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Challenge Ladder
# Active player free registration form - complete your form below
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Last name, then first name: (Sample content: Nixon, Don )
Playing singles: (Sample content: S )
Playing doubles: (Sample content: MD if mens or WD if womens )
Playing mixed doubles: (Sample content: XD )
Birth year: (Sample content: 1942 )
Telephone contact: (Sample content: 317 844-8189 )
E-mail contact: (Sample content: dmn.ez.nni@gmail.com )
Sample registration form to submit:
Nixon, Don S MD XD 1942 / 317 844-8189 / dmn.ez.nni@gmail.com
Submit your free registration form following, copy and e-mail to address below (dmn.ez.nni@gmail.com):
Your name, last name first, then first name - S MD or WD XD - birth year - telephone contact - e-mail
Courtesy fees:
$29.95 Reinstatement for cause first time (not showing up for scheduled match, late to match more than 5 times, reported unsportsmanlike language or behavior)
$ 9.95 Modify or change registration form submitted. No charge for updated changes
$ 9.95 Late challenge match report (ladder order change)
$ 5.95 Challenge match for prize money, plus prize amount
$ 0.00 up to $10 loser pays court fees when charged and if higher than $10, balance is split
$ 0.00 Lower ranked player/team provides balls
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One Match Tournament™ 317 844-8189 |
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160 W Carmel Dr Carmel IN, 46082
#RAWTRI.16106 Exp 12-31
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Don Nixon, Chief Cheerleader, Editor & Publisher, Proofreader
Email: Ref: dmn:marilynmonroe
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One Match Tournament ™
# Have Gun, Will Travel
* if we have to modify your information to fit the format, there is a courtesy fee due
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Wild west action, as a child, this was my favorite show and always wondered how it would be to chase the dream of competition in a life or death drama.
Not suggesting this is life or death, but should be fun. Join us.
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Creative Thinking, Inc 317 844-8189 |
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160 W Carmel Dr Carmel IN, 46082
#RAWTRI.15738 Exp 01-01
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Don Nixon
Email: Ref: dmn:marilynmonroe
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Active player list/directory/id number
#Instructions
* if we have to modify your information to fit the format, there is a courtesy fee due
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All players and teams are located here.
Teams are listed first according to the sequence of the team id#. You can find your information using the search and the ID# from your alphabetical listing. See listing following.
Players are listed alphabetically following.
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Active player list/directory/id number
#O All Team listings follow. To find teams you are on, search for your team ID# or your individual ID#
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The sort order is by team ID# so it's easier to find teams you are on using your individual ID#. The same team will have a different team number for each venue where they are ranked.
Individual listings with ID# are alphabetical by last name following the team listings. It's easier if you use the search feature.
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46082
#RAWTRI.15421 Exp 12-31
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Owner: Nixon II, Don M. - Editor |
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Active player list/directory/id number
*A step by step sign up list -- needs updated Dec 30, 2016 - search for
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It's a little convoluted, so we need to know this information,
MD - men's doubles
MS - men's singles
WD - women's doubles
WS - women's singles
XD - mixed doubles
Location - State (Two letter abbreviation US Post Office uses) and city (or specific club, place to play)
Players last names, in alphabetical order
Oldest player's birth year
So format would look like this for me:
MD IN Indianapolis Derby/Nixon (1939) - playing men's doubles, oldest player born in 1939 (*)
XD IN Indianapolis Muha/Nixon (1942) - playing mixed doubles, oldest player born in 1942
(*) Contact details show first and last names of both players
E-mail should have three separate addresses, but if you click that link your message should be sent to all three.
If you only play with one partner, you can use your personal e-mail, but if you have multiple partners, each team requires a unique address and we usually set up a free account with Outlook. Click the "Website/link:" below to create a new account. It should appear like: **Con_15347_aaaaaSign.jpg*
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One Match Tournament™ 317 844-8189 |
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160 W Carmel Dr Carmel IN, 46032
#RAWTRI.15347 Exp 01-31
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Don Nixon, Chief Cheerleader, Editor & Publisher, Proofreader
Email: Ref: dmn:marilynmonroe
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Advertising, marketing, promotions
*Mark Twain's observation for the spider on the newspaper EZ Filing™
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EZ Classified Advertizing™, (free or flat fee classified advertising listings) a Nixon Newspapers affiliate 317 844-8189 |
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Carmel IN
#EZ.23177 Exp 12-30
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Website Link: www.ezclassifiedz.com/classifieds/classified.php?pid=0&cid=101 |
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Don Nixon, Chief Cheerleader, Editor & Publisher, Proofreader
Email: Ref: USPS Direct Mail
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Announcements
*Passion - can not cross a chasm with two steps
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Ignore the apparent links in green...I liked the image and wanted a regular reminder of what and why I am doing this.
