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Fortnight Nears the End
World Bridge Series Championship Philadelphia Pennsylvania, USA 1st to 16th October D B 2010 aily ulletin O FFICIAL S PONSOR Co-ordinator: Jean-Paul Meyer • Chief Editor: Brent Manley • Editors: Mark Horton, Brian Senior, Phillip Alder, Barry Rigal, Jan Van Cleef • Lay Out Editor: Akis Kanaris • Photographer: Ron Tacchi Issue No. 14 Friday, 15 October 2010 FORTNIGHT NEARS THE END These are the hard-working staff members who produce all the deals — literally thousands — for the championships Players at the World Bridge Series Championships have been In the World Junior Championship, Israel and France will start at it for nearly two weeks with only one full day left. Those play today for the Ortiz-Patino Trophy, and in the World Young- who have played every day deserve credit for their stamina. sters Championship, it will be England versus Poland for the Consider the players who started on opening day of the Damiani Cup. Generali Open Pairs on Saturday nearly a week ago. If they made it to the final, which started yesterday, they will end up playing 15 sessions. Contents With three sessions to go, the Open leaders, drop-ins from the Rosenblum, are Fulvio Fantoni and Claudio Nunes. In the World Bridge Series Results . .3-5 Women’s Pairs, another pair of drop-ins, Carla Arnolds and For Those Who Like Action . .6 Bep Vriend are in front. The IMP Pairs leaders are Joao-Paulo Campos and Miguel Vil- Sting in the Tail . .10 las-Boas. ACBL President Rich DeMartino and Patrick McDe- Interview with José Damiani . .18 vitt are in the lead in the Hiron Trophy Senior Pairs. -
Hard Knocks in Beijing
Co-Ordinator: Jean-Paul Meyer, Chief Editor: Brent Manley, Layout Editor: George Hatzidakis, WebEditor: Akis Kanaris, Photographer: Ron Tacchi, Editors: Phillip Alder, Mark Horton, Barry Rigal Bulletin 10 - Tuesday, 14 October 2008 HARD KNOCKS IN BEIJING The WBF Meeting of Congress earlier in the tournament. See page 10 for minutes of the meeting. Reality set in for the Cinderella team from Romania, as the four- man squad was dispatched with relative ease by England in the Open Today’s series. The Romanians weren’t the only losers, of course. Eleven other teams were sent to the sidelines in the quarterfinal rounds of Schedule the Open, Women’s and Seniors. 11.00 Open - Women - Senior The German women seemed unstoppable in the round robin and Teams, S-Final, 1st Session then blasted Brazil in the round of 16. In their quarterfinal match 14.20 Open - Women - Senior with China, the Germans trailed by only 2 IMPs going into the last Teams, S-Final, 2nd Session set, but were trounced over the final 16 boards 48-2 to exit the 17.10 Open - Women - Senior event. Teams, S-Final, 3rd Session The USA women were in a nail-biter with Denmark until they 10.30 - 20.00 pulled away over the last few boards. Transnational Mixed Teams, Two days of semi-final play begin today. The key matches look to be Swiss Matches 8-12 Italy-Norway in the Open and China-USA in the Women’s. World Bridge Games Beijing, China OPEN TEAMS RESULTS - Q-Final Match 1st-3rd Session 4th Session 5th Session 6th Session Total 1 Poland Italy 69 -106 38 - 23 33 - 49 33 - 32 173 -210 -
Goddard Space Flight Center Battery Workshop
NASA CP 2117 c. 1 NASA ConferencePublication 2117 LOAN AWL KIHT! Goddard Space Flight Center Battery Workshop G. Halpert, Editor A Workshopheld at GoddardSpace Flight Center Greenbelt,Maryland November 13 - 15, 1979 NASA TECH LIBRARY KAFB, NY NASA ConferencePublication 2117 The 1979 Goddard Space Flight Center Battery Workshop A Workshopheld at GoddardSpace Flight Center Greenbelt,Maryland November 13 - 15, 1979 National Aeronautics and Space Administration Scientific and Technical Information Office 1980 PREFACE This, the 12th Annual Battery Workshop was attended by manufacturers, users, govern-and ment representatives interested in the latest