Feb
24
How to Figure Billiards Angles
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Paul Travis asked:
For the most part the game of pool is all about angles. At least, the beginner should first learn how to properly aim and figure out the correct angles to make a particular shot before trying to do any of the fancy moves you might see on television or in your local pool hall.
There are really two different angles that you need to consider when starting out. Once the ball is in motion there is the angle at which it bounces off the side of the table and then there is the angle at which a ball moves after it is struck by another ball. We will begin with the table angles as they are easier to understand and figure out.
The key here is to realize that when a ball strikes a straight surface it behaves in a very predictable way. Begin by visualizing a line perpendicular to the edge that the ball is about the strike. By perpendicular I mean, visualize a line that is at ninety degrees to the straight edge of the pool table. This will be our reference line.
Then, the angle that the ball will go in after it hits the side of the table will be exactly the same as the angle that it struck the wall with respect to the reference line. For example, suppose the ball is coming towards the side of the table and the angle between the line along which the ball is moving and the reference line is thirty degrees. Then, after the collision the ball will continue to move along a line that is also at 30 degrees to the reference line but is on the other side of the reference line (i.e., the ball doesn’t come straight back at you unless it is traveling along the reference line itself).
The angle that a ball moves in after it is struck by another ball is a little trickier. It isn’t necessarily more difficult to understand, it’s just difficult to judge when you are playing. The quick answer is that when a stationary ball is struck by a moving ball then it will move in a straight line away from the ball that hit it. This line can be visualized by connecting the center points of the two balls that are colliding, through their point of impact.
To visualize this it is sometimes easier to imagine a phantom ball that moves along the path that the moving ball will be going along. Trace the movement of the phantom ball until it comes in contact with the ball that you are hitting. You want the point where the phantom ball just touches the ball you are hitting. Then, imagine a line through the center point of the ball you are hitting and the phantom ball that goes through the point of impact. This will be the trajectory of the ball after you hit it.
As difficult as this may seem in theory, in practice it becomes much easier the more you do it. As a fun exercise to get used to this it will be useful to line up a bunch of balls and make the same shot over and over again until you develop a feel for how the balls will behave. This is how the pros are able to pull of the amazing shots that they do.
Paula
For the most part the game of pool is all about angles. At least, the beginner should first learn how to properly aim and figure out the correct angles to make a particular shot before trying to do any of the fancy moves you might see on television or in your local pool hall.
There are really two different angles that you need to consider when starting out. Once the ball is in motion there is the angle at which it bounces off the side of the table and then there is the angle at which a ball moves after it is struck by another ball. We will begin with the table angles as they are easier to understand and figure out.
The key here is to realize that when a ball strikes a straight surface it behaves in a very predictable way. Begin by visualizing a line perpendicular to the edge that the ball is about the strike. By perpendicular I mean, visualize a line that is at ninety degrees to the straight edge of the pool table. This will be our reference line.
Then, the angle that the ball will go in after it hits the side of the table will be exactly the same as the angle that it struck the wall with respect to the reference line. For example, suppose the ball is coming towards the side of the table and the angle between the line along which the ball is moving and the reference line is thirty degrees. Then, after the collision the ball will continue to move along a line that is also at 30 degrees to the reference line but is on the other side of the reference line (i.e., the ball doesn’t come straight back at you unless it is traveling along the reference line itself).
The angle that a ball moves in after it is struck by another ball is a little trickier. It isn’t necessarily more difficult to understand, it’s just difficult to judge when you are playing. The quick answer is that when a stationary ball is struck by a moving ball then it will move in a straight line away from the ball that hit it. This line can be visualized by connecting the center points of the two balls that are colliding, through their point of impact.
To visualize this it is sometimes easier to imagine a phantom ball that moves along the path that the moving ball will be going along. Trace the movement of the phantom ball until it comes in contact with the ball that you are hitting. You want the point where the phantom ball just touches the ball you are hitting. Then, imagine a line through the center point of the ball you are hitting and the phantom ball that goes through the point of impact. This will be the trajectory of the ball after you hit it.