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317 844-8189 |
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Culver IN , 46511
#RAWTRI.15722 Exp 01-31
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Don Nixon
Email: Ref: dmn
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Pickleball: Challenge
*Submit match results
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Click the website link below and look up your name and master ID#. For example, mine is:
Nixon, Don - #RAWTRI.15621 - S MD XD 1942
and the master ID# is: #RAWTRI.15621
This is a challenge ladder. Only the winner needs to update the ladder when their team is ranked below the opponent. Consequently, the loser's ID# will automatically be submitted when you click the "Make offer" button to report the new ranking order.
Suggest you copy and paste your team information in the comments and the system will reorder the rankings.
That will make it easier to post the ranking correctly.
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Pickleball: Challenge
100 #RAWTRI.15619 MD 1942: #RAWTRI.15621 & #RAWTRI.15719 - Nixon/Grow
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Sahm Park ~ US Open Pickleball Championships™ 317 844-8189 |
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6800 E 91st St Indianapolis IN, 46250
#RAWTRI.15619 Exp 12-20
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Don Nixon
Email: Ref: dmn:marilynmonroe
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Pickleball: Challenge
100 #RAWTRI.15723 MD 1942: #RAWTRI.15621 & #RAWTRI.15719 - Nixon/Grow
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Men's doubles: Don Nixon & Wyatt Grow
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Tony Dapolito 317 844-8189 |
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Clarkson & 7th Ave New York NY
#RAWTRI.15723 Exp 12-30
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Don Nixon
Email: Ref: dmn
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Pickleball: Challenge
100 #RAWTRI.15723 MD 1942: #RAWTRI.15621 & #RAWTRI.15719 - Nixon/Grow
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Carmel Clay Parks & Recreation
P 317.843.3861
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Monon Community Center ~ 317 844-8189 |
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1235 Central Park Dr E Carmel IN, 46032
#RAWTRI.15326 Exp 11-20
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Don Nixon
Email: Ref: dmn:marilynmonroe
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Pickleball: Challenge
101 #RAWTRI.15329 MD 1942: #RAWTRI.15621 & #RAWTRI.15719 - Nixon/Grow
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Marco Island Racquet Center Open to the Public
(239) 394-5454.
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Marco Island Racquet Center 317 844-8189 |
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1275 San Marco Rd Marco Island FL, 34145
#RAWTRI.15329 Exp 12-31
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Don Nixon
Email: Ref: Cheetah Challenge
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Advertising, marketing, promotions
Your cash drawer is best measure of effective ads
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If you are not putting more money in your drawer, it makes little difference if you have a great rate or your ads win all kinds of awards.
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EZ Classified Advertizing™, (free or flat fee classified advertising listings) a Nixon Newspapers affiliate 317 844-8189 |
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160 W Carmel Dr Carmel IN, 46032
#EZ.12412 Exp 01-31
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Website Link: www.ezclassifiedz.com/classifieds/classified.php?pid=0&cid=101 |
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Willard P. Rohrer, General/Business Manager
Email: Ref: dmn:marilynmonroe
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Advertising, marketing, promotions
EZ Classified Advertizing™ SOP, category stylebook
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When someone wants to know more about your services, s/he will want to know where you are located and what you offer. Since ads are sorted alphabetically by title, similar services are sorted together. Since the title field is searchable, someone can find your company simply by typing in your specialty.
This category contains several different specific services, so identify the generic subject as the first word in your ad. For instance, if you offer web site hosting and design, say: Internet, web hosting. You could also provide a separate listing which begins: Web site design
Other search parameters: business name, zip code (both 3 digit and 5 digit), price, free items and new items. If you have questions, please use e-mail contact button.
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EZ Classified Advertizing™, (free or flat fee classified advertising listings) a Nixon Newspapers affiliate 317 844-8189 |
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#EZ.7554 Exp 12-31
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Willard P. Rohrer, General/Business Manager
Email: Owner: Nixon, Eugenia H -- Publisher |
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Announcements
A question: what will you do to bring back to life - local journalism
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Indiana Daily Student - comprehensive caledar of events on campus and off
Bowling scores
Name or picture in the paper
High school activities, particularly sports (other school down to kindergarten can get the name in the paper - birthday Class of 1960)
Hillsdale College campaign to improve public middle and high school education
Unlimited content, categories and listings, easy to locate by zip code
Competition between schools in each zip code so all is local and people are interested...remember the old Indiana high school basketball single class and what it
Replace the yellow page directory model (subscription price based on category-church or babysitters)
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Creative Thinking, Inc 317 844-8189 |
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160 W Carmel Dr Carmel IN, 46032
#EZ.56661 Exp 12-25
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Website Link: ashland.news |
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Don Nixon, Chief Cheerleader, Editor & Publisher, Proofreader
Email: Ref: dmn:marilynmonroe
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Advertising, marketing, promotions
♦ Classified SOP, category stylebook - Acceptable ads
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One would think acceptable advertising content would not have to have an exhaustive list of that which will not be accepted. But in this day and age, some folks will think of options we have not considered.
