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Takasago International (Singapore) Pte. Ltd., the regional subsidiary of Takasago International Corp., is expecting to invest about $10 million in its previously announced manufacturing and research facility in the Chennai suburb of Poonamallee, Tamil Nadu, India.
The move to launch its manufacturing operations in India, Takasago said, will reduce costs and speed up the delivery of flavors and fragrances. The 15,000-square-foot Poonamallee facility houses laboratories to create and blend flavors and fragrances, store raw materials and reduce the lead time to ship goods to customers. The facility can also undertake and deliver liquid flavor and fragrance compounds, with a total capacity of 1,500 metric tonnes.
On the product development side, Takasago has appointed a dedicated flavorist and application support expert to embark, undertake and deliver flavors for beverage, confectionery and oral care segments. The Poonamallee unit will act as Takasago's central base, overseeing the development and completion of the upcoming permanent manufacturing facility to be located off the Old Mahabalipuram Road, Chennai.
Construction at Old Mahabalipuram Road is expected to start in the third quarter and is slated to be fully operational in the first quarter of 2015. The company said demand for flavors and fragrances is on the rise in India with analysts expecting it to be one of the fastest-growing markets in Asia. Research group IAL Consultants forecasts the India market for flavors will reach $421 million in 2015, up from $256 million in 2010. The market for fragrances is expected to reach $452 million in 2015, up from $336 million in 2010.


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It's not quite a matter of "Ding dong, the witch is dead." But close.
Recently we've seen some melting away of some of the No Child Left Behind law's most rigid, punitive measures. And many are hailing Montana Superintendent of Public Instruction Denise Juneau for throwing a crucial bucket of cold water on NCLB. Read more about Juneau's courageous stand.
NCLB requires that 100 percent of students must be proficient in math and reading by 2014, regardless of students' abilities and backgrounds.
President Obama announced last week that states could apply for waivers from the 100 percent proficiency requirement—if they develop plans to close achievement gaps, raise standards, and create a system to evaluate educators based on student performance.
Juneau cautions, however, that "we'll have to see the details of the waivers. They look eerily familiar—very similar to Race to the Top requirements."
Race to the Top is the Obama administration's plan for school improvement, which most educators believe still focuses too much on one test and a one-size-fits-all approach.
In any case, Juneau said, "We've gained a lot by showing that our state has great educational outcomes already. Teachers are doing a great job, and we can demonstrate it through data. We consider what happened this year a win. NCLB has served its purpose. It's time to move on."
Here's what the New York Times has to say about Obama's announcement:
Obama Turns Some Powers of Education Back to States
By SAM DILLON – New York Times – September 23, 2011
With his declaration on Friday that he would waive the most contentious provisions of a federal education law, President Obama effectively rerouted the nation's education history after a turbulent decade of overwhelming federal influence.
Mr. Obama invited states to reclaim the power to design their own school accountability and improvement systems, upending the centerpiece of the Bush-era No Child Left Behind law, a requirement that all students be proficient in math and reading by 2014.
"This does not mean that states will be able to lower their standards or escape accountability," the president said. "If states want more flexibility, they're going to have to set higher standards, more honest standards that prove they're serious about meeting them."
But experts said it was a measure of how profoundly the law had reshaped America's public school culture that even in states that accept the administration's offer to pursue a new agenda, the law's legacy will live on in classrooms, where educators' work will continue to emphasize its major themes, like narrowing student achievement gaps, and its tactics, like using standardized tests to measure educators' performance.
In a White House speech, Mr. Obama said states that adopted new higher standards, pledged to overhaul their lowest-performing schools and revamped their teacher evaluation systems should apply for waivers of 10 central provisions of the No Child law, including its 2014 proficiency deadline. The administration was forced to act, Mr. Obama said, because partisan gridlock kept Congress from updating the law.
"Given that Congress cannot act, I am acting," Mr. Obama said. "Starting today, we'll be giving states more flexibility."
But while the law itself clearly empowers Secretary of Education Arne Duncan to waive its provisions, the administration's decision to make the waivers conditional on states' pledges to pursue Mr. Obama's broad school improvement agenda has angered Republicans gearing up for the 2012 elections.
On Friday Congressional leaders immediately began characterizing the waivers as a new administration power grab, in line with their portrayal of the health care overhaul, financial sector regulation and other administration initiatives.
"In my judgment, he is exercising an authority and power he doesn't have," said Representative John Kline, Republican of Minnesota and chairman of the House education committee. "We all know the law is broken and needs to be changed. But this is part and parcel with the whole picture with this administration: they cannot get their agenda through Congress, so they're doing it with executive orders and rewriting rules. This is executive overreach."
Mr. Obama made his statements to a bipartisan audience that included Gov. Bill Haslam of Tennessee, a Republican, Gov. Lincoln Chafee of Rhode Island, an independent, and 24 state superintendents of education.
"I believe this will be a transformative movement in American public education," Christopher Cerf, New Jersey's education commissioner under Gov. Chris Christie, a Republican, said after the speech.
The No Child law that President George W. Bush signed in 2002 was a bipartisan rewrite of the basic federal law on public schools, first passed in 1965 to help the nation's neediest students. The 2002 law required all schools to administer reading and math tests every year, and to increase the proportion of students passing them until reaching 100 percent in 2014. Schools that failed to keep pace were to be labeled as failing, and eventually their principals fired and staffs dismantled. That system for holding schools accountable for test scores has encouraged states to lower standards, teachers to focus on test preparation, and math and reading to crowd out history, art and foreign languages.
Mr. Obama's blueprint for rewriting the law, which Congress has never acted on, urged lawmakers to adopt an approach that would encourage states to raise standards, focus interventions only on the worst failing schools and use test scores and other measures to evaluate teachers' effectiveness. In its current proposal, the administration requires states to adopt those elements of its blueprint in exchange for relief from the No Child law.
Mr. Duncan, speaking after Mr. Obama's speech, said the waivers could bring significant change to states that apply. "For parents, it means their schools won't be labeled failures," Mr. Duncan said. "It should reduce the pressure to teach to the test."
Critics were skeptical, saying that classroom teachers who complain about unrelenting pressure to prepare for standardized tests were unlikely to feel much relief.
"In the system that N.C.L.B. created, standardized tests are the measure of all that is good, and that has not changed," said Monty Neill, executive director of Fair Test, an antitesting advocacy group. "This policy encourages states to use test scores as a significant factor in evaluating teachers, and that will add to the pressure on teachers to teach to the test."
Randi Weingarten, president of the American Federation of Teachers, said her union favored evaluation systems that would help teachers improve their instruction, whereas the administration was focusing on accountability. "You're seeing an extraordinary change of policy, from an accountability system focused on districts and schools, to accountability based on teacher and principal evaluations," Ms. Weingarten said.
For most states, obtaining a waiver could be the easy part of accepting the administration's invitation. Actually designing a new school accountability system, and obtaining statewide acceptance of it, represents a complex administrative and political challenge for governors and other state leaders, said Gene Wilhoit, executive director of the Council of Chief State School Officers, which the White House said played an important role in developing the waiver proposal.
Only about five states may be ready to apply immediately, and perhaps 20 others could follow by next spring, Mr. Wilhoit said. Developing new educator evaluation systems and other aspects of follow-through could take states three years or more, he said.
Officials in New York, New Jersey and Connecticut, and in at least eight other states — Colorado, Florida, Georgia, Kentucky, Idaho, Minnesota, Virginia and Wisconsin — said Friday that they would probably seek the waivers.

