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We have a lighted medicine cabinet with three little low-voltage halogen lamps that looks a lot like this one:
The lights are switched by one of those combo switch/GFCI receptacle devices that's on the wall next to the cabinet. She's always complained that with a single receptacle that she plugging and unplugging to use her haircare appliances. So I figure I'll put in a bigger box and add another receptacle. The transformer sits above the lights and the "cord" goes into the wall and enters the box with the receptacle, not through a knock out but through the mounting holes in the side of the box. At this point I'm suspecting that this thing was never meant to be hardwired and the original installer just cut the plug off the cord and ran into the box. Although a length of lamp cord running down the wall to the receptacle seems a bit odd, not to mention ugly. The only "proper" fix that comes to mind is to put a switched receptacle directly above the cabinet. That wouldn't look so great either. Any suggestions? |
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Does the transformet appear to be designed be able to have a different power cable, like NM, installed? You also might try using a 'clock receptacle' above the cabinet. It has a single outlet which is recessed a half inch or so from the wall surface. If the box is mounted horizontally close to the top of the cabinet, it should minimize its visibility. |
- Posted by mike_kaiser (My Page) on Sun, Jun 10, 12 at 9:45
No, the transformer has [lamp] cord coming out of it. Who designs this stuff? |
"the "cord" goes into the wall and enters the box with the receptacle, not through a knock out but through the mounting holes in the side of the box. "the transformer has [lamp] cord coming out of it." Is their a plug on the end? |
- Posted by mike_kaiser (My Page) on Sun, Jun 10, 12 at 11:16
Yes, I know zip cord isn't approved for concealed locations. No plug on the end. I suspect the original installer just cut off the plug and connected the cord directly to the switch. I'd really prefer not to put a receptacle above the cabinet and was hoping for other ideas. Although I'm not sure one exists. It's beyond me why they would design something like this (beyond the obvious, "make it as cheaply as possible). |
If he mounted the cabinet in such a way that you don't need any tools to take it out (such as with a screw through a keyhole slot), would he be allowed to put the clock receptacle behind the cabinet, providing that the wire is passed through a hole big enough and protected with a rubber grommet? If allowed, he would just have to buy a plug that's 90 degrees offset, so it would not protrude from the wall and touch the back of the cabinet. |
Here is a link that might be useful: 90 degree plug
Put a receptacle in the cabinets or a clock type receptacle behind the light. |
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GEMINI goes with Libra, Aquarius, Leo and Gemini. (best match is Libra) Best Match For Gemini Is Libra Worst Match For Gemini is Virgo Geminis's are social extroverts, they are talented and very charming people. They have inquiring minds with the ability to be very clever. They are very caring and tend to be generous in temperament. They have a very strong appeal for mental compatibility and both male and female Gemini's shine bright in the social arena. Having a seemingly flirtatious nature, they also possess a very strong and enduring bond with their partners. They simply enjoy the game of life. Socializing and being charming are very pleasing to them and they enjoy their role of being the innocent flirt. Gemini's and HeartbreakGemini's with their duel personalities and mood changes from moment dislike the feeling of being tied down. They are lively, spur of the moment romantics. Most often faithfullness is not considered one of their best virtues. They have a flighty spirit and their partners may find them unreliable at times as most are flirtatious and incorrigible. However, when the right match is found they are a faithful, caring and understanding partner. Best Match For Gemini is LibraThese tow signs have much in common with a twinge of contrast to make the relationship spark. They make an ideal partnership with both favoring slight changes of interests on occasion. This combination presents Libra as the judge and Gemini the approachable jury in respect to the marriage. With both being intellectual and artistically inclined, they understand one another well, especially when it Worst Match For Gemini Is VirgoThese are not the two signs made in zodiac heaven. Gemini is too calculating and logical, while the Virgo mate is critical and demanding. Virgo will find themselves at constant odds with their Gemini's trait of the never ending desire for change. But do not despair most often there is a mutual desire to want the same things in life, such as friends, family and associates who engage them in their intellectual and artistic pursuits. |
Gemini Personality ProfileAdaptable to most any situation, With Gemini you will discover them to be one of the most flexible people you have ever met. The Gemini are known for their ability to overcome great obstacles and are adept puzzle solvers. This zodiac sign can make the most out of any bad situation. reminder: Don't forget to look at your Gemini Horoscopes Articulate, versatile and inquisitive. Having an intellectual type of personality, magnetic upon first impression. Well liked by most people they encounter, they are natural communicators, lively and entertaining and quite the romantic. Some Negatives: The Gemini person is intelligentWitty and willing to change to suit conditions. Having inquisitive minds they are also versatile but inconsistent at times to the point of being cunning. Gemini is a whiz at reaping information and can accomplish most any feat as long as they do not become bored. They are known for their abilities to make something out of nothing as long as they find the subject interesting. At most times you will find the Gemini to be doing two things at once. Gemini's have active minds and can be quite sensitive at times. They are affectionate very generous and impulsive. Quick to temper but get over incidents quickly, and seldom hold grudges. They are lively and spontaneous, most Gemini's being the life of the party, ensuring themselves and others that they never become dull to mundane. Geminians most of all desire others to show them respect. They are charming and pleasing and well liked by the majority of acquaintances. And are known to be tender and passionate depending on their mood at the time. They also have an aversion to monotony, becoming bored very quickly if having to stay any one place too long. The people that fall under the Gemini astrological sign often tend to be very communicative. They can articulate their words very well. You will find that most Gemini's will lean toward careers in some sort of media or communication profession. The brains in the family usually, these folks seem to have a lot of smarts! If someone in the crowd might know the answer to that crossword puzzle question, or jeopardy question, this is the person to ask! Gemini Health ConcernsGemini's being restless by nature tend to live on their nerves, allowing the energy consumption for two. Having inquisitive minds, they stay distracted and often forget basic bodily needs, such as eating and sleeping. Gemini is ruler of the nervous system, causing mental and nervous exhaustion to be trouble spots. Gemini's seem to be especially prone to problems with the respiratory organs. They suffer more than most with colds and flu. In part from their reluctance to get rest when needed. Colds can be an on going problem as congestion in the respiratory region reflects on the Geminian's trait to block the mind with to many thoughts at once. The fingers, hands, arms and shoulders of the Gemini are also trouble spots. Knowing this; treatment with massage will be of great benefit. Techniques to relax, by silence and controlling the mind to take it easy fends off constant mental turmoil. Having duel personalities they are sociable and bubbly which tends to lead to naturally erratic energy levels. Regular fitness, meals and rest are vital in reducing their mood swings. Gemini's Can Be VersatileThey can go with the flow and most are multi talented. They are adaptable and many sided. Gemini's Are Great CommunicatorsMany find great success in communications, having bright and outgoing personalities they excel in expressing themselves. With their "Type A" personality they are eager and energetic and have a "can do" attitude. Being the sign of the twins they think they are always right and can form strong opinions quickly. In the next moment they can change their minds so rapidly, that they often contradict themselves. The Gemini Sun Sign - Zodiac sign informationGemini represents the third sign of the zodiac. According to Greek Mythology the twins Castor and Pollux, were born of the marriage between Leda and Zeus. It is said that Pollux grieved mercilessly for his dead brother Castor, who was killed during a fight. Pollux grieved with such intensity that Zeus restored his brother Castor back to life. As their payment to Zeus, they were to live alternate days in Olympus and Hades. Here are some interesting Gemini facts:
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Search engine optimization and overall online marketing creates exposure for your brand. As online opportunities increase, savvy brands make appropriate decisions and implementations. For instance, if this was five to ten years ago, I would be unwaveringly blogging, beseeching EVERY business owner to develop a Web site. That sentiment is old news; (I hope your brand has a main site!) today, I am passionately asking business owners to consider orchestrating mobile Web sites.
It's hard to track down real-time facts related to mobile phone usage but Facebook's official statistics reflect more than 350 million active users leverage smart phone to access the social media platform. The consumption of mobile devices rose in 2010, up 18% from the prior year. I want those small business owners , who believe they can get away with just a main site, hoping the majority of consumers leverage home or work computers, to take a look at this statistic; usage is high at home (93%) and at work (72%). Remember my opening sentiment; make appropriate decisions regarding opportunities. You can't deny the benefit of hosting a mobile site.
Don't forget browsers, whether leveraging a laptop, desktop, or mobile device have options. Ensure your mobile design emphasizes usability amongst other things I'm about to mention:
Streamlined Design
Branding focuses on developing associations with a company's desired market. Though repeated exposure, a brand begins to take root in a consumer's long –term memory; a company's emblem, taglines, executives, products, etc. become immediately recognizable. I suggest your Web design emulate the look of your main site regarding colors, fonts, and general layout.
