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First off, you may be wondering what possessed us to go to Colombia. If you remember, we are the same people who visited Iceland in January. All right, so I know that with Colombia it´s our safety rather than our sanity that you question. Colombia wasn´t originally at the top of our list, but our guidebooks absolutely raved about it. They described it as a beautiful, romantic, and safe old city that kept off the beaten track because of Colombia´s dangerous reputation. After visiting I can say that this is partly true. It is a beautiful, romantic old city, and I never felt unsafe, but it is only off the beaten track as far as Americans are concerned. Cartagena -- at least the old city -- is still overrun by tourists, it´s just that they´re Latin Americans.
Cartagena lies on the Caribbean coast about 200 miles northeast of the place where Colombian-Panamanian border. It was an important colonial port, and because it was subject to frequent pirates attacks, centuries ago a wall was built around the city to protect it. Today more than a million people live in Cartagena, and the modern city sprawls far beyond the original wall. From what we could tell, most of the modern city is nothing special, but the part inside the walls is well preserved from colonial days. Its narrow streets are lined with brightly colored buildings, flowers flowing over their balconies, and pretty plazas are scattered every few blocks. It lures tourists for good cause.
We got into town on Monday the 6th late in the afternoon. Cartagena´s time zone is only an hour earlier the East Coast, but we´d been up all night traveling, so we might as well have been jet lagged. We took a taxi to our hotel in the center of the walled city. The hotel was basic but clean. It had a ceiling fan and an a/c unit, which was critical to our comfort in the tropical climate. It didn´t have hot water, but this wasn´t a big deal as water in Cartagena never gets very cold.
After settling in, we ventured out to a restaurant listed in Nick´s travel book. We have since come to realize that just because a restaurant is listed does not mean it has received the designation "recommended." We were drawn to this particular place because the book said it had "a surly monkey and parrot on the patio," though sadly we saw neither. We were the only people in the place when we arrived, maybe around 7:30. I asked our exceedingly attentive waiter when Colombians eat dinner. He said 6 o´clock, though I am not convinced that this was the reason the restaurant was empty. We both ordered the chicken "al fagon," which the waiter said meant "in the special style of the restaurant" (which was called something "al fagon"), but this turned out to mean "covered in cheese." I was able to scrape it off, though.
After a wonderfully long rest, we set out the next day to explore the city. Unfortunately, it was a national holiday and the entire country was closed. We spent a long time searching for a place to eat (this was to become a theme of the day) and finally settled on coffee and cinnamon rolls at Juan Valdez, the Colombian equivalent of a Starbucks. I know, I know, but what can you do?
We strolled around for a while and found that luckily a few of the museums were open despite the holiday. Museums aren´t the reason you go to Cartagena, but we took what we could get. We visited the Museum of the Inquisition and its roomfuls of replicas of torture instruments (cheery!). Then we spent some time browsing an exhibit on Cartagena´s history. I remarked that some of the exhibits looked like they had been made for somebody´s history class project -– and then we noticed the "first prize" signs.
After the museum, we bought a couple of coconuts on the street for the coco water (the vendor cuts off the top and sticks in a straw for you) and began our quest for lunch. We walked for quite a while, and the coconuts began to feel very heavy. It was at this point that we noticed that Cartagena has virtually no public trash cans. Still, it´s not a trashy city, so I guess people are just conscientious. (They could teach Naples a thing or two). We eventually came across a place that advertised lunch, so we went in, took advantage of their trash can for the coconuts, and were about to sit down when we noticed the apparent owner staring at us. "There´s no lunch," he said. Oh, of course. An open restaurant at lunchtime, I don´t know what we were thinking! Well at least we got rid of the coconuts.
Finally we found a nice place (recommended by Lonely Planet even) and had a soup, fish, yucca croquetas, and salad. Nearly every meal we had in Cartagena was served with salad, but we never ate it, because that´s a good way to get sick and neither of us likes salad enough to run the risk. For better things, such as fruit shakes, we take our chances. We retreated to our room for the hottest part of the afternoon and then hit one of the plazas for dinner. We both tried the ubiquitous Colombian beer Aguila, slogan "Aguila is Colombia. It refreshes our passion." It´s a pale beer, a Pilsner I think; I thought it was decent, but my taste in beer changes in hot humid climates. (Beer Lao, I will never forget you). We then went for a drink at the elegant Santa Clara Hotel, where wealthy Latin American tourists stay. President Clinton had lunch there once. The lounge that we sat in had dark wood walls and plush white couches and was decorated like an old library (but trendier). We drank more Aguila, which did not fit the atmosphere, but it was what we could afford.
On Wednesday, Colombia reopened. We woke up early to take a tour to the mud volcano, a couple hours up the coast from Cartagena. The bus picked us up at our hotel; we were the first on board, so we drove around for an hour or so picking up other passengers. I enjoyed this because we visited parts of town outside the wall, which we otherwise would not have had occasion to see. Even more than seeing sights, I like just getting the sense of a place. We learned that many of the Colombian and other Latin American tourists stay in a charmless area of high rise apartments and hotels along the beach called Bocagrande. I could understand sacrificing some atmosphere for proximity to the beach if the beach in Cartagena were nice, but the water is grey, the sand isn´t white, and it all looks a bit dirty.
The bus drove us out into a rural area along the coast. Cows, donkeys, and goats grazed by the sides of the road. Once in a while we´d come across billboards advertising new resort communities -– "invest in your home now!" -- but we never caught a glimpse of these advertised luxury homes. All we saw were a few clusters of shacks here and there. We appeared to be in the middle of nowhere, but Nick said that perhaps we did not totally understand domestic Colombian tourism.
Part of our group was going on a different tour involving a boat ride, so we took a detour along a beach road to drop them off. Along the beach was an unending row of seafood restaurants. These "restaurants" varied greatly in apparent permanency and solidness. Many were little more than wooden poles stuck in the sand with a thatched covering for shade. Not totally sure where the cooking takes place. The place was deserted -- it was still mid morning, so this was not a surprise, but I have no idea where all the people would come from the fill all those restaurants even at mealtime. From the invisible resort communities, apparently. I shouldn´t say it was empty, actually –- each restaurant had its set of resident dogs. Nick observed that although there were many different types of dogs, they were all the same size, which was medium. Natural selection for beach dog traits?