results of testing, analysis, and development of the sealed nickel cadmium cell system. Also included were sessions on metal hydrogen and lithiumcell technology and applications. The purpose of the Workshop was to share flight and test experience, stimulate discussion on problem areas, andto review the latest technology improvements. The papers presented in this document have been derived from transcripts taken at the Workshop held at the Goddard Space Flight Center on November 13 to 15, 1979. The transcripts were lightly edited with the speaker’s vugraphs assembled at the end of each presentation for uniformity. ... 111 4 I1 I 11l1l11 I l1l111ll1l11l1111ll111llllllI Ill CONTENTS Page PREFACE ................................................................ iii INTRODUCTION G.Halpert,GSFC ..................................................... 1 SESSION I TECHNOLOGYDEVELOPING FLIGHT HARDWARE OVERVIEW -
Gateway to the West Regional Sunday
Sunday July 14-19 Hi 92°F Low 75°F Daily Bulletin Gateway to the West Regional All St. Louis Regional Results: for coming to St. Louis and we’d like www.acbl.org & www.unit143.org, to see you right back here again next Unit 143 includes links to the week’s Daily Bulletins. year. We appreciate that you chose to attend our Regional ’coz we do it all for you! to our Caddies, We appreciate your fine work this week! Jackson Florea Anna Garcia Jenna Percich Lauren Percich Clara Riggio Frank Riggio Katie Seibert Kate Vontz Our Date Back to August 15-21, 2016 Come back and join us next August. Please put us on your Regional tournament calendar today. Charity Pairs Series Raises $ BackStoppers will receive the $$$$ that you helped us raise in the Saturday morning Charity Open Pairs Game and will be added to what Last Chance for Registration Gift & was raised in the Wednesday evening Swiss event. We support this To Pick Up Your Section Top Awards organization to express our appreciation for lives given on behalf of Sunday, from 10:00 – 10:20 AM before the Swiss Team session others. Unit 143 will present the check at their October Sectional. begins, and 30 minutes after the sessions end, will be the last opportunity to pick up your convention card holder and section Thanks for playing in these events and showing your support! top awards. Daily Grin How can you tell if someone is a lousy bridge player? No Peeking, Lew! He has 5 smiling Kibitzers watching him play. -
Zur Ökonomik Von Spitzenleistungen Im Internationalen Sport
Zur Ökonomik von Spitzenleistungen im internationalen Sport Martin-Peter Büch, Wolfgang Maennig und Hans-Jürgen Schulke (Hrsg.) EDITION HWWI Hamburg University Press Zur Ökonomik von Spitzenleistungen im internationalen Sport Reihe Edition HWWI Band 3 Zur Ökonomik von Spitzenleistungen im internationalen Sport Herausgegeben von Martin-Peter Büch, Wolfgang Maennig und Hans-Jürgen Schulke Hamburg University Press Verlag der Staats- und Universitätsbibliothek Hamburg Carl von Ossietzky Impressum Bibliografische Information der Deutschen Nationalbibliothek Die Deutsche Nationalbibliothek verzeichnet diese Publikation in der Deutschen Nationalbibliografie; detaillierte bibliografische Daten sind im Internet über http://dnb.d-nb.de abrufbar. Die Online-Version dieser Publikation ist auf den Verlagswebseiten frei verfügbar (open access). Die Deutsche Nationalbibliothek hat die Netzpublikation archiviert. Diese ist dauerhaft auf dem Archivserver der Deutschen Nationalbibliothek verfügbar. Open access über die folgenden Webseiten: Hamburg University Press – http://hup.sub.uni-hamburg.de PURL: http://hup.sub.uni-hamburg.de/HamburgUP/HWWI3_Oekonomik Archivserver der Deutschen Nationalbibliothek –https://portal.dnb.de/ ISBN 978-3-937816-87-6 ISSN 1865-7974 © 2012 Hamburg University Press, Verlag der Staats- und Universitätsbibliothek Hamburg Carl von Ossietzky, Deutschland Produktion: Elbe-Werkstätten GmbH, Hamburg, Deutschland http://www.ew-gmbh.de Dieses Werk ist unter der Creative Commons-Lizenz „Namensnennung- Keine kommerzielle Nutzung-Keine -
