Jaybird Run Bluetooth Earbuds
PAT PILCHER auditions Jaybird’s latest earbuds and now they’re best buddies.
Since Logitech bought them last year, all things Jaybird related went a bit quiet in New Zealand. Because of this, I leapt at the chance to review their latest ear gear, the Jaybird Run Bluetooth Earbuds. They’re not half bad, but (there’s always a ‘but’) do they have what it takes to compete against the likes of Samsung and Apple?
Like the old saying goes, ‘there’s only so many ways to skin a cat’ and that’s the case design-wise with the Jaybird Runs. They’re a lot like Samsung’s Gear 3, which speaks volumes about the wisdom of sticking with a design that works. Apple chose not to with the Airpods, which makes the wearer look like they’ve stuffed golf tees in their noggins. Looks aside, the Jaybird Runs are a good fit and never felt like they were going to pop out.
They’re crafted out of black plastic with silver accents. There’s also an alloy logo that does double duty as a Bluetooth antenna. Plonking them in my ears, they were a snug but comfy fit. As no two ears are the same, Logitech bundle different tips to ensure a good fit.
Then there’s the charging case. It looks like a miniature small Beats Pill speaker. There’s LEDs on the front so you know the charge status of both left and right earbuds. It also made pairing effortless.
Opening the case for the first time put them into pairing mode. This allowed me to get them paired to my phone without shagging about looking for a pairing mode button.
From then on getting them connected was as easy as opening their case. It’s seamless and wins jaybird brownie points. I’m a fan of anything that saves me from fiddling with Bluetooth settings while racing to catch a bus/train/plane.
Taking Bluetooth cans for a stroll in Wellington’s CBD is an excellent test of their connectivity as the CBD is awash with RF interference. While there were connection dropouts in the middle of several songs, they worked flawlessly at home.
Their controls are simple, customisable and frustrating. Using the Jaybird mobile app, I could swap from default controls to a custom config. With either setting you can also double tap the bud buttons to skip songs or skip backwards, but the Jaybird bud buttons required a serious push. This saw me pushing the earbud deeper into my ear, which was both uncomfortable and annoying.
The Jaybird mobile app (IOS/Android) gets the thumbs-up. It provides both customisable and pre-set equaliser tweaks. These helped wring every bit of ear-pleasing goodness out of the buds. Given their small size, and my ability to misplace things, I often used the app’s ‘find my earphones’ feature.
Their marketing bumf says four hours of playback is the norm. I got 3 hours and 50 minutes. Their carry case also doubles as a charging case. This meant I was able to take the Jaybird Runs from a near zero charge to full twice before I had to charge the carry case. What impressed was the use of fast charging. This equates to five minutes of charging giving me an hour listening.
The audio of Bluetooth earbuds is often not flash. The Jaybirds proved to be an exception to this rule. They also have the added advantage of equalisation via the Jaybird app, which allowed them to deliver solid audio. Yes, you will get more nuanced and detailed audio out of a pair of wired ear-buds, but the freedom and convenience of going cable commando makes up for this. A lot of earbuds (wired and wireless) often lack anything approximating bass. The Jaybird Runs did a solid line in Oonst. All told, their audio sounded a lot like something you’d expect from a pair of over ear cans.
There’s a lot to like with the Jaybird Runs. Their build is excellent. The fast charging feature is useful beyond measure. Going for a run or working out at the gym sees their lack of cable clutter being hard to beat.
They may not outgun audiophile grade ear gear, but they’re not too shabby at all. About the only drawback I found with them involved their stiff buttons. Otherwise, they offer excellent bang for your buck.


The crew from New Zealand Snowboarder Magazine, one of the oldest and best-respected mags in the Southern Hemisphere, hit us up recently to let us know about the launch of their brand-spanking new website.
Although their mag is older even than Whitelines (having published its first issue in 1993) they’ve only jumped on the interweb bandwagon more recently. But we reckon with their 15-plus years of experience of the local scene there’s no way their website won’t be one of the best in NZ pretty soon.
While we’re pining for the snow up here, they’ll of course be swimming in it, and posting all the evidence up online. But its not all about making us jealous – if you’re thinking of heading down under for the summer yourself, be sure to check out their snow reports, and the other useful info they’ve got about what to expect in the land of the long white cloud.
As anyone who read the Whitelines trip to New Zealand in Issue 90 this year knows, the shred down there is nothing short of epic.
So if you’re feeling like fueling your stoke and heading down under for some summer shred yourself, check out nzsnowboarder.co.nz and get yourself excited.


If there was ever a moment in time when the American people could collectively glean knowledge from a “teachable moment,” the Obama Administration’s handling of the al Qaeda-related attacks on the US consulate in Benghazi, Libya is surely one.
From the moment the public became aware of what can only be perceived as an act of war, perpetrated at the hands of an enemy that has officially declared war on the United States and the West, the Obama Administration–Progressives one and all–have engaged in one of their favorite tactics of political opportunism: re-writing history. In this instance, they are doing it in real time–right in front of our faces.
From the moment US Ambassador to the United Nations Susan Rice took to the airwaves to insist that the attacks that took the lives of a US Ambassador and three of his colleagues were, in fact, not a coordinated and planned terrorist assault of a US target of interest, but, rather, a “spontaneous” uprising turned violent, spurred by a third-rate video that literally no one had ever seen, the American people were being subjected to fact manipulation for political purposes. With an election coming up, a terrorist attack did not fit the Obama Campaign’s narrative that, “Osama bin Laden is dead and al Qaeda is on the run.” If the al Qaeda was on the run on September 11, 2012, it was running forward, bayonets fixed, with death in their eyes.
But re-writing history is nothing new to the Progressive Movement. During the time of Woodrow Wilson, Progressives perfected the art of propaganda to such an extent that many in the fascist movements of Europe–Hitler, the hierarchy of the Nazi Party and even Italy’s Mussolini–took notice; impressed at the effectiveness and results achieved by Wilson’s Administration.
In Liberal Fascism, Jonah Goldberg writes:
Under President Wilson, progressives perfected the art of government propaganda. Wilson appointed the journalist and former muckraker George Creel to head the Committee on Public Information (CPI), the first modern ministry for propaganda in the Western world. Thus empowered, Creel methodically assembled an army of nearly 100,000 “Four Minute Men,” each trained by the CPI to deliver, at a moment’s notice, four-minute propaganda speeches at town meetings or any other public venues where they might be heard. In 1917-18 alone, these operatives delivered some 7.55 million speeches in 5,200 communities.
In addition, the CPI produced – with taxpayer dollars – millions of posters, buttons, and pamphlets bearing pro-Wilson, Progressive messages. The CPI’s nearly 100 pamphlets were distributed to approximately 75 million people. “It was a fight for the minds of men, for the “conquest of their convictions,” and the battle line ran through every home in every country,” Creel later recalled…
The public-relations pioneer Edward Bernays learned the science of what he termed ‘the conscious and intelligent manipulation of the organized habits and opinions of the masses’ during his time on Creel’s committee.
To that end, it could be argued that Barack Obama’s entire life story is a product of decades of propaganda perfection. From Dreams From My Father to The Audacity of Hope, Mr. Obama’s entire life’s story has been very carefully crafted to present a myth rather than a man; a story rather than a life; an illusion instead of a person; an idea rather than reality. But I digress…
With UN Ambassador Rice’s advancement of the narrative that it was a protest over an inconsequential and poorly made film that served at the genesis for the murders of Ambassador Stevens and his colleagues, the spin of a propaganda machine meant to protect the Obama presidency began. CIA talking points used in a briefing to Obama Administration officials by the Director of National Intelligence were revised no less than two times in less than 24-hours–from 231 words that included references to jihadists and al Qaeda to 91 words that completely expunged all reference to radical Islamist participation, planning or premeditation.
And then the propaganda machine began to hum. From Ambassador Rice to White House Press Secretary Jay Carney, Secretary of State Hillary Clinton to high-ranking officials at the Pentagon and CIA, to President Obama himself, the story–the talking points–were so succinctly crafted and choreographed that they could have been loaded into a teleprompter. Well-rehearsed and with authoritative style, each of these political operatives delivered the approved talking points text with conviction, insisting that they, too, were disgusted by the Islamophobic nature of the incendiary video. Mrs. Clinton even went so far as to look the father of slain former-Navy SEAL Tyrone Woods in the eye and say, “We will make sure the person who made that film is arrested and prosecuted.”
Of course, the light of the truth is shining on the facts of this story thanks to many in the new media, talk radio and FOX News, three information outlets routinely lambasted as “bias” and “right-wing” by the Progressive Movement’s many “useful idiots,” both in the mainstream media and the special interest community. And those facts, as they present, depict a much different reality–a much more truthful accounting–of the circumstances surrounding the slaughter in Benghazi. Ambassador Stevens and his colleagues were abandoned; left to fend for themselves and die in a foreign land so that an election could be won.
An equally disturbing possibility, albeit not as lethal, is the fact that many serving in the highest elected offices in the United States; the highest offices in the Executive Branch as well as the Legislative Branch, may have left these people to die because of their political aspirations; so emboldened by their total commitment to a socio-political ideology, so cripplingly devoted to attaining the power that only winning elections can afford, that they blatantly and freely deceive the American people, even about lethal attacks on our diplomats; deadly attacks against our country.
Perhaps even more disturbing is the very real fact that some of the people who voted for Mr. Obama in 2012 were led to incorporate the “Obama Campaign Islamophobic film narrative” into their decisions at the ballot box.
The facts being what they are, it cannot be denied that the decision to deceive the American people, the decision to flagrantly lie to the American people–and, in fact, the decision to abandon four Americans as they fought for their very lives–was a decision based on a political motive. The CIA talking points on the slaughter in Benghazi were purposely and grotesquely altered in an effort to deceive the voting public into believing the deadly events of September 11, 2012, were inconsequential to the 2012 Presidential Election; that everything that could have been done to save the lives of four Americans in the service of their country was done; that the hellfire that rained down on Ambassador Christopher Stevens, US Foreign Service Information Management Officer Sean Smith, and former-Navy SEALs Glen Doherty and Tyrone Woods was the result of “common over-reactionary” violence associated with the hurt feelings of Islamofascists to which the Obama Administration had no recourse.
The decision to lie to the American people about the act of war that happened in Benghazi, Libya, on September 12, 2012, was made to mask the weak and conciliatory foreign policy of a president whose only real-life prerequisite experience for the highest office in the land was that of Chicago community organizer–not a constitutional scholar, not an exceptional legal mind, not a well-seasoned elected public servant, but a failed Chicago Progressive community organizer.
In the book, Fabian Freeway, Rose L. Martin explains the agenda mindset of the founders of the Fabian Socialist Movement, the very movement that would give birth to today’s Progressive Movement. Incidentally, among the founding members of this arrogant and totalitarian movement: George Bernard Shaw:
From the outset, the nine young men and women who remained to found the Fabian Society had grandiose plans. Quite simply, they wanted to change the world through a species of propaganda termed “education,” which would lead to political action. To a rather astonishing degree they have been successful…
“Changing the world through a species of propaganda termed ‘education’.” Given the fact that the same people who lied to the American people about the slaughter in Benghazi are the very people in control of our public education system, I would have to say I have never read more chilling words.
When the people we elect to public office are caught lying there should be consequences; a price paid for the cost of the deception. Keeping in mind that the four Americans who died in the slaughter of Benghazi–whose last moments on this earth must have been hopelessly tormenting–have already paid the ultimate price in the service of their country, it is fair to say that, so far, the only price Mr. Obama has been made to pay for his deadly political opportunism is to be re-elected to the Presidency on the wings of a lie.
I’m sure he’ll lose sleep over it.


