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How to Narrow the Gap from School to Salon
Carlos Valenzuela
A long, long time ago I was taught a most valuable educational lesson, which I credit with making my school, the Carlos Valenzuela Academy in Scottsdale, a success in the 1990's. The lesson came from Arizona School of Architecture who, when noticing that too many graduates were struggling on the job, took it upon itself to create a stronger relationship with employers in the form of focus groups, surveys, and internships. All of these with one single purpose: find out what the employer really needed, then go back to the curriculum and teach it. Bingo.
I forever resisted my school becoming a series of well-designed lessons complying with State Board, the Department of Education, The Accrediting Commission, and resources provided by suppliers of education and products with the overriding motto, "we have always done it this way."
I started rotating my instructors on Tuesday afternoons and asking them to visit 3-4 salons with a quick mini survey that basically asked, "What does a new hire need to do when they first get here?" After weeks of visits, we tallied the answers and created a series of competency experiences given the last three months in our school. Our students could not graduate unless they passed these tests.
Here are some of the remarkable byproducts of doing the above:
- We were shocked to learn that in our zeal to teach innovation the basic tasks needed the first six months on the job were buried and forgotten. In other words, the student knew what an undercut bob was about, but could not effectively shampoo a tint or round brush a long head of hair speedily.
- The solution was not to stop innovation, but to bring back the review of the basic skills. Let's face it; what a new hire will basically start by doing is assisting someone else in making more money.
- We began teaching assisting by pairing senior students with beginning students. We taught to anticipate need, which is also the basis of excellence in customer service.
- The biggest unexpected gain was that our enrollments went sky high. You know why? Because no school had ever asked salons what they want from graduates. Our sincere intention turned out to be the biggest public relations move in our school's history.
Today's digital student population challenges beauty schools because do not yet offer Wi-Fi. Still, the best motivator and means of communication is a showcasing of job realities and requirements. After all, this is why a student is in school.
No longer may one ask today's student or employee to do something because "it's good for them, or part of the job." The direct application to job and income must be abundantly clear. This sounds to me like a need to spotlight the rewards of expertise in job entry skills.
How can an instructor or a student assure himself or herself of this expertise? Simple. Go to a salon, ask and observe what a new hire does when they begin the job—make sure you can do it.


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Theater Department Announces Upcoming Seasonby Karen Handley • August 24, 2006 Share:
The Wabash College Theater Department has announced the College's 2006-2007 theater season.
In 2006-2007, seating for Theater productions will be by general admission, though free tickets are required for Theater productions.
Tickets for Fall Semester events will be available Monday, August 28, 2006. Tickets for Spring Semester events will be available on Monday, January 22, 2007.
Contact the Fine Arts Center Box Office by email at email@example.com; phone: 765-361-6411; or by mail at Fine Arts Center Box Office, Wabash College, P.O. Box 352, Crawfordsville, IN 47933-0352. Box Office hours are Monday through Friday, 8:30 a.m. to 12 noon and 1:30 to 4 p.m. The box office will open 90 minutes before curtain time for Theater events. Tickets not claimed at the Box Office 10 minutes prior to curtain will be released to the general public.
The Elephant Man, by Bernard Pomerance, will start off the season. Performances will be October 4-7 at 8 p.m. The performances will be in Ball Theater in the Fine Arts Center.
The Elephant Man is the story of Joseph Merrick, a remarkably sensitive, artistic, and intelligent man whose disfigurement is exploited by Victorian society. Merrick is befriended by an ambitious and brilliant young surgeon, Frederick Treves, who looks after him in his last few years—finding him a home in a London hospital where Merrick's unusual presence is shrewdly used for fund-raising. Merrick's story is one of humanity and isolation, and telling his story helps us define our own.
The second production of the season will be the Studio One-Acts. Performances will be presented November 9-11 at 8 p.m. each evening in Experimental Theater in the Fine Arts Center.
The Studio One-Acts provide an opportunity for theater students to showcase their skills. These projects emphasize the importance of the collaborative creative process and demonstrate the Wabash College Theater Department's belief that powerful and imaginative theater can thrive in productions of limited scale.
The third production of the season will be Side Man by Warren Leight. Performances will take place February 21-24 at 8 p.m. each evening in Ball Theater in the Fine Arts Center.
Winner of the 1999 Tony Award for Best Play, Side Man spans three decades in the life of a Manhattan musician. Playwright Warren Leight, whose father was a side man, captures the pulse and climate of the New York jazz scene in a tender, deeply personal memory play about the turmoil in a jazz trumpeter's family as his career crumbles at the dawn of the age of rock-and-roll. "Side Man evokes a lost world and lost love with sweet, but never sentimental, poignancy."—NY Daily News
The fourth and final production of the season will be Two Gentlemen of Verona by William Shakespeare, which will be presented April 18-21 with performances starting at 8 p.m. each evening in Ball Theater in the Fine Arts Center.
In Shakespeare's clever and charming comedy, two bosom buddies from Verona travel to Milan to learn the art of courtship and fall in love with the same woman. Will love or friendship win the day? Is Proteus insane? Who is Sylvia? What is a dog doing on stage? Shakespeare's answers have surprised and delighted audiences for more than 400 years.
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Vowing to defend the Armed Forces pension fund from being pilfered by top government leaders, Opposition Leader Anwar Ibrahim's PKR party has demanded that the Najib administration come clean on a RM160million deal to buy back land belonging to the Ministry of Defence.
The PKR response follows news a day ago that a unit of the Armed Forces' pension fund (LTAT) had agreed to pay RM30 million to a controversial businessman Deepak Jaikishan and RM130 million to a firm controlled by Raja Ropiaah, the Selangor Umno Women's chief.
PKR strategic director Rafizi Ramli accused Prime Minister Najib Razak and Defense Minister Zahid Hamidi of "gross abuse of power", describing the latest transaction involving 223 hectares of Defense ministry land in Bukit Raja, Selangor as "outright bribery" and the "worst-ever case of bad investment I have seen".
"It is plain and simple that the RM30million to acquire 80% of Astacanggih (Deepak's firm) and the RM130 million paid (to Raja Ropiaah's firm) for almost non-existent land is clear abuse of power by Zahid Hamidi. I dare say that Najib had tasked Zahid to handle this by whatever means necessary," Rafizi, a UK-trained auditor, told a press conference on Saturday.
"You can ask any investment or research analysts and they will tell you this is not good investment practise. So why does the federal government enter into such a bad investment. One can only conclude this is meant to silence Deepak and to close the entire issue."
Outright bribery?
Deepak, once a close friend of Najib's wife Rosmah Mansor, had in 2007 bought the land from Raja Ropiaah's firm Awan Megah for about RM120mil at RM12psf. But the deal has been "stuck" and the titles still not released to Astacanggih unit Cebur Megah.
This resulted in Deepak suing Ropiaah and Awan Megah for specific performance and "criminal intent", the Defense ministry as well as the land and mining office Pejabat Tanah dan Galian for not releasing the land titles to Cebur Megah.
Deepak also accused Ropiaah of 'stealing' and on-selling one of the three parcels of land to GuppyUnip Sdn Bhd at RM16psf. The case was heard at the Kuala Lumpur High Court late last month, with Deepak personally taking the stand. It was adjourned to December 14 but deferred pending a settlement that Deepak has since insisted was "forced" on him and his firm.
