![]() You can say it is a module that enables you to set your preferences as and when required. This is where you can personalize your dashboard view, increase or decrease font size, and change the display font and command colour. It comprises general edit options, such as Undo, Redo, Cut, Copy, Paste, and Find, similar to those available in the MS Office environment. However, we will look into each of these aspects later. You can also import and export employee and employer payee data. Besides, you can add a database to CheckMark Payroll, delete unnecessary items, and even create a new database within a few clicks. ![]() You can add new data, remove the ones you no longer deal with and take a backup. Here, you can access various functions concerning your database, company details, employees, and employer payees. Without any further ado, let’s delve into its features and functionalities. You can choose to work in whichever view you want. Besides, the dashboard is customizable, i.e., you can change its view from View > Change Command View, and below is what you will see next,Īll your modules appear as a list, while most screens display the News Feed. You can navigate across the entire application with just a simple click. Let’s delve deeper into exploring what it has in store for you! Overview of CheckMark PayrollĪs you run your CheckMark Payroll application on your device, here is what you will see,Īs you can see, it gives you an overview of the complete feature set of CheckMark Payroll.
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![]() It’ll simply download from any device you have (i.e. Like the Mac, on Windows once you’ve got the drivers automatically installed, you’ll use the Garmin ANT Agent software just as you normally would. Once it finishes up being installed – it’s the same old ANT USB Stick 2 (ANT2).įor all you Mac folks, I was able to also download workouts without issue using the Garmin ANT Agent and in this case, a Garmin FR610 (but again, any Garmin watch will work). Thus it doesn’t look any different to the Garmin software than Garmin’s own stick.Īll you do is simply plug in the stick, give it a few seconds to grab the USB drivers from Windows Update (I’ve tried it on Windows Vista and Windows 7) – and you’re good to go! You’ll note that initially when it first starts looking for drivers, it calls it the Suunto Movestick Mini (it normally comes with the Suunto Quest watch). So the Suunto stick is ANT2, which means that despite being Suunto it’s really just like any other ANT+ stick under the covers. Each channel is limited to one ANT+ accessory. Or – if you’ve got multiplayer type applications taking advantage of it. But when it comes to applications that may leverage the USB stick for real-time data transfer – such as TrainerRoad – the extra channels become really important if you have multiple ANT+ accessories (like Speed, Cadence, Power Meters, Heart Rate, etc…). In common scenarios like downloading your data, it doesn’t really matter. You can see the flavors on the back of virtually all sticks in tiny writing – “USB2 Wireless USB Stick”ĪNT1 had a limited number of channels (4), whereas the newer ANT2 stick has more channels (8). Well ok, it left my laptop to take these photos:īut, you may be asking how is it that a Suunto branded stick works with Garmin watches? See, when it comes to ANT+ USB sticks, there are basically two flavors – ANT1 (USB1) and ANT2 (USB2). That includes plane flights, to and from work, and all assortment of wanderings around town. In fact, aside from a few tests in other computers – it hasn’t left my laptop since the package arrived. ![]() And the best thing is that with being so small, I can leave it in my laptop 24×7. Just check it out in comparison to your normal ANT+ stick:Īs you can see, it’s tiny. I immediately ordered one and waited for the horribly oversized box from Amazon to arrive.īut I don’t think I was prepared for just how small it is once I got it all unboxed. ![]() So back in January when I was alerted to a much smaller USB ANT+ stick that could replace your existing Garmin ANT+ USB stick that you use with your current Forerunners I was pretty jazzed to give it a whirl. She’ll still likely try to steal it while giving me that innocent ‘I’m not guilty’ smile. But it doesn’t keep her from stealing my ANT stick. Somehow that paint scheme she did on hers only works one way in attempting to prevent me from stealing her stick. Having broken off various USB doo-dads from my computer before (as well as smart cards sticking out the side), breakage is a reality, and with it hanging off 1-2” into the wild blue yonder, it’s a prime target for a grade-A fail.