The Minor ALT INVITATIONAL IV & Tampalt Qualification
Minor ALT IV BULLETIN 4 • Friday November 20 • editor Christina Lund Madsen • [email protected] The minor ALT INVITATIONAL IV & TampAlt Qualification NOVEMBER 16-20 2020 WORLD CLASS ONLINE BRIDGE EVENTS The Mugs made it Yesterday we said goodbye to 28 teams. In the Minor Alt the four remaining teams are Fredin vs. Red Devils and Moss vs. Gupta. Honourable mention goes to Black, defeated by the Red Devils, De Michelis who succombed to Fredin, Eastwest who ran into the Moss wall and Wilson, who need 11 more IMPs against Gupta. The Mugs (Jon Cooke, Kay Preddy, Norman Selway, Cameron Small, Jeremy Willans) and Vinita (Dennis Bilde, Soren Bilde, Alon Birman, Vinita Gupta, Hemant Lall) hung on to their positions as first and second respectively on the final day of the TampAlt Qualification. Both teams win a free entry to the TampAlt main event Photo: Peter Hasenson December 14-18. Congratulations! To the left is Kay Preddy, one of the Mugs. Important Notice Today’s Schedule Minor Alt All players should enter BBO 10 Friday November 20 minutes before their match starts at 10:00 EST / 16:00 CET – Semifinal (28 boards) the latest. Tournament director Denis Dobrin is waiting for you and will 14:30 EST / 20:30 CET – Final (32 boards) instruct you where to sit. - 1 - Results Minor Alt Invitational IV Round Robin Quarterfinals Semifinals All Results - 2 - Final Result TampAlt Qualification Next ALT event The TampAlt main event takes place December 14-18. This is a Major Alt event for up to 32 teams and still open to new entries. -
Bermuda Bowl
Co-ordinator: Jean-Paul Meyer – Editor: Brent Manley – Assistant Editors: Mark Horton & Brian Senior Proof-Reader: Phillip Alder – Layout Editor: George Georgopoulos – Photographer: Ron Tacchi Issue No. 5 Thursday, 27 October 2005 THE BEAT GOES ON USA1 v Poland on vugraph Three days remain in the qualifying rounds of the Bermuda in close pursuit. Bowl,Venice Cup and Seniors Bowl, meaning that the clock is In the Seniors Bowl, Indonesia took over the top qualifying ticking for teams with hopes of continuing to play when the spot after the previous leaders, the Netherlands, were knockout phases begin. thumped by USA1, 84-16. In the Bermuda Bowl, Italy maintained their stranglehold on At the halfway point of qualifying in the World Computer first place in the round-robin after 12 rounds of play – and the Bridge Championships,Wbridge5 (France) held a narrow lead Netherlands made a move with a dismantling of the USA2 over the defending champion, Jack (Netherlands). team that had been playing so well. The Americans held on to fourth place despite the 93-6 drubbing. VUGRAPH MATCHES In the Venice Cup, China's once-impressive lead – more than a match – had shrunk to barely more than 7 VPs,with France Bermuda Bowl – ROUND 13 – 10.00 Egypt v Italy Welcome, Venice Cup Bowl – ROUND 14 – 14.00 Marc Hodler (Boards 1-16) China v England The 9th World Bridge Championships bid welcome to Bermuda Bowl – ROUND 14 – 14.00 Marc Hodler, president of the WBF World Congress and (Boards 17-20) a life member of the International Olympic Committee. -
Fantoni-Nunes Notes by Daniel Neill Source
Fantoni-Nunes notes by Daniel Neill source: - Vugraph Project (http://www.sarantakos.com/bridge/vugraph.html) - BBO myhands last updated: 9-20-07 news: 1M-2C-2D/S rearrangement Opening Summary: 1C = 15+ balanced (5D-332 ok), or 14+ value 5+C/4441, F1 1D = 14+ value 5+D or 444-1C/1S, F1 1H = 14+ value 5+H (12+ if 4S), F1 1S = 14+ value 5+S (12+ if 4+H), F1 1N = 12-14, any 5422 ok except both M's, 6m ok, all 4441's (!) 2C = 10-13 value, 5C-4other unbalanced, or 6+C (5C-5S has opened 2C before) 2D = 10-13 value, 5D-4M/4+m unbalanced, or 6+D 2M = 10-13 value, 5M-4+m unbalanced, or 6+M 2N = 21-22 bal 3y/4y = pree 3N = was solid 7+crd minor nothing on side Upgrade often. 2/1 GF (2C 3-way), unless if opener has 5-4+ majors. Third/Fourth Seat - 2-bids are (6)8-12 (mb 5332), 1-bids 13+, 2/1 not GF X/XX by unlimited hand shows cards while bids all show minimums, even jumps. Responses: ******************** Opening 1C Responses ******************** 1D = 4+H, 0-11 (X) XX = 18+, cards (takeout doubles) 1H = 4+H 14-17/GF, or 23+ NT - forcing (X) 2m = as normal 1S = was 3433/2533/2443/1525 max 2C = was 4423 20 3C = was 1525 (etc etc) 2H = was 15 4H bal twice 4H = to play 2C = short D: 5+ if sing. or 7+ if doub. 2D = short C: 5+ if sing. -