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When I was small and Christmas trees tall, I used to work while others played.
My father was the "parish florist" in a tiny neighborhood in Philadelphia called Paradise. My father was devoted to his own holy trinity: the Catholic faith, the family and the community. He served his community with flowers for his entire life. Flowers, for my father, were a gift from God, as great as any other natural wonder—a full moon, the mountains, rainbows and sunsets. Flowers, he would remind me, are a steady force, softening even the toughest among us. Most of all, Pop taught me that flowers speak to the verities of heart and soul: love, honor, truth, prayer and sacrifice. His flowers taught me lessons that endure.
Many such lessons were learned at Christmastime, when the forest scent of Douglas fir wreaths, studded with pine cones and clusters of red holly berries, filled my world. When I was 13, my father asked me to help him make the wreaths. In Paradise, Christmas without one of Pop's wreaths on your front door was something like a church without a stained-glass window. "Watch," he said. "It's time you learned how to make the wreaths."
I stood next to his worn workbench, watching his hawser-like hands, textured from years of shearing, wiring and cleaning flowers, weave the branches of Douglas fir into a perfectly shaped wreath and then decorate it. He was patient, exacting and attentive to every detail as he crafted the wreaths with the precision of a diamond cutter.
At first I did not grasp that he was also teaching me the pillar of his work ethic: never sacrifice the right way of doing something for the sake of profit, even if it means blisters on your hands or no money in your pocket. "That's the way God would want you to live," he said. It stuck to me the way the first snowman you build sticks in your childhood memories.
Before long he placed a bundle of loose Douglas fir branches on an extra workbench, and I began to make the Christmas wreaths myself. My initial wreaths were more shapeless than shapely, and Pop let me know it. With his vigilant eye, he would slyly glance over and say, without turning his head, "Start over." He wasn't complaining, just explaining. I began anew.
I got better, and my father recognized it. He put the wreaths I had made in the shop for sale, which made me bounce with joy. Occasionally I would peek through the small window that opened to the front of the shop to check on whether any of my wreaths had sold. My eyes lit up when I saw Pop take one off the hook and hand it to Joe Sweeney, a steelworker.
"I'm a little short," I heard Joe tell my Dad.
"Joe, you pay me when you can."
When my Dad returned to the back of the shop, I said, "You just gave a wreath away for nothing, and it was one of mine." He looked me in the eyes and said, "You'll learn some day that it isn't the money that counts, but in God's eyes it's the people who count."
The Poinsettia
I worked side by side with Pop in the shop in Paradise for 30 Christmases, right up until he died. What I remember most is the universal Christmas flower, the poinsettia, known as "the flower of the holy night." The poinsettia is a language that helps us communicate when words won't. Its power to lift a sagging spirit comes as no surprise if you know the legend of the flower. It tells of a poor Mexican girl who had no gift for the cathedral's altar on Christmas Eve. Out of desperation, she picked a bunch of unsightly weeds on her way to church. As she reluctantly presented her gift, a miracle occurred: The weeds were transformed into deep red poinsettias.
When I reflect on that legend, I always see the sorrowful face of an old woman staring at me from the dirty window of her front door after I had rung the bell to a creaking house. Pop had sent me out in his Ford panel to deliver her flowers.
"What do you want?" she shouted in a voice burdened with sadness.
"Flowers, ma'am," I replied.
She opened the door slowly. "Who sent them?" she asked. She was about 70 years old, bent over, with gray, stringy hair. She held a shillelagh in her hand as a cane.
"There's a card inside the envelope on the package," I said.
She asked me to put the poinsettia on the coffee table. When I did, she immediately opened the envelope and read the card. Almost instantly her face brightened. Then just as quickly she burst into tears. "It's from my daughter in California," she said. "I haven't heard from her in nine years. Bless you, son. Bless you." She limped over to a desk, opened the drawer, grabbed a $5 bill and handed it to me.
I handed it back. "Please," I said, "use it to call your daughter."
When I returned to the shop and told my father about the old woman, he smiled, reached for his wallet, took out a $5 bill and gave it to me.
Last Chores in Paradise
My last chore every Christmas season was to haul six heavy fern plants and two huge chrysanthemum bouquets in gold-colored vases—donations from my Pop—across the street to the parish church, Corpus Christi, and decorate the altar. Business in Paradise was always good to him, and he wanted to show his thanks in the place from which he thought his good fortune came.
When I returned to the shop after dressing up the altar, he handed me a Douglas fir wreath and said, "On your way home, put this on the rectory door."
Every Christmas morning as a boy, I would revel in my gifts under the tree—the clothes, the toys, the games, the Mickey Mantle bat, the Bob Cousy basketball—that is, until my dad would appear on the upstairs steps. He watched for several minutes; then, once he had gained my attention, he pointed to the church. I was not about to argue. Besides, he was right.
Christmas Mass was always memorable: the parish priests were dressed in embroidered silk vestments; the church resounded with organ music and the alleluias of the choir; the fresh flower smell mingled with the pungent aroma of incense; the altar boys were dressed in red cassocks and slide-rule-straight white surplices. It was wonderfully pious.
I vividly remember walking to Mass the first Christmas that I began to make the Christmas wreaths. As I passed the rectory, I glanced up at the Douglas fir on the door and wondered if it was one I had made. Nah. It was too perfect.
Fifty Years From the Beginning
These days the little flower shop in Paradise is gone, as is Pop, now in a more important Paradise. Still, whenever I see a Douglas fir wreath, I see his reflection—his thick crop of black hair, his chiseled Irish face and dark-brown eyes that sparkled like polished pinewood. I see my reflection in them, too—the teenager standing at the side of his father's workbench.
I will always be blessed with a usable past, a wellspring of lessons from which to draw, as well as a strong faith, permanent, not only in the way my father lived his life through Christ, but also how he transferred to me the power in flowers—God's gifts. Flowers were able to fill whatever holes within me needed filling, to nourish my faith and celebrate God's goodness. This connection to flowers and my Catholic upbringing sustains, even saves, me.
The shop in Paradise gave me a sense of place and purpose, a sense of belonging, a sense of the Catholic teaching that exhorts me to continue to seek fulfillment in both a secular and spiritual life by being before becoming. Being has nothing to do with accomplishments, success or money; it has to do with the truths of the heart and soul: love, honor, truth, prayer and sacrifice—even now that I am tall and Christmas trees are small.