From a usability perspective, I think this is the most important aspect. A mobile browser will disengage if it's highly difficult to navigate your mobile site. Think simple. What are the most important pages on your main site? These get first priority regarding mobile implementation. In addition, what are your site's most visited pages? For instance, one could be a resource page. Browsers, familiar with your main site, grown accustomed to resources, may expect your mobile site to host the same resources – something to think about.
Use clear, concise, and clearly labeled links throughout the mobile site. Consider making the fonts of links large; this is useful to those who are using fingertips.
I think placing additional navigation links at the bottom of the page rather than the top is less obtrusive to browsers. Remember, consumers want information fast and readily available.
Optimize for Multiple Devices
This is the portion of the mobile design phase that designers love the most – ensuring your site is optimized for the multitude of mobile devices available on the market. For instance, your site may look dynamite from a Blackberry but lacks usability from an iPhone perspective. You don't want to alienate any users; it's necessary to be diligent in checking your site from multiple devices.
I read a good tweet today by a respected industry source regarding the changing landscape of optimization, relaying the sentiment that optimization involves search, share, and user experience. I agree; "optimization" is a dynamic process these days, causing a brand to attend to many online aspects. Brands, hoping to make the most of Web opportunities, arrange Web sites, social accounts, and other brand-related platforms to facilitate the intrigue of target markets. With the insurgence and popularity of smart phones, mobile phone optimization is just another piece of the whole, optimization pie.
Yesterday, I read an article related to mobile phone commerce. Most of us have heard of the phenomenon of "drunk dialing" but "drunk browsing" may be a neologistic term for some. This gives "impulse buying" a whole new meaning. Have you ever been in line, waiting to pay for items, looking around attempting to maintain patience, when suddenly something catches your eye? You grab it, using the idle time to impulsively convince yourself you need the item… Marketers and respective brand owners bank on such impulsive actions.
What if you were waiting for a friend to meet you at the bar, and you started surfing the Web to pass time? In my previous example, vendors were limited to in-store space and time, but in today's world of mobile-phone shopping, vendors can tempt you with a World Wide Web of tantalizers. Seemingly, some inebriated consumers, just can't say, "No!"
The ingredients of alcohol and shopping have produced tasty results in the past for vendors who hope serving libations will inspire consumers to let their hair down and open their wallets. As the New York Times article references, high-end, specialty retailers have paired wine-and-cheese parties with gallery-shopping excursions for years. Now, the pairing of alcohol and shopping can take effect anywhere, even in a consumer's own home. One professional made a confession, finding a night turned to early morning mobile shopping excursion bought him a $10,000 motorcycle tour of New Zealand!
I'm not advising your brand to offer a free bottle of Johnnie Walker Blue Label to all customers or condone the act of "drunk browsing," however, I'm reminding business owners that consumers, in all states of mind, are leveraging smart phones to find products they want (or think they want at the time).
Does your brand have a mobile version of its Web site? I hope so. Additionally, is your Web designer making implementations, facilitating optimization? Remember, as referenced in the intro, "user experience" is also a portion of optimization, meaning it's likely you'll have to design the mobile site differently, ensuring users can easily access and browse.
Expect a mobile site article produced by the WebiMax brand soon, either from our main SEO blog or from one of our search engine optimization blog posts from external, industry sources. For now, consider some mobile-site, Web design tips:
- Make links bigger on your site. It's hard to leverage finger tips and mobile-phone scrolling arrows. Any mobile user, who has gotten frustrated by erroneously clicking unintended links, would celebrate the decision.
- Make the mobile site minimalistic. What pages of your Web site are absolutely essential? Just give mobile browsers the facts, providing information on goods and services. Ancillary pages, such as an extensive "about us" or "in the press" sections are better left for your main Web site.
- Try to limit the need for scrolling. For instance, it's cumbersome to scroll down and then to the right to read text. Consider a one-way, scrolling design.
- Make sure you're making it easy for users to "share" your mobile info! Insert "tweet," "like," and other social sharing buttons. Many consumers also use mobile phones for social site usage!


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Does anyone know the exact points where Wifi is at WDW? I know some resorts, but more specifics would be great. :D
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Does anyone know the exact points where Wifi is at WDW? I know some resorts, but more specifics would be great. :D
I know that Wide World of sports has free WIFI access. Other than that I don't know of any.
Here are some of the locations that I know about:
Disney's BoardWalk Resort: Convention Center Hallways/Common Areas, Resort Lobby, Main Swimming Pool Area, Concierge Lounges, Bellevue Lounge
Disney's Contemporary Resort: Front desk sitting area, 14th Floor Concierge - sitting area, Outer Rim Bar (near Concourse Steakhouse), 1st Floor Convention Center Lobby, 2nd Floor Convention Center Lobby, Feature Pool.
Disney's Coronado Springs Resort: Main Hotel Lobby, Convention Center Lobby area, Feature Pool, Francisco's Lounge.
Disney's Grand Floridian Resort & Spa: 1st Floor Lobby area including Tea Room, Convention Center Lobby area, 4th Floor Concierge area - sitting area.
Disney's Yacht & Beach Club Resorts: Main Lobby area (both resorts), Concierge sitting area (both resorts), Convention Center Lobby area, Stormalong Bay Pool.


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France's Pierre et Vacance, operating in vacation resorts, will invest Euro270 million in a tourist project in Morocco with a capacity of 10,000 beds. According to MAP, the investment program includes the building of resorts in the tourist cities of Marrakech and Agadir, and tourist residences and apartments in Tangier, Rabat and Casablanca.
In total, 2,264 units/apartments will be built by 2013, under a memorandum of understanding signed between Europe's largest operator in vacation resorts and the Moroccan government during the 9th ministerial joint meeting held recently in Rabat. The project will allow for creation of 700 direct and stable jobs, the Moroccan Tourism Ministry said.


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When the Require Work Resources For Conducting Work Activities and Enable Separation of Work Content IT policy rules are both set to Yes, and a BlackBerry® device user tries to open Windows Live™ Messenger, the user receives an error message. (DT 1013388)
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Back in the mid '70s the French set up a small government agency within their equivalent of NASA, specifically tasked with investigating these incidents. It still exists today. When something happens, there are people they can call in to assist from various specialties, depending on what's needed. So say that there's a case where something lands—they might need a soils expert to look at samples, they might need a plant pathologist to look at decay or burning of plants. They might need a psychologist to interview a witness to determine if this witness is hallucinating or if he is of sound mind.
They have a steering committee that meets three or four times a year to go over the data and analyze cases. In the process of that they have accumulated a lot of very interesting data; a lot of the most interesting stuff has to do with physical evidence.
France is unique in its scientific emphasis and the scientific approach. They're devoted to doing this purely for research's sake. In other countries—Peru, Chile, and Uruguay—these agencies are set up in the military or air force and work from an aviation safety or military point of view. The UK Ministry of Defense had a big one, but they closed it down in 2008 because they were so overwhelmed with Freedom of Information requests.
What have the French concluded?
In terms of conclusions, these people who have been doing this for a long time always seem to say that you have to look at various hypotheses. The incidents that have been well enough studied—for which there is enough data that you can eliminate the natural possibilities like satellites, or the planet Venus, or other phenomena—then they will say the same thing that other officials say which is that they think the extraterrestrial hypothesis is certainly a valid and rational one that needs to be looked at. And you have people at the highest level in France saying that, not just in the scientific community, but in the military community. That's why as a journalist I got interested in this: because I thought it's kind of a big deal for these guys to say this stuff.
Could you describe a favorite sighting?
That's a tough question, because there are a bunch of really interesting ones. The case that opens up the book is a series of sightings over Belgium in 1989, '90, and into '91. It was an extraordinary series of events, because it kept repeating itself. Air Force Major General Wilfried De Brouwer was the man put in charge of investigating and has written a chapter in the book that brings forth a lot of information about the sightings. Over a period of a year and a half, two years, this triangular craft kept showing up again and again. They've got volumes and volumes of reports and drawings and audiocassette tapes of people who called in their sightings. What's really interesting about it is that the government became very actively involved. They sent up F-16s to try to get close to the objects, they set up special radar gear, and systems by which they would activate the F-16s if certain things happened. It was very impressive that the government took it so seriously.
These things kept showing up unannounced in protected airspace, and seemed to operate with impunity. They were considered sort of invaders. They wouldn't respond to any communication, they behaved in ways that were not like any other aircraft that anyone had ever seen, very large and silent, and very, very, brilliant lights. And they could take off with the blink of an eye, just zoom off from a hovering position—just all kinds of capabilities. They were documented, and numerous police officers and some military people as well were there and involved—seeing them, documenting them, drawing them, and talking about them.
There's no question that this happened. And De Brouwer, a colonel at the time, did go to the highest levels of other NATO countries to find out if this was some sort of test flight by Russia or the United States, and he was absolutely told that that it absolutely wasn't. And in fact, documents show that United States officials wanted to find out more about it from him. That's a mystery that's never been solved.
