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We, the People - project to make your vote count, and no, it will not cost a dime
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Note: #EZ.53115 listing position at top (out of alpha order w/special code)
No $
Vote - not how or who
Make it count
Invitation for you to be:
We, the People - (545 vs. 330,000,000 People-By Charlie Reese)
Require and agree to send to 5 people to duplicate the message and process and decline if solicited by a person already on the list.
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Banks, Finance, Grants, Insurance, Loans, Mortgages, Securities, Stocks
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These are current domain names I have registered for my use as needed. Some may direct you to others and some are not currently used. Some have identical content but are displayed differently.
The purpose is to determine the best result for the content posted. Request your perspective and appreciate your interest.
Not likely to change fonts or sizes although understanding html may change your own content so the content has easy access/attention for all and relies on the content rather than the tricks to get your attention.
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Creative Thinking, Inc 317 844-8189 to call Don |
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160 W Carmel Dr Carmel IN , 46032
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Don Nixon, Chief Cheerleader, Editor & Publisher, Proofreader
Email: dmn.ez.nni@gmail.com Ref: dmn:marilynmonroe
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Follow up -- dmn
# Active player form for free registration
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ACD
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INSRA
Zip areas
Invitation
Pickleball - gender and age neutral, friendly groups, quick learning/fun test to challenge find skill level
Pallidin
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US Open Indoor Championships ® 317 844-8189 |
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Don Nixon, Chief Cheerleader, Editor & Publisher, Proofreader
Email: dmn.ez.nni@gmail.com Ref: dmn:marilynmonroe
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EZ Filing™
A Bank Partner Options - 39 branches total, Indianapolis ?
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Partner with Welcome Neighbor Advertizing/EZ Classified Advertizing (put Zing in your efforts)
Listings for each bank account commercial client - (# x) guaranteed results or no charge/flat fee
Listings for each bank account persona client - (# x) garage sale, wanted items
Test period: 6 months
Option: input by client
kube (walking fingers)
whmbtv - partner
wtri US Open Challenge - check to winners
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A tale, master of some
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History written and lived as and by for almost 80 years:
Accountant
Boy Scout - Life
CASA volunteer
Choir: Church, College, High School
Coach: College, High School, recreational
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EZ Filing™
Auburn Evening Star - Auburn Cord Duesenberg Labor Day weekend
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There is a story about this Labor Day weekend event and how it did not move to Connersville in 1970, courtesy of:
John Martin Smith
Jack Randinelli
Don Nixon
Tom Nixon
and a few other Jaycees
Labor Day weekend attracts 100,000 for the previous 50 years. The highlight is the auto auction, which funded the museum restoration.
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AUBURN CORD DUESENBERG AUTOMOBILE MUSEUM 260 925-1444 |
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1600 S Wayne St Auburn IN, 46706
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EZ Filing™
Circus City - Peru, Indiana
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Peru Daily Tribune project
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Circus City Festival, Inc. 765 472-3918 |
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154 N Broadway Peru IN, 46970
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Follow up -- dmn
Creative Thinking, Inc.
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I began working for the family newspaper business at the Peru (IN) Daily Tribune in 1952 answering telephones providing basketball scores for the Indiana High School State Basketball Tournament.* I graduated to a home delivery carrier at the Wabash (IN) Plain Dealer from 1954-1956.
Throughout high school and college, I worked in various Plain Dealer departments as printer's devil, photographer, advertising inside classified sales, circulation and distribution delivery. After I graduated from Indiana University with a major in Economics and Mathematics in 1964, I began working full time as corporate secretary and treasurer and director for all the companies including Nixon Newspapers Benevolent Association, Inc.
In 1969, my US Army unit was ordered to Viet Nam. The order was canceled shortly after I had already hired and trained my replacement. At that time, three Indiana daily newspapers (Wabash, Peru and Michigan City) and one in Hammond, Louisiana, which was purchased in 1962, and the management partnership completed the organization.
At that time, the newspaper production process was changing from hot type metal to cold type and offset printing. The family decided to pursue growth by purchasing additional properties. In 1970, I helped negotiate purchase of the Frankfort Morning Times and Auburn Printing Company, which also published the Evening Star. I was publisher in Auburn. It was sold in 1972. I returned to the Wabash Plain Dealer as publisher. I also established Creative Thinking, Inc. for special projects.