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The Traffic Enforcement Unit is comprised of two patrolmen and one sergeant. The function of the Traffic Enforcement Unit is to reduce the number of traffic-related calls for service as well as to reduce the number of motor vehicle accidents within the city. The key to the success of the traffic unit is problem identification. Many of these problems are brought to the attention of the traffic sergeant from citizens of the community. Others are identified through the monthly analysis of data provided by the Crime Analyst. Some of the solutions include utilizing the expertise of other city departments such as Public Works and Traffic.
Public Awareness
In addition to traffic enforcement, the unit frequently coordinates its efforts to increase public awareness and safety with outside organizations. Some of the organizations include the Bay Area Council on Drugs, Mothers Against Drunk Drivers, Houston Galveston Area Council, Texas Department of Transportation, Deer Park ISD, and Safe Kids Houston.
Texas Accident Stats for 2015
Texas experienced a decrease in the number of motor vehicle traffic fatalities. The 2015 death toll of 3,531 was a decrease of 0.14% from the 3,536 deaths recorded in 2014.
There were 13,616 serious injury crashes in Texas in 2015 with 17,011 people sustaining a serious injury.
There were no deathless days on Texas roadways in 2015.
Of all persons killed in vehicles where restraint usage was applicable and usage was known in 2015, 40.3% were reported as not restrained when the fatal crash occurred.
There were 459 motorcyclists (operators and passengers) killed in 2015. Fifty two% (52%) of motorcyclists killed were not wearing helmets at the time of the crash.
In 2015, there were 960 people killed in motor vehicle traffic crashes where a driver was under the influence of alcohol. This is 27% of the total number of people killed in motor vehicle traffic crashes.
In 2015, there were 476 (13% of all fatal crashes) people killed in crashes known to involved distracted driving.
In 2015 the estimated economic loss due to crashes in Texas was $37,800,000,000.
In 2015, 246,335 persons were injured in crashes on Texas roadways.
Traffic Related Issues in the City of Deer Park
For more information on traffic related issues in the City of Deer Park please contact Officer C. Aurelius or Officer C. Jackson.
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Located in the Mercantile Building across from the Ada Merritt Middle School playground, this location once housed the violent Miami chapter of the KKK.
In 1971 in opened a new page in its history as a mixed live show and movie theatre for the booming Cuban exile community. By the 1980's it was a three auditoria venue with a mix of Spanish films, subtitled Hollywood features and live shows at any given time. Although oddly configured, with columns in the way of the screens and non-sloped floors, the Marti outlasted the nearby Tivoli Theatre due to its entertainment mix and constant flow of new refugees to the area.
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The neighborhood was little Havana before the assasination. Riverside Elementary, Ada Merit Jr. High, and Miami High were the schools where spanish speaking teachers were hired to handle the kids that came from Cuba. Technically speaking, Cubans were segregated into what is known as Little Havana. This segregation took place due to the anticipated language barriers that were going to become reality once the larger numbers of people came to Miami. Most don't know this because it wasn't a racial thing, but the fact is that Cubans were segregated and that is how the SW area became what it is.
The theatres of the area, The Tivoli, and The Tower became the "spanish speaking" theatres, hence the movies and live shows you have posted about. In addition, places such as Miami Stadium became venues for larger audiences and Anti-Castro demonstrations. There is a film, "White Elephant", that brings some of this history into view. I haven't seen it, but it did have a limited engagement at The Tower a couple of years ago.
Teatro Marti had a late start given that it was founded in 1971, which was a good 10 years after the Cubans started coming to the US. The majority of Cubans came to Miami, but some went to Key West, Tampa, Clewiston, West Palm Beach, and Union City New Jersey. The smallest numbers were in Clewiston and West Palm, these were the Cubans who were involved in the sugar business. Key West as well as Tampa had much more influence, but a good portion of that influence was due to the Havana Key West Tampa cigar trade days, which were pre-revolution. Mind you the rum runners were also plentiful, although these colorful characters are rarely spoken about, they played a critical role in the Cuban influence on Key West, but mostly Tampa. This is why you do not see any theatres in the WPB and Clewiston areas that evolved in the manner that the Tivoli and Tower theatres did. I haven't researched Tampa theatres.
Union City is another story. The Tony Theatre in Bergen Line, what I call the equivalent of SW 8th Street, is or was a theatre that evolved just like the Tower and Tivoli theatres of Miami. I haven't looked up the Tony Theatre, hadn't thought of it! I should see if it is listed on Cinema Treasures.
BTW, you should list the Hippodrome. You have such a wealth of information about all these theatres that we never knew existed. It's always a pleasure to read your fascinating posts.
It looks like there are all kinds of things going on in this building. I noted a Hispanic church, a Hindu church, a comedy club and a few other things. Here is a 1981 photo:
Sorry about that, it was a duplicate. Both of these entries can be deleted.
Here is a November 1937 article about the activities of the Miami Ku Klux Klan:
I just met his stepson last Christmas here in NYC where he is an actor. I will ask him the next time I see him.
Great website on the history of Miami Cuban Exile theatre.
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After witnessing the profound impact of the Joplin tornado from a nearby community, I learned of an unexpected survival mechanism that became quickly woven through the fabric of the raw humanity exposed by the storm. Within a surprisingly short amount of time, Joplin residents began searching for God. He was certainly visible through the handiwork of thousands of volunteers and countless displays of seemingly superhuman acts of courage and generosity, but there was a subtle strand of a collective consciousness that developed in the aftermath. Common stories about children witnessing "butterfly people" during the storm emerged and spread quickly. Counselors who were interviewed described hearing people repeat these viral stories with similar themes over and over again. Parents explained how they found the butterfly people stories capable of calming their hyper-vigilant children. The stories were exchanged between victims waiting in line for supplies and social workers involved in providing aid. An image of a butterfly even made it's way into a memorial mural painted on a downtown building. At some point, probably very early on in the spread of these accounts, ownership and details were lost as the stories thrived and remained intact for the most part. It became impossible to attribute and verify the accounts from those who experienced them first-hand.
Related: 5 God Excuses to Avoid After A Natural Disaster – by Kent Annan
Why did the collective accounts emerge so quickly and spread at such a rapid pace? In the chaotic scenes depicted of Moore, Oklahoma this week it is difficult to find God, but videos of the precious woman who claimed she prayed for her dog after he emerged from the rubble went viral on social media throughout the day. People will cling to these random moments when the divine is revealed in often peculiar ways. These moments will turn into stories that will comfort and contribute to the survival of a community that is finding strength it didn't know it possessed.
Communities have probably always overcome unimaginable circumstances in this way. It may even be the phenomenon that propelled widespread circulation of many of the biblical accounts that were first narrated orally. They often illustrate an oppressed community that finds God in unexpected occurrences. Ultimately, the acknowledgement of divine presence reinforces God's concern for His people. The name used to refer to Jesus in Isaiah and Matthew, Immanuel, means "God with us". The prophesy in Isaiah assured King Ahaz of his protection from enemy kingdoms; and ultimately, Jesus became the fulfillment of God embodied in flesh and aching alongside humans who were struggling. Jesus was a revelation to humanity that God is indeed with us. According to Rob Bell in his recently published book, What We Talk About When We Talk About God:
the peace we are offered is not a peace that is free from tragedy, illness, bankruptcy, divorce, depression, or heartache. It is peace rooted in the trust that the life Jesus gives us is deeper, wider, stronger, and more enduring than whatever our current circumstances are, because all we see is not all there is and the last word about us and our struggle has not yet been spoken."
The collective anecdotes that originate out of a community's shared painful experience provide evidence that individuals recognize they are not alone on an intuitive level. Survival moves to the forefront and those of all ages contribute to the formation of stories of the God who is with us. There is no doubt small children too young to articulate their experiences witnessed "butterfly people" during the Joplin storm, but the facts and details became irrelevant to the story beneath the story that points to the recognition that God understands our pain and is somehow more present to those afflicted.
Rachel Lloyd is director of the Center for Academic Success and Advising and the American Indian Center for Excellence at Northeastern Oklahoma A&M College. She holds a bachelor's degree in psychology/global studies from Drury University and a master's degree in psychology from Pittsburg State University. She is married and has a teenage daughter.


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The Poseidon Atlantic facility off the eastern Atlantic shore of the US state of Virginia has come about through a collaboration between the Commonwealth of Virginia, Northampton County and the Virginia Port Authority with further support from the Dutch government.
The centre will supply testing and certification services providing proof of quality for offshore wind facilities. It will also serve the needs of turbine manufacturers and transmission network operators.
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I've been mulling this concept over for a long while and it took Josh Helfferich's single image to bring the concept into sharp focus. My thesis (and you won't like this) is that every major "flagship" phone in the Western market is now made in the same mold, with the same trade dress, with one goal in mind: to fool the casual observer into thinking that everything is an iPhone. While you can argue on the outliers, the truth is right there. Every major phone released in the past four years has cleaved to this design for dear life. The trend began, popularly, with the Nokia 5800 (some would argue that Meizu M8 was the first) and hasn't stopped since.
The manufacturers' fear is palpable and it's time this parade of phones, designed to mimic one major phone, stopped. It's bad for the consumer, it's bad for the carrier, and it's bad for the manufacturer.
Before iPhone (BI), manufacturers were fat and sassy, designing phones that came in odd cases and featured whimsical Java stacks. No phone looked like any other and every year designers would pick up cues from each other in terms of popularity. One year it was rugged, the next year it was piano black, the next year it was dark red. Phones came and went and they all looked different.
Except for a few lower-end exceptions, going into a phone store now is an exercise in futility. There is no differentiation nor is any phone better than any other. Just as every tablet looks strikingly like every other, every phone looks and works strikingly like every other. The results of this marketing nightmare are clear. You have advertisements that tout meaningless clock speed numbers – as if you're going to play Angry Birds faster on your Nexus vs. a Samsung Fascinate. Programmers are forced by the vagaries of software to design for the lowest possible system specs. The result, then, is a marketplace cluttered with the same phone, over and over, with various bursts of nervous energy spent championing one identical handset over the rest… until the next model comes out.
This constant churn is what is stagnating the mobile industry. For two years after the iPhone the common refrain was "Why don't manufacturers hire three (or thirty) really good guys, put them in a room for a year, and make them make the best cellphone ever." This happened exactly once – at Palm – and never happened again. The closest to this vision, I would argue, is HTC, and they're no great shakes.
Apple has done their thing. They're going to keep doing their thing. They are, to continue the evolutionary metaphor, like a very specialized bird with a beak evolved to eat, say, termites. The rest of the birds saw that the termite bird was thriving so they developed a beak to eat ants – they aimed at exactly the wrong target and now each manufacturer is falling over itself – and starving – as it goes after the well-hunted ants in a non-diverse ecosystem.
Samsung, HTC, RIM, LG, Nokia: stop it. Play to your strengths. Reduce your lines to low, mid, and high-end phones. Streamline. The manufacturers took what matters least about the iPhone – the trade dress – and made that an obsession. Take what matters most – Apple's consumer-focused clarity of vision – and see where that gets you.