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- Chapter 1
- Chapter 2
- Chapter 3
- Chapter 4
- Chapter 5
- Chapter 6
- Chapter 7
- Chapter 8
- Chapter 9
- Chapter 10
- Chapter 11
- Chapter 12
- Chapter 13
- Chapter 14
- Chapter 15
- Chapter 16
- Chapter 17
- Chapter 18
- Chapter 19
- Chapter 20
- Chapter 21
- Chapter 22
- Chapter 23
- Chapter 24
- Chapter 25
- Chapter 26
- Chapter 27
- Chapter 28
- Chapter 29
- Chapter 30
- Chapter 31
- Acknowledgements
1983: August Tournaments. 1983: U.S. Wheelchair Team in Europe. 1983: European Junior Championships. 1983: Swedes 1-2-3 Take Top Places in $47,560 World Cup; Eric Boggan ($2,400) Finishes 7th. Swedish Coach Glenn Ost Interviewed. 1983: Swedish League Play Begins.
The Aug. Seattle Seafair Open, run successfully by Dr. Michael Scott, Tyra Parkins, and their crew of helpers, warranted two articles (both in Timmy's, Sept.-Oct., 1983, 26)—one by Jay Crystal that stresses late-round Open play; the other, "How the Guru Taught Me Equanimity," by Bob Ho that stresses Bob Ho's play.
Here's Crystal:
"…I hadn't been to an official tournament since February…and couldn't imagine being able to beat anyone in the place. Decadence… golf, wine, women, and song…along with a bad back had all cut into my training time this summer. I had just entered my second quarter-century, so wasn't it time to hang up the old t.t. bat and turn again and again to the peaceful bliss of the golfing links, move slowly out to pasture as it were?"
"The mighty Quang Bui, rated fourth in the U.S. at the outset of this tournament, was the number one seed. He had at least 300 rating points on everyone, plus he trained, he was ready. He went through his half of the Open draw with ease.
The television stations came in, filmed Quang and me (I was the number two seed), and told us if we got to the final, played it and got the scores to them by 5:00 p.m. we would be a special feature on the six o'clock news.
In my quarterfinal match they put me on a table with a net six feet high and only one foot of table on the other side. I had to play Guyle Wilson, who had given me trouble in the past. All I could do with that damn table was to float high balls right up the middle. Every strong shot I connected with seemed to hit the net or fly off the end of the table. My hands were shaking and I was down 19-16. But it was my serve. I scrounged around in the depths of my brain for the trickiest, slimiest serves I could muster. Guyle missed the first two, but, God! got the third one back and I had to step around and, Oh, No, hit a forehand. The ball skidded off my racket into, up, and over the net to tie the game. Two more serves and I had a winner. Funny, after that first game, the table went back to its normal proportions. I looked over at Quang on the sidelines and he was laughing and shaking his head. But I did win the match two straight. Then I went on to beat an equally out-of-practice Hong Pham.
In the final, my strategy against Quang, if there was one, was to try to pin him in his backhand corner and keep him off balance by mixing the speed and spin of my loop. I jumped out to an early lead but saw it dwindle, 11-4, 12-8, 16-14, 18-17. At one point in that stretch, I did make a three-step Doyle-like dive to my backhand corner; the ball floated up, ticked the net, and hopped by Quang for a winner. I was sprawled on the floor about eight feet from the table wondering what all the hooting and hollering was about.
One key aspect of my strategy, if I were to have any chance, was that I had to win the close games. At 19-all I got a high ball to my backhand corner that I stepped around and... looped off. A Bui-bullet later I was down 1-0. Second game I lost at 17. Third at 11. That was it.
My revenge, of course, was to team up with Hong in the Doubles and take out Quang and Bob Mandel in the final, two-zip.
Quang won $100 and a digital pen. And since I won $50 and a watch, plus two six packs of Pepsi, I don't think it's time to go out to pasture yet, except maybe to play Danny Seemiller a dollar a stroke. YOU HEAR THAT, SEEMILLER. GET ON OUT HERE AND BRING YOUR STICKS!"
Other Results: Best quarter's: Calveley over Mandel, -19, 18, 19; Pham over Joe Chin, -20, 19, 18. Women's: Cindy Choi over Tyra Parkins who'd advanced by Erika Zieduliak, -15, 19, 14. U-2150's: Calveley over Chin. Senior's: Mandel over Gerald Hamer. Esquire's: Bob Ho over Festus Mead.
Equanimity—no bones about it, that's what Dr. Bob Ho says he learned from his three matches at the August Seafair Open with Indiana's Festus Mead. Since Bob's "Committee" of would-be coaches bickering inside his consciousness is giving him conflicting advice as he's losing, he needs not to be continually upset as he is, but to better focus on his opponent-cum-Guru to calm himself to winning success. The suggestion is that his opponent opposite is a mirror of himself, an idealized self that if he looks at and reflects long enough, he learns gradually how better to handle himself—his psyche and his t.t. game.
The initial problem that sets his demons, er, coaches, talking occurs in his first encounter with Festus (in the U-1850's): "Festus was using red Anti-Power on his forehand and black Friendship 729 on his backhand. I used the same combination of rubber, black on both sides, but used the Friendship on the forehand and Anti on the backhand. I 'switch' on the serve once in a while but not usually during the rally. Both Festus and I are choppers but I fancied myself the better attacker. I loop but he doesn't, or didn't against me. However, it is well known to my inner self that 'crazy rubber' (Anti or long pimples) troubles me."
It's soon apparent from his Guru and the control he has, that Bob is NOT overcoming his problems with Festus's rubber and is continually disturbed at that. A learning process is called for. "I soon found my game democratically run by Committee. This inner Committee agreed that I should chop most of the time, but there was a very vocal member who continually urged me to smash those high chops—he was kind enough to stress the necessity of using a rather 'flat' stroke against an 'Anti' return. However, he was not so helpful reading the spin on the ball—perhaps he had a little problem with the lighting as I did."
"Whenever I made one of my three-foot smashing mistakes, another vociferous member of the Committee would berate me for my stupidity and ineptness. He would urge me to 'just push.' Every now and then I would hit a beautiful winner and the 'hawk' on the Committee would slap me on the back and say, 'Go for it! You'll never learn to deal with Anti if you don't.' When I erred (more often than not), the 'dove' on the Committee would say, 'How do you expect to win when you insist on hitting the game away?'
After Bob lost that first game at 19, and then the second for the match, he'd become very upset at the bickering among his Committee members: "I finally yelled, 'Who's in charge here anyway!' Nobody answered…. No one had the guts to take charge."
In Bob's second match with Festus (this time in the Open), he'd won the first game, and "wasn't paying much attention to the Committee, but then he started missing a few hits, so…I thought it wouldn't do any harm to seek consultation. Once again I was favored with the theories of the 'hawk' and the 'dove.'" Bob lost that game. And now into the third the conflicting, unsettling bickering continued. "I could feel a tightening in my throat paralleling the growing tension in my stroking arm. I felt like the Apostle Paul: 'That which I would, I do not, and that which I would not, I do.' If you've ever impulsively made a bad move, regretted it, and said, 'Why did I do that?' you know what I mean."
Finally, after he loses that second match Bob is really down. He questions himself, says after all he's played, shouldn't he realistically be 75% as good a chopper as his idol, Japan's Takashima? Then he hears an unexpected new Committee voice that says in effect, Get real. C'mon. "You look more like Bob Ho than Takashima, and your performance today is about in keeping with your present capabilities." Oh! Bob reflects—then laughs, loses his tenseness. And before his third match with Festus (in the Esquire's) he has a conference with his Committee. Everyone is in agreement: Bob will play his usual game with his usual tactics. End of discussion.
As the match goes into the decisive third game, Bob says, "I could hear some whispering from the Committee, but no one actually spoke up." And then…"There were some tight spots in this game where I was tempted to run to the Committee, but I didn't." So, of course, after his Guru has put him through the double disillusionment of a two-match loss, Bob has reached enlightenment. He wins this third match and is pleased that Festus shows such "equanimity" on losing—an equanimity that mirrors his own.
George Lowi, in reporting on the Midsummer Open, held at the Illinois T.T. Center, Aug. 20-21 (Timmy's, Sept.-Oct., 1983, 20), says that "due to 11th hour cancellations in the Open we were forced to cancel the event, and regretfully it was not possible to notify all who had entered. Despite all our efforts to make up for inconveniences, the disruptions spilled over to other events. [Lots of hassles, I presume, with Class eligibility and seedings.] With this tournament the Illinois Center begins to promote more Novice and Beginners events." [A coincidence or prompted by the pull-out in the Open? What specifically caused that mass cancellation?]
