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The Craziest Wedding Gifts Anyone Has Ever Added To Their Registry
Why buy avocados when you could ask your friends to gift them to you?
If you're on the wedding circuit — meaning everyone you know is getting married, like, right now — you know your way around a wedding registry. You're familiar with the usual suspects: a Le Creuset Dutch oven, a KitchenAid stand mixer, a legit Tupperware set. But this is 2018, and as much as your mother complains that cash funds are tacky, they're a total Thing. Wedding registry site Zola took a look at the craziest ones couples have created — and we're not sure how to feel.
Apparently, money isn't the only green gift that'll make you happy. Think of the things you could do with ALL the avocados: BLT guacamole, healthy keto brownies, a freaking burger.
This couple needed cash money to fund a trip to 20 different regions of Italy — and a cone of gelato in each one.
Honestly, when have you not wanted a dozen donuts during an emotional emergency? Newlywed fights could end so much quicker if you have frosted pastries on hand.
We kinda dig a couple who throws e.coli cautions to the wind. Chipotle or bust, you know?
A trip to Bali and the Maldives meant one thing for this couple: a meal beneath the ocean.
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Ryan and Jamie Peters of Hillsboro have established conservation practices on the land they own near Lehigh. They also use no till and cover crops on their treated land. The land has 10.8 acres of grassed waterways and 4.6 miles of terraces and diversion. The Peters have also installed livestock water supply systems and a spring development in the rangeland.
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Incredible Escape Story: Two American Airmen and a Near-Deadly Flood
All that stood between them and a raging flood was a tiny cement shack—and time was running out.
Courtesy U.S. Air ForceFor two days, Typhoon Neoguri had battered the Japanese island of Okinawa with 100 mph winds, uprooting trees and ripping wooden buildings from their foundations. On Kadena Air Base, the hub of U.S. air power in the Pacific, 20,000 residents—service members, families, and civilian employees—had been confined to quarters under an emergency order. By nightfall on July 8, 2014, however, the worst seemed to be over. At 10 p.m., when Airmen First Class Brandon Miles and Roderick Jones arrived for their shift at the munitions-dump guard shack, all that remained of the tempest was the relentless rain.
As their ride dropped them off, Miles noticed that a small pond had collected in an underpass 200 yards away. "Bro, I bet that water's going to be up to the shack by morning," he said with a laugh. Jones agreed, adding, "Hopefully, not until we're off duty."
Inside the concrete shack, it was dry and snug. Jones—a husky, six-foot-two-inch 20-year-old from Houston—settled behind the single desk. Miles, 21, an Oklahoma City native who was four inches shorter and 50 pounds lighter, hunkered on a bench. Although both men wore the uniform of the security forces, the branch of the Air Force responsible for law enforcement and base defense, their personalities were as different as their physiques. Jones was quiet, easygoing, and upbeat; Miles was outspoken, intense, and irascible. Jones loved to explore the local beaches and restaurants; Miles disliked swimming and was leery of foreign food. But they relished each other's company and had been close friends since basic training. In their free time, they often took long drives around the island. Jones let Miles—a former college DJ who played piano, trumpet, and drums—pick the tunes on the car stereo.
Tonight, they spent the watch studying their workbooks for a career-development course and opening the entrance gate for the few vehicles that came through. At dawn, the rain was still sheeting. Glancing out the window, Miles grinned. "See? I told you," he said. Several inches of water covered the pavement. Around 6:30 in the morning, the men heard a metallic crashing sound, like a ship being battered by waves. Looking out, they saw that what had been a shallow pool was now a knee-deep, chocolate-colored torrent, carrying twigs and other debris and rising rapidly. Miles went to the door, but it wouldn't budge; the pressure of the flood was too great. "You try," he said to Jones. "You're bigger."
Jones threw his weight against the door, without success, as water began seeping across the threshold. Grabbing his two-way radio, he called the base defense operations center, half a mile away. "We're in trouble," he said. "We're going to need somebody to come and get us."
T. Sgt. Kevin Spain took the call. "We'll send someone out there as soon as we can," he said, "but our patrols are tied up right now." There was minor flooding all over the base, he explained, and the security force's vehicles were out trying to keep traffic moving. Spain, 31, tried to sound nonchalant, but the crew-cut father of three knew how treacherous a typhoon's wake could be. He radioed an alert to his scattered troops and waited with growing anxiety as 15 minutes ticked by.
When a Humvee returned to headquarters, Spain gathered a few defenders (as security personnel are called) and jumped behind the wheel. The base's perimeter road was impassable, so he navigated a muddy hillside, picking up his fellow flight chief—M.Sgt. Brad Reeves, who'd been trying to reach the shack on foot—along the way. Around seven, they arrived at the first of two gates separating the main base from the munitions dump.
One of Kadena's fire trucks was already there. But the gate was locked, and no one had the key. To their horror, the defenders saw that the guard shack, down the hill, was almost submerged. Just then, a call came in from the operations center: The video screen monitoring the area had gone blank. Spain realized that water had engulfed the camera, which hung from the eaves of the shack. If the team couldn't get in quickly, it would be fishing out a couple of corpses.
While they waited for help, Miles and Jones switched off the shack's circuit breaker to avoid being electrocuted. Outside, the flood surged above the windowsills; inside, it rose to their shins. Jones crouched on the desk and Miles perched on a stool, but the water soon crept to their waists. The men's hopes lifted as they watched the rescuers' vehicles pull to a halt. Then the water outside reached the top of the window, and they could see nothing—except for small fish swimming through the murk.
Jones radioed for permission to shoot out the glass. "Denied," Master Sergeant Reeves responded. "It's bulletproof. A ricochet could kill you."
By now, the water inside the shack was just a few feet from the ceiling. The two men struggled to stay calm. They told each other jokes, not all of them printable. When a spider skittered across the surface, Jones flicked it toward Miles, for the fun of watching his arachnophobic buddy flinch. But it was becoming harder to distract themselves from the seriousness of their plight. Jones felt a need to take some sort of action. "There's too much water in here for a bullet to ricochet," he told Reeves. "At least let me try it." The flight chief relented, and Jones fired 15 shots from his 9 mm pistol. The slugs barely dented the pane before sinking away.
Jones turned to Miles. "If we don't make it," he said, "I want you to know I love you, brother."
"Shut up, bro," Miles answered. "You know I love you too."
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After a firefighter severed the padlock with a bolt cutter, the vehicles splashed across a waterlogged highway and drove downhill toward the second gate, which barely rose above the flood. Spain swam to it, clambered over the barbed wire, and plunged underwater to slice through the lock. He and Airman First Class Cody Watson then swam to the guard shack, whose gently curved roof was its only visible feature. They dove again and again, feeling along the walls for a way in, but the effort was futile.
The firefighters—some of them Air Force, others Japanese civilians—rigged a rope line from their truck to the shack and began ferrying tools and rescuers along it. Soon there were seven or eight men on the roof, hacking at the foot-thick concrete with axes and sledgehammers. They worked in shifts as the rain pelted down. But the shack had been built to resist grenades, and the furious pounding left it virtually unscathed.
Inside, Jones and Miles were treading water, with inches of breathing room left. To keep their hands free, they'd dropped the radio. Now the only sounds in the shack were their rapid breathing, the sloshing of the flood, and the muffled blows of the rescuers' tools. Both men were praying for themselves and their families. Miles, who was raised by a single mother, repeated silently, "Please don't do this to my mom."