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Original title:Three Kings Made in:USA, Australia 1999 Length:114 min. Seen:at the cinema 11-03-2000 Review read:166051 times
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The Vietnam War has been the subject of several films, but the latest war that the USA fought, the Gulf War, has not been awarded much attention. David Russell's highly critical Three Kings ought to change that. The film is a harrowing and gripping humanist war movie, which is part satire, part action movie. It takes place right after the war when four soldiers led by Major Gates secretly embark on a treasure hunt for a huge number of gold bars hidden in one of the Iraqi bunkers. Not surprisingly, their venture does not quite develop the way that they had hoped for, not least due to Major Gates' decision to change his priorities.
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Prince William and Kate Name the Royal Baby, Heir to the British Throne
We now know the name of the eventual king of Great Britain, only two days after the future ruler's birth.
William and Kate have decided to name the heir to the British Throne George Alexander Louis. The name falls in line with oddsmakers predictions, offering the following odds on baby names for a boy:
- George: 6/1
- James: 11/1
- Alexander: 18/1
- Henry: 20/1
- Richard: 25/1
- Louis: 25/1
- Charles/Edward/David: 33/1
As you can see, oddsmakers had a pretty good pulse on potential names, as all three of the names chosen by the Royal Couple appeared in the top of a long list of potential names.


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McAfee has beat off rivals in a deal with Facebook which will allow it to promote its security suite to the website's 350 million users and make it mandatory for victims of compromised accounts to use its online scanning tool.
The exclusive deal runs across 11 of Facebook's largest global sites including the US, UK, Australia and Germany, and is set to roll out across the remaining sites early this year.
Victims who have had their account compromised will be required to run the McAfee online scanner as part of a process to access their accounts. Users will also be offered free six-month subscriptions to McAfee's Internet suite and a discounted rate for retail subscriptions.
Facebook, which added a verification process in July last year to mitigate the risk of hacked accounts, presently directs concerned users to a Microsoft security web page which lists security solutions from Symantec, Eset, and AVG alongside McAfee.
McAfee consumer, mobile and small business executive, Todd Gebhart, said the security offering will reduce the amount infections by malware.
"We believe our partnership will make a real difference in the battle to secure the Internet," Gebhart said in a written statement.
Facebook global communications vice president, Elliot Schrage, said it will not accept revenue from McAfee subscriptions.
"[It is] an unprecedented step towards making the entire Internet more secure and reducing the possibility of threats being brought onto our service by unsuspecting users," Schrage said. "Keeping the Internet secure requires that users, security vendors and Internet companies all work together."
The value of the deal was not disclosed. The two companies will also develop educational content for Facebook's security page.
Hot on the heels of a flaw found by an online privacy advocacy group which was used to commandeer 289 Facebook groups, a vamped-up version of the Koobface worm was found late last year crawling its way into the social network's walls. The worm typically works by taking over your PC and sending what appears to be funny videos or risqué photos of friends. Anybody who follows the links, however, ultimately end up infected with the malware — usually by way of a bogus software update that pops up on-screen.
A 2007 McAfee study, quoted in the prepared statement, claimed up to 78 per cent of consumers do not have updated antivirus, an enabled firewall and anti-spyware, while 48 per cent have expired antivirus software.


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Garret FitzGerald
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- In full:
- Garret Michael FitzGerald
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- February 9, 1926, Dublin, Irish Free State
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- prime minister (1982-1987), Ireland
- prime minister (1981-1982), Ireland
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- Fine Gael
Garret FitzGerald (born February 9, 1926, Dublin, Irish Free State—died May 19, 2011, Dublin, Ireland) taoiseach (prime minister) of Ireland (June 1981–March 1982, December 1982–March 1987), as leader of the Fine Gael party in coalition with the Labour Party.
FitzGerald was born into a political family of revolutionary persuasions during the infancy of the Irish Free State; his father was the free state's first minister of external affairs. He was educated at University College and King's Inns, Dublin, and qualified as a barrister. Instead of practicing law, however, in 1959 he became an economics lecturer in the department of political economy at University College, Dublin, and a journalist. He joined the Fine Gael party and in 1969 was elected to Dáil Éireann (the lower house of the Oireachtas, the Irish parliament). He later gave up his university lectureship to become minister for foreign affairs in the coalition government of Liam Cosgrave (1973–77). When the coalition government was resoundingly defeated in the general elections of 1977, Cosgrave yielded leadership of Fine Gael to FitzGerald, who proceeded to modernize and strengthen the party at the grass roots. He briefly lost power in 1982 when political instability triggered two snap elections.
In his prime ministry, FitzGerald pushed for liberalization of Irish laws on divorce, abortion, and contraception and also strove to build bridges to the Protestants in Northern Ireland. In 1985 he and British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher signed the Anglo-Irish (Hillsborough) Agreement, giving Ireland a consultative role in the governing of Northern Ireland. After his party lost in the election of 1987, he resigned as its leader, and he subsequently retired in 1992.
FitzGerald was the author of a number of books, including Planning in Ireland (1968), Towards a New Ireland (1972), Unequal Partners (1979), All in a Life: An Autobiography (1991), and Reflections on the Irish State (2003).