"It is true that my shareholders and me have sold our shares in Asta Canggih for RM30 million which is our actual cost price of RM13 million for Raja Ropiaah, RM8 million in political contributions, RM7 million of financial costs and RM2 million in legal and miscellaneous costs. This was an ultimatum that was forced upon us," Deepak said in a text message on Friday.
Protecting pension fund of Armed Forces
The business bickering culminated in Deepak squealing on the 'dark hands' behind the deal. He accused Najib's family of accepting millions of ringgit for Najib's abusing his authority in approving the deal.
Najib, who was then the Defense minister, has still not made any response to the series of damning allegations despite mounting public disgust and pressure from his own political party.
Rafizi slammed Najib for refusing to account to the public and accused him of quietly conspiring with Zahid to enter into "such a dubious" deal that would clearly place the Defense Ministry's pension fund in a disadvantaged position.
"The fact that behind the silence, such a transaction has been sewn up to silence Deepak indicates there must have been some truth in his accusations. Deepak's disclosures must have frightened Najib so much that he has got Boustead to enter into this deal," said Rafizi.
"It is very cheeky for the prime minister to instruct the Defense minister to do such a deal. In any other country, a public inquiry would have been called. PKR will do all it can to frustrate the deal as this involves the LTAT, the pension fund of the Defense ministry. It has become ridiculous. You have already lost RM250mil to one minister and now you are going to lose RM160 mil of pensioners' money to another minister."
Rafizi was referring to the RM250mil NFC cattle-breeding fiasco that the family of Umno Women's chief Shahrizat Jalil has been accused of being involved in.
Najib will have to win back S'gor for the deal to go through
In the Deepak-Ropiaah case, Rafizi pointed out that the land had never changed hands in the first place and questioned why the Defense ministry was buying back its own land.
"PKR will write to the Selangor state government to stop this deal. Previously we kept quiet because we weren't sure how true Deepak's allegations were. But now, after the Boustand announcement to the Bursa, all the pieces are starting to fit together.At the recent Umno assembly, Zahid said he would look into the matter and find a way to resolve it. After that, there was silence. We thought it was just Najib up to his usual ways of refusing to answer to the public. Then Boustead made their announcement yesterday," said Rafizi.
"This is clearly a deal pulled together deliberately to keep Deepak quiet. But it doesn't seem to be working. How can Zahid imagine such a deal can work? It will require the green light from the state government because the land is in Selangor. Deepak is now saying he is not going to shut up because he got only RM30 mil and Ropiaah received RM130 mil. We say to Deepak, don't worry. We will do our utmost to frustrate this deal because the pensioners' money is involved. In fact, we need to thank Tan Sri Khalid for insisting on checking all the details and not allowing the transfer to go through."
Rafizi agreed the title to the land would probably have changed hands by now if not for the Opposition winning control of the Selangor state government in the 2008 general election. According to Rafizi, if Najib wanted the deal to go through the only way was if "he wins back Selangor".
The state is the richest and has the biggest economy of Malaysia's 13 states. Najib has previously vowed to take back Selangor "at all costs". The state is now led by PKR chief minister Khalid Ibrahim.
Mindef unit paying RM160 million for land that still belongs to it
In a filing to the stock exchange, Boustead Holdings Bhd, a unit of LTAT, announced that its wholly-owned unit Bakti Wira Development Sdn Bhd had acquired an 80 per cent stake in Astacanggih Sdn Bhd for RM30 million.
Bakti Wira Development and Astacanggih also signed an agreement with Awan Megah earlier on Friday to acquire 80.94ha of freehold land in Klang, Selangor, for RM130 million. Describing the deal as an opportunity to expand its land bank, Boustead said the share purchase and land acquisition would be funded via bank borrowings and internally-generated funds.
"Moreover, the land was adjacent to 283.28ha of development land held under Jendela Hikmat Sdn Bhd, a company which the group and Lembaga Tabung Angkatan Tentera jointly holds 60 per cent equity interest. The demand for industrial land in this location has been on the uptrend with the completion of UMW's latest storage and testing plant in Bukit Raja, Klang," said Boustead.
Rafizi and Selangor Pakatan representatives will be scrutinizing the deal's fine-print over the weekend and plan to hold another press conference on Monday.
"In the afternoon, we will go with some of the pensioners to Bakti Wira's office to inspect the documents. The pensioners have a right to know what happens to their money," said Rafizi.
The Black Rose
So far, Ropiaah has not commented on the transaction. Previously, when contacted by Malaysia Chronicle, she had said she would refer Deepak's allegations to her lawyers.
In his response to the Boustead announcement on Friday, Deepak vowed he would continue with his "revelations". Deepak has not only exposed Najib's hand in the Bukit Raja land deal but has revealed that both the PM and his wife Rosmah had asked him to "facilitate" the withdrawal of a damning statutory declaration made by a private investigator implicating Najib in the Altantuya Shaariibuu murder and the Scorpenes corruption case.
Apparently, more and "hotter" scandals are due to be exposed to test the already embattled Najib, who has been facing tremendous pressure from within his own Umno party to step down and pass the reins to his deputy Muhyiddin Yassin before calling for general elections.
"The irony is that Raja Ropiaah who 'stole' the land from us was paid RM130 million, guess that is real power, isn't it?" said Deepak, who in a text message to Malaysia Chronicle promised to push on with his tell-all book on Rosmah – 'The Black Rose'.


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Wednesday, June 22, 2011
This summer's favourite fish dish - grilled salmon in balsamic marinade
This is my favourite fish dish this summer (and spring). I've made it on several occasions already and will make another one today for our Midsummer Night party tomorrow night. The idea is so simple and yet so brilliant - you bake/grill/roast the fish fillet (both salmon and trout are fine), then pour the marinade over hot fish, and stuck it in the fridge to marinate and cool. Then, when the guests arrive, you simply take the fish out of the fridge and serve. You can even prepare the fish on the previous night, so there's no need to switch on the oven in the middle of a hot summer day.
The recipe is slightly adapted from a Finnish women's magazine Anna (autumn/winter 2010 issue; Balsamicolohi) - yet another excellent recipe idea I've found while browsing those magazine issues at the beauty salon :) I've stuck with the original flavour combination - balsamic vinegar, capers, sun-dried tomatoes and chives, but feel free to come up with your own favourite marinade.
Grilled salmon in balsamic marinade
(Grillitud lõhe palsamiäädikamarinaadis)
Serves 6 to 8
800 g salmon or trout fillet, skin on
sea salt flakes
freshly ground black pepper
olive oil, for brushing
Balsamic marinade:
4 Tbsp nice balsamic vinegar
2 Tbsp olive oil (from the sun-dried tomato jar, preferably)
2 Tbsp lemon juice
3 Tbsp capers, rinsed and drained
3-4 Tbsp finely chopped sun-dried tomatoes (preserved in oil)
3 Tbsp finely chopped fresh chives
Take a suitably sized oven tray* and brush it slightly with oil. Place the fish on the tray, season with sea salt and black pepper. Bake in the middle of 225 C oven until done (it'll take about 15-20 minutes, at the most, depending on the thickness of the fish.)
Mix balsamic vinegar, olive oil, lemon juice, and drizzle on a hot fish fillet.
Mix the sun-dried tomatoes, capers and chives, spread evenly over the fish.
Place into a fridge for at least 2 hours to marinate.