As difficult as this may seem in theory, in practice it becomes much easier the more you do it. As a fun exercise to get used to this it will be useful to line up a bunch of balls and make the same shot over and over again until you develop a feel for how the balls will behave. This is how the pros are able to pull of the amazing shots that they do.
Paula
Feb
23
Billiards Pool, Pocketing an opponents ball after first hitting your own with the Cue ball, legal or not?
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spikedhelm asked:
In regular Billiards Pool, if you Pocket an opponents ball after first hitting your own with the Cue ball, do you get to continue your turn or not?
Joy
In regular Billiards Pool, if you Pocket an opponents ball after first hitting your own with the Cue ball, do you get to continue your turn or not?
Joy
Feb
22
Billiard Parlors For Rent
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David H. Urmann asked:
A billiard room is simply defined as a room for group of people who play billiards. There are many billiards parlors nowadays and more and more people including the young and old go to these parlors for night out.
Billiard parlors are exclusively made from the idea of guy’s and ladies time together since it is merely changing these days with the start of billiards parlors or pool parlors. Billiard parlors range from essential to expensive parlors. Upscale billiards parlors normally have a lot of tables that can hold more than 500 guests in few cases and has a bar as well.
A number of billiard parlors can provide accommodation for private parties, shopping, and even parking, with an array of package deals. During the 1990’s the idea of a billiard parlors was just a room with a billiard tables and sticks and balls to play. Most of it had no ambience but is very useful, just made exclusively for playing billiards. At the moment, the billiards parlors have revolutionized as compared to what the previous billiards room was. A contemporary billiard parlor offers ambience drinks, serves food and offers other kinds of entertainment. Wi-fi music and plasma screen televisions are provided to entertain guests. Normally, a billiard parlor has 40 tables or more along with other games like snooker and other indoor games. Ideally, it’s meant for a group of friends who come to play and doesn’t want to be included to other groups or doesn’t want to share their table with anybody else.
Originally, before snooker was invented, Billiards is already a popular game. A set of rules are implemented before you play the game. Billiards is composed of strategy, preparation and excellence. In this game, players as a rule must have a lot of forethoughts before they play. It is somewhat compared to golf. You cannot learn and master them instantly since there are basic rules and regulations and some code of conduct to be followed while playing it. It is a serious game that needs professional attitude with a lot of concentration, thoughts, strategy and then exercise of mind. It is a game of composure and it doesn’t need all that physical activity but only definite postures that you might develop during the game.
Billiard games uses cue. A cue is a long stick that is used to hit the balls that are kept on the billiard board. Cues are held with both of your hands. The players usually hold one end of the cue and then place the tip of the cue between the fingers of the other hand. Both hands work together to fold the cue firmly before it aims a certain ball. On the other hand, the balls that will be used for the game is arranged on a triangular shape and is located just above the billiards table. The cue is used to hit the balls in order to disperse it and then the game continues after that.
The entire game of billiards actually depends on how the balls are hit by the player for the first time. Right after the first shot, the player must be able to strategize his moves and plan how to hit each ball for him to win the game. In short, victory is the result of a planned effort in the billiards game. In Billiards, a trick shot is something that you do to manipulate the balls, but mostly it is unlikely to happen. Trick shots are practiced expensively and looked at with remarkable interest. Most players practice these trick shots and create new trick shots that can be used during the game. Professional players normally include this billiard trick shot as part of their regular game. In artistic billiards the players usually obtain seventy challenges that they need to complete. However, Billiard competitions that allow trick shots regularly allow the players to complete these trick shots. Indeed, Billiard is one kind of game that you can never take as it comes.
Rodney
A billiard room is simply defined as a room for group of people who play billiards. There are many billiards parlors nowadays and more and more people including the young and old go to these parlors for night out.
Billiard parlors are exclusively made from the idea of guy’s and ladies time together since it is merely changing these days with the start of billiards parlors or pool parlors. Billiard parlors range from essential to expensive parlors. Upscale billiards parlors normally have a lot of tables that can hold more than 500 guests in few cases and has a bar as well.