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Facebook game outfit Zynga files for $1bn IPO
60 million virtual world obsessives
Zynga – the online gaming outfit behind the wildly popular Farmville – has filed for an IPO, seeking to raise as much as $1bn.
According to the company's SEC filing, Zynga is actually a profitable company. In 2010, it reached $90.6 million in net income and $597 million in net revenue. In the first three months of 2011, the company accelerated its revenue growth – pulling in $235 million – but this came at the expense of profits, which topped out at $11 million.
The company has 60 million daily active users. These users spend 2 billion minutes each day wasting their lives away on its games, creating 38,000 virtual items every second. People pay Zynga real money for such virtual goods, and real businesses fork over additional dollars to be included in the company's virtual worlds.
Zynga's games run atop Facebook, and the company acknowledged in its filing that this is a risk. "If we are unable to maintain a good relationship with Facebook, our business will suffer," the filing reads.
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KONNA, Mali – The United States will provide additional support to the French military in its war against Al Qaeda-linked militants in Mali by conducting aerial refueling missions, the Pentagon announced Saturday.
Defense Secretary Leon Panetta has told the French defense minister, Jean-Yves Le Drian, that U.S. Africa Command will provide the aerial refueling support, according to Pentagon spokesman George Little.
Little said the two defense officials discussed the refueling missions and other topics during a phone conversation Saturday.
"The leaders also discussed plans for the United States to transport troops from African nations, including Chad and Togo, to support the international effort in Mali," Little said in a statement released by the Pentagon late Saturday.
U.S. aerial refueling planes would be a boost to air support for French ground forces as they enter areas of Mali that are controlled by al-Qaida-linked extremists.
The announcement comes a day after the Obama administration announce it has requested an additional $32 million from Congress to train African troops to fight Islamic extremists in Mali.
The U.S. has already been helping France by transporting French troops and equipment to the West African nation.
French and Malian troops regained control of the airport and bridge of the crucial, northern city of Gao on Saturday, marking their biggest advance yet in their bid to oust Al Qaeda-linked extremists who have controlled northern Mali for months, military officials said.
The move comes just two weeks after France launched its military offensive in support of the shaky, central government of this former French colony. It is unclear what kind of resistance French and Malian troops will face in the coming days.
The French military said in a statement on its website that their special forces, which had stormed in by land and by air, had come under fire from "several terrorist elements" that were later "destroyed."
In a later press release entitled "French and Malian troops liberate Gao" the French ministry of defense said they were bringing back the town's mayor, Sadou Diallo, who had fled to the Malian capital of Bamako far to the west.
However, a city official interviewed by telephone by The Associated Press said coalition forces so far only controlled the airport, the bridge and surrounding neighborhoods.
And in Paris, a defense ministry official clarified that the city had not been fully liberated, and that the process of freeing Gao was continuing.
Both officials spoke only on the condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to speak publicly on the matter.
Swooping in under the cover of darkness, the French and Malian forces faced sporadic "acts of harassment" during the day, said Col. Thierry Burkhard, a French military spokesman in Paris. He had no immediate estimate on casualties.
Gao, the largest city in northern Mali, was seized by a mixture of Al Qaeda-linked fighters more than nine months ago, and the battle to retake the city is expected to be tough.
The rebel group that turned Gao into a replica of Afghanistan under the Taliban has close ties to Moktar Belmoktar, the Algerian national who has long operated in Mali and who last week claimed responsibility for the terror attack on a BP-operated natural gas plant in Algeria.
His fighters are believed to include Algerians, Egyptians, Mauritanians, Libyans, Tunisians, Pakistanis and even Afghans.
The French assault began with the capture of the airport, a strategic landing strip that opens the way for easier sorties all over northern Mali.
The further capture of a major bridge leading into the town means that the jihadists "saw their means of transport and their logistics sites destroyed," French Defense Minister Jean-Yves Le Drian said in a statement.
The operation in Gao comes at the same time as airstrikes in the two other provincial capitals held by the extremists -- the cities of Timbuktu and Kidal, which like Gao fell to the rebels last April, during the chaotic aftermath of a coup in the distant capital. Nearly 30 bombs have been fired from fighter jets over the past two days, said France's military in a communique.
The simultaneous aerial attacks also come at the same time that ground troops are carrying out a pincer movement, with French and African land forces heading to Gao from Niger, where Chad has sent a battalion.
French and Malian forces are also heading to Timbuktu, via the central corridor that leads straight north from the central Malian city of Segou, via the recently recaptured town of Diabaly.
In an interview Saturday, Col. Shehu Usman Abdulkadir told The Associated Press that the African force will be expanded from an anticipated 3,200 troops to some 5,700 -- which does not include the 2,200 soldiers promised by Chad.
Most analysts had said the earlier figure was far too small to confront the Islamists given the vast territory they hold -- an area larger than Afghanistan.
"Because they've seen that the area itself, northern Mali is too large for that number of troops so there was a need to increase the number and that's why we arrived at 5700," said Abdulkadir, the force commander. "I believe that as time goes on it may be necessary to increase the strength again. Because France pulls out we definitely must have to increase the strength."
Since France began its military operation, the Islamists have retreated from three small towns in central Mali: Diabaly, Konna and Douentza.
For the first time on Saturday, Malian authorities opened the town of Konna to reporters. Although in most places Malians have applauded the arrival of the French, the town of Konna, built around a single, hard-top road, provides a counterweight and reveals the human toll of the operation.
Konna's mayor had earlier said that 11 civilians were killed during the airstrikes. Among them were four relatives of Souleymane Maiga, a young, 20-something man who ran for cover on Jan. 11, the first day of the airstrikes.
He hid between two mud walls separating his compound from that of his neighbor. His aunt, and the four children, including several young girls that were with her, abandoned the pot on an open flame where they were preparing the midday meal and ran inside the house.
French combat helicopters, looking for rebels, strafed the buildings made of nothing more than mud mixed with straw.
"The women were preparing food right here in the shade of this tree, when we heard the noise made by the aircraft. I ran and threw myself between the two walls over there," said Maiga. "After it was over, I went to the house, and when I opened the door, I saw that they were dead. Of the five people inside, only one survived. A toddler. The bodies were one on top of the other. The toddler was crying. The bullets had pierced the door. I tried to find their pulses, but they were gone. I realized it was over. I picked up the child and took him to a relative's house in town."
The zinc door of the modest house is pockmarked by bullet holes, some several inches wide. If you close it behind you, they let in jets of light, which illuminate the unlit interior. The can of tomato paste that the women had just opened in order to make a sauce served over rice, still sits where they left it. It had been partially opened, and now the tomato paste inside has spoiled.
Fox News' Justin Fishel and The Associated Press contributed to this report.


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RECALL my previous article:
THE AMERICAN army base - As reported in my last memo, a huge American army base is nearing completion in Israel. Reportedly, it has holding facilities for as many as 18,000 protesters.
After visiting it yesterday, I'd say way more. This base is massive. I counted ten enormous US Army issue prefab warehouses and more were going up. At the base guard post, the American flag is waving in the wind. A sign proclaims that the project manager is one Jerry Ray.
I start taking photos of the base with a cheap camera. The guard asked what I was doing. I replied, "I'm a journalist proving that a huge American military base is being constructed on Israeli soil."
"What's wrong with that?" he asked. "Who else will protect us from the Palestinians?"
"Where are the Americans?," I probed.
"What do you mean, they're everywhere here. Everyone in charge is American."
We drove away. My friend at the wheel was even more depressed than me. "It's a concentration camp," he said.
To witness Israel's loss of sovereignty, take Route 443 to the Rosh Haayin junction. Drive ten minutes until you see Rantis Junction. The sign points to Beit Arye, and Halamish. Turn right. The base is a mile away on the left side. To salute the American flag, turn left at the entrance road.
The base is located ten minutes from Ben Gurion Airport. Luckily, a new terminal opened last year, so the Americans have the spacious old terminal to store and move whatever they're planning to import once Gush Katif and the rest of the settler vermin are rid of.
The article prompted a reporter from a large American radio network to call me. He wanted to see the base and photograph it. I met him an hour later and off we went.
First stop, the base gate. The reporter is amazed to see the American flag waving and to read on a sign that the contractor for the base is an Arab named Mustafa. He notes what a huge security fiasco hiring an Arab contractor to build an IDF base would be. Then we see busloads of Arab workers leaving the base by bus.
We continue down the road and photograph the massive buildings and underground digging. Then we reach the checkpoint at the border of the Green Line. The base stops precisely there, the border the Americans have planned for us. We turn into the dirt road to the left and start following the circumference of the base.
The base is enormous, far huger than any other base in the country. We estimate that several tens of billions of dollars are going into the base itself but the new road surrounding the complex currently being blasted out of the rock has to add another billion dollars to the pricetag. As for the value of 50 square miles of prime Israeli real estate: more billions.
Neither of us knows what the base will be used for so I suggest, "Let's go inside and ask someone. We reach the entrance where two guards are seated. I ask one if we can speak to someone in charge of the project and photograph inside. The guards agree to call headquarters and see. One guard calls, the other points to a path to the right and says, "Let's see if they'll let you photograph up there. You've never seen so many computers and cameras in your life."
The base construction manager agrees to talk to us. We are escorted to his trailer/office where he is sitting with three other sub-managers. The radio reporter wastes no time asking, "Are those buildings going to be used to hold evacuated settlers and protesters?"
The project manager laughs. I agree. That is not the purpose of this base.
Next question: "What is this base going to be used for?"
"A storage facility for the IDF."
I respond: "Suddenly the IDF is suffering a huge lack of warehouse space? I mean, how big is this base?"
"It will be half the area of all Tel Aviv."
"For storage? What is the American role then in this base?"
"They are building it for us. All the supervisors are American."
"What are those underground tunnels for?"
"No tunnels. It just looks that way because of the topography. Look, you came to the wrong person. I'm a simple builder from Rosh Haayin. What do I know?"
We didn't know either. We now knew the US was building this complex with an Arab chief contractor. It will not likely or primarily be for IDF use. One guess was that it will replace all the vital IDF bases in Yesha after a pullout but that wasn't satisfying. Nothing could replace men overlooking the enemy.
I received the reporter's permission to distribute the photos, six hours before I was to do a 2 hour interview of the Jeff Rense radio program. I sent him the photos and then chose a select few experts to tell me what they were of. My first two replies were:
Barry, I have seen these kind of installations when I was in the military for years I was stationed at a base where a major part of it was like this. These are not barracks of any kind. The metal facilities built up on the rocks are huge electronic facilities probably filled with CIA and extensive phone and other electronic monitoring stuff. The bunker is one just like the ones I was around at the base I was at here in California. It is a missile launch bunker. Somewhere within a mile to 5 miles are silos with the missiles in them, This kind of a facility has minimal personal but filled with covered electronics that can even be monitored from the US itself. Not one of those large buildings is for people to live in or even really work in.
and ...
This is exactly what I was told in 2001, and I quote:
"It is the intention of the U.S. administration, to ultimately turn over to the United Nations, the military base that is being considered for construction in the heart of Israel. It is the leaders of the NWO/Illuminati who will decide the appropriate time when all that will occur. The U.S. is to build the military base within Israel under the guise that it is for the use of the U.S. military. It is not. It is to be turned over to the United Nations at the appropriate time. The sole purpose of this base is for the United Nations use, not the U.S., and not Israel. This base will be a disaster to the best interests of Israel. It will be used against Israelis."
Photos 1 and 2 - Old Glory flies proudly at the base entrance.
3. Road work within the base.
4-9. The massive "warehouses."
10. Lots more building on the way.
11-13. Electronics tower. Below, what appears to be an entrance to a tunnel. There is a car in the shadow. Compare it to the height of the entrance doors.
14. Border of Eastern base fence. Far in the distance are the "warehouses."
Forget Israeli sovereignty. Our precious and holy land will soon be used as a forward base for the impending New Middle East.
If anyone wants the photos to examine, I'll forward the originals to you. Also, try to listen to my two hour interview at rense.com
As always, my books Who Murdered Yitzhak Rabin; Israel Betrayed, Shabtai Tzvi, Labor Zionism And The Holocaust; The Last Days Of Israel; and Save Israel!, as well as my videos and CDS, The Dirty Secrets Of Oslo are available by writing me at email@example.com. BarryChamish.com
PERFECTIBILISTS: The 18th Century Bavarian Order of the Illuminati, by Terry Melanson
The Ascendancy of the Scientific Dictatorship, by Paul & Phillip Collins
Memoirs Illustrating the History of Jacobinism, by Abbe Barruel
Fire in the Minds of Men: Origins of the Revolutionary Faith, by James H. Billington
America's Secret Establishment: An Introduction to the Order of Skull & Bones, by Antony C. Sutton