All ads we post are subject to our approval and we will look diligently for those which are not appropriate. Click on the "Website Link:" below and in a case like this one, we would hope to catch it so it would not have been posted and then we would follow up and forward all information we have to the proper authorities.
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EZ Classified Advertizing™, (free or flat fee classified advertising listings) a Nixon Newspapers affiliate |
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#EZ.13501 Exp 12-30
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Website Link: www.news.com/8301-10784_3-9859100-7.html |
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Willard P Rohrer, Classified Advertising Mgr
Email: Ref: CNET Networks - c|net.com
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Shoes, sandals, footwear
Best pickleball shoes for you
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Tyrol Pickleball |
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20 Erb Street West, Suite 1202 Waterloo, ON. Canada N2L 1T2
#RAWTRI.16242 Exp 11-13
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Website Link: tyrolpickleball.com |
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Kevin Huckle
Email: Owner: Nixon II, Don M. - Editor |
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Announcements
Get it first...but...
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first, get it RIGHT!
Not sure the previous owner but think it was a savings and loan building converted to Nixon Newspapers headquarters, and daily Wabash Plain Dealer with re-plated Times Star for mail subscribers.
Note the PLAIN DEALER name carved above the brass front doors and clock* outside at the corner.
The press was in the basement as was newsprint storage which went under the sidewalks on Canal and Wabash streets.
The safe door for secured deposit boxes was never closed and was permanent since its weight would collapse the floor if an attempt to remove it was planned.
Entering the main front door, you passed the stairs to the basement and the office on the left was Nixon Newspapers headquarters for Wabash, Peru and Michigan City newspapers, Nixon Newspaper Associates, Nixon Newspapers, Inc., and Nixon Newspapers Benevolent Association, Inc.
The office to the right was occupied by Joe Nixon (my father) who was General Manager and the middle lobby divided the teller stations so on the right the Plain Dealer classified advertising and subscription operations and on the left, all general administration work for the newspaper operations was conducted. Willard Rohrer occupied the front office to manage all business purchasing, banking, insurance, payroll, taxes, union/labor agreements.
The far balcony offices were for the display advertising sales people when in the office and the front balcony was for the Publisher, Eugenia Hubbard Nixon Honeywell, who was seldom present at the office.
Beyond the far balcony, stairs to the upper floor and exit on Wabash Street may have influenced visitors dealing with the news department or the daily make up production of "hot metal" typesetting for the news and advertising content of the daily printed product.
*The clock was manually operated winding it every 8 days. It was astounding how many people would notice if and when the clock was not on time.
PS: If the photo is not displayed, click the website link below
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Nixon Newspapers, Inc 317 844-8189 |
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2 W Canal St Wabash IN, 46992
#EZ.53072 Exp 12-30
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Website Link: www.ezclassifiedz.com/classifieds/classified.php?pid=0&cid=26 |
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Don Nixon, Chief Cheerleader, Editor & Publisher, Proofreader
Email: Ref: dmn:marilynmonroe
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Years Ago
History of certain tournaments
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The current "US Open Pickleball Championships" in Naples Florida, is considered by many as the best pickleball tournament in the world. Home base is East Naples Community Park with 64 permanent courts, and a brand new Pro Shop facility.
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Creative Thinking, Inc. |
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#RAWTRI.16251 Exp 11-13
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Ref: dmn:marilynmonroe
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Advertising, marketing, promotions
In advertising, what is the difference between news, advertising
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Don Nixon II, former Publisher, Proofreader
Credible sources of information are valuable, respected and reliable. Advertisers like to attempt to gain the same reputation and sources of information often “lend” their reputation to their paying supporters.
It’s begins a tightrope journey from integrity.
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EZ Classified Advertizing™ 317 844-8189 |
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160 W Carmel Dr Carmel IN, 46032
#EZ.47262 Exp 12-30
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Don Nixon, Chief Cheerleader, Editor & Publisher, Proofreader
Email: Ref: Quora question:
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Wanted or needed items
Looking for a hard to find pickleball item
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Click on the web site below and click the icon (above) to submit a listing and fill in your information and a description so it is what you want. When you are finished the check doesn't work so simply copy the content and e-mail it. We will post the listing with that information.
There is no charge...however, if there is obvious content not appropriate it will not be posted. You will be advised and if we are needed to put in the content and there will be a fee.