* I love using my Iittala Teema rectangular tray for this (sized 16x37 cm) - I cook the salmon on that tray, and then use it for serving later on as well.
3 comments:
- masini second said...
Ohh i just love grilled salmon and with balsamic marinade on it i`m sure that is delicious. I think it is not a very easy recipe but i will give it a try, thanks a lot for sharing.
- 8:31 pm, June 22, 2011
- Meeta K. Wolff said...
I adore salmon and this version looks simply wonderful. The flavor combination really are screaming out to me to make this. The weather promises to be good this weekend and I think we can get the grill out to do this. Hope you are well Pille?
- 8:47 am, June 23, 2011
- Pille said...
Masini - ta'
Meeta - it's an excellent way to cook both salmon and trout, and excellent for the summer.. I'd love a few tips on how to take a decent photo of this, however!!!
- 10:19 pm, June 29, 2011
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January: Professor Gilbert served as a panel member discussing the recent book Israel: A History by Anita Shapira, sponsored by the Schusterman Center for Israel Studies.
March: Professor Gilbert leads a visit to the Skirball Center and its superb collection of Judaica and Jewish Art.
June: Professor Espinosa will serve as the Co-director of conference "Protestantism on Screen: Religion, Politics and Aesthetics in European and American Movies," Wittenberg, Germany.
July: Professor Gilbert joins the Tel Akko Archaeology Program for its sixth season.
Fall 2014
Professor Espinosa published, Latino Pentecostals in America: Faith and Politics in Action (Harvard University Press, 2014) and William J. Seymour and the Origins of Global Pentecostalism: A Biography and Documentary History (Duke University Press, 2014).
November 2014: Professor Gilbert delivers a paper at the Annual Meeting of the Society of Biblical Literature, "Images of the Akedah in Ancient Synagogue Art."
November 2014: Professor Espinosa delivers a paper at the Annual Meeting of the American Academy of Religion, "Trends, Diversity, and Developments in American Protestant Christianities."
August 2014: Professor Chung-Kim Presented a paper at the International Congress of Calvin Research, Zurich, Switzerland, "Poverty and Wealth: John Calvin's Religious Ideals and their Impact."
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This was my sunrise this morning--looking out the window from my kitchen. Blazing reds and oranges! It was one of those moments where I was feeding kids, wiping goop, and doing dishes--then I looked up and saw the blazing reds on the horizon and...everything stopped for a few minutes. Everything got quiet and we all looked outside for a while.
I've got a lot of trees in the way, but I think that's what makes my winter sunrises so special. In the summertime, I don't get to see the sunrise from my windows because the leaves block the view, so I have to wait until winter to catch glimpses like this.
I was tempted to get in my car and drive to a clearing where I could see the entire sunrise unobstructed....but the toddler with sticky cereal spilled all over the floor kind of deterred me a little.
ahhhhhh. I LOVE mornings! Sunrise is one of the most magical times of the day---especially if nobody is crying at me. I'm loving how the colors go from blazing red to oranges, to a soft purple. Seriously---it was so pretty.
Anyhoo---more to come about mornings - I've got a fun little project in the works for all of us. {yesssssss.} Here's a glimpse...
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This report by Researchvector is an overview of the Bathroom Sinks market with the prime focus on the current industry data and a prediction of the future market trends based on the data of five years between 2017-2025. The three common factors of this market that will be driving this report are as follows:
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I am selling my housing... it is in GREAT shape 9/10. It is 1 year old and has seen maybe 6 dives. The housing has never beeen flooded and I gave it TLC. FRESH water rinses and all o-rings are tight and ready to use. The housing will be sold with an 8" dome port and Shade. The shade has a crack inti that was repaired and it does not effect it's preformance in any way. Also included is the Macro port with a cover. I can supply pictures to the intrested buyer. My eBay i.d. is waterworldjr. The housing is at Aquatica for the weekend for a final pre sale inspection. This housing is ready to go diving. I can not say anything bad about the Aquatica A100. Very solid and esay to work. Check out Aquatica.ca. The whole thing will go for 1050$. Buyer will pay shipping.
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SANTA CLARA, CA--(Marketwired - Aug 8, 2013) - NVIDIA (NASDAQ: NVDA)
Revenue of $977.2 million.
GAAP net income of $96.4 million, or $0.16 per diluted share. Non-GAAP net income of $133.3 million, or $0.23 per diluted share.
Record GAAP and non-GAAP gross margins of 55.8 percent and 56.3 percent, respectively.
NVIDIA (NASDAQ: NVDA) today reported revenue for the second quarter of fiscal 2014, ended July 28, 2013, of $977.2 million, up 2.4 percent from $954.7 million in the previous quarter.
GAAP earnings per diluted share were $0.16, up 23.1 percent from $0.13 in the previous quarter. Non-GAAP earnings per diluted share were $0.23, up 27.8 percent from $0.18 in the previous quarter.
"The GPU business continued to grow, driving our fourth consecutive quarter of record margins," said Jen-Hsun Huang, president and chief executive officer of NVIDIA. "We also began shipping GRID virtualized graphics, which puts the power of NVIDIA GPUs into the datacenter. We look forward to a strong second half, with new Tegra 4 devices coming to market, SHIELD moving beyond the U.S. and broader sampling of Project Logan, our next-generation Tegra processor, which brings Kepler, the world's most advanced GPU, to mobile."
On May 14, 2013, NVIDIA executed an accelerated share repurchase (ASR) agreement with Goldman, Sachs & Co. such that NVIDIA paid Goldman Sachs $750 million and Goldman Sachs delivered 36.9 million shares on May 16, 2013. These shares were accounted for as treasury share repurchases that reduced the outstanding common shares used to calculate EPS. Upon final settlement of the ASR, Goldman Sachs may be required to deliver additional shares of common stock to NVIDIA or NVIDIA may be required to deliver shares of its common stock, or elect to make a cash payment, to Goldman Sachs, based on the terms and conditions under the ASR. NVIDIA currently expects that, at the time of settlement, Goldman Sachs will be required to deliver additional shares of common stock to NVIDIA.
NVIDIA's outlook for the third quarter of fiscal 2014 is as follows:
Revenue is expected to be $1.050 billion, plus or minus two percent.
GAAP and non-GAAP gross margins are expected to be approximately flat relative to the prior quarter at 56.0 percent and 56.3 percent, respectively.
GAAP operating expenses are expected to be approximately $460 million. Non-GAAP operating expenses are expected to be approximately $418 million.
GAAP and non-GAAP tax rates for the remaining half of fiscal 2014 are expected to be 16 percent, plus or minus one percent. This estimate excludes any discrete tax events that may occur during a quarter, which, if realized, may increase or decrease our actual effective tax rates in such quarter.
NVIDIA estimates depreciation and amortization for the third quarter to be approximately $62 million to $64 million. Capital expenditures are expected to be in the range of $60 million to $70 million.
Diluted shares for the third quarter are expected to be approximately 589 million.
Among highlights of the second quarter of fiscal 2014, NVIDIA:
Demonstrated the capabilities of the Kepler™-based GPU in Project Logan, its next-generation mobile processor, and announced an IP licensing initiative that will bring this technology to new markets.
Shipped NVIDIA® SHIELD™, its open-platform gaming and entertainment portable (July 31, after quarter end).