Manchester Derby decided early at Delta Force!
battle taking place involving these Premier League rivals – an action-packed paintball match!
MUTV, the official television channel for Manchester Utd, visited the Holmes Chapel Paintball Centre during the week to film a promotional piece for the upcoming tie. Four players in red, four players in blue; the outcome was a heated paint-fest that provided plenty of dramatic moments, worthy of any epic football game! On this day, it was the reds who were triumphant, scoring more hits and receiving fewer eliminations than their opposition. Yet unfortunately for home fans, the actual result on Tuesday night couldn’t have been further from this…
It’s been a tough, transitional season for Moyes’ men, with form in the both the league and cup competitions drawing criticism far and wide. An emphatic victory in the Champions League against Olympiakos however, which saw them overturn a two goal deficit, went some way to silence the critics – yet it wasn’t enough to overcome the Sky Blues who, led by the ever-present Vincent Kompany, ran out 3-0 winners in a game that promised far more goals!
After the smoke had cleared and the last match was one, the MUTV crew made it clear that they thoroughly enjoyed their day at the Holmes Chapel Paintball Centre and remained hopeful that they will come back as a company and make a proper day of it. We look forward to welcoming them back, possibly with familiar faces from the first-team too!
Can you suggest any other rival teams who could settle some old scores with no-holds-barred paintballing duel? How about Rangers versus Celtic? Arsenal