Īnd I suppose a third issue is The Girl stealing it. ![]() Second, is the issue of it simply breaking off. But, I’ve since shared how I solved that problem. First up is the issue of simply losing the darn thing in my backpack or around the house. ![]() If you’re like me and are constantly on a laptop – there are really two minor issues that I have with the Garmin USB stick that I use to download workouts from my Forerunner to my computer. ![]() ![]() Chuck’s sister, Ruthie, was with Tommy in his car, but she stays. Stella, Chuck and Auggie find refuge in the car of a Mexican teenager named Ramon, and the drive-in manager runs off Tommy and his friends. After they pull the prank, which includes using eggs and dog poop, Tommy and his friends chase them into the drive-in. ![]() Three high school friends, Stella, Chuck and Auggie, plan a prank against the school bully, Tommy, who’s always taking the bags of candy from the town’s trick or treaters. Set in a small Pennsylvania town, SCARY STORIES TO TELL IN THE DARK opens on Halloween night in 1968. SCARY STORIES TO TELL IN THE DARK is sometimes rather silly and unconvincing, and has a strong occult worldview where the plot problem is solved only by appealing to the ghost’s own moral conscience. SCARY STORIES TO TELL IN THE DARK is a horror movie about three teenage friends in a small town in the Autumn of 1968 who encounter a female ghost that conjures scary creatures to wreck her vengeance on the world. Some very strong and strong scary violence and situations throughout includes a ghost unleashes some humanoid body parts to fashion a gruesome looking walking body with a scary face that chases tries to attack people, the humanoid creature snaps the neck of a police officer to murder him, teenage driver traps creature between his car and a truck and then runs away, but the creature just disassembles its body parts to go under the car and reconnect together on the other side of the car, boy finds a “stew” that he starts to eat but then spits out when he finds it has a human toe in it, a walking corpse drags the boy into a wall, and he disappears, a humanoid scarecrow comes alive and stabs a boy who eventually turns into the same kind of scarecrow after spikes come out of his body, a scary looking fat woman in an insane asylum stalks and then grabs a teenage boy, and he disappears into her body as she hugs him, boy locks four people into the hidden section of a haunted mansion, but they escape, bugs crawl in and out of the eyes of the humanoid scarecrows, scores of tiny spiders come out of a large red growth on a teenage girl’s cheek, boy hits the head of a scarecrow with a bat multiple times, and two teenagers hear the old-time cylinder recording of a woman being roughly questioned and then given shock treatment by her brother, a doctor in an insane asylum SCARY STORIES TO TELL IN THE DARK also has an excessive amount of foul language, a few lewd comments and some scary, gruesome violence and creatures. God strongly condemns consulting with dead people in the Bible. The biggest problem, however, is that the surviving main characters end up appealing to the ghost’s moral conscience to get her to stop haunting them and their friends. Ultimately, the reason behind the hauntings, a ghost’s revenge, doesn’t make sense. ![]() ![]() SCARY STORIES TO TELL IN THE DARK tries hard, but it’s often silly and unconvincing. The surviving teenagers figure out the ghost must be writing these stories, but how do you stop a ghost? ![]() The book starts writing its own scary stories involving them and other people, and people start disappearing. After visiting the mansion that the female ghost haunts, one teenager takes the book of stories that the ghost used to scare the town’s children decades ago. 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He loved his work, his friends and his family and I don't think any of us who knew him will forget him. ![]() 'You always see the spark in those who truly love the weather and Nick had that spark. Nick was only 39 years old and had a great passion and dedication to our craft. One of his colleagues Richard Lewelling wrote on Facebook: 'My heart is broken today as one of my colleagues and friends was killed yesterday in an automobile accident as a result of a medical condition. Meanwhile, Affleck married actress Jennifer Garner in 2005, but the couple divorced in 2018, the news outlet reported.Another Weather Channel employee Mike Seidel also posted his respects on Twitter after hearing of Wiltgen's tragic passing Lopez, 52, and Affleck, 49, were among the most prominent celebrity couples in the early 2000s, even making two films together: 2003′s “Gigli” and 2004′s “Jersey Girl.” They had split before the latter hit theaters, Variety reported.ĭuring their roughly 17 years apart, Lopez married singer-songwriter Marc Anthony in 2004 before divorcing him in 2014. The “Marry Me” singer/actress and the “Argo” actor/director rekindled their romance last year, announcing their engagement three months ago. Significantly, the record also indicates that Jennifer Lopez took on Affleck as her legal last name,” the entertainment news site reported.