49Th Asia Pacific Bridge Federation Championships
49th Asia Pacific Bridge Federation Championships Bulletin 9 Bulletin Editor: Mark Horton, Layout Editor: Christine Law 15 June 2013 Photographer: Pin Yuen Wai Champions! Japan at the Double and Australia Don’t forget to duck! In the Open Teams Japan, Indonesia, China and Chinese Taipei cruised into the top four places. With Japan as In this issue Champions and Indonesia already qualified as hosts Thailand Scheduled Matches 2 and Singapore also go into the playoffs. In the Ladies series Japan and Indonesia finished well clear. Today’s programme 5 By defeating Chinese Taipei and New Zealand Australia Open Teams Thailand v Chinese Taipei 6 secured third place. China held on to fourth by defeating the Servant of Two Masters 9 Chinese Taipei, who finished fifth, still good enough to earn Every Hand an Adventure 12 them a playoff spot along with China Hong Kong and Seating Arrangement 17 Philippines. Australia-Australia just pipped Indonesia to top the Results of Open Teams 20 Senior's table. Then came Chinese Taipei. Results of Ladies Teams 21 China HK - Tse, China-China Evertrust , Japan Imax Results of Senior Teams 22 and Thailand 1 will contest the playoffs. Ranking 23 Full details of the playoff schedule are in today's Bulletin. Acknowledgement 24 Meanwhile, in the Zone 7 play offs Australia meet New Zealand in all three contests. Today’s VuGraph Matches 10:00 China v Chinese Taipei (Open) 13:30 To be decided 16:00 To be decided 18:30 To be decided Regal Hongkong Hotel , Causeway Bay, Hong Kong 7 - 16 June 2013 49th Asia Pacific Bridge -
Union of International Associations
INTERNATIONAL ASSOCIATIONS INTERNATIONALES 16E ANNÉE 1964 16TH YEAR AOUT, 8 AUGUST SOMMAIRE CONTENTS ARTICLES ARTICLES Proceedings of international meetings. Analysis of a bibliography, by Anthony Judge ............ 462 East Asia Regional Organisation for Planning and Housing : A brief introduction to its activities, by C. S. Chandrasekhara . 473 International congresses of physical, medicine, by Sydney Licht . 478 L'utilisation rationnelle d'un bâtiment de congrès, par G. P. Speeckaert 487 Le Congresscentrum RAI. palais des congrès d'Amsterdam . 490 L'Organisation régionale de l'Asie orientale pour l'habitation et l'urba- nisme, par C. S. Chandrasekhara (résumé) . 472 CHRONIQUES SURVEYS Congressalia ............... 483 Bibliographie — Bibliography. .......... 492 8th Supplement to the Annual International Congress Calendar 1964 Edition — Huitième supplément au Calendrier annuel des réu- nions internationales, édition 1964 ........ 497 MENSUEL publié par Published MONTHLY by Union des Associations Internationales Union of International Associations Palais d'Egmont, Bruxelles 1 Palais d'Egmont, Brussels 1 Abonnement 1 on : 350 FB, 35 NF, 30 FS Annual subscription : $ 8 or 50/- Proceedings of International Meetings Analysis of a bibliography by ANTHONY JUDGE Research Secretary, Union of international Associations (*) Introduction Meeting : conferences, congresses, symposia, roundtables, conventions, assemblies, etc. The following summary analysis is based on of international governmental and non- "Bibliography of Proceedings of International governmental organizations together with Meetings held in 1958" which has just been the international meetings organized by published by the Union of International As- national organizations. This includes the sociations (**). specialist and technical meetings held under The bibliography contained 1587 reports the auspices of the United Nations and the produced in connection with 1161 meetings on Specialized Agencies. -