A number of billiard parlors can provide accommodation for private parties, shopping, and even parking, with an array of package deals. During the 1990’s the idea of a billiard parlors was just a room with a billiard tables and sticks and balls to play. Most of it had no ambience but is very useful, just made exclusively for playing billiards. At the moment, the billiards parlors have revolutionized as compared to what the previous billiards room was. A contemporary billiard parlor offers ambience drinks, serves food and offers other kinds of entertainment. Wi-fi music and plasma screen televisions are provided to entertain guests. Normally, a billiard parlor has 40 tables or more along with other games like snooker and other indoor games. Ideally, it’s meant for a group of friends who come to play and doesn’t want to be included to other groups or doesn’t want to share their table with anybody else.
Originally, before snooker was invented, Billiards is already a popular game. A set of rules are implemented before you play the game. Billiards is composed of strategy, preparation and excellence. In this game, players as a rule must have a lot of forethoughts before they play. It is somewhat compared to golf. You cannot learn and master them instantly since there are basic rules and regulations and some code of conduct to be followed while playing it. It is a serious game that needs professional attitude with a lot of concentration, thoughts, strategy and then exercise of mind. It is a game of composure and it doesn’t need all that physical activity but only definite postures that you might develop during the game.
Billiard games uses cue. A cue is a long stick that is used to hit the balls that are kept on the billiard board. Cues are held with both of your hands. The players usually hold one end of the cue and then place the tip of the cue between the fingers of the other hand. Both hands work together to fold the cue firmly before it aims a certain ball. On the other hand, the balls that will be used for the game is arranged on a triangular shape and is located just above the billiards table. The cue is used to hit the balls in order to disperse it and then the game continues after that.
The entire game of billiards actually depends on how the balls are hit by the player for the first time. Right after the first shot, the player must be able to strategize his moves and plan how to hit each ball for him to win the game. In short, victory is the result of a planned effort in the billiards game. In Billiards, a trick shot is something that you do to manipulate the balls, but mostly it is unlikely to happen. Trick shots are practiced expensively and looked at with remarkable interest. Most players practice these trick shots and create new trick shots that can be used during the game. Professional players normally include this billiard trick shot as part of their regular game. In artistic billiards the players usually obtain seventy challenges that they need to complete. However, Billiard competitions that allow trick shots regularly allow the players to complete these trick shots. Indeed, Billiard is one kind of game that you can never take as it comes.
Rodney
Feb
17
Innovation – Key to Game Room Furnishing
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Sarika Kabra asked:
Recreation is the most vital aspect of your daily schedule. It re-vitalizes and re-energizes the body to take on other important chores of life with a renewed vigor. After getting physically and mentally exhausted at the end of a hard day, a good workout with your favorite game does the trick in relaxing all the mental and physical muscles. In a highly paced lifestyle, some of us may not have enough time at our disposal to visit the nearest club or other sporting facility. In such circumstances, we can easily have some spare space in our homes, preferably a separate Game Room, to make arrangements for games suitable for our recreational purposes.
The facility of games of your interest can be easily purchased from the market after satisfying yourself about the price and quality of the product. The diverse game room sport facilities include billiards table, pool table, carrom board, table tennis, cards table, chess table and even combination game tables. The most important thing to be kept in mind while buying sports accessories is that the boards and tables should not exceed the dimensions of the available space in the game room. And after placing them, there should be adequate space available for you to decorate the game room.
Some people might disagree with the idea of furnishing game room. But the best reason to decorate the game room is the idea behind the very existence of game room – ‘recreation’. And recreation is not possible with a monotonous game room. Unless you are surrounded with motivating furnishings, the idea of recreation will remain elusive. And here lies the chance for you to unwind and bring out your best creative talents out in the open. ‘Innovation’ is the name of the game when it comes to furnishing the game room.
The game room, ideally, must have bright background that appeals to the sagging souls. The flooring, roof and wall paints must emit positive vibes by the radiant colors. You can also dabble with a mixture of colors with differently colored walls, differently finished floorings and even roof. Adequate lighting as per specifications of every game must be taken care of. You can innovate by having different colored and different styled lights for different games. You can also have lights positioned at different spots so that they look attractive.