Ī source confirmed to People magazine that the pair wed in a “small” ceremony. “The record is in both of their legal names - Benjamin Geza Affleck and Jennifer Lynn Lopez. Original report: According to Variety, a marriage license for the celebrity couple was filed Saturday in Clark County, Nevada. Lopez also confirmed that a Bluetooth speaker played their brief march down the aisle and called it the best night of their lives. ![]() In her post, Lopez detailed standing in line for their wedding license with four other couples before making it official at the Little White Chapel, which boasts a drive-thru “tunnel of love,” just after midnight. The couple wed in a late-night Las Vegas drive-through chapel, according to the AP. ![]() ![]() However, it seems that these quests go away after you hit a certain level. One example is at Sandrock in Dewstone Plains. There are a few such quests and they are usually located close to some story quest point. The easiest way to get a boat is to complete a quest that gives you a rowboat. You will need 60 worms and 40 ground grain to make a single chum bucket. You can make a Chum Bucket by using the cooking tools. You need to have the fish in a feeding frenzy to be able to do sport fishing. For freshwater fish, you need to use Chum which you can buy from a general merchant and for saltwater fishing you need to use a Chum Bucket. These items are used on a school of fish to send them into a feeding frenzy. There is only one type of lure as the only thing it does is allow you to sport fish for 2 hours. You only need 15 iron ingots to make one at a handicraft kiln. Getting a lure for sport fishing is easy enough. Fishing Proficiency Requirement 150.000.Ultimate Fishing Rod – Success Chance 99%.Fishing Proficiency Requirement: 80.000.Fishing Proficiency Requirement: 40.000.Fishing Proficiency Requirement: 20.000.Note that at the moment worms are silly expensive (but getting cheaper) in the auction house and you will likely not get close to recouping your costs while doing basic fishing. For each throw, after a few seconds, you will then either get a fish or have a wasted throw.Įach fishing throw will cost you 5 labor and give you 5 points in your fishing proficiency. Your character will do a single throw by left-clicking or pressing R, but if you right-click the basic fishing symbol your character will start fishing automatically until he or she is either out of labor or worms. ![]() When equipped a screen with options shows up, where you will have a single option lit for basic fishing being “R”. Once you have found a location you need to equip your fishing rod and have bait worms in your inventory. Finding a Fishing Spot and Starting to Fish.įor basic fishing, you can fish wherever you find open water. These items will allow you to harvest plants from the seeds at a slower rate, but you also get a few worms with them. Later, when you have your farming proficiency at 15.000 you will have the option of making seed bundles. You get about 25 worms from each compost if it is fresh, but only about 15 if the worm compost is starting to decompose, so don’t place down a compost unless you can tend to it when it is fresh. Unfortunately, you can only harvest worms once from each worm compost. You need to plant the worm compost like a seed or sapling and after three hours the worms will be ready. The two you have available at the beginning are buying them from the auction house or growing your own in a Worm Compost, which you can get from a Vocation Badge Merchant for 80 vocation badges. ![]() ![]() ![]() DBeaver is not a native GUI tool for PostgreSQL, as it supports all the popular databases like MySQL, MariaDB, Sybase, SQLite, Oracle, SQL Server, DB2, MS Access, Firebird, Teradata, Apache Hive, Phoenix, Presto, and Derby any database which has a JDBC driver (over 80 databases). Compare price, features, and reviews of the software side-by-side to make the best choice for your business. DBeaver is a major cross-platform GUI tool for PostgreSQL that both developers and database administrators love. Note: DBeaver is open source free software, you can download it on the official website. Toad Data Modeler using this comparison chart. It is a GUI program that allows to view/edit the structure of a database, execute SQL queries and scripts, browse and export table data, handle BLOB/CLOB values, modify database meta objects, and complete many other tasks. ![]() Compare features, ratings, user reviews, pricing, and more from AIHelperBot competitors and alternatives in order to make an informed decision for your business. ![]() SourceForge ranks the best alternatives to AIHelperBot in 2023. It supports MySQL, PostgreSQL, Oracle, DB2, MSSQL, Sybase, Mimer, HSQLDB, Derby, and any database that has a JDBC driver. Compare AIHelperBot alternatives for your business or organization using the curated list below. DBeaver is a free and open source (GPL) multi-platform