Outside, a second fire truck pulled up at the gate, delivering a K-12 rotary saw—specially designed for first responders. Around the same time, Jones bumped his head against the ceiling and dislodged a gypsum tile. Pushing it aside, he discovered another two feet of space between the ceiling and the roof. Suddenly, both men were energized. Jones began tearing at the web of metal struts from which the ceiling hung. Miles, who'd worked in construction as a teenager, found the latches that held the system in place. The struts fell away, giving him and Jones precious headroom.
An instant later, they heard the saw's motor roar to life, followed by the snarl of its blade biting into concrete. The trapped airmen cheered and pounded on the underside of the roof. Within minutes, two 18-inch slits had appeared above them, slashes of brightness piercing the gloom. The smell of exhaust filled the air, and grit sprayed their faces. Then came a grating sound, followed by silence. "Keep going!" the men yelled.
On the roof, the rescuers groaned: The saw had jammed. They returned to their sledgehammers, abetted this time by chisels and crowbars. Chunks of concrete showered Miles and Jones as the slits widened and merged. But the rescuers soon faced another obstacle: layers of inch-thick rebar, arranged in tight grids. They used an ax and the bolt cutter to chew through the iron rods. The water kept rising. Once again, the trapped men had only inches left.
Finally, the opening formed a rough square. A hand reached down, and Miles grasped it. Jones watched his friend rise to freedom. When his turn came, however, his shoulders wouldn't fit. As the rescuers frantically expanded the hole, a firefighter offered to escort Miles to a waiting ambulance. "I'm not leaving until my wingman does," Miles answered.
At 7:30—an hour after he'd radioed for help—Jones emerged, gasping for breath. The rescuers whooped and hugged. At that moment, the rain stopped.
Although Miles and Jones were physically unharmed by their ordeal, they were changed in other ways. Both discovered that they'd lost the sense of immortality that buoys most young men. "It made me more introspective," Miles says now. "For the first time, I actually value my life." Jones suddenly awakened to the transience of time: "Before I die," he declares, "I want to do something in my career to leave an impression."
The guard shack, too, underwent a major alteration—its roof was fitted with an escape hatch. And 17 responders received Air Force commendation medals for their courage in the flood. "They were there for us all the way," says Jones. "They were willing to do whatever it took to get us out."


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I often do. I read (somewhere) that you should bite off more than you can chew in order to find out you can chew it. Not find out IF you can. I consistently do that. Over the weekend I did it again on the Powerchange training I ran in London, deliberately taking myself out of my depth – and out of one or two other peoples' depth too. Result? We learned better how to swim. The longer term results will be SO worthwhile. If you do that too, I'm interested. Let me know.
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Well Andrew, I find that to be true, on the other hand i find myself bitting off more than I can chew and then the thought after that is not how much can i chew, but can i chew it?
In most case I /we take on opportunities and have doubt other than embracing it fully believing that we/ I can.
Just had a mind shift.


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TSA agents accused of stealing jewelry
A Boston woman says a TSA officer stole her jewelry at a security checkpoint at Logan Airport, taking off with pearls worth thousands and deleting the surveillance footage after a complaint was filed.
Terri Ivester claims an airport agent working for the Transportation Security Administration took her backpack out of sight and stole her belongings while in another area."The TSA agent holds my backpack up, and um, says there's a water bottle in this backpack, I'm going to have to take that," she told CBS Boston.Taking luggage out of a passenger's sight goes against TSA policies, which grant passengers the right to stay with their bags. Once the backpack was returned to Ivester, she did not think much of the occurrence – until she looked for her necklaces later that day."I'm ready to put on my jewelry and I can't find it," she said. Ivester was getting ready to head to a family christening in Chicago, only to realize that four pieces of jewelry, totaling $3,700, were missing. An 18-inch pearl necklace and matching double stranded pearl bracelet were among the missing items."It had gone through the scanner. I think they saw the jewels and I think they took them," she added.By the time Ivester filed the complaint, 30 days had passed and the surveillance footage had already been deleted, making it impossible for TSA to do anything about the alleged crime. The woman said she spent most of those days working on the extensive paperwork required to file a report.Ivester is not the only airline passenger whose belongings had been stolen by the very agency meant to provide a significant part of the nation's security. CBS examined a number of reports to find that since 2011, more than $60,000 reports of theft were filed in the city of Boston alone, only $3,000 of which TSA reimbursed. And in the past decade, TSA has fired 382 of its employees for stealing from passengers.While theft can occur in front of passengers' own eyes at security checkpoints, much of the theft also occurs in back rooms where agents screen checked luggage."It was so easy. I walked right out of the checkpoint with a Nintendo Wii in my hand. Nobody said a word," Pythias Brown, a former TSA agent who spent three years in prison for stealing more than $800,000 worth of goods, told ABC news.The TSA has a zero tolerance policy for theft. But while it fires employees caught in the act, the reports dug up by CBS show the agency rarely reimburses passengers for stolen items."We are well too aware of how the actions of a few can influence the perception the public has of our agency. It's truly a shame," the TSA wrote in a blog post.But for people like Ivester, deleted surveillance footage will make getting her stolen pearls back an impossible task.


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34 new SCMPD officers sworn in on Thursday
SAVANNAH, Ga. (WJCL) - Thirty-four new officers were sworn in by the Savannah-Chatham Metropolitan Police Department on Thursday.
Mayor Eddie DeLoach and Chief Joseph Lumpkin, Sr. spoke at the badge pinning ceremony. The officers had family and friends pin their badges on before being officially sworn in as the newest SCMPD officers.
"It's a big achievement for all 34 of us and I'm just really proud of everyone who went through and accomplished what they did," said Jacob Hilderbrand, a new SCMPD officer.
"In training we've done a bunch of scenarios, but I'm excited to deal with real citizens and interact and help, I know that sounds cliche but it's true, a lot of us are here to help people," said Kristen Davis, a new SCMPD officer.
The officers have about 15 more weeks of training before they're on their own in their respective precincts.


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A hilarious comedy of four fathers, four daughters and four prospective son-in-laws. Each father wants his daughter to marry the richest son-in-law, and each daughter thinks she has found her true love and the rich and successful man to marry. However, each of the grooms, all named Jolly, is pretending to be the richest. All are unscrupulous while extremely entertaining as they are willing go to any length to get married to their rich brides. None of these people can stand each other and when all of them are under one roof, in one house, chaos and confusion rules.
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The Genius Tips That Keep Winter Illness Away
Colds and flus are like stalkers in a horror movie: They went after your spouse, your co-worker, your neighbor—are you next??? You don't have to be. Here are 15 doctor-approved tips from Eat This, Not That! Health for keeping winter illness away.
Clean Your Toothbrush
Clean Your Toothbrush
Rinsing your toothbrush after using it isn't exactly the most effective method to get rid of germs. According to Dr. Carolyn Dean, MD, ND, health, diet and nutrition expert, they are one of the biggest culprits when it comes to winter illness. "They should be soaked in 3% hydrogen peroxide on a daily basis during cold and flu season," she suggests.
Change Air Filters Frequently
Change Air Filters Frequently
Airplanes are one of the worst places to catch a winter illness, namely because of the stagnant air. Don't turn your home into an airplane cabin. Dr. Dean suggests routinely changing the filters in your house, to ensure you are circulating air that is free of dust, mold or bacteria—all things that make you more vulnerable.