To expand our Wabash and Peru printing capabilities, these weeklies were purchased or established:
The Swayzee Press,
Culver Citizen,
Pulaski County Journal,
North Judson News,
TV Plus, a television channel guide for Indiana newspapers and several local high school and college publications.**
Indiana Racquet Sports (monthly)
Portrait ***
Nixon Hoosier Feature Service****
To expand our content penetration, we built the Frankfort CATV franchise, which was later sold. Eventually we added these Indiana newspapers: New Castle, Brazil, Connersville, and in Illinois, Hoopston and Watseka
I was also a minor Kokomo Tribune partner and helped negotiate its sale to Thompson Newspapers in 1981. My mother’s grandfather was an original founder.
After Nixon Newspapers was sold in 1998 to Paxton Media and I created an Internet business model for schools, radio and television stations.
The backbone of newspaper revenue was display advertising from grocery, drug and local department stores like Sears and Penney’s. It also changed from rop (run of paper) advertising to free standing inserts, which we printed commercially. During my early career, I considered working for the New York Times as pinnacle of success, but later concluded it was better to provide a reliable local product to friends and neighbors.
And I measured success by subscription renewals. Every month to month comparison from year to year I was publisher, audited paid circulation increased.
An avid sports participant, I coached Tri State College’s soccer team in Angola when I was at Auburn and initiated girls high school teams in Indianapolis at Broad Ripple, Lawrence North, Hamilton Heights and Arlington, which had no team and was virtually all boys. *****
* (remember the movie Hoosiers)
** TV Plus provided listings which were accurate when Indiana had several counties with different broadcast times unique to that city
*** Portrait was feature length biography in tabloid format which was distributed and sold through the Kroger stores in Ohio and Indiana: subjects included: Jane Pauley, Merv Griffin, Ray Kroc
****Special news features were sold to other newspapers including Wabash Plain Dealer Reporter Earleen Early participating for Nixon’s Ping-pong diplomacy trip to China
*****When at Auburn the annual classic car reunion and swap meet plan to relocate was abandoned after the Evening Star encouraged and coordinated the Labor Day auction, which funded preservation of the old factory now a museum and still going strong after 50 years. (The plan was later used to create the Peru Circus City Festival, which is almost the same age and ongoing)
Link:
https://automobilemuseum.org
Here’s what people say:
From: Merv Hendricks (mhendricks2@isugw.indstate.edux)
Sent: Tue 11/11/08 12:13 PM
To: Don Nixon II (dmnixonii@hotmail.com)
Hi, dmn (been a while since I typed that),
Heard your message from earlier this morning.
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
and at the website link: (It’s what the folks on the time share listings category think of it.)
The time share link is:
http://www.radioad.org/whmbtv/classifieds/listings.php?catcode=Timeshare
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EZ Filing™
Culver Class of 1960 birthday greeting
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Click the website link below for message if the graphic is not displayed at this site.
The class roster provides updated information for each member and also provides a quick method to provide sensitive news virtually immediately.
Activities:
Band
Bowling
Bridge
Choir
Crew
Fencing - epee, foil
Golf
Racquetball
Rifle
Sailing
Soccer
Softball
Table tennis
Tennis
Water skiing
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Business opportunities, Franchises, Investments
Don't be a square...question: how many squares are there on a chess board?
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and don't suggest 64. You would be off by a factor more than x 3.
Let us show you how to improve your advertising budget in a similar fashion...by any fashion that helps.