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Le Querce di Cota: Sampling a Small Slice of Sicily
A relaxing stay in a Sicilian farmhouse with dancing and fine cuisine
By Carolyn Bonello
6:30am….bleep…..bleep bleep… bleeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeep. The noise got louder and sharper and…
‘Damn! Why is my alarm clock ringing already?’
As I rolled over sleepily, fumbling to switch off the terrible annoyance, I realized that this noise pollutant was coming from the bedroom window.
Peering out unenthusiastically into the cold, crisp, early-morning air, I spotted a fluffy little lamb, bleating energetically, harmoniously accompanied by a yapping puppy, a couple of chirpy birds, and a very assertive rooster, all happy that the sun was rising.
The obvious question one would now ask is: ‘Where on earth was I? A wildlife reserve?
No, I was enjoying the early morning sounds of my first day at Le Querce di Cota – a 19th-century farmhouse nestled amongst orchards and olive groves, in the heart of the Nebrodi Mountains, in the province of Enna, Sicily.
The aim was to escape from the maddening chaos of the Christmas festivities and enjoy some peace and quiet away from it all with my boyfriend; we could not have chosen a better place.
The journey there was easy and pleasant. Ninety minutes following a smooth catamaran ride from the tiny island of Malta, our homeland. (Thank God for the calm sea; since it was December, I had been having nightmarish visions of gale force winds and shipwrecks.) We were observing weathered fisherman proudly bringing in their catch of the day in the little village of Pozzallo.
‘Benvenuti in Sicilia… fatevi un buon viaggio.’
The customs officer waved us off as we hopped into our car and began our two-hundred-kilometer drive through some of the most spectacular scenery in Sicily, to eventually get to what we would call home for the next week.
Each of the five charming rooms (all with the accommodations one would need on holiday) have stunning views, either of the imposing Mount Etna, covered in snow, or of the surrounding green meadows and hills.
The owner, La Signora Concetta is a charming, friendly woman who goes out of her way to ensure that everyone feels totally welcome and comfortable.
The food, which she proudly prepares herself, consists entirely of local produce. At each meal, tasty, fresh dishes are brought out, one after another, and the words “sono piena” do not exist in her vocabulary.
It is almost an offense to refuse her food, but also impossible, as the tantalizing smells of funghi in freshly-pressed olive oil, homemade pasta al pomodoro, a selection of meats and freshly-picked fruit keep one’s appetite at dinner time open till the very last morsel of food is brought out.
Breakfast is another major event, where delicious aromas of coffee, freshly baked cakes and toast with home-made fig and peach jam are the perfect recipe for a great start to each day.
Unwind and chill out
The place is a sanctuary for relaxation. Comfortable sofas, draped in crisp white linen, are spread around the sun-kissed courtyard, where one can sit and concentrate on acquiring a golden winter tan.
Pretty terracotta pots, cleverly hand painted in the most detailed, intricate designs line the courtyard, whilst plump, ripe burnt-orange pumpkins border the roof.
Inside the main building, a selection of books are neatly arranged in a cozy library, complete with a crackling fireplace.
Around the farmhouse, there are several acres of land where one can stroll casually along footpaths, enjoying the spectacular views, or play with the lambs, horses and dogs who are just as friendly as their owner!
Discover the region by car
A 15-minute drive up a winding road leads to Troina, a medieval village perched on a cliff at an altitude of around 1000m. Cobbled streets and small old houses lead up to a piazza in front of the main cathedral, offering spectacular views of the surrounding Nebrodi mountains, with Mount Etna towering in the distance and contrasting views of the Ionian sea on the other side.
Driving along the SS120, the road which skirts the Southern border of the Parco Regionale dei Nebrodi, one can enjoy some of the most beautiful scenery on the island.
Sleepy farming villages, such as Cerami, Capizzi and San Teodoro, are scattered along the way. Close-knit communities, dominated by males, pacing up and down the streets, some greeting each other with a kiss on each cheek, others gathering outside small cafes, discussing the day’s happenings.
The lack of tourists gives the whole area an even more authentic feel to it, making the experience all the more real.
Nicosia and Leonforte are two of the larger towns in the area, the former having been a Byzantine community and the latter being an attractive baroque town.
The neighboring town of Agira, which from a distance rises up in an almost perfect cone with the ruins of its medieval castle at the top, is surprisingly twinned with one of our local villages, Zebbug.
Close by, in the village of Sperlinga, lies a fascinating castle built in 1082 AD, and totally carved out of the rocks. The look-out tower on top offers 360-degree views over the plain of Gangi and the surrounding mountains. This castle was the scene of a long siege in 1282, during the war of the Sicilian Vespers, and is therefore of historic significance.
Around two hours away lies the Parco delle Madonie, a 40,000-hectare park in the province of Palermo. It includes the second highest peak after Mount Etna – Pizzo Carbonara – which, at 1979m, offers downhill skiing in winter, as well as some beautiful walks.
Amongst others, Petralia Soprana is a charming medieval village in the area, beautifully positioned on a hilltop and offering splendid views of the Madonie mountains.
So this is how we spent our time – sampling delicious local cuisine, strolling along the countryside, visiting quaint villages, and at the end of each day, eagerly returning to our delightful farmhouse, dying to taste the specialties prepared by Concetta.
A real Sicilian Cenone
One of our best moments was New Year’s Eve, when we experienced a typical Sicilian cenone (banquet). This time Concetta needed help from her family, as the amount of food prepared was beyond words.
Struggling to breathe after around 15 different dishes, we were ushered to a different room for the countdown, where, together with Concetta’s husband, children, sisters, parents, cousins and what seemed like half the population of Sicily, we danced the Tarantella, and quickly mastered a couple of other Sicilian dance techniques, taught to us by our new friends, which kept us amused till the early hours of the morning – what an experience!
I would recommend this place, where time seems to stop, to anyone, whatever age, who wants to get away and relax for a few days – it really is a must.
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Coming from the tiny island of Malta, Carolyn Bonello has an intense desire to explore the world. She works as a physiotherapist and in her free time loves reading, swimming, cycling and any other form of outdoor activity. She keeps journals of most of her travels, and loves reading about other people’s experiences.
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Two recent events influenced me in a profound way. A loss of a dear friend and a wedding anniversary of a family in church.
Why do some losses hurt a lot and some just a little?
Answering this question makes me think about relations we have with different people in general and relations between spouses in particular.
Do we allow people to get so close to our heart that the pain is almost intolerable when they leave us (by betrayal or passing away)?
Why do some marriages fall apart with time and some get stronger?
Supposedly all marriages start with love. Then life happens… Little by little legitimate reasons (kids, jobs, relatives, friends) pull us apart. We find ourselves getting annoyed with each other and reacting in a “not very loving” way in stressful situations or when the troubled times come… It may even get worse and we become resentful…
If we lose one another at this time, will it hurt that much?
If we really and truly make God the glue of our marriage, become “one flesh”, and keep becoming closer every day by having the same focus in life of doing what God tells us to do…
- like not letting the sun go down while you are still angry (Ephesians 4:26)…
- like spending time with each other thus showing each other where our treasure lies (Luke 12:34)…
- like leaving everybody’s authority or opinions behind (parents or friends) and protecting your marriage, doing what is right for your marriage, (Matthew 19:6 ”What God has joined together, let no one separate”—that includes well-wishing mamas, daddy’s, friends or neighbors)…
- like avoiding bad influences (1 Corinthians 15:33).
Nothing is more unifying for a marriage than spending time together in service to God. The key word here is together. When we serve together, how can our love disappear? When we say “I love you” every day and mean it EVERY time we say it (it’s like using God’s name in vain—do not say it if you do not mean it… but when you say it, MEAN it), how can our love disappear? When we talk, deal with each other in a gentle way, how can our love disappear? When we do thoughtful things for each other, how can our love disappear? Again the key word is together, both of us. “Which of you fathers, if your son asks for a fish, will give him a snake instead? Luke 11:11.
Our appreciation for our spouse grows, our love for each other grows! You are best friends. You can talk about everything, you like spending time together, you do not need other friends. You know that you can count on each other for support. You sometimes take it all for granted….
If you lose each other at this time, how much will it hurt?
Will it bring you physical pain to have the pillow with your spouse’s smell on it in your bed where you are alone now? Will it hurt to look at a coffee mug that used to be used every morning by your spouse and now not? Will it hurt to look at the stars and the moon at night because your spouse used to love watching the sky at night. Will it hurt to see the working boots that your love used to wear every day… It breaks my heart to talk about so much pain..
But…these examples help me in my marriage… Do NOT take each other for granted, work on your marriage every day, get rid of your pride, serve God and each other together.
To those who lost their loved ones recently, thank you for showing what Godly marriage should be even in your pain.
Every person will have to decide if you want to be “self-sufficient” with your emotions and not let anyone get close enough, not to expose yourself to potential pain because it hurts A LOT to lose a person you love. Or you may decide to experience joy that comes with close relations, to make yourself vulnerable for the sake of showing somebody love and been shown what love can be.
The parallel of our relations with God is very obvious. Can we be “self-sufficient” and not include God in our lives? Yes. If we make this choice we then should be ready to rip the consequences of missing all the joy: not only the joy of living here on earth as a part of God’s family and showing what love is to people around us as well as experiencing other people showing us love. By staying away from God we will also miss the ultimate expression of God’s love—living with God’s family in eternity, having fellowship with the Father and with his son, Jesus Christ.


Add upscale appeal to equestrian-themed gatherings with this handmade horse serving plate with glass dome. Made from FDA-compliant sand-cast aluminum, this food-safe plate boasts a sleek silver-tone finish that lends timeless beauty to virtually any room and a durable build that lasts the long haul. Indented ropes around the circular base offer visual interest to the design, while the raised stallion duo on the plate itself brings delightful texture to your buffet or coffee table. The clear glass dome lets guests take a peek at the treats inside before lifting it via its comfortably rounded handle, keeping your appetizers or sweets fresh and tasty throughout your gathering. Hand wash the metal plate with mild dish soap and dry it immediately for after-party care, and pop the glass dome in the dishwasher for fuss-free cleaning. This 8 x 8-inch glass-domed plate comes gift boxed for a nice housewarming present for your favorite horse enthusiast.
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As a risk management professional, if one of your responsibilities is to vet your company’s vendors, CMA recommends that you participate in the upcoming Supplier Risk Credit Group on January 30.
The topic for the January meeting is, “how credit scoring solutions help manage volume and reduce costs.” The meeting will feature live demos and an opportunity to speak with some of the greatest minds in credit risk management.
The meeting will take place via teleconference to include risk management professionals throughout the country.
For more information about how you can get involved, or for information on other companies who will participate, contact Larry Convoy at firstname.lastname@example.org or 818-972-5323. We look forward to your participation in what is sure to be a lively discussion.
During the holidays, CMA staff called and emailed most of our members to help us determine their goals and objectives for 2017, and what they thought their biggest obstacles would be. Thanks to all of our members who took the time to speak with CMA staff to share those goals, as we learned a great deal from the process, to help us shape what we’re doing to help our members. Many of you told us that (not surprisingly) that you want to reduce DSO, keep your A/R balances current, reduce late payments and bad debt write-offs, and keep customers paying on terms. Obstacles cited were customers requesting extended payment terms, reduced staffs, and bankruptcies. We also heard throughout that many of you need to overcome these obstacles and achieve your goals more efficiently and for less cost.
The upcoming CreditScape Spring Summit, which takes place in April, speaks to your concerns, as it will feature presentations and discussions that focus on helping you streamline operations and create efficiencies that will reduce the cost of doing business.
Kicking off the Summit is Dan Goldes’ presentation, “The Influence Edge: How to Get What You Want.” Why are influence skills important for credit managers? Credit roles are by their nature cross-functional – internally, you work for a senior finance executive, but you work with sales, order entry, billing, customer service, legal, shipping, and maybe even procurement. Goldes says that, “with the horizontal structure of today’s progressive organizations, it is increasingly important to ask for and receive the support you need to accomplish your goals. The most effective way to do this is through the strategic use of influence skills.”
Creating efficiencies that will reduce costs will require change, and change requires buy in. You will likely have to get approval from senior management to implement those changes (and the costs associated with them), and you will have to convince staff to adopt those changes. Both tasks require influence skills – without them, process improvements may not be successful, and indeed may not happen at all. When you attend CreditScape and learn about process improvements and tools that can create efficiencies and cost savings, we want you to feel empowered to take that knowledge back to your office and get things done. Dan says, “By using influence skills strategically, others will be more willing to help move organizational processes along without resistance.”
Additional programming at CreditScape will include a panel discussion from real-world credit practitioners explaining areas in their businesses where they’ve achieved process improvement, CMA’s version of “Speed Networking,” and other interactive events geared towards helping members create efficiencies and reduce costs in their credit operations.
At CMA, we are dedicated to helping develop educational programs that speak directly to your real-world credit needs and concerns. I encourage you to reach out to my team at CMA (or respond to this blog) if there are other topics that you think could help your business. I really hope to see you at CreditScape in April.