Get Your Flu Shot
Get Your Flu Shot
It may sound obvious, but if you want to avoid getting the flu, make sure to get a flu shot, reminds Monique May, MD. The CDC recommends that anyone over the age of six months get it annually and now's the time if you haven't. Not only can it reduce your chances of dying from the flu, and the likelihood that you will end up in the hospital, but can reduce the severity of your illness if you do get sick.
Wash Sheets and Towels Twice a Week
Wash Sheets and Towels Twice a Week
Sheets and towels can be some of the germiest linens in your home, according to Dr. Dean. In the winter months you should wash these linens twice a week as a preventative measure. If someone in your home is sick, try to avoid using the same towels as them unless you want to end up under the weather as well.
Wash Your Hands. A Lot.
Wash Your Hands. A Lot.
According to Dr. Mintz, the best thing you can do to prevent getting sick is frequently washing your hands. "This helps prevent the viruses that you may have contracted from someone else getting into your system," he points out. To do it properly—every time—don't miss these essential 20 Facts That Will Change the Way You Wash Your Hands.
Use Hand Sanitizer. A Lot.
Use Hand Sanitizer. A Lot.
Carry hand sanitizer around with you at all times, suggests May. While you might think about getting your hand sanitizer out after shaking someone's hand, you should be using it after twisting a doorknob, using the ATM, or riding public transportation.
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Try to Avoid Hitting All the Germ Hotspots
"Winter illnesses are caused by viruses," Matthew Mintz, MD, FACP, tells Eat This, Not That! Health. "They are transmitted from humans through the air—via coughing—and through direct or indirect contact. And when it's cold outside, more people are indoors, closer together." While you can't quarantine yourself all season, there are certain places that are germier than others—like public transportation, children's indoor play areas, the gym, and hospital waiting rooms. Try to avoid spending time in these places as much as possible during the winter months. If they're unavoidable, make sure to bring your hand sanitizer along and try not to come into contact with anyone who is coughing, sniffling, or showing other sickness symptoms.
Work on Your Wellness Routine
Work on Your Wellness Routine
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Avoid Sugar
Avoid Sugar
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Try Alternating Hot and Cold Water in the Shower
Try Alternating Hot and Cold Water in the Shower
Dean Mitchell, MD, offers a natural method of stimulating the immune system. "Top experts I've spoken to believe the key to activating the immune system naturally—by alternating hot and cold water for 30 seconds when you shower," he says. "It seems to have an impact on our nervous system which signals high alert for immune system to beat down viruses and infections."
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Keep Your Hands Away From Your Face
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Consider a Chiropractic Adjustment
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The hand scanner GS220 by Godex reads all standard 1D barcodes. The rubberized contacts protect the device from damage when dropped.
The laser technology allows for fast and accurate scanning.
Additionally, the Godex GS220 convinces through light and ergonomical design, making it the perfect device for everyday use!
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Carbon fiber composites have been widely used in the field of aviation military, automobile high speed iron, mechanical manufacturing and sporting goods because of its excellent performance. It has the advantages of light weight, high strength, high temperature resistance, low thermal expansion coefficient and obvious advantages, but the accuracy of components after carbon fiber composite molding is often not up to the requirement, and needs post-processing. This article tells you about three post processing techniques for carbon fiber composites.
Cutting: carbon fiber composites are hard to cut materials with high hardness and low interlayer shear strength, which are easy to be layered, burned and tool wear fast. In order to smooth the cutting, the service life of the tool must be solved first. Researchers have done experiments on carbon steel, high-speed steel, cemented carbide and polycrystalline diamond cutters. Finally, it is found that polycrystalline diamond has the best effect and is conducive to the improvement of the quality of carbon fiber composites.
Cutting: carbon fiber composite cutting process is prone to produce two defects of incision damage and delamination. The former is manifested in edge tear, burr and wire drawing. The latter is manifested in the separation of carbon fiber layer and resin layer. In general, diamond grinding wheel is used as cutting tool. It can prevent the vibration deflection of carbon fiber composite cutting.
Hole making: when carbon fiber composite material is drilled, there are many problems such as delamination, aperture shrinkage, debris remaining and tool wear rapidly. On the one hand, it comes from technology and tool from one side. In the process, the control of speed has the greatest impact on the quality of the hole, which requires a number of test operations to select the most suitable parameters. The tool should be of high strength and toughness, such as the German Cubring has sold a parabolic groove twist drill, which can effectively reduce the axial force.
It can be seen from the above that the cutting tools and technological parameters are the main factors affecting the post processing quality of carbon fiber composites.
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There is a place of dragons and demons, angels and avatars, Knights and knaves, in which the Kings and Queens of the gaming industry gather every year to present their best to gamers from all over the world. This, The Throne of Games, is Gen Con in Indianapolis, Indiana. Gen Con was founded by the Grandfathers of roleplaying games such as the Great Patriarch, Gary Gygax.
The name Gen Con is from the original location of the convention, Lake Geneva, Wisconsin. The name is more to those gamers who know and love it as a true Geneva Convention of gaming where all games and gamers can come and play their favorite games that have been out of print for years and games that are not yet available. Where every gamer has a chance to play and every game has a chance to be played – where no game is left behind. Peter Adkison is the former CEO of Wizards of the Coast and of Gen Con L.L.C. and he remains as the primary shareholder and member of the board. He is The Man behind The Throne of Games.
John Collins (JC): Thanks for agreeing to do an interview with me Mr. Adkison. As a roleplaying gamer I have known about some of your major projects for decades and have lived under its influence from playing Dungeons and Dragons to attending and then covering Gen Con as a photo journalist, so thank you for years of enjoyment!
Peter Adkison (PA): You're very welcome!
(JC): Could you tell us a bit of your background? I know your business background, but what turned you on to gaming at the outset, and what led you into games and gaming as a career?
(PA): I was blessed with being born into a family that loved games. Some of my earliest memories were playing Rook with my grandparents as a child. At least I thought it was Rook. It turns out we were really playing Pinochle rules with Rook cards, which I discovered to my embarrassment when I went all rules-lawyer on someone years later. When I was in 5th grade my dad was teaching high school and one night some of his students brought a game of Risk over to play. That's when he and I both became hooked on board games. Within a year we had a small collection of Avalon Hill board wargames and within a couple years of that we were playing the big ones like War in the East and were subscribers to The General and Strategy & Tactics. In 1978 I discovered Dungeons & Dragons and that really rocked my world. RPG's have been my primary pastime ever since.
I've always been a rules tinkerer. When I founded Wizards of the Coast our primary motivation was to publish various roleplaying systems, adventures, and sourcebooks. The first product ever released by Wizards, called The Primal Order, was written by yours truly (with a lot of help) and contained a "capsystem" for running deities, divine artifacts, and so on using many of the popular RPG's of the time. If not for Magic: The Gathering, Wizards would probably have lapsed into the nostalgic but forgettable, heavily-littered battlefield of dead RPG companies.
(JC): Before we get to your current projects I would be remiss if I didn't ask you to tell my readers a bit about Gen Con. So could you tell us a bit about Gen Con?
(PA): Of course! Growing up as a fan of D&D in the 80's I, of course, heard of Gen Con frequently. I'd read the event listings and fantasized about what games I'd play if I ever got to go. In 1992 that dream was realized when Wizards of the Coast exhibited for the first time at Gen Con. We were selling The Primal Order and Talislanta and we booth-shared with AOL! This was before Magic and our booth was homemade and looked sort of like a castle! It was grand. I fell in love with Gen Con and haven't missed it since.