George reminds everyone that "each weekend there are leagues and round robins at the Center, and the spacious air-conditioned lounge offers food and drink in comfortable, relaxing surroundings. The Center is also promoting a dynamic new game called 'Rikochet,' a mixture of racquetball and table tennis, which is soon going to be played in professional tournaments. Presently the game is exclusively available at the ITTC. We hope you'll come and give it a try."
Results: U-2300: 1. Jim Lazarus. 2. Houshang Bozorgzadeh. 3. Brandon Olson. 4. Spencer Wang. 5. Hugh Shorey. 6. Gerry Aleknus. U-2100: 1. Bozorgzadeh. 2. Jimmy Butler. U-1900: 1. Aleknus. 2. Jim Spetsios. U-1800: 1. Aleknus. 2. John Malisz. U-1700: 1. Richard Bowling. 2. Gunther Schroeder. U-1600: 1. Vern Morehead. 2. Gary Hamrick. U-1400: 1. Dennis Hwang. 2. Jim Uddin. U-1000: Martha Gates. 2. Sherman Chui. Beginners: 1. M. Gates. 2. Randy Madrigal.
Winners at the Indiana Open, played Aug. 6-7 in Indianapolis: Open: Mike Bush (still in Mishawaka studying axles and brakes) over Dick Hicks who, three weeks later with Homer Brown, would win the two-man Team's at Nashville. Open Doubles: Dick/Ricky Hicks over Joe Shumaker/David Kiely. Women's: Kim Farrow over Cindy Marcum. Mixed Doubles: Hicks/Farrow over Butler/Hong Nguyen. A's: Ricky Hicks over Bob Dragozetic. A Doubles: Luong-Trung Nguyen/Bert Graves over Mike Hamm/Bill Hall. B's: Mark Weber over Bill Hornyak. C's: Hall over John Boyle, Jr. D's: Bill Browning over Leonard Smith. Novice: Mike Temple over John Elwood. Esquire's: Hornyak over Max Salisbury. Senior's: Harry Deschamps over John Dichiaro. U-17: Kirk Henthorn over H. Nguyen. U-13: Jeff Darwish over Elwood.
Both Power Poon and Terry Canup (Timmy's, Sept.-Oct., 1983, 29) had nice things to say about the $1,000 Louisiana Summer Open, played Aug. 13-14 at Baton Rouge. Power and Tom and Melinda Baudry draw praise from Terry, for they and their Baton Rouge TTC members "who helped with the unloading and loading of the tables, as well as by running the control desk, provided for the nearly100 players a smooth-running tournament." Terry stated, "That it's a pleasure not only to play in but to watch a Louisiana Open is proven by the hordes of players who make the more than five-hour drive twice a year from Houston to Baton Rouge. It should also say to the Houston Association, 'Get your act together and hold a tournament!' For it's a sad state of affairs that they've not put on one since Eric Boggan won there 18 months ago."
Power begins his article by talking about the final round robin of the Open Singles—and, yep, three of the four finalists were Houstonians. The winner was Lekan Fenuyi ($200) whose "overwhelming speed and quickness was just too much for anyone to handle." Canup added that, "Although Fenuyi had earlier lost in the quarter's of a tournament in his native Nigeria, he'd been prodded to follow a tough training schedule in preparing Perry Schwartzberg for the Pan Am Games, and appears now to have regained most of the world-class form he once had." Terry felt that runner-up Roberto Byles—in winning two five-game matches with 3rd place finisher and local star Tarek Zohdi and 4th-Place finisher Tunde Jacobs, along with forcing Lekan into a deuce game—"played as well as he has in years." Both Zodhi and Jacobs had five-game quarter's matches—Tarek with Terry Ziegler; Tunde with Don Weems.
Jacobs not only took a game from Fenuyi, but it at first seemed to Power that "Tunde was in for an easy win over Zohdi after taking the first two games. But he appeared to become tired in the third game and lost it. Then, instead of taking his optional five-minute rest, he refused it and lost the remaining two games. For Jacobs, who is also from Nigeria, it was only his second tournament in the U.S.—though he'd been residing in Houston for two years. In fact, he was unaware that tournaments existed in the U.S. until he played in the Yasaka Invitational earlier this summer."
Other Results: Open Doubles: Byles/Weems over Ed Poon/Zohdi who'd upset the #1 seeds, Fenuyi/Ziegler. Women's Singles: Defending Champion Pigool Kulcharnpises (now or later a.k.a. Peggy Rosen) over Gloria Cadavid, 18 in the 3rd. Mixed Doubles: Fenuyi/Kulcharnpises over Byles/Sarka Dura. A's: E. Poon over Mohan Suri who'd advanced by Allen Barth, 19 in the 3rd. Suri, rated 1704, surprised Barth and others, largely because "his chops set up his devastating backhand flip." A Doubles: Ed/Alex Poon over Rick Hopper/Ziegler, 23-21 in the 3rd, then over Jacobs/Eric Owens. B's: Grady Gordon over Abdul Moghrabi. B Doubles: Hopper/ Dura over William Plue/Sushil Prem, 19 in the 3rd.
C's: William Humphrey over Suri, 19 in the 3rd, then over Moghrabi. D's: Bud Caughman over George Shofoluwe. E's: Shofoluwe over Binh Ly. Novice: Frank Waugh over Thu Van Nguyen, 23-21 in the 3rd. Handicap ($110 total for 1st/2nd): James Schiro (son) over Jim Schiro (father). Senior's: Gordon over P. Poon. U-17's: Schiro over Owens. U-13: Owens over Jeffrey Cleveland.
Bard Brenner (Timmy's, Sept.-Oct. 1983, 31) covers the Aug. 27-28 Orlando Summer Open. We learn that visiting Englishman Bob Potton had an easy Championship Singles win over Ron Rigo in the final, and that Brenner had a difficult five-game loss to Pat Patterson in the quarter's. "Potton," Brad tells us, "played in the World Championships both for England and, most recently, in Tokyo for the Netherlands, where for a couple of years now he's been an expatriate player in the professional leagues."
In the absence of the semi-retired Florida Asian stars Judy Tun and Linda Chong—"they're currently busy with their new photography store"—Tournament Director Olga Soltesz easily won the Women's over runner-up "former Jamaican Champion Carla Belnavis and former English player Brenda Tomlinson, both now of Miami."
Other Results: Championship Doubles: Patterson/Kit Jeerapaet over Lenny Chew/Soltesz. A's: David Tomlinson ("who in the Championship Singles came out on the short end of a disputed match point to 4th seed John Elliott") over Brenner who'd advanced by Jeerapaet, 18 in the 3rd. B's: Clinton Steffan over Steve McLaren, def. C's: Brian Miezejewski over McLaren. D's: Dan Kutzer over Larry Beal. E's: Bruce Schilke over Colin Weyrauch, 19 in the 4th. Consolation: George Bluhm over Al Shears. Semi's: Bluhm over Miezejewski, -22, 18, 19; Shears over Ray Look, 15, -15, 21. Senior's: Brenner over Randy Hess.
U.S. Wheelchair Team in Europe
Mike LoRusso tells us (SPIN, Oct., 1983, 20) that after the U.S. had sent a four-player wheelchair team to Stoke-Manville, England, they were joined by eight additional players, and then all went off to the 20-team Aug. 2-4 Vienna International Sports Festival. Mike says, "Our opponents, athletes from Austria, Germany, Sweden, and the Netherlands, as well as elsewhere in the world, were tops. Our experience proved to be exciting, thrilling, and, yes, frustrating, and disappointing, but none of us would have wanted to miss it. Time after time our players, five of them rookies in international table tennis competition, battled our opponents in deuce or third-game situations. In fact, the expression, 'Oh, another boring deuce game' was heard again and again.
Here was our roster: Men: Ken Brooks (Silver and Bronze), Sebastian DeFrancesco (Bronze), Mike Dempsey (Bronze), Chuck Focht, Mike LoRusso (Bronze), Bart McNichol (Gold and Silver), Elliott Schloss, and Randy Snow. Women: Jennifer Brown (Silver), Pam Stewart (Bronze), Wanda Strange (Bronze), and Terese Terranova.
"Head Coach for the Team was Jim Beckford, assisted by Chris Lehman."
Next year our Wheelchair Team competes "in the World Wheelchair Games which will be held at the University of Illinois from June 17-30, and we are all looking forward to being there."