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Active player list/directory/id number
Nixon, Don - #RAWTRI.15621 - S MD XD 1942
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Cyntheanne Park, Fishers
Ellis Park, Danville IN
Marco Island FL
East Naples Park, Naples FL
Fleischman Park, Naples FL
French Lick Resort, French Lick IN
Garfield Park, Indpls
Gertrude Ederle, NYC
Memorial Park, Lebanon IN
Monon Center, Carmel
Noblesville: Wellington, Ivy tech
Post Road Christian Church, Indpls
Stevens Park, Brownsburg IN
Tony Dapolito NYC
Windsor Village Park, Indpls #RAWTRI.16085
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Windsor Village Park - #RAWTRI.16085 317 844-8189 (O) 777-4389 (C) |
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6510 E 25th St Indianapolis IN 46216, 46082
#RAWTRI.15621 Exp 12-31
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Don Nixon
Email: Ref: dmn
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Pickleball: Courts
Pickleball venue: #RAWTRI.16085
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Windsor Village Park #16085 317 327-7162 |
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6510 E 25th St Indianapolis IN, 46219
#RAWTRI.16085 Exp 12-30
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Email: Ref: dmn:marilynmonroe
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Pickleball: Rankings
See category "Challenge"
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One Match Tournament™ 46032 |
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#RAWTRI.16236 Exp 12-13
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Owner: Nixon II, Don M. - Editor |
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Table Tennis
Table tennis and ping pong
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Creative Thinking, Inc. |
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#RAWTRI.16246 Exp 11-13
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Owner: Nixon II, Don M. - Editor |
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One Match Tournament ™
The Pickleball Gazette: a Challenge Ladder and One Match Tournament™ #1
Fair ranking system, tournament option
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Welcome all players to join the fun for fair competition and opportunity to test your skills to create more enjoyment when there's a winner's prize.
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Creative Thinking, Inc 317 844-8189 |
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160 W Carmel Dr Carmel IN, 46032
#RAWTRI.16258 Exp 12-10
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Website Link: www.radioad.org/wtri |
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Don Nixon, Chief Cheerleader, Editor & Publisher, Proofreader
Email: Ref: dmn:marilyn monroe
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US Open Indoor Championships ®
US Open Indoor Championships ®
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*Submit match results
Click the website link below and look up your name and master ID#. For example, mine is:
Nixon, Don - #RAWTRI.15621 - S MD XD 1942
and the master ID# is: #RAWTRI.15621
This is a challenge ladder. Only the winner needs to update the ladder when their team is ranked below the opponent. Consequently, the loser's ID# will automatically be submitted when you click the "Make offer" button to report the new ranking order.
Suggest you copy and paste your team information in the comments and the system will reorder the rankings.
That will make it easier to post the ranking correctly.
This is a challenge ladder. Ranking changes only when a player or team is ranked lower and wins the match.
The player or team will submit the win result against (player or team id#) prior to 7pm on the day of the match.
The winning player or team will take that ladder position the loser player or team will move down one position and all players ranked lower will move down one position.
The new ranking ladder will be published and posted by 8am the following day, except Sunday.
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US Open Indoor Championships ® 317 844-8189 |
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160 W Carmel Dr Carmel IN, 46032
#RAWTRI.16179 Exp 12-23
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Website Link: www.radioad.org/wtri |
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Don Nixon, Chief Cheerleader, Editor & Publisher, Proofreader
Email: Ref: dmn:marilynmonroe
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US Open Indoor Championships ®
Vendor Potential: Sponsor/partner - vendor: trophy
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Store Location 1: 3770 N. Newton St. | Jasper, IN 47546 | Toll Free: 1-888-DISINGER | Tel: (812) 482-4833
Store Location 2: 8670 West State Road 56 Suite 1318. | French Lick , IN 47432 | Tel: (812) 936-5885
Store Hours: Mon - Tue: 9:30am - 5:30pm | Wed, Thur & Fri: 9:30am - 7:00pm | Sat: 9:30am - 4:00pm | Sunday: Closed
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French Lick Resort, Disinger Jewelers |
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3770 N. Newton St. Jasper IN, 47546
#RAWTRI.15414 Exp 12-31
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Website Link: www.disinger.com/Index.aspx |
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Ginger Riley
Email: Ref: dmn:marilynmonroe
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Years Ago
Wabash (IN) Nixon Newspapers - 1952 and continuing
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Willard Rohrer (WPR) became my official mentor when I began to work at the family’s Wabash newspaper business office through the summer of 1960, then full time after IU graduation.
WPR worked at Wabash’s First National Bank around 1930 before he was recruited by Don Nixon (DMN) - my grandfather, and his good friend, Mark Honeywell (MCH) who inherited a large role at that bank during the depression since he was one of the few in town who still had money. A good portion was there on deposit. Mark hired some hotshots to keep the bank solvent. One, Burt Allen, came from Milaca MN, as did Ralph Sherping. Each had noticed WPR’s proficiency, in particular, how he had always balanced and then readily helped with other assignments by 3:01pm when banks usually closed their only lobby to the public.