In 1997 of course we had the good fortune of buying TSR. Obviously, D&D was the real prize – or at least we thought so at the time – but Gen Con was part of the deal and that was always the cherry on top of the deal in my mind. When we sold Wizards to Hasbro in 1999 that deal included Gen Con. When I left Hasbro a couple years later I said, "If you ever divest any of these businesses let me know. I'd be interested." A year or so later I got the call that several businesses within Wizards were for sale and that's how I ended up with Gen Con and Lisa Stevens ended up with Dragon Magazine (which is gone now but that's how she got the momentum to start Paizo.)
Gen Con has turned out to be more than "a bonus". It's an awesome event that has turned into a great business too. The attendance has almost tripled since I acquired it in 2002, but at the same time it hasn't drifted away from its original charter. It's still primarily about tabletop games, yet has programming to appeal to nearly every facet of geek culture. It's had basically the same format for 20 years, just scaled up bigger.
(JC): In your personal life you have taken off in an entirely new direction and as of Gen Con 2012 it is expanding into your public life. Could you tell me and my readers about your current projects?
(PA): After winding down Hidden City Games in the spring of 2011 I was looking for something new to do. I was tired of the publishing grind but I wanted to find something that would keep me active in hobby games. After quite a few twists and turns I decided I wanted to get into filmmaking. So I enrolled in film school and I'm excited to report I'll be finished in mid-December 2012!
As soon as I started film school I immediately started a web series called The First Paladin. I'm very interested in exploring the intersection of my first love, roleplaying games, and filmmaking. I figured I'd start by filming a roleplaying campaign. I admit this sort of thing has limited appeal – as Jeff Grubb told me once, a roleplaying session is 20 minutes of excitement crammed into four hours. But I have this morbid fascination with the topic and it's turned out to be a fabulous "first project" web series. I've had a ton of fun figuring out how to spruce it up by adding illustrations, celebrity appearances, testimonials, and so on.
Then it occurred to me that what might be interesting in this vein would be to film one-off RPG sessions featuring great game designers or great games (ideally, game designers running their own games). For example, I've filmed Luke Crane running Burning Wheel, and I have Vince Baker coming out in early December to run Dogs in the Vineyard and Apocalypse World.
I'm also interested in making narrative films that tie to roleplaying in some way. You'll start to see some early attempts at this within a couple months and I'm hoping by the end of 2013 I'm decent at it.
(JC): Where do you think your dreams and plans will take you from here?
(PA): My fantasy now is to get good enough at narrative films over the next year or two that I can move on to feature length movies. And my goal is to make movies that are inspired by roleplaying games, settings, and stories created through actual roleplaying. As an early test in this direction, my first short film in 2013 will be based on a screenplay that we will adapt from a Fiasco game run by the designer, Jason Morningstar.
(JC): In addition to writing for Examiner.com, I write for my own site, The Weird Review, and I like to close my interviews with giving my interviewee the opportunity to tell my readers something weird and wonderful about themselves that there fans wouldn't otherwise know. Do you have anything interesting about yourself that you would like to share?
(PA): I regularly attend Burning Man. I started attending in 2001 and am a staunch believer in the "Ten Principles of Burning Man."
(JC): Awesome! Thanks so much for taking the time to do this interview with me and perhaps I can catch you for a video interview next year at Gen Con.
(PA): I'd love to do a live interview with you at Gen Con next year!
(JC): Thanks sir! I will look forward to seeing you at Gen Con 2013!
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Author's note – For years I had wanted to attend Gen Con but it was not until 2009 that I first attended the event and I was hooked. In January 2010 after working with a photo journalist in New Orleans during Mardi Gras, I was hooked on photo journalism. It was only natural for me to combine these and request a press pass for Gen Con 2010. As I applied I knew that I didn't meet their requirements for a press pass and so did their Director of Marketing, Megan Culver. She, out of kindness, granted me one. In January 2011 I started working on my site in earnest and used Ms. Culver as a resource. After several months she asked if I intended to take on advertising and if so, to let her know. So Gen Con became my first sponsor beginning January 2012. For the sake of full disclosure it was necessary to mention this relationship, but I have been a big fan of the event for a few years and I couldn't pass up the opportunity for an interview with Mr. Adkison and to write about my favorite gaming event, Gen Con.
If you enjoy the following photo gallery from Gen Con 2012 check out The Weird Review's Gen Con Photo Gallerys from 2010, 2011, and 2012
John N. Collins is a writer, photographer, game & coloring book designer and a bad dancer.
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In late July, the health authority announced that overnight closures, between 7 p.m. and 8 a.m., would begin at the Cormorant Island Community Health Centre until Aug. 16.
Those overnight emergency department (ED) closures have now been extended to Aug. 31, Island Health said Friday.
Anyone who has a medical emergency while the ED is closed is asked to call 911.
"Do not go to the CICHC ED during the hours it is closed as this will delay your access to care," said Island Health in a statement.
The health authority says it has "protocols in place" to make sure that people are taken to alternate health-care centres while the emergency department is closed.
Island Health says it needs a minimum number of staff at each hospital to remain open, and that it currently does not have enough nurses to maintain 24/7 service at the emergency department on Cormorant Island.
"Island Health continues to work diligently on recruitment and strategies to secure additional nursing coverage, with the goal of resuming 24/7 ED services at the CICHC as quickly as possible."
Emergency room closures in rural areas of Island Health have become commonplace in recent months.
Last weekend, the emergency departments at Port McNeill Hospital and Port Hardy Hospital were closed overnight due to staffing shortages.
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This is the second Reader's Digest article on conditions in American Samoa (see Reader's Digest "Shame"). After just four years, American Samoa has been transformed into a showplace. On this website you will see how these changes came about, what they meant to the growth and development of the community and what happened to all of this in recent years. We thank Reader's Digest and Clarence Hall for bringing all of this to the attention of the world.
By Clarence W. Hall
Reader's Digest
November 1965
Somewhere on earth, there may be a more spectacular example of revolutionary change in an area and its people, but in years of roving the world's far corners, I have not seen it.
Five years ago the small cluster of exotic islands composing American Samoa was a national disgrace. Nestling deep in the fabulous South Seas, 8,000 miles from Washington, this tiniest, most forgotten U.S. territory slumbered in tattered neglect. Few tourists ever saw it; one who did stamp it "a Tobacco Road with palms." The handsome people of purest Polynesian blood, had long since grown spiritless, were scorned and pitied as poor country cousins by their kinfolk on other island groups. Each year, hundreds of American Samoa's more ambitious youths quit the islands to seek education and employment in Hawaii and U.S. West Coast cities.
Today, however, this former South Seas slum is the showplace of the Pacific. Young expatriates are flooding back to participate in the islands' bursting new life and prosperity. Other islanders come to stare enviously at American Samoa's new schools and roads. Educators come to observe Samoa's exciting experiment-the first anywhere-in almost total teaching by television. And with its storied capital, Pago Pago, now the main stop on the direct route from Hawaii to Australia, tourists by the hundreds will soon be tumbling off the jets at Oceania's finest airport, to relax in the new 100-room luxury hotel or just to savor life in an idyllic South Seas settings.
What brought about this magical metamorphosis? Two factors, mainly: the threat of a diplomatic disaster, and a remarkable man.