Waldner/Nemes Win European Junior's
Results of the European Junior Championships, played July 22-31 at Malmo, Sweden:
JR. BOYS TEAM: 1. Russia. 2. Sweden. 3. Yugoslavia. 4. Hungary. JR. GIRLS TEAM: 1. Russia. 2. England. 3. Hungary. 4. Rumania. CADET BOYS TEAM: 1. Sweden. 2. Czechoslovakia. 3. West Germany. 4. France. CADET GIRLS TEAM: 1. Hungary. 2. Russia. 3. Rumania. 4. Czechoslovakia. JR. BOYS SINGLES: 1.Waldner over Mazunov, -15, 8, 19, then over Prean. JR.GIRLS SINGLES: Nemes over Diachenko, 14, -18, 17. CADET BOYS SINGLES: 1. Grman over Andersson, -16, 19, 15, then over von Scheele. CADET GIRLS SINGLES: 1. Badescu over Nagy, 16, -18, 18, then over Kasalova. JR. BOYS DOUBLES: 1. Prean/Mason over Kabaconski/Pieroncyak. JR. GIRLS DOUBLES: Bellinger/Parker over Piresak/Bolvari who'd advanced by Nemes/Malmberg, 25, 20. CADET BOYS DOUBLES: Grman/Braun over Andersson/von Scheele. CADET GIRLS DOUBLES: 1. Kasalova/ Lindnerova over Timina/Komrakova.
Swedes Excel/Eric Boggan Finishes 7th in World Cup
Danny Robbins (Timmy's, Sept.-Oct., 1983, 7) reports on the 555 World Cup, held Aug. 29-Sept. 3 in St. Michael's, Barbados:
"The World Cup is the world's richest table tennis tournament—the one that best shows the circuit possibilities of the sport. This year's 16 invited participants—the Champions of six continents plus the best available players from the current ITTF World Ranking list—competed for a record $47,560 in prize money, $15,555 of which went to the winner and $555 to the last-place finisher.
The 555 is a cute touch, for this 4th World Cup (the first was in Hong Kong in 1980) was World Cup 555 in deference to the sponsor, State Express of London, the 555 cigarette manufacturer. International Management Group (IMG) did their usual fine job of promoting the tournament—it will be seen on TV at various places in the world, particularly of course in Europe—and the British West Indies Airlines and the Barbados Hotels Association, as expected, were very helpful. The Barbados TTA provided among other things the official World Cup TSP tournament ball and did a smooth job of running the tournament. World-class dignitaries on hand were H. Roy Evans, Tony Brooks, Jean Mercier, Mike Lawless, and…well, apologies to anyone comparable I've left out. Foot-stamper Eric Boggan, for one, and back-to-the-table server Zoki Kosanovic, for another, thought England's Albert Shipley a "very fair" Tournament Director and MC.
Although the matches were played without any untoward incident—all the attending players were professionals bent on encouraging the longevity of this prestigious money event—some results were quite unexpected. In World Champion Guo Yuehua's absence (he was rumored, at 27, to be retiring), the favorites to win were of course World finalist Cai Zhenhua and World #3 Jiang Jialiang—but neither of them made the quarter's! A thousands-of-dollars very expensive time these Chinese picked to lose. But could they help it? Perhaps they were suffering a bio-rhythm letdown after the World's. Or perhaps they'd been going here, there, and everywhere as ambassadors of goodwill and were just tired. Or perhaps they've always been over-rated—and one can begin to see it now that the young Swedes are getting better.
Anyway, though I don't want to get too far ahead of my story, headlines emanating from the Barbados Community College playing site to the quite hospitable Rockley Resort Hotel and beyond flashed tournament-ending word that Appelgren, Waldner, and Lindh, the mainstays of the Swedish National Team finished an unprecedented 1-2-3. That meant that between them they took home, but not to their Association, over $26,000. Who said there wasn't money to be made in Ping-Pong?
How important the beginning round robin matches were, though. The first three days of play would see first and second-place finishers in each of four groups advance to the quarter's to then play for several thousands of dollars, while the remaining competitors would play $100 matches for positions 9-16.
In Group 'A,' the South Korean chopper Park Lee Hee (World #17) opened the tournament in exciting fashion by losing a nasty one to European Champion Mikael Appelgren, 21, -20, -16; then, 20 matches later, he lost another one even worse to 1975 World Champion Istvan Jonyer, 8, -19, -20—a deuce-game swing of at least $1,000.
Park, who finished 12th here, is one of those players affected by the new rule requiring each side of the racket to be of a different color. Before, he'd been mixing up his anti—deceptively twirling his racket as he pushed and chopped. Now, though, when his opponent sees that flash of anti color, he immediately understands there's no spin to this ball and can react accordingly. So, deprived of this tactical resource, Park thought he'd switch to regular pips-out—which will enable him with some deception to both float and spin the ball.
In Group 'B,' Yugoslav National Champion Kalinic, who with Surbek recently won the World's Men's Doubles Championship from the Chinese, pulled a major upset in the second match of the tournament by beating World #2 Cai Zhenhua in straight games. (Rumor has it that Cai, like Park, is going to switch from anti to pips out on the backhand.)
Later, however, when Kalinic, seeming to wrap his long arms and legs into and around the table on serve, could not squeeze out the third against Erik Lindh, Cai still had a chance to survive in a tie-breaker. But after the Chinese dropped that first game to the young Swede it didn't matter that he won the next two—unbelievably he'd finish third in the Group.
In Group 'C,' Carl Prean, the 15-year-old from England who, with his unexpectedly strong play, had proved a sensation at the World's, continued causing at least mild consternation with his upset win over European Junior champion Jan-Ove Waldner. 'Bah!' said someone. 'Nowadays an eccentric player can make his betters look stupid. Today it's not the best player with the best hands or the best technique who wins, it's the material.'
Whether such a comment is fair to Prean is highly debatable, but he went on to an easy win over South Korea's Kim Ki Taek. Perhaps, though, the 22-year-old Kim was not at his pick-hitting best—for he'd just had a chance to put Waldner out of contention and couldn't quite do it, had lost deuce in the 3rd to him. Which, as it turned out, meant a difference to the Swede of literally thousands of dollars. Sounds like these players are on the golf circuit, eh? One bad shot at the wrong time and the paycheck sure isn't what it could have been.
In 'Group D,' in the fourth consecutively good opening-night match, Surbek surprised China's Jiang in three.
Against Boggan, who was confiding that his still-not-used-to anti was 'too much like normal rubber,' Jiang showed what I think and what Eric thinks is the best forehand stroke in the world. But though Eric lost 2-1, he won a big second game that kept his hopes alive. If he could beat Surbek he could force a three-way tie.
The last time Eric played the indefatigable Yugoslav—in the Team's at the Tokyo World's—he'd lost in the third, had been unable to stop Dragutin ('The Dragon') from picking a loose anti ball and fire-breathing it by. Here, though, it was Eric, blocking Surbek from side to side, who often picked in winners. Up 1-0 and at deuce in the second, Boggan had an excellent chance to win his Group. But such, as in Waldner's case, was the importance of just a couple of points that Eric, on going on to lose that second game 23-21, was no longer a favorite even to qualify for the quarter's. To come through in a tie-breaker he would have to beat Surbek 21-15 or better in the third game. And with each point worth hundreds of dollars, that's just what he did—blocked the Yugoslav around until he gained point-winning positions and won the game at 12.
So—surprise—it was Jiang who got burned in the tie-breaker, and now there would be no Chinese in the quarter's. They would have to settle for entertaining all Europe in a last-day exhibition match for 9th and 10th –place.
In the first of the quarter's matches—Appelgren vs. Surbek, Mikael's short serves, generally to the forehand, and his follows, helped him to win the first game at deuce. In the second, his backhand flick sometimes caught Surbek off guard and he won that game too. When Michael got off to a 5-0 lead in the third with good serve returns and up-at-the-table hitting (he even smacked in some of Surbek's big spins), the Yugoslav was finished?
Nope. He just hung in there, steadily enduring. Soon 'The Apple' made some unforced errors and Surbek, after winning a series of spectacular away-from-the-table spin-to spin rallies, was 12-9 up. But then Mikael started to avoid spin-to-spin play and again came back close to the table. Down 19-18 Appelgren served short to Surbek's backhand and flicked in a winner. At 19-all, the Yugoslav spun a forehand into the net. Then, match-point down, the Dragon was all hot air—completely whiffed his intended forehand loop of Appelgren's backhand serve to his middle.
In the second of the quarter's matches, Jonyer for the first two games really didn't put up much of a fight against Kalinic. He'd seemed more interested in shopping, in lolling on the beach. ('Nobody wanted to work hard to prepare for a match here,' said Boggan. 'The sun and heat just cooked everybody.') But then the Hungarian put together a succession of serves and follows that won him the third game. At 15-all in the fourth, Jonyer served a net serve, which Kalinic pushed back, and when Jonyer realizing it was a net caught the return, the umpire, despite Kalinic's objections, gave the point to the Yugoslav. Whereupon Kalinic graciously returned Jonyer's next serve into the net. After a time, Kalinic's strong serve and follow enabled him to win the game at 19.