Honeywell felt beholden to DMN because MCH spent winters in Miami Beach FL before it was easy to travel back and forth. DMN had taken over during one such absence to fix things after fire destroyed part of Honeywell's local factory.
Shortly after WPR began at the Plain Dealer, a stroke, which impaired his entire right side, left him unable to easily get around. His recovery took longer than usual, too, and throughout, DMN continued to pay his regular salary. From the time Willard returned to work until he retired in 1965, he took no vacations as a means to try to "pay back" what he felt he owed the Nixon family and contributed significantly to its business success.
WPR influenced my selection as his successor as company controller and official Secretary-Treasurer. He outlined the repetitive duty cycle and helped by sitting beside me as I was in his chair each day for a month, then would stay home but was available for the next year, on call for any situation, including International Typographical Union contract negotiations in Peru and Wabash. Although it seemed so much like throwing a non swimmer into deep water, WPR had supreme confidence his training system would work. WPR's one month and its follow up was a more thorough education than any Masters and PhD program of how to best operate a small local newspaper.
He could tell precisely how I was doing by how often I called, what I questioned. He anticipated my problems. I should have had that figured out from my summer apprenticeships as he was actually training me then. I would re-calculate previous years income tax. After reviewing my calculations, his review would often begin, "Well, that's very good work, and we will probably have to file an amended return, but, if you look in this file drawer, in that folder, you may discover information which might influence your outcome."
Sure enough, there was specific evidence which confirmed his original calculation.
Because of his physical impairment, he was sensitive about feeling clumsy and seldom left Wabash for anything. His wife, Mary, drove him to the office each morning about 7:30 then picked him up just after 4 pm. He kept his current working stack of papers on the left hand corner of his over sized desk in a well worn Art James manilla file folder a couple of inches thick. Usually it was adjacent to the daily exchange newspapers which he paged through each afternoon.
If you wanted information about any employee or where s/he was, whether in Wabash, Peru, Michigan City or Hammond LA, at any time, day or night, he would know where s/he could be found and likely, too, the establishment's telephone number. The puzzle for how he did remains unsolved. He only kept a Wabash phone book in his office and there was no such thing as a database or Rolodex, but he knew barbers, bars, hospitals, and it seemed, everything else. Although I don't think he ever went to Hammond, trips to Michigan City had ended after his stroke and excursions to Peru were infrequent.
I speculated he reviewed each canceled payroll check and followed any trail endorsements led.
In the 60's, newspapers were the dominant news source, particularly local news, especially in small communities as Wabash. The local radio station, WARU, which served WAbash and PeRU, concentrated on Peru, a slightly larger market. Television was virtually non existent, with only two Indianapolis stations and one in Ft. Wayne available over the air. A decent outside antenna on a tower with directional motor was required for consistent reception. These stations’ local news didn’t include neighboring counties or any as far away as Wabash was.
Sometimes, an influential advertiser or prominent citizen would drop by our office and want page one coverage on some event s/he had a special interest to promote and more passionately, request or demand something be kept out of the next day’s edition. When requested to downplay coverage, WPR would usually explain his counter, which, after offered, never was accepted.
WPR would permit the person to select any place in the newspaper except the front page, on any day of publication, to publish: "I will pay $5 to everyone who calls me at 563-2131 before noon tomorrow." If s/he paid out less than $100, WPR would permit altering any offending story.
His thought was nothing could be buried inside and not read. Even on the front page it wouldn’t be missed but he felt confident of his offer so he wouldn’t need the most obvious place for exposure. The first rule of effective communication, getting someone to pay attention, was likely influenced by the law of big numbers, which meant even with the Plain Dealer’s 6,500 subscribers, which included about 2,500 through the mail thus delivered the next day, the 4,000 copies distributed the day of publication, were enough for someone to notice the offer and likely incentive to tell enough friends who would also tell friends, so only 20 calls would be needed to cover WPR’s challenge.
Back then, many newspapers placed classified ads as "run of the paper" which meant line ads were used as fillers throughout the publication which presumably made people search through the paper more carefully to find those tiny information nuggets. Incidentally, those “fillers” and other “shorts” which were used to make the lead type completely fill the column in a chase (page form), always had the highest readership marks in content surveys and were still used by the Reader’s Digest until recently. Most older readers remember fillers fondly. WPR was confident 1% of the readers, which would have been more than 8,000 people (160) would respond with a call for a $5 reward. (Incidently, Reader's Digest has re-instated a few shorts.)
Soon after learning about WPR’s method to avoid non staff editing, we subscribed to an advertising copy writing course by Clyde Bedell who claimed this classified ad in The New York Times: "Wanted, person to drive my car to Los Angeles, CA," had nary a single response. Bedell changed one word so it read: "Wanted, person to drive my Cadillac to Los Angeles, CA," and was overwhelmed with volunteers.