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Compass is a stylesheet authoring framework that makes your stylesheets and markup easier to build and maintain. With compass, you write your stylesheets in Sass instead of plain CSS.
Compass.app is a menubar only app for Sass and Compass. It helps designers compile stylesheets easily without resorting to command line interface.
Compass.app is written in Java (JRuby), and works in mac, linux and pc. You do not need to install Ruby environment to use it.
We also made Fire.app - The fast prototyping tool
- Works in mac, linux and pc
- Built-in Web server
- LiveReload support
- Compass extensions support
I don't always use GUI to compile my Compass Project, But when I do, I use Compass.app. - Chris Eppstein, creator of Compass framework
I love this app & use it everyday. It helps me a lot for my Compass Recipes ;) - Maxime Thirouin, creator of Compass recipes


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Native Plants
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Picea mariana
Picea mariana (Mill.) Britton, Sterns & Poggenb.
Black Spruce, Spruce Fir
Pinaceae (Pine Family)
Synonym(s): Picea mariana var. mariana
USDA Symbol: PIMA
USDA Native Status: L48 (N), AK (N), CAN (N), SPM (N)
Black spruce is a very narrow, spire-like tree, growing 30-75 ft. tall with a limited spread. Descending branches, with dark, bluish-green needles, have upturned ends. Lower limbs sweep the ground. Tree with open, irregular, conical crown of short, horizontal or slightly drooping branches; a prostrate shrub at timberline.
Black Spruce is one of the most widely distributed conifers in North America. Uses are similar to those of White Spruce (Picea glauca); however, the small size limits lumber production. The lowest branches take root by layering when deep snows bend them to the ground, forming a ring of small trees around a large one. Spruce gum and spruce beer were made from this species and Red Spruce.
Plant Characteristics
Duration: PerennialHabit: Tree
Leaf Retention: Evergreen
Leaf Complexity: Simple
Breeding System: Flowers Unisexual , Monoecious
Fruit Type: Cone
Size Notes: Up to about 75 feet tall.
Leaf: Green
Fruit: Purple, Brown
Bloom Information
Bloom Color: Red , YellowBloom Time: Apr , May
USA: AK , CT , IL , MA , ME , MI , MN , NH , NJ , NY , PA , RI , VT , WICanada: AB , BC , MB , NB , NL , NS , NT , ON , PE , QC , SK , YT
Native Distribution: Lab. & Nf. to the Yukon Valley, s. in mts. to PA, c. WI, c. MN & B.C.
Native Habitat: Peat bogs; floodplains; swamps
Growing Conditions
Water Use: HighLight Requirement: Sun , Part Shade , Shade
Soil Moisture: Moist , Wet
CaCO3 Tolerance: Low
Soil Description: Wet to mesic, acidic soils.
Conditions Comments: An extremely slow grower. Shallow root system makes this tree susceptible to wind throw. Some disease and insect problems. A cold-climate tree, restricted in the southern part of its range to cold sphagnum bogs. The Alaska variety is less than 30 ft. tall and often shrubby.
Use Wildlife: Twigs, leaves and seeds are important wildlife food. Very valuable as nesting sites for birds.Use Other: Long wood fibres of black spruce are most commonly used for pulpwood, especially for producing high quality papers. A thing of the past now is the gathering of spruce gum, by gummers on snowshoes, carrying long poles fitted with chisels to knock off the resinous exudations. In the old lumber camps, spruce gum was the chewing gum. (Peattie)
Fragrant Flowers: yes
Attracts: Birds , Butterflies
Larval Host: Columbia silkmoth, Bog Elfin butterfly (Callophrys lanoraieensis).
Butterflies and Moths of North America (BAMONA)
Bog Elfin (Callophrys lanoraieensis) Larval Host |
Columbia silkmoth (Hyalophora columbia) Larval Host |
Description: Seeds of most Picea species germinate promptly without pretreatment. Cuttings root in low percentages.Seed Treatment: Pretreatment of most Picea species is not necessary, but cold stratification has been used for some of the species.
Commercially Avail: yes
Find Seed or Plants
View propagation protocol from Native Plants Network.
National Wetland Indicator Status
Region: | AGCP | AK | AW | CB | EMP | GP | HI | MW | NCNE | WMVE |
Status: | FACW | FACW | FACW | FACW | FACW | FACW |
Bibref 1186 - Field Guide to Moths of Eastern North America (2005) Covell, C.V., Jr.Bibref 1185 - Field Guide to Western Butterflies (Peterson Field Guides) (1999) Opler, P.A. and A.B. Wright
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Web Reference
Webref 3 - Flora of North America (2014) Missouri Botanical Garden, St. Louis, MO & Harvard University Herbaria, Cambridge, MA.Additional resources
USDA: Find Picea mariana in USDA PlantsFNA: Find Picea mariana in the Flora of North America (if available)
Google: Search Google for Picea mariana
Record Modified: 2022-09-21Research By: TWC Staff