Some kinds of wooden furniture items may also form part of your game room plans. Chairs from Amish made furniture could add to the diversity in the game room. Small Amish handcrafted furniture items like tables, stools and chests could be placed at strategic locations to best serve the interests of the players of different games. Amish furniture is, in itself, a great way to relax purely by the artistic touch it lends to the environment.
You can also get great ideas from browsing online and offline home decoration magazines. These are an excellent source for various leads required in your entire game room furnishing plans. And don’t forget the importance of market research before buying any article for your game room.
Wilma
Recreation is the most vital aspect of your daily schedule. It re-vitalizes and re-energizes the body to take on other important chores of life with a renewed vigor. After getting physically and mentally exhausted at the end of a hard day, a good workout with your favorite game does the trick in relaxing all the mental and physical muscles. In a highly paced lifestyle, some of us may not have enough time at our disposal to visit the nearest club or other sporting facility. In such circumstances, we can easily have some spare space in our homes, preferably a separate Game Room, to make arrangements for games suitable for our recreational purposes.
The facility of games of your interest can be easily purchased from the market after satisfying yourself about the price and quality of the product. The diverse game room sport facilities include billiards table, pool table, carrom board, table tennis, cards table, chess table and even combination game tables. The most important thing to be kept in mind while buying sports accessories is that the boards and tables should not exceed the dimensions of the available space in the game room. And after placing them, there should be adequate space available for you to decorate the game room.
Some people might disagree with the idea of furnishing game room. But the best reason to decorate the game room is the idea behind the very existence of game room – ‘recreation’. And recreation is not possible with a monotonous game room. Unless you are surrounded with motivating furnishings, the idea of recreation will remain elusive. And here lies the chance for you to unwind and bring out your best creative talents out in the open. ‘Innovation’ is the name of the game when it comes to furnishing the game room.
The game room, ideally, must have bright background that appeals to the sagging souls. The flooring, roof and wall paints must emit positive vibes by the radiant colors. You can also dabble with a mixture of colors with differently colored walls, differently finished floorings and even roof. Adequate lighting as per specifications of every game must be taken care of. You can innovate by having different colored and different styled lights for different games. You can also have lights positioned at different spots so that they look attractive.
Some kinds of wooden furniture items may also form part of your game room plans. Chairs from Amish made furniture could add to the diversity in the game room. Small Amish handcrafted furniture items like tables, stools and chests could be placed at strategic locations to best serve the interests of the players of different games. Amish furniture is, in itself, a great way to relax purely by the artistic touch it lends to the environment.
You can also get great ideas from browsing online and offline home decoration magazines. These are an excellent source for various leads required in your entire game room furnishing plans. And don’t forget the importance of market research before buying any article for your game room.
Wilma
Feb
13
How do you make the cue ball come back to you without it toucjing the sides of the billiards table?
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Col. Oliver North for President asked:
I know “english” is what makes it spin and whatnot but I can’t figure out how to put the proper “english” on the ball to act like a boomerange.
Kyle
I know “english” is what makes it spin and whatnot but I can’t figure out how to put the proper “english” on the ball to act like a boomerange.
Kyle
Feb
11
National Collegiate Athletic Association Recreation Room Gear
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Mary Lorainne asked:
With the National Collegiate Athletic Association recreation room gear, you can turn a bare room into a party zone, or you could make it a place where your friends can come over to relax and play poker, shoot some billiards and have a great time enjoying all of the gorgeous choices of licensed products from the NCAA.
For South Carolina Gamecocks fans, there is a special spectator bench you can use to keep your guests comfortable while they watch the action that is happening on the billiard tables. The Spectator Bench is National Collegiate Athletic Association recreation room gear made of durable furniture grade fabric, and is filled with the vibrant images of the South Carolina University logo.
Your guests will be thrilled to play billiards with National Collegiate Athletic Association recreation room gear, which is, by the way, the Officially Licensed College Billiard Balls for South Carolina University. The greatest thing about this attractive billiard ball set is that your team is guaranteed to win every time.