Later in the course, Bedell asserted people would read more of a letter with a PS, even direct mail, than one without. Research indicated the PS was often better read than the letter itself.
About that time someone mailed me a letter using the secretarial signature line you asked about, which I thought was clever. Distinctive enough, I would flatter them, so I began to imitate that practice. Clearly I didn’t want to flatter them enough to remember who it actually was and give credit where due.
I experimented with Gina Lollobrigida, Marilyn, Bernice Kelly (who actually was my secretary) Christie Brinkley, Cindy Crawford and occasionally would get asked the same question you asked. Not too often, but enough to note that traditional mark tweaked enough impression to inquire or comment. Some speculate for every one who does ask, at least ten more want to. I seldom got comments about any of the other test names and not once about Bernice’s.
Rarely, any notion their impression was negative was not easy to misinterpret. Usually a hint of appreciated whimsy encouraged me to continue the practice. Over time, strong advocates subscribed to the mission to change attitudes toward working women as if women had never been required to ever work before at anything. I found out quickly many women had no sense of humor and took every issue pertaining to that issue quite seriously.
Usually my response was to use that tiny device as a litmus test and react accordingly. I would usually edit it for legal responses to be precisely accurate, but not always.
Finally I determined to make regular, routine use of it after I read John Nixon's (JRN) lengthy memo about a complaint he claimed to have received, which seemed to me so frivolous I was surprised JRN would ever invest so much of his time to write a memo to me, let alone try to modify its use or forbid me to use it in my business correspondence. By this time I had enough feedback to know how it served my purpose. I was also convinced he was not owning up to the true identity of his anonymous complainant.
So, after more than a half century of use, I still note when someone notices. And still, I’m always a little smug at each occurrence, so thank you.
Although now I might tweak the end of a letter's information in using an e-mail format, I still get away with using it as my seniority status encourages forbearance for almost all of my idiosyncrasies and offenses which seem to be tolerated, or forgiven. By now, there are also too many who don't know who Marilyn is/was. Especially those who don't understand they have become a beneficiary for the efforts made to respect all working women, which has been long overdue and which I fully support.
See: The New Grave Robbers - NYTimes.com
Today the right of publicity clearly allows people to control the commercial use of their names and images during their lives. What happens after death is much murkier.
Throughout much of the world, the right of publicity ends at death, after which a person’s identity becomes generally available for public use. In the United States, however, this issue is governed by state laws, which have taken a remarkably varied approach. In New York, the right of publicity terminates at death; other states provide that the right of publicity survives death for limited terms. But in Tennessee (whose laws govern the use of Elvis Presley’s image, since he died there), Washington (home of a company that purports to own Jimi Hendrix’s right of publicity) and Indiana (where CMG Worldwide, which manages the identities of hundreds of dead people, is based), control over the identities of the dead has been secured for terms ranging from 100 years to, potentially, eternity.
In a case involving Marilyn Monroe, the California Legislature even created a retroactive right of publicity, establishing new private property interests in the identities of the long dead. (It didn’t work, because a court later found Monroe was a resident of New York when she died. Her identity remains in the public domain.)
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/03/28/opinion/28madoff.html?nl=todaysheadlines&emc=tha212
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Chapter 23: Jane, Merv and Stuffy
“Tell me about Dewey,” I asked the pretty young woman sitting at her desk.
If she was surprised by that opening, she didn’t show it.
Dewey -- a combination schnauzer and poodle – was fine, she reported.
The woman was Jane Pauley, who had recently become the co-host of NBC’s “Today” show, America’s top-rated morning news-information program.
Harold Chatlosh and I had come to New York for three days, the first step in carrying out Nixon Newspapers’ latest publishing idea: whether books printed on newspaper presses could be viable products.
The idea had germinated with Bob Schwartz, a business professor who taught a course in creativity at Purdue University –Westville, some ten miles south of Michigan City. Schwartz knew the Nixons through his friendship with Bob (the father) and George (the son) Averitt, who, combined, were the publishers for the News-Dispatch for more than fifty years.
Not long after I wrote the “Hoosiers in Washington” series, Don Nixon and I were brainstorming ideas one spring afternoon. The series had received lots of positive feedback in communities served by NNI papers and those that bought the articles.
Don and I discussed Indiana and Indiana-connected people who might be worth a project. George Steinbrenner, owner of the New York Yankees (who would later win the World Series under his proprietorship), and Jean Young, wife of UN Ambassador Andrew Young, intrigued us. Steinbrenner had gone to Culver Military Academy (Don’s alma mater) and was an active alum. Mrs. Young had attended Manchester College in northern Wabash County.
But then, Don asked, “How about Jane Pauley?”
Bingo.
“Can you write 15,000 to 20,000 words,” he asked with a smile.
Yes, I said, if I can get Pauley on tape for a few hours. But how would we market it?