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Revolutionary Not Evolutionary
Remember what Netflix did to Blockbuster stores? What about how quickly the cell phone virtually eliminated the payphone?
Sometimes technology seems to change literally overnight. Rapid change only happens because something was built that made the existing model obsolete.
This is what might be happening to the putter as you know it.
In golf, there is evolutionary technology and revolutionary.
Evnroll is the revolutionary kind.
Any golfer without this in their bag after today is, playing inferior technology. Evnroll should make all other designs obsolete.
Why Evnroll?
If I were to tell you that with Evnroll technology, no matter where on the face you hit the ball, it ends up in the same spot. Would you be intrigued? What if we told you that we saw it make balls actually curve back towards the hole when mishit. Well, that is exactly what our testers saw over and over again in our lab.
How Putters Used To Be Designed
Since the birth of golf, there have been tens of thousands of putter designs. Most come with little to no evidence that the advancement offered, whatever it happens to be, can actually lower your score. When you think about that, it's kind of amazing.
Millions of dollars of R&D and still very little data that suggests newer tech is better tech.
Grooves That Actually Do Something
Some putter grooves have been shown to produce forward roll more quickly than others. You've probably seen the videos. It sounds great, doesn't it? But did you know that there's absolutely no evidence to suggest that a ball that starts rolling faster goes in the hole more often? The reality is, most putter grooves don't matter. So what makes the grooves on an Evnroll Putter any different?
Let's go back to what piqued our curiosity about this technology.
Firstly, there was a video we saw detailing what the putter could do. What it showed was something you wouldn't believe unless you saw it for yourself.
Secondly, a few years ago we ran what we felt was and still is the most comprehensive independent head-to-head putter test and analysis done in the golf industry. We learned plenty. Sufficed to say that we're 100% confident that many of you can absolutely lower your score by doing nothing more than changing putters.
What we realized was that no matter what putter we tested, if it had PING TR grooves it almost always outperformed the putters that didn't. Grooves don't matter. The right grooves matter. The TR groove story isn't about getting the ball rolling quickly, it's about creating a consistent roll on every strike.
We've seen TR grooves make a difference year after year after year.
Marketing is Not Performance
Golf equipment is an industry where legend often outweighs reality, but our testing constantly reminds us that marketing and mythology, no matter how strong, are NOT performance.
There are, however, rare products that almost the day they are released seem to forever change the path of how golf is played. We're talking about products driven by performance. We all remember what titanium did to the driver. You never went back to steel or wood. If you did you would be giving up real performance. Almost nobody disputes this. It is fact.
We believe Evnroll putter technology can do for golfers on the green what titanium did on the tee box.
After today, there are 3 kinds of putters:
- Conventional Putters
- Putters with TR Groove Technology
- Putters with EVNroll Technology
Here is a basic overview of how these three types of putters (technology) work:
As you can see from the graphic above, a putter that actually offers this type of technology could dramatically impact your ability to make more putts. Lucky for you, one does.
As you'll see below, we've tested it. This graphic isn't just a fancy piece of marketing. This is real technology, and our test results suggest it results in fewer missed putts. This is what we call disruptive technology.
TEST: Best of The Best
After seeing videos of this technology we quickly reached out to Evnroll putters and asked for samples to be sent to the MyGolfSpy Test Facility for further evaluation.
Evnroll putters weren't available in time for our 2016 Most Wanted Putter test, so to evaluate the effectiveness of this new technology, we put four Evnroll models up against the best performing putters from our recent 2016 putter test. Call it a head-to-head test against only the best.
The Data
To find out how Guerin Rife's new Evnroll putters perform, we put 4 models to the test against our 2016 Most Wanted Blade and 2016 Most Wanted Mallet putters. Here are the results.
- Evnroll models dominated the top 5 from 5 feet.
- Evnroll models finished 1st and 2nd from 10 feet.
- The Evnroll ER2 required 9 fewer putts to complete holes at the 10′ distance.
- At 20′ the PING Ketch Mid again finished on top, with 3 Evnroll models finishing within 3 putts.
- When we look at the number of putts per hole, and SG18, Evnroll putters filled the top 5, besting both of 2016's Most Wanted Putters.
Testing Notes:
- 10 testers participated in this test
Final Thoughts
Not only did Evnroll technology outperform the best putter we have ever tested at MyGolfSpy, the data shows that the Evnroll technology outperformed it across each of the 4 models we tested.
We believe the answer to Evnroll's surprisingly strong showing lies in its grooves. Evnroll putters are the only putters with gearing technology, which helps steer the ball back to the target.
This is a new frontier in putter design, and potentially the most significant putter technology since the Anser, and TR Grooves. That is elite company to say the least.
Evnroll technology is the culmination of Guerin Rife's long career, and the results suggest it's nothing short of a masterpiece.
Golfers who want to score better should consider Evnroll putters for one reason: Performance
This, so far in golf, is the perfect putter from grip to groove.


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Connecticut-based hedge fund advisory firm Level Global Investors has agreed to pay more than USD21.5m to settle Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) charges that its co-founder, who also served as a portfolio manager, and its analyst engaged in repeated insider trading in the securities of Dell and Nvidia.
In January 2012, the SEC filed insider trading charges against Level Global, the firm's co-founder Anthony Chiasson, a former analyst Spyridon "Sam" Adondakis, and six other defendants, including five investment professionals and the hedge fund advisory firm Diamondback Capital Management.
The SEC's complaint, filed in federal court in Manhattan, alleged that Adondakis was a member of a group of closely associated hedge fund analysts who illegally obtained highly sensitive information regarding the financial performance of Dell and Nvidia before this information was made public. The illegally obtained information involved Dell and Nvidia's revenues and profit margins and sometimes indicated that the tech companies' quarterly results would differ significantly from the consensus expectations of Wall Street analysts.
According to the SEC, during 2008 and 2009, Adondakis passed the information on to Chiasson, who used it to execute trades on behalf of hedge funds managed by Level Global and reap millions of dollars in illegal profits. In 2011, following news reports of the government's investigation, Level Global, which had once managed as much as USD4bn, announced that it would close its business and begin returning money to its investors. It is presently in the process of winding down its business.
"The insider trading at Level Global was hardly an isolated event – it occurred repeatedly, and involved multiple companies and multiple quarterly announcements," says Sanjay Wadhwa, senior associate director of the SEC's New York regional office. "This settlement serves as another reminder that the SEC will hold hedge fund managers accountable when their employees violate the securities laws."
The settlement with Level Global, which is subject to court approval, requires the firm to disgorge USD10,082,725 in fees that it reaped from the alleged insider-trading scheme, to pay prejudgment interest of USD1,348,824, and to pay a penalty of USD10,082,725. Level Global has also agreed to the entry of an order permanently enjoining the firm from future violations of Section 10(b) of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, Rule 10b-5, and Section 17(a) of the Securities Act of 1933.
Level Global neither admits nor denies the SEC's allegations. Adondakis previously pleaded guilty to parallel criminal charges and agreed to a settlement with the SEC in which he admitted liability for insider trading. The SEC is continuing to pursue its insider trading claims against the firm's co-founder Chiasson, who was convicted in December 2012 of securities fraud in a parallel criminal proceeding.