These are the cutest accessories that you could put into any recreation room, and as part of the National Collegiate Athletic Association recreation room gear selections, these balls have been made with no numbers on them. The South Carolina Gamecocks team logo is on every single ball, which makes this billiard ball set truly unique.
The 300 piece poker set found in the South Carolina Gamecocks recreation room choices, will keep friends around throughout the year. In this National Collegiate Athletic Association recreation room gear, poker players will enjoy the fully stocked aluminum carry case that contains every thing you need to play poker for hours.
In the National Collegiate Athletic Association recreation room gear choices, the South Carolina Gamecocks are truly outfitted to have a good time with all of their friends. Items such as the wall mounted bottle opener with South Carolina Gamecocks logo will help them keep refreshments coming with no end in sight.
There are several styles in bar stools that you will find in the National Collegiate Athletic Association recreation room gear choices at South Carolina University. Perhaps you find the classic soda fountain style attractive, with the polished chrome base and padded foam seats that are adorned with the South Carolina logo.
Perhaps you would prefer a bar stool that would provide you with a back support for added comfort. The South Carolina Gamecocks Single Rung Swivel Vinyl bar stool is another bar stool in the large range of National Collegiate Athletic Association recreation room gear choices that is filled with marvelous styling and gorgeous features. The rich colors on the padded bar stool top, will let you show your team spirit all year long, and the seat is chemically treated to prevent stains, so you know it will look great for a long, long time.
The South Carolina Gamecocks Double Rung Swivel bar stool is the perfect seating choice when people just want to hang around. Friends can use these bar stools to laze the day away in great conversation, and is a great National Collegiate Athletic Association recreation room gear choice to use throughout the year.
Derek
With the National Collegiate Athletic Association recreation room gear, you can turn a bare room into a party zone, or you could make it a place where your friends can come over to relax and play poker, shoot some billiards and have a great time enjoying all of the gorgeous choices of licensed products from the NCAA.
For South Carolina Gamecocks fans, there is a special spectator bench you can use to keep your guests comfortable while they watch the action that is happening on the billiard tables. The Spectator Bench is National Collegiate Athletic Association recreation room gear made of durable furniture grade fabric, and is filled with the vibrant images of the South Carolina University logo.
Your guests will be thrilled to play billiards with National Collegiate Athletic Association recreation room gear, which is, by the way, the Officially Licensed College Billiard Balls for South Carolina University. The greatest thing about this attractive billiard ball set is that your team is guaranteed to win every time.
These are the cutest accessories that you could put into any recreation room, and as part of the National Collegiate Athletic Association recreation room gear selections, these balls have been made with no numbers on them. The South Carolina Gamecocks team logo is on every single ball, which makes this billiard ball set truly unique.
The 300 piece poker set found in the South Carolina Gamecocks recreation room choices, will keep friends around throughout the year. In this National Collegiate Athletic Association recreation room gear, poker players will enjoy the fully stocked aluminum carry case that contains every thing you need to play poker for hours.
In the National Collegiate Athletic Association recreation room gear choices, the South Carolina Gamecocks are truly outfitted to have a good time with all of their friends. Items such as the wall mounted bottle opener with South Carolina Gamecocks logo will help them keep refreshments coming with no end in sight.
There are several styles in bar stools that you will find in the National Collegiate Athletic Association recreation room gear choices at South Carolina University. Perhaps you find the classic soda fountain style attractive, with the polished chrome base and padded foam seats that are adorned with the South Carolina logo.
Perhaps you would prefer a bar stool that would provide you with a back support for added comfort. The South Carolina Gamecocks Single Rung Swivel Vinyl bar stool is another bar stool in the large range of National Collegiate Athletic Association recreation room gear choices that is filled with marvelous styling and gorgeous features. The rich colors on the padded bar stool top, will let you show your team spirit all year long, and the seat is chemically treated to prevent stains, so you know it will look great for a long, long time.