We arrived at the mud volcano in late morning. If you read "volcano" and pictured something of mountainous size, you would be wrong. The mud volcano was a tall mound, well, of mud. It was solid, dried mud on the outside, liquid mud on the inside. We clambered up the steep and slippery steps to the top, where there was a square pool of dark grey mud maybe 10 by 12 feet. A dozen people were already in it. I assumed they were standing on the bottom, but when we got in, we found that there was no bottom. The mud is so thick and buoyant that you stay suspended in it, motionless, in whatever position you stop in. You could be lying flat on your back or standing straight up with no other support. It was like being weightless. After ten minutes of appreciating the weirdness of it, we got out. A quarter inch of it covered all our skin, and it was completely opaque; we were mud people. When we had removed as much of it as we could, we went down to the none-too-clean lagoon to wash off. I knew the nurse at my travel clinic wouldn´t approve, but since there was no chance of being let back on the bus otherwise, we pushed from our minds all the possible diseases lurking in the waters and rinsed off.
On the way back we stopped for lunch on the beach. We sat down at a long table next to the only other English speaking people on the tour, hoping to have our first real conversation with people other than each other since we´d arrived, but our English speaking friends were engaged in a spirited anti-American rant, so that didn´t pan out for us. The food came out slowly. We had both ordered the fish because we knew it was fresh. It came out with head and tail still attached. This, I thought, counts as our authentic Colombian meal. It was a bony fish, and strong tasting, but it was cooked well. It came with salad (again, untouched), coconut rice, and fried plantain cakes. Back in town for dinner that night, we had more meat, salad, and plantain cakes, and we resolved then to eat Chinese food the next night so that we would get some vegetables in our diet.
On Thursday we didn´t have any particular plans except to see the rest of the sights in Cartagena. This took us until noon. First we took a cab up to a convent on a hill overlooking Cartagena. The convent is called "Convento de la Popa," popa relating not to the Pope but to poop -- the poop deck of a ship, that is. The convent had beautiful views of the city and a pretty courtyard. Slow, serious sounding music was playing in the courtyard -- I assumed them to be hymns until a choral version of "Lady in Red" came on.
After lunch we went to the Museo del Oro (Gold Museum), which was unremarkable, but it was free and air conditioned, so no complaints there. We got lunch nearby at a food counter. We shared empanadas and a Colombian specialty called arepas con huevo. This won´t mean anything to most of you, but an arepa con huevo is essentially Gram´s fried mush served with an egg over hard. I loved it! I insisted we eat them for breakfast our remaining days in Cartagena. We also had two tropical fruit shakes. Mine was sapote, which is orange but comes from something that looks like an eggplant, and Nick´s was passion fruit. Both were excellent. Eating like local was considerably cheaper than eating like tourists (we´d known this, but with everything but tourist places closed previously, we hadn´t had much choice). Both of our lunches together, including shakes, cost us $3.50.
Having exhausted the sights, our remaining goals for the day involved food. We´d been trying for a couple of days to buy local sweets at the Plaza de los Dulces, but we hadn´t been able to make our windows of hunger coincide with times the sweets stalls were open. Having nothing else to do for the rest of the afternoon, we finally managed this. We bought a whole assortment of strange looking confections, which we sampled one by one like kids at Halloween. Many of the sweets were coconut or nut based; for some we couldn´t identify the main ingredient. Most were pretty good, but there were a couple we kind of wanted to spit out.
We did have Chinese food for dinner after a thorough comparison of the three Chinese restaurants in our vicinity (again, we had time to kill). We were hoping for a good serving of cooked vegetables; though we were not lucky enough to score broccoli, we did get some green peppers and celery. As in Spain, they served plain white bread as an appetizer -- or, I should say, they served what looked like plain white bread, except that I immediately detected in it the taste of butter (Nick, not a butter-hater, was oblivious to this). A trip to the grocery store later confirmed that "mantequilla" is in fact a common flavor of white bread in Colombia.
On Friday, we woke up at seven to meet our tour to Isla del Rosario, a group of islands near Cartagena. We basically just wanted a nice beach, but it appeared that to get that we had to go along for a bunch of other stuff. The guy at our hotel who booked the tour was insistent that we be at the docks at eight am sharp, so we rushed to get there on time. When we arrived, we asked the tour operator if there was time to buy something for breakfast, and she said, "claro, mi vida, salimos a las 9." ("Of course, my love, the tour leaves at 9"). So we bought our arepas and coffee, and sat by the docks for the next hour breathing boat exhaust and sweating through our layers of sunscreen and DEET.
When our boat was ready, we boarded with the twenty or so other tourists. After we pulled out of the harbor by Cartagena, our boat picked up speed and began to attack the small waves with a disconcerting crunching sound. Something like whomp cruch, whomp crunch. Amazingly no one got seasick. After an hour or so, we arrived at a pretty white sand beach with palm trees and clear, blue-green water. We let off a few people and then continued on. Our next stop was an island that didn´t have a beach but did have an aquarium, though we didn´t go into it. It didn´t look very impressive, it cost extra, and Nick´s guidebook disapproved of it because it keeps dolphins in captivity. So we waited for an hour while the others saw it.
We got back on the boat, which then returned to the white sand beach. Why didn´t we realize we could have skipped the whole aquarium step and had two more hours on the beach, you ask? We had a guide who spoke only Spanish, but not just any Spanish -- a completely indecipherable Carribean dialect. Colombian Spanish is relatively clear, and though my Spanish is rusty, I get far better than half of it. With this guy, I was maybe at 10 percent. All of the other tourists were native speakers, and they figured out pretty early on that we had no idea what was going on because we never laughed at the appropriate times. One of them made the mistake of assuming that this meant we didn´t understand any Spanish. I overheard one of them saying something about "los ingleses" (that would be us), and I looked right at her. "Oh, you speak Spanish!" she said. I actually had no idea what she´d said about us, because I hadn´t been listening until "los ingleses" jumped out at me, but from her look of horror, I inferred that it had not been kind. I said, yes, I spoke some Spanish but that I didn´t understand the guide at all. "Don´t worry, we barely do either" (she was clearly saying this to make up for the insult she imagined I had heard). "He talks like this," and then she made a garbled sound. And I did feel better.
Getting off the boat at the beach, we were greeted by the usual horde of vendors. These particular vendors were selling ceviche, necklaces, and massages. We extricated ourselves and laid our towels out on the beach. A few women soon followed us, offering massages. I protested weakly (really, I did want a beach massage) and then gave in. We both got them, side by side on the beach, two women working on each of us. After they were finished, one of the women asked me what was wrong with Nick. I don´t think anything is wrong, I said. Unconvinced, she made me ask him how he was. Fine, he said. Is he seasick, she asked. I relayed the question (he was not). She said she sensed something wrong. Maybe he was under a lot of stress. I told her we´d both been under stress lately, and that was why we were on vacation.