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A charity fun day held in memory of a young Farnborough girl who lost her battle with cancer has raised more than £1,500.
Five-year-old Emma Smart, who lived in Broomhill Road, died in hospital from leukaemia on New Year’s Day 2013.
She had been diagnosed with Acute Myeloid Leukaemia on Boxing Day 2010 and been through intensive chemotherapy and a bone marrow transplant, but went into septic shock in 2012.
Emma's mother, Charlotte Prunty, 39, set up the Princess Emma Smart Memorial Group to raise funds for various charities including CLIC Sargent and The Brain Tumour charity.
Miss Prunty held an eight-hour football tournament on Saturday at Oak Farm Playing Fields, in Tile Barn Close, complete with family activities including inflatables, face painting and karaoke.
Miss Prunty said: "Unfortunately the weather didn't do us any favours but we still had a phenomenal day.
"We did a one minute silence for Emma which was lovely."
Memorial teams such as Emma's All Stars and Emma's Army competed in the charity tournament and half-time entertainment was provided by Fusion Dance Group.
A total of £1,800 was raised which will be split between various children's charities.


Kansas State junior Jacob Pullen had too many colleges pass on him to hold a grudge against any specific one.
Coming out of Proviso East High School in Maywood, Pullen wasn't considered by most high-major programs. Everyone recognized that Pullen had ability -- his final high school season nearly matched that of fellow Chicago-area seniors Demetri McCamey, Derrick Rose and Evan Turner -- but his height (6-foot) scared most coaches away. Pullen's game was mostly about scoring, and coaches viewed him as an undersized shooting guard rather than a point guard.
"A lot of people overlooked me," said Pullen as he prepared for Thursday's NCAA tournament game against Xavier. "It wasn't a big deal to me."
It wasn't because there was one coach who really wanted him.
West Virginia coach Bob Huggins, who was then at Kansas State, saw something more in Pullen. Huggins didn't classify Pullen by a position, but viewed him as someone who could be an offensive threat.
"He brings great ability and great personality to the floor," said Huggins when Pullen signed with Kansas State in 2006. "He comes from a great high school program that produced Doc Rivers, Dee Brown, Shannon Brown and Michael Finley. Jacob certainly has the potential to be a player of that caliber at this level."
Four years later, Huggins may be coaching elsewhere, but that doesn't make him any less right about Pullen.
Pullen has become of the nation's premier guards, and he has done so by not changing much. His individual skills have improved, but the way he dominated at Proviso East is the way he still does for Kansas State. He's still 6-foot. He still operates best with the ball in his hands. He still can score in a variety of ways even though his opponents are bigger. His greatest motivation is still to win.
"I want to win," Pullen said. "I wanted to win the Big 12 conference. I want to win a national championship. I want to win. That's pretty much my goal."
With Pullen leading the way, Kansas State has just done that. Most of the Wildcats' 28 wins have come thanks to Pullen, as he's averaged 19.2 points, 2.6 rebounds, 3.5 assists and 1.7 steals.
He has had his share of special nights, too. He put up 28 points and seven 3-pointers to beat UNLV in December. A game later, he scored 30 at Alabama. He scored 25 points, knocked down six 3-pointers and sank the game-winning free throws to win at Baylor in January. He scored 26 points in another win over Baylor during the Big 12 tournament.
Most recently, he scored 34 points and hit seven 3-pointers to beat BYU in the second round of the NCAA tournament.
While Pullen has had success in Manhattan, Kan., his cousin McCamey has kept tabs on him from Champaign, Ill. McCamey and Pullen don't have the opportunity to talk or see each other as much as they used to growing up, but both are sure to watch the others' games when they have the chance.
McCamey believes he recognizes why Pullen has excelled so much in college.
"His game was a little too advanced, if you want to call it [that], for high school because people couldn't catch his passes and because he was trying to run a team and be a true point," McCamey said. "Now, he's out there scoring, playing up and down and taking quick shots and stuff like that. That was a perfect system for him.
"He just kept his poise and learned the game. He can break the game down so easily now. Everything has slowed up for me, him and Evan [Turner], and we're just picking it apart now."
City/Suburban Hoop Report's Joe Henricksen, an Illinois-based recruiting analyst, was always high on Pullen, but he, too, never saw this coming.
"I always thought Pullen would be able to score at just about any level he played at in college, but I always envisioned him as more of an undersized 2-guard playing the point guard position," Henricksen said. "But he's obviously better and more productive than I thought he would be. I would have never dreamed he would be mentioned for All-American teams as a junior in college while playing for one of the top teams in the country. His development has been impressive.
"Part of that is the confidence and toughness he plays with. He's become a more well-rounded player as well. He's still a natural scorer, but he's not just a scorer. He's developed into a very good defensive player."
Pullen may have surprised many by what he's accomplished, but he still thinks of himself and Kansas State as underdogs heading into the final rounds of the NCAA tournament.
"A lot of people still don't think we can win it," Pullen said.
If anyone's learned anything about Pullen over the years, it's not to count him out.
Scott Powers covers high school and college sports for ESPNChicago.com and can be reached at email@example.com.


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G4 Cancels 'Attack of the Show,' 'X-Play’
G4 is calling it a day for its two longest-running original series.
The network announced Friday afternoon that genre talkers Attack of the Show! and X-Play will end production in 2012, with original episodes airing through the end of the year.
“Attack of the Show! and X-Play have been important for G4, and we want to acknowledge the creative people who have helped inspire and showcase the phenomenon of gamer culture,” said G4 GM Adam Stotsky. “With more than 3,000 episodes aired between them, we have more than enough great material to honor these innovators and their amazing contributions as we bring both shows to a close.”
Attack of the Show, pushing 1,700 episodes, most notably served as a launch pad for Kevin Pereira, Olivia Munn, Chris Hardwick and Adam Sessler. Both Attack and X-Play were also the first shows to broadcast live floor coverage from popular industry events San Diego Comic-Con and E3.
Both series had also seen reductions in staff and content in 2009, when the daily X-Play was reduced to three nights a week and Attack of the Show! dropped down to four.
Guest co-hosts including John Barrowman, Michael Ian Black, Josh Myers, Paul Scheer, Rob Huebel and Horatio Sanz are all scheduled to appear during Attack of the Show's and X-Play's final months.


