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Audi's putting a big emphasis on the A4's next-generation infotainment and connectivity features. The virtual cockpit aside, the A4 now has standard smartphone connectivity. It also has a new version of the Multi-Media Interface (MMI) that factors in a roller-controller with a scratchpad surface for handwritten input; ... |
The A4 also gets the latest driver assistance systems, everything from forward-collision warnings with automatic braking, to adaptive cruise control, blind-spot monitors with cross-traffic assist, lane-departure warnings and lane-keeping assist, automatic parking assist and attention assist. The adaptive cruise has tra... |
New functions include a lane-turn assist, which signals a warning if you're about to steer the A4 left or right into oncoming traffic; and exit assist, which scans the lanes behind the front doors and sounds a warning if the doors open into busy traffic. Audi's connected services also add on a smart-watch app interface... |
Any first drive of a European vehicle has to circle around the features we won't get in the U.S. The list here is relatively short--aside from smaller gas and diesel engines and summer tires, we won't be getting the Avant wagon (an Allroad successor is all but certain, instead), and for now, a manual transmission. |
The U.S. lineup should include Audi's usual Premium, Premium Plus, and Prestige trim levels, with all cars coming standard with power features, leather upholstery, Bluetooth, and smartphone connectivity. Major options will include all-wheel drive, an S-line appearance package, the adaptive air suspension, full LED head... |
The new A4 arrives just as its sport-sedan niche is exploding with exceptional new nameplates--many of them lacking the broad appeal of today's Audi emblem. It's extraordinarily competitive, and the new Mercedes C-Class in particular has eclipsed some of the newer arrivals with its standard air suspension and turbochar... |
The A4 has made progress for sure, but before we proclaim just how much, we want more seat time to get a better read on its road manners. |
The A4 goes on sale after the first of the year. Pricing hasn't been detailed, but a modest increase over today's figures is expected. |
A SUNSHINE Coast police officer has told of how he passed out in agony after stepping on the world's most venomous fish while taking his kids for a swim. |
The policeman, who encountered the stonefish near the river rock wall end of Mooloolaba Beach on Monday afternoon, is recovering at home. |
Doctors remain concerned at the potential for necrosis - flesh dying around two puncture marks in his left heel. |
Stonefish venom has the potential to kill a human within two hours although no death has been recorded in Australia. |
Jamie McClean had gone to the beach with his wife, daughters aged 10 and 12, and 15-year-old son, for their regular picnic and swim when he felt a piercing sting, as though he had been jabbed by a syringe, followed by excruciating pain. |
He raised his left foot to see blood streaming from two distinct puncture wounds in his heel. |
He was taken by ambulance to Caloundra Hospital where the intense pain shooting up his leg resulted in him losing consciousness. |
Stonefish are far from rare in Coast waters but their rock-like camouflage and mottled brown-greenish colour makes them difficult to spot. |
Marine biologist Geoff Dews said yesterday he had spotted the species on at least two occasions at Mooloolaba after a big swell and said they could also be found among kelp and in rubble. |
He said they were also likely to be found in the rubble around Old Woman Island. |
His observations were supported by Underwater World lead aquarist Jesse Hart, who said the species was reasonably common and could be found through estuaries and shallow coastal waters from the Tropic of Capricorn into northern NSW. |
Stonefish habitat extends across northern Australia and down the West Australian coast to about 600km north of Perth. |
Acting Senior Sergeant McClean, currently in charge of the Sunshine Coast police communications centre, was resting at home yesterday in pain and with his left leg still badly swollen from below the knee. |
"It was excruciating," he said. |
"I knew I had stepped on something. The pain was shooting up my leg. I washed the wound and my wife called for an ambulance." |
Despite being given pain relief in Accident and Emergency at Caloundra he still passed out in agony. |
"We've been down there every afternoon for a picnic and a paddle. It was windy and we were probably closer to the rock wall than we normally go," he said. |
"The doctor's still concerned about the flesh around the wound." |
Sen Sgt McClean praised the efforts of ambulance officers and the doctors and nurses at Caloundra. |
Stonefish carry 13 dorsal spines that sit above venom glands as protection against bottom feeding predators. |
When stepped on, the spines involuntarily release the venom which can cause muscle weakness, shock, paralysis and tissue death. |
Anyone who thinks they have stepped on one of the creatures should call an ambulance or get to a hospital quickly. |
An anti-venom is available. Untreated the venom has the potential to cause temporary paralysis to muscles around the heart. |
Doctors advise that no attempt should be made to restrict the flow of venom. |
Application of hot water may provide temporary relief. |
Can a new currency help Somalia? |
After decades of economic and political instability, Somalia's central bank governor says he wants the country to mint its first currency since the 1980's. As Grace Pascoe reports he hopes it will help rebuild an economy emerging from tears of chaos at the hands of Islamist and clan militias. |
