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Model: 8DHS-AB05514 (#X4006)Brand: DHS (Double Happiness Sports)Level: All-Star (4 Star)Handle: Chinese Penhold / Short HandleBlade Ply: 7 Ply Pure WoodFront Side Rubber: Red Hurricane III or G888 Pimples InReverse Side Rubber: Black G888 Pimples In (Rubber color might be reverse)Fitted Play: Loop with quick-attackRecommended features: 1... |
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Product Features*Short/Penhold Handle; 6+ Star Hurricane NO.1; *Pips In (two sides)*All-round*Blade: Hurricane No. 2 Rubber: Hurricane 3 (red) / G555 (black)About DHS:Double Happiness (DHS) is not only the largest table tennis manufacturer in China, but it's one of the national largest sporting goods suppliers... |
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Model: 8DHS-AB05519 (#X6006)Brand: DHS (Double Happiness Sports)Level: Superstar (6 Star)Handle: Chinese Penhold / Short HandleBlade Ply: 5 Ply Professional WoodFront Side Rubber: Red Hurricane III Pimples InReverse Side Rubber: Black Skyline II Pimples In (color maybe reversed)Fitted Play: Loop with quick-attackRecommended features: 1... |
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Something in the region of 87% of the human population of this planet are right handed; and although they will know -- with very few exceptions -- at least one person who is left handed, be it a family member, close friend, work colleague, school pal, or simple acquaintance; they basically take that dominance for granted. This is brought about through ignorance; not in a selfish way, but through the fact that we all live in a 'right-handers' world. As a consequence, they have never had to struggle in the same way as the left hander; who for generations, had to adapt to tools and equipment that were designed to be used in a completely different way. This they have done brilliantly, with little fuss; often being the butt of some uninformed gag. Well things are a changing! Finally the penny has dropped with manufacturers; so much so that there is now a whole host of products available, designed exclusively for the left handed user.
There are far too many to list in one brief article; but as a few examples, you can now acquire, for use in the office or at home, stationery items such as: Ruler -- how good it will be to be able draw a line without the other hand obscuring the measurements. Notepad -- designed with the right edge glued down to allow removal of sheets whilst writing with the left hand. Ballpoint pen -- creating the perfect pen grip which eliminates smudging, by allowing the user to clearly observe what has been written. Scissors -- always create a problem for left handers, so with this alternative style, with the blades reversed, a clear view of the cutting line is always visible. Cheque books are also obtainable -- one of the many awkward things a left-hander has to do is attempt to fill in the stubs. This version has them down the right hand side, so at least you'll be able remember where all your money went! For the handyman/woman out there how about the left handed paintbrush, with its unique handle shape which bends to correspond with the shape of the hand; or maybe a craft knife, with a left-handed locking blade? In the kitchen there is a corkscrew with an anti-clockwise screw; or a can opener which is held in the right hand and the rotary handle turned away from you with the left hand -- on the left side of the tin!
I guess any of the above could be given as a thoughtful present; but if you're looking for the more personal touch how about a ladies leather purse and the gentlemen's leather wallet, each with a completely upturned design, which enables them to be undone, without their contents emptying out everywhere, when opened by a left-hander. Perhaps a manicure set, containing left-handed curved nail scissors for the lady and a Swiss army knife - with scissor blades reversed and corkscrew with an anti-clockwise action; for the gents. Amongst the most exclusive gifts for left handed people is the left handed camera, with its 2 shutter release buttons, one on either side so it can be used comfortably with the left, or right hand. So at long last we are getting there; obviously simple economics will dictate that a high percentage of commodities will continue to be built specifically for the right hander, but it would be interesting and highly amusing to see them trying to use an alternate design with a left hand bias. It is re-assuring to know also that some of history's most important, influential and successful people were themselves left handed. Again, there are far too many to mention, but when you cite the likes of Horatio Nelson; Leonardo Da Vinci; Michelangelo; Pablo Picasso; Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart; Ludwig Van Beethoven; Marie Curie and Albert Einstein it certainly proves to parents of a left-hander that it need not be a handicap. Although it is worth noting that Einstein had problems in almost every subject in school and was frequently labelled as being backwards! But then again those tutors would have been right handed!
Mick Burrows writes for http://www.left-at-the-start.com
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The Ballpoint Almost Died
I reached for it one morning last week as I always do--there it was between my cup of desperately needed fix of morning coffee and my stapler. There it waited for me to assign it a task to begin my day--my ballpoint pen. As always, there's a check or some other document waiting to be signed and sent on its way. Sometimes it's needed for a very pointed personal note directed at one of my colleagues. Let's face it, some tasks can't be handled by a computer or Blackberry.
On that particular day, I gave this useful instrument some thought, although I must admit I'm not one who takes these instruments for granted. After all, on occasion I do collect some of the old ones from the 1950's whenever I come across them in an antique shop. Normally they're forlorn, grouped together in a plastic freezer bag, collecting dust on a vendor's counter, but they can be treasures.
Some can actually tell you where they come from because, just like today, they were given out to promote companies. It's fun to come across those that are imprinted with company logos and information about companies from various parts of the country so long ago. One can assume that some of these companies no longer exist.
It always amusing to read some of the imprinted telephone numbers with those old exchanges like BR for Broadway, or DI for Dickens, that were used in the old days before things got more crowded and hectic, requiring the ten digit numbers we have today.
While I was mulling over some of the old ballpoints in my collection, I decided that on the upcoming weekend, I would take a trip and see my old friend Dave, an antique dealer, who sells his wares out of a stall he rents from a small antique shop in southern Pennsylvania.