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North Korea's recent actions to develop a nuclear capacity and an intercontinental ballistic missile capacity will require that we expand our consideration of possible responses, including our force posture and options for extended deterrenceEnvoy: U.S. doesn't plan N. Korea invasion Jun 10, 2009
Quite to the contrary, we have no intention to invade North Korea or to change its regime through force and we have made this clear ... repeatedlyEnvoy: U.S. doesn't plan N. Korea invasion Jun 10, 2009
This is something that will require further consultations among all six of usBosworth: No prediction on nuke talks Dec 11, 2009
This may be a time to exercise a bit of strategic patienceBosworth: 'Patience' needed with Norkor Dec 12, 2009
How and when we resume the six-party talks remains to be resolvedBosworth: 'Patience' needed with Norkor Dec 12, 2009
Stephen Warren Bosworth (born 4 December 1939) is Dean of The Fletcher School at Tufts University and serves as U.S. special representative for North Korea policy. He has served three times as a U.S. Ambassador, to South Korea (1997–2001), to the Philippines (1984–1987), and to Tunisia (1979–1981). In 1987, he was recipient of American Academy of Diplomacy's Diplomat of the Year Award.
In February 2009 U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton named Bosworth Special Representative for North Korea policy.
Before his appointment as Ambassador to South Korea he was the Executive Director of the Korean Peninsula Energy Development Organization (1995–1997). Before coming to KEDO, he was president of the United States Japan Foundation.


Slots games of luck. In casino parlors, they are usually called “fruits”, while in live casinos they are called “tickets”. But wherever they are played, they share the same distinguishing characteristics: They are games of chance. A slot machine, called the jackpot slot, pug, fruit machine, slots or the fruit machines, is simply a gambling device that produces a game of luck for its users.
In contrast to the popular belief that slot machines are an offspring of physical slot machines, a more recent view is that the two kinds of machines are different because the former are controlled entirely by the users themselves. The video slots and the video poker machines are examples of this. The machines are programmed so that they will randomly generate the winning numbers.
Slots are also different from video slots slot machines in another way: Video slots allow the re-spin of a wheel so that it can randomly generate more spins. On the other hand, the re-spinning of the wheel does not occur with video poker machines. With a land-based machine, a coin is tossed and the outcome is predetermined from the coin toss. The slot machines on the contrary, all of their outcomes are generated randomly by the random number generator (RNG). Because of this, some people believe that the probability of hitting a jackpot increases with physical slot machines over video slots. This is true only if you count the total number of coin flips, as the total number of spins will affect the outcome significantly.
Slots are often compared to the ancient Chinese game called the “fruit machine”, but this comparison is sometimes misleading. Although the fruit machine is often cited as the progenitor of modern slots, the two games have much in common. Slots, like the fruit machine, are also random and dependent on chance. However, unlike the fruit machine which can be completely manipulated by the spin of the wheel, the outcome of most slots is entirely dependent on the re-spin of the reels. For this reason, many experts believe that the odds of winning on these machines are as high as one hundred times greater than the odds of winning on a machine that allows the user to manipulate the reels.
Slots are believed to be a form of gambling because they are closely related to slot machines from the world of professional poker. Professional gamblers place a lot of emphasis on strategy and learning how to count cards while playing. This may be because they want to reduce the number of mistakes and betting that they will make while at the same time maximize the amount of money that they can win. Even with professional casino game players, though, slots still remain a form of gambling. The important thing is that people can play these games without feeling like they are gambling.
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|Walk on Water|
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dir Eytan Fox|
scr Gal Uchovsky
with Lior Ashkenazi, Knut Berger, Caroline Peters, Gideon Shemer, Eyal Rozales, Yousef Joe Sweid, Carola Regnier, Hanns Zischler, Ernest Lenart, Imad Jabarin, Imke Barnstedt, Natali Shilman
release Isr 18.Mar.04, US 4.Mar.05, UK 1.Jul.05
Brothers in arms: Ashkenazi and Berger
Dealing with thorny issues in a thoughtful, insightful way, Israeli filmmaker Fox and his cast create vivid, recognisable characters who dare to grapple with untouchable topics. And even if the story is a bit formulaic, the film is gripping and vitally important.
Eyal (Ashkenazi) is a Mossad hitman struggling to cope with his wife's recent suicide. So his boss (Shemer) puts him on a simple job: play tour guide to German tourist Axel (Berger), in Israel visiting his sister (Peters). Their grandfather was a Nazi officer who might still be in hiding. As Eyal spies on the siblings, he begins to examine for the first time some deeply held views and prejudices ... in more than just racial-political areas.
The plot is complex and layered, constantly surprising us and taking us places we don't really want to go. And it's perhaps the weakest thing in the film, since it plays a bit too closely by political thriller rules. What makes the film essential viewing is the character development, as they express honest, provocative views on a variety of issues, all while living out the central conflicts in their interaction--racism, politics, religion, sexism and even sexuality.
The central friendship between Eyal and Axel almost startlingly authentic. Ashkenazi and Berger get it note perfect--physically, mentally, emotionally--as their layered personalities mesh and clash and each discovers something surprising about himself. There are several moments when we fear it might all go horribly sappy, melodramatic or stupid, but the script stays on just the right side of that fine line, pushing the characters to the brink, but not over it. At the core this is a clash between pessimists and optimists, fanatics and liberals.
It's powerfully introspective, emotional and intelligent, but it's also lively, witty and often quite cynical about the world we've created ('They always play sad songs after a suicide bombing,' Eyal snaps, retuning the car radio). Music plays an important role in the film, encouraging the characters abandon their denial and face the truth about the world. Perhaps this film can do the same thing.
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Clearly I’m on a role here. Third time’s the charm?
I didn’t intend to post three Nutella recipes in a row…it just happened. It happens! In my life, it happens.
My love for Nutella (obviously) runs deep. And I don’t think I’m the only one.
I had intended to post these before Valentine’s Day since they’re perfect for any chocolate-covered holiday, but I think they’re just as good any other time of year. Nutella is a year-round kind of treat.
I definitely brought these to Galentine’s Day, too! Galentine’s, if you don’t know, is inspired by Parks & Rec and is a day for ladies to celebrate ladies. My friends and I – single, married, and everything in between – put on a fun Galentine’s Day celebration every year, while our guy friends have their own Palentine’s Day party. It’s one of my favorite traditions each February! And I love that people in all different stages of life can hang out together. We always have a chocolate fountain and an impressive spread of sweets and treats – it doesn’t get any better! And the person who hosts gets to keep the leftover chocolate. Have I mentioned how much I love hosting? ;)
These cupcakes are everything Nutella. There’s Nutella stirred into the vanilla batter, straight-up Nutella for the filling, and, of course, Nutella buttercream on top. Nutella buttercream is one of the best things I’ve ever eaten.
If you wanted to take these over the top (and I wouldn’t stop you!), you could also melt a little Nutella and drizzle it on top. I didn’t this time, but I definitely thought about it. :)
I always adapt my cupcake recipes from Georgetown Cupcake’s The Cupcake Diaries, because they’re the best cupcakes I’ve ever tasted in my life. There’s a sequel cookbook that is just as good, too!
For all you fellow Nutella-lovers, I hope you enjoy these cupcakes as much as I did, and I hope you all felt loved this Valentine’s Day!
- 2 1/2 cups flour
- 2 1/2 tsp. baking powder
- 1/4 tsp. salt
- 8 Tbsp butter, at room temperature
- 1 3/4 cups sugar
- 2 large eggs, at room temperature
- 2 1/4 tsp. vanilla
- 1 1/4 cups milk, at room temperature
- 1/2 cup Nutella
- Approximately 1 cup Nutella
- 16 Tbsp. butter, at room temperature
- 4 cups powdered sugar
- 1 tsp. skim milk
- 1 tsp. vanilla extract
- 1/8 tsp. salt
- 1/2 cup Nutella
- Preheat oven to 350 degrees. Line two muffin tins with cupcake wrappers.
- In a small bowl, sift flour, baking powder and salt together.
- In the bowl of a stand mixer, cream butter and sugar together for 3-5 minutes or until light and fluffy. Slowly add eggs one at a time until combined.
- Stir vanilla extract into milk.
- Add 1/3 of the dry ingredients to the egg mixture and beat with stand mixer until well combined. Add 1/3 of the milk and mix thoroughly. Repeat with remaining ingredients, scraping bowl as needed.
- Add Nutella and mix until just combined.
- Scoop batter into prepared pans and bake for 15 to 18 minutes or until a toothpick inserted into the center of a cupcake comes out clean. Cool pans completely on a wire rack.
- When cupcakes have cooled, use a cupcake or apple corer to make a whole in the center of each cupcake (Try not to slice all the way to the bottom - I usually only remove the top half or so). Fill with Nutella.
- In the bowl of a stand mixer with the paddle attachment, beat all frosting ingredients on high speed until light and fluffy, at least three minutes. Add powdered sugar in stages if it gets too messy, and start mixing on low if you have trouble with it splattering. You may need to scrape down the sides of the bowl a few times to make sure frosting is evenly mixed.
- Pipe buttercream onto cupcakes using a pastry bag fitted with a large round tip.
Total Fat: 19 g
Cholesterol: 47 mg
Sodium: 110 mg
Potassium: 48 mg
Total Carbs: 59 g
Protein: 4 g