We spent maybe an hour on the beach and boarded the boat around 2:30. We were beginning to suspect that lunch was not in fact included, but our guide announced that we were heading to the "isla de almuerzo." Even I got that one. A group of locals met us all at the "lunch island," which has a real name that I didn´t catch. They offered to tell us all about the island, which was home to some kind of fort. We said thanks, but that we didn´t need a guide. "Oh, we are not guides," said our guide in English (we had quickly been assigned the one English speaker). "Guides charge you money. But what you give us is from the heart." We explained that from the heart or not, we didn´t have any money to give (this was true, as we had spent it on massages). The guides didn´t believe this –- tourists without money? impossible! -- and continued to follow us and explain things, but there wasn´t much else we could do about it.
Lunch was -- surprise! –- fish, coconut rice, fried plantain cakes, and salad. As we headed back to the boat, our guide gave us a speech about how he needed to buy food and clean water for his two children. I didn´t doubt this, but as we explained again, we really didn´t have any money. The only thing of value either of us was carrying was my camera, but I did give them our granola bars and marshmallow candies.
The next morning, after a stop at the grocery store to replenish our supply of marshmallow candies, which are adorably called mas melos in Spanish and which are far better than any marshmallows sold in the US, we headed to the airport for Quito.


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text: I took apart a freinds Prince stick and looked at the AIR handle. Is this thing a lie? Its suppose to let air through to cool your hand but the thing is all wrapped up with clear tape. No air can get through the slit on each side. If I puncture the tape then maybe it would work. Is this thing all gimmick? Also was wondering where all the handle weight comes from? Its hollow and the sides appear thin. Is it made of plastic or metal? There has to be some weight since it does give a head light balance point of 10 or so.


text: Mas - I've read several articles by you and other writers talking about the merits of shotguns and/or AR-15s for a home defense weapon that might be shared by family members. I currently have a 12 gauge Winchester Super X2 semi auto with a 24" barrel and extended magazine tube with fiber optic sights. It shoots fairly well with slugs and I have a good supply of 00 buckshot. I have two concerns: one is how my wife and daughter would handle the recoil and the other is over penetration as a threat to others within my house and outside as well. Would an AR be a good compromise - especially loaded with some 40 grain frangible rounds? I suspect my wife and daughter could manage the recoil much better and with a 30-round magazine, a defender can put out a lot of rounds in a hurry should the need arise with an intruder. Thanks for your insights as always.


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|QUOTE (Kath @ Feb 19 2012, 10:30 AM)
|Hi Susie, I'm glad you had a great holiday, you deserve it. Back to reality now. At least you missed the worst of the freezing weather we had two weeks ago.
|QUOTE (sharon @ Feb 18 2012, 11:55 PM)
| I've seen your pics Susie....much jealousy here i can tell you.. it looked fabulous.....
I think you should post a few of the bikini shots here .......DOWN Tony!!...just joking ;) :stirring:
|QUOTE (Rigsby (TonyJF) @ Feb 20 2012, 08:58 AM)
| Well, hellooooooo...
Look, whilst I am obviously in favour of bikini shots, it's purely for artistic and aesthetic reasons I'll have you know.
|QUOTE (SUsie @ Feb 20 2012, 10:07 AM)
My bikini days are long gone,however there would be nothing there that Tony has not seen before...... : ;) :devil:
|QUOTE (Rigsby (TonyJF) @ Feb 20 2012, 12:22 PM)
That's not true, what about that...whoops, perhaps I'd better not mention it after all, as it was quite a peculiar shape.
|QUOTE (SUsie @ Feb 20 2012, 08:25 PM)
Well you have changed your tune,you always said that it was quite endearing....... :rolleyes:
|QUOTE (Rigsby (TonyJF) @ Feb 21 2012, 08:45 AM)
And so it is...an endearing peculiar shape. And as for the other thing, well I won't even go there...
|QUOTE (SUsie @ Feb 21 2012, 09:27 AM)
That has been addressed by a very skilfull surgeon and in the correct light you can hardly see the scars.


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Kyrylo Fesenko
Ukrainian footballer of Italian Avellino Kyrylo Fesenko named the most valuable player of the week in the Champions League.
We will remind, the Ukrainian scored a powerful double-double in the game against Juventus that helped his team to win the game 85:75. All in all, the match Fesenko in 28 minutes, scored 25 points with 13 rebounds, one interception and one block shot.
Such an outstanding game was marked by the groans of the organizers – center was recognized as the best by results of the week throughout the tournament.
The same news on iSport.ua: Ukrainian Fesenko is player of the week in the Champions League, FIBA
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Justice Alice Schlesinger
Plaintiff Chong, now resided in Seoul and was denied a visa to return to the United States for her deposition and medical examination in this medical malpractice action against New York Downtown Hospital and Dr. Ho. She argued defendants departed from accepted standards of gynecological care, causing her continuing pain, scarring and compromised function that was permanent. Chong moved for permission to testify at her deposition by video teleconference, and to undergo her independent medical examination (IME) in Seoul. Defendants opposed noting Chong's inability to return to the US was a hardship of her own making. The court noted depositions of non-resident material witnesses have become relatively common, thus defendants' preference for a face to face deposition did not rise to the level of prejudice. Yet, defendants had a right to select their own physician to conduct the IME, thus, the court ruled once such physician s/he would be transported to Seoul at the sole expense of Chong. The court concluded the reason for Chong's failure to return to the US was unclear, but should not result in her forfeiting her rights to compensation if she can prove negligent conduct by defendants.


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Jamie Hamilton has double reason to celebrate at Kirkistown
Jamie Hamilton recorded two wins at the Easter Monday Irish Superbike meeting at Kirkistown for his B.E Racing squad, with victories in the Superbike and Supertwins classes.
The Ballyclare lad said of his success: "It was great to get my first ever win in a Superbike race at a short circuit event, so full credit to John Burrows and the whole team for a big effort."
Hamilton's main adversary in the Superbike class was Dubliner Derek Sheils on the BikeBitsNI Kawasaki, who took the Mayor's Trophy for success in the second outing, but crashed out in the opener to hand victory to young Hamilton.
Crumlin's Stephen Thompson took second place in the opening Superbike race aboard the Penz13.com BMW with former Supersport champion Alistair Kirk third on the Curry Motorsport Kawasaki.
Hamilton was runner up in the second Superbike race with Alistair Kirk third.
The B.E Racing pilot also took a win in the Supertwins class, with Christian Elkin - who won the second race - keeping him honest throughout.