Prean vs. Waldner was of course a re-match. The young Englishman was again quickly in command. Up 13-6 in the first (he'd beaten Waldner at 10 in the last game of their earlier match!), Prean missed a high ball and this seemed to give Jan-Ove the idea that he ought to relinquish the table and go back and see if Prean could hit his lobs. When Carl missed a good many, Waldner pulled to 15-all. But then Prean won the game on an edge ball.
In the second, Carl hit in Jan-Ove's lobs to go 12-7 up, but Waldner just in time switched tactics (he'd been lobbing too much) and zipped in just enough balls to win at 19. Had he lost this game…
In the third, J-O couldn't handle Prean's long-pip blocks. But in the fourth and fifth, the Swede went all out with his repertoire of Chinese serves and follows and built up huge leads for a suddenly easy turnabout win.
The way Lindh vs. Boggan—the last of the quarter's matches—started, with Eric up 7-1, reminded me of their match in the 1981 Scandinavian Junior Championships. Up 16-13, Eric blocked Lindh around, then made some wind-swept smashes to close out the Swede at 14.
Back came Lindh, though, to win the second. And to go 9-2 up in the third. Quick backhand and forehand follows combined with Eric's loss of concentration had streaked him along. But then—match after match how quickly the points came and went—it was the other Eric's turn. From 12-7 down, Boggan hurtled to 16-14 up. Then, however, at 18-all, Lindh served and was able to forehand topspin the return; and at 19-18 was able to backhand topspin the return, and so deserved to go 2-1 up.
The fourth game began at 12:40 a.m. (eight 3 out of 5-game matches an evening were just too much?) and was watched by the very obliging Rockley Resort hotel staff who had yet to serve dinner and not too many hours afterwards breakfast. In this final game, Lindh, up 6-1, 11-2, exploited Eric's forehand pushes and ended it all with the grand gesture of smacking in Eric's serve. 'You didn't have a game plan,' Park said to Boggan not unsympathetically. But was this surprising? Eric has always been a very instinctive, very adaptive player out there at the table.
After the match, though Eric was at least a little sad, a little quiet, his Dominican friend Mario Alvarez could always lift his spirits. 'You know what my father always told me?' said Mario. 'The difference between people and animals is that people can talk to each other. C'mon, keep at it. If you fight, you can be #1.'
Alvarez, perhaps, needed some solace himself. He was to finish 15th by beating Barbados's own, Robert Earle. When Robert and I went to Bridgeton, literally every third person we'd meet knew him. With such popularity why is he living in the States?
Robert had some marvelous moments in this tournament. He played an easily-could-have-won-it, -21, 16, -11 match with Kim Ki Taek (World #12); forced both Waldner (World #8) and Prean (World #25) to three games; and went two deuce games with Nigerian Sunday Eboh. Sunday, by beating Aussie Paul Pinkewich came 13th. (Had Oceania Champ Pinkewhich not gotten by expatriate Tommy Danielson in five in his Continental qualifier, would a fourth Swede have been allowed to play in this tournament?)
Although the nightly crowd of about 450 (make that 800 on the last night) were rooting wildly for Earle, they showed the greatest sense of spectator fairness I've ever seen and constantly applauded any player's good shots.
Fifth Through Eighth Places
In one of the two matches to see who'd have a chance to come 5th ($2,800), Eric drew Prean, his roommate and erstwhile golfing companion (Carl liked to use his putter off the tee). Eric had been beating Carl in practice all week, but now he lost to him two straight. Each had been coaching the other—but now when they were out there against one another, who was to tell Eric he was sometimes pushing too much? In the companion match, Jonyer was able to survive Surbek's heavy topspin, and so, lazily, skillfully, rallied to win in three.
Which was later what the Hungarian would do against Prean to take 5th Place.
Meanwhile, in the $200 match for 7th—his second here with Surbek—Boggan started off cold. The Dragon was looping everything to Eric's forehand and was up 15-9 in the first. But it was Eric, often catching Surbek wide on the forehand, who was up 20-18. And Eric who couldn't win it when Surbek followed a sidespin serve with a cross-court winner. In the second game, however, Eric, with a dazzling 17-15 in and out, drive and drop point, followed by more 20-18 point-producing play, evened the match. Then, in the third, helped by some anti-backhands, Eric was able to gain enough positional advantage on Surbek to win.
The semi's match between Appelgren and Kalinic featured some exciting spin-to-spin rallies. Kalinic won the first game, basically by blocking Appelgren around and occasionally fooling him on the serve. In the second The Apple seemed to move a little faster and increased the amount of spin he was putting on the ball. It was anybody's game until, down 20-19, Kalinic missed a floater in over the net. Swing shot.
In the third, the end game was drawn out because the match was so important and also because it was so humid both players were repeatedly toweling themselves and the ball. Soon the crowd was getting impatient with the procrastinating Kalinic and began to favor a somewhat irritated Appelgren.
Finally the umpire asked Kalinic NOT to towel off. Perhaps Kalinic ignored this request
because he didn't understand what the umpire had said? 'Please,' said the umpire again, only this time more slowly, 'do…NOT…towel…off.' Then he requested that Kalinic give the ball to him when he wanted to dry it. Kalinic did and this division of labor made the delay even longer.
Ultimately Appelgren, down 2-1, regained more control, became less heated, and won it in five.
In the second semi's, Lindh seemed to need a little of Appelgren's cool, for in the first game he rushed to lose it. But his fast pace also produced a dangerous rhythm, and in the second and third games he was just too much for Waldner. Only then—strange game, how does it happen?—Waldner was up 10-0 after Lindh had begun missing those go-for-it forehands. In the fifth, Lindh went up 9-6, 14-10 on quick side-to-side counters—but then he missed two critical backhands, pushed two forehands into the net, and coming into the end game they were all even. Now Waldner gave Lindh two of his best saved-up serves and Lindh felt he had to try to loop them both. Neither a good percentage play. Waldner, then, in five.
Lindh, though disappointed, went on to take 3rd-Place, beating Kalinic, again by staying close to the table and backhand top-spinning.
In the first game of the final, Waldner, whom most Swedes felt was the favorite over Appelgren, stayed up by the table and got off to a 6-2 lead. But then his slow steady topspin gave way to unforced errors and he was down 15-10. Down 18-13, he tried a couple of slap forehands and lost the game. In the second, Appelgren missed some loops and fell behind 10-5. Waldner increased his lead to 13-7 by blocking slow and hitting hard. He really knows how to play change-of-speed shots at precisely the right spots to get and keep the offense. Tactical match all even.
In the third game, Waldner refused to be lured into an attempt to spin harder than The Apple. He began blocking fairly soft to Appelgren's backhand then took the off shot or lobbed if Appelgren started swinging. Mikael's shots were too effective, though, and he won the game easily. In the fourth, down 11-8, Waldner had The Apple out of position but couldn't keep him from getting back to the table and winning the psychologically important 12-8 point. After that, still faced with Appelgren's continuing tenacity and aggressiveness, Waldner couldn't catch up and lost the game and match.
In the European Championships, Appelgren had beaten Waldner 19 in the 5th. This match of course was not nearly as exciting. Waldner, particularly, seemed to be struggling here in Barbados. But as one regular on the circuit summed it up, 'Appelgren deserved to win. I've never seen him so relentless.'"
Danny Robbins Interviews Swedish Coach Glenn Ost (Timmy's, Sept.-Oct., 1983, 8)
INTERVIEWER: With Sweden's success at the World Cup, enthusiasts are going to be as interested in asking questions of the Swedes as they are the Chinese. So, first question: How is that the Swedes, without having the benefit of China's huge number of players, can produce players who do so well in international competition?
OST: Because we have a strong organization and good planning. Of course over the years we, like anybody else, have had our ups and downs. Right now it's obvious we are doing very well. But before, too, in the late '60's and early '70's we had excellent world-class players—Alser, Johansson, Bengtsson.
INTERVIEWER: But you have more than three very fine players now, don't you?
OST: Yes. At the moment, out of 8,000 serious players, we have at least eight—Waldner, Appelgren, Lindh, Ulf Bengtsson, Carlsson, Stellan Bengtsson, Jeppsson, and Akesson—and maybe more who are very, very good and on any given day can beat each other.
INTERVIEWER: So Sweden must begin to develop world-class players from an early age. At what point in their lives do you and others encourage kids to become seriously interested in table tennis?
OST: Well, in China kids are urged to begin playing when they're five or six, whereas we don't try to start them until they're 10 or so. If you start when you're too young you may burn out early. Our players—30-year-old Stellan Bengtsson is a good example—tend to play longer than the Chinese who generally stop playing seriously when they're about 25. As part of our Sports Program every school child comes into contact with table tennis at age 10 or 11. If he (she) likes the game, the teacher sends him to the appropriate Club. However, if the child is interested in and good at various sports, he may never take up table tennis seriously.