We can decide that later, Don replied.
Pauley had graduated from Indiana University (Don’s alma mater, too) just six years earlier and, after dabbling in political work, been hired by Indianapolis television station WISH, Channel 8, as a reporter. She was the epitome of a fresh face. As one television executive told me, “She can take a close up.”
Pauley’s popularity soared quickly, prompting the NBC affiliate in Chicago to hire her as an anchor. But her reception by Chicago Tribune television critic Gary Deeb was as cold as the wind coming off Lake Michigan. He wrote that she had the IQ of a cantaloupe.
Deeb’s dig didn’t matter. Pauley connected with Chicago viewers the same way she had with Indianapolis folk. NBC honchos in New York took note.
Now, in the summer of 1977, she was co-anchor of Today with a guy named Tom Brokaw.
Don and I decided we could successfully produce a “paperback book” priced much less than the current $1.95 to $2.25. All we had to do was get Pauley and NBC to cooperate.
Pauley agreed to the project, because, she told us later, we were Indiana people.
After scheduling interview time with Pauley through NBC’s publicity department, I called her parents in Indianapolis to request a visit before going to New York. They agreed, which was important, because I needed preliminary information about her to form a long list of questions.
The Pauleys were gracious hosts in their neat, modest home on Indianapolis’ east side. We spent two hours chatting over coffee and cookies.
When I asked about Gary Trudeau, the popular creator and cartoonist of perhaps the No. 1 comic strip in the country, Doonesbury, they politely demurred. Trudeau and Pauley were reportedly dating. They confirmed, however, that Trudeau had visited their home and cooked breakfast one morning.
But I couldn’t use that. Pauley made it clear before our first interview that she would not talk about her most private matters, such as her salary and relationships – which I fully understood and accepted.
As we had done on our Washington project, Chatlosh and I drove to New York, where we got a room at the Americana Hotel, not far from NBC studios.
Before sunrise the next morning, July 11, a security guard greeted us at NBC’s studios located at 30 Rockefeller Center. He checked his clipboard and found “Ray Moscowitz and friend” on it. Minutes later, we were being offered donuts and coffee in the “Green Room” as another Today Show was about to begin.
The show’s weatherman – a fellow who preceded Willard Scott whose name I can’t recall – made us comfortable, explaining things. As we were watching the opening segments, Tug McGraw, the noted left-handed relief pitcher for the Philadelphia Phillies, appeared. McGraw, who had become famous as a New York Met when he coined the expression, “You gotta believe,” was scheduled for the show. He was a down-to-earth guy who extended his hand for a shake. Like most athletes, McGraw faded from public view after his career, but his fame was rekindled later, when it was revealed that noted country singer Tim McGraw was his long-lost son.
After the show, we joined Pauley in her small office. She was open and animated as Chatlosh took dozens of candid photos. Merv Hendricks, who later designed a sixteen-page tabloid, chose several head shots to form what he called “A Jane Pauley salad” of twelve close-ups that connoted her mannerisms and personality.
During our three days in New York, I interviewed not only Pauley, but others associated with Today. We chatted with Paul Friedman, the show’s 32-year-old executive producer, in the control room before the first day’s show. An interview with Floyd Kalber, the veteran news reader who worked briefly with Pauley in Chicago before joining the Today crew, produced some telling quotes.
In a column Hendricks wrote after the project was completed, he noted that Don Nixon and I still weren’t sure how to market what we had after Harold and I returned to Wabash. We would soon find out.
Barbara volunteered to translate several hours of taped interviews, the first step toward getting Pauley’s brief, but attention-grabbing, life on paper. One evening I heard her chuckling. “Good quote?” I asked, stepping into our home office.
“No,” she responded. “Listen to this.”
She replayed a few seconds of me snoring. In the wee small hours of the first night, Chatlosh was still awake, listening to me saw off Z’s. He turned on the tape recorder and announced what the listener was about to hear. He has told that story on me several times over the years.
It took Barbara a few days to completed her task, which required dozens of 8 ½ by 11 sheets of paper.
I worked at home. My goal was to write a first draft in three days – even though I had never dealt with so much material. I began organizing the transcript, dividing it into sections dealing with various aspects of her life. Once that was finished, I laid the piles on the floor of our office. The piles covered the entire carpet, save for a path to the door.
I crawled around on my hands and knees, reading through the piles and taking notes. Finally, I was ready to organize the material into a narrative, which was not difficult.
Now I was ready to sit down at my old, black Royal typewriter and start writing, now knowing what my defining paragraph would say.
As I finished using segments of notes, I removed them from the floor. Barbara peeked in periodically to see if I needed anything. On the afternoon of the first day, she remarked, “I’m beginning to see the carpet again.” Her light remark gave me a boost.