Ver Revista En
@ *•••* Editorial ' . ' Calle Juan Hurtado de Mendoza, 1 7 1\ Madrid 28036 1 Tel.: 913 S04 700 Fax.: 913 SOS 4S3 \ e-mail.: [email protected] 1 bridge español se enfrenta en este mes de junio al reto más www.aebridge.com ambicioso de su historia. Tenemos la responsabilidad de orga nizar en nuestro país el Campeonato de Europa de Equipos; y DIRECTOR: tenemos la oportunidad de clasifícar al equipo español, por primeraE vez en la historia, para jugar la Bermuda Bowl {Campeonato del JEFE DE REDACCIÓN: Mundo} sí obtenemos uno de Jos 5 primeros puestos en Tenerife. La European Bridge League {EBL) ha elegido España para celebrar esta Sl!SCRIPCIONES: edición del Campeonato de Europa y ello supone, en primer lugar, una o muestra de confianza que agradecemos. Pero también supone un gran PUBUCIDAD: compromiso para una Asociación Española de Bridge aún modesta por 365 días al ano- tamaño y por medíos materiales, aunque llena de ganas de colaborar a COLABORADORES: que este sea el mejor Campeonato de Europa de todos los celebrados. En el Club Termal del Gran Hotel La Taja podrá estimular La elección de la Isla de Tenerife para celebrar el Campeonato de Europa todos los sentidos al tiempo que experimenta nuevas sensacio asegura un escenario privilegiado. Es una ocasión magnífica para que quienes nunca hayan tenido la oportunidad de vivir una competición nes relacionadas con el agua, en todas sus manifestaciones. internacional de bridge pasen unos días de vacaciones en contacto con su XXIII Torneo juego favorito practicado al máximo nivel. Internacional Tenemos que destacar inmediatamente la gran colaboración de nuestra Y todo, independientemente del tiempo: descubra uno de de Bridge delegación en Canarias, así como la ayuda recibida de las autoridades de Casino de La Toja los complejos termolúdicos más completo de Europa, el Club las Islas, sin la que no hubiera sido posible afrontar esta organización Isla de La Toja En las dos últimas ediciones del Campeonato de Europa, el equipo espa Termal de La Taja. -
Young Turks Win Pairs
1st1st WorldWorld MindMind SportsSports GamesGames YouthYouth TeamTeam ChampionshipsChampionships Beijing-ChinaBeijing-China 33rd-18-18th OctoberOctober 20082008 Chief Editor: Brian SENIOR Editors: Micke MELANDER - Jan van CLEEFF Layout Editor: Panagiotis PAPADOPOULOS Photographer: Wattanai CHANAKOT Bulletin 12 Thursday, 16 October 2008 YOUNGYOUNG TURKSTURKS WINWIN PAIRSPAIRS he new World Junior Pairs champions are Melih Osman Sen and Mehmet Remzi Sakirler from Vugraph Turkey. The last two boards proved to be decisive T There will be a vugraph since the young Turks were almost equal with Ron presentation from today’s Schwarz and Lotan Fisher from Israel. On the penulti- Individual Championship, mate board the Israelis went down in slam while the morning session only. Turkish pair made 3NT with three overtricks. The last board, however, looked splendid for Ron and Lotan, as they made 6NT with an overtrick, while with good def- Today’s Schedule ence only twelve tricks were available. Israel high fived, 10.30 Individual, Session 1 but the party all of a sudden stopped, when rumours spread that Sen and Remzi bid and made 7NT on the 15.30 Individual, Session 2 board. And so it proved to be. After winning the Euro- pean Senior Championships this year in Pau, this meant a second huge success for Turkish bridge. 1st WORLD MIND SPORTS GAMES Beijing, China MIRZA ASFANDIYAR HUSSAIN The Youth event has come and gone but one remark- able player of only 15 years came, played and went back What’s your strength and weakness without being noticed exc- as a bridge player? ept by those who played against him.