INTERVIEWER: Why's that?
OST: Because although government regulations require that students participate in a number of sports, what sports they pick is often left up to the individual teacher. If this instructor has been good at or is just interested in, say, basketball, he'll naturally urge that promising young student to pursue basketball at a Club.
INTERVIEWER: So the clubs and the schools work together?
OST: Yes. Associations—like the Table Tennis Association—send players and coaches to the schools to give exhibitions. Waldner and I, for example, continue to play in exhibitions in our school system. Once the child shows interest, any table tennis-minded Sports Club has the opportunity to begin seriously to encourage the kid. His first tournament play comes at the school when he's 10 or so, his next at the Club when he's a little older. Our Association holds a National Stellan Cup tournament for 12 or 13-year-olds. Both Carlsson and Lindh came through city, district, regional play.
INTERVIEWER: I can see that if kids want to play, they can. But how do they get really good? Do those who teach them at the Clubs really know what they're doing?
OST: Our government, our Association, thinks it's very important to provide our young players with good teachers and good trainers from the very beginning. So strongly do they feel about this that our government pays for instructors to attend training courses conducted by our Association—much like your U.S. Coaching Seminars.
INTERVIEWER: So, depending on their interest, their ambition, some instructors and trainers are better than others and have better pupils than others?
OST: Exactly. There are three levels of intensity. At the first level—involving maybe 500 instructors—the coaching aspirant learns to handle beginners. He stresses basic technique and organized play not only for kids but for adults—the kids' parents it may be. This is primarily casual, enjoyable play—like what many U.S. members do at their Clubs. Perhaps out of 1,000 such players you couldn't find 1 really serious good prospect.
And the second level?
OST: This level comes about because certain coaches—about 80 in all at any one time—are more ambitious, more skilled than others. They want promising pupils. So we begin to teach them how to develop programs for different playing styles. It would not be surprising if for every 10 players you had five completely different programs. Now, through video analysis and group discussion, the coach becomes more aware of tactics and techniques that make up an individual player's style. We then test these coaches on various offensive and defensive styles.
INTERVIEWER. Is videotaping an important part of your coaching?
OST: Yes, because it's the best way to make a young player understand—see with both his outer and inner eye—how a very good player (like Surbek or a top Chinese) gets himself into a position to win points. So many kids have been taught to hit a forehand by parents who really don't know how to do it.
INTERVIEWER: And the third level of coaching?
OST: This level involves maybe 15 or 20 world-class-oriented coaches who every year, in working with the best of students, continually take a refresher course or two on the newest physical, psychological, and technical aspects of the game. Among this group there is a constant discussion of play in other countries, and so we learn more what we must do to make Swedish table tennis better. Naturally my fellow coach Thomas Berner and I have studied very carefully our Team's play against the Chinese.
INTERVIEWER: What do you think about Sweden's loss to China in the Tokyo World Team Championships?
OST: As you know, we lost to China 5-1—but the score might well have been different. In the opening match, Waldner won the first game against Jiang and was up 7-3 in the second with his serve. Now, as you've seen, Waldner has very good serves—and yet from this score he lost 11 straight points, six of them on his own serve. How did this happen? That's what third-level coaches are interested in.
INTERVIEWER. I see what you mean. For of course in the second match—
OST: Yes, Appelgren beat Xie Saike in the second match. So you can see what an important swing match that Waldner-Jiang match was, and why we never really recovered. Instead of being up 2-0, we lost 5-1. A profound change. Why? Because we have to make the Chinese nervous enough to play at least a little safe. Had we been up 2-0, we would have been in good shape, would really have been able to put some pressure on them.
INTERVIEWER: So Waldner's turnabout loss set the psychological tone for your Team's later play?
OST: Yes, unconsciously, if not consciously. As a result of losing to the Chinese (and maybe, too, because we were tired after our tough 5-4 win over South Korea), we were psychologically down for the Singles. Worse, the Hall was very humid the morning of Appelgren's match with Sakamoto of Japan—and in losing badly to him, Mikael just couldn't get any spin on the ball. Waldner had his troubles too—he'd beaten Wang Huiyuan twice before, but this time he played too safe. You can't beat the Chinese by playing safe. As for Lindh, he had a 2-1 lead on Cai Zhenhua and was at deuce in the 4th with him—but couldn't win it. Cai, not incidentally, is most certainly on the way down and, in my opinion, is NOT the successor to Guo Yuehua.
INTERVIEWER: So to sum all this up, the results here in Barbados did not come as a surprise to you?
OST: Not totally. Appelgren, Waldner, and Lindh, products of the carefully nurtured table tennis system I've more or less just sketched out for you, are unquestionably three of the best players in the world. And probably will be for some time. Wouldn't you agree?
INTERVIEWER: I would, and, Glenn, I thank you for the interview.
OST: Thank you, Danny.
Swedish Players Beginning New League Season
Swedish Grand Prix Results: Grand Prix I (Vaskustpelen): 1. Stellan Bengtsson. 2. Lars Franklin. 3. Jorgen Persson. 4. Ulf Carlson 5. Jan Ekstrom. 6. SCOTT BOGGAN. 7. Peter Ahlgren. 8. Kim Kartholm. 9. Mikael Frank. 10. Peter Greczula. Grand Prix II (Mariestad): 1. Jorgen Persson. 2. Jan-Ove Waldner. 3. Anders Thunstrom. 4. Jorgen Gierlof. 5. Per Sandstrom. 6. Kim Kartholm. 7. Jerry Snygg. 8. Mikael Frank. 9. Micha Valeic. 10. Thomas Balle.
Here in alphabetical order (I'll save Angby, the club U.S. readers know most about for last) are top-player rosters for at least the first half-season of the eight-team Swedish League. Boo KFUM: Per Sandstrom/Jan Ekstrom/Anders Johansson. BTK Rekord, Helsingbord: Jonny Akesson/Kim Kartholm/Stefan Wallin. BTK Safir, Orebro: Jonas Berner/MisaValcic/Geirr Gustavsen. Falkenbergs BTK: Niklas Schioler (formerly Persson)/Peter Greczula/Hans Persson. Lyckerby BTK: Bo Eriksson/Hans Thalin/Peter Nilsson. Soderhamns Ungdomsgards: Johnny Stockhaus/Mikael Nilsson/Goran Edberg. Stockholms Sparvagars: Jan-Ove Waldner/Lars Franklin/Kjell-Ake Waldner.
Angby News: Although Nisse Sandberg's Angby Club lost its #1 player, Eric Boggan, to the Bad Hamm Club in the German Bundesliga, a welcome new addition to the Angby Team is Canadian Youth (Under 21) Champion Horatio Pintea. As the Swedish press was often interested in Boggan during his two years in Stockholm, so, likely, will they be following Rumanian defector Pintea's progress.
As of Oct. 5th, Angby will have played three League matches: Angby(5)—BTK Safir (5); Angby (5)—Falkenbergs BTK (5); and Stockholms Sparvagars (6)—Angby (4) Pintea's record will be 4-1. Since World Champion Guo Yuehua will NOT after all be playing for the Lyckerby BTK Club as earlier thought, the team Angby has to fear the most is not Defending Champion Soderhamns, who lost Ulf Bengtsson (World #29) to the Bundesliga, but the '82-'83 second-place team, Sparvagars, led by World #8 Jan-Ove Waldner and tough #2 man Lars Franklin.
Franklin was just recently runner-up to Stellan Bengtsson in a Falkenbergs tournament, having taken out spur-of-the-moment visitor Scott Boggan in a 2/3-game quarter's match, 17 in the third.
Swedish superstars (almost the whole Swedish National Team) Mikael Appelgren, Erik Lindh, Ulf Bengtsson, Ulf Carlsson, Roger Lagerfeldt, and Anders Bylund are playing in the German Bundesliga. Why? For the money of course.
Taking Bundesliga-bound Eric Boggan's place on the Angby team this 1983-84 season is Jorgen Persson, European Junior Mixed Doubles Champion (with Rumania's Olga Nemes). Persson, who wasn't with the other young Swedes at the Tokyo World's, just recently defeated Waldner for the Swedish Junior Championship.
Lars Mattson, who's competed successfully in various tournaments in the U.S., and was a semifinalist in this year's Swedish Junior Championship, is another player on the powerful Angby Team. Others include players familiar to U.S. aficionados who've seen them play in the States: Jens Fellke, Kenneth and Mikael Frank, Anders Thulin, and Niclas Torsell.
As for Angby mentor Nisse Sandberg himself, he was recently hospitalized with a neck injury that required a complicated operation. After which his doctor prescribed a two months recuperation period. Perfect, said Nisse, and speeded up his recovery by marrying South Korean Kyong Soon Kim.