universal database manager and SQL Client. Free multi-platform database tool for developers, database administrators, analysts and all people who need to work with databases. ![]() ![]() Organize a re-gifting party after the holidays with a sign up. Ice Cube Trays - You’ll be the coolest partygoer ever when you bring trays that create mustache, shark fin or Lego-shaped ice cubes.Unusual Food - You know you are in the throes of a serious white elephant game when you unwrap livermush, fried rattlesnake, pickled pig feet or another rare food item.It looks great and will be a hot pick at the party. Vase of Candy - Need a quick go-to gift no one will turn down? Buy (or re-gift) a stylish clear flower vase and fill it with layers of candy.Wine Charms - Wine drinkers come in all shapes and sizes and so do wine charms! Choose ones with funny sayings, cat figurines or movie quotes to avoid wine glass mix-ups.You can also purchase a mug with a place for you to write your own inspirational saying. Give a cup that says “Namaste in Bed,” “Mom Fuel,” “Ugh, As If” or anything you find humorous. Coffee Mug with a Quote - Coffee mugs are useful, hold the life-giving liquid of coffee, tea or hot chocolate and have a great sense of humor.This gift is guaranteed to be fought over! Hot Sauce - Ready to bring the heat? Assemble a fiery hot sauce line up and let the fun begin.Be the real hero of the game and pair this gift with a bottle of your favorite libation. Barware - Every player will leap at the chance to swipe a set of martini, champagne or highball glasses.Cookie Cutters - Cookie cutters come in all shapes, sizes and themes, just like white elephant parties! Give holiday themed cutters or go for Star Wars or Ninja-inspired dough shapers.Plan a company potluck party and gift exchange with a sign up. These gifts are fun ways to pass the time. 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![]() Talking about Chrome extensions, the Chrome store is full of powerful ones. We personally use the one bundled in the Grunt watcher plugin, as well as this simple Chrome extension as a client (which has the advantage of being switchable, because you don’t always want live reload, after all). The client/server comes in various implementations. How many times on average do you hit the refresh key on your keyboard every day? A lot, right? LiveReload is a simple Web protocol that triggers events to the clients whenever files are modified.Ĭlients can handle this event in their own way, even if the most common use case is when a file is modified (or is a compiled version). Its syntax is consistent and easy to learn, and a lot of examples are available around the Web. Grunt offers a wide variety of plugins, ranging from watching files to linting, compiling, and minifying your code. We also used it to create a workaround for some performance issues we found in the Vagrant Rsync-auto watcher, which were recently introduced. TestFilepath = filepath.replace regex, "foo/bar/$1/Tests/$2Test" We use it, for example, to continuously test in PHP while we develop: terminal = require('color-terminal') Grunt’s scope goes beyond simply automating front-end related tasks. The best comes when you can combine tasks together to create even more powerful ones! Grunt is our preferred tool when it comes to task automation. It’s a JavaScript task runner, offering a lot of bundled plugins for common tasks, while still being very extensible, giving you the option to write all kinds of tasks to suit your need. I personally think that if they continue to follow this path, they will definitely become the ultimate IDE (or Integrated Developer Environment) for the web offering web developers a powerful development space bundled directly into the browser. If you’re curious enough (like us) you can learn a lot about how a browser (and indirectly, the web) is working, letting you take back full control of your application’s lifecycle. On top of all this, the network tools let you understand what is really going on under the hood and optimize your loading flows, all while the timeline gives you a deeper view of what the browser does. You can for example copy anything to your clipboard from the console by calling the special `copy` function and passing the thing to be copied (object, function return, etc.)Ī lot of great tutorials are also available on HTML5 Rocks. For example, the section about command-line API contains really useful commands. The official website and the Google Developers Youtube channel both are goldmines of information. The DOM/CSS editor is an extremely powerful tool, letting you provide real-time feedback to your team, iterating fast on the UI/UX of a new feature. We recently solved some render performance issues thanks to this. You can edit the DOM (HTML)/CSS in real-time, debug JavaScript step by step while undertaking a deep performance analysis, and even add a terminal. The dev tools are a complete suite of diverse instruments. Each release (every 6 weeks or so) comes with its own brand new dev tool features. Since its birth, Google Chrome has invested a lot in its developer tools and is still improving them continuously. The best tool we have in our hands today. ![]() In this blog post, we’ll present the 5 best tools and frameworks that we use every day to address these challenges. From test frameworks to profiling tools, we now have mature and useful tools to bring the best experience to our users.