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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body lang=EN-US link=blue vlink=purple><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1F497D;mso-fareast-language:JA'>Hi All,<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1F497D;mso-fareast-language:JA'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1F497D;mso-fareast-language:JA'>One thing to note is that these Joola balls appear to be “classic” celluloid balls, not the “40+” plastic balls that we will need going forward.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1F497D;mso-fareast-language:JA'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1F497D;mso-fareast-language:JA'>David Shih<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1F497D;mso-fareast-language:JA'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1F497D;mso-fareast-language:JA'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif'>From:</span></b><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif'> gvttc.general [mailto:gvttc.general-bounces@gvttc.com] <b>On Behalf Of </b>Vadim via gvttc.general<br><b>Sent:</b> Wednesday, December 31, 2014 12:55 PM<br><b>To:</b> Burair Kothari<br><b>Cc:</b> gvttc.general<br><b>Subject:</b> Re: [gvttc general] Happy New Year: Announcements, changes and general information<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><div><div><p class=MsoNormal>I am also interested in buying Joola balls. So together with <span style='font-size:10.0pt'>Tamin Chang we would need two more people to get free shipping from Amazon. Please let me know.</span><o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt'>Thanks,</span><o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt'>Vadim</span><o:p></o:p></p></div></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><div><p class=MsoNormal>On Tue, Dec 30, 2014 at 5:14 PM, Burair Kothari via gvttc.general <<a href="mailto:gvttc.general@gvttc.com" target="_blank">gvttc.general@gvttc.com</a>> wrote:<o:p></o:p></p><blockquote style='border:none;border-left:solid #CCCCCC 1.0pt;padding:0in 0in 0in 6.0pt;margin-left:4.8pt;margin-right:0in'><p class=MsoNormal>Hi everyone,<br><br>A happy new year to all of you. I want to take this opportunity to thank<br>each of you for your support of the club, if you have been a member of the<br>leagues or open play over the past year; or, if you are just interested in<br>hearing about what's new and happening in this club, I want to thank you<br>for your time in reading our emails.<br><br>It has been a privilege for me to join the executive committee of the club<br>this year -- a group of committed individuals who are fun to talk with, and<br>are responsive and creative with ideas and suggestions so we can keep the<br>club a fun place and take it further in promoting table tennis as a sport<br>with all its health, wellness, social and mental benefits.<br><br>I have a few new features/announcements about our mailing list, website.<br>management and outreach to share, this is a bit lengthy so won't blame you<br>if you skip reading. If you want me to explain personally or have questions<br>on anything, you can catch me warming the bench as usual at the club.<br><br>N.B. If you read to the bottom I saw a deal from Amazon.com today that you<br>may find interesting .... sort of an early treasure hunt ;)<br><br>*Mailing List*<br><br>Our mailing list is being phased out of Yahoo groups. This was because<br>Yahoo had implemented a policy of not allowing users to register for the<br>mailing list without a Yahoo account and some people do not need/want a<br>Yahoo account. So we took an opportunity to change services and move our<br>mailing list to its own little niche on the internet. The new mailing list<br>address is:<br><br><a href="mailto:gvttc.general@gvttc.com">gvttc.general@gvttc.com</a><br><br>Please route all email to the members of the old list to this new list. For<br>a short time all email to the old list address will still be sent to<br>everyone, but please try to transition to the new list address and update<br>your address books.<br><br>Here are a few pages to bookmark if you want to see old archives or want to<br>change your mailing list options:<br><br>Subscribe to list and view basic list info:<br><a href="http://www.gvttc.com/gen_list_info" target="_blank">http://www.gvttc.com/gen_list_info</a><br><br>View archives of past messages to this list (note the archives are<br>practically empty right now since this is a brand new list):<br><a href="http://www.gvttc.com/gen_list_archives" target="_blank">http://www.gvttc.com/gen_list_archives</a><br><br>Unsubscribe:<br><a href="http://www.gvttc.com/gen_list_unsubscribe" target="_blank">http://www.gvttc.com/gen_list_unsubscribe</a><br><br>The archives are public and accessible without the need to login to<br>anything. You can subscribe, unsubscribe and re-subscribe via the links<br>above. If you have an account on the <a href="http://gvttc.com" target="_blank">gvttc.com</a> website you should be able<br>to view the current status of your subscription by clicking on "My Account"<br>in the top right corner of the site -- then selecting the "Mailiing Lists"<br>tab.