The South Carolina Gamecocks Double Rung Swivel bar stool is the perfect seating choice when people just want to hang around. Friends can use these bar stools to laze the day away in great conversation, and is a great National Collegiate Athletic Association recreation room gear choice to use throughout the year.
Derek
Feb
9
Secret Formula For Growing Hair On A Billiard Ball With Balanced Scorecard
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Sam Miller asked:
That is not what the Balanced Scorecard is about; but if you had the secret formula, you might apply this widely-known management tool to help you guide your company to profitability, or greater profitability.
In a long chain of management tools, balanced scorecard stands out by virtue of its nuanced approach to “decomposing” the business to the simplest building blocks. As this is accomplished, clarity of purpose and unity of mission, and goal can be reached. “Can be reached,” and not must be reached. Internalizing the language and methodology of the system, is a part of making the system work.
If you visit the website of the Balanced Scorecard Institute you can find articles about how the Balanced Scorecard works, and you can also find the dates of the next training sessions run by the Institute. Peppered through the site, the Institute engages in sufficient name-dropping to convince even the casual reader that Balanced Scorecard is a significant addition to the list of corporate management tools available today.
Balanced Scorecard grew out of earlier management systems including TQM (Total Quality Management), and has already led to other systems such as Six Sigma. This historic chain, however, doesn’t invalidate the usefulness of the balanced scorecard or scoreboard as a management tool. It is still in fairly widespread use worldwide, and it is supported by a large number of Balanced ScoreCard (BSC) software products from a varied group of vendors.
A simple web search on your favorite search engine will bring up several pages of offerings of BSC software. Many of these offer free tours, and/or free demonstrations. All of these BSC vendors offer training in the use of BSC, (using their products).
The tools in each software product, of course, vary quite a bit, although they seem to all follow the general structure of Balanced Scorecard deployment, use, metrics, analysis, and “decomposition” of the enterprise’s Vision, Mission, and Strategy as delineated in the basic texts of BSC.
Texts, of course, are another source for deeper searches into not only the ins and outs of basic scorecard use, but also into the pros and cons. Case studies should be available from various sources, including, perhaps, some unfavorable, or shall we say “unsuccessful” implementations.
The balanced scorecard system seems quite straightforward at first glance, but as many case histories in industrialization and the pursuit of corporate change have shown, there are chances for “a slip betwixt the cup and the lip.” One of the most prominent potential stumbling blocks which appear in the literature which we scanned seems to be the need for careful planning by the “champion” and the “balanced scoreboard team” to insure that the entire organization “buys-in” to the changes. we don’t believe that the importance of “buy-in” can be overstressed in a system which has the potential of bringing on a massive change in the corporate management model.
The question is how to benefit from using Balanced Scorecard? Interestingly, though, the BSC model can be implemented from the “bottom up,” by starting with a relatively small unit of the enterprise and building on success.
Miguel
That is not what the Balanced Scorecard is about; but if you had the secret formula, you might apply this widely-known management tool to help you guide your company to profitability, or greater profitability.
In a long chain of management tools, balanced scorecard stands out by virtue of its nuanced approach to “decomposing” the business to the simplest building blocks. As this is accomplished, clarity of purpose and unity of mission, and goal can be reached. “Can be reached,” and not must be reached. Internalizing the language and methodology of the system, is a part of making the system work.
If you visit the website of the Balanced Scorecard Institute you can find articles about how the Balanced Scorecard works, and you can also find the dates of the next training sessions run by the Institute. Peppered through the site, the Institute engages in sufficient name-dropping to convince even the casual reader that Balanced Scorecard is a significant addition to the list of corporate management tools available today.
Balanced Scorecard grew out of earlier management systems including TQM (Total Quality Management), and has already led to other systems such as Six Sigma. This historic chain, however, doesn’t invalidate the usefulness of the balanced scorecard or scoreboard as a management tool. It is still in fairly widespread use worldwide, and it is supported by a large number of Balanced ScoreCard (BSC) software products from a varied group of vendors.
A simple web search on your favorite search engine will bring up several pages of offerings of BSC software. Many of these offer free tours, and/or free demonstrations. All of these BSC vendors offer training in the use of BSC, (using their products).
