<div dir="ltr"><div>I am also interested in buying Joola balls. So together with <span style="font-size:13px">Tamin Chang we would need two more people to get free shipping from Amazon. Please let me know.</span></div><div><span style="font-size:13px"><br></span></div><div><span style="font-size:13px">Thanks,</span></div><div><span style="font-size:13px">Vadim</span></div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Tue, Dec 30, 2014 at 5:14 PM, Burair Kothari via gvttc.general <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:gvttc.general@gvttc.com" target="_blank">gvttc.general@gvttc.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">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" value="+15852582312">(585) 258-2312</a><br>
<br>
Mobile: <a href="tel:%28585%29%20802-7452" value="+15858027452">(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>
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<br>
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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>
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