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EZ Filing™
Eagles Nest Friendship List
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Click the website link to see testimonials
Note: current listings are at this link:
http://www.radioad.org/whmbtv/classifieds/listings.php?catcode=Timeshare
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Frequently asked questions
FAQ: How to find free listing form
Price: $19.60 / There may be a fee to edit/correct submitted information
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Copy your content in this listing and use the format requested
Brief statement to describe the item or service:
Business name (or your name):
Address (physical location):
City & State:
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So your submission for the listing below would look like this:
Copy your content in this listing and use the format requested
Brief statement to describe the item or service:
FAQ: How to find free listing form
Business name (or your name):
EZ Classified Advertizing™
Address (physical location):
160 W Carmel Dr
City & State:
Carmel IN (Please use the post office format which is the city and 2 letter state
Zip Code:
46032 (use 5 digit zip code)
Area Code:
317 (use 3 digit area code)
Telephone number:
844-8189
Contact name:
Don Nixon
Email address:
dmn.ez.nni@gmail.com
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Don Nixon, Chief Cheerleader, Editor & Publisher, Proofreader
Email: dmn.ez.nni@gmail.com Ref: dmn:marilynmonroe
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Frequently asked questions
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Enter your zip code. The database will select all items with the first three digits of your zip code, in this case "460" which generally is a sectional center or a 50 mile radius.
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If that search displays too many results, click the box for "Exact" zip code. Then the database will select all items in the five digits of your zip code, in this case "46032" which generally is a 10 mile radius.
Step #3:
Click the "Search" button
To see the detail, click the website link below.
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Frequently asked questions
FAQ: How to find specific categories and subjects
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EZ Classified Advertising™, (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
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Willard P. Rohrer, General/Business Manager
Email: willardrohrer@hotmail.com Ref: dmn:marilynmonroe
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Stories, favorites and great
Father's Day
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"Fathers linked to healthy families"...
Headlines such as the one above this essay should be relegated to the "Keen Sense of the Obvious" files.
What cadre of nescient dolts does not already know fathers are essential to healthy families, and who among us would waste good money on a study to affirm that which is so abundantly clear?
Alas, certain enlightened folks out there insist holding the institution of fatherhood in high esteem is tantamount to misogyny. For the past four decades, many insisted mothers can do it all. Gloria Steinem, once declared, "A woman without a man is like a fish without a bicycle."
Maureen Dowd's book, "Are Men Necessary?" may have become the manifesto of the man-hating movement.
Academicians spend tax dollars to research this very question, despite the plethora of family research, which indicates children raised in homes with their biological fathers have a much higher chance of succeeding in life.
Unfortunately, some 25 million American children live absent or apart from their biological fathers. One in three children—and only one in five inner-city children—are in homes with their fathers.
Many moms have no choice but to do it all because many biological fathers have abdicated their responsibility for proper love, discipline, teaching, support, moral guidance and protection for their own family.
"The lack of effective, functioning fathers is the root cause of America's social, economic and spiritual crises." ~ Dr. Edwin Cole.
The disastrous social consequences of this abdication are clearly evident and well documented. Though many single moms do manage to bring up relatively well-adjusted kids with the help of extended families, churches and schools, the correlation between social deviancy and fatherless homes is irrefutably linked.
"The lack of effective, functioning fathers is the root cause of America's social, economic and spiritual crises," writes Dr. Edwin Cole.
To wit, the truth—and it is a hard truth for men who have abandoned their families, but a harder truth for their children: According to the CDC, DoJ, DHHS and the Bureau of the Census, those 30 percent of children who live apart from their fathers will account for 63 percent of teen suicides, 70 percent of juveniles in state-operated institutions, 71 percent of high-school dropouts, 75 percent of children in chemical-abuse centers, 80 percent of rapists, 85 percent of youths in prison, and 85 percent of children who exhibit behavioral disorders. In addition, 90 percent of homeless and runaway children are from fatherless homes.
Children born to unwed mothers are 10 times more likely to live in poverty as children with fathers in their home.
"[The causal link between fatherless children and crime] is so strong that controlling for family configuration erases the relationship between race and crime and between low income and crime," notes social researcher Barbara Dafoe Whitehead. David Blankenhorn, president of the Institute for American Values, adds, "[The absence of fathers] from family life is surely the most socially consequential family trend of our era."
So, fathers do matter—as if that were a recent revelation.
In 295 BC, Mencius wrote, "The root of the kingdom is in the state. The root of the state is in the family. The root of the family is in the person of its head."
Of course, the traditional family model is clearly ordained by God as evidenced throughout the Old and New Testaments. Every major religion anywhere in the world recognizes an identical family order.
Tragically, the pages of history—especially 20th-century history—are rife with terrible misdeeds of those who were raised without fathers, or with abusive fathers: Adolf Hitler, Joseph Stalin, Mao Zedong, Saddam Hussein, Osama bin Laden, etc.