<br><br>*Website*<br><br>There's been a change in the look of the website as well as the web address<br>of the pages within it, this may or may not impact some of your bookmarks:<br> -- All sub pages in the website which were of the form:<br> <a href="http://www.gvttc.com/drupal/somepage" target="_blank">http://www.gvttc.com/drupal/somepage</a><br> now point to<br> <a href="http://www.gvttc.com/somepage" target="_blank">http://www.gvttc.com/somepage</a><br><br>-- i.e. there is no "drupal" anymore in any of the website addresses --<br>this makes our web addresses shorter.<br><br>There are additional new features which I will be adding in the next few<br>months which will revamp our handling of the stats, making it cooler,<br>faster, more efficient and remove some load off the directors.<br><br>*Management*<br><br>There are brand (smashing -- can't say spanking because that's not proper<br>table tennis .... ) new email addresses for all of the people serving in<br>executive positions on the executive committee of the club, the league<br>directors and the head coach:<br><br>E-Mail Person(s) the email goes<br>to<br><a href="mailto:president@gvttc.com">president@gvttc.com</a> Roger Haidvogel<br><a href="mailto:vicepresident@gvttc.com">vicepresident@gvttc.com</a> Burair Kothari<br><a href="mailto:treasurer@gvttc.com">treasurer@gvttc.com</a> Dustin Zemaitis<br><a href="mailto:leaguedirector@gvttc.com">leaguedirector@gvttc.com</a> Ray Mack, Dan Emord, Marc Maronian<br><a href="mailto:headcoach@gvttc.com">headcoach@gvttc.com</a> Ray Mack<br><br><br>*Outreach*<br><br>Finally Ray Mack has a new blog with his first entry already available:<br><br><a href="http://www.gvttc.com/coach_rays_blog" target="_blank">http://www.gvttc.com/coach_rays_blog</a><br><br>Please stay tuned for more on the stories and blogs front -- I want to get<br>some people to volunteer their table tennis stories, picture and videos<br>(from any time and any place) and I will either put them up myself or allow<br>you access to create and edit your own entries. There is a reporter from<br>the Democrat and Chronicle who is interested in posting our stories on her<br>more widely accessed blog as well. These stories I think have to be more<br>general and of interest to the public outside of our club, here is the text<br>of the email she sent (and her address -- if you would like to contact her<br>directly):<br><br>*Thanks for article on ping pong (Table Tennis)*<br>------------------------------<br>*Singer, Patti *<<a href="mailto:psinger@democratandchronicle.com">psinger@democratandchronicle.com</a>>Mon, Dec 22, 2014 at 8:36<br>AM<br>To: Burair Kothari <<a href="mailto:burair.kothari@gmail.com">burair.kothari@gmail.com</a>><br><br>Hi, Burair,<br><br><br><br>Thank you for letting me know. I plan to run some of the stories in my<br>blog, so if any would care to share theirs, please have them contact me.<br>I’m also asking folks to send in a head and shoulders photo, or a photo<br>with a ping pong backdrop.<br><br><br><br>Regards,<br><br><br><br>Patti Singer<br><br>Health reporter<br><br>Office: <a href="tel:%28585%29%20258-2312">(585) 258-2312</a><br><br>Mobile: <a href="tel:%28585%29%20802-7452">(585) 802-7452</a><br><br><a href="mailto:psinger@democratandchronicle.com">psinger@democratandchronicle.com</a><br><br><a href="http://blogs.democratandchronicle.com/health/" target="_blank">http://blogs.democratandchronicle.com/health/</a><br><br>Twitter@PattiSingerRoc<br><br><br><br>*From:* Burair Kothari [mailto:<a href="mailto:burair.kothari@gmail.com">burair.kothari@gmail.com</a>]<br>*Sent:* Sunday, December 21, 2014 2:09 PM<br>*To:* Singer, Patti<br>*Cc:* Raymond31923; Berl Stein; Roger Haidvogel<br>*Subject:* Thanks for article on ping pong (Table Tennis)<br><br><br><br>Hi Patti,<br><br>We (the members of the Genesee Valley Table Tennis Club) shared your<br>article in our club, many people responded that they enjoyed reading it.<br>Some of us have similar stories of how we began to play and appreciate you<br>bringing the sport public attention.<br><br>Thanks,<br><br>Burair Kothari<br><br>Vice President<br><br>Genesee Valley Table Tennis Club<br><br><a href="http://www.gvttc.com" target="_blank">http://www.gvttc.com</a><br>-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------<br><br>And ... finally ... if you're still there ..... drrrruuuummmmmrrolllls<br>deal of the day on amazon for $10.22 includes 18 Joola select 3* balls --<br>so is a practically free case:<br><br>*JOOLA Table Tennis Tour Case, Blue*<br>by Joola<br>*Link:* <a href="http://amzn.com/B00EM6K0B2" target="_blank">http://amzn.com/B00EM6K0B2</a><br><br>Tamin Chang wants one, and if 4 or more of you get together on this you can<br>get free shipping .....<br><br>Whew that was long.... thanks for reading ... .<br><br>Until next time.<br><br>Regards,<br>Burair<br>_______________________________________________<br>gvttc.general mailing list<br><a href="mailto:gvttc.general@gvttc.com">gvttc.general@gvttc.com</a><br>list info:<a href="http://www.gvttc.com/gen_list_info" target="_blank">http://www.gvttc.com/gen_list_info</a><br>archives: <a href="http://www.gvttc.com/gen_list_archives" target="_blank">http://www.gvttc.com/gen_list_archives</a><br>unsubscribe: <a href="http://www.gvttc.com/gen_list_unsubscribe" target="_blank">http://www.gvttc.com/gen_list_unsubscribe</a><o:p></o:p></p></blockquote></div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div></div></body></html>