Demonstrated NVIDIA® Tegra® 4i phone calls on AT&T's network, and showed support of LTE Cat 4 data rates.
Launched a new family of high-end gaming GPUs, the GeForce® GTX™ 760, GeForce GTX 770 and GeForce GTX 780.
Appeared on stage with the CEO of Citrix to announce that XenDesktop 7 has now fully integrated NVIDIA GRID™ vGPU™ technology to share GPUs across virtual machines.
Appointed Dawn Hudson, former CEO of PepsiCo's North American operations, to its board of directors.
NVIDIA will pay its next quarterly cash dividend of $0.075 cents per share on September 13, 2013, to all stockholders of record on August 22, 2013.
CFO Commentary and Earnings Presentation
Commentary on the quarter by Karen Burns, NVIDIA interim chief financial officer, and a presentation, are available at www.nvidia.com/ir.
Conference Call and Webcast Information
NVIDIA will conduct a conference call with analysts and investors to discuss its second quarter fiscal 2014 financial results and current financial prospects today at 2:00 p.m. Pacific Time (5:00 p.m. Eastern Time). To listen to the call, please dial (706) 679-2572. A live webcast (listen-only mode) of the conference call will be accessible at the NVIDIA investor relations web site www.nvidia.com/ir and at www.streetevents.com. The webcast will be recorded and available for replay until the company's conference call to discuss its financial results for its third quarter fiscal 2014.
Non-GAAP Measures
To supplement NVIDIA's Condensed Consolidated Statements of Operations and Condensed Consolidated Balance Sheets presented in accordance with GAAP, the company uses non-GAAP measures of certain components of financial performance. These non-GAAP measures include non-GAAP gross profit, non-GAAP gross margin, non-GAAP operating expenses, non-GAAP income tax expense, non-GAAP net income, non-GAAP net income, or earnings, per share, and free cash flow. In order for NVIDIA's investors to be better able to compare its current results with those of previous periods, the company has shown a reconciliation of GAAP to non-GAAP financial measures. These reconciliations adjust the related GAAP financial measures to exclude stock-based compensation, amortization of acquisition-related intangible assets, other acquisition-related costs, a legal settlement, a contribution expense, and the associated tax impact of these items, where applicable. Free cash flow is calculated as GAAP net cash provided by operating activities less purchases of property and equipment and intangible assets. NVIDIA believes the presentation of its non-GAAP financial measures enhances the user's overall understanding of the company's historical financial performance. The presentation of the company's non-GAAP financial measures is not meant to be considered in isolation or as a substitute for the company's financial results prepared in accordance with GAAP, and our non-GAAP measures may be different from non-GAAP measures used by other companies.
About NVIDIA
Since 1993, NVIDIA (NASDAQ: NVDA) has pioneered the art and science of visual computing. The company's technologies are transforming a world of displays into a world of interactive discovery -- for everyone from gamers to scientists, and consumers to enterprise customers. More information at http://nvidianews.nvidia.com and http://blogs.nvidia.com.
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Modeling Acoustic Orbital Angular Momentum
Alon Grinenko October 13, 2015
In our Acoustophoretic Force blog series, we have discussed the nature of acoustic radiation force and different ways to compute this force in the COMSOL Multiphysics® software. Today, we will introduce you to a related phenomenon, acoustic orbital angular momentum, and demonstrate how to model it.Read More
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In an earlier blog post, we considered the computation of acoustic radiation force using a perturbation approach. This method has the advantage of being both robust and fast; however, it relies heavily on the theoretical evaluation of correct perturbation terms. The idea behind the method presented here is to solve the problem by deducing the radiation force from the solution of the full nonlinear set of Navier-Stokes equations, interacting with a solid, elastic microparticle.Read More
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Acoustic radiation force is an important nonlinear acoustic phenomenon that manifests itself as a nonzero force exerted by acoustic fields on particles. Acoustic radiation is an acoustophoretic phenomenon, that is, the movement of objects by sound. One interesting example of this force in action is the acoustic particle levitation discussed in this previous blog post. Today, we shall examine the nature of this force and show how it can be computed using COMSOL Multiphysics.Read More


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A rabbi has appeared in court over allegations he sexually assaulted three boys at Yeshivah College in St Kilda East between 1990 and 1992.
David Kramer, 52 – who was extradited from the US state of Missouri – appeared in the Melbourne Magistrates Court and was remanded in custody until January 18. He did not apply for bail.
As he was led from the court, a member of the gallery yelled out "welcome back to Australia, Rabbi Kramer".
Deputy Chief Magistrate Felicity Broughton heard that Kramer had been charged with 10 counts of indecent assault and two counts of indecent acts with a child under the age of 16.
It is understood Rabbi Kramer, a US national, has spent time in Israel and in the American midwest, where he was volunteering as a synagogue youth leader. He left Australia in 1993 after parents at Yeshivah – a Jewish orthodox school – raised concerns about his behaviour.
Kramer was surrendered by US authorities on Thursday in response to an Australian extradition request.
Upon arrival, he was arrested and charged by Moorabbin Sexual Offences and Child Abuse Investigation Team detectives.
Yeshivah College apologised to victims of child-sex abuse earlier this year after allegations that multiple students were molested by trusted members of the school community.
"We understand and appreciate that there are victims who feel aggrieved and we sincerely and unreservedly apologise for any historical wrongs that may have occurred," stated the letter, which was signed by members of the Yeshivah College executive.
A victim of sexual assault by other staff at Yeshivah, Manny Waks, released a statement saying that "today is a monumental day for the Australian Jewish community."
"On behalf of some of the victims, I would like to thank the Victoria Police for their excellent work in extraditing David Kramer to Australia to face justice. It is my understanding that this is the first such extradition in Victoria.
"While it is and no doubt will continue to be traumatic for David Kramer's alleged victims in reliving their abuse, they're now more determined than ever to pursue this matter until justice is obtained.
"The victims have emphasised their intention to also hold to account those involved in the ongoing cover-up.
"I would like to take this opportunity to encourage other victims within the Jewish community, whether in this case or in any other case, to come forward to police and pursue justice. It will also ensure that our community will be a safer place for our children."
Mr Waks said he was helping to establish an advocacy group for victims of child sexual abuse within the Jewish community.


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Creating or upgrading a home theater setup often comes down to one major question: What kind of TV should I get? While there are several types of TVs, two terms come up pretty often: LED TVs and LCD TVs.
But what's the difference? It's a question we hear a lot from budding home theater shoppers, but shouldn't. Blame the acronyms. Here's the quick answer: An LED TV is an LCD TV, but how the two came to be confused with each other might come as a surprise.
Once you've got a better grasp on LED and LCD technologies, check out our QLED vs OLED to find out about the latest TV tech, as well as our list of the best TVs you can buy for suggestions of our favorite picks from what's currently available
An LED TV is an LCD TV
Despite having a different acronym, an LED TV is just a specific type of LCD TV. The proper name would actually be "LED-backlit LCD TV," but that's too much of a mouthful for everyday conversation, so people generally just refer to them as LED TVs.
Both types of TV make use of a liquid crystal display (LCD) panel to control where light is displayed on your screen. These panels are typically composed of two sheets of polarizing material with a liquid crystal solution between them, so when an electric current passes through the liquid, it causes the crystals to align so that light can (or can't) pass through. Think of each crystal as a shutter, either allowing light to pass through or blocking it out.