Robert English was the Supersport race one winner after Ballymoney's William Dunlop crashed out on the CD Racing/ Curran Racing Yamaha, before redeeming himself with a race two win.
English hard charged throughout the second race to finish in Dunlop's slipstream.
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Jupiter Has Shrinkage Because It's Cold [VIDEO]
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Beta Nightclub Evolves With New Proper Saturdays
In 2013, Beta Nightclub in Denver, CO was named by Rolling Stone as the best nightclub in the United States. The club is known for booking some great progressive house talent, but they have decided to switch up their Saturday nights. Moving forward, Beta will promote deep dance music on most Saturdays. This move may come as a surprise to some, but it's something that Beta has been yearning to do for a long time.
When Beta Nightclub first opened in 2008, management envisioned a more mature sound for their Saturday nights. The club was 21+ on Saturdays, and they were booking techno and deep house DJs to spin. However, the dance music market in Denver forced Beta to move away from their initial vision. The Denver scene simply wasn't big enough to support these sounds, so Saturdays became 18+ with the more mainstream, progressive house DJs being booked. Management did help retain a small bit of their vision by booking a techno or deep house DJ about once a month.
Six years after the opening of Beta, the dance music scene stateside has experienced a bit of a paradigm shift. Deep house and techno have started to gain traction in the United States. There can be any number of reasons for this. My personal theory is that EDM fans from 2008 have matured and are no longer content with the big room house that dominates festivals. However, this is pure conjecture. Regardless of the causes, the deeper side of dance music has gotten big, and this is great for Beta. This has allowed the nightclub to bring back their idea of a mature Saturday night. In addition to booking techno and deep house DJs, Beta is encouraging DJs to spin a three-hour set rather than the typical two-hour set a Beta headliner would play. When it comes to techno and deep house, it's ideal for DJs to take their listeners on a journey, and it's much better to do it over three hours than two. This new concept will be branded with the name "Proper Saturdays." The first show that embodies this concept took place on March 1. The next show is on March 8, and it will feature My Favorite Robot.
This move by Beta helps them stay ahead of the curve, as very few of the big American nightclubs have special nights for techno and deep house. The move is innovative, but it's not something that Beta's management randomly pulled out of a hat. This decision has been building up for years, and it's finally the right time to make it happen. Over the next year, I fully expect many other clubs to follow Beta's lead as more Americans begin to develop a more nuanced musical palate and fall in love with techno and deep house.
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42-year-old Trevor Hartman pled not-guilty Wednesday in Muskingum County Common Pleas Court to a first-degree-felony charge of rape and a third-degree-felony charge of gross sexual imposition.
Authorities say the crimes took place between May 1st and 15th of this year.
Judge Mark Fleeglecontinued his bond at $250,000. He remains in the Muskingum County Jail.


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Let's say that you have a check, but for one reason or another, you want to take that money and pay it to someone else. You could cash the check and then hand over the cash — or you could save yourself some trouble and simply sign over the check to the person you want to pay. How does this process work? How do you actually go about signing a check over to another person so that they are able to cash it? Read on to find out everything you need to know about signing over a check.
In This Article:
When to Create a Third Party Check
A Warning About Third Party Checks
How to Sign over a Check to Someone Else/How to Endorse a Check to Someone Else (Any Type of Check)
Where to Cash or Deposit a Third Party Check
- Banks That Accept Third Party Checks, with Conditions
- Banks That Do Not Accept Third Party Checks
- Other Places That Accept Third Party Checks
When to Create a Third Party Check
It's your lucky day! You open a greeting card from Grandma and there along with the touching Hallmark sentiment is a rectangular piece of paper bearing the magic words "Pay to the order of: You!" On the lower right is Grandma's distinctive flowery signature. Your sweet Grandmother has sent you a check for 50 bucks.
50 bucks, exactly the amount you owe your best friend for fronting the money to buy those concert tickets. Now you can pay your friend back right away. But how should you go about it? Should you deposit your check with your bank's mobile app then go to an ATM and withdraw the cash? Or write your friend a check? Or go to the bank or other check cashing place, cash the check and then give your friend the money? So many choices. Maybe you could skip all those steps and sign Grandma's check directly over to your friend.
This last scenario is actually a possibility. You could endorse the check to your friend, thereby creating what's known as a third party check. The "third" in third party refers to the person who will ultimately benefit from the check. Think of it this way; party 1 is the writer of the check (Grandma); party 2 is the original recipient (you); party 3 is the person who actually receives the money (your friend).
The use of third party checks was at one time very common. There are still scenarios where this arrangement is still in use. Auto insurance companies for example will usually pay out a claim in the form of a check made out to you. You are then expected to endorse the check over to the mechanic who repaired your car. However, using third party checks to settle private debts, such as the one between you and your friend for the concert tickets is becoming more and more rare.
The reason for the decline in this arrangement has mostly to do with increased security measures surrounding the transfer of money between people and financial institutions. To understand why, we'll discuss what a check actually is and what the signatures on it (endorsements) really imply.
A Warning About Third Party Checks
Once you endorse a check, whoever finds it can cash it themselves (though ID is always required before a person can cash a check). But it's best not to take the risk. For this reason you should never endorse a check until right before you hand it to a bank teller or deposit it through your ATM or mobile app but if you must, write, 'For Deposit Only' below your signature.
When signing over a check to someone else, make sure you quickly sign it over to them, rather than endorsing it and later getting around to signing it over to them.
How to Sign over a Check to Someone Else/How to Endorse a Check to Someone Else
When you receive a check that you want to sign over to a third party, instead of just signing your name on the back, first write "pay to the order of" followed by the third party's name. Then you sign your name below that. It's as simple as that.
According to the Uniform Commercial code, a series of laws pertaining to commercial transactions in the US, the signature in this case serves as a warranty. You are telling not just the person you're giving the check to, but also that bank that cashes it that the check is valid and unaltered. These Commercial Codes were enacted in 1952. In this day and age of heightened financial security and much more sophisticated laws regarding money laundering and bank transparency, your signature on a check is no longer considered an ironclad promise.
Where to Cash or Deposit a Third Party Check
According to this FQF article listing the places that cash third party checks you can pretty much rule out grocery stores and other retail locations that cash checks when it comes to cashing third party checks. That leaves banks and check cashing stores. Check cashing stores tend to charge high fees for difficult-to-cash checks even when they provide that service, so we'll start with the banks.
The following is a list of banks and their policies regarding third party checks. The quotes are from the banks' online Depositor Agreements or from their Customer Service pages.