A strong case can be made certain social policies are directly responsible for generations of fatherless children—particularly black children. Does one political party depend on a vested interest to keep blacks and other "victimized" constituencies dependent on the state.
Sunday, many American families will observe Father's Day. To consdier the irreplaceable institution of fatherhood, we hope these families might also determine how their fathers might extend their roles in outreach to fatherless children:
By mentoring through Boy Scouts, Girl Scouts, Big Brothers-Big Sisters, youth groups, Boys Clubs, and Girls Incorporated;
or by coaching little-league sports,
or teaching in Sunday school,
or becoming a school tutor,
or volunteering to work with high-risk kids through inner-city ministries, to name just a few.
(For more information and resources on parenting, visit First Things First.)
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High School and College soccer - coach
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Player:
High School: Culver Military Academy, Culver, Indiana
College: Indiana University, Bloomington, Indiana
Coach:
(*) High School: Indianapolis, Indiana
Girls: Carmel, Broad Ripple, Lawrence North, Hamilton Heights
Boys: Arlington
College:
Tri-State University, Angola, Indiana
(*) Success determined by number of players, each of these teams were start ups, volunteer coach
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EZ Filing™
IHSAA Indiana High School Athletic Association one class basketball
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Click the Video button to see the movie trailer for "Hoosiers"
add dial phone graphic
Answering phones at the Peru Daily Tribune during 4 weeks of high school basketball tournament, sectionals with all schools, regionals, semi-state and finals.
Passion comes from virtually every high school student attended basketball (boys) Friday nights in small towns and big cities. It was a big deal when small schools advanced, even if it was for only one game and one year. Local newspapers and radio stations covered all those games and the finals at Hinkle Field house had full crowds and radio and television had significant audiences.
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EZ Filing™
Indiana University Little 500 bicycle race
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Request: Nixon Newspapers The Saturday Spectator™ article: Keeping in contact #47.pdf
and I will e-mail you a copy.
One and done annual event, high drama, top10 finish was highly competitive, only 33 teams, early years at 10th Street Stadium capacity crowds 45,000.
1963 - 3rd
1964 - 4th
iusf.indiana.edu/little500/
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EZ Filing™
Indiana University Singing Hoosiers
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Different kind of team work, need conductor/leader on the scene.
Note: website following doesn't seem to work
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EZ Filing™
Indiana University Soccer
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When did the Indiana Hoosiers soccer team start?
Since the program began in 1973, Indiana has more national championships, wins, College Cup appearances, and a higher winning percentage in both regular season and post-season play than any other school in Division I soccer. The Hoosiers have also dominated conference play.
Indiana Hoosiers men's soccer - Wikipedia
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indiana_Hoosiers_men%27s_soccer
Actually it had a club team in the 50's and until it became a varsity sport in 1973 it and other big ten schools which had club teams were eligible to participate in the NCAA tournaments at the end of the season. Elon Rothmuller who played in the late 50's was selected as an All American player.
I played four years in the early 60s and 2 0r 3 times went to the NCAA tournament, although memory is not reliable and I couldn't find any details in the Daily Student or Arbutus for those years.
Coach Jerry Yeagley's first year in 1964 was my senior year and it took 10 years to advance to a varsity status. The program is now highly regarded as one of the best in the nation.
May 17 IU attempts to defeat Marshall for 2021 Championship...bracket at:
www.ncaa.com/brackets/soccer-men/d1/2021
If successful it will be the 9th time and the most by any team.
UPDATE: IU lost in overtime 1-nill, now 8/8 win/loss in championship games
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EZ Filing™
Kentucky Derby: Best, wackiest hats at the Run for the Roses
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First Saturday in May more than 147 years, we may not catchup, but maybe build something as good
What does it do for Louisville, or Wabash with glads?
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EZ Filing™
Project: Testimonial: 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
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Frequently asked questions
Robin Run Resident Photo Directory #2
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Notice this listing is assigned to Elizabeth Alexander and she doesn't have as much access to the system items under the Main Menu column.
There are more content fields following this listings which should be self evident.
