[Jayhawk-chapter] Fwd: Tournament Pool Sign-up Directions

Sidney Roedel shroedel at gmail.com
Thu Mar 19 20:30:31 UTC 2015 

Rob -- one last entry, I am delightedt report.  I assume she got in in time!  Sidney

P.S.  Thanks, Maria!

Sent from my iPad

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> From: Maria Swall <maria.swall at gmail.com>
> Date: March 19, 2015 at 11:14:52 AM CDT
> To: Sidney Roedel <shroedel at gmail.com>
> Subject: Re: Tournament Pool Sign-up Directions
> 
> Screen name: Jayhawk Maria
> Total points for final game = 136
> Point spread=2
> 
>> On Thursday, March 19, 2015, Sidney Roedel <shroedel at gmail.com> wrote:
>> Good Morningn, Maria,
>> 
>> You will need the website, which I will forward to you in a minute, to enter the NFB Jayhawk Chapter pool.  Please let me know your screen name (user name) asap, also your total point and point margin for the final game.  You have until about 11:00am to do this.  If you don't have time to do this, it's not a big deal.
>> 
>> 
>> Shall we expect you to be here for our 10:45 meeting with Susan Ridenauer this morning?
>> 
>> Love,
>> 
>> Sidney
>> 
>> Sent from my iPad
>> 
>>> On Mar 18, 2015, at 10:39 PM, Maria Swall <maria.swall at gmail.com> wrote:
>>> 
>>> Message received. Will fill out tomorrow. 
>>> Love, Maria
>>> 
>>>> On Wednesday, March 18, 2015, Sidney Roedel <shroedel at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>> 
>>>> 
>>>> Sent from my iPad
>>>> 
>>>> Begin forwarded message:
>>>> 
>>>>> From: Sidney Roedel <shroedel at gmail.com>
>>>>> Date: March 18, 2015 at 8:09:43 PM CDT
>>>>> To: Maria Swall <maria.swall at gmail.com>
>>>>> Subject: Fwd: Tournament Pool Sign-up Directions
>>>>> 
>>>>> 
>>>>> 
>>>>> Sent from my iPad
>>>>> 
>>>>> Begin forwarded message:
>>>>> 
>>>>>> From: "Rob Tabor" <rob.tabor at sbcglobal.net>
>>>>>> Date: March 16, 2015 at 9:11:48 PM CDT
>>>>>> To: <shroedel at gmail.com>
>>>>>> Subject: Tournament Pool Sign-up Directions
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> Hi Sidney,
>>>>>> 
>>>>>>  
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> Thanks so much to you and Harlan for participating in the chapter tournament pool and for your recruiting efforts. My informational letter is below.
>>>>>> 
>>>>>>  
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> Best regards,
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> Rob
>>>>>> 
>>>>>>  
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> Greetings and welcome to the first NCAA Division 1A men's basketball tournament pool conducted by and for the benefit of the Jayhawk Chapter of the National Federation of the Blind of Kansas. The following paragraphs contain vital information as to how you can participate in the pool, how the online brackets submission system works, and how you can be the lucky (or skillful) winner of a free total body massage from Massage Envy.
>>>>>> 
>>>>>>  
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> THE BRACKET MANAGEMENT WEBSITE.  Here are the steps you will need to get ready to participate in our accessible NCAA tournament pool.
>>>>>> 
>>>>>>  
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> Launch your favorite web browser and log onto the URL or web address
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> http://terrillthompson.com/ncaa/index.php
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> 2. Click on the hyperlink for "the pool".
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> 3. Now click "create an account" and you will be presented a standard web form which prompts you to enter your email address, a password, and a user name or "screen name" for display on screen and your first and last name which will not be displayed in bracket progress reports. Make sure the form control labeled "Include your user name in tournament rankings" is checked, or I will not get reports of your bracket standings and point totals.
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> 4. After creating your account, you need to notify me of your screen name , your prediction of the margin of victory in the title game in Indianapolis, the total points that will be scored in the title game, and the names of participants you recruited into the pool if any. You may communicate these items of information by sending a reply to this email or by telephone at either my landline or mobile number shown at the bottom after my close.
>>>>>> 
>>>>>>  
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> It is imperative for me to have record of your screen name to enable the automated points tracking system to associate you and will enable me to sort our pool participants from among other users of this site. At this time there is no provision for recognition of separate groups.
>>>>>> 
>>>>>>  
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> Your predicted margin of victory and the total points scored in the title game serve as tiebreakers in case your total points tie with anoterh another a fellow participant.
>>>>>> 
>>>>>>  
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> As you will see on first logon, this particular online bracket submission system was chosen because of its specific design which makes it fully usable by persons who are blind or who have low vision and make use of screen readers and other assistive techknologies such as refreshable braille display devices and screen image magnifying software.
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> This website, created by Terrill F Thompson, a highly experienced assistive technology training manager and website developoper, contains helpful information for navigating the website and other helpful information for customizing the user interface for your own comfort and preferences and other enhancements including links to live radio play by play radio broadcasts of all 63 games. This information is found in the help and features pages. .
>>>>>> 
>>>>>>  
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> GREAT SPECIAL PRIZES!  The lucky or skillful winner of the Jayhawk NFBK accessible basketball tournament pool wins a free full body massage from Massage Envy. The same fabulous prize also awaits you if you successfully recruit people from outside the Jayhawk NFB chapter or Kansas state affiliate to participate. Massage Envy was unable to make a gift card or gift certificate available, so we will provide specific instructions on how you can claim your prize.
>>>>>> 
>>>>>>  
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> Last but not least, I wil convene an informational teleconference call on Tuesday evening at 7:00pm CDT to give more detailed information about the NCAA tournament bracketing process which I suppose could be called the NFBK version of bracketology. This will give everyone an opportunity to have questions answered before submitting brackets in the system. The numbers to call to join the teleconference call are
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> Toll free 8664768702 or
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> Regular number 9162334200. We encourage you to use the regular number if your phone service plan has unlimited long distance calling. In either case the access code is 950655#.
>>>>>> 
>>>>>>  
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> On behalf of the officers and entire membership of the Jayhawk Chapter of the NFB of Kansas I would like to express my deepest appreciation for your financial support and for doing your part in turning this fund-raising endeavor into a fun-raising one. For more information about the mission and life-chaging work of NFB, I cordially invite you to visit our national website at
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> https://nfb.org/
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> we also welcome you to log onto our state affiliate website at
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> http://nfbks.org/
>>>>>> 
>>>>>>  
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> I wish you the best of success in predicting tournament winners including the national NCAA men's D1A basketball champion, but most of all I hope you have a lot of fun participating in our first ever accwessible accessible tournament pool.
>>>>>> 
>>>>>>  
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> With warmest regards,
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> Rob Tabor | president, Jayhawk Chapter NFB of Kansas
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> Phone/L:  7858413875
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> Phone/M:  7858659959
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> Rob dot Tabor at SBCGlobal dot net
>>>>>> 
>>> 
>>> 
>>> -- 
>>> maria.swall at gmail.com
>>> 970-689-8563
> 
> 
> -- 
> maria.swall at gmail.com
> 970-689-8563
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