PHILADELPHIA – The one small speck of positive news to emerge from the Philadelphia Flyers 4-1 loss on Tuesday to the Rangers in Game Three of the Stanley Cup Playoffs was the return of starting goalie Steve Mason.
Mason, who was not in the lineup for the first two games of the series in New York, suited up as Ray Emery’s backup at the Wells Fargo Center and made his postseason debut for the Flyers late in the third period. He replaced Emery with just over seven minutes to play with his team down three goals.
“It’s good to get back out there,” Mason said. “I haven’t played in I guess almost two weeks or so, and it was nice to get my feet wet again and I look forward to maybe the next game.”
Mason hadn’t played since suffering what the team is calling an upper-body injury in the second to last game of the regular season against the Penguins. Jason Megna pushed Flyers defenseman Andrew McDonald into Mason late in the second period causing his head to spring backwards. Mason did not return for the third and sat out the season finale the next day against the Hurricanes.
In the four days leading up to the series with the Rangers, the team and coach Craig Berube kept information close to the vest on Mason’s status. Despite practicing with the team in New York, the goalie never even dressed for games one or two as Cal Heeter, called up from the Phantoms, served as the backup.
It didn’t look like Mason would suit up on Tuesday, either, after he declared himself not ready to return after Monday’s practice.
“Yeah, that was the plan at the time and after pre-game skate,” Mason said. “I got through with no problems, (so) I sat down with Chief (Berube) and (goalie coach Jeff Reese) and decided that it would be good to get back in the team atmosphere and it was nice to be back around the guys.”
Unfortunately, Mason was never really tested in his 7:15 of ice time. Holding a three-goal lead, the Rangers played it conservative and just dumped pucks deep and kept play along the boards. Mason faced just three shots.
“Well, he didn’t get a lot of work, but at that time I thought it was a good idea to get him in there and get him used to it a little bit,” Berube said. “He looked OK. Like I said, he never got a lot of work.”
The question now becomes who starts crucial Game Four on Friday? Does Berube stick with Emery, who shined in Game Two’s win but had a tough night Tuesday, or hand the reigns back to Mason?
“No (I don’t know),” Berube said. “We will look at it. We have a couple days to figure it out, get some practice time and then I’ll make a decision.”
Captain Claude Giroux was noncommittal on the goalie situation.
“It’s not our decision,” he said. “Like I said before, Ray has been playing great for us. Mase has been one of our best players this year. Whatever decision they try, we are going to be ready to go.”
Emery, who has looked solid for most of the series and entered it with a 7-2 mark and 1.87 goals against average against the Rangers, is set to play if called upon.
“I prepare like I’m going to play,” said Emery, who had 16 saves. “The coaches make those decisions.”
If Mason gets the nod, he feels the ice time he saw on Tuesday – albeit a small sampling – is enough to shed some of the rust.
“It’s been awhile since I’ve had some game action,” Mason said. “You can practice as much as you want but once the game rolls around, things happen quickly and you can’t control everything out there. So it was good to get back out and get the eight or so minutes under my belt.”Contact Eric Goldstein at 856-845-9478 or firstname.lastname@example.org


Reading, PA – The Reading Royals (30 – 28 – 6 = 66; 4th North Division), took a 2-0 lead to the third period and held off the hard-charging Johnstown Chiefs to win 3-1. Tonight's game marked the Royals return to the Sovereign Center after a six game road trip, and the win marked the team's third straight victory. Reading got goals from defensemen, Jason Becker and Taylor Christie, and an empty netter from Chris Bala, which iced the game with just 32 seconds remaining. Goaltender Yutaka Fukufuji (11 – 9 – 0; 29/30) played strong in net to pick up his seventh win in his last eleven games for Reading.
The Royals got on the board 8:03 into the game, when Sheldon Wing took control below the goal line and fed Becker between the hash-marks. Becker then slipped a wrist shot under Johnstown goaltender Morgan Cey (18 – 5 – 5; 20/22; 1 empty net goal) for his ninth of the season. Reading picked up what proved to be the game winner 1:45 into the second period, when Christie came deep into the offensive end to help the Royals forwards who were battling for a loose puck on the end wall, which resulted after Joe Zappala appeared to ring one off Cey's mask from low in the right circle.
Michael Cohen dug the puck off the wall and fed Christie low on the left side. Christie forced a quick one-timer on goal which hit Cey in the right side and ended up in the net for Christie's fourth of the season. Johnstown finally broke through with five minutes left in the game when Ian MacLean slid a backhander under Fukufuji's stick for MacLean's second goal of the season. Johnstown pressed hard in the latter stages–as they had all game long–but Reading's Chris Bala took control after a defensive zone face-off in the waning moments and, with time winding down, bagged a coast-to-coast empty netter to send the Royals fans to the exits with a smile on their collective face.


Damage done by Ramage.
The Shipyard suffered disappointment at Ormiston as a storming finish could not quite produce the goal they deserved as a fantastic save from David Simmonds and the underside of the bar denied them. On both occasions the unlucky player was Dale Robertson and earlier Simmons kept out another goal bound Robertson effort. With Robbie Cunningham, Gordon Grieve, Kevin Masson, Brendan Napier and Anesu Tabengwa all unavailable for a variety of reasons, Martin Nedialkov made his debut and Jordan Crosbie made his first start after a couple of substitute appearances. Two trialists also took a place on the bench.
The Shipyard got off to a dream start by taking the lead in the third minute. Stephen Connor done well out wide on the right to engineer space to deliver a cross and it was pinpoint accurate as it gave Pete Bell the easy task of nodding the ball into the net. An acrobatic effort from Mark Leslie called Mikey Couser into action and Couser also did well to stand up and block the follow up from Richard Weir. Brian McEwan headed over from a good position as Ormiston looked to draw level and they were not to be denied when Weir was on hand to tap in a cross from the right hand side. Robertson and Weir had attempts for their respective sides that were off target, then Alex Peoples of the Shipyard was denied twice within seconds as firstly his angled shot was blocked by a defender. His follow up shot was pushed away by Simmonds at the expense of a corner. The Shipyard enjoyed a good spell of pressure as the half entered its final few minutes but it was Ormiston that went the closest when Couser had to block with his legs from Conor Ramage.
Ormiston stunned the Shipyard with a goal just 35 seconds after the restart when a corner skimmed off the head of a defender and Ramage was at the back post to head the ball into the net. The Shipyard were level within seven minutes when a short corner gave Connor the chance to fire in a shot that was blocked but fell to Crosbie who knocked the ball home from close range. Ramage was off target with a header for Ormiston when he should have done better with the space afforded to him. A deep cross from Nedialkov had Simmonds in a flap and he was happy in the end to knock the ball away from under his bar. A well worked free kick from the Shipyard saw a powerful Robertson drive pushed away as the Shipyard enjoyed a good spell. However, it was Ormiston who took the lead when Ramage got on the end of a through ball and from a very tight angle found the corner of the net. Connor and Robertson linked well to set up a chance for Lee Henderson but the Shipyard sub dragged his shot wide. Simmonds lost the ball in an aerial challenge but redeemed himself when he seemed to touch Robertson’s effort over for a corner though a goal kick was given. A Gavin Bridges header was cleared for a corner as both teams continued to attack and Couser was at full stretch to catch a Craig Fisher free kick. As the game moved in to the closing stages the Shipyard were throwing everything at Ormiston and when a free kick fell to Robertson in the box Simmonds denied him with an excellent save. Once again when a free kick was delivered into the box Robertson was on the end of it again. This time it was the underside on the crossbar that denied him the goal he richly deserved and as the ball bounced down on the line it was booted clear.
Manager Myles Allan reflected after the match “I think the guys will feel a bit disappointed after that today. Every one of them put in a great shift but ultimately if you concede three goals so cheaply, it’s always going to be an uphill struggle. It’s certainly the best start we’ve had but we didn’t build on it when we should have. At half time, the very last thing I said was that we couldn’t afford to start the second half slowly. 30 seconds later, we’ve gone 2-1 down. We worked hard to get back level and managed to do that. We then conceded another poor goal from our perspective. The pleasing thing though is that the guys never gave in and kept creating chances. But unfortunately we couldn’t take one more. We now look forward to going down to Gala on Tuesday and hopefully we can get one or two more bodies back for that one”.
Teams: Ormiston: Simmonds; Nisbet; Cornhill; Leslie; Fairnie; Adams; Miller (Carter); Fisher; Weir (Calder); Ramage; McEwan. Unused Subs: Purves; Donnelly.
Burntisland Shipyard: Couser; Grubb; Nedialkov (Ballie); Bridges; McKay; Bell; Crosbie; Innes (Henderson); Connor; Robertson; Peoples (McCrindle). Unused Sub: Mooney.
Referee: K. Maskell.