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Banks, Finance, Grants, Insurance, Loans, Mortgages, Securities, Stocks
Star Financial Bank and Easy Classified Advertizing™
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Excuse the mess this is in. I built this system more than 20 years ago and have to putz around with it but haven't actually got much traction so this is a new effort using the many years with the old system which was hacked several times and only limps along now. However, I am told whiz kids now can re-write PHP and if enough of you participate, that could be done sooner than later.
Here are some things you might want to notice on this listing you might have missed.
The 3 buttons at the upper right on the left, the first lets you see all the new items. The second lets you see if the item is free only if the button shows up, and the third (it will be the second if the "free" button isn't available) lets you print the specific item or all in the list.
And on this listing, one of the bugs I haven't fixed (I haven't found it, there's a lot of code I don't know), the button on the far left is a video link. It doesn't work for me. Today actually is Memorial Day as I am posting this and it is particularly appropriate to reflect on his message. If the link doesn't work for you, and you can't get it, try searching Google for: God Bless The USA.mp4
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Email: dmn.ez.nni@gmail.com Ref: dmn:marilynmonroe
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Banks, Finance, Grants, Insurance, Loans, Mortgages, Securities, Stocks
Star Financial Bank and Easy Classified Advertizing™
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Have a contest for all banks to see how many listings they can post. Handicap number of accounts, trade area, number of businesses, number of churches, etc
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Stories, favorites and great
Take your time
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Take Your Time - Anjula Razdan
It is in our idleness, in our dreams, that the submerged truth sometimes comes to the top. - Virginia Woolf
Lately, I've been approaching bedtime the way, I assume, marathoners approach the finish line, which is to say, exhausted and in need of a nourishing IV. Buoyed by the frenetic pace of what philosophy professor Al Gini has called the Everydayathon of modern life, I leapfrog from errand to errand, desperate to get my unwieldy to-do list under control.
No longer do I have time in my overbooked life for the kind of roomy, deep-focus activities that used to sustain me.
The bookcase behind my bed is a shrine to my aborted attempts at reading novels, my e-mail inbox a painful reminder of the nurturing friendships I've let drift away. I even have a slow cooker I've never used.
Indeed, many people these days seem to suffer from what comedian Ellen DeGeneres has termed TBS, or Too-Busy Syndrome. We speed date, guzzle Red Bull, race to yoga, schedule Cesareans, and, in the ultimate catch-22, engage in faux-leisure activities such as scrapbooking, which requires us to pack our schedules ever more tightly in order to glean experiences worthy of scrapbooking. Quips DeGeneres: It's enough to make you miss Mayberry, isn't it?
It's a joke, but an apt one. Many Americans, worn out by what former U.S. poet laureate Billy Collins calls this culture's mad theology of speed, have started to cast their minds back to the rural values of simplicity associated with small towns like Mayberry, the famously easy and slow setting of The Andy Griffith Show. In fact, four months before the 2004 presidential election, renowned Republican pollster Frank Luntz revealed that lack of free time was the biggest concern among swing voters. Not the economy. Not health care. Not even the war in Iraq... The issue of time matters to them more than anything else in life.
...Perhaps a retreat from modernity and a return, however regressive, to a simpler time is exactly the point for many overworked, overscheduled, and exhausted Americans. After all, Americans are busier now than they've ever been. We work more and vacation less than any other industrialized nation (even Japan, which has a word, kashori, that roughly translates as death from overwork). Global competition, corporate downsizing, and a shaky economy have demanded that we step up our productivity. And, in the ultimate bait and switch, supposed labor-saving devices like computers, cell phones, and BlackBerrys have instead enslaved us, forcing us to be on 24/7 and pushing us to accomplish tasks faster and faster.
Technology, observes Robert Kamm, author of The Superman Syndrome, forces Americans to live at speed, not at depth.
...In truth, we've always been suckers for the promise of a simpler life. Take the popular new reality television show Amish in the City. In a witty analysis in The Washington Monthly (Oct. 2004), Sasha Issenberg claims that we have long romanticized the Amish for their plain ways.