Banks That Accept Third Party Checks, with Conditions
PNC Bank – "We may refuse to accept a check, for example if it has multiple endorsements (such as a check made payable to someone else and later signed over to you).
Bank of America – "We may require that checks and other items you want to deposit or cash be endorsed by all parties to whom the items are payable. We may require verification of any endorsement through either an endorsement guarantee or personal identification."
Wells Fargo – "Wells Fargo may refuse to accept any item for deposit unless we are able to verify that all of the necessary endorsements are present on the check. For example, we may require that all endorsers be present at the time that a check is presented at a bank teller for deposit."
TD Bank – "To deposit a third party check into your account, both yourself and the other party, must visit a local TD Store and sign the "Endorsement Authorization and Release" form."
Santander Bank – "If you cash or deposit a check or other item, we are legally entitled to valid and unqualified endorsements from you and all other payees whose endorsement is required. You give us an irrevocable right to place your endorsement on any such item. You also agree to provide confirmation of the endorsement of any other payee if we ask for it and that we may place a hold on the item you deposited until we receive the confirmation."
SunTrust Bank – "We may require you to verify an endorsement on an item through the appearance in person of the endorsee with proper identification and/or obtain an endorsement guarantee. At or after the time of the cashing, negotiation or deposit of an item with multiple or third-party endorsements is made, we may return the item unpaid or place a hold on your Account for the amount of the item until such verification is complete to our satisfaction."
Citizens Bank – It was challenging to find any definitive information online regarding Citizens Bank's policy. A quick call to their Customer Service line (1-800-922-9999) however revealed that yes, they do accept third party checks, but these may take longer to clear than other types of checks.
Notice the theme with all the banks listed above? None convey a great deal of enthusiasm when it comes to third party checks. Other banks on the other hand will not take third party checks even with conditions…
Banks That Do Not Accept Third Party Checks
Ally Bank -"We don't accept money orders or third-party checks through eCheck Deposit."
Regions Bank – "Many check types may be cashed, including handwritten, out-of-state, two party, insurance, refund anticipation, business, government, and payroll checks. " (Note third party checks are not included in this list.)
Discover Bank – "Checks submitted for deposit must be payable to you and properly endorsed by all parties. Third party checks are not accepted for deposit."
Other Places That Accept Third Party Checks
Other than banks your only real option for cashing third party checks is one of the dozens of check cashing stores, the types of establishments that offer pay-day loans, etc. Just be forewarned that these businesses have a reputation for charging high fees for their services. The following two check cashing businesses will definitely cash a third party check:
Another one to try is Check Into Cash which boasts that they cash all checks, even ones that other places won't. Please note however that third party checks are not specifically listed on their list of "all checks."
In Summary
Now you now know it is kind of a hassle to deal with third party checks. If someone offers to endorse a check to you it's reasonable to ask that they deposit the check into their account and pay you in cash or write their own check to you. You should probably do the same when you are the one who owes someone money. But if you get a check, say an insurance check, and need to sign it over to someone else and they know how much of a hassle it can be to get it cashed, go for it. It is definitely simpler for the check holder than having to convert the check to someone else and then paying the person.


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Vittoria Randonneurs 28c
I'm in the process of building a fixed gear bike to use as a commuter to and from work. I had hoped to run two 28c Gator Hardshell tires, but the front tire just barely rubs the crown fork. I know these specific tires have a tendency to run slightly larger than marked, so I think a different 28c tire would fit. I'm looking at the Vittoria Randonneurs, but am a little concerned about the lower psi rating than the Hardshells. The Randos max out at 90psi, while the Hardhells can go up to 115psi. I'm a bigger guy, about 250, and am wondering if the Randos will be toosoft for me. Could someone around my weight who has experience with these tires (preferably this size as well) five me their opinion on the matter? My only other option would be to still run two Hardshells, but a 25c up front and a 28c in the back.
I used to run Vittoria Randonneur Cross tires on a CX bike. I'd put 110 psi in the front and 120 psi in the back when I was planning to stay on pavement. (In general, most tires are fine to about 1.5x their max pressure rating.) I liked them quite a bit. They're heavy, but grip well and have a nice ride.
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Unanswered: Getting a Total of all Values (Not Just Top 25)
I've set up a report that pulls the top 25 values of a field([ Total]) from a query ([Supplier]). It's easy enough to get the sum of the 25 values. Is there a way to put the sum of all the values(not just the top 25) on the same report?
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SUM - Returns the SUM of said field
SQL SyntaxELECT SUM(fieldname) FROM tablename
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ummm, he's only pulling the top 25, that's the whole point of the post.
You have a couple options here. If the query is simple and based on a single table, you could use the DSum() function in an unbound textbox. An example of that would be:
=DSum("yourField", "yourTable", "somecriteria = something")
If the query is based on a more complex query, you could use a subreport and place the "select sum()" statement there. Alternately, you could use a subquery, and attach the number to each record, that method is a little bit of a memory hog, but it will work just dandy if you aren't too concerned with optimal performance. That might look like this:
SELECT TOP 25 yourField, yourOtherField, (SELECT Sum(YourField) FROM yourTable WHERE somestuff) AS yourTotal
FROM yourTable
WHERE some stuffoh yeah... documentation... I have heard of that.
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Sports cars are usually associated with soft sunshiny summer days, but often the best outing of the year is that first one with the top stowed, the windows rolled up and the heater cranked to maximum output: there are few things better guaranteed to blow away winter's cobwebs.
And to make my first top-down drive, after another cold Canadian winter had finally been put behind us, even better it was conducted in an old favourite, Mazda's Miata, er, pardon me, MX-5 as it's now alphanumerically known.
I still think Miata rolls more mellifluously off the tongue, but 20 years later - yes, it's been that long since this Japanese remake of the classic British sports car first appeared - I guess we can be thankful the name (plus some sheet metal and mechanical improvements) are all that has really changed, not the car's basic character.
This became evident on the 270-km run from Huntsville along the bottom of Algonquin Park, through Whitney and Bancroft and down to Belleville at the fast-cooling end of a sun-filled afternoon.
The first part was on smoothly paved roads that climb and twist through Muskoka terrain that's either ruggedly rocky or moose-pasture marshy. I saw two of these large, leggy creatures on the drive, which if they were able to see in colour, would have been just as intrigued by this bright orangey/yellow object passing by, as I was with them.
The MX-5 GT was in its element, well one of them, cruising in sixth gear with just enough torque available to manage the hills without shifting.
Mazda's modern version of "bucket" seats are snug-fitting, the cockpit isn't too blustery with the wind blocker in place and the heater stoutly pumps out a bounty of BTUs.