Dave collects a variety of old items in his stall and is a repository of knowledge I like to tap into sometimes. He also has a parrot that has a habit of repeating whatever Dave says. I guess it can be helpful if you didn't quite catch what Dave said the first time around, and the instant repeat is available, but sometimes it's downright annoying.
Fortunately on the day I visited Dave, the parrot was busy feeding on a special diet of pellets and seeds Dave makes for him, so I was spared the instant repeats.
I asked Dave if he knew anything about the history of ballpoint pens. He didn't disappoint me.
According to Dave, an American leather tanner named John Loud patented a design for a marking pen that had a roller ball system in it that he used for marking hides. Unfortunately he used a complex three ball system and the ink was a problem, heavily affected by the temperature. It was either too thin and leaked profusely on John causing him to utter nasty utterances, or it was too thick and wouldn't come out at all, also causing the same result. This slight problem prevented it from being produced and, like a vampire at sunrise, the idea fell dormant for a while--make that about 47 years or so.
The idea suddenly awakened in 1935 when a Hungarian journalist named Ladislas Biro had an epiphany as he noticed how his newspaper ink dried so quickly after being deposited on the paper. Fed up with how fountain pens leaked and could rip through newspaper print when he wrote on it, he enlisted the help of his brother Georg who happened to be a chemist, in developing an ink that could be used in a working ballpoint pen.
Working with his brother, a working ballpoint pen was developed. Because of World War II, both fled to Argentina where they set up a manufacturing plant but the pens still had problems—they would only work when held straight up, and even then, they left globs of ink on the paper. It was back to the lab for an improvement. This time a rough ball was used at the end that used capillary action to attract the ink to the ball, rather than depending on gravity.
The new pen attracted the attention of a British government representative who happened to be in Argentina. He thought it would be ideal for World War II pilots when flying at high altitudes where fountain pens would leak, and where pilots had to write at strange angles. The Biros brothers' pens, took to the skies, so to speak, in the British Air Force.
At the end of the war, The Eberhard Faber Company teamed up with the Eversharp Company and bought the rights to produce the pens for the American market but they were a bit slow in bringing the pen to market as someone else stole their thunder. That was one Mr. Milton Reynolds, an enterprising salesman who saw an excellent opportunity to bring it to the American market after he saw the pen in Argentina.
Since there were no American patents for the for the Biros's design and most of the other patents had expired, and being as enterprising a salesman as he was, he ignored the rights Eberhard-Eversharp had and just plain copied the design. Then as The International Pen Company, with a few hundred employees, he began producing the pen. Teaming up with Gimbel's Department store and a great PR campaign, the pen successfully debuted in October 1945 at $12.50 a copy.
Two months later the Miles-Martin Pen Company introduced the British public to the ballpoint pen. Other companies soon entered the market as competition ensued with heavy advertising saturated with slogans, and price wars.
Unfortunately, although greatly improved over the Loud model, most ballpoint pens still leaked, smeared their inks, skipped and were generally unreliable, By 1951, the former king of writing instruments—the fountain pen—regained its crown as people lost interest in the unreliable ballpoint and the novelty wore off.
In order for the pen to make a comeback, someone would have to make some improvements—and as the early fifties rolled on someone did—several actually.
Patrick J. Frawley, A high school dropout who became an enterprising entrepreneur took over a defunct manufacturer of ballpoint parts and a new ink formula from an unemployed chemist, and started his own company to manufacture a leak proof ballpoint pen. This was the first retractable and leak proof ballpoint pen, which he later named the ‘Papermate' pen.
During the same period, a Frenchman named Marcel Bich, who was heavily involved in the manufacture of pen cases and penholders, believed that the ballpoint pen was an excellent innovation that had a future, once it was improved a bit. He set about to get the rights from the Biros brothers and then closeted himself for several years studying all the pens he could get his hands on.
His studious efforts led to the development of a clear barreled, not smearing, reliable and inexpensive pen which sold for 19 cents. In naming it, he dropped the 'h' from his name and came up with what we all know today as the Bic pen. Like the ‘Papermate' pen in the U.S. it was a success overseas, grabbing 70% of the market there by the late fifties. Later after acquiring the Waterman Pen Company, the Bic made it to the U.S. market where it became a popular and inexpensive pen in a short period.
The early fifties saw the Parker Pen Company, a manufacturer of excellent fountain pens, make a successful jump into the ballpoint pen arena with the production of their Parker Jotter pen. The Jotter, a stylish looking pen was a smooth writing reliable instrument with a large ink capacity and came in various point sizes.
Dave turned away from me momentarily as the bird finished the pellets and appeared to be seriously thinking about repeating Dave's last statement to me. The thoughts dissipated as Dave poured some more pellets into the cage and continued.
Dave turned back to me and stated that the ballpoint pen flourished after its comeback in the early fifties and was definitely here to stay now, but as far as he was concerned, he had a fondness for fountain pens. He said they had a certain character that the useful ballpoints could never approach. I agreed with him as I thanked him for the info and he turned back toward the cage as I walked away.
As I made my way passed the other stalls and toward the door I surmised that the ballpoint pen sure didn't have the character of a fine fountain pen but that didn't take away from the enjoyment of searching for the old ones at flea markets and antique shops and adding them to my collection.
Just as I got to the door I could have sworn I heard the bird say: "Writes the first time, every time." Then again, maybe it was Dave.
About the Author
Frank Arcilesi is the author of: Every Day a Bird Learns How to Fly, a 5 star romance/drama novel set in the nostalgic 1950's (www.abirdlearnshowtofly.com) available in ebook format on Amazon Kindle, www.smashwords.com, and in printed version on Amazon.com and other fine online book sellers. He has also authored several short stories also available on Amazon Kindle.
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