A Grand Design. The threat arose early in 1961 with the realization that, in July of the coming year, American Samoa was slated as host for the triennial meeting of the South Pacific Conference. More than 200 delegates would be coming from other Pacific territories. Worldwide radio and press coverage would contrast America's vaunted concern for the world's underprivileged with the shabby neglect of her own.
Appalled at the prospect, President Kennedy rushed to Congress a request for an emergency appropriation of $465,000. He admonished the Department of the Interior to get a new governor out there to do a fast job of refurbishing. Secretary Stewart Udall picked a seasoned troubleshooter H. Rex Lee, 52, then deputy commissioner of the Bureau of Indian Affairs.
Idaho-born Rex Lee is a man of steely determination masked by a soft-spoken manner. He arrives in Pago Pago four days before his inauguration, spent the time poking about the islands- "a melancholy vista if I ever saw one." Government buildings flying tattered American flags were rotted, termite-infested and peeling. Roads were rutty paths leading nowhere. Raw sewage was piped into Pago Pago's spectacular harbor, which was ringed by overwater latrines, Samoans suffered from unchecked disease and malnutrition. Agriculture had gone downhill, and heavy imports of even the barest necessities lifted the cost of living to ridiculous heights. The only private industry of any consequence was a small tuna cannery.
Most shocking were what passes for village schools- mostly sagging little grass-roofed shacks, crammed with children, taught by Samoan teachers who themselves had the equivalent of no more than five or six years of schooling. The singles high school could accommodate fewer than a third of those students desiring to enter.
A man of lesser fiber might have thrown up his hands and quit. Ever since 1899, when Samoan chiefs asked the United States to take over their islands, governors had come and gone with dismaying rapidity, unable to shake Samoa out of its doldrums or Washington out of its apathy. But Lee mapped out a grand design for Samoa's redemption. "Simply to fix this place up for the SPC meeting and then abandon it," he had concluded, "would be worse than nothing."
Calling the island chiefs together for a confab around the ceremonial kava bowl, he told them, "I'm not going to ask Congress for anything you can supply yourselves-land for roads and schools, for instance, and the labor to build them." Beguiled by the picture he painted of their future, but disbelieving, the Samoan leaders smiled indulgently and pledged full cooperation.
In three weeks Rex Lee was back in Washington, full of ideas and zest. The importance of American Samoa, he told members of the House subcommittee on deficiency appropriations, was moral: "When the islands were necessary for our defense, up to and including World War II, we used them and used their people." But the territory's importance was also political: "For years the South Pacific has been a vacuum. Now our enemies are moving into that vacuum. Here's our chance to show the world how we can help underdeveloped peoples toward a self-sufficient life."
The result: a Congressional down payment on the $9,500,000 requested for the first year's budget.
"First-Rank Model." Stopping off in Hawaii, Lee corralled help from quarters long concerned with the territory's neglect. From Rear Adm. Henry G. Clark of the 14th Naval District came a pledge of aid in getting construction contracts, plus the temporary loan of a battalion of reserve Seabees and equipment. Albert B. Pratt, a former Seabee, promised to take a leave of absence as head of Pearl Harbor's public-works department to supervise road building and give Samoans on-the-job training. Architect George J. Wimberly, the creator of some Hawaii's most attractive Polynesian-type structures, was enlisted to design an auditorium for the SPC meeting, which later could Governor H. Rex Lee be used for school and public functions.
Back in Samoa, Rex Lee called the island chiefs together, pointed to the boatloads of men and equipment arriving from Hawaii. "Now you're going to get some of the things you've been yearned for- first of all, a road," he said. The chiefs quickly recruited 900 workers, and some joined in themselves as road-gang foremen.
With Lee everywhere at once, checking, prodding, approving, Pago Pago's appearance changed markedly. The waterfront was swept clear of the over-the-water latrines. Villages were made pin-neat and planted with flowers. Some 5500 gallons of good paint were flown in, sold at cost, and Samoans painted everything in sight. Ready by the time the SPC delegates arrived were: the jet airport with its 9,000 foot runway; 15miles of 20-ffot-wide macadam roads leading to the beauty spots of the island of Tutuila; 29 new teachers' housing units with modern plumbing; three new buildings for Samoa's high school, capable of caring for 300 visitors; the handsome new civic auditorium; a new power plant-and 20,000 immensely proud Samoans
Representatives from 23 Pacific states and territories, plus observers from the U.N., could scarcely believe their eyes. Critics who came to carp praised American Samoa as "a first-rank model of how to govern Pacific islands."
In a Hurry. Now Lee plunged into his plan to make Samoa independent of outside support. Education, as he saw it, must be his main thrust. Reforming the primitive education system by gradual steps would take decades. An absolute necessity was "an explosive upgrading." But what kind?
The notion came to Lee in a flash that the answer lay in television not as a supplemental aid but as the core of teaching. It was a revolutionary idea for Samoa, which had no television. But once the high cost of setting it up was met, TV education would be comparatively inexpensive, for a small group of instructors, of top quality, could reach a maximum number of students.
Impressed but skeptical, the Congressional appropriations committee granted Lee $40,000 to explore the idea. A study team from the National Association of Educational Broadcasters, headed by Vernon Bronson, reported after on-the-spot examination that ETV was indeed "the best potential tool for the task." Congress then approved and appropriation of $1,583,000 for a three-channel system.
The NAEM began rounding up and training engineers, technicians and ETV teachers from all over the United States. In early 1963, contracts were let for equipment and for the erection of a 226-foot transmitter atop 1,700-foot Mt. Alava across the bay from Pago Pago.
When getting to the transmitter site proved a problem, engineers swung a 5,100-foot cable across the harbor cannily estimating that the aerial tramway would pay for itself as a tourist ride. It provides a spectacular view as far as Western Samoa, 77 miles away.
The Samoans erected 26 consolidated schools to replace the 45 tumbledown village schools. And with the opening of the 1964 school year, KVZK-TV beamed its first signals to the new schools. The specially prepared elementary lessons are on three main levels; each lesson, whatever its subject matter, lays heavy emphasis on oral English.
Finding experienced top teachers eager to have a go at it proceeded rapidly. Typical are Roy and Mildred Cobb of Louisville, Ky. While Mildred settled in at Utulei supervise the production of ETV curricula, Roy went to Nua, 15miles distant, to get the first consolidated school, serving four nearby villages, is the standard by which others are judged. It comprises six concrete-and-red-wood buildings of two classrooms each, playground, and beautiful flowered grounds planted and maintained by the villagers. There are 275 pupils, nine Samoan teachers, and six trainees.
Standing Room Only. After a year of trial. Has Samoa's experiment in TV teaching been successful? "Outstandingly so," say authorities. Dr. John W. Harold, Samoa's director of education and formerly executive director of the Iowa State Education Association, reports: "tests show that young Samoans not only are learning twice as fast as formerly but are retaining their knowledge much longer." Attendance averages 98 percent in all schools.
Last September, Samoa's high schools also turned to TV teaching, served by three added TV channels. To the single high school at Utulei are being added three spanking new ones: one at Leone (now completed), another on the island of Tau, and a third at the eastern end of Tutuila. The basic plan calls for a complex of circular, Polynesian-style buildings, all hurricane-proof, providing 5,540 square feet of space.
At night, the new schools become community centers, packed to the standing-room-only stage with older Samoans eagerly imbibing lessons in farming, home beautification, sanitation, the principles of government and democracy. Newscast in both Samoan and English are featured nightly, as are travelogues showing how other people live and solve their problems.