In living Amish culture, [we] see both the purity of a simpler past and a promise of a more virtuous present, Issenberg writes. Americans lionization of the Amish is part of a broader tradition the reactionary anti-urban, anti-consumerist vein in our national life that had its roots among America's first Puritan settlers and has lasted well into the modern age in communities ranging from the crunchy back-to-the-land hippies of the 1960s to the right-wing survivalists of today.
The busier we get, it seems, the more we make a fetish of the simple life. Like Depression-era audiences who lapped up Busby Berkeley's lavishly produced, exorbitant musicals, we'll make do with fantasy if we can't attain the reality.
We weren't always so lost. Aristotle's famous view that we work in order to have leisure held up well into the 20th century, according to Ben Hunnicutt, professor of leisure studies at the University of Iowa. For more than a century prior to the 1930s, American workers successfully lobbied for higher wages and shorter hours, most notably the eight-hour workday and five-day workweek, and there was a widespread expectation that leisure would increasingly come to dominate our lives.
Back then, Hunnicutt says, the American Dream consisted of two things: more wealth and more time to live. And it wasn't just put-upon workers who defined progress as having more leisure time. Liberation capitalists like W.K. Kellogg and Lord Leverhulme (one of the Lever Brothers) viewed the coming age of leisure as the finest possible accomplishment of industrial capitalism. Kellogg even put his money where his mouth was and, in 1930, instituted a six-hour workday in his Battle Creek, Michigan, cereal factories. The result? Not surprisingly, workers spent more time with their kids and in their communities, strengthening both family and civic ties.
So why didn't this utopian experiment spread across the country? The answer is complicated, Hunnicutt says, but one factor is consumerism and the birth of marketing in the 1920s. There was a great deal of pessimism in the 1920s that the economy was not going to grow anymore because people had all they needed. Then this new view comes along that it's possible to convince people to buy things they never needed before, he explains.
That idea of scarcity, that there is never going to be enough, many observers agree, created our desire to have it all and is a big reason why we feel so busy today. We're taught from birth that there's always more to have, more to need, Hunnicutt says. We've created a Frankenstein, a monster that requires us to work continually.
...Perhaps time (or lack thereof) is the ultimate moral issue. That's one of the ideas behind Take Back Your Time (www.timeday.org), a nonpartisan national campaign that aims to lobby Congress with a multi-pronged legislative agenda...Time is a family value, observes national coordinator John de Graaf. Americans talk a lot about family values these days but often leave [that] one out. ...Time, he observes, is an overarching issue that cuts across ideological lines and draws interest from a diverse mix of people. [As Carl Honore says, it's] all about balance.
Be fast when it makes sense to be fast, and be slow when slowness is called for, he writes. Seek to live at what musicians call the tempo giusto -- the right speed.
...Of course, no one says the revolution can't begin at home. There are a number of things we can do as individuals to carve out a sanctuary from our busy lives:
Embrace solitude. Loneliness is the poverty of self, poet May Sarton declared. Solitude is the richness of self. It is only in those quiet, empty moments of repose, when we are finally, blissfully alone, that we can daydream, stare out a window, talk to ourselves, or engage in random thoughts and the luxury of being bored.
Cultivate your inner Dilbert. Use all of your vacation and sick time (even if you're not sick). Overall, American workers gave up $21 billion last year in unused vacation time. Look out for your self...
Focus on the moment. Grate a radish, rub your dog's belly, or simply savor that first glorious sip of morning espresso, and you will understand what novelist Henry Miller meant when he said, The moment one gives close attention to anything, even a blade of grass, it becomes a mysterious, awesome, indescribably magnificent world in itself.
Cancel your plans with someone. He or she will love you for it.
Reconsider your dream job. Leisure professor Ben Hunnicutt says we have unreal expectations about fulfilling our creative urges and realizing our humanity and changing the world through our jobs. I see very little hope for a reevaluation of leisure until our expectation that the American Dream is fulfilled by a job that is rewarding, has a good salary, and so on, begins to change, Hunnicutt says.
Engage in proactive television watching. Television, many experts say, is a big reason we feel crunched for time. We park ourselves on the couch intending to watch only one, maybe two, shows, and hours later, we're still there...
Learn to say no. Be mercenary about your engagements.
Reject e-mail's Pavlovian ping. Train people to expect a response an hour, a day, or even a full week after they e-mail you.