One of the needs we uncovered at the Self Help Centers in courts was to make it clear to people that they couldn’t expect full legal representation. The courts wanted to make sure they didn’t expect full confidentiality or an ongoing relationship. |
To do this, we propose a poster that could also be replicated as handouts or cards. |
It would lay out key points about the relationship in large fonts, with messages in bolds. It would have icons and pictograms to illustrate the points. |
TechCrunch is reporting that Apple is going to skip adding the latest in mobile technology, 4G (LTE) networks, for its annual iPhone refresh next summer in favor of a GSM/CDMA dual-mode iPhone. |
Of course, the big news lately is that Apple is expected to release a CDMA-only iPhone in January of 2011, preempting its normal yearly refresh of the iPhone lineup. Once the Wall Street Journal reported the Verizon-based iPhone as fact (later corroborated by another source in the New York Times), speculation immediate... |
According to TechCrunch, not only is the first Verizon iPhone unlikely to support LTE networks, but the iPhone refresh widely expected for next summer will not be LTE-capable, either. Instead, a dual-mode iPhone that is compatible with both CDMA and GSM networks would be introduced. |
This may lead you to wonder why Apple would not get on board with the latest technology right away. One only need look to the original iPhone to answer this question: 3G existed in very much the same state back in 2007 as 4G exists today. Though the technology is present and being used, it only serves a small number of... |
All this points to Apple's general take on market advances. Rarely is Apple at the forefront of emerging third-party hardware or services, preferring to wait until initial kinks are worked out. While Apple may not be first to market with many of its innovations, it is generally best to market. |
And that's where Apple's real success lies. |
This is why AT&T is upgrading modem cards in its basestations to support the newest flavor of 3G called HSPA+, and it's why Verizon is rumored to be working hard on Voice over Revision A, which will allow simultaneous data and voice. These upgrades greatly extend the life of 3G networks, and hedge against the transitio... |
Should Apple release a 4G (LTE) iPhone or the CDMA/GSM dual-mode iPhone? Let us know in the comments! |
Jessica Vander Velde, Joseph Garnett Jr. |
What political event is similar to going to the Dentist? |
What’s Killing the Sea Grass? |
Pill factory arrest lands mother, son, in prison. |
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Timeless music used to great effect in the hit films Amadeus and The Shining will feature in the New Zealand Symphony Orchestra’s next Shed Series concert in Wellington on 19 October. |
Projection, the third in the hit Shed Series for 2018, will again be performed in the relaxed setting of Shed 6 on Wellington’s waterfront. |
Each Shed Series performance, in Association with Craggy Range, is designed so audiences, including those new to the NZSO, can experience the Orchestra outside the traditional concert hall. |
The concerts have a casual, inviting atmosphere, where audiences can sit or stand, mingle with friends and enjoy a drink, while the Orchestra performs a mix of classical and contemporary works. |
For Projection, Shed Series curator and conductor Hamish McKeich will open with Mozart’s Symphony No. 25. The intense, rhythmic first movement of the symphony set the scene for the Oscar-winning film Amadeus, while Hungarian composer Béla Bartók’s Music for Strings Percussion and Celeste was used to jarring effect in S... |
"For Projection, the music is suggestive of visual stories," says McKeich. "Some has been used in movies to enhance them, some are evocative of faraway stories, and one contains over 30 film music genres compressed into one exhilarating work." |
The NZSO will also perform In Distance by Tan Dun, best known for his scores for films, including Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon, and How Slow the Wind by prolific Japanese composer Toru Takemitsu, who also wrote for film, including Akira Kurosawa’s Ran. |
McKeich will close the concert with inventive American composer John Zorn’s For Your Eyes Only, written in 1983. The work has references to other composer’s works, including Raymond Scott’s Powerhouse, best known for its extensive use in Warner Brothers’ Looney Tunes cartoons. |
The first NZSO Shed Series in April featured works by Frank Zappa and Mozart, while the second in June included pieces by Haydn, Zorn and Radiohead guitarist Jonny Greenwood. |
Wellington-based music critic Stephen Gibbs said the Shed Series was a refreshing change of pace for the country’s national orchestra. "People were engaged, the programme was remarkable, the NZSO players were superb." "It was a great concert to attend," said Radio New Zealand Concert reviewer Hadyn Green on the June co... |
October 5 will mark the 50th anniversary of *Dr. No’*s world premiere in London, proving the James Bond franchise isn’t going anywhere (especially if *Skyfall’*s Daniel Craig has something to do with it). In honor of this milestone, those Vanity Fair staff members who have borne witness to many a Bond marathon pick the... |
Left, from Everett Collection; right, by DAVID CROTTY/PatrickMcMullan.com. |
Which Bond-movie opening sequence is the grooviest? |
Left, © Bettmann/CORBIS; right, © Sunset Boulevard/Corbis. |
Bond in a tuxedo or Bond in swim trunks? |
by Francois Duhamel/© 2012 - Danjaq, LLC, United Artists Corporation, Columbia Pictures Industries, Inc. |
by United Artists/from Getty Images. |
What is the most beautiful Bond film location? |
Dana Mathews, co-keeper of Where I Go and expert on all beautiful locations, prefers For Your Eyes Only, which was shot in Corfu, Greece. |
Master constraints to use them creatively . . . |
