonderful pictures you will be seeing shortly. Some are in the current
White Tops, too.
8 - If there is a youth circus in
your area, please plan to attend. We would like more photographs and stories
from some of the lesser well know units out there. We want especially
photographs for both White Tops plus the CFA and Circus4Youth
websites.
ASIDE: Be sure to read Pete Adams'
story on the PAL Sailor Circus on pages 74-75. We want more articles and stories
of this quality.
John & Mardi Wells,
Co-Editors
The
White
Tops
Circus
Fans Association of
America
submissions:
whitetops.org
614-261-0454 (office,
M-F)
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