The Park Tool Cable Stretcher is a uni-tasker, but its single job appears to be so helpful that we’ll let it through.
The stretcher is a one handed (once set up) device with which to fit and adjust gear and brake cables on your bike. Fixie users, who have neither of these heathen features on their pristine machines, can stop reading now.
If you are anything like me, you tend to grab any tool at hand to do a job, even if it is the wrong one. I once ruined a neighbor’s needle-nosed pliers when tightening spokes to re-true a wheel, for example, and snapped an electrical screwdriver putting up shelves. And of course, kitchen shears are the ideal tool for stripping electrical cables.
So my usual MO when fixing brakes and gears is to use a pair of pliers and somehow try to tighten the nut or screw one-handed. The Cable Stretcher instead locks on to the end of the cable while providing a handy lever to pull the cable away from the fixing. Ingenious, and I’m surprised I have never seen one before.
These things have clearly been around for a while but, as the summer fast approaches, I thought it would be worth pointing out as the fair-weather cyclists get back on the road. Steel with chrome plate and padded handles, $40.
Incidentally, this reminds me of an upcoming project: I’m going to find an old beater racing bike and fix it up into a fixie – complete with top tube pad and playing card in the spokes (kidding on the last two). Any advice would be appreciated. I’ll make a full start to the project when I find the frame, and post pictures here.


2595-S2 AMH IRWI HASA 048
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By Representative Irwin
NOT ADOPTED 02/12/2018
"Sec. 208. RCW 46.17.040 and 2014 c 59 s 2 are each amended to read as follows:
(1) The department, county auditor or other agent, or subagent appointed by the director shall collect a service fee of:
(a) Twelve dollars for changes in a certificate of title, with or without registration renewal, or for verification of record and preparation of an affidavit of lost title other than at the time of the certificate of title application or transfer; and
(b) Five dollars for a registration renewal, issuing a transit permit, or any other service under this section. When this service fee is collected by a county auditor or other agent appointed by the director, four dollars must be credited to the capital vessel replacement account under RCW 47.60.322, and the remainder must be retained by the county auditors to implement the provisions of this act.
(2) Service fees collected under this section by the department or county auditor or other agent appointed by the director, except as directed in subsection (1)(b) of this section, must be credited to the capital vessel replacement account under RCW 47.60.322."
Correct the title.
EFFECT: Allows county auditors to retain one dollar of the five dollar non-title transaction service fee when collected at county auditor offices in order to implement workloads resulting from an automatic voter registration program.
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Landowners have until Friday, June 1, to enroll or renew their applications in the Pennsylvania Game Commission's Deer Management Assistance Program, which is an antlerless deer-hunting program to help landowners manage deer on their properties through hunting.
Applications must be made only by U.S. mail, must be postmarked by June 1 and must be mailed to the Game Commission Region Office serving the county in which the applicant's property is situated. Landowners may obtain DMAP applications and instructions from the PGC website at www.pgc.state.pa.us  by clicking on "DMAP" in the "Quick Clicks" box in the right-hand column of the homepage or from any agency Region office or the Harrisburg headquarters.
Eligible lands for DMAP are: public lands; private lands where no fee is charged for hunting; and hunting club lands owned in fee title, so long as the club was established prior to Jan. 1, 2000, and it provides a club charter and list of current members to the agency. Coupons for DMAP antlerless permits are issued to landowners at a rate of one coupon for every five acres in agricultural operations or one coupon for every 50 acres for all other land uses. Management plans are required of all public land applicants, for applications enrolling two or more areas within one air mile of each other, for applications that request more than the standard rate for issuance of DMAP harvest permits, and for applications in which the property acreage falls below the minimum for the standard issuance rate.
Contact information for area PGC Region offices and listings of counties that each office covers is as follows: Northeast Region Office, 3917 Memorial Highway, Dallas, PA 18612. 570-675-1143. Bradford, Carbon, Columbia, Lackawanna, Luzerne, Monroe, Montour, Northumberland, Pike, Sullivan, Susquehanna, Wayne and Wyoming counties.
Southeast Region Office, 448 Snyder Rd., Reading, PA 19605. 610-926-3136. Berks, Bucks, Chester, Dauphin, Delaware, Lancaster, Lebanon, Lehigh, Montgomery, Northampton, Philadelphia and Schuylkill counties.
Registration is underway for the Schuylkill County Youth Field Day at Friedensburg Fish and Game, Saturday, May 19, from 8 a.m. to 3 p.m. This is a free event for youth between the ages of 10-15 sponsored by the Schuylkill County Sportsmen's Association and Schuylkill Conservation District in cooperation with various outdoors and conservation organizations.
Activities planned are archery, BB rifle, canoeing, fishing, forestry, muzzleloader, trap shooting and trapping. All equipment is provided, participation in each event is voluntary and lunch and refreshments will be provided for participants and their required adult chaperons.
For information and required pre-registration, call "Porcupine Pat" McKinney at (570) 622-4124, ext. 113 or email: porcupinepat@ yahoo.com.
Pennsylvania Spring Biathlon will be Saturday, April 28, beginning at 10:30 a.m., at Whitetail Preserve, Bloomsburg, comprised of 4k running and rifle marksmanship for scholastic and adult divisions. For information, contact Frank Gaval at (570) 788-4219 or email firstname.lastname@example.org .
Sunday's edition of "Experience The Outdoors," hosted by award-winning Pennsylvania Outdoor Writers Association member Doyle Dietz, at 7 a.m. on 1410 WLSH and 9:30 a.m. on Magic 105.5, will feature outdoors television host Corey Brossman of "Innerloc's Out-There."
First Frontier Militia will hold a muzzleloader shoot, Sunday, from 9 a.m.-4 p.m., at Bowmanstown Rod and Gun Club, Gun Club Road, off Route 248.
Preregistration is required for a Basic Boating Course instructed by the Pennsylvania Fish and Boat Commission Monday, April 9, and Wednesday, 11, from 6-10 p.m. for both sessions, at Beltzville State Park. There is no charge for the two-session course, but all participants must pre-register by calling Beltzville State Park at 610-377-0045 to register and attend both sessions.
Students who successfully complete the course may apply for a Boating Safety Education Certificate for a $10 fee.
This certificate is required of all operators of personal watercraft, or anyone born on or after January 1, 1982, who operate a motorboat of more than 25 hp, and information about this course or boating safety is on the PFBC website at www.fishandboat . com.
A hike of the Oak/Hemlock Trail will be Thursday, April 12, beginning at 9:30 a.m., at Locust Lake State Park, Barnesville. For information, call Robin Tracey at 570-467-2506.
A two-day meeting of the Pennsylvania Fish and Boat Commission will be held Wednesday and Thursday at the Conference Center, Shippensburg University, 500 Newburg Road, Shippensburg. Commission committees will meet beginning Wednesday at 10:10 a.m. and Thursday at 8:15 a.m.
Formal consideration of the agenda by the full Commission will begin Thursday at approximately 11:05 a.m. All committee meetings and the formal meeting are open to the public.
A complete copy of the meeting schedule and the full agenda for the meeting is on the PFBC's web site at www.fishandboat.com/minutes.htm .