Īt Mention, we love the tools which help us to provide the best quality software while at the same time making our life easier. In order to succeed in these new challenges of complexity, developers have created a lot of tools to streamline the overall development process. ![]() Meanwhile, Javascript, the web language, has grown a lot (both in popularity and in maturity) and now has back-end side implementation with NodeJS. These apps have become much richer, leading to a huge increase in complexity on the front-end side.įrameworks like Backbone (the one we use at mention), AngularJS, and EmberJS provide robust solutions to build amazing apps, leveraging all of the web’s power. ![]() Over the last few years, we’ve seen tremendous growth in an entirely new generation of web applications. ![]() ![]() Įach December, U-Haul is used by UPS, USPS, and FedEx, to help temporarily expand fleets to handle a surge due to Christmas and other holiday volume. In 2014 UHaul sued HireAHelper for trademark infringement, a suit that was settled out of court. The jury awarded PODS $62 million in damages. The jury found that U-Haul unjustly profited from mentioning the term on its marketing and advertising materials and began using the word only after PODS became famous as a brand name in the industry. On September 25, 2014, a jury ruled that U-Haul had infringed on PODS' trademarks, causing confusion and damaging business for PODS. District Court for trademark infringement, claiming that U-Haul "improperly and unlawfully" used the word "pods" to describe its U-Box product. In 2012, another moving and storage company, PODS, sued U-Haul in U.S. The filing did not include or affect U-Haul operations. AMERCO filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy in June 2003 and emerged in March 2004. The Shoen family, currently led by chairman and president Edward "Joe" Shoen, owns about 40% of the company through their AMERCO holding company. In 1999, 83-year-old Leonard Shoen suffered fatal injuries when he crashed into a telephone pole near his Las Vegas, Nevada, home it was later ruled a suicide. The takeover sparked a major family dispute that led to a $461 million judgment in favor of Leonard Shoen and others. Family squabbling over the U-Haul empire turned to physical confrontations between some of his children at company meetings, even before the 1986 takeover, and accusations of murder for hire when the wife of a family member loyal to Sam was murdered in the family home (the culprit was later found and stated it was a robbery gone wrong however, Sam continued to accuse Joe and Mark of being behind the murder). Shoen transferred all but 2% of control to his children when two of them, Edward and Mark, launched a successful takeover of the business in 1986. Distracted to some extent by growing his business, Shoen took time for multiple marriages (after the death of Anna Mary at an early age due to a congenital heart defect) and eventually had a total of 12 (some sources say 13) children, each of whom he made stockholders. He developed one-way rentals and enlisted investors as partners in each trailer as methods of growth.īy 1955, there were more than 10,000 U-Haul trailers on the road, and the brand was nationally known. He began building rental trailers and splitting the fees for their use with gas station owners whom he franchised as agents. In 1945, at the age of 29, Leonard Shoen co-founded U-Haul with his wife, Anna Mary Carty, in the town of Ridgefield, Washington, with an investment of $5,000. The livery used on rented vehicles is widely recognized, primarily consisting of white and a thick horizontal orange stripe, in addition to a large state- or province-themed picture, known as SuperGraphics. U-Haul rents trucks, trailers, and other pieces of equipment, but many U-Haul centers and dealerships also provide self storage units, moving boxes and associated packing supplies, moving assistance, LPG (propane) refueling, and hitch and trailer wiring installation, among other services.īecause of the company's ubiquity (there are over 17,000 active dealers across the country) the name is sometimes used as a genericized trademark to refer to the services of any self-move rental company. The Shoen family (heirs of founder Sam Shoen) currently owns, both directly and indirectly, about 55 percent of AMERCO. ![]() ![]()
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