Now, since both LED and LCD TVs use LCD technology, you're probably wondering what the difference is. Actually, it's about what the difference was. The LCD TVs you think of now no longer exist. Here's why: Backlighting. Older LCD TVs used cold cathode fluorescent lamps (CCFLs) to provide backlighting, whereas LED TV's used an array of smaller, more efficient light emitting diodes (LEDs) to illuminate the screen, which gave them a few advantages. Now, all LCD TVs use LED lights, and are colloquially considered LED TVs. Here's how that works.
There are three different forms of illumination that have been used in LCD TVs: CCFL backlighting, full-array LED backlighting, and LED edge lighting. Each of these illumination technologies are different from one another in important ways, and each have pros and cons. Let's dig into each.
CCFL Backlighting
CCFL backlighting is an older form of technology that has mostly been abandoned, though some manufacturers do use CCFLs in lower tier LCDs since they're cheaper to make. A series of CCFLs sit across the inside of the TV behind the LCD display. The lights illuminate the crystals fairly evenly, which means all regions of the picture will have similar brightness levels. This affects some aspects of picture quality, which we discuss on the next page. Since CCFLs are larger than LED arrays, CCFL LCDs tend to be thicker than their LCD counterparts. As this is an outdated technology, you won't find many models using this style of illumination. A few tend to crop up here and there, but they're almost always on the cheaper end of the spectrum.
Full-array backlighting
Full-array backlighting swaps the outdated CCFLs for LEDs. An array of LEDs spans the back of the LCD screen, with zones of LEDs can be lit or dimmed in a process called local dimming (we go deeper into how local dimming works on the next page). TVs using full-array LED backlighting make up a chunk the high-end LCD TV market, and with good reason — with more precise and even illumination, they can create better pictures than CCFLs LCD TV were ever able to achieve. Plus, they're less of a power drain than CCFL LCDs were. Given these benefits, the shift to LEDs as industry standard made a lot of sense.
Edge lighting
Another form of LCD screen illumination is LED edge lighting. As the name implies, edge-lit TVs have LEDs along edges of a screen. Within this lighting type there are a few different configurations, including LEDs along just the bottom; LEDs on the top and bottom; LEDs left and right; and LEDs along all four edges. These different configurations result in differences in picture quality, but the overall brightness capabilities still exceed what CCFL LEDs could achieve. While there are some drawbacks to edge lighting when compared to full array or direct backlight, the upshot is edge lighting allows for manufacturers to make thinner TVs which cost less to manufacture.
To better close the local dimming quality gap between edgelit TVs and full-array backlit TVs, manufacturers like Sony and Samsung have developed their own advanced forms of edge lighting. Sony's technology is known as "Slim Backlight Master Drive," while Samsung has "Infinite Array" employed in its line of QLED TVs. These keep the slim form factor achievable through edge-lit design but with local dimming quality more on par with full-array backlighting in these cases (though still not quite equal).


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Newsstory from the main site
For those of us too young to remember the original "Fun with Dick and Jane," but curious about the 1977 movie, it will be re-released by Sony in widescreen and repackaged in time for Christmas.
Due out on 6/12/05 it stars Jane Fonda and George Segal as the hapless couple who find Dicks unemployment throws them into financial despair.An amusing, occasionally hilarious satire, lambasting the hypocrisies of American capitalism. This deft comedy pokes fun at the aerospace industry, the welfare system, and televangelism. Segal and Fonda are a great team, and the movie ages surprisingly well. Jay Leno makes an early cameo as a construction worker.
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This ceramic mural is a reminder: the Moon cycle is the visual record of the relationship
between the Sun and Moon as we watch from planet earth. On Friday, August 17, the two were
locked in conjugal bliss, Sun and Moon at Leo 25°. The Sabian Symbol for this degree is
'AFTER THE HEAVY STORM, A RAINBOW, Linking above and below, the Covenant with
one's divine nature, promise of immortality1. The rainbow is a promise that at any moment we
can contact this sense of love and well being, rather like the Ten of Cups in the Rider-Waite
Tarot deck.
Perhaps this was not your experience Friday the 17th around noon! Other dramas take place in
this chart as well. Saturn and Mars were in close contact in Libra with a sextile to the Sun/Moon
couple. This combination could make the moment of new Moon bliss feel heavily weighted with
a sense of responsibility or the need to put something into a material form. If Saturn and Mars'
voice for responsible action is ignored, there will remain the discomfort of guilt or fear, another
dimension for this combination of planetary energy. Friday, August 17, I was feeling both of
these, a sense of the beauty of the earth and the mystery of life around me, and at the same time a
persistent question: what can I do to be of help to my community?
There is an opposition in the chart between Venus and Pluto joined by squares to Uranus and
the asteroid Pallas Athena. It's not surprising that we are once more seeing an attack (Pluto)
upon women (Venus and Pallas Athena), some of them so quirky (Uranus) as to camouflage the
real and terrifying dangers they present.
There's a pattern called a Yod in this chart which offers some hope of courageous response to
these attacks. Pluto, Neptune and Chiron form a sextile which has its outlet in Mercury in Leo.
In this part of the pattern, Pluto may be power combined with the mysteries of the Neptune
Chiron combination of alternative healing. This energy may find an outlet in Mercury, The
communicator, the third point of the Yod. Mercury in Leo is not afraid to speak out.
Let's hope this Moon cycle offers a clear voice for women, and the basic human right to health
(Chiron) and privacy (Neptune) to be heard.
According to Robert Graves' Moon alphabet from the White Goddess2, this month is sacred to
Coll (Hazel), a tree of intuition and poetry, meditation and for the Druid, mediation. The twigs
have always been used for the divination of water. Hazel lives near the water and the story tells
of the hazel nuts which feed the 'Salmon of Wisdom who dwells in the Wells of Segais.'3
The Full Moon of Coll, as always, pits Moon and Sun sign in opposition or combination. The
Sun has now entered the sign of Virgo, and the Moon is in Pisces with close connection to that
Neptune Chiron combination we have been watching wax and wane for many Moons. Virgo
looks at detail, while Pisces swims in the whole universe. Moon with Chiron and Neptune sings
of the nameless and formless which is forever held in potential, while Virgo is busy about
practical matters in the here and now.
Pluto and Uranus continue their powerful square which creates the very noticeable tension of
these times. Both Uranus and Pluto are about change, but with very different overtones. Uranus
wants revolution NOW. Pluto prefers to stalk transformation through a process of destruction of
what can no longer stand before unveiling new possibility. Pluto at this full Moon in Coll is
making a trine to the Sun and a sextile to the Moon trio. These are benign relationships in
astrological terms, but we may experience them as Pluto's irresistible force for the truth upon the
bright face of the Sun with a demand for clarity from the Moon/Chiron/Neptune fogginess.
Uranus and Mars are also in trine and setting the pressure higher because they have a
combination of powerful aspects to the Sun and Moon. There can a sense of great urgency to do
'something,' and yet confusion about where to turn next. Perhaps the Moon of Coll is the source
of the intuitive wisdom for the next step.
Saturn trines Ceres and says 'something must be done about the earth's environment.' Venus
and Saturn are squared to one another and politicians may continue to insist women should be
regulated and legislated. Juno trines Venus so the battle becomes embedded in the marriage
contract. Mercury is still in Leo, on the same track as Venus, Ceres, Juno, and Saturn. Jupiter
and Vesta are in conjunction as they were at the new Moon. Perhaps this is the opportunity to
understand prosperity as a potential to share the bounty of earth with all of her inhabitants.