The tools in each software product, of course, vary quite a bit, although they seem to all follow the general structure of Balanced Scorecard deployment, use, metrics, analysis, and “decomposition” of the enterprise’s Vision, Mission, and Strategy as delineated in the basic texts of BSC.
Texts, of course, are another source for deeper searches into not only the ins and outs of basic scorecard use, but also into the pros and cons. Case studies should be available from various sources, including, perhaps, some unfavorable, or shall we say “unsuccessful” implementations.
The balanced scorecard system seems quite straightforward at first glance, but as many case histories in industrialization and the pursuit of corporate change have shown, there are chances for “a slip betwixt the cup and the lip.” One of the most prominent potential stumbling blocks which appear in the literature which we scanned seems to be the need for careful planning by the “champion” and the “balanced scoreboard team” to insure that the entire organization “buys-in” to the changes. we don’t believe that the importance of “buy-in” can be overstressed in a system which has the potential of bringing on a massive change in the corporate management model.
The question is how to benefit from using Balanced Scorecard? Interestingly, though, the BSC model can be implemented from the “bottom up,” by starting with a relatively small unit of the enterprise and building on success.
Miguel
Feb
1
Origins Of The Pool Game
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Gerald Njuguna asked:
Nobody really knows the origins of billiards. The common belief is that the game originated as a game that was played outdoors which was a bit different from croquet that was played early in the 14th century in France. Its said it became quite popular and when the cold weather did not allow the game to be enjoyed outside, it moved indoors and was played on a table that was covered with green felt.
Do you know that when Mary, Queen of Scots, died, she was wrapped in a billiard cloth? Did you also know that pool was the first sport to have a world championship game in 1873? Interesting huh
There are well know historical figures that loved the billiard game. These include King Louise X1V and wife Marie Antoinette, Mozart, Abe Lincoln, Napoleon and George Washington among others.
Back then, billiard balls were made from ivory and were usually carved out from the center of an elephant’s tusk. The elephant tusks could only give you three to 4 billiard balls.
The pool game is said to have the highest average age among its players at about 35 yrs and also said to be one of the safest game in the world
“Billiard” was coined from the French word “billart” that means mace. The mace was a stick with a handle that started to be used with the game called croquet.
It was illegal
In its earliest history, the pool game was outlawed in certain. Its funny that the church in France considered pool as immoral. In the nineteenth century in America, the word “pool” room was used to mean a parlor room for horse race betting and was banned in a number of states in America.
Its said that Thomas Jefferson had a pool table that he hid in his home in Virginia. Nowadays, the terms pool room and billiard room mean the same thing.
Mitchell
Nobody really knows the origins of billiards. The common belief is that the game originated as a game that was played outdoors which was a bit different from croquet that was played early in the 14th century in France. Its said it became quite popular and when the cold weather did not allow the game to be enjoyed outside, it moved indoors and was played on a table that was covered with green felt.
Do you know that when Mary, Queen of Scots, died, she was wrapped in a billiard cloth? Did you also know that pool was the first sport to have a world championship game in 1873? Interesting huh
There are well know historical figures that loved the billiard game. These include King Louise X1V and wife Marie Antoinette, Mozart, Abe Lincoln, Napoleon and George Washington among others.
Back then, billiard balls were made from ivory and were usually carved out from the center of an elephant’s tusk. The elephant tusks could only give you three to 4 billiard balls.
The pool game is said to have the highest average age among its players at about 35 yrs and also said to be one of the safest game in the world
“Billiard” was coined from the French word “billart” that means mace. The mace was a stick with a handle that started to be used with the game called croquet.
It was illegal
In its earliest history, the pool game was outlawed in certain. Its funny that the church in France considered pool as immoral. In the nineteenth century in America, the word “pool” room was used to mean a parlor room for horse race betting and was banned in a number of states in America.
Its said that Thomas Jefferson had a pool table that he hid in his home in Virginia. Nowadays, the terms pool room and billiard room mean the same thing.
Mitchell