This program was expressly designed to teach the children, soil, food and water sustainability. Part of our education program plan is to teach them how to grow their own food utilizing organic, permaculture and traditional agricultural methods.
Recycling, composting, water and waste management are taught. We also provide waste management collection from each of the schools which is then recycled at a recycling plant.
Tree seedlings are cultivated and periodically planted as part of ENP’s contribution to a reforestation program. We are members since 2007 of the Clean Up The World program and work within their guidelines and conduct special activities on World Environment Day and Clean Up the World days twice annually.


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* Thank you so much for preparing the flowers for our mother's memorial service. The spray was stunning as were the other flowers. Your love of flowers and artistic talent show through with every bouquet. Anaette S.
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* I received flowers delivered by you at work and I wanted to let you know how happy I was with the arrangement. By the time the flowers reached me I had quite a following of people behind them. They lasted a long time and I am very pleased with the arrangement you created. Thank you. I am very proud to receive such a nice bouquet. Arlene M.


Monday, August 8, 2011
I'd bring the big stainless steel pail of steaming, foaming milk, trying not to slosh as I carried it with both hands in front of me to my mother who would take the pail to strain the milk through cheesecloth. Into the refrigerator it would go and overnight the milk and the cream would separate, the cream rising to the top. She'd reserve the cream to make cottage cheese, or my favorite, butter. I can't stand the flavor of raw milk, I don't like ice cream made fresh on the farm (it all tastes the way a barn smells to me, yuck!) but creamy, pale yellow butter rises above all that. Mom would make loaves of homemade bread or dinner rolls, and I'd have a little bread with my butter. Lawsy mercy, that butter was food for the gods.
I had a quart of heavy whipping cream that I wasn't going to use for it's planned purpose (and with the exorbitant price of groceries, I am not going to throw it away!!), so I decided to make butter. Just like Mom's. The funny thing is, I don't remember my mother making butter. For the life of me I can't picture it. I just remember it being on the table in a covered butter dish. It was a white ceramic chicken with a red comb sitting on a white ceramic nest. No, I don't want one.
Sooooooo, I had to do a little research, and believe me when I tell you, there's probably nothing easier that you can do that will yield such delicious results.
This is not a recipe, so much as a method. You can use virtually any amount of cream so leftover heavy cream will never have to be wasted again. And an added plus? The liquid that is extracted as you whip the cream is real buttermilk, and can be used in any recipe that calls for it. Cake, scones, buttermilk chicken, fried green tomatoes....oh the luscious uses of buttermilk.
A pint or more of fresh heavy cream or whipping cream , either will work fine
Pinch of salt, if you want your butter salted
Put your cream in the bowl of your mixer or in a bowl large enough to hold the cream (plus room enough for expansion as the butter starts to take shape.), whip the cream. That's it!
Mix at medium speed; it's the same as if for making whipped cream except you are going to go way beyond the stiff peak stage of whipped cream.
Once you get past the whipped cream stage, the cream is going to look curdled. That's fine; it's supposed to, because now the cream and the buttermilk are beginning to separate.
Things might get a little messy here, you may want to find a way to cover your bowl with plastic wrap while you continue to whip the butter. I didn't run into this, but others do. (It may be because I used a deep V-shaped mixing bowl so the heavy butter stayed at the bottom.)
Once it looked really curdled, I strained the butter/buttermilk through a fine mesh strainer and then a double layer of cheesecloth into a container. It takes a bit of hand strength to do it, but you want to get out as much of the buttermilk as possible. The butter squeezes out of the cheesecloth, but I don't know of another way to do it, so you'll have to scrape some butter off the cheesecloth if your frugal, as I am, smiles.
I put my now-lump-of-butter into the bowl I whipped the cream in, and rinse the lump under cold running water. I want to rinse out as much butter milk as possible because removing the buttermilk will help to preserve the butter. I smoosh the lump around a bit until the water runs clear. If you are really particular about this, you can use a large wooden paddle and press the butter against the inside of a bowl to remove any extra liquid.
Refrigerate! The entire process probably took only about 15 minutes, but I was a little fumble fingered with all the squeezing of the butter in the cheesecloth, so it may take you less time.
Looks like a lot of instruction, but it's not, honestly. Whip the cream, strain the buttermilk out, rinse the lump of butter, add salt at this point if you are going to use it.
With one quart of heavy cream, I had 11 ounces of sweet, creamy butter and 2 cups of buttermilk. Is it less expensive? Yeeessssss and no. A pound of store bought butter is running about $3.59 and that would be the store brand; the national brands are closer to $4.00. I would have to take out a second mortgage on my house to buy the European butter. The quart of cream probably cost me just under $4.00 and it only gave me 11 ounces of butter.....but I did have 2 cups of buttermilk as a by-product that I didn't have to purchase separately and will now use in other cooking projects. So, yes, it's worth it to me.


Above Ground Swimming Pool Landscaping IDEAS
This set of assembly guidelines is provided to share with you the modern day construction expectation governing our industry performance today. The National Swimming Pool Institute has an entire booklet on the building code construction standard for the assembly of Above Ground swimming pools. These standards are summarized here within this section.
This is intended to be a general assembly guideline and is not intended to replace the assembly instructions provided by the manufacturer.
Sod Removal From Affected Area
- All sod is to be dug up from the area beneath the pool and, additionally, in accordance with all local building, fencing, and barrier code requirements, all the way around the pool wall to make your assembly task easier and less prone to accidental wall damage occurrences, such as dents and scratches, etc.
- Certain areas of the country require up to 6' of clear area cut all the way around the pool. Check local codes.
Site Drainage Considerations
- You should also consider making provisions for additional site drainage from the areas around the perimeter of your new pool whenever the conditions warrant it.
- Sometimes, a new pool will act as dam. It prevents the water from following its previous or natural path of drainage through your yard.
- A dry yard could suddenly become swampy as a result, and many people mistakenly believe their pool is leaking when in reality it is not.
- At your expense and discretion, some sites will need to have water channeled away from one side of the pool around to a lower side or area through a drainage ditch with a perforated drain pipe or "drain tile".
- If the site is nestled in a valley area of the yard, water flows towards it from all sides, more extensive work would be required. Handle this with the aid of professionals.
- Most sites have a natural slope with adequate drainage.
- In accordance with the manufacturer's instruction booklet, and beginning with the uniform spacing between the track connections and continual verification of the relative roundness and levelness of the pool, the final assembly of your pool's framework should be smooth as all of the pieces are uniform in shape and dimension.
- Assemble all remaining posts, rails, etc. loosely at first until all are attached.
- Plumb the posts as squarely as possible before tightening the screws and bolts completely.
- Tighten screws and bolts to rails.
- Attach the cover caps and decorative trim-work as applies.
Safety Decals & Warranty Information
- It is generally required that you attach to the pool the safety and warning decals and signs supplied by the manufacturer in accordance with the locations outlined within the manufacturer's instruction manual.
- Be certain to save all manuals, instruction booklets, and product or warranty information for your pool and its associated products. You will need them in the future.


More old news, but Mike D of Sword +1 has released his chanbara-inspired version of Swords & Wizardry. Called Ruins & Ronin, it's available either in print or PDF form from Lulu.com.
I saw early drafts of the rules and I was very impressed with them. What I particularly liked was that no attempt had been made to create a historically accurate set of rules. Ruins & Ronin bears about as much connection to real Japanese history and culture as OD&D does to medieval European history and culture -- and I think that's just swell. What you get is an old school Japanese "flavored" fantasy RPG, where bujin, shugenja, and sohei all meet in the local tea house to plan their expedition into the ruins of Katsushiro's Castle.
If that sounds awesome to you, go ahead and grab yourself a copy.