The moment of this full Moon is very tightly interwoven, a syncopated chorus of Virgo (the
Sun's sign) and Pisces (the Moon's sign) singing along with all the other planets and asteroids.
This is a year in which our consciousness of underlying cosmic energies is heightened. There
seems to be a drama played out on the archetypal level in preparation for our growth and
education. But we need to be part of this mighty chorus in order to find new ways out of old
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Digital Signal Processor
Moving from the analog age to the digital age, the demand for transforming signals between the two information realms has skyrocketed. Digital signal processors (DSPs) are programmable electronic devices that are dedicated to converting audio, video, or other data into analog and digital formats and improving the information quality of the signals.
View a second image of a digital signal processor chip.
As semiconductor fabrication techniques have advanced, digital signal processors have been miniaturized from several rack-mounted electronic devices linked by cables down to integrated circuit boards, chip sets, and now as part of fully integrated microprocessors with multiple signal acquisition, processing, and restoration functions all on board.
Analog-to-digital converters (ADCs) permit the conversion of real-world information such as images or sounds to digital signals for transmission, storage, or information extraction. Following processing in the digitized form, digital-to-analog converters (DACs) return the processed information into the analog world to which our senses respond. Newer digital signal processors often combine the functions of two types of converter into a single, fast, and powerful microprocessor. Within their category, DSPs are unique devices because they process data in real time. This feature makes digital signal processors well suited for applications where delays would be unacceptable such as digital cellular phones, compact disc players, and missile guidance systems. In the digital cell phone, the digital signal processor compresses the digital signals and removes any background noise, resulting in crystal clear sound without annoying echoes. In video systems, DSPs clean up noise, resulting in sharper images.
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Here's What It's Like to Get Rabies Shots
Unfortunately if you want a public health nurse to tell you don't need rabies shots, those were the wrong answers. She had wanted to know whether we could say with any assurance that we had been aware of the bat's whereabouts and that those whereabouts didn't include our skin. But we couldn't say that.
She told us that a doctor from the health department would call by about 9:30 today, with more questions and instructions, but that we'd have to start treatment. Where do we do that? One of us could pick up the vaccine and the immunoglobulin at the health department office in New Rochelle, she said, and bring it to our doctors. We'd need a vaccination and immunoglobulin on the first day, and then more vaccine on the third, seventh, fourteenth and twenty-eighth days.
Someone from the health department finally called at around 11 the next morning. Her instructions weren't quite the same as Jennifer's, or quite as simple. Your doctor has to order the vaccine and the immunoglobulin, she said. Then it'll be sent via overnight courier.
I called my doctor and at 2 p.m. he got back to me. He's a good doctor, always sympathetic, and I like him because about seven years ago he saved my life; but he and his colleagues run the New Canaan Medical Group like a business and if something is inefficient or gets in the way of their practice, they don't tolerate it.
Such is the case with rabies shots. They gave up administering them about five years ago, he told me, mainly because it was too much trouble. He said we'd have to go to the emergency room at Norwalk Hospital, and they'd make an appointment for us to get the shots at a place called Express Care.
Express Care turned out to be the part of the Norwalk Emergency room where they treat people who don't quite have real emergencies. It also turned out that the word "Express" was something of an overstatement.
We got there at 5 and checked in with the emergency room nurses, who were happy to make jokes about the numerous shots we'd be getting. Rabies immunoglobulin is administered based on weight. The more you weigh, the more you need. A smaller person will need fewer shots than a larger person, the nurse told us, and she looked at me with her eyebrows raised and a little smile on her lips, as if to say, "You're in trouble, buddy."
She said that when she was a kid, she and her friends caught bats, and no one worried about rabies. To me that emphasized the one undeniable truth of this episode: if a bat flies into your room, you don't really need rabies shots, but no public health official or doctor or nurse is willing to tell you that.
We were sent to the waiting room. After a few minutes, a woman emerged from an office and called my wife's name and then another woman emerged and called my name. They were ready to register us. Each went back into her office and had us sit in a chair separated from her by a thick plastic ticket booth-type window. My registrar, whose name was Colleen, told me bats had been living in the attic of her house and found their way into her son's room three times. He got the shots the first time, she said. The second and third times he didn't bother.
We went back to the waiting room. Soon a nurse came out of the Express Care doors and called our names. She had orange hair and wore blue scrubs – the Mets colors, I noted irrelevantly. She led us into a small room set up for eye exams.
"Wait here and someone will be in to talk to you, to figure out if you need the shots."
"You mean we might not need the shots? That's not what everyone has been saying."
"Were you bitten?" she said, and she smiled as if she knew something we didn't.
She shut the door and we waited. We read. We chatted. We looked at the eye charts on the wall. After half-an-hour a doctor came in. He told us that rabies treatment was effective but that it wasn't really based on science: there's no evidence that you've been exposed and there's no evidence that you can get rabies from a bat being in your room. But we'll treat you anyway, he said.
"The truth is," I said, "no one is willing to say we don't need the shots."
"I'm not saying you do and I'm not saying you don't," he said. "It's your decision."
He told us he had ordered the immunoglobulin and the vaccine and that it would be up soon. Gina was particularly worried that the immunoglobulin shots would make her muscles sore over the next couple of days.
"How much of it do we need?" she asked.
"One shot," the doctor said. "For you, one teaspoon full. For you [he looked at me], two teaspoons."
He left. Outside at the desk the staff was talking about the immunoglobulin and the vaccine, and about the schedule for future shots. A nurse was trying to write down on a form when we'd need to return – day three, day seven, day 14, day 28 – and was having an extremely difficult time figuring out when those days would be.
After about 10 minutes, two nurses – a man and a woman – approached bearing hypodermic needles. The woman told us we'd get the vaccine in the arm and the immunoglobulin in "the heiney," as she put it.
"Two for you," she said to Gina, "and four for you."
Although my courage has improved in recent years, I'm still an enormous baby when it comes to getting injections. I don't like to see other people getting a needle, I don't even like to look at the needle. The nurses' plan was to administer the immunoglobulin and the vaccine to me and Gina at the same time, in the eye-exam room. But I didn't want to have to see and hear her getting her shots, so I asked if we could do it separately. The nurses were surprised but happy to accommodate us. I stepped out into the area near the main desk and as I waited, my nurse decided she might as well at least administer the vaccine and so with surprising quickness, she wiped my upper arm with an alcohol pad, jabbed the needle into me, wiped it clean, and we were done with that part.
As for the four shots of immunoglobulin, I'm afraid I have to report that they weren't so bad. The nurse was quick and reasonably skilled – the first shot didn't hurt at all, the second hurt a fair amount, and the other two were in between. By 6:50 we were done and on our way home.
We have to return to Express Care four times over the next month for more vaccine. Unfortunately they do not make appointments and we were told that each time, we'll have to register anew, and so there's no telling how long it will take for what should be a five minute procedure.
But do we need it? I don't know. All I know is that no one was willing to say we didn't.


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Forty million Americans are buying into the dating industry, but so far the industry's been losing out when it does its job and singles meet their match. Brian Schechter and Aaron Shildkrout, founders of online dating site HowAboutWe.com, join Lunch Break.