American Samoa's ETV system has been studied by international agencies and by technicians from many countries. Its implications for underdeveloped areas everywhere are significant since the broadcasts could just as well go to 2,500 schools simultaneously as to Samoa's 25, for only a modest additional cost. With the encouragement of Governor Lee, methods of adapting the TV teaching to their own needs are now being studied by Western Samoa, where KVZK-TV's telecasts come in loud and clear, and by the Tonga Islands.
Making Money. Other accomplishments in American Samoa have been scarcely less imposing. Attracted by generous tac incentives, a number of new companies have settled on government-owned land, providing welcome work and wages for hundreds. Local commerce had long been a monopoly of a few island traders. With funds from the government-owned Bank of Samoa, a number of vigorous young Samoans have started flourishing little businesses of their own. A pair of brothers, for example, now runs a combined commission business and tours agency. Two others now operate their own construction business. Other private enterprises include an island newspaper, Samoa's first laundry, a barber and beauty shop, a retail clothing store.
With the islands' exotic beauty, attractive people and the handsome new jet airport-finest in the South Seas-tourism was made to order for Samoa. Three years ago, Lee Helped island leaders to form the Samoa Development Corp. "If anyone is to profit from Samoa's tourist attractions," he said, "it will be Samoans." Today, the fine new Polynesian-style hotel is 100-percent Samoan-owned, with 1,200 shareholders, who purchased $10 shares through time payments and payroll deductions. All shops and services-Polynesian handicrafts, fishing boats, car rentals-will eventually be run by Samoans trained by an international hotel-management concern.
Among SDC projects soon to be realized is a modern shopping center in Pago Pago, complete with Laundromats and an air-conditioned supermarket. The broad base of stock ownership is already channeling dividends to the remotest villages and scores of Samoans, partly supported by government scholarships and partly by the SDC, are now in mainland and Hawaiian colleges learning the skills they need to run their own affairs.
Food and Facilities. Most Samoan farms had produced only scant crops of such diet basics as taro, breadfruit and bananas. One of Lee's first acts was to rejuvenate the government's weed-grown experimental farms. Extension agents showed the islanders how to step up the quantity and variety of their products. Intercropping was started, free transplant of seedling were provided, farm machinery was rented out, insecticides and fertilizers were sold at cost. Suitable strains of poultry and pigs were brought in.
The result: Samoa's average production per acre has almost doubled since 1961. Overall, food prices are at an all-time low. Many farmers now own machinery, bought on time. And today in Samoa's traditional open-air, grass-roofed shacks stand more than 500 large white refrigerators.
Another of Lee's early acts was to launch engineering studies for a comprehensive sewage-disposal system for the Pago Pago bay area, then to begin a long-term program aimed at providing, largely with the people's own efforts, sanitary facilities in each village, including laundry and showers. The possession of a private water toilet has now become a Samoan status symbol.
Health and Welfare. With the help of imported specialists, a control program ha sharply reduced the incidence of pulmonary troubles, filariasis, intestinal parasites, anemia, and other diseases. Malnutrition in the young, due to a faulty diet and alarmingly fatal to infants, was attacked through a school-lunch project and home-demonstration programs. To cut down the islands' birth rate, long one of the world's highest, a drive to teach birth control was recently launched.
Lee wangled from Congress a three-million-dollar appropriation to build a badly needed new hospital. The ancient hospital's services had been largely in the hands of a dozen "Samoan medical practitioners" (SMP's), bright young Samoans trained at the Central Medical School in Suva, Fiji, but without enough education to qualify for medical degrees. A number of scholarships have now been established for Samoans in stateside schools of medicine, to supply top medical talent for the future.
Price Tags. Since his goal was to make Samoans self-sufficient politically as well as economically, Lee boldly surrendered many of his powers, laying in the lap of the legislature, formerly a rubber-stamp body, the responsibility for enacting and enforcing its own laws. How well the Samoans have responded is indicated by the legislature's action in early 1963 when it overwhelmingly voted "to join our fellow Americans in paying federal income taxes" the only American territory voluntarily to take on this burden. When one legislator, egged on by a well-to-do island merchant, spoke against and the income tax as "colonialist" and "undemocratic," whole phalanxes of his fellow chiefs arose to cry him down. "We have never been less colonialist or more democratic," declaimed High Chief Rapi Sotoa, president of the senate. "This makes us real Americans at last!"
In 1963, the income tax produced $212,600; in 1964, $947,000; in 1965, some $1,186,000-an amount almost equal to the entire annual Congressional appropriations for Samoa in pre-Lec days. The steady climb of Samoa toward economic independence is equally marked. For fiscal 1966, local revenues are estimated at $3,011,000almost a fourfold growth over 1961.
Congressional appropriations over the past four years have totaled more than 30 million dollars. With most of his construction program financed, Lee's budget request for fiscal 1966 is down to $3,795,000. "With the rate of economic growth anticipated," he says, "American Samoa should become self-sufficient by 1975." Says Congressman Michael J. Kirwan of the House Committee on Appropriations: "Seldom in our history has an investment in people shown such prompt and satisfactory returns."
Keep It Samoan. Word has spread. SO many people from other South Sea island groups have tried to crowd in that Samoa had had to restrict immigration. Two delegations came recently from New Zealand's Tokelau Islands, nosed about for days, then sought out Governor Lee to say, "we are sent by our council of chiefs, who decided that we would like to cede our islands and become a part of the United States."
But will all this development mean the loss of Samoa's charm, the abandonment of its appealing culture? Not at all, says Lee. "All we do is aimed at keeping Samoa Samoan." The island chiefs unanimously agree. As High Chief T. Le'iato told me: "If we lose any of our old ways, it will be because we choose 10, not because changes are being forced upon us."
When, last year, word reached Samoa that a representative of an Iron Curtain country had risen in the U.N. to call American Samoa "a familiar example of colonialist conquest," the legislature flew into an uproar. "Let us make it plain," said one spokesman, "that American Samoa is no colony, but a part of the United States-by choice. And let no one come calling here to force us apart from our brothers, the mainland Americans!"


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Click on Import toward the top right corner of your list of transactions. The Import Transactions window will appear.
Download the Transactions Import CSV Template by clicking on the blue link.
Export transactions from your bank or former accounting program.
Copy and paste each column from your exported document into the matching columns in the ZipBooks CSV.
Save to your computer.
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Click the blue Import button.
Once your transactions have been uploaded, double check to make sure they imported correctly.
And you're done! You've saved yourself a whole lot of time by importing your transactions instead of putting them in manually.
How to migrate data for a client:
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From ZipBooks Accountant, click Clients
Find the client you're looking for and click the three dots to the right
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This owl is for my Dad (this time commissioned by my mum!). He's an owl fan so I hope he doesn't look at my colouring too much, I'm sure it's not very accurate!
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WASHINGTON (AP) — Facing pivotal November elections, President Donald Trump is misrepresenting the history of African-American voting and exaggerating his influence in boosting income and controlling prescription drug prices.
He laments in campaign speeches on behalf of Republican candidates that blacks' support for Democrats had become "habit," having voted for them "for 100 years," and insists his administration's policies are changing that. In fact, most African-Americans were effectively blocked from the right to vote until 1965. Much of the income gains he claims for blacks and other minorities came during the Obama administration.
On drug costs, Trump says he is "bringing them down." But few drugmakers have actually lowered prices as a result of his pressure.