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Tuesday 26 May 2009
Resurrection Potato and Pasta Bake
I will never forget doing one of these potato bakes – you know the one when you thinly slice the vegetables and bake them in milk or cream – when I had just moved into my first share house. It took hours and we were starving by the time it was edible. I kept taking it out of the oven and poking a knife into it quite regularly, willing it to feel soft and yielding. But it seemed to constantly have that unwelcome crunch that needed returning to the oven.
As I have been thinking about this potato bake, I thought I would share some ideas. One from my mum was to cook the potatoes briefly in the microwave before slicing. She also suggested heating the milk first and adding onion. Lorraine of Not Quite Nigella has an interesting potato and zucchini bake in which the potatoes are simmered in the milk first and then baked. She also used a large shallow roasting dish for lots of crispy topping. I also liked a similar recipe in The Age newspaper on the weekend that had grated cheese sprinkled between layers of potatoes.
The potato bake that I made tasted just like milky potatoes the first night. Perhaps it was extra milky because I had a few less potatoes than the recipe called for. But after I served it I left the remains in the oven another hour and then turned off the oven and left the dish to cool. So the next day the spices were more prominent and the milk had turned beige and creamy. But it was too rich to eat alone so I concocted a pasta bake.
I was most impressed with my pasta bake. I was going to mix all the ingredients together but was not sure any of my mixing bowls were large enough so I had layers. I loved the indulgent creamy pasta and potato with a layer of healthy vegetables and lentils, all topped with crispy cheese, breadcrumbs and seeds. I served it with tomato sauce.
I have had a stab at a recipe below but I do not advise you cook potatoes in milk for hours just to make the pasta bake unless you have oodles of time. However, if you do have some leftover creamy potatoes, I highly recommend you use them in this way. In fact, the thought of making this pasta bake again makes the search for the perfect potato bake all the more attractive.
I am sending this pasta dish to Sara of I'm a Food Blog who is hosting this week's Presto Pasta Night (#115), an event founded by Ruth of Once Upon a Feast.
Potato Gratin with nutmeg and cloves
(adapted from BBC Australian Good Food Magazine March 2009)
serves 8
1 onion, peeled
5 cloves
4 cups (1 litre) milk
3 bay leaves
1 garlic clove
1 tsp freshly grated nutmeg
1 tsp sea salt
1500g waxy potatoes, such as desiree or Nicola (I used 1200g)
10g butter
extra nutmeg for sprinkling
Preheat oven to 200 C.
Heat onion, cloves, milk, bay leaves, whole garlic, nutmeg and sea salt in a medium saucepan til almost boiling. Remove from heat and set aside. (I pressed cloves into onion so they would be easy to remove without sieving.)
Peel and prick potatoes. Place each potato in the microwave on high for 1 minute (or 1.5 minutes if large). Cool slightly and slice to 1mm thick. (I wish I had a mandolin for this but don't and so probably didn't get exactly the right thinness.)
Grease a baking dish with the butter. Remove and discard onion, cloves, garlic and bay leaves from milk. Arrange potato slices in dish and then pour milk over them. I used a dish about 23cm square but I think I would use my large roasting dish in future.
Cover tightly and bake in oven for about 40 minutes. Then uncover and bake a further 20 minutes or until lightly browned and a knife poked in the centre finds the potatoes tender. (I just put the lid on my baking dish but the recipe suggests covering with baking paper and then foil. I also didn't see the bit about taking the lid off for the last bit – oops!)
Potato and pasta bake
Serves 4-6
⅔ of above potato gratin
300g dried pasta
1-2 handfuls of grated cheese
1 tsp oil
1 red onion, sliced
2 cloves garlic, finely chopped
400g mushrooms, chopped
150g baby spinach, chopped
1 x 400g tin of brown lentils, rinsed and drained
½ tsp balsamic vinegar
¼ tsp smoked paprika
pinch cayenne
2 handfuls of grated cheese
50g breadcrumbs
1 tbsp sesame seeds
1 tbsp sunflower seeds
Cook pasta according to instructions on packet. When cooked, mix with potato gratin and 1-2 handfuls of grated cheese.
Meanwhile, heat oil in large frypan. Fry onion for about 5 minutes or until starting to soften. Add garlic and mushrooms and fry until mushrooms soften – about 5-10 minutes. Add spinach and stir briefly until it starts to wilt. Remove from heat and add lentils, balsamic vinegar, smoked paprika and cayenne.
Grease a large baking dish (I used my roasting dish) and place a layer of the potato and pasta mixture and a layer of the mushroom spinach mixture. Sprinkle with 2 handfuls of grated cheese, breadcrumbs and seeds.
Bake in 220 C oven for about 30 minutes or until topping is golden brown and crispy.
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Mmmm that looks perfect for the colder weather we're having!
I seem to have the same problem with potato bakes and the crunchy-ness factor :( I find if I slice them with my mandoline slicer on the thinnest setting and then use a baking tray like you said, rather than a casserole dish that they cook faster.Mmmm love the sound of the potato pasta bake! And I had to laugh when I read about when you made a potato bake and were checking it frequently and were starving when it was ready. I've done that sort of thing more than once! Once was with a potato/sweet potato gratin that I was taking to a potluck and it still wasn't done when we left, but we were already late. Thankfully it finished cooking/softening up on the way! I look forward to seeing your future potato bakes!
ReplyDeleteThanks Lisa - I find I have more time to cook at the moment but it is hard to find the time to post it all - lots more to come as soon as I get time to write it up
Thanks Ashley - That sounds very stressful doing one of these bakes to take to a potluck - I could imagine arriving with it after everyone has left because mine often take so long
Thanks Lysy - yes I loved the veg lentil layer - without that it would have been too stodgy
Thanks Deeba - I am always looking out for interesting pasta bakes - and will try this sort again if I get the chance - glad you enjoyed it too
Thanks Lucy - I don't make these very often for the same reason - they usually disappoint but in the cookbooks they look so wonderful
Thanks Lorraine - I will do anything to avoid having to strain through a sieve!
Thanks Sara, potato and pasta do give a double whammy of comfort
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Movie Trailer: Clash of the Titans (#2)
The movie trailers for Louis Leterrier's remake of Clash of the Titans are looking pretty kick ass. Although, the music may be heightening the kick-ass-ness (as noticed by ScreenRant's Vic Holtreman/@screenrant in a recent tweet). Not sure how I feel about Sam Worthington's 3rd film with a buzz cut. Seriously, in ancient Greece did they have clippers?
At any rate, Medusa looks cool and the Kraken is pretty mind blowing too. The effects look great, we'll see if all the prettiness can hold up to the plot.
Clash of the Titans stars Sam Worthington, Mads Mikkelsen, Gemma Arterton, Alexa Davalos, Liam Neeson, Ralph Fiennes, Izabella Miko and Danny Huston. It will be in theaters on March 26, 2010.


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MONT-TREMBLANT, QC, June 6, 2011 - The prestigious Ironman global series will now include a new, choice destination: Ironman Mont-Tremblant. It was in the presence of the minister in charge of governmental Administration, the president of the Treasure Council and the minister in charge of the Laurentians region, Ms. Michelle Courchesne, and of the mayor of Mont-Tremblant, Mr. Pierre Pilon, that this important announcement was made this morning. The course, which consists of 3.86 km of swimming, 180.2 km of cycling and 42.2 km of running, will take place on August 19, 2012. Minister Michelle Courchesne will share the honorary presidency of the 2012 edition of Ironman Mont-Tremblant with Quebec triathlete, Pierre Lavoie, founder of the Pierre Lavoie Challenge.
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"Eastern Canada is an ideal location, as it offers an Ironman event experience for athletes from Quebec, Ontario, the northeast United States and Europe," said Mitch Fraser, director of event development, World Endurance Canada. "We are happy to add such a dynamic destination to our calendar of events, and we are convinced that our participants will be excited to discover all that Mont-Tremblant has to offer."
For Pierre Lavoie, honorary co-president of the 2012 edition of Ironman Mont-Tremblant, holding this event in Quebec could not have come at a better time. "I was searching for a new destination for 2012 to participate in my 30th Ironman race. I am sincerely moved to have been invited to serve as co-president for this event, along with minister Courchesne. The idea of being able to accomplish the 30th triathlon in my career right here in Quebec, where my family and friends live, is a dream come true!"
The producer-delegate of Ironman Mont-Tremblant, Dominique Piché, is already enjoying the excitement shown by the local community, the elected officials, and especially by local triathletes. "We are proud to have managed to mobilize a whole community and we thank the elected officials of Mont-Tremblant for their openness and their collaboration throughout the start-up of this world-class project. We also take this occasion to thank the Government of Quebec, which was able to recognize all the potential associated with our event, in matters of economic spin-offs, of benefit for the community, of tourist traffic, and of seeing Quebec shine on the international scene."
More than 2,000 participants from Canada and around the world are expected for the inaugural event in 2012. Online registration will open on June 15, 2011, at noon, at: www.ironmanmonttremblant.com.


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