Your editorial on working as a team neatly cut through the oppositional stances which are struck in relation to the postEgan reforms of the construction industry. |
Marco Goldschmied is right, architecture schools must train students to design things first and foremost, and the architect's primary task is to ensure that good and great design wins out over the pragmatics of the construction industry. |
quite the contrary, it is the understanding and mastery of those pragmatics which will ensure that they do not get in the way of inspirational design. |
So too with collaborative working and networking among other designers and specialists in the construction industry; as the AJ's seminar on detailing last week illustrated, many, if not most, of our big name practices see the early involvement of specialists in the evolution of designs as informing and stimulating thei... |
Yes, constraints can be inspirational, and Tschumi's work at the AA in the 1980s is one example of a theoretical response to this fact. |
Another, outside the architecture field, is the work of the French Oulipo literary movement, where one member, George Perec, wrote novels after setting himself severe constraints which he felt stimulated creativity rather than limited it. |
The most famous example of this is A Void, a book which completely avoids the use of the letter 'e' all the way through - even in English translation. |
but let us, as architects and architecture students, master those processes and issues the better to ensure that the voices of those with narrow agendas are not respected more than ours. |
SAN FRANCISCO (04/01/2004) - Show off your digital snapshots with Digi-Frame Inc.'s DF-1710 LCD picture frame. The gold-framed, 17-inch display comes with a CD-ROM drive so you can easily transfer favorite digital photos onto the unit's 12GB hard drive. You can add audio tracks to your images, as well, to make them tal... |
SAN FRANCISCO (04/01/2004) - Federal judges in California and New York have enjoined 321 Studios LLC from distributing its controversial DVD X Copy program. The software, which can make exact duplicates of DVDs by sidestepping encryption codes, is under fire from many movie companies, which maintain that it violates fe... |
SAN FRANCISCO (04/01/2004) - Security experts blame the jump in worm outbreaks on an escalating feud among virus writers. Antivirus vendors say the code in new variants of the Mydoom, Bagle, and Netsky e-mail worms contain text messages taunting other virus writers. They suspect the feud started back in January when th... |
Oghenekaro Etebo scored a stunning lone winning goal as Stoke City recorded a 1-0 away win against Blackburn Rovers in their English Championship clash at the Ewood Park on Saturday. |
Etebo fired home a wonderful shot from the edge of the box in the 14th minute to hand the Potters all three points in the game. |
The Nigeria international, who was voted man of the match in Stoke City’s 0-0 draw against Sheffield Wednesday last weekend, has now scored two goals in 28 Championship appearances for the club. |
At the AESSEAL New York Stadium, Semi Ajayi featured for 90 minutes in Rotherham United’s hard fought 2-1 home win against Nothingham Forest. |
Michael Smith and Michael Ihiekwe got the goals for the Millers, while Lewis Grabban got Nothingham Forest’s only goal of the game. |
Ajayi has so far featured in 40 Championship games for Paul Warne’s men and has scored seven times. |
In another Championship clash, Mikel Obi was in action for 90 minutes as Middlesbrough suffered a 3-1 defeat to Swansea City. |
Pete Buttigieg is surging in the polls and the betting markets. |
The South Bend, Indiana, mayor officially announced his 2020 presidential bid on Sunday, and an Emerson poll the next morning showed the once-longshot had surged to third place in the overflowing Democratic field. The top two competitors, Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) followed by former Vice President Joe Biden, saw poll... |
On PredictIt, bettors confident that a certain candidate will win buy shares for the displayed "yes" price. Prices get higher as more people agree with a certain bet — in this case, when they started believing Buttigieg would win the primary. He was sitting at 17 cents a share just a week ago. The odds captured above s... |
Bollywood superstar Shah Rukh Khan, who underwent a successful shoulder surgery at the Breach Candy hospital in Mumbai on Monday evening, has been discharged, said a hospital source. |
"Shah Rukh has been discharged from the hospital. He left at around 5 pm," a source at the south Mumbai hospital told IANS on Tuesday evening. |
The actor had to undergo an arthroscopic surgery for acute pain in his left shoulder. Though he had planned to fly to London for the surgery, he chose to get it done in Mumbai under the guidance of Sanjay Desai, the orthopaedic surgeon at Breach Candy. |
For now, Shah Rukh has been advised by doctors to refrain from indulging in any heavy-duty action scenes. |
"It's a normal precaution that one has to take. The surgery was long pending and it is good that he finally took out time for it. Keeping in mind that he would only become busier in months to come, it made sense that he got himself operated before it was too late," Desai had told IANS. |
The 43-year-old superstar will be on a forced break for six weeks to recuperate completely. However, he will host the Filmfare Awards on March 7, which were scheduled for Feb 28 earlier. The organisers postponed the date for Shah Rukh's sake. |
After signing nine new players so far this summer Steve Bruce has begun the process of re-balancing both his squad and wage bill. |
Sunderland's manager is close to off-loading Steed Malbranque to St Etienne and Marcus Angeleri to Estudiantes on permament deals while George McCartney looks set to join a Championship club on a season long loan. |
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