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The Japanese publisher Shinchosha has just announced that a new long novel by Murakami Haruki is to appear in February.
This blog is meant as an open forum where translators of Haruki Murakami can share ideas and discuss solutions to problems encountered in the process of translating his works. It was launched by two translators of Murakami into Norwegian and Polish, Ika Kaminka and Anna Zielinska-Elliott. Some of us have collaborated in the past, and many of us are in touch regularly by e-mail, but the publication of the new novel in 2013 served as a catalyst for the creation of an online translation blog.
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A recent discovery by University of Minnesota researchers could someday make ethanol from corn the preferred source of hydrogen fuel. The event marks a promising step in the evolution of America's search for renewable energy alternatives to fossil fuels.
Hydrogen-powered fuel cells. Last year, President Bush's FreedomFuel initiative earmarked $1.2 billion toward the development of fuel cell and hydrogen technology. The move helped validate the significance of fuel cells, which use a chemical reaction rather than combustion to generate electricity and heat with relatively little pollution.
With continued research, scientists believe that hydrogen-powered fuel cells could someday electrify houses, businesses and vehicles across America. If and when this dream is realized depends in part on whether technology can advance far enough to make hydrogen fuel cells a less costly energy alternative to burning fossil fuels.
One challenge has been where to get the hydrogen. Though hydrogen is the most abundant element on Earth, most of it is locked up with other elements in forms such as hydrocarbons and water. It takes a lot of energy to get significant quantities of hydrogen from water alone, so the most practical sources from which to liberate hydrogen are fossil fuels such as natural gas, diesel fuel or gasoline. But using fossil fuels as a hydrogen source removes some of the "green" appeal of fuel cells.
Hydrogen from ethanol. The University of Minnesota's discovery appears to position corn-based ethanol as an appealing alternative. Lanny Schmidt, professor of chemical engineering, headed the project along with assistants Gregg Deluga and James Salge. The team's prototype reactor was able to produce hydrogen from ethanol after two simple adjustments to a process already used to get hydrogen from methane, natural gas and gasoline.
The first step was to use an automotive fuel injector to vaporize an ethanol-water mix. The second required altering the composition of the reactor's ceramic catalyst material, a combination of the elements rhodium and cerium, for the vaporized ethanol to pass through and be converted. Schmidt says other researchers had tried similar methods but gave up because fires often developed in the reactor. Schmidt's team adjusted the process enough to avoid the fire problem.
Why turn ethanol into hydrogen rather than burn it? The answer is efficiency, Schmidt says. "Ethanol in car engines is burned at 20% efficiency because you have to remove the water first. But if you use ethanol to produce hydrogen, the efficiency is 50 to 60% because you don't need to remove the water. Hydrogen comes from the ethanol and the water."
Wind and power. Throw wind power into the mix, and ethanol-based hydrogen becomes an even more practical energy source. The University Outreach Center in Morris, MN, is looking at ways of using wind-generated power in conjunction with fuel cells. Facility director Greg Cuomo explains that using wind power to collect hydrogen is one way to store the energy of the wind. Wind power is a key part of hydrogen economy research in Europe.
In many rural Minnesota and other Corn Belt communities, using wind and corn, two abundant and renewable resources, could create revitalized local economies. A rural-based hydrogen energy economy would create new jobs and income for local residents. At some point, each community or business might have its own fuel cell power plant, creating a distributed power network to make communities more energy independent.
Before those dreams are realized, many current conditions need to change. In addition to hydrogen energy's getting cheaper, energy derived from sources such as coal-fired generators and nuclear plants will need to get more expensive, either through scarcity of resources or government-mandated environmental assessments that attempt to place a monetary value on the cost of pollution. Such scenarios are most likely to occur decades, not years, into the future.


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HOLLYWOOD — Spider-Man and his gloppy Lizard nemesis slug it out amid the skyscrapers of New York City in an action-crammed new trailer for The Amazing Spider-Man.
New footage, including a trailer and an additional sizzle reel, was screened here Monday in 3-D, with director Marc Webb hosting the first look for fans and members of the press. The international simulcast featured new web-slinger Andrew Garfield answering fan questions from New York with help from castmates Emma Stone (who plays Spidey's girlfriend Gwen Stacy) in Rio de Janeiro and Rhys Ifans (the Lizard) in London.
"I wanted to treat Spider-Man in a more realistic, naturalistic way," Webb said of his approach to the movie. "There's a lot of things in the Spider-Man canon that haven't been explored cinematically, including Peter and his parents, what it means to be an orphan and how that impacts him emotionally."
As a summer popcorn flick, this Spider-Man's easily relatable teen angst takes place in a familiar contemporary world far removed from Ridley Scott's visionary Prometheus or the macho theatrics of G.I. Joe: Retaliation and Battleship. The cinematic reboot of Marvel Comics' most popular superhero serves up a coming-of-age origins story built around a younger hero than those commanding the screen in The Avengers and The Dark Knight Rises.
(Spoiler alert: Minor plot points follow.)
Unlike the trilogy of Spider-Man films starring Tobey Maguire and directed by Sam Raimi, the new, skateboarding Spidey assumes a sardonic, 21st-century tone in the vein of Kick-Ass Witness Peter Parker's sarcastic retort to a cab driver: "Really? You seriously think I'm a cop in a skintight red-and-blue costume?" (See images from The Amazing Spider-Man — some old, some new — in the gallery above.)
Garfield and Stone seem a tad mature to be playing high school kids, but the action sequences can't be denied. Shot in native 3-D on RED cameras, Spider-Man cuts a vertiginous figure as he swings and somersaults his way through the city, sticks himself on the ceiling of a subway car, and dangles a half-dozen cars in midair from the Brooklyn Bridge.
After Sony Pictures unveiled the new trailer, which debuts at midnight Pacific time on the Amazing Spider-Man website tonight, Garfield explained why he wanted to play Spider-Man. (Update: The new trailer has been added to the bottom of this post.)
"I'm not an idiot," he said. "Everybody in this room wants to play Spider-Man. First it was Tobey (Maguire), now it's me — hopefully next time it'll be a half-Hispanic, half-African actor."
Stone succinctly explained the difference between her character and Peter Parker's earlier girlfriend Mary Jane Watson, played in three previous Spider-Man movies by Kirsten Dunst.
"Gwen falls in love with Peter Parker," Stone said. "Mary Jane fell in love with Spider-Man."
As with preview clips shown at Comic-Con International last summer, the rough-cut footage kicks in when Parker discovers his late father's old briefcase, which leads him to the scientist who will become the Lizard.
The trailer's high points include dizzy aerial views of the city every time Spider-Man swings into action. Spidey also somersaults, bounces off walls and sticks to the ceiling of a subway car to great effect.
The wicked Lizard makes an impact when he smashes his giant green arm through a taxi cab. And keep an eye out for the mammoth tower crash that imperils our acrobatic hero.
Following the sizzle clip screening, director Webb told Wired.com that making the transition from his special-effects-free relationship dramedy (500) Days of Summer to helming a superhero flick seemed like a pretty straightforward proposition.
"All movies are about humans," he said. "You have to be emotionally invested in the characters."
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Latin for "I roll," Volvo has been making cars since the first of its kind tumbled off the assembly line back in 1927. Even during those early pre-Great Depression days, Volvo founders Assar Gabrielsson and Gustaf Larsson placed a solid emphasis on vehicular safety, a maxim that holds just as strong today as it did back then.
