Roy Urrico

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Gender Male
Industry Publishing
Occupation Writer-Editor
Location Lake George, NY, United States
Introduction Roy W. Urrico is president of Bright Ideas Writing Services, which specializes in contract writing of articles, newsletters, guides, ghostwriting, copywriting, and case studies about financial, water, banks, credit union, biometrics and business technology. He is the editor of the Association for Financial Technology newsletter and is a contributing writer for CUNA (Credit Union National Association), the Federal Credit Union (published by the National Association of Federal Credit Unions), and Water Investment Newsletter. He served as managing editor for Microbanker’s financial technology newsletters from 1996-2002 and has recently been involved in projects for Open Solutions, Inc., Certegy E-Banking Solutions, the William Mills Agency, the Electronic Transaction Association, Montner & Associates, FxBridge Technologies and Kiosk Business Magazine. Roy is a versatile writer with more than 200 bylined articles.
Interests Sports, movies, television, travel, space flights, wookies
Favorite Movies Casablanca, Star Wars saga, the Best Years of Our Lives, High Noon, many more
Favorite Music Oldies, Sinatra, Springsteen
Favorite Books Bible, Great Expectations, Catcher in the Rye

Try making up the rules to a game where you tie knots in a yo-yo string just to see if you can get them out:

Why is baseball, which uses baseballs, called baseball; basketball, which uses basketball, called basketball, football, which uses footballs, called football; and hockey, which uses hockey pucks, called hockey? Shouldn't hockey be called hockey puck?