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Barlow Respiratory Hospital offers a variety of classes and seminars for the general community and for medical health professionals.
Whether the seminar be hosted on Barlow's campus or part of a special event your organization would like to host, Barlow welcomes speaker inquiries. For information about classes and seminars, contact Barlow's Administration office at 213-202-6885.
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Barlow Respiratory Hospital and its medical health experts are pleased to speak on a variety of important healthcare topics. To request a speaker for your event, please contact Barlow's Administration office at 213-202-6885.
Following are some of the topics Barlow experts have presented on in the past:
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I want to make a coat from Simplicity 2778, but am having difficulty finding the Daisy Kingdom Soft Sherpa Suede fabric that is recommended.It is a suede fabric that has a sherpa backing bonded to it. Can anyone help me locate a store that carries it? Thank you. |
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I'm looking for it, too, for that pattern. Isn't it a cute coat? I hope we find some. The pattern is still in the books, but my stores don't sell it. |
Sherrmann, This pattern is available on eBay. I find a lot of older patterns there. Hope this helps... |
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Sorry, I thought you were looking for the pattern(duh). There are a few websites that sell sherpa suede(I did a quick google search), but it's pretty pricey. |
Not your fault, noinwi. I reread what I wrote - nobody could understand with all those unclear antecedents! I'm going to look up sherpa suede now. |
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HObby lobby has the fabric. Hancock Fabrics may also still carry it as well. Good luck. |
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Lagoon Creek Combustion Turbine Plant
Efficient power production to help meet peak demand
Lagoon Creek is TVA's largest combustion-turbine site with a combined summer generating capacity of 1,444 megawatts. This 181-acre facility is close to several natural-gas pipelines and TVA transmission lines. It helps TVA meet rapidly growing summer and winter peak demands for power.
Combustion turbines can run on natural gas or low-sulfur fuel oil and are designed to start quickly to meet the demand for electricity during peak operating periods. The simple-cycle units at Lagoon Creek can reach full power in just 20 minutes.
Combustion turbines are the most popular type of new generating equipment, accounting for 95 percent of the 300,000 megawatts of new power capacity announced for completion nationwide between 2000 and 2008.
Lagoon Creek also has two combined-cycle combustion turbines, the first of which began commercial operation in September 2010 as the first new generation source built by TVA since 2002 and the first combined-cycle natural gas facility in Tennessee.
Combined-cycle units generate 50 percent more power from the same amount of fuel compared to simple-cycle turbines. They do this by capturing the exhaust gas from one turbine and using it to produce steam that can be used to generate additional electricity from a second turbine.
State-of-the-art emission controls and noise management make Lagoon Creek combustion turbines more environmentally friendly than older types. When the units run on natural gas, nitrogen-oxide emissions are 10 percent less than from combustion turbines built 30 years ago; when burning oil, emissions are 20 percent less.


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Police say 36-year-old Andrea Mobley and 38-year-old Jennifer Morrow face petty theft charges after stealing bathing suits and beef jerky during a trip to Wal-Mart on Wednesday.
A loss prevention officer told police Mobley was eating beef jerky in the store and Morrow concealed items inside her purse. They were detained after taking the items from the store without paying.
The Ocala Star-Banner (http://bit.ly/18BR9KR) reports the women told police they hadn't seen each other in years and stealing from a retail store was on the "bucket list."
Mobley told the newspaper they were just "two stupid women" doing something they'd never done before. She added she's ashamed.
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text: Tight fitA tricky job placing a silo in a narrow alley was the winner from a record seven entries in the Crane Project of the Year awards. The winning project involved the removal and replacement of a collapsed 250 cubic metre silo for Fonterra at its Waitoa site. What made this otherwise straightforward job so tricky was the silo's location – down a narrow alley. Waikato Cranes says the removal of the old silo was straightforward, but its replacement was much heavier at 14 tonnes, which posed a great challenge. The company considered a number of options to position the replacement silo. Option one was to use a large crane, positioned at the northern end of the alley, and place the silo at a 46 metre radius. The problem was, however, there isn't a mobile crane with sufficient capacity available in the country. Option two was to use a large crane positioned at the southern end of the alley and place the silo at a 32 metre radius. But the problem here was there was insufficient room to set up 300 tonne capacity mobile crane in this position. Option three was to squeeze a 200 tonne crane into the southern end of the alley and place the silo at a 32 metre radius. However, this couldn't be done as the 200 tonne crane has insufficient capacity to lift 14 tonnes, plus rigging, at a 32 metre radius. The solution that Waikato Cranes reached involved using two cranes. Its Demag AC200 was positioned in southern end of the alley, as it is the only crane that fits into the space, and a NK250 was positioned down the alley beside the silo foundation – also a tight fit. The team then lifted the silo from transporter with the 200 tonne crane, slewed it over the 18 metre high building into the alley and luffed it down to a 26 metre radius. Next, the NK250 reached out and was attached to a specially designed, load sharing beam which enabled the NK250 to take 33 percent of the weight. Due to the beam length, the radius for the 200 tonner was reduced by 1.3 metres. The process was then to luff up with the NK250 and luff down simultaneously with the AC200 while winching with hoist to keep the lifting beam level. The starting radius on the NK250 was nine metres with a safe working load (SWL) of eight tonnes. The load for the NK250 was 33.3 percent of 15 tonnes (five tonnes). The AC200 carried the other 66.6 percent (10 tonnes). Its final radius was 30.7 metres and SWL 12.5 tonnes. Waikato Cranes had several other factors to consider which added to the complexity of the job: A 300 tonne crane couldn't fit into the southern end of the alley because of the distance between the outriggers and the tail swing. Boom length – The silo was 16 metres tall and had to be lifted over a 18 metre high building. The rigging added an extra 10.5 metres to the under hook height. The total under hook height needed to lift the silo over the building was 44.5 metres. Waikato Cranes' preference would have been to use a 42.1 metre boom length, giving a 14.1 tonne capacity at a 32 metre radius, but because of the length of the silo and height of the building, it had to use a 46.4 metre boom length giving only 11.9 tonne capacity at a 32 metre radius. Outrigger placement and tail swing – The crane had to be placed with just 100mm fore and aft to enable the outriggers to be positioned, and within 50mm of the alley walls to allow for the tail swing. The judges of the Crane Project of the Year concluded the restrictions placed on this silo lift by the tightness of the site and accessability problems made it a clear winner. Waikato Cranes managing director Tony Gibson and his team rose to the challenges this lift posed and were delighted to receive the award for a difficult project well executed. Contractor Vol.33 No.7 August 2009 All articles on this website are copyright to Contrafed Publishing Co. Ltd. |


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Does the surge in CD bonds mean better rates on the horizon?
December 08, 2010
A surge in bond yields has put 10-year Treasury rates back over 3 percent for the first time since July. Is this yet another false signal, or a sign of things to come for interest rates?
Rates on CDs, savings accounts, and money market accounts have been down near zero all year, and will require not just a short-term surge in market interest rates, but a sustained rise before they start following the trend. That's why the recent move in bond yields--and the reasons behind that move--could have implications for CD, savings, and money market rates.
When bonds become difficult to predict
The magnitude of the move in bond yields certainly looks encouraging. After bottoming out below 2.4 percent in early October, bond rates have been making their way higher, though in a zig-zag manner. The latest surge not only cracked the 3 percent mark, but took 10-year Treasury yields to nearly 3.2 percent.
The timing of this rise in bond yields is curious. It has defied the announcement of the Federal Reserve's latest quantitative easing program -- a program to drive interest rates down by purchasing Treasury bonds.
The very latest leg up in the rise of bond yields has come in the wake of last Friday's extremely disappointing employment report. Normally, Treasury bond prices rally on bad economic news, meaning that yields fall. So far, the opposite has happened.
The economic mosaic
The seemingly contrary nature of the bond market's move is a reminder that you can never isolate any one factor in trying to understand economic conditions. The economic picture is more like a mosaic, consisting of a great many pieces. The general pattern and tone of those pieces will determine how the picture takes shape.
Plus, when it comes to financial markets, understanding the economy is not enough. Valuation is also a factor. It has seemed that interest rates were unnaturally low, meaning that bonds were overvalued. Under those circumstances, a correction, in the form of falling bond prices and rising yields, may have been inevitable, regardless of short-term economic events.


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Thu, May 5, 05 at 17:29
A friend brought me from England some seeds of this grass last year.Being not familiar with this genus of grasses originating in Japan I dug up some clumps for the heated tunnel last fall and left the leftover outside for the winter.To my amazement and joy,they overwintered!!!!!!!Anybody else grows this grass in North America?How come it's never offered and discussed? |
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Wow!! I just looked up a picture, and those flower spikes are incredible! I wish they did offer it here. Very pretty. Brenda |
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