And in remarks at the hot core of the debate over his new Supreme Court justice, Trump distorted the testimony of Brett Kavanaugh's accuser in a mocking turn on a rally stage before the Senate elevated the judge to the high court on the weekend.
A look at the past week's claims:
TRUMP, on black support for Democratic candidates in recent elections: "It's only habit. It's habit, because for 100 years, African-Americans have gone with Democrats." — Kansas rally Saturday.
THE FACTS: No, black Americans did not primarily vote Democratic for 100 years, or anywhere close to it.
Most African-Americans for much of U.S. history were disenfranchised, then effectively deterred from voting via poll taxes and literacy tests until passage of the 1965 Voting Rights Act, which outlawed racial discrimination in voting.
African-Americans who could vote before then generally backed Republican candidates until the 1932 election of President Franklin D. Roosevelt. His New Deal programs of economic relief won their support and helped spur a longer-term shift of black voting from Republican to Democratic.
The Voting Rights Act eliminated literacy tests, clamped down on poll taxes that the 24th Amendment had banned in federal elections a year earlier and required a number of mostly Southern states with a history of discrimination to get advance federal approval to make changes to their election laws. Before that, only an estimated 23 percent of voting-age blacks were registered nationally, says the Library of Congress , but by 1969 that had jumped to 61 percent.
TRUMP: "How does your African-American, how do you vote for somebody else? I've done more for them in two years… And their median income is the highest. But not only for African-Americans, for Asian." — Minnesota rally Thursday.
THE FACTS: He's wrong about median income now being the highest for African-Americans. He also exaggerates the economic gains he's accomplished for blacks and Asian-Americans.
The median income last year for an African-American household was $40,258, according to the Census Bureau. That's below a 2000 peak of $42,348 and also statistically no better than 2016, which was Democratic President Barack Obama's last year in office.


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It looks like the Dallas Stars will finally boast (more or less) their full-fledged lineup on Saturday night.
There was more than a bit of doubt that top center Jamie Benn would sit out another game with a wrist injury, but various sources confirm that he's playing against the Chicago Blackhawks.
Some wondered if Benn, 23, suffered an injury from a controversial Martin Hanzal hit on March 9, but the impact player insists it's a wrist issue that happened earlier in the contest.
Benn's had an up-an-down season after he came to terms with a new deal with the Stars. His 16 points in 19 games is solid enough, but he was on a bit of a cold streak before the injury, being held pointless in four of five games.
With Ray Whitney finally back in the lineup and Erik Cole settling in, we'll get a chance to see how good (or bad) Dallas really is in 2013.


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Hybrid Cloud?' Check Processing Through 'Thick' and 'Thin'
LOS ANGELES -- In business, the concept of "the cloud," a metaphor for Internet-based computing where shared servers provide resources, software, and data to computers and other devices on demand, has become so popular that it has even made its way into pop culture television advertisements. CheckAlt Payment Solutions, a leading provider of innovative, patented Remote Deposit Capture (RDC) check processing services, announced its "Hybrid Cloud" environment for check processing, incorporating the best computer-based software solutions with Internet accessibility.
"We want to announce this feature of our service because of the advantages it provides our clients," said Shai Stern, CEO and Co-Chair for CheckAlt. "Our Remote Deposit Capture and Check21 processing services benefit two distinct markets very well. Using the hybrid 'cloud' and 'non-cloud' environments enables our clients to provide the best service possible to their members."
CheckAlt Payment Solutions offers the most efficient, cost effective Remote Deposit Capture process for merchants to receive payments from their customers. Their Check21 solution for Credit Unions uses the same safe, patented technology and software, and it enables Credit Unions nationwide to forward deposited items to the Federal Reserve Banks without having to go through an intermediary Corporate Credit Union or Commercial Bank.
The CheckAlt software resides on their user's computers; it allows clients to scan, process data, collect images, and safely store them in a local virtual lockbox without having become bogged down by lackluster Internet connections or bandwidth lag. All check scanning, data verification, user set-up, and designation of one or more bank accounts is handled in this manner. Because the CheckAlt service solution connects directly to the Internet and uploads in safe, encrypted scanned batches, it is classified as a "Thick Client." Most competing solutions use a "Thin Client," which is a process that scans images serially direct to the Internet. The largest advantage for CheckAlt clients is the speed and security of scanning checks without the danger of the Internet bogging down the image capture process and stopping mid batch. These disruptions can lead to duplicate check deposits when a check is re-scanned or missing items that the user assumed had been scanned into "the cloud" but had not, in fact, been received.
In CheckAlt Payment Solution's cloud, users can approve or hold batches, review individual checks, and remove individual items from batches before they are uploaded. In addition, they can easily generate and download reports, data, and check images. Supervisory functions are the focus of their internet control panel empowering management to focus on customer service and member satisfaction instead of actual check processing.
About CheckAlt:
CheckAlt Payment Solutions is among the country's premier payment processing companies providing Check21 services allowing businesses nationwide to utilize its eCheck and patented Remote Desktop Capture (RDC) systems to improve their top and bottom lines. The CheckAlt eCheck is the "email a check" solution that allows businesses from merchants and property managers to universities and non-profits to maximize cash flow and accounting accuracy. CheckAlt's unique RDC empowers businesses such as credit unions and community banks by enabling them to locally deposit scanned checks virtually while reducing associated Internet transaction processing costs. Streamlined clients experience the benefits of receiving funds in less than 12 hours without having to change banks or accounting systems. Swift, simple, and safe: CheckAlt Payment Solutions is the smartest way to do business. Learn more at: www.checkalt.com.
CONTACT: Shai Stern, +1-310-417-1050, firstname.lastname@example.com; or Jhoana Darke +1-310-846-0417, firstname.lastname@example.com, both of CheckAlt Payment Solutions


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The AD Line is calculated by taking the difference between the advancing and declining issues each day (usually on the NYSE). This positive or negative number is added to the cumulative AD line.
In using the AD Line, keep an eye on the Trend and watch for Divergence from other indices or sectors:
Trend: By studying the trend of the AD Line you can see if the market is in a rising or falling trend, if the trend is still intact, and how long the current trend has prevailed.
Divergence: The AD line should trend in the same direction with the market averages. When the AD line peaks out ahead of the market, as it often does, investors are alerted to poor market breadth.
Typically, the daily AD Line is used to watch for short to intermediate trends. A weekly AD Line is considered more useful for trend comparisons that span several years.
Overbought/Oversold Indicator
The Overbought/Oversold Indicator (OB/OS) is simply a smoothed AD Line. The smoothing is done by taking the 10-day exponential moving average of the A/D Line. Smoothing the A/D Line makes it fluctuate within a narrower range with heavier weighting given to past data.
The OB/OS indicator generally fluctuates in a range of +400 to -400. A level above +200 suggests an overbought market while a level below -200 suggests an oversold market.
There are a number of other useful indicators for measuring market breadth. See also the McClellan Oscillator, McClellan Summation Index, Upside-Downside Volume, and the Arms Index.
Sidebar on the NYSE
The New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) is the largest equities marketplace in the world and is home to 3,025 companies worth more than $16 trillion in global market capitalization. As of year-end 1999, the NYSE had 280.9 billion shares listed and available for trading worth approximately $12.3 trillion.