Grating a radish or e-mailing someone a week late may not exactly seem revolutionary. And yet, making our nation's collective fantasy of slowing down a reality could ultimately save us. As Mark Slouka writes in Harper's Magazine (Nov. 2004), Idleness is not just a psychological necessity. . . . It constitutes as well a kind of political space, a space . . . necessary to . . . democracy . . . by allowing us time to figure out who we are, and what we believe; by allowing us time to consider what is unjust, and what we might do about it.
...Perhaps it's too much to hope for, but taking on the modern culture of busyness may be one way to bridge our ideological divide. Lack of free time, after all, is an everyday civic issue that affects us all. Busyness remains our national theology, but if we slow down and allow ourselves to just be, we may start to heal.
As the monk Thomas Merton said, It is in deep solitude that I find the gentleness with which I can truly love my brothers. The more solitary I am, the more affection I have for them. . . . Solitude and silence teach me to love my brothers for what they are, not for what they say.
[Anjula Razdan is a senior editor of Utne. Edited from an article in the January/February 2005 issue of UTNE: www.utne.com ]
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Trophy, theme - I want to play, I can do that
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Drama - one and done, annual, multiple game season, play off, tournament
Participation
Recognition - shirts, jackets, uniform
Skill
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*Trophy, Borg Warner, Stanley Cup
Wager
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US Open Challenge™
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Challenge winner payoff - check mailed
Fees specific/range
Player registration
Player/team ranking
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Under construction see listing above: #EZ 53153, hope it rivals the following, but better...dmn
New Ratings Announced for Pickleball
PickleballTournaments.com is proud to announce the creation of new ratings system called the World Pickleball Ratings. This new system will provide the most accurate pickleball rating by using tournament match results (sanctioned and non-sanctioned) as well as recreation match results from leagues, team pickleball, and pick-up matches.
The World Pickleball Rating has been designed from the ground up to accurately place new players into the ratings system and to adjust existing rated players based on their match results. An important component of the new system will address “sandbagging” by players new to the ratings system.
The World Pickleball Ratings will include the following capabilities:
Use of the Glicko 2 rating system
Several controls will be implemented to control sandbagging
4-digit ratings will be calculated for singles, doubles and mixed doubles across men and women.
2-digit ratings will be calculated at the end of each calendar quarter based on the level of a player’s 4-digit ratings. These ratings will be used for tournament entry into non-sanctioned tournaments. T
The World Pickleball Ratings will:
Automatically include match results from sanctioned and non-sanctioned tournaments run on pickleballtournaments.com. Tournament directors will have the option to exclude match results from their tournament in WPR calculations. No need to upload results through an app after each match.
Generate graphs of each player’s ratings changes on a match-by-match basis.
Incorporate league and team pickleball matches
Ratings based on historical matches will be calculated and posted to player's pickleballtournaments.com profiles within 60 days with integration into tournament registration and play to follow shortly thereafter.
World Pickleball Rankings
World Pickleball Rankings Update
Six tournaments are now complete, including the major Delray Beach Open and the just completed US OPEN Pickleball Championships.
The World Pickleball Rankings encompasses 30 tournaments over the course of the year. Open and Senior Open players earn points based on tournament placement and number of wins. Major tournaments provide bonus points. The top 10 tournament results will be factored for each player. Watch the excitement build in 2021!
Next tournament up is the Cincinnati Open.
e-mail from: PickleballTournaments.com
Player Email - New Ratings coming soon! Apr 30, 2021
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History lesson:
Helped establish the Indiana State Racquetball Association and Wilson Sporting Goods was principal sponsor to the "Tour of Indiana" series of tournaments.
After playing racquetball with Mrarco Island friends in 2010 a few (Howard Reed and Bruce Hayne) introduced pickleball as an upcoming activity with tournaments in LaBelle FL, I made contact with Wilson to consider working with me to establish pickleball in Naples FL for outdoor and planned a separate event for indoor at French Lick IN. (See: https://www.usopenpickleballchampionship.com) - notice the missing "s"?
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town of Plainfield requires permit for garage sales and restrictions, but there is no charge
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Every year of the event have the year (2021) somehow displayed on logo so anyone who participates the following would have the same fee for that year. Any one gets to the semi finals or finals get discount for the following year. All participants receive a bit coin.