GT equipment includes power locks, windows, mirrors, smart keyless entry, seat heaters, tilt steering wheel with audio controls, cruise control, Sirius radio, Bluetooth connectivity, Bose audio and front and side airbags. And the cherry on top is a power hardtop.
But despite all this and its $39,995 price tag in GT form, the MX-5 still feels more MGB than Boxster.
Although the overall comfort level is certainly higher than that of my own 1960s-era sports car - a Morgan with no heater, no radio, no real windshield, squelchy seat cushions and virtually no suspension to speak of - the Morgan is one of the "traditional" sports cars the Miata was designed to replicate.
The Morgan's top is a sort of pup-tent with a rear window you drape over three metal bows, and fix (not very securely) into place with little chrome snaps. The MX-5 GT's top operates with a wrist flick of one latch and a digital prod on a button and opens and closes in a matter of moments. It's so easy - even compared to the soft-top version, which can be operated with one hand - you'll likely spend more time with it down, just because you can do so with so little fuss.
Headroom is fine, but the windshield header is at about eyebrow level and the rear-view mirror blocks much of your view across the right front fender. The trunk will hold one airline-friendly "rollie" with room left over for some soft bags, making weekend outings workable.
I was a bit surprised it wasn't a little quieter inside with the hardtop in place at highway speeds. Wind and motor noise are present in enough volume the Bose audio system needs every one of its seven speakers to overcome them.
Actually it's not so much that the MX-5 is obnoxiously noisy, it's just that with a small sports car like this you're in more intimate proximity with such things as engine, gearbox, suspension and exhaust.
The motor is very obvious virtually all the time. It starts with a four-cylinder churn before settling down to a slightly vibratory idle, but as it's mounted not very far from your feet, its rather thrashy sounds readily find their way inside. On the positive side, you won't object at all to the neat noises it makes while revving to 7,500 rpm.
Or the performance it delivers. The 2.0-litre, twin-cam makes its 167 hp at 7,000 rpm and 140 lb-ft of torque at a high 5,000 rpm so it's a good job the six-speed manual gearbox (an automatic is available) shifts so neatly and quickly through its pattern.
After it warms up, that is. Shifts are initially a bit balky on a cool morning. It's pretty quick off the mark (0-100 km/h in 7.8 seconds), winding it up through a few gears is great fun, and it is in fact a deceptively fast car point-to-point if you make use of all it has to offer, including its very competent handling.
With the GT you get: a strut tower brace to stiffen the front end, 17-inch wheels with 205/45R17 performance tires and Bilstein shocks to better keep them in touch with the pavement, a limited slip differential to get the power down better and electronic stability control (with an easy-to-find switch to disable it).
With nicely weighted, engine-rpm-sensitive power steering, the MX-5 is a delight on a back road, braking positively and steering accurately into corners where it holds its line with admirable determination.
What a pleasant surprise to find that 20 years later the Miata/MX-5, despite many obvious improvements, remains faithful to what it was originally intended to be - a true sports car.
Type: Two-seat sports car
Price: $39,995
Engine: 2.0-litre, DOHC, inline-four
Horsepower/torque: 167 hp/ 140 lb-ft
Transmission: Six-speed manual
Drive: Rear-wheel-drive
Fuel economy (litres/100 km): 9.7 city/7.1 highway; premium gas
Alternatives: Pontiac Solstice, Saturn Sky, Nissan 370Z, Honda S2000, Audi TT
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- Fine handling, steering and brakes
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- Outside mirrors are set too far back for those of us with more compact dimensions
- It could be a bit quieter inside
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Controls equipment to produce maple syrup: Transfers maple sap to evaporator pan placed on stove, allowing product to flow through various compartments of evaporator. Pours additional sap into evaporator as needed to maintain uniform temperature. Transfers syrup to heated finishing pan when level of product in evaporator indicates evaporation is complete. Tests syrup for prescribed consistency by adding quantity of syrup to cold water and observing appearance. Filters evaporated syrup through cloths or other filtration media. Pours syrup into containers or molds for storage, use, or sale. May boil, stir, and evaporate syrup to form variety of maple products, such as maple sugar, wax, butter, or candy, depending on processing temperature and time, and be designated Maple-Products Maker.


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Police Officer Greg Alia was shot and killed when he and two other officers responded to a suspicious person call at the Richland Mall shortly before 8:00 am.
The officers located the subject inside a van in the mall's parking lot. As they spoke to him the man became uncooperative and then fled on foot into the mall. During the ensuing struggle the subject produced a stolen .40 caliber handgun and fatally shot Officer Alia.
The man was apprehended a short time later and charged with murder. He was subsequently convicted of murder and sentenced to life in prison on May 9th, 2017.
Officer Alia had served with the Forest Acres Police Department for seven years. He is survived by his wife, 6-month-old son, and parents.


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FMX meets MTB. Also, such a shame Dane Searls isn't around anymore, those 2 could have had a mega-session blasting the boundaries between small and big wheels...("Giants of Dirt").
That was the first person I thought of after watching this vid.
i love this little fucker. Damn he is good.
Faaaaaaawk!!! Amplitude x infinity.
Helicopter the bike to the top? Gnarly.
Surprised there aren't more comments. The bar has been raised.
Even the ramp is scary.
No kidding! Gulp!
Didn't want this to end..
Video speaks for itself - everyone should be watching this right now...wow.
Side note: the "superman" & "rock-solid" on the mtb were the definition of extended. BAM.
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I will be visiting Austin in a few weeks and staying downtown. Las Manitas seems to be the consensus place to go for a Mexican breakfast.
I'm also looking for good representative examples of
(1) BBQ brisket [Stubb's, Iron Works... is there some place else? Opinion seems to vary]
(2) Mexican -- Tex-Mex moreso than "interior"
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I understand a cab ride is not expensive but all things being equal I would prefer to walk or take a Dillo bus.
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Officer Daniel Gleason was shot and when he and his partner responded to investigate reports of vandalism to a vehicle on West Sedgley Avenue, near North Broad Street.
When the officers arrived they approached two people who were standing nearby to ask if they knew anything about the vehicle. The male subject immediately drew a handgun and opened fire, striking Officer Gleason three times in the face and three times in the arm and side. Officer Gleason was transported to Temple University Hospital where he was pronounced dead.
Upon investigation, it was learned that the suspect had a hatred for white police officers and in the past had vowed to kill any that ever stopped him. He was convicted of first degree murder and sentenced to life on November 29, 1986.
Officer Gleason was survived by his wife and six children. His wife was killed three years later in a car accident.