Over two-thirds of the roster of NYSE companies have listed here within the last 12 years. These companies include a cross-section of leading U.S. companies, midsize and small capitalization companies. Non-U.S. issuers play an increasingly important role on the NYSE. As of July 1999, 382 non-U.S. companies were listed here - more than triple the number 5 years ago.
-- From the NYSE website at NYSE.com


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50.000 sqm
Dyer commissioned to deliver affordable but elegant, contemporary interiors for this local shopping centre located in Brateevo neighbourhood of Moscow. The exterior enveloped was also to be improved by Dyer, but the project was already in an advanced stage by the time Dyer's design team commenced works. Hence the little influence we could implement on the final facades.
When developing the design strategy for the interior spaces we aimed for a human scale, a very humble and honest approach that would insert a natural trust in the costumer base. Nothing too flashy or ostentatious was allowed when selecting the colour and material patterns.
Natural colours with timber effect inserts framed metal profiles were arranged into a perpendicular raster system. This grid was used as the generator of forms, and root for every design decision. This set of rules is used throughout the ceilings, floor finishes, shop fronts and pilasters. These guidelines help achieving a coordinated overall interior design. A selection of free flowing furniture and suspended lighting elements feature some of the break-out spaces, which completes the mainly orthogonal composition.


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Milan are reportedly ready to splash out €40 million for Barcelona striker Zlatan Ibrahimovic. The Rossoneri will pay the Spanish champions in three instalments over three years, in sums of €15m, €15m and €10m.
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By: Aaron Lai
February 16, 2018
If you are a fan of anime, you probably have heard of the movie called Kimi no na wa, or Your Name. This movie premiered in mid-2016, going on to make quite a bit of money from the box office. It was lauded for its animation and emotional appeal. Without revealing too much, the movie centers on the life of two teenagers in Japan, with one in rural Japan and the other in the heart of Tokyo. Seemingly enough, their life would intertwine as they found themselves waking up in each other's bodies. A story unfolds between the two, but I think I will let you readers watch the movie for yourself. When I was talking to one of my junior high friends about this movie, she exclaimed her dismay to the conclusion of the movie. I am not going to spoil anything, but I actually really liked the way they concluded the movie. To me it was subtle without needing to tell the audience any more than necessary. Through the movie, the audience learned enough about both of the characters through their interactions, allowing them to draw their own conclusions. Honestly though, I think these subtle ends only work well if enough information and clarity is provided for the audience. Similarly, when it comes to products, the gamer look is nice, but I always like a subtle design as long as the performance is not affected by it. Today, we have the Corsair Gaming HS60 Surround, which is a gaming headset from Corsair. But instead of throwing RGB lighting and things, Corsair has stuck to the basics with its appearances and included a USB sound card for a virtual 7.1 surround output. But how does it perform and does its subtle finish hold it back from being more? Read on to find out!
Today's review unit of the Corsair Gaming HS60 Surround arrived directly from Corsair's offices in Ontario, California. Arriving with UPS and their Saver service, this shipment arrived quickly. The brown corrugated cardboard box arrived without any holes, dents, or bruises to be really concerned about. All the edges were fully sealed, so I know no one else was inside this box after it was taped up. Otherwise, I grabbed a pair of scissors and opened up the container. Inside, the Corsair Gaming HS60 Surround was found with a pile of bubble pockets to ensure the headset was not damaged in transit. In addition, the box was sealed in a plastic bag to prevent any scratches on the retail container itself.
Speaking of which, the Corsair Gaming HS60 Surround's retail container aligns with other Corsair products as it adorns the yellow and black theme. The front shows off the headset itself with the product name underneath it. Primary product features are displayed on the front in both English and French. You will also find the product description, "Stereo gaming headset with 7.1 Surround Sound". Finally, the top shows off the fact this product is compatible with all sorts of gaming consoles and machines. On an aside, Corsair has said the HS60 Surround is a follow-up model of their stereo HS50 headset, so we will also see where the similarities and differences are in our review. Otherwise, there is not much else to talk about, so I continued to open up this headset.
But first, if you are interested in the specifications of the headset, I have grabbed them from the manufacturer's website for your perusal:
Warranty: Two years
Frequency Response: 20Hz - 20 kHz
Impedance: 32k Ohms @ 1 kHz
Drivers: 50mm
Connector: 3.5mm analog
Type: Unidirectional noise cancelling
Impedance: 2.0k Ohms
Frequency Response: 100Hz to 10kHz
Sensitivity: -40dB (+/-3dB)
The Corsair Gaming HS60 Surround was packaged in the cardboard box and held in a plastic shell. Unlike the Corsair Gaming HS50 Stereo, the HS60 Surround comes with a 3.5mm to USB sound card. Otherwise, there is also a detachable microphone. Both of these components were stored in individual plastic bags. We also have two short manuals. One is a quick start guide, which helps with using the headset. The other is marked as a warranty guide, which outlines the warranty information from Corsair. For your information, two years of warranty is offered by Corsair, which is standard for all of their audio products.
Page Index
1. Introduction, Packaging, Specifications
2. Physical Look - Hardware
3. Subjective Audio Analysis
4. Conclusion


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Hire Bidding: A Neo-Micro-Finance Portfolio Investment in "Keke-Napep" Business in Nigeria, Financing the Neo-Micro-Entrepreneurs through Attainable Standard. Accountant's View
Dr. Omah, I; Dr. Oyende A; Dr. Ashamu O.
KEKE NAPEP is a "NAME" GIVEN to a "THREE WHEELER COMMUTER THREE SEATER-CAB-BUS" manufactured in INDIA, used in Nigeria for CITY-TEMPO (Movement). The merchant dealers in this business are mostly in the system of 'Hire-Purchase Transactions'. Hire Tender Transaction is a system by which a hirer is financially assisted through installment payment in the goods intended to acquire, when his financial stability is insufficient to withstand the absolute ownership possession of the goods. The objective of this paper is to highlight the meritorious advantage of hire bidding as a neo-micro-finance portfolio investment in "Keke Napep business in Nigeria and its limitation, if any, in the supra-system. A theoretical frame-work of literature review of some specific authors were harnessed to absolutely understand the conceptual framework of hire tender transactions. Data analysis was developed through the involvement of some organizations in the business of hire tender transactions. The analysis reveals that hire tender transaction is a mass empowerment, assisting the needy individuals financially to embark on self-support employment by acquiring the property in the goods, making installment payment, which would have been difficult, if the hirer was made to purchase the goods at lump sum payment. The paper highlights an insight to the nature, scope and advantage of hire vendor transaction in Nigeria, by expanding the micro-finance methodology to a wider dimension, creating more job opportunities and enabling environment for micro-businesses.
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18 year old comes in on loan...
Stevenage have completed the youth loan signing of Arsenal's Anthony Jeffrey until the end of the season.
Jeffrey, 18, is renowned for his searing pace, having previously been named one of the top three fastest boys in the country, and despite competing in athletics as a youngster the winger moved into the world of football.
He used his pace to impress at the Gunners and played in the under-18s side as a schoolboy, quickly becoming one of the most consistent performers in Steve Bould's side. Mainly used on the left wing, he can also play on the right or in attack and in 19 youth team appearances last season, his first year at London Colney, he netted 6 goals.
As well as speed he also has the ability to deliver dangerous crosses and his hard work hasn't gone unnoticed with call-ups to the Arsenal Reserve side.
The 2011/12 season was described as "a promising year" by his parent club and he will now be hoping to step up another level into men's football with the Boro.