By the time the U.S. car-craze of the 1950s swung into action, Volvo had already begun to establish its brand in the states with the highly successful compact PV444. The frontrunners of car safety, Volvo pioneered many of the features that came standard in many automobiles today in the ensuing decades: three-point safety belts, padded dashboards, child-proof locks, energy resistant crumple zones, rear-facing child seats, and collapsible steering columns.
Up until the mid-to-late 1990s, Volvo cars were known for being rather "boxy" and rectangular in design. The introduction of the two-door Volvo C70 in 1997 signaled a company-wide body-shift towards a shapelier, rounded, sculpted aesthetic. Developed over a period of two-and-a-half years, the Volvo C70 brought together a trio of automotive artists and experts: British designer Peter Horbury, Mexican designer Jose Diaz de la Vega, and the Tom Walkinshaw Racing team.
Throughout its long and successful career in the automotive industry, Volvo offered an exhaustive list of exclusive coupes to car enthusiasts who relish a balanced combination of comfort, safety, solid road handling, and high performance. Unveiled at the 1996 Paris Auto Show, the Volvo C70 owes a debt of gratitude to some of its performance and design predecessors: the Volvo P1800, 262C, and 780.
Available as either a coupe or a soft-top convertible, the Volvo C70 was equipped with five-cylinder engines with the buyer's choice for either an automatic or manual transmission. Drawing power from either a 190 hp or a 236 hp turbocharged inline engine, the Volvo C70 was decently robust but not the powertrain standout in its class, as were some of its competitors of the time.
In spite of the C70's notable features, the first generation Volvo C70 soft-top convertible was not without its downsides, most notably, "Scuttle Shake," which is an issue common to many convertibles. Because there's no roof, the middle chassis of the car has a tendency to shake and vibrate when traveling over uneven or rough roads.
Spread out over three trim choices (T5, T5 Premier Plus, and T5 Platinum), opting for the base level gets buyers plenty: leather seats, keyless entry, cruise control, Bluetooth, eight-speaker surround system, satellite radio, and an iPod/USB jack. Up it to Premier Plus and consumers receive parking sensors and an on-board compass, while at the upper echelon's Platinum level, bonuses include a navigation system, and a 14-speaker surround sound audio extravaganza. There's also a Climate Package eligible on all trims.
Under the hood, the two-door, four-seater Volvo C70 comes packed with a turbocharged 2.5-liter, inline, five-cylinder engine good for 227 hp and 236 lb-ft of torque. Estimated EPA fuel economy for the 2012 C70 comes out at 18/28 mpg city/highway.
As would be expected from Volvo, abundant safety features abound throughout with child seat anchors, electronic brake force distribution, traction control, tire pressure monitoring, automatically deploying roll bars, and dual front and side mounted airbags.
When the Volvo C70 made its debut at the Paris Auto Show in 1996; journalists were thrilled, due in no small part to the obvious exterior alteration from Volvo's previous square design to the C70's decidedly less angular appearance. By the time the second generation of Volvo C70's rolled around in 2007, designers took the aerodynamic look a step further, offering a Volvo body with even more pronounced curvy edges intended to communicate a richer, sleeker look.
Originally available in either a coupe or convertible, by 2002, Volvo decided to drop the coupe model altogether. Three years after that, the company replaced the convertible soft top with a futuristic retractable hard top version that opens and closes in about 30 seconds at the push of a button.
Driven by a roll-over protection structure, fire-proof roll hoops hidden behind the rear seats that deploy upon impact, and air bags with a stiffer construction, the innovative nature of the second generation Volvo C70's safety features proves once again that the Swedish manufacturer leads the industry when it comes to passenger protection.
2013 Volvo C70
Convertible, Luxury
2012 Volvo C70
For 2012, the C70 gets new Premier Plus and Platinum models, and a new color: Caspian Blue Metallic.
2011 Volvo C70
The C70 features substantially revised styling via a freshened nose, grille, front fenders, headlights, rear fascia and LED taillights. The C70 has been updated inside as well with a new dashboard, textures, premium leather and unique gauges. Now standard is the 5-speed automatic transmission (the manual has been dropped), 17-in alloy wheels, Sirius satellite radio, plus two new colors, Flamenco Red and Ember Black. Meanwhile, the Premium package has been deleted; a new Convenience package includes rear parking assist and keyless ignition.
2010 Volvo C70
2009 Volvo C70
The 2009 Volvo C70 is a luxury convertible that eschews style, while still focusing on safety.
2008 Volvo C70
The 2008 Volvo C70 was first introduced to the market at large in the late 1990s.
2007 Volvo C70
While it's true that there may be better performing convertibles on the market, the 2007 Volvo C70 offers plenty of style, good looks, and safety features to make it a car worth considering.
2006 Volvo C70
2004 Volvo C70
The Volvo C70 never really managed to take-off when first introduced.
2003 Volvo C70
2002 Volvo C70
Convertible, Coupe, Luxury
The 2002 Volvo C70 coupe or convertible faces some serious competition.
2001 Volvo C70
The introduction of the two-door Volvo C70 in 1997 signaled a company-wide body-shift towards a shapelier, rounded, sculpted aesthetic.
2000 Volvo C70
Introduced in 1997, the Volvo C70 went from its typical boxy shape to a Volvo featuring a newer design in 2000.
1999 Volvo C70
The 1999 Volvo C70 classifies as a convertible manufactured and sold by Volvo from 1997 onward.
1998 Volvo C70
Forget Volvo's typical sedans and wagons.


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Toby B needed a new logo design and created a contest on 99designs.
A winner was selected from 121 designs submitted by 21 freelance designers.
Hey we are marketing a new Web 2.0 software startup to US and global small growing businesses.
The startup makes software that helps businesses be more productive by sharing tasks amongst each other in a team. These tasks are put into "pailz" (buckets) - that can then be passed from pail to pail until complete.
We are modelling ourselves on companies like: Freshbooks.com, tickspot.com, basecamp, remember the milk and expensify.
We come from a background of social media and business process management software.
We are an upstart and we want to include game features in the application so we have a fun outlook while helping people getting serious work done.
18-50 year old company managers in small businesses, mainly male. We are targeting small firms between 2-50 employees who are just starting to choose software to streamline their business processes.
These people tend to be:
- self driven, motivated
- time poor
- highly aspirational and entrepreneurial
- quick thinking
UPDATE - I've just added two new images - mock ups by my wife. We'd be interested in seeing a design based on these!
We will award prize tomorrow morning.
We are looking for a clean, clear logo in the tradition of Web 2 software design.
The logo should include:
- the word Pailz
- one or more pails (bucket)
- one or more tasks moving between the pails
The logo could include:
- human icon
The logo will need to stand out from the crowd in marketplaces such as itunes, google market (http://www.google.com/enterprise/marketplace/) and directories such as go2 web2: (check out http://www.go2web20.net/)
The pail is probably the trickiest part of this. We ideally want a pail that can eventually be part of the web application design itself - tasks would be inside the pail with words on.
This is an entirely new brand.
Having done competitions before, and running a design agency in London, I will be happy to provide ample and quick feedback to designs. I will provide general feedback for all too.
For the winning (and runner up designers) there is potential for paid work after the competition as we seek to build out the design into web sites, web apps and other market materials as we require.
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