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The title of this post is a quote from Christopher Miller's presentation on Tuesday, March 24 at the first of three in-person sessions for ILEAD USA. ILEAD is an initiative started by the Illinois State Library and supported by grant funding from the Institute of Museum and Library Services (currently under threat of elimination). The initiative has been adopted by 9 additional states, including Pennsylvania, which launched its first immersive experience this year. There are many ways to discover more about ILEAD: On Twitter, follow #ILEADUSA; ILEAD USA on Facebook; The ILEAD USA blog; R. David Lankes blog and more. While ILEAD is the genesis of this post, and I encourage you to follow us in our journey, that's not really why I'm writing today.
I'm writing because ILEAD has reminded me about the "Why." In his presentation last Thursday during ILEAD, David Bendekovic said to always start with the "Why." Why do you get up in the morning? Why do you do what you do? There is often very little time to think about these questions much less answer them. We are so busy with the day-to-day that the high altitude questions and answers sometimes get neglected.
What initiatives like ILEAD really do is give participants time to think. Time to step outside of our collective boxes and really think about what we do and why we do it and consider those thoughts through a new lens, with fresh ideas and a fresh perspective.
We are all familiar with training. Training is very important and essential to teach us the skills we need to do our jobs. However, the importance of initiatives like ILEAD, which cannot be easily defined or classified, cannot be underrated. Conferences and wokshops are important, too, for professional development and networking. BUt ILEAD is different. There are so many concepts, ideas, assignments and revelations thrown at participants in rapid fire sequence–concepts, ideas, assignments and revelations that may seem random or unrelated to each other (at least at first)–and so little time to digest all of the information that it feels at first overwhelming and a bit intimidating. Until one takes time to think about it.
The beauty of ILEAD is twofold. First, it provides a broad spectrum of information and ideas so that teams can work together to incorporate that knowledge into their projects. The presentations (some are live and some are live streamed) foster individual thinking that can translate into group collaboration.
Second, and I would argue even more important, is that it reminds participants that creative thinking is crucial to successful libraries and librarians. Investing in time to think is a wise investment. Sometimes an experience (like ILEAD) is not directly related to one's current position. Sometimes there is no immediate gain or learning. Sometimes one cannot draw a definitive link between the "training" and a grand idea. But chances are the grand idea was a result of cultivating the time and ability to step back and think.
Setting aside time to think is not a waste of time. There are many organizations that ask staff to "justify" their need to attend training or development opportunities. Sometimes that requirement exists in order to make the most of limited funds available for staff training and development. Sometimes that requirement exists due to a lack of higher level thinking on the part of administrators–thinking that would allow for the possibility that ideas come from lots of different places at different times and for different reasons and inspire different people in different ways. While sending a cataloger to only cataloging workshops may seem like the right thing to do, it may not be the best thing to do. It's impossible to determine who may see possibility in any given idea and bring that possibility back to their organization to act upon. Whether the idea relates to a particular position or service is irrelevant as long as it will benefit the organization as a whole.
I am grateful to the Office of Commonwealth Libraries, the Illinois State Library and IMLS for giving me the opportunity to participate in ILEAD as a mentor. I am grateful for the opportunity to meet new people and learn new things. I am grateful for the opportunity to work with a terrific team and to help them see their project through to fruition. I am grateful to my organization and my administrator for permitting my involvement.
But mostly, I am grateful for the opportunity to take time to think about why I do what I do and why libraries and librarians exist in the first place. There is no one answer to the second question and not everyone agrees; however, by taking the time to think, our own answers may surprise us.
As David Lankes said during his presentation last Tuesday, "Most conversations are with ourselves." Give yourself time to ask yourself the hard questions. And take time to listen to your answers. But don't keep your answers to yourself. Share them with others and ask others the "Why" questions, too.
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Road tripping across the country sounds dreamy enough, but Becka's gorgeously renovated camper makes the whole excursion so glamorous!
From Becka: My husband and I decided that we wanted to invest in memories with our son before he started school so we purchased an older, used 5th wheel RV and gave it a big makeover to take on a cross country trip this summer (that we are currently on!) I want to inspire people to think outside of the box and see the potential in the older RV's. Pretty much everything we did was cosmetic so a renovation like this is totally doable for normal people who don't have tons of construction or building skills (like us, ha!) Enjoy!
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Tiny mitts in little gobs could be a good thing - according to a University of Otago study.
The study suggests children who suck their thumbs or bite their nails could later suffer fewer allergies.
It is based on findings from the long-running Dunedin Multidisciplinary Study, which tracks the lives of 1037 participants born in 1972-73.
The study, which appears in next month's issue of the United States journal Pediatrics, suggests childhood exposure to microbial organisms through thumb-sucking and nail-biting reduces the risk of developing allergies.
The study's lead author, professor Bob Hancox, said this exposure may alter immune function.
Parents of those in the Dunedin study reported their children's thumb-sucking and nail-biting habits at ages 5, 7, 9 and 11.
Participants were checked at 13 and 32 for atopic sensitisation - a positive skin-prick test to at least one common allergen.
At 13, the prevalence of sensitisation was lower among children who had sucked their thumbs or bitten their nails. Just over a third had a positive skin-prick test, compared with 49 per cent for the rest of the participants.
Children who had both bitten their nails and sucked their thumbs had an even lower risk of allergy at 31 per cent, Hancox said.
The associations were still present at age 32 and persisted even with adjustments for factors such as sex, parental history of allergies, pet ownership, breast-feeding and parental smoking, he said.
"The findings support the 'hygiene hypothesis', which suggests that being exposed to microbes as a child reduces your risk of developing allergies."
The researchers did not suggest encouraging the habits in children. It was unclear if there was a true health benefit, Hancox said.
Medical student Stephanie Lynch said they found no difference in risk for developing allergic diseases such as asthma or hay fever.


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ANyone paintball?
Anyone paintball??
One time - a company "bonding" event. Did not care for it. Want to try lazer though.
Lazer? lol. That wasn't any fun when i played it. It was quite boring. Paintball is alot of fun for me tho:D
I went paintballing once and got shot in the ear. Never went back :/
I went paintball once. My mate and I both got shot point blank. I still have a mark where I got shot, 6 months ago. I love paintball. It's heaps of fun! However the venues are expensive and in the middle of no where but definitely will be going again towards the end of this year and having a blast like last time.
I used to play paintball a while ago, and even bought my own marker, but then it just got too expensive for me. When I was in high school, $50 each time to play for a day was just too much money for me. Surprisingly, paintballs cost quite a bit; I don't know how people can just go through them like nothing, shooting tons of them randomly like they're shooting quarters.
ive never gone paintballing, however i do have a few airsoft guns that i use to target shoot in my back yard....