WKLU only for people on ladder make offer button to report scores also wklu forms for sign up and what needs to be done to set up matches, tickets for domination amount, set up so pay is to administrator and $1, $5, $10, $25, $50, $100 - maybe over $25 to me ($1 no fee)
To do:
Set up web link to go directly to listing and category
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Business opportunities, Franchises, Investments
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US Open Indoor Championships™
US Open Pickleball Championships®
US Open Sailing Championships™
US Open Challenge(™)
History:
ACD
Circus City
INSRA
Indiana Racquet Sports (Midwest Badminton)
Gladiolus Festival
Eagles Nest Friendship list
Little 500
IU Soccer 1960 high school, college, coach: high school, college (Burroughs qtr)
Hoosier histeria one class high school basketball
Portrait
TV Plus
China
Feature Svc
Weekly remote printing pioneer
Merv
Bowling league names
Drama - cinderalla champion chance
Trophy - Borg Warner, Stanley Cup
Ring
State contests so many winners, players
Draw names board for each year
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Email: dmn.ez.nni@gmail.com Ref: dmn:marilynmonroe
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Remembering NSGA Super Show in Atlanta GA
Provide media event
New products introduced
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Wabash Racquetball Court
Price: $50.00 / Annual dues
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After the Auburn Evening Star and Printing Company was sold I moved back to Wabash. Several store fronts on Wabash Street between the Plain Dealer building on Canal Street and Hill Street at the top of the hill, were not popular for walk in traffic. Turns out the one empty at the alley was at one time Mark Honeywell's Plumbing and Heating Office.
Although only 20 by 60, I was enough interested in racquetball, it was sufficient to put in a court and an office in front with a small locker and a small apartment upstairs.
I charged an annual $50 fee, guaranteed an hour each week to play and open play for times not reserved for number of members limited to 50. Honor system and if there was something wrong when a member arrived, the previous member who signed in was responsible for damages. Never had a problem.
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Stories, favorites and great
You don't have to attend every argument you're invited to....
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◝Arguments needn't be about shouting or imposing your will on someone. A good argument shouldn't involve screaming, squabbling or fistfights, even though too often it does. Shouting matches are rarely beneficial to anyone.
◝The aim of an argument - or of a discussion - should not be victory but progress. Make sure you know essential points you want to make. Research facts you need to convince your opponent.
◝Before starting an argument think carefully about what it is you are arguing about and what it is you want. This may sound obvious. But it's critically important. What do you really want from this argument?
◝Do you want the other person to just understand your point of view? Or are you seeking a tangible result?
If it's a tangible result, you must ask yourself whether this result you have in mind is realistic and whether it's obtainable. If it's not realistic or obtainable, then a verbal battle might damage a valuable relationship.
◝Spend time thinking about how to present your argument. Body language, choice of words, and manner of speaking all affect how your argument will come across.
◝You should spend more time listening than talking. Aim for listening for 75 percent of the conversation and giving your own arguments 25 percent.
◝Think carefully about what arguments the other person will listen to. What are their preconceptions? Which kinds of arguments do they find convincing.
◝There are three main ways to respond to an argument:
1) challenge the facts the other person is using;
2) challenge the conclusions they draw from those facts; and
3) accept the point, but argue the weighting of that point (i.e., other points should be considered above this one.)
◝Arguments are not always as good as they first appear. Be wary of your opponent's use of statistics. Keep alert for distraction techniques as personal attacks, red herrings. Look out for concealed questions and false choices.
◝Keep it simple and clear. Be brief, don't rush.
◝Always choose clarity over pomposity! Be short, sharp, and to the point, using language easily understood.
◝Be creative to find ways out of an argument that's going nowhere. Is it time to look at the issue from another angle? Are there ways of putting pressure on so that the other person has to agree with you? Is a compromise possible?
This is absolutely the key: What do you want from this argument? Humiliating, embarrassing or aggravating your opponent might make you feel good at the time, but you might have many lonely days to rue your mistake. Find a result that works for both of you. You need to move forward. Then you will be able to argue another day.
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z US Open Challenge™
Price: $5.00 / correct registration inforation
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