As Hendricks reported in his column, while I was writing one day, Harry McDaniel of Kroger’s Indianapolis advertising and marketing office stopped in to see Don, who mentioned our Pauley project. We’re calling it “Portrait,” Don said, because that’s what it was – a portrait of someone, not a full-blown biography.
McDaniel knew Pauley’s dad, who at that point had worked eighteen years for Dean’s Foods, a dairy products company. McDaniel said he was interested, and Don said he would make the first passages available to him.
A few days later, McDaniel read the first 3,000 words of the nearly-17,000-word manuscript. He liked what he saw, which would lead to a test product that consisted of sixteen tabloid-size pages of text, photos and Kroger institutional advertising.
Kroger decided to distribute XXXXX? copies in stores located in Wabash, Peru, Marion, Frankfort, Lebanon and Brazil. Some copies were marketed free with a coupon, while others sold for ten cents or twenty five cents with a coupon.
Kroger promoted the Jane Pauley Portrait in its ads, and Hendricks wrote a promo for the local newspapers involved. The product rolled off the Plain Dealer presses in late September 1977.
The response from readers was solid, but Kroger chose not to buy additional copies after the test was completed. Don and I were disappointed, naturally, but he had gotten wind that the IGA grocery stores in Michigan might be interested. Don arranged to make a presentation, which resulted in IGA buying XXXXX? copies. The stores reported good success and feedback, prompting IGA officials to ask if we were planning another Portrait.
We were. But we couldn’t tell them who it would be, because we didn’t know who would agree to participate. That, in fact, proved to be our biggest problem. Two prominent athletes, through their agents, declined our offer when they learned they would not be paid a fee. The publicity didn’t matter to them. Money, indeed, talks.
But a second “Portrait” would eventually materialize.
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Wabash (IN) Plain Dealer: Merv Hendricks
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From: Merv Hendricks (mhendricks2@isugw.indstate.edu)
Sent: Tue 11/11/08 12:13 PM
To: Don Nixon II (dmnixonii@hotmail.com)
Hi, dmn (been a while since I typed that),
It will be next week or the week after, though. I am tied up in editing and designing an 80th anniversary publication for the Hoosier State Press Association — you remember it — and I have until the weekend to finish a 64-page tab. I have 20 pages finished right now, so that tells you what I will be doing with my hours away from my day job this week and weekend. I have been so busy with stuff that I must admit that I have not even looked at the links you sent. I will, however, before we meet by phone and will share them with the group.
And while I have your eyes, Don, let me say that I never appreciated how good Nixon Newspapers was and how good you were as a publisher until some years after I was gone. My days in Wabash, as I look back with white hair, were the best of my career. Yes, I was in some ways a bigger dog in Terre Haute at the papers here, but it never was as much fun, it was never as good of a culture, it was never as positive a place as was Wabash. When I think about a paper being connected with its community, I think of Wabash in those days when NNI was in charge. I really felt that we in the PD newsroom — and the PD in every department -- got to know the community and appreciate it, even though we had a changing cast of characters.
I also know now, which I didn’t know then, how much you let us, encouraged us to effectively experiment. Take the Saturday tab for instance. You gave us a toy and let us play with it. That was gutsy, given that we were all pretty much 20-something snots.
I also recall what I call big ideas that you and Ray foisted upon us — the Sunday paper covering the ceremony of the Wabash light, Ray and Harold’s trip to the Jimmy Carter White House, the Jane Pauley tab, the Bicentennial edition, the 1979 anniversary edition, the Ray Kroc tab. That proved to me that it did not take a major metro to do major metro kinds of projects. Hard work — damn straight! — but rewarding, educational and, after the pain ceased, points of pride.
For all of that and more memories whose brain cells have died, I thank you, first. I thank your late, great dad. And as I often have, I thank Ray, who I generally call or e-mail on Sept. 15, the day I started at the PD (1976).
I regret I was not more appreciative at the time and that I was often a problem in my behavior. If I could take back anything in my professional life, it would not be mistakes or bad news judgments, it would be bad behavior. It’s a wonder I wasn’t fired over and over and over. I deserved it too many times. Thank you for your support.
I still have, BTW, notes you sent me, usually written in blue grease pencil if I recall correctly, complimenting the newsroom on one thing or another. Those are still meaningful and will stay in my files as long as I live.
More than you wanted to know, dmn, but I never could write short!
Peace, love and rock-and-roll,
-- Merv
PS Now comes the hard part...getting it done...dmn follow the journey with us. The web site below was an effort to model local landing pages for every zip code with links to local activities. And use the original family newspaper name in Terre Haute IN: Spectator
I designed a custom program for unlimited content for local news and activities. It was modeled after the classified advertising section of the newspaper so it was easy to find specific items or businesses. Still waiting patiently to make progress. See the category following...and click: pickleballgazette.com
Follow up -- dmn
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