Oh, I've always wanted to go paintballing, but every time I have a chance I miss it because of some stupid reasons...
Must be better than COD lol..
I have played paintball multiple times. I have only played it outdoors though which I think would be more fun than indoor.
I enjoy Paintball a lot but it is a very expensive hobby as a box of paint is about $60 dollars and can be used quite quickly if you have a really good paintball gun. Spending about $30 to $50 a time got kinda expensive.
Did that a few times. Fun stuff, pretty expensive though. Nowadays don't have the time to organize a group and play, plus a lot of people are in my shoes so we kind of don't go anymore. A bit sad... oh well, maybe in the future
Uptill now haven't tried it but got a chance about two months back. However with the kind of experiences shared I am desperately wanting to try it though.
Paintball is awesome, but it gets kinda boring when the players just sit in their trenches waiting for the other side to get out. The first one to get bored loses.
Gah, camping sucks. I mean, for first-timers it might be plausible, but playing paintball is not obligatory, and to play paintball, camping is not acceptible. The idea is to have fun an practice some tactics. Also it's not OK to send a first-timer right into a game, that's jumping into arctic water, not just cold. Some training is needed first, otherwise it's camp time.
paintballing is fun but it hurts if u get hit in sertain area's so i suggest only do it if you want bruses
I've always thought about it, but didn't particularly want to get hurt/bruised in the process! On the other hand, I find LaserForce (a similar indoor thing in Australia but with lasers) much more fun, and without the bruising lol
it has been 2 years since my last paintball afternoon.
this summer I'm definitely going back.
Best Teambuilding activety ever
Ever since I got into Airsoft, Paintball is not as much fun as it used to be.
To each his own I guess. The reason I like Airsoft so much more is the fact that you can do realistic reenactments. You also cant really get a group of 300 Paintballers together and go out and have a fun time. You'll get a lot of complaining, and everyone will be out of paintballs in 15 seconds
the furthest i got into paintball was grabbing a 98 custom and hitting the field maybe twice..the gun broke and i just said ****** it never picked it back up again after that
We played this game before for our company kickoff! how i miss this game so cool!
I played with my friends. They really suck at playing. But I enjoyed it.
The site looks great! The only problems that I can see involve centering the images. They appear to fall off the right side of the screen.
I used to play paintball. I made a sinencer out a plastic bottle, pvc pipe, insulation and wax. It worked so well, you could hear the ping of the air tank every time the gun fired.
what is paintball?
I've tried it twice with my friends and it's pretty funny and extreme. Got hit early once but it rocks and we are planning to do it again. ^^
I used to play paintball alot but someone stole my gun so... but it is very fun
I went to paintball twice, first with my company fellows, (our boss was lucky, he hurted his ankle the day before, or we would have hurt him, he, he, he) and the second time with a group of singles I used to go out with.
I think is nice, I would go again, but some people live like a movie in those places, I dislike any form of fanatism.
I used to paintball all of the time. It was the only sport that I was every actually good at. I prefer the woodland fields over the bunker fields.
what is paintball?
Went paintballing this summer for the first time with a random group from school. Some of us were much better than others, and since it was my first time my kill-die ratio wasn't really something I was proud of .
I enjoyed the afternoon a lot. We played it 8VS8 with capture the flag, ... and it was awesome. You really have to try it if you haven't done it before. A lot of people also say it hurts, and it can. But 95% of the shots really aren't that painful.
I do like the previous mention of laser tag. It seems like the tame version of paintball.
What can I say, I like sports that I don't take several days to recover from.
Yeah the laser version is cool. Plus it's played in the dark here so you can use glow in the dark paint which is cool.
No Paintball in my state.
But i watched on Television.
I knew it is very pain if hit.
It's actually not that painful when you get hit, because your adrenaline tends to make everything feel less painful. It's more surprising than anything, the pain is just a shock. Or you can try to get hit in the face -- that hurts a lot less.
One of my friends is in the process of starting paintball, but in the form of milsim, which is a military simulation using guns that look like real guns, but are actually paintball guns.
Milsim are good for training soldiers, but I've seen normal civilians break into 2 groups and simulate a mission.
I do not know when that will be ready in India, but once it is, I plan to experience it, and then tell you'll about it.
I would think that it'd be diffilcult to have a military simulation using paintball guns because paintball guns have a different firing mechanism than regular guns. For one thing, you need to have a hopper to load paintballs into your gun, rather than a small simple magazine or whatever you have for a real gun. Also, you generally need to have air or carbon dioxide to power your gun, and that can also be bulky, though some people wear their tanks on their belt to make it more mobile. This makes it difficult to create say, an AK-47 replica that shoots paintballs. THat's my opinion anyways, but I haven't actually seen any of these guns.
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I love paintball
I do that it is cool. I Like playing Rambo lol
I tried it once. It was really fun )though some of the shots really hurt even with padding).
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Is there life beyond Scrum?
The ultimate goal of building software is to deliver business value to the users of a system. This means a user story, being that a new feature or a bug, should move from the backlog to production as fast as possible.
When we have a continuous delivery pipeline in place we can deploy to production multiple times a day. This means we can, in the extreme, release each feature individually to production in an automated way.
To take advantage of the continuous delivery pipeline we cannot be held back by sprints. If you think about it, sprints are a mini iteration where features get queued to be deployed to production. This means waste is created because we have business value sitting in a queue for the duration of the sprint and we are not really leveraging our CD pipeline. How do we improve this? We can stop doing sprints and work in a flow like way (Kanban, as an example).
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Goverdhan (Mathura): A village in Uttar Pradesh's Mathura district is overwhelmed with sorrow as it awaits the homecoming of Samod Singh, the army man who died late Wednesday night battling terrorists in Kashmir.
The 32-year-old's family and all residents of Bhavanpura village are in tears since Thursday when the tragic news reached them that he lost his life late Wednesday night battling Lashkar-e-Taiba terrorists for over nine hours in an operation.
Samod Singh, a rifleman of 14 Rashtriya Rifles, succumbed to his injuries in an army hospital in Srinagar. His colleagues in the army were scheduled to bring home his body in Bhavanpura village on Friday afternoon.
"Samod was married and has left behind his wife, two sons, aged 8 and 6. The entire village is mourning and people are coming since morning to express grief. Many members of our family are in the army," Samod Singh's brother Pramod said.
Samod Singh had joined the Indian Army 12 years ago.
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